Chapter 363 - 257: Danger, a Premonition of Shattering

Chapter 363: Chapter 257: Danger, a Premonition of Shattering

"All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm!"

"Gumi~"

The All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm, which had taken the form of a small female dragon, heard Han Ning’s call. It jumped off the stool, trotted to his feet, and scrambled up his pant leg onto his shoulder.

"Let this kid get some proper sleep first."

"Gumi~"

The All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm looked at the bloodshot-eyed Chen Linyu and grinned at him, shooting out a purplish-red tentacle.

Before Chen Linyu could react, his eyes rolled back, and he fell into a deep sleep.

Han Ning took the opportunity to scoop up his roommate, carry him over to the metal-frame bed in the back, and lay him down.

"It’s not really Lin Yu’s fault for being so worked up. His girlfriend is near the first transport team. When you care about someone, you can’t think straight..." the dispatcher on the phone explained, having overheard their conversation.

"That kid... No wonder!" Han Ning didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

As he spoke, he walked over to Qingyao. Looking at the jade-colored halo flowing around its body, he offered a polite smile.

"Elder Qingyao, could I trouble you to take me for a trip?"

"RANG?"

With a BOING, Qingyao bounced up from the sofa, shrank its body, and curled up on Han Ning’s shoulder.

"Yin Yi, Egg Pancake, All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm, Fei Lin... it’s time for us to go."

Han Ning vaulted onto Egg Pancake’s back while speaking to his Soul Beasts, who had all risen, eager to follow him out.

...

Under the gloomy sky, a crimson Giant Dragon radiating a Flowing Light of Flame shot across the heavens like a fighter jet, leaving a long, searing trail in its wake.

The oncoming gales were easily neutralized by Egg Pancake’s Flame Energy. The closer they got to the coordinates provided by the personnel on the ground, the more turbulent the roiling clouds ahead became.

The center of the storm was about five hundred kilometers from the academy. For Egg Pancake, a distance like that was just a few flaps of its wings.

"RANG~" As they neared the storm’s center, Qingyao, perched on Han Ning’s shoulder, seemed to sense something. It instinctively sat up straight, its gaze fixed intently ahead.

"Elder Qingyao, what do you feel?"

"Rang-wu~" Qingyao blinked. A radiant light enveloped its body, forming illusory chains that wove around Egg Pancake, parting the fierce winds.

The moment Qingyao’s chains appeared, brilliant flashes of lightning suddenly lit up the distant horizon, casting Han Ning’s face in a ghastly white light.

Immediately after.

RUMBLE.

Deafening thunder echoed across the sky. Dense bolts of lightning danced wildly within the leaden clouds, and howling gales swept up raindrops, lashing down in all directions.

In the distance, a dozen or so Flying Flame Mosquitoes and a few escorting Soul Beasts struggled against the gales. Like a tiny boat adrift on a stormy sea, they were tossed about in the tempest, looking as if they could be torn apart at any moment.

"We need to get over there, quickly—"

Han Ning was just about to ask Qingyao to go down and rescue them.

When suddenly, a brilliant flash erupted in the sky several hundred meters ahead, and a terrifying peal of thunder instantly shook the heavens.

"BOOM!"

The wind howled. Amidst the lightning and thunder, the light gray storm clouds rapidly changed shape, gradually forming a massive, funnel-shaped gray cloud of unknown kilometers in diameter.

The roiling cloud layer and the grass and grit from the ground below were swept high into the air by the gales. Towering pillars of wind formed out of thin air, resembling azure-gray Flood Dragons stretching between heaven and earth.

At the same time, dense tendrils of lightning crackled. A massive fissure, at least several hundred meters high, suddenly tore open within the light gray funnel cloud. The crack was shaped almost like a lightning bolt, its surface emitting a shimmering, ethereal glow as it spread outward in a radial pattern.

The next second.

"BU-WUUUU!!"

A scalp-numbing roar of a Giant Beast echoed from within the shimmering fissure.

The sound wave was like a physical force, like a clap of thunder, instantly overpowering the sounds of the wind, the thunder, and the rain to become the only sound in the world.

"...Wh-what is that?"

Han Ning subconsciously covered his ears, his mouth slightly agape. He even forgot all about his intention to rescue the flight team below.

"RANG!!"

Faced with the sudden roar, Qingyao showed no surprise. Instead, it looked extremely wary. It let out a high-pitched draconic cry, filled with tension.

"What’s wrong?"

Han Ning followed its gaze and faintly glimpsed massive, butterfly-like silhouettes flitting through the roiling clouds and the open fissure.

[

Race: Sky-Splitting Instant Butterfly

Gender: /

Talent: B

Level: ???

Talent: Sky-Splitting

Mastered Elements: Wind, Demon

Introduction: A rare species of butterfly born amidst storms, exceptionally sensitive to space.

]

"Sky-Splitting Instant Butterfly?! One of the Five Ancestor Families..."

Through the panel’s Authentication, Han Ning vaguely understood why Qingyao was so wary of the butterfly silhouettes within the storm.

The Jade Forest and the Five Great Ancestors have a naturally antagonistic relationship. They must have clashed in the past.

There’s no way Qingyao wouldn’t know the name "Sky-Splitting Instant Butterfly."

’I can’t believe the "culprit" behind such a violent storm is actually the Sky-Splitting Instant Butterflies?’

This thought had just surfaced when Han Ning immediately dismissed it.

’No... I don’t know their Level, but at best they’re probably Monarch Level. Just Monarchs, without the Spatial Attribute—how could they shatter space itself? There must be another reason for this.’

He first had Yin Yi and the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm fly down to rescue the insect swarm lost in the storm, while he, along with Qingyao and Egg Pancake, watched the figures of the Sky-Splitting Instant Butterflies with full concentration.

RUMBLE~

"SCREEEEEE~~"

Amidst the flashes of lightning and the surging storm, one of the Sky-Splitting Instant Butterflies, under Han Ning’s astonished gaze, suddenly let out a painful cry. The entire silhouette struggled and slammed itself into the fissure, as if trying to repair the spatial rift with its own body!