darknovel Chapter 103 The mantis stalks the cicada
Chapter 103 The mantis stalks the cicada
He glanced at Chen Bai, his eyes showing no anger or murderous intent, only a condescending contempt.
Like looking down at an ant at one's feet.
Then, the old man looked away, his attention drawn to the skeleton on the upper level of the nest.
With one step, his figure passed through the partition and appeared on the upper level.
Looking at the skeleton sitting cross-legged on the root of the breath, with a Taoist crown, a blue sash around its waist, and cloud-patterned shoes, its posture was calm and solemn.
A century has passed in the blink of an eye. Flesh and blood have turned to dust, but the bones remain as white as jade. Divine light surrounds the body, and a halo slowly flows behind the head, just as it did in life.
In a daze, the old man seemed to pierce through a hundred years and see the face of his old friend before he passed away.
He was silent for a moment, then let out a long sigh.
"Xiao Jingyan, I have searched for you for a hundred years, and I have finally found you."
"We were once close friends, roaming freely in Yuluo Prefecture, known as the 'Twin Jewels of Yuluo,' a truly glorious time. Now you've fallen to such a state, severely wounded and forced to flee, leaving only a skeleton. Do you regret it?"
No one answered.
The skeleton remained seated as before, the halo slowly rotating.
The old man smiled sinisterly again, his smile carrying a hint of self-mockery, a hint of resentment, and even more so, a resentment that had been suppressed for a hundred years: "If it weren't for the 'Crimson Primordial Pill' you gave me back then, I wouldn't have been able to break through the bottleneck of the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, and I wouldn't be alive today."
I will always cherish this feeling...
But what about you? You obtained a "Fragment of Blessed Land," why wouldn't you tell me? Such a wonderful thing should be shared! But you hoarded it...it truly breaks my heart.
His voice grew softer and softer, and the last few words were almost squeezed out between his teeth.
The old man stepped forward and reached out to try to cross the circular barrier of light.
However, the moment his hand touched the edge of the barrier, the halo behind the skull left behind by Xiao Jingyan after his death suddenly accelerated its rotation as if it had encountered an enemy.
The radiant halo suddenly shone brightly, and seven-colored divine light appeared, illuminating the entire upper level of the nest as if it were daytime.
The moment the old man's fingers touched the circular light barrier, his fingertips hissed and emitted wisps of white smoke.
The halo contains the purest and most righteous power of "Dharma nature," which has a natural restraint on all evil spirits, demons, and ghosts.
The old man at this moment was merely a divine consciousness clone, without even a physical body, and could be considered a Yin spirit.
The old man grunted and withdrew his hand.
In a moment of carelessness, he was injured by a dead skeleton!
Although his burned fingers recovered quickly after he withdrew them.
But the old man frowned.
Although he is here now, he is essentially just a divine consciousness clone separated from his true self, with less than one percent of his original strength.
Without a physical body and magical power to assist him, relying solely on his divine sense, he simply could not break through the circular light restriction set up by Xiao Jingyan.
In fact, long before Yao Ye set off, the old man, under the guise of bestowing a foundation-building mana to protect him, secretly placed a wisp of his own divine consciousness into Yao Ye's sea of consciousness.
Firstly, he wanted to find the place where Xiao Jingyan passed away, so as to find the fragment of the blessed land he obtained; secondly, he left himself a way out. If Yao Ye did not gain anything in the Ten Directions Mountains, he could use this divine consciousness as a guide to take Yao Ye's body as a raft to cross over into the world, and live a second life before his time was up!
Although the place where Xiao Jingyan passed away has now been found...
But not only was that Foundation Establishment power used up, Yao Ye's physical body was also destroyed by that rogue cultivator at this critical moment.
The old man remained silent for a moment, then slowly turned around, his gaze returning to the lower level of the nest.
Chen Bai remained motionless, completely absorbed by his divine sense and losing his clarity.
"Kid!"
The old man looked him up and down, a faint smile playing on his lips. "You're lucky, you have the chance to receive a wisp of my divine consciousness before you die."
Chen Bai's eyes flickered slightly, his face stiff, as if he was struggling desperately but could not break free from that invisible shackle.
His lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but no sound came out.
The old man took a step forward, his figure disappeared from the upper level, and appeared in front of Chen Bai.
He stretched out a hand, which did not exist in a physical form but was formed from white light, and his index finger touched Chen Bai's brow.
"Whoosh—"
The old man's figure vanished instantly, turning into a wisp of white mist that flowed straight into Chen Bai's spiritual platform.
A colossal wave has already surged within the sea of consciousness.
Chen Bai stood on a small boat, adrift on the boundless ocean.
The wind and rain lashed the sea, thunder roared and lightning flashed, the waves surged relentlessly, and the torrential rain poured down like a leak in the sky. The small boat tossed and turned on the crest of the waves, as if it would be swallowed up at any moment.
The sea suddenly split open, and a towering giant slowly rose from the abyss.
The giant was over a hundred feet tall, its entire body formed from condensed white light. It stood with its feet on the deep sea and its head reaching the clouds, its hands behind its back.
His face was as majestic as a god, with a youthful face and white hair, exuding an air of otherworldly grace.
It exudes a dazzling, unparalleled power of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Only the sinister glint in those triangular eyes completely shattered the overall solemnity.
This was the divine incarnation of the Yao family patriarch, revealing his true form within Chen Bai's sea of consciousness.
He was not some virtuous and wise immortal, but a greedy, vicious, and unscrupulous Foundation Establishment monster who would stop at nothing to seize another's body.
The Yao family patriarch looked down at the tiny figure on the small boat, a confident smile spreading across his lips.
"Junior!!"
He stared at Chen Bai's frozen figure, his voice booming like thunder, shaking the sea.
"At only the mid-stage of the Fetal Breathing Realm, his spiritual sense surpasses that of many cultivators at the late stage of the Fetal Breathing Realm. He is quite capable."
If the ancestor had met me sooner, he might have married my Yao family's eldest daughter to him, making her a guest elder, which would have been putting her to good use... What a pity.
You shouldn't have killed members of my Yao family, and you certainly shouldn't have... and you shouldn't have seen or known what you shouldn't have known.
At this point, a hint of killing intent flashed in the eyes of the Yao family patriarch.
"I, your ancestor, will gladly accept your physical body."
After saying that, he slowly extended his right hand, a giant palm that blotted out the sky and sun, with streaks of lightning leaping between his fingers.
The colossal hand, coiled like a claw, came crashing down on Chen Bai's head, pressing lower and lower above him.
If this palm strike lands squarely, Chen Bai's true spirit will surely be annihilated, leaving him with no possibility of reincarnation.
At this critical moment.
On the small boat, Chen Bai stood with his hands behind his back, a smile on his face, and calmly uttered a single word:
"Certainly."
Immediately afterwards, it was as if he possessed the great supernatural power of speaking the law.
The gale suddenly stopped.
The raging lightning seemed to have been paused, frozen in mid-air, motionless. The giant waves on the sea continued their churning, but could no longer fall.
The entire sea of consciousness seemed to have suddenly been paused.