novelinnhs Chapter 216 Amaterasu Descends, the Southern Front is a Trap
Chapter 216 Amaterasu Descends, the Southern Front is a Trap
The black lotus floated down in front of the woman.
She stretched out two fingers and pinched it.
The twelve petals were still spinning, but they could no longer be turned between her fingers.
"Your Chinese things have nothing to do with me—"
He hadn't finished speaking.
The black lotus shattered.
She crushed it herself.
The shattered petals turned into black smoke and dissipated.
The woman's fingers were intact.
Lu Yan narrowed his eyes.
That black lotus could annihilate a knight commander, and she crushed it to pieces.
"High-dimensional projection".
Lu Yan chewed on these four words.
The woman tilted her head, and her neck made a cracking sound.
"You're only realizing it now?"
Her aura changed.
All the previous evil and eeriness were suppressed, and what was revealed was a kind of divinity.
A kind of irrational divinity from a higher dimension.
The men of Zhenbeilang couldn't hold out any longer.
A shield-bearer in the front row dropped his shield, fell to his knees in the snow, and blood streamed down his nose.
The second one, the third one, and in less than ten seconds, a whole bunch of them collapsed.
Of the two hundred people, fewer than thirty could stand.
Liu Beiwang knelt on one knee, his battle axe resting on the ice, veins bulging from his forehead to his neck.
"Damn... what the hell is this...?"
Xiao Qianyu took half a step back, her halberd held horizontally in front of her chest, her hand trembling.
Lin Chuxue's magic circle trembled twice, and her lips lost their color.
Lu Yan stood there.
He was able to withstand it because the aura of the Primordial Celestial Venerable was ten times stronger than this.
Those who have lived in Kunlun will not be bent over by this little thing.
"this one?"
He spoke.
The woman froze for a moment.
"you--"
"Can we try a different approach?"
Lu Yan stretched his neck.
"First they exert pressure, then they act like gods, and finally they claim to be gods."
"I've seen this process eight hundred times."
The woman didn't respond.
Her eyes were completely black, with no whites and no pupils.
A beam of light shot out from her forehead and went straight for Lu Yan's forehead.
That ball of light wasn't an attack; it was something being forcefully shoved into his brain.
Suddenly, a whole new world opened up in Lu Yan's mind.
Cherry blossoms carpet the ground, and the shrine stands majestically.
Amaterasu sits atop a cloud, overlooking all living beings.
nice.
So beautiful it makes you want to kneel down.
A voice was ringing in my head.
"Kneel down, mortal."
"By becoming a believer, your soul will be preserved forever."
"The gods of China are dead; no one can save you."
"Kneel down, and you'll live."
Lu Yan did not kneel.
He has a mirror in his head.
The mirror of the heart in the trial.
The cardiac mirror flips over.
All the inserted images bounced back along the same path.
Takamagahara was shattered into pieces.
Nothing was left.
The woman's body trembled.
"What are you doing—"
"Your crappy Takamagahara isn't even as convincing as the screensavers in internet cafes."
Lu Yan took a step forward.
"I'd rather die a thousand times than kneel."
Who do you think you are?
The smile on the woman's face vanished.
The distorted face twisted in pain.
The kimono was torn at the shoulder, as if it had been forcibly stretched open from the inside.
The wriggling thing inside her body emerged.
Snake head.
Eight.
Each one was bigger than a tank, their necks were tangled together, and their scales were covered in slime.
The mucus dripped onto the ice, making a hissing sound.
The ice was corroded, leaving pits.
Yamata no Orochi.
That is the illusory manifestation of the law.
The phantom spiraled upwards, sealing off the space around Lu Yan and turning it into a black wall.
Xiao Qianyu's halberd struck, but bounced back.
"team leader!"
Lin Chuxue's crimson magic array was also blocked outside.
I can't get in.
Lu Yan turned around and glanced back.
The wall was semi-transparent, and you could see the shadows moving outside.
"Don't come in."
"This is not something you can touch."
Eight snake heads surrounded them from all sides.
All sixteen eyes were fixed on him.
Venom dripped from the snake's fangs, emitting white smoke as it fell to the ground.
There's no way out.
Amaterasu's laughter echoed between the snakes' bodies.
"Without teammates, who should receive the aura?"
"Without any aura, what makes you, a support, capable of fighting me?"
The land dog did not answer.
He looked down at his right hand.
The icon for the Destruction Black Lotus lit up on the panel.
He opened it.
An extra line of text has been added below the skill description.
Second form: Emptiness possesses the body.
To attach the void and the law to oneself.
Physical attacks are converted into true damage.
Cost: 80% mana.
Duration: Once.
Once is enough.
Lu Yan raised his right hand, palm down.
The black lotus floated out of the panel and landed in my palm.
Then the black lotus shattered on its own.
The twelve petals spread out and adhered to the surface of his right hand.
It extends from the fingertips all the way to the wrist.
His hands turned black.
It was a strange kind of black, as if there was nothing there at all, and even the light avoided it.
The first snake head crashed down.
The speed was so fast that the air was squeezed out, making a snapping sound.
Lu Yan did not dodge.
He took a step forward and threw his right fist at the opponent.
A fist struck scales.
The scales are gone.
The snake's head disappeared inch by inch from the point of contact.
It wasn't broken, nor burned; it simply vanished into thin air.
The black lotus is devouring the higher-dimensional divinity within the snake's body.
Energy was extracted from the illusory figure's remains and poured into Lu Yan's body.
The second snake head crashed down.
Another punch.
Gone.
The third one, the fourth one.
The phantom of Yamata no Orochi was no match for him.
Amaterasu's laughter stopped.
"Impossible—you're only at Tier 2—"
"You parasites."
Lu Yan interrupted her.
The fifth punch.
The sixth punch.
With each punch, take a step forward.
The phantom of the Yamata no Orochi shattered behind him.
Amaterasu's shadow is receding.
The thing under the kimono is shrinking.
Her expression changed as she looked at Lu Yan as if she had seen some kind of monster.
"You're not an aura master...you're not—"
"You've made a mistake."
Lu Yan walked up to her.
"Aura master is my profession, not my limit."
He raised his right hand.
Black lines spread from the fingers to the entire arm.
Amaterasu is retreating.
Lu Yan didn't give her a chance to back out.
The seventh punch.
Another snake head is gone.
Amaterasu let out a scream.
It hurts.
The pain of having one's divinity torn off and swallowed alive.
She shouted something amidst her screams.
"You think the Angelic Legion on the southern front is the main force?!"
Lu Yan's fist paused for a moment.
"Those things are just bait!"
"A blood sacrifice as bait!"
"for real--"
She didn't finish speaking.
Because Lu Yan's eighth punch has arrived.
The last snake head broke off in the middle.
The phantom image completely disintegrated.
Amaterasu's projection splits in the middle.
The core black bead was exposed.
Lu Yan reached out and pinched it.
"Thank you for telling me."
The bead shattered in my palm.
Amaterasu's projection scattered into black mist, which was swept away by the wind.
The black wall that had sealed off the space disappeared.
Sunlight streamed in.
Xiao Qianyu and Lin Chuxue rushed over.
Lu Yan stood still, the black lines on his right hand receding.
"Captain?" Xiao Qianyu stared at his hand.
"fine."
Lu Yan looked down at the panel.
My mana is almost depleted.
Amaterasu's divinity has been completely devoured.
That energy is transforming into something new within the panel.
He wasn't in a hurry to see the results.
Because the communicator rang.
It's not Zhenbeilang's frequency band.
It is a private frequency band on the southern line.
There was a lot of background noise.
Lu Yan pressed the answer button.
Su Yunqing's voice came out.
It wasn't the usual gentle and soft tone.
With a sob in her voice.
"Brother Yan..."
"Lei Guang, he..."
"His heart stopped beating..."
"They've been ambushed..."
Lu Yan's fingers gripped the communicator tightly.
The wind blew across the ice field, and snowflakes hit my face.
Xiao Qianyu looked over.
Lin Chuxue bit her lower lip and remained silent.
Lu Yan stared at the communicator, remaining silent for two seconds.
"Send me his panel data."
"all."
"I'm going there now."
He turned and walked toward the transport plane.
Liu Beiwang shouted from behind.
"What about the North?"
Lu Yan didn't even turn his head.
"The black aura anchor point has shattered. The monster cannot be reassembled."
"You guys clean up the rest."
He jumped onto the gangway.
Xiao Qianyu and Lin Chuxue followed behind.
The hatch wasn't closed yet, but the engine was already running.
Lu Yan sat on the bulkhead, staring at the communicator.
Su Yunqing's voice came through intermittently.
"...Three six-winged angels..."
"...Wen Yue is stalling...Shen Xinglin's gun broke..."
"...Lightning shielded Shen Xinglin from the bullet..."
"...Holy light pierced through my chest..."
"...I'm healing...but the holy light is growing deeper..."
"...It can't be cured...I can't cure it..."
Lu Yan gripped it even tighter.
Soul-purifying earrings.
He gave Su Yunqing S-level equipment that could make her immune to mental erosion.
Zhao Leiguang did not.
The transport plane soared into the clouds and turned south.
Lu Yan closed his eyes.
The situation on the southern front was worse than Su Yunqing had described.
The holy light of the angel legion can brainwash and cause crystals to grow inside the body.
Zhao Leiguang shielded Shen Xinglin from that blow.
Holy light pierced through his chest.
Su Yunqing's treatment can lock the blood vessels, but it can't stop the crystals growing into the heart.
Cardiac arrest.
It's not blood loss.
The heart is blocked by a crystal.
He had to get there before the crystals fully grew.
"How quickly will it arrive?"
Lu Yan shouted to the driver.
"Full speed, two hours and forty minutes."
"not enough."
"This is the biggest—"
Lu Yan opened the permissions panel.
The list of divine treasures scrolls across the panel.
He found a piece of equipment that hadn't been given away.
[S-Rank - Eye of Destruction]
Consuming all mana, he forcibly tore through space to create a temporary teleportation channel.
Single use only; will be destroyed after use.
He clicked "extract".
A black bead appeared in the palm of his hand.
"coordinate."
He shouted into the communicator.
Su Yunqing sent over the coordinates.
Lu Yan grasped the Eye of Destruction.
He poured all his remaining magic power into it.
The bead lit up.
Ahead, a crack appeared in space.
The sea is inside the crevice.
The red sea.
"Jump."
Without saying a word, Xiao Qianyu picked up her battle halberd and went inside.
Lin Chuxue gritted her teeth and followed.
Lu Yan was the last one.
He glanced back at the driver.
"Send the coordinates to Dragon Guard Headquarters."
"Tell Qin Wangshan that the southern route is a trap."
"The main force is elsewhere."
After saying that, he crawled into the crack.
It was sewn closed at the back.