Chapter 126 The Counterattack of the Soul Cult <TOC> Chapter 128 The Arrow on the String
Translator: SumTLMan
Due to the different speed of time passing, the Blade of Annihilation had not fought alongside Li Mu for a long time.
Sensing the familiar psychic energy, it let out a sharp howl for the first time, and the black flames of destruction burst out from the blade.
Li Mu gritted his teeth to resist the psychic energy permeating the air. This psychic energy was extremely corrosive and pervasive, much like concentrated sulfuric acid.
A pitch-black dragon-shaped flame roared out from the long sword, with its scales fully revealed, heading towards the eye not far away.
The air expanded and boomed due to the extreme heat.
In just an instant, the Dragon of the Blazing Sun completely devoured the eye in the air. The howling fire stream not only possessed the high temperature that could melt gold and iron, but also the destructive power of the dragon-shaped energy and the power of the flames of destruction.
Li Mu pressed the blade back, and the dragon-shaped fire stream in the air coiled up like a snake, turning into a blazing fireball, like a black sun, with the eye encircled in the center.
The scorching heat alone ignited the surrounding combustibles from a distance.
The bizarre psychic energy in the air was temporarily dispersed by this black sun.
Li Mu didn’t relax for a moment. As soon as he unleashed the Dragon of the Blazing Sun, he directly employed his biggest trump card – the Shock Calamity.
The Blade of Annihilation began to vibrate at a high frequency, even distorting the nearby air. If it weren’t for the fact that the blade was made of the unparalleled sturdy star-sunk iron powder by sintering, it would have been shattered by the terrifying vibration of the Shock Calamity before even hitting the enemy.
He held the hilt with both hands and placed the back of the long sword on his shoulder, walking towards the black sun floating in the air, his pace getting faster and faster.
Man and sword were in a subtle resonance.
The floating flames of destruction in the air trapped the strange eye for less than two seconds, then the raging fire exploded, revealing the slightly wilted eye inside.
Even without making any sound, it could be felt that the will behind this eye was somewhat angry. The corrosive psychic energy spread in the air again, restless and unceasing.
The murky, solidified psychic energy overflowed from the eye like fog.
“Buzz!”
Li Mu felt a ringing in his ears, and his whole body seemed to be spinning. His nerves felt like scorching hot iron wires, frantically transmitting pain to his brain.
His eyes suffered the most impact, and even after being strengthened by his energy technique, Li Mu’s eyes still shed black tears.
Enduring the terrifying psychic pollution, Li Mu swung his sword.
The high-speed slashing left a bright line in the air, even cutting open the air itself.
“Boom!”
The high-frequency vibrating blade struggled to cut into the eye.
A single strike would have been enough to effortlessly bisect a fourth-level enhancement awakened and turn their remains into a bloody pulp. But when it struck the eye, it barely managed to cut a sliver.
The terrifying eye seemed to be nailed in mid-air, completely motionless.
However, the damage caused by the Shock Calamity did not require armor penetration. The vibration was instantly transmitted to the eye through the Blade of Annihilation.
The entire eye trembled violently, and the numerous compound eyes within it were shattered, spilling out filthy black blood.
The black blood dripped onto the ground, becoming as sticky as asphalt and corroding the ground, causing black smoke to rise.
Psychic pollution skyrocketed, and Li Mu was hit by a wave of dizziness, followed by dry retching.
Numerous afterimages and hallucinations appeared in his vision, as if the ground had turned into a sea with violent undulations. One by one, thick and bizarre limbs broke through the ground.
Suppressing the discomfort emanating from his soul and body, Li Mu closed his eyes and retreated several steps.
“Boom!”
With a muffled sound, the eye that was preparing to pursue him trembled violently as a psychic bullet whistling through the air hit its center.
The gunshot inflicted considerable damage on the eye, leaving a thumb-sized wound in the center.
Black blood spurted out of the wound like a water gun.
The eyeball hovered in the air, shaking violently, making even the air around it blurry.
Flexible winds turned into ropes, wrapping around Li Mu’s waist and pulling him away from the eerie eyes.
Li Mu staggered to the ground.
Shen Luoyan placed her palm on his back, and a warm psychic energy dispersed the foreign psychic energy that had invaded his body.
“What kind of monster is this?”
Li Mu forcefully shook his head, dispelling the bizarre and inexplicable hallucinations from his vision.
“This is the Gaze of the Olden Day Rulers,” Shen Luoyan’s face showed a pained expression, as she was affected even more than Li Mu.
“Dalopitda cannot directly enter the wasteland, but it can cast its gaze upon its believers, letting them bear its gaze. As long as it doesn’t use psychic power, it won’t be expelled from the wasteland.”
Li Mu used the Blade of Annihilation to prop himself up.
“Is this not considered using psychic power?”
“This is merely passive dispersion, and even such passive dispersion can cause severe pollution to human souls. The more perceptive an Awakener is, the more severe the pollution they will suffer. Although you are an enhancement awakened, being able to withstand the Gaze of the Olden Day Rulers for so long is already very remarkable.”
Most awakened individuals, when directly faced with the gaze of the Olden Day Ruler, would collapse in an instant, their souls corrupted and turned into terrifying evil beings.
It was already quite remarkable for Li Mei and Shen Luoyan, who had awakened with psychic abilities, to recover their sanity in just over ten seconds under the impact.
For Li Mu to be able to directly face the gaze up close and even calmly launch an attack was not something a fifth-level awakened individual could do.
“Boom!”
Another psychic bullet hit the eye, enlarging the wound on it.
Even from more than a hundred meters away, Li Mu could hear an inexplicable wailing sound.
Under the severe pollution of the eye, humans within a radius of several hundred meters were most likely…
“How can we deal with it?” Li Mu asked.
The eye had already targeted him.
“For us now, there are only three ways. One is to delay long enough for the gaze’s carrier to collapse or be discovered and expelled from the wasteland by the beings above. The second is to force the gaze’s carrier to use psychic energy, which would be directly discovered by the beings above. The third is to directly purify it with powerful psychic energy,” said Shen Luoyan.
The three methods ranged from easy to difficult, but even the first one wasn’t that simple.
Li Mu suddenly thought of something and took out a bag of pine nuts from the Exile Realm.
He had once seized several strange pine trees from a stronghold of the Soul Cult and planted them in the Exile Realm.
The pine nuts of these trees could enhance the resilience of one’s soul. He didn’t know the usefulness of soul resilience before and only used them as snacks. It seemed that soul resilience was indispensable when facing the Olden Day Ruler.
Chapter 126 The Counterattack of the Soul Cult <TOC> Chapter 128 The Arrow on the String