Chapter 714
Ren Xue
The light in the altar space continued to flow slowly, and the wind elements that overflowed from the broken statues swirled around Bibi Dong as if they were alive. She raised her hand, palm up, and a wisp of blue wind gathered and changed between her fingers—sometimes as smooth as a ribbon, sometimes as sharp as a blade, sometimes scattered as starlight, and sometimes gathered into a miniature storm.
This is not merely an increase in power, but a subversion of our understanding of the nature of the world.
“I can ‘hear’ the breath of the wind,” Bibi Dong said softly, her gaze fixed on the shimmering dome of light in the distance. “Every wisp of wind in the entire secret realm tells me its trajectory, its emotions—joy, anger, sorrow, peace. It’s a… completely new sense.”
Dai Chengfeng listened quietly. He could sense the subtle change in Bibi Dong—her aura resonated with the surrounding environment, as if she herself were part of the wind, rather than merely a user of it. This level of mastery far surpassed the control of elements by ordinary Title Douluos.
“Your aura,” Dai Chengfeng mused, “besides the power of the wind, there is also a sense of… sedimentation. It’s as if it has experienced a thousand years.”
“The divine soul carries some of the memories and insights of the Wind Gods of past generations,” Bibi Dong closed her eyes, seemingly sorting through the fragments flooding her mind. “Although incomplete, those understandings of the laws and observations of the workings of heaven and earth have broadened my knowledge of the world far too much. The inheritance of the Rakshasa God is more about the bestowal of power and authority, while the divine soul of the Wind God… is a baptism of the laws.”
She opened her eyes, her gaze sharpening: "And it is precisely because of this that I understand even more clearly that this inheritance is only the beginning. The divine foundation is complete, but the divine essence has not yet solidified, and the divine fire has not yet ignited. I am now more like... a 'demigod'? Or rather, a mortal who has the qualifications to become a god."
Before the words were even finished, the entire secret realm suddenly began to shake violently.
The light patterns on the dome began to flicker erratically, cracks appeared in the blue crystals around the altar, the ground cracked, and the flow of wind elements became chaotic and violent.
"The secret realm is about to collapse!" Dai Chengfeng shouted. "Run!"
Bibi Dong nodded, reached out and pressed down, instantly straightening the chaotic airflow in front of her, forming a relatively stable channel. Her movements were natural and fluid, as if she were simply taking a breath, but Dai Chengfeng could feel her precise control over the laws of wind in that instant—not by brute force, but by following the laws of the wind and guiding them to her own advantage.
The two moved with lightning speed, flying upwards along the bluestone steps they had come from.
This time, Bibi Dong no longer needed Dai Chengfeng's protection. The azure aura surrounding her automatically dispersed the turbulent currents caused by spatial instability, and she could even sense in advance where spatial rifts would appear ahead, avoiding them with ease. Dai Chengfeng followed closely behind her, his heart filled with unparalleled shock—this was a true master of the laws, worlds apart from those who forcibly broke through realms using soul skills and soul power.
After climbing the long staircase, they returned to the vast, wind-swept realm.
The secret realm is now a scene of apocalypse.
The once gently flowing wind river surged into towering waves, the wind crystals floating in the air collided and shattered, and the strange creatures in the distance, formed from pure wind elements, let out mournful howls as their bodies began to disintegrate into primordial wind elements. The bands of light in the sky extinguished one by one, and darkness encroached from all directions.
“Stay close to me,” Bibi Dong said, her voice clearly carried through the howling wind.
She formed a strange hand seal in front of her chest—not the starting stance of any soul skill, but a guiding movement closer to the resonance of laws. As she moved, the chaotic winds around her began to gather orderly around her, forming a massive cyan cocoon of light that enveloped the two of them. The cocoon of light rose upwards against the collapsing torrent, and wherever it passed, the raging wind elements automatically parted to make way, as if paying homage to their new king.
Inside the cocoon of light, Dai Chengfeng experienced the strange sensation of being protected by the laws. He could see the terrifying scene of the world outside the cocoon collapsing—space shattered like glass, revealing a pitch-black void; wind elements exploded out of control, creating devastating shockwaves; and the secret realm structures that had existed for countless years collapsed with a roar... But inside the cocoon of light, everything was as calm as the eye of a storm.
"Your control over the wind has reached this level?" Dai Chengfeng couldn't help but ask.
Bibi Dong, focused on maintaining the cocoon of light, replied absentmindedly, "It's not about control, it's about 'understanding.' The wind is not my servant, nor am I its master. We are... Resonators. I understand their language, and they are willing to obey my requests. This is completely different from forcibly driving them with power; the consumption and the effect are both insane."
She paused, then added, "Of course, this is also thanks to the 'authority of the wind god' contained within my divine soul. Although it's not complete yet, it's enough to make the wind element see me as one of their own, rather than an intruder."
As they spoke, the cocoon of light broke through the last barrier of the secret realm and re-entered the long wind tunnel connecting the secret realm with the outside world.
The ventilation system is also collapsing.
The azure crystal walls on both sides shattered inch by inch, and the passage itself twisted and compressed. Even more terrifying, the gale that was originally restrained in the passage lost control, rampaging like a beast breaking free of its cage.
Bibi Dong's eyes narrowed, and complex cyan patterns appeared on the surface of the light cocoon. These patterns seemed to be the writing of the wind, recording its rhythm and laws. The onrushing gale struck the patterns, but was absorbed and transformed, in turn strengthening the light cocoon.
“Use their spear to forge their shield,” Bibi Dong said softly. “This is one of the most fundamental applications of the laws passed down from the Wind God—the cycle and transformation of wind.”
Dai Chengfeng carefully observed the patterns, trying to understand their mysteries, but with his current level of cultivation, he could only vaguely sense the profound rhythms they contained, but could not truly decipher them. This is the essential difference between the laws of the gods and the soul skills of mortals—the former points directly to the origin of the world, while the latter is merely a superficial application of power.
The cocoon of light rose rapidly in the collapsed air duct, like a fish swimming upstream.
I don't know how much time passed—in such a tense environment, the sense of time became blurred—but finally, a glimmer of light appeared ahead.
That's the exit of the wind tunnel, and also the entrance to the gale belt.
However, the gale-force winds at this moment were more than ten times more violent than when they entered!
The entire gale belt resembled an enraged ocean, with countless dark blue-green wind blades cutting, colliding, and exploding against each other, forming a deathly domain capable of tearing apart even space itself. Even more terrifying, the edges of the gale belt began to contract inwards, its spatial structure extremely unstable, threatening to collapse completely at any moment and engulf everything in the void's turbulent currents.
"This is a huge problem," Dai Chengfeng said in a deep voice. Even if Bibi Dong had obtained the Wind God's inheritance, it was uncertain whether she could safely pass through this scale of heaven and earth power. (End of this chapter)