Chapter 616: Severed Hand (8/10, bonus chapter for 'Ruichi Tianxia'【)

So that's how it was.

When he looked at that wall again, Fang Yue's eyes were perfectly clear.

Like a cannonball, he charged at the wall—this time Fang Yue's entire head smashed straight into it in one go.

It wasn't the sound of a head hitting a wall, but the sound of plunging through broken water, sinking deep to the bottom.

Fang Yue's body was still outside, but his head was inside the wall, as if it had smashed into the water's surface.

Opening his eyes to look around, Fang Yue saw all manner of corpses floating about.

Among them were other body parts of Yang Tuanzhang, as well as various human corpses and severed limbs.

These corpses and severed limbs floated tightly together in the water, like driftwood.

Fang Yue roughly observed this 'lake bottom' and found that the lake bottom inside the wall wasn't a large space—it was like an independent cube formed of deep water, something he could take in with a single glance.

And around the cube, everything was pitch black, fathomlessly deep, with no way of knowing what lay beyond its edges.

Yet even now, with his full power unleashed, Fang Yue sensed something extremely ominous from the pitch-black space outside the cube.

As if beyond the deep-water cube, there existed an even more terrifying and vast inner world.

And directly above the cube—at the very top of the lake bottom—there was a scene of moonlight pouring in, as if letting one distinguish between the water's surface and the bottom.

And at that moment, at the water's surface, at the very top where the moonlight poured in, a human face suddenly appeared.

It was... Yang Qingqing. She didn't seem to have realized what had happened yet, just tilting her head with a puzzled look.

Those pitch-black eyes were unmistakably the mark of Possession.

Just as Fang Yue was puzzling over it, he saw Yang Qingqing suddenly plunge straight in with a splash. The moment she dove into the water, she was like a fish in water, charging toward Fang Yue at tremendous speed.

His face changing, Fang Yue quickly pulled his head back, shrank his neck, then retreated two steps, and his head popped right out of the wall.

Splash—sending up a great spray of water.

The water droplets hit the ground and immediately turned into glass marbles, clinking and clattering against the floor.

"Lord Ye, what's the situation—"

"Big trouble's coming!"

Before the young lady could finish speaking, the one who had let go and caused her father's head to hit the ground was pulled by Fang Yue as he retreated toward the prison exit.

The young lady looked toward the wall.

She saw the wall shatter like a mirror, and the image of Yang Qingqing with pitch-black eyes was taken in completely by the young lady at a glance.

Third Sister?!

The young lady cried out in shock, letting out a terrified scream.

First Father died again, now Third Sister was possessed—their Great Yang Trading Caravan had suddenly become dangerous.

"Lord Ye, hurry—"

Just as the young lady opened her mouth, she found her mouth blocked by some kind of granular substance.

She opened her mouth in terror, trying to do something, but couldn't make a sound.

By the time Fang Yue brought her out of the cell and into the night outside, Yang Qingqing also burst out with a bang.

Don't come over!!

The young lady screamed inside her heart, and her blocked mouth suddenly spat out a string of small granular cubes.

On the cubes, the six big characters "Don't come over" were carved one by one, looking rather comical.

She struggled, was tossed aside by Fang Yue, who turned around warily to watch the third daughter Yang Qingqing charging after them.

It's not like I left you out of the meeting—worth going dark over this?

Fang Yue narrowed his eyes, and when Yang Qingqing lunged at him, he immediately slashed out a blade without the slightest hesitation.

The blade instantly turned pitch black, slicing through Yang Qingqing's body and cutting her clean in two from the middle.

Crash!

The bisected Yang Qingqing's body split open like lake water, spilling all over the ground, and where it landed it scattered into a carpet of crystalline granules.

"Dead?"

The young lady cried out in delight, clenching her small fists.

Father murdered, sister possessed—alive or dead, unknown.

So the young lady utterly hated this entity to the bone.

But just as she took two tentative steps forward, the small granules on the ground slowly melted like snow into water, sinking into the floor and vanishing without a trace.

Looking at the ground now, one would find that the surface in this area was as smooth as a mirror—exactly the same as that wall in the cell earlier.

"How dare you flee, you wretched entity!!"

His face darkening, Fang Yue strode up to the mirror-smooth floor in a few steps, and this time jumped in with his whole body.

Splash.

Like a diving athlete, Fang Yue entered the water cleanly, without a single splash.

Once inside the deep-water cube space, Fang Yue immediately saw that the bisected Yang Qingqing was repairing her body—the two halves were gradually fusing back together in the deep water.

And she was still conscious. The moment she saw Fang Yue plunge in after her, her face changed drastically, and dragging her barely-stuck-together body, she shot out through the opening at the very top of the cube with a whoosh, as if she'd seen a ghost, terrified beyond measure.

Only entities that hadn't been cut by Fang Yue didn't know how terrifying he was.

That single slash had scared the 【Crystal Glass Entity】 out of its wits, and it immediately turned tail and fled.

No matter how it tried to think it through, without its own ability to guide the way, how had Fang Yue gotten into this deep-water space?

Wooo—

From the area around the cube in the deep-water world, a mournful wail suddenly rang out.

The sound came quickly and went quickly—Fang Yue didn't pay it any mind, but it nearly scared the 【Crystal Glass Entity】 to death.

That space wasn't solely its own; something even more terrifying lurked within.

If not for the cube shielding its aura, even as another anomaly, it would likely have already died a miserable death in this special space.

The Deep Water Space didn't seem like an independent ability at all, more like a living, breathing world.

Every time there was any movement outside the cubic space, Yang Qingqing would be scared half to death, like an ant that had stowed away onto an elephant's territory.

Although the ant had managed to steal a few things from beneath the elephant, correspondingly, it could only shiver and eke out a miserable existence, daring to use only this bit of power, not daring to expand in any way.

And when Fang Yue came in, Fang Yue was like a savage destroyer. Seeing Yang Qingqing leave, he didn't rush to pursue her. Instead, he swallowed a pill, circulated his Qi and Blood and internal force, and then… aimed at the nearest anomaly exit, and slashed straight at it with one blade.

Boom!!

In the Deep Water World, Fang Yue shattered one of its outward exits with a single slash, and immediately the waters surged into towering waves.

And in the outside world, a patch of ground left behind by the 【Crystal Glass Anomaly】 scattering its seeds everywhere also cracked and shattered along with it, becoming a floor of glass debris.

It works!

Looking at the already-closed opening, Fang Yue continued to strike, preparing to destroy all the other exits.

As long as the exits were thoroughly destroyed, leaving only one for him to guard, then the 【Crystal Glass Anomaly】 would have nowhere to escape, and there would be a way to deal with it!

While Fang Yue carried out the plan, shattering the other mirror-surface exits, the 【Crystal Glass Anomaly】 finally panicked, and actually chopped off its own hand, throwing the severed hand into the Deep Water region.

(End of this chapter)