Chapter 992: Flickering Barrier (Requesting Moon Tickets)

Young Master Chi frowned deeply.

"If he 'died' here, it's given the 【Yin Chai】 a coordinate—that'll severely disrupt our plan."

"I didn't sense any 【Yin Chai】 appearing; it seems they only got the coordinate. But… ah…"

Meiyu Xianzi revealed a rare trace of worry.

Things like 【Yin Chai】—even she didn't want to face them.

Moreover, 【Yin Chai】 are merely appetizers; the truly terrifying ones are what lurk behind them…

Also…

Meiyu Xianzi stared at the fragments of space.

The parchment's rewind power just now—she'd never seen anything like it before.

"We'll meet again, little ones."

Withdrawing her gaze, Meiyu Xianzi looked up at the night sky.

That blood-red moon hung high, dripping like fresh blood—drip, drip.

Tian Shi is coming!

…

Inside the space fragments.

Darkness.

Endless, boundless darkness.

Though wrapped in black mist and shielded by the faint blue barrier from Meiyu Xianzi and the others, Fang Yue saw nothing in the thick darkness—only felt himself being hurled, crushed, shoved, and expelled outward.

With his own strength, this crushing, shoving force would have pulverized him in an instant.

But under the faint blue barrier's protection, he only heard the barrier creaking and groaning, as if about to shatter at any moment.

This filled Fang Yue with dread, keeping him in constant fear.

【Is this what it's like inside a space tunnel? So terrifying!】

The parchment's voice carried exhaustion.

Clearly, after continuous use of the rewind power, the parchment was beginning to fail.

The situation was worsening step by step—he had to find a way to break the deadlock!

Fang Yue clenched his fists.

He tried turning the black mist into propulsion—sure enough, his forward speed increased slightly.

But at that moment, Fang Yue saw it: an enormous eye emerging from the endless darkness around him!

Its greedy gaze followed Fang Yue as he moved.

In this darkness where even front, back, up, and down were indistinguishable, Fang Yue couldn't escape its pursuit—he could only drift with the current.

As the surrounding forces pushed him, he noticed more and more enormous eyes rising from the darkness.

【Fang Yue, something's out there around you!】

"I know."

Fang Yue said grimly in his heart.

He had considered the possibility of some creature existing within the space fragments—but the power here was far stronger than he'd imagined, leaving him utterly powerless to resist.

Crack!

As if fate conspired, at that exact moment, the faint blue barrier granted by Meiyu Xianzi and the others cracked under the assault of the dark current.

Almost the instant the crack appeared, dozens of enormous eyes surged forth like hounds catching scent—flash, flash, flash—swarming wildly.

In moments, every direction he looked revealed a dense sea of enormous eyes behind the darkness.

Eyes filled the surrounding darkness; some drew perilously close to his barrier.

The next instant, the faint blue barrier around Fang Yue erupted in a blinding flash of blue light—the eyes near him recoiled as if burned, vanishing instantly into the darkness.

Yet more eyes emerged from the darkness, watching Fang Yue from afar.

At the same time, Fang Yue noticed the faint blue barrier around him had dimmed noticeably afterward.

Fang Yue's heart sank.

Clearly, Meiyu Xianzi's barrier posed a threat to these 【Big Eye Wraiths】, deterring them from acting rashly.

But the barrier's energy was running low—if not for the 【Big Eye Wraiths】's fear of risking themselves, with their current numbers, they'd have shattered the barrier and torn his body apart in moments.

Amid the tense standoff, Fang Yue released more black mist, turning it into propulsion.

His speed surged violently—the faint blue light cracked and splintered with each creak as the black mist violently propelled him forward, riding the dark current's crushing force.

Some 【Big Eye Wraiths】 hesitated and didn't pursue, but far more trailed behind.

【Fang Yue, the old witch's barrier won't hold much longer!】

Fang Yue said nothing—he pushed harder in silence.

Black mist erupted again—speed increased further.

Fang Yue seized the chance to glance back—this time, he'd finally shaken the 【Big Eye Wraiths】 far behind.

But as Fang Yue turned his gaze forward again…

Thud!!

A 【Big Eye Wraith】 suddenly appeared right before his eyes, pressed flat against the barrier's surface.

In Fang Yue's moment of shock, the eye's pupil split open like a mouth, revealing rows of teeth and a chilling grin.

The next instant.

Crack!!

As the faint blue light blazed blindingly, the 【Big Eye Wraith】 had already bitten down on the barrier's surface.

Crack! Crack!

The moment this 【Big-Eyed Wraith】 dissolved straight into ash and scattered into nothing, the already-strained light barrier burst open with a great breach on the spot; darkness surged madly into the barrier, rushing straight at Fang Yue!

A terrifying pressure came crashing in like a tide, freezing Fang Yue on the spot in an instant — as though at the bottom of the deep sea, bearing the weight of ten thousand fathoms, utterly unable to move a single inch.

【Fang Yue?!】

"Wraith power!!"

At the critical moment, he released all his remaining wraith power at once, wrapping his whole body in it to form a black armor; only then did the pressure plummet, and he hurriedly held his breath in tension.

The next instant, the darkness that had just been charging at him suddenly lost its target, and turned instead to attack the remaining fragments of the pale-blue light barrier.

The incomplete pale-blue light barrier was swallowed whole by the darkness in the blink of an eye, merging into the surrounding dark.

Fang Yue watched his wraith value plummeting, and more 【Big-Eyed Wraiths】 appearing behind him again — his heart sank.

Gritting his teeth, he erupted his wraith power once more, letting it transform into propulsion that drove him forward.

The moment his attention split, the darkness was like a hound that had caught the scent, seeping in through every crack and pouring toward him!

At the same time, seeing that Fang Yue no longer had the pale-blue light barrier protecting him, the 【Big-Eyed Wraiths】 behind him began to flash forward at speed, rapidly closing the distance.

Danger, closing in madly.

【Fang Yue!!】

"Aaaah!"

Fang Yue sprinted with everything he had, roaring out loud — but his voice was snuffed out the instant it entered the darkness, vanishing without a trace.

His speed skyrocketed; squeezed and shoved along by the dark torrent, Fang Yue surged forward like a madman.

Just as the swarm of Big-Eyed Wraiths was about to catch up to him, he saw… light!

Though faint, it was unmistakably light! A glimmer!

The glimmer took the form of a shard of space — and it appeared not at the end of the dark torrent, but on the side wall!

【Fang Yue! Over there!!】

The parchment practically shrieked in delighted surprise.

And Fang Yue simply changed direction on the spot and charged straight over.

(End of chapter)