Chapter 528 - 337: Identity Reveal, Global Live Broadcast
Chapter 528: Chapter 337: Identity Reveal, Global Live Broadcast
Some people started watching on their phones, but they soon felt the screens were too small and unsatisfying. They rushed outside to find bigger screens.
A barbecue stall even set up a projector to attract customers.
"Star Constellation Scorch Mark + Purple Forbidden Enclosure suppression—our ancestors’ metaphysics are crushing NATO’s nukes!"
"Using Blood Jade Spirit Fruits as fuel? Is Li Xiang’s warehouse Doraemon’s fourth-dimensional pocket?!" (A comment from a Japanese netizen, teasing Li Xiang about his resource consumption.)
Netizens in Northern Europe started a poll: "Petition to rename the Nobel Peace Prize the ’Li Xiang Prize’!"
...
Wenshu Fairy gently raised a slender hand. Six streams of qing-jade Literary Soul shot out from the illusion of an ancient tome, but they dimmed abruptly upon touching the spatial rift.
"This is bad!" A trickle of golden blood escaped her lips. "Something on the other side of the passage is devouring the energy—"
Before she could finish, a giant, bone-spiked claw shot out from the rift. A sulfurous hurricane blasted from it, throwing up ice sheets a hundred feet high. Deep within the fissure, a scarlet, vertical pupil opened. The brief glimpse was enough to fill the livestream signal thousands of miles away with static.
Luo Feifei spun and flung out nine Ice Dragons. Amidst the dragons’ roars, her own gritted-out word, "Seal!" could be heard. Ice Crystals spread across the giant claw like a web of white frost.
Li Xiang roared and slammed his palms on the ground. The ice field collapsed with a BOOM, revealing the rock layer below, glowing red-hot from the Earth Vein Furnace. Bloody chains shot out of the magma, making a SSSZZZ sound like a branding iron being quenched as they wrapped around the giant claw. The monster shrieked in pain and retracted its limb, but the rift expanded to five kilometers wide, the churning scarlet clouds within illuminating half of Antarctica.
With every inch the chains tightened, beads of blood seeped from the seams of Li Xiang’s Armor, blooming into red lotus-shaped flames as they dripped onto the ice.
"Li Xiang!" Luo Feifei came to his aid, grabbing his vambrace. Ice Spiritual Power surged from her into him where they touched.
...
Netizens around the world held their breath.
"They’re not going to fail, are they?"
The video feed seemed to freeze.
Someone cried out in alarm, "Did the signal cut out? What’s happening on site?"
An analyst explained, "It’s not frozen. They’ve reached the critical moment. Whether they succeed or fail will be decided right now!"
Fortunately, the feed quickly started moving again. The spatial rift, over ten kilometers long and five or six kilometers wide, was visibly beginning to slowly narrow and shorten under the combined sealing efforts of the five of them.
"We offer five thousand years of our mountains and rivers as sacrifice!" The three Earth Vein Spirits suddenly unleashed their power, transforming their very essence into pillars of light that poured into the Array Hub. The bodies of the Elder in the Dragon Robe, the Imperial Capital Dragon Spirit, and Wenshu Fairy began to turn transparent, and the spatial rift started shrinking even faster!
Li Xiang took out a flask of Spirit Wine and chugged it down. With heroic resolve, he too began to push himself to his absolute limit.
Luo Feifei, who was normally as pure as ice and jade with peerless grace, was now wreathed in arcing electricity from her Electric Light Illusion Armor. Bursts of icy mist rose around her like a violent sea of lightning. She was clearly giving it her all.
Thanks to the five of them desperately unleashing their power, the final moment arrived sooner than expected.
About half an hour later, the spatial rift had shrunk to an oval shape, just over a meter long and sixty to seventy centimeters wide.
Netizens cheered. Victory was in sight.
"Take care of my mother," Luo Feifei said quietly, suddenly glancing at Li Xiang.
"What are you doing?" Li Xiang had a bad feeling.
"The world on the other side of this passage holds the opportunity for me to break through to the Saint Tier. I’m going to find my destiny." Luo Feifei had just felt a subtle premonition. The Divination Inscription inside her was pulsing relentlessly. This Divination Inscription had appeared when she condensed her thirteenth Spiritual Power vortex, and ever since, she could secretly perform a Divination with a mere thought, no longer needing tools like a Turtle Shell or Ancient Bronze Coins.
"This passage is about to close!" Li Xiang was frantic.
"So what?" Luo Feifei scoffed.
Li Xiang said anxiously, "You can reach the Saint Tier if you stay here too. Why take the risk?"
"By staying here and relying on you, a married man? Or should I wait for the Apocalypse? My mind is made up. Don’t try to stop me." Luo Feifei scoffed again, and with a flash, she vanished into the spatial rift.
Her timing was perfect. At that exact moment, the spatial rift sealed completely shut.
"Feifei!" Li Xiang stood there, devastated. His mind went blank, and he felt a heart-wrenching pain, as if one of his ribs had been torn out. On top of that, there was endless worry. On the other side was an unknown behemoth.
The odds of survival over there were less than one in ten!
At the Suzhou Villa, Luo Feifei’s mother was watching the live broadcast. She was so terrified by the sudden turn of events that her face went pale. She couldn’t catch her breath and fainted onto the sofa.
The housekeeper rushed over to help and called for an ambulance.
Luo Feifei’s back as she leaped into the spatial rift was silhouetted by the intense light, a final image displayed on countless screens across the globe. The world’s netizens were stunned.
"When she turned and jumped in, her Electric Light Illusion Armor looked like a shooting star... I cried so hard my phone got water damage!" (From the flood of live stream comments.)
"Luo Feifei is only 17! Why are the heroes always so young?! It’s such a tragedy." (A sentiment echoed by parents worldwide.)
"How is that any different from suicide?"
"No, she sacrificed herself for a chance to break through to the Saint Tier! That ’Take care of my mother’ right before the passage closed is killing me!"
"The Electric Light Illusion Armor can traverse space! She must have gone to the Otherworld to be an undercover agent!" (An analysis of the armor’s function by a sci-fi fan.)
The ’shippers’ were furious: "Li Xiang, you won’t even go after her just because your wife is pregnant? You can move at Mach 40! You could have reached out and grabbed her in an instant! What a scumbag!"
"Feifei is beautiful on her own!"
In reality, Li Xiang truly didn’t have time. Moreover, at the final moment of the passage’s closure, Luo Feifei had suddenly ’let go,’ drastically increasing the pressure on him and the three Earth Vein Spirits. If Li Xiang had gone after her, all their efforts would have likely been for nothing.
Luo Feifei had chosen her moment perfectly, ensuring their success would not be compromised while also preventing Li Xiang from stopping her.