chapter 59
59. A Performance of Dying on the Spot
Yang Zhou, leading a group of people, hurried over and arrived near Lin Nuo’s storage room, only to find his companion engaged in battle with the cultivator Du Shengtao.
“Big brother! You’re here, don’t worry about me, I can kill this cultivator.”
The Dark Alliance strongman fighting Du Shengtao shouted confidently.
Yang Zhou yelled, “Did you see a kid carrying a big box?”
“Is that the peddler? Is he one of ours? He went into that little hut.”
“Fool, never mind the monk, the peddler is the key, he’s taken away what we need!”
“No way, isn’t he with us? So that means the box is…??”
“Yes, I want him eradicated!”
Yang Zhu and his group are closing in on the small storage room. That peddler had slipped away with a smoke bomb earlier, but now they’ve surrounded his little hideout. With so many people, inside and out, there’s no way he can escape this time.
When the order is given, some will guard outside, others will storm in. He won’t be able to run.
“Boss, look! He’s up there!”
A subordinate points and shouts at Lin Nuo on the roof.
Yang Zhu looks up and sure enough, there’s the kid, swaggering on the rooftop, with a princess on his back.
This kid, so bold to stand up there, what’s he planning? To escape? With so many of us, can you run? Can you really get away? If you can escape today, I, Yang Zhu, will eat this tree right here!
A strong spiritual energy swirls in his palm as he yells at Lin Nuo, “Kid, you can’t escape! Put the person down, and I’ll spare your life! I’ll count to three, or else you’ll descend to the underworld! Three…”
Yang Zhu is counting loudly, but Lin Nuo pays him no heed.
Lin Nuo glances down at them. There are indeed many people. If it were an ordinary person, they would have surrendered by now.
Unfortunately for them, they’ve encountered the ultimate villain of destruction.
Unfazed by the danger, Lin Nuo sneers, “No need to count. Today, I’ll show you how to die on the spot.”
“What do you mean? You plan to commit suicide?”
“No, it’s you who will die right here.”
Lin Nuo holds a homemade bomb in his hand and throws it down.
Yang Zhu suddenly has an ominous premonition.
What did that kid throw down?
As the bomb is about to hit the ground, Yang Zhu, with his extensive experience and long service, becomes instantly alert.
It’s an explosive! He wants to perish together, to destroy this place!
“It’s an explosive! Raise the spiritual shields!”
Hearing Yang Zhu’s urgent shout, his subordinates quickly erect spiritual shields. With their strength, the shields should withstand the powerful explosion, and together they should be able to resist it.
The bomb hits the ground and explodes. The small storage room is filled with demonic energy and some activated demonic crystal stones, causing a chain reaction. The mixed demonic energies ignite, and the explosion’s force dramatically increases, transforming into a supercharged demonic blast.
Boom!
A thunderous explosion shakes the mountains and rivers, turning thousands of flowers and trees into intense flames in an instant!
“Ah!”
Under the formidable blast of the demonic bomb, the Dark Alliance’s spiritual shields stand no chance. Shield and man alike are swept into the inferno, reduced to ashes!
“This, this…?!”
Yang Zhu exerted all his strength to block the bombardment, but it was all in vain, as he too soon turned to dust in the explosion!
The earth shook and the dust swirled, as all the attackers from the Dark Alliance met their end in this catastrophe!
“Hold on to me.”
Lin Nuo gathered his strength and leaped, being the closest to the explosion, the impact was the strongest. In that moment of detonation, it was as if he was gambling with the Grim Reaper in the dungeons of hell, yet without a hint of panic.
Luo Xiaoxue clung to Lin Nuo, closing her eyes, daring not to look, entrusting her life entirely in Lin Nuo’s hands, her fate no longer hers to decide.
She hoped to survive, to escape, not just for herself, but also for the young man she clung to, both of them needing to live on.
In the instant of the explosion, a powerful shockwave hit Luo Xiaoxue, and a golden aura emanated from her, forming a small circle of light that enveloped them both, shielding them from the bombardment of the magic bullets.
Lin Nuo smiled, his gamble had paid off. In this moment of peril, the girl’s instinct for self-preservation was unleashed. Coupled with the excitement from the pill she had just consumed, her excitement surged, her strength skyrocketed, turning from a sick cat into a fierce tiger.
Despite the intense trembling within the circle of light, it was incredibly sturdy, not shattering at a single blow. They soared through the intense bombardment, their speed several times faster than his highest sword-flying speed.
Luo Xiaoxue was terrified, burying her head in Lin Nuo’s back, not daring to open her eyes, holding him tightly.
The unfamiliar Lin Nuo became her sole reliance, her eyes shut tight, unaware of her surroundings, feeling only the ceaseless trembling of the earth, as if it were about to split open, and that the slightest loosening of her grip would plunge her into an endless abyss.
Under the impact of the bombardment, the two shot straight into the sky.
Now, there was no need to worry about being pursued.
The plan went as Lin Nuo had predicted, a successful escape, with just a slight mishap.
It seemed they couldn’t stop their ascent.