Chapter 1423: Rogue


    Although Lu Yin’s mechanical arm was able to attack arge area, it was still weaker than Xia Taili’s power vessel that looked like an aquatic nt or Wen Diyi''s fan. Each of their attacks only strengthened one or two of the creatures, while each of Lu Yin’s attacks reinforced four or five of the withered creatures.


    There was a bang, and Wen Diyi evaded. Where he had just stood, a massive withered creature roared. Its strength had already reached the level of an Enlighter.


    Wen Diyi raised his hand and swept out with his fan. The bone-eroding wind blew forward and dissipated the creature''s flesh and blood.


    "Brother Long Qi, don''t use that weapon. If we need to, we’ll fight them one at a time, as at least that way we won’t be strengthening them," Wen Diyi loudly suggested. As he spoke, he swept his fan towards the sky to prevent the bats from approaching.


    Lu Yin put away the massive mechanical arm and instead started attacking with a Vacuum Palm. This method was much slower, but he would not strengthen many of the desated creatures.


    After half a day, all three were exhausted, yet there were still many of the dry creatures still around. Overhead, the bats had moved close together, and it almost looked like they were fused together to form a massive bat that attacked the youths from above.


    Wen Diyi was startled, and he raised a hand. Golden colored ancient characters took the form or a Literary Prison to trap the bat. After that, anotheryer of characters appeared, followed by a third, a fourth, and finally a seventhyer.


    "Seventh-fold Literary Prison?" Xia Taili was surprised. "You actually managed to reach the seventh level of mastery?"


    Lu Yin was caught off guard; there was actually this much more to Literary Prison?


    Wen Diyi looked exhausted, and he was breathing heavily. "I’ve pushed too far, so you’ll have to take over for a bit."


    Xia Taili was confused.


    Wen Diyi exined, "Keep us safe with defense artifacts for now, or else these endless creatures will overwhelm us with their numbers. We can’t kill all of them."


    Xia Taili thought that this seemed to be the right strategy, and her strange power vessel wrapped around her body with what looked like aquatic nts. She then smiled at Wen Diyi. "Thanks for the reminder. I have to say, the people from Virtue Archives are certainly smart."


    Seeing Xia Taili''s smile, Lu Yin had a premonition of something bad.


    Wen Diyi was stunned. "What about us?"


    Xia Taili shrugged. "Good luck to you both! After all, we’re in the Dominion Realm, and we’re all onpeting teams to begin with.”


    Her smile grew even brighter. “You couldn’t have been thinking that I would actually help you."


    After speaking, she turned to look at Lu Yin and smiled at him. "Brother-inw, you should bring out that energy you showed when you thrust that spear at me. These monsters should be enough for you to y with for a while."


    Lu Yin rolled his eyes; thrust? This was a very awkward way of phrasing things.


    He looked over at Wen Diyi, who was also looking at Lu Yin, clearly feeling rather helpless.


    "Later brothers." Xia Taili smiled and waved. She was protected by her power vessel, and she intended to use its strength to break out of the encirclement. She would likely be fine, as long as she did not stumble upon any creature that was too powerful.


    Wen Diyi spoke up, "Princess Taili, speaking on behalf of the Virtue Archives, we are willing to ept people from the Xia family to study at the academy. I wonder if this might be enough to trade for protection with your power vessel?"


    Xia Taili turned to look at Wen Diyi with bright eyes, and the aquatic nts surrounding her shifted open a bit. "Come on in! You must be joking; why would we need to make a trade to keep each other safe? By the way, how many people are we talking about?"


    Wen Diyi sighed. "Given my position, I can offer three ces."


    "Five." Xia Taili opened a hand.


    Wen Diyi thought about it, but then agreed.


    Just as he was about to enter the protection of the aquatic nts, Lu Yin charged in first, though Xia Taili did not even respond for a moment. Lu Yin had moved extremely fast, though that did not concern Xia Taili at all. She stared at Lu Yin nkly before bing angry. "Who let you in? Get out!"


    Lu Yin responded in a serious manner, "You call me brother-inw, so I should protect you. The Dominion Realm is too dangerous to travel alone."


    This was the exact same thing he had said when the two of them had first fallen onto the branch. At that time, Xia Taili had wanted to get rid of Long Qing, as she had a map to guide her, but Lu Yin had seen through her intentions and had made sure to keep her close. Now, he was doing the same thing again.


    Xia Taili was upset, her face flushed from anger. "You bastard! Get out! Get away from me!"


    Lu Yin remained stoic. "I won''t leave you alone."


    "If you don''t get back out, I''ll attack!" Xia Taili screamed.


    Lu Yin silently took out the ring-shaped power vessel as well as the mechanical arm. "Don''t worry. I won''t leave you alone."


    Xia Taili waspletely speechless. How could a person have such thick-skin? She felt certain she could beat this person. After all, she was one of the two top powerhouses of Shenwu’s Sky’s Taizi generation. Still, Long Qi had the qualifications to travel to the Dominion Realm, and attacking him might risk damaging the protection of her power vessels. This person seemed to have quite a few items of his own, and Xia Taili had her own limits of what she was willing to do.


    At this moment, Wen Diyi silently entered into the protection of the power vessel, and merely nced over at Long Qi. How had Wen Diyi not noticed how thick-skinned this person was?


    Wen Diyi let out a sigh for the five ces in the Virtue Archives that he had just traded, feeling as though he had taken a loss.


    "Can you be any more shameless?" Xia Taili red at Lu Yin. They were still surrounded by an endless number of desated creatures that were frantically attacking the three youths while also letting out roars of frustration. The power vessel that looked like aquatic nts blocked all of the iing attacks.


    Lu Yin''s expression remained as solemn as ever. "Sister Taili, don''t worry, since you call me brother-inw, your brother-inw will never leave you."


    Xia Taili was feeling terrible regret at this moment; why had she ever called this guy brother-inw? She had only randomly said it when she had gone to White Dragon Mountain to deliver some gifts. She had clearly been speaking sarcastically, but this bastard heard whatever he wanted.


    Besides that. Long Qi had actually been rude to her at that time! She felt like she finally understood just what it meant to be truly shameless. Inexplicably, she thought of her older brother, Xia Shenfei. If the two ever spoke to each other, it would be nothing but spouting off nonsense the entire time.


    "A person like you is truly unworthy of Sister Long Xi. Everyone else would be willing to die in a righteous manner and would pave a road of blood with their very lives. But what about you? You’re just shameless?" Xia Taili sneered, still not willing to give up. She was hoping to wake up some sort of legendary bravery within this young man.


    However, Lu Yin was someone whopletelycked dignity, and he just stared off into the distance in a very serious manner. "Don''t worry, brother-inw will protect you."


    Wen Diyi wanted to give the two a moment.


    Xia Taili finally gave up. She controlled her power vessel to slowly move the three of them away from the horde of desated creatures. Xia Taili really wanted to try to get something out of this. "I can take you, what can you give?"


    Lu Yin did not even look over. "Don''t worry, your brother-inw will protect you."


    "You, bastard!" Xia Taili was finally unable to put up with him, and she cursed before looking away from Long qi.


    Wen Diyi nced at Xia Taili with sympathy, but then he was suddenly drawn to to look at a ck spot off in the distance. Was that Crown Prince Gui Qian?


    Wen Diyi was not the only one to notice the distant person, Lu Yin had noticed the man a long time ago, which had also been why he had continued to stare in that direction. However, the longer Lu Yin looked, the more solemn he became. A strong surprise rose in the depths of his eyes.


    Crown Prince Gui Qian was off In the distance, shrouded in a ck mist. There were bones spread across the ground, and they transformed into weapons that looked like spider legs. These weapons were frantically ughtering the withered creatures all around. asionally, the ck mist would also wrap around the bones of these creatures and consume their energy. He never stopped killing and replenishing his energy, he was like a killing machine.


    Crown Prince Gui Qian had also seen Lu Yin and the other two. More bones stood up from the ground, and then suddenly jumped up and shot through the sky before smashing down violently in front of Lu Yin and the others.


    When Crown Prince Gui Qian appeared, the ck and white mist in Lu Yin''s heart started roiling, and he immediately dropped his head to hide the shock he felt. The ck energy that this Crown Prince Gui Qian was using was death energy. This person was a member of the Specter n!


    The Specter n also had members in the Perennial World? Also, he had clearly just used the same battle technique that Xie Xiaoxian had one used that created an armor from bones and had reinforced the bones with death energy.


    In the Fifth Maind, the Xies had practically destroyed the Specter n, and they had been left with no choice but to turn to the Neohuman Alliance. Since this Crown Prince Gui Qian was able to use the Xie n’s technique, it seemed he was a member of the Xie n. However, that n did not use death energy. Xie Xiaoxian had once used the bones of a member of the Specter n, but had not been able to use death energy. This Crown Prince Gui Qian was able to use both death energy and the Xie n’s technique. The only possibility was that Crown Prince Gui Qian was a member of the Specter n, and that the Xie n had suffered an unfortunate fate in the Perennial World.


    "Take me with you," Prince Gui Qian demanded in a low voice.


    Xia Taili became upset. "Why? You’re that important?"


    Crown Prince Gui Qian stared at Xia Taili, then, without saying a word, the bones behind him suddenly attacked.


    Xia Taili quickly blocked the attack with her power vessel, and she shouted angrily, "You’re crazy! Why are you attacking us?"


    Crown Prince Gui Qian’s eyes grew red. "If you don''t take me with you, we’ll all die here together."


    As he spoke, he took a dark bone out from his cosmic ring and he forced it into his body. The dark mist roiled, darkening the entire surroundings. "Choose, or you can just kill me before leaving."


    "You’re nuts!" Xia Taili was furious, and she turned to look at Wen Diyi. "Attack!"


    Wen Diyi felt helpless. "It’s not easy for someone to qualify toe to the Dominion Realm, and it’s not worth fighting him."


    Xia Taili grew furious. "Are you saying that you feel threatened by him?"


    Lu Yin spoke up, "It’s better than dying here."


    "Shut up! You don''t have the right to speak, bastard!" Xia Taili scolded Lu Yin. She then red at Crown Prince Gui Qian and told him in a surly manner, "Get in."


    Crown Prince Gui Qian moved into the protection of the power vessel without any hesitation. He then only spoke two words: "Thank you."


    Xia Taili was very unhappy at this moment. It was her power vessel, and she had been the one to seize the initiative to escape, so how had things turned out like this?


    Wen Diyi was once again left at a loss; why did neither of the other two have to pay any price to enter the protection of the power vessel? He was still too naive.


    The four youths continued on within the protection of the power vessel that looked like an aquatic nt. They moved very slowly, as they were surrounded by countless creatures, and the power vessel had to push its way forward. Wen Diyi and Crown Prince Gui Qian took turns cleaning up the creatures.


    After a day of travel, the surrounding horde seemed to have decreased a bit.


    "We’re finally out," Lu Yin said emotionally.


    Xia Taili shot him a sharp look. "Useless man! Three big men with me, and yet all of them expected to be protected by a woman! You’re all useless! Just useless!"


    Lu Yin pretended not to hear anything.


    Wen Diyi felt helpless. "I paid for your help."


    "So that makes you useful?" Xia Taili was rude, as she was upset with everyone.


    Wen Diyi no longer spoke.


    Before long, they were able to see the outlines of buildings off in the distance. Xia Taili''s eyes lit up. "What’s that?"


    Wen Diyi looked at the buildings and replied in a solemn tone, "That should be the Voidsoul Pce."


    Xia Taili was surprised. "The Voidsoul Pce? Where Progenitor Ku used to live?"


    Wen Diyi nodded. "There are rumors that this Voidsoul Pce holds an inheritance from the Progenitor, but the historical records im that he died suddenly and had no time to leave an inheritance, so the truth is that no one knows what’s in there."