Chapter 700
Chapter 700
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 700
>Chapter Title: In the Sky
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> No, that’s not a crane’s cry! When Li Huowang’s five senses fused into one, using this brand-new sensory organ to once again perceive the crane cry echoing through the depths of space, and sensing the extraordinarily complex content embedded within that cry, he finally understood what it was.
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> That wasn’t a sound at all. That was Yu’er God’s hand! Or perhaps Yu’er God’s branch! Yu’er God was formless, colorless, invisible, and intangible. The moment he heard the crane cry, Yu’er God had touched him!
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> The crane cry assaulted him again. Li Huowang felt it snatch away his throat! Snatch away his voice!
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> At this moment, utterly enveloped in agony, Li Huowang immediately thrust out his mangled, blood-soaked hands and clamped down hard on his throat, desperate to stop it from making any more sounds!!
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> In the pitch-black depths of the night sky, they plummeted deeper and deeper. Li Huowang could even feel himself arriving at the heavens beyond the heavens. If they kept falling like this, they’d probably return to the White Jade Capital once more!
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> But Li Huowang had no intention of fleeing right now. As the crane cry grew ever louder, a ferocious snarl twisted his expression. He threw open his mouth and shoved his hand straight down his own throat.
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> With a yank and a pull, Li Huowang ripped everything out of his throat and hurled it furiously toward the sky above.
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> In the next instant, Li Huowang sensed his mangled throat unfurling in midair like a butterfly spreading its wings, continuing to emit that eerie crane cry.
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> That throat seemed to sprout a head of its own. Everything around it split open mouths as well, the screams from those mouths gradually morphing into crane cries.
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> Just as the crane cry was about to reach its peak, a compassionate female voice cut in from nearby. The voice was filled with sorrowful weeping and profound maternal grief.
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> “Wailing once for my child who wandered far from home, vanished without a trace even now.”
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> “Wailing once for my child who returned to who-knows-where, no letter sent, no message brought, no thought of rebirth.”
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> “Wailing once for my child I cannot meet again, when will you come to claim your ancestry and return?”
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> “Wailing once for my child who cannot turn back, how could you commit sins that the world of Jambudvipa won’t forgive.”
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> “Wailing once for my child facing the end of days, when that time comes, you’ll long to see your mother but never can.”
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> As soon as that voice rang out, Li Huowang immediately felt the crane cry diminish greatly. The voices from the surrounding people and evil entities reverted once more to desperate screams.
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> With his fused sensory organ, Li Huowang peered into the darkness again. He saw the boundless black night gradually transforming into a lotus flower.
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> Li Huowang grabbed the starry curtain and yanked it hard, covering the pitch-black neighborhood outside due to the blackout. “Oh! Huowang, quick, look! The power’s finally back on.”
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> In that instant, heaven and earth flipped. Li Huowang and the others plummeted downward, and as the new starry sky filled the heavens above once more, he knew the heavenly calamity was over.
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> Amid the howling winds in midair, they drew ever closer to the ground. A tentacle drilled out from Li Huowang’s throat, wrapped around his now-still throat, and swiftly yanked it back.
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> “Thud!” Li Huowang crashed heavily in front of an inn. Lying on the ground, he watched wide-eyed as blood and chunks of flesh rained down from the sky, dyeing the entire inn red.
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> Meanwhile, the quivering fleshy scales on Li Huowang’s body settled back into place, turning into mere ordinary wounds.
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> Li Huowang felt like his body was about to fall apart. Summoning his last shred of strength, he crawled to his feet and bellowed at his blood-smeared reflection on the ground.
> “Ji Zai! Get the hell out here! I don’t care what the fuck you’re up to!”
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> “What? What’s wrong?” The shadow finally stirred again. “Sorry, I was busy before. I think I was off saving someone? Probably.”
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> Li Huowang clenched his nearly fist-shaped hand and smashed it into his reflection, roaring with heart-wrenching anguish.
> “I’m telling you! Miao Miao’s dead! Bai Lingmiao is dead!”
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> “Why did I become your heart anchor? Why was I willing to hand my fate over to some shady unknown like you and become your heart anchor? Because I wanted to protect Miao Miao and the others!”
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> “But what about you! Is this your payback? This your response?! Why are all the other Si Mings so damn powerful, but you—this Si Ming in charge of a measly three-and-a-half—why are you utterly fucking useless! You couldn’t even protect one woman!!”
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> “When I got ambushed inside that earth dragon’s belly, it ended up taking Cang Qiang’s ascension and borrowing Ba Hui’s power to save me! What the hell kind of Si Ming are you?!”
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> Ji Zai’s voice remained as calm and composed as ever.
> “I told you, you can’t rely on me. Besides, I’m busy too, and my own situation isn’t great. Even if you’re about to get killed, you can only count on yourself.”
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> “Only by relying on yourself can we both win.”
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> “Cut the bullshit!” Propped up by the tentacles, Li Huowang staggered to his feet and jabbed a finger straight at him.
> “Miao Miao’s dead! Figure out a way to bring her back to life! Otherwise, whoever the fuck wants to be your worthless piece-of-shit Si Ming’s heart anchor can have the job!”
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> “Hmm.” Ji Zai pondered in the blood water. “Wait, no, she doesn’t seem to be dead at this point.”
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> “Not dead?” A flicker of hope surged in Li Huowang’s chest as he staggered around, scanning the corpses soaking in the blood around him.
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> “Let me think. Oh, right—stretch your hands out in front of you.”
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> “Stretch out in front?” As Li Huowang held his arms level, a lump of mangled flesh plummeted from the sky and smashed right onto them, snapping both his arms with a crack.
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> Li Huowang hurriedly looked down. It was Miao Miao—or rather, half of Miao Miao. Her body had been gnawed to bits, the usually pristine girl now looking utterly wretched, wrapped head to toe in gore with scarcely an inch of intact flesh.
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> And the her that should have had two upper bodies now had only one—and that one was horrifically mutilated.
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> “Thud!” At that moment, the other upper body half came crashing down from the sky.
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> This time, Li Sui acted swiftly, shooting out over a dozen tentacles to catch it steadily.
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> Li Huowang used his teeth to flip back the red veil on this half-upper-body, revealing a beastly face covered in fox fur, interspersed with porcupine quills and snake scales. Eyes of varying sizes gaped open, weakly staring up at him on the brink of death.
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> Seeing the shock on Li Huowang’s face at this moment, the fanged maw cracked open, and a forked tongue lolled out feebly.
> “I just wanted you to have Cang Qiang ascend so you could escape. I never said I had to die for it—your momma ain’t done living yet!”
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> Tears welling in his eyes, Li Huowang controlled the tentacles to pull her tightly into his embrace.
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> He quickly knelt halfway down to check the other half of Miao Miao. Upon discovering that though this half looked horrific, she was still breathing, he let out a huge sigh of relief.
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> “Miao Miao, hang in there—you have to hang in there!” Li Huowang’s trembling hands pulled out the wax-sealed [Firefrock Admonition] and fitted the two gods’ halves back into place.
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> As Li Huowang began chanting the incantation, the two gods mustered all their strength to beat the white drum and summon the Bai Family immortals.
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>(End of chapter)