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Chapter 357 - 357 355 Outbreak Number One
Chapter 357 - 357 355 Outbreak Number One
?Chapter 357: 355 Outbreak Number One Chapter 357: 355 Outbreak Number One In front of the bamboo forest, on an open ground.
Two Fear Shadows simultaneously rushed out for over ten meters, leaping up and colliding in mid-air.
Bang!!
The elephant-headed man from Yu Mountain looked bigger, but instead, it was the one who got repelled a step back.
Moo!
It roared furiously, raising its knife and chopping down lightning-fast onto the mummy’s shoulder.
But with a clang, the knife couldn’t even leave a scratch on the mummy’s silver skin, only leaving a shallow white mark on the surface.
“Huh??!” Yu Mountain’s expression slightly changed, as he altered his spell again, and behind him, a golden lion with wings emerged.
The three-meter-tall majestic lion shook its mane and with a beating of its wings, dashed towards Zheng Ying.
Its speed was extremely fast, almost like a blur, the distance of several tens of meters passed in a flash.
By the time it was noticed, the lion had already bitten towards Zheng Ying’s head.
Ao!!
The enormous roar of the lion on the mental level exploded at this moment.
Crack.
The lion bit down completely over Zheng Ying’s upper body.
But…
Accompanied by a series of strange noises, the lion emitted distressed whimpers. It seemed what it had bitten into was not a living being but something extremely hard.
With a puff, a silver dagger stabbed upward through the underbelly of the lion.
The entire lion’s head whimpered and burst into pieces like glass pottery, shattering into countless fragments.
As the debris scattered, Zheng Ying stood in the same spot, completely unharmed, holding the dagger.
“It’s useless, Elder Uncle. This power and secret technique were bestowed upon us by Senior Brother. With your current strength, you can’t harm me,” she said.
She lowered her dagger, slowly taking step by step towards Yu Mountain.
“Don’t forego the wine of respect and be forced to drink the wine of penalty. Be good and come back with your junior….”
She always remembered the Temple Master’s command—make it clear that staying alone in the wilderness meant no way out. Intimidate by threatening the important people of the opponent and bring them back first.
“What kind of secret technique is this….!!?” Yu Mountain, bearing the headache from the backlash, finally became grave.
He had never seen such a secret technique before, at least not around Qingchen Temple or Taizhou.
It appears this was either something new concocted by Yu Hen or Zheng Ying.
“Every secret technique has its limits; I want to see just how much my attacks your technique can withstand!” Yu Mountain’s heart turned ruthless as he manipulated another spell.
This time, he used his hidden trump card—the Sixth Layer Fear Shadow.
A pitch-black armored figure with eight arms, over three meters tall, emerged behind him.
Circle after circle of black ripples constantly emanated from the armored figure.
The intense Spiritual Fluctuation carried a slight interference effect, which could slow down the reaction speed of any Magician who saw this armored figure on the spot.
“Eight Darkness, Bright Weapon,” Yu Mountain shouted in a low voice.
Instantly, black and red spears with patterns appeared in the hands of the eight-armed armored figure.
Sssss!!
In an instant, the eight spears propelled by immense force were thrown out one after another towards Zheng Ying, not far away.
At this moment, Zheng Ying’s Black Fire Mummy was still entangled by the elephant-headed man and had no power to call back.
In such intense combat, the gap between her and the seasoned expert from Qingchen Temple became apparent.
Under high-intensity combat conditions, she could only summon one Fear Shadow, while the opponent could summon two at the same time.
This was not a talent forged from the integration of the Five Spirits Spring, but a limit ability cultivated by self-training with the mind-in-two-places technique.
As the eight Black Spears shot out at this moment, they struck Zheng Ying’s torso like lightning.
She had no time to dodge and only felt darkness before her eyes as she was hit.
Bang bang bang bang!!!
One after another, the Black Spears continuously struck the layer of silver Spirit Light on her body.
The Black Spears shattered constantly, turning into specks of light.
But, until the last Black Spear burst and completely disappeared, turning into Spiritual Fluctuation.
The layer of silver Spirit Light still had a thin translucent remnant, protecting Zheng Ying’s safety.
Moreover, as the Black Spears ceased, in less than two seconds, this translucent remnant, like being inflated, quickly deepened in color, restoring to the regular thickness of the silver Spirit Light.
“It’s useless,” Zheng Ying said gravely, steadily approaching step by step. “Elder Uncle Yu Mountain, I’m standing right here, and you can’t even interrupt my advance….”
“How… is that possible!?” Yu Mountain watched as his trump card failed to break through the opponent’s defensive Technique, and in that moment, his eyes widened in disbelief, his complexion turning deathly pale.
The Fear Shadow he had painstakingly cultivated for decades, his full-strength strike…
In the end, turned out to be….
“Elder Uncle, in your current state, who can you protect?”
By then, Zheng Ying had already approached him.
With calm eyes, she stared directly at him.
Bam!
One punch.
She struck a heavy blow to Yu Mountain’s face.
This strike shattered Yu Mountain’s pride and also disrupted his control over the Fear Shadow Technique.
The Fear Shadow dissipated in an instant, his head spinning, he fell backward onto the ground, suffering from backlash.
“Take him,” Zheng Ying walked up to him and gestured with a wave of her hand.
Immediately, two Taoists, also bearing faint silver Spirit Light, rushed out of the bamboo forest, lifted Yu Mountain, tied him up and carried him towards a vehicle parked outside.
“Sister Zheng Ying, what about the things here?” a Taoist asked softly as he came from behind.
“Seal them properly, and allow no one to disturb them. Once Elder Uncle Yu Mountain regains consciousness, he will come back to sort them out,” Zheng Ying replied calmly.
“Then, who shall we go to next…?” the Taoist continued to ask.
“Yu Shan, Yu Long, Yu Guang, go to Yu Long’s place again; the strongest, Yu Guang, will be left for last,” Zheng Ying replied.
“Understood. Speaking of which, it’s impressive how Senior Sister just now was able to withstand Master Yu’s Fear Shadow attack all by herself. You’re really too strong!” The Taoist spoke with a hint of excitement and compliment.
“You’re wrong…” Zheng Ying sighed, “Do you think I’m happy?”
She turned around, gazing into the opponent’s youthful eyes, “I only feel sadness.”
“Sadness?”
“Yes. If Senior Brother Zheng Rou hadn’t led us forward together, perhaps we would have been like Master Yu Shan, immersed in our own world, basking in the power we understood from the past, thinking highly of ourselves… unable to keep up with the times.”
“The times are advancing, and we are merely walking on what we believe to be the right path. But this ‘right’ is just what we think it is.”
“Senior Sister… I don’t quite understand,” the young Taoist, who was new to the path, scratched his head and said with embarrassment.
“…” Zheng Ying didn’t say anything more, only sighing. If she hadn’t witnessed Yu Hong’s growth with her own eyes, she might not have believed that someone could achieve such heights in such a short time.
“Let’s go. The next task must be thoroughly resolved within two days.”
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Primordial Heavenly Master Mansion.
The Heavenly Master Mansion, stretching for several kilometers, is located in the deepest part of Yunchong Mountain Range.
It comprises a total of nineteen structures, surrounded by three towns providing supplies, making it a well-known tourist attraction in all of Yasong.
Unlike the more open Lower Heavenly Master Mansion, the tourist area open to the public in the Primordial Heavenly Master Mansion only occupies half of the Taoist Palace.
At present, in the other half of the Taoist Palace.
Inside a dark hall that has been sealed for a long time.
A massive black disc, over one meter in height, was silently floating in the middle of the hall.
The disc had holes around it, through which eight thick yellow ropes were threaded and hung, firmly suspended.
Vaguely, in the center of the disc, a white bizarre human eye pattern could be seen.
This place is Dingtian Hall, also the fixed location where the Sky Stabilizing Plate of the Primordial Heavenly Master Mansion is stored.
Under normal circumstances, this place is sealed off all year round and off-limits to anyone. Only after obtaining permission can one soak a secondary body of the Sky Stabilizing Plate in the connected pool outside the hall for charging.
Aside from this, even opening the door is not allowed.
Since the last suppression of the Gate of Despair, this place has not been opened for at least decades.
Rumble…
At this moment, the sky outside was covered with dark clouds, and thunder roared.
Crack.
Suddenly, a bolt of silver lightning struck down fiercely, hitting the top end of the hall outside.
Heavy rain immediately poured down.
Inside the hall, the Sky Stabilizing Plate silently hovered.
Without warning, a crack silently appeared on the surface of the plate.
An extremely fine crack, almost impossible to detect.
Whether from long use or some other reason, this powerful Dao Artifact, which had suppressed the Black Disaster for hundreds of years, inexplicably developed a crack without showing signs of decay.
And at this time, inside the Primordial Heavenly Master Mansion, no one was aware of this.
Everyone was immersed in the peace brought by the belief that the Sky Stabilizing Plate suppressed the world and the land remained stable…
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On the beaches of the Taizhou marine area, suburb.
The setting sun was tilting to the west.
“Master Yu, look, this is what the City Environmental Bureau discovered,”
A somewhat bald middle-aged man, wearing a dusty suit, knelt on the beach, scooped up a handful of sand, and spoke to Yu Hong.
“The sand smells fishy; this is a pollution-free beach, but all the shellfish, fish, shrimp, and crabs that should be living in it have all died.”
He opened his hand, and the sand was yellow on the outside but black on the inside, with a strong pungent fishy stench erupting all at once.
“Are you certain there are no pollutants?” Yu Hong looked around, using Spiritual Sensing to determine whether other supernatural factors could be the cause.
“Yes, all the detectable items have been tested, but small marine life continues to die in large numbers,” the middle-aged man said helplessly. “I specially formed a joint investigation team, pulling together experts from various departments to investigate, but even after a week, we still haven’t found anything.”
He was Xu Jianfeng, the deputy mayor in charge of environmental sanitation in Taozhou City.
After ruling out all possible causes, he had no choice but to seek out Yu Hong.
“Now we can only hope Master Yu can investigate from your mystic perspective and see if you can find the reason,” Xu Jianfeng said helplessly.
Yu Hong nodded.
Not far from where the two men stood, many people from the city were waiting for his investigation results.
Yu Hong walked slowly along the beach, bending down and checking every point he passed.
Suddenly, he stamped his foot down.
His boot heel sank into the ground, and with an upward flick, a shallow pit appeared on the beach.
In the pit, a still-living black crab was completely exposed to the sunlight.
The palm-sized black crab emitted a strong foul stench, reminiscent of decayed protein left for too long.
Hiss!
Suddenly.
The black crab leaped up as if a bullet, rushing towards Yu Hong’s face.
Its speed was so fast that an ordinary person couldn’t possibly react in time.
But Yu Hong was different.
He tilted his head to avoid the crab’s lunge and then flicked his fingers.
A blue-white Inner Strength shot out, instantly hitting the crab mid-air, engulfing it completely.
Then he spread his hand open.
The crab naturally flew through the air, landing in his hand, motionless.