Chapter 257
, Form 257, Part 1
Chapter 257, Biotype 257
Millions of miles away from the dark clouds, in the vast black sea.
Amidst the billowing white mist, a crimson flame, radiating immense heat and light, flashed across the sky and flew straight toward Black Cloud City.
The flames resembled shooting stars, or perhaps they were more like falling stars.
Its light was incredibly dazzling, and wherever it passed, all the fog was briefly dissipated, and the surrounding area of several thousand meters was instantly cleared.
Within the crimson light was an ancient, luxurious black chariot pulled by six dragons.
The dragon pulling the cart was not an ordinary monster from the foggy area, but a demon-faced dragon with a twisted face and countless golden eyes.
This monster is undoubtedly the top predator in the outer fog zone outside the boundary wall; it is a descendant of the fallen fog god, the Sun King.
At this moment, this divine bloodline, comparable to that of a top-tier blood ancestor, can only pull carriages for people here.
Inside the carriage, a black beaded chain swayed in the wind, vaguely revealing a figure lounging lazily inside.
With a whoosh.
The beaded chain was lifted, revealing the face of the person inside.
Cold and aristocratic, with pure golden eyes that exuded an innate air of superiority, the figure leaned against the soft couch inside the carriage. Black hair, fair skin, a curvaceous figure, and extremely eye-catching curves.
He also held a pure white pipe in one hand, took a light puff, and exhaled a translucent gray-white smoke.
The smoke enveloped his face and lingered for a long time.
"Where are we? Sisi," the figure asked softly.
"Your Highness, we've arrived at the Blackscale Sea. To avoid the relatively troublesome solidification period, we've slowed down a bit; we entered the sea just as it was melting." The driver was also a woman, dressed in a tight-fitting purple-black outfit, with a black mask covering her face, revealing only a pair of beautiful, amethyst-like eyes. Her long ponytail swayed constantly in the wind behind her, giving her a heroic and dashing air.
The woman on the soft couch sighed.
"We're almost there. Although Black Cloud is the fourth largest city in the Federation, isn't its location a bit too remote?"
“Your Highness is right,” Sisi, who was driving the carriage, agreed.
The woman straightened up, her dark red dress, resembling a cheongsam, revealing large slits on both sides of the hem. Beneath the slits, a pair of shapely, long legs clad in black pantyhose were crossed and raised.
"If Father hadn't been so focused on exploring the night fog and not paid more attention to the council, we wouldn't have needed to travel such a long distance. We could have just jumped over a hole. What a hassle."
“Your Highness is right,” Sisi said again.
"Sisi, you're so good to me. No matter what I say, you'll wholeheartedly agree with me."
“That’s because Your Highness has dealt with all those who disagreed with you,” Sisi replied bluntly.
“You’re right. That’s how the world is. As long as you eliminate those who oppose you, the whole world will become what we want it to be,” the woman said with a smile. She took another drag of her cigarette, letting the gray smoke envelop her face.
"I hope this trip won't be in vain. The so-called geniuses I found before turned out to be useless. If they're still useless this time, even though we're so far away, then I've really wasted all this time."
“Your Highness is right,” Sisi replied again.
"I hope Xie Chang'an will be sensible and cooperate with me, otherwise I won't be as easy to deal with this time as before." The woman lay back on the soft couch, her golden eyes slightly closed.
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Returning from the floating mountain peak.
Lin Hui immediately packed his things and set off for Eagle Man Island.
He asked another teacher to cover his classes at the martial arts academy, and he still had high expectations for what he would gain from this "Pulse of Life" experience.
Given the current conditions, the cultivation of the Star Breath Sword Manual will definitely allow him to significantly enhance his strength once again.
The more he understood the truth of this world, the more grateful he became for having chosen this path of cultivation, one that required single-minded focus and unwavering progress.
If not for this choice, the Lin family might have suffered heavy casualties in the series of tribulations that followed when Tu Yue was in power, just like their previous apprentice, the Tao family.
Heading out of the city, they boarded the private carriage carrying Ouyang Yining and the others who had been waiting for them.
It was still his hundreds of Black Army guards who went together.
"My lord, as per your last instructions, we have already applied to acquire the relevant relics that may be needed on Eagle Man Island."
Above the Jade Sea, inside the Moth Cart, Ouyang Yining, dressed in simple silver-white three-point armor, stepped forward and gently draped a black cloak embroidered with black cloud symbols over Lin Hui's shoulders.
This is the leader's cloak, a mark of rank, and is generally worn by only one person in a team. This allows outsiders to immediately recognize the leader's position.
Lin Hui didn't refuse, he just pinched the material of the cloak.
"This is... a keepsake?"
“Exactly.” Ouyang Yining nodded. “This is a special relic called the Commanding Cloak. It can unite the power of all of us and attach it to your body. It is one of the essential basic relics for a commander.”
Lin Hui carefully sensed it and could indeed feel a tiny bit of energy clinging to his body, making his movements feel lighter and giving his skin an extra layer of transparent protection.
The hundreds of Black Army guards were all at the Zhou Tian realm, elite experts handpicked from the best.
Their strength was naturally not much of a difference compared to Lin Hui's, but the gathering of hundreds of people could still help to enhance the resilience and protection. "Of course, our strength is certainly not as great as the leader's, and even if we gather together, it is far from enough. But the greatest function of this relic is not actually the aggregation of power, but the dispersion of our senses." Ouyang Yining straightened his chest slightly and explained, "After our auras are connected with yours, when we disperse around, anyone or anything we come into contact with can send you simple information signals through our auras as quickly as possible."
"How far away are we?" Lin Hui walked to the front of the moth cart, reached out and grabbed the moth's two antennae, and began to give the instruction to set off.
“The distance is very long, with a limit of 100,000 kilometers,” Ouyang Yining replied.
Lin Hui nodded. The distance was indeed sufficient. In fact, he had not yet discovered any long-distance communication devices in this world. Generally, powerful individuals would transmit their voices themselves, with each person essentially acting as a mobile base station.
This new cloak of unification makes up for some of the shortcomings in this regard.
"Alright, let's set off." Lin Hui was already getting impatient. With the pulse of life in such a large area as Eagle Man Island, they were sure to harvest a lot of pulses.
"Yes." Ouyang Yining nodded and they all began to send off via telepathy.
Just then, Lin Hui suddenly realized that something was wrong.
"Has my personal guard been replaced?" he asked, frowning. He'd glanced at the crowd and the Black Army soldiers on the moth-drawn carts when he arrived, and something felt off. Now, as he examined them more closely, the strangeness only intensified.
“A lot of people have been replaced.” Ouyang Yining nodded. “Don’t worry, all three city lords have approved it. After this replacement, it will be completely finalized and there will be no further changes.”
"Shouldn't you request permission from me to replace my personal guards?" Lin Hui said in a deep voice.
“I’m sorry, sir, the Black Army guards were only temporarily assigned to this position, so we were not in charge of any miscellaneous tasks such as rotations. It wasn’t until this morning that Milos, the Black Army’s commander-in-chief, officially handed over the ownership of all the guards. This kind of thing will not happen again in the future,” Ouyang Yining said solemnly.
"I don't care about affiliation; what I care about is why all my Black Army guards are now women!?"
Lin Hui stared expressionlessly at the young, beautiful, curvaceous women in the moth-shaped vehicle.
"There's nothing I can do about it." Ouyang Yining's expression turned slightly agitated. "They are almost all from the bloodlines of the three major city lords' families, and I couldn't refuse them, so..."
Lin Hui instantly understood. He could refuse others forcefully, but he truly couldn't refuse the relationship with the three city lords.
"By the way, the arrangements with Lady Liu Xiao have also been completed. She is very willing for us to serve you, share her burdens, and add bloodlines to the Lin family. Finally, does Your Excellency have any further questions?" Ouyang Yining asked quickly.
"That's all, let's go." Lin Hui was speechless.
He never expected that the first challenge he would face after revealing his combat capabilities would be this.
A large crowd surrounded him, constantly trying to make him a stud so that he could pass on the most superior and special bloodline.
Imagine the offspring born from the original blood of the city lords' Mist People combined with his bloodline.
Even Lin Hui wasn't sure what kind of extraordinary genius would emerge from this.
The moth-drawn convoy rapidly ascended and flew towards Eagle Man Island.
Because of the long distance, Ouyang Yining continuously practiced a stretching martial art similar to yoga inside the moth carriage along the way.
Because this martial art requires constant stretching of the body, its concave and convex parts constantly sway around Lin Hui.
Because she was only wearing a three-piece suit of armor, consisting of three palm-sized metal plates, some of her movements revealed nothing at all.
Lin Hui suspected that she was doing it on purpose because she had heard about his reputation for liking aphrodisiacs, and was deliberately trying to seduce him.
Feeling helpless, he simply sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and began to cultivate his inner strength.
Now that the Typhoon Sword Technique has been perfected, and with the continuous changes brought about by body tempering, the power of wind disaster can now flow continuously into the body from the finest strands of hair, even under normal circumstances.
Although the amount was not large, its strength lay in its endurance. This power had, without Lin Hui's knowledge, transformed his internal energy into a kind of blue fluorescent power that resembled internal energy, but in reality, Lin Hui didn't know what it was.
By the time he realized it, it was too late.
Fortunately, in practice, this power is no different from the internal energy I used before.
After studying it for a period of time, he recorded the various attributes of this power, its approximate intensity, changes, and nature, and named it Calamity Energy.
Before long, the moth-cart's wings ignited, transforming into a fiery meteor that traversed the void.
Soon the massive outline of Eagle Man Island appeared ahead.
On the vast, land-like island, countless deformed, grayish-white monsters with a metallic sheen were fighting and killing the people.
The ground was covered with countless craters of varying sizes left by the battle, as well as the corpses of eagle men and all sorts of monsters.
In mid-air, eagle-men wielding spears fought against enormous, jellyfish-like, grayish-white monsters.
"Would you like me to introduce you to the monster race that attacked Eagleman Island?" Ouyang Yining's voice came from behind.
Are there any Blood Ancestor-level monsters?
"Not observed yet."
“Then there’s no need,” Lin Hui sighed. “Go and inform the Eaglemen, let them distinguish friend from foe, tell them my name and purpose, and ask them to cooperate and disperse in time if necessary to avoid being mistakenly killed by me.”
"Yes." Ouyang Yining responded solemnly. He put on a white robe with gold trim, leaped out of the moth carriage, and flew straight towards a small group of eagle-men fighting in the sky.
(End of this chapter)