The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 266 - 251 This Feeling, This Scene_1

Chapter 266: Chapter 251 This Feeling, This Scene_1

Clutching the delicate small liquor flask, leisurely sipping wine while revealing inside stories, Li Yuqing drew everyone’s attention.

Her eyes, sparkling like a myriad of stars, occasionally looked toward the deep sky and said, "The True Gods of the First Realm are also inquisitive about the world beyond Purgatory, filled with curiosity and...concern."

"Many True Gods both wish to venture out and are afraid to do so, therefore they attempt to understand the outside world through Alien Gods."

She shook her head, choosing not to elaborate further on the topic.

"Beyond Purgatory..."

Her words led many to fall into deep contemplation.

In the long while that followed, no new Alien Gods from the Outer Realm appeared.

Daylight receded, and a night without the sparkle of stars or moon, gloomy and dull, stealthily arrived.

"Pang Jian, let’s have a chat."

Suddenly, Li Yuqing flew off into the distance.

Pang Jian, who had been talking to Zhou Qingchen and others, knew he couldn’t avoid this confrontation and obediently got up to follow.

A few hundred feet away.

The girl in green used the light of her sword to create a bubble of space, cutting off all prying eyes, and only then did Pang Jian step in, whereupon she hummed, "You actually forgot my voice."

Her face, flushed, her eyes clear and bright, looked completely sober.

Pang Jian, who on some level had been expecting interrogation, was taken aback and unsure how to respond.

"I’m a bit hungry."

She glared at Pang Jian discontently, then arranged the familiar table and chairs and brought out an array of dishes.

She took a seat first, then pointed to another empty chair, indicating for Pang Jian to sit as he had in the past.

Pang Jian, with guilt in his heart, had just sat down with a stiff posture when she began to feast heartily.

"There were too many people around earlier, all watching me, which made me too self-conscious to eat anything."

She mumbled her complaint, her speech muffled by the food in her mouth.

As Pang Jian gazed at the girl messily devouring meat with greasy hands, he felt a sense of déjà vu, as if he had returned to the alleys of Bagua City.

The girl was the same as before, unchanged, still fond of meat and wine.

Yet Pang Jian’s mindset had changed.

—He now knew of the girl’s exalted identity, had witnessed her awe-inspiring terrifying combat power, and even had incriminating evidence held against him by her.

With various reasons mixed together, facing the girl from the past once more, Pang Jian found himself far less easy-going and natural.

"Why did you forget my voice?"

She held a greasy chicken foot while looking at him coldly with her small face.

Pang Jian, struggling, explained, "Since leaving Bagua City, we haven’t seen each other. After such a long time, it’s very normal to have forgotten your voice all of a sudden, isn’t it?"

"You really haven’t seen me?"

Li Yuqing’s gemstone-like bright eyes shined, as if they could see into one’s soul, and she laughed coldly, "Then can you tell me why, when I was about to kill it, the Corrosion Boundary Vine wrote out that line of words?"

Pang Jian was at a loss for words.

After a moment of thought, he tentatively asked, "Do you know that I can establish a connection with it?"

"Nonsense!"

Li Yuqing glared at him, twisted a piece of stewed beef into her mouth, and asserted confidently, "No matter what your relationship is with it, as long as it wrote that line of words, it means that there is a connection between you two!"

"It deliberately wrote those words when I was about to kill it, so it must have been you who instructed it to do so."

"And you still dare to say you haven’t seen me?"

She asked indignantly.

Pang Jian scratched his head awkwardly.

"You’ve changed; now you even tell lies. You’re not as simple and sincere as you used to be in Bagua City."

Seeing that Pang Jian sat straight and stiff, having eaten nothing at all this time, she pushed a bowl of dishes his way and huffed, "Tell me, where did you find the sapling of the Corrosion Boundary Vine?"

"Solitude Mountain Range."

Pang Jian, gnawing on the dishes she had given him, still didn’t disclose the whole truth, saying, "A bone relic of a Heaven Phoenix that fell from the sky impaled a Corrosion Boundary Vine deep into the earth, and it was next to its dead roots that I saw a sapling."

Li Yuqing was somewhat surprised, "Solitude Mountain Range?"

"Yes, the Solitude Mountain Range that the Mysterious Fog has engulfed."

Pang Jian thought to himself that by mentioning this, she probably wouldn’t go to investigate.

"That mountain range is out of the ordinary. I will take a look when I find the time," she said, her face showing interest, then added, "The Corrosion Boundary Vine, without the nourishment of Filth Alien Power and support from the Wood Tribe, would find it difficult to grow to the stature of the World Tree. Even in the Solitude Mountain Range of the past, no matter how much it grew, it had its limitations."

"However, placed in today’s Sky Fortune Fragment Land, it now has limitless potential."

"Before I ascended from the Fourth Realm, I looked at Sky Fortune Fragment Land again, and it had already started attempting to annex other lands, with the powerful Wood Tribe sheltering it."

"Now, even if I wanted to kill it, it would be very tricky in the Fragment Land that it reigns over."

Li Yuqing expressed her frustration slightly.

She had not anticipated that the Corrosion Boundary Vine could grow to such an extent in such a short time, enough to give her a headache.

Pang Jian maintained a normal expression, but inwardly, he was somewhat excited.

The sapling, in his unawareness, had become so formidable?

"Tell me honestly, can you control it?"

Li Yuqing’s gaze suddenly sharpened like the Sword Intent she released, so piercing that Pang Jian felt his cheeks tingle, "Think carefully before you answer my question. If you can’t control it, I will still have to find a way to destroy it."

"I can!"

Pang Jian said decisively.

"You are so weak, how can you control it?"

"I will become stronger and stronger."

"I feel that you’re not getting stronger as quickly as it is. I’m worried it might backfire on you."

"It won’t!"

The two argued as they ate.

A moment later.

Before them, all the cooked meat on their plates was devoured, not a single piece left.

"Forget it."

Li Yuqing clapped her hands, took out a basin to wash her hands, and said with her greasy lips: "The world is chaotic enough as it is. One more Corrosion Boundary Vine that might not even evolve into a World Tree won’t make much of a difference. Once I become a True God, even if it turns into the World Tree, I can cut it down."

The implication in her words was that she was giving Pang Jian some face, deciding not to remove the hidden danger prematurely.

Pang Jian hurriedly expressed his thanks.

After she washed her hands, Pang Jian also came over, and just like the old days in Bagua City, he also washed his hands clean.

"What’s the situation with your Chaos Sea now?"

Li Yuqing asked casually.

"There are the sun, stars, the moon, Cold Ice, and the powers of earth flame and Thunder and Lightning."

Pang Jian did not hide anything and honestly described his condition: "When I was at the early stages of the Hollow Profound Realm, I couldn’t break through, so I visited the Cloud Thunder Forbidden Zone. It was there that by absorbing Thunderous Lightning, I crafted a Thunder Vortex in my Spiritual Sea. After that, my realm broke through."

"Oh, Luo Yuan... That’s you, right?"

Li Yuqing’s eyes lit up.

"How do you know everything?!"

Pang Jian was shocked.

"I’m from the Heaven Treasure Li Family. Our Li Family has a wide network of information. There is an individual named Luo Yuan from the Cloud Thunder Forbidden Zone who is said to have killed the annoying Divine Crane from Pure Land."

"Of course, I know the Divine Crane isn’t dead; it has already returned to Pure Land."

Li Yuqing tidied up the table and chairs, wiping her hands with a handkerchief, and after some serious thought, she suddenly said: "The sky of this Forbidden Land harbors many Alien Gods, from seals constructed in earlier years. When Purgatory opens, the seals will activate instantly, and I... can only take one person with me on my sword to escape."

"Pang Jian, if something unexpected truly happens, remember to come to my side. I will take you away from Prayer Spirit Forbidden Land."

"Over at Sword Tower, the Tower Master is ready to take you as a Direct Disciple. I know you, and I also owe Sword Tower a favor."

"Therefore, if I can only take one person with me, I will only bring you."

Her expression gradually turned solemn.

Pang Jian was alarmed and said, "You mean, those scattered Alien Gods in the Forbidden Land, you might not be able to deal with them?"

"I can deal with isolated Alien Gods slaughtering each other, but the current situation is far from good. They clearly have a leader now." Li Yuqing frowned, her previously flushed cheeks returning to their normal color: "A leader who can unite the Alien Gods and command them all is not someone I’m confident in handling."

"Pang Jian, what I rely on is a... Divine Artifact, and I am only in the Soul Wandering Realm, after all."

The girl said helplessly.

"What about the others when we leave?" Pang Jian asked.

"The others?"

Li Yuqing pursed her lips and said: "Blood Moon, Yin Spirit Temple, and Star River Alliance will lose three Sect Masters, but soon new ones will emerge. Pang Jian, you need to learn to let go a bit. More and more people will die in the future, and we can’t take care of everyone."

"Sects in the Third Realm have been wiped out by Alien Gods before, and once the Alien Gods are cleaned up, new Sects will form."

"Through each era, the number of Sect powers that have vanished in the long river of history is countless."

"As for humans... even more have died."

She shook her head with a sigh.

Though she appeared young, she seemed to have seen through the world’s comings and goings, embodying a certain hard-to-describe detachment, or perhaps... indifference.

She didn’t say much more but rose into the air and gracefully landed on the black pillar.

Afterward, she simply dozed off with her eyes half-closed.

Upon returning, Pang Jian watched Zhou Qingchen’s smiling face, Gao Yuan and Han Ting’s restrained conversation with a few people from Red Mountain, and Han Duping and Jiang Li, both heavy-set.

"I hope it isn’t as she said."

Pang Jian felt uneasy, engaging in sporadic small talk with the others, unable to remain as calm and collected as Li Yuqing.

The next day.

A sunny day broke forth in the sky, the Fierce Sun suspended in the firmament.

"Huh!"

An Alien Power with the face of a human and the body of a spider materialized in the air a hundred yards away, drifting over slowly.

"It’s Him!"

Pang Jian’s expression subtly changed.

The appearance of the human-faced spider Alien God signaled that the Alien God inhabiting Xie Xiwen was likely defeated.

Watching it closely, he saw the spider’s legs and body, fused seamlessly with its beautiful human face, had become whole.

This also meant that the Alien God could release even greater power.

"Tap, tap! Tap, tap!"

A ten-yard-tall Woodman, emanating Filth Alien Power, appeared from another direction to everyone’s sight.

Its facial features were now clear, showing the visage of an aged man. In the depths of its gray-brown eyes was a malevolent force that brought desolation and death to all.

Pang Jian watched from a distance. Merely gazing upon it caused the vitality within him to rapidly ebb away.

And it, with its sinister eyes, kept a constant lock on Li Yuqing.

Clearly, it understood that Li Yuqing was the strongest here, the hardest bone to chew.

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