Chapter 329: Chapter 329: Catastrophe Descends _1
Ye Ming felt utterly puzzled, he had never experienced such a feeling before.
Even when he had been on the brink of life and death, this sensation had never surfaced, let alone with such intensity that it made his heart tremble uncontrollably.
Before he could detect anything, Lin Mengdie beside him had already let out a cry of alarm, pointing to the sky and asking, "What is that?"
Ye Ming looked up and saw the sky above gradually darkening, a massive dark cloud suddenly appeared, looming right over his head.
The surroundings were clear skies as far as the eye could see; the appearance of the dark cloud was extremely strange.
And the source of Ye Ming’s fear was the dark cloud above.
It was as if hell itself was waving at him.
Ye Ming kept scouring his memory, but couldn’t find any record of such a bizarre phenomenon.
Just then, the sound of muffled thunder echoed from within the dark cloud.
Ye Ming wanted to shift his position to avoid it, but the bottleneck inside his body was already mostly broken through, success was in sight, and any random movement would mean failure, rendering his three days of effort all for naught.
"Who exactly wants to target me? It doesn’t matter, bring it on!" Ye Ming said fiercely.
He looked at Lin Mengdie and said earnestly, "Miss Lin, please hide yourself far away, I have a feeling this is not simple, I don’t want to involve you."
Without hesitation, Lin Mengdie realized that her strength hadn’t reached Ye Ming’s level, and her fear was even more intense than Ye Ming’s. At this moment, she was so frightened that sweat drenched her head and her soul trembled.
"You... you must be careful!" Lin Mengdie stepped back two steps, watching Ye Ming with concern, admonishing him.
Ye Ming’s breathing became rapid, the sense of fear in his heart grew even more intense.
But at the same moment, a raging fury also ignited within him.
No matter which power was targeting him, to make a move at such a time was the most unwise choice. He wanted to see what was going on.
"Come on!" Ye Ming bellowed toward the sky.
Suddenly, a beam of light shot out from the dark cloud.
Upon closer look, that was actually lightning as thick as a human arm.
Boom!
The lightning struck precisely on top of Ye Ming’s head, causing the ground around him to collapse.
After the thunderous noise, Ye Ming’s eyes bulged, he spewed out a mouthful of fresh blood, and, with no strength left to support himself, collapsed limply to the ground.
He couldn’t believe what he was seeing in front of him, feeling as if all the bones in his body were shattered.
He had experienced the Falling Thunder Talisman of the Tianshan Sect before; the lightning from that talisman, when hitting him, only caused some pain, and he could fully recover in just a few seconds.
But the lightning before him had a force hundreds of times greater than the Falling Thunder Talisman, completely surpassing the limit of what Ye Ming’s body could endure.
Exhausting all his skills to withstand this strike of lightning, he was utterly drained.
He lay flat in the deep crater, staring blankly at the sky.
But soon, he couldn’t stay calm.
Because the second bolt of lightning was already condensing in the sky.
Boom!
After another loud noise, Ye Ming’s body was embedded into the ground, completely immobile, with no power left to resist.
His clothes had shattered into dust, and the only part of him that could move was his eyes.
The only thought in his mind was, could this be the legendary heavenly tribulation?
The promotion from Earth Rank, could it require passing through a heavenly tribulation?
The third bolt of lightning began to condense.
Boom!
Ye Ming had already lost consciousness, entering a state of trance, feeling as if he had turned into a soul.
"Could this be the feeling of death?"
...
Outside Chuzhou City, atop a mountain, a man in a black robe stood on the edge of a cliff, his gaze cold and fierce as he stared at the distant sky.
He trembled with rage, his aura of murder spreading a hundred miles around.
Both birds in flight and beasts on the land were scattered by this powerful murderous intent.
"Damn you, heavens, are you really going to be so ruthless? This time it’s three bolts of lightning, three geniuses have fallen! How can we bear this?"
"Why is it so, why was nobody informed of such risks?"
"Damn it! If it weren’t for the burdens I carry, I would surely..."
The spread of the murderous intent reached its limit at this moment, then was retracted back.
He sighed in desolation and turned away to leave.
Inside the black robe, there was a handsome and dashing face; if anyone saw it, they would surely exclaim his name in surprise, Chu Heng.
East Sea.
At the top of a tall building, an elder with white hair at his temples squinted his eyes and sighed deeply, as though there was something in his chest that he just couldn’t expel.
He clenched his fists tightly and sighed, "Another fall of three prodigious talents, such a pity!"
Nanjiang, Poison Sect.
A purple-robed elder immediately concealed all of his aura and hid under a table in fright upon seeing the dark clouds in the sky.
Only when the dark clouds dispersed did he dare to poke his head out, his body drenched in cold sweat in just a brief moment.
Not only them, but strong entities all over Dragon Country also turned their attention toward Jiangbei at this moment.
"Jiangbei City, a place where talents emerge in droves, usually producing a few exceptional geniuses each year. I didn’t expect that this year, there would suddenly be three, but alas..."
"Under such a catastrophe, how could ordinary people withstand it?"
"Could it be, only by stabbing a hole into the heavens can this catastrophe be resolved?"
"An occurrence that at most happens once a year, yet this year it has occurred three times. It was hard enough to encounter, but now... it’s such a pity, so lamentable!"
...
In Yanjing, Xu Lele suddenly frowned, a foreboding premonition jumping in her heart.
She then cried out, looking down to see that her finger had been cut by the kitchen knife, blood pouring out.
She was practicing cooking, and an unfocused moment had led to her injury.
"Miss, are you alright?" Auntie Wu, the maid, hurried over, looking at her with concern and said, "You should rest. Leave such tasks to us servants."
Xu Lele shook her head, indicating she was fine.
She hastily treated the wound and fumbled for her phone, dialing Ye Ming’s number.
Unfortunately, Ye Ming’s phone couldn’t get through at all, only the cold beeping of an engaged line coming through.
"Ye Ming, where on earth have you gone? How are you?"
"Why have you suddenly gone silent? Could it be that the feeling I just had is related to you?"
She thought for a moment, then immediately tried to call Xia Ningning.
Regrettably, Xia Ningning’s line was busy.
At this moment, Xia Ningning was holding the phone with a grave expression on her face.
The Intelligence Organization underneath her had phoned her, saying, "Miss, a heavenly catastrophe has appeared in the skies above Jiangbei!"
Xia Ningning’s brow furrowed, her heart skipping a beat: "What? In Jiangbei?"
She suddenly thought of Ye Ming, who was currently in Jiangbei, could it be...
