CHAPTER 63 - FATHER'S STRENGTH
Translated by Luxican
Two hours ago, Yun Canghai left Yun Shang to rush to Bi Zhou Village.
Why didn't anyone come? Ten days was easily enough time to send the news to Yujing City.
Yun Sheng didn't know what the man-eating cloud was, but Yun Canghai knew it.
Beast Blood Cloud!
Only the Beast Blood Cloud would devour all the life around it.
The Beast Blood Cloud, for more than a thousand years, had made all the powerful people of the Wu Ji Continent shudder.
According to legend, on the easternmost side of Wu Ji Continent, is a sea of clouds, gathered under an artificial seal. In this sea of clouds is the Beast Blood Cloud.
The sea of clouds was formed by the flesh and blood of the countless demon beast massacred on the Wu JI Continent.
Despite the existence of the seal, every ten years, a crack would appear on the seal, and there would be Beast Blood Clouds which escape and enter the Wu Ji Continent.
After the Beast Blood Cloud entered the continent, it would absorb magical elements and engulf all life standing in its way. Over time, it will form a demon beast fetus inside of it. Once the demon beast fetus matured, it would break out of the cloud and become a high-level demon beast.
The demon beasts bred in the Beast Blood Cloud would be different from the common demon beasts on the continent, they had unusual skills, and some could even use terrible magic.
And Bi Zhou Village had unfortunately encountered such a Beast Blood Cloud.
After the discovery of a Beast Blood Cloud, most countries would kill them immediately, so, the demon beast wouldn't hatch.
But Bi Zhou Village was remote and the news were sent to late. If it went on like this, it was likely that the demon beast would mature and come out. By then, let alone the small villages, even the nearby cities would suffer.
Yun Canghai was part of the Yun Family. Although he left his family for his wife when he was younger, he couldn't bear to see his family suffering from this.
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A huge blood cloud crawled like a bloodied beast on the sand, where once the village stood.
"The color is as bright as blood, and you can hear the heartbeat of the fetus from afar, it will most likely hatch in half a day," after Yun Canghai saw the size of the cloud, which completely covered the village, his face sunk.
Before reaching the cloud, a strong wind, which formed a tornado, rolled from the cloud.
Yun Canghai chanted quickly, and a dazzling light hit the wind.
The tornado collapsed and the light disappeared.
The sky was red.
The Beast Blood Cloud hovered above.
Yun Canghai knew that the surroundings of the Beast Blood Cloud was protected by powerful magic elements. If you wanted to split the cloud and kill the fetus within, you had to at least use advanced magic.
From the attack just now, and the description of the villagers, it could be deducted, while the demon beast hadn't hatched yet, the Beast Blood Cloud harbored a very powerful demon beast of the wind attribute.
Yun Canghai grabbed his magic scepter tighter, a chill ran through his body. If he used advanced magic again, he was afraid the poison in his body...
The face of his daughter kept flashing in his mind.
Yun Canghai slowly put down the magic wand in his hand.
"Woo ----"
The sound of wind came out from the Beast Blood Cloud.
"The demon beast of the Beast Blood Cloud is about to hatch," Yun Canghai no longer hesitated. His tall and thin body was like a thrown javelin as he rushed into the Beast Blood Cloud.
Not far away Xiao Hei hurried over and saw Yun Canghai plunge into the Beast Blood Cloud, he followed closely and also jumped into the clou8d.
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Two hours later, on the barren plain, four people, Yun Sheng, the teenager and the two twin magicians, rushed over.
On the horizon, a bloody mushroom cloud rose up.
A gap grew out of the cloud, and a roaring monster, which looked like a worm or maggot emerged.
Half of the demon beast's body had left the Beast Blood Cloud, it was covered in liquid, and was as high as a small building.
There was nothing around it that was still intact.
"It's the Wind Maggot," the two magicians said in unison after seeing the appearance of the demon beast. They looked at the little girl with pity in their eyes.
Wind Maggot, an eighth-rank demon beast, it commanded powerful magic of the wind attribute, and its sucking power was amazing.
The girl's father was most likely already devoured by it.
"Father!" Yun Sheng looked around, but there was no shadow of Yun Canghai.
"Don't be impulsive!" The teenager grabbed Yun Sheng, and the two twin boys on the side were surprised yet again. Master Shiming actually disregarded cleanness and touched the dirty girl of his own accord?
"Keep off!" Yun Sheng pulled her arm from the teenager's grip, but who had thought that the teenager who looked thin and weak, was actually astonishingly powerful. Yun Sheng couldn't free herself.
A huge fireball emerged from the blood cloud, like a firework in the dark.
If looked closely, it was not a fireball, but a person.
The person was standing in the Beast Blood Cloud.
The man floated in the sky, on his back a pair of fire wings was formed by the condensation of fire elements. He was covered with blood, but the magic scepter in his hand shone with a dazzling light.
"Five, five Soulstones! Oh my god, it's a Magic Sage!" The two boys were stunned again.
Unexpectedly, in the middle of this remote place, there was a Magic Sage.
Who said that the Great Zhou Empire's power was declining, and it was the weakest of the Five Empires. What about this Magic Sage, was he just rotten cabbage?
Yun Sheng stared at the figure in the sky.
She seemed to go back to the night in which she came to this Wu JI Continent.
A bloody man killed dozens of people in black alone.
Next to Yun Sheng, the boy in white shirt looked on a bit awkward. The five Soulstones on his magic scepter were impressive.
"In the name of the Divine, the body of the Pilgrim, summon the Sacred Shield," Yun Sheng only felt a pure white and transparent magic element flow around her body, and surround the four people. A Crescent-shaped light shield appeared.
Light Magic?
Is he a light-attribute magician?
In a matter of seconds, he had cast a nearly perfect Sacred Shield!
"Surprised? Of course, you're just a country-pumpkin magician who has not seen the world yet. This is the young master of the Magic Temple, Master Xia Shiming." The talkative magician declared proudly.
Xia Shiming?
She seemed to have heard this name before.
But she couldn't remember where.
Outside the Sacred Shield, a strong force washed over the plains.
Yun Canghai's magic scepter was raised high, the Wind Maggot had already dragged out most of its body from the Beast Blood Cloud.
"Boom—" A thunderous sound came from the mass of fire elements. In an instant, countless fireballs like a meteor shower crossing a country, brightened the sky.
T/N: ... I did say that I didn't like Yun Canghai..., but does the author need to deprive Yun Sheng of her father?
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