Chapter 354: Chapter 353: Terrifying Xiao Ba
At the edge of the Abyss, Qin Feng felt sore and weak, utterly depleted. The Star True Power within his meridians had run dry. Activating the Chaos Fire Disaster had been too great a burden for him in his current state.
HUFF, HUFF!
Panting lightly, Qin Feng endured the tingling numbness spreading through his body and began circulating the Mixed Element Star Technique again to recover his True Power.
Simultaneously, Qin Feng refined the remnants of the Spring of Life within him to purge his latent injuries and heal his wounds.
Deep underground, at the bottom of a crater thousands of feet deep, a charred figure lay on the ground. He was stark naked, his body burned to charcoal. The Yin Emperor had been utterly dazed by the explosive power of the Chaos Fire Divine Technique.
The explosive force of the five Spirit Fires had bombarded his body, riddling it with holes.
At the bottom of the Abyss, his Vitality was fading and his aura was faint. But this was merely a façade. A Sea Reincarnation Strongman was, after all, a Sea Reincarnation Strongman.
He appeared gravely wounded, but such injuries were nowhere near enough to threaten the life of a Sea Reincarnation Strongman.
Qin Feng knew it too. It wouldn’t be long before the Yin Emperor recovered, thanks to the incredible regenerative powers of the Sea of Reincarnation Realm.
Gazing down into the Abyss, Qin Feng sighed to himself.
’A pity. The Chaos Fire Disaster created from five Spirit Fires is just a flawed version. It’s nothing compared to the true Chaos Fire Divine Technique. If I could refine nine or more types of Spirit Fire, perhaps I’d have a chance to truly devastate an expert of the Sea of Reincarnation Realm!’
With that thought, Qin Feng focused on circulating the Mixed Element Star Technique. Within his parched meridians, faint wisps of Star True Power began to form.
’I have to recover as fast as possible!’
Standing at the edge of the Abyss, Qin Feng fully activated his five Spirit Veins, drawing in the dense Primordial Qi from the Chaos Heaven to restore his Cultivation.
Simultaneously, the Eight Desolates Undying Profound Technique began to circulate. Streams of silver starlight flowed around him, suffusing him in a silvery-white radiance.
THUMP, THUMP, THUMP, THUMP!
Suddenly, a powerful heartbeat, as resonant as a war drum, throbbed in Qin Feng’s ears.
’Not good! He’s recovering this quickly!’ Qin Feng’s gaze turned icy. Looking down, he saw Vitality surging back to life within a charred husk deep below. A gloomy aura emerged from the charcoal and settled over the stiff ’corpse.’ The Yin Emperor’s dull gaze flickered, and consciousness returned to his eyes.
His gaze was sinister, fixed on the figure looking down from above, and it burned with an unshakeable savagery and malice.
Even from thousands of feet away, Qin Feng felt an icy chill creep into his heart.
’I have to find a way to stop him from recovering!’ Qin Feng thought. His own Star True Power was regenerating, but he had only recovered less than thirty percent.
Among cultivators of the same Realm, this recovery speed was astonishing enough to earn the envy of many.
However, it paled in comparison to the recovery rate of a Sea Reincarnation Strongman.
CRACKLE! CRACKLE!
Scabs rapidly formed over the Yin Emperor’s body. In just a few more breaths, it looked like he would make a full recovery!
The Yin Emperor never took his eyes off Qin Feng, the savagery and venom in his gaze almost tangible. There was no doubt that once he recovered, Qin Feng would face a predicament even more perilous than before.
’You’re celebrating too soon.’ A cold sneer touched Qin Feng’s eyes. With a flash, a streak of black light shot out, materializing into an ugly bird before him. It was almost completely featherless, with just a few sad, gray plumes on its head and rump.
The ugly bird executed a graceful aerial spin and landed on Qin Feng’s shoulder. Its beady eyes immediately darted to the bloodstains on Qin Feng’s Battle Armor.
"SQUAWK! Brother Feng, what’s up? Why’d you call for Xiaoba... Huh? You’re injured! Which bastard dared to hurt you?!"
The plumes on the roguish bird’s head stood on end, its shifty eyes glinting with ferocity.
An intangible black light emanated from its body, releasing a ferocious aura that seemed to originate from the ancient Barbaric Wilderness. It was like a Taigu Magical Beast, a poison to all life in primordial times.
The aura it exuded at this moment was in no way inferior to that of some Tier Two Beast Kings.
The majesty contained within its aura, a pressure that could make all other beasts bow in worship, was especially terrifying.
"Alright, that’s enough. The guy’s down there. Don’t let him recover."
Qin Feng’s gaze fell upon the Abyss.
A wild, untamable savagery flashed in Xiaoba’s eyes. With a beat of its wings, it appeared above the Abyss and instantly spotted the Yin Emperor lying within.
"SQUAWK! Brother Feng, don’t you worry. I’ll finish him for you right now!"
The voice of this slick, treacherous ugly bird carried a gravity and seriousness it had never possessed before.
Its pitch-black gaze locked onto the Yin Emperor deep below. The ugly bird opened its beak.
VMMMMMM!
An intangible black radiance manifested. As it appeared, an aura of universal decay and withering coalesced around the ugly bird.
Before Qin Feng’s astonished gaze, the plumes on the ugly bird’s head and its tail feathers abruptly turned black. Simultaneously, layers of jet-black feathers sprouted all over its body.
Each of these jet-black feathers radiated a dark, glossy sheen. The once exceptionally ugly bird now possessed an ineffable, majestic beauty.
It spread its wings slightly, its form growing slender and elegant. In an instant, a silent, pitch-black darkness enveloped everything for hundreds of yards around.
It wasn’t that the light had vanished; rather, all radiance had been devoured by this Divine Bird.
This transformation happened in a flash, completed in less than half a breath.
"Not good!" The Yin Emperor scrambled up from the ground. Forgetting about his recovery, he transformed into a black shadow and shot toward the edge of the Abyss.
Just then, the black Divine Bird let out a piercing cry, and a blazing, terrifying beam of black light spewed from its beak.
The searing black light swept across the entire Abyss.
To the naked eye, everything in the black light’s path was annihilated, inch by inch.
The next moment, it caught up to the swiftly fleeing gray shadow.
The beam of darkness struck the lower half of the Yin Emperor’s body.
Without a sound, the fleeing gray shadow’s physical body, from the hips down, was utterly annihilated by the black light.
"AAAAH!"
The Yin Emperor let out a bloodcurdling scream. Suffering an unprecedented level of damage, his speed suddenly surged, and he managed to break free from the sweeping beam of darkness.
A dozen breaths later, the darkness dissipated. The black feathers fell away from Xiaoba’s body, and it reverted to its ugly form. The radiance around it vanished and, with a flutter, it plummeted toward the ground.
At that very moment, Qin Feng’s Primordial Star True Power finished regenerating completely. His expression shifted, and he blurred into a phantom, reappearing dozens of feet away in the next instant to snatch the falling bird from the air.
The ugly bird was exceptionally weak. Its once-shifty eyes were now filled with exhaustion, and the few feathers on its sparse tail looked dull and lifeless.
It looked as if its vital energy had been completely drained.
It lifted its head, looked at Qin Feng, and squawked weakly.
"SQUAWK... Brother Feng, that guy got hit by my Lifebound Divine Ability, ’Infinite Darkness.’ He’s crippled now. The rest is up to you!"
"SQUAWK... Xiaoba is so tired... Xiaoba needs a good rest... and good food... This took way too much out of me..." Mumbling, it closed its eyes and fell fast asleep, letting out soft snores.
After examining Xiaoba closely, Qin Feng breathed a sigh of relief. Eighth Master had simply expended too much of his Primordial Qi in one go. He was still just a fledgling, after all.
The little guy had pushed himself too hard.
Qin Feng brought the roguish bird into his Chaos Heaven. A gentle force lifted it, carrying it up to its nest in the Tree of Chaos.
The moment it reached the Tree of Chaos, a dense wave of Primordial Qi enveloped it, and the bird transformed into a black egg.
Qin Feng turned and surveyed his surroundings. The Abyss, already thousands of feet deep, had now expanded severalfold.
Xiaoba’s Lifebound Divine Ability, ’Infinite Darkness,’ was truly terrifying. With a single strike, it had vaporized everything within a radius of thousands of feet, leaving not a single trace behind.
It was even more terrifying than Qin Feng’s Chaos Fire Divine Technique!
And one had to remember, Xiaoba had been born not long ago; it was still just a hatchling!
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