NABC Chapter 145 You can't just stand around waiting for the villain to finish speaking when you
Chapter 145 You can't just stand around waiting for the villain to finish speaking when you
Chapter 145 You can't just stand around waiting for the villain to finish speaking when you're fighting.
As dusk settled, streetlights came on, illuminating the bustling streets.
Xu Jiujiu stood in front of a fish-watching shop's event booth, holding a small cloth bag in both hands, which contained fish bait.
Ye Nanxiao watched the small fish emitting a faint glow in the fish tank, holding a small fishing rod made of frost in his hand. He froze the bait on the hook, letting the glowing fish in the tank chase the bait around.
After scattering a handful of fish food for a long time, but not many bioluminescent fish were attracted, she puffed out her little face and looked at Ye Nanxiao, who was engrossed in playing with the fish tank beside her, and said, "Nanxiao, these are ornamental bioluminescent fish, you can't fish for them!"
Ye Nanxiao's smile was exceptionally bright. What could make a fisherman happier than having a group of fish chasing after his fishing rod and vying to bite it?
After hearing the long protests, Ye Nanxiao stroked his chin and said, "I didn't fish openly either; at least, not a single fish took the bait."
Does not catching any fish count as fishing?
After staring for a long time at the rapidly moving ice fishing rod and the vertical hook, he muttered to himself, "It would be strange if any fish took the bait."
The two stood in front of the largest fish tank, surrounded by children who were all peering over the glass of the tank watching Ye Nanxiao play with the fish.
"What a coincidence! Although my fishing hook is straight, who says I can't fish? As the saying goes, those who are willing will take the bait." Ye Nanxiao said, shaking his head, much like a lecturer in a children's class at an academy.
In the distance, the sounds of drums and bells, accompanied by the cheers of the crowd, drifted over as beautifully decorated floats slowly made their way in.
Their eyes were immediately drawn to the exquisite float.
A group of strong men pushed a float down the street, chanting slogans in unison.
Beautifully crafted models of spirit beasts performed various actions on the floats.
She stood on the street for a long time, her little hands clutching Ye Nanxiao's clothes, and looked at him, saying, "I didn't really care about furry soul beasts before, but now that I think about it, foxes are actually so cute. I wish foxes could stay by my side."
Ye Nanxiao looked at it for a long time, smiled, and said, "Foxes are very cunning and won't be caught easily."
A group of people waved their hands as they followed a float carrying a square box.
The floats in front were all elaborately decorated, while this float seemed too simple in comparison.
After a long while, she let out a soft snort, "I've caught the fox!"
Two small hands grabbed the hem of Ye Nanxiao's clothes on his right hand, and one of the small hands was still trying to grab Ye Nanxiao's big hand.
Seeing this, Ye Nanxiao did not shake him off, but slowly followed Xu Jiujiu's pace.
The two followed the bustling crowd ahead as they walked.
Ye Nanxiao looked up at the simply decorated float, his gaze falling on a girl walking among the crowd.
Unlike the enthusiastic crowd waving their hands around her, the girl walked quietly, gesturing with her left hand in the air, and occasionally looking back at herself.
"Is it the girl with the mask from before?" Ye Nanxiao focused his gaze on the girl's left hand, which was constantly waving in the air.
Suddenly, a crowd of people surged up from all sides and surrounded the two of them.
Looking at the crowd waving their hands enthusiastically around him, Ye Nanxiao felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange. Why were these people cheering so loudly for a simply decorated float?
The girl, walking quietly among the crowd, turned to look at Ye Nanxiao. Under his gaze, she reached out and took off her mask.
Ye Nanxiao's pupils contracted; he recognized Feng Shiyi.
He held Xu Jiujiu's small hand tightly in his own and pulled her to his side.
Ye Nanxiao's sudden action left Xu Jiujiu stunned. Looking at Ye Nanxiao's serious face, the joy on her face quickly turned into confusion.
Feng Shiyi crashed into a civilian, and the cross-shaped scythe that appeared in her hand swept across the civilian's head.
Ye Nanxiao saw that the moment the crosshairs crossed, the man's waving hands fell limply to his sides, and he collapsed forward.
"Puppets!" These people have been manipulated.
The ground beneath my feet suddenly turned pitch black, and the flat road surface began to churn.
Ye Nanxiao picked up Xu Jiujiu and quickly glanced around.
Surrounded by a large crowd, they had unknowingly arrived at a city gate, specifically the most remote West Gate in Xingluo City.
Arms stretched out from the dark ground.
Ye Nanxiao leaped into the air, and a large patch of floating ice appeared beneath his feet.
"Huh, it can actually stay in the air like this?" A dark figure rose from the dark ground, its body flowing with an unknown substance that looked like liquid.
Xu Jiujiu was stunned by the scene before him. Black arms, like hands reaching out from hell, grabbed people one by one, half of their bodies sinking into the dark ground, slowly being swallowed up.
After a brief moment of shock, a dazzling light shone from above Xu Jiujiu's head, revealing a crown radiating brilliant starlight.
"Who are you people! How dare you run rampant in Xingluo City and harm the people!" Xu Jiujiu roared, raising his hand to unleash a beam of starlight into the air.
The shadowy figure didn't try to stop the starlight, nor did it even raise its head.
Ye Nanxiao stroked the storage ring on his right hand with his left hand, a chill surging in his eyes.
"Being able to act so openly in Star Luo City suggests that they have made preparations and are able to deceive the Star Luo's many Venerable Douluos."
Just as Ye Nanxiao had predicted, the starlight that Xu Jiujiu had unleashed struck a screen in mid-air, causing a spatial ripple.
It took them a long time to realize that they and Ye Nanxiao were trapped in a barrier.
Ye Nanxiao looked at the simply decorated float. The square box on the float had somehow unfolded and transformed, and four statues rose up from the four corners of the square box.
He wielded a massive scythe, wore a black robe, a skull-shaped helmet, and had narrow, dark red eyes. A black and red hexagonal stone on his chest emitted a strong fluctuation of soul power.
"Welcome to the Tomb of Ghosts, the Burning Candle! Holy Son, Princess." The black liquid on the shadowy figure transformed into a black robe, and the figure took out a pure black mask from his robe and put it on.
After a long while, he took out the soul tool, the starlight amplifier, that Ye Nanxiao had given him from the storage necklace on his chest, and tried to draw the starlight in the sky so that the enshrined people in Xingluo City would notice that something was wrong here.
"It's no use, Your Highness. This is a soul-suppressing device made by the Supreme Master himself. Those old guys you're counting on won't notice anything unusual here. This is a peak level nine soul-suppressing device!" The pure black mask stepped out step by step, and hands rose from the dark ground, supporting the pure black mask as it walked into the air.
For a long time, Ye Nanxiao could only rely on the starlight stored in the Star Crown to provide him with enhancements.
"This is all because those old guys are unwilling to accept the times and unwilling to accept soul tools, so I was able to... damn it!!" The masked figure was halfway through his sentence when a thick soul tool ray blasted towards him.
A large floating cannon floated behind Ye Nanxiao, more than twice the size of the floating cannon used to deal with Chen Wei.
The deep blue muzzle emitted wisps of smoke, and the energy-concentrating ring at the rear spun rapidly, transmitting energy into the cannon barrel.
Having narrowly avoided Ye Nanxiao's attack, before the man in the black mask could even speak, a deep blue longsword radiating endless chill came slashing down at him.
A dense, almost tangible chill enveloped the body of the pure black mask, slowing his movements.
"I can't get hit by this sword!" Seven spirit rings burst out from behind the pure black mask, and his whole body shone with black light as he tried to dodge Ye Nanxiao's sword.
However, the sluggishness of his body made the pure black mask move extremely slowly, and a feeling of being unable to avoid it welled up in his heart.
"I've been locked on!" The man in the pure black mask was filled with horror. His soul power was circulating extremely slowly, and the chill from Ye Nanxiao's sword was penetrating his body from afar.
With a swift stroke of his sword, Ye Nanxiao sliced through the pure black mask worn by the shadowy figure, then turned and hurled the Emperor Sword in his hand, piercing the figure's body.
"You actually managed to freeze me..." Before the shadowy figure could finish speaking, its outstretched hand was swallowed by a layer of hard frost.
A giant ice sculpture appeared, frost spread, and a layer of solid ice covered the ground that was about to turn black.
Ye Nanxiao jumped back onto the ice floe, with Xiao Ye No. 1 and Xiao Ye No. 2 protecting him on either side.
"You don't really think anyone will let the villain finish speaking, do you?" Ye Nanxiao clapped his hands, and the nine fox tails were coated with a faint red light. The chill in his hand gradually condensed into the shape of a Tang sword.
He was just about to quickly deliver the final blow to the shadowy figure, freezing his consciousness.
A surge of soul power erupted from the dark ground, blasting a large hole in Ye Nanxiao's frost.
An old man slowly rose from the dark ground.
It was the same old man who had been ordered to secretly protect Ye Nanxiao.
Xu Jiujiu's expression was serious as he unleashed the full power of the Star Crown, sending beams of starlight from it onto Ye Nanxiao.
A one-eyed ghost face emerged from the old man's neck.
Ghost Face glanced at the pure black mask, frozen into an ice sculpture, and made a clicking sound.
"They're frozen in place. It seems our intelligence is still insufficient. Even the Soul Saint suffered a great loss at the hands of the Holy Son."
"Holy Son?" A beam of light shone above Ye Nanxiao's head, which was made up of floating cannons that were charging up.
"Coverage bombardment!" As soon as Ye Nanxiao thought this, all the floating cannons fired at the same time. More than a dozen soul-guided rays, each as thick as an arm, drew an arc in the air and landed on the possessed old man.
The one-eyed ghost face controlled the old man to unleash his soul power, creating a thick wall of soul power.
"Oh dear, not only is the Holy Son's strength unexpected, but the information on his soul tool is also far from sufficient. But it's alright, if we drag it out a bit, the mission will be completed once the Holy Son's soul power is exhausted. Little Blackie, how long are you going to sleep?" the one-eyed ghost face said to the pure black mask that had turned into an ice sculpture.
A beam of white light mixed with black lightning shot out from the one-eyed man and landed on the pure black mask.
A crack appeared in the solid ice on the surface of the pure black mask, and wisps of black energy oozed out from the crack.
The black mist emerged, transforming back into a pure black mask, leaving only a thin shell within the ice sculpture.
"If it weren't for the Candle Soul Blaze consuming all my soul power, I wouldn't be in such a sorry state!" the pure black mask roared.
The one-eyed ghost was about to make a few more sarcastic remarks when a sound like breaking glass rang out.
"You guys keep talking, I'll keep bombarding!" Ye Nanxiao smiled, with twenty level-five floating cannons and one level-seven energy-gathering floating cannon hovering above his head.
A fireworks display burst forth amidst the flickering candlelight.
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