Chronicles of Heaven's Chosen - Chapter 83

The Nightmare Beast wanted nothing more than to kill her, but first it had to break the formation laid by these human ants.

Its skeletal jaws opened, and it spat out a mouthful of slime.

The black slime struck the formation barrier and began visibly eating through it.

Everyone’s heart sank.

“Hurry!” Elder Yan urged again.

The elite disciples of the Dual Poles Sect poured all their strength into forming the seals and rapidly transforming the array.

As the slime ate a widening hole through the formation barrier, the Nightmare Beast suddenly dissolved into black fog and tried to escape through the breach.

“Soul-Locking Formation, activate!”

Elder Fang of the Dual Poles Sect roared. Determination filled his plump face as he thrust out both palms and released a formation seal.

But at that moment—

The black fog rolled like dense smoke, nearly reaching the corroded opening in the barrier!

Suddenly, a rapid series of whooshes exploded like thunder. Three powerful thunderflame arrows tore through the void like lightning and shot toward the fog.

The Nightmare Beast instinctively dodged sideways.

At that exact moment, the Eight Extremes Confining Shield Formation completed its transformation, becoming a Soul-Locking Formation so tight that not even wind could pass. The beast was knocked out of its fog form in an instant, and terrifying power from the formation suppressed its mental power and soul power!

Suppressed them completely!

The Nightmare Beast let out an unwilling roar that surged like a furious sea and rang through the clouds. Even through the formation barrier, everyone could feel its mental power heaving like stormy waves, surging and billowing without end, filling them with dread.

“We’ve trapped it!” a disciple cried, unable to contain his joy.

Many turned toward the source of the thunderflame arrows. A young woman in a green dress stood there holding a purple thunderflame bow. Her face was as pale as paper, but her eyes shone as brilliantly as stars.

“Nan Feiyan!”

Someone shouted her name.

Nan Feiyan was twenty-two years old and came from the Thunder Sect. Known as Fairy Feiyan, she was the sect’s undisputed chief disciple. In the previous Grand Sect Tournament, she had emerged like the tip of an awl from a pouch, placing fifth in the Disciple Rankings.

“Oh no—” Elder Feng of the Chongxu Sect suddenly exclaimed.

The sky was descending again, collapsing like an enormous mountain.

At the same time, countless strands of mental power wrapped around the entire region. They threaded between the crowd like an impenetrable iron net and abruptly pinned everyone in midair!

Zhai Qingye realized what had happened, and his expression darkened.

“That isn’t its true body!”

The Nightmare Beast trapped inside the Soul-Locking Formation suddenly let out a piercing laugh. Its voice rolled across the heavens like thunder, so loud it seemed ready to deafen the ears!

“Human ants, you truly are fools.”

A thousand years ago, it had already reached the early seventh rank. Although a millennium under the seal had prevented it from recovering its full strength for the time being, it was not something these human ants could easily defeat.

They could not even distinguish its true body from its clone.

How pitiful.

The Nightmare Beast raised its eyes, and the Soul-Locking Formation abruptly shattered. Its gaze swept over the humans frozen in place.

“You are fit only to become my food.”

It opened its mouth and was about to drain their soul power—

When explosion after explosion sounded from the prison rooms in the distance.

Everyone was startled.

The Nightmare Beast sensed what was happening and flew into a rage. With a flash, it vanished from their sight.

Xiao Lingwei’s expression changed dramatically when she saw it heading in that direction.

“Little Junior Sister…” she murmured.

No!

At the same time, Yuan Yao remained enclosed within the mass of prison rooms, her eyes tightly shut and her lashes trembling faintly.

Inside her sea of consciousness, she was frantically devouring the Nightmare Beast’s mental power.

Her sea of consciousness continued to expand, and her mental power grew stronger with it.

Then she sensed an overwhelmingly terrifying mass of mental power approaching. Her eyes snapped open.

Before she could react, her entire body went rigid.

The black fog before her took the shape of a gigantic skeletal beast. Horrifying bloody light filled its hollow eye sockets as it glared at Yuan Yao.

“You have devoured my mental power once, twice, and then a third time. You seek death!”

It forced its way into her sea of consciousness, intent on reclaiming the mental power that had once belonged to it.

Then it would drain every last bit of her soul power and reduce her to flying ash and vanishing smoke!

But when its mental power entered Yuan Yao’s sea of consciousness, it was stunned to discover that the space was dozens of times larger than that of an ordinary human cultivator!

Yuan Yao’s mental power, which had been curled up in a corner, suddenly attacked.

The Nightmare Beast struck back at once.

Boom!

The terrifying collision ripped Yuan Yao’s sea of consciousness apart once more.

Her mental power was white.

Within that vast space, the white mass struck once, then swiftly retreated.

Whenever the Nightmare Beast tried to absorb it, the white mass fled at astonishing speed.

Whenever the beast stopped, it darted in to attack. Whenever the beast gave chase, it raced away again.

Over and over.

Realizing that she was toying with it, the Nightmare Beast flew into a towering rage.

If it could not have her power, it would destroy it!

The Beast unleashed a terrifying wave of mental power, intending to shatter her entire sea of consciousness!

Agony tore through Yuan Yao’s mind.

Blood once again streamed from all seven of her orifices, and her body trembled uncontrollably.

Inside her sea of consciousness, the mass of white mental power suddenly hurled itself at the Nightmare Beast’s power, gnawing, tearing, and devouring like mad!

The Nightmare Beast was stunned!

Then it counterattacked, imitating her as it began to bite and devour with equal frenzy.

The masses of black and white mental power tore at each other, resembling an Eight Trigrams diagram.

Gradually, the Nightmare Beast realized in shock that its mass of mental power was shrinking!

The other mass, meanwhile, was steadily swelling.

Panic surged through the beast.

This human was a freak!

At this rate, she would drain it dry!

It struggled wildly, tore itself free when she was caught off guard, and fled Yuan Yao’s sea of consciousness.

As its mental power returned, bloody light flared once more within the beast’s hollow sockets. It stared at the seemingly frail human before it with fear and deep wariness.

If mental power could not kill her—

Then it would crush her soul body while it still had the chance!

It extended a gigantic claw and brought it down on Yuan Yao with the force of a thousand jun.

Boom!

Before the Nightmare Beast could react, an even more powerful force slammed into it and obliterated its body.

Crack—

Its skull split open.

The shadowy figure of a man appeared before Yuan Yao. His handsome face was cold and merciless, and his icy gaze remained fixed on the fractured skull.