141: Chapter 141 Darkness Descends

"How ugly!"

After Qi Yin finished her snarky comment, Xiao Sinian pretended to glance at the enraged Yanqi Mountain and chimed in, not even bothering to look him in the eye.

President clicked his tongue in wonder: "Yanqi Mountain, you were such a fine young man, yet you insisted on delving into crooked, evil paths. Look at you now; you could scare a child to tears."

Lu Yanxiu: "Haha, it's seriously ugly as hell..."

Zhou Le: "Seconded..."

The rest of the group: "Haha, I can't hold it in, guys..."

Amidst the chorus of ridicule, Yanqi Mountain instinctively reached up to touch his face. His once smooth skin was gone, replaced by the feel of stiff, protruding blood vessels.

If he could help it, he wouldn't want this either.

But to increase his Darkness Power in a short amount of time, he had to absorb enough crystal cores, and the side effects were unavoidable.

Laugh all you want; soon, you won't be able to.

Yanqi Mountain spread his arms wide and rose into the air from the Mutated Zombies, hovering in mid-air. The faint black mist around his body instantly surged, as if he had been submerged in an ink bottle, shrouding everything around him in darkness.

Qi Yin blinked, noticing that the sky directly above him was rapidly darkening with him at its center. Just a moment ago, the twilight was still visible, but now, it was all a pitch-black void.

Yanqi Mountain had finally lost his patience.

At this moment, the blood vessels on Yanqi Mountain's face emitted a gloomy red light. He opened his hands, and two black energy spheres rotated between them, causing the surrounding air to distort slightly.

"I, Yanqi Mountain, am the strongest..."

After Yanqi Mountain roared this in a low voice, he swung his hands forward. The Darkness Power spheres in his hands did not attack them directly; instead, they submerged into the group of Mutated Zombies surrounding him.

A bizarre scene unfolded. The two balls of black mist exploded within the swarm of Mutated Zombies, but it wasn't an explosion in the traditional sense; it was more like the formation of a larger vortex of black energy.

Even though Qi Yin and the others were standing quite far away, they could still feel a slight suction. One could only imagine how immense the suction at the center of the vortex must be.

Wherever the black mist spread, the Mutated Zombies were wiped out as if devoured by something. As they disappeared, the black energy mass grew larger and larger, continuing to expand.

The black mist surrounding Yanqi Mountain became increasingly dense, and his eyes gradually turned into solid black with no whites, looking exactly like an evil ghost crawling up from the underworld.

Xiao Sinian and Qi Yin exchanged a glance, their pupils involuntarily dilating.

"Sacrifice!"

Yanqi Mountain was forcibly extracting the life force of a large number of Mutated Zombies to forcibly boost his Supernatural Ability.

Qi Yin had once heard from Xiao Bai about this method of boosting Darkness Power. It was as cruel as could be; behind every Ability User with Darkness Power lay a pile of countless corpses.

It was hard to imagine how many people Yanqi Mountain had sacrificed to get to where he was today.

"Everyone, attack those two disgusting things with everything you've got!" Xiao Sinian was the first to react.

He couldn't let Yanqi Mountain continue absorbing. He could feel that the Supernatural Ability fluctuations radiating from Yanqi Mountain were now infinitely approaching Level 5.

But Darkness Power itself was incredibly bizarre; he feared the actual lethality it could unleash was far beyond Level 5.

Xiao Sinian held nothing back. The lightning and fire around him were hotter than ever before. Countless bolts of purple lightning, as thick as bowls, erupted, interlacing with his own cyan-purple mutated flames to weave a massive web in the air.

This web lunged toward the two growing black masses, slamming down upon them.

"Boom!"

The two collided violently. The blinding purple light and the darkness clashed crazily, emitting a piercing screech. The energy leaking from the impact sent nearby Mutated Zombies flying.

Fearing that Yanqi Mountain might try to utilize these zombies again, Qi Yin seized the opportunity to freeze the zombies, shattering the ones Xiao Sinian had blasted away into dust.

However, if the terror of Darkness Power could be so easily dissolved by Xiao Sinian, it wouldn't be Darkness Power.

The black mist mass, though slowed in its expansion by the lightning-fire web, was still slowly increasing.

"Ice Seal..."

Qi Yin's voice was icy and bone-chilling. This was no time to be laughing and joking with Yanqi Mountain; she had to get serious.

Her hands moved quickly to form seals, and icy energy surged from her body. The city wall beneath her feet was instantly covered in a thick layer of ice, which rapidly spread toward Yanqi Mountain's direction.

Even the water vapor in the air turned into countless razor-sharp ice needles. With a wave of her hand, Qi Yin transformed the ice needles into a long ice dragon that roared as it charged toward the zombie tide surrounding the black mist.

"Crack!"

Wherever the frost passed, hundreds and thousands of zombies were instantly frozen into ice blocks, and even the Darkness Power that Yanqi Mountain was absorbing from them was briefly solidified.

The "fuel" was gone, and the speed at which the black mist grew slowed down once more.

Lu Yanxiu grinned, exposing his teeth: "Nicely done!"

Immediately, he compressed all his flames into a near-white ray, shooting it at lightning speed toward those individual frozen zombies.

With a massive explosion, the zombies were all blasted into tiny bits of flesh.

The others weren't idle either, doing their best to use their Supernatural Abilities to reduce the "raw material" for Yanqi Mountain's Darkness Power. Despite his age, President didn't show any intention of backing down, commanding the soldiers to keep increasing their firepower against Yanqi Mountain.

However, after a barrage of artillery fire, Yanqi Mountain in the center hadn't sustained a single scratch, showing just how terrifying Darkness Power was.

When their Supernatural Abilities began to feel exhausted and they stopped, Yanqi Mountain simultaneously ceased his movements. It looked like his sacrificial ritual had come to an end.

"Hahaha, Xiao Sinian, did you think my Darkness Power was so easily broken? Last time, you were just lucky."

How could his Supernatural Ability rely solely on a temporary sacrifice?

Yanqi Mountain laughed maniacally, his solid black eyes locked onto Xiao Sinian.

"It's useless, you ants. Take a good look at what true darkness is..."

The two massive black vortexes suddenly stopped spinning. In the shocked gaze of the crowd, they gradually transformed into two black blades, with intense death energy shrouding the sky.

"Die!"

Yanqi Mountain waved both hands. The two black blades sliced through the air; one slashed toward Xiao Sinian, who was still manipulating the lightning web, while the other bypassed the chaotic mess of Supernatural Ability attacks and headed straight for Qi Yin, who was fully focused on maintaining the Ice Seal.

Strike the leader to capture the gang; these two annoying pests posed the greatest threat to him, so he might as well kill them directly.

"Yin Yin, watch out!"

Xiao Sinian's pupils constricted. He instantly retracted his lightning web and poured all his power into manifesting a thick lightning shield to block in front of Qi Yin.

"Bang!"

The black blade struck the shield, and a massive shockwave exploded. Xiao Sinian let out a muffled groan and stumbled back a few steps; thin cracks appeared on the lightning shield.

A trickle of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, which he quickly wiped away before Qi Yin could look over.

Yanqi Mountain's current Supernatural Ability had already surpassed his.

Having protected Qi Yin, the black blade meant for Xiao Sinian arrived right on schedule.

But at this moment, it was impossible for him to solidify a lightning shield again in such a short time.

Seeing that he couldn't dodge, at the critical moment, Wen Yang and Lei Jun suddenly acted.

The two of them used all of their Supernatural Ability to conjure two massive earth walls out of thin air, surrounding Xiao Sinian.

"Pfft!"