160: A spark of hope illuminates a world of despair

Half of the City was shrouded in pale mist. The demonic shadow, as large as ten football fields, overlooked the City, emitting a strange and eerie laugh.

“Hee hee hee…” The sound was incredibly weird and terrifying, as if a cold wind was blowing from a bottomless Abyss.

It didn't attack, it just existed there.

But its mere existence there could accelerate the deterioration of the Black Curse.

It could plunge both Cities into endless despair…

“Disgusting thing! Die for me!” Qin Nantian's eyes shot out lightning, and he held a hundred-meter-long blade transformed from lightning in his hand, slashing violently towards the sky.

The sky full of lightning was drawn and gathered by him, forming a terrifying lightning slash that directly split the demonic shadow in the sky in two.

But the demonic shadow was like a void mist, it instantly closed and recovered, continuing to laugh weirdly and overlook the City.

“What?!” Qin Nantian's expression changed slightly.

Bei Mingxue said, “That is a void formed by curses, only purification power is useful against it.”

Many people's expressions changed slightly upon hearing this.

They were all high-level Prefecture Lords, but they really hadn't mastered purification skills.

Luo Ningyan took out a rare high-level purification scroll and tore it apart, a dazzling and sacred white light beam shot into the sky, piercing a hundred-meter-square hole in the demonic shadow.

Although the demonic shadow quickly recovered, its body also shrank by a circle.

“It really works!” Luo Ningyan nodded.

·Lu Beili's expression changed slightly after checking the information, “Not good! The deterioration speed of the Black Curse in the City has accelerated.”

“We have to destroy it quickly!” Jiang Yuan's expression changed greatly.

“What?!” He suddenly looked up at the cursed demonic shadow above.

“Hee hee hee…” The sky full of ominous clouds rolled.

The demonic shadow gradually descended, getting closer and closer to the City.

The weirdly laughing and terrifying face was reflected in the pupils of a million people like a nightmare.

“It’s, it’s over…” Countless people fell to the street, their eyes trembling, their expressions fearful and desperate.

A young man trembled as he looked at the fearful girl next to him, a crazy and distorted expression appearing on his face, and he threw her to the ground.

In the girl's fearful eyes.

The young man's face showed a twisted and crazy smile, and he said, “I've been chasing you for so long, anyway, anyway, I'm going to die soon, just let me have some fun.”

“No, don’t!!” Similar things happened one after another everywhere.

A son frantically strangled the father he had always looked down on, a daughter let her sick mother be free, a wife and husband jumped off a tall building with their newborn baby…

Under the endless dark despair and the fear of death without hope, the human heart is actually fragile beyond imagination.

The order of the City gradually collapsed.

…

【Ring of Purification】

【Light Blessing】

【Exorcism Arrow】

Attacks and items with purification power rushed from the ground to the sky.

But it was a drop in the bucket.

The amount of curses contained in the demonic shadow was too large!

And there were too few high-level Martial Artists present who possessed purification skills.

“Damn it, this is simply not enough time.” Bei Mingxue gritted her teeth.

“What are those people from the Ten Ministers Association doing?!” She really wanted to save the people of these two Cities, but at this point, she also felt a hint of powerlessness.

“Jiang Yuan, what do you want to do?!” Luo Ningyan's exclamation sounded.

Bei Mingxue turned her head to look.

Jiang Yuan crushed the super-level life crystal, and rich green light filled his body, making his golden qi and blood surge, and the Immortal Phoenix Flame burned fiercely again.

He looked up and stared closely at the cursed demonic shadow above his head.

“If it's purification, my power should be of some use.”

The wristband made a sound.

“After calculation, at the current level of the Master, the probability of failure to eliminate this level of curse is 97.88%, and the probability of success is…”

“Shut up.” The wristband immediately shut up.

“Are you planning to…” Bei Mingxue looked at his determined eyes, as if she had guessed something, she quickly shouted, “Don’t push yourself! Your SSS-Rank flame talent is indeed powerful, but this amount of curse would contaminate even a Quasi-King, it’s not something you can…”

“Bang!” The dry riverbed shattered and sank, and Jiang Yuan's figure shot out!

Luo Ningyan also thought of it the moment Bei Mingxue spoke, and without hesitation, she immediately made a move, transforming her mental power into countless large hands to grab Jiang Yuan, trying to stop his actions.

“President Luo, don’t stop me.” Jiang Yuan's golden eyes flashed, and the Yellow Springs Underworld Chain shot out from the void with a bone-chilling cold wind, blocking and freezing Luo Ningyan's obstruction.

Luo Ningyan's beautiful eyes on her pretty face widened, full of disbelief, “This…”

In a simple clash, she actually felt crushed!

This was more than just mental power exceeding ten thousand!!

This child, who was the same age as her daughter, what Realm had his mental power reached?!!

“Is that kid? What does he want to do?!” Bai Huang was stunned when he saw Jiang Yuan shooting into the sky.

Bei Mingxue roared, “Stop him! Don’t let him do anything foolish!!”

Bai Huang reacted.

Qin Nantian and Lu Beili also attacked at the same time.

For a time, two Ninth-Order Grand Masters and one eighth-Rank Prefecture Lord simultaneously attacked to stop Jiang Yuan, although without killing intent, it was not something ordinary people could withstand.

“Rumble!” The qi and blood large hand entwined with lightning arcs covered the sky and the sun.

Blue data streams materialized into countless chains rushing over.

A sword light shot into the sky, cutting across in front of Jiang Yuan, blocking his path.

Everything happened in an instant.

The others hadn't reacted yet.

The attacks of the three Prefecture Lord powerhouses were already about to catch Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan didn't look back, his expression calm.

“Divine Speed.” Space fluctuated, allowing him to instantly dodge the qi and blood large hand grabbed by Qin Nantian.

Countless data chains tracked and rushed towards his back.

“Lan Lan.” A large blue fish appeared beside Jiang Yuan, using the Returning to Nothingness skill, and their figures instantly virtualized, the data chains passing through their bodies.

“What?!” Bai Huang was shocked.

Spatial movement.

Space fluctuated again.

This allowed Jiang Yuan to penetrate the sword energy barrier swung by Lu Beili, and in the shocked, stunned, and disbelieving eyes of everyone, he crashed straight into the cursed demonic shadow that was as thick as mud.

“He… is crazy?!” The middle-aged warrior in flame armor said blankly.

This was a curse that even Prefecture Lord-level Martial Artists avoided like the plague.

He actually charged into it voluntarily…

“…!” Bei Mingxue bit her lower lip tightly, clenching her fists.

How could this happen?! A S-Class protected genius dying in front of her, how was she going to explain this to the higher-ups?!

“Wait, wait.”

“What is that?!” Everyone exclaimed, causing Bei Mingxue to also look up, her pupils shrinking slightly.

She saw a bright light appear inside the huge cursed demonic shadow.

…

“It really works.” Jiang Yuan was in the depths of the curse.

The surrounding curses were like poisonous snakes made of mud, constantly trying to erode him, carrying infinite malice and negative emotions, but before they could get close, they were directly purified and annihilated by the Kindling Power.

His biggest confidence in daring to rush in here was not the Immortal Phoenix Flame.

It was the Kindling Power that could purify all curses and evil.

He put away the Heavenly Shuttle Cutting Moon.

“Hoo…” The young man took a deep breath, crossed his arms, and fully operated the Kindling Breathing Method.

Waves of majestic golden qi and blood energy continuously gathered towards the center.

The golden Kindling Power gradually formed a flame floating in front of him, and it was constantly growing stronger, the intense purification power causing the curses around Jiang Yuan to disappear, forming a vacuum zone.

Seen from a distance.

It was as if a golden light spot had appeared inside the cursed demonic shadow, like the morning star in the east, incredibly dazzling and eye-catching in the gloomy sky above the City shrouded in despair.

………………

In an old house in a remote part of the City.

The mother holding her child had just experienced the pain of losing her husband, and she sat blankly in the courtyard holding her child.

People like them wouldn't receive much attention in the first place, and no one would come to save them.

The moment she saw the cursed demonic shadow in the sky.

The boy's mother lost hope of living.

The child, who didn't understand why his mother was crying, touched her head, and suddenly the light that lit up in the sky attracted his attention.

“Star, star.” The boy in her arms pointed outside and said in a childish voice.

Star? What's so good about a star?

The boy's mother raised her head, her listless eyes looking at the sky.

A light spot shimmering with brilliant golden light appeared within the demonic shadow.

The terrifying and huge cursed demonic shadow no longer emitted strange laughter, but instead showed pain and struggle on its face.

The mother's eyes gradually widened, her pupils contracted, and tears involuntarily streamed down her face.

Was that… hope?