Chapter 50: Junior Brother A-Ke Died
“Where is Blue Silver?” Ning Ke held Lou Yunxiao and summoned the Blue Silver Sword.
“Become wider,” he said. “Then take your master away from this underground palace and return to the surface.”
Now that Ning Ke had lost his vision, he only felt pitch darkness all around.
A natural fear made him freeze in place. For a moment, he could only rely on speaking to arrange the divine sword.
Groping to place Lou Yunxiao on the Blue Silver Sword, Ning Ke knew that Lou Yunxiao’s spiritual energy and demonic energy were now balanced, so he wouldn’t be blocked by the rune light shield.
Once the person was gone, he could properly deal with the aftermath.
The Blue Silver Sword remained in place, seeming unwilling to go.
Ning Ke smiled and tapped the hilt of the sword, saying, “Don’t worry. The Red Cloud Sword will go find you in a while.”
Only then did Blue Silver speed away.
Soon, it disappeared without a trace.
Ning Ke groped to stand up, stepped on the hem of his robe, staggered two steps, and almost fell.
So this was what blindness felt like.
And Lou Yunxiao had spent the past three years entirely like this.
Thinking back, when he was at the bottom of the Demon Abyss, he tried every possible way to hone him.
Later, he always teased him.
Demanded him to meet the standards of a healthy person.
Little did he know that for a blind person, every move they made required double or even several times the energy of others.
“Phew.”
Ning Ke finally groped his way to the bottom of the stone stele.
The Red Cloud Sword cut his finger. Using fresh blood mixed with all his remaining Yao power, he followed the talisman he had memorized by heart to fill in the golden runes.
But the moment he drew the first stroke, the underground palace suddenly shook violently.
Immediately after, a roar came: “Who is it—”
“Who touched the seal!!!”
The slumbering Demon awakened. He didn’t even care that the Living Dead vessel, Lou Yunxiao, was gone. Instead, he rushed straight toward Ning Ke at the center of the underground palace!
Ning Ke’s heart tightened, wanting to speed up the drawing of the runes.
But these runes were left by the Heavenly Dao after all, containing astonishing power.
Every stroke consumed extremely strong divine sense; how could he speed up?
In the blink of an eye, the Demon arrived at the main hall.
Hit by the rush of the golden runes, the demonic energy around his body became unstable, making him uncomfortable all over.
But at this time, how could he care about so much!
After all, if this kid reinforced the seal, he would definitely be sucked into the bottom of the stone stele, unable to even stay in this underground palace!
Let alone eat the flesh and blood of other cultivators and Yao beasts!
“Damned rat! Die!”
Terrifying pressure and demonic energy pressed down entirely on Ning Ke.
But in the next instant, a massive phantom of a Nine-Tailed Fox suddenly appeared behind Ning Ke, tightly protecting him!
Ning Ke was borrowing the power of his main body.
But after all, he was too far from the main body and couldn’t hold on for too long.
Letting the phantom confront the Demon, blood spilled from Ning Ke’s eyes and lips, yet he still concentrated on trying to draw the remaining runes.
“Nine-Tailed Fox?!” The Demon was greatly shocked: “Doesn’t this secret realm have restrictions on cultivation?! Even the Yao beasts here can’t possibly cultivate to the realm of a Nine-Tailed Fox!”
“How can you appear here?!”
However, he soon discovered that Ning Ke was just a phantom. He gritted his teeth and said, “So it’s just a facade! Watch me kill you!”
Demonic energy clashed with the phantom. The underground palace was destroyed by this fight, vibrating with rumbling sounds.
Like an earthquake.
The roof shattered, stones fell, and sand collapsed and poured in…
When the Demon fought with the phantom, Ning Ke also received the corresponding pressure. At this moment, his back had collapsed, and a pool of bloody water had accumulated beneath him.
He could only support himself with difficulty against the stone stele to keep from falling flat.
Half a quarter of an hour later, the Nine-Tailed Fox phantom finally couldn’t resist anymore and shattered directly.
At the same time, Xiao Yuan exclaimed:
[Host, dodge quickly!]
But where would Ning Ke have the strength to dodge?
The Red Cloud Sword shone brightly, blocking the Demon, but was ruthlessly swatted away. In the next moment…
Ning Ke only felt his back being pierced. A hand filled with demonic energy reached deep into his chest and punched out from the front!
The fresh, living heart was held in the Demon’s hand, still beating gently.
Cough—
Ning Ke spat out a mouthful of blood, staining the stone stele.
And his hand also finished drawing the last stroke, dropping down.
“Damned bastard!!!”
The Demon roared, ruthlessly crushing the heart in his hand.
As the hand full of demonic energy was pulled out, Ning Ke was thrown into a pool of blood like a rag.
All the stele inscriptions shone brightly. The Demon screamed, trying to run out.
During the struggle, he churned the underground palace until it split apart.
More and more rocks fell, sand and stones pouring down…
The Red Cloud Sword grew larger, shielding Ning Ke, while crying out anxiously and continuously.
Ning Ke’s consciousness was groggy. He wanted to reach out to complete the final task of self-destruction, but no matter what, he couldn’t move even a fraction.
The Demon destroyed the underground palace, but was still grabbed by the stone stele and pulled into the bottom, permanently sealed.
And in the last moment before Ning Ke lost consciousness, he was still thinking.
If I didn’t succeed in self-destructing, will it not count as completing the mission?
If it counts as a mission failure, do I have to go through the plot of this stage again?
Better not, right?
After all, it really was…
Too painful…
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