Chapter 99: Outside and Inside the Barrier

"Grandpa, destroy this barrier ... NOW!" YueLiang screamed, with tears in her eyes.

It was hard for her to even breathe.

What she had seen beyond the barrier had brought back terrifying memories of the past.

She didn't want such a thing to happen again...

She didn't want to see the tortured bodies of her sisters lying motionless on the ground...

Her heart pounded frantically, filled with terror, at the very thought of that...

Her fingers, which had now lost the power of space from those black claws, continued to dig into the surface.

But it was useless, her nails splintered, and her blood began to flow from her tips, leaving long red marks on the surface.

Shocked by the sudden reaction of her daughter, Zhu Huli tried to stop that futile gesture and bring the girl into her warm and soft arms.

But when her hands were only inches away from her, a thick black cloud, darker than the previous one, devoured YueLiang.

In a few moments, her body disappeared, engulfed by that darkness, and a frightening force hit the delicate body of Zhu Huli, hurling her towards the sky.

Bai Lang, who was standing a few steps from them, reacted instantly and, with a leap, caught his wife's body, but the force that had hit Zhu Huli was too powerful, so their bodies continued to fly.

Everything happened too quickly, and the old man, who had just descended from the sky after hearing YueLiang's desperate cries, intervened late and, with a simple wave of his hand, stopped the young couple before they could fly too far.

After checking the conditions of the two, the old man quickly approached YueLiang, who was now surrounded by a black cloud with a particular shape.

Shocked by the scene in front of him, the old man muttered something in a faint voice, impossible to hear, and advanced with determined steps towards the fox shaped from the black cloud.

"Little Liang, stop it!" The old man shouted as he approached her.

But nothing, the power of space continued to accumulate around YueLiang, making the black fox more and more real.

"You still can't control that power! You will end up hurting the people you love like in the past!! Calm down!" The old man persisted, proceeding further and further.

AH!!!

The fox raised her muzzle, and cries filled with pain and despair came out from her there.

"Silly girl..." The old man sighed in disappointment, hearing those screams, and then pointed his forefinger at the creature: "Little Liang, I'm sorry, but you leave me no choice... Time Cage!"

A glow of white light descended from the sky and enveloped the black fox and the surrounding space, which had already begun to crumble, giving life to an immense portal...

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"Come out, bastard!!"

"Where the hell are you?"

Yue screamed, floating above the area.

"Hahaha… Another little bird. How nice, I feel great elemental power from your body too. This trip, even if it has caused us many losses, will guarantee me a huge reward..."

The disturbing voice rang out from the ground again, but this time from a different area.

"BASTARD! Stop hiding!" Yue screamed once more, casting powerful blades of water against the ground.

BOOM!!

CRACK!!

Large cuts were opened due to that devastating attack, but nothing appeared from there because that being had already moved.

"Hahaha... stupid, what do you think you're doing with that miserable power?"

BOOM!!

BOOM!!

Yue hit the ground once again with all her power, but this time she didn't limit herself to two simple water blades and instead used the water particles in the soil to shatter an even larger area.

CRACK!!

CRACK!!

A vast expanse of earth and rocks floated towards the sky, driven by the intense activity of the water below, finally revealing the demon hidden in the soil.

A strange creature with human-like features snapped out of the ground, showing its disgusting body to the three girls.

Xue, who was regaining her power at alarming speed thanks to Xifeng's medicines, looked at him with a shocked expression because that bastard was the first enemy to die in battle, Elder Mou.

Xue had cut off that monster's head and was sure of his death.

At first, she could not understand how Elder Mou had survived, but then, when she clearly saw his body, she immediately realized that there was something strange.

His body was covered in tangles of long dark green branches from the neck down, almost tending to purple.

Instead, above his neck, just where his flesh had been cut by Xue, strange roots came out, pulsing with an intense purple light.

Xue followed those bright roots, and on the other side, about a dozen inches from his base, she noticed that bastard's head, with a satisfied grin, wrapped in dark purple veins.

"What the hell are you?" Xue cried out, bewildered.

The long roots that connected the body with the neck suddenly reduced their length, and Elder Mou spoke with a malevolent smile: "Hehe... I usually like to play with my prey. Unfortunately, there isn't much time left. DIE!"

A frightening amount of long purple branches, wrapped in a strange miasma, rushed towards the three girls from all directions.

This time, their numbers were so great that their chances of being saved were virtually nil.

But just when those poisoned spikes were about to hit them, a mighty voice rang out inside the barrier, suddenly freezing space and time.

"Hmm… Du family… So you too, damn rats, managed to get back into this world. It seems that the first time was not enough for you... "

Space vibrated at the sound of that voice, reducing Elder Mou's body to ashes, leaving only his head intact.

With the space and time in that state, his head lingered in the air and began to emit strange noises, impossible to understand.

Well... actually, there was someone who could understand them...

That powerful voice rang out again, but this time the sound was incomprehensible, as that individual was responding to those strange noises.