Star Odyssey

Chapter 1425: Voidsoul Umbrella

After Long Tian and Long Xi entered the Voidsoul Palace, they saw the dust that filled the air, and were completely unable to find any trace of Yuhua Mavis.

Just when they were about to start searching in a certain direction, there was a loud noise from within the depths of Voidsoul Palace, and cracks appeared on the floor. Long Tian's eyes lit up, and he rushed in the direction of the noise they had heard. Suddenly, a pair of scarlet eyes with vertical slits appeared as a figure emerged and locked eyes with the Junior Progenitor.

Long Tian was startled, and he shifted his body to the side. The dried out corpse king in front of him violently smashed the area Long Tian had just stood, and then moved to try to grab Long Tian.

Long Tian snorted. "I didn't expect there to still be monsters here after so many years."

As he spoke, his spear pierced the corpse king's body and shattered the corpse king.

At the same time, the vibrations from the depths of Voidsoul Palace stopped.

Long Tian guessed that Yuhua Mavis had also encountered a corpse king. "Let's chase after her."

Suddenly, the Voidsoul Palace vibrated again, though not from a battle. It felt as though the entire Voidsoul Palace had become alive, and it trembled as rays of light rose from the floor. They formed a streamer that hung outside the palace, and it eventually took the shape of an umbrella that slowly rotated.

Outside the palace, still far away, Xia Taili and the others with her were drawn to the huge umbrella.

Wen Diyi's eyes grew excited. "That should be the Voidsoul Umbrella that Progenitor Ku made! Rumors claim that every one of those umbrellas possess the power of Progenitor Ku, and can bring a person back to life! Each one is also strong enough to resist an attack from a Semi-Progenitor. These were the Voidsoul Army's most powerful weapons."

"Resurrection? Something that exaggerated?" Lu Yin was surprised.

Wen Diyi replied, "Progenitor Ku uncovered the secret of aging and immortality. While the legends might have exaggerated the facts a bit, Progenitor Ku still had obtained complete mastery over the mysteries of human life. His understanding surpassed mere medical knowledge and nearly stepped into the realm of a secret technique."

"Go!" Xia Taili was very excited, and she put away her power vessel, despite the number of desiccate creatures that were still surrounding the youths. She put all of her energy into racing towards the Voidsoul Palace.

Lu Yin and the others raced forward as well.

Suddenly, the Voidsoul Palace changed. The Voidsoul Umbrella had already appeared, so this clearly indicated that someone had already entered the palace.

Another group of people appeared from another direction. This was the team led by Bai Shaohong. This group had not gotten entangled with the fiasco with the ancient battlefield, and they had been steadily continuing on towards the Voidsoul Palace this entire time. However, they still arrived a step behind. Ling Tong and some others had been blasted very close to the Voidsoul Palace, and Bai Shaohong was able to see that the Voidsoul Umbrella had already been activated.

He was in a hurry, so his team accelerated towards the Voidsoul Palace.

Eventually, the two parties met each other a hundred miles outside of the Voidsoul Palace.

Xia Taili and the others had not expected to encounter Bai Shaohong and his team. When the Junior Progenitor saw Xia Taili and the others, he immediately attacked them. A palm passed through the void to land right in front of Wen Diyi.

No one had thought that Bai Shaohong would instantly attack without a word. Several people did not even have time to react. Wen Diyi was struck by the palm, and he vomited blood as he flew away. The moment he landed, his palm hit the ground, and a golden light flashed.

Lu Yin froze and stared at Bai Shaohong. This person was ruthless.

"Go! Capture Xia Taili and keep her alive, but kill the other three," Bai Shaohong ordered in a deep voice. He was completely ignoring the Virtue Archives that was behind Wen Diyi, as well as Specter Abyss that was behind Crown Prince Gui Qian. There was no need for him to be afraid of such powers.

Wen Diyi's chest was in agony. There was a deep imprint on his body from the attack that had struck him. The palm had not been a purely physical attack, but had held power that was able to drain a person's vitality and cause a body to be drained of energy while also trembling uncontrollably.

However, Wen Diyi was no weakling. Even if he had been severely injured, he had still used Literary Prison the moment he had struck the ground. When Bai Shaohong moved to launch a second attack, he discovered that he was already trapped and had been locked within a seven-fold Literary Prison.

Bai Shaohong had not expected Wen Diyi to be able to react so quickly, and the Junior Progenitor was trapped for the moment. "You're asking to die!"

The twins behind Bai Shaohong both attacked at this moment. Lu Yin brought out his ring-shaped power vessel and entered it. Xia Taili used her power vessel that looked like an aquatic plant in an attempt to bind Bai Shaohong and his team. However, though Xia Taili had a power vessel, so did Bai Shaohong. A white smoke appeared and trapped the aquatic plant and the other power vessels.

"Yun Tingting?" Xia Taili was surprised.

The woman named Yun Tingting looked at Xia Taili. "We won't hurt you, so just stop."

The twin brothers, Dong Shan and Dong He, both attacked Crown Prince Gui Qian as one. The surface of the prince's body changed, and bones erupted to block the attacks.

Shang Qing attacked Lu Yin. Though the two knew each other, Shang Qing's attack was still completely ruthless, though it was blocked by the ring.

Xia Taili and the others were forced onto the back foot from the moment they first encountered Bai Shaohong and his team.

Wen Diyi saw the killing intent in Bai Shaohong's eyes, and forced himself to endure his injuries in order to use his Literary Prison once more. Bai Shaohong had already shattered three layers of the first Literary Prison.

Yun Tingting's white smoke was very mysterious. The moment Lu Yin saw it, he immediately thought of Smoke-Eater Peaks.

"Let's capture them. They might have some value alive." Shang Qing said as he mercilessly attacked Lu Yin.

Bai Shaohong looked over towards Shang Qing and Lu Yin. Actually, he looked only at Lu Yin. The Junior Progenitor's eyes grew even colder. "He has to die."

Lu Yin frowned. The moment that Bai Shaohong had glanced over at Lu Yin, the fifth layer of the Literary Prison had shattered. This showed that Bai Shaohong desired Lu Yin's death over everyone else's. It was possible that the instantaneous attack against Lu Yin's group had been because of him, but if that was the case, why had the first attack not targeted Lu Yin?

As Lu Yin was thinking about this, Xia Taili used a strange attack to lock the woman Yun Tingting, and the woman was literally locked; her arms were bound by a lock.

"Xia Secret Art: Lock?" Yun Tingting was caught off guard.

What kind of secret technique is that? Lu Yin felt this was an odd technique.

There was a bang. Crown Prince Gui Qian was knocked back by the twins, but the prince was unharmed. He had managed to protect himself with a power vessel. With that, he rushed towards the Voidsoul Palace without any hesitation.

Wen Diyi coughed up some blood, and another Literary Prison wrapped multiple layers around Bai Shaohong. However, when Crown Prince Gui Qian tried to make his escape, the Literary Prison collapsed. Bai Shaohong did not care about Wen Diyi, but was instead staring at Crown Prince Gui Qian. "People from Specter Abyss should die."

He then raised a hand high and pointed a finger. As he did, the void froze.

This was something that could be considered normal in the Fifth Mainland, as any Enlighter, or even a Hunter, could freeze the void. But they were in the Perennial World, and in this place, only an Envoy was strong enough to effect the void, and yet Bai Shaohong had just done so.

The sight of Bai Shaohong's finger attack stunned Lu Yin. This was the same finger as the one in his dreams. While the dream finger did not freeze the void with a cold air, the feeling this attack gave off was identical to what Lu Yin had seen on White Mountain when he had first arrived in the Perennial World. This was the same finger that Elder Qing Xing had used. He had been an elder from the Celestial Frost Sect, and it looked like this finger attack really did come from the Celestial Frost Sect.

Bai Shaohong's finger fell. It pierced the void and moved to crush Crown Prince Gui Qian.

The prince turned around, and his eyes suddenly turned golden. "You underestimate me, Bai Shaohong! You actually believed that I'm not your opponent!"

As the prince spoke, his death energy condensed to also form a finger that pointed back at Bai Shaohong.

Two fingers appeared in the sky; one black, the other one white. They clashed, and one finger froze, while the other melted. The impact split the sky from the ground.

Everyone felt a bone-chilling cold that was completely terrifying.

Bai Shaohong's eyes narrowed. "Arrogant!"

Even as he spoke, his finger grew larger, and it began to freeze the death energy itself as the finger pressed towards Crown Prince Gui Qian.

The prince gritted his teeth. He had only opened his lower meridian point, while Bai Shaohong had also opened his middle meridian point. This was vital, because without this extra edge, there was no way for the finger of death energy to be overpowered by the Celestial Frost Sect's finger. "Xie Secret Art: Universal Appropriation."

A voice rang out, and the lock that trapped Yun Tingting suddenly appeared in the hands of Crown Prince Gui Qian before locking onto Bai Shaohong. The moment Bai Shaohong was trapped, his eyes snapped wide open. "Cloud Fall."

The finger and even the sky itself turned into a cloud that descended and covered the ground. The cloud rolled forward to envelop everyone present.

Lu Yin felt a cold cover his entire body, and then ice began to creep up his body from his feet. He looked down, incredulous. Even though he was standing inside the protection of the ring, he was still being frozen. This had to be a secret technique.

Crown Prince Gui Qian was also frozen. He had locked Bai Shaohong, but had also been trapped by Bai Shaohong's secret technique in return.

Xia Taili and Wen Diyi were the same, and only Yun Tingting and others from Bai Shaohong's team were unaffected.

Shang Qing glanced over at Bai Shaohong with fear. This was a terrifying secret technique. A secret technique that targeted an entire group, like this one, was the most difficult to deal with. There was no way to block this attack, given the power of the finger, and the only way to break free was through pure force.

As expected of one of the Perennial World's Junior Progenitors. Shang Qing was no match for such a person with just his own strength, and his only option would be to use the Tri-Yang Technique.

"Kill them!" Bai Shaohong shouted.

The twins instantly attacked Crown Prince Gui Qian. The prince was just about to use a power vessel, but suddenly the ground itself changed and everything was divided into orderly squares. It looked like farmland, and everyone was restrained by it.

Everyone knew that Nong Sanniang had arrived the moment they saw the farmland, as only that family of farmers had such strange battle techniques.

"Things here are so exciting, so how could I miss out?" Nong Sanniang quickly showed herself, and her eyes swept over everyone present before finally locking onto Bai Shaohong. "Bai Shaozu, you're wanting to kill Crown Prince Gui Qian, but he is helping Wang Su, who's on her way. Can you give me some face?"

Bai Shaohong's eyes grew cold. "Attack!"

The moment he gave the order, the twins attacked, one with his right palm, the other with his left. They worked together to form a flag out of their star energy. The flag fell from the sky and shrouded Crown Prince Gui Qian. This was the twins' joint attack, and it was called Mountain and Sea Banner, and it was powerful enough to subdue even the most powerful members of their generation.

Crown Prince Gui Qian's expression changed, and bones erupted from across his body to shatter the ice that had trapped him. At the same time, a glowing gray skeleton appeared and rose into the sky to contend with the Mountain and Sea Banner.

Simultaneously, Bai Shaohong managed to break free of the secret technique that had locked him, and he raised a hand to attack Crown Prince Gui Qian through the void. Nong Sanniang frowned, and her star energy took the form of a hoe. She crudely hefted the hoe and swung it at Bai Shaohong. "Nong Family's Martial Technique: Plowing the Land."

She let out a loud shout, and thousands of images appeared that seemed to overlap upon the hoe from across time and space. This single hoe seemed to represent the hard work of countless people, and it swung out against Bai Shaohong's palm attack.

There was a massive boom, and a terrifying shockwave blasted out that was visible to the naked eye.

Bai Shaohong and Nong Sanniang both were forced to step back.

At this moment, another tremble came from the distant Voidsoul Palace, and then a powerful suction erupted from it. It pulled up Bai Shaohong and others into the Voidsoul Palace. One by one, all of them were grabbed, and Lu Yin was no exception.

For a moment, everything was peaceful. There was no trace of battle, and even the marks that their battle had left on the ground had been covered up.