novelraw Chapter 580 - 266: Symphony of Flesh and Blood (Part 1)
Chapter 580 - 266: Symphony of Flesh and Blood (Part 1)
And Chu Kuanglan quickly realized what had happened.
And Jiang Taixuan’s purpose.
"Damn it!"
Chu Kuanglan spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, picked up the giant sword that had fallen to the side, "Old Lu! Wei Banmeng! God Fang! Can you hear me?! Respond!"
The roars echoed continuously in the twisted alleyway.
Deathly silence.
Chu Kuanglan’s heart sank.
Just at this moment.
"Chu Kuanglan?"
A voice so familiar, as if coming from just around the corner ahead in the alley.
It’s Lu Jiuyuan.
"Old Lu?!!"
Chu Kuanglan was overjoyed, as if fueled by adrenaline, he hoisted the giant sword and charged madly in the direction of the voice.
"I’m here! How are you? Are you hurt?!"
"Don’t...don’t come over!!"
Lu Jiuyuan’s voice suddenly rose, filled with urgency and anger.
Chu Kuanglan’s charging steps came to an abrupt halt.
He and Lu Jiuyuan had fought side by side for many years, going through numerous life-and-death situations, Lu Jiuyuan always maintained a cold face with a sword, speaking sparingly, his tone had never been so...rough and flustered.
An icy chill instantly shot up from Chu Kuanglan’s tailbone to the back of his head.
"Old Lu?!!"
Chu Kuanglan shouted again, filled with doubt, while his body instinctively entered the highest alert state, holding the giant sword in front, the violent Qi and Blood Power started to surge.
And at the moment when his shout fell—
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Several shadows, as fast as ghosts, almost blending into the dark red background of the flesh wall, like growing out from the walls without any sign, from above Chu Kuanglan, from the meat wall dome on both sides.
Diving down like lightning.
The target.
Was right at the corner ahead where Lu Jiuyuan had just issued a warning.
Their speed, their cunning angles, their seamless coordination, far surpassed ordinary Tier Two Grandmasters.
"Yunhua Envoy!!"
Chu Kuanglan’s eyes nearly burst, instantly recognizing the identity of these shadows.
Then he erupted in a roar.
His entire body’s Qi and Blood exploded like a volcano.
The giant sword in his hand, like a door panel, carried a terrifying screech that tore through the air, recklessly slashing towards the two shadows closest to him, charging in Lu Jiuyuan’s direction.
"Get the hell away from him!!!"
The scarlet violent Sword Aura, like a burning strip of silk, instantly tore through the thick air.
However...
It was still too slow...
Or rather, the speed of those shadows’ ambush, was beyond extraordinary.
Just before Chu Kuanglan’s giant sword swung out.
Puchi! Puchi! Puchi!
The dull sound of sharp objects cutting into flesh, accompanied by an extremely suppressed grunt, came distinctly from the corner ahead.
Chu Kuanglan’s Sword Aura only managed to push back and blast away the last two shadows in mid-air.
While the first three lethal shadows...
Their attack...
Had already landed on Lu Jiuyuan!
"Old Lu——!!!"
...
In the further reaches of the blood-flesh maze.
Both Shikong and Liu Hanyan’s teams were also mired in a grueling fight.
Their opponents were either bizarre-shaped blood-flesh puppets or Yunhua Envoys equally adept at assassination and stealth...
The entire Gluttonous Stomach had become a massive grinding mill of blood and flesh.
Jiang Taixuan’s sinister laughter seemed to echo in every corner.
Time passed, second by second.
Tick-tock... Tick-tock...
However.
In this Blood and Flesh Purgatory, intertwined with brutal bloodlust, slaughter, and despair.
An exceptionally unique "corner".
Here, there were no towering wriggling meat walls, no viscously flowing Blood River, no narrow twisted corridors.
Above, a blood moon emitting a faint crimson glow...
Below was a relatively solid dark red ground, like coagulated blood clots.
On the ground, sporadically grew dark red flowers, as if carved from rubies.
The flowers had no leaves.
Only solitary stems held together bowl-sized petals.
The entire space exuded a strange silence and... a bizarre beauty.
Jiang Wei stood quietly in the center of this red field under the blood moon’s illumination.
The small figure cast a long shadow by the blood moon.
Her small cold-weather cloak was still clean, seemingly not tainted much by the filth here.
Slightly tilting her head, the reflections in her clear red pupils mirrored the huge blood moon above, showing no sign of disturbance.
Suddenly.
In the space not far ahead, viscous blood-colored mist began to silently gather and surge.
The mist became thicker and more substantial.
Gradually, a large blurred silhouette appeared within the blood mist.
The silhouette resembled a lion, yet not a lion, a goat, yet not a goat.
It bore a huge hideous head, seemingly with twisted massive horns atop, a giant mouth occupying much of the head’s space was slowly opening, revealing an abyss...
Pillar-like thick limbs stepped on the blood-red field.
A tail, thick like a giant python, swung slowly behind, stirring the blood mist.
It fully materialized from the surging blood mist...
Those blood-red giant eyes, burning with endless greed, locked tightly onto the center of the flower field, that small, dust-like figure.
Violent! Greedy! Longing!
The gaze seemed to want to completely devour Jiang Wei, skin and bones alike.
The air throughout the blood-colored flower field instantly solidified.
Pressure as heavy as mountains descended with a crash.
Yet.
Facing this terrifying fierce beast that would terrify any Tier Two Grandmaster into utter dismay.
Jiang Wei merely slowly lifted her head.
The clear red pupils calmly met the blood-red giant eyes burning with endless greed.
There was still no trace of fear in her gaze.
Only a kind of...indifference, as if viewing something familiar.
The small lips moved ever so slightly.
As if speaking to herself.
"I told you..."
"I would help you..."
As her words fell.
Buzz——!!!
From the depths of Jiang Wei’s clear red pupils.
A point of extremely dazzling red light, like a supernova explosion, suddenly lit up.
The light instantly filled her entire pupils.
Then.
Boom——!!!
A terrifying force, dormant for unknown ages, as if from the deepest core of magma, like an awakened Ancient Fierce Beast, boomed out from Jiang Wei’s small body.
The dark red flower field beneath turned to ashes instantly.
The glow of the blood moon above seemed subdued by the suddenly bright red light.
Jiang Wei’s small body, lifted by the surging power, slowly hovered away from the ground!
Long black hair danced wildly behind her, moved by unseen winds.
The small cold-weather cloak flapped noisily.
At this moment, she seemed to become the only source of light in this blood-red hell.
Red light swirled and surged around her, condensing into a budding red lotus.
On the lotus petals, Tribulation Fire flowed, ready to incinerate all eight wildernesses....
Jiang Wei hovered in mid-air.
Her small figure enveloped within the illusory red lotus.
Her clear red pupils now transformed into two blazing red suns.
Calmly gazing at the Taotie Blood Shadow below, she softly said.
"Now, do you recognize me?"