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Chapter 231 231: A Simple and Unpretentious Dream (1)
Translator: CinderTL
The appearance of the super domain creature drastically altered the situation.
All the Domain Forces, previously locked in fierce combat, simultaneously halted their attacks.
As the black veil enveloped the canyon and the surrounding kilometers, the inner world was completely isolated from the outside.
Looking up at the pitch-black giant hand in the sky, Feng Qi felt an indescribable sense of oppression welling up from the depths of his heart.
The bloodline pressure from this high-tier lifeform caused his body to tremble involuntarily.
Yet he felt no fear.
He quickly began analyzing the situation, thinking on his feet.
Historically, neither the Lord of the Mist nor Qin Shikong had perished during this crisis.
Therefore, he believed there must be a way to overcome this challenge.
Still, he remained uneasy. His presence had altered history, potentially leading to unexpected deaths.
After all, in this timeline, he had joined the Dawn Battle Group.
In the normal timeline, this mission would clearly not have been his responsibility.
He even suspected that in the original timeline, Mu Qing, not him, should have been responsible for the escort mission.
His presence had caused Mu Qing's fate to deviate somewhat.
Perhaps Qin Shikong and Mu Qing truly met during this escort mission, which led to the later historical event where Qin Shikong led the Heavenly Pillar Battle Group to join the dawn.
Now that Mu Qing was absent and a super domain creature had appeared, the situation was dire.
Just then, Liu Yue arrived from the sky, riding his sword and landing beside him.
"Brother Qi, I'll escort you out!"
"No, the spear that sticks out gets shot. A frontal assault isn't wise. Let's wait and see for now."
Hearing Liu Yue's idea to break through, Qin Shikong quickly stopped him.
"A'Yue, don't rush. We're not the only ones trapped—those domain creatures are too. They might be even more desperate than we are. Let's not act rashly." Feng Qi also spoke up at that moment.
"Alright." Liu Yue nodded immediately, and the Jianlan sword in his hand automatically sheathed itself.
The three of them turned their gazes toward the sky.
A massive, twisting black rift appeared in the sky, and the pitch-black giant hand emerged from it.
For some unknown reason, the vast majority of the super domain creature's body remained hidden.
Only a long, pitch-black, fur-covered hand extended outward, its arm connected to the spatial rift.
It hovered overhead, exuding an overwhelming sense of dread, like the scythe of Death hanging above one's head, poised to strike at any moment.
Watching the arm, Feng Qi's expression grew solemn.
The reason for the super domain creature's arrival was obvious: like the other Domain Forces, it had come to seize the bloodstone.
Just then, the pitch-black arm in the sky plummeted downward.
A terrifying pressure instantly surged through the area. The formation laid out by Qin Shikong activated automatically, and countless golden runes materialized before their eyes, beginning to rotate around the formation's outermost, pale gold barrier.
However, for some unknown reason, the super domain creature's pitch-black giant hand suddenly froze mid-air.
A muffled roar erupted from the spatial rift, shaking the very foundations of the world.
At that moment, the pitch-black giant hand slowly sank again.
The terrifying pressure caused his body to tremble uncontrollably.
A fierce wind swept across them, whipping their clothes into a frenzy.
"Hold the line!" Qin Shikong, standing at the formation's eye, gritted his teeth and roared.
Liu Yue also summoned Jianlan again, hovering in the air to share the oppressive weight of the super domain creature.
The formation, with its large surface area, was now operating at maximum capacity.
Golden, twisting patterns swirled rapidly around the formation disk, while the patterns beneath Qin Shikong's feet shifted constantly under his control.
Just then, a blue light shot up into the sky in the distance.
Following it, blue dots rained down, forming a domain space resembling a formation in the distance.
Feng Qi looked up and saw that the domain creatures had stopped fighting and were gathered within the domain, gazing up at the sky.
This domain barrier had clearly been erected by an internal domain expert.
Crack!
A crack appeared on the golden formation, rapidly spreading across its surface. The formation was on the verge of collapse, seemingly ready to shatter at any moment.
"The formation can't hold any longer!" Qin Shikong roared through gritted teeth.
"When it breaks, I'll take over!"
With that, Liu Yue rose into the air, supported by sword energy, and a Sword Eye materialized between his brows.
As the pitch-black giant hand continued to press down, the golden formation shattered with a deafening crash.
A terrifying pressure, accompanied by a raging wind, surged through the air.
Just then, Liu Yue guided Jianlan upward.
The blade erupted in dazzling radiance, absorbing a significant portion of the pressure.
The situation was dire, and Feng Qi didn't doubt he might die here.
Even Liu Yue, bearing the full weight of the pressure, was struggling.
He couldn't hold on much longer.
As the pitch-black hand sank further, Liu Yue's face turned deathly pale.
Noticing Liu Yue's aura growing increasingly unstable, Qin Shikong gritted his teeth and shouted, "Liu Yue, I'll take over now!"
He reached for the Eight Trigrams Plate, but at that moment, a figure materialized above them.
Feng Qi immediately looked up.
Hovering above them was a domain creature, over three meters tall, resembling a mythical werewolf with explosively bulging muscles.
Roar!
A deafening roar erupted from its mouth as it thrust its massive hands upward toward the sky.
Suddenly, its body plummeted downward.
At that moment, Feng Qi was surprised to find that the oppressive force on his body had vanished.
It seemed the domain creature above had withstood the pressure of this world.
Even the descent of the pitch-black giant hand in the sky had noticeably slowed.
The domain creature struggled to turn its neck toward them, its expression contorted as it snarled, "Hurry! We need to combine our strength to fight it now, or none of us will survive!"
Hearing this, Feng Qi responded decisively, "A'Yue!"
Liu Yue understood immediately. Grabbing Feng Qi and Qin Shikong, he stepped onto Jianlan and swiftly flew toward the location of the blue barrier.
As they approached the blue barrier, a gap suddenly opened within it.
The three entered smoothly.
Landing, Feng Qi saw many domain creatures stationed at various points within the blue barrier, continuously channeling their energy to maintain its operation.
ROAR!
The deafening roar echoed again as the domain creature that had been holding back the pressure returned.
By the time it entered the formation, its body was already covered in fine blood droplets, its appearance utterly wretched.
Seeing this, Feng Qi realized something.
To survive the super domain creature, these Domain Powerhouses had temporarily joined forces.
Otherwise, none of them would have made it!
"Choose your own energy node and channel your power!" a battle-scarred beastman roared at them.
In this critical moment, Feng Qi didn't hesitate. He immediately turned to Liu Yue and Qin Shikong and said, "Let's cooperate for now and act as opportunities arise."
As he spoke, he approached a blue talisman floating within the formation and placed his hand on it, mimicking the other domain creatures.
He instantly felt his mental energy being rapidly drained into the formation.
This formation was peculiar.
The energy characteristics of domain creatures from different domains were clearly incompatible, even mutually exclusive.
Logically, the aggregation of such diverse energies should have resulted in an explosion.
Yet this formation possessed a special formation eye.
Feng Qi discovered that as energies of various colors flowed into the central formation eye, they were all transformed into blue energy.
The formation eye pulsed like a heart, pumping the blue energy throughout the entire formation.
A black shadow controlled the formation.
Its life characteristics bore striking similarities to the Domain Force behind the Technology Research Institute.
During his observation, he still noticed a difference.
Compared to the black shadow, this creature had an additional rune mark on its forehead, which was currently flashing with a brilliant blue light.
If he wasn't mistaken, he could be almost certain this creature was a member of the Spirit Energy Clan.
Perhaps only the Spirit Energy Clan could design such an ingenious energy conversion array.
The pitch-black giant hand in the sky continued to descend.
The blue formation's energy-draining rate also accelerated.
However, the formation's absorption speed couldn't keep up with the consumption, and fine cracks began to appear on its surface.
Seeing this, the Spirit Energy Clan member pulled out a rune gem from their body and hurled it violently into the sky.
At that moment, a gap appeared in the barrier in the sky.
The blue gem passed through the formation's gap and hovered just outside it.
Then, the spiritual energy from the outside world seemed to be drawn by some force, rapidly converging toward the blue rune gem.
The gem, now saturated with spiritual energy, was embedded into the formation, merging with it.
It was as if the formation had been equipped with an automatic spiritual energy siphoning device, the gems continuously drawing in external spiritual energy to sustain its operation.
But the pitch-black giant hand continued to descend.
When the hand was less than a hundred meters away, the blue formation once again strained under the immense pressure.
(End of the Chapter)
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