allonlinenovel Chapter 295: Interception on the way
Chapter 295: Interception on the way
An elderly man with a hunched back slowly walked into the library and calmly said to the middle-aged man with a furrowed brow, "Your Majesty, Yu Kang is dead."
Upon hearing this, King Cangli was visibly stunned for a moment. "How did he die?"
"The soul dissipates."
After a moment of silence, King Cangli spoke: "He shall be buried with state honors, the Crown Prince shall keep vigil, and this shall be announced to Cangli."
"Do you want it or not?"
"I will handle it." King Cangli put the black ancient book back in its original place.
"Does the lineage of the Keeper of the Archives still have descendants?" King Cangli suddenly asked.
"This old servant went to investigate, and there isn't even a distant relative among them."
“That old fellow left quite gracefully. Go and summon the Crown Prince.”
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As time passed, night fell around the shuttle, the bright moon hung high, and the stars filled the sky.
As He Yu fell into a deep sleep, only he and Li Xiaoyi were left alone in the shuttle. Li Xiaoyi was not good with words, and he didn't know what to talk about, so the atmosphere was a little awkward.
"It looks like tomorrow will be a good day. When will we arrive?" Shen Xu broke the silence.
"It'll be quick. Should we rest outside for the night first?"
"Hmm! They don't know where we are, and we're already far from the capital, so we should be safe for now."
Do you know anything about the Hidden Heaven Abyss and its True Blood Battlefield?
Li Xiaoyi shook his head. "Although Cangli Kingdom is one of the countries closest to Cangtian Abyss, most people only know about Cangtian Abyss."
It is said that there are extremely terrifying creatures inside the Hidden Heaven Abyss, and even a True Blood Realm Spirit Blood Warrior who enters the Hidden Heaven Abyss may not be able to come out alive.
However, a strange monster frequently attacks passing caravans outside the Hidden Heaven Abyss, which is why, although traveling through the Hidden Heaven Abyss can save a lot of time, few caravans are willing to do so.
"A strange monster?" Shen Xu couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Just then, Li Xiaoyi suddenly stood up and looked solemnly in a direction in the night sky.
Shen Xu looked up and saw the void shattered like glass. A blood-red hand covered in red hair and shrouded in a hazy blood-red mist pressed down on the rapidly flying shuttle, obscuring the sky.
As the giant hand of blood energy drew closer, the void around the shuttle seemed to distort, and the moonlight became strangely distorted. An incomparably terrifying pressure seeped in from the giant hand of blood energy through the tiny gaps in the shuttle.
Li Xiaoyi made a hand seal, and then the shuttle began to vibrate violently.
Just as the giant blood-red hand was about to grasp the shuttle in its palm, a dazzling beam of energy shot out from the front of the shuttle, illuminating the night sky as if it were daytime. It struck and pierced through the giant blood-red hand, causing it to instantly disintegrate and form a large cloud of blood mist in the night sky.
The shuttle then swiftly passed through the blood mist after the attack and disappeared into the night sky.
"The core components inside the Sky Shuttle have been tainted by that blood energy; if it continues to fly, there might be problems."
"However, we're not far from our destination. It's better if we walk the rest of the way." Li Xiaoyi said coldly, then maneuvered the shuttle to land slowly.
Shen Xu's face was ashen. He had thought that the highest combat strength of the seven kingdoms was the True Blood Realm, but now it seemed that it was far more than that. What exactly were they plotting?
As Li Xiaoyi was the last to emerge from the shuttle, the shuttle in front of Shen Xu shrank to the size of a palm and landed in Li Xiaoyi's hand.
"Can you determine the strength of that giant hand?" Shen Xu asked.
"Crossing the void is a skill that only a half-saint can possess, but the strength of that blood hand is far from being a half-saint's skill. I guess the owner of the blood hand must have used some special method to cross the void and extend the blood hand to us."
"But it's unlikely they'll use this tactic a second time in a short period of time, and the fact that they're in such a hurry to attack us shows that they don't want us to go to Cangtianyuan. I think once we reach Cangtianyuan, they won't be able to attack us anymore."
"That makes sense; at least it proves that we are on the right track."
"Xiaoyu, I'm afraid we can't rest for now," Shen Xu said apologetically to the sleepy-eyed man beside him.
Although he didn't know what had just happened, seeing the serious expressions on the two adults' faces, He Yu nodded earnestly.
He Yu was just an ordinary child, and it was impossible for him to walk with him and Li Xiaoyi for a whole night. Although he insisted on walking by himself at first, he eventually fell into a deep sleep on his back.
Because he was carrying a child, he and Li Xiaoyi didn't walk very fast. Feeling He Yu's small body, he didn't understand why the old man wanted He Yu to be sent to the True Blood Palace. What use could a child be?
After getting to know him over the past few days, he realized that the old man Heyu had deep feelings for him. The old man did not raise Heyu as a tool, but truly treated him as his own grandson.
How could a grandfather entrust his grandson to a complete stranger and let the stranger take his grandson to his death!
Is it about believing in his abilities, or simply gambling on a possibility?
As the moon set and the stars faded, a pale light gradually appeared in the distance. With the help of the dawn's light, Shen Xu was able to see the surrounding scenery clearly.
Although this place is still within the territory of Cangli Kingdom, it is completely different from the vibrant scene inside Cangli Kingdom. Instead, it is desolate, somewhat like the red earth world he saw in the Kunyuan Secret Realm.
However, what turned the soil red here was not minerals, but blood. A faint smell of blood was constantly detected by his sense of smell in the air.
As he stepped off the shuttle, he sensed that the blood energy around him seemed to be more concentrated than in other places, so he wasn't too surprised by the situation.
Moreover, the direction they were heading towards contained a source of blood and energy that terrified his soul.
Although no abnormality could be seen with the naked eye, the image that the essence of blood conveyed to its soul was a completely different picture.
A colossal crimson beast, formed from condensed blood energy, stands majestically in the center of the image, seemingly connecting heaven and earth. Like the most striking symbol under the night sky, it exudes an invisible sense of oppression, dyeing the world in the deepest crimson hue.
The giant beast's body seemed to be a pillar supporting the sky and the earth.
Its every heartbeat shakes the world, and every breath it takes causes fluctuations in the void. Countless primordial energies are swallowed into its body, and then endless blood energy is released.
A colossal palace loomed within the beast's body, its ancient doors tightly shut, adorned with obscure and incomprehensible runes that shimmered with a faint red light, resonating with the beast's blood.
Above the palace, blood energy condensed into clouds, swirling and rolling like red ribbons dancing in the void.
Outside the palace, chains of blood energy, like towering pillars, pierced into the palace and linked to the body of the crimson beast, causing it to slowly float inside the beast's body.
The chains were engraved with golden-red divine patterns that would flash occasionally.
Just as Shen Xu was about to observe carefully, the giant beast suddenly turned its enormous head that reached the sky. Before he could react, he immediately severed the connection with the surrounding blood energy at the fastest speed he had ever used.
But in the final scene, he saw a huge, deep, blood-red pupil, and endless brutality and bloodlust were instantly poured into his soul through that eye.
"Pfft!!" Shen Xu was shocked and spat out a mouthful of blood. Then, his vision went black and he collapsed forward.
"Shen Xu!" Li Xiaoyi hurriedly supported his body as he was about to fall.