Chapter 353: LV6? Baichuan's Power of Characteristics (Part 1)

"Who?"

"Hoo!"

A piercing whistling wind rose, and accompanying the furious roar was a steel-like tentacle that split the air like a whip.

Layer upon layer of whip shadows; in the air faintly rose a wailing sound like ghosts crying and wolves howling — those were the countless spirits that had died beneath its tentacles, weeping and resenting! Weeping over their own deaths, resenting the living for their freedom.

This sound seemed capable of affecting the consciousness of the living; any ordinary creature that heard it would have its heart shaken and fall into a dazed state, only to be split in two by a single lash of its whip.

Yet that steel tentacle struck only empty air, producing nothing but a sonic boom from exceeding the speed of sound in the atmosphere — because the owner of that voice that had seemed to ring right behind its head was not there at all!

At that moment, a mechanical bixi brimming with sci-fi flair slowly walked out from the deep forest. It was silver-white all over, radiating the uniquely cold sheen of metal, as if forged from the hardest metal in the world. Lines of light that seemed to breathe covered its body, forming a wondrous pattern imbued with a mysterious rhythm; between each flicker, wisps and threads of electric arcs leapt without cease.

The most eye-catching among them were the pair of fierce, skyward-thrusting great horns, and those pale, ghostly eyes. The former radiated an incomparably dense aura of thunder and lightning, as if all the thunder between heaven and earth had gathered here — once unleashed, it could destroy everything. The latter were deep and icy, seeming capable of seeing through all things in the world; merely meeting their gaze filled one with a terror of having no secrets left on one's entire body.

What sort of being is this? A passerby, or an enemy?

Instinctively, the thought flashed through Zhang Yu Ge's mind as he turned his head back. Before he could think further, the Jin Du he had been eyeing as prey cried out in surprise, resolving his doubt:

"Bai?! How did you get here?"

"If I hadn't come—"

"Boom!"

Baichuan's gaze shifted, and looking at Jin Yun'er, who was in a far more pitiful state than before, he sighed as well. Fortunately, he had long since extended his domain of erosion to this place; even though he was usually busy with various matters and had not paid it much attention, whenever needed he could grasp the situation in an instant and cross over in a breath. Otherwise, next time he might never see this simple-minded… hmm?

Baichuan, who had been about to say something, suddenly turned his head as if sensing something. In an instant, a steel tentacle trailing layer upon layer of whip shadows struck him from a hidden angle, catching him off guard.

A muffled, heavy impact rang out, cutting off what he had been about to say.

It was Zhang Yu Ge who had struck — having heard his prey's cry of surprise and decided Baichuan was an enemy.

As a super Banzhu of the Xingkong — a quasi-Earth Immortal — Zhang Yu Ge watched his feeding trip interrupted, and the newcomer actually dared to be so arrogant as to ignore him, while his aura was close to nothing. How could this not anger him?

Especially since the other's appearance was even more astonishing than his own… this added another measure of fury to his heart.

And once he was angered, naturally the only way to vent the rage in his heart was to crush the fool who dared provoke him into pieces.

Welcome the wrath of a future Earth Immortal! You ant.

Roaring this in his heart, Zhang Yu Ge poured ten thousand strengths into his tentacle and lashed it out viciously.

In an instant, a thunderous roar erupted — but Zhang Yu Ge froze, his small eyes staring wide open.

Because the sensation transmitted through his tentacle seemed somehow off.

That rock-hard feel, and that overwhelmingly intense shock-absorbing force that seemed to rebound all his power back at him, nearly caused his Desolate Gold tentacle to dent and deform at the point of contact. It made him feel as though he wasn't lashing his whip against a Desolate Beast's Desolate Gold, but rather that in his former days of weakness, he had struck with flesh and blood against the mysteriously descended super giant stone tablet weighing tens of millions of tons in his clan. Pain and helplessness assailed his heart together.

The other party might be… no, what a joke! He was about to become a future Planet Overlord!

Lan Yu, this is all your delusion. A weakling civilization that can't even keep its star burning — how could it possibly know any truly great figures? Those great figures wouldn't hang around in these small places, nor would they deign to know such ants. And that other's aura being so weak can't be faked… Right, it must be that this ant stumbled into some dogshit luck and picked up a great treasure!

Treasure! Snatch it! Snatch it, and he himself would become even more powerful!

Once he had this miraculous treasure, then as a future Earth Immortal, he could quickly establish his footing within the Earth Immortal Realm. By then, living planets, beauties, money, power… would all be his!

He was about to make everyone who had ever looked down on him stare in utter astonishment!

Zhang Yu Ge, named Lan Yu, feeling the powerful force within him that was so full it nearly overflowed, thought this in his heart. The anger in his heart, because of his momentary cowardice, turned to shame-fuelled rage and blazed even more fiercely.

Only the death of the ant before him, and the seizure of that treasure, could wash away this shame and fury!

In an instant, wisps and threads of Grey Mist transformed into dye, igniting the blue light on his body. The blue light completely Burst from him, dyeing him into a massive blue orb of light. This orb, like a combustion enhancer, became boundless power, driving his myriad tentacles to lash out at several times the speed of sound.

Baichuan, still unaware of the other's misunderstanding, now looked with some displeasure at the steel tentacles smashing against his body. The feeling was like a human chatting with a friend when suddenly bitten by an ant that didn't know when to die, and the ant kept provoking his nerves, even lighting itself up like a big lightbulb to draw his attention.

A human might not get angry, but would absolutely casually crush this little creature to death.

Moreover, the gap between him, Baichuan, and the other was even greater than that between a human and an ant.

Let him have a taste of the Star Beast power he had newly obtained.

Thinking this, Baichuan watched the tentacles coming at him once more, yet still did not move. Only an invisible "field" rapidly spread out from his body. This "field" was formless and intangible, yet carried an irresistible sense of repulsion — that was Baichuan's will! He was refusing all external attacks from entering this domain!

The will that in days past had been profound and illusory, at this moment finally, under the effect of the "field," completely transformed into true power. This was a power different from that called spiritual force; within the scope of his "field," all matter would carry Baichuan's will!

Thus, the myriad tentacles lashing over at several times the speed of sound were like having drunk a knockout drug — coming with terrifying momentum, yet going limp inch by inch along the way, as if subjected to a slowing of Time!

Finally stopping three inches short of Baichuan's body!

"Bai, li—"

Jin Yun'er beside him, eroded somewhat by the poison, witnessed this scene and cried out in shock. But the moment her cry left her lips, she saw those countless steel tentacles frozen near Baichuan's body, leaving her unsure whether to finish her warning or simply shut up. The somewhat dazed Jin Yun'er blankly let out a string of meaningless babble.

Unfortunately, the dazed Jin Yun'er did not notice that her own deadly poisonous mist — which tormented her so and kept all living creatures from daring to approach — had, under the effect of Baichuan's invisible "field," actually shrunk and thinned until it was nearly invisible. After all, Jin Yun'er's uncontrollable poisonous erosion was also regarded as a kind of harm by the power of the "field" imbued with Baichuan's consciousness.

And any harm, so long as it could cause damage to the master of the power, would be driven away clean by the force of the "field"!

Baichuan even now felt a premonition arising spontaneously: he could sense the Grey Mist Power rooted within Jin Yun'er and this mechanical octopus. It was a power such that, if he wished, he could forcibly cause the Grey Mist Power within them to completely lose control and run rampant inside their bodies!

This was the higher-level control that Star Beast Source Blood beings held over their lower-blooded kin of the same kind!

However, he also understood that the Grey Mist Power was part of what had made these two Desolate Kings strong. Once it lost control, it would completely cripple them.

If the octopus was crippled, so be it — he didn't care. But Jin Yun'er, who had helped him before, was different. And the source of his current "field" power might be incomplete, unable to perform the fine manipulation that would follow his will. So he could only shelve this idea for now.

"Wh-what kind of joke is this?!"

"Move! Move for me! I am the future Planet Overlord!"

"How could I fall here ahhhh!!!"

Staring in shock at his tentacles that had inexplicably become as if stuck in mud, Lan Yu was enraged. He, who had never truly touched the power of an Earth Immortal, how could he possibly understand that as a fragment of the power of a legendary LV6-level Star Beast — even though Baichuan had only obtained a fragment of its incomplete power, it was still power from an LV6-level being. How could the likes of a weakling comprehend the loftiness of its essence?!

But even without understanding, from the display before him he could see that his full-power strike had been neutralized by the other through unknown means. He could understand — or rather, he had finally awakened from the inflated confidence brought on by his imminent breakthrough to Earth Immortal!

But because of the fear in his heart, and a certain darkness he himself dared not peek at within, he deceived himself, unable to believe all this was real. Only anger could mask his guilty conscience!

Anger and hysterical madness finally—

"Crack crack…"

Fissures continuously sounded from his seemingly solidified tentacles, the sound of their breaking dense as firecrackers. A faint, transparent, clear liquid — like the machine oil of a mechanical creation, like the blood of a flesh-and-blood creature — constantly seeped from the cracks.

Lan Yu, whose eyes had already shifted from blue light to a blood-red glow, finally felt the barrier within his body that had been blocking his breakthrough tremble slightly. The next instant, like water bursting through a breached dam, it surged irresistibly and shattered that barrier named Earth Immortal!

Dense, nearly substantial blue light, in an instant, was as if gathered in by a great hand and completely sank into his body. An invisible aura erupted from within him with the force of mountains overturning and seas raging, gushing forth like a volcano!

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(End of chapter)