Chapter 00219: What's With All This Flashy Stuff
# What's With All This Flashy Stuff
Chapter 219
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 219 What's With All This Flashy Stuff
Time rewinds a little.
Lei Lei stepped on the tree branches, leaping forward through the trees in a very 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' manner, almost as if she were flying.
Ever since they went up the mountain to help find the missing people, Lei Lei and Audel had been acting alone.
In terms of combat power, the two of them were actually stronger than the Section Nine squad armed with rocket launchers and explosives, and their movement speed was also faster.
Rather than slowly walking along with them, it was better to let them advance alone to search a larger area.
Audel went down from the mountaintop, while Lei Lei started searching from the halfway point of the mountain.
The area they searched in ten-odd minutes was larger than the area Section Nine had searched in two or three hours.
And precisely because she was fast, after wandering through the mountain forest for a short while, she discovered some strange traces.
Lei Lei keenly sensed that on one side of the mountain, a small area seemed to have something akin to a formation array, and it was currently active.
This surprised Lei Lei.
Because during the day, when everyone was climbing the mountain, they had passed right by that area, and there was nothing there at the time.
This meant it definitely wasn't that Section Nine had been careless and hadn't cleared it properly, but rather that someone had set up a new formation array afterward.
Speaking of which, although it was called a formation array, Lei Lei actually felt it was more like a barrier from magic.
There was a subtle difference between the two, but the principles were basically the same.
Using an Array-Breaking Talisman to tear an opening in the barrier, Lei Lei quickly leaped through.
She had a premonition that the missing people were definitely trapped inside.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have gotten lost on Golden Bull Mountain, and this barrier also explained why the phone calls couldn't get through.
Before she had gone far, Lei Lei landed on a treetop, holding onto the trunk and gazing ahead.
The darkness of night had almost no effect on a cultivator's eyes.
She easily saw the few missing people leaning against a tree, seemingly in a deep sleep, but she didn't see any sign of the person who had set up the barrier.
Just as she was about to jump over and wake them up, Lei Lei saw another figure climbing up the hillside from the direction of the farmhouse inn.
It was Li Chengxi.
Lei Lei was baffled at that moment.
Could this barrier be his doing?
But on second thought, Li Chengxi had been within her line of sight the entire time before this.
He had no time at all to set up a barrier to make a few hikers get lost.
Just as this thought crossed her mind, she immediately felt something and looked up into the darkness of the mountain forest.
Invisibility was almost useless against cultivators.
Besides, Lei Lei possessed the Heavenly Eye Ability, a divine ability of the eyes.
She spotted the six-meter-tall Cyclops Zombie approaching under the cover of invisibility with just a single glance.
Moreover, it seemed to have smelled the scent of living people.
It had been wandering nearby but immediately changed direction.
In the eyes of Section Nine, this thing would require an armored vehicle equipped with a machine cannon to be dealt with easily, but for Lei Lei, it wasn't a troublesome creature at all.
She shook her sleeve, and a whole row of yellow talismans appeared in her hand.
However, Lei Lei thought for a moment and put the yellow talismans away again.
This was a good opportunity.
Lei Lei had long wanted to see what secrets Li Chengxi was hiding.
Facing a Cyclops Zombie, he'd have to reveal a little something, right?
So Lei Lei crouched in the tree and didn't move at all, watching as the Cyclops Zombie revealed its true form as it got closer, and also watching as Li Chengxi jumped up and ran as if his butt was on fire.
There was no one else around.
Li Chengxi still 'acting' like this really made him seem like a method actor.
Lei Lei saw that Li Chengxi was in no real danger and continued to crouch in the distance, watching.
She clearly saw everything Li Chengxi did.
But Lei Lei didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
Li Chengxi used only magical artifacts.
Lei Lei thought Audel must have given them to him for self-defense.
They had no lethal power.
But other than that, he didn't display any power at all.
Lei Lei felt a sense of disappointment.
She even suspected that Li Chengxi might have already sensed her presence and was still putting on an act.
But soon, after Li Chengxi gave the Cyclops Zombie's arm a SPA with a healing spell, Lei Lei finally saw what she had been waiting for.
The Cyclops Zombie's arm was burned by the healing spell.
Li Chengxi turned and ran, but he didn't know that as he turned, the Cyclops Zombie had already smashed down with its left hand.
The scene almost made Lei Lei unable to resist taking action.
Then, just as the Cyclops Zombie's left hand was about to touch Li Chengxi's back, a layer of golden shield erupted from behind him.
That power was open and righteous, grand and proper.
It was neither Buddhist nor Daoist, like that of a deity.
The Cyclops Zombie's arm turned to dust in an instant.
It was only because of its large size; otherwise, its entire body would have been directly annihilated.
Lei Lei had seen this thing before, but both times were very coincidental and fleeting.
Lei Lei had no time to investigate it in detail.
This time was different.
The well-prepared Lei Lei reached out and grabbed at the air.
Among the motes of light that the golden shield turned into after dispersing, one speck of light landed in Lei Lei's hand.
She used a talisman to seal the speck of light inside.
This was equivalent to taking a sample.
She could keep it for slow research later.
After doing this, she saw that Li Chengxi had been chased to the edge of a steep slope, and it was pitch black, so Li Chengxi hadn't noticed that the Cyclops Zombie was missing a hand.
Anyway, the purpose of getting a sample had been achieved.
Lei Lei flew over from the treetop and threw out the talismans she had prepared earlier.
“Five Thunder Orthodox Dharma, Lightning-Inducing Talisman!”
Accompanied by a roar of thunder, several slender bolts of lightning descended from the sky, smashing squarely onto the Cyclops Zombie's head.
Thunder Arts break evil; they are exceptionally effective against ghosts and monsters.
Although using Thunder Arts against a Cyclops Zombie felt like a bit of a mismatch, as long as it worked, it was fine.
Li Chengxi, who was racking his brain for a solution, saw Lei Lei floating down as if treading on air.
He immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Cultivators are reliable after all.
Never again.
I'll never dare to court death like this again.
The Cyclops Zombie, having been hit by several Lightning-Inducing Talismans, was zapped until its skin split and its flesh was exposed.
It felt like a wisp of green smoke was about to rise from its bald head.
But to think a few Lightning-Inducing Talismans could take care of it was a bit premature.
It was barely affected, and raising its fist, it smashed it toward Lei Lei, who had landed in front of Li Chengxi.
But Lei Lei wasn't flustered at all.
She executed a spinning roundhouse kick that landed squarely on the Cyclops Zombie's incoming fist.
With a loud whoosh, amidst an explosive gust of wind, Li Chengxi actually saw Lei Lei knock the six-meter-tall Cyclops Zombie to the ground with a single kick.
How much strength was that? Are all cultivators monsters?
While the Cyclops Zombie had yet to get back up, Lei Lei held two fingers together in front of her and shouted:
“Activate array, Heavenly Master's Ghost-Suppressing Talisman!”
Several talismans that looked like ordinary yellow paper at first glance had been mixed in with the Lightning-Inducing Talismans and thrown out, and were now right at the Cyclops Zombie's feet.
Each talisman immediately transformed into golden chains.
In an instant, they bound the Cyclops Zombie tightly, rendering it immobile.
But Lei Lei didn't seem satisfied.
This Cyclops Zombie was a bit stronger than she had expected.
An ordinary ghost or zombie would have long been crushed by the Heavenly Master's Ghost-Suppressing Talisman, but this Cyclops Zombie actually still had the strength to try and break free.
Perhaps feeling the urge to show off, Lei Lei changed her hand seal and chanted loudly:
“Primal and prosperous, Mighty Divine Lord. The sun and moon revolve, shining with brilliant light. Illuminating the Three Realms, the stars and constellations align. Nine Phoenixes break the filth, evil spirits, be extinguished.”
With each line she chanted, a gleaming golden ancient sword would appear above the Cyclops Zombie's head.
The golden light emitted by the swords left ghostly creatures with nowhere to hide.
The Cyclops Zombie's skin began to emit wisps of white smoke as if it were burning.
Lei Lei formed a Ghost-Subduing Seal with her hand and shouted again:
“As swift as the statutes and commands!”
The ancient swords multiplied from four to eight, then eight to sixteen.
In the blink of an eye, it seemed as if the air was filled with dazzling golden ancient swords.
The Cyclops Zombie struggled with all its might, letting out piercing roars.
The tremendous sound waves even kicked up dust from the ground.
Several of the chains formed by the Heavenly Master's Ghost-Suppressing Talisman even snapped.
The Filth-Breaking Incantation actually failed to purify it.
Lei Lei was also surprised, but it wasn't a big problem.
She once again changed her hand seal and chanted:
“Wield the Heavenly Dao, transform the two primal forces, give birth to yin and yang, turn heaven and earth, in response to the decree. Heaven and Earth are limitless, I borrow the power of the universe!”
At this moment, all the golden light converged like rising smoke.
Faintly, Li Chengxi seemed to see the figure of a person sitting on a nine-headed lion, holding a willow branch and a purification vase.
That was the Dharma Manifestation Body of the Grand Unity Heavenly Sovereign who Saves from Suffering, using the Heavenly Sovereign's divine power to destroy the malevolent spirit.
And just as she reached the peak of her dramatic display, a humming gate of light appeared directly above.
Audel stepped out from it, hovering in mid-air.
She glanced at the struggling Cyclops Zombie below, raised her hand and pointed:
“Annihilation Orb.”
A black sphere flew from her fingertip and hit the Cyclops Zombie's massive body dead center.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the six-meter-tall Cyclops Zombie was sucked into the black sphere.
One could even hear the crisp sound of its bones being compressed and crushed.
After finishing this, Audel landed lightly on the ground, ignoring Lei Lei, whose grand display had been interrupted at the crucial moment.
She waved to Li Chengxi:
“Brother Li, are you alright.”
Her meaning was as if to say, what's with all this flashy stuff.
Li Chengxi quickly covered his mouth and pinched his thigh hard.
He couldn't laugh at a time like this.
It would hurt her feelings…
(End of this chapter)