<h4>Chapter 253: Hand in Hand</h4>
Qin Lie and Song Tingyu stood shoulder-to-shoulder on top of the Flowing Cloud Rainbow Butterfly’s colorful back.
The back of the Flowing Cloud Rainbow Butterfly was incredibly smooth. There were many colorful and beautiful patterns on it, and it even let out a rainbow-like luster.
Song Tingyu, who was dressed in colorful clothes was covered by these shining patterns and appeared to be unbelievably beautiful. Her seductive and soul-snatching eyes brimmed with a gentle light that could melt even a man with a heart of stone…
Qin Lie stood together with her and watched the poisonous bog growing smaller and smaller below them; they watched me Volcano getting closer and closer. His expression couldn’t help but turn serious.
They would head to the sky over the former Armament Sect and throw down Terminator Profound Bombs. They would use the Terminator Profound Bombs to cause mass ughter of the Nether Realm’s evil races.
Qin Lie had never dealt with the evil race of the Nether Realm, nor had he ever seen a single evil race before. He had only seen a fewher beasts from the Nether Realm—the Ghost Bird and Profound Nether Beast.
ording to Xie Jingxuan’s words, the Ghost Birds and Profound Nether Beasts were not even pure Nether Beasts from the Nether Realm. They were newher beasts that were bred by the evil races to adapt to the environment of the Nether Battlefield.
Supposedly, these types ofher beasts were not as strong as pure Nether Beasts from the Nether Realm.
The Soul Devouring Beast was a purebred of the Nether Realm. Once it had escaped from Nether Battlefield, itpletely terrified Scarlet Tide Continent.
“Theher beast’s adaptability is slightly strongerpared to the evil races of the Nether Realm. Therefore, there should be moreher beasts passing through the evilher passageway during the invasion’s early stages.” Song Tingyu exined, “Even with theher beasts’ adaptability, they would normally not dare to move during the day. They fear the sun’s strong light.”
It was high noon at that moment. It was the sun’s strongest time of the day.
“Back then, Miss Xie Jingxuan and I had killed a Soul Devouring Beast at a natural stone forest. Why could that Soul Devouring Beast operate outside without depending on its unique environment?” Qin Lie asked doubtfully.
“Xie Jingxuan… Hehe, you know her?” Song Tingyu smiled and asked with some interest.
“Mn, you can say that. I aided her in killing a Soul Devouring Beast before.” Qin Lie exined the matters briefly.
Song Tingyu listened to him with a smile and did not express any opinion about him and Xie Jingxuan. Instead, she said, “Among theher beasts of Nether Realm, that Soul Devouring Beast could be said to be a ferocious beast that is extremely special and dangerous. Its strength lies in its ability to consume souls. Therefore, a Soul Devouring Beast’s strength alsoes from its soul. It can ignore the restrictions of the environment and live even in a foreign world.”
Qin Lie listened attentively.
“Not allher beasts can acquire strength from souls like the Soul Devouring Beast,” Song Tingyu exined seriously. “Mosther beasts needher demonic energy to survive. Nether demonic energy is the source of their strength as well as their tether to life. Just like we need to breathe air, mosther beasts need to breatheher demonic energy. Of course there are some exceptions to the rule, like the Soul Devouring Beast, but they are very rare.”
“Are the evil races of Nether Realm also like theher beasts, needing to breatheher demonic energy to live?” Qin Lie asked.
“Most of them are. Only some high rank evil races can live without breathing inher demonic energy for a short time. These powerful evil races are extremely scary, but their numbers are few as well. Before the situation bes clear, they should note over easily.” While flying towards Armament City, Song Tingyu exined her knowledge about the evil races of Nether Realm in great detail.
Qin Lie achieved a certain level ofprehension about the Nether Realm,her beasts, and those evil races after her exnation.
Duskyher demonic energy surrounded me Volcano and Armament City like ck smoke.
When they arrived at the back of me Volcano on the Flowing Cloud Rainbow Butterfly, an oppressive atmosphere slowly down on them, causing them to feel ufortable all over.
A portion of thinher demonic energy had already spread to this area. It made the air be dark and wet. Even sniffing it would cause someone’s heart to feel dull and depressed…
Qin Lie’s expression changed slightly.
He hadn’t expectedher demonic energy to spread so quickly. In just half a month, theher demonic energy had already spread to the back of me Volcano.
At its current speed, it wouldn’t be long before it would spread to the poisonous bog and covered Armament Sect’s new location, would it?
“Starting to get worried for Armament Sect?” Song Tingyu’s attractive eyes shone with the light of wisdom. She saw through Qin Lie’s mind instantly.
Qin Lide nodded darkly.
“Rx. For a short time,her demonic energy will not continue to spread to the poisonous bog.”
“You’re saying that they won’t spread theher demonic energy to the poisonous bog?” Qin Lie’s eyes lit up.
“If they are not stupid, they would not do something so arduous and fruitless. They would definitely spreadher demonic energy somewhere else.” Song Tingyu brought up the topic of the evil race’s intelligence, and deep worry appeared on her exquisite face, “The Nether Realm’s evil races are not wild beasts. They too have astounding intelligence, and there are also high rank races. Moreover, those powerful evil races are all insidious, vicious, and cunning. None of them are easy pickings!”
“Are they very powerful?” Qin Lie frowned.
“They’re incredibly hard to deal with.” Song Tingyu sighed for the first time.
While the two of them spoke, they gradually entered an area whereher demonic energy was thick.
Every part of Qin Lie’s body screamed in difort. His chest felt heavier there. He could not help but think evil thoughts in his mind, and he felt as if his soul was being gradually polluted.
“In this environment, even good men will turn into devils!” he suddenly eximed.
“That’s why you must use spirit energy to form shields of light to preventher demonic energy from affecting you, just like this.” Song Tingyu smiled casually.
A beautiful shield that looked like a rainbow wrapped around her perfectly curved body. ck smoke sizzled on the shield, preventing theher demonic energy from entering and protecting herpletely from its influence.
Qin Lie was dumbfounded for a moment before he nodded and channeled his Frost Arts as well.
Cold streams of energy flowed around his entire body. A thinyer of crystalline ice then covered his entire body.
Inside the icy crystal, Qin Lie immediately felt his mind returning to normal, no longer affected byher demonic energy’s influence.
“If an evil race of the Nether Realm detaches itself from this area filled withher demonic energy and enters a ce filled with this world’s spirit energy, they would have to form a shield withher demonic energy to defend against the influence of the natural spirit energy as well.” Song Tingyu smiled lightly, “Moreover, they would only be able toe out at night. If they were exposed to the sun in broad daylight, they would feel intense pain and be extremely weak.”
“No wonder they are converting thend little by little, steadily spreading theher demonic energy to the horizon. It’s because they’re suffering from this restriction,” Qin Lie realized.
“Of course. If they’re fighting on Scarlet Tide Continent, then naturally they’ll have to endure all kinds of limitations. If we enter the Nether Realm, we will feel incredibly ufortable, just like they do here. We may even be ovee byher demonic energy in the end and be extremely weak…”
The duo flew through the dark skies covered byher demonic energy and slowly approached the location where me Volcano once was. Beneath the dark sky, they discovered that me Volcano had copsed and was split into several huge parts.
There were many ck caves within the shattered mountain. Among them were caves that were filled with incredibly thickher demonic energy, emanating shockingly evil energy.
The za where the spirit pattern pirs once stood was torn into twelve huge, bottomless pits that seemed to merge together to form an extremely wide hole.
Twisted spatial energy and shocking howls came from the huge hole as if there were vicious beasts rushing over from that ce.
The six huge pits sted apart by the six Terminator Profound Bombs were now filled with all kinds of gray, tainted water. Demonic insects that were appearing constantly from the tainted water, were apparently using the tainted water to reproduce. If one watched them closely, they would realize that those insects were Demon Armor Insects—the strange insects from the Nether Realm which specifically producedher demonic energy.
Looking towards Armament City from there, one would discover that all kinds of ugly nts had filled the city’s interior. These nts were several people tall with strange thorns emerging from its trunk. Their appearances were extremely scary.
The ugly nts of the Nether Realm had covered Armament City entirely. There were manyher beasts from the Nether Realm that moved about the city, crouching beside the terrifying nts as if quietly awaiting something.
After just a nce, Qin Lie knew that Armament Sect’s inner sect, outer sect, and Armament City were gone forever. They had all been swiftly changed by the Nether Realm—transformed into a demond that suited their needs.
“There should be a few members of the Nether Realm’s evil races who have taken up residence in the caves at me Volcano. At the moment, they should be cultivating or hiding themselves to discuss something.” Song Tingyu looked towards the copsed me Volcano and the many caves that were not destroyed by the quake. “The Terminator Profound Bombs would be most effective if used on me Volcano. Killing any of the highly intelligent evil races would be much more advantageous than killing theher beasts!”
“Can we destroy the evilher passageway with the Terminator Profound Bombs directly?” Qin Lie eximed softly.
“Don’t!” Song Tingyu hurriedly scattered his delusions, “Unless we enter deep into the evilher passageway and detonate the Terminator Profound Bombs from the inside, we will not be able to block the evilher passageway. It is more likely that an explosion at the entrance would cause the passage entrance and the passage itself to grow even wider, allowing the evil race to enter even easier than before… it will only bring the opposite effect.”
Qin Lie thought carefully for a moment and knew that what Song Tingyu had said was right. Therefore he nodded and said, “Then let’s have this butterfly fly above me Volcano. We need to be a little closer so that my connection with the Terminator Profound Bombs won’t be cut off.”
“Alright. We have to be careful.” Song Tingyu exhaled softly.