424: Chapter 418: Mysterious Black Gas 424: Chapter 418: Mysterious Black Gas “Boom…
Boom…”
The crimson gate slowly began to open, bit by bit.
The roaring sound was inaudible to the outside world, yet it directly resounded in Chen Hai’s mind.
This sensation was distinctly eerie; one could neither see the gate nor perceive its existence, nor hear any sound of the portal opening.
On the contrary, when you witnessed the gate slowly opening bit by bit with your own eyes, an overwhelmingly deafening noise would reverberate through your heart.
Fire could not burn this entity, and Chen Hai did not make any extraneous moves; he merely prepared himself and watched the gate slowly open.
Finally, a crack as thin as a finger opened atop the crimson gate.
From where Chen Hai stood, he peered through the crack in the gate.
Inside the gate, boundless darkness enveloped everything, and an indescribable, heart-palpitating sensation suddenly emerged in Chen Hai’s mind.
“Is this place inside the gate Takamagahara from the legends of Japan?”
Just as this thought surfaced in his mind, streaks of dark energy, passing through the crack in the gate, crossed over and appeared in the cave.
Then, with a “bang,” the barely cracked-open crimson gate immediately shut tightly again.
Looking at this scene, Sect Master Yukizo Hayato of the Snow Mountain Sect had, through some evil ritual, burned himself to ashes.
The power he had obtained seemed to have barely been enough to summon this crimson gate and create that crack before it was completely exhausted.
The streaks of dark energy acted like living entities.
Upon their appearance in the cave, they immediately surged towards Chen Hai.
“Boom…” Boundless fire surrounded him.
Chen Hai’s flames had a very limited burning effect on this dark energy.
The layers of flames could at most block these dark energies from invading his body but could not instantly incinerate them into oblivion.
Inside the cave, Yukizo Hayato had already turned to ash.
However, apart from Chen Hai, Murakami Taro, who was shivering in a corner, was still very much alive.
The reason these dark energies first swept towards Chen Hai was simply because they had appeared closer to him.
When the flames obstructed them, preventing a successful invasion into Chen Hai’s body, many of the dark energies turned around and switched their target.
“Ah…
Ah…
Ah…” Murakami Taro, naked, had no power to resist the invasion of the dark energies and was utterly like a lamb waiting for slaughter.
From the moment the first streak of dark energy entered his body, he seemed to endure immense pain, his expression twisted as he began to scream frantically.
As more dark energies burrowed into his body, bizarre black patterns emerged on his already bare skin.
Then, dense black hair began to grow rapidly all over his body.
His head twisted and changed, no longer human, but began transforming into a dog’s head.
“Fortunately, my Flame Power is able to block these dark energies from invading.”
“Otherwise, if these dark energies invaded my body, wouldn’t I become just like Murakami Taro?”
The transformation occurring to Murakami Taro didn’t escape Chen Hai’s gaze.
Even he, upon seeing this scene, felt his heart tremble uncontrollably.
Being born human was his fortune; if he were invaded by the dark energies and grew a dog’s head like Murakami Taro, he would rather die than endure such a fate.
The thick layers of flames formed a Protective Shield, crazily blazing around him, enclosing Chen Hai tightly like an eggshell, including the ground beneath his feet.
The dark energies that entered Murakami Taro’s body were only about a third of all the dark energies present.
The remaining streaks of dark energy, although blocked by the flames, still wandered around Chen Hai’s body, looking for an opportunity to invade.
Even with Chen Hai’s strength, blocking the invasion of the dark energies was extremely taxing.
The flames he controlled were merely Mortal Fire.
These dark energies, somewhat similar in nature to demonic power, seemed to be of a higher grade.
Whenever a streak of dark energy tried to penetrate the Protective Shield of flames, Chen Hai had to expend at least ten times more Flame Power to forcefully keep them out of his flame barrier.
His mana was not infinite.
Maintaining this layer of Flame Protective Shield, his mana was constantly being depleted.
If he couldn’t resolve the black qi, continuing this consumption would sooner or later exhaust his mana, and he wouldn’t be able to hold up.
He had ingested demonic power more than once or twice.
Facing the black qi that trapped him at the moment, he had thought about using his Divine Soul leech to completely devour it.
Unfortunately, the power level of these black qi seemed a bit too high.
His Divine Soul leech, after only devouring a tenth of the black qi, felt like it couldn’t hold on and was on the verge of collapsing.
Knowing this result, Chen Hai dared not try again and immediately dismissed the impractical thought in his mind.
“Damn it, didn’t they say that a True Man could already survive in the True Realm?”
“The existence beyond the Blood Gate, merely projecting some power over, has made it so difficult for me to block!”
“Is this result because I am merely a counterfeit True Man?”
“Or is it because the existence behind the Blood Gate is too powerful, belonging to the top tier in the True Realm?”
…
Cursing under his breath, Chen Hai couldn’t help but start to lament.
On the other side, Murakami Taro, whose body had already transformed due to the invasion of black qi, his cries gradually subsided.
At this moment, he stood upright, a canine-headed humanoid, standing at least over two meters tall.
More than eighty percent of his body was covered with a layer of dense black fur, and there were eerie patterns clearly visible.
“Absolute power.”
“I feel, now, I could shatter Blue Star with one punch!”
“Has my piety finally moved the Dog God, granting me favor, bestowing me with a sturdy physique and boundless strength?”
The confusion and madness in his eyes slowly receded, as if a big black dog standing up, Murakami Taro clenched his fists.
Feeling the explosive power within his body, he excitedly howled.
Finally, his brutal eyes fixated on Chen Hai, who was not far away, resisting the invasion of the black qi.
“Coming from Yanhuang Country to our Great Snow Mountain in Japan, Chen Hai, if I am not mistaken, you are here to hunt me down, aren’t you?”
“This is my home turf, thinking you can do whatever you want here just because you have some power?”
“Tell me, how do you plan to die?”
Staring coldly at Chen Hai, his body quivered, producing a sonic boom, and the immense power contained in his frame caused ripples in the surrounding void.
“A mere clown, daring to act wildly in front of me with this little strength?”
Murakami Taro had taken just one step when Chen Hai’s voice, filled with deep disdain, already reached his ears.
Then, he only saw a flash of Blood Light, and the next moment, he felt himself being lifted into the air.
In his vision, a towering body covered with eerie patterns and dense black fur, thundered down straight onto the ground.
“This is…
my invincible body…” The last thought emerged in Murakami Taro’s mind.
Then, his vision darkened, and his consciousness faded away.
Six or seven meters away from Murakami Taro, still enveloped by the Flame Protective Shield, resisting the black qi invasion, Chen Hai now had a long blood-colored blade in his hand.
Hongming Blade in hand, he, having infused just a bit of mana into it, slashed towards Murakami Taro from a distance.
An instant before, Murakami Taro, who felt he could punch and shatter Blue Star, now lay decapitated on the ground.
With the Storage Pouch, Chen Hai always carried the Hongming Blade with him.
After obtaining this blade, he worshiped it daily with Blood Food, serving it like a master for several months.
This blade had always been his ace in the hole.
The assault of the black qi, already annoying Chen Hai enough, not knowing how to counter, and now this clown, Murakami Taro, even dared to cause trouble?
Too lazy to talk nonsense to him, he simply, without a second word, unsheathed the Hongming Blade!