Chapter 2028: Abyss Kirin Beast
The moment the ghostly light flared, a massive black shadow lunged at Yun Che, accompanied by a terrifying roar that shook the misty sea for thousands of miles.
What is the hardest thing in the world to control and resist?
Instinct! If before him stood a Divine Extreme Realm profound practitioner, or even a supreme true god, Yun Che would be unable to contend, but at least he could think of various ways to stall with empty words and verbal maneuvers. After all, he had far too many things on him that could bluff people into stunned bewilderment.
But the only thing in an abyssal beast that could be called "consciousness" was the instinct to destroy all life!
Before launching an attack, it wouldn't have the slightest bit of wariness or hesitation. Since arriving in the abyss, Yun Che had yet to truly fight a Divine Annihilation Realm being, yet now he suddenly suffered an attack from a Divine Extreme Realm abyssal beast... When that power of destruction descended upon him, the pressure and despair it brought Yun Che felt as if the entire misty sea and the whole abyss were pressing down on him.
The black shadow closed in with nightmare-like force in an instant... Yun Che's vision could only vaguely make out a hundred-zhang shadow rapidly filling his pupils.
*Clack!* The fiercely clenched teeth produced an extremely heavy, cracking impact. Yun Che's arm swung horizontally, and the Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword appeared in his hand. His arms forcibly resisted a pressure as heavy as ten thousand mountains, swept the sword blade, churning the Evil God's Force that defied the laws, and fiercely smashed it toward the descending black shadow.
Moon-Wielding Star-Returning!
*Boom!*
The immense difference in power still couldn't overcome the inverted order punishment of the Evil God's Force!
An earth-shattering roar echoed through the misty sea. The destructive power of the Divine Extreme Realm, upon touching the Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword, was instantly repelled, blasting straight into the body of the Divine Extreme abyssal beast.
*Roar!*
The Divine Extreme abyssal beast's roar instantly distorted. The originally descending black shadow was slammed back by its own massive force, flying a hundred miles away in an instant.
Although it was repelled in an instant, some residual force still touched Yun Che's body. He, too, was heavily flung, carving a trail several miles long into the ground with the Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword before finally stopping.
The moment he stopped, blood seeped from his seven orifices, and every bone in his body ached as if about to shatter.
Faced with this Divine Extreme abyssal beast that absolutely wouldn't reason with him, Moon-Wielding Star-Returning was his only means of resistance. But the cost was enormous, and he couldn't use it again for a short time. Whether he could escape now depended entirely on fate!
In the fastest possible time, he extinguished all splattered bloodstains and fully concealed his aura. But instead of using Moon-Breaking Shadow Flick to hide his shadow, he drew the surrounding abyssal dust to cover his body.
Under the sudden repulsion, this Divine Extreme abyssal beast's power and spiritual sense would briefly scatter, losing its target for a few moments. During this time, using abyssal dust to conceal his aura might allow him to avoid being discovered again.
*Boom!* The Divine Extreme abyssal beast, which had been flipped onto the ground, turned over. It seemed to still harbor this emotion called anger, letting out a roar that was clearly several times more ferocious than before... But for Yun Che, the terrifying pressure that threatened to shatter his body had suddenly greatly diminished.
Yun Che's heart suddenly relaxed. Sure enough, under the abyssal dust aura-concealment, the other side could no longer find his existence.
And without a target to destroy, the unchecked destruction instinct would quickly calm it down.
But Yun Che's brief respite lasted only a moment. A dangerous aura that stabbed straight into his heart and soul suddenly transmitted from a hundred miles away.
The enraged Divine Extreme abyssal beast gathered its unrelieved ferocity into its front claw and fiercely slammed it into the misty sea ground below.
From a hundred miles away, the threat of death almost instantly burst through the top of his skull.
He no longer cared about concealing his aura. The stellar stream within his profound vein universe was crazily churned to the utmost, fully released, and a thick profound light like yellow jade radiated around his body.
Kirin Sacred Hall!
A hall as resplendent as gold was instantly erected around Yun Che.
Compared to the massive hall erected by the Lin God in the Lin Divine Realm, this Kirin Sacred Hall was far too small, less than ten zhang in size. But it was the utmost defense Yun Che could erect in this hurried moment.
The Kirin Sacred Hall's defensive and isolating abilities were undoubtedly extremely powerful. Driven by the Lin God's blood, its defensive capability alone completely surpassed the Cloud-Sealing Sun-Locking of the Burning Heart Realm Gate.
After all... the Evil God was not good at defense.
But for Yun Che, the Kirin Sacred Hall had a flaw that bothered him: when deployed, its profound light was too bright.
A profound light palace standing there was far too conspicuous.
So he had been trying recently to combine Cloud-Sealing Sun-Locking with the Kirin Sacred Hall, creating a barrier with the extreme defense and structure of the Lin God Sacred Hall, but also as formless and colorless as Cloud-Sealing Sun-Locking, and instantly deployable.
But he hadn't completed it yet when he encountered a deadly calamity.
*Boom!*
The world-annihilating surge of air drowned out Yun Che's hearing... The Kirin Sacred Hall, erected only a moment ago, instantly dimmed under the surge. After barely withstanding for a tenth of a breath, it completely collapsed, scattering into yellow residual light.
*Bang!*
Although the Kirin Sacred Hall had provided some resistance, the remaining force striking Yun Che's body was still as terrifying as a world-destroying divine hammer. He was flung up like a withered leaf swept by a hurricane, his consciousness immediately plunging into a blank emptiness amid the roaring.
When Yun Che's consciousness finally struggled to recover, he was lying collapsed on the ground, behind him a deep trench of unknown length.
Overwhelming pain flooded almost every nerve in his body. The blood still gushing from his mouth told him how severe his internal injuries were.
This was the power of the Divine Extreme Realm. Even just the edge of that power from a hundred miles away was still this terrifying.
He had been cautious enough, but he never imagined that such a place would be inhabited by a Divine Extreme abyssal beast.
"It seems this is a dead end," Li Suo's voice was as calm as ever, without any fluctuation. "No matter how severe your injuries, I can heal them. But I can't bring back the dead. Sorry."
"...!" Yun Che gritted his teeth and struggled to get up. "I'm not... that easy to kill."
Before his upper body had fully risen, he slammed back down again.
Because that irresistible, terrifying pressure had once again descended upon his body.
As his gaze turned... that massive black shadow was now less than a hundred zhang away from him.
In his sea of consciousness, Li Suo's doubtful voice suddenly sounded: "Why has its aura changed so much from before?"
"?" Yun Che, urgently thinking how to escape this deathly situation, turned his head at the words and was startled to find that the Divine Extreme abyssal beast, now so close, was merely standing there, not approaching any further.
Its aura was still terrifying, but... it no longer seemed to be the aura of pure destructive violence it had earlier. Instead, it displayed an extremely bizarre, and certainly something that should never appear on an abyssal beast... chaos?
A pair of terrifying eyes stared in his direction. But the strange pupil light, eroded by abyssal dust, was inexplicably trembling, like ghostly flames blown by a chaotic wind.
It didn't move, and Yun Che didn't dare to make any rash moves for the moment... It was only then that he finally got a clear look at the full appearance of this terrifying abyssal beast.
Abyssal dust covered its body, but its outline was still clearly identifiable. Its body resembled a musk deer, its tail like a dragon's, its head like a lion's, and on its forehead was a huge single horn...
This outline shape was clearly a kirin!
Yun Che's spirit jolted violently, his gaze fixed straight on its eyes. Amid the desperate situation of danger just now, he had vaguely felt a strange familiarity in those eyes. Now as he stared intently... despite the pupil light being altered by abyssal dust erosion, it was still enough for Yun Che to recognize that the outline of those huge eyes was extremely similar to the Lin God's pupils in the Lin Divine Realm.
Could it be...
Yun Che suddenly thought of something and looked down at his own body.
When he had hastily deployed the Kirin Sacred Hall earlier, he could be said to have pushed the Kirin Force to its limit. Now, a faint yellow lin light was still flowing over his body.
Yun Che slowly stood up. Until he fully rose, the Divine Extreme abyssal beast still made no other move. Only its ember-like eyes seemed to tremble even more violently, as if struggling or breaking free from something.
After standing, Yun Che did not tentatively step back to retreat. His expression shifted for a moment, then he suddenly began to walk slowly toward it, step by step, actively approaching this terrifying abyssal beast that could annihilate him in an instant.
"You..." Li Suo let out a soft sound, then suppressed the rest.
Yun Che raised his arm. Despite his injuries, the Lin God's blood within him circulated, emitting an increasingly dense aura of the Lin God.
The covering lin light also gradually intensified. As Yun Che stepped closer, it became clearer and clearer in the reflection of those trembling ghostly pupils.
Ten steps... a hundred steps...
The Divine Extreme abyssal beast still did not move. Moreover, the deathly threat from it gradually faded away.
At this moment, Yun Che suddenly spoke: "Do you... still have consciousness?"
"..." The abyssal beast showed no reaction.
Yun Che continued: "My body carries the Kirin Force bestowed by your descendant. He has always been worried and guilty about you. Even his final wish and entrustment in life was to save you."
That's right. Its appearance, its pupils, its bizarre reaction to the lin light on his body—all proved that this terrifying Divine Extreme abyssal beast was very likely the Ancestral Lin God that Lin Shen had spoken of, the one who had become an abyssal beast in the abyss!
Faced with Yun Che's repeated verbal probing, its mutated Lin God pupils still showed no reaction.
By now, Yun Che was convinced that its abnormal reaction to the lin light was not because it retained its original consciousness.
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, its body and soul had already been completely eroded by the abyssal dust. How could it possibly still retain its original consciousness?
Then it could only be explained that the abyssal dust had eroded its original consciousness and taken over its soul, yet could not annihilate the... instinct deeply engraved in the words "Lin God" and in the bloodline!
The instinct to protect its own kind's lin light and its own descendants surpassed the destruction instinct it had after becoming an abyssal beast!?
There was no time to think further. Yun Che concentrated all his energy. As he extended his arm, a gentle lin light shot straight upward and touched the brows of the Abyss Kirin Beast.
This lin light held no aggression, but carried his soul force... When it touched the beast's brows, the soul force pierced directly into its body.
The Abyss Kirin Beast still made no move. Clearly, it only needed to raise its claw to reduce Yun Che to rubble, yet it just stood there staring fixedly at the lin light on his body, as if trapped in a dream it didn't want to wake from.
Li Suo suddenly realized what Yun Che intended to do.
His action was extremely dangerous and nearly insane.
But Li Suo did not voice a stop, nor did she take the opportunity to heal him with Life Miracle. Because the light of the Light Profound Force might provoke this suddenly quiet and terrifying abyssal beast.
Finally, Yun Che located its abyssal core, and his soul force plunged straight in.
The Ancestral Lin God had once been a true god-beast of the abyss. According to Lin Shen, its former power had surpassed that of the current Six Nations and Seven Gods.
The abyssal dust that had fully eroded it... its vastness was unimaginable.
When his consciousness entered its abyssal core, the density of the abyssal dust contained within was beyond description. Its level was also higher than any abyssal dust Yun Che had ever touched before.
That's right, the abyssal dust, as the original destructive force, also had levels of strength and weakness like profound force. The abyssal dust existing in the land of birth was basically the lowest level. And the highest level... was undoubtedly the original abyssal dust that, in ancient times, could instantly devour even true gods.