Chapter 2: New Century (Epilogue)
Chapter 779: Killing the Thunder Beast
It seemed that the Thunder Bird, transformed by Bai Yao, was too dazzling, attracting the attention of many Thunder Beasts. Or perhaps it was intentional for the trial. In any case, more Thunder Beasts turned their direction and charged towards Bai Yao, with many even abandoning the Thunder Titans in front of them.
What kind of grudges do they have?
Xi Wei pursed his lips as he watched this scene.
Bai Yao’s trial target was to hunt a Champion Level Thunder Beast. Then, helping Bai Yao kill the interfering Thunder Beasts around should not be a violation, right?
With this thought, Xi Wei locked onto one of the Thunder Beasts getting closer and closer to Bai Yao. This Thunder Beast’s strength was only at the sixth tier. The strength of these divine creatures varied, and their realm distribution, as if randomly fabricated, was truly a bit perfunctory. He extended his hand, and with a ‘hand blade’ motion, he slashed downwards towards the Thunder Beast’s death line. The Thunder Beast, which was still running wild, instantly fell to the ground.
After killing a Thunder Beast, Xi Wei looked up at the sky.
His Thunder Eyes were still emitting a faint blue glow. Thunder Beasts were falling from the sky like dumplings, one after another, without any prompts or warnings.
“It seems it’s not a violation…”
A sinister smile curved Xi Wei’s lips.
Since that was the case, he would slaughter them all!
“Boom—!”
Pale golden Qi erupted from all parts of his body, rocks shattered, and the fragments of broken rocks flew like high-speed spinning bullets. The seventy-times gravity was as if it didn’t exist. Xi Wei, clad in blackArmor, ascended into mid-air. Killing intent glinted in his eyes, and his body was enveloped in violent Qi, mixed with black Divinity. In reality, he possessed other Divinities as well, but the Death Divinity was too overbearing, and all other Divinities were overshadowed by it.
The King of Conquest Long Sword seemed to be enveloped by the phantom of a pitch-black scythe.
The next moment, Xi Wei, wielding the King of Conquest Long Sword, slashed repeatedly at the beast tide.
“Boom—!”
The pitch-black saber energy either swept horizontally or slashed upwards towards the sky. Dozens of feet of saber light annihilated the charging Thunder Beasts.
Wherever the saber light passed, blank areas instantly appeared within the Thunder Beast tide. The dense Death Divinity didn’t even leave behind the corpses of the Thunder Beasts, only leaving behind pale bone ash on the ground, which was easily blown away by a strike of lightning from the mountains.
Seeing the King in mid-air with his imposing aura, the Thunder Beasts showed no signs of retreating.
They roared, ignoring the deaths of their companions, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws, their bodies extended with lightning, charging fearlessly towards where Bai Yao was fighting.
Some Thunder Beasts remained in place, condensing the surrounding lightning power and guiding the lightning from the dark clouds to target Bai Yao. The lightning pillars descending from the sky continuously bombarded Bai Yao, but they could not inflict much damage on Bai Yao, who had transformed into lightning elementals. At most, they brought some impact force, so Xi Wei did not waste time on these long-range attacking Thunder Beasts.
“This path is blocked.”
The place where Bai Yao was fighting the Champion Level Thunder Beast was in a small basin surrounded by steep rock walls, with only one gentle slope leading to the combat center below. Xi Wei stood blocking that gentle slope, single-handedly holding back the gray beast tide. He was like a watershed, blocking all the grayness outside.
In the basin, Bai Yao and the Champion Level Thunder Beast were engaged in an intense battle.
Initially, Bai Yao did not consider the Champion Level Thunder Beast a particularly powerful opponent.
But the moment they clashed, she felt the troublesome nature of the Thunder Beast. Firstly, this monster had an extremely strong fighting will, constantly either attacking or on the verge of attacking. Moreover, it had decent resilience; ordinary attacks could not shake this monster at all. Bai Yao even guessed that this thing might not feel pain.
Furthermore, the long-range breaths of other Thunder Beasts interfered from time to time, leaving her flustered. In a short while, she was already panting.
When she saw the tide of Thunder Beasts charging over, she was already filled with despair. Fortunately, Xi Wei appeared in time and completely blocked the surging tide.
Looking at the back of the person blocking the path of a million enemies, Bai Yao couldn’t help but feel touched.
Although this was her Divine Trial, she was not alone. Ruo Yi, Xi Wei, and Connie were all by her side. The people in Winter City were probably praying for her too.
With all this, she could not afford to lose!
“Roar—!!”
Just as Bai Yao’s thoughts were racing, a roar echoed in her ears.
Her gaze shifted, and she saw a lightning breath tearing through the air, shattering space as it rapidly approached her.
Bai Yao could not dodge in time and was splattered in the face by the breath. The violent lightning and superheated lightning burst washed over her entire body, but she only lost a few purple and gold feathers. However, the gold necklace and jewelry that Xi Wei had given her were melted by the scorching lightning.
But this only made Bai Yao angrier.
She had been extremely careful to avoid being directly struck by lightning. She would rather get injured than have these precious gifts melted. They were a testament to the feelings between her and Xi Wei. Whenever she was bored, she would take them out and look at them, her heart filled with sweetness. But now…
Bai Yao glared at the Thunder Beast and transformed back into her human form. She had initially transformed into a Thunder Bird to prevent her jewelry from being melted by the Thunder Beasts. Since it was already melted, there was nothing more to say. She waved her hand gently, and endless lightning spewed out from her hands, gradually forming the shape of a long saber.
“You truly deserve to die!”
Her gray and white long hair danced wildly in the air, and golden lightning flashed in Bai Yao’s eyes. The long saber seemed to be ignited by golden flames; it was the ultimate lightning, hundreds and thousands of times more ferocious than the lightning on the Thunder Beasts. She raised the long saber and pointed it at the charging Thunder Beast, her entire aura suddenly rising:
“Let me show you what true lightning is!”
Boom, boom, boom—
The long saber in her hand seemed unable to suppress the lightning power within any longer, emitting a piercing explosive sound. The next second, this lightning-wrapped long saber was hurled out. The golden flash made the illumination of the entire mountainside suddenly increase for a moment, followed by a tinnitus-shattering explosion. The long saber, as if surpassing the speed of light, broke through the spatial blockade and fiercely pierced the Thunder Beast’s flesh with a “hiss.”
Arcing electricity danced wildly, enveloping the Thunder Beast like a net. The other end of the net was held in Bai Yao’s hand. The moment she heard the sound of the blade entering flesh, Bai Yao’s eyes narrowed. She clasped her hands together, and countless swirling arcs of electricity condensed towards her, unleashing the full power of the lightning saber.
“Electric field… blast!”
Boom—
Crimson-gold lightning sealed the Thunder Beast, and then the lightning saber violently exploded. The shattered lightning saber fragments cut the Thunder Beast’s body into countless pieces, which were then turned into a cloud of flying ash by the scorching high temperature.
After completing this strike.
Bai Yao also exhausted her strength and slumped down from the sky listlessly.
