Chapter: Chapter 236
How long has she been dragged here? Bai Ling didn’t know. All she knew was that she had severed more tentacles than seafood she had eaten in her entire life.
How far had she traveled? She didn’t know the answer to this either, but she had a vague estimation in her mind. Although these tentacles couldn’t be killed, they could only hinder her progress, not completely stop her.
After chopping for so long, she must have advanced a considerable distance.
Perhaps, she might be about to meet the mastermind behind it all.
These tentacles only appeared in front of her. If she turned back and left now, she could quickly escape this meat grinder battlefield specifically set up for her.
But she would not retreat, at least not now.
“It should be soon.” She told herself countless times in her heart. Bai Ling gripped her sword and once again unleashed a brilliant starlight that seemed capable of tearing the heavens and earth apart.
This was her ordinary attack. An attack that would be unimaginable to ordinary people was just a sword qi that Bai Ling could unleash casually. The Sword Saint’s strength was never on the same level as these heroes below.
The black tentacles, still struggling to support themselves in front of Bai Ling, fell like cut wheat. As they fell, these tentacles turned into wisps of black energy and merged into the surrounding air.
This scene felt familiar to Bai Ling. A long time ago, in a divine artifact called Mist City, she had encountered similar immortal creatures. They were mist beasts created by some ability users under Old Eagle, using the power of the Mist God.
These monsters were comparable to those mist beasts in their immortality, but in terms of physical strength and energy density within their bodies, these tentacles were far superior to those mist beasts.
Was it the difference between the manipulators?
The manipulators of those mist beasts were ordinary ability users. Even fighting on their home turf, their power was not enough to bridge the gulf in strength between them and Bai Ling.
But these tentacles, the ones controlling them might be the monster on the verge of breaking free from its seal. At first, the monster only summoned storms, but now it could summon these tangible tentacles to block anyone trying to get close.
What did this mean? It meant that the seal on the monster was gradually disappearing. The seal could no longer suppress the monster, and it could already release its terrifying power to the outside world.
“Faster, I need to be faster.” And its desperate attempt to stop Bai Ling from getting close could only mean that it was afraid, afraid of Bai Ling.
If it were in its prime, Bai Ling might have been just a slightly stronger bug in its eyes. But it was currently at the most critical juncture of breaking the seal, and it could not allow any uncertain factors to approach.
Coincidentally, Bai Ling, with her clear objective and overwhelmingly powerful presence, was the most unstable factor.
The monster had clearly given up on blocking the divine seat’s aircraft, dedicating all its energy to stopping Bai Ling. In its eyes, the threat posed by the aircraft was minimal; Bai Ling was the one that truly needed attention.
And after such a long delay, its strategic depth was running out.
The tentacles’ attacks became more frantic? And their numbers increased significantly! Bai Ling keenly sensed the change in the situation. After a brief thought, she drew a clear conclusion: the monster was getting anxious.
She must have approached a place the monster did not want her to approach.
Since the monster did not want her to approach, that place was undoubtedly where she needed to go.
Understanding this, Bai Ling immediately raised her long sword and began to gather her strength.
A hazy nebula appeared out of nowhere around her body, transforming the entire space around her into a starry world. The fierce wind and rain disappeared without a trace. Even the tentacles within the star world instantly dissipated into black energy.
When a powerful being capable of unleashing world-destroying skills with every move began to charge up, the pressure on both people and monsters was immense.
The monster’s main body was still sealed, and only a small portion of its consciousness could be projected to the outside. In its perception, Bai Ling’s aura at this moment was enough to make it lose any thought of resistance.
The obstruction was about to fail.
The next attack, no matter how much power it spent to generate tentacles, would not be able to withstand it.
That was no longer an ordinary attack. On that mortal, the monster smelled an aura that it intensely disliked and feared.
An aura from the same source as the blue trident still stuck in its head.
“Break!” Although it was a charge-up, it only took a few seconds. When the starlight surrounding the star sword reached its peak, Bai Ling unhesitatingly swung her sword towards the tentacles in front of her.
Beautiful sword light tore through the black sky, and brilliant sunlight poured down from the rift. Bathed in golden sunlight, Bai Ling felt her internal power rapidly recovering.
The tentacles that had previously lunged at her menacingly had vanished. Under such a terrifying sword strike, they and the cloud wall behind them turned into bubbles in an instant.
Bai Ling’s sword had forcefully carved a gap in the storm.
In front of her, the small island was already faintly visible.
Without overthinking, Bai Ling shot towards the island like an arrow released from a bow.
On the beach at the edge of the island, Yang, who had just finished repairing the Black Wing, watched the man-made gap with a dumbfounded expression. God knew how shocked he was at that moment.
He had just been sitting on the wing of the Black Wing, watching that brilliant starlight tear open the storm and leave a beautiful starry river in its wake. The surrounding dark clouds tried to fill the gap, but no matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t get close to the starry river.
What was that? Yang swallowed. Was that an attack from a god?
However, he had also seen the attacks unleashed by high-ranking divine envoys using the power of gods in the divine seat’s database, and they were nothing compared to what he was seeing now.
It was too shocking; he couldn’t even speak at that moment.
Then, a white figure flew out of the starry river. Her gaze swept over the Black Wing on the beach and saw Yang, who looked scared silly.
“Who are you? What are you doing here?”
Startled by the white-haired girl who suddenly appeared before him, Yang almost fell off the wing. He tried to control his heartbeat and introduced himself, “I am from the Divine Seat…”
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“Have we met this girl somewhere before?” Looking at the image extracted from people’s minds by the Singer and Anxi, Leticia quickly searched her memory and found the person who perfectly matched this image.
Isn’t that the receptionist from the seaside coffee shop?
Leticia still remembered how terrible their coffee was, so she had a pretty deep impression of that shop.
“She does look a bit like it. I think it’s her,” Anxi poked her small head out from the side and whispered while looking at the portrait, “Blue hair is rare enough, and this person looks so much like her. If not her, then who?”
The other girls who had seen the young lady also gathered around. After a round of whispering, they reached the same conclusion as Anxi.
“Alright, I’ll go find her.” Leticia stood up from her chair and stretched her body, which had become stiff from sitting for too long.
“You’re going personally, Qianqian?” The captain asked in surprise. In this situation, wouldn’t it be easier to just send someone to call that young lady over?
Leticia shook her head. The fact that she possessed this ability to blur others’ perception meant that the blue-haired girl’s strength was definitely considerable. Sending an ordinary person, if she cooperated, it would be fine. But if she didn’t want to cooperate, wouldn’t that be alerting the snake?
If she attacked and then slipped away, wouldn’t their hard-won clue be lost?
Therefore, for safety’s sake, it was better for Leticia to make the trip herself.
“You all wait here. If there’s any news about the glasses man’s lair, you can go check it out first and just leave me the address. I’ll settle things over there as quickly as possible,” Leticia told the captain.
The captain did not object. She nodded, “Okay.”
Such obedient behavior made Leticia feel much better. With a capable and obedient teammate like the captain helping, how could she not feel good?
If all her subordinates could be as obedient, well-behaved, and capable as the captain, how wonderful would that be?
Shaking her head, she cleared the jumbled thoughts in her mind and walked out of the temporary tent, leaping towards the coffee shop in her memory.
Not long after, the coffee shop appeared in Leticia’s vision.
The coffee shop’s door was tightly shut, with a cute wooden sign hanging on it that read ‘Closed.’ However, through the dark glass, Leticia could see the blue-haired girl standing on the outdoor terrace, gazing motionlessly in the direction of the sea.
As if sensing the arrival of a guest, the blue-haired girl turned her head and gave Leticia a friendly smile.
“Come in, the door isn’t locked,” the girl mouthed.
Pushing open the door, Leticia walked into the small room filled with the aroma of coffee. “You don’t intend to hide your strangeness.”
The girl didn’t reply. She just walked back to the counter with a slight smile. “How about a cup of coffee?”
“I can’t afford your coffee; it’s too bitter,” Leticia pouted. She didn’t want to put on a pretentious expression in such a serious situation.
But her refusal didn’t stop the girl’s actions. The girl skillfully made a steaming cup of coffee and pushed it towards Leticia.
“I already said no…”
“This cup of coffee tastes different. I believe it will satisfy you,” the girl said to Leticia with a smile. “My name is Xi, and I’m sort of a native of this city.”
Introducing herself at this moment? Leticia raised an eyebrow. She looked down at the coffee in front of her. Xi said the coffee tasted different from the previous one; should she believe her?
Would this coffee have something in it? Like… no, no, she saw the entire process of making the coffee, and no action was out of the ordinary.
This coffee should be safe.
Leticia carefully picked up the cup and licked the rim with her tongue.
A rich aroma burst on her tongue. As Xi had said, this cup of coffee tasted great, much better than the previous bitter one, at least.
“You came to find me, you must have gotten some news. State your questions, and I’ll tell you anything I know.” Seeing Leticia’s action, the smile on the girl’s face became even brighter.
What was this? Testing if she trusted her? Leticia didn’t understand why Xi suddenly smiled so happily, but it wasn’t important. She just needed to know why Xi appeared there and the secret behind this girl.
“I’ve come to find you because of the monster from yesterday.”
“There was quite a commotion last night, but that monster has nothing to do with me,” Xi said softly, rubbing her delicate fingers.
“Nearby residents saw you appearing at that place every week, and at that time, you used your abilities to interfere with people’s minds and electronic devices. You don’t want your identity exposed, do you?”
Xi blinked her eyes. “I didn’t expect you to find me this way. I thought it would be a more convoluted deduction.”
“How can deduction be more useful than superpowers?” Leticia retorted. With the Singer and Anxi by her side, even Sherlock Holmes wouldn’t be as good as these two. “Let’s get to the point. Don’t digress. What were you planning to do when you appeared there?”
“Surveillance,” Xi answered faintly. “Monitoring that poor soul, lest he take a wrong step and fall into the abyss.”
“But he has already fallen into the abyss, hasn’t he? Your surveillance had no effect,” Leticia said unceremoniously.
That man was currently breaking the monster’s seal. If this wasn’t falling into the abyss, what was?
Xi’s expression didn’t change. She just gave a helpless smile to Leticia’s words. “I tried my best, but compared to that thing, my ability to influence people’s hearts is still insufficient.”
“You seem to know a lot, even more than I initially expected,” Leticia stared at Xi for a long time and teased, “I have a bold idea, could you be a god?”
Rumble! Even though it was a clear day, Leticia heard a thunderclap explode in her ear.
What happened? Did something explode somewhere?!
