Chapter 43: Falling into the Void and Holding Hands with a Straight Man
Falling into the void and holding hands with straight men
"boom--!!!"
The altar's shattering roar was like the roar of thunder at the dawn of creation! A giant scarlet eye opened within the cracks of the charred Jianmu wood. Wherever its gaze reached, the void twisted and wailed! That wasn't a gaze; it was a sticky, materialized curse filled with endless evil and hunger! The bronze altar it swept over was instantly covered in rusty, dark red moss, and even the chaotic aura flowing through it emitted a tainted, hissing sound!
“Run——!!!” Xuanjia shouted out the highest note of his life in his hoarse voice. The scarlet giant pupil that could destroy the world was reflected in his mung bean eyes. The eight trigrams patterns on the tortoise shell flashed wildly, pointing to the only way to survive - the opened void vortex with surging chaotic nebulae!
The gravekeeper's withered body erupted with its last remaining strength. The dark crimson curse patterns covering his body were like burning blood chains, tightly entangling the evil god's will as he tried to break free from the wreckage of Jianmu. His hunched back, reflected in the giant scarlet eyes, seemed as small as dust, yet it carried a tragic and majestic aura that stood tall and proud.
“Senior!” Ah Che cried out, reaching out his hand, but Man Gu grabbed it under his armpit! The Bull Demon’s eyes were red, and he swung his massive bone club, smashing several pieces of broken bronze into pieces. He roared, “Go! Don’t let Senior down!”
Jiang Xuelan and Li Jiuyou reacted the fastest!
Almost as soon as the giant scarlet eye opened, the ice and fire powers within the two men, which had just been forcibly "harmonized" by the Chaos Altar, erupted again due to the intense sense of crisis! The God-Slaying Gu mark on their lower backs burned painfully, and the chilling lingering Soul-Sinking Mist on their backs suddenly intensified! To make matters worse, the damned Blood Pact vine mark on their wrists burned crazily, like a red-hot iron, firmly "binding" them together!
"Fuck! This broken contract!" Li Jiuyou's red hair danced wildly, and the red-gold demonic fire instinctively erupted, trying to burn through the invisible connection, but it only brought more intense burning pain and a backlash of power within him! He stumbled and was almost hit by a falling boulder!
"Don't resist the contract! Leverage your strength!" Jiang Xuelan's icy voice, tinged with urgency, was remarkably clear amidst the chaotic roar. He forcibly suppressed the surging blood and energy, his icy blue eyes fixed on the entrance to the void vortex, the shadow of the Frost Silence Sword humming in his palm! At the moment when a huge bronze fragment, embroiled in the evil thoughts of the evil god, fell upon his head—
The icy-blue sword energy and the scarlet-gold demonic fire, forced by the blood pact, unexpectedly met at the critical moment! The shockwave generated by the annihilation of ice and fire narrowly deflected the fatal fragment! Both were simultaneously pushed backward by the recoil!
"Ugh!" Li Jiuyou's back slammed hard against the edge of the tilted altar, the pain from his old injury piercing his heart. He looked up, only to be met with Jiang Xuelan's equally pale face and fresh traces of blood at the corners of his mouth. Had the blood pact not synchronized their reactions and strength, at least one of them would have been dead! This realization made him so frustrated that he wanted to vomit blood!
"Let's go!" Jiang Xuelan didn't have time for nonsense. He grabbed the still dazed A Che and, enveloped by his icy blue immortal power, launched them both into the vortex of space like an arrow from a bow! He deliberately ignored the burning, pulling sensation coming from the other end of the blood contract—that feeling reminded him that he had to bring a certain irritable turkey along!
"King!" Man Gu roared and followed closely behind, his huge body bursting out at extreme speed.
"Wait a minute, Master Turtle!" Xuanjia dug the ground with his four claws and rolled and crawled.
Li Jiuyou cursed softly, his entire body enveloped in crimson-gold demonic fire. Like a flaming meteor, he pursued Jiang Xuelan closely. He deliberately lagged behind by half a step, unwilling to stand shoulder to shoulder with Ice Face.
The giant crimson eye seemed enraged! A thick, dark red beam, composed of countless wailing souls, tore through the void like a tongue from hell, swirling towards the crowd about to plunge into the vortex! The terrifying pressure and evil thoughts caused Jiang Xuelan, who was rushing in the front, to feel a sharp pain in his soul, and his sea of consciousness was violently shaken! Ah Che's face turned pale and he almost fainted!
"Damn it! It's not over yet!" Li Jiuyou's eyes flashed with a fierce gleam! He suddenly stopped and turned, the red-gold demonic fire gathering recklessly! The chaotic true fire deep within its origin was completely aroused, and a savage and fierce aura rose to the sky! He was actually going to confront the evil god's beam head-on!
"Idiot! Come back!" Jiang Xuelan's pupils suddenly shrank as she shouted. Is this turkey looking for death?!
But it's too late!
The crimson-gold Chaos Demonic Fire and the dark red Evil God's beam collided fiercely! There was no earth-shattering explosion, only the agonizing sound of energy being rapidly corroded and annihilated! Li Jiuyou was struck by a giant hammer, flying backwards, blood gushing from his mouth! The demonic fire on his body instantly dimmed, his very essence damaged! Even more terrifying, the foul evil thoughts contained in the Evil God's beam, like maggots in his bones, fed on his power and madly eroded his soul!
"Ugh, ahhhh!" Li Jiuyou roared in pain, his red-gold eyes even tinged with a hint of dark red! He fell like a kite with a broken string, heading away from the vortex!
The blood covenant vine mark suddenly burst out with a dazzling green light!
"!!!" Jiang Xuelan felt a soul-tearing pain and foul evil thoughts surge into his sea of consciousness through the blood pact! The ice fragments groaned under the weight! He groaned, blood dripping from the corners of his mouth! It was the attack and erosion that Li Jiuyou had endured, shared through the blood pact!
"Senior Brother!" A Che looked at Jiang Xuelan's face in horror, which turned pale in an instant.
"Damn it!" Jiang Xuelan's icy blue eyes flashed with coldness! He let go of A Che without hesitation and pushed him towards the nearby vortex entrance with a backhand palm: "Man Gu! Take him away!"
At the same time, his figure transformed into a resolute stream of ice-blue light, rushing towards the direction where Li Jiuyou fell, against the collapsing altar and the pervasive evil thoughts of the evil god! The Frost Silence Sword burst into an unprecedented brilliant light in his hand, freezing and shattering the collapsing rubble and the diffuse gray fog wherever it passed!
"Jiang Xuelan! Come back the fucking way!" Li Jiuyou, consumed by excruciating pain and evil thoughts, vaguely saw the icy blue figure charging towards him. His scarlet-gold eyes were filled with unbelievable fury and... a hint of panic he himself wasn't aware of! Had this icy-faced person gone mad?! For him?!
Jiang Xuelan ignored his roar. The filthy, corrosive feeling emanating from the blood pact grew stronger, like a thousand ants gnawing at his heart! All he could see was the figure, entangled in dark red beams, plummeting toward the giant crimson eye. In his sea of consciousness, the blurry figure that had dragged him from the sea of corpses and blood three hundred years ago strangely overlapped with Li Jiuyou's bloodstained face at that moment.
He rushed forward, and the Frost Sword, with the chill that could freeze everything, slashed fiercely at the evil god's beam of light that was wrapped around Li Jiuyou!
The icy blue sword energy and the dark red beam collided fiercely, annihilating each other! Jiang Xuelan's knuckles cracked, and blood stained the hilt red! But this sword finally severed the shackles of the evil thoughts!
He grabbed Li Jiuyou's wrist!
It was scorching hot to the touch! It carried the foul aura of the evil god's invasion! Beneath the skin of Li Jiuyou's wrist, dark red lines wriggled like a living thing!
"Let go! You'll die with me!" Li Jiuyou roared, struggling and trying to break free. The filth was madly attacking his mind, and he was afraid that he would hurt the other party.
"Shut up!" Jiang Xuelan's voice was as cold as ice, yet it held an undeniable power. He gripped Li Jiuyou's wrist tightly, icy immortal energy surging inward, attempting to suppress the filthy encroachment. At the same time, using the pull of the blood contract, he forcibly retracted the power that was running wild within Li Jiuyou! "We'll die together! That's what the contract says!"
"Fuck..." Li Jiuyou was stunned by his "die together" roar, and his struggles subconsciously stopped. The cold touch on his wrist and the force that forcibly suppressed the chaos in his body brought a strange sense of clarity. His scarlet eyes met Jiang Xuelan's icy blue ones, revealing the same determination and... disgust? Damn it, even at this time, he still despises me?!
During this crucial delay, the Scarlet Eye's second attack took shape! A thicker, more filthy dark red beam, like a spear of annihilation, tore through the void and locked onto the two!
"It's too late!" Xuan Jia jumped anxiously at the edge of the whirlpool, "Jump! Jump quickly!"
Under the gaze of the giant scarlet eyes, the gravekeeper's body crumbled bit by bit like weathered rock, but a hint of relief appeared on his withered face. The last pure protective thought blew over Jiang Xuelan and Li Jiuyou like a breeze.
"……Walk……"
Jiang Xuelan's pupils shrank, and he stopped hesitating! He suddenly pulled Li Jiuyou into his arms, his icy blue immortal power bursting to its peak. Holding (or rather, strangling) this scorching and heavy "furnace", he used all his strength to slam into the only remaining entrance to the void vortex, which was violently fluctuating due to the energy from the edge of the Heretic God's beam!
"Fuck you!" Li Jiuyou's roar was drowned out by the whistling wind.
Plop! Plop!
The two of them were in an extremely awkward position, with Jiang Xuelan holding Li Jiuyou's waist tightly from behind, and smashed into the surging void vortex of the nebula like a cannonball!
In the final moment before being completely swallowed by the vortex, Jiang Xuelan caught a glimpse of the gravekeeper's figure completely reduced to ashes. Within the crumbling blood-red chains, deep within the charred Jianmu, a larger, more indescribable shadow seemed to be slowly wriggling...
What followed was an endless sense of weightlessness and a bizarre sense of distortion!
The world spun! Time and space lost their meaning here. Violent void currents tore at his body, and chaotic energy beams lashed out like whips. The evil thoughts lingering in Li Jiuyou's body were like a beacon, attracting more filthy beings from the void!
"Ugh..." Li Jiuyou curled up in pain, the red-gold demonic fire flickering, trying its best to resist the erosion, and his mind struggled on the edge of clarity and confusion.
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