Chapter: Chapter 400
Deep within the vast space, in a mysterious realm untouched by anyone, stood a small wooden house.
The small wooden house looked very warm and lived-in. Almost everyone would think that the person living there was likely a gentle woman.
And that was indeed the case. In the bedroom of the small wooden house, on a luxurious bed, slept a woman of exquisite beauty. Her beauty was enough to make the starry sky dim its radiance, and to make the bright sun hide behind the clouds, afraid to show its face.
But she kept her eyes closed, her breathing even, just as she had for countless years, drifting in endless dreams.
A strange fluctuation came from an unknown source, causing the sleeping woman to frown. Her eyelids began to tremble, as if she were about to awaken from an endless slumber.
This movement immediately stirred the world around her. Frenzied energy waves surged, and rumbling roars echoed through space, as if the woman’s awakening was about to bring about an unpleasant future.
Fortunately, the woman did not fully awaken from her dream in the end. She merely opened her eyes a sliver, casting her gaze unconsciously in a certain direction.
She took in everything that had happened in that small space. After understanding all the causes and effects through the threads of causality, she closed her eyes again. What had happened there was not enough to awaken her from her eternal dream.
“The children of today seem more hopeful than before…” a faint sigh drifted through the room. “…Perhaps they should experience more?”
When the sigh completely disappeared, the space had returned to its usual calm, as if nothing had happened. Only the expression on the woman’s face had changed slightly.
A hint of relief now appeared on her face, which had previously been frozen in its beauty.
What was she relieved about?
Who knew? It couldn’t be that she was happy that some children had smashed her carefully crafted works, could it?
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“What was that feeling, Bailíng, did you sense it?” Lying in the girl’s warm, body-temperatured embrace, the black-haired girl stared at the sky and asked with a troubled expression.
The white-haired girl holding her nodded with a grave expression. Moments after the crystal lotus was completely destroyed, she had felt an extremely terrifying gaze cast down from the sky. Just a single glance had pinned her down, making her unable to move.
The owner of that gaze was definitely a powerful being beyond the comprehension of everyone in this world. Just a glance at this mirrored space had almost scared Lethicia and Bailíng to death.
If anyone else had been standing there, they would have fainted or even died the moment that gaze fell upon them.
“I suspect it’s the being that created the crystal lotus. We destroyed her lotus, and she happened to glance this way, so it doesn’t seem unreasonable, does it?” Lethicia speculated about the identity of the owner of that gaze, guessing it was most likely the creator of the crystal lotus, the being whose name couldn’t even be spoken.
But all that being did was glance this way, and then nothing else?
Wasn’t she angry? Her masterpiece had been shattered by the combined efforts of gods and humans. Normally, wouldn’t she be a little angry?
“You should talk less and focus on recovering from your injuries. You’re not lightly injured this time. We’ll have plenty of time to talk about these things later.” More than the gaze, Bailíng was concerned about Lethicia’s physical condition. Lethicia had suffered greatly this time.
Not to mention the wound that had pierced her abdomen, during the initial explosion, many scattered stones and iron fragments had hit Lethicia’s body. It was fortunate that Lethicia’s physical condition was good enough, otherwise, Miss Demon King would really only be able to cry in Miss Bai’s arms right now.
As it was, she wasn’t fatally wounded, but she still needed a good period of recuperation.
“I’m going to take several months of leave. Anyone who dares to disturb me, I’ll exterminate their entire family,” Lethicia said, clenching her fists and gritting her teeth. “Why hasn’t Yin come to pick us up yet? This space has stabilized now, she can’t possibly not be able to open a portal, can she?”
This was a good question. Yin really wanted to get Lethicia and Bailíng out of the mirrored space immediately, but she couldn’t.
Several minutes ago, after the spatial disturbances had subsided, she had intended to do just that. Then, by sheer bad luck, she had encountered that incomparably terrifying gaze.
In that instant, Yin was stunned. Her mind went blank, and even thinking became a luxury. It was only a long time after the gaze disappeared that she recovered from the shock, sighing that she had narrowly escaped with her life.
She was not unfamiliar with that terrifying gaze. In the Age of Gods, countless years ago, the owner of that gaze had torn the all-powerful God of War to shreds.
“She’s still here, as expected,” Yin murmured to herself. She wanted to continue what she was doing, to release Lethicia and Bailíng from the mirrored space.
Immediately, her expression turned grim because she discovered something terrifying: the mirrored space she had created had broken free of her control and was drifting away from the human world.
This was impossible! she thought subconsciously. A mirrored space, no matter what, could not detach itself from its prototype. This was precisely why she dared to let Lethicia and Bailíng go to the mirrored space.
Because, generally speaking, even if the mirrored space collapsed, the people within it would be sent back to the real world and would not get lost in the interdimensional void.
But now, the situation had completely changed. Her mirrored space had suddenly become a completely independent small space. It had detached itself from the real world and was slowly drifting towards the other shore of space.
Yin wanted to stop it, to pull the mirrored space back. But the iron-like boundary of spacetime in the human world prevented her from reaching out with her hand. At least, for the time being, no person or god could extend their reach that far.
This time, it seemed like she had sown the seeds of her own actions, Yin thought with a bitter laugh. She had told Lethicia earlier that it would take some time to reopen the passage between worlds. She hadn’t expected to encounter this problem at this very moment.
“Your expression is very bad. You can’t possibly tell me that you can’t open the mirrored space, can you?” Black Mist asked Yin, who had a terrible expression, with a hint of schadenfreude. “The human army has already surrounded us. You need to quicken your pace.”
Silence.
“Say something, tell me you have a way, right?” Black Mist seemed to realize something was wrong. Yin’s reaction… could it be that she really couldn’t open the mirrored space?
“I did my best,” Yin retracted her hand and shook her head helplessly. The mirrored space had completely escaped her control.
“You can’t say that here. We killed the human Sword Saint. Do you think humans would let us leave easily?” Black Mist was overwhelmed. You, Yin, can just leave as you please, but Black Mist cannot.
She didn’t have Yin’s ability to appear and disappear at will. Although she could slip through the human defenses alone, if she did that, she wouldn’t be able to bring the remaining shadows with her.
Coming out here and having all her most trusted subordinates lost here… it was too much of a loss!
“That’s something for you to consider. You need to understand that I have no enmity with you,” Yin tilted her head and gave Black Mist a smile that said, “Don’t flatter yourself.” “Goodbye, and I hope we never meet again.”
With that, Yin disappeared in a flash of silver light without waiting for Black Mist’s reply.
“You son of a…” Black Mist’s angry curse was just about to escape her throat when the sound of helicopter rotors from outside the window interrupted her chant. The human army had finally arrived at this moment.
The following scene might become a bit inappropriate.
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On the outskirts of Center City, in Yin’s secret cabin, Victoria looked surprised as Yin rushed into the basement in a flash of silver light and emerged carrying a large pile of instruments.
“Victoria, come help me. Set these things up outside the house. I need more precise data.”
With the efforts of the two, in just half an hour, several oddly shaped antennas were erected outside Yin’s cabin. Yin, without bothering with the dirt on the ground, directly lifted the hem of her skirt and sat on the ground.
She formed hand seals, closed her eyes tightly, and unstable silver light surged from her body, dispersing to the antennas. With the help of these antennas, Yin barely managed to track the location of that mirrored space. She couldn’t open a spatial portal to bring Lethicia and the others back now, but she had to know where this space was going.
In a few months, she would have the ability to open spatial portals across worlds. By then, she could bring Lethicia and Bailíng back to the human world.
Well, a few months was not a long time. With their abilities, they could easily endure it.
But when Yin once again found the location of the mirrored space, her expression became peculiar again. That space did not seem to be wandering aimlessly in the river of spacetime. On the contrary, its goal was very clear: it was heading towards another huge world in an almost straight line.
It was a world as vast as the human world, with quite a few smaller worlds attached to it. It looked more prosperous than the human world.
“Why did it go there?” Yin was truly bewildered now. Why was the mirrored world she had created heading straight for the world of the beastmen?
It couldn’t be that this mirrored space had rebelled and decided to find another world to adopt it, could it?
The possibility was too small; it seemed impossible no matter how she thought about it.
“Someone’s messing with it? Is it that being?” Yin immediately cast suspicion on the great being that had cast its gaze upon her mirrored space. Besides that being, she couldn’t think of any other existence that could have such infuence on a mirrored space in such a short period.
Besides that being, no one else in this world could contend with Yin for control of a space.
Tsk, if it was her, then she really had no choice. Now, all she could do was hope that Lethicia and the others wouldn’t get into trouble before reinforcements arrived.
“…Although it’s a bit inappropriate to say this at this time, why do I feel like the ones who should be worried are the beastmen?” Yin had some understanding of the strength of the beastmen. Given that the Demon King and Sword Saint had been sent away together, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that they had formed an absolute combat advantage over the beastmen.
She should be worried about what she would see when she went there in the future: a devastated grassland and two already blood-red eyed powerhouses.
She hoped the beastmen wouldn’t be stupid and could hold on until she arrived.
Yin sighed. Next, she had to have a good chat with Lethicia’s sister about how her sister had abandoned her and gone to the grassland for a honeymoon with another sister.
It was troublesome, her head hurt.
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The border of the beastmen’s grassland and desert. The environment here was extremely harsh, and few creatures could survive here. Even the beastmen wouldn’t stay here for long.
Only severely ostracized and weak tribes lived here. The power of the great Beastmen God still protected them, allowing them to withstand the erosion of sandstorms. But this protection was limited to the grassland. Once they left the grassland, endless sandstorms would swallow any creature that dared to challenge its might.
The desert outside the grassland was a true forbidden zone for life.
But today, a tribe living at the border observed a strange phenomenon: the endless sandstorm had stopped. They could actually see the blue sky and the golden sun.
“Teacher, the sandstorm has stopped…” a girl with white dog ears, dressed in simple linen clothes, respectfully stood beside an old, decrepit dog-headed man.
“Cough, cough, this is not a good sign. The sandstorm has stopped, could it be that something more terrifying than sandstorms is coming?” the old dog-headed man stroked his beard, which was almost half a person long, and said in a low voice.
As if to confirm his words, the sky, which had just cleared up, was once again shrouded in darkness. But this time, what obscured the sky were not sand clouds, but finely crafted stones.
A large number of stones fell from the sky, like divine punishment from a mythical story. How could the beastmen’s thatched huts withstand these falling stones? In just a few minutes, there were not many intact houses left in the entire tribe.
“What is this?” the girl with dog ears widened her eyes. What were these stones falling from the sky?
Was it the punishment of the great god?
Had they been exiled here not been enough, and they were now being punished with falling stones?
At some point, a trace of anger rose in the girl’s heart.
