Chapter 1217: Deep Within the Forest of Corruption

Deep Within the Forest of Corruption

"Damn it, why can't we finish killing these monsters?!!"

"There's a high-tier one over here! Someone come help me quickly!"

"These roots grow back after we kill them, and grow back again after we kill them again. It's simply endless!"

"Watch out for that flower next to you! Its scent seems poisonous! Old Huang just got ambushed by it!"

"The ground ahead is fake! That's a disguised piece of bark! Go around it! Go around it!!"

"..."

Blood and fire spread through the entrenched and writhing Forest of Corruption. Numerous figures tore open a path one after another, forcibly biting their way from the periphery all the way to the core, like an indestructible sword cleaving a long scar through brambles.

This was their first time facing Calamities from the Gray World, and because of this, they were caught completely off guard. The overall charge was incredibly difficult, but they seemed to be extremely resilient, finding a shred of vitality in deadly situations every single time to carve out a new path of blood.

Ying Fu's voice came from ahead. His gaze was constantly observing the overall situation. As soon as these words were spoken, they lingered in everyone's ears as if possessing magical power. The crowd, who had originally lost their sense of direction amidst the slaughter, recovered a trace of rationality and began to shrink their formation, gathering together like a long shuttle.

The casualties among the crowd were already approaching one-third. Fighting their way from the periphery to the core, those with weaker strength had almost all sacrificed themselves. But now, they had no way of retreating, and could only risk their lives to fight their way forward.

Zheng Zhiqing herself was of the Path of Force. Relying on absolute martial prowess, she charged at the very front of the formation. But by this time, she was already covered in blood, and her eye sockets were somewhat red...

"Motherfucker... are these dogs truly unkillable?!"

She let out an angry roar, flicking a long whip from her hand to tangle around a flesh-and-blood plant ahead that was more than a dozen meters tall and resembled an aloe vera. Then, pulling backward with all her might, she actually forcibly uprooted that Calamity from the ground and hurled it whistling behind her.

"Even if they're unkillable, we still have to kill them!" Fu Kun gripped his small hammer and violently smashed it into the earth. Magma-like spiderwebs madly spread out. This hammer strike actually directly altered the geological structure of the surrounding area, directly crushing the roots hidden below that hadn't finished growing.

He ran beside Zheng Zhiqing, his tone incredibly firm.

"His Majesty and Chancellor Han are all opening a path ahead, we absolutely cannot hold them back."

"Do I need you to remind me? I know!"

Just as the two were speaking, a figure wearing a complex theatrical robe flew over their heads.

The ferocious Nuo Mask flashed with a cold glint under the dark clouds. As Shen Nan gripped his Black Flag and swung it toward the writhing wall of vines ahead, a thick bolt of lightning pierced through the battlefield, reducing a massive amount of pressure for Zheng Zhiqing and Fu Kun.

"If you encounter trouble, remember to call me." Shen Nan's voice sounded calmly from the air. "Regardless of any grudges we had before, right now we are all in the same boat."

After saying that, he carried the Black Flag on his shoulder and went straight toward another direction with greater pressure.

Fu Kun and Zheng Zhiqing looked at that departing figure, their gazes somewhat complex... Just yesterday, he was still the roadblock intercepting the two of them at the entrance of the Meeting Immortal Guest House, yet now he had actually become a comrade-in-arms sharing life and death. They could only say that the wonder of fate was truly unpredictable.

"You, are not bad."

Just as Shen Nan passed near Ying Fu, a voice rang out by his ear. "Are you truly not considering coming with Us?"

The brows under Shen Nan's mask raised. He turned back to look at Ying Fu, who was commanding the overall situation, and the latter's gaze toward him was full of appreciation...

"Whatever requirements or goals you have, We can satisfy them all... By Our side, We lack a person to dispel calamities."

"Not interested."

Shen Nan refused without hesitation. "The people who need me are among the common folk... I am unable to match this Emperor's Calamity of yours. You should find the person you're supposed to find instead."

After saying that, Shen Nan left without looking back.

Seeing this, Ying Fu didn't forcibly urge him to stay. His gaze fell back upon the Forest of Corruption ahead.

By this time, they had already rescued the survivors of almost all the surrounding shelters, yet among them, Ying Fu still hadn't seen Jiang Jiang. Under that brightest star, a single shelter was still trapped in the deepest part of the Bitter Flesh Forest...

Ying Fu looked up, only to see Chen Ling amidst the starlight also looking down at him. After their gazes met briefly, Chen Ling knew the time had come.

He took a deep breath and extinguished the stars that were originally hanging above the other shelters. All the starlight gathered between his palms, like a dazzling, resplendent sword of starlight.

Chen Ling felt his Spiritual Power being madly consumed, but he didn't stop. Instead, he took the sword in his hand and gently swung it toward the final Calamity barrier ahead of Ying Fu and the others...

"Break."

Boom—!!!

Starlight flashed.

The crowd only saw a river of stars descend from the sky, surging mightily past them. The low-tier Calamities it touched along the way were directly melted, while the high-tier Calamities instinctively retreated to both sides as if they had touched a raging fire. An empty path briefly appeared before the crowd!

«It's now.» Ying Fu's Imperial Might churned madly, and he charged whistling toward that path. "Charge with Us!"

The path opened by the mighty starlight, combined with Ying Fu's call, directly reignited the nearly exhausted morale of the crowd. Putting forth all their strength, they followed the two Emperors, plunging rapidly into the belly of the Forest of Corruption like a sharp knife!

...

"What's that sound outside?"

"Are those monsters going to charge in again??"

"..."

In the shelter, hearing the constantly approaching rumbling, the crowd was instantly terrified and panic-stricken.

Su Zhiwei and Chu Changqing looked around even more warily, seemingly ready to strike again to resolve those swarming root monsters.

"It's not monsters..." Lu Xun looked up at the nothingness, starlight flickering in his eyes.

"Our rescuers are here."

Rustle, rustle—

A faint friction sound came from the ceiling of the shelter. The crowd simultaneously looked up, only to see a massive character gradually emerge along with falling sand and gravel...

—[Open].

The moment this character took shape, the ceiling of the entire shelter exploded with a loud bang!

The roar of the soil layer made people's eardrums ache. Everyone instinctively hugged their heads and closed their eyes, their expressions incredibly terrified... But the next moment, a sky full of shining starlight enveloped the crowd.

The crowd looked up in bewilderment, only to see an Embroidery Thread giant dragon winding and dancing in the sky above the flying gravel. At some unknown time, Chancellor Han had already stood on the back of the Embroidery Dragon alongside Xiao Chunping, slowly retracting the two fingers that had just pierced through the shelter.

The movement speed of Xiao Chunping's Embroidery Dragon was truly too fast. If it weren't for the sake of saving people as quickly as possible, she wouldn't have let that old man stand on the dragon's back...

But also because the two joined forces, they arrived here at the fastest speed, even faster than Ying Fu.

The Embroidery Dragon danced, and the ink vanished.

While everyone was dumbfounded, an Imperial Figure stepped through the air toward this place.