20demayo Chapter 457 Half-Step Saint Venerable
Chapter 457 Half-Step Saint Venerable
The light from the teleportation array faded.
When Lin Chen opened his eyes, the first thing he did was not to look at Tianyuan City, which was known as the number one city in Zhongzhou.
Instead, they looked up at the sky.
A crack stretched from east to west, spanning thousands of miles, splitting the entire sky in two, like a torn piece of cloth.
The crack's edges were irregular and jagged, and a dark red light shone through it, like blood seeping from a wound.
The light wasn't a dazzling brightness, but a oppressive, dull, and suffocating dark red.
It was as if something was breathing behind the crack, and with each breath, the whole world trembled.
The entire Tianyuan City was shrouded in this dark red light.
People on the street glanced up, then looked down again and hurried past.
No one stopped to look, no one pointed or whispered.
They've gotten used to it; the crack has been there for almost a month now.
From initial panic and kneeling in despair to current numbness.
Lin Chen squinted, staring at the crack.
The dark red reflected in his pupils looked like two small flames burning.
His divine sense emerged from between his eyebrows and silently extended upwards.
His current cultivation level is that of a Lesser Saint Venerable, a realm that has never appeared in this world before.
The range that divine sense could cover was far greater than before, and its speed was as fast as light, passing through the clouds, through the gale, and through that thin barrier between heaven and earth.
The crack is getting closer and bigger.
From a line to a canyon, from a canyon to an abyss, from an abyss to a gaping maw.
Lin Chen's divine sense stopped at the edge of the crack.
He saw what was over there.
The void opposite the rift was teeming with life.
They hovered in the void, motionless, as if waiting for something, like a pack of hungry beasts waiting for their cage to be opened.
There were so many that they were countless, layer upon layer, densely packed.
It stretched from the edge of the crack all the way into the depths of the void, like a black ocean.
Lin Chen scanned the area with his divine sense and got a sense of what was going on.
Those below the Celestial level were the most numerous, forming a vast, swarming mass.
These creatures are unintelligent, driven entirely by instinct, and are violent and bloodthirsty, biting anyone they see.
Their physical bodies are extremely strong; ordinary attacks are like tickling them.
There are over a hundred celestial beings. These creatures have developed intelligence, but it is still very shallow.
There are nearly ten True Lord level beings; these creatures are already quite intelligent.
They no longer simply pursue killing, but rather something more.
A vast and unfathomable aura emanated from the rear.
When Lin Chen's divine sense swept over, it produced a faint sense of oppression.
He hadn't experienced this feeling in a long time.
It was much larger than the creatures around it, and its body was completely black with dark red patterns flowing on its surface.
Its head resembles both a human and an animal, with facial features, but the proportions are off.
It has facial expressions, but I can't understand them.
The eyes were closed, but the eyelids were trembling slightly, as if dreaming, or as if sensing something.
The void around it was distorted, as if it was being suffocated by its aura.
Lin Chen sensed it for a moment and was somewhat alarmed.
This is only what can be seen from the other side of the rift; what lies hidden in the depths of the void is beyond his divine sense's reach.
But one thing is certain: that half-step Saint Venerable was not the strongest; there were even more terrifying beings above it.
Just as Lin Chen was about to withdraw his divine sense, the half-step Saint Venerable sensed Lin Chen's probing and suddenly opened its eyes.
Those eyes had no pupils, no whites, only a deep black, like two black holes that swallowed all light.
There was no emotion, no feeling, no desire in his eyes, only a pure, naked instinct—the instinct to eat.
Across thousands of miles of void, across the cracks, across this world, it saw Lin Chen.
It wasn't because Lin Chen's divine sense revealed his location; it was because it smelled him.
It smelled live, delicious food that was worth its own effort.
Its mouth slowly opened into a wide grin, the kind of excitement one feels when someone who has been starving for tens of thousands of years finally sees food.
Sensing its emotions, the surrounding celestial and true lord-level creatures all took a few steps back, making room for their king.
Lin Chen's divine sense met it head-on without backing down.
In the void, two invisible forces collided.
"boom--"
There was no sound, but a loud bang exploded in Lin Chen's mind, as if someone had hit his temple with a hammer.
The crack trembled violently, and a dark red light suddenly exploded, like a huge blood-red firework blooming in the sky above Zhongzhou.
The entire sky was bathed in red light, a red so intense it looked like it was about to bleed.
The people of Tianyuan City looked up at the burst of red light.
The red light lasted for more than ten seconds before slowly dissipating.
The sky returned to its previous state; the cracks were still there, and the dark red light was still there, but it wasn't as frightening as before.
The streets of Tianyuan City were deathly silent.
Several seconds passed before someone spoke.
"What was that just now?"
"I wonder... what's on the other side of the rift?"
"Didn't they say there were still three months left?"
"Three months? I can't wait that long, I have to go, I have to leave right now..."
Lin Chen withdrew his divine sense. His expression remained unchanged, revealing no emotion whatsoever.
He was at a disadvantage in that probing attack just now.
It wasn't that the half-step Saint Venerable was too strong, but rather that because his divine sense had only probed a wisp of it, the opponent had launched a counterattack with almost all its might.
If it were a duel between the two main characters, the outcome would not be like this.
However, this probing also allowed him to uncover a lot of information.
Lin Chen closed his eyes and mentally processed the information he had just sensed.
The passage will open in a month at most.
At that time, even celestial beings will be able to pass through.
Those below the Celestial Immortal level don't even need to wait for the passage to open; the gaps in the rift are enough for them to squeeze through.
In other words, the first batch to arrive will be low-level creatures that are unintelligent, violent, and bloodthirsty.
They are the most numerous and the most difficult to deal with.
The channel will be fully stable in two months.
At that time, beings at the True Monarch level can pass through, but no more than three can pass through; this is a restriction imposed by the rules of this world.
As for that half-step Saint Venerable level creature—
Lin Chen made a mental estimate, and the number he came up with made his eyelids twitch.
It can only descend after sacrificing half the living beings of the continent.
The entire Central Plains, plus the Eastern Regions, the Western Regions, the Northern Desert, and the Southern Wilderness, encompassing half of all living beings.
A road paved with the lives of millions.
Lin Chen closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them and said something that left everyone puzzled:
"It seems there is still a glimmer of hope left between heaven and earth."
Lin Chen paused for a moment, then added,
"It's also possible that someone is playing a very big game."
Lingbo stood beside Lin Chen, looking at his profile.
She kept looking at Lin Chen; her gaze never left him from the moment he looked up at the sky.
When that light exploded, everyone panicked, but she didn't move.
"What did you see?" Lingbo asked.
Lin Chen didn't answer the question. He looked around, as if nothing had happened, and spoke casually.
"This place is quite big."