Chapter 1672: Torrent of Space Entities
"You sure know how to flatter yourself," Xu Huo said after listening.
However, these were merely fragments intercepted by temporal power, not real people. After cleaning the palace, the few followers left as if to go out and join the followers who had been on patrol earlier.
"Should we follow and take a look?" Wei Xiaoyi asked curiously.
"They're heading deeper into the city. Let's see first," Xu Huo said, not wanting to venture into danger for now.
So the two continued forward.
After passing through three streets in a row, they roughly understood the layout of the nearby buildings. The areas around several streets were places where followers worshipped the god of the sect. The spaces were vast, but in reality, not many believers actually worshipped inside. This should be a place far from the city center, so only those with lower status within the sect were sent to clean, or occasionally stop by to rest.
From the images in the temporal fragments, this city was actually a religious city. It had been under construction for over ten years and still wasn't finished. A third of the city's planning consisted of palaces like this block, collectively called the "Nine Divine Paths." However, from the snippets of conversation between followers and small-time merchants, it could be determined that the sect's numbers were actually quite small. That's why so many palaces had been built but were mostly empty, with even the decorations in unused palaces being somewhat perfunctory.
The number of followers wasn't large, and most had been brought from elsewhere, somewhat resembling a nouveau riche moving and wanting to rebuild their house. At the time point of these fragments, the sect hadn't yet begun to formally preach its doctrine or recruit followers widely. So the people doing business here were mostly just joining in the excitement or indifferent, and the miraculous power of the Divine Eye was only legendary among the followers.
Past the "Nine Divine Paths" was where ordinary civilians lived. But before Xu Huo and Wei Xiaoyi could walk over, a new problem arose in this space. The intermittent image fragments were suddenly crushed by a surge of crowding space entities. The moment the images dissipated, a space entity the size of half a palace, bristling with sharp space blades, rushed straight toward the two of them!
"Mr. Xu..." Wei Xiaoyi could vaguely sense the danger approaching but didn't know where to flee. However, before she could finish speaking, Xu Huo grabbed her shoulder and pulled her into a palace on the right front side.
The moment they stepped inside, the street behind them was smashed into a large pit by the suddenly colliding space entity. Then the buildings on both sides began to collapse, as if crushed down by some invisible giant force, and the scope kept expanding.
These space entities didn't start moving from Xu Huo's side but spread from a distance. The space entities of all sizes floating around were not spared—they all began to move.
Perhaps the collapse of long-neglected buildings didn't fully show how dangerous this scene was, but when forcefully passing through a slightly narrow passage, Xu Huo's "Inviolable Domain" barrier was directly burst open, and even his left arm was cut with three wounds deep enough to see bone—under such a near-catastrophic collision of spatial power, the effect of items seemed to be weakened to the extreme.
Unsure whether those life-saving special items would still be useful in this situation, Xu Huo didn't test them. Instead, he grabbed Wei Xiaoyi and leaped into the air, stepping on some space entities that could serve as footholds. But this was equally perilous, because at this moment, they were like being in a zero-gravity environment—but this zero gravity was specific to the space entities. They moved easily, but whether landing or colliding, they caused massive disasters. People caught in it were like ants swept into a torrent of gravel and sand.
Wei Xiaoyi, who could only be carried along the whole way, couldn't help asking, "Mr. Xu, what does the space look like right now?"
Xu Huo knew they were all here for secondary evolution, but now wasn't the time to take care of her. "Ask Nie Xuan if something went wrong on their end," he said.
Wei Xiaoyi quickly opened her personal panel. There were no messages. Despite the difficulty, she still left a message. "They'll definitely reply once Team Leader and the others are safe."
After a pause, she grew worried again. "Could they have encountered an emergency?"
Anything was possible. But as the frequency of colliding space entities increased, Xu Huo began to feel strained. He told Wei Xiaoyi to prepare her ticket to leave.
While using all his strength to dodge a giant space entity, another square-sized space entity suddenly rushed out from the front. It was too fast, coming from a blind spot. With no retreat, Xu Huo had to push Wei Xiaoyi aside first and activate a defense item to take the hit head-on!
Whether it was "Flower Bloom" or "Inviolable Domain," both were pierced by the ray spikes on the space entity in the first instant. Especially "Flower Bloom," its ten layers of barriers were as fragile as paper, directly sliced to pieces. It wasn't even as useful as the black blade Xu Huo thrust out, which at least firmly held against the space entity.
With larger space entities crashing in from both front and back, Xu Huo barely managed to use the black blade to buffer before facing the next crisis. Large-scale spatial items might be less useful than ordinary items at times like this. The space entity was like something studded with spikes, but as long as one could keep a distance and find gaps, it wasn't completely untouchable—at least not as prickly as before, where there was no choice but to be passively hit.
Such space entities weren't few in number. It just required a high degree of concentration to distinguish the state of the space rays. Things invisible to the naked eye felt like bundled threads in perception. Whether there were protrusions around the space entity, what form those protrusions took, or whether objects composed of space rays could pierce through an A-level spatial defense item—all of this needed to be judged in an instant.
This severely tested the strength of evolution and required extremely fast reaction speed, because it essentially used the perception of the surrounding space to replace the eyes.
Wei Xiaoyi, who had been pushed away, had long since disappeared. Xu Huo dodged the faster stone and climbed higher to look around. Even though the gray fog prevented him from seeing far, the sounds of collapsing buildings all around hadn't stopped, indicating that this massive collision of space entities wouldn't end anytime soon.
He could no longer determine the source of this disaster, so he could only continue forward in the original direction. After another difficult crossing of a street, he encountered another image intercepted by temporal power.
Not knowing how much time had passed, in the reappearing image, many ordinary people had become followers. They knelt devoutly on both sides of the street, respectfully looking up at a middle-aged man with his face covered by black gauze walking at the front of the followers.
"Divine Envoy!" the people around shouted. "Divine Envoy! Grant us your blessing!"
(Chapter End)