jdhmnovel Chapter 128 The Giant of Light!
Chapter 128 The Giant of Light!
It got completely dark very quickly.
They had already scouted the area during the day and found that Nanshan City was deserted. At first, some daring cultivators sneaked in to investigate, but they found nothing. As the news spread, fewer and fewer people came.
Currently, only the soldiers of the Prince of Nandu are guarding the city. The city is in a special location, which is a plain in the shape of a canyon. There are no city gates on the south and north sides, only on the east and west sides.
Leng Huan, dressed in a sharp black outfit, had Leng Yan and the Golden Core Guards meet her on the south side while she and Fu Xun entered the city.
There were about thirty or forty guards on duty. Several captains were at the Foundation Establishment stage, the rest of the soldiers were at the Qi Refining stage, and there was also a Golden Core leader. Generally, no Nascent Soul stage Venerable would care about such a bounty, and the Golden Core cultivators were not worth the guards' attention.
Not wanting to alert the enemy, Leng Huan and his companion entered the city from the south under cover of night. The city walls were over ten zhang high, and the city didn't even have a defensive array.
Fortunately, there are no large mountains nearby, so monsters don't gather there; otherwise, if a beast tide were to occur, we would only be sacrificed.
As the moon hid and the wind blew swiftly, two figures quietly appeared on a street in the south of the city. The shorter one pulled the taller one and they stealthily hid in a corner.
"I feel uncomfortable all over as soon as I come in, it's so eerie." Leng Huan rubbed his arms and smoothed out the goosebumps.
"Hmm..." Fu Xun looked down at her, then at his surroundings. She was pressed against the wall, looking quite serious. He couldn't tell if she was scared or excited.
The city's buildings, flowers, and trees were all intact. It was as if everyone had vanished in an instant.
It was the dead of winter. The wind blew through the empty alleys, stirring up dust and withered leaves. Under the cover of night, the entire city was devoid of light and the sounds of people and animals, standing silently like a ghost town.
Leng Huan moved close to the wall to observe. Several months after the incident, the city was already very desolate. The banners on the street were faded and worn, swaying in the wind. The wooden doors were mottled, and one could almost hear the creaking sound of the wind passing by.
She had suspected that Wang Chen and his group might have come in, but her messages went unanswered.
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The two separated and inspected the area on their own. An hour later, they met up in front of the government office set up by the Prince of Nandu.
"Senior sister, is there anything unusual on your end?" Fu Xun asked after looking her over to make sure there were no problems.
Leng Huan shook his head: "Not yet, it looks pretty much the same everywhere. Not even a hair. What kind of evil spirit could have done this?"
He appeared puzzled, but his heart sank. Logically, Wang Chen should have found clues by now, thanks to the system's prompts, but he couldn't get in touch with him.
Could it be that I've fallen into another "Mary Sue" trope? Have I been captured by the demons?
Meanwhile, a thousand miles away, Wang Chen and Shen Hanyan, who had been captured by the demons, lay sprawled on the ground in a sorry state. He struggled to sit up and sneezed: "Sneeze..."
This place is cold and damp, could it be that he caught a cold from the cold?
He was under a forbidden spell that sealed his meridians, preventing him from circulating his spiritual power. His robes were also ruined, and he was truly frozen to the bone.
But none of that matters...
"Lord Green Demon, the human cultivators should have woken up by now, and it's almost time. Shall we bleed them now?"
bloodletting?
Hearing this sound, Wang Chen realized that this was actually the place in the original book where Long Aotian, who was in the Golden Core stage, was captured by a Nascent Soul stage demon and bled to refine the array wedges—the Cold Cave Blood Pool.
The cave was very spacious, with the surface of the inverted stone pillars frozen in ice, their sharp points gleaming coldly, and in the center of the ground was a pool of blood that looked like bubbling lava!
Some white bones were faintly visible in the blood pool, and the entire cave was filled with surging demonic energy and evil aura.
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He moved slightly, and the forbidden spell was surprisingly powerful. His divine sense was slowed down, and he could only extend it a few feet. He looked up by the dim light and saw that the green demon was the demon who had injured him before.
Unlike human cultivators, the strength of high-level demons is divided into several levels based on the color red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, and dark—a simple and straightforward system. A green demon is a powerful demon capable of serving as a general in the demon realm, equivalent to a Nascent Soul stage cultivator in human terms!
The one who just spoke was the Crimson Demon, which is equivalent to the Foundation Establishment stage. Below him, all are low-level demons. The demon race is a dog-eat-dog world with a clear hierarchy. Low-level demons are like breeding poisonous insects, and only one high-level demon can emerge from among tens of millions.
Naturally born high-level demons have bloodline inheritance, such as those above the Azure Demon level. High-level demons are relatively rare; for example, Dark Demons are equivalent to those in the Tribulation Transcending stage.
The Demon Lord is described in the original book as an existence like an extraterrestrial demon, a dark-rank demon race with great strength and the ability to regenerate infinitely. However, each reincarnation takes a very long time, otherwise this world would have long been the domain of the demon race.
Two dragging footsteps approached, and Green Goblin replied in a hoarse voice, "Yes, it will begin in fifteen minutes..."
Wang Chen cursed under his breath, then turned his gaze to Shen Hanyan lying on her side on the ground with her eyes closed. Her cultivation level was slightly lower and her physique was weaker, so she had not yet woken up.
All he wanted to do now was curse, curse the system, curse the damn plot. He wasn't some overpowered protagonist; he was just a scapegoat!
Is there any justice left? The real Long Aotian is now surrounded by beautiful women, his long-cherished wish has come true!
He, about to be bloodletted and refined, cursed the plant and quickly called out to the system that was pretending to be dead: "Hey! I'm about to be sent, hurry up and find a way to solve the problem at hand!"
Knowing he was currently seething with resentment, the system quickly explained, "Host, you've finally woken up. While you were unconscious, the system was forced to shut down..."
Wang Chen didn't want to hear its explanation for not waking him up, and impatiently retorted, "Long Aotian was able to escape because he unsealed his power and forcibly broke through his realm to carve out a bloody path. What can I do now that I'm trapped? What items can I use?"
Tears welled up in his eyes. Long Aotian's wish value had increased, and he had gained a sum of points, but now he was going to spend them all, returning him to square one!
System: "Host..."
However, Wang Chen was no longer in the mood to listen to what the system was saying.
"My lord, this woman is extremely beautiful. May I have the pleasure of enjoying her for a few days?" The Crimson Demon glanced at Shen Hanyan with lust.
Wang Chen's face darkened. How could there be such a plot?
Some lower-level demons have special cultivation methods, similar to succubi, but this demon is just lewd and lustful. She's just a female cultivator, so the green demon doesn't care.
"Let's sacrifice this male cultivator first, and then sacrifice the female cultivator in three days. She'll reward you then... Hehehe, both of them have the potential to reach the Golden Core stage, which is worth more than the flesh and blood of hundreds of mortals..."
As he spoke, the green demon walked towards Wang Chen, while the red demon indeed walked towards Shen Hanyan...
System: "Host, you currently only have enough points left to redeem..."
Wang Chen stared expressionlessly at the Crimson Demon, ignoring the approaching Green Demon Envoy, his mind racing with thoughts: "Never mind that for now, can't we just kill that green one?"
The Crimson Demon's claws reached for Shen Hanyan, drool dripping with a foul, metallic stench. Sensing danger, she struggled to open her eyes. The Crimson Demon impatiently leaned down, and she was met with a gloomy, distorted face that barely resembled a human. Her pupils constricted, and she couldn't help but scream, "Ah!!!"
Almost simultaneously with the system's reply, it said: "...Yes!"
Wang Chen: "Quickly! Go!"
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Half an hour ago, Leng Huan and Fu Xun were searching for special buildings in the city. Fu Xun extended his divine sense and said, "Senior sister, I found three such double-eaved pavilions in the east and south of the city. I thought the people in this city liked this kind of special architecture."
Leng Huan: "I saw it too, but I didn't expect it to be the foundation of a large formation." Moreover, her cultivation level was not high enough to use her vast divine sense to find the hidden final tower.
Suddenly, Fu Xun grabbed her: "Come on, I've found the core of the formation."
After a stick of incense had burned, they successfully discovered a nested teleportation array at the intersection of the seven such towers and pavilions—under an old banyan tree in the city center—and were directly teleported to a desolate mountain thousands of miles away!
As soon as they landed, they felt the ground tremble violently and almost lost their footing. Fu Xun quickly grabbed Leng Huan's waist and rode up on his sword. Looking at the rocky mountain in front of them, it was shaking continuously, with rocks falling off. Suddenly, a dazzling white light shot into the sky!
Then---
Leng Huan stared dumbfounded as the entire rocky mountain collapsed and shattered in a dazzling light that resembled the explosion of a giant energy cannon, and he saw the giant of light that had shocked, trembled, surprised, and filled countless people with awe!
Ultraman!
...Wang Chen's version.
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