stjorthotic Chapter 1348 - 681: City as Formation
Chapter 1348 - 681: City as Formation
"Ling Yurong..."
Liang Yuan searched his memories but didn’t recall such a person.
However, the words that followed from this woman stirred him deeply.
Had she existed since ancient times?
Who can live so long?
Liang Yuan didn’t believe it.
"Impossible! How could someone live that long?"
"Ignorant!"
The Ice Goddess Ling Yurong sneered, "What do you know? Those favored by the heavens, each possesses the power to destroy the world."
"We are extraordinary by birth, endowed with divine power by the heavens. In your current lingo, our superpowers are heaven-sent."
"Floods may destroy the world, but we always find a way to survive, to discover the source of these floods and solve this recurring disaster!"
"Do you think immortality is difficult? Hahaha, wrong! The hardest part is escaping the cycle of world-ending catastrophes!"
Liang Yuan’s heart shook, and he immediately asked, "Are the floods that destroy the world a cycle?"
Ling Yurong sneered, "You don’t think this is the first time the world has been destroyed by floods, do you?"
"Throughout history, such world-ending floods have happened many times."
Liang Yuan’s expression was moved. Although he had suspected that the flood myth in ancient history might not be just a myth,
he suddenly heard a living person tell him it was indeed true.
Moreover, this person had survived since that era.
Such a truth is truly incredible!
Liang Yuan took a deep breath, forcing down the shock in his heart.
He stared at Ling Yurong and asked, "How did you do it? Living for so long?"
Ling Yurong extended her hand, and an ice-blue rune appeared in her palm.
She chuckled lightly, "Let me embed this into you, and I’ll tell you the secret of eternal life."
Upon hearing this, Liang Yuan looked at her coldly: "Heh, was Chang Yuntao also deceived by you like this?"
Ling Yurong slightly shook her head, "Him? He’s not qualified."
"But you’re different. You possess multiple divine powers and can transform into several divine beasts. You have great potential, and I have high hopes for you."
"Follow me, serve me as your master, and I can take you out of this world to uncover the truth behind the endless floods!"
Liang Yuan couldn’t help but snicker, "Serve you as my master? Heh, by your account, the world has been destroyed by floods countless times. If you could truly leave this world and find the cause of the floods, why are you still here?"
"Could it be that you don’t want to leave? Heh."
This sneer from Liang Yuan was like a sharp arrow that pierced Ling Yurong’s heart, making her expression extremely unpleasant!
However, she quickly laughed, flipped her wrist to put away the ice-blue rune, and said lightly, "No matter, let’s see if you can leave today!"
She gently waved her wrist.
Crashing!
Countless ice-blue runes lit up in the sky, and the entire ice palace emitted a powerful chill.
This ice palace looked like a palace, but it was actually a massive rune array!
During their conversation, she had silently prepared this array!
Liang Yuan’s eyes narrowed slightly. This huge array wasn’t limited to the ice crystal palace just now but surrounded them starting from the outside square.
Now, this entire city-like structure was wrapped within this frost barrier.
Moreover, the ice-blue barrier wasn’t purely composed of superpower energy but of runes.
This was unlike any barriers Liang Yuan had encountered before.
"Rune Technique Array!"
Ling Yurong’s figure soared into the air, emitting an extremely cold pressure.
Her body began to change strangely.
The beautiful legs of icy skin and jade bones were now covered in scales, forming scale armor.
Her limbs were also covered in scale armor, and her body was sheathed in armor.
The whole person looked as though she was wearing thick fish scale armor!
Fitted armor covered her body, except for her face which remained unchanged.
However, the crown she wore on her head now emitted an ice-blue light.
She extended her arms as if embracing the heavens and began to chant, "With the sky crystal as the guide and the earth vein condensing the marrow; Northern Wind Decree, eternal calamity frost dust!"
Rumble!
In the void, those runes roared and vibrated, seemingly pulsating with her rhythm.
A terrifying chill erupted, sweeping violently towards Liang Yuan.
The chill was astonishing, capable of freezing one’s spirit and soul!
Liang Yuan was shocked in his heart, "The rune array can be used like this?"
"This is combining the array with one’s superpowers to create a certain resonance, thereby triggering the surrounding ice attribute energy into a terrifying attack!"
"This attack does not only freeze the spirit; it contains the will of heaven and earth!"
Liang Yuan was mentally shaken, realizing that his previous use of superpowers felt childish!
The superpower that Ling Yurong wielded felt nothing like just a superpower; it was like magic!
Aligned with the rules of the universe’s operation, wielding the power of heaven and earth, crushing him!
Damn it, Liang Yuan had an illusion, was he still on Blue Star?
Was this still the post-apocalyptic world?
This seemed more like it was turning into a fantasy world!
Liang Yuan mentally complained, but he dared not waste any time.
In this situation, there’s really no need to fight head-on with the other side.
Suddenly, his body soared into the air, turning into a mist of blood!
"Trying to escape?"
Ling Yurong let out a cold laugh, her fingers forming mysterious hand gestures, instantly mobilizing the chill of heaven and earth, madly rushing towards Liang Yuan!
Amidst the blood mist, suddenly with a loud boom, a terrifying burst of flame shot out!
The flame resembled a meteor, exploding with a great roar.
It exploded directly, turning into a sky full of flames, furiously sweeping away all the frost and chill in front of it.
In an instant, all the waves of cold air were torn apart, and the ice-blue barrier trembled and roared along with it.
Many ice-blue runes inside the barrier vibrated wildly, resisting the impact of this flame!
Ling Yurong’s expression changed, and she exclaimed in shock, "Fire attribute!"
She didn’t expect Liang Yuan to have a fifth superpower!
And it was a fire attribute superpower that countered the ice attribute!
Amidst the violent explosion, the terrifying ice-blue barrier cracked open with a roar.
But Ling Yurong immediately moved her hands in a technique and shouted fiercely, "Stabilize!"
Rumble!
A mass of cold rune symbols crazily rushed to the gap, and in the blink of an eye, the originally cracked gap actually restored at an extremely fast speed.
Even though Liang Yuan activated his wings, amidst the terrifying vacuum flash flame, particles continuously collided and exploded, producing intense roars and high temperatures, yet he still couldn’t tear it apart!
In the state of the Scarlet Flame Hawk, Liang Yuan suddenly threw out a huge package with his claws!
Woosh—!
The package crashed with a loud boom at the yet-to-recover gap!
Boom!
A terrifying explosion instantly erupted.
In an instant, a huge gap was finally blasted open in the barrier ahead.
Swish!
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liang Yuan’s wings vibrated violently, covering a hundred meters in the blink of an eye, bursting out of the barrier, soaring to the sky!
In the heavens above, the giant Scarlet Flame Hawk unfolded its wings, with a wingspan nearly forty meters long!
The sky was ablaze, and Liang Yuan looked down at this Floating Island of Mist City.
At this moment, as he soared into the sky, the giant city of ice and snow had already become insignificant.
The barrier that once shrouded the whole city, as seen from the sky, was actually a huge rune shape!
It wasn’t until now that Liang Yuan suddenly realized.
"She built this city not purely as a city, but turned the talisman array into the shape of a city!"
"The city is the symbol, and the symbol is the city!"
"Once caught within, you’ll definitely be trapped by the rune array!"
"Damn it, these old monsters who have lived for thousands of years have such strange methods, their use of superpowers, their control over runes, completely crushes current superpower users!"
Liang Yuan’s figure continued to move further from the Floating Island of Mist City.
He already felt that if he had a face-to-face confrontation, he might not lose to the opponent.
However, this Mist City, now laid out by the opponent with a net across the sky and earth, an array in unison, is truly unpredictable.
Fighting the opponent here, he doesn’t have the advantage of location, not only making victory difficult, but there is also a chance of stumbling, being trapped by the opponent.
The Scarlet Flame Hawk flew mid-air, its wings continuously flapping.
The vacuum flash flame, like a rainbow piercing through the void, constantly exploded with a great roar.
The cold tide dispersed instantly, and the barrier continuously repaired itself!
"Fortunately, I used the fire phosphor talisman bomb earlier, otherwise with the rate at which this array restores itself, I might not have been able to break it."
Liang Yuan retracted his wings, marveling silently in his heart.
This rune array is indeed powerful, his full-force attack almost couldn’t break it.
When he rushed out from inside earlier, what he threw out was exactly the fire phosphor talisman bomb that Leng Yuehua and the others used before.
The bomb’s power, coupled with the power of the Scarlet Flame Hawk’s [Vacuum Flash Flame], indeed instantly tore the barrier, aiding his escape.
Now attacking this barrier from the outside, without the fire phosphor talisman bomb, it would be somewhat insufficient.
Liang Yuan stopped his attack, having tested the opponent’s defense, for now, without external aid, it was hard to break it with his attack power.
Buzz!
As Liang Yuan ceased his attack, the barrier scattered, yet Ling Yurong flew out.
At this moment, her face was gloomy, staring at Liang Yuan.
"Five elemental divine powers, who exactly are you! Why do you possess so many divine abilities?"
She seemed unaccustomed to calling these abilities superpowers, instead using the term from their era.
Divine Power!
Liang Yuan sneered, "And you? Who are you, having lived since ancient times, now occupying a Floating Island, constructing such a grand rune palace, what is your intention?"
Neither answered each other’s questions, clearly, it involved each other’s secrets.
This confrontation seemed to be a stalemate, with neither side gaining the upper hand.
Ling Yurong secretly calculating in her heart, she had just awoken and hadn’t fully restored her strength.
But given time, once she absorbs the dispersed gene energy, she will eventually recover to her peak state.
At that time, no matter how formidable this youngster is, to her, he wouldn’t be more than an ant.
Liang Yuan on his end, also had his own plans in mind.
"With 20% gene recombination progress, it’s not enough to take down this ancient superpower user."
"I need more points, need more time, to quickly enhance the progress of gene recombination."
The two didn’t engage further, seemingly recognizing the current situation.
"I admit, you have some strength; there’s no deep hatred between us, how about we make a deal?"
Ling Yurong suddenly changed her tone, her cold face showing a rare smile.
Liang Yuan’s heart skipped a beat.
A woman who has been cold-faced for years suddenly smiled at you, suggesting a deal.
This, nine times out of ten, can’t be trusted!