Chapter 241 Retreat
The earth trembled, and a huge pit with a diameter of hundreds of meters appeared on the ground. Huge cracks spread out from the pit to the surrounding areas. Under the vibration, soil and rocks continued to fall into the cracks, making a rustling sound.
The sky seemed to be affected by the vibration as well. The darkness that had already cracked into several cracks shattered, and the sunlight fell on the ground again, bringing a hint of warmth.
But no one noticed the changes in the sky.
Dust rose up and filled the air, covering the entire pit, making it impossible for people to see what was happening inside.
At the bottom of the deep pit, Wang Nan held the Panlong Stick in front of him and looked at the old man in front of him with a stern expression.
The black dragon had dissipated, and only an old man stood in front of Wang Nan. Long Xiaoyao's originally neat silver hair had become tangled, his face was pale, blood was flowing from the corners of his mouth, and blood had seeped through his clothes, staining his back red.
"Cough, cough, cough."
Long Xiaoyao coughed twice and raised his hand to his chest, "I sense your intention. Is this the path you want to take?"
“No wonder.” Long Xiaoyao closed his eyes and sighed deeply, “One day, the Holy Spirit Church will be destroyed in your hands.”
Long Xiaoyao opened his eyes and looked at Wang Nan. "The Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters is in the Demonic Forest. It is closely connected to the 800,000-year-old soul beast, the Evil Emperor. You must not rashly enter before you have the power to defeat the Evil Emperor."
"Also, you should know that there is a ritual in the Holy Spirit Church called 'Spirit Ascension'. It is a way to gain power by praying to the gods through sacrifice. Even Xishui has not fully mastered that power."
As he spoke, the dust around him was gradually disappearing.
Long Xiaoyao looked up at the sunlight shining in from outside the pit, his soul power circulated, his clothes fluttered, and his hems fluttered.
After looking at Wang Nan, Long Xiaoyao’s body rushed into the sky.
It was not until Long Xiaoyao left that Wang Nan coughed lightly and swallowed the fishy sweetness in his throat.
Facing an Extreme Douluo head-on is definitely not an easy task. In the collision in the air just now, even with Wang Nan's body, he also suffered considerable injuries. Long Xiaoyao's violent power surged into his body, leaving scars in his meridians.
However, so much gold from living beings was not absorbed in vain. As the qi and blood circulated, the injuries in the body were recovering rapidly.
Moreover, Wang Nan could feel that Long Xiaoyao was not exerting his full strength.
Although he displayed his martial soul's true form and each of his attacks contained the power of an Ultimate Douluo, he seldom used his soul skills.
He has two hundred thousand year soul rings around him, and the Black Dragon Breath is only one of the four hundred thousand year soul skills, and the soul bone skill has never been released. Moreover, being as famous as Moon, Wang Nan does not believe that Long Xiaoyao does not have his own domain ability.
Only that kind of "Heavenly Power" is the full embodiment of the power of the Extreme Douluo.
Although Wang Nan has always been on guard against Long Xiaoyao's domain ability and has not used the power of his ninth soul ring, he is still no match for the true Ultimate Douluo.
The right leg bone flickered slightly, and the revival soul skill was activated. The soul power accumulated in it was released and replenished into Wang Nan's body. With a thought, his body also rose into the air.
"Xiaoyao!"
Seeing Long Xiaoyao appear again, Ye Xishui hurried forward to support him. Looking at the blood on his back, Ye Xishui glanced at the Shrek people with an unfriendly look.
Xuan Zi's heart tightened, but he didn't care about the enemy in front of him, and stared at the hole on the ground. It was not until he saw Wang Nan's figure flying out of it that he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Xiaoyao, leave this kid to me." Ye Xishui glanced at Wang Nan, who didn't have many injuries on his body, and made a gesture to attack.
"Wait." Long Xiaoyao grabbed Ye Xishui and swept his eyes over the people in the air, finally stopping on Wang Nan for a moment.
"Let's go back. Yuming City can't be attacked. Ahem."
"Xiaoyao." Ye Xishui wanted to say something else, but when she saw Long Xiaoyao holding his chest and coughing, she finally did not take action.
With a cold snort, Ye Xishui helped Long Xiaoyao up and rushed towards the military camp of the Sun and Moon Empire.
Everyone in Shrek looked at Wang Nan and saw that he did not move, nor did he stop the two of them. They watched them return to the Sun-Moon Empire military camp.
Looking at Long Xiaoyao's back, Wang Nan sighed in his heart.
There are no pure good guys or bad guys. While Long Xiaoyao was staying with Ye Xishui, he was also thinking about his homeland. He didn't want to see the Sun Moon Empire break through the defenses of the three empires. In the end, he told himself some things about the Holy Spirit Church.
Being defeated by Wang Nan after revealing his true spirit, and not taking advantage of this, this might be what Long Xiaoyao wanted to see. The only thing he didn't expect was that Wang Nan's strength far exceeded his expectations, causing him considerable injuries.
Perhaps it won’t be long before he will not be a match for Wang Nan even if he tries his best.
A figure rose into the sky from the Sun Moon Empire's military camp. Wang Yiheng, the leader of the Evil Lord Soul Mentor Group, came to Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao, "You two..."
"Get out!" Ye Xishui shouted in a low voice. His deep voice spread far away, and for a moment the air around him seemed to become a little colder.
Wang Yiheng paused slightly, his face looked a little ugly, he opened his mouth silently, and finally could only bow slightly to make way for Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao to go back.
Looking towards Yuming City from afar, there were still several figures standing in the air. Their eyes stayed on Wang Nan for a moment, and they saw Wang Nan looking at this side from afar.
Although he knew that Wang Nan was not looking at him, he still felt an inexplicable desire to retreat.
"Retreat!" After a moment of silence, Wang Yiheng finally gave the order to withdraw.
A moment later, the Sun-Moon Empire's army under Yuming City slowly retreated, and chaos broke out in the military camp in the distance. The tents that were connected to the sky and the ground outside Yuming City were pulled up one after another and retreated towards Tianming City.
Countless soul masters on the top of Yuming City all looked at Wang Nan. Although Wang Nan did not release his martial soul at this time and his figure did not look burly, in the eyes of these soul masters, there stood an extremely tall figure as tall as the sky.
The light shield covering the sky above Yuming City gradually dissipated. Dai Hao raised his head, took a deep breath, and flew into the air.
"Thank you for helping me." Dai Hao came to Wang Nan and bowed, then turned to the several Title Douluo from Shrek Academy and said, "Thank you all, please go to the city to rest."
"You're welcome, Marshal."
A whistling sound was heard in Yuming City. Looking at the retreating Sun and Moon Empire, the soldiers who had experienced a fierce battle shouted loudly to release their emotions. The sound gradually stopped only after Wang Nan and his men returned to Yuming City for a long time.
(End of this chapter)
