novelraw Chapter 200 : Rain Intent Resonance
Chapter 200 : Rain Intent Resonance
200: Rain Intent Resonance
Yuyin closed her eyes and silently contemplated Rain Concubine's inheritance. A generation's great demon goddess, Rain Concubine could command the rain, her very tears capable of causing floods. One could imagine her comprehension of rain. As Yuyin contemplated this inheritance, her understanding of the rain element path continuously deepened.
She should have already met the conditions to comprehend Rain Intent Resonance. She only needed an opportunity. Comprehension was mysterious; it required true feeling, that final spark that could be sensed but not explained. Though Yuyin tried her best to recall, the memory alone was not vivid enough.
A rainfall. She desperately needed a thorough, drenching rainfall.
But where could rain come from within this tomb? She still couldn't control the tomb's arrays and mechanisms.
"How I long for the nourishment of rain, to truly feel that pleasure of rainwater pouring over my body, that direct contact and understanding of life. This is the opportunity I need."
"Right..."
Yuyin's consciousness entered the God-Devouring Chess space. She roamed freely through the first layer's immortal spirit landscape. At that moment, at heaven's edge, clouds and mist rolled in layered waves, flashing with strange lights. But this had nothing to do with Yuyin's purpose here; it was merely the world transformation from the God-Devouring Chess's upgrade.
The first layer world was so vast. Soon, Yuyin saw a large expanse of rain clouds swirling over the mountains and forests ahead.
Her consciousness flew in and landed among the mountains. In the sky, fierce, drenching rain fell. She was only consciousness, yet she imagined spreading her arms, even opening her mouth, to receive the rain's blessing.
Why was rain comprehension so suitable for female cultivators, especially ones like her and Rain Concubine? Yuyin now truly understood what Rain Concubine's inheritance meant.
The artistic conception and resonance of rain, in fact, shared the same essence as a woman's own conception and resonance: gentle, continuous, delicate, crystalline, yet swift as threads in a storm, capable of converging into rivers and seas of immense power!
A great wave smashing mountain peaks, a flood changing the earth.
This was a method of power application.
Using rain's intent and resonance to control one's own strength, using rain's fluctuations to drive one's sword technique, using rain's swiftness and might to empower one's blade edge. This was one of the powers most suited to the female body!
And countless raindrops gathering into rivers, into seas, wasn't this precisely a method for circulating Primordial Energy within the body? Primordial Energy was like clouds, transforming into spirit water like rain, and gathering into rivers, lakes, and seas with crashing waves was like powerful sword moves.
Using rain's artistic conception and resonance to drive Primordial Energy, circulate spirit water, and attach rain's sharpness, lingering nature, ferocity, and variability to one's techniques. This was Rain Intent Resonance!
Yuyin had comprehended it.
She opened her eyes.
"Yuyin? I, I didn't say a word," Gui Ji said, noticing something different in Yuyin's gaze.
In Yuyin's eyes, she saw not just what was before her, but the power of rainwater contained and flowing throughout this massive mountain tomb.
She slowly rose and lightly patted Gui Ji's pert buttocks.
"Wh-why did you spank me? Only my mother can..." Gui Ji suddenly realized she'd said too much. Her face flushed red and she quickly fell silent, turning away.
"Gui Ji, we're preparing to leave," Yuyin said calmly.
"Huh?"
"Stay in this tomb chamber for now. Don't rush out rashly," Yuyin warned.
"Tch, who are you talking to? You think I'm so useless? This princess can handle a few dozen Li Su rabble with ease!" Gui Ji declared, drawing a dagger in one hand and gripping a Tang sword in the other, ready for battle.
Yuyin stepped forward to face the heavy stone door. The flowing rainwater power that drove the tomb's operation was now linked to her perception. The special resonance from Rain Concubine's inheritance also caused these arrays and rainwater forces to recognize Yuyin as the tomb's master. Naturally, this was all arranged by Rain Concubine when she set everything up centuries ago.
Without touching the door, she merely willed it.
The stone door slowly opened with a heavy grinding sound.
"The door, look, the stone door is opening!"
Outside, numerous Li Su aliens shouted.
Bai Ruowei, standing before the Jingyuan School disciples, narrowed her eyes at the door. "Opening the stone door? What is this? That Xia girl looks beautiful and intelligent. She can't be foolish enough to think we'd just let her leave?"
"Prepare to fire arrows," a Mid-Stage of Void Truth deputy commander shouted.
"Wait," General Mo waved his large hand. "We want her alive. Perhaps we can interrogate her about the inheritance."
At that moment, within the cavern outside the tomb, there were seven to eight hundred Li Su Royal Army soldiers, two to three hundred experts of various paths, and over seventy Jingyuan School disciples. However, those several dozen Jingyuan disciples might not be any weaker than the entire royal army.
Everyone's gaze focused on the opening stone door.
A tall woman in white robes emerged alone, facing an army of thousands. Yet she walked calmly, as if seeing nothing.
"It's her, that Xia girl, the one who received the inheritance."
"She comes out alone. Has she gone mad?"
"Is it really that Xia girl? Could it be that Rain Concubine herself has returned?"
Many alien experts felt doubt and unease.
The power difference left no suspense, yet this woman dared to face an army alone. What imposing bearing!
For a moment, not a single soldier among the Li Su thousands dared step forward.
"Has this Xia girl truly gone mad? Or is she bluffing, actually possessing some means?" Even General Mo hesitated. Yuyin's actions were too bizarre. Why was she not afraid?
"A mere Xia girl, so beautiful and alluring, yet instead of serving the strong, you come to fight? You've delivered yourself to serve our Clan Leader! Hahaha!"
Among the Li Su experts, a tall, robust barbarian warrior finally lost patience. Holding an axe in one hand and a rope in the other, he strode toward Yuyin to attack.
He erupted with Mid-Stage of Void Truth Realm power, but as a barbarian, his melee strength likely surpassed even ordinary Late-Stage of Void Truth cultivators.
"Watch me capture you, this Xia girl who doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth!" The barbarian warrior charged before Yuyin, large in stature. He flipped his axe and struck viciously at her waist with the flat of the blade, clearly intending to capture her alive. He'd long been unable to contain himself at such a beautiful, isolated woman delivering herself to him!
This strike held immense power, carrying a heavy wind as the flat of the axe bore down on Yuyin.
"The one who doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth is you," Yuyin said calmly. With a flick of her left white-sleeved arm, a crystalline water element Source Spirit wave formed between the fluttering sleeves.
Splash!
The barbarian's axe strike landed on this crystalline wave. Water splashed everywhere, and all its force was deflected. Though only a foot away, it couldn't touch Yuyin's body.
"The barbarian warrior Zabo's mighty axe strike was blocked by that woman's sleeve flick?" Many Li Su experts were shocked.
"This is... a Source Spirit barrier formed from water element Primordial Energy? It seems... to have reached the level of Intent Resonance. This Xia girl, why didn't she use this when fighting me before? Could it be she received the inheritance in the tomb? In just a few short hours, she could comprehend the inheritance to this degree? This Xia girl's talent is truly formidable?" Bai Ruowei was also amazed by Yuyin's casual move.
Yet Yuyin, after flicking her sleeve to block the barbarian warrior's attack, drew her longsword like lightning while he was still stunned, preparing a second strike.
"Let me test the power of Tears Exhausted, Sky Clear on you."
She swung the sword one-handed. The semi-transparent blade slashed out with a crystalline gleam.
Splash!
This sword cut through the tall, powerful barbarian warrior's body as if through nothing, its speed unabated. It instantly passed through him and struck the ground, unleashing an elongated sword qi that carved a dozen-meter-long deep black fissure into the hard tomb floor.
"Zabo!"
"Clan Leader!"
Seeing Yuyin's ice-crystal longsword pass through the barbarian warrior as if through nothing, many Li Su barbarians cried out and wailed.
"One sword slash splitting the earth?"
"What kind of weapon is this?"
"This woman didn't use this weapon before."
"It's the inheritance!"
"This must be Rain Concubine's inherited treasure!"
Even General Mo's thick eyebrows knitted together. "This has surpassed what weapons of this age can forge. It's an inheritance treasure! Rain Concubine's treasure!"
Only then did the barbarian warrior who had been cleaved by Yuyin's sword split in half from the middle, his heavy body falling to both sides, blood spurting like a fountain.
"This Xia girl took the inherited weapon and came out to kill us. How hateful!"
"Loose arrows!" General Mo gave the order. Only now did he understand that this Xia girl had taken the inheritance divine weapon. No wonder she dared to be so arrogant. This Xia girl was too dangerous. Better to shoot her dead directly and seize her treasure.
Hundreds of spirit arrows flew beneath the dome, a dark mass shooting toward Yuyin.
"Xia girl, even with this treasured longsword, your strength is limited. Without Rain Concubine's protection, do you think you can block my army's arrows? Though it's a pity, you can go accompany your master Rain Concubine in death!" General Mo's voice thundered.
"Hmph..." Yuyin smiled coldly.
Boom!
Between Yuyin and the Li Su front lines, the earth suddenly cracked and spewed forth a sky-blocking water curtain. The water curtain was extremely fierce, like a water wall. All arrows that struck it lost their power, washed away in all directions, clattering down.
"Where did this water curtain come from?" General Mo was shocked. "Could it be that Rain Concubine is still protecting this Xia girl?"
Behind the semi-transparent water curtain, Yuyin's cold expression and fluttering long hair were faintly visible.
"It's not as simple as protection," Yuyin said, her pink lips parting slightly. With a thought...
Rumble...!
Suddenly, the entire cavern quaked.
The thousand-strong Li Su army staggered and fell as the earth shook, crying out in terror, appearing so powerless and insignificant.
The ground beneath two archer formations of several hundred soldiers suddenly sank.
"An earthquake!"
"Not good!"
"Ah...!"
Sky-filling boulders and sharp stalactites fell from the cavern ceiling. In a blink, amid clouds of dust, the two archer formations vanished, leaving only two bottomless pits.