Against The Heavens - 147 Mao Tengzou, Xing Yuyen

Li Yang stood up from his seated position, his narrowed eyes remaining locked on the sky as he swept it in a vigilant manner. Tian Zheng also raised his head to carefully inspect the night sky, the stars vanishing was rarely a good sign. The sky was completely free of clouds, a large yellow-tinted moon hanging high above them and casting a faint light down onto Li Yang and the others.

Li Yang’s eyes locked onto a star close to the previous on that vanished, one on the left side of a rhombus-shaped star pattern, managing to observe it just as it turned dark. Li Yang clicked his tongue and turned his head to the side, shouting into the forest and after Zhao Feng.

“Oy, Feng, tie up your robes again and get your ass here, we’ve likely got a problem on our hands!”

The sound of low curses came from the forest after Li Yang called out, Zhao Feng entering the small clearing shortly afterward. Fang Ying had also stopped working on the food, she and Zhao Feng moving closer to Li Yang and following his gaze as he pointed at the sky.

“That rhombus over there, it used to contain 28 stars but it’s now down to 22. One vanished while I was looking at it, but I’m not sure when the others started vanishing, but knowing our luck, it likely has something to do with why we haven’t been able to discover any Void Born lately.”

Zhao Feng and Fang Ying didn’t even have the chance to make a comment before another star vanished in front of their eyes. Another star vanished right away as they were temporarily dumbstruck, one star after another vanishing in quick succession, the entire star pattern turning dark after about a minute, resulting in Fang Ying’s brows furrowing.

“Whatever is causing it seems to have sped up. If a living being is causing this, then we should consider this increase in speed a sign that it is no longer worried about being discovered, it would be best to prepare for the worst.”

Li Yang and his group had experienced something blotting out the stars before, it was rather easy for the people they fought when they were at the peak of their power. But they could see that there wasn’t anything blotting out these stars, the stars themselves had simply vanished one by one as if they were swallowed whole.

OF course, the thing that made this situation a bit more special was that there weren’t any actual stars here, they were still within the Ocean God’s Graveyard after all. Both the stars and the moon they were looking at were most likely created by the array that should be supporting this entire place’s existence, nothing more than masses of Qi brought together and molded to imitate the real world. Li Yang clicked his tongue once again as he looked at the sky, his expression sinking somewhat as the scene above them evolved further.

“Tch, seems like it was as you said, that it no longer worries about being discovered. I don’t know about you, but those things give me a pretty bad feeling.”

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The places where there had once been stars changed further in front of their eyes, what looked like white lights replacing the stars. But the white lights stretched out and expanded, revealing themselves to be massive bone-white tentacles that latched onto all the other stars around them, quickly swallowing them before stretching further and seeking out more stars to eat up. Li Yang was quick to act once the strange tentacles appeared, turning his gaze onto Tian Zheng.

“The exit to this place, where is it?”

Li Yang didn’t really care what the tentacles were or who created them, he just knew that they gave him a bad feeling so it was best to avoid them as much as possible. It was a bit of a waste to leave this place without getting his hands on more Divine Beast blood, but it was better than foolishly risking his life in a situation he didn’t fully understand. Tian Zheng was equally quick to react, bringing out an orb of jade while responding.

“Exit’s the same place we entered, we just have to get about five kilometers into the air and we’ll be automatically sucked out. I’ll send a message to the others, but they should have reached the same conclusion, this situation has already escalated out of our control.”

Li Yang glanced at Fang Ying the moment Tian Zheng answered, the two locking eyes for a short moment before Fang Ying nodded, placing her hand on Langshen and once again merging with him. Zhao Feng also nodded his head when he saw the scene, pulling out all the energy restoring pills he was carrying on his person and handing them to Fang Ying. Li Yang also did the same, Tian Zheng following suite when he saw their actions and understood what he had to do.

The exit was quite far away, it would take at least a few days to reach it even if they ran there at full speed without taking any rests. Having Fang Ying teleport them would be faster, but it would drain her energy far faster than running at full speed, so she would need a constant supply of pills to quickly restore all the energy she drained.

Fang Ying didn’t bother being courteous and accepted all the pills, space around the four of them starting to ripple slightly as she tapped into her law of space and sent all of them through space. With Fang Ying taking charge of their fleeing, they quickly hopped from island to island, but the situation only became worse, and it was getting worse at a hastened pace.

Each star that was swallowed by a tentacle would cause the tentacles to grow faster, some of the stars would even turn into new tentacles that only further increased the speed at which they spread. Some of the tentacles split off and descended to the ground, attaching to some of the islands and starting to drain them of all energy. The islands rapidly became bone-like in appearance, all forms of life on the islands dying as every last scrap of energy were drained from the island.

If they hadn’t already guessed that the scene had something to do with the Void Born, then this would certainly convince them, this bone-like appearance was characteristic of areas where the Void Born had drained all the energy. It was only that none of them had ever seen it on such a scale before, entire islands turning bone-like in the manner of seconds.

Li Yang had come to the realization that the Void Born were dangerous ever since his first encounter with them, but only now did he realize that they were far worse than he first anticipated. If the Void Born responsible for this got to escape from here, how long would it take them to drain the entire planet, or even more planets? He thought that he himself was destructive and dangerous thanks to his law of destruction, but this was something else entirely.

As they arrived on an island quite a bit away from their previous destination, the situation changed once more. The massive ocean that housed all the islands in the Ocean God’s Graveyard started to seethe and surge, frothing in a manner that almost made it seem like the water was boiling.

The surface of the ocean burst out as a gargantuan creature burst forth from the water, stretching towards the sky like a pillar connecting the heaven and the earth. The creature looked like a serpentine dragon with a rather long head, its entire body covered in brilliant blue scales that dripped with water. But rather than wings on its back, the dragon had azure tentacles covered in thick spikes growing out from where its wings would be.

The tentacles flailed around as the dragon rose towards the sky, occasionally forming the shape of wings while at other times smashing entire islands in half with a single swipe, pushing the islands to the bottom of the ocean. The dragon was larger than any Demonic beast Li Yang had ever seen, it had to be at least several thousand, if not tens of thousands, of kilometers long.

The power he felt radiating from it was also on a whole other level, above any Celestial Immortal that Li Yang had ever met. Whatever this beast was, he knew that it was above even him when he was at his prime, it was in a completely different realm. As the dragon rose towards the white tentacles, its face contorted in rage, it also roared out in a voice so loud that it caused the bones of everyone currently inside the Ocean God’s Graveyard to reverberate.

“Mao Tengzou, how dare you escape the confines of your prison?!”

Li Yang recognized the name that the dragon roared, Mao Tengzou, it was the name of the Void Born that escaped from the previous dungeon they checked out, the one that had challenged the creator of the prisons. Shortly after the dragon roared out, a human figure became visible amongst the massive white tentacles, standing on one as he smirked at the dragon with a confident grin.

“Oh, Xing Yuyen, you’re still parked here like a good boy, are you? That’s good, I’m still grumpy about how you treated me last time, so let me take out some petty revenge on you before I leave.”

Li Yang also recognized the name Xing Yuyen, he was the one who had called him and Fang Ying paragons while Li Yang was unconscious. Li Yang temporarily put it aside and focused on Mao Tengzou, studying him and memorizing his features. Mao Tengzou had rather tanned skin and a rugged and heroic figure, his black hair hung down past his feet and was currently rather dirty and unruly, he clearly hadn’t taken care of it in a while. His eyes were amber in color, but they had faint ripples in them that almost resembled bark, a rather strange sight that was somewhat uncomfortable to look at for too long.

But the situation didn’t stop evolving there, the air high above them suddenly split open, tongues of flame and snow-shaped fragments of ice bursting out and fully tearing open space within the area. Li Yang’s gaze was temporarily drawn towards the scene, his lips involuntarily forming a wry smile as he saw two familiar sisters stepping through the crack in space, choosing the worst possible time to arrive.