Chapter 184
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The fire consumed everything, devouring vehicles and crowds.
The scorching heat distorted the air, people screamed and fled in the inferno, the metal of vehicles melted into molten iron, blackened trees collapsed with a thunderous crash, and the wind carried the acrid smell of burning with it.
Fire, fire everywhere.
The flames burning were exactly like the fire that destroyed the world in Lou Yan’s memory.
Lou Yan’s hair flew backward in the wind, and Fu Xuezhou flew too fast; he had to lower his body to prevent himself from being blown away by the high winds. Fu Xuezhou also seemed concerned about Lou Yan’s stability, as all three pairs of arms that grew on his back pressed against Lou Yan’s waist and thighs, holding him as if nailed to his back.
Once Lou Yan stabilized his body, he squinted his eyes and surveyed the crowd below.
Apart from some terrified people running away, more people were staring blankly at them from the fire, their bodies burning, yet they seemed not to feel any pain and remained motionless.
Lou Yan’s heart stirred, grabbing the collar around Fu Xuezhou’s neck, he shouted loudly, “Look at those people who didn’t even try to escape from the fire; they must all be anomalies, and their eyes are fixed on us means the Anomaly Lord is looking at us!”
As for those who were afraid of being burned to death and hurriedly fled, they were the true humans who had been deceived into this paradise.
Fu Xuezhou glanced down at the scene with eyes on his wings. Immediately, the encirclement of the anomalies by the fire became even more intense, and some anomalies were burned to ashes in an instant without even a chance to evade. At the same time, Lou Yan used his water spirit’s ability to extinguish the fires that had ignited on several humans.
The next moment, Lou Yan suddenly felt cold water droplets falling on his forehead.
He instinctively looked up at the sky, and his eyelids immediately felt another drop of rain. Lou Yan’s eyelids quivered lightly, “Fu Xuezhou, it’s raining…”
With a few loud thunderclaps, the clear sky quickly darkened, heavy dark clouds gathered overhead, and rain began to fall.
It started as a drizzle, but within seconds, it turned into a torrential downpour.
The rain extinguished the fires on the ground, causing them to sizzle, shrinking them slightly. Those humanoid anomalies that had been engulfed by the fire continued to stare fixedly at them, their faces displaying the same mocking smile.
This uniform smile clearly indicated that these anomalies were not acting on their own accord. Only the “creator” of paradise, the Anomaly Lord, could orchestrate such a thing.
“Provocation?” Lou Yan sneered, his finger moved, controlling the rain to stop before it fell on the fire.
The countless crimson eyes on Fu Xuezhou’s wings coldly watched the scene below. Suddenly, his huge wings flapped twice, and the section of fire that had been extinguished by the rain became even more intense, coinciding with the moment Lou Yan stopped the rain. The fire, unaffected by the rain, burned even more fiercely, directly vaporizing the rainwater that had stagnated in the air.
Although Lou Yan and Fu Xuezhou didn’t know what the other would do, their actions were incredibly tacit. Lou Yan was even surprised by their coordination. But when he saw the eyes on Fu Xuezhou’s wings turn back and silently stare at him, Lou Yan immediately suppressed his surprise and calmly raised his hand, gathering all the rain around him, forming a waterspout centered on him.
The continuously falling rainwater rushed crazily towards Lou Yan, and the waterspout grew bigger and bigger, one end connected to the sky, the other end connected to Lou Yan, a terrifying and spectacular sight.
Fu Xuezhou sniffed the smell in the air, his killing intent becoming even stronger. He looked up at the sky with a gloomy expression, “Lou Yan, it’s up there.”
The Anomaly Lord was actually up there?!
Lou Yan looked up from the waterspout, staring at the vortex-like dark sky, his face sinking after the initial shock, “Can we fly up there?”
Fu Xuezhou said calmly, “Hold on tight.”
Once Lou Yan held Fu Xuezhou’s neck more tightly, Fu Xuezhou adjusted his flight direction abruptly, shooting straight towards the sky like an arrow!
Lou Yan diverted all the rain that came towards them to avoid affecting Fu Xuezhou’s speed. As Lou Yan moved, the massive waterspout he controlled also followed him, forming a shocking and spectacular curved waterspout in the sky.
The resistance straight up was tremendous, and the wind blew painfully against Lou Yan’s face. He squinted against the wind, staring at the sky above. If it weren’t for Fu Xuezhou’s words, he almost wouldn’t have thought that the Anomaly Lord was hiding in the high altitude.
Clearly the leader of the anomalies, but did he see himself as a deity?
His right hand grew heavier and heavier; Lou Yan glanced sideways at his right hand controlling the waterspout, which was starting to tremble slightly, covered with a layer of black scales from his fingers to his back of hand.
This was the first time he had used the water spirit’s ability so powerfully, and his body inevitably showed the characteristic changes of the water spirit, causing his mental strength to drop by one-sixth. Lou Yan could feel that he was almost unable to control the growing waterspout.
Paradise was vast, but not that vast. Fu Xuezhou flying with Lou Yan towards the sky was almost seen by all the anomalies on the ground.
Whether it was the anomalies in the fire, those still working in the Victory Factory, or those in the streets and neighborhoods, their expressions changed drastically, then they all crazily chased after Fu Xuezhou and Lou Yan.
As they ran, they discarded their human appearances, revealing their eerie and terrifying forms. Some humans watched in horror as their colleagues, passersby, and loved ones suddenly transformed into anomalies, screaming in fear and collapsing in terror, their legs giving out: “Ah! It’s the anomalies!!!”
The anomalies swiftly passed by these collapsed humans, relentlessly chasing after Fu Xuezhou and Lou Yan. Some anomalies possessed the ability to fly, spreading out various bizarre wings and quickly soaring into the sky.
Fu Xuezhou saw the anomalies coming from all directions with the eyes on his wings. He smirked coldly, and the tentacles under him violently thrashed, ruthlessly attacking the anomalies trying to intercept him.
The thick, black tentacles ruthlessly strangled every anomaly attempting to approach, piercing one anomaly heart after another.
The anomalies in the sky fell to their deaths one by one, but the brutal deaths of their companions did not deter them from their moth-to-flame behavior. They attacked like a swarm of ants protecting their queen, their power insufficient to harm Fu Xuezhou and Lou Yan but enough to slow Fu Xuezhou’s pace toward killing the Anomaly Lord.
As more anomalies approached, Fu Xuezhou lost his patience with ignoring them. He hovered in the air, facing the anomalies, raised his hands, and ghostly blue flames wrapped around his arms, casting a ghostly reflection on Fu Xuezhou’s handsome face, the murderous intent swirling in his eyes. “Seeking death.”
However, Lou Yan emerged from behind him, “Don’t worry about these anomalies; leave them to me, and you continue to fly!”
“Don’t you see that this is the Anomaly Lord’s purpose? These anomalies can’t kill you and me, but they can drain our mental strength. Fu Xuezhou, you need to save your mental strength to deal with the Anomaly Lord.”
With that, Lou Yan pushed himself up from Fu Xuezhou’s back, his beautiful face filled with an intimidating killing intent and an icy indifference. “Let me go, Fu Xuezhou. You go deal with the Anomaly Lord in the sky, leave the other anomalies to me.”
Fu Xuezhou coldly refused, “No.”
“Fu Xuezhou,” Lou Yan remained unusually calm, speaking rapidly, “look down at the ground. Do you see what those anomalies are doing? They’re gnawing on the hearts of the flying anomalies you killed. Even though you shattered those hearts, eating them should still have some effect. They’ll evolve new wings or abilities, and then continue to pursue us endlessly. And the other anomalies that didn’t get a corpse to feed on? They’ve already started devouring each other. Soon, or rather, they’ve already begun evolving on the spot.”
Fu Xuezhou looked down, and the scene on the ground resembled a h*ll on earth, with anomalies devouring each other, blood and body parts scattered everywhere, the devoured anomalies offering up their hearts almost without resistance.
“This is the realm of the Anomaly Lord. These creatures are all part of the Anomaly Lord. If they become stronger, it means the Anomaly Lord becomes stronger,” Lou Yan continued, “Fu Xuezhou, the sooner you kill the Anomaly Lord, the sooner this will all end. Every second we waste is a second of change. Only by working together can we succeed. Don’t worry, I can handle these anomalies completely and guarantee I won’t die.”
Fu Xuezhou’s thin lips tightened, his wings fluttering impatiently. He was eager to kill the Anomaly Lord, yet he couldn’t bear to leave Lou Yan alone to face the other anomalies. “…But you’re still up in the air, you can’t fly—”
“I have a way!” Lou Yan was irritated by his dilly-dallying. He decisively grabbed Fu Xuezhou’s face, looking directly into his eyes, not because he wanted to flirt with Fu Xuezhou at this critical moment or encourage him like a bro, but to solemnly warn Fu Xuezhou, to make him see Lou Yan’s determination to kill the Anomaly Lord. “Fu Xuezhou, you must succeed, you must kill the Anomaly Lord! Do you hear me?”
Fu Xuezhou looked deeply into Lou Yan’s eyes and finally nodded, releasing the hand holding Lou Yan’s back and spreading his wings, continuing to soar into the sky.
Lou Yan also resolutely let go of his grip on Fu Xuezhou’s neck, dropping in the direction where the anomalies were coming.
“Roar!!!”
Hundreds of anomalies flapped their wings ferociously, attacking Lou Yan like hungry wolves pouncing on prey. Lou Yan smirked, swiftly maneuvering in the air, raising his right hand covered in black scales toward the approaching anomalies.
“Just right, I can’t hold this waterspout anymore,” Lou Yan’s smile grew deeper, tinged with a slightly excited bloodlust, murmuring to himself, “Let’s see how powerful this waterspout can be against you.”
With that, Lou Yan violently flung the rapidly spinning waterspout towards the group of anomalies!
The massive waterspout rapidly expanded and thickened as it left Lou Yan’s right hand, quickly engulfing all the approaching anomalies, tearing them into pieces within seconds!
“Ah!!!”
The transparent water turned red with blood, and the anomalies emitted piercing screams from inside the waterspout. However, no matter how hard they struggled, they couldn’t break free from the waterspout’s restraint. Hundreds of anomalies died cleanly within a minute.
Countless falling raindrops continued to replenish the waterspout’s volume as one end of the waterspout connected to the sky, while the other end fell on the ground, ruthlessly sucking up the anomalies below.
Lou Yan swiftly descended in the air, calmly drawing out his spine whip and striking a passing anomaly, forcibly stepping on its back and safely landing with the struggling anomaly.
“Thanks.”
Lou Yan got off the anomaly’s back and flicked his whip, decapitating the anomaly’s head as a gesture of thanks.
Worried that he hadn’t killed them thoroughly enough, Lou Yan thought for a moment, then hooked the anomaly’s corpse with his whip and threw it into the waterspout.
After doing all this, Lou Yan looked up at the sky.
Fu Xuezhou’s figure was gone; he should have successfully encountered the Anomaly Lord by now.
So…
Lou Yan’s wrist flicked, and the spine whip left a dark mark on the ground as it swung. He calmly looked around, surrounded by countless bizarre anomalies slowly closing in on him, their pairs of crimson eyes densely scattered in the darkness, flickering with eerie red light.
Surrounded, Lou Yan seemed like a pitiful prey about to be torn apart.
Standing with legs apart, his posture upright, his back straight, Lou Yan showed no trace of fear.
“Next, it’s our fight.”
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