201: Chapter 200 Thousand Shadow Moon Guards Taiyin Tide Sorrow
Soon, the Desert Emperor Scorpion broke free from the blindness. The purple mist membrane on the surface of its six eyes was shattered by the violent spiritual power, and dark red bloodshot veins surged in its pupils.
It didn't pursue—its body suddenly sank into the sand, and its eight jointed legs pressed down simultaneously, creating a massive depression tens of meters in diameter on the sand's surface.
Dark purple spiritual power surged from the cracks in its carapace, condensing into a layer of flowing purple light on its body's surface.
The Desert Emperor Scorpion's body began to glow, as if something was about to break out from within it.
The sand surface began to tremble violently, and the grains were jolted upward by the spiritual power. The entire desert was like a drum being struck.
The scorpion's tail rose high, and the purple light point at its tip expanded to an unprecedented degree.
It grew from the size of a fist to the size of a washbasin, and then from the size of a washbasin to the size of a wheel.
The color of the light point changed from deep purple to dark red, like a miniature sun about to explode.
The air around the tail stinger distorted in the high temperature, and the sand was blown in all directions by the heatwave.
The Desert Emperor Scorpion's six eyes simultaneously locked onto the seven people fleeing ahead.
Its giant pincers suddenly snapped open, and two spheres of dark red light, originating from the same source, condensed on the serrations inside the pincers, forming a triangular formation with the light sphere at the tip of its tail.
Arc-like spiritual power connections appeared between the three orbs of light, forming a massive triangular energy field that enveloped the scorpion's entire body.
The ground began to crack.
With the scorpion as the center, countless cracks extended in all directions. Dark purple toxic mist surged from the cracks, mixing with the sand and dust to form a toxic dust storm that blotted out the sun.
The range of the toxic dust storm expanded rapidly, from tens of meters to hundreds, then from hundreds to over a thousand. The entire desert sky was dyed dark purple.
Xu Ziyan looked back and saw this scene, his pupils shrinking to the size of pinpricks. "Oh my god, a natural disaster is coming!"
Lin Fan also saw it from mid-air.
Red warning boxes filled the panel in his left eye.
"Yellow Sand Poison Hell. Range covers a thousand-meter radius. Duration unknown. Immediate evacuation recommended."
Escape?
Everything within a thousand-meter radius was within the attack range, and they hadn't even covered half the distance.
Lin Fan took a deep breath. "You guys go first. I'll block it for a bit."
Xu Ziyan was the first to look back. "Are you crazy?"
"Go."
Lin Fan did not explain.
Shen Shuang glanced at Lin Fan, her gaze lingering on his face for less than half a second.
She turned and continued running.
"Everyone, hear my command! Run, and don't look back." Shen Shuang's voice rang out through the toxic dust storm.
Yu Nian dove down from the air, grabbing Xu Ziyan by the back of his collar and lifting him off the sand. Xu Ziyan's feet dangled in the air as he still reached out toward Lin Fan.
Xu Tao didn't stop as he ran past Lin Fan, but his spiritual power marked a straight line on the sand behind Lin Fan.
"Come back along this line."
Of the seven people, only Lin Fan remained.
He stood his ground, the silver-black armor on his left hand shining blindingly bright under the moonlight.
He looked up at the sky.
That crescent moon was still at the highest point of the canopy, its pale golden moonlight spilling over him and casting his shadow onto the grayish-white sand.
His shadow was very short, almost tucked beneath his feet, because the moon was directly overhead.
Xiao Zhuang rose from his arm.
The silver-black flood dragon body circled in the air, its scales shimmering with a silver-white luster like moonlight.
It looked up toward that crescent moon and let out a low, long cry.
"Thousand Shadow Moon Guard! Lunar Tide Sorrow!"
Twelve Clones emerged once again, and silver-white light exploded from Lin Fan's left hand, spreading in all directions.
Thirteen Tidal Black Holes appeared in the air. Under the moonlight, the power and range of this move were qualitatively improved.
Lin Fan slowly brought his hands together, and the thirteen Tidal Black Holes collided with each other, eventually merging into a single Tidal Black Hole with a diameter no smaller than the opponent's.
The seawater of the Tidal Black Hole didn't fall from the sky; it surged out from the sand.
The grayish-white sand grains were washed away by the seawater, and the deep blue seawater formed a circular lake a thousand meters in diameter in the desert.
The seawater wasn't static; it rotated at high speed under the pull of tidal force, forming a massive vortex with walls of water several meters high rising at its edges.
Three whale shadows summoned by the Tidal Black Hole charged out from the vortex.
They weren't the ten-meter-long whale shadows from before; they were twenty meters.
Three massive Tidal Whale Shadows leaped out from the vortex.
They circled above the vortex, their bodies forming an arc between the scorpion and the seven people, like three giant blue shields.
At the same time, the Desert Emperor Scorpion had finished charging up.
The three dark red orbs of light at its tail, left pincer, and right pincer exploded simultaneously, and the dark red spiritual power surged out in all directions like a tsunami.
The sand surface was instantly dyed dark red, the sand grains were corroded into powder by the spiritual power, and the concentration of toxic mist in the air soared to a lethal level in an instant.
The dark red spiritual power wave crashed into Lin Fan's Tidal Black Hole.
The seawater evaporated into white steam under the erosion of the dark red spiritual power, and the dark red spiritual power was diluted into a pale purple under the washing of the seawater.
The three Tidal Whale Shadows blocked the path of the six people fleeing, their bodies bearing the brunt of the dark red spiritual power's erosion.
The whale shadows' scales peeled off bit by bit under the erosion, revealing the blue muscle beneath, which smoked under the corrosion. The whale shadows let out low cries of sorrow.
But they did not retreat, not until the tail of the last whale shadow was swallowed by the dark red spiritual power.
Lin Fan gritted his teeth, pouring every last bit of spiritual power from Xiao Zhuang on his left arm into Lunar Tide Sorrow.
The seawater in the vortex no longer evaporated but instead surged back, rushing toward the wave of dark red spiritual power.
The seawater and spiritual power formed a massive energy sphere between the two, with the seawater and dark red spiritual power devouring each other inside. The sphere fluctuated in size, its surface covered in dense cracks.
The energy sphere exploded.
The seawater and dark red spiritual power vanished simultaneously within the sphere, and along with them, the sand, air, and moonlight in the center of the sphere all vanished, forming a vacuum zone nearly thirty meters in diameter.
The air in the vacuum zone collapsed toward the center, pulling everything around it inward.
Lin Fan was pulled forward, stumbling two steps by the collapsing airflow. The scale armor on his left arm began to peel off starting from the shoulder, and silver-black scales dissipated into the air.
The aftershock slammed into his chest.
He felt as if he had been hit by a high-speed train. His feet left the ground as he was sent flying backward, tracing an arc through the air.
The dark red spiritual power wave was mostly blocked by Lin Fan's Lunar Tide Sorrow, but the remaining portion still surged toward where the six people were fleeing.
Ye Wushuang was running at the very back of the group, his right eye, the Bright Mist Phantom Pupil, constantly glowing.
He suddenly turned around.
Lightning exploded in his right leg, and he catapulted back to meet the aftershock.
The ice wings of the Bingli Heavenly Phoenix suddenly flapped, and the lightning of the Thunder-Scaled Hou Rabbit condensed.
Ice and lightning intertwined in front of him to form a translucent Ice-Lightning Dual-Attribute Barrier.
The aftershock hit the barrier, shattering the ice and extinguishing the lightning.
The aftershock penetrated the barrier.
Ye Wushuang instantly spat out a mouthful of blood, but he didn't stop. His ice wings unfurled, turning him into a streak of light that caught the heavily injured, falling Lin Fan.