ASER - Chapter 109
Chapter 109: Subtle
The progress of the Great Spirit Gate was skyrocketing.
10%, 20%, 30%...
But the Sea Martial Falcon BOSS was also rushing back frantically, only a few hundred meters away from its lair. This was the most frenzied moment of its life.
And seeing it flee, the others, being astute, how could they not know that the stolen crystal was also the crystal they desired!
So they too panicked.
Chase!
This was a race of speed; whoever arrived first would be the first to...
When the Sea Martial Falcon BOSS was still two hundred meters from its lair, it opened its mouth, and a mouthful of eerie blue cold air, almost condensed into liquid, shot out. It autonomously navigated around forks and turns, heading straight for A'Diao!
At this moment, A'Diao also saw this stream of eerie blue cold liquid. She had previously compared the effects of those eerie blue cold air explosions – extreme cold explosions, where the temperature dropped directly to over three hundred degrees below zero. Although her defensive armor barely withstood it, she almost froze to death. If this eerie blue cold liquid arrived now, she feared...
Faster, faster, faster!
95%, 96%, 97%...
The eerie blue cold liquid exploded prematurely three meters before reaching A'Diao. The power of the explosion froze all the mixed particles in the air... At the same time, A'Diao disappeared; Skill 303 was activated.
But the Great Spirit Gate also disappeared along with her.
At the final moment of 97%, she only had two choices: either die or hide.
But she was unwilling. After a flash of inspiration, she suddenly actively separated three Mental Threads... attempting to touch the Great Spirit Gate while detached from her body.
Pain, it felt as if her soul was about to be torn apart, but its speed was indeed terrifying.
Instantly, 100% progress.
Retrieve, escape into Skill 303!
All in one go.
And the terrifying explosion of the eerie blue cold liquid plunged the entire lair space into an extremely cold purgatory. This temperature made Zhao Guang and the others, who were chasing down, turn pale. They all activated the cold resistance mode of their body armor but still chose to pull back at the last moment.
"You stay here, don't go down!"
Only Elder Zhao, Chen Hua, and that Mysterious Person B dared to chase further down. But when they were still three hundred meters from the lair.
The Sea Martial Falcon BOSS had already reached its lair. With one glance, it saw the completely empty nest...
The egg, the Xun Spirit Pupil, and the Great Spirit Gate were all gone.
What kind of thief was this? Someone in real estate coming to scrape the land bare?
It was furious, but it also knew that person was hiding in a Dimensional Space. So... it spread its wings, and several feathers, sharp as long swords, detached from them.
These feathers pierced through, did they pierce the air?
No, once the speed reached a certain level, it could achieve the effect of penetrating spatial barriers. Ordinary Demonic Spirits did not possess such an ability, but some avian Demonic Spirits were feared precisely because individual speed-proficient Demonic Spirit races possessed such attack speeds.
So A'Diao, who had originally planned to hide in Skill 303, refine the Xun Spirit Pupil, and then accelerate her escape, turned green with fright because Skill 303's barrier was indeed being struck with resounding clangs and soon developed cracks.
Fuck!
Man proposes, Heaven disposes!
The originally perfect plan immediately developed a flaw. A'Diao, without a second word...
Skill 303 vanished, and a black shadow shot out.
The Sea Martial Falcon BOSS roared and immediately shot out its other feathers... In just an instant, the black shadow was pierced through the body, but it burst into flames and turned into a talisman.
Level five life-saving talisman: Substitute Talisman!
Fuck!
The Sea Martial Falcon BOSS was enraged. It turned its head and saw that the real little thief had already frantically darted into a passage.
Chase!
The Sea Martial Falcon BOSS pursued relentlessly from behind.
Sensing their movements, Elder Zhao and the other two naturally changed direction and pursued them. Moreover, both Elder Zhao and Chen Hua contacted Li Yuankai and Zhao Guang.
Chen Hua: "That person has escaped. To be able to escape its pursuit, they are suspected to be a Forbidden Master. You all get out quickly to avoid being accidentally injured, and also prepare... to lock down and eliminate!"
With them and the Sea Martial Falcon BOSS chasing behind that person, it was precisely when there was no way out.
Killing this person would allow them to seize the treasure!
Li Yuankai and the others naturally flew out of the cavern through other passages, while contacting the airships outside.
"Prepare the spatial cannons!"
"Prepare..."
But Li Zhaowu said, "I don't think this person can escape. That Sea Martial Falcon BOSS's speed is too fast. I can feel its cold air getting closer and closer to that person."
Li Yuankai thought so too. Moreover, a notification came from the airships, saying that two airships were approaching from different directions nearby, but they were outside the fog layer, seemingly attracted by the commotion here.
Or perhaps they were also heading for it.
At this moment, A'Diao was truly fleeing for her life. But while fleeing, she was also frantically refining the Xun Spirit Pupil and madly consuming the Spiritual Power in her body, converting it into energy to operate the flight device.
The flight device maintained a continuous high-speed burst, like a streak of black and red light, frantically shuttling through the passage filled with chilling blue cold air. But the cold air behind followed like a shadow, and the figure of the Sea Martial Falcon BOSS could vaguely be seen.
It's over!
Two hundred meters away, the light of the exit was already visible at the top of the straight passage. But behind her, the Sea Martial Falcon BOSS shrieked and shot out several feathers.
Swoosh!
They pierced through space, frantically closing the distance with A'Diao at a speed of a hundred meters in an instant, and then...
It looked as if they were about to pierce her body and all her defenses.
Buzz! The Xun Spirit Pupil was successfully refined.
A wisp of mysterious wind enveloped her and the flight device... Speed surged!
The sharp feathers, originally about half a meter from her back, were eventually pulled to a meter away, and then continuously further...
A'Diao changed her angle. The moment she rushed out of the cave entrance, a total of five airships from the Li Clan and the Yue Clan simultaneously locked onto her.
Spatial cannons.
Boom!!
Five thick beams of light converged on her alone.
Impressive. Even an Upper Rank Transcendent Forbidden Master would be instantly killed if they failed to dodge that.
When the beams converged, bombarded, and then... they hit nothing but air.
An afterimage, just an afterimage.
Just now, A'Diao had unleashed her Spiritual Power and applied a level five acceleration talisman to herself, instantly erupting with terrifying speed and directly escaping the attack range of the spatial cannons.
As she sped out from the billowing explosions, the five airships only managed to capture a blurry image of a short, stout, middle-aged man.
Short, truly short, and stout, truly stout, and rather shifty-looking.
But he had escaped, and was about to leave at a speed they absolutely couldn't match...
Anyway, almost everyone thought so, but at that moment, A'Diao's expression changed drastically.
Buzz!
A flying sword came killing from a thousand meters away.
Piercing through space, it instantly stabbed into A'Diao's body...
Penetrated?
With a buzz, it penetrated the Heavenly Round Shield, penetrated the defensive talisman, penetrated the Azure Eagle Armor's defense, and directly stabbed into the skin... the final layer of defense.
The armor's inherent defensive plating was maxed out at level 10!
With a dull thud, the sword was repelled. A'Diao clutched her chest and sped away.
Instantly disappearing over the horizon.
And a thousand meters away, the Masked Man recalled his flying sword. Comparing their speeds, he realized he couldn't catch up at all. Just as he was fuming, Elder Zhao and the others all flew out, followed by the Li siblings and Zhao Guang's group.
They all saw this man.
The Sea Martial Falcon BOSS was furious. "It's you! You're only arriving now?! Kill them!"
Everything was gone, but these people were still here. It had to take them down to break through to level 7.
Currently, it seemed their side indeed had the advantage, because the power of that man's sword strike just now was evident – Upper Rank Transcendent.
His cultivation was higher than all of theirs. Adding the person suspected to be He Luo and the Sea Martial Falcon BOSS itself, they were thoroughly suppressed, putting them at a disadvantage in the very first exchange.
Li Yuankai, after all, was quick-witted. Just as the two men and one bird fully joined forces, he suddenly used his optical computer to project an image out of thin air.
A short video and screenshots, magnified to the maximum.
The Sea Martial Falcon BOSS, which was attacking with all its might, saw it.
Mysterious Person A and B also saw it.
At that moment... the atmosphere became a bit subtle.
What trust could there be between humans and Demonic Spirits?
The Sea Martial Falcon BOSS already harbored suspicions: First, who could sneak into its lair so silently and take everything in such a short time? It must have been someone extremely familiar with the place who had planned meticulously. Second, it originally didn't want to leave its lair; it only chased because B said they couldn't catch up. Third, what a coincidence – after it was shaken off by that person, A arrived. He was so strong, yet when the little thief had just dodged the spatial cannons and was at their most vulnerable, he actually failed to capture them and didn't even pursue them afterwards.
What did these three points combined signify?
This was very likely a setup – it had been schemed against; they had colluded to steal its treasures.
But at this very moment, it had a sudden realization – they didn't just want to steal its treasures, they also wanted its life!
If the Sea Martial Falcon had blood pressure, it would have skyrocketed to 9999 by now!
Shrieking... piercing, frenzied attacks!
The melee began. A and B had originally thought that by relying on the Sea Martial Falcon BOSS, they could completely crush the opposing side, then deliberately let it and the people from the Li Clan and Yue Clan suffer heavy losses on both sides, allowing them to reap the benefits. But now, the Sea Martial Falcon BOSS was attacking indiscriminately, and the people from the Li Clan and Yue Clan had also united, causing the two of them to be isolated... and instead bear the brunt of the attacks.
How did the situation turn out like this!?
After A'Diao escaped, she knew the people behind wouldn't pursue her further because they simply couldn't catch up. But she didn't plan to flee too far either... She changed direction, and soon, she entered an airship.
As soon as she entered, she spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Damn, an Upper Rank Transcendent is indeed no pushover. With a Spiritual Power cultivation two major realms lower, I almost died."
In this wave, A'Diao hadn't engaged anyone head-on at all, because her objective was very clear: snatch the goods, flee, flee at all costs!
Fortunately, the outcome was relatively good now; she was only injured, not killed.
Spitting out another mouthful of blood, A'Diao drank several bottles of medicine worth millions, recovering some of her injuries, while having Sparrow pilot the airship towards a certain location.
Sparrow was shocked: "Master, you're going to...?"
"The other airship is about to arrive, right?"
"Yes."
"It should be people from Yunzhou Academy..." A'Diao mused. At this distance, they should have already learned of the situation, yet they were still rushing over. Could it be they had some backing? If so...
A'Diao, having washed the bloodstains from her face, lifted her head, looked at her reflection in the mirror, and said softly, "The most dangerous part is over. Let's see the act through to the end, maximize the benefits."
She wiped her face and spent all her Mental Power on upgrading all available skills.
From Skills 101, 202 to 303, as well as all masteries, everything was maxed out.
In the end, only 7 million Mental Power remained, with everything else maxed out. Then, A'Diao exchanged for the Uncontrollable Emotions Gift Package and also upgraded it to level 10.
Finally, one million Mental Power was left.
Adding the previous max-level upgrade of her inherent armor plating, nearly thirty million Mental Power was almost completely spent, but the improvement effect was terrifying. A'Diao exhaled a turbid breath and bound the Great Spirit Gate to her spatial carrier.
From then on, she had a dedicated, portable cultivation chamber.
In such a life-or-death situation, the three prodigies, all ranked at the forefront in Yunzhou and Linzhou, would reveal all their trump cards. Their cultivation levels were similar, and their peak combat power when unleashed was close to or had reached A-rank. They had enough to maneuver but also dealt with the situation cautiously, as their opponents were too strong.
However, Mysterious Person A was ultimately formidable. He managed to evade even when locked down by the airship's spatial cannons and besieged by numerous experts. With a flash in his eyes, he made a feint and lunged for Zhao Guang, attempting to "hold the emperor hostage to command the nobles."
"Young Master!" Elder Zhao turned pale with fright.
With a formidable enemy at hand, although Zhao Guang was a strategic competitor from the five provinces, the Li siblings were unwilling to see Elder Zhao's and Zhao Guang's combat strength destroyed.
This was a matter of the bigger picture, so they also tried to intercept, but it was too late.
Zhao Guang's handsome face turned slightly solemn. He raised his staff and deployed an ice barrier around himself, slowing speed and affecting mental states. Simultaneously, he crushed a talisman.
A level six talisman.
Buzz!
A protective shield enveloped him.
But Mysterious Person A's flying sword had already struck down.
Buzz... The shield trembled with a clang, then shattered with a bang.
Zhao Guang's face immediately flushed red, and he spat out a mouthful of blood. It was no good; the gap was too large. An Upper Rank Transcendent, the difference between them was truly too great.
But thankfully, Elder Zhao arrived!
Boom!!!
He blasted away Mysterious Person A's attack with a punch, but Mysterious Person B, hidden and lurking, suddenly reached for Zhao Guang from behind.
Zhao Guang felt pain in his shoulder.
But then... there was only that momentary pain, and then, being a psychic type, he sensed a fluctuation.
An airship broke through the fog layer.
A person on a flight device shot out from the airship like a streak of light. In their left hand, a black staff spun at their fingertips like a sword flourish, while their right index and middle fingers were held together.
Buzz, buzz, buzz, the sky resonated... A clamorous and eerie sound of a suona horn soared into the sky, thousands of feet high.
"In broad daylight, with heavenly principles manifest, let me see who is committing evil and harming the innocent."
A clear and hearty voice drifted over, and an ordinary-looking young man pierced through the clouds and broke through the air. He was seen pointing the tip of his staff.
"Seal!"
Who is this person?
Toilet thought to itself: This is that troublemaker from Danzhou, robbing one wave and then returning as a savior. Their sense of morality is quite self-consistent.
Bang, bang, bang!
Mysterious Person B instantly felt all six of his blind spots being sealed off by panels condensed from wood elements.
Zhao Guang turned around and saw a coffin.
Zhao Guang: "?"
What kind of Daoist art was this? So... so utterly deranged.
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