Chapter 296: Chapter 296: A Drowned Sinner (6)

With a flicker of light, Li Feng landed several meters away, sending a heavy splash through the flooded floor.

“Haa… Haa…”

He was breathing heavily, steam rising from his body as his muscles quivered from the exertion.

Looking at the violent waves of black water crashing around the chamber, Li Feng couldn’t help but frown as the water level continued rising.

“At this rate… it will flood the entire prison…” he murmured, then glancing down at his missing arm.

He actually could regenerate his arm by using the immense vitality granted by the current doubled stars inside his body, but some strange energy seemed to be destroying the cells in the injured area.

He would need time to dispel that energy before he could truly regenerate… but time wasn’t on his side.

BOOM!!

The Apostle rose again, as if nothing had happened.

Its towering body slowly straightened, fragments of shattered stone sliding from its shoulders.

Seeing this, Li Feng frowned, suddenly realizing that he might understand what the Lord of Azure Heaven had felt when fighting this monster that wouldn’t die.

Then the lower half of its body shifted.

The horse-like legs beneath it stamped into the water—

SPLASH!!

—and the dark liquid responded, like a living tide.

The black water surged upward beneath the Apostle, lifting the massive creature like a rising wave.

Then the massive creature began galloping across the black water, as if riding the surface of a storm.

Every step of its horse-like legs created towering waves.

The black tide surged behind it like a charging tsunami, and at the same time, the Apostle raised the grotesque bow once again.

The black liquid around its arm twisted and stretched across the frame as the bowstring formed.

Li Feng’s pupils shrank.

TWANG!!

The Apostle released the bowstring.

BOOOOM!!

A beam of black annihilation erupted forward once again.

But Li Feng vanished in a flash of silver light.

The beam tore past where he had been standing, ripping through another section of the ancient wall, causing the tough stone to exploded and water surged violently.

FLASH!!

Li Feng appeared above the water again, bouncing off the chamber wall.

But the Apostle didn’t stop as it was already moving and even faster this time.

SPLASH!!

SPLASH!!

SPLASH!!

The black tide surged beneath its hooves as the centaur-like monster rode the rising waves like a war beast charging across a battlefield, lifting its bow once again to aim.

Crack…

Another arrow of compressed darkness formed instantly.

TWANG!!

BOOOOM!!!

A second beam ripped across the chamber.

Li Feng twisted his body midair, barely dodging as the blast skimmed past him.

Even so,

“Grr!”

The sheer pressure slammed into him like a hammer, leaving him unable to counterattack

The Apostle, now charging like a relentless, released another shot.

TWANG!!

And this time it was different.

The bolt of darkness suddenly began to move like a serpent in water, splitting into four streams of black liquid.

Then the four streams shot forward like hunting snakes.

Each one curved violently through the air, tracking him down.

Li Feng’s pupils shrank at this.

He kicked off the wall instantly and disappeared in a flash of light.

But like predators, those four serpents kept chasing him relentlessly.

The first serpent of black liquid ripped past his shoulder—

The second curved upward, cutting through the air toward his chest.

The third lunged from below like a striking viper.

Li Feng gritted his teeth and slammed his foot against the wall again, trying to dodge.

His body shot upward in a burst of silver light.

But the fourth stream curved sharply, intercepting him.

Its tip widened, the black liquid writhing violently, like a jaw about to close.

“Damn it!”

Silver qi erupted around his remaining arm as Li Feng punched forward with everything he had.

His fist collided directly with the dark stream.

For a split second, silver starlight and black destruction clashed.

Then—

BOOOOOM!!!

The collision exploded outward.

The serpents of darkness shattered into droplets of black liquid that scattered across the chamber like rain.

SPLASH!!

Li Feng landed on the flooded floor.

And suddenly, he began to let out a low laugh as the black rain fell around him.

“Hahaha… I probably shouldn’t enjoy this, but…this rush… it’s addictive.”

Ever since he had awakened the Starforge Body, he realized the only way to release its overwhelming vitality was either through mortal indulgence of flesh or through battle.

But… he rarely encountered an opponent who could push him like this, force him to go all out.

Of course, if someone asked him which way he preferred, he would undoubtedly say releasing it on the bed rather than the battlefield.

Still… a change of method every now and then wasn’t too bad.

“Tell me…” he ask with a smirk , “don’t you enjoy this? Trying to rip each other apart like this after being stuck here for so long?”

[…]

The Apostle said nothing, lifting its bow once again.

Li Feng’s grin widened.

“Then I’ll take that as a yes.”

He shifted into position, ready to dive back into the chaos.

_

_

_

_

Meanwhile, the other woman running through the tunnel couldn’t help but feel worried.

They had been sensing a massive wave of pressure and explosions coming from Li Feng’s direction for quite some time now.

Jian Ruyi and Yue Lan who were usually the most emotionless of them all now wore the most concerned expressions on their faces.

Then Liu Yanyue’s voice rang out,

“Don’t look back. Trust Junior Li… he said he can handle it.”

Jian Ruyi and Yue Lan paused for a bit and nodded, before pressed forward without stopping.

BOOOOM!!

Another distant explosion thundered through the tunnel.

Dust trickled from the ceiling, and even the stone beneath their feet trembled faintly.

Yue Lan’s hand tightened around the hilt of the Ice Jade Sword at her waist, her lips pressed into a thin line.

“…That was another one.”

Jian Ruyi nodded slightly, her expression unusually tense.

“That monster… it’s still fighting him.”

Behind them, Shui Ruo bit her lip anxiously.

“S-Should we go back to help him? There are so many of us—”

“No.”

Liu Yanyue’s voice cut through calmly.

She didn’t even slow her pace.

“If we go back, we’ll only get in his way.”

Just as her words ended,

Another distant tremor shook the corridor.

BOOM!!

Stone fragments scattered from the ceiling.

For a moment, everyone fell silent.

Then Liu Yanyue spoke again.

“Junior Li knew exactly what he was doing when he stayed behind. We just need to reach the exit…and that’s exactly how we can help him.”

Her tone was steady.

“…I know.” Yue Lan voice was quiet, but her grip on her sword tightened further.

The group focused on running as fast as they could toward the exit.

….At the same time, they didn’t notice the black liquid beginning to seethe from the walls, slowly leaking along the tunnel.

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by NovelKeep