Chapter 9 – The heavens are crying

The hand that shot down from the heavens in an instant had swallowed her whole into that crack in the clouds, without even giving Moon a chance to say anything back. His fairy had been taken, taken by the heavens! Moments ago he thought the flames were going to take her life, never would he have imagined some divine being from the sky would grab her and take her away!

The villagers were stood in a trance, many were flailing around on the floor as their eyes were temporarily blinded. Only those who had cultivated to the third stage had seen the hand take Uriel to the skies. All of a sudden, tribulation lightning began to shoot down upon the town! Houses were blown up in an instant, leaving nothing but craters.

As the lightning fired down upon the village, the black nothingness of night was engulfed in a bloody red. The clouds turned from their usual white to a dark rouge, as it started to rain. What was pouring down was not water though, but blood.

Blood was showering down from the heavens!

The heavens were crying blood!

As the villagers began to regain their vision, a villager that had a soaked head of hair that was thick with blood pointed up to that crack in the clouds where the hand had been.

“LOOK! There's movement in the clouds! There's something flying towards the village!”.

All of the villagers stared up towards the sky, various shadows were leaping around in the crack where that enormous divine hand had been. Then all of a sudden they descended down upon the village.

Enormous flying magical beasts! The beasts wings were almost ten meters long, and their length reached around fifteen meters. Their scales were entirely black, and underneath the beast were no legs or arms, but instead there were thousands of thick teeth and one big gaping hole underneath it which made it look like one huge mouth. The heads of these beasts were hard to comprehend, it was almost like a dragons yet there were dozens of eyes where it's one eye was supposed to be. It's horns weren't horns, but instead tendrils which were riddled with teeth and were wiggling about. The aura they gave off was incredibly strong, that pressurizing Qi made these beasts seem as if they were atleast at the Rebirth layer.

The villagers didn't even have time to react, the flying magical beasts rained down upon them. A strange vacuum like pressure came from their gaping mouths, villagers left and right were sucked in and were being skewered into a thousand pieces!

That devious trio from before, that burly man Brutus who was currently carrying Rudan and the suit wearing rat Donovan, could be seen shoving people out of their way as they tried to dash away into the trees. One of the beasts flew down, it's head lowered as one of it's tendril horns latched onto the rat Donovan and flew back up into the sky. Seconds later a skeleton fell down from above, there was nothing left of him!

Brutus who was carrying Rudan, still couldn't believe what was happening. Earlier today he was carrying out simple blacksmithing tasks when all of a sudden in a single day, his son was crippled, a divine hand from the heavens carried off a princess and now some evil flying beasts were attacking his town! It was like one big nightmare which he would never wake up from.

As he dashed into the woods, he looked back to see the town in a sea of fire and lightning. Those flying beasts were picking up villagers left right and center and were eating them alive with those tens of thousands of teeth in its maws. He took one last glance and dashed into the depth of the forest, Brutus and his son Rudan had actually managed to escape with their lives, truly the heavens were unfair!

Meanwhile outside of Merry's burnt down house, Moon was stood on one knee with blood continuously trickling down the wound in his leg. The three colored orb within his dantian was rapidly rotating, with the green part of the orb sending out streams of endless Qi to where he was pierced. The wound began to heal at an incredible rate, blood had already stopped coming out and the area where his bone was chipped had gone back to it's previous healthy state.

“What's this strange green Qi healing my leg? It's healing speed is godly, this should have taken atleast a month to heal..”

Moon heard an old mans shouting from his right, he turned to look over and saw old Gin in the mouth of one of the flying beasts. One of his legs was dangling off as the beast tore it off and swallowed it whole. “AAAA~~! Bastard beast!” yelled Gin, as the beast swallowed the rest of his body whole.

“Serves the old bastard right..” thought Moon.

WHAP!

A strong bang sounded out as Moon toppled to the ground, Beriel stood over him with that ice element silver spear in his hand. A chill brushed over Moon as he quickly used his Qi to dispel the lingering ice Qi.

“If I'm going to die to these weird beasts today, then I'm definitely taking you with me, demon brat.” Beriel's eyes had gone totally blood shot, they even had a slither of insanity to them. Due to all the bloodshed and chaos, that dead eyed bastard had gone insane.

Moon hastily exploded out his Qi of the third stage, quickly getting to his feet and dashing off towards that old field where he used to train.

“Too slow, you brat! Forgetting that I'm at the fifth stage?!”.

Beriel gave chace, if Moons speed was fast, then Beriels speed could be compared to a Heavenly Sun leopard. The difference of two stages was too much and he was already just behind Moon. He held his ice spear in his palm, ready to throw it towards Moon, when all of a sudden one of the enormous flying beasts swept down and tore off his arm with a single bite! The silver spear was eaten along with his arm!

“FUCK! My arm! Give it back you filth!”, he then madly began to chase after the beast which took his arm but was quickly stopped as yet another beast dove down and this time sucked his body into the air, feeding him into that titanic gaping mouth.

“Aaaahhh~~!!!”.

His screams were quickly cut off as Beriel had been eaten alive by one of the beasts! A fifth stage cultivator, killed in a split second! Moon looked at the scene which happened within the space of a few breaths and sighed in relief, but only for a moment as another beast was diving down straight towards him!

With little time to react, he utilized his Qi and sent it towards his legs as he jumped four meters into the air, landing right on top of the flying beast! He hastily grabbed onto one of it's wings as the beast let out furious roars and did a vertical dive into the skies. It was a fight of endurance, he was practically using all his strength of the third stage to hold on with all he could!

The beast went higher and higher into the sky, going so high it had entered the clouds. The sky was pitch black past this point, and all he could hear were the deafening roars of some dark magical beasts which shouts could awaken the heavens.

As the beast flew ever higher, the pitch black sky turned into one that was completely red. Moon finally understood where those deafening roars were coming from. Around Moon were thousands upon thousands of enormous magical beasts, the lowest ranked one seemed to be at the Descendant stage. Yet the auras of some of these beasts were unfathomable, one beast which was literally over a thousand miles long had such an overbearing aura, that it could possibly be in the immortal stage. Immortal beasts were made from legends, yet there were hundreds of them surrounding him in the skies!

An old folk story once said that just beneath the tip of the heavens, monstrously strong divine beasts guarded it to test the strength of those who wished to enter the heavens. But if this was just an old folk story, what were these unfathomably strong beasts before him?

"Oh..? What do we have here?"

A massive pressure locked onto Moon and the beast he was riding. A figure that was only around five meters in size which faintly resembled a human was glaring intently at him. It's body was strangely thin, and a torn black cloak covered it's head and most of it's body.

Whoosh!

Qi that was so insanely powerful shot towards the beast he was riding on, it's power was so overwhelming that one of the beasts wings was instantly blown off. He was currently flying down back towards the ground, all the way from the tip of the heavens!

As he passed down from that red layer of cloud down to the black sky, Moon finally got a baring on where he was. He looked into the distance and saw an intense fire raging away, this was Wudao town.. Or what was left of it. At the moment he was going way past Wudao town, into a place where only the top dared to approach.

This was No Mans Land!

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