Chapter 1218: Gaze From Deep Within the Forest of Corruption

Gaze From Deep Within the Forest of Corruption

"Holy crap..."

"Are my eyes playing tricks on me? Is that a dragon???"

The boy beside Pao Ge couldn't help but rub his eyes, looking at that incredibly shocking Eastern Dragon as if suspecting he was dreaming.

Following the Embroidery Dragon, more and more figures descended from the sky. Some came dancing while wearing Nuo Masks, some held long whips and were bathed in blood, some stepped on the top of magma stone pillars, and some wore white clothes that made them look like immortals of the Dao...

If the appearance of the Lord of Tianshu had already made them realize that supernatural powers truly existed in the world, then the scene before them undoubtedly completely overturned everyone's worldview.

"Wait... Did no one inform me when everyone was evolving? Why are they all flying in the sky, while we're the only ones still lying on our stomachs underground??"

Pao Ge couldn't help but speak up.

Ying Fu walked to the space above the shelter and lightly swept his gaze downward, spotting Jiang Jiang and her father hiding in a corner...

Ying Fu's hanging heart finally relaxed a little. He didn't step forward to acknowledge them, but instead spoke in a deep voice to the dense crowd below:

"Follow the stars. They will guide you to a safe place."

After saying that,

He turned and left.

Fu Kun struck the ground with his hammer, and more than a dozen spacious sets of stairs connected the shelter to the surface.

The crowd seemed to have been stunned dumb by this scene and didn't react for a moment, until Lu Xun's solemn voice rang out, violently snapping them back to their senses:

"Everyone, the rescuers are here. Hurry and leave!"

The crowd's eyes instantly lit up. Supporting each other, they stood up from underground and fled outward along the stairs, as if finally seeing the dawn of survival.

Jiang Jiang looked up with her father's support, her pale little face full of helplessness and bewilderment. As she climbed the stairs with weak legs, she carefully looked around...

Right at this moment, a somewhat familiar back view gradually moved away under the starlight.

Jiang Jiang felt that the person looked somewhat familiar, but for a moment she couldn't remember where she had seen him. She could only turn and ask her father:

"Dad, that person looks so familiar... Do you know him?"

Her father glanced over there and shook his head.

"That's a flying immortal, probably someone as powerful as the Lord of Tianshu. How could Dad possibly know him."

"Oh... okay."

Although Jiang Jiang was puzzled, when she turned her head and saw the corpses of the flesh-and-blood Calamities scattered everywhere around her, her mind went blank from fright. She could only tightly grasp the corner of her father's clothes and follow the crowd, running wildly into the distance.

"Holy shit, Pao Ge!! Look! Are these all monster corpses up here?!!"

"Stop yelling! I can see them!"

"Did... did those people kill all these? They're so amazing."

"Yeah, I wonder how we can become like them..."

Although there was fear in the youths' eyes, there was more of a yearning for strength. Watching those figures on the Divine Path continuously exterminating Calamities all around, their hearts all felt an itch.

Pao Ge carried Xiaoyu on his back, running at the very front of the crowd. Suddenly, as if discovering something, he pointed into the distance and said:

"Look... That guy sitting on the lion, doesn't he look like our big bro??"

"Huh?!!"

Several men looked in the direction he was pointing, and saw a multicolored Awakened Lion stepping on auspicious clouds flying in the air, as if fighting against some kind of enemy.

And on the Awakened Lion's back, a figure wearing a Tang suit and small Round Sunglasses was incredibly conspicuous.

"It really is big bro!!!"

"So big bro is also a superman!"

"Big bro!!! Big bro!!!!!"

Several boys seemed to have gone mad, shouting at the top of their lungs to Sun Bumian in the air, incredibly excited.

And Sun Bumian also seemed to have heard their voices. Despite his busy schedule, he turned his head to glance over. Upon seeing that it was Pao Ge and the others, the corners of his mouth turned up, and he even casually waved his hand at them.

With this response, the boys became even more excited. They jumped up and down like monkeys, never expecting that the big bro who had always been helping them was actually such an amazing person...

"Hurry and leave." Shen Nan, wearing the Nuo Mask, drifted down behind them and urged,

"We can't hold them off for long. If you run too slowly, everyone will have to die here."

The crowd looked back and was startled by Shen Nan's mask, but they still immediately picked up speed, running outward along the starlight with all their might.

Seeing all the survivors leave the shelter, Shen Nan's heart didn't relax. On the contrary, the expression under his mask grew even more solemn.

Being able to charge into the belly of the Forest of Corruption and rescue the survivors wasn't the hardest part... The hardest part was how to escort them out of the Forest of Corruption and to the underground engineering projects after rescuing everyone.

One had to know that this wasn't the edge of the Forest of Corruption, but the core belly. Even if Chen Ling opened a path with starlight, it wouldn't be able to withstand the counterattacks of the massive number of Calamities along the way. If they couldn't hold back these Calamities, then not only would the people they had so painstakingly rescued be intercepted and killed halfway, but they themselves would also sink deeply into it.

"Lu Xun, when did Director Chen also start using stars?"

Su Zhiwei looked at Chen Ling amidst the starlight and couldn't help but ask Lu Xun beside her.

"...I don't know either. Just now, he suddenly contacted me through the starlight." Lu Xun shook his head. "But doesn't he also know how to use Yang Xiao's ability? Being able to use mine seems reasonable too..."

As he spoke, Lu Xun put the unconscious Yang Xiao on his back and quickly followed the crowd to evacuate into the distance.

"Right, where's Chu Changqing?"

"He..."

After the two ran a few steps, they looked back, only to find that the treant Chu Changqing was struggling to move his legs, staggeringly moving toward them. His wood-grained face was as ugly as a bitter gourd.

"Wait... wait... for... me..." With this appearance of Chu Changqing's, let alone running, he might not even be able to keep up with a normal person's walking.

Seeing this, Su Zhiwei gritted her teeth, directly grabbed Chu Changqing's two thick, tree-branch-like arms, and exerted force, actually hoisting his entire body onto her shoulder.

"Su Zhiwei! You..." Chu Changqing spoke in shock. "Put me down. I'm too heavy, you can't carry me!"

"You're also a member of the 'Lords', how could we leave you here alone?"

Su Zhiwei's strength was not small, but carrying such a large Chu Changqing was still somewhat strenuous. However, it was at least much faster than Chu Changqing walking himself. In a few steps, she stabilized her center of gravity and chased after the rear of the crowd bit by bit.

Looking at the fierce Su Zhiwei, even the corners of Lu Xun's mouth twitched. He wanted to say whether he should help out, but stopped himself from speaking...

Although the few of them were men, in terms of strength, truly no one could compare to Su Zhiwei.

Chu Changqing opened his mouth, wanting to thank Su Zhiwei, but right at this moment, he felt an inexplicable gaze from deep within the Forest of Corruption behind them, looking toward this place...