Chapter 395: Erin Full of Energy

Hu Li reverted to his original form; the massive nine-tailed fox roared as it surged into the high sky, fox fire spilling out a barrage of beams that nearly tore the cloud layers apart, while the explosions generated by the fox-tail missiles shook the low-hanging clouds.

Luna's figure flashed and darted through the wind, rain, and Lei Ting, slaughtering those ferocious and frenzied demonic beasts; the phantom of the Knight Order appeared intermittently in illusions beside her, waiting for the chance to drag isolated black-robed cultivators nearby into a battlefield of death and souls.

Meanwhile, Yu Sheng and Erin's attention remained fixed on the hidden sect priest in white robes, whose face was gloomy and imposing.

Erin suddenly leaned close to Yu Sheng's ear and whispered, "Hey, hey, Yu Sheng, we've fought like this and still haven't drawn anyone."

Yu Sheng frowned slightly, his gaze sweeping across the surroundings.

The sky still displayed a bizarre state of collapse and ruin, like a shattered mirror; the structure of the entire space seemed to have shifted out of place. Within the range covered by the broken and tilted firmament, everything in sight appeared shadowy and indistinct. Buildings on the ground would occasionally manifest a strange, translucent state, and whenever lightning flashed, the intense light seemed to penetrate everything on the surface, illuminating a rugged, primordial landscape beneath the city district.

Under the enhancement of this bizarre phenomenon, the sensation of two spaces overlapping grew increasingly strong and obvious.

At the same time, Yu Sheng noticed that the white-robed priest had not launched any further attacks—although he held the home-field advantage and numerical superiority, and had a "runaway artificial Saintess" nearby repeatedly provoking his nerves, for most of the time he merely maintained a cautious distance from the center of the battlefield, as if...

He could neither act rashly nor stray too far from his current position.

Yu Sheng recalled the situation when he first discovered the "Black Tower" of the Chongsheng Hidden Sect.

"It seems that last 'push' wasn't enough—this guy is hiding something behind him," he laughed, speaking softly to Erin, "I need to rush behind him—you find a way to block him."

"Fine," Erin replied instantly and quickly, "but this body of mine is almost out of power; don't drag it out too long."

Yu Sheng nodded, said no more, and instead rode the fox tail, suddenly shooting diagonally upward toward the high sky, heading in a certain direction behind the white-robed priest.

The moment the priest saw Yu Sheng's movement, he reacted; his expression indeed changed immediately. He raised his hand and waved, causing the skyful of Lei Ting to gather once more, condensing toward the direction above Yu Sheng's head.

However, at that very same moment, vast swathes of spreading black threads suddenly appeared in the air beside him. The threads, as if possessing life and consciousness, instantly wove themselves into a net, spreading and proliferating wildly. Bone-chilling deep cold, as if capable of freezing souls, seeped out from the spiderweb, followed immediately by several scorching beams containing immense energy that pierced through the darkness and swept across the sky!

Faint electrical sparks jumped in the air, outlining the trajectory of the spiderweb taking shape. Sensing the danger posed by those spider threads and beams, the white-robed priest was forced to temporarily abandon control of the Lei Ting, instead dodging the capture of the spider threads and the sweeping beams within the limited space. It was during this brief moment of passing that Yu Sheng had already rushed to his side.

The next second, a smile appeared on Yu Sheng's face, for the situation was exactly as he had predicted: although the Hidden Sect priest had agilely dodged the attacks, the range in which he could move was actually very small, allowing him to maneuver only within a hundred-meter space—not because his mobility was limited, but because he had to hold up the fragmented "mirror" in the sky from that position, preventing the barrier from collapsing completely.

"You dare—"

The white-robed priest let out a roar. After finally breaking free from the spider threads that had nearly wrapped around him and dispersing them with a series of small-scale lightning strikes, he immediately turned around, raised his right hand high toward Yu Sheng's direction, and dense lightning formed almost instantly in the direction of his fingers, then crashed down with a boom.

The protective spiritual energy surrounding the fox tail flickered once more, colliding violently with the falling lightning, and was finally completely exhausted after a massive explosion.

Yu Sheng quickly grabbed Erin from his shoulder and placed her onto the fox tail as well, then directly staggered to his feet, lunging forward from the air toward a hazy, illusory crack that had suddenly appeared in the rain curtain when the lightning flashed earlier.

The next second, he stretched both hands forward, as if grabbing something out of thin air, and propped himself up in mid-air, pulling hard with both hands toward the sides.

"I found you!"

A terrifying, ear-piercing shriek and the booming sound of the barrier collapsing echoed across this space-distorted battlefield. The sky, already pouring and shattered, was almost instantly covered with huge, semi-transparent patterns. Another wilderness, also drenched in heavy rain, began to rapidly replace the buildings at the edge of Mocheng. Accompanying this strange scene of empty replacement, everyone witnessed the shocking scene that had originally been hidden in another space—

They saw that the magnificent ancient refinement tower had vanished, replaced in its place by a huge black crack that seemed to pierce through heaven and earth. The fissure extended upward, piercing through the cloud layers, through the atmosphere, and even reaching into outer space, pointing far away toward a certain direction in the depths of the starry sky.

The original building complex of Mocheng had turned into a wilderness of rugged rocks, dotted with large and small gullies and rift valleys. In the rift valleys, countless rivers of fluctuating faint light churned and rose. Beams of light rose from the earth, flowed toward the sky, and disappeared into some massive mechanical structure spanning the sky like a track in the distance.

A distant Shanfeng was fragmented; the shattered mountain body floated in mid-air as if gravity had lost its hold. Inside that mountain body, something seemed to be constructed, with huge artificial structures vaguely visible extending from the broken mountain ridge.

But Yu Sheng did not have time to see more details.

Not far away, upon seeing that bizarre "brute" actually tear the entire space barrier apart with bare hands, the white-robed priest was instantly filled with terror. He could no longer care about the black spiderwebs reappearing around him; disregarding everything, he raised his hand and waved. Lei Ting far grander than before gathered from all directions. Beams of lightning leaped over the demonic beasts and black-robed cultivators in the air, leaped over the barrier hastily erected by Hu Li and the Knight Order phantom of Luna, and instantly landed on top of Yu Sheng's head.

Yu Sheng had only time to look up once and utter a "Wocao" amidst the blinding electrical light—

Then he exploded.

The collapse of space instantly stopped; the fragmented sky was repaired in the blink of an eye.

The next second, spider threads pierced his body. The bone-chilling cold and pain, as if freezing the soul, caused the Hidden Sect priest in mid-air to let out a muffled groan. He struggled to move his limbs, fighting desperately to break free from the control of the spider threads while raising his head to look at the fox tail still flying in the air not far away, and the two strange dolls lying on the fox tail.

However, the next second, he discovered that those two dolls showed absolutely no grief or panic over the death of their companion.

—In fact, the dolls were somewhat panicked, but the panic was entirely about something else.

"Oh my god, ahhh..." The two Einers screamed at the top of their lungs on the fox tail, "Yu Sheng, you didn't tell me how to control this thing, wocao... Hu Li! How exactly do you usually communicate with Yu Sheng through the tail, wocao, ahhh, I want to go home—"

The uncontrolled fox tail crashed wildly in the high sky; one of the two small dolls was immediately flung off (Screwed Steel), while the remaining one clung desperately to a tuft of fluff before its eyes, then raised its head to see the Hidden Sect priest already right in front of it.

The expression on the Hidden Sect priest's face shifted from shock to fury, and then was filled with killing intent.

"You have ruined the Sage's plan—pay the price!"

The priest shouted angrily, then raised his hand and pointed.

A thunderbolt struck down, directly exploding the fox tail beneath Erin and blasting the small doll into mid-air.

While tumbling, Erin instinctively raised her hand and pointed at the enemy not far away, only to find that only a few short flashes erupted from her fingertips.

"... Wocao, I'm out of power, aaaaaah—"

"Nonsense!" The white-robed priest shouted loudly again, raised his hand and grasped it in the air. The surrounding wind and rain suddenly twisted and trembled, and immense power from all directions crushed down out of nowhere, firmly imprisoning Erin, who was rolling helplessly in the air. "You all must die!"

The tiny doll was bound by an unknown force, its entire body emitting creaking and groaning sounds. The next second, Lei Ting arose suddenly.

Blinding lightning tore through the sky, striking Erin one after another, dense as a storm.

The white-robed priest standing in mid-air summoned Lei Ting, bombarding the strange doll that had brought him immense eeriness and danger, yet looked to be only slightly over half a meter tall.

Facing such a "tiny" enemy, he still attacked with full force, showing no mercy—because a strange sense of danger and unease had been beating strongly in his heart since just now, and as time passed, it grew increasingly restless.

When did this sense of unease begin? From when that sinister "human" tore the space apart with bare hands just now? From when his perfect concealment was seen through at a glance? Or... from when these strange guys, who didn't know where they came from, suddenly appeared in this place?

Lei Ting roared, yet the sense of unease that had persisted throughout the entire battle not only did not weaken due to this merciless "kill," but grew even stronger, until it became so intense that the white-robed priest's inner alarm bells exploded, causing him to suddenly stop.

Wrong, the feel is wrong.

He suddenly dispersed the Lei Ting gathering in the air and looked at the strange doll that should theoretically have been blasted to ashes by him.

In that instant, he felt as if he saw the sun.

Erin floated there, her body supported by a powerful electric field (although she was only 66.6 centimeters tall), with overflowing energy streams flowing around her.

She—had fully charged with electricity.

The white-robed priest watched this scene with shock and horror. A sense of absurdity, as if being ruthlessly mocked by fate, exploded in his heart. He seemed to understand something, but could only squeeze a few words out of his throat—

"What the F*** are you all..."

The next second, Erin raised her hand.

A scorching torrent, thicker than the entire white-robed priest, tore through the sky.

(End of this chapter)