Chapter 257 – Death Within Reach

That roar carried an extremely terrifying pressure and penetrating power, spreading to every corner of the Heavenly Pond Mysterious Realm, causing all the powerhouses of the ten top clans to turn horrified and retreat in the opposite direction of the roar, and they all simultaneously thought that someone else would inevitably fall this time around, only that no one had ever imagined that the person who had encountered this terrifying Xuan Beast would actually be the two topmost people of the younger generation at the moment!

Jasmine, who was concentrating on expelling the poison, was awakened by a terrifying aura, and within Yun Che’s mind, her grave and surprised voice was heard: ”What’s going on? You guys actually provoked a Hegemony Xuan Beast!”

“Hegemony Xuan Beast?” Yun Che was creeped out. The sense of pressure brought to Yun Che by this incomparably huge beast was far superior to that King Xuan Inferno Dragon back then. But how could he not have expected that this would actually be a Hegemony Xuan Beast? Because the level of Hegemony Xuan had never appeared in the Cangfeng Empire! It was an almost mythological level of fantastic existence!

The powerful pressure from the Hegemony Xuan Beast caused Yun Che and Xia Qingyue’s entire bodies to stiffen, their organs to spasm, and their heartbeats to almost completely stop. Trying to fight against a Hegemony Xuan Beast or escape from under its claws was undoubtedly a fool’s errand. Yun Che gritted his teeth and said, ”Jasmine! Is it true that your power is completely closed and you can’t use it at all?”

“…… “Jasmine was speechless for a long time, her small eyebrows tightened. She hadn’t thought that she had only just sealed her own Xuan Power not long ago, and Yun Che had incurred such a terrifying fellow. But as she had said, the seal that she herself had placed, she herself was unable to lift it, and Yun Che’s only hope of escaping from this perilous situation had also been completely cut off.

Now that it had come to this, Jasmine had also begun to have some regrets.

“This time, you are considered to be bound to die.” Jasmine said with heavy words.

“No way!!!” Yun Che shook his head violently, “I don’t want to die yet …… nor can I die!!!”

“Qingyue …… let’s go!!!”

Yun Che clenched his teeth and roared, getting up with great difficulty under the pressure of that mountain-like aura, grabbing Xia Qingyue’s hand, and using all his strength to vanish toward the front.

“Roar ！！！！”

Their movements drew a furious roar from the giant beast, and facing the direction Yun Che and the others had evaded, the giant beast raised its right arm and smashed it downwards ……

The sound of whistling wind from behind caused Yun Che to subconsciously look back, that huge fist was not blasting towards them, but instead landed at the behemoth’s own feet, but it still caused Yun Che’s pupils to contract dramatically. He hugged Xia Qingyue and jumped up as high as he could with all his strength, the “Burning Heart” was turned on, and as his Xuan Power surged crazily, around his body, a semi-transparent barrier that enveloped both him and Xia Qingyue at the same time instantly appeared.

“Seal Cloud Locking Sun!!!”

Boom!

Like a heavy hammer from the heavens slamming hard on the ground, the entire Heavenly Pond shook. If this was not a harsh winter but a summer day, perhaps half of the Heavenly Pool’s pool water would have been shaken high into the air.

A huge sense of crisis came from below, Yun Che, who was holding Xia Qingyue as he leapt to high altitude, inhaled violently and instantly drew himself up again with his Star God Shattering Shadow, then his body flipped over, his own back downwards as he protected Xia Qingyue in front of his body.

“Yun Che……!”

A cry of alarm came from Xia Qingyue, but immediately, it was drowned out by the earth-shattering roar.

This was, after all, an indirect attack from the Hegemonic Xuan Beast, and even though Yun Che had already leapt high into the air earlier, the impact of the recoil from below was still not something he could withstand. His “Sealing Cloud Locking Sun” was broken in an instant, a piece of broken ice and fine snowflakes hit his back, Yun Che’s eyes bulged, his face instantly turned pale, a blood arrow sprayed out in the air, a small portion of it stained Xia Qingyue’s clothes, staining a small slice of her snow-white cloudy dress red.

If it wasn’t for the protection of the “Sealing Cloud Locking Sun”, this would have been enough for Yun Che to perish. He bit the tip of his tongue to prevent himself from falling into dizziness, and utilized his Xuan Power to launch the “Sealing Cloud Locking Sun” again, and at this time, an extremely terrifying image appeared in his and Xia Qingyue’s line of sight. ……

They saw an incomparably huge head, which was still dozens of feet away from them, but had already filled their entire field of vision. Above the head were two eyes that were as scarlet as a blood prison, and the location that the light released by the two blood eyes focused on was them. Following that, it opened its mouth towards them as if it were an abyss, and an immense and incomparable suction force came from it, and the firm ice that was shaken into mid-air, the flying snow ……, and Yun Che and Xia Qingyue who were embracing each other all flew under this simply irresistible suction force towards that big mouth.

Instinctive shouts were shouted out from Yun Che and Xia Qing Yue’s mouths, and it was at this time that Yun Che suddenly understood why this huge beast’s strike just now was smashing into the ground instead of smashing into them. It was because this gigantic beast knew that the Bodhi Emperor Heart Lotus was seized by them and must be on them now, and if it destroyed them, the Bodhi Emperor Heart Lotus would follow suit. And by shocking them high into the air, it was doing so in order to suck them into its belly, in which case, it would be the same as swallowing that Bodhi Emperor Heart Lotus that was in their possession!

At that thought, a trace of hope for life suddenly flashed in Yun Che’s eyes, and under the huge suction force, he and Xia Qingyue were getting closer and closer to that large mouth that was like an abyss. Under this suction force, even if he and Xia Qingyue used all their strength together, there was no way they could possibly break free. Yun Che looked ahead with a deadly gaze, exerting all his strength to maintain the “Sealing Cloud Locking Sun”, holding Xia Qingyue tightly with both hands, and yelling under his breath over and over again: “Hold on tightly to me …… Hold on tightly to me… …Don’t let go …… hold on to me!!!”

Whew~~~~~

Yun Che and Xia Qingyue’s eyes instantly became pitch black, and the huge beast’s large mouth, also at that moment, finally closed.

The wind in his ears was still whistling, and the moment he entered the behemoth’s mouth, Yun Che felt that he had entered a dark, and cold to the bone piercing icy cold purgatory …… The temperature of this behemoth’s body was surprisingly much, much lower than that of the outside world where the wind and snow were even lower. Driven by the huge impulse, his body moved forward at extreme speed in a constant collision, as if he had experienced countless canyons, and a strangely long and incomparable tunnel in the darkness. With his eyes closed, he maintained the “Sealing Clouds and Locking Sun” with all his might throughout the entire process, as it was the only thing that could keep them from being shattered by the impact in the process.

After an unknown amount of time, the impact finally disappeared, and they landed on an incomparably hard place, finally coming to a stop.

The “Sealing Cloud Locking Sun” that had been maintained also silently dissipated at this moment.

After a long time of silence, Xia Qingyue opened her eyes, she realized where she was, but could not believe that she was still alive …… and, in addition to her body slightly sore, she was simply unharmed.

She raised her eyes to look at the space around her, then stretched out her right hand, a fantastic blue light condensed between her palms, barely illuminating the space within three feet around her.

Here should be the abdomen of that huge beast, but incomparably unexpected, here looks completely unlike the body of a Xuan Beast inside, actually like an ice cave, the bottom is hard, around the pendant a root or a long or short ice cones, here the air is extremely dirty, difficult to breathe, the temperature is even strange low incomparably, even if it is a seven ice cloud skill in the body, and the water element of the extreme affinity of Xia Qingyue, all have a mildly Discomfort.

“Yun Che, are you alright?”

Xia Qingyue lightly called out, but did not receive an answer from Yun Che for a long time. Xia Qingyue moved her palm down, letting the faint blue light shine on Yun Che’s body, only to find that his eyes were half-closed, his face was as white as paper, and a smear of blood was slowly spreading at the corner of his mouth……. When her hand touched his body, she felt nothing but a piece of coldness.

Xia Qingyue quickly half-kneeled on his side, her palm pressed on his chest, and her voice became alarmed, “Yun Che, are you okay?”

As she pressed and sensed the flow of his internal breath, Xia Qingyue’s palm visibly trembled. It was because his internal breath at this moment was actually as weak …… as that of a baby.

Yun Che’s eyes slowly opened a little, and on his face, an incomparably slight smile appeared, “It’s …… too …… good …… that we both …… didn’t die ……”

A few short words, but he said it with incomparable difficulty.

Under that earth-shattering punch of the giant beast, Yun Che had suffered extremely heavy injuries, but he didn’t have time to regulate his breathing, so he had been forcibly continuing the “Sealing Cloud Locking Sun”. The “Sealing Cloud Locking Sun” was not an ordinary Xuan Technique, but rather, it was a mobbing technique belonging to the Evil God! Although it was an outburst of defensive ability, it was by no means an ordinary defensive barrier, but rather a life-saving technique to be activated in a short moment. For every breath that the “Sealing Clouds and Locking Sun” lasted, the amount of Xuan energy consumed was equivalent to unleashing the “Falling Moon and Sinking Star” once.

From being shocked into the air, to being completely sucked into the belly of the giant beast, a total of nearly thirty breaths of time, and during this period of time, “Sealing Cloud Locking Sun” has been continued, otherwise, he and Xia Qingyue would have been killed. The duration of these thirty breaths was a huge to unimaginable consumption, and this kind of consumption, was still in the state where Yun Che had been seriously injured.

At this moment, when he finally calmed down, his internal injuries had also intensified several times over, and his Xuan Power was even more completely depleted, without a trace of residue.

With his extremely heavy internal injuries, and without the slightest bit of Xuan Power to resist the cold, the terrifying low temperature here was depriving Yun Che of his vitality in large quantities every second. He felt that his body was so cold that it was as if thousands of needles had been inserted into it, and very quickly, this coldness disappeared little by little, causing him to gradually lose all sense of his body.

He smelled the flavor of death, and for the first time, he was so close to death, within reach.

Xia Qingyue took her hand away from Yun Che’s body, and her eyes became confused, “Yun Che, you ……”

“Qingyue …… don’t speak …… listen to me ……”

Yun Che’s breathing had become extremely weak, the temperature here had caused his hands, feet, and torso to be frozen stiff in this short period of time, and his eyes had become colorless, and he was still able to speak, relying on the force of his powerful consciousness to hold on for dear life, but he knew that this last bit of consciousness would dissipate at any time as well ……

Death, came too sharp and sudden.

“Qing Yue …… fortunately …… you are fine …… I should …… immediately die …… after I die …… you don’t …… care about me …… you don’t fear the cold air …… It may be possible …… to escape from here …… even if this …… giant beast …… is even more terrifying …… will still have to …… use all its strength …… to escape… …”

“Yun Che! Don’t say anymore! You won’t die that easily …… If you want to leave, it will be us leaving together! You won’t die!”

This disaster came too suddenly, catching her off guard at all. Yun Che’s internal injuries were extremely heavy, his internal organs were almost shattered, and the vitality in his body was so weak that it might dissipate in the next second. She knew why he was so heavily injured, and also knew why he was so weak right now …… When he was shaken into the air, his back went down and took all the impact, but left her unharmed. Being sucked into the mouth of the giant beast and then falling all the way down to here, that impulse was terrifyingly incomparable, even if she cast up the strongest ice crystal defense, it was impossible to resist it, but that barrier that had been guarding their surroundings completely blocked down all the impacts……. That was undoubtedly, a defense barrier that was strong to the extreme, and such an amazing defense barrier that It could be imagined how great the consumption would be accompanied by.

It was only her voice that Yun Che could no longer hear at all. Yun Che’s eyes were still half-open, but there was no longer a trace of light visible. His limbs, torso, cheeks, and hair …… had all been covered with a thin layer of ice, and underneath the layer of ice was an icy cold body that was about to completely burn out its life force.

“Qing Yue ……” he murmured softly, “If there is an afterlife …… to be my wife again… …Okay …… because …… in this life …… haven’t fully conquered you… …I …… am not willing yet ……”

Xia Qingyue’s body shook, and her eyes became blurry all of a sudden.

Yun Che’s eyes, also at this time, lost the last focus of the divine splendor, the whole body did not move at all, only his throat, incomparably slight overflowed from the soul of the voice ……

“Grandpa …… little aunt ……”

“Xue Ruo senior sister …… Jasmine …… right …… not …… up ……”

“……”

“Ling’er …… I’ve come to accompany you …… Ling’er …… Ling’er …… Ling’er …… ……”

The last voice was as thin as a breeze, eventually fading away completely …… A starlight that was illuminated blue slowly fell from Xia Qing Yue’s face, gently hitting his completely stiffened lips.