Chapter 760 - 404: Besieged City (Part 3)
The dog was utterly confused, unable to comprehend why this person howled louder than itself. With eyes that seemed to say "scared to death", it gave her a glance and turned its head to leave.
Pei Yuhuan dared not stay alone in this place, so she trailed behind it, crying and wailing.
The dog, half of its body being just bones, limped along and couldn’t shake off this burden. So, it had no choice but to let her follow as it walked step by step over the grave hills piled like mountains of corpses, step by step to the battlefield submerged by the Blood River.
Yet there was no way out.
The battlefield was encircled.
Far off in view were river dikes three meters high, moats ten meters wide, resembling a castle’s moat, a sea of blood, with the Blood River rushing, the crying and howling bursts after burst, countless wronged souls rolling in the waves, wailing tragically, falling into the endless hell unable to extricate themselves.
Beyond the Blood River, there was another city wall, jade-like and towering into the mountains, soaring to the sky, connecting with the sky’s curtain, like an absolute wall blocking Pei Yuhuan’s path.
Pei Yuhuan tried to climb up, but no matter how she tried, she couldn’t touch the jade wall that was so close, yet so far as if it was beyond the horizon. It was as if an invisible Qi Shield was pushing her away, or perhaps there never was a wall. She merely forgot something, trapped in the city, unable to get out...
Just when Pei Yuhuan was anxiously scratching her ears and cheeks, suddenly, a line of silver brilliance burst from the Heaven, like a sharp sword cleaving the sky, crashing onto that jade wall.
Subsequently, from the brilliance of the storm, a shadow that seemed familiar emerged, stepping out from Blood Qi and from her memory.
"You are... Bai Yi! That’s right! I remember you’re called Bai Yi! Quickly, save me, Bai Yi! Save me! I’m Yuhuan! Save me! You promised to save me! Ah ah ah!"
Yet the young man just stood on the wall, staring blankly at her, as if he didn’t recognize her.
It was as if reflected in the young man’s eyes, bright as stars and clear as crystals, was no longer any pitiful or lovely girl, but a tall, eight-foot giant, humanoid yet completely different...
A monster.
Then Pei Yuhuan suddenly remembered.
She was already dead.
She then turned her head and looked at the Eldest Princess standing quietly on the hill of corpses, gazing from across the Blood River, slowly opening her arms.
"Mother..."
"Come, go with mother. They don’t want you, but I do, come home with me."
"...Okay."
And so Pei Yuhuan went home.
Huangfu Yi was rooted to the spot, staring at the human-shaped monster as it slowly departed. Watching as it howled for a while, then suddenly leapt across the Blood River, with a few flips, disappearing behind the vast hills of corpses.
"This, this, this is..."
The system said,
"This is the Suiyang Formation. The three great sects fought here so fiercely back then that the mountains crumbled and the ground cracked, causing untold damage to life, unable to be managed. So the Cloud Platform Peak simply marked this place as a prison, no matter what stray animals, as long as they are born within the Twelve Countries and aren’t exterminated outright, they are all caught and thrown here for centralized custody."
"That, that, that was..."
"That’s the Insect Queen you’ve been thinking about."
"But, but, but its face..."
"Oh, the insect egg, also the egg that fell from the sky, is not only a biological pod storing insect embryos, but also a biological information collector. It can collect local wild animals’ genetic codes, biological information, to adapt the Insect Queen’s gene form most suitable to the environment.
You opened an egg and a human head came out, to put it bluntly, that corpse is the selected host for the Insect Queen, one of the fetal insect nurseries.
So when it’s ready, an Emperor’s fluid descends to her, allowing the larvae inside the egg to cut off her head, burrow into her shell, wear her skin, take her body, and borrow her life. Disguising as her, attempting to pass off, hatch into an insect, and undergo Feather Transformation to become Immortal.
Hahaha, but what a pity, the more cunning the demon, the more profound the Way.
This kind of thing has long been seen as commonplace. The true disciples of each mountain have all been informed, from entry-level, it’s drilled into them, should they encounter something beyond their capability, don’t hide it, immediately send a talisman to summon help from Heavenly Platform Peak, there will always be some old guy to handle the aftermath.
See, it’s been taken care of now, haven’t it."
Huangfu Yi, momentarily drained, knelt on the ground, clenched his teeth,
"No, it’s impossible, I distinctly calculated that she...she’s descendant of the Gate Valve, with the auspices of the Empress and Immortal Queen’s luck, Heavenly Destiny’s strong fortune, how could it just be like this..."
"Haha, hehe, hahaha! Your calculation is quite accurate for also deducing the Immortal Queen’s backup selection.
Heavenly Destiny’s protection? The child of luck? Haha! If she didn’t have such luck, she probably wouldn’t have faced such a tragic fate!
Let me tell you, there is no real luck in this world! No Royal Decree!
Only prepared scripts! Only traps concealing murderous intentions! Only layer upon layer of schemes!
What nobles, what gifted scholars and beautiful ladies, they all damned are insect’s skin and shell!
The entire Three Constellation Immortal Palace is full of ghosts wrapped in human skin! All the dignitaries in the courts are nothing but the shed sacks of insects!
What common people of the world, what national peril, it’s just left hand fighting right hand, performing a shadow play for those in the heavens!
With your current ability, just a solitary pawn crossing the river in the game, running headlong, rescuing this and that.
Besides yourself, who else can you save?"
Even a clay figure has a temper. Stung by such words, Huangfu Yi roared in frustration,
"What good is it to reach Nine Yin Mountain! Even if you call out that Sword Immortal! Can he save the world!"
Unexpectedly, the system promptly replied,
"Of course he can. After all, you truly lack the capability, but he simply lacks interest."
So the kneeling young man stayed silent for a long while, gritting his teeth, stood up, and muttered through clenched teeth.
"Alright, sword come."
The Sword Wind howled, a silver arc wrapped around him, with a leap to the sky, tearing through the firmament, heading northward.
"Hey, hey, you came all the way, not eat it to replenish? What, got stimulated and now want to take a step back?"
Huangfu Yi cast one last glance at the Corpse Mountain and Blood Sea stretching across the earth, then turned away,
"I will never backtrack. But what I’ve promised must be done.
Once I’ve taken her head, I’ll send it to Nine Yin Mountain."