Chapter 394: The Immovable Bone Sphere (5/10, Autumn Subscription)

Around them, the black clouds representing the Wuyu Clan had already drawn close, forming a large encircling ring.

Lin Ling shouted out once more, begging Lord Han to come out, and even began attacking the bone sphere.

Unfortunately, his attacks couldn't even leave a mark on the bone sphere's surface.

But if one listened carefully, one could hear that the inside of the bone sphere had suddenly become extremely noisy, engaged in fierce combat.

The others from Gu Yue Cun also began shouting along.

"We beg Lord Han to save us!"

"Lord Han, save us!"

"Lord Han! Lord Han!"

Crying, wailing, pleading... the people of Gu Yue Cun knelt before the bone sphere, begging their last guardian deity to come out and save them.

And at this moment, the encirclement of black clouds began to gradually tighten.

Everyone had no room to retreat, no way to escape!

With their backs to the bone sphere, the crowd faced the approaching human-bone kites, their faces deathly pale.

"Lord Han! Please! Hurry out and save us!"

"Lord Han!!!"

"Help, help ahhh!!"

A chaotic mess of voices mingled together into a single clamor.

But whether it was because the bone sphere's soundproofing was too good, or because the battle inside was too intense, Lord Han couldn't attend to anything else.

In short, despite the desperate shouting outside, the bone sphere showed no movement whatsoever, and there was no sign of Lord Han coming out.

Seeing this situation, everyone's heart sank.

Lin Ling's face was especially pale.

He had led the team here voluntarily in the first place, staking everything on a single throw — it was a great gamble.

But now... it seemed he had lost the gamble.

He had brought the last survivors of Gu Yue Cun into making an absolutely wrong choice, leading everyone to a place of death.

Trapped here, waiting to die!

Watching the human-bone kites flying and howling ahead, watching the encirclement gradually shrinking, Lin Ling's heart ached to the extreme.

He had become the sinner of Gu Yue Cun — everyone would die because of him!

Just then, a hand suddenly landed on his shoulder.

Lin Ling turned his head to look back — it was Fang Yue.

Fang Yue gave a slight shake of his head and said, "It's not your fault. There's no time for self-blame. Get ready — we'll act as the vanguard, cut a bloody path out, and let the others escape!"

"... Mm!"

Fang Yue's words barely lifted the spirits of Lin Ling, who was in extreme self-reproach.

Seeing this, Fang Yue said no more.

He gauged his own physical condition — he now had just enough stamina to fight.

He opened the status panel and took a look.

"Name: Yese Liming."

"Realm: Post-Heaven Second-Rate."

"Status: Curse 【Wuyu】."

"HP: 400/400."

"Inner Force: 200/1400."

"Control: 440 【Base: 420】 【Status/Boost: +20】."

"Deflection: 320 【Base: 300】 【Status/Boost: +20】."

"Comprehension: 1. 【Special Attribute】"

"Talent: Night's Breath 【Human-Grade Superior】."

"Skills: Analysis Pupil 【Human-Grade Inferior】, Starfire Blade Technique Lv. 1 【Post-Heaven Third-Rate】, Water-Sky Blade Technique Lv. 1 【Crude Martial Arts】, Blazing Heart Method 【Post-Heaven First-Rate / Sixth Layer】, Starfire Heart Method Lv. 3 【Post-Heaven Third-Rate / Max Level】."

"Lifespan: 1 year, 1 month, 1 day."

After killing Ma Ling'er, his attributes had skyrocketed to a new level.

By comparison, the 20 attribute points added by Night's Breath seemed negligible.

But Fang Yue had long since passed the stage of caring about Night's Breath's small attribute boost — one could say the real bulk of 【Night's Breath】 lay in HP recovery and healing wounds.

Only when it came to recovering from over-exerted stamina, it didn't seem to perform as well.

The only thing that made one's palms sweat was how, from the earlier frantic 【Time Reversal】, the wild fighting, and the use of abilities, he had nearly burned through his entire lifespan.

"The current me can already fight!"

Feeling out his body's condition, Fang Yue assessed his current strength.

Ahead, the black clouds were already pressing in.

Behind, the bone sphere's commotion remained intense.

Most of Gu Yue Cun's survivors began to face reality, turning one after another toward the advancing Wuyu Clan, readying themselves for battle at any moment.

And it was at this moment.

Fang Yue's hand suddenly itched.

Startled, Fang Yue looked down.

He saw that the back of his hand — the one marked with the Xinghong Banyue Yinjie left by the Wuyu Clan — had suddenly begun to heat up.

At first it was only slightly warm, but very quickly the temperature began to climb sharply, burning so hot that black smoke rose from the back of Fang Yue's hand, carrying the smell of scorched flesh.

This was not Fang Yue's own flame, nor was it a temperature he controlled.

Under the searing agony, cold sweat even began to bead on his forehead.

Just as Fang Yue had no idea what this 【Curse: Black Rain】 was about to do—

Drip.

A raindrop landed on the back of his hand.

1!

A damage prompt appeared in its wake.

Rain… drops?

Fang Yue froze on the spot, his mind going blank, and he looked up at the night sky in a daze.

Drip.

Drip.

Drip drip drip drip drip drip!

Rainwater pattered against his cheeks.

Night Rain, falling!

……

"I-is it raining?!"

"Night Rain, it's Night Rain!!"

"Night Rain is falling! Night Rain is falling!"

"Danger! Danger! Danger! Great danger! Take shelter from the rain, quick!!"

This Night Rain came suddenly, came strangely, came without any warning.

But Night Rain had always been such a mysterious, unfathomable, capricious existence; no one could foresee its arrival.

When the rain fell, when the drops struck their cheeks and soaked their clothes—

Everyone present completely lost their heads.

Above every person there, dense -1 -1 -1 damage prompts popped up in rapid succession.

Every single raindrop represented a point of HP draining away.

The dense raindrops pouring down could directly claim everyone's life!

Just like real-life rain.

The current Night Rain was only the very beginning—the slowest Light Rain phase.

The rain wasn't falling fast, yet it had already begun to wound people!

Lin Ling and Fang Yue struggled to hold the situation together, but some people on site still panicked and fled headlong outside, only to be torn into shreds by the bone kites of the Black Rain Tribe; flesh and blood rained down, mingling even with the rainwater.

This display of force instantly calmed every other survivor in Gu Yue Cun.

"Ye Ge, Ye Ge, what do we do!"

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu cried out; although she usually acted like a dimwit, only good for eating and being useless—

Her attributes were solid and real, not diminished by half just because she couldn't fight, so when fleeing and dodging the anomalous, they were instead oddly effective.

She had been running about wildly, and only at the final gathering did she rejoin the main group; even when Fang Yue's body couldn't move, at the most critical moment she wasn't in the squad, no one knew where she'd hidden herself off to.

"Calm down!"

Fang Yue told her to be quiet, but his own face was indeed terribly grim.

Within the Night Rain, he had 【Night's Breath】, which could resist the erosion of Night Rain.

But the others had no such ability; with Night Rain falling, the HP each person lost was real and solid, with no way to recover, and in the end they would only be dripped to death alive by Night Rain.

(End of chapter)