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Chapter 255: A Hair's Breadth from Life and Death
The world was a blur, with only the "pitter-patter" of rain in the ears.
This was no ordinary rain; it was as if the heavens had opened the floodgates, inundating the world with a deluge.
Zhang Yuanqing, enduring a "thumping" headache, shook out the Yin-Yang Daoist robe and put it on.
He intended to use the robe's power to push away the rain and gain a clear view, but was shocked to discover that the Yin-Yang robe's water control skill had disappeared. No, not disappeared, but suppressed, by a power of higher rank. Huang Taiji also noticed the anomaly, attempting to use Star Escape to leave the Yizhuang. As the words fell, Yuan Shi Tianzun had already transformed into dreamlike starlight and vanished.
Immediately, he appeared at the Yizhuang gate. "Father, we can't get out," Zhang Yuanqing pushed the蚀-riddled wooden door and shouted back. "Mirror world," Huang Taiji's face was more grave than ever. "This is a power beyond the Saint realm. We can't get out of the mirror world." A weight settled in Zhang Yuanqing's heart. He looked up, the rain pouring down.
What virtue or ability did he possess to fight such a boss?
A shrill scream came from inside the Yizhuang, from Zhao Youcai. Yichuan Meigege giggled, full of satisfaction. "My side quest is complete. You all must die." She sat cross-legged in the rain, disheveled and on the verge of death, but her cheeks flushed and her eyes sparkled, fixed on the interior of the Yizhuang. Through the blurry rain, a figure emerged from inside. He walked past the bonfire; the red embers hissed and went out as if doused with cold water. The镖-shi sitting around the bonfire rapidly withered, losing moisture and turning into mummies.
Moisture deprivation. Zhang Yuanqing recognized it instantly.
The Little Emperor of Yashan Sea. But compared to the monstrosity in the Yizhuang, the Little Emperor was truly too small. The Little Emperor needed time to deprive a level four Saint of moisture; this thing, in an instant, turned Zhuo Peilan and others into dried threads. The two were incomparable. The figure walked to the eaves, burly, with a deep, wolfish black light flickering at his waist—it was Zhao Youcai.
More accurately, it was Zhao Youcai's shell. He had been possessed by the monster in the black coffin. Flesh and blood, with intense Yin energy. The core was the water-attribute power at his waist. Zhang Yuanqing scrutinized the enemy through the rain. Dense Yin energy indicated that the monster was essentially a kind of undead. A water-attribute undead.
Night wanderers had an innate suppression against the undead, and the Sacrificial Rite Set could suppress water ghosts, but this water-attribute undead was of too high a rank. The Sacrificial Rite Set was incomplete, and might not be able to suppress it. He quickly calculated in his mind. "It should only possess some characteristics of the Rain Master." Huang Taiji also scrutinized the monster in the coffin, saying, "Five Elements: Earth counters Water."
"Now do you understand why the Huangqi Escort Bureau was escorting him? It was to wait for him to break through and then suppress it again." Zhang Yuanqing's spirit lifted. "Isn't it so that in the worst case, we have a chance to survive, and escape to Divine Sword Manor to do the main quest." Zhang Yuanqing grumbled inwardly, "Father, I didn't expect you to be quite humorous." Yichuan Meigege, slumping in the distance, smiled.
"Even if you get to Divine Sword Manor, you're doomed. The success or failure of the side quest determines the success or failure of the main quest. You'll never know what you've lost." His eyes sparkled with smugness, as if the Spirit Realm had given him incredible encouragement. Huang Taiji and Zhang Yuanqing's expressions grew even more serious. Judging from Yichuan Meigege's words, failing the side quest would leave them in a very passive position upon reaching Divine Sword Manor. "Is there any way to seal it back in the coffin?" Zhang Yuanqing whispered. Huang Taiji's face was grim, and he shook his head slightly. "Living is the most important thing right now." As he spoke, Zhao Youcai stepped out from under the eaves. Though the rain was torrential, the vines and mud under his feet rapidly dried and hardened, the moisture sucked away. Zhang Yuanqing felt his face dry out, followed by a dry mouth, sore throat, as if he were a traveler walking in the desert who hadn't drunk water for three days. He saw Huang Taiji's face rapidly wither, lines appearing, and knew that his own was the same. Huang Taiji stomped his foot heavily. Hmm. Walls of rolling mud quickly rose, blocking the two sides. Then, more...
"No." Earth walls rose, forming a mud house, locking Zhao Youcai inside. The dry cough in Zhang Yuanqing's throat immediately vanished.
But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the wet mud walls quickly dried and hardened, cracking. Huang Taiji raised his hand, palm facing the mud house. A dim grey light shone in his eyes, and the mud house rapidly dried, the cracks widened, turning into pieces of stone armor. Instantly, the mud house became a stone house. On the other side, Yichuan Meigege's eyes lit up, starlight turning into...
The delicate Lin Ci raised the pumpkin hammer high. Yichuan Meigege sneered, "Overestimating yourself." She remained seated, raising her slender neck and emitting a high-pitched scream. Zhang Yuanqing groaned, blood seeping from his orifices. He clutched his head and stumbled back. "Come back, don't let him drag you into a dream," Huang Taiji said sternly. Starlight rose. Yuan Shi Tianzun returned to his side, without a word.
The right hand, with a dark blue glove, took out a vial of Life Essence and injected it into the jugular vein. Pale gold liquid flowed into the blood vessels. He had suffered mental blows one after another, and his soul was already on the verge of collapse. An ordinary level four, or even higher, would have already returned to the Spirit Realm. Moreover, his listlessness, his pain, vanished at a speed visible to the naked eye, but this couldn't reverse the...
the decline of the two. It didn't matter whether Yichuan Meigege lived or died. He was at his limit, only able to protect himself, and could hardly attack them continuously. The real problem was Zhao Youcai. At this moment, wisps of black mist seeped from the stone cracks, heavily shrouding the small courtyard. Even the eaves and tiles seemed...
to be sinking. This was the true form of the monstrosity.
"Father, he's out," Zhang Yuanqing's brow twitched, and the feeling of dehydration assaulted him again. Zhang Yuanqing saw the flesh of his arm rapidly wither, and his eyeballs became blurry due to dehydration. Huang Taiji retreated a step, standing shoulder to shoulder with Yuan Shi Tianzun, and shouted sternly, "Open!" The ground beneath their feet suddenly collapsed, and the surrounding mud quickly rose, forming a bowl-shaped mound over...
their heads, blocking the collapsing black mist. The state of dehydration vanished again. "The Mountain God's sense of security is so strong." Zhang Yuanqing, sheltered, breathed a sigh of relief. But at this moment, his throat itched and his forehead burned. After a few seconds, he experienced the pain of a knife scraping his throat, cement sealing his nostrils, anesthesia-free craniotomy, and a sharp knife cutting his kidneys. He was sick. The black mist not only had the ability to deprive moisture, but also to spread plague.
The germs had infiltrated through the mud mound's defense. "Cough, cough." Huang Taiji also coughed. He looked at Yuan Shi Tianzun with some surprise. "Your physical quality is not bad." The time difference between their infection was not large, indicating that their immunity was similar. But Huang Taiji was a level six Earth monster, and his resistance to such negative effects was much stronger than other professions of the same level. In other words, Yuan Shi Tianzun's resistance to disease was comparable to level six... What. Huang Taiji took out a porcelain bottle, poured a few pills into his mouth, and then tossed them to Yuan Shi Tianzun. "It can suppress the disease for five minutes. If we can't think of a way out in five minutes, we have to prepare to return to the Spirit Realm." Zhang Yuanqing took the pills and swallowed them. "Father, this is just a temporary measure. Do you have any ideas?" Huang Taiji was silent for a second. "At this time, I would be more envious of scouts, because scouts have quick minds, are very witty, and are suitable for dealing with the current situation." Zhang Yuanqing was stunned. He didn't know whether to praise him for his humor or his talent for telling cold jokes.
The big shot was unreliable; the big shot was also struggling to protect himself. Zhang Yuanqing could only think of countermeasures himself. He calculated that even if he used all his trump cards, he was probably no match for the monstrosity. Of course, if he used the exchange ticket from the Myriad Worlds Merchant Bank, he could solve the monster, but this was a scorched-earth tactic that was meaningless for escaping the predicament.
The Sacrificial Rite Set was a direction... But the cost of trial and error was too high. Once he couldn't suppress the black mist, he would be instantly turned into a dried corpse. A few minutes later, Zhang Yuanqing started coughing first, and his breathing became heavy. Then Huang Taiji. A dozen seconds later, the two men's symptoms worsened, especially Zhang Yuanqing's lungs, which felt like a blacksmith's bellows, with heavy breathing...
spewing scorching air. "No, if this continues, before I'm dried up, I'll die of disease first." Zhang Yuanqing's heart beat wildly, and he felt like he could suffer a heart attack and die at any moment. In the pitch-black darkness, Huang Taiji looked at Yuan Shi Tianzun.
"If we're at our wit's end, I can merge with the earth. I can survive, but I'm sorry, I can't save you." He had another life-saving method: the Earth Vein Spirit. The Earth Vein Spirit was a level five Mountain God skill that could communicate with the earth, and then transform into the earth...
a part of the mountains and rivers. A Mountain God who activated the Earth Vein Spirit would gain unparalleled stamina and endless spiritual power. Dehydration and disease would no longer be able to kill him, but the price was being unable to move, and falling into a deep sleep. Cough, cough, cough. Zhang Yuanqing slumped to the ground, his forehead burning, his consciousness becoming muddled. Huang Taiji took out a vial of Life Essence. "I have my own." Zhang Yuanqing waved his hand in refusal, forcing a smile, "Life Essence can't kill...
germs. It's not very useful." Life Essence could make his cells overflow with vitality and life, but it would still be plundered by germs. It was a temporary solution, not a permanent cure. Huang Taiji didn't take it back, but placed it in front of him, thinking for a moment, this grizzled father said, "The monstrosity we were escorting is of the Water element. Once it latches onto you, it will burrow into your kidneys and plunder your life. You are a Night Wanderer, and can consider abandoning your physical body." As he spoke, he took out a small piece of black lodestone.
"This is Xi Rang. It can copy and protect your soul. With it, Yichuan Meigege shouldn't be able to kill your soul." Zhang Yuanqing, breathing heavily, looked up at him in astonishment. He also had this stuff in his gang's warehouse. This was a priceless treasure, yet Huang Taiji was lending such a precious thing to him. Although everyone was from the official side...
they were just chance acquaintances with no deep friendship, such a cherished treasure... to give away as soon as he said so. He took the Xi Rang. "If I don't die, how can I put you at ease?" "Just communicate with my soul," Huang Taiji said solemnly. Rays of yellow light rose from the soles of his feet. With a series of cracking sounds, Huang Taiji's legs gradually turned gray, losing their luster, like ordinary stones. This grayish-white texture spread upwards, turning him into a stone sculpture bit by bit, with no life fluctuations for the time being. "Ah." Zhang Yuanqing put away the Life Essence and Xi Rang, sat against the side of the pit, took out the ghost mirror, and looked at himself. The bloody light was getting thicker. This was the dead end hinted at by the tortoise shell. His consciousness gradually faded, his brain unable to think, entering a state of confusion...
"In this state, I can't think of a plan." Fortunately, I still have a divine artifact. Between fleeting thoughts, he took out the Qing Emperor Jade Belt. The gorgeous belt inlaid with gems was fastened around his waist. Zhang Yuanqing activated it without hesitation. Qing Emperor Longevity Technique. Instantly, soft, clear, green light lit up, illuminating the stone sculpture...
His stamina, spiritual power, and mental state were actually restored to their peak, peak. The germs in his body were swept away. Zhang Yuanqing immediately took out the Earth Boots, put them on, and held the exchange ticket from the Myriad Worlds Merchant Bank in his hand. His brain worked at high speed, reviewing all the props and materials in his inventory, trying to find a chance of survival in the dire situation.
"The black mist will invade the body. If I take Life Essence while it enters my body, and activate the Sacrificial Rite Set... Can I suppress it?" Theoretically, yes, but what if the Sacrificial Rite Set... can't suppress it? I would die on the spot. Suddenly, Zhang Yuanqing had an inspiration and thought of a way: cultivating the Pure Yang Cleansing Body Record. The black mist was a water-attribute vengeful spirit. Then...
the power of the Golden Crow could restrain it. He could completely...
guide the black mist into his body while practicing the Pure Yang Cleansing Body Record. The power of the Golden Crow, plus the Sacrificial Rite Set, would increase the success rate. Once he successfully sealed the black mist, the side quest could continue. As he daydreamed, a cracking sound came from overhead. After Huang Taiji fell asleep, the earth layer defense above lost its spiritual power support and began to dehydrate and collapse under the erosion of the black mist.
Seeing this, Zhang Yuanqing no longer hesitated and decided to take a gamble, taking out ten gold bars containing the power of the sun god, and a pottery jar and vial of Life Essence loaded with Life Essence. It was at this moment that the earth layer collapsed and caved in. Dim light and rain poured in. Yichuan Meigege in the distance came over, saw the situation at the bottom of the pit clearly, and laughed, "It seems Huang Taiji has given up on you. Yuan Shi Tianzun, your myth is over." Although he was laughing...
there was deep regret in his eyes, like a lecherous villain forced to kill the most beautiful woman in the world, and unable to take advantage of her while she was still warm. Zhang Yuanqing raised the ghost mirror and glanced at his face, saying something that confused Yichuan Meigege.
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