The Magus Era

All these happened too fast. Ji Hao suddenly realized what was happening. He was looking at Ku Quan, Qing Mei, and the girl, prepared to trigger the sword formation. All of a sudden, a tiny, triangle-shaped bronze clock appeared in the hands of that girl. She crooked the little finger of her right hand and plucked the small clock. Following his move, the clock emitted a shrill and resonant buzzing sound.

The air surrounding Ji Hao suddenly vibrated, as thick and swift sound waves swept through the entire space, one rising while the other fell. Within a single moment, bell tones that had different pitches, intensities and frequencies rang around Ji Hao’s body at least a million times. Fierce sound waves clashed against each other and vibrated each other, merged together and transformed into a black tsunami of the sound wave, overwhelmingly striking Ji Hao’s body at last.

The Gold Crow fire cloak let out a shrill scream and released a raging fire. Golden-red flame and that black sound wave intensively bumped into each other as layers of flames were blasted into fire sparkles and dissipated while streams of sound wave rapidly vanished within the fire.

The girl gave a sneer then flicked her finger at the small clock three times in a row.

‘Buzz, buzz, buzz’… Followed by three buzzing bell rings, flame released by the Gold Crow fire cloak, which was restrained by Yu Yu with a special magic and could not fully release its power, was scattered and disappeared completely. The fire was wholly shattered by black sound waves, after which, the black sound wave severely struck Ji Hao’s body.

Ji Hao sensed a thunderous buzzing noise coming right from his own brain while dazzling, golden fire sparkles burst in front of his eyes. He temporarily lost vision and fell into pure darkness. He felt waves of great pain coming from his brain, along with a bad dizziness, as if the whole world was spinning swiftly. Ji Hao staggered, unable to remain standing stably on the air anymore and fell straight to the ground from the sky.

The connection between him and the sword formation was no longer as stable as before. He attempted to trigger the sword formation and launch attacks, but that constant ear-piercing buzzing noise lingered in his head. His mind was stirred into a grave mess like a bowl of porridge, and even though he had tried his best, he still couldn’t focus on controlling the sword formation.

“Crap!” Ji Hao’s heart sank, then abruptly gave a long and resonant caw.

Mr. Crow responded with a shrill caw as well, flapped his wings and tried to fly up. However, that terrifying sound wave attacked him as well. No matter how hard Mr. Crow flapped his wings, he could only hover above Ji Hao’s head, but could never gain any sensation from the outside world.

Miao Lian had already grabbed Man Man’s neck in his hand and seeing Ji Hao knocked down by the sound wave released from the bronze clock, he couldn’t help but laugh out loud and said, “Sister Miao Yin, you do have some great methods… Haha, now this little bastard can no longer trigger this bloody…”

Before he finished talking, a bright red stream of flame silently rose from Man Mna’s body. From within that flame, a pair of long and narrow eyes gradually opened. The scorching red pupils of that pair of eyes seemed incomparably imperatorial, looking down at Miao Lian and the other two in a dominant way, like a god standing above the whole world and looking down at all mortal creatures. This pair of eyes instantly brought an enormous pressure to Miao Lian and the two women.

“Zhu Rong!” Miao Lian exclaimed out, yet he showed no sign of fear. He stared at that pair of eye, sneered and said, “Your daughter is in my hands, what can you do?”

The flame surged up straight into the sky, releasing an overwhelmingly great heat. The spirit talisman, which had been pressing on Man Mna’s head, gradually melted in the fire. Abruptly, Man Man opened her eyes, each hand gripping one massive hammer and launched a violent bash right on Miao Lian’s chest.

Miao Lian didn’t even dream of this. Man Man, whose soul was suppressed by the spirit talisman given by an elder of his sect, had actually awakened back up within such a short span of time. The hammers boomed against Miao Lian’s chest, shattering his shirt and squeezed numerous while lotuses out of his body, which immediately held the hammers up, seeming to block this attack.

Clear cracking noises came one after another. Man Man was indignant, so she had used her full-strength in launching this attack. The pair of massive hammers pressed down on those lotuses like two enormous mountains, crushing them one after another while spurting out raging flames, then fiercely smashed on Miao Lian’s chest.

Poor Miao Lian opened his mouth and ejected a stream of blood. His entire chest was now hollowed. His face had gone deathly pale while he hurriedly stepped backward and screaming in a high-pitched voice, “Sister Miao Yin, help me! I, your brother…”

While stepping back and vomiting blood, Miao Qian couldn’t even manage to let out a complete sentence. He didn’t have enough time to launch a counterattack at Man Man. He frantically took out a black-golden round pill from his sleeve and hurriedly thrust into his mouth.

Sideway, a dazzlingly bright golden arrow, which was condensed from a stream of power yet looked just like a tangible object, roared towards Miao Lian. Miao Lian was totally unprepared for this and screamed out loud immediately. Next, his right hand was blown to bits by this fierce and glowing golden arrow. That black-golden pill flew into the air while spinning swiftly. A cyan-colored silhouette swished over from where the arrow came, nimbly grabbed the pill then turned the body around, throwing a vicious and merciless kick three-inch below Miao Lian’s lower abdomen.

“Ao~~” Miao Lian gave a long and shrill howl in pain, and at the same time, everyone on the scene heard a noise that sounded like some kind of ball-shaped thing being crushed.

Miao Lian vomited even more blood, showing the whites of his eyes and staggeringly stepped back. One could clearly see that in the area near his lower abdomen, a weird pit had appeared. In around his pelvic bone, his body was nearly smashed by that heavy kick launched by Feng Xing sneakily.

Feng Xing accurately hit the target, but then fell directly on the ground with his head upside down.

He stared at Miao Lian in shock and yelled, “How can your body be so fragile?! I was going to move backward by pushing against your body, but I couldn’t even feel the solidness of your body!”

Those abilities and magics of Miao Lian were extremely powerful and ingenious, therefore, when Feng Xing launched the sneak attack, he had already seen Miao Lian as an extraordinarily formidable enemy, and used all of his strength to make his move as violent and fierce as possible. In Feng Xing’s plan, he would kick on Miao Lian’s vital body part, which would at most bring Miao Lian a piercing pain, then he could push against Miao Lian’s body and conveniently retreat. After that, he would run away at his highest speed and disappear.

However, he had never thought that the fragility of Miao Lian’s body was actually way beyond his imagination.

When he kicked Miao Lian’s body, he felt like stepping into a puddle of sticky mush. Not even a slight little bit of counterforce was given by Miao Lian’s body before he smashed Miao Lian’s body into a mess. As a result, Feng Xing, who was well prepared for dashing backward at his highest speed, couldn’t find a vent for his power and instead fell directly on the ground in a quite embarrassed shape.

Man Man yelled out in surprise as well, “Yeah! Those flowers came from his body are solid instead, but his body itself is even weaker than babies!”

Three to five years old children in the Southern Wasteland were able to run around with hill-huge rocks carried on their bodies. Each of them had the strength equal to at least hundreds of stones. Miao Lian’s unique abilities and magics amazed people, yet his physical strength was indeed no better than those Southern Wasteland babies who were able to run about in their infanthood!

Ji Hao shook his head hard, raised his head and growled, “Their powers are not contained in their bodies, it’s their souls! Be careful, they’re not Magi… they’re same as those non-humankind, their powers are strange!”

While Ji Hao was barfing, that girl named Miao Yin, gave a cold seer and flicked her finger. Following that, the triangle-shaped little clock rang thunderously once again.

‘Buzz!’ The longbow held in Feng Xing’s hands burst with a splendid sphere of light, which flashed across the air and blocked the fierce sound wave released from the small clock for him. A flame-shaped pattern instantly emerged from Man Man’s forehead, emitting streams of majestic light, blocking the smite of the sound wave as well.

Beams of golden light shone from in between Ji Hao’s eyebrows. The Immemorial Sun Streamer flashed in his spiritual space, and next, dazzling and golden sunlight lit up the entire area. Rapidly, that rampant sound wave lingering in Ji Hao’s mind dissipated like mist under the sunshine.

Ji Hao cawed out resonantly, then leaped straight up into the air, and at the same time, the Flame Dragon Sword and Nine Dragon Fire Pearl transferred into two roaring streams of fiery light, zipping towards Ku Quan and Qing Mei.

A pure and glisten light spot flew out from in between Ji Hao’s eyebrows. Ji Hao activated the Immemorial Sun Streamer, silently wielding it with all of its power.