CBGC - ch105.1

Chapter 105: Escape

    "You don't want to live!" a black-robed cultivator shouts in fury.

    To have the impertinence to unscrupulously use spiritual energy in this Lower Realm— the Heavenly Punishment would surely reduce him to ashes! This Bai Su, he’s an unbelievably reckless youth, shameless and fearless before death!

    If he dies, Bai Su is determined to drag them down with him. He continuously strikes with both palms, his spiritual energy surging, creating turbulent clouds with a turn of a hand and rain with another. If the black-robed cultivator doesn’t use his own spiritual energy to resist, he will definitely receive severe injuries. However, if he does use spiritual energy, he too would attract Heavenly Punishment.

    Bai Su’s reckless attacks place a look of terror across the face of the black-robed man, but this man isn’t alone. There are still high-level cultivators from the Luminous Moon Sect with him. He says, "The Heavenly Punishment is coming. He won't be able to keep this up for long. For anyone that helps me capture him, there will be a big reward!"

    After saying that, he tosses over two Immortal treasures, giving one directly to the Tribulation Transcendent cultivator next to him.

    "Quickly, use the treasures to resist!"

    Although his actions are fast, they are not as fast as Bai Su's suicidal attacks. The other Tribulation Transcendent cultivator has barely made the Immortal device recognize him as its master, and has not even activated it yet, before he feels a storm fast approaching. They are like duckweed floating in the ocean, powerless against the towering waves. A great number of cultivators fall, crumbling like rotten wood.

    At this time, the Heavenly Punishments come after Bai Su one after another.

    Bai Su originally intended to eliminate future troubles by bearing the Punishments, then killing his enemies. But he finds himself unable to do so. The lightning has struck him too heavily, more violently than ever before. He feels like his body is being split in half by a knife, his primordial spirit suffering a torment like dying from a thousand cuts, as if the Heavenly Punishment is burning him into ashes…

    The rumbling sound of thunder reverberates, the sky is covered with rolling dark clouds, as black as ink.

    Bai Su grits his teeth and perseveres. His whole body is covered in blood, yet he still calls for his spiritual energy once again. He uses the technique of Shifting the Stars to its fullest extent. The thunder in the sky continues, a discontented sound from his defiance of the law of heaven. Dark clouds gather, brewing an even stronger lighting calamity.

    Bai Su runs desperately, Shifting and transporting himself to the boundary lake, flying over the wasteland, and plunging straight into the lake.

    He rolls into the water noisily, his blood staining the lake red, causing bloody ripples to rise on the surface of the lake, bubbles bursting out.

    This boundary returns to calm, but in the Upper Realm, winds and clouds rage again.

    Bai Su has exerted all his strength and managed to escape back to the Upper Realm.

    However, this Heavenly Punishment will not easily let him go. It will not disappear just because he has returned to his realm. But at the very least, he could use his spiritual energy to resist it now.

    The thunderous sound continues, and Bai Su's protective barrier shatters. He is covered in injuries. The boundary lake is dyed red with his blood, and next to the lake, the tender green grass is also painted red from the water sprinkled on them. His spiritual energy is depleted, and he can barely hold on.

    The final Heavenly Calamity is about to strike, the sound of thunder is right by his ears. But there is no panic in Bai Su's face. He stares at the sea of grass before him, and smiles despite everything: "Third Uncle, do you plan to watch me die with your own eyes?"

    There’s a man in the shadows, "You have been expelled from the Bai family and are no longer one of us."

    With a wry smile, Bai Su forces himself to stretch out his hand, now covered in blood as well. Out of nowhere, a potted orchid tongue grass appears in his palm. The leaves of the orchid tongue grass are dried up and no longer the lush green they used to be. The two leaves are drooping limply over the edge of the pot.

    "Unfortunately, Xiao Lan has already recognized me as its master. If I die, it won't survive either," Bai Su's voice is as weak as a strand of thread, barely a whisper.

    "You!"

    The man hidden in the dark could see and hear everything clearly. He never expected that Bai Su would be able to tame the family’s orchid tongue grass. The orchid tongue grass is a spiritual plant of the previous clan leaders. Now, the Bai family would be in chaos again. But no matter what, since the orchid tongue grass has recognized him as its master, he cannot die.

    The final Heavenly Punishment falls, and the person hiding in the grass sea leaps out. He points his long sword directly at the sky, and slashes towards the lightning in the air. He is struck by lightning and retreats a few steps. His foot is already half a step in the icy water of the boundary lake. The flying sword falls down and stabs into the mud, stabilizing him just in time.

    This one Heavenly Thunderbolt has inflicted him with heavy injuries. He gasps and looks at Bai Su, who’s lying in a pool of blood, and sighs softly.

    This child, so terribly stubborn, yet astonishingly outstanding.

*

    The last Heavenly Punishment was borne by Bai Su's Third Uncle. Bai Su knows that even with his current condition. He no longer needs to worry about losing his life. He has lost too much blood, and his injuries are too severe. At this point, he’s having trouble even just opening his eyelids.

    He will be brought back to the clan for punishment, because he stole Xiao Lan back then. But it is still better than losing his life. He found the Word Spirit, and he and his father will no longer be sinners in the clan, and one day the injustices will be washed away.

    "Big Bai is waiting for you. I'm here, waiting for you both," he says while his consciousness is already quite hazy.

    Bai Su closes his eyes and falls into a deep coma. His third uncle steps onto a flying sword, then takes him up and places him on the sword too. He runs his spiritual energy, making the flying sword rise to the sky, and in the blink of an eye, they are gone without a trace.