nycdaug Chapter 274 Victory Within Reach
Chapter 274 Victory Within Reach
When the intense blackness coalesces, if one word could describe it, it would be despair.
As Xu Ning watched the dark, monstrous beasts surging towards him from all over the mountains, he gritted his teeth, raised his gourd of wine, and gulped down a long drink.
"We won't be stopping at the Underworld Road station. The next stop is Liyue. Please hold on tight!"
Seeing that his "drunken" state had reached level four, Xu Ning let out a long, unrestrained roar and plunged into the black tide.
"In my drunken frenzy, I still speak freely; who will laugh at my drunken madness?"
But for the sake of worldly splendor, what harm is there in being eccentric or wild!
The thick, dark fog was filled with venomous fangs and claws, each strike aimed at tearing the human before it to shreds.
Xu Ning immediately unleashed his full power with "Drunken Madness," and as the alcohol flared, the fist intent of the Eight Immortals of Drunkenness, infused with countless bursts of alcohol, blossomed layer upon layer amidst the dark military formation.
It must be said that the power contained in Xu Ning's liquor is most incompatible with the abyssal power that created these dark monsters.
Almost every beast hound that came into contact with the liquid or aroma of alcohol that Xu Ning had sprayed would howl and yelp in pain, and the parts that came into contact with the liquid would even begin to dissolve and decompose.
Xu Ning sneered upon seeing this.
"Heh, all you do is scratch people's doors, and you dare call yourselves 'Linrong'? I'm the real 'Linrong,' and meeting me today is like meeting your nemesis!"
Although we don't know the situation of the person sleeping inside the gourd, the wine being extracted from it is incredibly potent.
Since it's not my own stuff anyway, I might as well go all out and mess with it!
Xu Ning summoned the flowing wind, which swirled the spilled wine from his gourd and the aroma of alcohol emanating from his left hand, spreading it freely around him and along the road ahead. Then, he accelerated and ran towards the desolate sea.
Around Xu Ning, the two illusory figures summoned by the little fox Yae and the demon fox monk Ji also gave Xu Ning a great surprise.
Watching Xu Ning exert almost all his strength to escape with his three little ones.
The pink fox nestled on Xu Ning's head narrowed its eyes and uttered a word of magic in a low voice.
"Thunderbolt, kill!"
The illusory figure, positioned to Xu Ning's left and wielding a long sword, had lightning flashing between its left palms. With a flick of its wrist, wisps of lightning coiled around the blade.
Although the sword techniques of the illusionary body were somewhat stiff and rigid, they were concise and effective. The lightning attached to the longsword was also quite powerful, and every now and then, lightning would strike the wine that Xu Ning had spilled, causing a series of explosions.
Standing on the right, Master Ji, seeing how powerful the little fox's illusion was, reluctantly raised his little paw and whispered a shout.
"A leaf can blind the eye!"
The phantom form, created from the leaf atop Master Ji's head, suddenly stirred up a thick fog as it swung its spear.
This illusionary body didn't have any particularly effective attack methods, but the dense fog it created was persistent and didn't dissipate. Every beast-like hunting dog caught in the fog seemed to lose its way for a moment, rushing around in the fog in a chaotic mess.
Meanwhile, the black cat Qinzi, which was perched on Xu Ning's left shoulder, was not idle either. It used its three paws to hold tightly onto Xu Ning's coat, preventing itself from being thrown off, while raising its right front paw.
Then he covered his mouth tightly, trying his best not to vomit on Xu Ning.
After all, Xu Ning's unpredictable movements were too much of a torment for the cat, which preferred quiet to movement. Not vomiting was already the best it could do.
"On the left, there were sparks and lightning; on the right, there was a cool ride with billowing smoke. We had a blast on this trip! The only downside was that I was driving under the influence. Don't try this at home, everyone, haha!"
Although Xu Ning remained calm and joked with the three children, he was secretly feeling bitter inside.
There were simply too many of these beast hounds.
I initially thought the area below was all black mist, and that some demons were hiding within it.
But after I came down, I realized that there was no fog below. What I saw was just a little bit of black mist emanating from the Beast Realm Hound.
These tiny specks of black energy could actually coalesce into a vast expanse of pitch-black mist, which gives an idea of just how numerous these demonic creatures were.
And that wasn't all. Seemingly sensing their intention to escape, these beast hounds began to gather incessantly along the path ahead.
This caused Xu Ning's pace to slow down, almost moving forward step by step.
Before long, both the little fox and the phantoms summoned by the monk Ji were exhausted and perished under the claws of the beast hound.
Even so, Xu Ning still had no intention of giving up.
He casually tossed out the wine from the gourd in his hand, while the amount of wine he drew out with his left hand reached the maximum he could currently control.
Half an hour, an hour, two hours.
After fighting continuously at high intensity for so long, Xu Ning was exhausted to the point of collapse, and even the aroma of the liquor he drew from the gourd seemed to have become somewhat weak.
"We're almost there, almost at the edge of the desolate sea."
It's unclear who he's encouraging, but Xu Ning murmured to himself as he once again threw the wine elemental he had drawn at the area where the monsters were most concentrated.
Meanwhile, inside the cave within Xu Ning's gourd, a woman who had been unable to wake up due to a hangover suddenly heard a synthesized mechanical voice in her ear.
"The alcohol content within the cave is too low to support the changes in the external landscape of the mind. To avoid further harm to the cave, please verify the 'feedback' process."
The drunk woman rolled over in a daze and mumbled impatiently, "So noisy, my head hurts so much, you figure it out yourself!"
As soon as the woman finished speaking, she saw a golden ribbon emerge from the dragon's head above the only spring of wine and cover her body.
The spring of wine, which had been somewhat depleted due to Xu Ning's reckless pumping, has now become full again after connecting with the woman's power.
Xu Ning, who was already on the verge of collapse outside, naturally sensed the changes in the wine gourd and began to fight frantically once again.
It was already the morning of the next day when Xu Ning could vaguely see the mudflats of the desolate sea.
The short journey took a full day and night to complete.
"Just a little longer and I'll be able to get on the ship. Then I'll definitely get a good night's sleep."
Yae and Master Ji also had little magical power left. At this moment, they were only holding on by relying on the wine gourd in Xu Ning's hand. Fortunately, victory was in sight.
But at that very moment, the woman inside the gourd-shaped cave...
No, it should be said that it's a girl now.
He stood up from a pile of oversized clothes, scratching his head in confusion. "Why do I feel like all my magical power has been sacrificed?"
"Holy crap, who created this light band? What kind of feedback is this? I'm being drained dry! Shut it off right now! System, shut down all your permissions immediately, then come and kowtow to me and apologize!"
Not to mention what the girl inside the cave was hysterically yelling about, Xu Ning was about to reach the ship when he suddenly felt a certain connection between himself and the Dust Concealment Gourd in his hand snap off with a "snap".
Despite his still-sharp punches, Xu Ning knocked the Beast Realm Hound in front of him off balance. However, without the powerful damage from the alcohol element, the Beast Realm Hound simply flipped over and pounced again.
In his shock, Xu Ning suddenly mobilized the power of the rock element to create a protective shield, blocking the fangs from gnawing at him, but the ship that was so close at hand could no longer reach him.
Layer upon layer of black monsters pressed down on him. Xu Ning struggled to push forward a few more feet while maintaining the protective barrier, but was eventually crushed to the ground.
Before his protective shield shattered and his consciousness faded, Xu Ning saw the gourd in his hand rolling and rolling in the chaos, eventually ending up in the water and drifting unsteadily towards Liyue.