nycdaug Chapter 144: The Illusion of Peace
Chapter 144: The Illusion of Peace
The energy of the turbulent space flow was like an invisible sharp blade, tearing the body of the unknown creature madly. It wailed in pain, and its huge body kept retreating under the impact of the energy. Its originally indestructible skin was now covered with crisscrossing wounds, and dark green blood gushed out, dyeing the surrounding land red.
Gao Xingchen endured the severe pain in his body and tried his best to mobilize the energy in the space ring. His face was pale and there was still blood at the corner of his mouth, but his eyes were extremely firm. He knew that this was their only chance.
Nan Li also felt Gao Xingchen's determination. She held on to her tired body, wielding the dagger in her hand, and constantly looking for opportunities to attack.
At this moment, Gao Xingchen noticed that the wounds on the unknown creatures that were hit by the turbulent energy of space were healing much slower than other places.
"Its weakness is the turbulent energy of space!" Gao Xingchen was delighted and immediately shouted to Nan Li: "Attack where it's injured!"
Upon hearing this, Nan Li infused the dagger in his hand with the energy of spatial turbulence without hesitation and stabbed it towards a huge wound on the unknown creature.
"Roar!"
The unknown creature let out a shrill scream as the dagger pierced accurately into the deep of its wound. The turbulent energy of space raged in its body and the severe pain made it struggle frantically.
Gao Xingchen seized the opportunity, condensed all the turbulent energy in space together, turned it into a huge energy beam, and blasted it towards the head of the unknown creature.
"boom!"
After a loud bang, the huge body of the unknown creature fell to the ground with a bang, and there was no movement anymore.
Gao Xingchen and Nan Li looked at each other, and saw the exhaustion and relief in each other's eyes. They finally defeated this terrible enemy.
"We... won?" Nan Li's voice trembled a little, as if she still couldn't believe that all this was true.
"Well, we won." Gao Xingchen nodded, but he was still full of vigilance in his heart, "However, we can't take it lightly, there must be other dangers here."
He walked to the body of the unknown creature and observed it carefully. The monster was huge, ferocious in appearance, and exuded a disgusting stench all over its body.
Gao Xingchen endured the discomfort and carefully examined the body of the unknown creature, hoping to find some useful information.
Suddenly, his eyes fell on a stone platform under the unknown creature. This stone platform was out of tune with the surrounding environment and looked particularly abrupt.
Gao Xingchen walked over and gently stroked the surface of the stone platform with his hand, and a cool touch came from his fingertips.
His heart moved, and he felt that this stone platform seemed to hide some secrets. Gao Xingchen carefully observed the stone platform and found that it was engraved with ancient runes. These runes emitted a faint light and seemed to contain some mysterious power. He tried to use his spiritual sense to explore, but found that his spiritual sense seemed to be blocked by an invisible force and could not penetrate.
"These runes are very strange. I have never seen them before." Gao Xingchen frowned and said, "But I feel that they should be related to this unknown creature, and perhaps also related to the reason why we came here."
Nan Li walked up to him and followed his gaze, also feeling the extraordinaryness of those runes. She pondered for a moment and said, "Let's look around first, maybe we can find some clues."
Gao Xingchen nodded, and the two began to search the area carefully.
The area was not large, but the surrounding scenes shocked them greatly.
I saw that the walls around were covered with densely packed murals. These murals were rich in content and bright in color, as if they were telling people about an ancient and mysterious history.
Gao Xingchen and Nanli looked at each mural carefully and found that the contents of these murals were actually related to the unknown creature they had encountered before.
In the murals, those unknown creatures were depicted as terrifying beings from outside the Nine Star Realm. They possessed powerful strength and had once invaded the Nine Star Realm, bringing great disasters here.
In order to resist the invasion of these unknown creatures, the ancestors of the Nine Star Realm also paid a heavy price.
Finally, after a long war, the ancestors of the Nine Star Realm finally sealed these unknown creatures in this space turbulence.
"So that's how it is. This unknown creature actually comes from outside the Nine Star Realm." Gao Xingchen looked at the mural, and was shocked. "No wonder it is so powerful and has such strange abilities."
Nan Li pointed to a detail in the mural and said, "Look here, these murals seem to record a method that can use the energy of space turbulence to open a passage to other worlds."
Gao Xingchen looked in the direction she pointed, and sure enough, he found some special patterns in the corners of the mural. These patterns were very similar to the space turbulence they had encountered before.
"Could it be that we can use these patterns to find our way home?" Gao Xingchen was delighted, but soon calmed down, "No, it shouldn't be that simple. Let's find the teleportation array first."
Following the instructions on the mural, Gao Xingchen and Nan Li quickly found an ancient teleportation array in the center of the area.
This teleportation array is huge, covering hundreds of square meters. It is engraved with complex and ancient runes, exuding a vicissitudes and mysterious atmosphere.
"This is it." Gao Xingchen looked at the teleportation array in front of him and took a deep breath, "As long as we activate this teleportation array, we can go home."
"But how do we start it?" Nanli asked.
Gao Xingchen pondered for a moment and said, "I'll give it a try."
He walked forward, carefully observed the runes on the teleportation array, and then tried to communicate with these runes with his spiritual sense.
As his spiritual consciousness continued to be injected, the runes on the teleportation array began to emit a faint light, as if they were about to wake up.
At this moment, Gao Xingchen suddenly felt an ominous premonition. He suddenly raised his head and looked into the distance, thinking to himself, "Oh no, things may not be that simple..." Gao Xingchen's heart was alarmed, and the ominous premonition was like a maggot on the tarsal bone, lingering. He suddenly turned around and looked at the way he came, but found that the originally empty space was now faintly distorted.
"What's wrong?" Nan Li noticed his abnormality and asked in a low voice.
Gao Xingchen did not answer, but stared at the distorted space and said in a deep voice: "Be careful!" As soon as the words fell, the space exploded like a broken mirror!
A black shadow rushed out from the crack, bringing with it a heart-pounding pressure, and rushed straight towards Gao Xingchen and Nanli!
"Not good!" Gao Xingchen reacted very quickly, pulling Nan Li over and narrowly avoiding the attack of the black shadow. He looked closely and saw that the black shadow was actually a creature that looked like a giant wolf, with a body as black as ink and emitting a disgusting stench.
What's even more creepy is that this giant wolf has only one eye, which flashes with a faint green light and is full of greed and bloodthirsty desire.
"What the hell is this thing?!" Nan Li exclaimed, the dagger in his hand flashed with a cold light, and he attacked the giant wolf.
The giant wolf dodged the attack flexibly, let out a deafening roar, and pounced on the two again. Seeing this, Gao Xingchen quickly formed seals with his hands, and golden runes emerged from the air, turning into a barrier to block the giant wolf's attack.
"Roar!" Seeing its attack blocked, the giant wolf became even more violent, crashing into the rune barrier again and again, making an earth-shaking noise.
Gao Xingchen's face was solemn. The strength of this giant wolf far exceeded that of the previous unknown creature, and it seemed to have a special control over the power of space, and it could even pass through the cracks in space.
"This is not a solution!" Nan Li said anxiously while fending off the giant wolf's attack, "The teleportation array hasn't started yet, we can't leave here at all!"
Gao Xingchen also knew that he couldn't delay any longer. He took a deep breath, and a look of determination flashed in his eyes. He quickly formed seals with his hands, muttered something, and a powerful energy wave burst out from his body.
"Galaxy Sword Formation, start!"
As he roared, the surrounding starlight seemed to be summoned by something and gathered towards him, transforming into dazzling giant starlight swords that hovered behind him, emitting a terrifying pressure that could destroy the world.
"Go!" Gao Xingchen pointed at the giant wolf, and the giant starlight sword behind him whistled and blasted towards the giant wolf with a sharp sound of breaking through the air!
The giant wolf felt this terrifying pressure and a trace of fear flashed in its eyes, but it was too late to dodge.
With a deafening roar, the giant sword of starlight slammed heavily into the giant wolf, blasting it into pieces!
However, Gao Xingchen and Nan Li did not show any joy on their faces, but became more solemn. Because at the moment when the giant wolf was destroyed, the energy fluctuations that interfered with the teleportation array not only did not disappear, but became even stronger!
"What's going on?" Nan Li looked at the teleportation array in doubt and saw that the runes on the teleportation array were flickering, as if they would go out at any time.
Gao Xingchen's face turned pale. He realized that they might have fallen into a bigger conspiracy, and the death of the unknown creature was just the beginning...
Gao Xingchen and Nan Li stood back to back, looking around vigilantly. The giant wolf's body had turned into a pool of black water, slowly seeping into the ground, leaving only a disgusting stench.
"Things don't seem to be that simple." Gao Xingchen frowned, his eyes flashing with sharp light.
"You mean, there are other unknown creatures?" Nan Li gently wiped the black blood off the dagger with his sleeve, with a barely perceptible solemnity in his tone.
"It's very likely." Gao Xingchen pondered, "The energy fluctuations that interfered with the teleportation array did not disappear with the death of the giant wolf. Instead, they became even stronger."
Nan Li followed his gaze and looked towards the teleportation array. Sure enough, the teleportation array, which was supposed to be running stably, was now flickering like a candle swaying in the wind, which could go out at any time.
"Could it be that all this was deliberately arranged by someone?" A terrible thought arose in Nan Li's mind.
"If this is true, then what is this person's purpose?" Gao Xingchen muttered to himself. Countless possibilities flashed through his mind, but he denied them one by one.
At this moment, the energy fluctuations of the teleportation array suddenly became extremely violent, like boiling magma, constantly impacting the surrounding space.
"Not good!" Gao Xingchen's face changed drastically, "The teleportation array is going out of control!"
"Let's go!" Nan Li made a quick decision, pulled Gao Xingchen up and ran out.
The two tried their best and finally escaped from the range of the teleportation array before it went completely out of control.
"Huh..." Gao Xingchen gasped with lingering fear. The situation just now was really too dangerous. If they were a step later, they would probably be caught in the turbulence of space and would be killed.
"It seems that we must first figure out the source of this energy fluctuation before we can continue to activate the teleportation array." Nanli analyzed calmly.
Gao Xingchen nodded in agreement. They looked up into the distance and saw that the originally calm sky had been covered with dark clouds, lightning and thunder, as if foreshadowing that a bigger storm was about to come...