pertwk Chapter 228 The Silver-Clad Warrior and the Mayfly
Chapter 228 The Silver-Clad Warrior and the Mayfly
Chapter 228 The Silver-Clad Warrior and the Mayfly
Lava continuously churns out from the barren rock strata, emitting a pungent odor.
This solidified lava rock possesses a certain radiant power, or rather, the aura of death, making it difficult for life to reproduce normally.
But life always finds a way out. Even in such an environment, a small village can still be seen, with its conical roofs standing tall.
The creature, whose entire body is covered in sharp, outward-pointing scales, has four purple eyes, two legs and eight arms, each arm with only three clawed fingers, lives in this village.
They were all draped in silver clothing, displaying a unique exotic charm.
Boom!
With a loud bang, a silver figure fell from the silver sky and landed not far away. Warriors from the village rushed out to check on it.
A short while later, two warriors flew over carrying a fellow member of their race who was also dressed in silver.
If you look closely, you can see that the silver garment on this eight-armed creature is made of pieces of incredibly thin, connected wings of some kind of insect.
"Yuros, what happened to you? How could you be so badly injured, even your 'Silver Robe' is damaged?"
An elderly man who appeared to be highly respected among the group of aliens stepped forward and solemnly questioned the man, touching the broken wounds on his body.
Of the original eight arms, only three remain intact; the other five arms are more or less damaged, and the cut surfaces of the wounds are extremely smooth.
The eight-armed alien also had many wounds on its body, and they were all incredibly smooth, as if they had been cut open by something extremely sharp.
But this was incomprehensible to the other soldiers, who had never seen such injuries before.
"Was it the Vikings? Only their 'Silver Robe' craftsmanship can rival ours, and only their warriors can keep up with us," the elder inquired.
The rescued soldier managed to utter, with difficulty: "Humanity..."
"It has turned into a giant beast!"
After saying that, his body suddenly went limp, and his breath began to dissipate.
The soldiers present were all stunned for a moment, and then they all became angry.
One of their warriors from the Bhamo tribe died just like that!
This is absolutely unacceptable for the Pamo people, whose population has become extremely small and whose reproduction is becoming increasingly difficult.
"Humans! Humans!"
"An evil alien race has once again appeared on this land."
"Kill him! He must be killed!"
The soldiers roared angrily, while the elder among them looked up at the silver sky with some worry.
"Soldiers, we absolutely cannot tolerate humans approaching our land!"
The elder said firmly, "Now, ten brave warriors are needed to go out and retrieve the head of that human alien to pay tribute to the fallen Yuros and the countless ancestors of the Bamo tribe who sacrificed their lives!"
Meanwhile, on the wasteland covered with black pebbles.
Ye Yang was on his way, and in the blink of an eye, he had covered more than a hundred kilometers.
At the same time, it was extremely careful, constantly resonating with spacetime, sensing any unusual movements around it, and slowing down to observe any signs of life it detected.
After observation, the usual approach is to bypass it.
After all, the creatures of the Abyss of Purgatory are not easy to mess with.
However, death permeates this wasteland. The deeper one goes into the abyss of purgatory, the denser the death aura becomes, and the scarcer life becomes. "We've been exploring for three months now, and we've probably gone four or five hundred million kilometers. The life around us is actually getting less and less, and those strange and deadly creatures are also decreasing. It seems that this place is actually safer—"
Ye Yang stopped and looked at this barren wasteland, feeling somewhat puzzled.
The area that was previously inhabited by many strange creatures was about as dangerous as a typical extreme mission location, as it contained a large number of dangers that could threaten even a world lord.
For a cosmic scale, this is indeed a desperate situation.
But if that were all, the Abyss wouldn't have such a high death rate, ranking first among extreme missions.
"Perhaps most of those who died did so because they lowered their guard after sensing that the surrounding environment had become deathly quiet and seemingly safer, and then encountered sudden danger and died."
Ye Yang silently reminded himself that he could not let his guard down!
As the guide previously mentioned, half of the deadly threats in the Abyss of Purgatory come from those strange and bizarre creatures.
What about the other half?
The fatal threat to this other half is probably even more terrifying.
"However, the original core and the Golden Horned Beast clone have already been hidden. Even if this human clone dies, it will only waste half a month of my journey."
Ye Yang continued his journey cautiously, constantly paying attention to his surroundings.
Two days later—
As Ye Yang was traveling and exploring, he suddenly sensed a violent fluctuation in spacetime ahead.
He was all too familiar with this fluctuation; it was the same invisible, unknown creature that had almost taken his life last time!
Without even thinking, Ye Yang subconsciously used his movement technique, which mainly relied on space but also incorporated the laws of time. His burst speed was incredibly fast, comparable to the instantaneous burst speed of some immortal military lords.
However, even at such a high speed, it could not stop the attack of that invisible and intangible monster.
Pfft!
Ye Yang's head flew off, but in that instant, he finally saw through the truth behind this attack.
"It's the flow of time!" Ye Yang's surprised thought flashed through his mind, and soon his consciousness disappeared from this body.
Several seconds after Ye Yang died, ten figures suddenly appeared.
"What happened? Did we kill the wrong person?"
One of the eight-armed figures held Ye Yang's head, examining it from left to right: "Yes, this is the 'human' alien race mentioned in the records. We didn't kill the wrong person."
"With the strength of this alien race, it's impossible for them to seriously injure Yuros!"
"Could it be that two human aliens have entered? Are these the weaker ones?"
"Yuros concluded by saying that humans have transformed into giant beasts, and what we're looking for are humans who can transform into giant beasts?"
"Are there any records of humans possessing the ability to transform into giant beasts?"
The 10 Bhamo warriors, with a total of 40 eyes, stared at each other, momentarily at a loss for what to do.
"Alright, you two, Stonecutter, take the alien's head back first. The rest of us eight will continue the search," the leading warrior said.
They then split into two groups and continued their mission of guarding the tribe.
One hundred and twenty million kilometers away, Ye Yang's first Golden Horn clone, hidden underground, opened its eyes.
"It's that kind of thing again, but this time I finally saw it clearly before I died. It was manipulating the flow of time?"
While re-creating his human clone, Ye Yang pondered:
"That kind of speed would require accelerating time by at least tens of thousands of times, but as far as I know, there are many limitations to the methods of time acceleration."
Ye Yang has already comprehended 67 kinds of time essence, so he naturally has some understanding of this aspect as well.
The laws of space can be divided into three main parts: teleportation, spatial strangulation, and spatial blockade.
The laws of time can be divided into three main parts: time standing still, time acceleration, and time deceleration.
The state of time stillness is not the same as the state after time deceleration reaches its limit; the two are different laws governing the direction of time.
After all, even if time slows down by a trillion times, it is still fundamentally different from true time standing still.
Returning to the topic of time acceleration—the simplest application of time acceleration is to inanimate objects with no energy, such as a very ordinary stone.
Even if accelerated by billions of years, it wouldn't change much. Therefore, even Ye Yang in his current state could accelerate the flow of time of the most ordinary stone by thousands of times.
Accelerating life, consciousness, and especially life forms with extremely strong energy responses, strong consciousness, and close connections to the fundamental laws of the universe is the most difficult.
Even when Ye Yang is in a state of extreme coordination, he can only accelerate himself by one to two times at his limit, and the consumption is extremely high.
It is usually used briefly during combat to unleash a burst of speed through movement techniques.
As for accelerating one's own time by tens of thousands of times, that's too difficult.
Ye Yang could still believe that some of the most powerful immortals who had a profound understanding of the laws of time could do this.
But how did some people who aren't even immortal manage to do that?
"Regardless, knowing how the enemy achieves its capabilities is already a huge discovery. The next step is to figure out how to deal with it, or to find out why the enemy is able to do this."
Last time, Ye Yang was caught off guard and his human clone was killed. Then, the first Golden Horned Beast clone quickly emerged from the original core and immediately released the innate secret technique "Spatial Strangulation" indiscriminately in all directions.
A large pool of blood and severed limbs of the alien race appeared on the ground. Only after driving away the monster could they save their lives.
But Ye Yang couldn't understand how that 'invisible and shadowless' mysterious enemy launched its attack.
This time, Ye Yang realized that the enemy was not "invisible and shadowless," but rather that time flowed extremely fast and speed was so great that it could not be detected by mental power.
And since they attacked from their blind spots, they naturally couldn't see the afterimages.
Fortunately, the human clone's talent "Resonance Spacetime" was able to detect anomalies, and this time they finally saw the true nature of the enemy's abilities.
Having been attacked and killed twice, Ye Yang became more cautious. After his human clone was resurrected, he changed direction, bypassing the location where he had been attacked, and continued to explore the Abyss of Purgatory.
After all, he doesn't yet have the strength to contend with that kind of enemy, so there's no need for him to needlessly throw his life away.
Time marches on, and two months have passed in a flash.
In a valley about 4 million kilometers away from where Ye Yang's original core was hidden, a peculiar scene unfolds:
A lava river flows from afar through this place, while a clear stream flows from another direction, merging with the lava river. Water vapor rises, forming a hot spring lake.
The water in this hot spring lake is extremely hot and contains a large amount of toxic substances, making it highly corrosive. However, countless small insects live in this churning, toxic lake water.
Finally, at a certain point, some of the mature insects swam to the surface of the water and began to molt.
In just a few seconds, the molting was over, and tiny flying insects with extremely thin silver wings took flight, forming a silver storm.
"Is that 'Silverwing'?"
Ye Yang hid on a hill dozens of kilometers away from the hot spring lake, observing the ever-changing "silver storm" on the lake from afar.
He didn't rush to take action, but instead observed quietly.
In his observation, at almost the same time every day, a batch of silver wings would mature, then take to the sky, forming a constantly changing cloud.
Some will remain on the hot spring lake, while many more Silverwings will fly off in groups into the distance, their whereabouts unknown.
But Ye Yang saw that the silver wings that hovered above the hot spring lake would fall into the lake and die a day later, and a new batch of larvae would mature and begin the next cycle.
Ye Yang sighed, "Truly worthy of its name, it really lives up to its name—it's incredibly barren here, without a single plant. Where do these little insects get their food?"