Netherworld Retrograde
Chapter 220 - 103: A Method to Break Through the Disaster Fog_2

Chapter 220: Chapter 103: A Method to Break Through the Disaster Fog_2

At the same time, Li Yelai tapped his foot and lifted the long spear horizontally with a swift swing.

Single-handed Eighteen Strokes·Elephant Step!

The long spear smashed into the waist of the third hunting insect, directly sending it flying several meters.

Meanwhile, the fourth hunting insect took the opportunity to wrap its tail around Li Yelai’s long spear, attempting to disarm him.

Li Yelai decisively let go, thinking, "You want the weapon? Then take it!"

He then lifted his foot and kicked hard at the end of the long spear.

The long spear shot out quickly, pinning the fourth hunting insect’s tail to the ground.

Just as Li Yelai was about to kill these two unlucky creatures with his bare hands, a fierce fire suddenly burst from the body of the hunting insect.

Li Yelai was taken aback, initially thinking it was some new ability of the hunting insect.

But he then saw that the insect swarm nearby ignited in an instant, a fierce fire consuming a massive number of insects.

The insects screamed in pain; even the hunting insects were frantically twisting their bodies trying to extinguish the flames on them, but eventually, they stopped making noise, emitting the smell of roasted meat instead.

The insect swarm ignited very quickly; Li Yelai could not even understand why they had suddenly self-combusted.

It was not until Li Yelai’s gaze turned toward the human team’s defense line.

A man in black lamellar armor stood at the forefront of the defense line.

Was that... Jing Lin?

So, it’s the Jing Family’s team? No wonder there were so many unofficial spiritual ability users thrusting forward; they were all members of the Jing Family!

"Is it the Night General?" Jing Lin’s eyes were dim, seemingly blind. He shouted in the direction of Li Yelai.

"It’s me!" Li Yelai responded quickly, trying to pull his long spear out of the burning body of the hunting insect to continue pursuing the remaining insect, but he found the long spear had also caught fire: "My spiritual ability equipment caught fire because of you!"

"I’ll compensate you!" Jing Lin widened his eyes, staring blankly in the direction of the insect swarm, shouting, "You come in first. I’m having trouble controlling the flames right now!"

Li Yelai glanced at his burning long spear; his old comrade-at-arms, it seemed their journey together had come to an end.

Feeling a mix of heartache and regret, he quickly rushed inside the human’s defense line.

It was then he recognized that the spiritual ability users in the defense line were indeed members of the Jing Family he had met before. Since Li Yelai had only seen them once, he had little memory of them. Moreover, they were grimy and wearing armor, making them hard for Li Yelai to recognize initially.

And the members of the Jing Family were very enthusiastic.

"Night General, long time no see!"

"Thanks to you, otherwise we wouldn’t have held out until Brother Lin recovered."

"Night General just choked a hunting insect to death! Awesome!"

"Do you need water, Night General? Are you the only reinforcement?"

Li Yelai responded to the Jing Family spiritual ability users while walking deeper into the defense line.

This place was originally a commercial street, not a good defensive location, which made the human team’s struggle harder.

Jing Lin was resting in a shop behind three defense constructions.

When Li Yelai saw him, he was applying eye drops, but his eyes were still dull and lightless.

"Thank you, Night General. If not, our people would have suffered heavy losses," Jing Lin said with a smile, "It seems I owe you another favor."

"What’s wrong with your eyes?" Li Yelai asked.

"A curse," Jing Lin said toward the doorway, "In our Jing Family lineage, once we obtain our corresponding inheritance, we often get similar curses – do not look, do not speak, do not hear, do not move. And I have the do-not-look, where after using the ability, I will be blind for a period of time. Luckily, it’s a triggered type of curse, not permanent. Otherwise, my Spiritual Eyes Path would be completely useless. The reason I couldn’t act earlier was because of my curse. So, after regaining some of my sight, I immediately used Skyfire Eye to burn those insects."

Do not look, do not speak, do not hear, do not move... These curses are part of the price the Jing Family pays for their heritage.

Spiritual ability users with Jing Family bloodline, upon achieving their inheritance, pay the price of one of the above curses.

This is no secret, after all, it was very obvious!

And Jing Lin’s curse is of the triggering type, if it were a constant curse like Li Yunyan and the Doll’s, then he would have really become blind.

He was originally on the Spiritual Eyes Path, once blind, he would truly be ruined.

"I’m right here. Also, your curse is really unfortunate." Li Yelai quipped.

Jing Lin turned around and finally said to Li Yelai, "You have the nerve to say my curse is unfortunate with your Curse of Misfortune?"

Li Yelai thought it over and then said, "I thought you had already left Giant City. It seems your family is quite brave."

This made Li Yelai reassess the Jing Family a bit.

At least, they were also fighting against the Calamity and had rescued quite a few civilians.

Li Yelai saw many civilians in their group. He didn’t know where their shelter had been breached....

"Though, I do like compliments. But actually, after I found you, I was planning to pack up and leave. Then, that very night, the Disaster Fog hit." Jing Lin spread his hands: "I didn’t escape, damn!"

Li Yelai fell silent for a moment, pushing back the emotions in his heart, and nodded, "Alright then."

Then, Jing Lin continued, "But, you were also right about one thing—to us Jing Family are no cowards, we still have our courage. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have brought so many people with us, as you know. If we Spiritual Ability Users had abandoned the civilians, ordinary Insect Swarms wouldn’t be able to stop us."

Li Yelai silently nodded, indeed, while the Insect Swarm was numerous, Spiritual Ability Users could easily escape alone, as long as they didn’t encounter any high-class Insects. However, once civilians were involved, there was no way to move quickly. This was also why many Spiritual Ability Users lost their lives, because they had to protect civilians, protect Giant City. Having concerns, they couldn’t simply flee.

"Moreover, the reason we abandoned our original shelter and ran here was to deliver something." Jing Lin’s eyes seemed to begin recovering, vaguely able to see something.

"Deliver something?" Li Yelai was taken aback.

"Yes, we brought a Taboo Item to No.3 Border City," explained Jing Lin. "This might be the key to breaking through the Disaster Fog."

As he spoke, he took out a box.

"We are supposed to hand this over to the officials, along with escorting these civilians, otherwise we wouldn’t risk crossing Giant City." Jing Lin opened the box, revealing a white fish-shaped jade pendant inside.

"This is a Class B Forbidden Item, Taiji·Yang. Carrying this jade pendant can quickly restore Spiritual Energy, but the cost is that one will start to think they are a fish. If kept for too long, distortions really start to emerge."

"Class B?" Li Yelai stepped back a bit from the jade pendant and asked, "So what’s the relation with the Disaster Fog? Put the pendant on the Catastrophe Fog Master and turn it into a fish?"

Jing Lin continued, "The reason it’s Class B is because, in fact, it’s a component of a dangerous Taboo Item. The two attract each other, and they will autonomously draw closer. Once combined, they will unleash an extremely powerful and dangerous force. Right now, the other piece is in the hands of officials at No.3 Border City."

"You want to combine the jade pendants to unleash the power and destroy the Catastrophe Fog Master?"

"No, the other piece is currently at your headquarters, outside the Disaster Fog. But this jade pendant isn’t affected by the isolation effect of the Disaster Fog, even if isolated, it can still attract the other! We will use the mutual attraction of the jade pendants to help Old Mad King locate the Catastrophe Fog Master’s position inside the fog!" Jing Lin replied. "Then... there’s no ’then’! Old Mad King is a king after all, as long as the location is confirmed, he can defeat the enemy with one move!"

"I see!" Li Yelai nodded. "But we... need to determine the position of the Catastrophe Fog Master first to guide the Old Mad King."

Humanity, to this date, also hasn’t confirmed the position of the Catastrophe Fog Master.

"The officials have indicated they would handle everything, and we’ll do all we can," Jing Lin responded.

Li Yelai nodded.

After a while, Jing Lin’s vision gradually recovered, and he noticed Li Yelai was only wearing a black coat.

He laughed, having someone from the Jing Family bring out a set of black lamellar armor.

"This is my spare Spiritual Armor. Although it’s not Spiritual Ability Equipment, it’s forged from extraordinary materials and has quite good defensive power. I’m giving it to you as a thank you gift for rescuing my team before," Jing Lin said. "Oh, and since I had accidentally set your Spiritual Ability Equipment on fire before, I’ll compensate you. What class was your equipment?"

"Class C Azure Dragon Halberd," Li Yelai replied. "I’m skilled with long weapons."

He didn’t randomly claim a Class B or A, because, after all, using Spiritual Ability Equipment improperly could cause distortions.

"We don’t have an Azure Dragon Halberd, would a Three-Pointed Blade be okay?" Jing Lin asked. Saying that, he handed a red-handled Three-Pointed Blade to Li Yelai.

Li Yelai picked up the Three-Pointed Blade and swung it single-handedly.

It was a bit lighter than usual, but otherwise, it was pretty good.

So, he nodded: "Deal!"