Chapter 6: Flip-Flop
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【Warning!
Three minutes until the black mist collapses!
Please leave the area as soon as possible!】
Feng Yalin was taken aback.
Oh man, if I had known, I wouldn’t have let Li Ying Tian and the others out first! It’s like someone just compressed her monster-hunting time!
Whatever, no use whining now.
Three minutes is still plenty of time.
She ditched her dramatic fighting style and retreated into the darkness.
No need to slice the Nightmare Beasts in half—just end their lives quickly!
With this shift in strategy, her efficiency skyrocketed.
Each time she emerged from the shadows, her sword just had to kiss the beasts’ necks to snuff out their lives.
In just three minutes, she managed to take down nearly 500 Nightmare Beasts.
When she finally stepped out of that shaky black mist gap, she had racked up over 4,000 Nightmare Beasts, including one boss beast, the Flame Beast.
Her k*ll count was nothing short of outrageous.
Even she couldn’t believe that the insane slaughter just a moment ago was all her doing.
【Ding! Time’s up!】
At that moment, the remaining Nightmare Beasts hiding somewhere in Ground City, evading Feng Yalin’s relentless pursuit, suddenly felt an intense wave of panic.
Then, they began to tremble uncontrollably.
“Ahhh…”
One by one, they transformed back into human form.
But before these players could rejoice at regaining control over their bodies, the ground began to shake violently.
“Boom!”
Players screamed in terror,
and some fell into cracks in the earth, the situation was dire.
At that moment, the system live streaming room switched its view to the outside.
The black mist wrapping around Thousand Bird City began to tremble violently and then swiftly condensed inward.
Like a giant cotton ball being squeezed into a tiny clump,
the players caught within lost consciousness in an instant,
and when they woke up, they found themselves back in reality.
They quickly logged back into the game, returning to the streaming room.
To the audience’s shock and awe,
that massive black mist eventually shrank into a small clump, and with a “pop,” like a little balloon getting stabbed, it dissipated into the endless dark night.
As the black mist completely vanished,
the Floating City and Ground City reappeared, bathed in moonlight.
The audience was dumbfounded, utterly confused by this turn of events.
They clearly saw the black mist enveloping Thousand Bird City shrink and explode,
yet suddenly, Thousand Bird City was perfectly intact and floating again.
Could it be that the Thousand Bird City in the black mist was fake?
Just an illusion?
In that instant when the black mist condensed and exploded,
Feng Yalin, who had just stepped through the gap, along with Li Ying Tian and a few others, suddenly felt a jolt and lost consciousness.
When Feng Yalin came to, she was shocked to find herself at the edge of Ground City, with the Wolf Demon sprawled beside her, snoring like a chainsaw.
If she sensed things correctly,
they were now precisely at the boundary of what people thought was a “visual deception.”
Everyone believed the tranquil, floating Thousand Bird City was the illusion, while the one shrouded in black mist was the real deal.
But it seemed quite the opposite was true.
That “visual deception” boundary was actually a strange means of plunging people into nightmares.
In other words, all the creatures lurking under the black mist were just figments of dreams brought to life.
So what was Ji Shen’s aim in all this fuss?
Just to trap them in a dream?
Before Feng Yalin could fully wrap her head around it, a violent wind suddenly sliced down from above.
In a mad scramble, Feng Yalin executed a triangular jump, elegantly dodging the lethal strike in a spin.
Sadly, the Wolf Demon, still dreaming sweet dreams, was split in half by that razor-sharp sword energy.
bl**d sprayed everywhere, turning the nearby grass a gruesome shade of red.
“Wolf Demon! What the heck! You j*rk!”
d*mn it, why didn’t I wake him up right away!
j*rk! j*rk! j*rk!
Feng Yalin’s eyes turned red, and she shot her gaze up at the enemy hovering mid-air who had just attacked.
The moment she saw his face,
her pupils dilated in shock, almost unable to believe her eyes.
Through gritted teeth, she hissed, “Li Ying Tian?”
He looked at her as if he didn’t recognize her at all, coldly stating, “Demoness, you must be the one who misled us into that realm of nightmares. If I hadn’t endured insult upon insult, I wouldn’t have held out until this moment of escape.
Ha! Out of that black mist,
I could k*ll you with a single finger!
Prepare to d*e, Demoness!”
As the red sword energy sliced down, over fifty flying swords rained from the sky, sealing off every angle of escape for her.
She had underestimated Li Ying Tian.
That old man must have woken up to find his injuries healed and realized everything in the black mist was just a dream—a rude awakening indeed.
Just as Feng Yalin suspected,
Li Ying Tian burst into action as soon as he realized they were lying in the grass outside Ground City, all of his disciples who had “died” right before his eyes were peacefully sleeping.
He immediately connected the dots that the endless cycle before was merely a nightmare,
though he didn’t know how the enemy managed it nor what their purpose was.
But realizing he was physically unharmed and at his peak strength ignited an unbearable sense of humiliation within him.
In that black mist,
he, the Sect Leader of Thousand Bird City, one of the seven great Immortal Gates, had, in a moment of life and d*ath, bowed down to an unknown organization just to preserve the legacy of his sect.
And the leader of the Extermination of Immortals, the Cold Moon Witch, was the number one threat they had been trying to hunt down.
To beg her minions for protection?
What a humiliation that was!
If it weren’t for the big-picture stance of protecting Thousand Bird City, would he stoop so low?
But now that everything had returned to normal,
that woman who had been invincible in the nightmare would surely revert to her true self.
He was absolutely confident.
After all, there was no way anyone could slaughter thousands of monsters and still be cool, calm, and collected.
Unless she was in cahoots with White Feather City.
That could explain her ridiculous combat prowess in the dream, unchallenged by anyone.
Ha! Their goal was to humiliate him, to mock him, to relish in his fall from grace.
As long as he killed her, no one would ever know about all this.
In that moment, Li Ying Tian even forgot that Thousand Bird City was on the brink of disaster.
The tides of rage surged within him, clouding his judgment.
Only by killing Feng Yalin could everything return to the way it should be.
“d*e!”
The red sword energy descended from above.
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P.S.: Afternoon tea? Or dinner?
