Chapter 126 - Battle
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During the apocalypse, a light ability was absolutely an existence like a cheat.
All over the world was dark energy that caused people discomfort, so a person who possessed the light energy naturally was able to easily garner goodwill.
There were over twenty people around Qi Jingchen. These people more or less had some discomfort due to the black fog, but once they came to Qi Jingchen’s side, the discomfort vanished, leaving nothing but the feeling of incomparable ease.
It was precisely this feeling that made them instantly have a favourable impression of Qi Jingchen.
The thick black fog pervaded the entire stage, but those standing by Qi Jingchen weren’t scared at all… But while they were unafraid, Qi Jingchen was a little worried, unable to have even the smallest smile on his face.
His ability was limited.
He didn’t know what method Yao Mengzhi used to gather this much dark ability, but he knew that if it went on like this, his ability would be exhausted sooner or later. When that time came, they would be surrounded by dark ability and perhaps there would be nothing but death.
“Let’s break through,” Qi Jingchen said. At the same time, he diluted the concentration of the ability around him, not daring to waste even the slightest bit of it.
Hearing this, everyone immediately nodded. Nie Yi even threw out his dual abilities, then violently blew up a portion of the stage. But while the stage was broken, the black fog merely rolled around for a moment before thickening without any signs of disappearing.
Right at this time, the shadow guards around them suddenly charged, encircling them.
These shadow guards weren’t strong at first, and each of them could deal with several of them. But in the black fog, the situation had changed.
The movements of these shadow guards were swift in the black fog. Even if they were injured, as long as it wasn’t their limbs that were chopped off, their wounds would quickly heal. Because Qi Jingchen and the rest were fearful of the black fog, they couldn’t help having their hands tied…
“None of you can leave anymore.” Yao Mengzhi slowly walked closer, a smile on her face. In her hand was a round stone the size of an egg.
The stone was a shiny black, and was especially conspicuous in the black fog. Qi Jingchen had just seen it when he felt a powerful threat from it.
That… seemed to be the crystallisation of dark energy? During the end of the apocalypse, the zombies’ brain had this crystal. However, the dark energy within definitely wasn’t this pure…
The purer the dark ability, the higher its rank. And the purity of that black stone’s dark energy was almost comparable to his dark ability in his last life…
No wonder Yao Mengzhi was able to create shadow guards and dark oracles; it turned out to be because she had such a stone!
Nie Yi’s guess was pretty good. Yao Mengzhi being able to do all of this truly had something to do with the stone in her hands.
During the middle of the apocalypse in their last life, B City secure base once found some things; those things seemed to not belong to Earth, and basically had a trace of mystery.
B City secure base brought back all those things for research, but were unable to come to a conclusion even after a long study. At the same time, they found a stone that contained pure dark energy amongst the items.
At that time, B City secure base used countless methods to try and destroy the stone containing a lot of dark energy. However, they were simply unable to succeed, and ultimately had no choice but to contain it in one place with all sort of isolation materials.
At that time, the research wasn’t managed by Qi Jingchen, and she could only comply with the arrangements and continued to secretly research. However, in this life, she had found the stone at a very early time.
She obtained the dark ability through the stone, and also discovered many things with this stone…
Of course, the dark energy here wasn’t solely created by the stone she had&#k2014; She generally wouldn’t utilise her treasure this casually.
As for the nearby dark energy&#k2026; Gathering the crystals of level three and four zombies, she was able to create the present situation.
On this stage, she used isolated dark energy materials she had produced to conceal a lot of dark energy!
She knew that Qi Jingchen probably had a very powerful spiritual strength and could sense most dangers. But with this many shadow guards surrounding him, it definitely would affect him to some degree, making him unable to sense the dark energy ahead of time.
“You all can’t escape anymore. From now on, you’ll become my slave.” Yao Mengzhi looked at the trapped people with a smile, suddenly really wanting to know how strong the shadow guards formed by these people would be.
Those dark oracles were created by eating the mutated plants she cultivated with dark energy, transforming their abilities. They would retain their consciousness. However, people directly corroded by dark energy would all become the muddle-headed shadow guards, and be like puppets.
She already couldn’t wait to obtain these powerful puppets.
Yao Mengzhi’s face was faintly discernible in the darkness. Seeing this, Qi Jingchen’s heart sank.
He previously didn’t understand why Yao Mengzhi would personally set the trap. After all, if they captured her, the saintess, they would be in an untouchable position. Now, thinking about it… Perhaps Yao Mengzhi dared to do this because she had secure knowledge of her victory!
The surrounding dark energy suppressed Qi Jingchen into having difficulty breathing. He felt exceptionally unwell, and was faintly nauseous, wishing that he could leave this place far, far behind him. But all around them were shadow guards who didn’t fear death, and oracles mixed within, causing them to be unable to escape.
Qi Jingchen lifted his head to look at Yao Mengzhi opposite of him, and just happened to see Yao Mengzhi looking at him.
Qi Jingchen’s eyes were extremely bright, and the light energy around him gave him a floating, ascending feeling… Looking at such a person, Yao Mengzhi suddenly was a little absent-minded. “Qi Jingchen, I truly did harm you, but he did nothing at all yet you weren’t willing to let him off… I must have you repay his death with your own life!”
“Don’t speak so pompously. Everything you’re doing is just for your ambitions,” Qi Jingchen said. He knew that Yao Mengzhi was probably talking about matters of their past life, but he did not feel like he owed her.
Yao Mengzhi smiled and admitted to Qi Jingchen’s words. “Therefore, for my ambitions, why don’t all of you die…” As she said this, she condensed all the dark ability around her, then threw them at Qi Jingchen.
The dense dark ability engulfed them, and even the shadow guards fearfully dodged to the side. The light ability Qi Jingchen propped up as a shield for everyone broke almost instantly.
With the shield broken, the surrounding people were instantly exposed to the black mist. If it weren’t because they had soaked in the light energy previously and had a certain degree of resistance against the dark energy, there would likely have been several people who would have become products similar to those shadow guards around them.
A slight sweet and fishy taste appeared in Qi Jingchen’s mouth. He could feel that he was injured, and the little monkey in his shirt was laying against his body and trembling.
The foreigners standing by Qi Jingchen battled against the shadow guards surrounding them while crying out in alarm, looking at Qi Jingchen in concern. However, faced with their concern, Qi Jingchen couldn’t even say a word of consolation.
“Jingchen!” Nie Yi hugged Qi Jingchen’s body, his face filled with worry— Right at this time, there was a sudden pain in his chest… He didn’t protect Qi Jingchen well again.
Using an ice barrier to cover up his four friends whose abilities had been abolished, Nie Yi stood by Qi Jingchen’s side. Although the ice barrier couldn’t resist the permeation of the dark energy for a long period, it would at least prevent them from becoming zombies right then, and also allow Qi Jingchen a bit more time to rest.
“I’m fine,” Qi Jingchen said. The light energy was practically a steady flow in his body and his recovery ability was extremely fast. With just this short period of effort, he had already recovered some.
The protective shield was erected once more, enveloping the people who were about to become dark zombies from the black fog’s erosion.
Yao Mengzhi seemed to be deliberately waiting for this and suddenly attacked just as Qi Jingchen used his ability, then shattering Qi Jingchen’s light energy once more.
“Will we be okay?” Shi Kun looked at Yu Xuguang beside him with a sullen face. The him who previously felt he wouldn’t regret following Qi Jingchen now felt regretful again—If he had known it was going to be this dangerous sooner, he definitely wouldn’t have stayed on the stage because of Yu Xuguang…
Women were important, but their life was more valuable!
No one answered Shi Kun’s question. Right now, everyone was doing their best to battle against the shadow guards around them. Among them, several people had brought firearms. They tried to blow up the shadow guards with explosives, but it was completely useless.
Although the platform had already collapsed, this area was still filled with black fog.
Seeing this, they tried dashing to a direction. However, they couldn’t rush out at all; that was to say nothing of how the black fog would follow them closely.
Suddenly, the earth ability user by Shi Kun’s side became a shadow guard, turning around and attacking them.
At this time, Shi Kun’s face was already darkening from being eroded by the dark energy. With the bodyguard beside him suddenly attacking, it conversely left him with a blank mind. In the end it was still Yu Xuguang who yanked him and managed to pull him away.
Yu Xuguang had always restrained his use of his ability previously. Now, after pulling Shi Kun away, he suddenly looked towards Yao Mengzhi who was standing outside the encirclement formed by the shadow guards.
Yao Mengzhi was standing outside the circle and was leisurely watching the battle. Seeing this, Yu Xuguang encased himself in a layer of ice before suddenly rushing towards Yao Mengzhi.
The shadow guards all attacked him. Right then, he suddenly threw out a bomb in front of him.
When the bomb blew up, the shadow guards before him were thrown out. Simultaneously, he himself was bloodied from the explosion, cutting a sorry figure.
After being injured, it was very easy for dark energy to invade the wounds… fortunately, Yu Xuguang had experience in this. He immediately froze his wounds with ice, then continued darting towards Yu Xuguang.
“That’s some skill.” Yao Mengzhi looked at the bloodied figure, her lips quirking. Immediately after, she raised her eyebrows in astonishment. “Yu Xuguang?”
She was previously even curious about why she didn’t see Yu Xuguang among the people, but didn’t expect that Yu Xuguang was dressed as a woman, as was even rather attractive.
Yao Mengzhi could have used her dark ability to throw Yu Xuguang back, but she didn’t. Instead, she watched him with a wide smile, wanting to know what Yu Xuguang was planning.
Yu Xuguang planned to self-destruct.
In his last life, he lived until even his last companion was gone. Under such pain and despair, he went to find Qi Jingchen, and self-destructed his ability nucleus before Qi Jingchen. This time… The target of his self-destruction had become Yao Mengzhi, the woman he was once in love with…
Yu Xuguang’s gaze rested on Yao Mengzhi’s face. He gave her a deep look, then used his spiritual strength to destroy his ability nucleus.
After his rebirth, he had always put his all in cultivating. Although he didn’t have much spiritual strength, he cultivated very diligently, even learning from how Nie Yi first awakened his water ability, soaking in water all day while cultivating.
Now, ehw as a level three ability user, but was continuing to approach level four… because he had always purified his ability nucleus, his current strength could fully keep up with the level four ability users in his past life.
Now, he self-detonated.
The surrounding dark energy would weaken the might of the ability nucleus self-detonation, but Yu Xuguang had looked into this before in his past life and thought of a method…
Before he self-detonated, two walls of ice appeared on both sides, blocking off a lot of the dark energy. After he self-detonated, the ice walls were blown apart by the energy and even became immense firepower!
Yu Xuguang’s sudden attack startled Yao Mengzhi, but it wasn’t because she was frightened. It was purely due to how Yu Xuguang’s expression was as determined as when Chu Zhen fractured his nucleus to protect her.
However, at that time Chu Zhen’s ability nucleus was only fractured, while Yu Xuguang was now self-detonating his ability nucleus. He definitely wouldn’t survive.
Yao Mengzhi sighed, then waved her hand just before the energy from the self-detonation reached her.
Violently using the dark ability, she directly flung Yu Xuguang away. This move was almost the same as how Qi Jingchen used it in his past life.
At that time, Qi Jingchen was able to shake off Yu Xuguang, but the plants he grew around him died from the fluctuations of his domain. Now, Yao Mengzhi shook off Yao Mengzhi, but she herself couldn’t avoid being injured— the force of Yu Xuguang’s self-detonation was even stronger than they imagined.
Yao Mengzhi rarely fought, and the sudden injury made her lose her interest in toying with Qi Jingchen and the others. Seeing Qi Jingchen release some light energy again, she suddenly controlled the surrounding dark ability to head straight for Qi Jingchen. This energy completely defeated Qi Jingchen, and was even aiming for Qi Jingchen’s chest! At a torrential momentum!
Her previous attacks were just for amusement. Now, it was the real deal.
The little monkey screeched from Qi Jingchen’s chest. The foreigners looked at Qi Jingchen in fright, fearful of something happening to Qi Jingchen…
“Jingchen!” Nie Yi subconsciously wanted to step before Qi Jingchen.
Right at this time, Qi Jingchen took something out, blocking that strand of dark energy.
What he was holding was an ordinary, oblate stone. The stone was truly very common, but after it was attacked by the light energy, it erupted in a dazzling brilliance. Strong light energy poured out from within, practically soaring to the sky!
The dark energy on the stage was dispersed by it, and the originally dark world recovered its light in a short duration.
The extremely powerful shadow guards were swept by this light and swiftly fell to the ground and began struggling in pain before finally stopping all motions. The people around Qi Jingchen who were almost corroded by the dark energy and turn into zombies or shadow guards all emitted black mist from their bodies, then became filled with vitality.
“How comfortable…” A foreigner couldn’t help saying. With light ability suddenly emerging when he was about to be corroded by dark energy, the feeling was truly very amazing. It felt so good that he couldn’t help wanting to jump about!
The others also had such a feeling. Shi Kun originally felt that he was almost unable to control his own hands, but at this time, he suddenly felt a lot better, and couldn’t help lighting up with joy.
Each of them had a joyful expression on their faces, but very soon there were some who became upset. The first to be sad was Shi Kun who had just been excited. “Xiao Jiu, is Xiao Jiu okay?”
“Yu Xuguang…” Shi Shiqing and the people from B City secure base felt their heart skip a beat.
Yu Xuguang once told them about self-detonating the ability nucleus, but all their spiritual strength was average. Even if they knew about it, they were unable to do so. However, Yu Xuguang could, and already did…
“How could this be!” Yao Mengzhi shrieked, her expression malevolent. She previously looked like a queen with victory in her grasp, but now had completely changed in appearance.
After encountering the light energy, the skin on her face began falling unnaturally as more black air exuded from her body; her entire appearance was just like a monster.
Fortunately, the black rock in her hand glowed, emitting a black fog that enshrouded her which allowed her to ease up slightly.
Right then, Qi Jingchen said, “Run!”
The light energy contained in the rock was no more than the small amount he had injected yesterday. The tussle just now had probably used it up already!
“That’s the inner city!” someone couldn’t help saying when they saw the direction Qi Jingchen ran in.
But Qi Jingchen turned a deaf ear and continued running ahead. After Nie Yi settled down his friends, he rushed over and picked him up, and ran even quicker.
Yao Mengzhi had always been careful. If they ran outwards, perhaps they would encounter an ambush; as for Yao Mengzhi’s laboratory… Placed there was likely Yao Mengzhi’s weakness. If they were near that place, perhaps Yao Mengzhi wouldn’t dare to act with wanton disregard, and even fear throwing bombs at them!
Baobao Notes
Leaving this note for those who may not have seen. I’ve decided to officially drop this novel due to irl commitments. Anyone is free to pick it up, and if not, I may one day pick it back up. Thank you all so, so much for your patience and please remember to give the author some love. (side note: I posted this small spree during lunch break so feel free to @ me on discord for mistakes)