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Chapter 430 - Two Hundred and Ninety-One: Superpowers_2

Chapter 430: Chapter Two Hundred and Ninety-One: Superpowers_2

As she spoke, her eyes lit up with excitement:

"If possible, maybe we can establish an army with undead characteristics..."

"I disagree."

Xu Yuan hurriedly interrupted the woman’s speech, "It’s too dangerous."

Madwoman.

He found that sometimes the Wrapped Chest Princess truly was insane.

Did she not understand what playing with fire was?

Jiatiange had already said that a great calamity was coming to the world.

If in the end the great calamity was caused by the higher-ups of Dayan themselves, it would directly replicate the classic scenes from his previous life’s films and television.

Xu Yuan’s emphatic statement made Li Qingyan fall silent for a moment, but soon she smiled brightly:

"The palace was just joking, shall we start preparing?"

"...."

Xu Yuan gave her a deep look, but didn’t say anything more, glanced at Bai Muxi, and said:

"I’ll go with her to the other end of the passage to prepare. In a quarter of an hour, Qingyan, you start absorbing the Black Death Mycelial Mat around here. Once you’ve absorbed enough, the ink serpent will sense it."

With that said,

Xu Yuan gestured to Bai Muxi to follow and then turned to sprint towards the distance.

He had witnessed the battle between Primordial and Mortal Transcendence.

The scene of the Washboard Saintess and Yuchu from the Imperial City PK’ing was still vivid in his memory.

Now without Old Man Luo to protect him, he, a Soul Condensation expert, should still stay a bit away and just observe from the edge.

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"Boom—"

A quarter of an hour later.

Accompanied by the trembling of the earth and shaking mountains, a sinister ink serpent with wings on its head arrived as expected.

Li Qingyan’s battle with the ink serpent was about to erupt.

Shaking, violent winds, and the sinister roaring echoed through the cave in an instant!

Due to the distance being too far, Xu Yuan couldn’t see the battle in the dark passage far away clearly, only feeling the air currents kicked up from there stinging his cheeks.

As time passed second by second,

The continuous tremors of the passage slightly accelerated Xu Yuan’s heartbeat; his hand gripping the Qingyu Sword also tightened a bit.

He believed in Li Qingyan’s strength, and even more so in the strength of the Barbarian King, the world’s BOSS, but the ink serpent was, after all, a BOSS of the Mortal Transcendence realm.

The darkness at the end of the passage seemed like the gaping maw of a giant beast choosing its next meal.

In the endless darkness, the only light was from the Source Crystal deeply embedded in the grooves at the tail end of the Formation Patterns crossbow, its string fully drawn and capable of reaching several zhang.

The firing rate of the Formation Patterns crossbow was not very fast, even without taking into account the wear on Formation Patterns, it could only be charged every half a minute to shoot a single bolt.

But luckily, Bai Muxi shot with great accuracy.

Every time a bolt tore through the air, a painful hiss from the ink serpent would echo from the other end of the passageway.

The city defensive Formation Patterns crossbows, used by Northern Border City, were military weapons capable of piercing even army formations, a product of Dayan’s military crafts that seemed able to penetrate the scales of that otherworldly ink serpent ghoul.

He just didn’t know whether the poison Lou Ji had given him before would be effective against the ghoul...

Just as he was thinking,

Bai Muxi’s beautiful eyes suddenly narrowed; she saw the ink serpent charging towards them as if it had no regard for its life!

Without any hesitation, Bai Muxi raised her jade hand towards Xu Yuan.

The next instant,

Xu Yuan felt the "Step Void Slash," which he had been ready to unleash, activated by an external force.

"Boom—"

A loud bang echoed in his ears, and the flying debris stung his face a little.

By the time Xu Yuan recovered, his form had already appeared on the edge of the passageway ten or so zhang away.

And the spot where he had just been standing was now occupied by a massive and sinister ink serpent...

Its speed was so fast that the naked eye couldn’t catch it clearly.

The wide passageway, with a diameter of more than twenty zhang, was directly taken up by a third from the ink serpent, with sharp ink horns growing on its head, and a pair of sinister meat wings on either side of its huge skull.

Among Demonic Beasts, this ink serpent wasn’t particularly large, not even as enormous as Ji Qingyue’s original form, the Qi Sheng Python.

The ink-colored scales were covered with wounds that seemed unable to heal, telling of the serious injuries it had sustained, but even so, the terrifying pressure emanating from the serpent left Xu Yuan feeling breathless.

Too close.

Xu Yuan realized it had been a long time since he was this close to death.

But luckily, the target of the ink serpent was not him, but the Formation Patterns crossbow that radiated terrifying might.

Everything seemed to freeze at that moment, as eyes turned towards the direction of the serpent’s head...

Then,

He saw her in a red dress.

Li Qingyan was holding the hilt with one hand while the other pressed against the blade, which stood rigidly in front of the antennae-like horns on the head of the ink snake.

Two li away...

The hard stone under Li Qingyan’s feet shattered, leaving behind a deep ravine that stretched from a distance, with Bai Mu Xi’s controlled siege crossbow located just behind her by a zhang.

In an instant, she was forcefully propelled over by the powerful thrust of the ink snake from two li away...

Li Qingyan’s hand holding the Scarlet Blade trembled slightly, but in the next instant, she growled in a low voice:

"Bai Mu Xi, what are you dazing about?"

As she spoke,

Her long hair fluttered and the fiery red Origin Qi overflowed from her body. Like a burning phoenix, Li Qingyan stepped on the ground, breaking it, and swung her blade fiercely upward.

"Hiss!!!"

The ink snake’s massive body was lifted by the blade from the sharp horns on its head.

"Clang—"

Bai Mu Xi operated the formation patterns on the siege crossbow and fired the last arrow.

The Destructor crossbow arrow, mixed with unmatched force, shot fiercely at the ink snake’s jaw!

"Pfft!"

Without any resistance, the tough scales on the ink snake’s jaw were pierced through; the arrow entered its skull, but that was not the end of it.

After the half-zhang long sharp crossbow arrow entered, its force unabated, it spiraled deeper through the tough membranes in its brain...

In a flash, the crossbow arrow, carrying the ink snake’s horns, burst out from it and embedded deeply into the cave ceiling!

There was a moment of eerie silence,

Step Void Slash.

Xu Yuan disappeared from where he was and reappeared behind the two women, about to speak when a fragrant breeze hit him.

Bai Mu Xi stomped fiercely and hooked him, running madly towards the back.

Even with its head pierced and the horns on its crown destroyed, the ink snake was still not dead!

In the silence,

The winged ink snake continued to rise without stopping due to the force, but at the same time, its huge long tail coiled on the ground turned into an invisible whip that lashed towards Li Qingyan who was swinging her blade upward!

"Bang!"

A muffled sound,

A fiery red afterimage disappeared from its location like a cannonball, flying backwards into the darkness at high speed, surpassing Bai Mu Xi who was pulling Xu Yuan to run away.

"Cough ah..."

A bright red blood spurted from Li Qingyan’s mouth.

The strength of the Mortal Transcendence Demonic Beast was too great. Even though she used the blade to block just before the ink snake’s tail hit her, it still caused a reverse flow of Origin Qi.

But in the blink of an eye,

Li Qingyan adjusted her posture in midair, condensed the Origin Qi into blocks, and with a fierce stomp of her boots, charged towards the severely injured ink snake again...

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The darkness of the tunnels on both sides rapidly retreated.

Feeling the earth-shattering tremors behind him, Xu Yuan instinctively hugged Xiao Bai’s boneless soft body, and only through her warm body temperature could he feel a trace of scarce safety.

Li Qingyan was behind them, blowing up the cave to hinder the pursuit of the ink snake while running swiftly into the depths.

Plans can never keep up with changes, and accidents still happen in the end.

The initial plan to hunt the ink snake had failed.

Back in the Qionghua Secret Realm, Tianyan was able to confront a fully-blooded Yuchu with the body of Primordial. Not to mention at that time, Yuchu could also use the Dao Domain, an overwhelming domain skill.

He thought that even if our Wrapped Chest Princess couldn’t beat Xu Changge, the Washboard Saintess, she should still be at the same level. Dealing with a severely injured Demonic Beast that couldn’t use Dao Domain, with the help of the siege crossbow, it should have been enough.

But reality is often much crueler than ideals. One can’t generalize the physical constitution between people.

Although the Wrapped Chest Princess is strong, she isn’t strong enough to fight above her level.

Thinking of this,

Xu Yuan sighed and transmitted his voice to ask:

"Mu Xi, we should be close to the place, right?"

Bai Mu Xi replied immediately:

"Answering the young master, we have arrived."

As she said this,

A blinding light suddenly burst forth from the dark tunnel behind, expanding at a visible rate. It engulfed the persistently pursuing ink snake and continued to spread.

Time seemed to freeze at that moment.

Xu Yuan’s eyes flashed with blood, staring intently behind him, hands clenched into fists.

The siege crossbow failed, Li Qingyan failed, so could a Source Crystal Bomb, bought for 1.2 million Silver, not kill you damn beast?