FYN Chapter 134 3 year ago
Chapter 134 3 year ago
Chapter 134 Three Hundred Years Ago
If Lu Ren were to open his attribute panel at this moment, he would be able to see that all of his newly acquired skills are quite impressive.
[Salted Breath]: Quality: Bronze, Learning Requirements: 200 Elemental Affinity. Effect: Sprays a cone-shaped area of fire, dealing damage and greatly reducing the target's movement speed.
The Salt Mirage Lizard, a bronze-level Void Beast from the Oasis Realm, also possesses control-oriented skills and can be considered a superior alternative to the Sludge Cannon.
[Lonely Shadow of Loulan]: Quality: Silver, Learning Requirements: 3000 Resonance Effect: Creates an illusion of oneself to attack together. The illusion breaks after taking a certain amount of damage.
The Loulan Mirror Demon, a silver-level void beast from the Oasis Realm, possesses a very powerful skill, somewhat similar to the Shadow Clone Jutsu from Naruto.
There was one last one, a silver-level void beast from the Yanzhou Realm, Loulan Boling, an extremely powerful silver-level beast that Lu Ren and the others managed to kill together.
[Lip Breath Water Prison]: Quality: Silver, Learning Requirements: 300 Elemental Affinity, 1000 Inspiration, 2500 Resonance. Effect: Summons a saltwater phantom cage that traps a large area of targets and deals continuous damage. The cage can be broken by powerful attacks.
This skill, which traps enemies over a wide area, is significantly more effective than the previous skills in their current predicament.
Lu Ren always adhered to the principle of using what he got, and decisively unleashed "Mirage Water Prison" forward.
Ahead, dozens of illusory beasts, which had been ferocious just a moment ago, were now struggling violently.
From the perspective of these virtual beasts, they all instantly plunged into a huge saltwater lake.
But in everyone's sight, they seemed to suddenly convulse and drown.
Lu Ren felt extremely exhausted, but it was very effective, and the pressure on everyone to resist eased.
Long You's eyes lit up. "Wow, Xiao Lu! You've grown so much in just a few days! I'm really looking forward to it!"
Lu Ren thought to himself, "Don't get your hopes up. What have I done to deserve this?"
He was going to deal with a Red Sand Scorpion. It wasn't difficult, but it would still take some effort. But as soon as he saw it, this guy didn't even shout out his skill name. He kicked the Red Sand Scorpion that suddenly lunged at him and killed it.
Longyou drew his sword and shouted to him, "Xiaolu, you assist me, I'll lead the way!"
"good!"
"Could you look after the little fish for me? I'm going to use all my strength!"
"What?!"
Then Longyou tossed over what he was carrying on his shoulder.
Lu Ren noticed something flying in the air. Upon closer inspection, he saw a naturally clumsy magician with outstretched arms.
"Hey, Xiaolu! Catch me!"
"Sister Xiaoyu?"
Lu Ren hurriedly reached out and took it, then felt a darkness before his eyes and a suffocating sensation, which brought back some unpleasant memories for him. Last time, he seemed to have almost been murdered by An Yourong who hired someone to kill him. — You victorious heroines, do you all like to humiliate people like this?
Long You drew his sword and began slaughtering his way through the enemy ranks, shouting to them, "Let's fight our way out! Once we're out of the eye of the storm, we can use the Immortal Boat to leave this place!"
Lu Ren snapped out of his suffocation and realized that now was not the time to worry about this.
He carried the fish early-sleeping fish on his shoulder like a sack, and together with Longyou, they led the way for everyone.
He was basically in charge of using the Mirage Water Prison to control the virtual beasts in front of him, and then Long You would instantly kill them!
"These two are really strong!"
"Won't they be affected by this white storm?"
"Hurry up, hurry up—"
Lu Ren guessed correctly. With the resurgence of the Mountain-Eating Beasts, extremely serious rifts appeared in the Eastern Tianshan area, swallowing up the entire Eastern Tianshan area!
However, the area currently affected by the virtual world is only a few kilometers in radius around the Eastern Tianshan Mountains. But this area, which was originally only a few kilometers in size, has now been torn open with scars stretching for hundreds of kilometers across the land.
The white storm swept through the land, swallowing everything in its path.
At that moment, piercing alarms sounded over several counties including Luntai, Changji, and Gongning, and residents began to evacuate.
At kilometer 42 of National Highway 318, the infrasound monitoring device kept sounding alarms as figures poured in from outside LT County.
"A dimensional beast has appeared in LT County, suspected to be a rift in the dimensional realm. Repeat, a rift in the dimensional realm is suspected to have appeared in LT County!"
The radar dome of the KJ-500 airborne early warning and control aircraft slowly rotated, and a formation of J-16 fighter jets roared overhead. Eight Type 99A main battle tanks crushed the guardrails and sped out from the military region, their gun barrels pressed into cold, straight lines in the night.
Modern war machines are still useful in the face of these monsters from the void, especially in the face of such a large-scale invasion.
Emergency broadcasts throughout Luntai are replaying the evacuation order for the second time in Mandarin.
Some people carried their luggage up the mountain, while others rode motorcycles into the town.
Because of the appearance of the rift in the void, a large number of void beasts have flooded into the human world.
Half of the bank building collapsed, and rubble mixed with dust rained down. People running below disappeared as they ran. Screams came from all directions, colliding and making it impossible to distinguish whose scream was whose.
A child stood in the middle of the street, mouth open, unable to make a sound. Her mother rushed over from the side, hugged her tightly, and rolled her into the alley. As they rolled in, a paw slammed down from above, hitting the spot where they had just stood, shattering the paving stones.
"Run! Run!" someone shouted.
An old man, unable to run any further, leaned against the wall, his eyes closed, muttering something. A monster leaped over his head, not even looking at him, and pounced forward.
The city has fallen.
Looking down from the sky, the streets appeared broken into sections, with smoke rising from the gaps. People were like ants, densely packed at the bridgeheads, intersections, and under the still-standing buildings, and as they squeezed, pieces would disappear.
Something is floating on the river, drifting downstream in sections.
A fire was burning in a residential area, and the black smoke had blackened the windows. White strips of cloth were sticking out of the blackened windows; some were moving, and some were still.
Cars were packed together, people were walking between them, and more and more people were lying on the ground.
Outside the city, there were also people, like a line of people crawling into the distance on the Gobi Desert. Looking back into the city, the dust was too thick, with only a few tall places showing rooftops, spires, and chimneys that hadn't fallen over.
Meanwhile, in Changji, a neighboring county of Luntai, Ning Xiu, the garrison commander of Yanzhou, smashed a Loulan bone post station that was longer than a street with a single punch. His cell phone rang; it was Ling Chen, the president of the Professionals Association.
"Old Ning, we'll leave the Mountain-Eating Beast to Zhuque and Clan Chief Shen. But this time there are four Purple-Iridium-level True Seeds. The Gu, Shen, and Ye clans said they'll deal with the two in the east and west, and the one in the sky will be handed over to the experts from Xingye Prefecture. But there's still one—"
The garrison commander of Yanzhou grunted and said, "Ah, I see him. He's over here with me."
"Tang and I will be there in five minutes—"
Every time a rift in the void appears, a true-type void beast will emerge. These beasts are intelligent and can even sense in advance where the rift will appear. As soon as the rift appears, they will rush into the human world to kill and feed wildly.
Ning Xiu looked at the twenty-meter-tall, emaciated humanoid monster outside the city. The thing had obviously noticed him too, which was why it hadn't entered the city yet.
"No need to come over. He might not be a match for me. You should proceed with the rescue."
"—Be extra careful."
"You've gotten into saying things like that too, Lao Ling."
"Forget it, dying in battle is more honorable than dying of old age. Go in peace, Ning Dapao."
"roll!"
Ning Xiu hung up the phone, stretched his shoulders, and cursed, "I promised to pick up my granddaughter today, how long am I going to have to coax her back home!"
Just then, from the direction of the ancient clan's territory, one after another, immortal ships took off into the sky!
Besides the Gu family, several celestial boats rose from the territories of the Linjiang Shen family's Yanzhou branch and the Beidu Ye family's Yanzhou branch, heading towards the East Tianshan Mountains!
On the deck of the Shen Clan's fleet, Shen Lang frowned as he looked down. He looked to be under 30, but he was almost 50. He was one of the two Star Cocoon Realm experts from the Yanzhou branch of the Shen Clan, and also the leader of this Shen Clan fleet.
However, at that moment, a little girl of about twelve or thirteen years old ran out of the cabin, excitedly shouting at him, "Fourth Uncle! Was that really my great-aunt in Luntai just now? Is my great-aunt actually a Burning Sun Realm cultivator? Fourth Uncle, did you see the live stream online?"
The middle-aged man's eyes widened in shock. "Xiao Yu? What are you doing here?!"
"I'm going to join you guys to save the world!"
"Nonsense! You're not even a professional, what are you doing there, A-Tong, take her back—"
"No, I don't want to go back!" The little girl threw a tantrum, rolling on the ground. "I'm also a disciple of the Shen family! I want to go with you! I won't cause any trouble, please, Fourth Uncle!"
"Forget it, there's no time. You're just going to stay on the ship and not go anywhere, understand?"
"That's great, Fourth Uncle! You're the best, Fourth Uncle! I heard a huge thing has appeared over in the Eastern Tianshan Mountains. Should we go and fight that thing?"
Shen Lang puffed out his beard and glared: "How could we possibly handle something like that? We'd definitely hand it over to Suzaku of Hoshino Prefecture!"
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"Then what are we going to do? Go rescue the disaster victims? I can help with that too!"
Shen Lang shook his head: "We have more important things to do."
"What's wrong? What do we need?"
The middle-aged man laughed heartily: "You wouldn't understand even if I explained, and even if you did, you wouldn't remember. Want to know? Become a Spirit Realm professional first!"
"Ugh~ It's happening again! I hate Fourth Uncle the most!"
Shen Lang looked at his little niece, sighed, shook his head, and flicked her forehead. The little girl hugged her smooth forehead and squatted down, wincing in pain for three minutes.
"No, Xiaoyu was wrong. I like Fourth Uncle the most!"
"You don't just know you're wrong, you know you're going to get a flick on the forehead from Fourth Uncle."
It's not that Shen Lang is being deliberately mysterious, but to remember the name of the Great Celestial Venerable, one needs at least the Spiritual Resonance attribute of the Flame level.
Their ancestors, including the Shen family, the royal Jiang family, and the ancestors of the other seven super-powerful clans, as well as nearly a hundred families and forces from abroad, all had made oaths with the Great Celestial Venerable.
The Great Celestial Venerable bestowed upon them a divine tree, which held the secret to their powerful bloodline. However, when a rift appeared in the mortal realm, they needed to carry incense made from branches of the divine tree to the Celestial Venerable to pray for the descent of a yearly mist to cover the rift.
Rumor has it that the Great Celestial Venerable is neither from this era nor a figure from three hundred years ago, but a great cultivator who existed more than three thousand years ago, during the Yin and Shang Dynasties!
Yes, back then they weren't called professionals; they were called cultivators. The title of "professional" came with the appearance of the "attribute panel," and the appearance of the attribute panel was rumored to be "a man-made creation of a great cultivator, the Holy Mother of the Illusory Image!"
Although this was the first time in three hundred years that a rift in the void had appeared in Yanzhou, the three families were in perfect harmony. Dozens of immortal ships quickly approached the Eastern Heavenly Mountain in their respective directions, and then stood in different positions, hundreds of kilometers apart. At the same time, they lit a stick of incense.
The incense burner dimmed first, then brightened again—a tiny red light, like a newly opened eye in the night.
A wisp of smoke emerged from the red dot, initially rising straight up to about half a foot high before dissipating. It then coalesced again, forming a faint, almost imperceptible line that drifted slowly through the air.
"Hey, Fourth Uncle, what are you doing? Why are you lighting this broken incense stick here?"
"Ah Tong, drag her to the cabin!"
"Ah, I'm not saying anything, I'm not saying anything anymore!"
Six sticks of incense from the Shen family, six sticks from the Ye family, and 24 sticks from the Gu family—a total of 36 sticks of incense for the New Year—were slowly lit at the same moment.
The number and location of the incense sticks used to cut the year's offerings correspond to the number and direction of the year's mist that one prays for to descend.
Three sticks is the lowest level, while 36 sticks is the highest level of danger. The last time 36 sticks of incense were lit was 60 years ago in Northern Europe, a horrific disaster that killed and injured nearly ten million people.
Fortunately, Yanzhou was sparsely populated, and the area around Dongtianshan was even more sparsely populated, with the people of Luntai having already evacuated.
However, there was one thing that Shen Lang never understood: whether the legendary Great Celestial Venerable was dead or alive.
If the Great Celestial Venerable were still alive, why would he, who cared so much for all living beings, turn a blind eye to the many sufferings in the world? If he has truly perished, then how did this Year-Cutting Incense summon him to descend the Year Mist?
Thirty-six sticks of incense were lit, and wisps of smoke rose upwards, eventually converging into a single wisp.
Through the clouds, through the sky.
The clouds dispersed beneath it, and the sky darkened behind it.
As it passed through the stratosphere, the sun briefly shone to its left.
Outer space is black, there's nothing there. It's still that same wisp, straight up from the blue edge of Earth, heading towards the moon.
When this wisp of smoke landed on the edge of the crater, no wind blew it, nothing touched it; it was there, just as it had been when the incense stick had been lit, connecting this place from the other side of the earth.
However, at this very moment, if someone were to look down from the moon at Earth, they would see that it is not just that wisp of smoke.
Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of wisps of blue smoke drifted from Earth toward the Moon, drawing thousands of bluish-gray lines.
Finally, tens of thousands of wisps of smoke all converged in front of a small table on the crater.
At this moment, a young man dressed in a black robe and wearing a bronze mask sat in front of the table. He touched the wisp of green smoke and muttered to himself: "The seventeenth day of the eighth month of the year Wuxu, at the hour of Wuxu, the location is Bugudu in the Western Regions — Ah, my two little servants have neglected their duties. In just three hundred years, they have already lost the city."
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