area51novel Chapter 459 A Good Show, Reuniting with an Old Friend
Chapter 459 A Good Show, Reuniting with an Old Friend
Chapter 459 A Good Show, Reuniting with an Old Friend
Where the yellow wind passes, life is lost.
The miasma that originally protected the depths of Huangfeng Ridge has now become the most powerful weapon, seeping into the mountain and taking a large number of lives in a short period of time.
Under these circumstances, the experts of the Great Freedom Demonic Sect could no longer restrain themselves. They blasted through the yellow wind, and a ferocious aura surged out from a cave.
The azure-blue true essence transformed into a cold, icy wind, and a ferocious figure emerged from the cave.
His entire body was bluish-white, and his stiff face revealed an undisguised ferocity, like a demon. This was Xu Cheng, whom Bai Ze had been tracking.
This "Flying Yaksha" appeared with a ferocious aura, and his eyes were filled with malice as he looked around.
"Those who offend my religion shall die!"
Xu Cheng gripped a bone knife that exuded a violent aura and shouted in a deep, cold voice.
Unfortunately, neither Bai Ze nor Lin Mohe were intimidated by the ferocity of the "Flying Yaksha".
Lin Mohe and Tianyu Gong had been tracking Xu Cheng all the way to Huangfeng Ridge, but the Great Freedom Demonic Sect branch had not yet launched a counterattack.
If Bai Ze hadn't directly destroyed the terrain, the Great Freedom Demonic Cult branch would probably still be holding its ground.
This undoubtedly shows that they lacked confidence in killing the two, and only by relying on the terrain of Huangfeng Ridge could they have a chance of winning.
Xu Cheng now appeared with a fierce aura, his imposing presence overwhelming, but in the eyes of Bai Ze and Lin Mohe, it was nothing more than a bluff.
Almost the instant Xu Cheng appeared, Lin Mohe moved.
He seemed to transform into a beam of light, weaving between light and darkness. Suddenly, the sword shadow appeared, and darkness surged in like a tide.
fast!
It was so fast that Xu Cheng's eyes widened in shock.
An extreme sense of crisis spurred his mind, causing him to instinctively swing his knife. The bone blade flashed horizontally, unleashing a burst of icy, malevolent energy that materialized into a surging skull that charged into the darkness.
As the two sides clashed, the berserk skeleton first let out a howling sound, and the baleful wind froze the many sword shadows.
But in the next moment, the darkness suddenly dissipated like mist, replaced by a twilight-like radiance, like the colors of a setting sun.
As dawn broke and dusk fell, a sword light appeared silently from behind Xu Cheng, slashing towards his neck.
At dusk, the transition between day and night was so natural that Xu Cheng's divine sense could not detect it.
Just as the sword light was about to behead Xu Cheng, a strange change suddenly occurred at the back of Xu Cheng's head.
Suddenly, Xu Cheng's messy blue hair flew up, revealing the back of his head. His eyes opened and stared straight at the sword light.
Hiss—
His clothes were torn, and a pair of thick, blue arms appeared behind Xu Cheng, one claw grabbing the sword light.
A series of wailing sounds erupted, and malevolent energy materialized, with countless skulls biting at the sword light, attempting to stop it.
However, Lin Mohe's sword strike was like cutting the boundary between dawn and dusk, separating light and darkness, seemingly real yet unreal, and Xu Cheng's murderous aura could not be stopped.
With a flash of sword light, five fingers fell down.
Fortunately, Xu Cheng seized the opportunity to leap forward, taking a step forward while simultaneously using his uninjured hand to pull out another bone knife hidden in his clothes from his waist, blocking the turning sword light.
Swords clashed, stirring up fierce energy and bursting forth with flashes of light.
Xu Cheng used the momentum to fly backward, his eyes wide with shock as he watched the figure moving with light and shadow.
If it weren't for the supernatural power he gained from the Great Freedom Demon Blood that transformed his physical body, giving him a face behind his head and two arms on his back, making him a body with two faces and four arms, he would have been beheaded by Lin Mohe with that sword strike just now.
Even the Yaksha-like evil body, cultivated with wicked techniques, could not withstand the sword's edge that cut through dawn and dusk.
At that moment, the light and shadow shifted, and Lin Mohe followed closely behind, his sword flashing as he caught up with Xu Cheng. The sword shadows stretched endlessly, covering the sky and the earth, like the light of the sun, omnipresent, like a dark tide, reaching everywhere.
The swordsmanship had reached a level close to the Dao, and Xu Cheng simply could not withstand it.
Even if you manage to dodge one attack, you can't escape the relentless pursuit that follows.
"I should be ahead of Xu Cheng."
In the blink of an eye, a voice suddenly rang out, and Bai Ze's figure appeared in front of Xu Cheng as if by teleportation, and he pushed out a palm.
Xu Cheng's face revealed surprise and ferocity. Seeing that the killing intent behind him had not yet subsided and that enemies had appeared in front of him, he couldn't help but reveal the posture of a trapped beast.
The bone knife blocked the attack, unleashing a torrent of malevolent energy. The Hundred Bone Qi, a divine power cultivated using the Purple River Chariot as a catalyst, surged forth and collided with the palm strike.
"Buzz"
A low humming sound emerged between the palm and the ferocious aura, as if there were a bubble in the middle, expanding and contracting.
Immediately, the Hundred Bone Qi Sha was shattered by the earthquake, and another palm strike broke the bone knife, the palm force instantly crushing Xu Cheng's face.
But when that fierce palm strike landed on his head, it was like a cool breeze that penetrated his body, leaving no trace of injury.
The palm strike passed directly through Xu Cheng's head, traveled along his skull, and then struck out from behind his head onto his other face, deflecting the sword light that was aimed at the back of Xu Cheng's head.
Thud—
The energy surged, and the continuous sword shadows suddenly dispersed, revealing only a single, unmistakable sword light, which was repelled by the palm force.
For Bai Ze to extract Xu Cheng's memories, Xu Cheng needed to be alive, or at least his brain needed to be intact. Therefore, his palm strike did not kill Xu Cheng, but instead forced back Lin Mohe's deadly sword strike.
Lin Mohe, on the other hand, was determined to kill Xu Cheng. The moment Xu Cheng appeared, he took advantage of his closer proximity and struck first, aiming to kill Xu Cheng in a short instant.
In this exchange, the two had already understood each other's intentions.
"plague."
A pale aura condensed in Bai Ze's palm, and the phantom of the white knight reappeared, which he pressed into Xu Cheng's body with a single palm strike.
A strange aura instantly flowed into Xu Cheng's body, forcibly seizing control and driving his right hand, wielding a knife, to move. The bone knife traced a fierce path, intercepting the sword strike that intertwined light and shadow.
As swords clashed, murderous intent erupted. In an instant, the mystery of severing dawn and dusk vanished, and a violent sword light, like a blazing sun, was released.
Suddenly, the world brightened, and the dazzling sword light sliced through the howling yellow wind. Hundreds of sword energies, like the light of the sun, struck down, sometimes straight, sometimes bent.
"Essence and blood burning."
Bai Ze pressed down on Xu Cheng's head, and the pale energy circulated wildly within his body, plundering his life force, burning his essence and blood, and squeezing out all of Xu Cheng's vital energy in the most brutal way.
His soul wailed, his body withered, but his bone knife displayed its full power.
The Hundred Bone Fiend devoured its master's life force, the blade howled like a ghost, its power like that of a demon.
bang——
Xu Cheng's neck suddenly snapped, his body severing its connection to his head, and he charged toward the dazzling sword light with unstoppable ferocity.
The fierce energy burst forth from its body, tearing its entire form apart. Each of the thousands of skulls contained blade energy, colliding with the sword light.
boom!
The sky and earth alternated between darkness and light, and the wailing of ghosts and wolves never ceased.
Driven by Xu Cheng's life essence, the ferocious blade energy broke through the dazzling sword light, and thousands of blade lights engulfed the figure of alternating light and darkness.
Xu Cheng's head was held in Bai Ze's hand, and he let out an extremely painful howl.
"Memory access".
Bai Ze gripped Xu Cheng's head tightly and refined it in an instant, extracting Xu Cheng's memories.
Great freedom, demonic blood, rebirth... In the dark cave, a massive figure stood silently.
In Xu Cheng's memory, this was the most memorable scene.
There are also heretics...fighting...memories are constantly being read, and the heretics' identities are revealed.
But at that very moment, the Great Freedom Demon Blood surged within Xu Cheng's mind.
A dark, demonic hand that Bai Ze recognized suddenly materialized, tearing Xu Cheng's head apart and destroying his brain and soul.
A surge of energy, so different from that of the "Northern Emperor's Black Law," caused Bai Ze's eyes to flash with bloodlust.
Without a doubt, this is "The Great Demon's Dark Law".
The person who had turned Wei Changwu and the other two against their cause suddenly made a move at this moment and destroyed Xu Cheng's head.
How familiar this scene was, and how... Bai Ze revealed a cold smile.
I've found your weakness.
The more you care, the more likely you are to expose yourself.
The fact that the other party made a move actually showed how important Xu Cheng's memories were.
The more the enemy opposes, the more it proves that I am right.
Heresy? Ha, heresy!
The key issue lies in heresy.
Bai Ze focused his gaze on the mountain where Xu Cheng had emerged.
There should be other members of the Great Freedom Cult there.
But those sensed auras are disappearing one by one.
"Um?"
Bai Ze's expression changed slightly. "Clockup."
He stopped trying to hide it, instantly accelerating tenfold, and crashed directly into the mountainside, making his way through it.
The massive mountain parted like water, and in the blink of an eye, Bai Ze arrived at a passage that had been carved out.
It seems Xu Cheng came to cover the retreat. His appearance was to buy time for the others to escape through the secret passage.
Given the treacherous terrain of Huangfengling, if they really wanted to escape, it would be difficult to find them in time.
However, Bai Ze had previously used miasma, and the yellow wind rushed directly into the mountain, surging wildly through the interconnected passages, forcing Xu Cheng to take action to buy time.
As a result, Xu Cheng only gained a second or two before Bai Ze put on a good show.
Now, Bai Ze has come directly into the passage.
At this moment, the members of the Great Freedom Demonic Cult, who should have fled, were lying dead on the ground. When Bai Ze appeared, their bodies had already been drained of their demonic blood and were completely destroyed.
The passageway was filled with bodies that were even worse than dried corpses, and some were even disintegrating.
Bai Ze's figure flashed, passing over empty shells and arriving directly at the front of the group.
In his eyes, the complex traces reappeared, prompting him to follow them forward.
At the very front of the procession, there were traces extending to a place about a hundred meters away, which was an empty stone cave that had been separated by a stone door.
At this moment, the stone door opened, revealing the stone cave inside, where a desiccated corpse, also in the process of disintegration, lay on the ground.
Beside him, there were countless cicadas, also dead, their bodies covering the ground.
This must be the person who commanded Jin Chan and spoke with Xu Cheng earlier. He is most likely the leader of this branch, which is why he ran ahead.
"He has absolutely no sense of responsibility as a leader; he actually abandoned his subordinates and ran away first."
Bai Ze looked at the corpse and said calmly, "But I'll forgive him because he provided me with clues."
As he spoke, he walked over to a dead cicada.
Unlike its owner, the cicada's corpse was not drained of its life force; instead, it lay perfectly intact.
It seems that the death of their master led to the demise of all the cicadas.
These refined insects all fall under the category of Gu magic. The Gu insects and their masters are interdependent; if the master dies, the Gu insects will also die.
"However, it did not die because of its master's death."
Bai Ze's hand rested on his military knife, his voice growing increasingly cold, "It was poisoned."
In an instant, all the cicadas were poisoned to death, dying without even a trace of struggle, just like the Gu Master had died suddenly.
So here's the question: if the cicada was poisoned, how did its owner die?
The Great Freedom could directly kill the Golden Cicada's master by extracting demonic blood, so there was no need to go through the extra step of poisoning the Golden Cicada.
Moreover, whether Da Zizai can even deliver poison across space is a question.
If he could even do this, he would have already spread poison all over the world.
His gaze wandered, and Bai Ze slowly turned around, finally fixing his eyes on a corner.
In the shadows of that corner, a figure in a white coat stood silently, like an invisible ghost.
With silver-white hair, yet a face that resembled that of a young man, still carrying the vigor of youth, he was both an old man and a young man, contradictory yet harmonious, eerie yet natural.
"Kosh'e," Bai Ze slowly uttered the other person's name.
A year later, he saw the immortals again.
Although this time, it is still an incarnation.
If it were the real body, there would be no need to use poison at all; a single thought could kill, even if the person being killed was an eight-star martial artist.
If it's the real person, there's no need to hide it like this; they could just show themselves directly.
"You are indeed very talented to be able to tell at a glance that the cicada was poisoned."
Kosch'e, with one hand in the pocket of his white coat and the other hand, gloved in white, gently pushed up his glasses and chuckled, "You're quite familiar with Lu Qiuhuo? I actually improved this poison based on her research; it's a biological toxin specifically targeting Gu worms."
He ignored Bai Ze's disguise, and his familiar attitude clearly proved that he recognized Bai Ze's identity.
That's obvious, Koschae knows Ursus all too well.
He and Ursus's archenemy lived in the same era and had met more than once.
Bai Ze's disguise appeared to others as authentic Ursus style, but to Kosh'e, a guy with the Ursus double-headed eagle banner, it was still a bit short of the real thing.
Not to mention, Bai Ze had previously abandoned his disguise and directly entered the mountain to arrive here.
"It's a pity you arrived too late and couldn't save them," Kosch said with a smile.
Upon hearing this, Bai Ze remained unmoved, instead revealing a slight smile, "I think I've arrived at just the right time."
If you arrive too late, Koche will have already left.
If we had arrived earlier, Koche might not have made it in time.
Kosh, who should have been on the side of the Great Freedom, instead killed one of the Great Freedom's followers.
This discovery is more important than anything else.