ccnovels #361 - Grandpa is here!
#361 - Grandpa is here!
As soon as Amina flew to the area where the giant beast was, she saw a scene that made her feel absurd.
The newly awakened Pillar Blade Beast activated all of its gravity circuits and was frantically running across the ground.
The Blade Beast swarm surged like a wave, closely surrounding the Pillar Blade Beast, constantly releasing all kinds of attacks outwards;
Green light spheres;
Light beams with relatively weak destructive power;
Mental shocks frequently used by Blade Beasts;
Actively thrown blade limbs;
And so on.
All kinds of methods were almost being used out of thin air.
And the enemy of these Blade Beasts, including the Pillar Blade Beast and the entire Blade Beast swarm, was only one person—the black shadow flying close to the ground behind them.
“This…”
Amina was clearly stunned.
Was this the same species as the Blade Beasts in her impression?
Where did their combat power and fighting will go?
Could the figure floating behind them be the God of Death and King of the Underworld worshipped by their Blade Beast civilization?
Even just that kind of demonic energy shouldn't…
Amina suddenly discovered the reason why the Pillar Blade Beast swarm was abandoning the fight and fleeing.
Wang Zheng seemed to be at the end of his rope.
Amina quickly rushed to Wang Ji Xuan's diagonal rear, staring at Wang Zheng's speeding figure.
The Flood Dragon alien soul coiled around him was now ferocious and terrifying, its body almost solidified, covered with a layer of real dragon scales.
But these dragon scales had spiderweb-like cracks.
This Flood Dragon alien soul could explode at any moment. It had reached its current limit, but Wang Ji Xuan was still frantically using it to harvest the souls of the Blade Beasts within a few kilometers around him.
The Pillar Blade Beast fled without a fight, both because it couldn't resolve this demonic energy and because the Pillar Blade Beast judged that the black storm was at the end of its rope.
Any overload or exceeding limits to obtain power that doesn't belong to oneself comes at a price.
They only needed to temporarily avoid the edge to drag this evil spirit to his death.
Discovering this situation, Amina immediately became anxious.
She looked up, saw the human fighter jet group engaged in fierce battle with the flying Blade Beasts above, and was about to rush up.
“Amina?”
A familiar, calm, and slightly surprised voice sounded.
Wang Zheng?
Amina was a little confused.
“You're back so fast,” Wang Ji Xuan asked with a chuckle through telepathy, “Did you gain anything?”
“Aren’t you… aren’t you…”
“Aren’t I crazy?”
Daoist Wang laughed awkwardly twice:
“I am indeed crazy, but not completely crazy. I've now regained my sanity, and I've overcome the most difficult hurdle.”
“But I've worked so hard to gather so much demonic energy, I have to release it, otherwise I'll have to follow the path of a mad demon in my cultivation, completely severing my connection with the world I yearn for.”
“It's perfect that you're back. Follow behind me for a bit, and I'll see if I can take down the Seventh Pillar. Even if I can't, I'll find a way to mess with it.”
“Did you gain anything, Amina?”
“Yes,” Amina replied quickly, “I know who's behind this… the remnant soul of that ancient civilization.”
“Xiao Huating's previous life?”
“I even suspect now that she's not Xiao Huating's previous life. She's the guardian of that ancient civilization, the City in the Clouds, and she doesn't seem to be on the verge of extinction or self-collapse at all.”
Amina pursed her lips slightly.
Listening to Wang Ji Xuan's voice being so leisurely, she also relaxed, trailing diagonally above the black shadow, telling Wang Ji Xuan through telepathy about her experience this time.
…
After Amina entered the City in the Clouds, she was randomly teleported to a vacant residential area.
She quickly jumped out of the residence, looking around, and soon captured a wisp of abnormal spiritual energy.
Amina discovered that eighty-one 'astrology towers' located in different directions had simultaneously begun low-load operation, constantly sending out some kind of spiritual energy wave.
Amina only had a superficial understanding of the operating mechanism of these spires;
This knowledge was inherited along with her core circuits, and it was also the privilege of every council court leader of the spiritual cultivation civilization.
Therefore, she could quickly determine the source of spiritual energy controlling the astrology towers.
She rushed towards the huge round platform suspended in the center of the City in the Clouds, which had a group of palaces wrapped in a spiritual energy light film.
In the most central hall, Amina saw the figure kneeling and praying.
“You… what are you doing?”
Amina asked through telepathy.
The woman holding the crystal ball and kneeling opened a pair of slender phoenix eyes and lightly flicked her finger without saying a word.
The surrounding light film vibrated slightly, and Amina was immediately knocked away by a huge force.
This force didn't hurt her; it seemed to just want her to leave.
Amina was still a young person at heart. She immediately determined that there must be something strange here. Relying on the permissions she had obtained before, she stealthily circled back, opened the protective shield of the side hall, transformed into a black butterfly, bypassed the autonomous guards here, and directly appeared in front of the woman.
Poof.
Amina transformed back to her original appearance and fell from mid-air. A pair of straight and rounded long legs were hidden by the hem of a soft long skirt, and her deep blue long hair swayed gently.
She suddenly saw the phantom sitting in the crystal ball.
That was Wang Ji Xuan's phantom, and below the phantom was a ball of black flames.
Amina exclaimed, “What are you doing? Guardian?”
The woman opened her eyes helplessly and said in a low voice, “Amina, this is not a problem you should be concerned with. You should concentrate on preparing for the trial.”
“He is my friend and also my ally.”
Amina frowned and said:
“Please stop, no matter what you are doing, it seems to be detrimental to him.
“His sudden loss of control is your doing, right?”
“Doing?” I don’t like that word.
The woman did not stop her movements, but added a layer of golden罩light around her body.
She looked at Amina, as if she was lecturing, and said indifferently:
“I am just fulfilling the obsession of Xiao Huating’s previous life.
“You may not know that the civilization you are facing at this moment was only one step away from collective ascension back then, and all of this was the help left by the cultivator at the beginning.
“But we are not cultivators after all.
“Our spiritual energy technology is already highly developed, but we have always been unable to enter a higher world. In the end, civilization gradually collapsed due to the washing of the long river of time, and this has become our only regret.
“I, this remnant lonely soul, am unwilling to accept this.”
Amina said coldly: “Then what direct relationship does this have with your current plot to harm Wang Zheng?”
She held a dagger in her hand.
The woman looked at the tip of the dagger and said indifferently:
“I don’t want to lie to you, because you are one of the candidate successors of this civilization.
“I am now only triggering Wang Zheng’s demonic thoughts, allowing him to enter a state of loss of control, which is actually helping him.
“I have already given Xiao Huating guidance. She is now the only antidote to save Wang Zheng. The annihilation of divinity and demonism, the neutralization of redemption and killing, will bring them both into a new stage of life.
“At the same time, Xiao Huating admires him very much. The two can form a partner, cultivate immortality together, and then ascend to a higher plane together. The regret of our civilization will also be compensated.
“Can you understand?”
“Sorry, I can’t understand.”
Amina said indifferently:
“I don’t think spiritual practitioners are inferior to immortal cultivators.”
“Spiritual practitioners are just the products of our compromise with time.”
“Okay, but have you asked Wang Zheng?”
Amina frowned and said:
“Your calculations will definitely backfire. He will hate you and Gao Huating because of this.
“I know him, he is definitely…”
“Do you really know him?” The woman asked back.
Amina was stunned.
She suddenly thought of the terrible look in Wang Ji Xuan’s eyes when he looked at her like he was looking at prey in the self-service restaurant of the space fortress.
The woman said indifferently:
“Every human and humanoid intelligent life basically has three faces. Etiquette and morality suppress animality, cowardice and inferiority suppress divinity, and environment and survival dominate humanity.
“Now I am just triggering his previously accumulated demonic thoughts, allowing him to release his suppressed self.
“Isn’t this also his face?”
Amina frowned slightly.
The woman continued: “My understanding of him is actually beyond your imagination. Wang Zheng’s real name is Wang Ji Xuan. Ji Xuan is his Taoist name. His master thought he liked refining weapons and mechanical arts, and hoped that he could become a master of mechanical arts. Before coming to this world, the most regrettable thing for him was of course that he failed to pass the Immortal Ascension Tribulation, and the second was that he failed to cherish the present and the people in front of him. Closed-door hard work made him miss several confidantes and the joys of the world.”
“How do you know this?” Amina asked with a frown.
The woman just shook her head lightly: “So, Amina, Wang Zheng, this immortal cultivator, is far more complicated than you think, and his cultivation is full of unstable factors. I am also helping him.”
“But I think you should stop now.”
“You can’t stop me.”
“But I have to try…”
Amina’s figure suddenly rushed forward, but before her slender figure could stretch out, a beam of golden light shot out from the depths of the hall and hit her body.
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Amina’s eyes blurred, and then she fell into a continuously shifting passage.
By the time she could control her body, she had already appeared on the surface.
…
Wang Ji Xuan was silent after Amina recounted her experience.
He was still chasing the Pillar Blade Beast, and the cracks in various parts of the alien soul became more and more obvious.
After a full three or four minutes…
“Are you sure?”
"Indeed," Amina retorted, "Is what she said true? About Wang Jixuan and his confidante."
Daoist Wang was now truly bewildered.
But since his origins had been exposed, there was no need to hide it from Amina.
It wouldn't bring any calamity to his sect, the Wangxiang Valley; it was just a small secret of his.
His real secret was that he was a [Cultivator], which was almost public knowledge anyway.
"Yes, what she said is indeed my past."
Wang Jixuan couldn't help but swear.
Damn it.
What was up with that old hag? Had she seen his memories? Or was his ability to reincarnate related to this ancient civilization's ruins?
This is bad.
Wang Jixuan suddenly realized that, no matter what, he had to go to the ancient civilization.
Once curiosity was piqued, even cultivation would be disturbed.
"What exactly is going on?" Amina asked telepathically.
"I don't know," Wang Jixuan suddenly chuckled, "No matter what demons or ghosts are involved, I'll have to meet them eventually, but there's no rush. I'll wait until I'm better prepared."
He changed the subject, his voice laced with annoyance:
"That old hag!"
"To scheme against this Daoist like this!"
"Although continuous use of demonic arts had left hidden dangers, I had been suppressing them well. This time, it suddenly went out of control. And the initial loss of control was when facing you."
"I even thought my true nature was that of a lecher! Not even sparing you!"
Amina clicked her tongue: "Actually, you're not far off."
"Desire for food and sex is human nature, but it must be obtained through proper means."
Daoist Wang sighed softly:
"Right now, the most troubled is probably Xia Huating. I understand her personality. She must be suffering now, but this matter isn't her fault either."
"What is the relationship between that old hag and Xia Huating?"
"I can't be sure," Amina said, "But I know that the more she emphasizes that she doesn't want to lie and there's no need to lie to me, the more likely she is to have lied to me."
"The only thing that's certain now is that Xia Huating is definitely connected to this ancient civilization."
Wang Jixuan thought for a moment:
"It's inconvenient for me to use communication tools now. I'll be secluding myself to cultivate for a month or two.
"Please keep an eye on Xia Huating for me and make sure she doesn't do anything rash."
"Wouldn't that be too much? She's not as fragile as you think."
"Also, my girlfriend is injured. Please take care of her for me."
"Am I your nanny?" Amina couldn't help but complain, "I'm just your ally, ally, understand?"
Wang Jixuan said calmly: "I'll transmit the breathing and cultivation method to you later."
Amina perked up: "Actually… guest-starring as a nanny isn't too big of a problem, after all, our Spirit Cultivation civilization is also declining…"
"I didn't finish saying earlier, it's the introductory chapter of the cultivation method."
"Tch, I knew you wouldn't be so generous!"
Wang Jixuan chuckled twice.
He said: "Move a little further away from me, and pay attention to your acting later."
Acting?
Before Amina could react, Wang Jixuan's forward-rushing figure suddenly staggered, and the Flood Dragon Other-Soul around him suddenly swelled, exploding directly in the next second.
The powerful shockwave swept in all directions, and the surrounding Demonic Qi surged forward.
Batch after batch of basic Blade Beasts fell, their souls turned into nourishment for the Demonic Qi.
The Pillar Blade Beast rushing forward suddenly turned its head, and its massive body actually completed a perfect drift.
A dazzling light bloomed from its terrifying mouthparts.
Wang Jixuan barely dodged, and the huge beam of light brushed past Wang Jixuan's body.
Then, Wang Jixuan plunged to the ground.
The human military assault team immediately began to move.
But at this time, streams of black gas had already lost control, swirling wildly around Wang Jixuan, forming a silent zone with a diameter of more than twenty kilometers.
The Pillar Blade Beast roared angrily.
A large number of Blade Beasts surged forward, but except for a few King-level Blade Beasts that could rush into the Demonic Qi circle, the souls of other Blade Beasts would shatter directly when they approached the Demonic Qi circle.
The King-level Blade Beasts rushed into it for only a few seconds before immediately retreating.
The Seventh Pillar was furious, its body frantically rushing towards Wang Jixuan's location, and constantly spewing out dazzling beams of light.
The Demonic Qi circle also made it impossible for Fu Jian and others who came to rescue from the human side to approach at all.
The advantage of human technology was thus displayed, and a large number of autonomous machines began to airdrop, and Mudan was preparing for a leap of faith.
The recovery work of the black storm seemed to be going smoothly…
It's flying up!
The gravity circuit around the Seventh Pillar shone brightly, and its massive mountain-like body suddenly crossed the layers of Blade Beast corpses and crashed into the Demonic Qi circle, immediately about to crush the cultivator who had humiliated it… to… pieces…
The soul inside the Seventh Pillar, that cloaked Kari Nuo, suddenly realized something was wrong.
In the rolling black gas, that figure stood with his hands behind his back.
Wang Jixuan looked at the giant beast crashing in front of him, a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth.
Don't forget, this Dragon Python Devouring Heaven Art is just a substitute for the Demon Luo Heaven Fiend Art, a backup after being afraid of entering the demonic state and being unable to use the Demon Luo Heaven Fiend Art.
"Do you even understand demonic arts, you little demon beast."
The Daoist priest's left hand shook violently, and the boundless Demonic Qi suddenly contracted. His figure flickered several times in succession, facing the Pillar Blade Beast that could no longer brake head-on.
Fist;
Demonic Qi;
Demon Luo True Body!
The hundred-zhang-high Demon Luo True Body was also a bit small in front of the giant beast, but the punch that this True Body gathered all the Demonic Qi with sent the giant beast straight into the air!
Wang Jixuan's figure rushed up, red light flashing in his eyes.
Soul Out of Body!
Uh, it seems that he hasn't cultivated a Nascent Soul yet, but whatever, the technique is the technique.
Out of Body!
A shadow drilled into the giant beast's body, easily finding its way to the Sea of Grievous Souls, not displaying the Gates of Hell, not establishing the Seated Buddha Statue, and directly drilled into a square well, rushing towards the Blissful Heavenly Curtain where the cloaked Kari Nuo was located.
"Goo goo!" (Black storm!)
"Your grandpa is here."