pappabearbooks Chapter 1236 - 370: Zhou Qing Is Likely in Dire Straits
Chapter 1236 - 370: Zhou Qing Is Likely in Dire Straits
As the array patterns circulated, a gigantic phantom of a Xuan Gui took shape within the array.The Xuan Gui was entirely dark golden, with ancient runes covering its carapace, each plate of the turtle shell gleaming with a metallic luster.
"Roar—!!!"
The Xuan Gui raised its head and let out a deafening roar, dispersing the clouds within a hundred-mile radius.
Its four legs stepped into the air, each step causing ripples in space.
But in the next moment, cracks rapidly spread across the array disc, and the Xuan Gui phantom began to violently twist, letting out a heart-rending wail.
Xuanyuan Hao’s face changed dramatically, and he suddenly realized something, cursing madman.
His figure retreated rapidly, hands quickly forming sealing gestures, attempting to tear open space and escape.
Just as his fingertips were about to touch the spatial barrier—
The Xuan Gui phantom exploded with a bang, a four-colored sphere of light with a diameter exceeding a thousand feet expanding instantaneously.
Green, red, white, and black energies intertwined, forming a destructive spiritual power storm.
The air at the center of the explosion was completely drawn away, creating a brief vacuum, swallowing even sound.
Xuanyuan Hao’s pupils reflected the incoming waves of destruction, his gesture of tearing space abruptly halted.
He instantly realized that such a scale of explosion would surely cause spatial turbulence; rashly escaping into the void might leave him lost in spatial rifts!
"Nine Dragons Heavens!"
At the critical moment, Xuanyuan Hao bit through the tip of his tongue, spraying a mouthful of essence blood onto the jade pendant before his chest.
Nine golden dragons surged upward from his body, their heads and tails connected to form a spherical barrier.
Each golden dragon let out a painful dragon roar, their scales peeling under the energy impact.
"Pfft—!"
The barrier shattered after merely three breaths, Xuanyuan Hao was struck as if by lightning, spitting out a large mouthful of golden blood.
He was blown hundreds of feet by the blast’s aftermath, his dragon crown shattered, hair scattered, and the magnificent dragon robe was in tatters.
At this moment, Zhou Qing had already used the explosion’s recoil to escape a thousand miles away.
Sparkling silver lights under his feet, he pushed the Silver Dragon Step to the limit, with each step leaving a lingering silver afterimage in the void.
The terrifying explosion boomed behind him, chilling his back, yet he dared not glance back.
He once refined a three-color Sect Protection Array for the Taiqing Sect, just the materials collected by the Master visiting Lingyun Mansion took months and were costly.
Not to mention his countless sleepless nights engraving array patterns in agony.
A four-color array was even more a Supreme Treasure with no market price.
Of course he felt the loss, but keeping the Xuan Gui Returning Origin Array would instead be a curse.
It couldn’t be readily liquidated, and there’s little chance to use it, while constantly needing to guard against detection from the Yan Family.
Instead of living in constant fear, it’s better to make full use of it.
Trading it today for life was worth it.
"Not fast enough..." Zhou Qing’s eyes surged with cold glint, flicking three talismans from his sleeve.
Upon sticking instantaneously to his legs, the talismans transformed into three serpentine blue electric rays coiling around him.
His speed immediately increased by threefold, rushing towards the nearing spatial node...
At the explosion’s center, as the smoke gradually dispersed.
Xuanyuan Hao knelt on one knee, his breath weak, wiping away the golden blood at his lip corner, eyes burning with wrath as he stared at the vanishing silver light in the distance.
He understood the rarity of the four-color array better than anyone, much like the border’s Seven Stars Demon-Binding Array.
Exhausting royal resources, it required a grandmaster from the Jiuli Dynasty for arrangement.
The royal treasury itself used only something like the Nine Heaven Net Restriction, a three-color restriction.
"Good, very good." Xuanyuan Hao, overcome with anger, laughed coldly as surging golden light flickered in his hand, a gilt long sword appearing from nowhere.
The sword was entwined with dragon patterns, its tip radiating a three-inch golden aura, it was the Xuanyuan Royal Family’s supreme treasure — Dragon Abyss Sword.
He glared menacingly in the direction Zhou Qing fled, anger boiling within.
Recently, foreign country cultivators frequently appeared within the Holy Martial Dynasty, everywhere targeting the Xuanyuan Royal Family.
The silver-haired masked woman daringly destroyed the royal array hall.
The mysterious Spirit Severing Realm even publicly slaughtered the Chief Eunuch Gao Xianzhong.
Today, this purple-robed Spirit Slash not only invaded the royal treasury, but dared to trespass ancestral land to seize the spirit realm elixir.
More infuriating was this person before him, blowing up Level 3 and Level 4 array discs at leisure, extravagance beyond rebuke.
Such grandeur is by no means sustainable by ordinary forces.
"Does he really think the Xuanyuan Family is easy to bully?"
Xuanyuan Hao snorted coldly, the Dragon Abyss Sword suddenly erupted in dazzling gold radiance.
He stepped out, space before him ripped like cloth, exposing a dark void rift.
"Think you can escape?" He sneered, body flashing, directly stepping into the rift.
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Meanwhile, Zhou Qing sensed intense spatial disturbance behind him, his heart sinking.
"How swiftly he pursues!"
Feeling close to the spatial node ahead, he swiftly took out an ancient jade talisman gifted by Elder Mo.
Managing to obtain several spatial runes from Elder Mo before heading to the border was truly a wise decision.
With spiritual power infused, the jade talisman instantly shattered, transforming into a soaring silver light, tearing open a spatial rift above him.
Without hesitation, he leapt upward, diving directly into it.
However, as the rift began to close—
"Did this emperor permit you to leave?!"
Xuanyuan Hao’s form suddenly emerged, filled with murderous intent.
He did not directly pursue, but instead flicked his wrist.
The Dragon Abyss Sword burst forth in blinding golden brilliance, its tip directing a supremely condensed golden sword qi, breaking through space like an angry dragon into the closing rift!
"Boom—!"