Chapter 393: Spirit Tide (3)
âThis is a dream?â Xu Yangyi turned his head around and gazed towards the direction where the voice echoed. âCome out.â
There was no response.
Eventually, a long sigh rang out. âI canât come out⊠You have to give me a medium. It doesnât matter what it is, anything that can move is okay.â
Xu Yangyi sneered and waved his hand. With the sound of a fast shot, an ape-puppet appeared.
In the next moment⊠a yellow light arced towards the ape. The ape paused for three seconds where it stood and unhurriedly floated over to him.
âInitial-stage Foundation Establishment?â Xu Yangyi couldnât help but laugh. âInitial-stage Foundation Establishment⊠dares to tell lies about the entity that the Great Sage left behind and sealed?â
âI donât know eitherâŠâ Unexpectedly, the Realm Spirit itself was tensed up in a daze. âI only know that countless years ago⊠someone told me that the moment the thing down there wakes up is when the Realm Spirit truly appears⊠Only I can seal itâŠâ
âThen why didnât you go yourself?â
The ape-puppet scratched its head. âThe region below⊠is very dangerous. Itâs a terrible cage. Iâm only useful against it, but Iâm just not able to get in front of it. I need other people to help.â
Xu Yangyi didnât reply.
There was no way a great cultivator at such a realm as Great Sage Sun didnât leave behind a contingency. So, based on reason, what this strange Realm Spirit was saying made sense.
And yet in his mind⊠he didnât believe it!
Ziqi.
He shouted in his spiritual sense and a minute passed. With a sleepy tone present in his voice, Zhao Ziqi was heard.
Big bro?
Zhao Ziqi paused for five seconds and exhaled coldly.
Big bro⊠why did you come back there? Thereâs something up with this thing, something big!
Xu Yangyi narrowed his eyes and sized up the three-eyed spirit ape-puppet.
Thereâs a problem with it?
I canât put my finger on it⊠but itâs definitely not the Realm Spirit! Thereâs always been plenty of fake facts about the word âRealm Spiritâ. According to the ancient tomes and recordings, once a place, object, or minor world severed by a mighty figure has a spirit, the distinct air and qi of that land is an endless strengthening to it! However, I canât feel that at all from this thing!
Actually⊠I can feel that itâs within the scope of my Netherpierce Eye. Itâs a supernatural being! Itâs definitely not some majestic Realm Spirit! It⊠is fake! Itâs something else pretending to be a Realm Spirit!
Big bro, you canât trust it no matter what! This thing is pretty strange! Not even my Netherpierce Eye can tell if itâs really dead or alive!
Xu Yangyiâs gaze smoldered. After ages, he intoned softly,
Look at its head.
In Xu Yangyiâs spiritual sense, Zhao Ziqi opened his eyes and looked carefully for three seconds. Afterwards, as if he was struck by lightning, he was rendered silent.
Xu Yangyi had quite a good memory of objects heâd taken out, due to the eidetic memory granted by the pill spirit, which automatically recorded information.
But right now⊠at the top of the ape-puppetâs head, a hair unexpectedly grew out!
A golden hair!
The Realm Spiritâs body in itselfâŠ
Zhao Ziqi murmured,
The Realm Spirit⊠is a hair?
He was absentminded for a few seconds. Afterwards, he almost jumped up!
This⊠ThisâŠ
Zhao Ziqiâs spirit form suddenly drifted out and looked at the hair in astonishment.
There are millions and millions of the Great Sageâs incarnations⊠The Gold-Banded Staff is here. C-Could it be that this hairâŠ
He dared not continue thinking!
Iâm taking it down there with me.
Xu Yangyiâs gaze slightly flickered, and he said dully.
Zhao Ziqiâs lips moved yet made no objection.
This monkey hairâs arrival was too strange! Furthermore, he dared to confirm that this entity certainly wasnât the Realm Spirit! Something was hiding in this hair, draped in the skin of a Realm Spirit. It wanted to go underneath the Taiji crack!
Was it possible that something was hiding inside what mightâve been a strand of Sun Wukongâs hair? Or had this hair cultivated into a demon?
Was it personally enlightened by Great Sage Sun, or⊠something else?
If it was something else⊠then who could be tempted to act on the entity that Sun Wukong had sealed? And yet who⊠could hide inside one of Sun Wukongâs hairs?
âFollow me.â
With the fall of these words, black and white inverted in an instant, and Xu Yangyi appeared again underneath the black sky.
He looked all around. The world was like a black cage. He said in a heavy voice, âRealm Spirit, is there a passage leading to Earth down there?â
âEarth?â The Realm Spirit was dazed and pondered for a short moment. âI donât know what Earth is, but I can feel⊠that there really is a place down below that leads to another world.â
Xu Yangyi nodded. He was then like an arrow piercing through the clouds, hurrying straight to Baizhai City.
Time waited for no man!
Something underneath⊠had already awakened and was in the midst of frantically engulfing the Clearcloud Realm! A step late, and if the thing sealed by Sun Wukong truly rose from slumber⊠then everyone, the Clearcloud Realmâs billion-somewhat inhabitants, had no choice but to all die here!
Swoosh!
After drawing closer to middle-stage Foundation Establishment, his speed had become even faster, to the extent that he drew a silver-white air wave in the sky. Below the black curtain of the sky, he didnât have the slightest thought of concealing his Foundation Establishment cultivation! The streaks of Foundation Establishment qi lingering upon him were also telling everyone that those who blocked his path would die!
He directly stormed through all checkpoints, straight to the State of Shangchenâs Post Horse Station!
Beep⊠Beep⊠BeepâŠ
At the same time he reached max speed, all of the Defense Departmentâs devices inside the station screeched. Countless red lights flickered!
âEnemy invasion?!â
âImpossible! Airplanes canât fly in the sky right now! Under the black clouds, anything that flies gets torn to shreds.â
âWhat the fuck is that thing!â
âShut up!â A senior colonel nervously fixed his eyes on a screen and gritted out, âImmediately⊠calculate the spiritual force intensity!â
âYes!â A young officerâs fingers flew over his keyboard. After no less than thirty seconds, he almost jumped out of his seat!
âIt canât be calculated! It exceeds the sum of qi that a single spirit-master can hold in their body! What⊠what is thing?!â
No one said anything. All that was heard in the entire room was ear-piercing beeps. Brows beaded in sweat, everyone looked at each other in dismay. What was going on? The entity on the screen was clearly alive, but how could a living creature have such terrible qi! The upper bound of the Defense Departmentâs devices for single-body qi calculation was a kiloton! But this thing⊠in a range around two meters⊠this thing contained over a kiloton of qi?!
Everyone looked to the senior colonel, but he too was dumbfounded at this moment.
What could be done now? Should a report be made? If reported⊠would the higher-ups believe it?
But regardless of whether the information was sent⊠this horrific entity would reach Baizhai Cityâs air space in ten minutes!
However, without even waiting for him to consider the matter for three seconds⊠a second red dot rumbled and rose up on the screen!
Swoosh!
If said, Xu Yangyi was an airplane, and this red dot was an intercepting planeâs missile!
BEEP BEEP BEEP!!!
This time, even the back-up equipment blared furiously! If said everyone was shocked just now, then their minds currently were all blank!
âA⊠A second entity that exceeds a kiloton of single-body capacity?â
Swoosh!
Xu Yangyiâs silhouette was like a sword, cleaving apart wind and slashing through waves. He made a beeline to Baizhai City, but in the moment he neared the rim of Baizhai City a giant palm appeared in the sky! All around it was fifty meters in size! Along with streaks of white qi, it seemed to stretch out from the clouds and seize towards Xu Yangyi!
Middle-stage Foundation Establishment!
âImpudent!â Xu Yangyi roared, and the surrounding space appeared to shake. Soon⊠ten purple fire-dragons rushed out from behind him. Bringing forth a boundless sea of fire, they charged everywhere!
BOOM!!!
In almost the exact moment of contact, both sides simultaneously exploded! A stretch of purple flame along with golden qi dyed the edge of Baizhai City with a hundred meters of purple twilight! The blast could be seen from anywhere in the city!
SwooshâŠ
In Baizhai City, countless spirit-masters all raised their heads and suddenly looked to the north of the city.
âThisâŠâ An old man shivered from head to toe and almost kneeled over. âThis⊠This is a spirit-master?! This is a spirit-master?!?!â
âHeavensâŠâ In the lobby of the Post Horse Station, a young man wearing a rat mask bolted up to his feet, along with over twenty other people inside the room. All of them looked to the horizon in shock.
They could sense⊠that a stifling, powerful spiritual pressure had erupted there! Even the sky seemed to shake because of it!
âThis⊠Master Xu?!â He cast his senses for three seconds and cried out involuntarily, âItâs Master Xu! Master Xu came!!! Master Xu left seclusion!!!â
The gazes of everyone present quickly brightened! Master Xu⊠in these twenty years, although this mysterious name wasnât widely spread, nearly everyone knew of it! While some believed the name to be a legend and some believed it to be a deliberate embellishing, no one would deny that this Master Xuâs realm was supremely high! Far above the Three Great State-Magi!
âIn that case⊠whoâs the person fighting Master Xu?â Fifth Dragon sluggishly watched the sky. âThe Clearcloud Realm⊠actually has someone else who can match Master Xu?!â
BOOM!!!
In the sky, the golden palm groaned and collapsed, transforming into motes of starlight. But at this time, an imposing and grand voice, a voice like the Celestial Emperor, was heard all around Xu Yangyi. âHeavenly Works Activation⊠Myriad Beings Possess SpiritsâŠâ
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SwishâŠ
In a flash, the originally collapsed golden palm formed again, tens of meters all around Xu Yangyi. It turned into birds and beasts, and a cascade of golden sword-rain poured down in the next second!
Swoosh swoosh swoosh!!!
Endless gold shined upon the area to turn it into a golden sea! Already, the masses below were totally stunned.
âSpirit Transformation Divine Palm!!!â A sky-shaking roar boomed. Unexpectedly, the sword-rain of birds and beast turned into a giant golden palm again. Without a shred of leniency, it fiercely closed shut where Xu Yangyi was at the middle!
There was no sound. Dazed, Twelfth Boar watched the horizon. âMaster Xu⊠lost?â
Before his voice even fell, a cold voice echoed from the palm. âHeavenly Opening⊠Fourth ErosionâŠâ
Swish!
In the sky, at the sides of the palm, infinite azure netherflame suddenly flashed to life, illuminating the golden palm to turn it into the color of clear jade. In the next second, Xu Yangyiâs voice sounded again. âDevour Spirit!!!â
BOOM!
The giant golden palm answered and exploded! A surge of golden light flooded the sky! And in the golden light, two people were standing.
Xu Yangyi indifferently stood at the left, and an old man who could hardly mask his amazement stood at the right.
He wore a short buttoned gown, black pants, and black cloth shoes. He hovered in the air, looking at Xu Yangyi with a little disbelief.
âThis is the first time weâve met.â Xu Yangyi nonchalantly patted his camouflage attire. âIâm Wolfbane.â
Several seconds later, the old man took a deep breath, settled down, and studied Xu Yangyi intently. âNo man strives to cross at daybreak, the waning moonâs cold light beaming on sandy shores⊠This Throne, is Moonless.â
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For the first time, the Clearcloud Realmâs two only-existing cultivators finally met face-to-face!
Spoiler
1. You may remember that âHeavenly Works Activationâ was used by Grandmaster Gao Muya. The Chinese here is actually the same as back then, based off the title of a work known as
The Exploitation of the Works of Nature
compiled by Ming-era scientist and encyclopedist Song Yingxing.
2. âNo man strives to cross at daybreak, the waning moonâs cold light beaming on sandy shoresâ. This is a poem from the Tang poet Qian Qi (710-780 CE).
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