novelraw Chapter 606 - 273: Symphony of Flesh and Blood (Part 8)
Chapter 606 - 273: Symphony of Flesh and Blood (Part 8)
"Do you still want to escape?"
The voice, wrapped in thunder, rumbled heavily across the lead-gray sky.
Fang Qingyu’s figure turned into a dark gold lightning bolt, slicing through the wind and snow, firmly pursuing the hunched blood shadow darting wildly between the shadows of the giant glacier ahead.
Jiang Taixuan... or rather the current dominant [Taotie·Greed Body], had not flown high at all.
Instead, he skimmed the rugged icy surface like a phantom, weaving swiftly through the jagged ice towers and deep crevices.
Each change of direction dangerously leveraged the terrain to evade Fang Qingyu’s momentary lock.
Leaving behind a realm of ice shards and snow mist blasted open by the lingering might of Shenxiao.
It didn’t counterattack, didn’t speak, not even a glance backward.
Those mutated eyes, one filled with vengeful bloodlust, the other burning with pure greed and brutality.
The only thought was to escape!
Using every means, squeezing out the last ounce of power from this decaying shell, just to gain even a slight distance!
Fang Qingyu’s molten gold vertical pupils were as cold as ice.
The Shenxiao Power roared tumultuously within him, every drive bringing extreme speed.
But the complicated and perilous glacial terrain below, coupled with Jiang Taixuan’s utterly ruthless, virtually suicidal escape route, indeed caused a slight delay in his pursuit.
Especially at the moment when the Destiny Ghost Army briefly blocked him at the Ice Valley’s entrance...
Letting this old dog gain some distance again.
However...
"Enough!"
A fierce light blazed in Fang Qingyu’s eyes.
In the face of absolute power, distance will inevitably be overcome!
The blood shadow frantically fleeing ahead was now within arm’s reach.
Buzz——!
Fang Qingyu’s figure suddenly blurred.
Eternal Night Teleportation!
The next moment.
Directly in front of Jiang Taixuan’s rapid flight, the dense darkness pooled like ink splashed from nothing, condensing instantly.
Fang Qingyu’s figure stepped out of the darkness.
The dark gold divine thunder coiled around him instantly cleared the wind and snow, forming an absolute vacuum zone.
His right hand, as fast as a ghost, with the heavenly might of Shenxiao, aimed precisely for Jiang Taixuan’s throat!
"Uh?!"
Jiang Taixuan’s murky human eye bulbously protruded.
Filled with utter shock!
The blood-red vertical pupil abruptly contracted to a pinpoint, revealing disbelief and terror.
Too fast!
Space jump?!
This entirely exceeded its understanding of this human.
Dodge?
Just as the thought arose, that hand, as if cast from molten gold, clamped onto its withered neck like an iron claw!
"Caught you."
Fang Qingyu’s voice was calm and unruffled, yet carried a cold intent to kill.
Before the words finished!
Boom——!!!
Fang Qingyu’s arm exerted force, Shenxiao Power violently surged through his fingers.
Simultaneously twisting his waist, like throwing a shot put, he dragged Jiang Taixuan’s neck and smashed him forcefully towards the frozen ground below!
"Go down!"
The two were like golden meteors falling from the sky.
Fang Qingyu on top, Jiang Taixuan below.
The golden light of Shenxiao completely consumed Jiang Taixuan’s shattered body.
Sizzle——!!!
The piercing sound of burning was accompanied by Jiang Taixuan’s non-human, wretched screams.
The dark red scale armor melted and disappeared like a hot knife through butter the moment Shenxiao touched it.
The scorched flesh, mixed with turbid blood, sizzled like burning grease in the violent thunder light, carbonizing and peeling off in large swathes.
Exposing the charred, brittle bones beneath.
This is not a fall at all?
Clearly, it’s dragging a rag through a thunderous furnace, repeatedly refining.
The brief moments of descent, for Jiang Taixuan, were a prolonged Hell torture.
Wham——!!!!
The violent impact finally came!
The expected scene of ice layer shattering and ground trembling did not appear.
Where they struck, the snow vaporized instantly from the high temperature, revealing beneath... a smooth, hard surface of a strange dark cyan color.
No deep pits, no cracks.
Not even a speck of ice fragments was blown away.
The immense impact seemed completely absorbed by some incredibly resilient force.
Fang Qingyu landed firmly on his feet, his knees slightly bent to dissipate all force, the Shenxiao Thunder Light silently flowing at his feet, slightly burning the contact point.
In his hand, still gripping Jiang Taixuan’s neck tightly, pressing it like a dead dog onto this ground.
Shenxiao did not stop.
The golden thunder snake continued to burrow into Jiang Taixuan’s charcoal-like body, relentlessly destroying the remaining flesh vitality.
"Hah... hah..."
Jiang Taixuan’s throat emitted a rasping wheeze like a broken bellows, his body convulsing violently.
On that face burnt beyond recognition, the remaining murky eye and blood-red vertical pupil, at this moment, eerily... arched into a twisted curve simultaneously.
His charred lips struggled to move, squeezing out a word so hoarse it was barely audible:
"Arrived..."
Arrived?
Fang Qingyu’s molten gold vertical pupils suddenly shrank.
A strong ominous premonition instantly wound its way up his spine.
Rumble——!!!
The ground beneath, inexplicably hard, moved without warning.
Fang Qingyu and the Jiang Taixuan he held tight instantly lost balance.
The two were flung out fiercely by an irresistible giant force, like dust clinging to the skin of a giant as its limb lifted.
"Hmph!"
Fang Qingyu grunted, the Shenxiao Thunder Light around him burst forth, forcibly stabilizing his form in mid-air, suspended like a golden feather amid the whistling wind and snow.
And the gravely injured, dying Jiang Taixuan spun like a severed ragdoll, accelerating downwards into the deep chasm of the glacier below.
Fang Qingyu’s gaze, like two concentrated thunder beams, pierced through the swirling snowflakes and ice dust, instantly locking onto the source of where the ground had lifted.