Chapter 285: Chapter 243: Burning Feather
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"No matter where this is, as long as I kill you, I should be able to get out." Chi Xue felt danger emanating from the surrounding dark fog.
Especially the colossal corpse in the distant sky, larger than an island, everything around it exuded a sinister air.
His instincts were stronger than those of ordinary people; he could foresee danger, albeit unpredictably, sometimes working, sometimes not, but mostly useful.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have chosen to run away at the sight of the Jin Ye Guard Commandant instead of fighting desperately.
Indeed, his ability to predict danger had saved him once again not long before. Shortly after his escape, he sensed that his two Beast Tamings were almost instantly killed.
This time, however, that premonitory feeling of danger did not surface, which meant... he had a chance.
At the very moment when Sìxiàng appeared, far away from where they were, within a pitch-black Giant City crawling with fine, dense black hair and echoing with cries, came the shout, "Where... where... found it!!!"
The thick black hair climbed out from the city walls towards the direction of Sìxiàng.
A crimson glint flickered in the eyes of the Red Lotus pythons.
"Ultimate skill—Burning Feather Hellish Rain."
With the Red Lotus python as the core, rings of dark red fire rippled outward, like a fiery tide in an endless space.
From a distance, the blazing flames resembled a lonely, yet passionately blooming red lotus in the darkness.
Dark red fire droplets, like teardrops, burst out in all directions at an astonishing speed, like meteors streaking across the night sky.
Sìxiàng retreated alertly. Yet the skill's speed was unimaginable, and he couldn't completely dodge it; a few droplets of fire rain splashed onto his wings.
The next second, the wings caught fire like a lit torch, burning fiercely.
Sìxiàng remained composed, his claws clutching at empty space, and the Thunder Spear materialized in his palm.
Sìxiàng flew up into the sky.
Bowing his head, his pupils shimmered with a demonic light.
Soul Shock!
Like a thunderclap out of nowhere, the Red Lotus python seemed to hear thunder by its ears.
Consciousness clanged into disruption, leaving the mind blank.
Shortly after, a piercing pain came from within its head.
As if a blade was carving a piece straight out of its soul!
"Quick, hide!"
The intense pain rendered it briefly lucid, only then to hear its master's anxious voice; was he telling it to hide?
In a daze, its head throbbed in pain.
Bang!
Its head burst open again.
This time the Thunder Spear impaled from above, piercing through the top of the Red Lotus python's head and through its body.
Each time the body of the Red Lotus python healed, the sizzling lightning charred the surrounding flesh black.
Sìxiàng's eyes were calm, can the wound heal?
Then I'll just insert the blade into your body to see how you manage to heal.
The Thunder Spear inside the Red Lotus python's body acted like a stone, obstructing the wound from healing.
The Red Lotus python's body fell into a cycle of crashing, healing, crashing, healing...
A peculiar light flashed in Sìxiàng's eyes.
Dark Realm Judgment!
The burning wings unfurled behind him, the sound of chains rattling in the void.
Crimson chains fell from the sky, nine of them piercing through the Red Lotus python's body.
He pulled back!
Instead of dragging out the soul directly as with previous opponents, there was a pause in the void, the chains retracted very slowly, making a grating sound.
Seconds passed, and the pale blue soul shadow was barely pulled out of the body.
The more powerful the life form, the heavier the soul, the slower it was drawn out.
Sìxiàng estimated the distance between himself and his opponent, more than a hundred meters...
Then he flew straight into his face.
The chains' endpoint shortened by a hundredfold.
"Damn." Chi Xue turned pale. He suddenly rushed to the Beast Taming, grabbing at the Thunder Spear, trying to pull it out.
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Intense lightning radiated, and the damage was transferred to the Red Kui Yirong Python's body. Its chest scales were burnt black by the electricity, but the pain did not break it out of its special state.
Finally, the soul of the Red Kui Yirong Python was pulled into the red gate.
From behind the gate came the sound of crushing and chewing.
Bang~
The soulless Red Kui Yirong Python collapsed to the ground with a thud.
"Your turn," Sìxiàng grabbed Chi Xue's head with one hand, twisting upward, and a human-scorpion was violently pulled out.
Blood trickled down the spine...
Holding two corpses, Sìxiàng stepped out, vanishing from the Dark Realm.
Shortly after Sìxiàng left, a dense mass of black tendrils rushed from the distant plains, a massive amount of black hair enwrapped and condensed into a human-like phantom at the place where Sìxiàng had departed.
A faint voice came from the hollow features, "I finally... huh?"
The humanoid phantom stood still, puzzled—how had it disappeared again?
Suddenly, its arrival seemed to disturb the Corpse in the Sky floating in the distance. The Corpse in the Sky slowly began to drift... moving closer to this spot.
The bronze chains entangling the Corpse in the Sky tensed, making a crisp sound.
The humanoid phantom turned its head toward the Corpse in the Sky, staring blankly for a while before suddenly turning tail and fleeing.
After it had fled into the distance, the disturbances caused by the Corpse in the Sky gradually subsided.
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As the afterglow of lightning flickered in front of him, Sìxiàng dropped two corpses at Chen Xing's feet, "Master, it has been dealt with."
"Hmm... are you hurt?"
"No," Sìxiàng shook its head while folding its still flaming wings behind it.
"What's with your wings?"
After careful thought, Sìxiàng replied, "It seems they brushed against some fire earlier, and this happened."
Chen Xing summoned Taotie, and since Sìxiàng had already been exposed, there was no need to hide anymore.
"Spray some water on Sìxiàng to extinguish the flames on its wings," Chen Xing commanded Taotie to release Water Element Skills.
Taotie spewed out a water column, like a floodgate releasing its deluge, drenching Sìxiàng through and through.
However, as the water flow dispersed, the flames on its wings continued to burn, the water unable to extinguish them.
Ordinary water can't put it out?
Chen Xing thought for a moment before instructing Taotie to release a flood on a distant open ground.
If ordinary water couldn't put out the fire, then water with the power of laws ought to be given a try.
The plain, which annually received less than 1000 millimeters of rain, experienced a flood that came only once in a century.
Great torrents of the flood poured out, disappearing into the distance.
Sìxiàng fell into the shallower backwash, and the flames burning on its wings were finally extinguished.
Sìxiàng flew out of the water, shaking the droplets off its wings. When it fell into the water, it felt weak, as if it couldn't muster any strength.
So as soon as the flames were out, it hastily flew out of the water.
Once it was out of the flood, the feeling of weakness gradually disappeared.
It looked like this was the special power associated with Taotie's Skills; the fire burning on its wings just now must be of a similar caliber.
It had heard the master mention this before—these were the Rules, apparently.
Chen Xing expertly removed the ring from Chi Xue's hand, looking at the blood-stained clothes, thinking he should teach Sìxiàng to be less violent next time—it slightly hindered the corpse-looting process.
Chen Xing closely scrutinized Chi Xue's face, which still bore an expression of unrest in death, ensuring that he did not recognize him.
He wondered if the man was from Dark Fire or a pursuer sent from the Giant City of Illusions.
"Master, something is coming out of its body," Sìxiàng landed from the sky, pointing at the Red Kui Yirong Python's back.
Chen Xing turned his head and saw a ball of light radiating red glow slowly flying out from the Red Kui Yirong Python's forehead.
As the light dissipated, it became a thirty-centimeter-long red feather. The Burning Feather was bright red all over, not a single stray color on its shaft.
Once revealed, the feather quietly hovered in the air, one meter off the ground.
Chen Xing moved forward and grasped the feather, and information flowed from the feather into his mind.
He also learned the name of the feather—Burning Feather.