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Chapter 694 - 432: The Beginning of the Great Calamity?_2

Chapter 694: Chapter 432: The Beginning of the Great Calamity?_2

"...."

Zhou Pudgy stood still, watching the graceful figure of the beautiful woman walk away into the distance. He snorted lightly, his voice tinged with disdain as he muttered under his breath:

"Really seeking death, just for a Heavenly Pavilion Mandate? Are they playing with their lives? If the human race’s survival was truly threatened, there would always be tall figures watching over—members of the Imperial Family, Sect Alliance, Pavilion Masters—those old monsters aren’t just eating for free."

Having said this,

Zhou Pudgy shook his head slightly, leaped into the air, and his plump body sped off in the opposite direction from that of the middle-aged beauty....

.....

Her gaze settled on the strange mist drifting lightly with the air currents around her, the middle-aged beauty’s eyes grew more solemn.

After walking fifty zhang, the mist had already compressed her sensory range to a mere twenty zhang.

Moreover, the mist’s power to block perception was increasing as she delved deeper. If she actually arrived beside Xu Changtian in the deepest part of the mist, her perception of her surroundings would likely be compressed to a pitifully small radius.

Standing still for a brief moment, the middle-aged beauty still chose to press forward, but her heartbeat was clearly accelerating.

Nervousness.

It had been a long time since she’d felt this emotion.

Even when facing the Black Scale Leader Lou Ji, she hadn’t felt such a sensation in the depths of her heart.

This was the tension of facing an imminent calamity, as well as the unknown.

With each step drawing her closer, the middle-aged beauty’s pace gradually slowed, leaving only the sound of her boots crunching on the scorched remnants of walls and ruins.

Fifty zhang.

Forty zhang.

Twenty zhang.

Just as the middle-aged beauty was about to step into the twenty-zhang radius of Xu Changtian, a gentle and indifferent female voice suddenly reached her ears:

"Are you from Jiatiange?"

"Who?"

The middle-aged beauty instantly became alert, her soft sword whirled in a flurry, sweeping toward the direction of the sound behind her.

The soft sword hardened, its light sent waves through the mist behind her, scattering it, but she struck at nothing—the space behind her was empty.

Seeing this, the middle-aged beauty didn’t know whether to feel relieved or worried.

Relieved that there was indeed another person in the deepest part of the mist, meaning old man Tian might not have died by Xu Changtian’s hand.

Worried because whoever could have instantly killed old man Tian was a cultivator whose powers she was not capable of confronting.

And, this woman had actually discerned her affiliation with Jiatiange.

Though her name was already exposed, her connection to her Sect and Jiatiange was supposed to be unknown to anyone.

As the dust settled and calm returned, that warm voice like flowing water spoke up again with a trace of hesitation:

"I am...you could say, an acquaintance of Jiatiange."

"...."

An acquaintance of Jiatiange?

If she truly were an acquaintance of Jiatiange, how could she stand by and ignore such a grand calamity?

The middle-aged beauty’s expression remained unchanged, not believing a word. She took the other’s words as an attempt to fish for information and said in a low voice:

"I don’t understand what you’re talking about. Why not show yourself and talk."

Luo Xiran showed no intention of revealing herself:

"There’s no need for me to show myself. I’m speaking up now out of consideration for past relations, to warn you not to proceed any further."

"Not go any further... What do you mean by that?"

"If you go further, you will die."

"....."

The middle-aged beauty gripped the handle of her soft sword a bit tighter, her beautiful eyes half-closed: "If I insist on going forward, will you take action?"

Luo Xiran’s voice remained calm, telling the plain truth: "I am not a match for you right now, so naturally, I won’t act against you."

The middle-aged beauty’s eyes constantly scanned the surrounding mist, trying to find the hidden location of the other party, but the mist’s restriction on Will-spirit and Origin Qi made it impossible for her to pinpoint where the voice was coming from:

"You’re quite modest. But since you won’t act against me, could it be that you’re suggesting old man Tian could kill me?"

Even now, the middle-aged beauty hadn’t forgotten to probe for information.

In this eerie fog, to gather more information, she could only rely on this unidentified woman.

And Luo Xiran’s voice carried a trace of a sigh:

"Dead men, how should you make your move?"

The middle-aged beautiful woman’s complexion became a few shades graver:

"Old Man Tian is dead?"

"Huff..."

Luo Xiran let out a gentle breath, speaking in a complex, low voice, "Girl, you don’t have to beat around the bush with me. If you insist on proceeding, then go ahead.

"As a member of Jiatiange, it’s indeed our duty to eradicate calamities by any means necessary and protect humanity, as that is the reason for our existence."

The middle-aged beautiful woman’s pupils narrowed slightly, as she furrowed her brows and asked in a low voice:

"Who exactly are you?"

"...."

No sound rose again; the only response to her was the endless silence within the black fog.

Standing in place for several moments, the middle-aged beautiful woman suppressed the multitude of doubts in her heart, bowed with her hands clasped in a slight gesture of respect, and said softly:

"If that’s the case, I hope you won’t obstruct me."

As she spoke, the middle-aged beautiful woman continued on toward the deepest part of the fog where Xu Changtian was, without any hesitation.

After she left,

a complex sigh quietly rose from the fog and then returned to tranquility within the mist.

The moment the girl from Jiatiange stepped within twenty zhang from the center of the fog, Luo Xiran immediately noticed through the Black Death Mycelial Mat on the ground that had undergone mutations that the little demon resembling a statue moved slightly.

It was not obvious at first, merely the fingers that were holding the old man’s head trembling lightly, but as the middle-aged beautiful woman drew closer, Xu Yuan’s body began to twitch subtly and oddly.

Seeing this scene, Luo Xiran showed another trace of a sigh in her eyes.

When the little demon Xu Yuan’s brain was pierced by the sudden Lightning Arc, she attempted to use a Demon Crystal of ’Qi’ to repair his body.

Her actions went smoothly at first. Because of the prior Ghostification, Xu Yuan’s body retained some characteristics of a ghost; indeed, the Life Origin within the Demon Crystal could repair the fatal wound piercing his head.

However, Luo Xiran didn’t use much, as without Ghostification to sustain it, Xu Yuan’s body couldn’t withstand the vast Life Origin contained in the Demon Crystal of ’Qi’.

But the mishap occurred during this time.

The deranged old man infected by the epidemic suddenly arrived at their location and tried to dismember Xu Yuan with a wooden knife.

She wanted to stop it, but couldn’t.

And the moment the wooden knife cut into Xu Yuan’s body, perhaps attracted by the same origin, the Yin Ghost Force within the knife instantly surged massively into Xu Yuan’s body.

And affected by this huge influx of Yin Source, the Life Origin that Luo Xiran was using to repair his body also began to uncontrollably rush in.

The influx of two starkly different Saint Level forces left Luo Xiran with no room for maneuver; she could only watch helplessly as these powers poured into him.

What followed was beyond Luo Xiran’s understanding.

According to her knowledge,

the simultaneous influx of Life Origin and Yin Source belonging to ghosts into one body would result in nothing but a violent conflict, culminating in the body exploding and dying.

Not to mention that both forces were of Saint Level, and the recipient was merely a body with Soul Condensation strength.

But somehow,

these two forces reached a state of balance within the small demon, Xu Yuan.

Then,

an unheralded rampage began.

Luo Xiran directly lost control of most of the Black Death Mycelial Mat; the Abyss and Ghost Fog instantly formed around Xu Yuan as the center, spreading and enveloping the entirety of Huizhou County. All the dead commoners and low-level martial artist cultivators became nourishment for it.

And the deranged old man who had caused all these changes, upon the awakening of "Xu Yuan," had his head promptly plucked off without any chance to resist.

But afterwards, the little demon no longer moved, standing quietly in place, entering a state of complete inactivity.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Luo Xiran tried to probe the little demon’s body.

And everything inside it was beyond her comprehension.

The meridians, Dantian, the internal organs, even the brain, were completely ruined.

She didn’t know whether Xu Yuan could still be considered alive, nor whether he could regain consciousness later on because everything within the little demon had been destroyed.

The only thing she knew was,

the long-planned assassination by Jiatiange seemed to have inadvertently forced the start of a great calamity enveloping the world.....