nycdaug Chapter 464 He is not dead
Chapter 464 He is not dead
Inside the crystal.
Shen Xu gritted his teeth, enduring the excruciating pain in his soul and body, and forced himself to steady himself.
Fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, shimmering faintly in the special lighting of the Hall of Mirrors, before being evaporated by an invisible force.
He stared intently at the silver snake that had reformed and was crackling with dangerous arcs of electricity. There was no fear in his eyes, only an even more frantic focus and burning fighting spirit.
"Come again!"
Buzz! In the Hall of Mirrors, millions of mirrors once again flashed with a deadly silvery light...
"It's now!"
Shen Xu's mind was like a bowstring stretched to its limit, locked onto a bolt of electricity that was about to pierce his left shoulder.
Just as the tip of the silver lightning, containing destructive energy, was about to touch him, he could feel a difference of a fraction of a second in that destructive, tingling sensation.
A strange "stagnation" sensation, like an icy tide, instantly overwhelmed the area of his left shoulder that was targeted by the attack.
That's not a physical obstacle, but a fluctuation in time!
With the extreme perception provided by his fleeting spiritual sense, he clearly "captured" the extremely faint yet real "ripples in time" caused when the attack touched him.
Like a pebble thrown into perfectly still water, creating an invisible ripple.
"Stop!"
Shen Xu let out a silent roar in his heart. His soul mist was consumed frantically, and all his mental power was like an invisible giant hand, grabbing the ripple of time and squeezing and twisting it inwards!
Om-!
An indescribable, excruciating pain, as if one's soul had been forcibly torn apart and then reassembled, came over them.
But at the very core of this excruciating pain, just as his left shoulder was about to be struck, time—froze!
"A gap in time"!
The tip of that deadly silvery-white electric arc solidified above the skin of Shen Xu's left shoulder.
Its violent energy, the tearing marks in space, and even the leaping arcs of electricity, are like solidified amber, maintaining their most ferocious offensive posture, yet completely devoid of change.
Within this realm of absolute stillness, his body still could not move much, but his soul and will were the master of this tiny realm!
"move!"
The will acts like an invisible crowbar, striking the stagnant "space".
He didn't move his body completely, but in a mysterious and almost impossible way, he moved the locked part of his left shoulder inward by an insignificant amount of space while the time was absolutely still!
Time stop has ended!
puff!
The silvery-white arc of electricity instantly regained its terrifying speed, grazing past Shen Xu's left shoulder clothing! The fabric was torn open by the violent spatial energy, leaving a charred rip and a burning red mark on his skin.
But he managed to dodge the attack!
"Zi la..."
Countless other silvery-white bolts of lightning pierced through his body, and Shen Xu let out a muffled groan.
A sharp pain, enough to tear one's soul apart, surged from all parts of his body. The feedback from being struck still made him feel as if he had been hit hard. Half of his body went numb instantly, and his consciousness went blank for a brief moment.
My soul trembled violently, and everything before my eyes went completely black.
When he opened his eyes again, he was outside the crystal.
He closed his eyes and fell heavily backward.
Forcibly creating and maintaining a time gap, even for a very short time, consumes an astonishing amount of energy. The backlash is like countless cold needles piercing his sea of consciousness, making it impossible for him to think clearly.
The Boundless Sacred Realm has no concept of time; Shen Xu only knew that he probably wouldn't be able to participate in the Hundred Flowers Festival.
……
Riding her flying sword, Guan Bi searched the Thunderstorm Land time and time again, but with each search, her heart grew heavier and heavier.
"Why bother? Even the Dragon Thorn can't find him, so what's the point of you going to find him yourself?" the skull advised earnestly.
"Then what about his body? There are no carnivorous creatures in the Thunderstorm Lands! If there were, there would be bloodstains." Guan Bi's eyes were full of determination.
"Perhaps it was struck by lightning and reduced to ashes..." the skull said cautiously.
"Impossible! I refuse to believe he's dead until we find his body!" Guan Bi shouted.
After hesitating for a moment, the skull spoke up: "I have another guess. It wasn't just Shen Xu who disappeared from Thunderstorm Land; those wandering lightning spirits also disappeared. I suspect that those wandering lightning spirits took Shen Xu away."
I remember when Ling Hai placed You Kong Lei Ling in the Thunderstorm Land, I asked him why he did it, and he laughed and said it was to wait for a madman.
Perhaps Shen Xu is the madman he's been waiting for, and those wandering lightning spirits have the ability to traverse space, so they might have already taken him out of the Thunder Pool Secret Realm.
Go out and take a look; it's better than searching aimlessly here! You can always come back later.
"You're not lying to me?" Guan Bi's icy gaze fell upon the skull.
"You doubt me!! You're really asking for trouble! As expected, there's not a single good person in your Ling family." Skull complained with great dissatisfaction.
"I'm sorry, senior! It's just that you lied to me about Shen Xu before."
"It wasn't that I had no other choice. Given your state at the time, if you had known that the kid was dead, who knows what you would have done."
"Shen Xu is not dead!!"
"Good, good! He's not dead, he's not dead!" the skull said helplessly.
"I'll listen to you, senior!" Guan Bi's hope was rekindled, and Jiao Jiao would definitely know about Shen Xu's condition.
……
"Qingyun, are we still going to wait? The Hundred Flowers Festival is in a few days, and we need to get there in advance," a woman in a purple dress next to Qingyun said.
"Wait until the very last moment!" Qingyun said calmly.
"Lord Aoki, Shiratsuyu wishes to see you!" The middle-aged man outside the door entered the room respectfully and bowed.
"Let her in."
"Greetings, Lord Aoki!" Bai Lu bowed to the masked girl on the main seat.
"Any news about Shen Xu?" Qingyun asked in a cold voice.
Bai Lu shook her head.
"Has the White Crane of Prayer woken up yet?"
Bai Lu shook her head again.
"Then come find me!!" Qingyun clenched her fists. As a member of the Four Directions Sword Alliance, she knew very well why Shen Xu had entered the Thunder Pool Secret Realm.
"I want to tell you that Shen Xu is definitely not dead. You don't need to put pressure on the Tianhe Sword Sect!" Bai Lu stared at Qing Yun.
What makes you so sure?
"Just because Jiaojiao hasn't returned from the Feather Clan Temple yet, if Shen Xu were dead, it wouldn't keep it from us! Besides, my 'star line' with Shen Xu hasn't been broken yet."
"Star lines?"
"Using a special method, astrologers can observe the causal relationship between a person and the things around them, a relationship we call 'star lines'."
My mother tampered with the astrological charts between me and Shen Xu, so I am very sensitive about them.
So I can assure you that Shen Xu is definitely not dead! He and Guan Bi are likely trapped in the Thunder Pool Secret Realm. Your continued stay at the Tianhe Sword Sect won't help at all.
After a moment of silence, Qingyun tapped the armrest and said coldly, "I'll trust you this once. If anything happens to Shen Xu, I won't let either you or Guan Bi get away with it."
"Aunt Yun, let's go!" Qingyun got up and walked out of the room without glancing at Bailu once.