Chapter 91 : Liu Yao: The Revitalization of Fuyao Sect
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Yet, at the end of it all, it was naught more than an ordinary bird. How could it withstand the True Fire of Samadhi?
Shui Keng’s back suddenly straightened. “That’s not right. What it spat out wasn’t fire — it was a yao core!”
The huge hawk’s mouthful of furious flame had been earth-shaking, but its own conclusion was not the slightest bit impressive. It raised its head and let out a miserable shriek. The flesh all over its body was sucked dry in a snap, rapidly shriveling up, and due to the frame of its large skeleton that stubbornly refused to shrink, its skin cracked apart while it still lived.
Upon another look, the bird’s bones that were exposed to the outside had already turned to stone, cleanly splitting away from its skin. They were dark and dull in color and lustre, giving off the morbid qi of death, and densely engraved with charms on their surfaces — it wasn’t completely dead yet, but had already gone stiff.
Its two long wings could not be retracted. It crashed heavily upon the ground, dead with its eyes open.
These hawks were akin to climbing cacti, blooming brilliantly only one such a time in their lives. They had poured all of their vitality into smelting an inner core, then had forged ahead in the name of justice, rushing to send themselves into death in quick succession.
Even though they were only animals of no higher thoughts, did they not know how to cling to life?
There were always some points in time where the world made one feel that authority was absolute.
The corner of Shui Keng’s eye fiercely twitched. Those feathers fluttering down painfully stung her eyes.
The second she moved, however, Li Yun shouted at her. “What are you being impulsive for?! Sit down!”
All of a sudden, she felt an immense wave of isolation. She thought for a moment; why couldn’t she call upon rain to clear all these villains away? She thought for a different moment; if she actually was that powerful, everyone would fear her, and it seemed like nothing good would come of that. She would either be like her fourth senior, turning into a villain herself, or she would be like that Island Master Gu that she already had no more memory of, inciting everyone else to want to harm her.
She had traveled through the human world for over a hundred years, and for the first time in her life, her heart became listless.
The corner of Xuan Huang’s mouth ticked up. “Very good. Open the array.”
Before he even finished speaking, a loud noise was heard, and the landscape changed in color.
The entirety of Tai Yin’s sky appeared to get covered in black banners, like dense clouds slowly spreading outwards. Several large mountains rumbled as they rose up nearby, their summits packed full with people raising black flags. Simultaneously, they stamped their feet and yelled loudly, resembling an army that had descended from the sky, making people too afraid to look directly at them for a second.
The hawks hovered close together beneath the billowing banners, and, after a time, slowly parted into what appeared to be two sides, while the flags over everyone’s heads withdrew. A massive mirror encased them instead; its likenesses were indistinct in the sky, as if it was reflecting all the land within it. Even the fuzzy images of humans were projected onto it like mirages.
A beam of light suddenly shot out of the mirror’s surface, directly enveloping the whole Ten-Party Array in it.
“I heard the demonic dragon went in there?” Xuan Huang asked indifferently. “The Ten-Party Array has been sealed, so he may not come out anymore… come, set up the Skeletonizing Array. In no more than forty-nine days, regardless of whether he’s a demonic dragon or demonic fenghuang, he’ll be made into a pill.”
