CHAPTER 419: CHAPTER 284: COINCIDENCE? LIGHT!

Chapter 284

But... the fisherman was still her!

Old Goat Monster was the fastest, maybe because he had harbored a full intention to kill Sui Yi from the beginning, now seeing the situation, he suddenly catapulted the Black Meteor!

The sword light flicked!

In an instant... the Black Meteor was slashed back by the blade!

Everyone in the Martial Arts World knows that the hidden weapons of Tang Sect, especially the explosive types, are notorious for being triggered and exploding upon contact, making them almost impossible to defend against. Once touched, they explode immediately; unless one’s speed is out of this world, there’s simply no dodging it. However, if you were indeed that fast, you wouldn’t have touched it in the first place.

Other than dodging, just keep dodging!

But... very few could use one or two sword strikes in the silent and flowing composure, almost perfectly slashing back the Black Meteor particles without even touching the explosives inside!

It was frighteningly subtle!

Scary, too scary!

Whether it was the control over Inner Strength or the precision in sword handling, she had surpassed everyone here.

This was a technique flow, something not simply definable by the strength of Inner Strength.

At the moment, everyone including Old Goat Monster was shocked. Was this person hiding her strength from the start or... had she improved!

If it were the former, it seemed improbable, given that she was truly injured, her arm blasted quite severely. With Sui Yi’s style, she wouldn’t risk death to this extent.

It could only be the latter!

That was too terrifying!

The shock was only momentary. Old Goat Monster was directly faced with the slashed-back Black Meteor, and had no time to react; his body dodged...

But his foot was caught!

"Not good!"

Crash!

Old Goat Monster was directly dragged towards the pool...

This old man was cunning too.

Five or six Black Meteors were flung into the pool in succession.

Explode!

Boom Boom Boom!

The Blood Pool exploded, churning... blood splattered everywhere...

Dodge!

All four people dodged simultaneously.

Sssss, wherever the blood touched... everything corroded! The walls blinked and grew a pitted hole that kept expanding!

If it were human flesh, the bones would corrode away in the blink of an eye!

Snap, Sui Yi finally reached the exit, grabbed the edge, and was about to climb up...

"Roar!!"

A snakehead blocked the way!

With the snake head blocking and an eyes being blind, it stared fiercely at Sui Yi, its tongue stretching out... venom spraying forth!

Dodge!

Sui Yi let go, forced to dodge, but suddenly saw a blood shadow!

Crack!

The hideously ugly blood head suddenly burst out from the Blood Pool, striking like lightning before one could cover their ears, directly biting her waist!

Dragging both person and box...

Crash, directly into the Blood Pool.

The whole scene went deadly silent.

Anayi’s expression was very calm, infinitely calm.

Eyes closed.

"Thousand-Year Sacrifice, Nine Fire Candles, A Clavicle, Thousand-Handed Guanyin Massacre," she whispered with closed eyes, suddenly opening them: "All fulfilled."

Thousand-Handed Guanyin? Massacre?

The people watched as more and more terrifying blood hands spilled out, along with that head that burst forth just now, looking neither like a Demon Fox nor a human...

Guanyin?

It was clearly a demon!

Of course, the most terrifying thing was Anayi’s remark.

—All fulfilled.

What did it mean to say all this was fulfilled? Was this all predetermined?

And what about what follows?

It had to mean Sui Yi was undoubtedly doomed!

The terrifying nature of that blood was witnessed by everyone, the pitted walls serving as the best evidence.

Amid the crisis where the giant snake and the blood hands dominated, Wei Feng still cast a glance at the turbulent Blood Pool.

His expression somewhat complex...

This woman... doomed?

That would truly be a pity.

——————

Gurgle gurgle.

Below the Blood Pool, Sui Yi was surrounded by the extremely toxic blood water. The moment she entered the Blood Pool, the membrane formed by the fusion of Inner Strength and Magnetic Sensation on her body surface was rapidly dissipating at a terrifying pace...

In just five seconds, her Inner Strength and Magnetic Sensation would be exhausted, and then... her flesh and bones would completely merge into this Blood Pool.

In these five seconds, what could she use to save herself?

Just one second, she had to open this box!

Crack! It won’t open! No lock! Completely sealed?

The second second, she was dragged to the bottom of the pool!

That was a black... gaping mouth, no, it should be said to be a floral mouth, like the Tyrant Flower, but the core of this flower was packed with rows upon rows of dense fangs.

This was a flower, somewhat similar...

"Hydnora africana!"

In the arid and barren desert areas of South Africa, there exists a peculiar flesh-colored parasitic flower which clings to the roots of nearby shrubs, emitting a foul odor from its clusters to attract swarms of carrion beetles and containing deadly toxins.

Sui Yi had once read a book on peculiar and strange plants which included this bizarre flower. In terms of danger, this plant ranked quite high among flowers and was common yet terrifying in the desert.

Sui Yi didn’t expect to see such a giant Hydnora africana in the special environment of the Blood Pool.

And... it was gurgling something inside its fleshy mouth...

Was she going to be dragged into the bloody maw of the Tyrant Flower and then eaten?

With a clank, as she was dragged into the fleshy mouth, Sui Yi’s waist was bumped, she turned her head to feel something, quite stiff.

Everything in front was bloody, the pool was still blood, blood within blood...

Sui Yi’s third second belonged to a flower...

The fourth second belonged to the peculiar object beneath her.

With one hand on the object, the flesh of the flower began to close, attempting to chew her...

The protective layer on Sui Yi’s skin could only hold for one last second.

——————

As the fourth second moved towards the fifth, Sui Yi’s fingers touched the bottom of the box.

Uneven indentations?

When the box was retrieved before, that Blood Hand was clutching its bottom...the bottom...

Sui Yi immediately flipped the box over, channeling a thread of Magnetic Sensation to probe the mechanism lock at the bottom...

It was here!

Sui Yi snapped at one of the indentations with her fingertip!

Click!

The moment the box opened, the fifth second had not yet arrived, but the blood had already begun to touch her skin...the spikes of the chewing mouth threatened to pierce her head and body...

The pain was agonizingly close~~~

An instant?

Hum~~~

In that instant, there was light!

Light could dispel everything—darkness, evil, death...

It also allowed Sui Yi to see the form of the object beside her.

A coffin...again a coffin!

A Blood Jade Coffin? In the dazzling instant of light, the Blood Jade seemed to be analyzed, and she vaguely saw a person inside..a silhouette...

Whoosh, she was enveloped by the light.

Light protected her body...the blood seemed to be repelled, squeezed out...

Sui Yi curiously looked inside the box...what was this?

A Stone Mirror?

The surface was not visible, just a mirror made of stone, but in the middle was a gap that seemed to resemble...

Sui Yi suddenly reached for the fragment hanging around her neck.

She pulled it down and compared it to the gap.

A perfect match!

Astounded, Sui Yi was too astonished. She had never expected the bizarre fragment she had acquired by chance to be related to the ancient mystery of Loulan’s greatest treasure.

That fragment...was obtained from a Raw Stone at the Public Trading Conference, and the Raw Stone came from the mountain mines...Was it related to the geological orientation of this desert area?

After all, Loulan was located within the desert...Did it imply that Loulan’s original location was not in the desert, but within the mountain vein, or perhaps this treasure had shattered for some reason, dropping a piece that became buried in the mine through the mountains and rivers over time, to be excavated in modern times, eventually sold as Raw Stone?

And then it came into her possession...

Regardless of the possibility, both suggested she was entangled with this treasure from the start.

Fate decreed by the heavens?

Sui Yi’s thoughts drifted slightly, but then tightened sharply, her gaze falling on the Stone Mirror. After thinking it over, she decisively pressed the fragment directly against the gap.

A perfect fit, embedded, completed.

The light spread nearly a hundredfold.

It almost seemed to pierce through her entirely as Sui Yi instinctively closed her eyes...and then...

The light, transcending everything, penetrated the blood...or rather illuminated that pool of blood...like an immensely fiery sun~~

Hiss hiss hiss!

The Blood Hand was completely burned to ashes, and the light that penetrated stunned everyone still in combat.

"What’s happening!"

The Blood Pool was burning!

As the blood rapidly diminished after that...

The entire tower shook~~

Perhaps you could think that this Blood Pool was actually a mechanism, with the blood level in the pool serving as a directive, when the light came, and the blood decreased...

The tower was about to collapse!

Anayi seemed to understand something and quickly darted upwards following the roar of the giant snake!

She wasn’t the only clever one!

A group of people all wanted to rush upwards...

Boom...

The tower was already sinking!

Boom continues.

Perhaps in the eyes of Gong Jiu and others...everything appeared more distinct.

That light, so dazzling it illuminated the entire Ancient City in distinct clarity.

Dust particles seemed like divine dust.

Heavenly light illuminates Loulan from afar.

At that moment, the venomous snakes seemed to submit, each lying meekly on the ground, not moving an inch, bathing in the light.

The scene was too mythical; Professor Ye and others felt as though they were witnessing deities...

—Even though they were staunch materialists.

The tower, just as it had appeared initially, now...was also sinking into the ground in the same way.

"Sui Yi is still inside!"

Gong Jiu and the others didn’t care how magical the light or how ancient the snakes were; what did gods matter to them!

A group of people swiftly rushed towards the temple tower...Liang Qing and others were also somewhat the same, as Wei Feng was also inside...

A large group of people reached the edge just as the tip of the temple tower was sinking into the abyss, and peering below...

"Damn! Retreat!" Gong Jiu shook his head, turning to run!

They all fell back again...

Why?

Because as the tower sank, something else surged upward.

Water!

An immensely powerful torrent of water gushed up from the ground!

Gong Jiu and the others didn’t even understand what was happening!

There was an Ancient City in the desert, and beneath the city was an underground water vein...no water came when the tower appeared, but damn, water came when it sank!

What the hell was this, who designed this mechanism! (To be continued. If you like this work, you’re welcome to visit QiDian (qidian.com) to vote and leave monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)