Zombie Bodyguard

Chapter 2102: Chapter 2099: Shattered

Lin Tian and Xu Feibai’s attacks were unbelievably fierce, yet the black hole still swallowed both streams of energy. After devouring the energy, the black hole began to spin and compress inward.

With a buzzing sound, a beam of light shot out from the other side of the black hole, firing toward the crack in the Barrier.

Boom— the beam slammed into the Barrier, making it tremble violently with a thunderous roar. Immediately after, beam after beam fired out, like the sword light of a Sword Immortal bombarding, relentlessly battering the Barrier.

"Again." Xu Feibai growled low, hacking out with his blade once more. Lin Tian also swung the Heavenly Cluster Cloud Sword, and the black hole swallowed the energy again.

The black hole suddenly jolted, stuttering for an instant, as though something inside was about to be spat out. In the blink of an eye, a much thicker beam of light burst forth, slamming into the Barrier in an instant.

Almost at the same time, a metallic clang rang out from within the mountain, and a sky-blue sword light suddenly appeared, colliding head-on with the beam.

At the point of impact, there was no violent explosion, no dazzling bursts of light, only energy mutually devouring and annihilating itself. A ring of deathly ripples quietly spread out, and wherever it passed, the Barrier melted away like great drifts of snow under the sun.

The hole in the Barrier grew larger and larger, and faintly, the real scene within came into view: the Shrine’s stone steps and buildings. But the hole was very unstable, its edges flickering as if it might close at any moment.

At this moment, Yuan Liuming took out a Jade Pendant. Lin Tian glanced at it—it was actually the Xu Family’s Qiong Gou Jade, the Yang side.

Yuan Liuming raised the Qiong Gou Jade with both hands in a gesture like worship, expression solemn, muttering under his breath. Suddenly, the Qiong Gou Jade emitted a red glow, which shone onto the hole in the Barrier.

The Barrier seemed to be coated in a layer of dark crimson light. Once the hole expanded to the size of a city gate, it stabilized and stopped flickering.

"Mr. Xu, it’s done. The Qiong Gou Jade should be able to hold for a while." Yuan Liuming exhaled in relief and spoke.

"Let’s go in." Xu Feibai said mildly, put away the Flowing Light, and strode in first.

Lin Tian followed. When he saw the scene before him clearly, his pupils involuntarily shrank. A fissure had appeared on the stone steps, running all the way up the mountain, almost cleaving the entire mountain in two.

It was as if some power was sealed within, trying to force the mountain open and see the light of day again!

Xu Feibai also frowned slightly. "Even without us, Jiang Chen’s head emerging was only a matter of time."

"Human strength is ultimately limited. No matter how powerful a Barrier is, it can’t stand against the power of heaven and earth and of time." Lin Tian, however, had seen through it. If there really were gods in this world, then even gods between heaven and earth might only be slightly stronger ants.

"Young Master, there’s a huge underground space inside the Shrine’s mountainside. Jiang Chen’s head and the Heavenly Cluster Cloud Sword are likely in there." Oda Manaka reported.

She had once been the master of the Shrine and knew the layout of its lair, but back then the underground space had belonged to the Onmyoji, and she had hardly ever gone down.

"Underground space?" Lin Tian’s eyes lit up as he recalled the time they emptied the Shrine. It was in an underground cave that he had found a stone sword.

Even then he had found it strange, because the style of the stone sword faintly carried the flavor of ancient Huaxia swords, somewhat like a bronze sword. For carvings of Huaxia ancient swords to appear in Japan was always a bit peculiar.

"You remembered something?" Xu Feibai asked in puzzlement.

"A stone sword..." Lin Tian explained the situation to Xu Feibai. There was nothing worth hiding anyway. Xu Feibai said nothing more and bolted up the mountain, and Lin Tian had no choice but to follow this guy.

Xu Feibai had lived for several hundred years and rarely showed excitement about anything—except for the matter of resurrecting Jiang Chen. As a descendant of Jiang Chen’s bloodline, resurrecting Jiang Chen might be something ingrained in his very nature.

The group climbed along the stone steps. The higher they went, the more shocked Lin Tian became, because the fissure had already penetrated deep into the mountain’s belly; the whole mountain was nearly split into two.

The buildings on the mountain were almost all ruptured and collapsed, and all the stone niches along the sides of the steps had fallen to the ground and shattered. The Shishen inside them were long gone.

"The Shrine is completely ruined." Oda Manaka murmured with slight emotion. After managing it for so many years, it was impossible to say she felt nothing at all.

After the last battle at the Shrine, and the earthquake, there was practically no intact building left within the Shrine.

Relying on his memory, Lin Tian found the original entrance, but as he expected, it had already collapsed, rubble completely burying the way in.

The masked man and Yasuo were just about to clear the entrance when Oda Manaka stretched out a hand to stop them, then let out a strange chirping sound from her mouth.

Soon, a thin rustling came from underground, and from within the fissure countless insects surged out like a tide. If he’d never seen Blood Sea Moth, Lin Tian might have been surprised, but now, faced with this wave of insects, his heart remained unmoved.

Oda Manaka was a Gu Cultivator. During the last Shrine battle, her Gu Worms had been slaughtered in droves by Lin Tian and Zhang Lingyu, yet by today she had already bred this many Gu Worms again—truly formidable.

There was a hint of pride in her eyes, and indeed it was something to be proud of, for even Secret Master Yasuo, who also dabbled in Gu arts, was full of envy at the moment.

However, when she caught sight of Lin Tian’s expression and saw that he was completely unmoved, this powerful woman who was both Gu Cultivator and Pharmacist furrowed her brows, seemingly quite affected.

Oda Manaka let out another sound, and all the insects swarmed toward the entrance, burrowing into the rubble. The rubble began to turn to powder at a speed visible to the Physical Eye. In no time, the large pile of stones had become a field of fine dust, revealing the passage behind it.

"Your control of Gu Worms has already reached an uncanny level, but it’s still a bit lacking." Lin Tian said coolly.

"Lacking?" Oda Manaka’s willow brows shot up as she retorted, unconvinced, "You’re just an outsider. What right do you have to judge like that?"

"When your Gu Worms can communicate with you in human language and heart-to-heart, then it won’t be too early for you to think so." Lin Tian gave a faint smile. With that, he declined to explain further and strode into the cave first.

Every step he took on the fine dust, it automatically parted to either side, not staining his shoes in the slightest.

Xu Feibai gave Oda Manaka a glance and said impassively, "He’s a man who’s returned from Hell. Don’t try to challenge him."

Oda Manaka gazed at Lin Tian’s back, eyes flickering, who knows what she was thinking.

The group all entered the cave. After passing through a passage, a heavy stone door blocked their way. Lin Tian remembered that the last time he came in, the door had been open. Very likely, when the earthquake struck, it triggered some mechanism that automatically closed the passage.

Before Xu Feibai could give an order, Oda Manaka sounded off again. The Gu Worms appeared once more, burrowing into the cracks of the stone. Then, the clicking of gears sounded, and the stone door slowly rose.

A gigantic cavern appeared. In the middle of the cavern rested a coffin, and in front of the coffin stood a stone sword. It was here that Lin Tian had obtained the Shennong Emperor’s Medical Scripture and Zhang Lingyu the Demon Exorcism Records.

But now, what drew his gaze even more was that stone sword. He hadn’t thought much of it last time, but looking closely now, he found that the patterns carved on the stone sword were somewhat similar to those on the Heavenly Cluster Cloud Sword in his hand.

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