Chapter 1588: Dark Emperor, Fatal Shadow
Ning Tianyou rode on his Blood Life Beast and stepped through the shattered barrier. He stared at Chu Mu.
“You are Messiah Tree’s guardian?” asked Ning Tianyou as he looked at Chu Mu in Devil Fire.
After the Quiet Forest incident, there was news that a Half Devil with two types of Devil Fire took Ning Maner away.
Ning Tianyou knew that Ning Maner’s power needed to develop slowly. So he was not in a hurry to imprison Ning Maner next to him. After all, it was not enough to satisfy Ning Tianyou with just Xuan Items.
During that time, Ning Tianyou had the same thoughts as the others. He thought that the Messiah Tree Seed was in Ning Maner’s hands, but never expected Ning Maner to be the future Messiah Tree.
Ning Tianyou treated her well during those times because he wanted to use his identity as her grandfather to obtain the location of Messiah Tree Seed from Ning Maner. However, he realized later on that Ning Maner really did not know where the seed was.
Without Messiah Tree Seed and the ability to nurture Xuan Items, Ning Tianyou lost interest in her. So when He Cang took her away, Ning Tianyou did not really care about it. He even thought that if he let her go, Messiah Tree Seed might appear again.
As a result, the matter went out of control. Ning Maner was taken away by a Half Devil to a place he did not even know.
Only after so many years, when many Immortals appeared from New Moon Land, Ning Tianyou suddenly realized Ning Maner might have gone to New Moon Land. Those Immortals might be nurtured by Ning Maner’s Immortal aura, or else it was impossible for so many Immortals to suddenly appear from New Moon Land.
Seeing the powerful and creepy Devil Fire on that Half Demon before him, Ning Tianyou really regretted having allowed the true Messiah Tree successor to slip away from him. If he had kept Ning Maner by his side all those years, he might have already become peak Immortal rank. In the end, Ning Maner offered her power to other people!
It could be said that everything this Half Devil owned should have belonged to him. Hence, Ning Tianyou held a grudge against Chu Mu!
“Brat, you sure have great foresight,” mocked Ning Tianyou.
Chu Mu ignored Ning Tianyou. His gaze passed through the army and saw Ning Maner who was surrounded by a few young soul pet trainers.
Ning Maner’s head was lowered, her hair dangled down and covered half of her face.
Chu Mu was connected with her mentally, so he naturally knew what she was going through right now.
She stood there motionlessly as if she lost her soul. She was also shrouded by a strange shade.
Chu Mu did not speak. Ning Maner’s mind was in chaos, she might not listen to Chu Mu’s words.
Currently, the shade shrouding Ning Maner’s body was getting denser and denser, secretly including the surrounding Ning Family army.
The person supervising Ning Maner was Ning Zhuang, the real clan master of this clan.
He was a middle class Immortal. When Ning Tianyou reached high class Immortal rank, his clan master role was no longer qualified to be on even standing as Ning Tianyou.
His mission was simple, to supervise Ning Maner.
New Moon Land’s resources were abundant, but it could not compare to Messiah Tree.
Ning Zhuang rode on a Crimson Devil Scorpion. His attention was focused on Chu Mu and Ning Tianyou. He did not notice the strange shade spreading beneath his feet.
That shade swallowed Crimson Devil Scorpion’s shadow and overlapped the shadow of several Immortals nearby.
A shade hand traveled along their bodies to their necks, then the shade hand slowly tightened......
“H...... Help......”
Suddenly, an Immortal grabbed his own throat and made strange sounds with a livid-colored face.
The others were startled for a moment. When they reacted, they realized several shade hands appeared on the necks of the others and tightened up!
Everyone’s expression stiffened. They felt as if their necks were being strangled by a devil hand, their windpipes were about to break!
“What’s going on?” shouted Ning Zhuang.
Panic immediately spread to the surroundings. Ning Zhuang turned around and was shocked to see Ning Maner already disappeared. A cluster of black shade appeared at her spot instead. Several arms stretched out from the cluster of shade and choked the surrounding Immortals.
“Gah!”
A crisp sound rang out. One of the Immortals had his neck broken by the shade hand. He fell limp to the ground without even getting the chance to summon his soul pet.
Soon, another four Immortals ended up in a similar state. They were choked by shade hands and had their necks snapped. Their soul pets suffered a similar fate, collapsing on the ground and spasming.
Ning Zhuang was dumbfounded. He did not know what just happened.
Suddenly, a chilling darkness power approached, causing Ning Zhuang to feel a cold shiver.
His Crimson Devil Scorpion began rampaging. It started to swing its scythe arms madly to attack its own shadow.
The horrifying thing happened. Crimson Devil Scorpion’s shadow actually separated from the ground and turned into a pitch-black Crimson Devil Scorpion silhouette. That silhouette actually started to attack Crimson Devil Scorpion.
This strange phenomenon did not only happen to Ning Zhuang. Several thousand soul pets’ shadows seemed to have gained their own lives and started attacking the owners of the shadows!
The fighting strength of those shadows was great, not any inferior to the original. The number of shadows equalled to the number of soul pets shrouded by the shade. In an instant, those shadows became a shadow army and kept reaping lives around them.
The shadow army did not draw any blood. Those killed by the shadows did not show any surface wounds. They either had their windpipes snapped, or other vital organs broken. They simply collapsed and lost all signs of life.
The thick darkness of death aura began to spread out. As more and more corpses appeared, the army began to make a commotion.
Little Hidden Dragon’s attacks caused thousands of deaths each time, not leaving any soul behind.
Now, there was another creepy shadow army starting a slaughter within the army. They did not even know how the people around them died, and whether the next to die would be themselves.
The city’s barrier already shattered. The path before them was an unhindered road to occupy the city. As for those people on the streets, they could simply step over them, it would only be more bloody.
However, under the attack by that powerful Spectral Hidden Dragon and creepy shadow creatures, their invasive heart had long cooled down. The entire army was losing people at a rapid speed. Several thousand soul pet trainers and soul pets became corpses. Perhaps, before they could take down the enemy’s city, all of them would become corpses first.
“Ning Zhuang, where is she?” A roar rang out from the sky.
Ning Zhuang raised his head and saw Ning Tianyou riding on Blood Life Beast above the army. Those eyes were staring at him furiously.
Ning Zhuang already used his soul remembrance to sense the surroundings many times, but he could not discover Ning Maner no matter how he searched.
Before the shadow attack, she should have been tightly surrounded. Her soul was also restrained, she definitely would not be able to chant any incantation to escape.
However, in a moment, she disappeared within that creepy shade. Next, the shadows of the surrounding creatures began attacking them, followed by soul pet trainers collapsing one after another.
“I...... I don’t know, she was here a moment ago,” Cold sweat poured down from Ning Zhuan’s head.
He only sensed a thick darkness aura, he did not know what to do about the things that happened afterwards.
Ning Tianyou forcefully suppressed his anger and spread his sensation to the limit.
Soon, Ning Tianyou sensed Ning Maner’s presence in the army near the barrier.
He turned his gaze towards there and saw Ning Maner standing under the broken city wall. The city wall’s shadow shrouded over her and it would be hard to see her if he did not focus.
Meanwhile, there was an even thicker shadow on the city wall she was standing under.
This shadow roughly imitated Ning Maner’s body, but it was clear that the shadow had much longer hair than Ning Maner. There was also a pair of creepy darkness wings on its back. The tips of the wings were sharp hooks, there was something dripping down from the hooks.
Ning Tianyou took a glance at his army and realized many people had their throats slit by something sharp.
No blood flowed out, but the hooks on that shadow’s wings kept dripping something.
“Dark Emperor!” Ning Tianyou glared at the shadow.
He recognized that soul pet, it was He Cang’s Dark Emperor.
Meanwhile, the current Dark Emperor was no longer the same as the past Dark Emperor. The current Dark Emperor was like a reaper hidden deep in the shadow and darkness, quietly reaping the lives of over five thousand people......
Perhaps, Dark Emperor had started spreading its death domain from the start. However, Ning Tianyou never discovered a reaper ambushing next to Ning Maner and hence allowed it to slip into the army.
On the city tower, Chu Mu watched Ning Maner walking out from the enemy’s encirclement and did not feel strange at all.
Although he was Ning Maner’s sole guardian, the one which truly protected Ning Maner all the time was Dark Emperor.
Dark Emperor was the one which received the most nourishment from Ning Maner. Its strength might not be sufficient to take on Ning Tianyou and the entire army, it was enough to ensure Ning Maner’s safety and help her escape.
And now, Dark Emperor represented Ning Maner’s fury and truly started to reap the lives of those people!