<h4>Chapter 256: Netherstorm</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>Shiraishi <strong>Editor: </strong>TheAlliance


    “Merlin, look...” Solomon suddenly paled, his delighted expression had been reced by dread as he pointed towards the void with a shaky hand.


    “What is it?”


    “Over there, quick, look there!” Solomon’s voice waspletely different.


    “Shit!” Lin Yun followed Solomon’s finger, a bit surprised, and suddenly cursed.


    A hint of red could be seen from the deep darkness.


    It was spreading its bloody light, echoing with booming thunder and whistling gales while emitting berserk mana through the void in an instant.


    “Shit, that’s the Netherstorm!” Lin Yun cursed. Lin Yun had seen the same scene 30,000 years in the future, when Noscent was reaching its end. The sky was ripped open, blood and mes spread as Noscent echoed with its final sounds.


    Lin Yun clearly remembered. This was thest scene he saw, the void dyed red, the thunder and gales ripping the earth apart, the whole world sinking in eternal darkness.


    The Netherstorm was thest madness before thest bit of radiance of Noscent was extinguished. It swallowed everything, destroyed everything, and transformed everything into nothingness.


    That power would destroy everything... Including the nar Path under their feet.


    ‘How could this be...’ Lin Yun was shocked and terrified. Howe the Netherstorm happened toe at this moment, not too early, nor toote.


    This was illogical.


    From that cemetery in the void, it could be seen that the Heaven Enlightening ne had died at least 10,000 years ago, so why did the Netherstorm not appear then?


    It had been such a long time, the Heaven Enlightening ne was already dead, it couldn’t be more dead. Why did the Netherstorm appear now?


    ‘What is happening?’


    ‘Is it because we entered the Heaven Enlightening ne? Did we trigger thiste Netherstorm?’


    ‘It’s not right...’


    They had all been under the protection of the nar Path, including the harvest Xiuban and Lin Yun gained.


    The nar Path was a path, but in reality it was a spatial distortion. In other words, even if they seemed to be in the Heaven Enlightening ne, after going through the spatial distortions, they werepletely hidden. It was as if the group didn’t exist in the Heaven Enlightening ne.


    In any case, it was unlikely that his group had triggered the Netherstorm.


    ‘But what could have caused this then?’


    ‘Is it because I touched the Silver Dragon’s body?’


    ‘No, it couldn’t be.’


    Nothing had happened when Xiuban touched the Three-Headed Golden Dragon’s corpse, a peak existence in Noscent’s history that couldpare to Ancient Gods, the Netherstorm didn’t appear when his body dposed, so how could it appear when the corpse of an insignificant Silver Dragon did?


    Lin Yun kept thinking, but he couldn’t understand...


    There had been nothing else apart from that.


    “Eh?” As this thought came to his mind, Lin Yun suddenly recalled what had happened moments ago.


    He stretched his hand into his pocket and searched for that red crystal.


    The appearance of that red crystal was strange in itself. It was too sudden and too weird. Were it not for Lin Yun reacting fast enough, he might hade off worse.


    But Lin Yun clearly remembered...


    There had clearly been a slight distortion in the surrounding mana fluctuations when that red crystal hit his chest. At the time, he had been under the range of the nar Path’s spatial distortion, and hardly felt any change from the Heaven Enlightening ne.


    ‘Is it really because of that red crystal?’


    Thinking of this, Lin Yun put his right hand inside his pocket and couldn’t help tightening his grasp on the red crystal.


    Unfortunately, Lin Yun didn’t have the time to study the red crystal, the crimson color in the sky already dyed the entire void, and the thunderous sounds of lightning and gales contained within were echoing louder and louder, it felt as if the void was igniting.


    “Merlin, this is... This is...”


    Solomon was already stunned.


    That earth-shattering heaven-defying crimson was crazily spreading, and the power within could be felt even within the protection of the nar Path. That power could destroy a ne, let alone the few of them on that nar Path.


    In front of such an apocalyptic disaster, even a Heaven Rank powerhouse would be nothing more than an ant, let alone their group whose strongest was an Archmage.


    “Don’t worry, this is the Netherstorm.” Lin Yun didn’t have time to exin to Solomon. After saying a fewforting words, he focused all his energy on the Netherstorm.


    His Magic Arrays were ineffective for the first time.


    In front of such a disaster, the ordinarily omnipotent Magic Array was seemingly insignificant. It gave the feeling of being a speck of sand thrown into a pool, unable to cause a ripple.


    Lin Yun could only rely on his experience for now.


    Lin Yun might very well be the only one in this world who had experienced the Netherstorm and lived.


    He tightly held the Crystal Scales, enduring the gales as he stood on the nar Path, his robe crazily pping behind him. The boundless void spread in front of him, covered by the Netherstorm. But Lin Yun only focused on the center of the Netherstorm, he stared at the reddest part of the Netherstorm.


    Because Lin Yun knew that this ce would burst out and engulf the entire Heaven Enlightening ne.


    The Ancient Gods, the Chromatic Dragons, the pure-blooded Elves...


    Everything would return to nothingness...


    But that was his only opportunity.


    His group’s only way out of the Heaven Enlightening ne


    Once the Netherstorm appeared, it would engulf the ne it targeted. Everything would return to nothingness, that was the final destruction, no force could reverse that.


    It was already toote...


    Even if Lin Yun immediately destroyed the Crystal Scales and activated the nar Path back to Noscent, it would still be toote.


    Even the Laws already sank into chaos after being covered by the Netherstorm. Space, Time, everything had already lost their functions, and this also included the Crystal Scales’ nar Path.


    Only Lin Yun knew that when the Netherstorm would withdraw for a short instant before its final burst. That short instant might be a tenth of a second, or one hundredth of a second, in any case, it would be extremely short, to the point that ordinary people wouldn’t be able to notice it.


    That short instant was Lin Yun’s only chance to take advantage of the withdrawing Netherstorm to destroyed the Crystal Scales and activate the nar Path back.


    But this was very tight and dangerous.


    One tenth of a second, or worse, one hundredth of a second, and without the help of the Magic Arrays... Lin Yun had to rely on his own experience and judgement toplete this impossible task.


    Even Lin Yun had to rely on luck now.


    The Netherstorm had already started gathering. The bloody red was getting brighter and brighter. The sounds of destructions echoed from the distant void. This was the Netherstorm destroying and turning everything into nothingness.


    Seconds slowly passed...


    The nar Path under his feet started shaking, and under the pressure of the Netherstorm, the empty cemetery started bing chaotic. Corpses, shards, remains, all started moving in one direction.


    At first, Lin Yun could divide his attention and rely on himself to make the nar Path dodge, but Lin Yun slowly couldn’t keep up. The Netherstorm was drawing closer and was swallowing the void at a shocking speed, everything moved towards it faster and faster, the shards turned into hails, crashing into the nar Path.


    Lin Yun was flustered at that time.


    He paid attention to the Netherstorm’s changes while controlling the nar Path to dodge. This far surpassed Lin Yun’s ability.


    An explosion suddenly echoed behind the nar Path. Lin Yun turned around in shock to see the corpse of an Elf smashing onto the nar Path.


    The nar Path was a spatial distortion after all...


    The moment the body of the pure blooded elf crashed into it, it emitted a world shaking sound. From this it could be seen how frightening the attack had been.


    But it was worth rejoicing because the Elf wasn’trge, it was thinner than Humans, and besides scaring Lin Yun, this crash had no grave consequences...


    But...


    Lin Yun didn’t dare to rx, it had only been an Elf’s corpse this time... What about next time...