Chapter 118: High Position, King Han
"Who! Who is coveting my treasure?"
A trembling sound descended from the sky, and a heavy pressure instantly enveloped everything. Yu Cang felt his vision go white, and his body suddenly felt as heavy as if it were filled with lead. He subconsciously pulled Qi'er, who was still floating around him, into his arms, wanting to get away from this desolate crystal.
“Who is it?!”
Wanquan reacted extremely quickly. When he realized something was wrong, he immediately activated all the capabilities of the individual reactive armor to the extreme, pulled Yu Cang and Gu Jieshuang and retreated quickly.
His body also trembled slightly under this will, but with the help of reactive armor, his movements were still quite agile.
Yu Cang hugged Qi'er tightly. The echo of that voice still echoed in his mind, making him feel dizzy. He raised his head with all his might, and saw that the bevel of the wild crystal was like a mirror, and countless broken lights and shadows condensed into a vague shadow.
Yu Cang couldn't see what the shadow looked like. He could only see a pair of gloomy eyes cast from the shadow. Just by looking at each other, Yu Cang could feel his hands and feet go cold.
The gaze seemed to fall on Wan Quan's flashing reactive armor, and then, a burst of anger suddenly burst out from those eyes.
"How dare you steal my food?!"
The deafening sound turned into a shock wave and spread out. Wanquan did not dare to be careless. He immediately stretched out his hand and opened the electronic buffer barrier. The shock wave hit it, causing a burst of flashing electric arcs.
"Damn it! Just the sound alone has such power! This might be a legendary beast!" Wan Quan cursed inwardly and immediately ordered on the communication channel, "A legendary target is suspected to have appeared. Second Company, evacuate immediately. Get outside the space debris and report the news to the military district!"
Shouldn't a legendary beast be unable to pass through the passages between space fragments? How could it appear here?
However, the situation was too critical for him to think too much. In his current state, it was too late to summon a legendary level monster. Even if he summoned one, he might not be able to defeat it. It was better for him to run away first.
…
Huang Jing.
Its smooth surface suddenly began to ripple like water waves. The black shadow moved a little closer, and then... a hand stretched out from the desolate crystal.
This hand is white and slender, and the owner's gender cannot be determined. The nails are round and shiny, and it is extremely beautiful from any angle.
I saw this hand gently clenching towards Wanquan, but... nothing happened.
The voice in the desolate crystal seemed a little puzzled: "Can't be taken back? ...Why?"
No one answered his question. While the voice was puzzled, Wan Quan had already flown far away with Yu Cang and others, heading straight towards the entrance of the space.
"It seems there are some unexpected changes... If that's the case, then let's disappear together."
The slender hand drooped slightly, and the index finger gently pointed out.
Suddenly, a blazing white lightning shot out from his fingertips, quickly passed through the air, and chased after Wanquan!
Wan Quan was originally highly focused and was always alert to any movement in the direction of Huang Jing. Naturally, he had noticed this attack, but no matter how he dodged in the air, this lightning seemed to have eyes and was always locked on him!
Helplessly, Wan Quan could only turn around and set up the electronic buffer barrier.
Sizzle!
Lightning exploded on the surface of the buffer barrier, turning into surging lightning lava splashing. The four wild crystals in the foolproof reactive armor were drained of all energy in an instant. For a moment, the electronic buffer barrier became a little unstable.
Bang...Crack!
Suddenly, several cracks appeared on the barrier, and a ray of lightning leaked in.
Yu Cang's eyes widened.
Although there was only a trace of lightning, judging from the reaction of the cushioning barrier to the impact, he did not dare to underestimate the power of this lightning!
If you force yourself to eat it, you will really die!
But the pressure of that will was so terrifying that under that gaze, Yu Cang had to bear tremendous pressure whenever he moved his body. In the rush at this moment, he had no time to do anything to resist.
Just as this lightning was about to strike——
Suddenly, a figure rushed out. Yu Cang only saw his vision darken, and then the lightning disappeared and was collected into another space.
It is night that opens the curtain of night!
But Ye Lai was still just a young dragon, and this flash of lightning instantly reached the limit of Ye Lai's endurance. He groaned and fell weakly, landing in a soul card that suddenly appeared in mid-air.
He returned to Chaos and fell asleep.
Taking advantage of this time, Wan Quan also inserted two wild crystals into the Lock of Absolute Pressure. After the energy supply was restored, the buffer barrier became indestructible again.
At this moment, the figure in the desolate crystal exclaimed softly: "So it's this..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the hand hooked, and the other two wild crystals in Wan Quan's hand suddenly flew up and flew straight into the palm of the figure.
"This..." Wan Quan's eyes widened slightly, "It... can control the Desolate Crystal?"
In the critical moment, there was no time to think carefully. After Wanquan stopped Lei Ting, he turned around and ran without hesitation!
After the wild beast emitted that flash of lightning, there seemed to be no further movement. Wan Quan kept paying attention to what was behind him, but did not find any attacks directed at him.
After they were a certain distance away, Yu Cang suddenly said, "Captain Wan... I can move now. Let me down."
"Me too...I don't feel that bad anymore." Gu Jieshuang interrupted.
"Okay." Wanquan landed and put the two of them on the ground, "You go first."
"Leave first? What do you mean?"
"I need to hold this wild beast back before reinforcements arrive." Wan Quan's expression was serious.
Yu Cang was silent. He looked at Wan Quan, wanting to say something but stopping himself.
"I know what you're trying to say." Wan Quan shook his head. "The range of this desolate beast's activities is still unknown. At present, it seems unable to come out of the desolate crystal, but I can't gamble. If it can extend one hand, it has the possibility of extending more. This place is only separated from Yan Country by a passage. I can't let it have any chance of setting foot on Yan Country's territory!"
Wan Quan patted Yu Cang's shoulder and said, "This place is very close to the military camp, reinforcements will be here soon... You go ahead, I'll take care of this."
Yu Cang couldn't help but stand in awe.
Judging from the attack just now, even if the reactive armor has enough energy support, it probably won't be able to compete with this wild beast. I'm afraid it can't win.
But it was Wanquan's duty, and he could only respect it.
He was just thinking of leaving temporarily, summoning some replacement cards to a safe distance to see if there was any possibility of returning with the help of the word implant, when suddenly, Gu Jieshuang said, "Captain Wan, come with us to retreat... Perhaps there's no need to cover your retreat."
"What?" Wan Quan frowned.
Before he understood what Gu Jieshuang meant, he suddenly felt the temperature in the air... drop suddenly, and the blood on the ground in the corner of his sight turned into frost visibly to the naked eye.
At the same time, a voice came from behind them.
"Jie Shuang means that your support has arrived."
Hearing this voice, Wan Quan's eyes widened slightly. He quickly turned around and saw the person coming. A look of surprise appeared on his face: "Major General Gu? You..."
The person who came was Gu Zhihan.
She was still wearing plain clothes, with nothing special about her body, except for the pure white sword in her hand.
As she walked, fine frost spread and bloomed on the ground, like soldiers guarding the emperor's journey.
"Well done." Gu Zhihan said.
Wan Quan suddenly felt uneasy. He scratched his head, as if a little embarrassed: "Um... hehe, this is what I should do..."
"...Of course this is what you should do. I didn't talk to you." Gu Zhihan's eyes shifted, "Yu Cang, I've been observing you just now. The soul card you made is very good."
"Uh." Yu Cang laughed awkwardly a few times, but he didn't expect Gu Zhihan to suddenly mention him, "It still needs to be improved, it needs to be improved."
He could face her calmly when he saw her at noon, but for some reason, when they met again at this time, Yu Cang suddenly felt guilty in front of her.
Wan Quan swallowed and his face turned red, but looking at Gu Zhihan's expression, he still didn't say a word and closed his mouth with a look of grievance.
"Mom." Gu Jieshuang was a little worried, "Your current health..."
"Very good." Gu Zhihan walked over with his sword, leaving frost all over the ground, but he seemed to have wisdom and bypassed Yu Cang and the others. "Go ahead, leave this to me."
"Yes!" Wan Quan immediately put away his expression, saluted, and then hurriedly pulled Yu Cang away.
…
Huang Jing.
The hand was playing with the two wild crystals snatched from Wanquan, and the black shadow was silent for a moment.
"I don't see any changes... So, the problem lies with the armor that person is wearing..." After a moment of silence, the black shadow gently clenched his fist. When he opened his palm again, the two desolate crystals had turned into a pile of powder, drifting away in the wind. "Then, I will..."
The shadow moved closer, and the white hand continued to move forward, the wrist extending fully, followed by the forearm...
Suddenly, the black shadow stopped moving, and he raised his eyes and looked forward.
A figure was walking towards him slowly. Behind her, layer upon layer of ice spread out, and the chilling cold air was crawling under her feet.
Gu Zhihan raised his head, his pupils had turned icy blue.
"Who are you?" she asked, but she didn't look like she expected an answer.
"...Heh, such an arrogant tone." The black shadow sneered, "Woman, according to the Blue Star level, you are only level seven. Who gave you the courage to speak to me like that?"
Gu Zhihan's expression did not change, as if she had already guessed the black shadow's reaction, so she gently raised the sword, looked down, and slowly stroked the sword with her left hand.
"What? You still want to fight?" The black shadow in the desolate crystal wavered slightly, and there seemed to be some anger in his eyes. "Well, then I'll let you feel the gap between us!"
Swish!
A flash of lightning suddenly burst out at the fingertips of the black shadow, and then a pitch-black sphere appeared out of thin air, and continued to expand and swell as it spun. More lightning began to condense, rushing towards the sphere from all directions!
Even the lightning-like beam in the clouds on the horizon suddenly broke at this moment, spanning half of the sky and falling into the dark sphere.
“Die!”
The white finger flicked lightly, and the black ball flew towards Gu Zhihan at a speed that was not fast enough.
The black sphere was not big, only the size of an egg, but the lightning in the sky was pulled and attracted as the black sphere moved, making it look as if it contained the power of heaven!
Facing this attack, Gu Zhihan seemed to have no reaction, and didn't even raise her head. She was still wiping her sword. A layer of crystal-like frost kept spreading on the sword as her left hand moved.
But when the black sphere came closer, a soul card suddenly opened in front of her.
"The king ordered the extortion."
Click——
A sound was heard, as if the vast ocean was frozen in an instant. The black shadow's eyes blurred, and when he opened his eyes again, he found that his attack had disappeared. But in front of Gu Zhihan, the opened soul card did not disappear. At this moment, it had been frozen by layers of ice. Through the ice, the black shadow saw that the attack he had released seemed... frozen inside?
What a joke!
He understood the power of the Soul Card. Although it was indeed very strange, it still had to follow the basic rules... The attack he had just made was definitely not something a seventh-level Soul Card Master could block with a Soul Card!
This frozen soul card slowly floated back behind Gu Zhihan, and the crystal ice layer reflected the surrounding fragmented light.
"You...don't be so arrogant!" The black shadow came closer all of a sudden, and it seemed that his face was already touching the surface of the wild crystal. But for some reason, although his hands looked like he was trying very hard, he still couldn't pull them out of the wild crystal. He could only push them out little by little like this.
At this moment, Gu Zhihan's hand finally brushed across the sword completely, coating the white sword with a layer of frost.
"King Han's ceremonial guard: Don your armor and await the title."
Gu Zhihan waved his hand, and when the long sword passed by, a soul card turned over and was shattered by the sword edge, but the broken soul card fragments did not dissipate, but turned into pieces of solid ice in mid-air and stuck to the sword body!
When it stopped, the hilt and blade of the sword were extended by the ice, turning it into a ceremonial sword nearly three meters long!
Click!
The ice beneath his feet shattered, and Gu Zhihan took a step forward. A cold light flashed in his ice-blue eyes, and the long sword with ice as its blade slashed straight towards the hand that stretched out from the desolate crystal!
Click!
Countless frosts spread from the point where the long sword landed, covering half of the desolate crystal. However...
The hand that stretched out from the wild crystal simply put its fingers together and easily grasped the sword!
"Arrogant!" the black shadow cried, shaking off a piece of frost. "Don't think that just because you blocked my attack once, you have the right to swing your sword at me!"
"Really?" The corners of Gu Zhihan's mouth seemed to rise slightly.
A soul card was turned over behind him.
"The king's order to force the expedition."
Bang!
The frozen soul card that had been floating behind Gu Zhihan suddenly shattered. At the same time, flashes of lightning appeared on Gu Zhihan's ceremonial sword.
"What..." The black shadow was stunned. Before he could react, he saw a white flash in front of his eyes, and the deafening thunder enveloped the entire Desolate Crystal.
Swish!
Frost and thunder mixed together and bloomed. If you could open your eyes in this strong light, you would see broken ice chips flying everywhere in the air, and the lightning was refracted in them, making everything you see crystal clear.
"you--!"
Boom!
With a strike of the sword, the huge wild crystal was directly knocked away, sliding along the ground, and flew hundreds of meters before finally stopping.
Deep scratches extended all the way across the earth, outlining the trajectory of the wild crystal being knocked away.
Gu Zhihan hesitated for a moment, gently put down the long sword he had swung, and exhaled a puff of frosty mist.
She looked at Huang Jing.
At this moment, the hand in front of Huang Jing... had a wound on the palm.
It wasn't deep, but it cut across the entire palm. At this moment, blood was dripping out of it and onto the ground.
In addition, he had already stretched out half of his forearm, but now he retreated a lot and only reached near his wrist.
"...Okay, very good." The black shadow laughed in anger, "If I didn't only have one hand... Heh, whatever."
The black shadow let out a few creepy laughs, and then a layer of water ripples spread out on the surface of the wild crystal. He actually retracted his hand completely and turned into a shadow with an unclear face again.
His eyes narrowed, and he suddenly shouted, "What are you still standing there for? Come out!"
Roar!!!
A loud roar came from the sea of clouds in the sky, and suddenly a strong wind blew, and large tracts of clouds were blown away. A space tunnel composed of countless light prisms appeared underneath.
This space tunnel is obviously not as stable as the space tunnel at the entrance. The light prisms that make up the channel occasionally break, and even the size is not fixed. The light and shadow in it are turbid, as if they will dissipate at any time.
However, judging from the size alone, this passage is many times larger than the passage at the entrance. Judging from the appearance, it can easily accommodate a small mountain.
The loud roar came from there.
Gu Zhihan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he raised his hand. Five soul cards appeared behind him one after another, but he did not rush to turn them over.
Sudden!
Sizzle!!
An extremely strange tearing sound came from the passage, as if cloth was breaking, but Gu Zhihan's intuition told him that what was torn was probably something countless times tougher than cloth.
Then, a head slowly emerged from the passage...
The size of this head is a bit exaggerated. The space passage is already big enough, but it is not enough for this head to stick out of it!
It looked like this head should be that of a giant dragon, with two dragon horns growing from the top of the head. However, it seemed that because they were too long, they were immediately cut off by the edge of the space channel when passing through it. But after coming to this space, the dragon horns continued to grow like flesh and blood, and in the blink of an eye, they were restored to their original state.
Behind the dragon head is a thick and winding neck. The spatial channel is sometimes large and sometimes small. When it occasionally changes, the sharp edges will leave deep scars on its neck, and countless dirty blood will spurt out from it. But just like the dragon horns, these wounds will heal in the blink of an eye.
This giant dragon seems to have no scales on its body, and all you can see is thick layers of keratin.
As the giant dragon stuck its head out, the space channel kept shaking, and the light prisms in it broke and reconnected, and it seemed that it might collapse at any time.
However, there seemed to be a force supporting it from behind, so that even though it was filled and stretched to the limit, it still did not collapse.
The neck stopped moving after it stretched out to a certain extent. Its body behind the passage seemed to be still very large, but the space passage was too small, so it could only stretch its neck in.
Seeing this giant dragon beast, Gu Zhihan's face couldn't help but become serious.
"A high position passed down from generation to generation..."
Even if they are both at the legendary level, there are differences in strength.
It's okay at the rare and epic levels. Although the strength of these levels varies, they are roughly the same. However... the gap between the legendary levels is very exaggerated.
A powerful Legendary-level warrior can even defeat a group of ordinary Legendary-level warriors, but their energy is essentially at the same level and cannot be distinguished as a higher level.
Therefore, the Soul Card Master Association can only subdivide the legendary level into three types: ordinary legendary, high-level legendary and super-level legendary.
For Gu Zhihan, facing the high-ranking legend was indeed very strenuous... It was not because of his strength, but his body.
Roar!!!
The dragon head opened its bloody mouth, let out a loud roar, and bit towards Gu Zhihan. Her expression condensed, she swung her sword and stretched out her hand, and a soul card opened behind her.
"Carve ice into law!"
Click!
Solid ice gathered on the ground, and a square monument made of ice rose from the ground. Before it could grow to its limit, the dragon's head crashed into it!
Boom!
Ice cubes flew everywhere, and half of the ice monument was directly shattered, but the upward force of the monument was also poured into the dragon's head, causing it to rise high. Behind it, its thick neck was scratched with exaggerated scars on the edge of the space channel due to its chaotic movement, and then it recovered as before.
The dragon's head had stopped moving, but it seemed that its target was not Gu Zhihan. When the attack failed, it quickly lowered its head, opened its huge mouth, and swallowed the wild crystal and half of the mountain in one gulp!
In the desolate crystal, until the dragon head closed its huge mouth, the black shadow was still looking at Gu Zhihan with a gloomy gaze, and bursts of sneers came out of his mouth.
Gu Zhihan frowned slightly, raised his sword, and another soul card was flipped open from behind him.
"King Han's ceremonial guard: personally marching under the snow!"
Bang!
The soul card shattered, and the fragments of the phantom seemed to turn into fierce wind and snow, guarding Gu Zhihan as she leaped into the air. The strong wind and heavy snow seemed to form the shape of a cloak faintly behind her. She raised her sword, and the wind and snow extended the sword's edge for dozens or hundreds of meters.
"--cut!"
The ice-blue pupils were filled with a tangible chill, and the dozens-meter-long sword seemed to carry the mighty power of heaven, and it fell from the sky with Gu Zhihan's slash!
Chi--crack!
The sharp edge made of ice and snow slashed into the dragon's neck, splitting half of its neck. As soon as large amounts of dirty blood splashed out, they were immediately frozen and fell to the ground with a crackling sound, shattering.
The giant dragon let out a dull wail. It felt pain, but still kept its mouth tightly closed. Then it quickly retracted into the space channel. Due to its haste, some of its flesh and blood was even cut off by the space channel, and dirty blood splattered everywhere.
Gu Zhihan frowned. She wanted to chase after him, but the waves of coldness coming from her body, which was more severe than the sword in her hand, prevented her from taking a step. In the end, she could only watch the head disappear into the space channel.
After the giant dragon retracted its head, the already unstable space channel shook even more. Not long after, it suddenly disappeared in a crazy change of light and shadow, swallowing up a large cloud.
Gu Zhihan stood where she was, the wind and snow gradually subsided around her. After a long time, she finally let out a long breath.
“…I’m old.”
Thanks to Greed for the tip!
(End of this chapter)
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