AWB Chapter 271 Return to the Human Race
Chapter 271 Return to the Human Race
"Junior Sister, the passages are all open. Should we go back or stay here?"
Chen Wan'er gently stroked the bracelet on her wrist with her slender fingers, her gaze fixed on the faintly visible spatial rift in the distance.
How could she not want to go back?
However, this upheaval in the world has come too quickly. I'm afraid that once the passage is fully opened, the three realms will be plunged into turmoil.
The only course of action now is to accumulate as much strength as possible before chaos ensues.
"Let's not rush into a decision." She looked away, her voice soft yet firm. "Third Senior Sister, what are your thoughts?"
Ye Lingyu, Lou Chongxiao, Lin Qingxue, and Su Ming exchanged glances, and each of them read the answer in the other's eyes.
As human cultivators, they naturally had to return to protect their homeland when it was in danger.
However, saying this would inevitably put his junior sister in a difficult position.
Manman, who had been standing quietly to the side, suddenly spoke up timidly:
"Sister Chen, if you return to the human race... will you ever come back?"
She clutched the hem of her clothes, her voice trailing off, "Or... can I come with you?"
Chen Wan'er looked at the little sister she had met in the demon race and her heart softened.
She reached out and gently ruffled Manman's hair, saying softly, "That depends on your father's opinion. Besides..."
She paused, her expression turning serious. "Once the passage opens, chaos will surely ensue in the Three Realms. Following us will only make things more dangerous."
Manman's bright eyes dimmed for a moment, but she quickly smiled again:
"Then Sister Chen, promise me you'll come to see me once things have calmed down!"
Before she could finish speaking, Chen Wan'er's expression suddenly changed.
"Not good!" She suddenly stood up and looked in the direction of the human race.
"Third Senior Sister, you must return immediately! Something has happened to the human race!"
"What?" Ye Lingyu's spirit sword fell to the ground with a "thud".
Lou Chongxiao astutely grasped the key point: "Junior Sister, aren't you coming with us?"
Chen Wan'er shook her head, "I can't leave. Things will change soon between the demon race and the demon clan, and the demon race still needs someone to stay and oversee things."
Otherwise, if the demon race and the monster race attack the human race together, I fear the human race will be doomed.
She looked at her four fellow disciples, her voice filled with determination.
"The senior brothers have already gone back, you should go back soon too."
Upon hearing the words "eldest brother," the tips of Seventh Sister Lin Qingxue's ears turned slightly red, and she unconsciously touched the jade hairpin in her hair.
Chen Wan'er noticed this subtle movement, which put her at ease.
With the eldest brother around, the seventh sister will be safe even if she goes back.
After all, a pill cultivator is not suited for combat, but fortunately, during the years she spent with her in the demon race, Seventh Senior Sister has been trained to be more combat-ready.
"There's no time to lose." Chen Wan'er summoned the Ghost Blood Vine. "I'll have Little Vine send you on your way..."
Her words suddenly stopped, and a deafening roar came from afar.
Everyone looked up and saw a scarlet crack running north to south across the sky, like a wound torn open in the heavens.
Before them, the passage between the demon race and the monster race had been opened.
The Three Realms Passage opened ahead of schedule.
Dark demonic energy surged forth from the spatial rifts like a tidal wave, withering vegetation and corroding rocks wherever it passed.
Chen Wan'er made a hand seal with her fingertips, and spiritual power transformed into a barrier, forcefully suppressing the surging demonic energy.
Manman's face was pale: "Sister Chen, can this rift be sealed?"
Chen Wan'er's spiritual energy surged, causing her sleeves to flutter.
"It's okay for now, but it won't last long. Third Senior Sister, you must set off immediately!"
Lou Chongxiao gripped his longsword tightly. "Junior Sister, take care!"
Ye Lingyu turned back and gave her a deep look. "Junior Sister, we'll come back to pick you up once the situation has stabilized a bit."
The four of them gave Chen Wan'er one last deep look, said no more, turned around and transformed into four streaks of light that soared into the sky.
With their current Nascent Soul cultivation level, as long as they don't encounter a Mahayana-level being, it wouldn't be difficult for them to escape unscathed.
The fierce wind on the mountaintop whipped at Chen Wan'er's clothes as she watched her fellow disciples disappear into the horizon.
"Sister Chen, I'll stay and keep you company."
Manman suddenly stepped forward and grabbed the corner of her sleeve with her slender fingers.
“You are protecting the demon race from demonic energy, and as a princess of the demon race, I should do my part.”
Chen Wan'er turned her gaze to the delicate little flower fairy from back then.
Now, Manman has long since shed her childishness. Her cultivation at the Nascent Soul stage gives her a faint spiritual light, and a green demon mark between her brows indicates her origin as a plant spirit.
What's most remarkable is his eyes—still as clear as ever, yet with a touch more determination.
"Okay." Chen Wan'er finally nodded.
At the same time, in the forbidden area behind the Qingyun Sect, for the human race.
Hehehe—
Amidst the piercing, eerie laughter, dozens of black-robed demonic cultivators burst forth from the crack in the forbidden area. The leader, holding a bone banner, exuded a chilling aura.
Demonic cultivator leader: "Qingyun Sect? Today I will make your sect's gates stained with blood!"
Li Qingde sneered and flicked his sleeve, "I was prepared for this!"
Before the words were finished, golden array patterns suddenly lit up in the sky above the forbidden area—it was the Nine Heavens Demon Subduing Array that had been set up long ago!
Sword energy rained down, instantly turning the three demonic cultivators at the forefront into a bloody mist.
Fortunately, Li Qingde was prepared and immediately drove back the demonic cultivators who rushed out.
Sunset City.
"Heh...heh..."
A chilling wind swept through the charred city gate, where piles of rotting corpses lay.
The entire city of Luoxia was devoid of any vitality, save for wandering spirits.
They resembled distorted human figures, with eerie green flames flickering in their empty eye sockets, and wherever they passed, even bricks and stones were covered with a layer of frost.
A disheveled monk staggered out of the black mist, his knees slamming heavily onto the cracked official road.
His Taoist robe was already tattered and corroded by the yin energy, and his exposed skin was covered with spiderweb-like bluish-black patterns.
“They’re all dead…” he rasped, his fingernails digging deep into the soil. “There’s not even a single living rat within a hundred miles!”
The young disciple followed behind him, his hand holding the sword trembling so much that he could barely grip the hilt.
He stared at the surging, ghostly figures in the distance, his Adam's apple bobbing, his voice filled with suppressed despair:
"Senior brother... do we... still have a chance to survive?"
The fleeing cultivator did not answer, but stared intently at his festering palm—the insidious poison had seeped into his meridians, and he would not live for more than three hours.
Just as the Yin Spirit Tide was about to engulf the two cultivators—
"boom--!"
The sky was suddenly torn apart!
A streak of crimson light fell to earth like a meteor, and a scorching wave of air exploded out, instantly evaporating the Yin spirits within a radius of a hundred feet!
"You evil spirit, die!"
The girl's clear voice pierced the deathly silence.
Princess Huo Huo arrived on her sword, her battle robes fluttering in the wind.
With a flick of her finger, the evil spirits were unleashed, their mournful cries echoing as they vanished into thin air!
The fleeing cultivator looked up in a daze, and a glimmer of hope finally appeared in his pupils illuminated by the light.
"These evil spirits... something's not right," Princess Huo Huo muttered to herself.
"It's spreading too fast... It's like someone's manipulating it from behind. Could those people be hiding in Sunset City?"
If she hadn't arrived in time, the area that would have fallen by now would probably be far more than just this hundred miles.