Chapter 311: A Spine Too Stiff

"We've escaped!"

To flee a thousand miles away at the cost of abandoning their own physical bodies and all their power was a decision of no small magnitude, but fortunately, it was all worth it; they had successfully escaped.

All they had to do now was find a place to hide and wait quietly; their era was about to arrive!

Once their era arrived, they could madly devour Spirit Qi and devour these ants to rapidly restore their own strength.

When that time came, all the humiliation would be repaid to Shen Yu a thousand or ten thousand times over, though whether Shen Yu would even exist by then was a question!

After all, they knew very well just how tempting someone like Shen Yu was to people like them; everyone wanted to swallow him up.

Perhaps when they met again, he would be nothing but a pile of white bones. Of course, it was also possible that not even bone fragments would remain.

Just as the two were fantasizing, a Sword Qi streaked across the sky, directly engulfing them both.

Until the very end, the moment they realized this terrifying Sword Qi had appeared, their last remaining wisps of soul had already rapidly dissipated between heaven and earth, leaving nothing behind.

In the final glimmer of their vision, they only saw a figure appear; it was the figure of Shen Yu.

As it turned out, they had never managed to hide from him after all.

"System, sign in!"

"Sign-in successful, obtained Time Golden Chapter!"

"Time Golden Chapter?" Feeling the information that had suddenly appeared in his mind, Shen Yu's previously poor mood suddenly improved greatly; it was just to say that killing these old monsters was guaranteed to be highly profitable.

The Time Golden Chapter looked like an ordinary sheet of golden paper, floating deep within his mind.

This tiny sheet of paper could not only use the power of time to conceal his own aura and suppress his destiny, but regarding his own past and future, the Golden Chapter could be like a blank sheet of paper, left for him to fill in as he pleased.

However, this "filling in" did not mean he could use it to change his own past or future, but rather to change the past and future of himself in the eyes of others.

There are always people in this world who can see through others' disguises at a glance; no disguise can escape their eyes.

There are also people in this world who are proficient in the art of divination, who can see through a person's past at a single glance; anyone in their eyes is as if naked.

Yet the Golden Chapter can conceal one's aura and suppress one's destiny. When these people look at him, or even secretly divine his future, they see only the content he has filled into the Golden Chapter.

At the same time, the Time Golden Chapter can also peer into the past of others, recording everything that has happened to them in the long river of time. With just one glance, the experiences of others will appear within the Golden Chapter.

To put it bluntly, from now on, the disguises of others will likely not be able to hide from his eyes, while his own disguise will be able to deceive anyone else.

Although the Time Golden Chapter is not an offensive treasure, its auxiliary functions are maxed out, and it definitely ranks among the top of the many rewards he has obtained from signing in.

Putting away these rewards, Shen Yu then headed straight for the place in the distance where lightning flashed and thunder rumbled, shrouded in night; the next moment, his figure had already appeared there.

Here, endless night obscured the sunlight, and within the night, it seemed as if a residual, surging power was still constantly churning.

In this touch of night, Shen Yu also felt a familiar power; this power seemed to be the aura of the old monster that had been lurking within the body of the Pinglou manager Bai Song when he had killed him back at Pinglou.

In other words, this night sky before him was actually formed by sacrificing the old monster within the body of Bai Song.

So, from beginning to end, he had been used by others; Pinglou had been a trap prepared from the very start.

In fact, the whole process was not hard to guess; once Shen Yu felt this familiar power in the distant sky, he had basically guessed seven or eight tenths of it.

The appearance of Pinglou was just to fish; what they were fishing for was not only Han Zhang, who could come into contact with the Broken Sword of Mu Zishan, but also someone like him who could kill old monsters.

The reason Pinglou acted so high-profile was actually to attract attention, preferably to induce people to try every possible means to destroy Pinglou. What they wanted, in fact, was to borrow someone else's hand to kill the old monster within Bai Song.

Those who could not defeat the old monster within Bai Song naturally could not destroy Pinglou. And those who could defeat it would certainly believe that the old monster within Bai Song was the mastermind behind Pinglou, and would subsequently try every means to destroy it.

If nothing went wrong, this old monster must have still had a portion of unconscious remnant soul or other power stripped away and left outside.

Even if the main body of this old monster was dead and had completely perished, it did not prevent this power from continuing to exist.

These old monsters often have a final ultimate technique, the kind that cannot be used except in a life-and-death situation. Or perhaps it is an ultimate technique they use when they know they are absolutely outmatched and, upon the verge of death, want to desperately drag someone down with them.

And the one within Bai Song was clearly the latter type. He must have had a terrifying ultimate technique capable of dragging someone to their death; once used, it would inevitably be earth-shattering.

What Du Xiyin and the others wanted was to trigger this old monster's final ultimate technique; if they didn't let him experience Life and Death, how could they activate this technique?

The old monster had indeed died at Shen Yu's hands, but that final power should have been stripped out by Du Xiyin and the others; as soon as the old monster died, this power would be activated and explode.

And while Du Xiyin and the others could indeed have killed the opponent themselves, they could not make a move; once they made a move, the old monster within Bai Song would inevitably develop hostility toward them.

When that time came, it wouldn't be someone else who got blown up. They still had to manipulate this power, so naturally, they could not be targeted by it.

Therefore, they needed an outsider, an outsider capable of crushing and killing this old monster. And so, Pinglou appeared.

In the end, Du Xiyin and the others sacrificed that old monster, all for this strike they had prepared for so long.

The loud noise Shen Yu had heard earlier was the sound of this power impacting the Forbidden Land. After one strike, this power was also nearly exhausted, with only a little remaining in place.

After arriving here, Shen Yu split the night open with a single sword strike, clearing away all the last remaining power, and the night sky surrounding the area vanished as a result.

But those gaps that had been opened could never be plugged again; a great gate had been completely opened.

Just as Du Xiyin had said, once that loud noise rang out, everything was too late.

That loud noise shook heaven and earth; it was both the sound of the explosion Du Xiyin and the others had painstakingly prepared, and the sound of the Forbidden Land being breached.

If this dam had not yet been breached, the flood would only have been slowly accumulating, and the impact would not have been so great.

But now the Spirit Qi was pouring down, and the impact of this surging flood, accumulated over a hundred years, could not be stopped by human power.

Shen Yu could even imagine the fate of Mu Zishan in the Forbidden Land; at this moment, he did not feel any aura, and it was likely that Mu Zishan had already perished in the impact.

Seeing the Spirit Qi pouring down, Shen Yu also tried hard to plug the gap, only to find that under the surging flood, even he, as he was now, was not up to the task.

This experience card only allowed him to possess the power of the Master, but he was not the Master after all, and this power and realm were merely borrowed.

Moreover, his experience card had a time limit; it wouldn't be long before the time on his experience card ran out, and with his small frame, let alone blocking the Spirit Qi leak, he would likely be washed away instantly.

Furthermore, even though he was here trying every possible way to plug it, he still hadn't completely blocked it.

The Spirit Qi was still venting, and because the Spirit Qi was too dense, it had even started to rain. That was the scene of Spirit Qi condensing into liquid and falling from the sky.

After such a torrential downpour, the ground did not appear very wet; the Spirit Liquid rapidly evaporated back into the sky, feeding back into heaven and earth. Soon, this surging Spirit Qi would spread to the entire World.

The endless Spirit Qi nourished the earth, as if a spring breeze had arrived, and all things revived overnight.

At this moment, Shen Yu felt as if heaven and earth were cheering, beasts were roaring, and green pines and bamboos were growing wildly. The Spirit Qi Surge made heaven and earth seem to experience a rebirth.

Perhaps, the so-called Spirit Qi Surge and the Great Contention Era are a disaster for ordinary people, but for all things, it is as if a land long parched has finally met with sweet rain.