novelraw #285 - Chapter 285: Burning Shangfang Valley
#285 - Chapter 285: Burning Shangfang Valley
Twin Cities Island is a pair of adjacent islands.
Rather than viewing them as two separate islands, it's more accurate to say they are the same island, crudely separated by some mysterious force, creating a thirty-meter-wide "one-line sky."
It's as if a legendary sword immortal cleaved it in two with a single strike; the cliffs on either side of the gorge are extremely smooth, making it easy for people above to ambush those passing through.
If Qi Jing were to choose an ambush point in Route Four, he would definitely pick this place.
“I feel like Yan Di and the others will come to interfere with us.”
An ambush is unlikely, but interference is definitely happening.
“This is something you provoked, you solve it yourself.”
Yan Cheng quickly declined, knowing that those people were all sophomores and juniors with plenty of tricks up their sleeves.
“It's okay, they'll only interfere a little, nothing much will happen.”
Qi Jing looked at the gorge ahead, a deeper and deeper smile spreading across his face.
If they really dared to come, he would definitely give them a piece of his mind.
“The radar is reacting, which means we're three thousand meters away from Twin Cities Gorge, get ready.”
Yan Cheng and Song Jiang both took out their equipment.
They didn't know how those people would interfere with them, so they could only defend passively.
After all, cannons couldn't reach the top of such high cliffs, nor could they be fired.
“There really is something in the sea, let's fire two shots as a warning.”
In a location like a strait, even if there were no alien beasts, the examiners would add a few more during the trial.
Yan Cheng directly issued the order to fire, blasting all the sea beasts guarding the strait to pieces.
“Old Yan, we need to conserve these cannons, you're wasting them a bit too quickly.”
Song Jiang moved seventy percent of the remaining shells from the three cannon positions to the front. Although there were still many left, they couldn't withstand Yan Cheng's usage.
“What waste? This is called being cautious. Besides, I'll replicate hundreds of them in a moment, why worry about running out?”
Since acquiring the duplicating pen, Yan Cheng had never been afraid of wasting resources.
Before long, they charged straight into the strait.
Due to the terrain on both sides, the current was very fast here, and they were going against the current, so their speed slowed down.
“Why does it feel like the boat won't move?”
“Forget about that for now, it's raining stones.”
Yan Cheng looked up, and a dense rain of large stones was falling from the sky above the "one-line sky."
“Damn, so many, so big!”
Panicked, Yan Cheng took out the source energy hand cannon he had been holding back and fired wildly at the sky.
This type of weapon, which uses source energy as its power, has very high damage, but the source energy shells dissipate very quickly and have a very short range, so it hadn't been used before.
But now it was more than enough to hit these stones; no matter how much the source energy dissipated, it could still shatter these stones.
Song Jiang also took out his weapon—a chlorophyll Gatling gun—and fired at the sky.
This was given to him by Qi Jing, with unlimited bullets and the ability to track living things. Other than the excessive recoil, it had no drawbacks.
Miao Kui, full of buffs, opened a magic shield, blocking all the remaining rubble from the outside, preventing them from damaging the ship.
“Lightning Web!”
But the momentum of those stones falling from such a high place was still too great, and they had to be further shattered with an electric net to prevent them from smashing through the shield.
“Qi Tian Gai Shi Zhen Jun, I, Yan Di, will let you taste the flames of a healer today!”
“And my Dragon Lord's stone array!”
“Ocean, heed my command, engulf them!”
Hearing these familiar voices, Qi Jing shouted upwards:
“You really came, huh? Let me see your strength. Once we pass this Twin Cities Strait, we'll definitely give you a good beating!”
His voice echoed between the two cliffs, reaching the ears of the players above.
Yan Di smiled and said to the person next to him:
“As expected of the Rookie King, quite arrogant. Doesn't he know there's also a Rookie King here?”
Dragon Lord summoned a few more stones downwards: “How would he know? This guy hasn't watched our matches, so it's normal that he can't recognize our voices.”
“Too bad, Fei Peng, you can't take action, or you could have wiped them out in an instant.”
Fei Peng smiled:
“It's okay, I'll just watch the fun, you guys continue.”
“Roger!”
Yan Di made an OK sign, then shouted downwards:
“Incinerating Fire Rain! Little Qi Tian Gai Shi, have you heard of burning Upper Valley!”
Then he waved his hand, creating dozens of small fireballs in the air, slowly smashing downwards.
These fireballs had great explosive power, but Yan Di deliberately slowed their descent speed, otherwise, it wouldn't be good if he really caused them to fail.
“The ending of burning Upper Valley was a failure, don't you know that? Primordial Qi Slash!”
Qi Jing swung a sword energy towards the sky, blasting away several fireballs.
“That's because it was raining, can you also make it rain?”
Yan Di waved his hand again, releasing hundreds of fireballs to fall downwards.
“Old Song, give him a rain.” Qi Jing continued to swing several Primordial Qi Slashes towards the sky, then shouted:
“See if we can make it rain!”
Song Jiang summoned a rain cloud, directing it to fly upwards, but his control range over this cloud couldn't reach such a high place at all, so he could only let White Dog Cloud go.
“Don't hit our cloud ~”
Cloud?
Yan Di looked at the rain cloud flying up from below. Why can't it be hit? Isn't that an ability?
“That's a creature.”
Fei Peng said:
“Look, it has a pair of eyes and a mouth in the center, it should be some kind of fantasy creature.”
“As expected of Fei Peng, your observation is very careful.”
Yan Di praised casually, then continued to shout downwards:
“If we can't hit it, we won't! Waves, give them something exciting.”
“Coming! Shocking waves!”
Just as Qi Jing and Yan Cheng had finished blasting all the fireballs above, a huge wave tens of meters high suddenly rolled up in the strait ahead.
There were dozens of fang-toothed fish in the wave, their menacing appearance making people want to hit them.
“Do you have to play so big?”
Qi Jing shouted upwards, then pondered a countermeasure.
If it were just him, crossing this wave would definitely not be a problem, taking so many people across wouldn't be a problem either, but who knows where this ship would be swept away.
“Rise!”
Tan Zuoyin used the power of the Rooster Talisman at this moment, causing the entire ship to float.
This was the first time she had lifted something so heavy. Using the Rooster Talisman in such an overloaded manner soon made her feel exhausted all over.
Fortunately, she only needed to wait for this wave to pass.
“Old geezers up there, I'll beat you all up when I get up there!”
Qi Jing handed the withered leaf spirit and the recovery potion to Tan Zuoyin, then spread his wings and flew up along the cliff.