Rapidnovel Chapter 197: Hopeless
Chapter 197: Hopeless
Chapter 197: Hopeless
“Weiwei!/Ningwei!” Both Ji Wutong and Bing Huoyuan shouted at the same time upon seeing the apparition of Leviathan Ancestor.
Ji Wutong and Bing Huoyuan’s eyes contained disbelief as they shielded the Bai sisters in their embrace. With their knowledge and experience, the two could discern that the demon elder had somehow managed to unleash an attack at the level of the True Demon Realm. They, along with the other disciples, had received information that true demons could not leave the core territory of their clan, so they never thought they would receive the attack of a true demon.
The two used all the defensive methods that they could deploy in that short instance as they waited to see what the apparition would do. Not just them, once all the disciples detected the danger, all of them brought out their life-saving means.
Daoist Moneybag’s two cylindrical artifacts had disappeared and in their place was a round shield with a guardian lion head at the center. The head showed a fierce expression, and just looking at it would cause even elite disciples to show trepidation.
Han Jusang made several hand seals, and dark matter began to leak from his body until it covered him whole. Han Jusang’s new appearance was that of a three-meter humanoid with skin of pure black and two large horns atop his head, a devil. Even so, the ‘devil’ showed an uncertain expression as he moved as far away from the translucent sea serpent as possible.
Xia Yushan held his lifebound sword defensively in front of him. In the front of the absolute difference in power, the slaughter intent within his sword had diminished to a minuscule amount. Even so, the eldest senior brother of the Buzhou Immortal Sect watched with wide eyes at Tianyi, who was the target of the attack, but soon, Xia Yushan could not afford to divide his attention.
Once the first bubble popped, shockwaves spread throughout the Vast Heaven Islands. It was as if the invisible waves were physical, and Xia Yushan felt like a mountain had slammed into him. With blood puking from his mouth, he quickly brought out the life-saving means Sect Master Xia had prepared for him.
A five-colored lotus appeared and covered Xia Yushan behind its petals, and not a moment too soon as the second bubble popped and sent a shockwave throughout the Vast Heaven Islands. However, this time the five-colored lotus prevented the shockwave from affecting its occupant, and Xia Yushan didn’t feel the slightest tremor.
Xia Yushan sighed as he once again focused his attention on Tianyi. Suddenly, a look of worry flashed across his face, and he wildly searched Vast Heaven Islands for a particular figure. However, no matter how hard he searched, Xia Yushan couldn’t find Daoyi’s whereabouts.
Soon, Xia Yushan didn’t have the leisure to look anymore as the number of shockwaves increased, and so did the bubble’s strength with each one popped. Xia Yushan focused his attention on Tianyi once more and was shocked silly.
Xia Yushan had never sparred or fought Tianyi before, but his information on Tianyi’s strength was near perfect thanks to Sect Master Xia’s words. His master had said that Tianyi possessed the strength of Unity Realm expert without entering the Unity Realm and, at some aspects, was even superior to some transcending mortality sages.
So when he saw that Tianyi’s body also ‘pop,’ Xia Yushan couldn’t believe his eyes. There’s no way Tianyi would die so easily. Not to mention, there is no way Grand Elder Xi didn’t prepare any life-saving means for her only son.
Against his expectations, what remained of Tianyi’s body was a strange black mist that soon dissipated into the air, much to Xia Yushan’s and others’ shock. Tianyi couldn’t have possibly died, right?
Xia Yushan was soon forced out of his shock as the demons began to take action once more. Unlike previous times, they began to retreat under the remaining demon elders’ orders. Of the eleven original elders present, only six remain.
Xia Yushan only deliberated for a moment before ordering to give chase. The demons didn’t know that the person who just died was the controller of the Vast Heaven Islands, so if they knew, they would likely retaliate instead of fleeing. To keep the illusion that the controller of the Vast Heaven Islands remained alive, Xia Yushan ordered the disciples to give chase to keep up the illusion.
But Xia Yushan made a colossal miscalculation.
With Tianyi no longer controlling Vast Heaven Islands’ domain, the suppression of the demons had weakened. Nowhere was this as prominent as the demon elders, but they had attributed it to Leviathan Ancestor weakening the Vast Heaven Islands, and they weren’t wrong.
Xia Yushan wasn’t the only one as the other disciples detected that the demons couldn’t leave and renewed their attacks. Unlike Xia Yushan, most of them targeted the Nascent Soul and Core Formation Realm level demons as the Unity Realm level demons had explosively increased their strength.
Under the assault of the cultivators, some demons relented and fought back like mindless beasts while others despaired and just waited for death, but the demon elders continued to attack Vast Heaven Islands’ boundaries.
Finally, one of them made a hole that was stable and large enough for him to pass. Not wasting the chance and ignoring his fellow elders, the crow demon flew through the hole. However, the hole abruptly shrunk while only half his body had escaped.
The demon elder wasn’t stuck, he successfully flew out of Vast Heaven Islands, but only half of him did. However, the crow demon didn’t care as flames erupted around his waist. These were the Flames of Rebirth that the phoenix was known for.
The Flames of Rebirth allowed them to heal from any injury. Although the Golden Crow Clan weren’t phoenixes, as demons that inherited fire and yang attributes, they could mimic the Flames of Rebirth. The Golden Crow Clan’s bootleg Flames of Rebirth weren’t as powerful, and the user had to pay a high price to activate the technique, but in life-and-death situations, it was invaluable.
The demon’s avian face showed a hard-earned joy as he flew off, but soon, he couldn’t keep the smile up anymore because he discovered that his waist wasn’t healing at all. “Impossible!”
Tianyi’s Vast Heaven Islands and the Demon Cage Realm were like two separate realms, so when the demon elder’s waist was severed, he also lost half his soul. In other words, the demon elder had received a similar injury as Ragingflame Crow had, only far more severe. Ragingflame Crow lost his wing while the demon elder lost his bottom half. In order to heal from his injury, he had to heal his soul first.
The Unity Realm level demons inside the Vast Heaven Islands’ domain all saw this. Even though they would find themselves at the opposite end of the Vast Heaven Islands, this didn’t prevent them from seeing what happened outside. The Unity Realm demons that were prepared to escape through the holes they created all froze as a chilling sensation crept up their spines.
The only one who didn’t give up was Ashflame Crow. His flames were powerful and had a powerful effect of incinerating and burning whatever it touched, even other flames, but it met its match. The Vast Heaven Islands’ foundation was built on Tianyi’s true qi of chaos, and in terms of power, Tianyi’s true qi of chaos trumped Ashflame Crow’s ash flames. So, even if Ashflame Crow willingly allowed himself to be fatally injured in order to escape, his flames didn’t have the ability to penetrate the Vast Heaven Islands’ boundary.
While Ashflame Crow was pondering on how to leave, a sudden change occurred. Nine shining lights, eight golden and one black, appeared where Tianyi’s body had popped. The pressure they emanated was enormous, causing all cultivators and demons to focus on them.
Under everyone’s disbelieving eyes, the area around them turned into the night sky. At first, it was only a small area, but soon it pervaded all reaches of the domain, causing the Vast Heaven Islands to appear to be floating in the Vast Void.
“W-what i-is this?!” Ashflame Crow couldn’t help but cry out. Before, they could at least detect outside the boundaries of Vast Heaven Island. Now, even if the boundary didn’t stop them, Ashfalme Crow and the other demon elders didn’t dare leave.
Turning his head frantically, Ashfalme Crow discovered that all the cultivators had disappeared, and only the demons were left. A sense of abnormality descended upon the demons.
It was too quiet, too peaceful, as if something was just waiting for them to lower their guard.
Waiting with bated breath, the Unity Realm level demons waited for the next assault, but five minutes, ten minutes, and then hours passed with nothing happening. Seeing this, the demon elders gathered and tried to figure out a plan of escape.
As time passed, the Unity Realm level demon realized that their connection to heaven and earth had been completely severed. Furthermore, they couldn’t absorb the spiritual qi at all. It was as if they had been transferred into a strange and sinister world where the rules had been completely altered.
With an uneasy heart, the time passed until a Unity Realm level elder couldn’t take it anymore and risked breaking out of the boundary and into the seeming Vast Void. The elder assumed that it was just an illusion, as there had been precedents of the cultivators using illusions against them.
But no matter how hard he tried, the demon elder realized that he couldn’t even detect the boundary, much less tear a hole in it. Furthermore, no matter how hard he flew, his position seemingly never changed.
With heavy hearts, the demons realized they had been imprisoned with no way of escaping. They were at the mercy of the cultivators. No matter how powerful they were, no matter fast they could fly, it was useless.
How does one fight against a world?