Chapter 341: The Godseal Spark (51)
The Five Honored Stars carefully took note of everything. The green light couldnāt be considered fast but nor could it be considered slow. When the green light pervaded the mouth of the Lou Clanās crane, thoughā¦ it actually started to fall apart in less than three seconds!
āHow is this possible?!ā One of the Five Honored Stars rushed over a step. āThese things donāt have one trace of qi! This green light almost doesnāt have any qi at all! How couldā¦ā
The five old men stood tall on the crown of the immortal craneās head.
The distance from the craneās beak to the crown of its head was only a hundred-somewhat meters. His leap away from the green light was less than twenty.
He didnāt even finish speaking.
And that was because in everyoneās eyes, this member of the Five Honored Stars fell off the Sky Universe Palace in almost an instant, his footing at an angle! He didnāt even use a divine ability, or furthermore even fly in the air!
The event was too sudden! Practically no one could imagine it!
āOld Four!ā An old manās gaze flickered, and he cried out alarm, intending to storm down and save his comrade. Just as his foot moved, however, a hand stiffly barred his path.
āMove backā¦ā the head of the Five Honored Stars stammered. As if he was overlooking a great enemy, he stared at the green tide in the sky. āThis thingā¦ is oddā¦ Do not, absolutely do not approach it no matter whatā¦ā
The other three Honored Stars gritted their teeth. āThenā¦ what about the other cultivators?ā
āNotify all cultivatorsā¦ to abandon the stronghold! Everyone is to get to the ground! As for those who canātā¦ā the old man clenched his teeth and said, āAll relies on fate.ā
They were unaware that everything a hundred meters underneath Nanzhou had now been exterminated! Regardless of insect or animalā¦ not even microorganisms existed!
The area had already become one of King Yamaās hells! It wasnāt until the poison reached 200 to 300 meters underground that the blackness could no longer encroach any further. It was then that the situation finally became somewhat better.
Titanspirit and Ancientpine simply had no time to examine anything else. Their gazes were firmly nailed into Xu Yangyi. Suddenly, Ancientpineās brows stirred, and he took a deep breath. āCould it beā¦ that I was mistaken?ā
āNoā¦ā Titanspiritās voice also carried disbelief. āHe movedā¦ Just now, his finger moved!ā Before he even finished speaking, Xu Yangyiās finger slightly moved again as if to confirm their words.
āThisā¦ How is this possible?ā Elsewhere, Hiddenscent had already flown up a thousand meters into the air. She dared not believe her eyes. āHis throatās been ripped apart. How could he have not died?ā
Xu Yangyi was none the wiser.
His consciousness was struggling with every fiber of his being, struggling with all his might as it sunk down. Yet at this time, he felt his waist tighten again!
āLife Hangs By A Threadā¦ā That majestic voice echoed in the dark and lonely space. This thread was forcibly hanging onto his life.
āThis is the second timeā¦ā His gaze focused on the cocoon. āThisā¦ is the second time heās saved meā¦ā
His present state was rather bizarre. His heart was like still water, calm without a ripple. As if nothing at all was related to him. Like he had transcended everything concerning the secular world. Even if he wanted to be excited, he couldnāt manage it. All emotions deserted him far away.
Nonetheless, this time was different than last time.
At some unknown time, the cocoon had already turned completely red, and nowā¦ in the wake of faint cracking noises, the top of it cracked inch by inch.
Something insideā¦ was on the cusp of hatching outā¦
However, no qi was felt, not even the slightest trace. In spite of this, a small hole had already broke open at the top of the cocoon.
Xu Yangyi didnāt know how much time had passed. Perhaps it was several minutes or maybe several hours. The gentle sound of flapping wings softly rang out.
Thruuummmā¦
The sound was somewhat like a motor. A few seconds later, a pair of black wings stood out from the cocoon.
Thruuummmā¦ Thruuummmā¦
The monotonous sound of flapping wings echoed throughout space. Another several seconds passed, and a brittle crackling noise echoed! A moth as big as him leaped out from the cocoon!
āThatās!ā Just as he got a clean look at the moth, he suddenly felt all his emotions return to his body. However, the first emotion to bubble up was anger, killing intent. These feelings surged up like a tide! They were fundamentally unstoppable!
The creature was a black butterfly. But on its pair of wings, there were two patterns of golden eyes!
Godseal Spark!
āThatās a Godseal Sparkā¦ā Xu Yangyi instantly recalled the information he hadnāt finished reading back then and the strange power outage. He only remembered the Godseal Sparkās characteristics.
What was a Godseal Spark?
What did it want to do?
No one knew, though, that a butterfly of a Godseal Spark was now directly facing him! Moreover, the butterfly had actually even saved him twice!
āSon of a bitchā¦ā Drop by drop, the already-icy blood in his body began to surge and roil hotly. In this twinkling, the killing intent in his heart disregarded his self-preservation. Both his fists were clenched tightly, and he pulled the thread hanging onto him and forcibly climbed up.
Yet now, the butterfly saw him as well. Although it was incapable of speech, it was evidently dazed.
As if it was in the grip of amazement, like it was wondering why he was still alive.
In the next second, the butterfly unleashed a rocketing screech!
āSCREEECH!!!ā
The noise was terribly piercing. In the next second, the butterfly was storming towards Xu Yangyi!
Flapā¦
Wings that were three to four meters long unfolded. On its sizeable belly, an insect-like stinger shockingly appeared and aimed straight at Xu Yangyiās dantian!
In this splinter of time, a deadly sensation of mortal crisis erupted in Xu Yangyiās mind.
His mind seemed to spring up with a few memories, memories that had existed for an unknown number of years. However, this butterflyās silhouette was in each and every memory. It was a fledgeling, but in his memories it could be said to be so great that it concealed both heaven and earth!
It seemed to exist since the unification of the first dynastyā¦ so far as to the further-distant Spring and Autumn Periodā¦
[1]
It flew through each and every single personās dreams. Since it didnāt exist in reality it was nameless. But later on, it mysteriously gained one. It was called āZhuang Zhouā.
[2]
Xu Yangyiās brows suddenly furrowed because what appeared the most in his memoriesā¦ was the word āengulfā!
Originally, this butterfly shouldāve engulfed him without the slightest resistance, at the moment of its appearanceā¦ It seemedā¦ that the purpose his existence was to offer sustenance to this creature. Thus, the butterfly appeared to be startled. In any case, though, it was a mystery why the butterfly hadnāt devoured him. Perhaps it wasnāt capable of doing so.
Realization suddenly dawned on Xu Yangyi regarding the current situation.
Life Hangs By A Thread was hanging onto his spiritual sense!
A cultivatorās destruction was only the destruction of the spiritual sense. And the present him was in a state of spiritual sense! In this stateāspiritual force unable to be cycledāhe was almost taken advantage of!
Zing!
In the next second, the strange butterfly thrust its stinger into his dantian with an incomprehensible speed. In a wink, incredibly vivid spiritual sense, vigorous like a dragon and robust like a tiger, seemingly divided his body into two halves! The insect quickly advanced on his own spiritual sense!
Forced possession!
The light of Xu Yangyiās eyes soon became frosty. Thisā¦ was a forced possession! This butterfly wanted to forcibly possess him!
Noā¦ Zhuang Zhouā¦ Zhuang Zhou! Had it been Zhuangzi dreaming of the butterfly, or had the butterfly dreamt of Zhuangzi?!
[3]
Yesā¦ indeed! Zhuang Zhouā¦ had been forcibly possessed. He, or perhaps itā¦ was no longer Zhuang Zhou after his dream! Insteadā¦ it was a Godseal Spark!
āSo thatās how it isā¦ā His face held no fear, but rather exposed a kind of icy-cold and fiery-hot killing intent.
The Godseal Sparkā¦ No wonder it had always been hanging onto him. Not to prevent his death, but because the creature couldnāt possess him before it hatched!
On the most base levelā¦ it was no rescuing benefactor, but a murderous fiend. Of all his present information, the Godseal Spark was his one and only clue.
Xu Yangyi was not afraid of forced possession. He had investigated in the past that a stronger cultivator and the spiritual sense attempting a possession were both at equal strength. Furthermoreā¦ if the forced possession succeeded, he would be able to seize the butterflyās spiritual sense! The otherās memories were also inside it!
As he mused this far, he didnāt have a reason to be afraid! There was no way he wanted to back down, either!
What about the outside world? He no longer cared. Against the excitedly buzzing Zhuang Zhou facing him, he didnāt inch away at all. Instead, he gritted his teeth and unleashed his total spiritual sense, with a blade-like gaze!
Come onā¦ in a true battle of spiritual sense, only one of us is coming out of this alive!
āItās movedā¦ Itās moved!ā At the bottom of Danxia Temple, Fahaiās hand was faintly trembling. The Wolfbaneā¦ the Wolfbane! This was a name eternal throughout the ages! If it truly emerged into the modern world, what awe and alarm would it draw?
Xiaoqing said nothing. What came nextā¦ was the duel between the eternal remnant that was a Godseal Spark and an ancient Greater Demon. Who would winā¦ Who would gain control over the bodyā¦
She sighed quietly, āA great battle of the world is soon to comeā¦ā
āTogether, a Godseal Spark and the Wolfbane rise. The 1,400 years this timeā¦ will undoubtedly not be simpleā¦ā
In the outside worldā¦ Xu Yangyi was quiet and motionless, floating in the air like a corpse. Everyoneās gazes burned luminously.
Death-like silence pervaded the air. Everyone looked to the sky. Above was the wave of surging green light, and below was the black earth spreading forth inch after inch.
āWhat the hell is this damn thingā¦ā Titanspirit clenched his teeth, yet he was even more wary against the black earth that was but a step away. Through his intuition, he knew that even if he was a Core Formation Dao Masterā¦ this black earth would invite nothing good.
It was at this time that a boom suddenly rang out between heaven and earth.
The sound of something, a seed, breaking apart.
A sprout budded out from the earth.
Boomā¦
Boomā¦ Boomā¦
The sound was similar to footsteps, yet also like a beating heart. This lonesome sound echoed throughout Nanzhou.
Hiddenscent shivered and studied Xu Yangyi who was releasing ripples of green light in the air. In her mind, a voice kept on speaking:
Goā¦ complete your final task.
Nevertheless, she dared not move!
This personā¦ was quite fearsomeā¦ Her subconscious and intuition were in a constant flux of war between heaven and man. As if the undefiable voice was actually being overturned by her instinctual subconscious. She didnāt take a step forward, but instead looked at the sky with great caution.
She was in such a conundrumā¦ that she couldnāt help but slither back a meter.
BOOMā¦ BOOMā¦
The sound became louder and louder, as if a drum was being hammered in the world.
A burst of wind, so clear and refreshing, blew without the slightest warning. However, the louder the wind blew, it caused the clothes of everyone present to ripple loudly! The agitated clouds in the sky stirred in turmoil!
āThisā¦ is his heart beat!ā Titanspirit had restrained his Buddhist form early on. With incomparable caution, he studied Xu Yangyiās corpse that was in the air.
Although their cultivations already stood at the worldās apex, they were still unable see the Godseal Spark in Xu Yangyiās qi sea. They moreover couldnāt make out the thread that was suspending two worlds.
Up above was a butterfly, its dance at a total halt. Like so, it was oddly frozen in the air.
Below was Xu Yangyi. His left hand was stretched out. He seemed to be petrified, likewise unable to make a single move.
In their spiritual sensesā¦ a most savage battle had already begun!
The dream butterfly of Zhuang Zhou versus the Wolfbane!
An eternal Greater Demon versus a Pureblood Demon!
The brutal, gritty combat of spiritual sense was absent of fancy tricks! It was only a pure clash of force!
It depended on oneās ability to endure the pain of spiritual sense being whittled away!
It depended on whoeverās Dao heart was more resolute!
It depended on whoeverās vigor was a level beyond!
Spoiler Meme
1. First dynasty = Qin dynasty (221-207 BCE). Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BCE).
2. Zhuang Zhouā¦ otherwise known as the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi (369-286 BCE).
3. This is a pretty famous story. Zhuangzi had a long dream as a butterfly. When he awoke he pondered whether he was himself or the butterfly. I have mentioned this previously
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