However, it did not matter whether it was Su Ming or the others, all of them knew clearly that even they could avoid or escape from these red threads in the chaos, much less this True Guard who was stronger than them and had reached the middle stage of World Plane Realm.
They could only trap him for a moment, but not for long. He would definitely rush out and chase after them.
Time was precious at that moment, and they could not afford to waste even a single moment. To save his life, Sun Kun quickly told Su Ming about the paths he had discovered while he was being held by Su Ming.
With Sun Kun, who had once gone to the core of the seal, leading the way, Su Ming charged through the tunnels in the beehive at full speed. Long Li and Tian Lin were heavily injured, but they gritted their teeth and followed behind him. After all, if they fell behind, they would die once Jing Nan Zi caught up to them.
The time it takes for an incense stick to burn passed by quickly. As Su Ming continued moving forward at full speed with Sun Kun in his hand, he heard a muffled boom in the distance. Jing Nan Zi's incredibly domineering pressure also spread out with a bang from the distance.
Su Ming's expression changed slightly, and he moved even faster. Long Li and Tian Lin's expressions turned even darker and paler. The two of them knew that Jing Nan Zi had broken free and was probably chasing after them at that moment.
"The core is right in front of us. If we move forward through this tunnel, we'll be less than five thousand feet away!" Sun Kun's face was bloodless. As he spoke in a shrill voice, Su Ming looked as if he had turned into a gust of wind.
Whoosh!
Su Ming might have looked as if he had warped through the distance of five thousand feet, but in truth, his body had shot through the air at that extreme speed. Once he rushed out, he appeared in an incredibly vast karst cave in the tunnel.
This karst cave was extremely large, and it covered an area of over 100km. At the center of the cave was an expanse of dark violet lava. Shockingly, a skeleton that had three swords pierced through its body was immersed in the center of the lava.
Almost at the same time Su Ming arrived, a muffled wave of heat crashed into his face. If he breathed in it, he would feel as if his entire body was about to burn.
Su Ming stood in midair and swept his gaze across the area. When his eyes landed on the skeleton in the purplish black magma, Long Li and Tian Lin turned into two long arcs and charged out from the tunnel behind him. They stood beside Su Ming, and once they saw everything around them, they sucked in sharp breaths.
"Duke of Crimson Flame!"
"This skeleton must belong to Marquis Crimson Flame, an outsider grand cultivator who has been sealed here for countless years!"
As Long Li and Tian Lin stared at the purplish black magma skeleton, Su Ming's pupils shrank, and his heart trembled. Ever since he came to the sealed region, he had felt gazes on him multiple times. At the instant he looked towards the skeleton and met its gaze, that feeling of being watched appeared once again.
This feeling was incredibly strong, so strong that Su Ming could immediately tell that not only did the gaze staring at him from the outside belong to the skeleton, even now, the gaze of the skeleton that was looking at him seemed to contain a vast amount of life force, causing his heart to tremble and making him feel as if he was in a myriad of illusions.
Tian Lin clutched his chest. Blood seeped out from the corner of his mouth. His voice was urgent as he said, "The only way for us to fight against Jing Nan Zi is to break all the seals on this great foreign race cultivator!"
"But how are we supposed to completely open the seal on this Outsider?" Su Ming had let go of Sun Kun's hand previously, and at that moment, he had recovered some of his cultivation base due to the power of the World Planes in this place.
"I … know. If we take out the World Stone, we can make the seal in this place lose its balance, and it will shatter completely. It's a pity that I was heavily injured by the True Guard when I took it out just now, or else the seal would have shattered a long time ago.
"I remember the location of the World Stone. I need time. If you can hold Jing Nan Zi back for some time, I have seven-tenths of a chance that I can take the World Stone and make the seal shatter," Long Li said hoarsely while panting violently.
"Are you sure you have seven-tenths of a chance?" Tian Lin gritted his teeth and turned his head around to look at Long Li. Even Sun Kun and Su Ming looked over in silence.
Long Li sucked in a deep breath and said in a low voice, "We're already at this point in time, how can I speak carelessly? If we don't kill that True Guard Jing Nan Zi, then we'll all die. If I say that I have seven-tenths of a chance, then I will definitely have seven-tenths of a chance!"
"Alright. Brother Su, Brother Sun, we're all people that Jing Nan Zi wants to kill. It'll be difficult for any of us to escape alone, but I swear that if we have the chance to kill Jing Nan Zi, then all his belongings will belong to you. I won't take any of them." As Tian Lin spoke, Jing Nan Zi's low roar came from the tunnel not too far away. Judging by the direction of the sound, it was not too far away from them.
Su Ming's expression was grave. At that moment, he had no other choice but to do this. He nodded.
As Sun Kun laughed wryly, he quickly brought out some medicinal cores and placed them in his mouth, seizing the time he had to exercise his breathing.
"Brother Long, once Jing Nan Zi appears later, the three of us will risk our lives to stop him, but you have to be quick. We … we can only hold you back for the time it takes for two incense sticks to burn. This is our limit. If you still haven't succeeded by then …" Tian Lin's words came to a halt. Long Li sucked in a deep breath and spoke in a grave voice.
"The time it takes for two incense sticks to burn is enough. If we still haven't succeeded, then it will be the heavens who will destroy us."
At that moment, Su Ming's heart trembled. He immediately took a few steps backwards, and a loud bang came from the tunnel in the distance. Countless shattered stones shot out in the midst of that bang and charged towards Su Ming and the others. At the same time, a ghastly presence came to devour them like an ancient ferocious beast with its mouth wide open.
Tian Lin's expression changed. He gritted his teeth and turned into a big tree. As his branches danced madly in the air, countless shadows manifested and charged forward while covering the sky and earth.
Sun Kun bit the tip of his tongue and coughed up a mouthful of blood. At the same time, his blood turned into a blood-red runic symbol in midair. A thick, bloody stench spread out from that runic symbol, and it was surrounded by a layer of blood fog. As it rushed forward, Sun Kun let out a piercing howl. The dwarf shuddered, and a large amount of small items fell out from various parts of his body.
Among these small items were jade pendants, crystal pearls, and quite a large number of jade-colored plates. There were even a few wooden carvings among them. There were hundreds of them, and once Sun Kun threw them out, they turned into hundreds of long arcs that charged forward.
Su Ming's eyes sparkled. As he retreated, he lifted his right hand, and the killing sword appeared in his hand. His eyes sparkled brilliantly, and he circulated his cultivation base. The power of his physical body erupted with a vast amount of power, and he turned into a ray of sword light that charged forward.
The three of them attacked at the same time to fight against the murderous presence coming from the red light. At the same time, Long Li retreated swiftly, and with a flash, he crawled into one of the holes in the beehive by the side. Then, based on his memories, he charged towards the location of the secondary core's World Stone.
"You should be proud that you managed to force me to break the first seal on my body, you ants." An aloof and chilling voice traveled into the air clearly as Su Ming and the other two attacked at the same time.
Immediately after, three blood-red figures charged towards Su Ming and the other two from the red light.
Bang, bang, bang.
Tian Lin was the first to bear the brunt of the attack. Once he was touched by the red figure, he coughed up blood, and half of his tree body shattered. He turned into his Nascent Divinity once again before he tumbled backwards.
The sword in Su Ming's hand swept towards the red figure, and a vast amount of power swiftly spread out from it. That power brought with it a destructive presence, and just as it was about to rush into Su Ming's body, the light from the Five Direction Seal instantly spread out. At the same time it fought against that destructive power, the seemingly ordinary robe on Su Ming's body shuddered and turned into the Sacred Constellation Robe to fight against that destructive power.
The two supreme treasures along with Su Ming's own physical power allowed him to maintain his balance and retreat even as he coughed up blood. He also swung his arm, and for the first time in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, his statue of the God of Berserkers appeared before him. It lifted its fist and hurled a punch towards the red figure.
Besides Su Ming and Tian Lin, Sun Kun had spared no effort in using all his Enchanted Treasures to self-destruct at the instant he came into contact with the red shadow. The ripples spreading out from the red runic symbol even caused the space around him to show signs of shattering. He swiftly retreated, but at the instant he did so, a long red spear shot through the air with a hum and appeared right in front of him. At the instant Sun Kun's pupils shrank, the long spear pierced the center of his brows and went straight through.
Sun Kun shuddered, and his body instantly withered, as if all his flesh and blood had been absorbed by the long spear. In just the span of two breaths, he turned into a dried up corpse.
At the same time, the red figure in front of Su Ming and Tian Lin disappeared, and Jing Nan Zi, dressed in red armor, walked out from before Sun Kun. He seized the long spear and slowly pulled it out from Sun Kun's head before looking at Su Ming and Tian Lin.
"One of you is a rat that I did not kill out of kindness in the past, and the other is a person who has committed an unforgivable crime for daring to harm my clone. "I will let you choose how you want to die," Jing Nan Zi, who was dressed in red armor, had a blood-red helmet, and held the long crimson spear in his hand, said in a ghastly voice.
There were wisps of red threads flowing within the long red spear in his hand, and they crawled into Jing Nan Zi's arm through his hand. Those wisps of blood were Sun Kun's flesh and blood essence. At that moment, once they entered Jing Nan Zi's body, his presence increased at an astonishing speed. Some of the injuries he had suffered just then also completely recovered at that instant.
When his gaze swept past Su Ming's statue of the God of Berserkers, he shrank in a barely noticeable manner. Clearly, this was something he had never seen before. However, there were far too many criminals in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, and there were countless divine abilities and Arts, which was why he only cast it a brief glance.
Su Ming's expression was grave. He leaped up and stood on the statue's shoulder. He stared at Jing Nan Zi, and his grip on the killing sword in his hand tightened.
Suddenly, a faint voice echoed in Su Ming's ears.
"My ally, do you still remember the fifth Abyss Pact..? I am the Duke of Crimson Flame from the Surging Indulgers, and I am willing to obey the fifth Abyss Pact … I only ask that you resurrect the one million members of my tribe who died in battle in the past but left behind the Abyss Soul Flag."
That voice echoed in the air, but Tian Lin and Jing Nan Zi did not notice it. Clearly, only Su Ming could hear it.
"Today, I will write one chapter. (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com and vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
