amaotonovel Chapter 457 The Road of Blood
Chapter 457 The Road of Blood
Shen Xu smiled in despair. At the crucial moment, the talent he gained from the Dragon Body was still triggered, but he couldn't avoid it.
"Pfft!"
Shen Xu heard only a faint, soft sound, and then the whole world fell into a deathly silence.
Everything before his eyes suddenly became incredibly clear. The lightning silver serpent that had pierced his heart appeared in perfect detail before his eyes, and even the pulsating arcs of electricity on his body stopped in a strange state.
"What a beautiful creature," Shen Xu exclaimed.
He entered the same state as when he last obtained the Dragon Body talent.
The difference is that this time he no longer has a chance to dodge.
He is going to die.
Shen Xu found it somewhat laughable. He had been given a second chance at life and thought he could control his destiny, but he never expected to die in the end because of such a small snake.
After expressing his feelings, he felt a long-lost sense of relief for some reason. He no longer had to worry about the blood tide and the safety of those around him.
Scenes from the three years after his rebirth kept flashing before his eyes, leaving him feeling disoriented as if he had just woken from a dream.
It was as if God had given him a chance to make up for the regrets of his previous life, and now it was time to wake up from this dream.
But before he died, he had one last thing to do.
As the gray mist in his mind was rapidly depleted, Shen Xu forced the golden lotus out of his dantian.
Then, with great difficulty, he reached out and tightly grasped the silver snake on his chest, pulling it in two with all his might, leaving a trail of silver droplets mixed with blood floating around him.
A heart-wrenching pain flooded his mind. Shen Xu felt a sudden darkness before his eyes, and his body fell heavily backward to the ground. Blood from his heart gushed out of his chest like a crimson fountain.
Bright red blood sprayed onto the purple lotus, staining its brilliant light with a faint crimson hue.
The silver snake in his hand writhed wildly, its body disintegrating into numerous silver liquids that flowed from the wound in his palm into the wound in his heart.
Upon seeing this, the surrounding silver snakes began to coil around Shen Xu's body at an extremely fast speed, moving between the void and reality, emitting strange fluctuations, as if performing a special ritual.
As the ripples spread across the entire black land, more and more silver snakes crossed space to Shen Xu's side, joining the swimming ranks until they completely enveloped his body, and finally disappeared from the spot with his body in an instant.
At that moment, Jiao Jiao, who was following Bai Lu away from the Milky Way, felt a tremor in her heart and then looked at the remnant soul of the dragon that was raging on the Milky Way in the distance.
"This is impossible!"
Its entire body shone with a brilliant golden-red light, and it flapped its wings and flew towards the Milky Way.
When Bai Lu saw Qi Ling Bai He's behavior, her heart tightened. She knew that there was only one thing that could make Jiao Jiao so anxious.
He then tried to control the flying shuttle to fly to the Milky Way, but was immediately stopped by the guards around him.
"Miss, please don't make things difficult for us."
……
In the darkness, Guan Bi could only feel the purple-gold light ahead growing brighter and brighter.
Unable to contain her excitement and joy, Guanbi strode towards the light, knowing she was about to reach the place that countless predecessors had dreamed of.
If she can obtain that item, she can gain Xuan Ting's freedom according to the contract, repay all the debts the Ling family owes to the Tianhe Sword Sect, and fulfill her family's long-cherished wish of thousands of years.
How could she not be excited?
As the purple-gold light completely enveloped her, and the light grew increasingly intense, she couldn't help but slow her pace and gently close her eyes.
When she opened her eyes again, she found herself in a black expanse of land.
The distant purple mountain ridges and the almost solidified chaotic lightning elemental energy around him confirmed that he had arrived at the land of thunderstorms, not the thunder pool she had been dreaming of.
And that purplish-gold light...
Guan Bi looked at a purple-gold lotus flower floating quietly in front of her.
Guan Bi reached out and took the lotus flower. The golden longsword at his waist hummed softly, as if echoing the light emitted by the purple-gold lotus flower.
"Shen Xu, is that you? Where are you? Why don't you come to see me?" Guan Bi felt the familiar aura within the lotus flower and, for some reason, felt an urge to cry.
When she sensed the bloody stench emanating from the purple lotus, her face turned ashen.
She knew that the wandering lightning spirits that filled the Thunderstorm Lands had killed countless ancestors of the Ling family, and Shen Xu was definitely no match for them.
She dared not even imagine how he got to the Thunder Pool and brought the Thunder Lotus here.
The golden longsword at her waist gleamed slightly, seemingly urging her to move forward quickly, but her legs felt like they were made of lead, and she couldn't lift them.
"No, since he was able to reach the Thunder Pool, it means that the Wandering Dragon Thunder Spirit can't do anything to him."
As for the smell of blood, he was already injured...
Thinking of this, Guan Bi felt a tightness in her chest, her nose stung, and her vision blurred instantly.
Swallowing back bitter tears, Guan Bi tilted her head back and closed her eyes.
The blood and tears of the Ling family over thousands of years weighed on her shoulders; she had no right to stop because of personal feelings.
"It's alright, he'll be fine." Guan Bi kept muttering to himself, subconsciously ignoring the instructions on the longsword at his waist, and slowly walked towards the direction where the purple-gold thunder lotus was floating.
Blood!
So much blood!
Seeing the bright red stains all over the ground, her tears streamed down her face like a broken string.
"We've already reached the forbidden zone, why did you still come here!"
Guan Bi stretched out her palm and gently touched the blood on the ground, her eyes filled with grief.
Looking at the crimson blood on her hands, she slowly stood up, her expression turning cold. "I will never believe you are dead until I see the body, and you must not die."
The debt you owe me, I'm going to collect it myself.
……
Gripping the golden longsword at his waist, Guan Bi looked at a huge, charred mountain in the distance, which looked as if it had been cleaved flat by a single sword stroke.
According to the clan's records, that was the location of the Purple Gold Thunder Pool.
Guan Bi turned her gaze to the Purple-Gold Thunder Lotus beside her, but the direction it was heading was not towards the distant mountain peak.
"Is this the path you walked for me? It's somewhat different from the path Father walked!" Guan Bi's gaze deepened as he felt the vibration of the golden longsword.
She took out the "Yang Pearl" that Deng Yi had given her. The direction that the Yang Pearl pointed to the Yin Pearl was the same as that of the longsword.
Clenching his fist, Guan Bi put the Yang Pearl into his ring, knelt down and bowed to the mountain peak, saying, "Elders, please forgive Guan Bi."
Now that I'm the only one left in the Ling family, I think I'm qualified to make this decision.
After saying that, she got up without hesitation and followed the purple lotus flower.
Following the Thunder Lotus, the light it emitted directly dispelled the vengeful spirits that tried to surround it, and even the ethereal Thunder Spirits that the many ancestors of the Ling family feared...
She didn't see a single one along the way.
And along the path she walked, only those glaring drops of bright red remained.
Until that distinct black and purple dividing line appeared before her eyes.
The surging purple lightning pool in the distance, and the violent arcs of electricity leaping across it, made her feel a sense of unease.
Guan Bi's heart tightened; the scenery around the path leading to the Purple Gold Thunder Pool was completely different from what his ancestors had described.
With her current strength, she would probably turn to ashes before even entering it.
But now that she's already here, there's no reason for her to turn back.
She had no reason not to walk the path that Shen Xu had paved with his blood.
Slowly approaching the dividing line, looking at the pool of lightning containing deadly lightning magma, she took a deep breath and stepped into the pool.
However, the instant she took that step, she appeared in a purple pool of lightning crackling with golden arcs of electricity.
The surrounding magma had completely lost its ferocity and dominance, instead exhibiting a strange sense of order.
It was no longer a devastating chaos, but rather a pure and vibrant source of lightning power.
Here, the electric arcs are no longer raging serpentine shapes, but rather flow like a liquid river of light, rushing quietly and powerfully along a specific trajectory.
The air was still electrified, but the numbing sensation lessened, replaced by a peculiar, invigorating, and refreshing coolness.
"Ling family girl, hurry up and run!"
We don't have much time left.
An aged voice rang in her ears, and before she could react to what was happening, she was pushed by a gentle force and swam into the depths of the Thunder Pool.