blenderwars Chapter 416 - 288: Plot Hodgepodge
Chapter 416 - 288: Plot Hodgepodge
In just half a month.
The cataclysm spread from Absurd City across nearly half the continent—
A black fog spread, a malevolent aura piercing the sky. Amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood, nothing but ruins remained.
The black fog, rolling down from the heavens, was split apart by a colossal beam of light. A white light transformed into a fox. The white fox lifted its head as if newly born, stretching its limbs. It opened its bewitching violet beast eyes and stared directly into the bottomless darkness ahead.
Born amidst a horde of surrounding demons, it stood firm upon the continent.
A single horn grew from the white fox’s forehead. A pair of long, snow-white, holy wings unfurled from its back, and nine enormous white tails swayed in the wind.
The white fox, as majestic as a mountain, trod upon countless broken limbs and crumbling walls. Its snow-white fur shimmered with a brilliant luster, as if steeped in white light, as dazzling as a scorching sun and impossible to look at directly.
Wherever it passed, the black fog dispersed.
This was the true, ascended form of the Unicorn King Beast.
After his ascension, Ze Sheng rarely revealed his beast form. It was a secret of his clan. This form allowed them to unleash the full extent of their power, but using it would also plunge them into a long slumber afterward.
This expenditure of power came at the cost of their lifespan. If too much was consumed, they could even have their soul obliterated on the spot.
Unless the world was facing a great cataclysm.
Such as now.
His Divination had never been wrong—his own life was short, and he was fated to perish in this cataclysm.
The speed at which the Demonic Qi spread was terrifying. It turned out that "It" had already infiltrated nearly half the continent and seized control of several powerful King Beasts—
The King Beast clan of Lingbing Royal City in the Far North.
The Red Feathered Bird King Beast of the Flame Mountain Range.
The Crocodile Clan’s King Beast from the Southern Swamp, and so on.
Among them, the most powerful were the controlled Qi Yuan and Mi Yin. Both were absolute King Beast Peaks, their strength on par with Ze Sheng’s.
...
When An Jin arrived, she was met with a scene of utter devastation. The rampaging Demonic Qi, a black fog, was attempting to swallow the entire continent. The only source of light left in the entire world was the colossal Nine-tailed White Fox, its four feet planted firmly on the ground, its head reaching for the sky.
The light emanating from its body was too bright to look at directly.
’Ze Sheng... he’s burning through his lifespan?!’
An Jin gripped Ling Hong’s and Xi’s hands tightly, her throat choked with emotion. It took immense willpower to control her trembling body. She watched as Ze Sheng began to lose ground against the other King Beasts and those black fog ’people,’ his once soft, snow-white fur now stained with countless bloody wounds.
The ethereal black smoke, like a corporeal, massive bronze cauldron, repeatedly forced the white fox’s body to bend downward. The ground collapsed, and its limbs sank deep into the widening fissures. At the same time, the filthy blood flowing from its body had nearly soaked the entire ground.
’No, he can’t hold on much longer.’
’At this rate, even if he burns through his entire lifespan, he won’t be able to stop the black fog’s corrosion of the continent!’
An Jin immediately let go of the two beside her and threw herself into the black fog.
"Jin’er?"
"Ah Jin!"
Ling Hong and Xi followed her without a moment’s hesitation.
Within the darkness, it was as if countless vicious ghosts were tearing and howling. An Jin used all her strength to cut them down one by one, but there were too many. The Demonic Qi also served as their natural cover, so by the time she found Ze Sheng, she too was covered in wounds of all sizes.
The white fox, as immense as a mountain, was finally overwhelmed and collapsed to the ground, its breathing growing faint.
An Jin flew over and tried to embrace its face, but it was too large. She could only manage to clutch a few tufts of fur. She saw her own reflection perfectly mirrored in its bewitching violet beast eyes, which were several times larger than her.
"Ze Sheng..." Her voice was a choked whisper.
She reached out to cup its gradually cooling nose, rubbing her forehead gently against it as tears fell uncontrollably.
’You shouldn’t have come here. Go, quickly.’
It grew anxious, seeming to want to use its last ounce of strength to stand up and send her away.
"It’s no use. If even you can’t stop it, then it’s only a matter of time before the Demonic Qi overruns the entire continent." An Jin shook her head. "My end will just be the same as all those dead Beastmen."
The white fox closed its eyes, remaining silent. It was powerless to change the outcome of this cataclysm.
The Divination had foretold this disaster that would nearly destroy the entire continent, but it had arrived earlier than he had predicted.
A faint warmth gradually spread through its body. It suddenly opened its eyes and discovered that she had taken the pale red Soul blood from her heart and was sending it into its forehead?!
’No—you can’t!’
The white fox’s expression turned ferocious, and a low growl rumbled in its throat.