novelGlobal #488 - Chapter 487 If You Vomit Again, There Will Be No More Blood
#488 - Chapter 487 If You Vomit Again, There Will Be No More Blood
With a full burst of speed, Li Chenqiu dashed out of City 133 in less than a minute.
Gazing at the pitch-black, boundless wilderness that resembled the gaping maw of an abyss, Li Chenqiu pulled out a compass from his chest.
“The Cursed Land Sandsea should be in… this direction!”
Li Chenqiu shifted his gaze from the compass, his sharp eyes piercing through the night, looking towards the direction of the Cursed Land Sandsea.
He had decided this morning that he would head to the Cursed Land – the Sandsea!
Despite being called a Sandsea, it had nothing to do with the sea; it was a vast and boundless desert. It was called a Sandsea because the sand there was not static.
Every moment, every second, it would change. To move in this desert, one had to travel by boat; there was no other way. Neither flying nor walking on foot was possible.
Flying would be met with a mysterious force that dragged you down, regardless of whether you were human or machine. Some speculated that this was the work of monsters living in the Sandsea, a theory that was widely accepted.
Walking on foot would result in being swallowed by quicksand and crushed within, not even leaving behind a complete corpse. Even a Tier 10 expert couldn't escape. As for those stronger...
The information the black-hearted boss sold him didn't mention anything, so Li Chenqiu himself didn't know.
After determining the direction, Li Chenqiu's figure flickered and disappeared from the spot, leaving behind trails of afterimages in the darkness. But before he could go far, he suddenly stopped.
“Hmm?”
Li Chenqiu muttered softly, raising his left hand to his eyes. Accompanied by a squirming of flesh, a silver-glowing spatial ring slowly appeared.
The spatial ring was connected to his mind, and he could clearly sense any abnormalities. Just now, he had sensed something very bad.
“Where did the Soul-Devouring Pearl go? Didn't I just put it in?”
Li Chenqiu muttered to himself, his consciousness constantly scanning every corner of the storage space, repeating it several times, but he couldn't find the shadow of the Soul-Devouring Pearl.
But it wasn't a complete loss. He found a square stone.
The stone was the size of a fist, pitch-black, like a lump of coal. On opposite sides, there were different, bizarre patterns carved, which looked like nothing good!
“Is it a Xuan artifact that swaps positions? Damn it!”
Li Chenqiu instantly understood the key point. He stomped his feet hard, and with a “bang,” he sprinted back the way he came, kicking up several meters of flying sand and rocks.
In less than a few seconds, he saw City 133 standing tall on the earth.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
Countless slender vines extended from Li Chenqiu's back, intertwined together, weaving a pair of green wings.
His legs gathered strength and jumped. He flapped his wings, and Li Chenqiu flashed under the stars, swooping down towards City 133. A series of sonic booms, like thunder, exploded in the night sky, creating a tremendous momentum!
At the same time, City 133 seemed to have been daubed with a blood-stained brush, the color of the entire city turning blood-red until it completely solidified.
Under the cold moonlight, a bowl-shaped, light-red energy shield appeared out of nowhere, inverting to cover the entire City 133, completely isolating the inside from the outside.
Li Chenqiu narrowed his eyes, his clenched fist transforming into silver metal. His momentum didn't decrease as he smashed straight into it.
Bang!!!
The surface of the blood-colored energy shield rippled, and the visible aftermath rolled out, the deafening sound reverberating in the city's sky, crushing the city's hustle and bustle.
The people on the street covered their ears at the same moment, squatting down and screaming in terror.
Cars that were driving crashed into each other, blocking the road like a long dragon.
Everything was in chaos!
“Ahhh!!!”
“What's going on?”
“What's with this red sky? Is the city encountering a beast tide…”
Bang!
The deafening sound rang out again, scaring people to cover their ears, cowering in fear.
Outside City 133, Li Chenqiu was like a tireless machine, punching the blood-colored energy shield in front of him again and again.
He knew very well that the Soul-Devouring Pearl must have returned to that old thing's hands, and if nothing unexpected happened, the other party should have called for help.
If he chose to leave this time, it wouldn't be so easy to get the Soul-Devouring Pearl next time. It would only waste more time than this time, and what he lacked most now was time, so…
He could only advance, not retreat!
Bang!
With one punch, cracks appeared on the surface of the energy shield.
Bang!
With another punch, the cracks gradually expanded, and the energy shield became precarious.
At the same time, inside Dong'an Academy.
“Pfft!”
Yu Lu, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, spat out a mouthful of blood, his face turning pale instantly.
At this moment, he was holding his hands above his head, palms facing the sky, two slender blood-colored beams of light shooting straight into the sky, merging into the blood-colored energy shield.
Obviously, the culprit preventing Li Chenqiu from entering City 133 was him.
The people around him, seeing this scene, were about to step forward, but Lin Haiguang stopped them with a wave of his hand.
“Don't come over!”
Saying that, Lin Haiguang quickly walked to Yu Lu and squatted down, asking with concern, “Old Yu, can you hold on for a while?”
Yu Lu shook his head, gritting his teeth and said, “I can't hold on for long, this Revanant's power is too strong!”
Hearing this, Lin Haiguang's face darkened, cursing in his heart, “Damn it, useless thing, you can't even withstand this!”
In his original plan, if Li Chenqiu returned to him after discovering that the Soul-Devouring Pearl was missing, he would let Yu Lu hold on first, and then wait for the support to arrive and work together to eliminate the opponent.
If Li Chenqiu did not choose to return after discovering that the Soul-Devouring Pearl was missing, then he would set up an ambush with the Soul-Devouring Pearl and cooperate with the Security Administration to eliminate the opponent.
As for why he didn't take action now to hold back Li Chenqiu until support arrived, it was because Lin Haiguang knew that his strength was too weak. The Soul-Devouring Pearl was half the reason he could break through to Tier 11.
Fighting a Tier 11 Revanant alone was too risky, and he would risk serious injury or even death.
“Old Lin! We can't let this Revanant enter City 133. You go out and hold him back, wait for support to arrive, the lives of millions of people in this city are all in your hands!” Yu Lu's neck veins bulged.
“Dean, good luck!”
“We believe you can definitely win!”
“Let the entire Federation see the true strength of our Dong'an Academy!”
“Dean, our lives are all in your hands, you must win!”
Expectant gazes fell on Lin Haiguang.
“Win… win my ass, I'll die!”
Lin Haiguang cursed angrily in his heart, then covered his chest, and said with an ugly face:
“I also want to fight, but… but my old injuries haven't healed, and my strength is less than five or six out of ten at my peak. Going out would only become the Revanant's food. Old Yu, can you explode a little and hold on for a while…”
“Pfft!” Yu Lu spat out another mouthful of blood, and said very weakly, “I… I'll be out of blood if I spit again…”