mesbooks Chapter 186 I will annihilate you all within the Morning Bell!
Chapter 186 I will annihilate you all within the Morning Bell!
Chapter 186 I will annihilate you all within the Morning Bell!
Then the scene before the old man changed, and he found himself in an unfamiliar place.
Despite not having moved an inch, he had already left the Morning Palace and was now standing in a desolate mountain where no one was around.
The weeds underfoot were almost half a person tall, and deep within these weeds, one could clearly see a large number of graves, each marked with the years.
A layer of white mist swirled above the grave, obscuring everything beyond twenty meters.
The old man felt a vague sense of unease. He shuddered deeply, sensing that something was watching him, and unconsciously took two steps back.
Suddenly, I heard a cracking sound under my feet. Looking down, I realized that I had accidentally knocked over and broken an urn.
This is an ancient earthenware jar used to hold ashes. The mouth of the jar is covered with a stopper, and there are two yellow talismans with a cross on them, obviously to seal something inside the jar.
Upon witnessing this scene, the old man felt a tremor in his heart.
"not good!"
The next second, his ankle tightened, and a withered arm reached out from the broken mouth of the jar and grabbed his foot tightly.
At the same time, a cold wind blew from behind.
"Hehehe————"
A sharp, mocking laugh entered my ears.
The old man got goosebumps all over his body. He suddenly realized that he had indeed been forcibly transferred from the space of the Morning Bell of the Second Seventh to another unfamiliar space.
This alternate dimension appears extremely dangerous.
Most importantly, he seems to have encountered some kind of curse, and at this moment, most of his strength has not yet been restored.
Snapped!
At that moment, his other foot was also grabbed by the hand inside the earthen pot, and at the same time, someone gently blew into the old man's ear, and a faint female voice quickly came through.
"Don't go! Stay here—keep me company—"
The old man's body tensed up as he was embraced from behind, a chilling sensation penetrating his body.
He immediately spat out copper coins, conjured up an illusion of a Bagua plate in his hand, and at the same time pulled out an ink line, which was also an illusion, from his sleeve.
But these methods were instantly dispersed by a gust of cold wind.
"So it's a fortune teller!" the woman chuckled. "You think you can deal with me with just a phantom without any real object? Do you think your true form is here? Hehe, come here—keep me company—"
The old man looked desperate as a pair of pale arms grabbed his ankle and pulled him to the ground, then dragged him into the weeds.
The next second, a loud bang came from somewhere in the weeds, and a large amount of cold wind became violent. The old man's black and white figure was split into pieces and scattered by the cold wind.
[Where did you put my target?]
Inside the Morning Hall, the Death Pass angrily popped up with text. It was originally intended for Li Jiuhe to suppress the old man who was recovering from his injuries, so that he could at least severely injure him and then absorb his energy.
Now, things have gotten really bad. Li Jiuhe somehow managed to get rid of them.
This thwarted the pass's idea of absorbing the old man's energy.
Li Jiuhe did not answer it, but quickly stepped forward and took the boundary stone from the stone man's hand.
He immediately sensed the situation within the boundary stone and discovered that the new world, whose rules were no weaker than those of the Ye City world, was operating in an orderly manner, without being disturbed by the old man being sucked in.
"It would be best if I died inside," he thought to himself.
However, Li Jiuhe was also well aware that even if the old man didn't die inside but escaped again, his life would be in grave danger.
Their bodies and injuries will also be abnormally weak, even worse than when they entered.
If I were to deal with him again, it would be as simple as lifting a finger; now, I just need to keep an eye out for any activity.
Looking again at the familiar stone figure, this stone figure is the one holding a bronze weight.
Now that the old man who absorbed its energy is gone, the stone figure has begun to visibly grow taller, and the bronze scale in its hand is also gradually getting bigger.
Li Jiuhe could even see the stone figure smiling at him.
At that moment, the text from the Death Pass appeared before his eyes again.
[It's alright. I've discovered another target in that hall next door. Go quickly and stop him from getting stronger. If you can injure him, I'll have a chance to absorb his sequence energy!]
"What? There are more in the next hall?" Li Jiuhe was surprised.
He didn't believe that the person over there was the old man who had just been sucked into the boundary stone. Instead, he suspected that there were accomplices of the old man inside, perhaps the second person among the masterminds that Luo Shuo had mentioned.
The thought crossed his mind, and he quickly turned and left the Morning Palace.
Meanwhile, the stone man, which was gradually recovering, immediately caught up and followed closely behind Li Jiuhe.
At this moment, the stone man's height had recovered to more than two meters, exceeding Li Jiuhe's height, and it was still recovering.
Upon entering the dark hall, Li Jiuhe no longer needed to inquire about the exact location of the Death Pass.
Relying on his previous memories, he quickly approached the row of Buddha statues in the dark hall that he had once straightened, and saw a figure in black and white standing there, motionless.
Looking at the man's attire and physique, Li Jiuhe's eyes widened in disbelief.
Because this person looked exactly like the black-and-white old man from before.
At this point, Li Jiuhe even wondered if the mastermind behind this constant targeting of him was a ghost, a human, or perhaps even a god!
Otherwise, why would he have self-destructed in the real world and cast a vicious curse on them, yet here he could still split into two bodies and use the Morning Bell of the Second Seventh Day to recover from his injuries?
If both bodies recover at the same time, will they eventually merge into one, or will they go their separate ways?
Are those in the Grand Diviner rank really that powerful? Does this ability even qualify them as Grand Diviners?
A flood of questions suddenly came to mind.
However, now is not the time to seek answers, because the old man standing in front of the Buddha statue had already noticed someone approaching and turned to look at Li Jiuhe.
His consciousness seemed to be independent, not shared with the old man in the Morning Hall, and he was also surprised when he saw Li Jiuhe.
The old man then flicked his finger, and a copper coin flew out, heading straight for Li Jiuhe's face.
The copper coin was incredibly fast, and even with Li Jiuhe's strength, he couldn't dodge it. However, at that moment, his body trembled, and the stone man he had rescued had merged into his body.
An unprecedentedly powerful force instantly filled his body. He had experienced this feeling before when he was dealing with Yu Minmin, who was being controlled by a corpse, in the wooden house in Nanfeng Town.
But this time, the fusion between the stone man and Li Jiuhe was more natural, and their cooperation was very skilled.
Li Jiuhe felt as if he had the strength of ten thousand jin, and with a lift of his hand, he blocked the bronze weight in front of him.
With a loud thud, the copper coin slammed onto the weight.
This weight was no ordinary object; it simply swayed rapidly, yet it managed to block the fierce impact of the copper coins.
Li Jiuhe immediately turned around on the spot, and swung the weight in his hand, aiming it at the old man.
If it were just his attack, the old man wouldn't need to pay any attention to it, but now, with the blessing of the Morning Palace Stone Man, this power is extraordinary.
Furthermore, the tacit understanding between Erqi Chenzhong and Li Jiuhe has become stronger, and their combined power has also increased accordingly.
The old man, who was currently absorbing energy, was very weak. He could manage to suppress one stone golem, but he was powerless to do so against two.
Seeing the weight coming down, he dared not be careless. He immediately turned around and pushed forward with both hands. A phantom Bagua plate quickly enlarged, blocking him and the bronze weight.
A deafening roar erupted, shaking the entire hall.
The bronze weight was blocked by the illusory image of the Bagua plate and crashed directly to the ground, but the illusory image of the Bagua plate also collapsed instantly and could no longer take shape.
Since merging with the Morning Palace Stone Man, Li Jiuhe has felt his attack power rapidly increasing.
He laughed and said to the Death Pass, "Get ready to absorb this guy's energy!"
【Okay, sure!】
The pass was trembling with excitement, wishing it could pounce on the old man and bite him hard.
Li Jiuhe reached out and quickly retrieved the bronze weight that had fallen to the ground. Then, he assumed a horse stance, channeled his strength into his arms, and threw it forcefully at the old man again.
The old man could no longer form the illusory image of the Bagua plate and could only retreat quickly.
The moment he stepped aside, the stone figure bound in black chains that he had blocked appeared. Like the stone figure in the Morning Palace just now, it was only one-third the size it used to be.
Because it had been draining energy for longer than the Morning Palace Stone Man, it was noticeably weaker.
Bang!
The weight made a dent in the ground, but the old man dodged it.
Li Jiuhe knew that if the opponent did not linger in the fight, although his strength had been greatly enhanced by the blessing of the Morning Palace Stone Man, he still would not be able to seriously injure the old man in a short time.
So without stopping, I immediately used 1 point to start labeling.
The words before my eyes flashed out.
[1. Slowed movement, lasting for ten minutes; 2. Deafness (aphasia, blindness) for half an hour (either can be specified) ————]
However, he had already made his choice before the text had even fully appeared.
"Slow to act!"
With my attack power greatly increased, as long as I am fast enough and strong enough, it will be enough if my opponent is slow enough to avoid my attack.
The label of "slow movement" quickly took effect; the old man's body twitched slightly, and his backward speed decreased sharply.
His face showed horror, and he immediately realized that he seemed to have been cursed.
At the same moment, the bronze weight was thrown from afar and landed precisely on his head.
The old man couldn't help but shout. A colorful light seemed to flash out from within the black and white figure, but it only lasted for a second before disappearing. The weight was approaching the next second.
The old man wanted to retreat, but he was too weak to move and his movements were too slow.
In his prime, breaking a curse of this magnitude on him would have been a piece of cake, but now it's simply impossible.
With a loud thud, the old man's black and white figure was struck squarely by the weight.
It turned out that the energy line he was absorbing was connected to the stone figure in the dark palace, but it was completely severed at this moment, and the originally weak stone figure in the dark palace suddenly straightened up.
It looked up at Li Jiuhe and at the same time saw the stone figure of the Morning Palace that had merged with Li Jiuhe.
【It's all done! Haha, wait a moment!】
The Death Pass immediately sent a string of text to Li Jiuhe, and then pounced on the old man's body that was being pressed down by the weight.
Li Jiuhe ignored it for the time being and focused on the stone figure in the dark palace.
Just like the stone figure in the Morning Palace, this creature's shrunken body began to grow taller inch by inch. Without the old man's absorption, its recovery speed became very fast.
After a few minutes, the creature had recovered more than half of its strength, and like the stone figure in the Morning Palace, it took a step forward and merged into Li Jiuhe's body.
Li Jiuhe did not retreat; he knew this must be the morning bell's instruction to the two stone figures.
It seems that only by temporarily combining their forces and maximizing their attack power can they deal with the most terrifying enemy in history.
Looking around, Li Jiuhe was still wary of whether there was another black and white body of the old man from before.
Just then, the words "Death Pass" reappeared.
"I'm satisfied; you've repaid the life you owed me as a Sequencer. But if you can allow me to absorb another person, I will keep my promise and tell you the secret I know!"
"I'll try my best." Li Jiuhe knew the pass referred to the second mastermind, and nodded.
He retrieved the weight, revealing the old man's corpse, which had been smashed into a pulp on the ground.
The corpse was no longer black and white, but based on its current appearance, it was impossible to tell that it was a person; it was just an irregular mass of flesh, giving people a strange feeling.
"Could you check again to see if there's any other old man around here?"
Li Jiuhe is not sure if he has really killed the man, after all, the old man's behavior is too strange and cannot be guessed using the abilities of ordinary sequence users.
As the Death Pass was working hard to detect, a loud rumble shook the ground, and then the entire Morning Bell Space began to tremble rapidly.
Tiles fell, beams broke, and the dimly lit palace seemed on the verge of collapse at any moment.
Li Jiuhe immediately rushed out of the dark hall at top speed. Looking up, he saw a huge, fat hand descending from the sky above the four-meter-high morning bell in the center of the square, grabbing at the bell fiercely.
This giant hand was not like the black giant hand in the deserted wooden house last time. Instead, it looked no different from a human hand, only much larger and more bloated.
The other end of its hand pierced through this section of the sky in the Morning Bell space, protruding from the crack in the sky and accurately grasping the Morning Bell in the square.
That was the true form of the Morning Bell. Li Jiuhe simultaneously sensed the terror and rage erupting from the two stone figures that had merged into his body.
"Hoichi"
With a long roar to the sky, he became a combination of two stone figures and charged towards the giant hand.
Before he even got close, he swiftly swung out the bronze weight in his right hand, while his left hand grabbed the chain wrapped around his body, seized one end of the chain, and threw it out.
The bronze weight represents powerful, domineering, and unparalleled brute force, while the black chain represents skillful, ingenious, and extremely fierce attacks.
The giant hand had already grasped the morning bell, but it was quickly struck hard on the back of its hand by the weight, and then the chain wrapped around it and quickly looped around its wrist.
Li Jiuhe stopped abruptly, grabbed the chain on his side with both hands, and pulled hard with all his might.
Unable to hold onto its target any longer, the giant hand put down the morning bell it was about to grab, and, using the force of Li Jiuhe's pull, slapped Li Jiuhe hard on the head.
However, at this moment, Li Jiuhe's reaction speed and brute strength were both extremely astonishing. It is no exaggeration to say that even if he were to fight against that old man in his prime, he would be able to remain undefeated for a short period of time.
As the giant hand came crashing down on him, he reached out and recalled the weight, quickly hanging it on one end of the chain on his side, and then threw it violently in the opposite direction.
The flying weight immediately pulled the giant hand to the other side, while the other end of the giant hand remained inside the crack in the sky.
It doesn't seem to be able to stretch very far, otherwise it wouldn't just be one hand coming down, but the whole body would enter this space.
After being pulled sharply by the weight and the chain, the giant hand felt pain and gave up attacking Li Jiuhe and grabbing Chenzhong. Instead, it quickly released its grip and tried to pull back.
The giant hand was also extremely powerful, forcefully blocking the weight and chains.
Seeing this, Li Jiuhe stepped forward, grabbed one end of the black iron chain, and with a bang, the bluestone bricks under his feet shattered as he held on tightly to the other end of the chain.
The giant hand retracted with even greater force and seemed to be in a great hurry, clearly indicating that the owner of the giant hand had not expected that Li Jiuhe would be able to snatch the Morning Bell from the old man's hands.
Not only that, but at such a critical moment, it can also merge with the two stone figures into one, and its physical attack power will increase by leaps and bounds!
The two sides were locked in a stalemate, seemingly having exhausted all their strength.
Li Jiuhe's face was flushed, and the veins on his neck and arms were bulging as he gripped the chains tightly.
Meanwhile, the enormous, fat hand at the other end of the chain continued to slowly slip away, the chain on the wrist gradually sliding off and hooking onto the four fingers except for the thumb.
Then it slipped down again, only three strands were wrapped around it, then two more —
Seeing that his opponent was about to escape, Li Jiuhe shouted loudly, and his strength increased again.
A surge of potential burst forth, and the tightening force of the chains suddenly intensified, snapping off the last remaining entangled index and middle fingers with a snap.
Two thick, fleshy fingers broke off and fell from mid-air, hitting the ground.
Under Li Jiuhe's command, the chain tried to hook the other fingers upwards again, but the giant hand had already taken advantage of the moment the finger was severed to retract into the crack in the sky and disappear.
The two fingers that fell to the ground struggled incessantly, and soon began to turn black and rot, emitting a foul stench.
The morning bell, standing in the middle of the square, rang out with a "hum," its sound reverberating far and wide, echoing throughout the square and between the two main halls.
As the bell tolled, the gloomy sky gradually cleared up.
The two rotting fingers decayed rapidly until they turned into foul-smelling liquid, which quickly dried up, leaving only faint traces on the bluestone bricks.
Through the two stone figures inside his body, Li Jiuhe could clearly feel that the Morning Bell of the Second Seventh had regained its freedom at this moment and escaped the control of the mastermind.
The chimes continued to ring, and to Li Jiuhe, they conveyed an indescribable sense of pleasure.
Even now, the two stone figures remain inside his body and have not separated.
He looked up at the crack in the sky and found that it was still the same and had not healed.
Immediately, the consciousness of the Morning Bell entered Li Jiuhe's mind, which surprised him.
After a moment, he asked, "Are you telling me to go through that crack?"
Yes, yes, the past is the past, it must be the past!
Before Morning Bell could give any feedback, Death Pass got excited and immediately reminded Li Jiuhe.
I have a strong feeling that if you just cross this crack, you will be able to find out the truth about the events that have been troubling you all along.
And I sensed the presence of the person I most needed to devour on the other end! Hurry, I need to get through there now!
>