Volume 8: The Bug House Chapter 6: Stimulation
Tang Butian was falling slowly in the river. The cold air penetrated deeply into her body. Her speed became slower and slower until she froze.
The light of the blade dimmed.
The figure slowly peeled away from her body and merged into the riverbed covered with dead branches.
A box was lying there, swaying slightly with the flow of the river.
The extra stroke on the box became increasingly faint.
Boom.
Knock knock.
There's something coming out of the box.
Tang Butian seemed to be awakened. She struggled to open her eyes and looked in the direction where the sound came from.
Boom.
Boom boom boom.
Coming out...
At this moment, a strand of hair floated past her eyes.
No, not hair, but spider silk.
There was a little light.
My sight followed the spider silk until——
She shook his hand.
The knuckles are stiff and numb.
So she clenched her hands again, her joints making a cracking sound, and then she tightened her grip on the knife handle.
She saw it.
——
Crash.
It's the sound of the wind.
Layers of fine waves were blowing on the surface of the river.
Ren Qingning turned his head in disbelief.
A ray of sword light shone through the river.
The sounds of wind and water mixed together, and the sword light became stronger and stronger, until it burst out and rushed straight into the gray sky.
"That sword..." After Ren Qingning said these three words, he suddenly flew towards the bright sword light.
The sword light split the river water.
Ren Qingning saw the wooden sword pierce through the figure, and the figure dispersed like smoke, while the sword became stronger and stronger, slashing towards a farther line.
The ground shook violently.
The sword light gradually dissipated.
Lin Shunan staggered and Jiang You supported him. After he stood firm, he looked forward. The Heihe River was lying there quietly, with no trace of Tang Butian and Ren Qingning.
" What's the situation now?" Lin Shunan asked.
Jiang You pointed to the ground and said, "Look."
Lin Shunan lowered his head and was shocked to find that many cracks had appeared on the ground at some point, and black river water was flowing under the cracks.
He looked into the distance again, and saw many cracks in the sky, as if...
He realized what was happening and he said, "The world is falling apart!"
"Yes." Jiang You said.
"Chief Tang, she...she...how did she do it?" Lin Shunan was a little incoherent. " When we tested the small world, we invited many monks from the mountain. They tried their best, but they couldn't break it..."
"It's different here," Jiang You pointed to the ground below, "This world is not real, it's just a projection evolved from the incomplete power of the law," Jiang You smiled and said, "The section chief broke it."
"Broken?"
"Yes, it was only for a moment," Jiang You continued to explain, "but that moment was enough. The corrosive force from the chaos surged in, and the already incomplete laws were unable to resist and broke down."
Lin Shunan nodded, as if he understood, but also as if he didn't.
Jiang You released his hand and said, "It couldn't have existed for too long. It was just a projection. That's why Monk Ren was so anxious to open the box and get the complete inheritance." He smiled and thought for a moment, then said, "Just now I dragged him to buy time for the section chief, and he dragged me to buy time for the human shadow to open the box. It was also quite exciting."
Lin Shunan also felt stimulated at once. He looked ahead again and saw the dead branches falling off and the river water slowly draining away.
"Let's go. It's my turn to perform." Jiang You said as he stepped onto the broken ground and walked towards the Black River.
The riverbed is almost dry.
Tang Butian slowly turned around, holding the wooden sword, and faced Ren Qingning.
Her hair was wet and disheveled, and her dress was stained with blood and mud.
She stared at the box in Ren Qingning's hand.
Boom.
Knock knock.
Impact sound.
The originally very faint stroke on the box had almost disappeared.
Tang Butian pursed her lips.
"I can give you the box." Ren Qingning said.
Tang Butian looked up at him with indifference in her eyes.
"You don't want it?" Ren Qingning was a little puzzled.
"I am a sword cultivator." Tang Butian said.
"Then why did you chase after me?" Ren Qingning asked.
Tang Butian once again tightened his grip on the knife handle.
Ren Qingning was startled. He realized Tang Butian's intention and asked, "You want to destroy it?"
Tang Butian did not refute.
"Do you know what will happen if you destroy it?" Ren Qingning asked.
The tip of the knife scraped across the cracked dirt of the riverbed.
"Does the people on the mountain know that you are going to do this? Aren't you afraid..." Ren Qingning paused and was about to continue speaking, but he found that Tang Butian was not listening to him, her eyes were behind him.
Ren Qingning turned around and saw Jiang You and Lin Shunan slowly approaching.
A hint of cruelty flashed in his eyes. The riverbed beneath his feet suddenly split open, and he fell down holding the box.
Mu Dao gave chase.
"Stop!" Jiang You shouted.
But it was too late. Ren Qingning lifted the box up, and the wooden sword happened to hit that stroke.
Tang Butian reached out to take back the wooden sword——
Boom!
A huge crash.
Tang Butian took a step back and fell to the ground. She spat out a mouthful of blood and stared at her knife without blinking.
The wooden sword went in a little further.
The box seemed to collapse a little, and then expanded outward. When it expanded to the extreme - with a bang, the box broke!
The energy rolled up the metal pieces and flew in all directions.
The 'body' in the box finally revealed its true appearance.
It was a gray-black bone the size of a cantaloupe. The surface of the bone was very rough, with densely packed pores of varying sizes.
The wooden sword stabbed into the skeleton, vibrating rapidly at a certain frequency and making a whistling sound.
And Tang Butian found that she had lost control of the wooden sword.
"The sword is ringing...the magic sword is born..." Ren Qingning murmured.
Ancient characters made of dark light floated out from the blade, and the sword gradually revealed its original appearance - a transparent sword, with the power of laws lingering on the sword body as if it were real.
The sword and the skeleton confronted each other, forming a huge cyclone force field.
Ren Qingning gritted his teeth and took a step towards the cyclone.
Bang!
The dissipated force threw him out in an instant.
The gray sky became farther and farther away, fainter and fainter, until it disappeared. This projected world finally disappeared.
Ren Qingning felt his spiritual power and his flesh and blood were also dissipating.
Is this the power of erosion?
He turned his head and looked in the direction of the skeleton again.
Black liquid gushed out from the holes, wriggling and wrapping around the transparent sword.
The might of the divine sword seemed to have weakened a bit.
Suddenly, he felt a powerful aura appearing not far away. No, not one, two, three...
Before he could think about it, he saw Jiang You pulling Lin Shunan towards him.
"This is getting out of hand..." Jiang You muttered as he reached out and grabbed Ren Qingning's hand and threw him into the bubble, then rolled towards Tang Butian.
Ren Qingning was a little confused at first, but after he came to his senses, he found that the several terrifying auras seemed to be completely isolated outside the bubble.
After Jiang You threw Tang Butian in, he breathed a sigh of relief. He turned his head to look at the cyclone, hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and the bubbles rushed towards the center of the cyclone.
He actually rushed in!
As the magic sword passed by, Jiang You reached out and grabbed the hilt.
The bubbles oscillated, getting squeezed and expanding.
When Ren Qingning thought the bubble was about to burst, Jiang You drew his sword.
The bones shattered.
The huge force caused the bubble to bounce far away. The four people kept tossing and turning in the bubble. Lin Shunan had fainted long ago, and Tang Butian seemed to have fallen into a coma due to serious injuries. Jiang You muttered to himself while trying to control the restless sword.
Ren Qingning looked outside the bubble and saw countless strange and huge creatures swimming past them and heading in the direction they were before.
——
On the mountain.
Jiang Mo was holding a fishing rod with a grass ball hanging on it. In front of him was a tiger, chasing the grass ball left and right.
Suddenly, Jiang Mo turned around, tilted his head, looked at the sky and smiled.
