Chapter 23: Earth-Shattering Upheaval
The Bagshaw family estate.
A sharp whistling sound of wind could be heard, as a large number of figures flew out from within the Bagshaw family estate, rapidly heading towards the residential area of the island’s guardian warriors. One must know that those who resided within the Bagshaw family estate were, aside from the Bagshaw family elites, true experts.
In the sky.
Crimson long hair fluttering wildly, Baukeway flew with an expression of cold indifference. Behind him followed three experts clad in red robes—two men and one woman. These three red-robed experts were the true pillars of the Bagshaw family.
The Bagshaw family’s Red Robe Elders were extremely few in number. This was also a major pillar of support that allowed the Bagshaw family to stand tall in Hell, dare to establish Moluo Island, and ignore the official forces.
Every Red Robe Elder was a Seven Star Demon!
Even among the countless families throughout Hell, the Bagshaw family ranked within the top ten as an ancient clan! The Four Divine Beasts Clan, before their decline, had naturally far surpassed the Bagshaw family. But now, having fallen into decay, they were even slightly weaker than the Bagshaw family in its prime.
“Suspected Seven Star Demon?” Baukeway was filled with worry.
He worried for his son!
“Whoosh! Whoosh!” Baukeway flew at extreme speed, followed by the three Red Robe Elders, and behind them, a hundred Black Armored Guards.
“Swish!”
A beam of blood-red light shot up from the residential area of Moluo Island’s guardian warriors. When it reached its highest point, “Boom!” a violent explosion sounded, and the blood-red light instantly swelled, becoming like a blinding blood-red sun.
Baukeway and the three Red Robe Elders’ expressions all changed.
This was the emergency summoning order for Moluo Island. It commanded all guardian warriors on the entire island to enter a state of combat readiness and prepare to launch an attack.
“Let’s go ahead!” Baukeway transmitted via divine sense.
Immediately, Baukeway and the three Red Robe Elders greatly increased their speed, instantly leaving the hundred Black Armored Guards behind. These four Seven Star Demons transformed into four afterimages and arrived in the distance in an instant. Seeing the summoning order, Baukeway grew even more worried for his son.
Indeed, the fact that Sekra had been forced to issue the summoning order showed that the situation had deteriorated to a terrifying degree. Sekra hovered far away, watching the carnage below, his face pale: “Too terrifying, how could he have become this strong?”
Slaughter!
Linley, in his frenzied state, combined with his incredibly powerful Dragonform body and the Blackstone Space, unleashed a chilling ability for slaughter.
“Kill!” Linley’s cold, dark golden eyes were devoid of any emotion.
He led Bebe and the others charging through the residential area of the guardian warriors. This area was filled with guardian warriors. Most of the guardian warriors were scattered in various places, and there were many more along the way. Linley deliberately charged towards densely populated areas.
The Blackstone Space was pushed to its limit—a diameter of five hundred meters!
Everyone within this range was affected by the gravitational pull. With a diameter of five hundred meters, each time it could encompass a great many guardian warriors. These guardian warriors, affected by the gravity, were involuntarily drawn towards Linley. “Boom!” Their bodies smashed through walls as they continued to be pulled towards Linley.
“No!” Those guardian warriors were terrified.
They also noticed that more guardian warriors were entering the gravitational zone.
But suddenly, the direction of gravity changed!
Originally, the gravitational pull was directed towards Linley, but suddenly it shifted towards the ground. This sudden change in gravity caused the guardian warriors who were struggling to push backward to topple violently backwards, crashing heavily onto the ground.
“Kill!” Some guardian warriors who had just entered the gravitational zone erupted in fury.
“Kill!”
The large number of guardian warriors trapped in the gravitational zone attacked.
When they attacked, Linley directly unleashed his soul influence! All the guardian warriors who fell into the gravitational zone immediately became dazed and confused. However, there were also some stronger ones among the guardian warriors who could barely maintain their clarity. For these very few, there was only one word—
Kill!
Those who could barely stay clear-headed, but within the gravitational zone, how could their speed match Linley’s?
“Boom!” The eerie violet soft sword directly sliced through the opponent’s head.
As for the other guardian warriors who were in a daze, Linley controlled a small number within the gravitational zone, making them follow him as he fled at extreme speed.
Violet sword lights flashed in succession!
A cyan-golden afterimage flickered continuously!
Flesh exploded, bones shattered, divine sparks flew everywhere!
Linley’s earthen yellow light shield advanced relentlessly, like a devouring monster, swallowing up all the guardian warriors in its path. Those who didn’t resist became dazed puppets, while those who resisted were mercilessly killed by Linley!
This monster just kept moving forward.
“Bastard.” Sekra, watching this scene from high above, trembled all over.
“Linley!” Hisset and O’Brien were still filled with shock.
“Haha, Boss, this is really satisfying!” Bebe was very excited.
However, they were all within the gravitational space zone, their bodies covered in a flowing earthen yellow light, completely unaffected.
Furthermore, all over the guardian warrior area, more and more guardian warriors were flying into the sky upon seeing the summoning order. The number of guardian warriors in the air was increasing.
Not only were there many guardian warriors on the ground, but there were even more in the sky. High in the sky, like locusts, over ten thousand guardian warriors hovered, watching the earthen yellow light shield advancing below, and couldn’t help but curse—
“This bastard!”
In their view, Linley was indeed a bastard.
Because within the Blackstone Space zone, there was a group of dazed guardian warriors. These guardian warriors were meat shields!
If the guardian warriors in the air launched a collective attack downwards, the first to be hit would undoubtedly be those acting as meat shields. Once a group attack happened, Linley could completely control those dazed guardian warriors to block the attacks.
“We can’t let this continue.” Sekra gritted his teeth.
He immediately transmitted via divine sense to over a dozen thousand-man commanders around him, giving the order simultaneously: “Disregard those hundred guardian warriors. Group attack! Kill that person!”
The thousand-man commanders were shocked.
“Yes!” They still accepted the order.
Soon, the over ten thousand guardian warriors in the air received the command.
“Attack?” Those guardian warriors were somewhat surprised, but they still obeyed the order. With the collective command, the over ten thousand guardian warriors in the sky raised their weapons and unleashed countless material attacks and soul attacks!
“Whoosh!” “Whoosh!” “Whoosh!”
Instantly, countless colorful attacks of all kinds rained down from the sky, like a multicolored rain. But these raindrops were deadly.
Seeing this scene, Linley’s heart clenched violently.
“They actually did it!” Linley immediately turned, leading the group within the gravitational zone to dodge to the side.
Fortunately, the countless guardian warriors above were afraid of being drawn into the Blackstone Space, so they flew relatively high. This meant their attacks had to travel a longer distance. With the distance being long, even if the attacks were fast, there was still a brief moment to react.
Linley and the others dodged!
“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!”
Countless attacks, whether material or soul, fell mercilessly from the sky!
Like raindrops, they fell densely.
The thousand-man commanders clearly knew Linley would dodge, so the attacks were spread over all the areas Linley might escape to. Although this meant the attacks weren’t as dense, it also meant… Linley couldn’t completely avoid them.
Within the Blackstone Space, a large number of dazed guardian warriors were controlled by Linley to hover above Hisset, Bebe, Delia, and the others. Linley also retreated to huddle together with Delia and the others.
With plenty of meat shields, the soul attacks naturally fell on them, entering the minds of those dazed guardian warriors. The attacks that actually reached Linley and the others were those that fell collectively; sometimes one meat shield could block several soul attacks and quite a few material attacks.
“Hurry and organize a second wave of attacks!” Sekra immediately shouted.
Those thousand-man commanders understood that the first wave of attacks had been mostly absorbed by the meat shields, so Linley and the others wouldn’t have suffered much damage.
However, before they could give the order, Linley moved.
“Up!”
Linley and his group, having just survived the ordeal thanks to the meat shields, immediately shot upwards. Their flight speed was naturally extremely fast. Before the large number of guardian warriors above could react, Linley had already flown several hundred meters upwards. Instantly, the dozens of guardian warriors closest to Linley fell into the Blackstone Space.
“Ah!” “Ah!” They screamed as they plummeted rapidly downwards.
But their screams instantly ceased, and they became dazed.
The guardian warriors immediately panicked.
“Run!”
If they fell into the Blackstone Space, they would be doomed. Linley’s sudden upward charge into the midst of the guardian warriors threw the entire group into chaos. Everyone frantically tried to stay away from the Blackstone Space, fearing they would be caught in it.
“Almost there.” Linley thought to himself.
Suddenly, the earth elemental energy in the world began to vibrate.
“Crackle…” Eerily, a massive black cube appeared in mid-air. This black giant cube had six faces, suspended between heaven and earth, standing four hundred meters tall. Inside this colossal black cube were over a hundred upper-tier gods.
This giant cube was composed of countless smaller cubes, each only four meters in size.
The exact number was one million!
One million small cubes combined to form a giant cube four hundred meters tall. Those upper-tier gods were trapped inside the cube.
This was the true form of the Blackstone Prison—the Cube!
“What is this?” A large number of guardian warriors were stunned.
“Swish!” This giant cube flew rapidly towards the east. Any guardian warrior who was too slow to dodge and was touched by the cube was directly swallowed into it.
At the core of the giant cube, Linley and the others were gathered together.
“Those people who came in will find it very difficult to get out.” Linley said with a faint smile. Inside the cube, gravity was completely under Linley’s control. By changing the gravity, Linley could make those inside lose their sense of direction. Moreover, each time they tried to break through a wall, it was extremely difficult.
One must know, there were a million small cubes inside. Linley could also silently swap the positions of the small cubes.
To get out was nearly impossible!
Unless one could break through by force!
“Linley, what do we do now?” Delia asked.
“First, fly to the East Island.” Linley had a plan in mind. “Once we reach the East Island, we just need to cause chaos among the countless tourists. The population on Moluo Island’s East Island is very large. By creating confusion, we can take the opportunity to escape.”
This was Linley’s second plan!
“Linley, when… when did you become like this?” The War God O’Brien looked at Linley.
“Once we’re safe, I’ll tell you.” Linley replied.
“Boom!” Outside the black cube, it was constantly being attacked by the guardian warriors. Although there were many guardian warriors, their attacks were scattered, at most destroying a few walls, which Linley could instantly repair.
“I can block material attacks, and let those unlucky meat shields take the soul attacks. The Blackstone Prison is so large; the people outside have no idea where we are inside it.”
Countless guardian warriors in the sky kept their distance from the giant black cube. This black cube flew over Moluo Island, heading rapidly towards the West Island area. Gradually, it was about to enter the East Island area.
“What is that?”
Countless outsiders on Moluo Island’s East Island looked up at the giant black cube.
Suddenly—
Four afterimages shot towards the black cube at extreme speed, and at the same time, a dazzling black giant blade light appeared. This giant blade light swept across the black cube. Although it was somewhat difficult, it still cut through to the center of the black cube.
“Boom!” The black cube exploded.
Linley, in his Dragonform, hovered in mid-air with Delia, Bebe, and the others.
“You won’t escape!” A cold voice sounded. The speaker was Baukeway. Baukeway and the three Red Robe Elders stared coldly at Linley.
Linley looked around.
At this moment, countless guardian warriors had formed an encirclement, completely surrounding them. In the distance, countless outsiders on the East Island were looking up, watching the scene.
“These four people are very strong.” Linley felt a sense of caution. The blade strike just now was executed by one of the red-robed figures, but that red-robed figure was clearly a subordinate of the red-haired man. Linley had no confidence in directly confronting these four!
“It seems I’ll have to go with the third plan.” Linley’s gaze gradually turned cold.
The third plan was also the last plan!
Use the power of a Sovereign!
PS: Two chapters finished. Eggplant wishes everyone a Happy New Year! Happy New Year, may the Year of the Ox be even more powerful!