Chapter 445
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Chapter 445: Elegy
“[Dirge]…” Bai Li Pang Pang murmured as he looked at the skull.
Bai Li Xin held the skull tightly, pouring all his mental energy into it. Dots of crimson light emanated from the hollow eye sockets of the skull, as if a pair of blood-red eyes were slowly opening, incredibly eerie.
It opened its mouth, and within that fleshless cavity, a half-living tongue began to tremble.
The air was filled with a faint echo of song.
It was a woman’s voice, mournful and piercing, the lyrics indistinct. Her voice seemed to drift in and out of the ears of the crowd, making it impossible to determine from which direction it came.
At the moment this voice appeared, Lin Qi Ye felt his life force rapidly draining away. He suddenly lowered his head and discovered that his palm had unknowingly become stained with blood, countless tiny particles seeping from his skin, scattering to the ground like sand.
An Qing Yu, Feng Mo Cao Yuan, and Bai Li Pang Pang were similarly affected.
Only Jia Lan stood still, showing no signs of change.
“Turn to dust…”
Bai Li Xin whispered, his gaze towards the crowd filled with coldness.
……
“[Dirge]… Is this really [Dirge]?”
The Ninth Seat, observing the battlefield from a distance, looked at the skull in astonishment, feeling a tingling sensation on his scalp.
“What is that thing?” Shen Qing Zhu frowned.
“Forbidden Ruins Sequence 033, [Dirge]. This is a terrifying ability that can turn all living beings, except for the user, to dust with just a song.” The Ninth Seat continued to gaze at the blood-colored skull, “About forty years ago, a woman possessed this forbidden item. Due to her tragic experiences and dark mindset, she decided to take revenge on society.
She crashed a celebrity concert, connected all the sound systems, and stood on the stage singing half a song with a microphone…
In less than fifty seconds, the entire concert venue and the surrounding three kilometers turned all living beings to dust—over a thousand lives, countless insects, birds, cats, and dogs, ultimately forming a twenty-ton mound of yellow sand.
By the time the Night Watchers arrived, the woman had already committed suicide…”
Shen Qing Zhu’s expression grew increasingly grave beneath his mask. “If just hearing the sound turns you to dust, then wouldn’t it be enough not to listen?”
“It’s not that simple.” The Ninth Seat shook his head. “[Dirge] works by breaking down the physiological structure of cells through sound frequency. Even if you block your ears, as long as your body is exposed within the sound’s propagation range, you will inevitably be turned to dust.
This indiscriminate mass destruction weapon is, in some ways, even more terrifying than nuclear weapons.
It seems Bai Li Xin is still going to turn the tide…”
Shen Qing Zhu narrowed his eyes, watching the figures within the venue that were beginning to turn to dust, slowly raising his right hand.
“With me here, he won’t turn the tide.”
Snap—!!
The crisp sound of fingers snapping echoed through the air.
……
In the venue.
The air on the 166th floor was instantly sucked dry, the burning black flames extinguished in an instant, and the eerie voice that had been echoing in Lin Qi Ye and the others’ ears suddenly stopped, losing its medium of transmission!
A strong sense of suffocation enveloped everyone’s minds.
This is…
The sandification process on Lin Qi Ye’s palm was interrupted. He seemed to realize something and quickly turned to look at Bai Li Pang Pang, who was also staring back at him in shock.
The sudden snap of fingers and the ensuing suffocation made them think of one person…
A person who should have been dead.
But now was not the time to discuss that.
In the vacuum, Lin Qi Ye turned to the bewildered Bai Li Xin. Through the brief sandification process and the current disappearance of sound in the vacuum, he had vaguely guessed the principle behind that forbidden item.
Before they perished in this vacuum environment, they had to destroy that forbidden item!
A flash of light from spatial magic flickered beneath Lin Qi Ye’s feet. When he reappeared, he was already behind Bai Li Xin.
At that moment, Bai Li Xin, caught in the inexplicable vacuum state, had yet to understand what was happening. Seeing Lin Qi Ye suddenly disappear, he hesitated slightly, and by the time he reacted, it was too late.
The golden spear had been snatched away by Bai Li Pang Pang, the [Fire Demon Bottle] was suppressed by the vacuum, and [Dirge] had also lost its effect in the vacuum. The only means he could rely on was the black sand floating around him. Just as he was about to manipulate the sand to protect his back, an ancient long sword had already swung down!
The blade of [Qi Yuan] sliced through Bai Li Xin’s arm that held [Dirge], severing it cleanly!
Blood gushed from Bai Li Xin’s shoulder.
Under the influence of kinetic control, the severed arm holding [Dirge] flew out, shooting straight towards Jia Lan and the others!
Bai Li Pang Pang’s lips moved in the vacuum, making no sound, but the next moment, the “Qian” and “Kun” beneath his feet switched places. In the chaos, the blood-colored skull flew from the severed arm into his hand.
Bai Li Pang Pang slapped the skull’s jaw, forcing its mouth to close. The blood-red eyes in the skull’s hollow sockets gradually extinguished, finally returning to silence.
Whoosh—!!
The air that had been sucked dry on the 166th floor returned once more.
The entire process seemed complex, but it took less than four seconds. Lin Qi Ye and the others took a deep breath of the returning air, feeling a sense of relief as if they had survived a disaster.
If it hadn’t been for this sudden vacuum domain, even if Lin Qi Ye and An Qing Yu had reacted in time to forcibly take [Dirge] from Bai Li Xin’s hands, it would have taken at least thirty seconds. With the terrifying speed of sandification just now, even if they managed to stop it, nearly half of their bodies would have already vanished…
At that point, they would all be disabled.
Bai Li Pang Pang clutched the skull, his eyes shining brightly as he quickly scanned the surroundings, trying to find that familiar figure…
Just then, a blue figure streaked across the sky, racing towards them at a speed surpassing that of a supersonic jet, leaving a straight line in the sky.
His figure flew in through the floor-to-ceiling windows, the blue glow gradually fading, revealing a young figure draped in a dark red cloak, walking towards the center of the venue.
Lin Qi Ye and the others turned to look at the person.
Bai Li Xin, who had lost an arm and was standing awkwardly in a pool of blood, squinted slightly at the figure.
“Ye Fan guessed correctly after all.” The person’s gaze swept over the devastated venue, finally landing on Bai Li Xin, “You’ve truly given us a big surprise… Bai Li Xin.”
