Chapter 703: Dark Downpour and Raging Currents (Part 1)

Chapter 703: Chapter 335: Dark Downpour and Raging Currents (Part 1)

You Su was very grateful to Venerable Qianhua for ‘lending’ him these special sunglasses.

He even suspected that the shrewd and self-serving woman had long realized his ability to see under special circumstances, even if she never made it explicit.

Because she was a subordinate forced into submission, her cunning nature would never allow her to boast about having seen through her master’s secret in front of him.

So You Su couldn’t tell whether these golden-framed sunglasses were a precious collection she had before or a treasure customized to allow him to act without reservations.

But that didn’t matter; these sunglasses indeed allowed him to view the world through his dark pupils without any more hesitation, and that was enough.

You Su looked up at the sky. It was not yet evening, but the sky was a gloomy, leaden color. Following a thunderous roar, thousands of tons of water cascaded toward the earth, as if the reservoir in the sky had opened its floodgates.

By the time You Su silently reached the outskirts of the crowd, he realized that this encircling evil tide was not made up of misshapen malevolent spirits.

They were each individual people, already corrupted.

Surprisingly, each of them looked quite young, with many dressed in luxurious attire.

Yet on the faces of these handsome men and beautiful women were black, root-like bloodlines, and their gazes were as cold and unfathomable as the deep sea.

You Su didn’t recognize any of these faces, but he could guess that they were all other cultivators from the island’s outskirts. Whether they had sneaked in or were invited, they now were all tainted by evil.

And more frighteningly, You Su had never seen such corrupted individuals before. They seemed to have lost their wits; not one of them spoke, only advancing silently toward the island’s center where the living gathered, then tearing apart every living thing in sight.

You Su had once seen such an existence, right when he was appointed as Divine Son at the Exorcism Bureau’s grand hall, when that evil puppet had ‘luckily’ escaped from the Bureau’s heavenly prison, forcing him to display his sharpness before everyone.

In fact, evil puppets represent the standard state for most people corrupted by evil, even if it’s just a low-level flesh puppet subjugate, it’s still a subjugate.

Most people don’t even qualify to become a demon’s subjugate, only losing their minds in front of the demons and becoming mindless, death-seeking zombies.

These evil puppets swarmed like clouds, entirely surrounding the cultivators gathered at Sanyuan Mountain.

“What exactly do you want to do…” You Su gritted his teeth and silently mused.

With such a major incident on Celestial Awakening Island, outsiders might be unaware, but True Immortal Zhengyang couldn’t possibly be oblivious. Yet, until now, his assistance hadn’t arrived.

Could it be that in the quest for this so-called inheritor, so many cultivators could be left to fall into the abyss of demons without a care?

You Su squeezed the Qiankun Bag nestled in his clothing, which held the inheritance item, and then gripped the Mo Song Sword tightly.

Beside him, another cultivator who had attempted to charge into the evil tide was devoured. You Su saw with his own eyes that a wound as large as a fist appeared on the man’s neck, black, viscous liquid covering the blood that should have spurted out, and then, numbly, he turned into a member of the evil puppet army.

You Su was powerless against this. He suddenly felt a strong aversion to the position of inheritor; if not for that sliver of Celestial Awakening Spiritual Light, he would hold Zhengyang’s inheritance in utter contempt.

The dark sword light flickered in the rain, and You Su’s frustration turned into an even more intense killing intent. These mindless evil puppets were no match for him.

Their movements appeared in slow motion in You Su’s eyes after he opened his dark pupils. He could see the flow of the black liquid clearly, accompanied by the crisp sound of flesh and bone being sliced by sharp blades.

…

Ji Xueruo stood on high ground, staring blankly in the direction where You Su had left.

With her eyesight, she couldn’t possibly see You Su weaving through the evil tide, especially with the torrential rain as a barrier.

‘He will bring the inheritance off the island, just as he intends.’

Ji Xueruo recited silently in her heart.

With her aloof and proud demeanor, she trusted You Su far more than You Su trusted her.

She had observed You Su’s performance since arriving on the island, and aside from not believing You Su’s words like ‘not enough yet’ and ‘not ready yet’ in the cave, she actually already had one hundred percent trust in this blind man.

Not just trusting him as one of her own but also trusting that he could accomplish anything.

And what she had to do now was to guard the last vestige of purity until the moment You Su completed this trial.

The situation on Sanyuan Peak was also rapidly changing. This small mountain at the island’s center had long crumbled under the ravages of the great serpent, and this last bastion of defending the serpent’s prison was their final stronghold.

Many still saw the inheritance item in Zixun’s hands as the only key to survival amidst the evil tide, and they fought for it madly, with the Profound Sky Sect having to put up fierce resistance.

Fortunately, the wailing and howling from the outskirts of Sanyuan Peak awakened those caught in despair. Their preoccupation with internal strife led to more and more cultivators unable to squeeze into the center being swallowed by the evil tide.

The first one to call for a stop to the internal strife was not even Fu Heng, but Beiao Continent’s Long Chiyu.

She exhibited the calm and decisiveness befitting a prodigy of the human race. While she did want to fight for the inheritance item, under the current circumstances, finding a way to survive was evidently the key.

“Demon invades Immortal Island, how could True Immortal not be aware! It’s deliberate! How could we possibly hold back the evil tide? Our only option is to seize the inheritance!”

Tong Hui, covered in blood and on the verge of bursting with rage, had such an aggressive gaze that even Si Han, hiding behind the members of the Profound Sky Sect, dared not look directly at him.