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Chapter 245: Elimination
Chapter 245: Elimination (Additional Update 1)
On Heavenly Prison Island.
After toppling the second Abyssal Heaven Stele, the group swiftly rushed toward the final Abyssal Heaven Stele.
"If we can't stop it, we'll have to topple this last stele as well!"
Someone said in despair.
They would rather be burned to ashes by the Blazing Sun Sacred Fire and escape into the Mourning River than be completely erased by the Demon Sage.
When Ji Qingqing heard their words, her body trembled, and she quickly got up and rushed toward the final Abyssal Heaven Stele.
She would protect this last stele at the cost of her life!
As she ran, she glanced at the abyss outside the island, seeing the massive Abyssal Heaven Stele that had fallen and covered a figure.
Tears streamed down her face. When she saw the small red flower floating in the air, her heart felt like it was being torn apart, a piercing pain that cut deep.
She covered her mouth to stifle her sobs and continued toward the final Abyssal Heaven Stele.
The Divine Soul defending the Abyssal Heaven Stele unified with her, blocking the stele with a sword.
The group looked at her in anger but didn't argue. At that moment, Heavenly Prison Island suddenly soared upward, as if a heavy burden had been lifted. It rose like a bird, swaying so fast that it nearly threw everyone off the island.
With the loss of the other two Abyssal Chains, the island was pulled upright by the remaining chain. The group was shocked and quickly found nearby rocks to cling to, avoiding being swept off.
The rocks on the island, now completely tilted, began to roll and fall.
The loose rocks tumbled down, hitting the chain and plummeting into the abyss.
Li Tiangang and Ji Yunqing, who were climbing desperately, saw the boulders rolling down and quickly hid in the gaps between the chains to avoid being swept away.
Once the rocks had mostly fallen, the group looked up and saw the Demon Sage's tentacles retracting, surrounding the Abyssal Chain they had previously thrown away.
"Great!"
"The Demon Sage's target is him. It looks like Old Madman was right. This dead Wenren Ji is instinctively tracking the Sage's aura. She said he's a Dao Seed, so he must be a Naturally Sacred Bone!"
" Sacred Bone, that's rare even in our Ji Family. What a pity."
"What's the pity? Weren't you the one pushing the hardest just now? Now you're changing your tune."
"You pushed too, I just gave a little extra help."
"Enough, we're not out of danger yet, and you're already trying to shift the blame. Are you that afraid of being held responsible by the family?"
"Anyway, it's all Wenren Ji's fault."
"Speaking of which, that Dao Seed is a criminal too, right? Why was he imprisoned here?"
"What are you thinking? Even if a Dao Seed makes a mistake, someone would take the blame for him. I don't think he made a mistake; he came here for a reason, probably to pick someone up."
The group clung to the rocks, arguing, their eyes on Ji Qingqing.
Without a doubt, the Dao Seed had come to pick up her.
When Ji Qingqing was exiled, it was rumored that her crime was marrying someone from another clan. Now, it seemed that the Dao Seed might be her son?
These criminals were shrewd and quickly guessed the general situation. But they were surprised: Could the Dao Seed be a Mixed Blood? Could a Mixed Blood become a Dao Seed? When did the Ji Family become so weak? It seems they can't do without us...
"Stop arguing, quickly, hold the Abyssal Heaven Stele steady, don't let it fall!"
Suddenly, someone shouted.
The Abyssal Heaven Stele had started to loosen. Originally, the three steles' chains kept it stable, but now with only one chain left, it was starting to wobble.
Hearing this, the others' faces changed, and they hurriedly climbed toward the Abyssal Heaven Stele, trying to secure it to the island.
Ji Qingqing had been worried they would topple this last stele, but seeing that they were panicking to protect it without Wenren Ji's attack, she felt a bitter irony.
But the situation also brought her a slight relief. She turned to look at the chain and saw Li Tiangang, several thousand meters away.
Their eyes met, and Li Tiangang's expression was one of intense emotion. He shouted, "Qing Qing!"
Ji Qingqing felt a surge of sorrow and crawled toward the front of the chain. "Tian Gang..."
After the chain pulled away from the abyss, the suction from the Demon Sage's mouth weakened. Li Tiangang's face was filled with joy and excitement, and he climbed faster, reaching the top of the chain and pulling Ji Qingqing into his arms.
He hugged her tightly, then quickly looked around and asked, "Where's Li Hao?"
"Li Hao, Li Hao... he fell into the abyss."
Ji Qingqing's eyes were red and wet, and she was sobbing uncontrollably.
"What?"
Li Tiangang thought the wind was too strong and he hadn't heard clearly.
Ji Qingqing, however, was too choked with tears to speak.
Li Tiangang finally reacted. His entire body trembled, and he felt as if his blood had suddenly ignited to its boiling point, only to then turn icy cold from head to toe.
His mind buzzed with a loud, deafening noise, leaving him in a daze, unable to hear even his wife’s sobs.
Falling into the Abyss?
Li Tiangang’s neck stiffened as he turned his head with great difficulty to look at the other end of the chain, where the Demon Sage’s body, entwined with the Blood Lotus, hung above the bottomless Abyss.
How... how could this be...
Li Tiangang’s mind seemed to freeze, leaving him in a state of shock.
That child... is dead?
Dead?!
His mind buzzed with disbelief and rejection!
Before coming here, he had made up his mind that no matter how the child treated him, he would endure it. Even if it meant apologizing, bowing down, or even more humiliating actions, he would do whatever it took to bring the child back.
He wanted to make up for his shortcomings towards the child.
He didn’t want his father to die with regrets!
Despite the numerous conflicts and his disapproval of the child’s behavior, he had always treated him as his own, hoping to guide him towards a better path.
But now, he’s dead?
Li Tiangang’s mind went numb. After a long while, tears of scalding heat began to well up in his eyes.
He recalled the scenes in the courtyard.
The child drawing, his face beaming with joy.
The child chatting with Uncle Second, lively and animated.
The child lying in a rocking chair, relaxed and carefree.
He had frowned at all these moments, but now, he would never see them again.
He would never see the child’s playful figure again!!
"This is a lie, a lie, right, Qing Qing?"
Li Tiangang’s voice was hoarse and trembling. In Yanbei, he had witnessed the deaths of tens of thousands of soldiers, including Li Fu and Yu Xuan, and despite his extreme pain, he had never shed a tear. His father had taught him that a man on the battlefield only shed blood, never tears!
But now, he was crying.
Ji Qingqing only sobbed, unable to respond to his words.
"You mean the Li Hao you spoke of..."
At this point, Ji Yunqing had also come to his senses. His pupils dilated, and he trembled as if in an earthquake, his voice filled with shock: "Could it be Le Ping?!"
Hearing this name, Ji Qingqing’s grief became even more overwhelming.
"Le Ping was the name I gave him, Tian Gang. Was it you who told him? It’s my fault, I’ve killed him..."
Ji Yunqing froze, taken aback.
The child fell into the Abyss?
He couldn’t believe what he was hearing. The child had risen to fame in the Prodigy Battle, defeating all other prodigies and challenging the Sacred Bone with his mortal body, breaking the Dao Domain, and forging an invincible legend. How could he die here?
A rising star, not yet at its brightest, had fallen so suddenly?
"How could this happen? It’s the chains, this..."
Ji Yunqing looked up and immediately saw the precarious state of the tilted Abyssal Heaven Island. His pupils constricted, and he instantly understood what had happened.
A surge of blood rushed to his face, and a wave of grief washed over him.
"Why didn’t you topple our Abyssal Heaven Stele? Why did it have to be the child’s? Why?!!"
His enraged roar echoed across the island, causing the others who had pushed the stele to change expressions. If they had a choice, they would have considered toppling this stele first, but the situation had been too urgent at the time.
"I would rather it had been us who fell, not the child. He’s so young, so young!!"
Ji Yunqing’s mournful cry echoed, and it wasn’t an exaggeration to say that he was the most outstanding prodigy in the Ji Family in ten thousand years. He had defeated the Dao Domain with the Three Immortalities, shattered legends, and even earned the favor of a Sage. And now, he had fallen.
He couldn’t accept it, that the light bearing the future hopes of the Ji Family had been extinguished.
"You should all die, you should all die!!"
Ji Yunqing’s eyes were bloodshot with grief, and a towering wave of killing intent rose within him as he glared at the people on the island.
Everyone’s expressions changed, and even the Dao Domain elder’s face turned grim. Ji Yunqing was also at the Great Peace Dao Realm, and even if he burned his Divine Soul, he wouldn’t be a match for the elder, given his poor condition.
Hearing Ji Yunqing’s enraged roar, Li Tiangang’s body trembled, and he realized the cause.
Looking at the single chain still hanging vertically in the sky, he felt his heart quiver, and an urge to vomit blood.
Did this mean he had indirectly caused Li Hao’s death?
If he hadn’t come, they wouldn’t have been on that chain, and the two chains that had been toppled wouldn’t have been Li Hao’s!
Realizing this, his mind buzzed once more, as if his Dao Heart was being burned to ashes.
Had he personally sent Li Hao to his death?!
But he had only come to apologize...
Why did it end up like this?
Li Tiangang’s eyes were vacant, and he stood in a daze, unable to speak.
...
...
In the Abyss.
As the Abyssal Heaven Stele fell, the force of its impact caused Li Hao’s physical body to ache. As he neared the bottom of the Abyss, close to the Demon Sage, Li Hao managed to push the stele off his body with great difficulty, wiping the blood from his face. He then quickly climbed to the other side of the stele and activated the Sage Mark within him.
At this moment, only the Sage Mark could save him.
As his consciousness touched it, the mark glowed with a silver light, but it quickly dimmed and returned to its original state.
Li Hao's face changed. He touched it again, and the silver light bloomed once more, only to fade as before.
Were the Demons blocking it?
Li Hao's heart filled with shock and rage as he rapidly touched the mark again and again, but the result was the same each time.
Darkness and a foul stench enveloped him from all sides, and seven or eight Tentacles, previously entangled with chains, now lashed out at him.
Despair filled Li Hao's eyes. Was he really going to die here?
Gazing at the unreachable sky, he suddenly realized that no one cared whether he lived or died.
His despair turned to anger, which erupted into a blazing inferno, and he let out a thunderous roar. But under the Demon Sage's law, his voice couldn't carry, as if he were shouting in silence.
He swung his fists in fury, attacking the Tentacles as if he had nothing to lose.
With a loud thud, a Tentacle struck the Abyssal Heaven Stele, sending it flying along with the chains. Another Tentacle swooped toward Li Hao, the force of its approach seeming to crush his bones before it even reached him.
The young man, filled with despair, roared and swung his fists wildly.
When they collided, the Tentacle fell, slamming Li Hao into the gaping mouth of the Blood Lotus.
In an instant, Li Hao unleashed hundreds of punches, striking the Demon Sage's Tentacle.
His body seemed to shatter, his flesh tearing apart, the power of the Tentacle's impact exceeding his endurance.
If not for his Physical Body, which was comparable to a Nine-Forged Divine Weapon, and his state of Divine Power, the Tentacle's strike would have reduced him to ashes.
Inside the giant mouth, which seemed like an endless Abyss, Li Hao fell for a long time before landing in a dark, sticky place.
His flesh and blood exploded, leaving only tendons wrapped around his bones, like a pile of dead bones lying in the Abyss.
The giant mouth closed, cutting off the last sliver of light.
But after a few seconds, Li Hao suddenly felt his body still falling.
No, to be precise, the Demon Sage's body was falling.
He felt a sense of weightlessness, but soon the fall ended, and he landed heavily on the sticky ground.
Then, waves of tremors seemed to come from all around, followed by a deluge of liquid.
Had he fallen to the bottom of the Abyss?
Li Hao wondered, now feeling a strange sense of calm instead of anger.
More and more liquid poured in, landing on his broken body. Li Hao felt his flesh being burned, the pain intense and sharp.
Was this his end, to be digested?
Li Hao's lips twitched slightly. Looking into the pitch-black darkness, he suddenly thought how absurd his journey through this world had been, as if it were all for nothing.
Was he here just to suffer?
He regretted not saying goodbye to Old Daoist Feng.
He hadn't even guided Qianqian in her Sword Art, helping her enter the Dao.
Yuanzhao, that boy whose parents were gone, wouldn't be bullied anymore since he wasn't around to protect him.
These thoughts drifted through his mind as the burning pain intensified.
Suddenly, a large piece of soft flesh, accompanied by liquid, fell from above, striking his body.
Then, the surrounding area shook violently, as if the sky were collapsing. Large pieces of soft flesh and hard bones rained down on him.
The air filled with a foul, bloody liquid that surrounded Li Hao.
He was nearly choked by the blood, which had a strong corrosive power. Li Hao felt as if he were in boiling water, the endless burning and pain tearing through him.
His flesh was being ripped off, but his bones continued to resist, protecting his consciousness and Divine Soul.
Amidst the excruciating pain, Li Hao looked around and was horrified to discover that the Demon Sage that had swallowed him seemed to be... dead?
The petals of the towering Blood Lotus were falling off, broken and shattered, creating waves of blood that towered hundreds of feet high.
The blood surged over him, pushing Li Hao to the bottom of the blood lake.
He struggled to swim upward, but as soon as he surfaced, he saw other parts of the Demon Sage's body decomposing and falling, no longer soft and destructive as before.
Li Hao's body swayed in the blood, his bones eroded by the corrosive liquid.
The Demon Sage is dead?
Li Hao stared at the collapsing body of the Demon Sage, hardly able to believe it.
Suddenly, a flash of insight struck him, and his eyes widened.
Could it be that... the hundreds of punches he had desperately thrown at the Tentacle had accidentally triggered a 1% critical hit?!
Li Hao was stunned by this thought.
Did he... kill the Demon Sage?!
He was dazed, but in this moment, he didn't care about the reason. The despair and darkness in his heart were replaced by a strong will to survive.
He struggled in the blood sea, trying to stand up, but even though the Demon Sage's body was disintegrating, the law still held, preventing him from using his Qi Power or releasing any energy.
He could only rely on his Physical Body to swim through the blood lake.
However, the Demon Sage's blood seemed to have a strong corrosive power, and his flesh was peeling off more and more. Even his bones, which were as strong as a Nine-Cast Divine Weapon, were beginning to erode.
(End of Chapter)
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