noveltune Chapter 384 Void Realm Creatures
Chapter 384 Void Realm Creatures
Chapter 384 Void Realm Creatures
The elder of the Silver Spirit Clan, Yin Yan, formed hand seals, his ten fingers flying, leaving afterimages in his wake.
Strands of silver spatial ripples shot out from his palm, condensing into two silver dragons that roared as they pounced toward the void rift.
The silver dragon had no temperature, yet it possessed the power to burn the sky. Wherever it passed, the spatial barriers melted like hot wax, turning into transparent droplets of space.
The silver dragon wrapped its arms around the handle of the fixed-air silver hammer from both sides and pulled it outward with all its might.
crunch—
The harsh friction echoed through the canyon.
The fixed-air silver hammer was pulled an inch.
Fragments of void at the edge of the crack flake off and fall toward the rocks below, carving out a bottomless ravine.
"There's hope." Yin Yan's eyes were fixed on the hammer handle.
His eyes narrowed, his aura changed drastically, and the original power of his Nascent Soul clone surged forth.
With a flick of his finger, a natal Dao seal formed from pure spatial laws and divine soul essence instantly took shape at his fingertip, then transformed into a stream of light and entered the space between the brows of the two silver fire dragons.
The dragon's roar suddenly changed!
The silver dragons seemed to have been granted a higher status. Their size did not increase dramatically, but the silver flames around them turned into a deep and terrifying azure-silver color, each wisp of fire carrying the power to scorch through the void. Space silently distorted and melted under the flames, and the two dragons, like gods, firmly locked the hammer handle.
Yin Yan embraced the void with both arms, his entire cultivation resonating with the Azure Silver Dragon.
"rise--!
He gave a deep shout and exerted force with both arms.
"Get out here!"
With a loud shout, Yin Yan yanked back with both arms.
The Silver Hammer was pulled out another three inches! The array patterns on the hammerhead suddenly lit up, and a buzzing sound arose.
Just one step away.
Just as Silver Flame was about to press on, at the last moment, it triggered the true threat hidden behind the Void Hammer embedded in the void. From the depths of the void came a greedy and strange hiss.
Neither beast nor bird, but rather like the sharp sound of fingernails scraping against glass, interspersed with eerie fluctuations that distort space.
Yin Yan stopped moving abruptly.
"What is it?"
He stared intently at the thick, dark expanse.
A grayish-white claw suddenly emerged without warning.
It has no scales or flesh, and is entirely formed from distorted spatial turbulence.
Virtual beings.
Yin Yan instantly realized: this beast did not have its lair here, but had long been eyeing the "Void Soul Thunder Talisman" inheritance that was deeply bound to the spatial location of the Fixed Void Silver Hammer.
This talisman contains the dual essences of thunder and space, making it a great tonic for creatures of the void realm. Once the silver hammer is completely pulled out, the inheritance will manifest, which is why this creature has been lurking nearby, waiting for an opportunity to seize it. By forcibly pulling out the silver hammer, one is tantamount to triggering its restraints, causing it to suddenly attack and snatch its prey.
A gray-white claw pressed down on the hammer.
The silver fire dragon, which had been unstoppable just moments before, suddenly froze, as if trapped in ice.
"court death!"
Yin Yan snorted coldly and made a sweeping gesture with his fingers.
A silver sword aura, as wide as a door panel, slashed through the air, directly striking the gray-white claws.
The sword energy struck, but it was as if it were nothingness, passing through silently without leaving a trace.
"No physical form?" Yin Yan's expression changed drastically.
Physical attacks are ineffective, and magical attacks are also absorbed.
How should we deal with this?
Before he could think it through, the gray-white claws suddenly clenched.
boom!
The two silver fire dragons exploded in response, turning into countless silver lights that scattered across the sky.
Immediately afterwards, gray-white mist surged out of the void rift.
The creature from the void realm attacked suddenly, and Silver Flame was instantly injured.
From within the mist, dozens of identical gray-white tentacles shot out and crashed down upon Silver Flame.
These tentacles are actually miniature spatial rifts!
"Ancestor, be careful!" Silver Horn shouted in alarm from below.
Yin Yan quickly clasped his hands together in front of his chest.
A gleaming silver shield appeared out of thin air, blocking his way.
The first tentacle struck the shield.
The shield gleamed silver, barely managing to hold its ground.
Articles Two, Three, and Ten followed in quick succession.
Each strike carries an immense pressure that tears space apart.
Click.
Cracks appeared on the surface of the silver shield.
Yin Yan's forehead was covered in cold sweat.
His internal magical power was rapidly draining away. This clone was not at its peak to begin with, and it simply could not withstand such intense consumption.
"We have to retreat!"
Yin Yan acted decisively, attempting to sever the magical connection and withdraw.
However, the creatures of the void gave him no chance to catch his breath.
A gray-white tentacle twisted strangely, bypassed the silver shield, and lashed hard at Silver Flame's back.
No external injuries were observed.
Yin Yan felt his soul tremble violently, and a tearing pain instantly swept over his body.
"puff--!"
He coughed up a mouthful of blood, lost control of his body, and plummeted straight down from mid-air.
"Ancestor!"
Silver Horn leaped into the air and caught Silver Flame, the two of them crashing heavily into the pile of rubble below.
The gray tentacles in mid-air did not pursue, but slowly retracted into the void rift.
The gray-white claws clung tightly to the Sky-Stabilizing Silver Hammer, dragging it inch by inch back into the depths of the crevice, as if guarding prey that was about to be devoured.
The sky returned to calm.
Only that dark crack remained, deep and menacing.
In the pile of rubble.
Yin Yan pushed Yin Jiao aside and staggered to his feet.
He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his gaze fixed on the crack in the sky, feeling extremely troubled.
The creature from the void realm was targeting the Void Soul Thunder Talisman bound to the silver hammer. It hid in a void rift, taking full advantage of its location. It was formless and intangible, immune to most of the Five Elements spells and physical attacks.
While they were unable to attack him effectively, their opponent was able to use the spatial rift to freely strike at their soul, protecting what they coveted.
That attack just now had already caused cracks to appear in his soul. If a few more blows were to come, this clone would probably disintegrate on the spot.
Unless the main body arrives in person, there is absolutely no way that this Nascent Soul avatar can retrieve the Sky-Stabilizing Silver Hammer from the clutches of this strange creature.
However, the true body is far beyond the boundary and cannot enter the territory at all.
"Damn it." Yin Yan clutched his aching chest, his emotions churning.
Should we give up now? The Sky-Stabilizing Silver Hammer is crucial to the future of the Silver Spirit Clan; it cannot be lost!
Even if it costs me this clone, I must take it back.
But how can we fight for it? We need to seek special assistance.
Yin Yan paced back and forth, his mind racing through potential candidates from the secret realm.
These ethereal beings are formless and intangible, specializing in attacking the soul, and are difficult to harm with ordinary methods. Only those with extraordinary and unconventional abilities that can directly strike the soul or ignore spatial barriers can possibly subdue them.
Seeing the patriarch pacing anxiously, Silver Horn, who was standing to the side, hesitated for a moment before finally stepping forward and lowering his voice to say, "Patriarch."
Yin Yan didn't turn around: "Speak."
"Those illusory beings are formless and intangible, hidden in the void, and specialize in attacking the soul. Our methods are insufficient to reach or restrain them."
To subdue it, one must possess a wondrous method that can disregard spatial barriers, directly sever the soul, and even contend with it for spatial power.
Yin Yan paused, turning to look at Yin Jiao: "What's your idea?"
Silver Horn's throat moved slightly, and what he had seen before involuntarily surfaced in his mind. Chen Yi's vision and methods were beyond their expectations, and since he had agreed to it before, he might have other trump cards, especially in terms of the soul. Perhaps—he really has extraordinary means to deal with such intangible and formless creatures that specialize in attacking the soul.
"Ancestor." Silver Horn raised his head, meeting Silver Flame's scrutinizing gaze.
"Could we ask Chen Yi for help? Perhaps he has a solution."
"Chen Yi? Can he really do it?"
Yin Yan stared at the silver spatial vortex in front of him, his brows furrowed.
The silver vortex spun wildly in mid-air, its edges constantly tearing open black void rifts, revealing a giant silver hammer that loomed in and out of sight.
"Although I tested him before, and he did indeed learn our Silver Sky Clan's spatial compression technique," Silver Flame said, spinning rapidly in place with his hands behind his back. "But! He's only at the mid-Nascent Soul stage!"
Yin Yan stopped and pointed to the indescribable shadow deep within the vortex.
"That's a creature from the Void Realm! A peak fourth-tier monster! Sending a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator to deal with it is a bit of an overreaction, isn't it?"
Silver Horn stood aside, watching his impatient clan leader.
"But we can only let him try." Silver Horn said calmly, "Otherwise, we'll have to wait at least another ten or eight years for this Sky-Stabilizing Silver Hammer."
"I'll wait eight or ten years —"
"We can't wait." Silver Horn interrupted him, looking directly into Silver Flame's eyes. "By then, avatars and clones from other realms will also enter, and all sorts of variables will arise. The Sky-Stabilizing Silver Hammer is of paramount importance; every day we delay increases the risk of it being taken away by someone else. We can't afford to take that risk."
Yin Yan fell silent.
He stared at the giant hammer in the vortex, his expression shifting constantly.
It must be brought out.
But he couldn't handle that ethereal creature on his own. This monster existed between the laws of soul and space, making it completely immune to physical attacks, and it was also the natural counter to spatial magic.
A direct confrontation would come at too high a cost and could even damage the very foundation of the problem.
"Alright, that's all we can do." Yin Yan sighed and waved his hand.
He turned around and added another sentence.
"But if you call him over, don't say I can't handle it." Yin Yan coughed, straightened his back, and adjusted his clothes. "Just say—I want to test whether he can do it. Give him a chance to prove himself."
Silver Horn nodded in agreement.
The old man still cares about his reputation.
Silver Horn took out a special spatial ring and channeled his magic power into it. The ring lit up with a silver light, and a message was sent through the air.
More than 200 miles away.
Chen Yi and Ning Bu'er had just undergone a major nourishing process, and their auras were much more solid than before.
Having just completed the upgrade, I was pondering what kind of opportunities I could find in this ancient battlefield.
"Where to next?" Ning Bu'er asked Chen Yi.
Chen Yi didn't rush to answer.
He had something else on his mind.
Inheritance of the Void Soul Thunder Talisman.
That was his core objective in coming here.
Judging by the timing, the Silver Spirit Clan should have already made contact with the Void Realm connection over there.
Just then, the storage bracelet on her wrist vibrated.
Chen Yi took out a silver jade slip and probed it with his divine sense.
It was a message from Silverhorn asking for help.
Seeing this, Chen Yi smiled and nodded in agreement.
He could roughly guess where Silver Horn's clan leader, Silver Flame, was stuck.
That old man most likely can't handle the connection between that space and the virtual world.
The most troublesome thing about creatures from the virtual world is this kind of cross-realm entanglement.
It's indestructible and impossible to shake off. It can hide in the virtual world and launch attacks on the real world, while it's very difficult for methods from the real world to penetrate the virtual world.
Chen Yi didn't really have a good solution to this.
But he can give it a try.
After all, his goal was the inheritance of the Soul Void Thunder Talisman that connected with the Void Realm.
"Let's go." Chen Yi put away the jade slip.
"Where to?"
"Let's do the Silver Spirit Clan a favor," Chen Yi said, stepping forward. "And while we're at it, let's grab something we want."
The two transformed into streaks of light and sped off toward the silver vortex.
"This old man from the Silver Spirit Clan has a high level of cultivation, so how could he be stuck by a creature from the Void Realm?" Ning Bu'er asked.
"Everyone has their own expertise," Chen Yi replied. "The Silver Spirit Clan is proficient in spatial laws, but they may not be good at dealing with soul-type creatures."
The ethereal creatures, existing in between, were perfectly suited to counter them.
Are you confident?
"No. But I must get the Void Thunder Soul Talisman." Chen Yi clenched his fist.
Chen Yi was making plans along the way.
The fact that Yin Yan couldn't handle it means that the creature from the void realm was of a high level.
I would definitely be at a disadvantage in a head-on confrontation with my mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivation; I need to make use of the characteristics of Soul Thunder and the laws of space.
We need to find out more about the monster before we rush in blindly.
Chen Yi and Ning Bu'er quickly arrived at the scene.
Before even landing, Chen Yi had already grasped the situation.
The surrounding ground was covered with scorch marks, and there were obvious spatial fluctuations from the scorching heat. Clearly, Silver Flame had already tested the waters and suffered a setback.
Yin Yan stood far away beneath the swirling silver space, his face clouded with worry.
The old man crossed his arms, frowned, gritted his teeth, and stared at the vortex, sighing as if he was completely helpless.
Chen Yi and Ning Bu'er descended in a beam of light.
The moment Chen Yi's aura appeared, Yin Yan's expression changed.
The frown vanished instantly.
He lowered his arms, put his hands behind his back, slightly raised his chin, straightened his back, and forced out a profound and inscrutable expression.
"Hehe, young friend Chen has arrived." Yin Yan laughed, his tone as relaxed as if he were strolling in a back garden, as if the old man with a worried expression just now had never existed.
Chen Yi watched his performance without exposing him. The old monsters all had some kind of baggage to carry.
"Fellow Daoist Silver Flame," Chen Yi nodded.
"I never imagined that behind this Void-Stabilizing Silver Hammer lies a Void Realm, guarded by Void Realm creatures." Silver Flame pointed at the vortex, his tone calm. "It's not that I have no way to deal with this."
Yin Yan paused.
"It just comes at a price."
He looked at Chen Yi with admiration in his eyes.
"Since young friend Chen has promised my junior, Silver Horn, that he can help retrieve this Void-Stabilizing Silver Hammer, then I can give young friend Chen a chance."
Yin Yan threw out his chips.
"If we can obtain the opportunity here, apart from the Sky-Stabilizing Silver Hammer, my Silver Spirit Clan will not take anything else."
Chen Yi smiled but remained silent.
He did not agree immediately.
We need to inspect the goods first.
He raised his head and carefully observed the space for a long time.
The internal structure of the vortex is extremely complex, with countless layers of space folded together.
The fixed-space silver hammer was stuck at the node of the folded space.
Behind the hammer, a gray shadow was wriggling.
Chen Yi withdrew his gaze and looked at Yin Yan.
"Fellow Daoist, what is the specific level of those Void Realm creatures?" Chen Yi asked.
"Peak fourth-tier level," Silver Flame replied.
"What's the attack method?"
"Located between the laws of soul and space. Physical attacks can penetrate it, while most magical attacks are ineffective. It can directly attack the soul and distort the surrounding space at the same time."
Chen Yi was making plans in his mind.
Peak of the fourth tier.
It is equivalent to the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage or even half a step into the Divine Transformation stage.
If one were to use all of their Soul Thunder cultivation and spatial abilities, there is a high probability that they could retrieve the Sky-Stabilizing Silver Hammer.
Pull the hammer out, sever the spatial connection, and there is plenty of room to maneuver.
As long as you're fast enough, it's not difficult to snatch the hammer before the creatures of the void can react.
But the inheritance of the Soul Void Thunder Talisman that is bound to it is hard to say.