Chronicles of Heaven's Chosen - Chapter 87

The Nightmare Beast immediately reached out with a gigantic hand, intending to crush Yuan Yao in its palm.

The moment it moved, Ying Wuji intercepted it.

“Youngest Senior Brother, buy me some time!” Yuan Yao knew she could not defeat the Nightmare Beast, but she could devour its mental power bit by bit and steadily weaken it.

Ying Wuji looked back at her, his gaze deep.

“All right.”

The Nightmare Beast heard every word and understood Yuan Yao’s plan. Panic surged through it. It tried to retract the mental power it had released, only to discover that the little human freak’s mass of mental power was wrapped tightly around its own.

Its fury mounted. The bloody light in its hollow sockets blazed brighter, as if it meant to burn straight through Yuan Yao.

“You seek death!”

With a roar, it opened its jaws and spat a torrent of corrosive slime toward her.

Just before the slime struck, Ying Wuji flashed in front of Yuan Yao and swept out his sword.

Countless streams of sword qi erupted, blasting the slime back.

Xiao Lingwei, Cang Li, and Xue Jin arrived at that moment.

“Buy Yaoyao time,” Ying Wuji said without wasting a word.

The three gave Yuan Yao complicated looks, then nodded to him.

They summoned their weapons and surrounded the Nightmare Beast.

The most terrifying weapon at the Nightmare Beast’s disposal was its mental power. Yuan Yao, however, had successfully entangled a full half of that power with her own, stripping it of nearly half its combat strength.

Before this, she had already devoured thirty percent of its mental power outright. Not long ago, the mysterious figure had also brutally destroyed one of its clones, weakening it even further!

Its current strength was far below its peak a thousand years ago. It was even weaker than it had been when it first broke free of the seal!

All because of this human freak!

She was the reason it had been reduced to such a miserable state!

The Nightmare Beast wanted to dispose of the four humans quickly, then reclaim its mental power.

It launched a frenzied attack on Ying Wuji and the others.

Boom! Boom! Boom—

The four did not meet its attacks head-on. They knew their only objective was to buy Yaoyao time.

They dodged whenever they could and defended whenever they could not.

The Beast could not kill them quickly, while at the same time, it could feel Yuan Yao devouring its mental power.

Its anxiety mounted.

Then it spotted a large group of humans approaching in the distance.

Shocked and furious, the Nightmare Beast glared at Yuan Yao.

It would expel her from its Nightmare Space!

Hum—

Yuan Yao’s consciousness suddenly sank, as though she were being pulled underwater.

In the real world, the eyes beneath her closed lids shifted faintly, showing signs that she might awaken.

The ghost-masked youth nearby happened to notice.

He approached and looked down at her pale face. Her brows were tightly drawn, as though she were struggling against something.

Everyone present had fallen into a deep sleep.

She alone was reacting.

The ghost-masked youth crouched and reached to check her pulse.

The instant his fingertips touched her wrist—

Yuan Yao’s consciousness struggled violently.

Smack!

Her palm struck the masked youth squarely across the cheek, knocking his mask crooked.

He felt a faint sting at the corner of his mouth. A dark, vicious look instantly entered his eyes.

He stared sharply at Yuan Yao.

But she had already fallen back into a deep sleep, just like everyone else.

He reached toward her neck.

Before his fingers touched her skin, he could feel the faint warmth rising from it.

His palm closed over her soft, slender neck, pressing tightly against her warm skin.

An indescribably strange feeling stirred inside him.

The sensation was unfamiliar and subtle.

As if nothing had happened, he withdrew his hand and slowly stood. Then he gave the unconscious Yuan Yao a cold glance.

His figure flashed toward a particular part of Yunming City.

He had come to the Ninth Continent for an object sealed within the city.

He knew that everyone in Yunming City had fallen unconscious because of the Nightmare Beast, which the Immortal Sect had sealed a thousand years ago.

The Nightmare Beast fed on human souls and gouged out human eyes.

It had committed countless atrocities a millennium before, so the Immortal Sect had used an object to seal it.

That object was Xie Yan’s reason for coming to Yunming City.

In truth, he had long prepared himself to be drawn into the Nightmare Space constructed by the Beast. But now…

Xie Yan regarded the unconscious bodies covering the ground, his expression unreadable.

He guessed that the Nightmare Beast had encountered trouble and had no attention to spare for the outside world.

He strode toward a particular location and materialized a longsword in his hand.

Holding it one-handed, he stabbed down.

Clang—

…

Inside Nightmare Space—

Yuan Yao realized that the Beast was trying to expel her consciousness. She fought back and followed the path of its mental power, dragging herself in little by little.

Her eyes flew open, and she drew a sharp breath. Then she looked up and met the Nightmare Beast’s gaze.

“You won’t drive me out!”

With that, Yuan Yao began eroding its mass of mental power.

The Beast had not expected even this to fail. It was nearly beside itself with rage.

At the same time, Zong Rao and the others arrived and attacked without a word.

With dozens of people surrounding it, the Beast had no time to divide its attention.

It swung its gigantic claws at the crowd in fury!

Every strike carried crushing force, as though it meant to grind them into paste.

The weaker disciples could not withstand the blows. They were grievously wounded, coughed up blood, and crashed to the ground, unable even to rise.

Zong Rao, Elder Yan, Elder Fang of the Dual Poles Sect, Elder Feng of the Chongxu Sect, and the other experts swiftly joined forces and launched a ferocious assault.

Every elder had reached the Soul Transformation Realm. Together with the elite disciples, they were strong enough to trap the steadily weakening Nightmare Beast.

Realizing the danger, the Beast decided to retreat.

It let out a furious roar.

Terrifying mental pressure erupted and blasted everyone away.

Yuan Yao was thrown back with them.

The black fog surrounding the Nightmare Beast instantly spread like a vast bank of mist and swept toward everyone present.

“No!” Yuan Yao realized what it intended. “It wants to expel us!”

The word “expel” brought different expressions to everyone’s faces.

Their first instinct was still to resist the black fog.

But it carried immense mental power. In an instant, it shattered the defenses of numerous elite disciples and expelled their consciousnesses from Nightmare Space!

One person after another vanished.