freenovelworld Chapter 314 Living towards death
Chapter 314 Living towards death
However, the Golden Flame Serpent had already locked onto them, its eyes flashing with a cold light. Then, it opened its blood-red maw and suddenly spewed the ball of golden flame at the two of them, like a golden meteor, instantly engulfing half of the spirit plant garden!
"There's no escape!" Lin Ye shouted, his spiritual power surging wildly within him, his entire body radiating a deep cyan light. He forcefully pushed Mo Ming away, simultaneously gritting his teeth and plunging his spear into the ground, yelling, "Spirit Shield Technique!"
A cyan spiritual energy barrier rose into the air, instantly blocking the attack of the golden flames. The flames crashed into the spiritual shield, producing a deafening roar, but the shield only lasted for a few seconds before being burned through by the flames and shattering into countless fragments of spiritual energy.
Mo Ming narrowly avoided the direct impact as he was thrown, but was still hit by the aftershock and crashed heavily to the ground. He struggled to turn his head and saw Mo Ming kneeling on one knee, his face as pale as paper, clearly exhausted of his spiritual energy.
"Lin Ye!" Mo Ming rushed over, stumbling and scrambling, and helped the swaying Lin Ye to his feet. "How are you?"
"This beast is absolutely outrageous!" Lin Ye said weakly, spitting out words stained with blood. "This thing is beyond our ability to deal with... The Azure Scale Beast we just encountered was probably only a first-grade spirit beast, and we were almost killed. This Golden Flame Serpent is probably at least a late-stage second-grade spirit beast!"
"This is going to be difficult..." Mo Ming said, his face filled with panic.
"If we delay a few more minutes, the gate will probably open!"
"There's no other way! Forget about a few minutes, at this rate, we won't even last ten seconds," Mo Ming roared hoarsely.
"What should we do then! Do you have any ideas?" Lin Ye wiped the blood from his mouth and stared intently at the giant snake in front of him.
"Let's take a gamble! Jump into the crevice!" A glint of light flashed in Mo Ming's eyes. "A strategic retreat, a desperate gamble!"
Lin Ye's eyes widened. Good heavens, you're actually going to deliver it right to their doorstep? He thought Mo Ming was crazy. "Damn, buddy, you're even saving them the shipping cost? You're delivering it directly to their door, right? Is this any different from sending them to their death?"
"Stop talking nonsense. You're going to die here. Why don't you jump? Maybe you can survive?"
Mo Ming couldn't help but think of the scene in the Eight Gates Secret Realm. Even in the Gate of Death, there was a way to survive.
Before he could finish speaking, the Golden Flame Serpent roared once more, and golden flames condensed into a huge vortex around it, about to launch another fatal attack.
"Jump!"
Seeing the Golden Flame Serpent's fiery vortex approaching, Mo Ming no longer hesitated and jumped into the crevice.
Lin Ye frowned. He had no choice but to take the plunge, so he jumped in after him.
The Golden Flame Serpent, having missed its target, plunged headlong into the crevice, its eyes blazing with fury.
As it entered, the cracks slowly closed and soon disappeared into the Spirit Plant Garden.
As the cracks disappeared, the Spirit Plant Garden returned to peace, leaving only the devastation left by the fire.
……
The Spirit Plant Garden was in ruins, a deathly silence lingering after the flames had died down. However, thousands of miles away in a deep valley, an angry roar came from a thatched hut.
"boom!"
A heavy sandalwood table was shattered into pieces by a single blow, splinters flying everywhere. Standing before the table was an elderly man with white hair, his disheveled hair flying wildly with rage. Veins bulged on his forehead, his eyes were bloodshot, and an intense spiritual pressure exploded within the room, seemingly distorting the very air.
"Which bastard dared to destroy my spirit plant garden! Alas! These mere ants dared to burn through my centuries of hard work! And even killed my 'Azure Scale Wind-Swallowing Beast'! I will tear them to pieces! I will chew their bones to powder!"
The roar shook the entire valley, and birds and beasts scattered in terror. The old man's face was contorted with rage. He raised his finger in the direction of the spirit plant garden, then swung it down fiercely, his fury tinged with a hint of heartache.
"The Spirit Plant Garden is my lifeline for cultivating spiritual herbs and nurturing opportunities... And that Azure Scale Wind-Swallowing Beast—a mid-stage first-grade spiritual beast that I painstakingly raised, died at the hands of some ignorant brat! No, I will never let him get away with this! I want to see who it is!"
Having said that, he took out a round plate, bit his fingertip, dripped his blood onto it, then squinted his eyes, gritted his teeth, and muttered some unintelligible language: "One spirit probes the Blind Garden, another demon mother dwells in the rift... surely not hidden—slap! Jiang Jin, where is your way to suck blood and save your life..."
Then, a burst of black light shone from the disc, and a ghostly black shadow slowly floated out, "Old Man of Nanshan, what do you want with me?"
"Bololita, I'd like to ask you to do a divination for me, regarding my spiritual plant garden..."
……
On the other side, Mo Ming and Lin Ye only felt the wind whistling in their ears, and were surrounded by deep darkness.
After falling through the crevice, the two of them plummeted downwards as if into an endless abyss. Within the crevice, an ancient aura seemed to surge, carrying an indescribable sense of oppression.
"Mo Ming! Mo Ming! Are you still alive?" Lin Ye shouted twice, his voice echoing in the deep space.
"Stop shouting, save your energy." Mo Ming was panting, but his eyes remained calm.
As soon as they finished speaking, the two suddenly felt a jolt beneath their feet, as if they had passed through an invisible barrier, and their fall abruptly stopped. The darkness before them was instantly shattered, replaced by a ghostly green light.
"Bang!" The two crashed heavily to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
"Cough cough, where...where is this?" Lin Ye struggled to stand up and looked around.
Before them lay a desolate underground world, the light source not from the sky, but from fluorescent fungi growing on the surrounding rock walls, shimmering with an eerie, ghostly green glow.
An ancient and heavy aura permeated the air, along with a hint of danger.
"What's that?" Lin Ye pointed to a dilapidated altar not far away, his voice filled with a mixture of tension and excitement.
Following their gaze, the two saw a massive bronze altar standing not far away, its surface carved with intricate patterns of mythical beasts. At its far end stood a broken stone tablet inscribed with ancient characters and a bloodstained mark. The entire altar exuded a cold and eerie spiritual aura.
“It looks…like some kind of sealed place.” Mo Ming frowned, tightening his grip on the spirit core in his hand. “That golden flame serpent from earlier is very likely related to the seal on this altar.”
"So, we broke through here?" Lin Ye muttered, rubbing his nose. "But I have a bad feeling that the Golden Flame Serpent might have gotten in too."
Before the words were even finished, the ground in the distance suddenly trembled. The golden flame serpent that had fallen into the crevice burst forth from the ground on the other side, its massive body stretching across the underground space, its eyes flashing with destructive and furious light.
"You're absolutely right!" Mo Ming shouted, drawing his bronze demon-suppressing sword, cold sweat dripping down his temples.