Chapter 273: Where Is the Savior (4 Updates)

Watching his Night Breathing nearly fail to keep up with his blood, his health bar bouncing up and down as it hurtled toward the 50-point Spirit Realm threshold, Fang Yue's eyelids twitched wildly and he roared inside his heart.

【I am Fang Yue. I killed the 【Guizhi】 of the Sheep Void Guai. I did it…】

"Cut the crap! I'm about to die!! Can you save me right now if I give you the Silver Stone?!"

【Silver Stone!!】

The parchment instantly grew excited, but soon sent out text in a sulk.

【The Silver Stone will take me a few minutes to digest, but you don't look like you can hold on that long.】

"Then what do I do! Save me! What about Time Rewind? Won't it save me!"

【Time Rewind can't solve this situation either. Right now, the only thing that can save you is the meatball in your hand.】

What?

Meatball?

Fang Yue froze for a moment, then remembered that Ni Dongmei had given him a meatball before he left the village, telling him to let her know once he dealt with the 【Guizhi】.

This thing can save lives?

【Of course it can save lives! The great Lord Parchment never lies! Hmph!】

【So stop interrupting me!】

Seeming to gather its emotions for a moment, the parchment began its prophecy again.

【I am Fang Yue. I dealt with the 【Guizhi】, but fell into a desperate situation. Fortunately, Ni Dongmei gave me a meatball. I used the meatball and was successfully rescued!】

【And it was all thanks to the help of the great and noble Lord Parchment!】

【Congratulations, congratulations!】

While the parchment was blabbering on, Fang Yue had long since, under the trampling of countless sheep hooves, fished out the meatball with trembling hands.

Pouring his last bit of inner force into it, Fang Yue rolled the meatball out.

"Go, Meatball-chan, this is my last Ripple!!"

The moment the meatball was thrown out, it was trampled by countless sheep hooves.

But the meatball was bizarrely resilient—no matter how it was trampled, it simply wouldn't deform, springy and bouncy, emitting an eerie blue glow.

……

Mo Cun.

Qing Ya Xiao Ke Zhan.

Lying in bed in standby mode, Ni Dongmei's clone slowly opened her eyes.

If anyone were to look straight into her eyes at that moment, they would see, within them, a vast expanse of Sheep Void Guai, the perspective eerily strange.

It was as if she were right there beneath the trampling of the Sheep Void Guai army.

"That guy… he actually did it?"

Ni Dongmei slowly rose to her feet, frowning slightly.

This was a little different from what she had expected. After all, slaying a 【Guizhi】 was no easy feat for a post-Heaven Second-rate Realm martial artist, yet Fang Yue had done it single-handedly!

"This boy is no simple matter! Could he be the Pillar of Fortune of the Extreme Ice Sect?"

That feeling, upon seeing the small flame that had ignited on Fang Yue's body, quickly cooled back down.

A rogue cultivator of the Blazing Flame Sect should not be the Pillar of Fortune of the Extreme Ice Sect!

She felt a little sulky in her heart, but thinking of her sect's situation, she still made her move—any being that might be a Pillar of Fortune, she could not afford to miss!

"If he can pass the 【Guizhi】 hurdle, then he should be able to bring back a tail. By then, I can roughly judge which faction the Pillar of Fortune belongs to."

In any case, the Sheep Void Guai faction had already been kicked out of the running.

Pressing her palms together, wisps of cold air emerged from her body and quickly burrowed into her eyes.

The reflected scene in her pupils immediately gained a ring-shaped halo of light, spreading outward.

At the same time, Ni Dongmei's figure suddenly became a little more illusory.

"The clone's power is running lower and lower."

"Faster, faster!"

"Investigate every potential Pillar of Fortune in Mo Cun, lock onto the target, then bring them back to the Extreme Ice Sect!"

……

Ruoyun Stone Ground.

"System Notice: 【Body Deficiency: Five Viscera Damaged】 status removed."

"System Notice: 【Meridian Damage: Chong Meridian】 status removed."

"System Notice: 【Meridian Damage: Dai Meridian】 status removed."

Night Breathing! Night Breathing!!!

Fang Yue roared with excitement in his heart.

God, a true god!

At this critical moment when his health bar had been pressed down to a wavering 20 points, Night Breathing showed its might!

Relying on its fierce injury recovery ability, it directly cleared several special negative statuses with mild symptoms!

The dual attributes that had nearly hit rock bottom finally rose back up a bit, no longer quite so perilous.

Although the health bar hadn't recovered, it also wasn't dropping any further, maintaining a relatively steady state… as long as no critical hit landed.

Fang Yue was truly afraid of critical hits now.

A single heavy critical hit could kill him outright at any moment—utterly outrageous!

As two more minor injuries healed and the negative statuses were cleared, Fang Yue felt himself getting better!

Apart from being unable to fight back for the time being, and fearing a sudden critical-hit death, he was temporarily safe.

The blood bar rose and fell so many times that Fang Yue was nearly numb to it.

And just then, the meatball he had thrown out earlier suddenly reacted!

It was light.

The meatball was glowing.

A pale-blue, icy radiance spread outward in a ring-shaped form.

The first to come into contact with this pale-blue light were the Sheep Wraiths standing on top of the meatball.

Their maddened, ferocious expressions froze solid the instant they touched the pale-blue light!

Crack, crack.

At the same time, a thin layer of frost slowly crystallized over their bodies!

Even though the blazing Human Soul Bonfire was right beside them, the frost held firm.

After freezing the Sheep Wraiths, it was not melted by the flames—instead, it gradually grew thicker!

The surrounding temperature plummeted rapidly; the Human Soul Bonfire beside them sputtered twice with a hiss, then whoosh—went out!

The view plunged into darkness in an instant, with only that ring of spreading radiance illuminating everything.

Pop, pop, pop.

Every time the light touched a Sheep Wraith, it made a sound like small bubbles bursting—pop, pop, pop rang on without end.

Freeze! Freeze! Freeze! Freeze!!

When the light reached Fang Yue, every Sheep Wraith that had been 'bullying' him was instantly frozen solid—only Fang Yue was completely unaffected.

In that brief window, Fang Yue's blood bar surged wildly, snapping back to full in an instant.

Damn, that was scary!

Fang Yue pushed away the Sheep Wraith ice sculpture standing on him, ran over, and picked up the meatball.

"Hey, hey, hey—Ni Dongmei, can you hear me?"

"Shut up."

"Good grief! I haven't even settled the score with you yet, and you're already giving me attitude!"

Fang Yue's face darkened.

And at that moment, the Sheep Wraiths that had been frozen first began to shake, shedding fragments of ice as if about to break free.

"Stop the nonsense, get out of here, now!"

Ni Dongmei's voice came from the meatball again.

Fang Yue clenched his teeth. I'll settle the score with you later!

He picked up Leng Yue and the five black stones from the 【Wraith-Tongue】 corpse's decomposition, and hurriedly withdrew from the area.

After Fang Yue had run far enough, he looked back at the Sheep Wraith horde—and saw the ice ring had already spread across the entire army.

At the same time, Fang Yue noticed that the Sheep Wraith horde, after shedding the ice, seemed to have been brainwashed out of nowhere—they truly stopped hunting for him, and instead scattered off in all directions, heading every which way. He had no idea what had happened.

(End of chapter)