Chapter 477 - 439: Yuan Lan, Quit While You’re Ahead
BUZZ!
A portal of light flickered, and a thin figure in a Daoist robe emerged from within!
An aura as vast as the sea washed over everything, suffocating the Golden Core cultivators present. Even Su Ye’s expression grew grim.
"What the hell..."
’A Nascent Soul... When did he get here?!’
Su Ye’s brow twitched, a look of shocked suspicion on his face.
There was actually a Nascent Soul True Monarch in Volcano State. And judging by how Ran Ningshuang had addressed him, this True Monarch’s identity seemed to be...
...someone from the Star Casting Hall?
HISS.
At this thought, Su Ye’s heart went cold. He immediately spurred the Ghostly Flood Dragon onward, fleeing out of Volcano State!
Meanwhile, the Nascent Soul cultivator in the Daoist robe swept his frost-cold gaze across the scene. His sharp Divine Sense, like a razor’s edge, scanned the area, and he quickly grasped the situation.
Immediately, a flicker of rage appeared on the thin, young-looking Nascent Soul’s face!
He had every reason to be furious!
It was unavoidable.
In less than fifteen minutes, four of the demonic Golden Core cultivators subjugated by the Star Casting Hall had fallen. Even the Star Casting Hall True Disciple he had taken a personal interest in was on the brink of death!
These were Golden Core cultivators, not cabbages! Even for the Star Casting Hall, a single Golden Core cultivator was not an expendable asset!
And their opponents were just the Flame Alliance, a mere Outer Sea power?!
Three Golden Core cultivators had routed nearly ten of their own and won a decisive victory?!
If he couldn’t deduce what was going on from such a bizarre scene, it would be an insult to the intelligence of a Nascent Soul True Monarch. Someone had to be pulling strings in a battle this abnormal!
And this person’s cultivation was likely at the Nascent Soul Realm as well!
"Who is it?!"
"Get the hell out here!"
The robed Nascent Soul roared, his killing intent seeming to pierce the heavens.
The power of his Divine Sense poured out madly, searching in every direction. The very ground of the battlefield was forcefully pressed down by over ten feet!
However, he found no clues.
True to her nature, Li Jinhua’s Concealing Skill was constantly being refined and was already nearing perfection.
As they were both in the Nascent Soul Realm, so long as Li Jinhua did not take the initiative to attack and reveal fluctuations in her aura, it would be extremely difficult for this Nascent Soul True Monarch to detect her.
"Hiding and skulking!"
Realizing this, the robed Nascent Soul snorted coldly and changed his strategy.
His ice-cold gaze fell upon the Flame Alliance cultivators. His killing intent boiled. ’If I can’t find the mastermind, I’ll just kill all you pawns!’
"I am Yuan Lan. How dare you nobodies trespass on the territory of my Star Casting Hall!"
"Die!"
His Magical Power erupted!
The fluctuations of Nascent Soul-level Magical Power drew upon the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, surging into the sky and forming what looked like a moving pillar of a tornado, filled with an endless intent of slaughter and destruction!
The might of a Nascent Soul!
In his fury, the clouds changed color and the world was turned upside down!
WHOOSH!
A colossal, ghostly black palm, large enough to blot out the sun and sky like a mountain, extended from the tornado pillar and pressed down!
Furthermore, this ghostly black palm moved with a speed completely inconsistent with its immense size, descending upon the heads of the Flame Alliance cultivators in a near-instant!
"No!"
"True Monarch, spare us!"
Faced with the Nascent Soul’s wrath, the Crystallization Realm cultivators were terrified beyond measure, their minds nearly collapsing as they fell to their knees to beg for mercy!
But... it was useless.
POW!
The ghostly black palm swept past without any obvious movement.
But the bodies of the many Crystallization Realm cultivators froze, and then, like balloons being popped, their flesh, blood, and bones exploded violently!
Su Ye’s eyelid twitched.
He had some understanding of this Nascent Soul’s methods.
—Death.
The ghostly black palm was formed with Divine Sense and Magical Power as its frame and the law of death as its core. As for its effect...
’From the looks of it, it performs an instant-death check on all living beings within its range. The greater the disparity in cultivation, the faster the check and the higher the probability of death...’
This conclusion sent a chill through his heart.
An instant-death check that was based purely on one’s cultivation realm was extremely disadvantageous for Su Ye.
’Even I can’t say for sure how many of those checks I could resist...’
Su Ye grit his teeth in frustration. ’The gap between major realms is just completely unfair!’
Moreover, the speed of that ghostly black palm was terrifyingly fast... The moment he sensed Yuan Lan’s aura appear, Su Ye had started to flee.
He was much faster than Zhao Jiuhuang and Lin Yinxiu and had already put some distance between them!
But, given the palm’s speed, Su Ye did a quick calculation. At most, the Nascent Soul would catch up to the Ghostly Flood Dragon within a hundred breaths.
As for Zhao Jiuhuang and Lin Yinxiu, who didn’t have a vessel like the Ghostly Flood Dragon, they were also using every trick up their sleeves to escape with all their might, but...
...according to his estimates, they would be caught in twenty breaths at the latest.
And this estimate was based on the premise that the Nascent Soul cultivator had no acceleration techniques.
But given the prestigious status of a Nascent Soul and the resources of one of the three major sects of the Inner Sea, how could that be possible...?
"Haaa..."
Su Ye took a deep breath.
This feeling of having only minutes left to live was truly... unpleasant!
’This is why I hate high-level cultivators. Bullying the weak... how shameless...’ Su Ye grit his teeth, his mind focused, ready to activate his Divine Techniques at any moment!
Although Li Jinhua was still here.
Logically, it was unlikely she would just watch them die... He could understand if she abandoned Lin Yinxiu and Zhao Jiuhuang, but would she also abandon Su Ye, the one with the Dao Embryo Dharma Aspect?
But...
Su Ye never had the habit of pinning all his hopes on others... When the time came, he would activate Reversing Destiny and Returning to Life to try and resist the attack.
However...
The worst-case scenario did not come to pass!