Chapter 717 A Weird City (Part Two)
Austin threatened her. His face was menacing and Dahlia knew he meant business.
"I''ll never teach you, you asshole. Just do whatever you want to do to me. I don''t care."
Dahlia roared in her indignation, seeming quite determined this time. She closed her eyes and
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straightened her neck as if preparing for an execution.
"What the hell! What''s the matter with you? Aren''t you afraid?"
Surprised by Dahlia''s response, Austin had lost all his leverage. He didn''t know what to do next.
Suddenly, his face darkened.
A huge Corrosive Cloud quickly wafted from the thick woods at the foot of the valley. It flew over the
Wind Boat and shrouded it under a shadow before Austin and others could realize what was going on.
"Look! What the hell is that?"
The three girls on the Wind Boat shouted almost at the same time looking at the strange cloud.
Austin was startled as well. He could see absolutely nothing because the cloud had covered
everything. He tried his spiritual sense, but, to his great amazement, he felt nothing at all. His spiritual
sense had turned useless.
This new turn of events flustered Austin. He possessed a great ability of spiritual sense, which was
even powerful than that of a lot of cultivators at the Master Realm. He had never failed in exerting it.
But this time it failed in the shadow of this weird cloud of darkness. His spiritual sense detected nothing
at all!
Suddenly, in the middle of the darkness, saddening roars were heard as if a monster was howling in
pain. The roars gradually prolonged, increasing in grief. The air stirred with every intensified howling,
and spread the indignation and sorrow as far as possible.
"Tessa,e to my side. I''m feeling weird!"
Austin said to Tessa in a hurry. Since the strange cloud was powerful enough to disable his spiritual
sense, there was no chance for Tessa to see or hear anything. She was entirely in the dark right now.
Tessa recalled their positions by memory and fumbled towards Austin with her hands and feet. When
she touched him, she stretched out her hand and held his right hand firmly.
"What''s happening, obscene guy?"
Dahlia asked, flustered. Scared by the strangeness, she and her maid had already stood near Austin
and huddled by his side. Evidently, they had forgotten the unhappy memories between them. They
clutched his robe tightly as if he was their only salvation at this moment. Due to the intimate distance,
Austin could clearly smell the unique scent of their girlish fragrance.
In the Veritable Demon Sect headquarters, everyone treated the two girls nicely. They had seldom left
the Veritable Demon Sect previously. They sneaked out from their home for this time only to make
some troubles for Austin. Seeing such a terrifying thing for the first time in their life, they both felt
scared, and were intensely shuddering. They were engulfed in darkness and all they could hear was
the ghostly howling. Their teeth were trembling in extreme fear.
Austin felt both funny and interested at the two Veritable Demon Sect girls'' reactions. They called him
"obscene guy" a moment before and now they came to him for help in the face of danger. Wasn''t that
interesting?
"What the hell! I cannot use my vital energy, Austin. What''s the matter?"
Tessa shouted in shock.
"I cannot use my vital energy too. My body feels fragile now. The cloud is so weird!"
Dahlia said in a panic.
"Me too, Dahlia. My vital energy is also useless."
The maid found herself in the same situation.
"Don''t get flustered. Stay calm. We must escape from this cloud first,"
Austin said in aposed manner, trying to calm everybody down. He was fully aware that the first
thing they needed to do was to flee from the epassing range of the weird cloud.
"Tell me how to activate the Wind Boat!"
Austin ordered Dahlia seriously.
Dahlia kept silent before murmuring something.
"That''s a secret of the Veritable Demon Sect. I cannot tell any outsiders."
"I don''t think this is the time for righteousness, youngdy. Do you know what kind of a situation we are
in at this moment? Do you want to be trapped here forever?
None of you can use your vital energies. How can you order the Wind Boat to go without your vital
energy?
I can use my vital energy temporarily, though not too much of it. If you don''t tell me the way to activate
the boat, then we''ll all be trapped here forever once I lose my ability to use it!"
Austin roared at Dahlia with anger. He felt little influence of his vital energy, but he was fully aware that
he was slowly losing control of it.
"So... All right. I''ll tell you."
Dahlia thought for a moment before assenting.
She told Austin everything about how to use and control the Wind Boat.
Without any dy, Austin raised his hands to inject several strong rays of vital energy into the bow of
the Wind Boat as soon as he had mastered the tips to control the boat.
But the Wind Boat stayed motionless.
"Why didn''t it move? Did you hide something from me?"
Austin asked suspiciously, his brows furrowing.
"Of course not! I''ve exined everything correctly!
What should we do? Even the Wind Boat isn''t moving now!"
Both Dahlia and her maid shouted in helplessness.
Austin tried again, tounch some more strong rays of vital energy at the bow of the Wind Boat.
The Wind Boat still kept motionless.
"It''s useless. We cannot use the Wind Boat now."
Austin sighed.
"Take back your boat and hide it well.
Follow me. We have to run out of this weird ce,"
Austin said solemnly.
Dahlia murmured something to shrink the Wind Boat back into its original, tiny size and ced it back
into her Space Ring.
Austin walked forward towards the rim of the cloud, with Tessa holding his right arm and Dahlia holding
his another arm. Dahlia''s maid followed them closely, clutching her youngdy''s robe firmly.
But they stopped after walking a few steps forward.
The whole space whirled violently, as if the heaven and the earth had turned upside down.
"My god! That''s the force of transmission!"
Austin shouted, his face turned pale.
It was beyond his imagination that there was a force of transmission in the weird cloud of darkness. But
where would the force transmit him and the other three girls to?
The transmission force reinforced its effect as the space began to split. They all whirled, and they felt
as if they were being tossed around the air. Their minds became a mess, feeling the fragmenting of the
time and the space around them.
It became quiet after some time.
They gradually woke up from thea caused by the violent transmission.
They blinked their eyes in an attempt to get a footing on where they were. But there was no sign of the
Corrosive Cloud that had trapped all of them previously.
Whaty in front of them was a dpidated city.
Such an experience was too weird! Austin and his three femalepanions all felt stunned.
They had been transmitted from a valley to a dpidated city that they had never seen before!
And the city felt oddly serene for it was extremely quiet.
The city lookedrge, proving its former prosperity. The city walls had lost most of its coating to reveal
dark bricks inside, obviously a consequence of being eroded by time. The streets were covered by a
thickyer of dust, nked by various shops on both sides. There were restaurants, rouge shops, a
brothel named Spring Garden, wine shops, weapon shops, stables and a herb shop still with a faint
scent of herbs, all of which stood quietly with their entrance widely opened. But not a soul inside them.
A breeze blew. As a result, several red brokennterns rolled on the street and flew into the air.
They walked on the main street and went deeper into the city. Around the corner of the street, they saw
some bones with rotten flesh. There were several bowls, bamboo rods and other tools made with the
bones.
"Is this a city without life?"
Austin took the lead and carried the group ahead. Tessa, Dahlia and her maid, like three frightened
kids, followed him closely. They had held his robe tightly, afraid of being left behind by him.
The sands blew around from time to time. The city seemed cold and gloomy when winds blew through
the opened windows and doors of buildings from every direction and revealed theck of vitality. The
fading sun in the dusk shed a dim red light on the city to form a screen of shadow with the seething
sands in the air. Everything seemed unclear due to this screen of shadow and sand. An atmosphere of
decay filled every corner of the city.
Its prosperity and opulence were now a thing of the past.
When they passed a residential area, Austin noticed many luxurious mansions with a pair of red-
painted gates, a sign of richness of the owners of the mason. Stone statues of lions and mythical wild
animals were scattered everywhere in empty yards in front of those mansions, all lying on the grass in
disorder.
Flowers and nts all withered within the yards in the mansions. But all the decorations and furniture
inside those mansions clearly showed how rich and luxurious their owners had been. Now, however,
they all stood dpidated.
"What the hell was this ce?" Austin and all hispanions wondered.