Chapter 9 – Half a Staff
”So bright!”
”What’s that?!”
”Is there a fire somewhere?”
”How could it be? How can a fire be this bright! And we don’t even have buildings this tall in Cangnan City!”
”Quickly, quickly! Take a picture! Send it to your friends!”
”……”
This pillar of skyrushing light was so blinding that half of Cangnan City noticed it, pedestrians stopping in their tracks and speculating excitedly about the reason for its appearance.
Some said it was an explosion, some said it was an optical experiment, and some said it was a miracle …… but only a very few people knew what the appearance of this pillar of light meant.
Two minutes ago, the old city center.
On the empty streets, space ripples slightly swung up, as if someone had lifted a corner of the canvas shrouding the old city, followed by five silhouettes wearing black and red cloaks stepping out from it.
One of them looked around, took a step forward, picked up the “No Traffic Ahead” sign on the ground, and closed it.
The moment the sign was put away, the silent old town silently shattered like a bubble, and the real old town inside emerged.
Creepy blood drenched the old streets in red, bits and pieces of monstrous limbs were scattered all over the place, and if Lin Qiye had seen this scene he would have realized that the ones that were chopped up into pieces and scattered on the ground were the ghostly-faced monsters that he was facing!
Densely packed, there were at least thirty-four of them!
”[Unrestricted Airspace] Recovery complete.” The one carrying the notice board spoke indifferently, “We can call the logistics people to clean up the battlefield.”
”Where’s Old Zhao?”
”Went after the two ghost-faced people that ran away.”
”…… It was our negligence.” The injured woman covered her right shoulder and looked a little shriveled.
”Don’t say that, Red Tassel, no one knew that there was a Ghostface King hidden amongst this group of Ghostfaces.” The man next to him comforted.
”It should be fine for the captain to face the Ghost-faced King alone, right?”
”Of course it’s fine, don’t forget that the captain is a strong person of the third realm ‘Chuan’ realm, nothing will happen.” The man paused, “Let’s just hope …… that the two fleeing Ghostfaces won’t cause casualties among ordinary people ……”
As soon as his words fell, a blazing pillar of light shot up from another direction, illuminating half of the sky!
The five people simultaneously turned their heads to look, their eyes filled with shock!
”That’s ……”
”A forbidden ruin has come out, this energy fluctuation …… is ridiculously strong!”
”This, this is at least a fifth realm ‘Limitless’ realm powerhouse, no, it might even be a sixth realm ‘Klein’ …… How could the small Cangnan City attract such a strong person?”
”No, this doesn’t look like a human forbidden ruin.” The man’s brows tightened.
Hong Ying froze, then seemed to think of something, “Are you saying ……”
”This is like the forbidden ruins of the gods, that is, the …… God’s Ruins.”
Hearing the word gods, several people’s gazes were condensed.
”Which gods?”
”Scorching, holy, powerful, and this creation aura, if I’m not wrong, this should be ……” The man stared dead center at the gradually dissolving pillar of light, and spoke word for word:
”Divine code name 003, King of Angels, Michael.”
Lin Qiye was having a hard time.
At the very center of this golden pillar of light, his body had completely lost control, strangely suspended in midair as endless energy gushed out from his eyes.
Lin Qiye felt as if he had returned to ten years ago, seeing those eyes once again across the boundless universe.
That supreme and divine aura was still fresh in his mind.
The difference was that ten years ago this aura originated from the moon, while now this aura came from …… his own eyes.
The aura and divine might of the incandescent angel was madly pouring out of his eyes, which were like two burning suns, as if they were going to melt everything into nothingness.
Ten years ago, the Blazing Angel Michael locked eyes with him from the moon.
Ten years later, Lin Qiye opened his eyes and the power of the Blazing Angel remaining in his eyes completely exploded!
Fortunately, the incandescent angelic power that remained in Lin Qiye’s eyes wasn’t much, and the pillar of light lasted for seven or eight seconds before gradually dissipating, and Lin Qiye’s body fell from mid-air, staggering and stabilizing itself.
Within his eyes, the brilliant golden light gradually dimmed, eventually leaving behind only a faint golden halo.
If the previous brightness was approximately equal to the sun, then the current brightness was just a candle flame.
Although the golden aura that erupted earlier was incredibly strong, it didn’t belong to him after all, whereas the golden halo that was now contained in the bottom of Lin Qiye’s eyes was truly under Lin Qiye’s control.
A faint wisp of, the power of the Blazing Angel.
Lin Qiye took a deep breath and slowly raised his head.
Dark night sky, old streets, creepy monsters, blood all over the ground …… When this by no means beautiful picture unfolded in front of Lin Qiye’s eyes, he smiled.
He smiled happily.
It had been ten years, and he had finally used his own eyes to see this world once again.
At this moment, in Lin Qiye’s eyes, the monster with a mouth full of blood was actually slightly cute.
Back when the Blazing Angel Divine Might erupted from Lin Qiye’s body, these two monsters were pressed to the ground by the Divine Might and were nearly crushed into meat cakes.
It wasn’t until the golden pillar of light disappeared that they came to their senses and looked around in some confusion before continuing to stare at Lin Qiye.
A bloodthirsty desire surfaced in their eyes once again.
”Eery music–!”
One of the monsters let out a strange cry and violently lunged towards Lin Qiye!
Compared to before, the current Lin Qiye was obviously much calmer, and the moment the monster just made a move, he determined its trajectory in his mind and pounced towards the side with force.
Lin Qiye’s speed was indeed very slow compared to the monster, but his reaction speed was incredibly fast, and the few seconds of early prediction had been able to buy him time to dodge.
It wasn’t that he was able to anticipate, but after his eyes were opened, his perception ability had also undergone a sea change!
One was the range of spiritual perception, which had expanded from ten meters to twenty meters, knowing that previously, Lin Qiye had taken five years to be able to detect ten meters, but now it had directly doubled.
The other, on the other hand, was dynamic vision.
Within this twenty meter range, Lin Qiye possessed nearly three times the dynamic vision of a normal person, and his reflex nerves were perverted, so during close combat, he was almost able to do so to the extent of being able to see beforehand.
As for the other abilities that this pair of eyes gave him, Lin Qiye hadn’t felt it yet.
However, the situation at hand didn’t allow him to slowly feel it out.
The monster was like an arrow off the string, pouncing over the place where Lin Qiye had just stood, collapsing a large chunk of the wall, and stomping on the remains of the wall with all of its limbs, it once again shot towards Lin Qiye!
At this time, Lin Qiye had already avoided the monster’s landing point with a donkey roll and reached out to his side, grabbing the half-contained guide staff that had fallen to the ground earlier!
Lin Qiye quickly climbed up and half crouched down, his eyes staring at the rapidly approaching monster, both hands gripping the cane!
The monster dragged out a trail of residual shadows, stirring up the gusty wind that blew the black hair on Lin Qiye’s forehead.
Its hind limbs fiercely exerted force, and its entire body rose into the air!
This time, Lin Qiye didn’t dodge.
He clutched his half-conductor staff tightly, his eyes staring deathly into the monster’s eyes.
”Eery music-!”
The monster’s sharp claws probed out, directly wiping at Lin Qiye’s neck.
The moment it was about to touch Lin Qiye, the latter’s eyes suddenly contracted!
The faint golden halo in the eyes was like adding a handful of firewood, suddenly brightening up like two burning furnaces!
A strand of divine might used Lin Qiye’s eyes as a medium and violently poured into the monster’s body.
At this moment, the Lin Qiye in the monster’s eyes changed, turning into a supreme god with six wings growing and emanating a terrifying pressure!
Thus, under this divine might, its body fell into a brief stiffness.
In this short period of time, Lin Qiye’s half of the guide staff in his hand was raised high in the air ……
accurately stabbed into the monster’s right eye!