Embroidery Kingdom of All Things
The wolf pupil under the moon slightly rotated. Through the floor-to-ceiling window, it locked onto an Aged Figure in the Embroidery Room. The sinister killing intent mixed with the moonlight soaked the ground like cold frost.
Xiao Chunping held an Embroidery Needle in one hand, sitting quietly in front of a messy Embroidery Diagram. Intricate Embroidery Threads interwove on the Fabric, faintly outlining the silhouette of a museum...
She raised her fingertips lightly, and the Embroidery Needle lightly pierced towards a certain point once again.
Boom—!!
A muffled loud noise came from under the floorboards. Nie Yu's wolf pupil locked onto Xiao Chunping's position. Just as he was about to make a move, the ground beneath his feet collapsed with a boom!
Countless fine Embroidery Threads interwove with each other. From a distance, it looked like an extremely massive Embroidery Needle piercing through the ground beneath Nie Yu's feet. In the blink of an eye, it pierced a circular abyss several meters wide. The Embroidery Threads wrapped around Nie Yu's limbs, dragging him crazily deep into the ground!
As if in an endless abyss, Nie Yu was forcibly dragged and plummeted downwards at extreme speed. The ground where the museum was located grew further and further away in his vision. In the next moment, densely packed Embroidery Diagram roles jumped down the abyss, swarming towards him to kill!
The narrow space and falling body almost completely blocked all of Nie Yu's retreat routes, but he didn't panic. The killing intent in that wolf pupil instead grew even more intense.
Nie Yu spun his hand gripping the Hunting Knife beneath him. Invisible Razor Wires immediately severed the Embroidery Threads wrapping around his body. Following that, he fiercely plunged the knife into the cave wall, his falling figure gradually slowing down.
After he steadied his figure on the cave wall, he leveraged a step on it and almost swept back towards the surface along the wall. But the overwhelming Embroidery Diagrams were also surging downwards.
With a Hunting Knife in one hand and a Hunting Rifle in the other, Nie Yu's entire body was covered in pitch black. He rapidly crashed into the surging group of Embroidery Diagrams. Razor Wires and exploding bullets were output frantically, forcibly carving a bloody path through them!
"What a strong [Heavenly Wolf]." In the distance, Chen Ling braked his car to a stop in the open space near the museum. With his apricot-red tinted eyes, he gazed from afar at Nie Yu who was gradually killing his way out from underground.
In the Aurora Domain, Chen Ling had seen quite a few possessors of the [Heavenly Wolf] path, from the mere Second-Tier Xi Renjie to the seventh-rank senior Enforcers. But none of them were like Nie Yu, revealing the wildness and ferocity of a wolf from deep within their eyes, like a true hunter.
Chen Ling even suspected that if Nie Yu had been born in the era of the Nine Great Realms and given enough time to grow, perhaps the position of the [Heavenly Wolf] Pathway Chief in the Aurora Domain would have changed hands... He was simply born for the [Heavenly Wolf] path.
Bang—!!
With an explosive gunshot, numerous Embroidery Diagrams flew backwards out of the abyss. Covered in blood, Nie Yu killed his way out from underground. Leveraging a step on the ground, his figure passed through all obstacles like a ghost, passing through the floorboards and walls of the first and second floors, and killed his way to the door of the Embroidery Room with his knife!
The blade of the Hunting Knife was not stained with fresh blood, because the roles in the Embroidery Diagrams had no flesh and blood. Only a few scattered fine Embroidery Threads floated down from the blade onto the ground... Nie Yu stood in the dim corridor. His wolf pupil stared through the door panel at the Aged Figure in the room.
He slowly raised his hand, pushed open the room door, and bloodstained footprints stepped into the Embroidery Room one by one.
That was the fresh blood he shed during his own slaughter.
"Your methods are very powerful." Nie Yu spoke calmly. "Unfortunately, in terms of combat, you seem to be far inferior to me... Without those Embroidery Diagrams, relying on your old and weak body, it's simply impossible for you to be my match."
Xiao Chunping sat quietly in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, still holding an Embroidery Needle in her hand. The frosty white moonlight made her graying hair look like it was plated with a silver rim.
"Young man, judging a book by its cover is not a good habit," she said hoarsely.
"This is not judging by appearances... I can tell that your lifespan should be nearing its end, right?" Nie Yu's wolf pupil stared at Xiao Chunping's figure. "You're already too old, and it seems your lungs aren't very good either? An Old Woman with half a foot in the grave, even if your Rank is higher than mine, you might not necessarily be better at fighting than me."
"Oh?"
Xiao Chunping's eyes narrowed slightly. "Young man... are you very good at fighting?"
"I've also seen one or two guys with abilities, but none of them are better at fighting than me... My ability seems to be born for combat." Holding the Hunting Knife, Nie Yu's tone was calm and confident.
In this era, the existence of the Fourteen Divine Paths was not known to everyone, let alone a purely wild Divine Path Possessor like Nie Yu. He only knew that he was very strong, and as he walked along this path, he would become stronger and stronger.
"Hehehehe." Xiao Chunping chuckled lightly. "Young man, your experience is still too little... When I was young, I also met a guy on the same Divine Path as you. He was a similar age to you, but even stronger than you."
A cold glint flashed in Nie Yu's eyes. "Where is he?"
"Him... he's already dead. He died of old age about five or six years ago." Xiao Chunping shook her head.
"No matter how strong you are or how good you are at fighting, it doesn't mean you can defeat the years and time. In this world, perhaps there are only very few paths and very few people who can arm-wrestle with time... but a 'Soldier' who only knows how to kill and slaughter cannot do it."
Nie Yu's brows furrowed tighter and tighter. He gave a cold snort and walked straight towards Xiao Chunping with his knife.
"I might not be able to defeat the years... but right now, I can kill you."
"Unfortunately..."
Xiao Chunping spoke faintly, "You can't even kill me."
As her words fell, the fingertips holding the Embroidery Needle gently loosened. The slender Embroidery Needle, carrying a wisp of Embroidery Thread, fell silently. Upon touching the floorboards beneath her feet, ripples in the void rippled out!
An extremely terrifying aura swept out from around Xiao Chunping. Nie Yu's wolf pupil slightly contracted, and instinct made the hairs all over his body stand on end!
He didn't have time to overthink. Holding the Hunting Knife in one hand, he instantly swung a slash at Xiao Chunping's neck!
His intuition told him that he must kill Xiao Chunping immediately!
But before the Razor Wire could touch Xiao Chunping's body, the distance between the two began to crazily widen. The originally naturally spliced wooden floorboards now seemed to be woven from Embroidery Threads and began to elongate infinitely...
Not only that, the ground under the high stool Xiao Chunping sat on also suddenly stirred, as if all the matter around her had turned into Embroidery Thread products!
The floor-to-ceiling window automatically opened a gap, and the high stool also seemed to come alive. In the blink of an eye, it turned into an Eastern Dragon of Embroidery Threads carrying Xiao Chunping's body, lifting her and flying out the window at extreme speed.
Under the frosty bright moon, an elaborately embroidered Eastern Dragon rose from the museum into the clouds. A gray-haired elder sat peacefully on it, her profound gaze leisurely staring at the museum below...
At this moment, the entire museum seemed to surge like ocean waves. The corridors, seats, bedrooms, willow trees, artificial rockeries... Everything began to restore its original appearance. An incomparably massive "Museum" Embroidery Diagram bared its fangs bit by bit around Nie Yu.
Path of the Arts, [Embroidery Master] Path Domain:
——[Embroidery Kingdom of All Things].