Chapter 224 - 222: Devouring All Creation
Song Changming and Li Jinyu stood on a small hill, also feeling this vast consuming force.
Song Changming steadied himself, standing firm like an unmovable mountain.
This consuming force was immense and hard to resist for other martial artists.
But for him, it was nothing.
His physical body was strong enough to easily counter this consuming force descending from the heavens.
"Hey, Brother Song..." Li Jinyu exclaimed from the side.
Without Song Changming’s physical strength, he was already floating in the air, about to be taken away by the consuming force.
Song Changming casually grabbed one of his legs, pulling him back to the ground.
With a hand on Li Jinyu’s shoulder, he stabilized his form.
"Thanks to Brother Song..." Li Jinyu started to say, but the fierce wind around swallowed his words, forcing them back down his throat.
This devouring force, though exaggerated in rumors, was indeed frightening in reality.
The rumors were not unfounded.
The consuming ended, leaving countless dead and injured.
Not far away, Liu Yan’Er breathed heavily, saying it was close.
She had managed to escape the area of greatest destructive force of the consuming, avoiding being swallowed.
Of course, even if she were in danger, Song Changming wouldn’t stand by idly; he would certainly have rescued her.
Next, the Cloud Mist Whale let out a cry as if from the netherworld.
It transformed into a psychic shock, causing everyone to feel dazed.
On its body, parasitic beasts like moths seemed to receive a command and suddenly detached from the Cloud Mist Whale, diving at the people present.
Countless, numbering in the hundreds of thousands!
These blood-sucking, flesh-eating moths might not amount to much alone, but in numbers, they were a catastrophe.
Even Song Changming felt a chill.
There was no denying that the appearance of the Cloud Mist Whale had instantly changed the battle’s tide below the mountain.
"The Cloud Mist Whale is massive and airborne, hard to kill. It’s best to deal with the one controlling it," Li Jinyu said, watching the parasitic beasts flying around.
As he spoke, Liu Xiangnan had already made a move, using a martial technique to leap into the air, stepping on the flying parasitic beasts in succession, nearing the giant whale in an instant.
He also approached the old man on the whale.
With a slash, a fierce sword qi straightly swept towards the old man.
His thoughts matched Li Jinyu’s perfectly.
But unfortunately, the old man, besides controlling the Cloud Mist Whale, had formidable individual strength.
He countered with a swipe of sword qi, clashing and extinguishing Liu Xiangnan’s sword qi in the air.
Liu Xiangnan intended to jump onto the whale’s back, but the whale suddenly whipped its tail.
A vast airwave formed instantly, sending Liu Xiangnan flying into the mountain gorge.
After Liu Xiangnan’s lead, many Qi Refining Martial Artists knew they couldn’t delay, this whale had to be eliminated quickly.
They imitated, soaring towards the old man on the whale.
Among them were also the likes of Li Pu and other famed geniuses on the Celestial List like Nan Chen Guang.
In the end, only a few managed to land on the whale’s back.
"You younglings dare to court death!" the old man laughed, holding his saber to face them.
Under the swarm of parasitic beasts’ mad attacks, confronting the old man, those on the whale were in a passive position.
Only Nan Chen Guang performed decently, surrounded by sword qi that protected him.
Any parasitic beast approaching within meters would be injured by the sword qi.
Among all the hidden sect disciples, he truly deserved the top position, barely over twenty years old, his talent rare in a century!
For now, he was the only one who posed a real threat to the old man.
But regretfully, he was still too young, not yet at his peak.
Quickly, a slip allowed the old man to knock him down.
The old man intended to pursue, but upon reconsideration, stayed on the whale, thinking it was safer.
"Brother Song, your turn now," Li Jinyu suddenly said.
"Didn’t you say the situation is a sure win..." Song Changming asked in response.
"It is, but a Dragon Saber is needed to break through," Li Jinyu laughed.
Evidently, he counted Song Changming as part of it.
Song Changming didn’t say much about this.
"Can you protect yourself?" Song Changming asked.
"Go ahead, I’ll be fine for a while," Li Jinyu assured.
Song Changming glanced at Liu Yan’Er not far away, currently battling the incoming parasitic beasts, safe for now but uncertain over time.
After resting briefly, though the exhaustion from activating the Blood Burst Secret Technique hadn’t fully recovered, he was more or less replenished, not overly fatigued.
Song Changming hesitated no more, invoking the Flying Thunder Technique, releasing inner qi, his body crackling with thunder and lightning.
He stepped forward, soaring into the sky.
Stepping on a parasitic beast in mid-air, he borrowed force to land on the whale’s back.
"Hmm?!" The old man’s attention shifted to Song Changming’s arrival.
"Brother Song!" Li Pu, struggling amid the swarm of parasitic beasts, looked at Song Changming as if seeing a savior.
Song Changming didn’t delay, moving like a flash of lightning straight towards the old man.
The stirred up inner qi made parasitic beasts keep their distance.
The old man snorted, swinging his long blade down towards Song Changming.
Holding a cultivation level of the Third Layer Qi Refining Realm, even at his age, his bodily strength surpassed most of the same realm martial artists.
Along with his vast battle experience, it was partly why he could defeat Nan Chen Guang.
With his power, even without the Cloud Mist Whale, he would claim a spot on the Celestial List within the Da Han Dynasty!
However, facing Song Changming, he was immediately at a disadvantage.
The weapons clashed, and the old man felt a giant strength surge just like being in a vast ocean, entirely powerless.
He was sent flying by Song Changming’s slash, plummeting from the whale’s back and crashing heavily to the ground.
Below, two corpses were crushed along with him.
The old man lay on the ground in agony, coughing blood incessantly.
Though he managed to survive with his battle experience, not killed instantly by Song Changming, he was grievously injured.
At this moment, a shadow loomed over him.
In his final moment, the old man struggled to flee despite his injuries.
But he was one step too late.
Boom!
Song Changming descended heavily, shattering the ground, raising rocks and dust clouds.
The old man was crushed under Song Changming’s lightning-lit feet, his bones broken and organs crushed!
"You!" The old man’s eyes bulged in disbelief, but before he could utter another word, he died.
Song Changming followed up with another slash, severing the old man’s head.
With the controller dead, the Cloud Mist Whale above lost control, no longer attacking only the Wangyue Pavilion side but becoming rampant indiscriminately.
Song Changming retrieved a palm-sized piece of mist gold from the old man.
Instantly, he connected with the Cloud Mist Whale above.
These fog beasts created from mist gold obeyed only the mist gold holder.
Whoever had this piece of mist gold became its master.
Thus, under Song Changming’s command, the Cloud Mist Whale reversed its role, helping the Wangyue Pavilion side, counterattacking the Outer Realm Evil Cult Members.
Even the parasitic beasts switched allegiances, attacking the evil cult members, sparing not even the Corpse Refining Sect members’ corpses and corpse puppets.
The situation shifted.
The evil cult members lost their trump card, chased by the Cloud Mist Whale, showing signs of collapse.
Song Changming didn’t even need to act further; after a few more consuming attacks, the evil cult members below were soon defeated and fleeing.
"Everyone, kill all these Outer Domain demons!"
"Pursue!"
The Da Han Martial Artists, already bloodthirsty, had no intention of letting the fleeing cult members escape, chasing them into the thick fog.
They knew full well that if they didn’t eradicate the evil cult members, kill them until they feared, they would soon return in full strength.
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