256 Netherstorm (1/2)

”Merlin, look…” Solomon suddenly paled, his delighted expression had been replaced by dread as he pointed towards the void with a shaky hand.

”What is it?”

”Over there, quick, look there!” Solomon's voice was completely different.

”Shit!” Lin Yun followed Solomon's finger, a bit surprised, and suddenly cursed.

A hint of red could be seen from the deep darkness.

It was spreading its bloody light, echoing with booming thunder and whistling gales while emitting berserk mana through the void in an instant.

”Shit, that's the Netherstorm!” Lin Yun cursed. Lin Yun had seen the same scene 30,000 years in the future, when Noscent was reaching its end. The sky was ripped open, blood and flames spread as Noscent echoed with its final sounds.

Lin Yun clearly remembered. This was the last scene he saw, the void dyed red, the thunder and gales ripping the earth apart, the whole world sinking in eternal darkness.

The Netherstorm was the last madness before the last bit of radiance of Noscent was extinguished. It swallowed everything, destroyed everything, and transformed everything into nothingness.

That power would destroy everything… Including the Planar Path under their feet.

'How could this be…' Lin Yun was shocked and terrified. How come the Netherstorm happened to come at this moment, not too early, nor too late.

This was illogical.

From that cemetery in the void, it could be seen that the Heaven Enlightening Plane had died at least 10,000 years ago, so why did the Netherstorm not appear then?

It had been such a long time, the Heaven Enlightening Plane was already dead, it couldn't be more dead. Why did the Netherstorm appear now?

'What is happening?'

'Is it because we entered the Heaven Enlightening Plane? Did we trigger this late Netherstorm?'

'It's not right…'

They had all been under the protection of the Planar Path, including the harvest Xiuban and Lin Yun gained.

The Planar Path was a path, but in reality it was a spatial distortion. In other words, eve if they seemed to be in the Heaven Enlightening Plane, after going through the spatial distortion, they were completely hidden. It was as if the group didn't exist to the Heaven Enlightening Plane.

In any case, it was unlikely that his group had triggered the Netherstorm.

'But what could have caused this then?'

'Is it because I touched the Silver Dragon's body?'

'No, it couldn't be.'

Nothing had happened when Xiuban touched the Three-Headed Golden Dragon's corpse, a peak existence in Noscent's history that could compare to Ancient Gods, the Netherstorm didn't appear when his body decomposed, so how could it appear when the corpse of an insignificant Silver Dragon did?

Lin Yun kept thinking, but he couldn't understand...

There had been nothing else apart from that.

”Eh?” As this thought came to his mind, Lin Yun suddenly recalled what had happened moments ago.

He stretched his hand into his pocket and searched for that red crystal.

The appearance of that red crystal was strange in itself. It was too sudden and to weird. Were it not for Lin Yun reacting fast enough, he might had came off worse.

But Lin Yun clearly remembered...

There had clearly been a slight distortion in the surrounding mana fluctuations when that red crystal hit his stomach. At the time, he had been under the range of the Planar Path's spatial distortion, and hardly felt any change from the Heaven Enlightening Plane.

'Is it really because of that red crystal?'

Thinking of this, Lin Yun put his right hand inside his pocket and couldn't help tightening his grasp on the red crystal.

Unfortunately, Lin Yun didn't have the time to study the red crystal, the crimson color in the sky already dyed the entire void, and the thunderous sounds of lightning and gales contained within were echoing louder and louder, it felt as if the void was igniting.

”Merlin, this is… This is…”