Chapter 1378: They Said

They Said

When he saw that patch of aurora in the sky above Tongzhou, Chen Ling actually had some guesses. After all, there were no souls present within those residual auroras, only a pile of empty shells remained... And the only one capable of taking away so many souls was the Lord of the Aurora.

When he saw with his own eyes Yang Xiao's incredibly powerful soul now, he suddenly realized that the Lord of the Aurora's power was far more terrifying than he imagined!

Modulating the biological magnetic fields of others and fusing them into his own biological magnetic field. In other words, he could absorb the souls of the recently deceased around him and turn them into his own power!

The last person capable of doing something similar was the Lord of Wuji Lou Yu. However, Lou Yu needed to rely on the alchemy of the Path of the Witch God to forge the Philosopher's Stone. But Yang Xiao didn't need to. He could directly absorb the souls themselves for his own use.

That is to say, the more chaotic the era and the more casualties there were, the faster Yang Xiao's growth speed would be!

"Why is it like this..." Yang Xiao stared blankly at the aurora around him, subconsciously shaking his head. "No... I never thought of absorbing them into my soul... I don't know what's going on!"

"You were hit by Nuclear Weapons. Surviving is just the instinct of your ability. This is not your fault."

Self-blame and pain resurfaced on Yang Xiao's face. He was already guilty enough for not being able to save those people. Now knowing that he survived exactly because of their deaths made his heart suffer even more.

Yang Xiao's breathing was incredibly heavy.

"When they merged into one with you, you should have been able to hear their voices, right?" Chen Ling looked into his eyes. "Think carefully... Were they really all blaming and cursing you?"

Yang Xiao was slightly startled.

His brows furrowed tightly as if trying hard to recall the situation at that time. He remembered that the firelight swallowed everything at that time, endless auroras surrounded his side, and millions of noisy voices almost squeezed his mind to burst...

At that time... what were they saying?

After the explosion occurred, what appeared more on the faces of those souls seemed to be bewilderment.

Death came too suddenly. By the time they realized they were already dead, sorrow and helplessness flowed from their eyes. Some held their children, some held hands with their lovers, some hugged their heads and cried bitterly in frustration, some cursed angrily at the sky... Of course, there were also those who looked at him with venomous resentment, accusing him of why he failed to protect them.

But when Yang Xiao's ability activated, his soul bit by bit merged with those deceased. His memories, his personality, and his thoughts all linked together with the souls of the deceased.

They felt Yang Xiao's pure and simple soul.

The cursers stopped cursing. Regret and pity surfaced in the eyes of those crying bitterly. Millions of souls, in the form of auroras, surrounded Yang Xiao, looking at the "Lord of the Aurora" who was on the verge of collapse in the sea of fire with an incredibly complex gaze...

They knew he had tried his best; they knew he truly wanted to save them;

It was just... he wasn't strong enough right now.

Their souls bit by bit transformed into auroras and merged into one with Yang Xiao. At the same time, they all opened their mouths to say something, hands raising in the air and reaching towards the Lord of the Aurora in the sea of fire.

The sky full of auroras rushed towards Yang Xiao, just like how they swarmed towards Yang Xiao before the nuclear bomb fell.

Inside the cabin, Yang Xiao held his head with both hands, as if trying hard to recall what exactly they had said, and why the him after that would choose to fly towards the sea surface... He felt he was almost able to hear clearly.

Chen Ling didn't disturb him. He knew Yang Xiao would have to face all this sooner or later. And right at this moment, the roaring sound of large numbers of fighter jets came from above.

Chen Ling frowned and looked up at the deck above his head.

"Eagle calling Seal-3!"

"Eagle calling Seal-3!!"

"Please respond if you receive this, repeat, please respond if you receive this!"

Chen Ling knew that these few destroyers were merely the sentries of the US Seventh Fleet, the true main force was still behind... And now that these destroyers had been blown up by him, the Seventh Fleet had probably realized something and locked all their firepower onto this sole surviving, yet No One Survived destroyer.

Within the main force behind, there were most likely nuclear-powered aircraft carriers sitting in command, as well as a large fleet. Their thermal weapon strike capability was beyond doubt. Chen Ling himself wasn't afraid, but the problem was that Yang Xiao was still on the ship. He didn't have Chen Ling's powerful Eighth-Tier Calamity physical body. If he encountered a large-scale thermal weapon strike head-on, he would probably find it difficult to survive.

"They've locked onto this place." Chen Ling spoke in a deep voice. "Let's go, I'll take you out of here."

Yang Xiao, who was struggling to recall, suddenly seemed to have thought of something, his entire person slightly trembling.

"I remember..." Yang Xiao muttered to himself,

"The last sentence they said to me before merging into my soul... I remember."

Whoosh whoosh whoosh——!!!

The sound of densely packed missiles tearing through the air streaked across the sky, rapidly approaching the destroyer where Chen Ling was located!

Chen Ling's expression changed. He immediately stepped forward wanting to take Yang Xiao away first. But in the next second, a brilliant aurora explosively erupted from Yang Xiao's pupils!

A terrifying Aura like a tsunami shocked Chen Ling's figure to the point of taking half a step back. He looked in astonishment at Yang Xiao who was continuously overflowing with auroras before him. At this moment, the Yang Xiao before him actually had a trace of the shadow of the Lord of the Aurora in Aurora City!

Dozens of missiles whistled through the sky, shooting towards this destroyer like an inescapable net. At the moment they were about to detonate...

Yang Xiao slowly spoke:

"They said..."

"'Avenge me'."

The magnificent and massive aurora was like the blast wave of an explosion, sweeping out from within the destroyer. Those sky full of missiles that were about to touch the hull of the destroyer were all as if grabbed by a giant invisible hand, instantly frozen in mid-air!!

No matter how the tail flames at the end spewed, no matter how the power surged, these missiles actually couldn't advance a single fraction!

The aurora illuminated the originally dim cabin to be incomparably gorgeous. Under Chen Ling's gaze, Yang Xiao slowly raised his head. With a movement of his mind, those metal frames and screws that made up the deck and cabin ceiling all trembled simultaneously, actually beginning to automatically dismantle and float. A circular gap leading straight to the deck above was directly pierced through and opened!

Dim daylight shone through the gap onto Yang Xiao in the cabin. He lightly stood on his tiptoes, his body seeming to have shaken off the restraint of the Earth's magnetic field, suspending upwards bit by bit...

Under the distant gaze of the Seventh Fleet far away, Yang Xiao's figure rose from within the destroyer, a peerlessly powerful Aura surging wildly in all directions!

The white scientific research robe danced wildly in the sea breeze. Without knowing when, auroras had already covered the heavens!