Chapter 298
298 Crack 2
Chapter 298 298 Crack Two
The two children fell silent.
This final choice actually means accepting Lin Hui's protection and living a peaceful life, a life so short it's less than a hundred years.
"Think about it carefully. Battles and killings are all cruel; the winner lives and the loser dies, without exception. Perhaps it's good to live a peaceful life as an ordinary person."
Lin Hui said earnestly.
As he left the courtyard, he saw a figure secretly parked outside.
It's Vivi.
She rarely comes here, perhaps to avoid seeing more familiar faces. Especially after the Qingfeng Dao disciples from Tu Yue's side came, she came even less.
Even Lin Hui, whom I haven't seen for many years, is here.
Vivi has matured a lot.
More than ten years have passed, and her once young and beautiful face now shows some subtle signs of aging.
At this moment, she stood outside the door, dressed in a black martial arts outfit, looking dazed.
Noticing Lin Hui suddenly appear, she froze, paused for a moment, and then forced a smile at him.
"haven't seen you for a long time."
“Chang Sheng has grown up and is no longer the child you used to take care of. Don’t worry,” Lin Hui said softly.
Vivi nodded.
Nodding in agreement, Lin Hui quickly left the courtyard and headed straight for the Moon Tower in the inner city.
The obvious acceleration of decay prompted him to make a thorough and detailed trip to the Black Cloud Intelligence Center to understand the changes in the surrounding area.
Over the past few years, he has been meticulously analyzing the atmospheric energy above Emerald Valley. At first, he tried to remove the lingering decaying aura, but found that he could not do so.
The stench of decay is inextricably linked to living beings; in fact, the two are one. They are intertwined.
Therefore, he could only reduce the friction and struggle between the life and death energies and sort out the chaotic flow of energy.
However, after spending more than a month to achieve this, the Star Breath Sword Manual did not provide any feedback, let alone any feedback from the Heavenly Saint type.
Lin Hui carefully recalled his memories and understood exactly what was missing. He was no longer in a hurry. He simply focused on his cultivation and waited.
But now, the external environment no longer seems to allow him to slowly progress in his cultivation.
He first went to the Moon Tower Library and selected some of the necessary formations. Then he went to the Moon Tower, which was in charge of intelligence monitoring, and made a request to the Blood Ancestor who was stationed there.
"Recent changes in the surrounding area? My lord, what level of changes do you wish to see?" This Blood Ancestor was a middle-aged woman with red hair and glasses. She had a solemn demeanor, and her back was almost half-fused to the wall of the Moon Tower. She was the intelligence chief of the entire Black Cloud and her name was Alan.
"Regarding the changes in the Fogman level," Lin Hui defined the levels.
"Okay, please wait a moment."
The crystal between Alan's brows flashed with multicolored light rapidly. A few breaths later, a beam of green light shot out from between her brows and landed between Lin Hui's brows.
A flood of news from the past eight years rushed into Lin Hui's mind.
He closed his eyes and examined it carefully.
They quickly identified several unusual pieces of information.
"Despite numerous attempts to dissipate the surrounding sea storm, the Black Cloud Channel had to be rerouted."
"A gigantic, frigid sphere has appeared in the sea north of the Black Clouds. The sphere is blue and emits a blue light that illuminates its surroundings. Any living thing touched by this light freezes into an ice sculpture within a minute, losing all consciousness. Even after thawing, they become completely lifeless corpses, unable to revive. Currently, only the Mist People have been found to be able to withstand the light from the frigid sphere for extended periods."
Next are five cases of decay and decomposition at the level of "fog people" that have occurred in the city over the past three years!
It was all caused by the decay of the Blood Ancestor powerhouses. Some were Blood Ancestors from the city's Extreme Desire Heaven and Tai Su Yuan Pan, while others were Blood Ancestors who had fled from other places and lost their share of the city's resources.
The latter accounts for three people.
This density made Lin Hui's heart sink.
Although Blood Ancestor couldn't withstand a single move from him now, he was an absolute apex predator when facing ordinary people.
In the past, the Blood Ancestors could easily live for hundreds or thousands of years, but recently, in such a short time, five of them have already perished.
"How many martial artists and summoners below the level of Mistman have decayed in the city in the last three years?" Lin Hui asked again.
"The overall trend is upward. Compared to three years ago, there are now about one hundred to two hundred cases of corruption and turmoil every year. Moreover, the age of those involved is decreasing. Ordinary people are concentrated in the seventy to eighty years old, while the age of martial artists and those who have awakened their powers is not fixed. It is mainly due to injuries sustained while traveling that accelerates the corruption," Alan replied quickly.
"The main reason for the injuries to warriors and summoners is the attacking sea monsters that come ashore from the sea. Their strength is constantly increasing, and the toxicity of their pollution is also constantly growing. In the past three years, fourteen new species of monsters from the deep-sea fog zone have appeared. Most of them are stronger than priests."
"Don't the three city lords have any ideas on how to cure this problem completely?" Lin Hui asked.
“It can’t be cured. These changes are systemic and the cause is unknown. The pressure on the entire Black Cloud is also increasing because the Mist God group is also experiencing unrest,” Alan said. “As a result, Black Cloud’s foreign trade has been gradually decreasing in recent years. Many small and medium-sized merchant fleets can no longer maintain shipping, and what remains are large fleets.”
Upon hearing this, Lin Hui remained silent.
Although he had some suspicions that the situation outside was getting worse, he didn't expect it to have gotten this bad.
Whoosh!
Just then, outside the Moon Tower, above the sea of mist, a golden light streaked across the sky and disappeared into the top of the Moon Tower in the blink of an eye, merging into a huge green crystal at the top of the tower.
“Vice City Lord Lin, we just received news.” Alan suddenly spoke in a low voice. “The leader of the Mingxin Society has officially opened the largest pollution channel in history, completely connecting the Haiming World with our own world through the sacrifice of souls.”
Lin Hui was taken aback, as if he had sensed something, and turned his head to look north.
hum!
The next second, the moon tower beneath his feet began to shake violently.
Immediately afterwards, a brilliant blue pillar of light silently shot up from underground at the center of the many moon towers in Black Cloud City.
Countless complex patterns and symbols rotated inside the pillar of light, and long, monstrous creatures that resembled dragons but were not quite dragons followed the pillar of light, circling and soaring into the sky.
Fortunately, the beam of light only lasted for a few seconds before quickly dimming and going out.
"The power of the sea's roar." Lin Hui recognized this special power that Mingxin Society had demonstrated before.
His gaze was sharp and piercing.
He didn't know what this contingency plan left behind by the Mingxin Society was for, but it definitely wasn't for anything good.
Swish!
At this moment, Zhang Yao and Gongsun Xinlian also appeared in the air where the pillar of light dissipated, their expressions solemn.
They had searched and checked repeatedly, but had not been able to find where the Mingxin Society was located, and this had been a source of great concern for them.
And now, that fear has finally become a reality.
"It seems there's been no change?" Gongsun Xinlian sensed carefully.
"No, this isn't just a key," Zhang Yao said in a low voice. "Look up!"
Gongsun Xinlian suddenly raised her head, her pupils contracting sharply.
At this very moment, the gray-white mist that had never dissipated for countless years was slowly dispersing.
But what was revealed after it dispersed was not the pure sky above.
Instead, it was a huge, bluish-black crack.
The crack was filled with surging, dark blue seawater.
They hung upside down in the sky, as if they might topple over at any moment and completely engulf the entire Black Cloud City.
Swish.
Lin Hui also flew out of the Moon Tower and looked up at the sky.
At the same time, they also felt the almost endless power of the ocean's roar.
'Mingxin Society'
boom!!
The next moment, in the distance, Gongsun Xinlian raised her hand and condensed a brilliant green light, which shot towards the crack in the sky.
The green light, tens of meters in diameter, instantly illuminated the surrounding inner city and all the Black Cloud City residents who saw the crack and were filled with shock and worry.
puff!
But when the green light shone into the crack, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, stirring up a few blue-black splashes before disappearing completely.
"It's no use. The world rift has already opened. We need to build a giant fortress to seal and suppress it. We can't block the passage on our own!" Zhang Yao stopped Gongsun Xinlian, who still wanted to try.
"Notify my elder brother and ask him to come back immediately." He stared intently at the massive, dark blue-black crack above his head. "Otherwise, I'm worried that monsters from Haiming's side will soon invade."
"Yes!" Gongsun Xinlian nodded.
This is no longer a time for power struggles, but a battle between races, factions, and worlds.
The previous Purgatory, the Frigid Heaven, and the Ashes were all like this.
Lin Hui, who was in the distance, was also looking at the crack. He had only seen the Purgatory Fortress and the Extreme Cold Fortress before, which had been sealed. But this time, he was truly seeing a world rift appear and open right in front of him.
"Brother Lin, we may need your help to defend the city. My brother and I need to try to set up a sealing formation in the sky to slow down the leakage of the Sea Echo's power." Gongsun Xinlian's voice came from the wind chimes.
"What will happen if the power of the Sea Roar leaks out?" Lin Hui asked.
"It will change the surrounding force field, suppress all our power, and enhance all the power of the Sea Roar invaders."
"I understand. I will cooperate." Lin Hui nodded.
"Judging from the Mingxin Society's strategy, it's likely that cracks are not just appearing in our city across the Federation; it's very likely that they are erupting simultaneously in multiple locations. This trouble is no less severe than the Purgatory Disaster that occurred simultaneously back then!" Gongsun Xinlian sighed.
"If the power of Haiming leaks and spreads, will the power of the Mingxin Society become even stronger?" Lin Hui suddenly asked.
“It will become much stronger, but that will also mean the deaths of many, many people. Although the pollution of living beings by the power of the Sea of Sound is relatively mild, it is still irreversible. Even if we set up formations, we can only slow down the leakage at most. In six months at most, the pollution will spread and worsen!” Gongsun Xinlian said. “That’s not all. No one knows what kind of powerful monsters exist in the Sea of Sound world. What we can predict at present is that the other side is stronger than us, and definitely much stronger. Otherwise, would Mingxin have chosen the Sea of Sound? He could have chosen Purgatory, Extreme Cold, Ash, etc., which have previous records of intrusion.”
"Perhaps he never cared about the lives of ordinary people from the beginning."
Lin Hui's eyes were deep and unfathomable.
He had a strange feeling that the world was like a ball full of holes, with many people patching it up inside, and others like the Master of the Mingxin Society deliberately pricking holes in it with needles.
Faced with this situation, can the peaceful life he desires truly continue?
'It seems I must immediately return to set up formations specifically targeting this array, and also evolve formations to counter various forms of pollution. I need to hurry.'
(End of this chapter)