Chapter 392: Spirit Tide (2)
Tian Guotao looked on in a trance. Even if a gentle crack suddenly rang out at his ear, he wouldnât hear it.
His thoughts turned to the Clearcloud Realmâs qi industry. Not only did this industry bring longevity, but it moreover staved off Spirit Addiction. So vile was Spirit Addiction that oneâs complexion turned color upon hearing of it.
The absorption of qi led to addiction⊠and qi would create dependency, furthermore causing a kind of undispellable resistance to spiritual force on the Clearcloud Realmâs people. As this resistance to spiritual force reached a boundary, high-level qi products had to be taken. In the same moment a household was finally no longer able to afford qi products, a decades-old Spirit Addiction would dramatically erupt, truly turning one into a qi-crazy addict.
It was never thought⊠that this cycle would one day collapse.
CrackâŠ
As a second noise echoed, Tian Guotao was abruptly startled. With a trace of ecstasy, he then mustered supreme reverence. His legs went soft and he kneeled.
âRespectful greetings in leaving seclusion, Master Xu!!!â He excitedly lowered his head and paid respects. In front of him, the slight creaking just now was from the iron chains on the door that hadnât opened in eight years. Already, they were starting to clamor wildly!
CRASH!!!
Three seconds later, a boom rang out. All of the chains turned into broken links, and an azure qi no less than a hundred meters tall soared to the horizon!
Amidst the qi, a man was sitting cross-legged. Even if he was but a silhouette, Tian Guotao could still make out that this was Xu Yangyi! The Master Xu who he hadnât seen in eight years!
However⊠he carefully extended his senses, and shivers overtook his body.
So strongâŠ
If said, the Master Xu of eight years ago could be likened to the revealed edge of a blade, observed to be like a sharp sword bared naked. Yet now, this sword was sheathed in its scabbard, the polish inside even more resplendent! By merely sensing a bit, Tian Guotao seemed to face a tall mountain, unable to prevent his entire body from growing cold!
Xu Yangyi sat in the sky and sighed with some ruefulness.
He still hadnât advanced to the middle stage.
The qi was enough, but⊠for the first time in this realm, heâd sensed the worldâs ârulesâ!
He could clearly advance, yet he couldnât no matter what! As if someone in the darkness was ârejectingâ his âapplicationâ to advance.
It was regardless of how he maneuvered his qi to assail the middle-stage barrier. Not to speak of a barrier, he couldnât even sense the bodily limiter.
He quelled his mind and performed Innersight again. In his meridians, light-azure qi inflated his body with a kind of fullness. His qi was eager to spill out, eager to access that sensation which crossed heaven and man. Heâd already arrived at the very summit of initial-stage Foundation Establishment.
âA whole eight yearsâŠâ he lamented softly. Afterwards, his gaze shifted to his storage ring. The items inside were enough to cause other cultivatorsâ eyes to turn green with envy!
Three hundred Qi Explosion Pills and ten pill fiends!
In addition, heâd finished cultivating the last two of the Heavenly Opening Six Erosions. What left him suspicious though, was that the divine abilityâs name was clearly the âHeavenly Opening Six Erosionsâ. However, heâd only seen five. Alas, there was a slight defect in this beauty. Due to the Smelting God Artâs limitations, only three moves were able to be contained at best currently. There was no way to unite the Heavenly Opening Six Erosionâs five moves into one.
He sensed carefully; Zhao Ziqi was still sleeping. From the start of the fifth year of his seclusion, his little brotherâs sleeping period was ever increasing. He didnât wake the other.
âHmm?â He stowed his gaze, and his brows slightly knitted together. He looked all around a little suspiciously.
Something was offâŠ
What had happened in these eight years? The surrounding qi was deathly still. His eyes wandered forth to the distant and vaguely visible Beifeng City. In kind⊠there wasnât one wick of light.
âThisâŠâ He looked to the sky. To the four reaches and eight bounds, the sky shouldâve originally been bluish-white. But at this moment oppressive black clouds circled everywhere, and over yonder seemed to be Baizhai Cityâs location.
The layer of black clouds were heavy, like concentrated ink. Motes of starry green light were shimmering in the clouds. They surrounded Baizhai City, only leaving behind a patch of blue sky in the city district. It looked incredibly odd.
Xu Yangyi descended to the ground, and Tian Guotao respectfully walked over at once. âMaster, congratulations on your spiritual force making great progress.â
âMhm.â Xu Yangyi casually nodded and said lowly, âWhatâs up with the sky?â
âMaster Xu.â Tian Guotaoâs voice carried terrible grief. âA major incident has happenedâŠâ
He didnât speak more. Instead, he turned on his cell phone and switched over to an image. He then passed the device over.
Xu Yangyi took the phone. As soon as he looked, his expression also became grave.
A video was on the screen. It was about ten minutes long.
In the video, at the extremes of the Endless Sea, a triangular thing suddenly cracked open. Afterwards, a black cloud floated out from inside.
âScene of Clearcloud Satellite No.18: Clearcloud calendar year 1826. This year has been named âYear of the Reaperâ.â
A steady male voice carrying deep pain was voiced over the video.
âWe canât find out why this disaster happened. Itâs February 13th, 1826. An irregular ocean-curtain breach suddenly appeared at the unapproachable Endless Sea. This was the first time the black cloud that would be known as âThe Reaperâs Scytheâ in the future floated out.â
The scene changed. The black cloud wasnât large, perhaps only dozens of meters in size, but⊠after it intruded into the sky, like an ink drop entering pure water, the sky began to rapidly darken!
The deathly black revealed an ominous, wretched green. This black cloud was like a death god, beginning to slowly drift towards the closest city.
And this place⊠was shockingly where Xu Yangyi had first arrived!
âThe State of Mingyu has become the first casualty of the Reaperâs ScytheâŠâ
The scene changed, and a city completely different that Baizhai City appeared. An endless flow of traffic was featured, the noise and clamor at an unusual level.
âMay 29th, 1826 is a day that everyone in the Clearcloud Realm should remember. The first Reaperâs Scythe appeared above the sky of western Mingyuâs Yuetai City.â
Xu Yangyi took a deep breath. The following image even shocked him somewhat. It was a ghastly sight.
A black cloud swiftly covered the entire city. Soon⊠everyone seemed to go crazy! Clutching at their necks, they screamed themselves hoarse! Numerous car accidents happens on the road! Many people even frantically attacked the people beside them!
On their bodies⊠streaks of white qi rose up and then melded into the black cloud. As the qi of the cityâs several hundred thousand people merged in, the black cloud became bigger and bigger! Vast without limit!
âJune 7th, Yuetai City became a forbidden region. All living creatures have almost died out. The State of Mingyu passes down an emergency evacuation order. The surrounding three provinces and eighteen cities around Yuetai City, a total of 31 million people, all proceeded to Wugang City.â
âJune 21st, the leaders of the entire realm gather. At this time, the Reaperâs Scythe has already quickly spread from 89 meters to 3,120 square kilometers. Wherever it goes, desolace is left.â
The speaker became even more sorrowful.
âPerhaps to call it a desolace still isnât appropriate. Within⊠a few things remain, our past friends⊠our familyâŠâ
The scene switched again. Xu Yangyiâs gaze became terribly grave.
In the video⊠in these cities, masses of people were raving madly. Without the slightest response, they moved towards all living and deceased organisms and attacked. Moreover, each and everyone of them were bone-thin like addicts. Still⊠this wasnât what made Xu Yangyi solemn! These peopleâs madness was only temporary. Not even needing a few minutes, a sliver of qi bubbled out from their bodies and completely wrapped them up within! They became cocoons that either formed over the ground or hung on roofs!
Such a strange transformation had never even occurred in Earthâs cultivation history!
Xu Yangyi mumbled to himself and handed the cell phone back to Tian Guotao. Afterwards, his figure was like a piercing arrow and rushed to the sky.
This time, he directly surged a thousand meters above! The black clouds were coming closer and closer!
âThis is my future treasure bowl⊠how could I let you get a cut of the action?â He chuckled darkly as he hovered below the black cloud and waved a finger. All of a sudden, ten fire-dragons thundered forth!
BOOM!!!
In the sky, a purple sea of fire detonated. Yet after the fire sea passed, the black cloud hadnât dissipated by a thread!
With his extreme vision, he gazed afar. A distant place ought to have been crystal clear, but it seemed to be covered by a sheet of muslin at this moment. He couldnât clearly see. The blackness of primal chaos masked everything.
Xu Yangyi set aside his notion of attacking again. He murmured to himself for a few seconds and closed his eyes. His spiritual sense was unleashed with a rumble!
Swoosh!
His spiritual sense was like a tide, but he entered the strange monochrome world again!
In the instant he almost entered, he quickly sensed another spiritual sense. It was the entity that was yelling at him to stay last time.
âYou came⊠You came!!! I knew you would come!!!â the voice howled in excitement. âOnly you can sense me in the Clearcloud Realm! Donât go! Listen to me! I donât have any ill intentions!â
Xu Yangyi didnât leave and said coldly, âIâll give you a minute. If you donât give me a reason, Iâm not coming again.â
âTake me with you! Take me with you!!!â the voice nearly screamed itself hoarse. âDown below⊠I can sense⊠it has awakened⊠Itâs going to wake up soon! Take me with you down there! Otherwise itâll be too late! Itâll eat up the entire Clearcloud Realm bite after bite until itâs awakened!
This ordinary word caused Xu Yangyi to inhale deeply.
Bladevessel had once said to him:
The entity below, in slumber and wakefulness, is two kinds of creatures
.
Heâd acted without thinking, absorbing the offered qi originally meant to suppress the entity. Could these black clouds be it?
âBelow? Where below?â Cool and collected, he contained his rippling frame of mind and asked.
âYou went down there! Youâve been inside! I know it! I can feel it! Nothing in the Clearcloud Realm can escape my eyes!â the voice said shakily, âYou went there⊠You know it⊠You know that a catastrophic entity is being sealed down there!â
âWhat entity?â
âI donât know!â The voice began to tremble. âI only know⊠that itâs terrible⊠very terrible⊠but when it sleeps, it is weak⊠very weak. But as long as it wakes up, the entire Clearcloud Realm wonât exist! Only I can do it! Only I can seal it!â
Xu Yangyi icily surveyed his surroundings. âWhy should I believe you?â
âYou have no choice but to believe me!â The voice seemed to calm down. âIâm this realmâs Realm Spirit⊠only I can seal it again⊠What⊠what do you hear?â
Xu Yangyi carefully listened for a short period of time. A noise as soft as a whisper, seemingly rapping on the bottom tip of his heart, infinitely looped. It was extremely rhythmic, quietly echoing throughout the monochrome world.
âHuff⊠SnoreâŠâ
The wind rose and clouds fell, the drizzling pitter-patter of rain soundless.
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BANG!
Without warning, the inside of his mind exploded, and he sharply gasped.
The first time he entered this monochrome world, heâd heard this noise, but he hadnât guess what it was. However⊠with Bladevessel and the Realm Spiritâs words in parallel to each other, he had a hair-raising thought!
âThatâs⊠the sound of snoringâŠâ He looked all around him in astonishment. âSnoring is echoing through the entire Clearcloud RealmâŠâ
âRight now⊠Iâm in that thingâs dream!â
1. From what I can see, this is a modified poem from Tang poet Du Fu (712-770 CE).
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