Chapter 115

Chapter 115: The Great Escape

But that wasn’t the end of them . After luring in a second one, naturally, there would also be a third, fourth and fifth . Various types of demonic beasts came gathering over from every direction . Staring at the shadow as though it was a lump of meat, they began to throw waves after waves of attacks . Some of them attacked the shadow, while some began to slaughter each other .

Zhu Yao suddenly imagined as though demonic beasts were raiding a city . She had never seen a single one of these demonic beasts before, and she was able to guarantee that not a single person in the entire cultivation world had ever seen such demonic beasts before . Not to mention, she was unable to discern just what ranks the demonic beasts possessed . Although they clearly did not possess a single hint of any tyrannical aura, their strength was a little terrifying .

If any one of these were to descend into the cultivation world, it would simply become an existence which could kill anything with a single blow .

Even something as strong as that shadow, was clearly unable to beat a crowd of such demonic beasts . Dodging seemed to become tough for it as well, as its figure was becoming fainter from all the chewing . Yet, more and more demonic beasts continued to flood in .

In the beginning, Zhu Yao was hiding, and finding places to flee to with all her might . Yet, no matter how she retreated, she was still unable to leave the battlefield . When she finally managed to leave far enough, she bumped face-to-face with a demonic beast that had just been lured over .

That beast was as sturdy as a mountain . Its entire body was covered with boulders, and seemed to be a stone-beast . Its pair of glowing red eyes was currently staring right at her .

At that moment, Zhu Yao had a bad premonition .

Even that shadow was unable to beat these demonic beasts, she would definitely be trash in this situation .

“Mistress, hurry, hurry, release your aura . ” Turning around, Sesame reminded .

Oh right, she was of the Dragon Race, demonic beasts instinctively feared her . Zhu Yao did not hesitate . Supressing the intense pain in her chest, she released her dragon’s aura with all her might, and even expanded it to her limit .

In an instant, the place seemed to have quietened down for a moment . Not even a single noise could be heard . Even the demonic beasts which were fighting in a heated battle with the shadow at the other side, had strangely stopped as well . Zhu Yao simply felt a chill running down her spine, as though she had just heard a congratulatory firecracker going off .

There’s something off… with this reaction .

Rooooar~~~~~~~~

Resounding roars encompassed the heaven and earth . The demonic beasts which were crowding around the shadow earlier, suddenly switched their target, and came attacking towards her .

The hell, what happened to the promised suppression of bloodlines!

Zhu Yao leapt onto Sesame’s back, and shouted loudly . “Run!”

What happened to the most basic form of trust between humans and beasts?

Release your sister’s dragon’s might, dammit .

With a flap of his wings, like a curving arrow, Sesame flew up with all his might . Broken images filled the surroundings .

The crowd of demonic beasts reacted as well, as they let out various roaring sounds . Throwing aside the shadow which they were fighting over earlier, they began to chase after Zhu Yao like silly ducks .

Taking this opportunity, the shadow’s figure flashed, and instantly disappeared like mist .

“Mistress, what are we going to do?” Sesame was about to cry . Just what the hell were these beasts behind them? He had been a beast for such a long time, yet, he had never seen beasts which looked like them . And their abilities were absolutely perverse .

“Continue flying, use all of your spiritual energy . ” Zhu Yao replied . Placing Yue Ying by her side, she then began to adjust herself . The blow from the shadow simply came too suddenly, and she did not prepare any defences beforehand . Her Dantian had already been completely shattered, and the spiritual energy in her body was moving about haphazardly inside . Though several meridians in her body had already been ruptured, she still tried to guide the spiritual energy out of her body . However, it was completely ineffective, and it instead worsened her injuries . As though it could not be contained, blood continuously flowed out from the corner of her lips .

“Mistress, they’re about to catch up . ” The ranks of the demonic beasts behind him were evidently much higher than his, and being caught up was a problem that was bound to happen .

“Keep at it for a while more . ” In times like this, she could only make a desperate struggle . Zhu Yao gritted her teeth, and retracted her aura . Using all of her willpower to envelop the spiritual energy in her body, she tried to form a formation .

As expected, it was slightly effective, as not even a moment later, a red formation was formed beneath her .

Her Dantian had shattered, and adding that she had lost control of her spiritual energy, Zhu Yao’s body was basically in spasm from the pain . She could feel her own meridians being ruptured open inch by inch from the haphazard spiritual energy, yet, she did not stop . The moment she were to stop, they would completely lose their lease of life, and would be swallowed alive by the demonic beasts behind them .

Even though it was a mere instant, it felt as long as an entire century .

Finally, the formation was completed .

While a flying bone-beast had already caught up, and with its mouth opened wide, it pounced towards them .

Gathering spiritual energy within her index finger, she wrote an inscription on the formation . Then, with a single hand, she pressed onto the inscription . “Void, activate!”

In an instant, a black hole seemed to have appeared from the formation itself . It instantly swallowed the beast and the two people into it, and disappeared in the air . While that bone-beast had crunched onto empty air, and as it furiously moved about its wings, it let out a howling roar .

What Zhu Yao cast was a Void Teleportation Formation . With a teleportation formation as a support, she cut through the void in space . It could instantly send the user a thousand kilometres away, and because it was a single-use formation, the gate would close the instant the teleportation was complete .

This teleportation formation, however, had a certain amount of backlash . If it was in the past, she basically wouldn’t mind about such a small backlash . But right now, she was injured in the first place, yet, she still forcefully activated the formation . That backlash instantly amplified by numerous times, and she felt as though her organs had been sliced apart . Like an opened tap, she puked out several mouthful of blood . Even her divine sense had begun to ache with a piercing pain .

“Ah… Ah…” Yue Ying crawled next to her, and anxiously tugged onto the corner of her clothes .

“Mistress…” Sesame returned to his human form as well, as he squatted down and held onto her .

Zhu Yao took in many deep breaths, before she was able to regain her senses . Reaching out her hand, she stroked Yue Ying’s head, and gave him a consoling gaze .

“Where are we right now?”

Sesame inspected their surroundings . “I can no longer feel the presence of those demonic beasts . Most probably, we have been sent somewhere very far away . ”

“Sesame, about those… demonic beasts, do you recognize them?”

Sesame shook his head . “Sesame has never seen such demonic beasts, and had never heard of them either . Just what in the world is this place?”

Even she wanted to know what this place was . Why were they here the moment that golden light shone? Oh right, she seemed to have noticed that the light was emitted from that black scroll earlier .

Zhu Yao subconsciously touched her chest, only to realize that the scroll had long disappeared without a trace .

Could it be…

“We seemed to have entered the world of that picture scroll . ” Chen Ning had once said that it was a scroll which came from the Ancient Era, and the demonic beasts drawn there had all went extinct very far in the past . In the beginning, she had even thought that the scroll was similar to a regular encyclopaedia about animals, just that it was an ancient version . However, evidently, that scroll had only shone after her blood stained it . They were then transferred into it .

In that case, that basically wasn’t an encyclopaedia, but most likely, a sealed scroll . And those demonic beasts were exactly the ones which had been sealed into this world .

Zhu Yao then gave Sesame a rough explanation about the scroll .

“Seems like the seal of this scroll is extremely strong . ” Earlier, that formation of hers was capable of cutting through the void in space, yet, they were currently still in this world . It seemed like shattering the void in space was not a viable method to return to their former world either .

Sesame frowned as well . “Then how are we going to leave this place?”

Zhu Yao lowered her head and pondered . Suddenly, she recalled the black inked smudge that was close to the end of the scroll . “Let’s head to the deepest part of this world . We might have another strand of hope to survive . ”

“I will start moving right now . ” This place was simply too dangerous . Any one of the demonic beasts here was able to swallow them up whole .

Sesame nodded, and returned to his former shape . After hiding his own presence, he signalled Zhu Yao and Yue Ying to climb up .

At the moment he was about to fly, suddenly, a shrilling roar which could make one’s hair to stand sounded .

The hell, it’s coming again!

Chasing behind them was a huge bird which was enveloped entirely in black flames . It’s figure was extremely big . Sesame’s true form could already be considered to be humongous, yet, this bird was actually more than ten times his size . With a glance, it looked as though it was about to cover half of the entire sky .

And the noise that bird made was very unique . Every single voice it let out felt as though countless of sharp knives were piercing straight towards her . Even Zhu Yao herself was barely able to hold on, and she could only seal Yue Ying’s five senses, preventing him from receiving any injuries from its quaking roars .

The bird wasn’t exactly flying very quickly, but because its figure was too huge, with a flap of its wings, it could bring about a huge turbulence in the air . Although they were running at the front, they would still be affected by the airflow, causing their speed to decrease .

“Sesame, use your spiritual energy to envelop your surroundings, it will prevent you from being affected by the airflow . ”

When Sesame heard this, he immediately acted accordingly . As expected, after isolating the airflow in the surroundings, he was no longer affected by the gigantic bird . His speed was much faster than before, as he moved further and further away from the gigantic bird . The demonic beast seemed to have realized this point as well, as its roar became even more anxious .

Suddenly, it opened that large mouth it had, only to see a flash of lightning inside it . A mass of white-colored lightning began to grow within its mouth .

“It’s lightning…” Sesame became anxious as well . Who would have thought that this bird was actually lightning-attributed? Other than lightning beasts, there are actually lightning-attributed demonic beasts in this world . This was illogical .

Demonic beasts were innately weak against lightning . No matter how tough Sesame’s body was, he would still be unable to block against a lightning attack from this demonic beast which was ranked higher than him . Even his voice had begun to tremble .

That bird had already spat out that ball of lightning, and it was shot right towards them .

“Mistress!”

In this intense situation, Zhu Yao could only immediately take on her dragon form, and hook onto Sesame with her tail . Then, with her fastest speed, she desperately flew up . This was definitely a subconscious action of hers, yet, Zhu Yao did not expect that her dragon form was actually capable of flying this fast .

In a blink of an eye, she had already thrown the huge bird off .

When there’s gains, there would naturally be losses . After restoring to her dragon form, her dragon’s aura could no longer be concealed, as it arrogantly announced her existence .

Hence… All of the demonic beasts felt it .

And thus… The number of demonic beasts chasing after them increased .

Momma’s egg!

“Sesame, protect Yue Ying well . ” Zhu Yao gritted her teeth . Right now, she could only desperately flee . Hopefully, before she was caught up, she could fly out of this place in time .

This was Zhu Yao’s first time flying with her dragon form, and she could feel an indescribable invigorating feeling rising in her body . It was something that came along with her bloodline, and even her injuries seemed to have soothed a little . Her speed gradually increased, and only broken images could be seen from the surrounding scenery .

It was as though she was born to fly in the clouds . Not knowing how long it had been, the constant roars behind her seemed to have begun to decrease .

Zhu Yao felt a little excited in the depths of her heart . It was actually this effective? It seemed like not long later, she would be able to escape from those crowd of demonic beasts .

As expected, as long as one persevered, there will always be a way…

My ass!

Zhu Yao stopped at the side of a pitched black screen . She instantly had the impulse to ruthlessly slam God onto the ground .