The Infernal Plane: Book 5 of the Coiling Dragon Saga

by Wo Chi Xi Hong Shi

  “Haha, in front of me, you still want to run? Your speed is too slow, too slow.” The gold-haired youth chuckled.

  Linley warily watched his opponent.

  “Haha, die.” The gold-haired youth chuckled, and then the nearly forty doppelgangers almost simultaneously struck out. Instantly, Linley was completely covered by knife-edge palm attacks. Linley was completely unable to dodge; his only choice was to take the attacks head on!

  “He… looks down on me.” Linley, seeing this, was laughing coldly in his heart.

  Doppelganger was one of the nine profound mysteries of the Elemental Laws of the Wind. This Doppelganger Technique created bodies that had the aura of the original body. Generally speaking, others would find it very hard to tell the true body from the false bodies. This was an exceptional technique for fleeing. But as for attacking, it was weak.

  The Doppelganger Technique was meant for fleeing or to be used against weak experts.

  After all, the strength of each doppelganger was far inferior to that of the main body.

  The doppelgangers of Highgods, in terms of strength, wouldn’t be much stronger than that of Gods.

  “Hmph. A single doppelganger’s attack might not be strong, but the combined attacks of thirty-plus doppelgangers are considerable in power. In addition, my main body’s knife-edge palm attack is included as well.” The gold-haired youth was completely confident. “This fellow is just a God.”

  “Bang!” “Bang!” “Bang!”

  In an instant, the many knife-edge palms landed on Linley’s body. Linley in total was hit by twenty-eight palm blows, and had been only able to dodge ten of them.

  Of the 28 palm blows, twenty-seven of them landed on Linley’s ‘Pulseguard Armor’ and collapsed, while leaving Linley’s ‘Pulseguard Armor’ completely unharmed. But the twenty-eighth palm blow landed directly on Linley’s body.

  “CRUNCH!”

  The Pulseguard Armor cracked open, and Linley’s chest was struck by a vicious blow that all but went through his chest. Blood splattered outside, while his shattered white bones were revealed as well. This blow that split apart the ‘Pulseguard Armor’ had been launched by the gold-haired youth’s real body!

  The gold-haired youth was surprised. Linley’s ‘Pulseguard Armor’ was simply astonishing.

  “A defensive Highgod artifact?” The gold-haired youth chuckled. “Unfortunately, you are a God. A defensive Highgod artifact in your hands won’t be used to maximum effect.” The gold-haired youth was disdainful.

  “Crackle…” The ‘divine power’ in Linley’s body bubbled out, immediately healing his wound. At the same time, the ‘Pulseguard Armor’ on his body once more reformed. As long as his divine power remained, this ‘Pulseguard Armor’ could instantly recover.

  “A defensive artifact?” Linley, in his heart, was disdainful. “So this is the true body!”

  From that attack just now, Linley was instantly able to tell which of the bodies in front of him was the true body.

  “Already healed?” The gold-haired youth was astonished. He immediately realized that Linley wasn’t using a defensive artifact, but rather a material defense.

  “Haha… your material attack isn’t bad, and your material defenses aren’t bad either,” the forty gold-haired youths circling Linley all spoke out. “A pity.” After speaking, the nearly forty gold-haired youths instantly moved as one. Right now, whether the youth attacked as one or en masse didn’t make much of a difference to Linley.

  From that exchange just now, Linley was already certain as to which one was the real body.

  The gold-haired youth’s speed was far greater than Linley’s. He easily and continuously changed directions as he drew near Linley.

  “This brown-haired kid has a powerful material attack and defense. It seems I’ll have to kill him with a soul attack.” The gold-haired youth made up his mind. “I refuse to believe that the soul defense of a God can be very powerful!”

  “Death take you!” The gold-haired youth calmly lashed out with a sword blow, causing tiny tremors to appear in the air as well as a low humming sound.

  Linley’s eyes narrowed. “My only chance!”

  “Rumble…” Linley’s adamantine heavy sword struck out as well with his most powerful attack… the Voidwave Sword!

  “Clang!” Linley’s face suddenly changed. His Voidwave Sword had met no opposition at all as it struck into the enemy’s head. The enemy’s attack, in turn, didn’t carry any soul power at all.

  “What?” Linley suddenly had a bad feeling. “Vibrations!”

  A strange sort of vibration directly entered Linley’s brain. This strange vibration first clashed against that soul-protecting Sovereign artifact, the translucent scaly membrane around his soul, then shattered and dispersed.

  Linley had managed to withstand the attack, but the enemy…

  “Aaaah!” The Highgod’s entire body swayed, a low growl emitting from his lips.

  Although this Highgod had become a Highgod on his own, and had an extremely pure soul and strong defense, in the face of Linley’s ‘Voidwave Sword’, created from the fusion of two profound mysteries, his soul still trembled and a large amount of spiritual energy immediately collapsed.

  He immediately became woozy.

  “Die!” Howling angrily, Linley followed up with another sword blow.

  The adamantine heavy sword struck directly onto the dazed gold-haired youth.

  “BANG!” The gold-haired youth’s soul was no longer able to withstand it, and it directly collapsed.

  “Swoosh!” A figure suddenly appeared from within the gold-haired youth’s corpse. “Another one?” Linley’s eyes turned wide, but as if by reflex, he lashed out yet again…

  Once again, the Voidwave Sword!

  “BANG!” That figure collapsed as well.

  Only now did Linley sit down.

  Having executed three ‘Voidwave Sword’ attacks in a row, Linley’s spiritual energy had been nearly exhausted. Actually, when he executed the third ‘Voidwave Sword’, Linley had already begun to feel his head split.

  “I was too nervous. The divine clone of that gold-haired youth was just a Demigod clone. It wasn’t worth me using the Voidwave Sword at all.” Linley glanced at the divine clone, then laughed inwardly at himself. “Fortunately, that fellow finally died.” Linley directly collected the gold-haired youth’s interspatial ring, divine spark, and divine artifact.

  And then, Linley ran a few hundred meters away, enduring the pain in his head. He found an unassuming location and immediately retrieved an amethyst.

  “The Voidwave Sword uses up far too much spiritual energy.” Linley stored the amethyst into his Coiling Dragon ring, which immediately refined it, causing surges of golden fog energy to enter Linley’s consciousness. The dry, parched sea of consciousness once more began to throb with spiritual strength.

  “Whew.” The head-splitting pain began to subside, and Linley let out a long breath.

  “Facing a Highgod really is dangerous.” Linley, thinking back to that battle, said to himself, “If that gold-haired youth had instead relied on his speed and material attacks to come at me repeatedly, he absolutely would have killed me.”

  Linley quickly came to a conclusion based on the results of that battle.

  “Those who become Deities on their own will have their souls nurtured and transformed repeatedly by the natural Laws, and so will have exceedingly strong soul defenses as well. That gold-haired youth just now was able to take a hit from my ‘Voidwave Sword’ without dying. It seems as though in the future, I must be careful.” Linley became all the more cautious.

  Linley had narrowly escaped the last attack, but the other Fiends wouldn’t be so lucky. How could it be easy for a God to overcome a Highgod?

  Linley was someone who had fused two profound mysteries of a Law, which was extremely rare amongst Gods. And more importantly… Linley had a damaged soul-protecting Sovereign artifact that negated the gold-haired youth’s attack. Ot
herwise, how could Linley’s soul have withstood it?

  “Big bro isn’t here, and Bebe isn’t here either.”

  Nisse was filled with panic. She took one careful step after another through this castle of sand. Just now, she had discovered the corpse of a Fiend. Clearly, this castle of sand was filled with life-threatening dangers.

  Soundlessly, a skinny, cruel male figure suddenly appeared from the wall behind NIsse.

  “This little girl isn’t bad. I’ll kill her first,” the cruel man said quietly to himself. Just now, he had killed three God-level Fiends. In front of him, God-level Fiends weren’t able to fight back at all. Looking at Nisse in front of him, the cruel man laughed to himself. “Let me end your life.”

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  Blue Water Drop

  As danger had descended upon her, Nisse’s heart suddenly trembled, and she couldn’t help but turn to look.

  “Ah!” Nisse was so terrified, her face turned as white as parchment, while at the same time, in her terror, she raised her speed to the limit, fleeing forward.

  “You want to run?” A hint of disdain was in the eyes of the cruel-looking man. He immediately activated his ‘Godrealm’, and Nisse, who had been moving at high speed, instantly became restricted and slowed down. Nisse was only a God, and in her heart, she began to feel terror. “Bebe, big bro, where are you?”

  As she faced death, her thoughts were of Bebe and Salomon!

  At this moment, Nisse was right in the middle of a corridor opening.

  “Bebe!” Nisse’s eyes immediately lit up. To her right, roughly a hundred meters away, a figure appeared. It was Bebe, wearing his straw hat, his face filled with delight. But when he saw Nisse suddenly appear, he also saw that behind her, there was a Highgod.

  Bebe’s facial expression instantly turned into one of terror!

  “A pity. I won’t make it in time.” Nisse could already sense the cold air of the sword energy behind her. Her eyes were filled with a hint of unwillingness and regret. “Bebe, actually, right now, I just want to say a few words to you and hear your voice.”

  In this castle of sand, Gods were only able to stretch their divine sense out for less than ten meters. How would they speak through divine sense?

  Bebe’s eyes were filled with terror!

  “No!” Bebe cried out in a fierce voice. They were a hundred meters away, and he was extremely fast, but that Highgod wasn’t any slower than him. More importantly, the Highgod was too close to Nisse. “Ninny, no!!!” Bebe was filled with rage and regret.

  Moments before Bebe saw Nisse.

  Linley was making his way alone through the castle of sand, which was filled with danger everywhere.

  Linley had just undergone a vicious battle. After a short recovery time, his strength had returned to peak condition. Suddenly, a look of delight appeared in Linley’s eyes. “Bebe. You aren’t too far away from me. Right in front of me, there is a road heading close to your direction. It’s possible that we will meet.”

  “I have a corridor in front of me as well. Boss, I’ll head over as well.” Bebe was extremely excited.

  Linley didn’t imagine that although at first, when he had intentionally tried to meet with Bebe, he was unable to, after that vicious battle, just by casually walking around, he would draw closer to Bebe.

  “Swoosh!” Linley began to move quickly.

  Passing through curved hallways, he entered a corridor that headed straight towards Bebe.

  “Haha, Bebe!”

  Linley already saw the familiar figure wearing a straw hat at the end of the corridor. It was Bebe.

  Linley and Bebe were roughly three hundred meters or so away from each other. They were each at the opposite ends of the corridor. As for this three-hundred-meter-long corridor, it had three or four exits and branching corridors as well.

  “Haha, Boss, I see you!” Bebe said, his face excited.

  “I see you too.” Linley’s heart was filled with excitement. He couldn’t help but unconsciously speed up even faster. “Please don’t let another wall suddenly appear in the center of this corridor.” This was what Linley was worrying about; he had to come together with Bebe.

  That way, he wouldn’t be separated from Bebe again.

  “Swoosh!”

  Roughly ten meters ahead of Linley, a figure suddenly appeared from a branching corridor.

  “Whoah, that scared me.” What Linley feared the most was that a wall would appear, blocking him off from Bebe. “She is?” Linley’s face instantly changed dramatically.

  It was Nisse, who was being pursued and attacked!

  Nisse saw that to her right, a hundred meters away, Bebe was present. But she didn’t realize that to her left was Linley!

  Bebe had been lost in his excitement at the coming reunion with Linley, but when he suddenly saw Nisse being pursued, his heart instantly turned ice cold. His excited, lively eyes suddenly became filled with terror. “Nooooo!” A fierce cry rang out!

  It had been so many years. Bebe had never fallen for a girl.

  This was the first time he had. Although Bebe liked to joke around, in his heart, he had sworn that he would accompany this adorable girl for his entire life.

  It was a very simple, pure thought. But Bebe had always kept it in his heart.

  Bebe wasn’t able to rescue her in time!

  But. Linley was!

  “Highgod!” Linley saw that a few meters behind Nisse, there was the figure of a skinny, cruel man. Instantly, his face changed.

  After the last battle he had undergone with a Highgod, Linley knew very well… that although he had fused two profound mysteries and a soul-protecting Sovereign artifact, when fighting with a Highgod, his chance of victory was less than 50%. If the enemy was cautious, the chances of Linley dying would be extremely high!

  If he was to save her, he would have to use his ultimate attack. Acting so hastily, it would be very hard for him to kill the opponent. Once the opponent saw Linley using his ultimate attack, he would definitely grow cautious, and most likely Linley himself would be finished.

  But if he didn’t save her, Linley might be able to find a better opportunity to kill the man in one blow!

  “Nooooo!” Linley could completely sense Bebe’s terror, sense Bebe’s soul shudder. His soul and Bebe’s soul were linked. Linley could clearly sense… the trembling of Bebe’s soul.

  He didn’t hesitate at all!

  “Kill!” A fierce look suddenly flashed in Linley’s eyes, and the adamantine heavy sword in his hand slashed out in a perfect arcing line, and then a semi-translucent sword shadow that was a faint yellow color flew out of the adamantine heavy sword, striking directly towards the skinny, cruel-looking man.

  Soul attack – Voidwave Sword!

  As Linley attacked the enemy without any hesitation, the terrified Bebe also let out a fierce howl, while at the same time, an enormous illusion of a Godeater Rat appeared behind him. The mouth of the illusory Godeater Rat opened as it stared coldly at the skinny, cruel man.

  Innate divine ability – Godeater!

  The skinny, cruel man had been chopping down with his sword towards Nisse, but Linley was very close to him, and the Voidwave Sword attack instantly struck towards him.

  “Not good!”

  The skinny, cruel man’s downward chopping sword blow instantly transformed into a blocking scrape. As he didn’t know how strong the opponent was, the skinny, cruel man immediately used his own most powerful soul attack, and an illusion of a green, electric serpent appeared, flying out from his sword.

  The Voidwave Sword and the illusory electric serpent clashed.

  “BANG!”

  The illusory electric serpent vanished, while the Voidwave Sword trembled twice, then vanished as well.

  “So powerful!” The skinny, cruel man’s heart shook. The opponent’s soul attack was actually on a level comparable to his own; to be precise, it was actually slightly more powerful. If this illusory sword attack had truly struck his soul, he probably would
have had his soul dissipated.

  Right as he was feeling stunned…

  A strange ripple suddenly encapsulated his entire body. This was the innate divine ability, Godeater.

  The skinny, cruel man’s body went stiff for a moment, but a moment later, he broke free.

  “Ugh!” The distant Bebe spat out a mouthful of blood, and his face turned pale as well. He only had the power of a God, but he wanted to use the Godeater ability against a Highgod? There was only one possible outcome. This Godeater ability was very unique!

  If it succeeded, it would devour and take away the opponent’s divine spark, and the opponent wouldn’t be able to resist at all.

  But if it failed, the opponent wouldn’t be harmed at all. In addition, the amount of spiritual energy this technique consumed was quite astonishing.

  “There are two of them!” Only now did the skinny, cruel man notice Bebe.

  “What an unusual attack.” The skinny, cruel man immediately began to treat Linley and Bebe as major foes. However, in the skinny, cruel man’s heart, the one he was concerned about the most was Linley. This was because Linley’s Voidwave Sword was already at a level of power that could threaten his life!

  “Bebe used the Godeater ability?”

  Linley immediately ignored all else. Gritting his teeth, he took the opportunity to once more strike out with his adamantine heavy sword, launching his most powerful attack, the Voidwave Sword, once more.

  But unfortunately, the impact of Bebe’s Godeater ability on a Highgod was too miniscule.

  The skinny, cruel man’s sword once more emitted an illusory electric serpent, clashing once more with Linley’s Voidwave Sword. This spectacle was virtually identical to the one earlier. The two soul attacks once more cancelled out.

  “Crackle.”

  From the body of the skinny, cruel man emerged four deep-green lightning dragons. The four lightning dragons pounced straight towards Linley. Although the size of each lightning dragon wasn’t too massive, with all four charging over at the same time, Linley was completely unable to dodge.

  “Die.” The skinny, cruel man watched this calmly. “This is my most powerful lightning-type attack!”