novelraw Chapter 204 : Descent
Chapter 204 : Descent
204: Descent
At this moment, Yuyin's eyes were like ice.
It wasn't that the mountain's yin energy had vanished, but that the auras of these beings were so immense they had neutralized the cold...
Yuyin wanted to run, wanted to slash through the rubble and flee back into the ancient tomb, but found an invisible force suppressing her, making even drawing her sword so difficult. She wanted to simply flee, but her long, slender legs could barely move.
There was no escape.
Yuyin bravely turned around. If there was no path of retreat, then at least she wouldn't turn her back on her enemies. At least she would maintain her final dignity.
These three figures stood in the air. One was a white-bearded elder wearing a green jade lotus crown, waving a horsetail whisk that seemed to carry immortal wind. One was a lame old crone, her head wrapped in a scarf, leaning on an ancient wooden staff. One was a sturdy, balding, ugly middle-aged man, bare-chested with a string of large prayer beads, his chest covered in black hair, pot-bellied yet seeming to possess infinite strength. He dragged a broken bell in one hand and stood in the air with his bare, hairy feet.
To stand in the air was something only Grandmasters on Earth could do, comparable to top human experts like Hu Yimo and Tong Zirong. Yet these three were clearly not Earth humans.
"Could it be that I, Xia Yuyin, will truly die here today?" Yuyin's gaze was grave. She hadn't anticipated that three Li Su Grandmaster experts would ambush her at the tomb entrance! These three Li Su Grandmasters must have feared Rain Concubine's tomb and not dared enter carelessly. She still hadn't calculated it! But... once experts of this level knew Yuyin's location, what use was calculation? The tomb interior couldn't sense the outside situation. The moment she emerged, they would seize her, and she had no countermeasure. This gap in power had surpassed any strategy. She had no way out!
"Master, it, it's her, that Xia girl. She killed Master!" Not far away, a one-armed, injured Li Su cultivator darted from the forest. Those scattered Li Su experts were gathering around.
"Why need you say it? This Xia girl buried three thousand of my Li Su's children! A mere Xia girl, yet so vicious. Xia girl, do you admit your crime!?" The white-bearded elder with the green jade crown waved his horsetail whisk, and a heavy pressure like ten thousand jin boulders settled on Yuyin's shoulders.
Yuyin's long legs trembled. Crystalline sweat ran down her thighs. Her jade feet pressed on the ground, cracking it.
This white-bearded elder cast a spell wanting to force her to kneel. Though Yuyin couldn't move forward, couldn't counterattack, she used all her strength to resist, at least managing not to kneel!
"Oh? What a backbone this peerless beauty has. No wonder the Xia people have a new genius. It seems my Longevity Sect is truly fated with Xia geniuses." A Law Artifact sword flew from the elder's back. "See the dried blood on this Law Sword? This old man deliberately let this blood be permanently absorbed by the sword. This is the heart's blood of your Xia people's so-called number one genius, Lan Lianyue. Hahahahaha! This old man is the one your Xia experts hate most, the one who led several old friends to torture Lan Lianyue to death: Longevity Sect Master, Li Gang."
"State your name, Xia girl. This old man doesn't kill nameless juniors. You've been in Prison Abyss less than half a year, yet continuously killed my Longevity Sect disciples upon first arrival, and now have committed such monstrous crimes. Xia girl, you are remarkable. In this old man's view, your talent surpasses even Lan Lianyue's. Just killed the Xia people's number one genius, and today I'll personally end the Xia clan's peerless talent. Satisfying, satisfying!"
Li Gang waved his horsetail whisk. Several immortal winds like giant whips struck Yuyin's delicate body. Waves of intense pain made her protect herself, bend over, nearly fall.
"Oh? These clothes, this sword, are truly treasures, all from Rain Concubine's inheritance? State your name! Strip yourself, kneel and hold up this sword as tribute to us, and this old man will grant you a swift death." Though Li Gang seemed old and thin, his voice was like thunder, and even speaking made it extremely difficult for Yuyin and Gui Ji to endure.
"Xia Yuyin. I state my name not because I submit to your commands, but because, in my view, you three old undead are nothing to fear." Yuyin raised her head stubbornly, trembling with a cold smile.
"Audacious demoness! See, you've obtained Rain Concubine's inheritance, even your soul has been corroded by demons, yet before us three, you still dare speak disrespectfully?" Li Gang violently waved his horsetail whisk.
The old crone struck the air with her staff, and the balding, fat middle-aged man slapped his broken bell.
An ear-piercing bell sound made Yuyin's head ache intensely. The intense pressure forced her to one knee. She drew Tears Exhausted Sky Clear to support her body, resisting stubbornly.
"What's to fear? I've seen this scene many times. Isn't it just death? Since death is certain, what is there to fear?"
No matter how resourceful Yuyin was, under this absolute power suppression, she knew she couldn't escape. She seemed to feel what Lan Lianyue had felt then.
There was nothing to fear. This was just fate, nothing more.
Only, she didn't understand why those words had spilled from her mouth. She was a big city girl, how could she have encountered such a scene?
On a distant slope, Bai Ruowei gazed solemnly at Yuyin surrounded by three Li Su Grandmasters. She lowered her head, unable to bear it. "What a peerless woman who fears neither life nor death. This temperament, with her delicate, soft figure, seems like two different people yet also seems naturally unified. Though an enemy, she commands respect. Three seniors, I beg you to consider the bearing of Li Su's strong and not torment her further... Xia Yuyin... why were we born into opposing camps? If we could be martial sisters, we might have become confidants... what a pity."
With a final glance, Bai Ruowei turned and drifted away, unable to watch further.
"Such big words! Seeing this Xia girl has quite a backbone, and this place is far from Xia lands with no possible rescue, let's break her limbs and take her back to Li Su. Let her be stripped and displayed before tens of thousands of Li Su people, reviled by the masses, then executed. That will avenge our three thousand children. Two old friends, what do you think of this method?" Li Gang stroked his beard and asked.
"Fine, only this will vent our anger!"
"Heh heh heh, when she's displayed, I'll personally inflict heavy torture and humiliation on her before the masses, heh heh heh." The balding, fat middle-aged man lewdly eyed Yuyin, revealing yellow teeth in a perverse smile.
"You, go dream..." Yuyin gripped Tears Exhausted Sky Clear, determined to fight to the death.
"Want to resist? Useless! Watch this old auntie break your long legs, you saucy wench, heh heh heh heh." The lame old crone opened her toothless, sunken mouth, raised her thick staff, and spun it in the air, creating a massive whirlwind. This staff was extremely heavy, possessing infinite strength. Yuyin likely couldn't withstand it at all.
"Good, I wonder if the screams of this peerless talent will be different?" The balding middle-aged man's eyes lit up.
"Wonderful, wonderful!" Li Gang stroked his long beard with great satisfaction, nodding and laughing repeatedly.
Yuyin knelt there on one knee, barely resisting the suppression of three Grandmasters. Even standing and moving were impossible. She trembled, powerless, unwilling, yet without the slightest regret, gathering her strength for a final struggle.
"I say... have you all forgotten my existence?"
Behind Yuyin, a delicate voice sounded.
"Gui Ji? What are you still doing? Run, quickly!" Yuyin said in a low voice.
Yet Gui Ji completely ignored Yuyin's warning. She actually walked forward with her petite, agile figure, looked up at the three Li Su Grandmasters, "This dignified Ghost Princess has been ignored by you from start to finish. This is truly unpleasant. Who do you think I am? This big-chested woman's little girl?"
"Ghost, Princess?"
The three Li Su Grandmasters heard this and sneered in contempt.
"Where did this presumptuous little girl come from? Scram to the side!" Li Gang said.
"After we deal with Xia Yuyin, we'll conveniently dispose of her as well." The lame old crone pursed her lips.
"Oh my, oh my, three old undead, truly ignoring this princess?"
"What did you say?" The three Grandmasters flew into rage upon hearing this. At this moment they concentrated their aura to suppress Yuyin, but they disdained suppressing Gui Ji.
Gui Ji raised her small fist high. "From start to finish, this matter was my oversight. Had I known Li Su would dispatch such a great army to contend for the inheritance, I shouldn't have stubbornly gone to Rain Concubine's tomb to fight for it. But who could have imagined that the tomb couldn't transmit any secret technique messages? The demon goddess Rain Concubine's methods were too astonishing. This left me surrounded by you rabble, trapped in desperation, yet I couldn't even call for help! It was all thanks to Sister Yuyin saving me."
"You, what nonsense are you spouting?" Li Gang also listened in confusion, but felt something was off.
"Yes, what madness are you feigning? What foolishness are you playing at?" The lame old crone cursed, but she also didn't immediately act to break the little girl's legs. Some ancient intuition of a veteran expert made her feel that something wasn't quite right?
Gui Ji smiled charmingly. "Before departing, Mother gave me a red jade little white rabbit. She told me that if I encountered danger, I should crush it, and anywhere in Prison Abyss, she would immediately rush to save me."
"Then, look, it's this little white rabbit." Gui Ji opened her small clenched fist. Those blood-red, crystalline fragments scattered before everyone's eyes, glittering.
"Wh-where is there any little white rabbit?" The balding expert gazed at those soul-stirring blood-red fragments, dazed.
Boom...!!!
From the distant east in the sky, a shockwave came that shook the vast Prison Abyss.
A line of black clouds like heaven's tide rolled in.
In an instant, the sky darkened. Above the mountains, wind swept the clouds, thunder stirred, and bursts of madly howling demon wind blew from the far east, swaying the three Li Su Grandmasters standing in the air and lifting Yuyin's long hair.
Thud, thud, thud thud, thud thud... drumbeats like muffled thunder came from the clouds, this drumbeat, shaking hearts.
The black clouds in the east surged and rolled, gathering, forming a colossal thing resembling a giant mouth.
That mouth opened, and one after another, strange, ferocious evil ghosts leaped and howled out from within it, drifting in as if out of a daze, hazy and unreal. These evil ghosts, some as large as small mountains, deep blue all over, with extremely fat bellies; some as thin and long as ancient trees, incredibly tough and rough; some fierce and mighty, some ugly and bizarre.
In an instant, ghost wails and demon howls filled the world, and yin wind saturated the world.
These numerous ferocious evil ghosts emerged from the mouth, lined up on both sides of the giant mouth atop the rolling black clouds, raising vertical black banners high.
On those fluttering banners were written two cinnabar characters each.
"East Saint" "Ghost King"