Chapter 503: The Nuo Organization
Xia Feng absorbed energy at a furious pace for ten seconds, quickly replenishing his energy before rejoining the battlefield.
Jiang Qiue watched the enemy’s retreating back, pursed her lips, and quietly tidied her dishevelled skirt. She then calmly and methodically continued to craft Purification Talismans.
Purification Talismans shot out from the light barrier, striking the enemy between the eyebrows. At the same time, she directed his movements with her will, acting as his eyes.
However, only half an hour passed before Xia Feng charged back in, and without a word, tore at her collar again.
“!!!”
In his current state, Xia Feng could repair his injuries by constantly consuming the honey within him. But once the honey was depleted, his body would begin to regress. This, in turn, required him to absorb more honey to inhibit this regression. This was beneficial for Jiang Qiue, as it would accelerate the curse’s formation. However, the problem now was that she didn’t have enough honey for Xia Feng to absorb.
Six hours passed. Xia Feng had returned to absorb her honey ten more times, leaving Jiang Qiue completely numb.
Her mental power was also depleted, rendering her unable to supply any more Purification Talismans. So, after Xia Feng absorbed her honey this time, she proposed that she needed to absorb his dragon blood to replenish her mental power.
Xia Feng seemed resistant and initially tried to fight back. But after she forcefully bit into his neck, he ultimately put the bigger picture first and complied.
She had to admit, this feeling was truly wonderful. Feeling the flow of the warm blood beneath the enemy’s skin, and the profound weakness from excessive blood loss, Jiang Qiue felt as if Xia Feng had returned to his days of being a well-behaved and sensible boy.
“If you keep absorbing it, I’m going to die,” Xia Feng’s cold, hoarse voice sounded in her ear.
Jiang Qiue glanced sideways with her beautiful eyes, embracing Xia Feng’s black hair with her slender arms and pulling him into her embrace. She whispered, “Then it’s your turn to absorb.”
Xia Feng: “…”
It had to be said, Jiang Qiue’s honey could help him heal his injuries, including blood regeneration. And his dragon blood, in turn, could help Jiang Qiue recover her mental power, suppress the Corrupted Seal, and so on. After that, Jiang Qiue could use her mental power to create Purification Talismans, providing him with spiritual protection to ward off interference from “Assimilation Consciousness.” In this way, the two of them absorbing from each other could be considered a kind of perpetual motion machine.
After this mutual absorption happened five times, and they persisted for another three hours.
“How much longer do we need?” Xia Feng finally couldn’t take it anymore. Even though his injuries could heal themselves, the endless monster tide was truly a headache, and his mental power was also severely lacking.
The Thousand Hands and Holy Arrow Spirit Soldiers, beings created from mental power, had all perished and could not be regenerated. He did not possess the ability to convert dragon blood into mental power like Jiang Qiue did, so many spirit artifacts that required mental power became unusable, reducing his combat strength. If this continued, even with their perfect cooperation, they would eventually be exhausted and die here.
“Alright, come back.” Jiang Qiue saw that Xia Feng had reached his limit and recalled him. At the same time, a Repair Talisman appeared between her fingers. With a casual toss, the golden talisman floated in the air and merged into the light barrier. It quickly repaired the crack, making it as good as new.
Xia Feng looked at this scene with a slight frown and turned his head expressionlessly, “Didn’t you say all the talismans were used up?”
The woman in the green dress glanced at him with her beautiful eyes, confused, “Did you believe me?”
“…” Xia Feng, of course, hadn’t believed her. But seeing this stinky fox lie so righteously, he couldn’t help but feel impressed. He had to admit, Jiang Qiue’s thick skin was quite remarkable.
“So, how many Repair Talismans do you have left? And what is the storage limit for talismans?”
“Three Repair Talismans left.” The woman in the green dress conjured three golden papers out of thin air, and her beautiful eyes looked up at Xia Feng. “The storage limit is actually 20.” Xia Feng smiled slightly. This woman had said earlier that the storage limit was 10, and now it had doubled. She truly had no qualms about lying.
Jiang Qiue looked at the ground. She could already sense the tremors beneath the hill and faintly hear a distant dragon’s roar.
“Let’s hold on a bit longer; that God is about to awaken.” Jiang Qiue slightly bent down, grabbed Xia Feng’s armpits, and lifted him onto her. She leaned her lips to his ear, “Now, you just need to provide me with dragon blood and replenish my mental power.”
Xia Feng didn’t resist, only placing his small hands on her slender shoulders. His limpid eyes looked out at the dense dragon corpses outside. Those things were climbing onto the spherical light net, their wing-eyes filled with an unusually sinister malice.
“I just want to ask, what exactly is this ‘Snowfield Consciousness’?” Xia Feng asked, puzzled. “Why would this place give birth to such a being? Isn’t this supposed to be a battlefield from the Imperial Civil War?”
“The specific reason is unknown, but I do know that the Snowfield Consciousness seems to be related to an organization called Nuo.”
Nuo? Xia Feng was taken aback and couldn’t help but think of Ri Nuo, the near-god he encountered in the Calamity Demon Sea.
“Does this organization you mentioned, Nuo, have any connection to the traitor Ri Nuo?”
“I don’t know,” Jiang Qiue answered casually, without any intention of explaining further to Xia Feng. She simply held Xia Feng tightly in her embrace, obsessively sucking his blood.
Xia Feng’s eye corners twitched. Suck away! Just suck to your heart’s content! Once I learn Blood Spirit Constructs, you’ll get yours!
“Bang! Bang bang!!” The dragon corpses’ attacks were much more powerful than those of the withered hands. Hundreds of them impacted with the force of mighty bulls, and the light barrier quickly developed fine cracks.
Jiang Qiue continuously threw out three Repair Talismans, but they couldn’t hold for long. The talismans were soon used up, and the cracks continued to multiply. Hundreds, thousands of bizarre, eerie cackles echoed endlessly. The dragon corpses flapped their fleshy wings, their embedded eyes growing more excited. Their claws and teeth dug into the cracks, their ferocious bloody eyeballs bursting and spreading across the dome, also squeezing through the gaps.
“Bang!!” The light barrier suddenly shattered. Countless dragon corpses, like grotesque demons and abominations, rushed towards the two from all directions with strange laughter. Xia Feng’s black pupils narrowed.
In the next moment, a magnificent golden talisman with the words “Great Repair” appeared and floated into the air. While concealing itself within space, the disintegrating barrier’s spiritual light instantly reformed, creating a narrow space less than a cubic meter, firmly protecting the two within.
“Seal your five senses,” Jiang Qiue lowered her head, closed her eyes, and held the boy tightly in her embrace, curling up into a ball. Fortunately, Xia Feng had become very small; otherwise, this narrow space might not have been able to accommodate both of them. The world turned pitch black, but they could feel as if they were hidden inside a tiny turtle shell, surrounded by drooling monsters.
“Didn’t you say you only had three talismans left?” Xia Feng grumbled through the Bee Swarm Will.
Jiang Qiue replied indifferently, “I indeed only had three Repair Talismans left, but I still have three Great Repair Talismans.”
“…”
“Six. You’re amazing.” Xia Feng’s wariness towards this woman increased again. She didn’t speak a single truthful word.
“Rumble!!” At this moment, as if the earth were collapsing, the ground rumbled.
“Roar!!!” A dragon’s roar, reaching directly into the soul, emanated from underground. Xia Feng’s heart pounded. That was the aura of a dragon race infinitely close to the Dragon God Di Si. It was about to break through the seal beneath the hill and emerge into this world!
