bayedsolid Chapter 1414 Night Insect Bead
Chapter 1414 Night Insect Bead
"The Zerg Empress, the Dream Butterfly..."
Long Ying's face suddenly darkened, her voice filled with cold vigilance.
Mu Jiannan's eyes sharpened, and he raised his longsword, shouting, "Everyone be careful! It's a peak Soul Emperor realm expert!"
The 50,000 human warriors behind him were startled and suddenly tensed up, their hands gripping their weapons involuntarily tightening.
Peak of the Soul Emperor Realm!
For most of them, the Soul Emperor Realm was a realm that only existed in legends and epics, a terrifying existence capable of suppressing an entire nation!
The peak of the Soul Emperor realm is an existence that can absolutely dominate a region among all races!
As a human army, most of them had very little experience fighting against Saint Realm experts, let alone Soul Emperor Realm peak experts!
"boom!"
The silence was shattered by the roar of the bursting soul power.
An Lingyue took a step forward, and a wave of energy exploded around her! Her mage robes fluttered wildly, as if an invisible storm was sweeping around her. A staff inlaid with a deep blue gemstone floated up from behind her, its tip condensing elemental light to its extreme.
With a flick of her wrist, Li Shuying also raised the Shadow Blade that Ye Ge had given her, and strands of black shadow wrapped around the blade as if they were alive.
Bai Qing raised her hand, and a dark, ghostly banner embroidered with pale white runes unfurled in the wind. As the banner swung, a chilling wind howled!
Countless twisted, broken shadows, exuding a dense aura of death, howled as they broke free from the void rift! Hundreds of undead gathered into a sinister ghost realm, their mournful roars mingling with the purple mist, adding to the eerie and unsettling atmosphere of the grassland.
The Dream Butterfly hovered in the air, glanced down at you disdainfully, and said contemptuously, "Shadow Blade, Ghost God Banner... So all those magical treasures that Night Song took away before have ended up in your hands."
"Even with this magic weapon, with your meager strength, you are nothing more than moths to a flame before me, overestimating yourselves."
As she spoke, the pair of magnificent, dreamlike, seven-colored butterfly wings behind her trembled very slightly and elegantly.
"Om-"
There was no deafening roar, only a clear sound that seemed to resonate directly in the depths of one's soul.
The next moment, a burst of seven-colored light erupted!
That was no ordinary radiance, but a thick, tangible torrent of dreamlike light! The purple mist that had filled the world was instantly diluted and faded away under the sweep of these seven brilliant colors, as if the entire world had been swallowed up and covered by the countless mesmerizing eye-shaped patterns that had appeared on the butterfly wings.
Long Ying's pupils suddenly contracted, and what was reflected in them was no longer the grassland, the mist, or the enemy's shadow, but an endless, dazzling, seven-colored vortex.
Mu Jiannan, An Lingyue, Li Shuying, and Bai Qing were in the same situation, controlled by illusion magic and unable to move!
The same was true of the 50,000-strong human army behind them. The eyes of all the warriors lost focus, becoming empty and blank. The tension, fear, and fighting spirit on their faces all froze, turning into a wooden, dazed expression, as if they had all fallen into a dream.
"Hmph, with such meager strength, you dare to attempt to break into my mysterious fog formation?" Illusionary Dream Butterfly sneered, "You're overestimating yourself."
......
On the other side, an unknown forest shrouded in purple mist.
Nangong Ru knelt on one knee on the open ground covered with decaying leaves, her right hand gripping the hilt of a straight knife, the tip of which was deeply embedded in the soil.
She closed her eyes and focused her mind, her aura as calm as an ancient well. Only her wrist, holding the knife, steadily and continuously channeled a rich and powerful energy into the blade, which then traveled through the edge to the depths of the earth.
The energy was formless and intangible, yet it caused the air around the blade to distort slightly, and a low hum could be faintly heard from the soil.
Xia Xiyao, Nangong Qiuyue, Cang Feng, Jiang Xiaoming, and Arthur stood around, watching in silence.
"Sister, are you sure this is okay?" Nangong Qiuyue tilted her head and asked suspiciously.
Nangong Ru remained silent, seemingly sensing something in quietude.
Two minutes later, she squinted and said, "Found it!"
She suddenly drew her straight sword!
"Crack-!"
The earth split open the moment the sword left the ground!
It wasn't a chaotic collapse, but rather four sharp, straight sword energies that erupted from the point of impact, rapidly expanding and cutting in all directions in a perfect cross shape!
The ground groaned under the weight, and the grass, soil, and tree roots were neatly separated by the unstoppable advance of the sword energy, leaving behind a huge cross-shaped ravine several feet deep with smooth, mirror-like edges!
“Rumble, rumble—!”
Amidst the violent tremors, a massive array pattern, composed of intricate purple lines and covering an area of tens of feet, suddenly appeared on the ordinary grass beneath their feet! The array pattern flashed rapidly, attempting to maintain its operation, but was forcefully pierced and blocked by the cross-shaped grooves. The energy transmission pathways were forcibly severed, and the array pattern flickered a few times before quickly dimming and disappearing.
At the same time, the thick purple mist that permeated the surroundings, almost to the point of complete darkness, also began to thin and fade at a visible speed.
The outlines of objects in the woods gradually became clearer, and visibility improved.
Xia Xiyao was slightly taken aback: "The purple mist has become thinner?"
"Huh? Really?" Nangong Qiuyue said, "Sister, how did you do it?"
Cang Feng adjusted his glasses and said, "The opponent used an array as a hub to control the flow of purple mist by manipulating underground energy veins. Director Nangong's strike not only cleaved the surface but also transformed his own sword energy into a persistent 'flow-cutting wedge,' driving it into the earth's vein nodes and forcibly severing the transmission of the array's energy. Without a source, the mist dissipates, hence its retreat."
Jiang Xiaoming: "Hmm... seems pretty impressive... although I didn't quite understand..."
"I can only say that he truly deserves to be the director of the Night Watch." Cang Feng looked at Nangong Ru with some admiration.
Nangong Ru shook her head: "It only temporarily dispelled the purple mist in this area."
Xia Xiyao asked, "Sister Nangong Ru, does that mean that the poisonous insects that create the purple mist are nearby?"
Nangong Ru: "Yes."
Nangong Qiuyue turned her head and looked around: "Then how do we find them? This forest is quite big... We can't just search through every clump of grass, can we?"
“No need for that trouble. The purple mist has dissipated for now, and I think I should be able to find it.” Cang Feng said, taking out something that looked like a luminous pearl.
"This is a Night Insect Bead, a pink-quality magic item," Cang Feng explained. "Originally, I only used this to repel mosquitoes when I worked at night. But in this situation, it should be fine."
As he spoke, he held the beads in his left hand, raised his index and middle fingers in front of his lips with his right hand, and whispered a spell with strange and ancient syllables.
As the incantation was completed, the Night Insect Bead in his palm suddenly emitted a deep, hazy dark light, rippling outwards from the bead like water, instantly covering an area of several dozen feet around it.
Xia Xiyao, Nangong Qiuyue, Arthur, and Jiang Xiaoming, who were standing nearby, all widened their eyes in surprise.
Under the illumination of the Night Insect Bead, all the insects in this forest suddenly became visible!
They were clinging to tree trunks, covering leaves, lying in the grass, and on branches—they were everywhere, densely packed!
All the insects appeared in everyone's sight as if they had been coated with fluorescent powder!