Absolute Choice 10

by Pear Lands In The Autumn Spring

  Mu Lengxi's future had endless possibilities!

  Liu Yu and Feng Yuanlin were not the only ones that were affected by Mu Lengxi's voice. Earthbound Yaksha was also affected by it and was crying in bitterness.

  It felt that there was an irritating sacred aura surrounding it. Grating sounds hummed in its ears as it suddenly felt its body turn extremely heavy. It was as if dozens of invisible chains were wrapped around its body while it constantly tightened. Its actions were severely restrained.

  "Darn it!" Earthbound Yaksha regretted sorely that it did not kill Speechless and Mu Lengxi ten minutes ago. Now, it was tasting the bitter fruit of its inaction.

  A struggle flashed in Earthbound Yaksha's eyes. It had made the same choice as it did previously. With an angry roar, it forcefully repressed the ill effects the voice had on it before turning around and slashing straight at the singing Mu Lengxi.

  At that moment, Mu Lengxi looked like she was completely defenseless. It was also posing the greatest threat, so it was only right to be the first target to be finished.

  "Pui! Shameless wretch, don't you dare think of harming her!" It was unknown when Feng Yuanlin had run in between Earthbound Yaksha and Mu Lengxi. He had used his mithril shield to withstand the sharp blade beam that surged over.

  "Damn it!" Earthbound Yaksha cursed angrily.

  The punk had only pretended to attack from the beginning, but he was actually protecting the singing girl?

  Earthbound Yaksha immediately turned to charge at Feng Yuanlin. Even though the weak worm wanted to be a protector of women without knowing his own strength, it did not mind slaughtering him first before stepping over his corpse!

  "Oh!?" However, just as Earthbound Yaksha turned around again, it felt an extremely dangerous aura emerge behind it.

  "Courting death!"

  Earthbound Yaksha roared angrily as it stamped on the ground with its right foot. With a twist of its torso, it had slashed towards it back with its astounding ability to twist!

  But at the same time, the azure figure that it noticed had suddenly vanished into thin air when it turned back.

  "Blind spot attack!?"

  Earthbound Yaksha exclaimed in surprise. The azure figure had moved to a spot in its blind spot instantly with an intricate side step.

  What keen judgment!

  What a stunning reaction!

  Earthbound Yaksha felt slightly alarmed, but its reaction was extremely fast as well. It immediately gave up on its counterattack. Suddenly, it charged forward in an attempt to dodge the sword that came slashing right towards it.

  However, it failed to completely escape the peripheral blast of the sword beam. The sharp sword beams instantly lacerated its skin.

  "Si!"

  Earthbound Yaksha cried out in pain. The strike's sword beam contained a rich element of light. As an evil spirit, the light was able to hurt its physical embodiment. A visible laceration appeared on its back!

  "Vaiśravaṇa Heavenly Slash!"

  Earthbound Yaksha naturally would not stop its actions because of an injury. It immediately slashed out its powerful and famous blade technique at its assailant while there was a gap in between the assailant's attacks.

  However, its assailant was not any amateur. Immediately, with a perfect leap backward, the assailant had completely dodged the attack.

  Earthbound Yaksha finally managed to turn its head to discern the true identity of its assailant. Just as it guessed, it was indeed the sword-wielding azure-dressed girl.

  "It looks like it twas not luck for thee to beest able to repress that foolish ox alone." Earthbound Yaksha squinted its eyes. It had no choice but to admit that it had underestimated the azure-dressed girl's strength. Her calmness, sharpness and machine-like precision combat style did not resemble that of a young girl in her teens. She clearly had the mental prowess of an old witch that had lived for countless years.

  "Doth thee bethink the three of thee can repress me?"Earthbound Yaksha scanned Sunless, Liu Yu, and Feng Yuanlin, who stood in a triangular position around it. It was secretly furious. If not for the restraint the voice was giving it, it would not be in such a tragic state. But the current situation did give it a sense of defeat.

  Repress? No, the three of us will slaughter you!" said Liu Yu coldly. He held a stack of talismans in his hand and could throw it into the sky at any time and produce any one of the eight incantations of Daoism.

  Sunless' eyes were ice-cold as they stared intently at Earthbound Yaksha, as though she was waiting for the opportunity to kill it.

  Other than that, the combat situation came to a temporary standstill that could have the flames of battle ignite again at any time.

  At that moment, a sinister voice suddenly resounded.

  "That's as far as it will go!"

  Shadow Wraith, which had been silent for a prolonged period of time, finally took action. It had once again made a bold declaration as though it could press a pause button. Heaven Shrouding Eclipse's sword beam had already dissipated. There was no obstruction to the sunlight, and the shadow tentacles that it stretched out had successfully reached the feet of the trio!

  "Ha, what a bunch of fools that do not learn their lesson." Earthbound Yaksha sniggered. It was relieved and did not expect that Shadow Wraith's repeat of his technique would actually be successful.

  "Go fuck yourself as far as you can go!"

  Suddenly, a boorish invective emanated from the other side of the battlefield!

  Earthbound Yaksha turned its head and saw Speechless appearing less than a hundred meters away from Shadow Wraith without any warning. The shadow arms at his feet surprisingly extended in a strange way. The shadow arms that extended out a hundred meters suddenly clenched Shadow Wraith's neck at the moment Speechless's voice resounded!

  Shadow Wraith cried in agony. The shadow tentacles that it had extended out retracted. Its jagged shadow outline began to convulse crazily.

  "Well done!" Liu Yu guffawed in joy as he gave a big thumbs up to Speechless.

  This attack that let it have a taste of its own medicine could be called perfect. Just as Shadow Wraith had reduced its presence to secretly extend its shadow tentacles towards the trio that was facing Earthbound Yaksha, Speechless had lowered his presence as much as possible as well. He had then used Mirror Replication to replicate 'Shadow Shackles' and sent his own shadow tentacles towards Shadow Wraith!

  This was an intense exchange of placing each other in 'check' on a figurative game of chess. Speechless had used his excellent ability and intelligence to counterattack Shadow Wraith alone!

  "The ones that will only go this far is the two of you!"

  Speechless laughed crazily as he suddenly turned his head in a completely opposite direction in the battlefield. He took a deep breath and shouted forcefully at a name most people would consider odd.

  "Pulp! Farmer! "

  The name Speechless yelled with some hoarseness in his throat was Pulp Farmer, who did not participate in the triangular encirclement against Earthbound Yaksha despite being a melee warrior.

  Yes, forcefully getting Liu Yu, a Daoist meant to gross out their opponent from a distance to the front lines to take on one corner of the triangular encirclement was not because the commanding brain behind the strategy was retarded, but because Pulp Farmer had to do something even more important!

  Earthbound Yaksha and Shadow Wraith looked towards the direction in which Speechless had turned towards. Immediately, they saw the spear-wielding youth who unknowingly had retreated to a blind spot outside the battle zone. Then they saw a scene that could be considered odd.

  Pulp Farmer had extended both his arms and with his head lifted high, his spear was erected beside him. Under the illumination of the sunlight, he looked as mighty as a silent sculpture of a god of war!

  However...

  White paper cranes were flying out of the mighty youth's palms that were extended upwards! One after another, the paper cranes were flying unendingly out of Pulp Farmer
's palm!

  The one thousand paper cranes were flapping their paper wings and flying towards the sky like sparrows.

  Looking up at the sky, it was appalling to realize that in the endless firmament, there were countless pure white paper cranes flapping their wings. None of them were acting together. Instead, they were flying in a different direction toward the sky, as though they wanted to see every corner of the world.

  When Speechless roared out his name, Pulp Farmer slowly opened his eyes.

  That forbidding face that looked extremely firm and mature suddenly beamed radiantly in a way appropriate for his age.

  "I found it!" Pulp Farmer yelled. The way he beamed was like a lost child that had managed to finally find his way home after overcoming challenge after challenge.

  "I found the core of the formation!!!"

  When this deafening yell resounded through the sky,

  Speechless smiled.

  Liu Yu moved the big thumbs up he had towards a different direction.

  Feng Yuanlin raised his shield as he leaped in joy.

  Tears stream down Mu Lengxi's eyes.

  Sunless gaped slightly and emitted an 'ah' that she found hard to suppress...

  Found it!

  Found it!

  Found it!

  Shi Xiaobai...

  The possibility of saving you has been found!

  "No! Impossible!" Shadow Wraith yelled sharply.

  In order to create the so-called 'despair', in order to fulfill their perverse idea of fun, it had informed the seven humans of the scheme and revealed secrets. One of the things revealed included that "killing Field Marshal Awesomo would not disable the God Slaughtering Formation" unless the formation core was destroyed.

  And now, the formation core had been found!

  "Impossible! Impossible! Impossible!"

  Shadow Wraith was certain that if the mission failed in such a manner, as a pig-like teammate, it would definitely be tortured tragically by the heartless assessment program. That devil possessed the absolute rights to not only kill them but to deal with them in any way it liked!

  Shadow Wraith fell into hysteria, but Earthbound Yaksha calmed down instead. It looked coldly at Speechless and said in a solemn voice, "Thy actions wast highly coordinated, with very clear goals. Wast all of this discussed by thee before hand?"

  Earthbound Yaksha recalled the unease it felt previously. Yes, from the beginning, it had noticed that the humans' actions seemed to be coordinated ahead of time. The triangular encirclement, the shield youth protecting the singing girl in time, restraining Shadow Wraith...All of that appeared to have been played out according to a particular person's script. It was done with such verve like it had been planned!

  But!

  How was this possible?

  The seven of them had clearly been restrained by Shadow Wraith. Not only could they not move, they could not even speak. How were they able to draw up such a highly coordinative plan?

  "How didst thee doth it!?"

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  Chapter460 A Divine Operation Finished in Ten Minutes

  How did Speechless and company do it?

  It was probably not only Earthbound Yaksha and Shadow Wraith who remained puzzled. Probably even the big shots in the three-dimensional world in another plane of existence must be dumbfounded. They might even involuntarily question—"What sort of strange development is this?", "Can there be such a screwed up operation?", "Come over here, Author, it's about time we had a good chat."

  Then, in order to explain the story clearly in a professional and ethical way—in no way is it to pad the word count, in no way is it to pad the word count, and in no way is it to pad the word count, with important things having the need to be repeated three times! (Finally padding out a wave of text happily.)

  Cough…well in order to explain the story clearly, let us rewind back to about ten minutes ago, the instant when Shadow Wraith just appeared, while releasing a toxin known as 'despair', but read as being a 'shitty teammate'.

  Back then, when Shadow Wraith suddenly appeared, it had operated beautifully. It had successfully restrained Speechless and company as well as announced three pieces of information that could not be verified but were all equally despair-inducing.

  First, that Field Marshal Awesomo was not the formation core. Therefore, killing Field Marshal Awesomo did not mean the disruption of the God Slaughtering Formation. They were destined to be working hard towards a pointless goal.

  Second, the identity of the pitch black mass was the ninth level's Level Lord. They had to face three Level Lords at the moment.

  Third, the exit command had been disabled. The 'Excellency' with its powerful might was the mastermind behind all this, and the 'Excellency' was determined to have all of them killed.

  The three pieces of information had successfully weaved the web of despair.

  Speechless was unable to determine if the information was true or not, but by inferring from the situation they were in, the three pieces of information were very likely to be the truth.

  However, the three pieces of despairing information mixed in a single piece of information that benefited them—destroying the formation core would result in the collapse of the God Slaughtering Formation—the only piece of beneficial information was useless in the situation they were in. With the seven of them simultaneously restrained, unless a powerful force came to rescue them, there was nothing they could do.

  They were unable to save themselves, much less rescue Shi Xiaobai.

  At that moment, even Speechless felt helpless. He was immersed in a pessimistic mood.

  But at that moment, he suddenly heard a familiar voice in his mind.

  "Hey, hey, hey…Benefactor Speechless, can you hear this?"

  Initially, Speechless believed that he was having an illusion or some auditory hallucination because the voice did not reach him through his ears, but resounded directly in his brain.

  But quickly, the voice repeated another time. Speechless finally realized a particular possibility.

  He attempted to respond with a thought.

  "Liu Yu?"

  After he responded, a relieved sigh immediately resounded in his mind. Then, the voice said the following in his mind.

  "Phew, it's This Penniless Priest…Listen, the reason why you can hear This Penniless Priest's voice is that of This Penniless Priest's superpower—'Telepathic Relay'. This superpower's general usage is to converse telepathically with someone within a certain distance as long as they do not refuse it."

  Speechless was immediately astounded, but he immediately had a sudden thought when he received this brand new piece of information. As a result, he could not help but shout out in his mind, "Wahaha! Liu Yu, your superpower is…is amazing! You are indeed worthy to be a man that shares the same syllable, 'Yu' (speech) as This Emperor!"

  Liu Yu immediately blushed with shame as he said with a wry smile, "This superpower is actually useless in battle. However, this Penniless Priest always found it hard to abandon it even though it's useless. Who knew that it would be somewhat useful at such a juncture…"

  "Somewhat useful? You are way too humble man. This superpower might be able to save all of us!" said Speechless in excitement.

  "Really? This Penniless Priest can't think of any way out no matter how much he racks his brain. So This Penniless Priest attempted to engage in telepathy with you…Erh, doesn't that mean that Benefactor Speechless has already thought of a way out!?" Liu Yu said with great anticipation in his mind.

  "Yea, a way out that might be possible has been thought out and it would definitely be better than not thinking of something…Oh, by the way, can your superpower engage in 'Telepathic Relay' only between two people?" said Speechless.

  "This Penniless Priest could only do two people in the beginning, but after repeated experiments and improvements, This Penniless Priest can now add another person to the telepathic r
elay, and have a three-way telepathic conversation. However, three people is the maximum This Penniless Priest can do for now," said Liu Yu.

  "Three people is enough. At least it saves the time needed to pass on information. Make haste while we can. Now, connect Sunless. Who knows how long the three Level Lords will give us," said Speechless.

  "Alright!" responded Liu Yu.

  A second later, Liu Yu spoke again, "Alright, it's connected."

  "Hey, Sunless, can you hear this?" Speechless immediately attempted to call out to her.

  "Huh?" Sunless's puzzled voice resounded simultaneously in Speechless and Liu Yu's minds.

  "I'm Speechless Li. We are now conversing using Liu Yu's superpower and engaging in a three-way telepathic relay. Do you understand?" Speechless did not want to waste time, so he explained the situation to Sunless in the most direct manner.

  "Yea," Sunless responded. She did not seem astonished nor did she appear as excited as Speechless. Clearly, her thoughts were somewhere else.

  "Sunless, I know you are currently feeling very anxious. The person most anxious in the present situation is definitely you. Because, compared to extricating the danger you are in, you are more anxious about rescuing Shi Xiaobai. However, you have to calm down now. Listen, I have a method that might save everyone and even save Shi Xiaobai. And the most important step to this matter has to be fulfilled by you. Only you can make it happen! For that, you have to calm down. No matter how difficult it is, you must force yourself to calm down…Then, Sunless, in order to save everyone, no. Even if it's just to save Shi Xiaobai, can you calm down?"

  Speechless said it in such a manner. Since time was of the essence, he was still excessive in his plea. Clearly, whether Sunless could calm down was an important matter.

  For that, Sunless fell silent for a second before giving a firm response.

  "Say the method."

  Sunless did not answer if she could calm down or not, but Speechless knew that even if she 'could not', she would definitely change it into something possible. If that was the way to save Shi Xiaobai, she would force herself to do it regardless of anything.