assistirfilmes Chapter 289: Taking Control of the Situation!
Chapter 289: Taking Control of the Situation!
Chapter 289: Taking Control of the Situation!
A golden bee emerged from its cocoon inside the beehive in the Gate of the Abyss and glowed a faint gold as it hovered before Pang Jian.
Its compound eyes[1] stared at Pang Jian, observing his face as if trying to imprint it deep into its soul.
As the Bee Sovereign inside the beehive established a connection with Pang Jian, their thoughts and consciousness intertwined.
Buzz!
The golden bee outside darted toward Pang Jian's left earlobe like lightning.
A silver thread appeared in the bee's field of vision.
Pang Jian saw a silver thread attached to his earlobe through the golden bee's eyes.
The golden bee swallowed the silver thread in one gulp.
A fleeting image of Li Yuanchen briefly flickered in Pang Jian's mind.
The Bee Sovereign then informed Pang Jian the silver thread was a wisp of divine sense refined from divine consciousness, and was comparable to his golden divine sense.
Someone had secretly attached a strand of special divine sense formed from divine consciousness onto Pang Jian to determine his location.
"Li Yuanchen!" Pang Jian snorted coldly.
Like him, Li Yuanchen was also aware that hunting the Outer God Puppets could allow one to refine special divine sense in their sea of consciousness.
He likely had a deeper understanding of this special divine sense than Pang Jian.
Pang Jian had a thread of Li Yuanchen's divine sense attached to him, meaning the others likely also had it.
Using this special divine sense, Li Yuanchen could pinpoint the location of each escapee before eventually returning to the Sword Boat.
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
Eleven more golden bees emerged from their cocoons and left the bronze pendant.
Each golden bee that flew out of the beehive became not only the Bee Sovereign's eyes but also Pang Jian's.
Pang Jian had gained twelve extra perspectives!
Whoosh!
Twelve golden streaks shot out at unbelievably fast speeds, fanning out in different directions with Pang Jian as the center.
The Bee Sovereign commanded the swarm of golden bees from the beehive still floating in the bizarre mist inside the Gate of the Abyss.
The golden bees were extremely well-adapted to the bizarre mist. They moved like lightning within it, and their vision was unaffected.
Twelve clear perspectives filled Pang Jian's mind, providing newfound clarity on his next course of action.
In the bizarre mist, his vision was limited to a range of roughly fifty zhang, and his five senses were restricted.
However, the golden bees were completely unaffected as they were nurtured with the divine consciousness of Outer Gods and Pang Jian's blood essence!
Why didn't you release them earlier? Pang Jian scolded.
Aggrieved, the Bee Sovereign explained that the golden bees needed time to molt and take shape.
They had not reached the point where they could emerge from their cocoons until now.
I see...
Pang Jian restrained his temper and silently communicated with the Bee Sovereign while attuning himself to the perspectives of the twelve golden bees.
Twelve expansive scenes unfolded in his mind. Everything the bees saw, sensed, and perceived was transmitted to him in real-time.
The golden bees were like twelve bright lamps in the bizarre mist!
Soon, Pang Jian caught sight of a grayish-blue smoke vortex. Li Yuanchen stood on it with a cold expression, seemingly in deep thought.
It did not take long for the golden bees to find Fang Boxuan, Zhao Yuanqi, Zhou Qingchen, Zhuang Yuyan, Qi Qingsong, and Dong Tianze as well.
These golden bees could actively search for and locate any nearby living beings within the bizarre mist!
No living being with flesh, blood, and a soul could escape the golden bees' detection!
Moreover, Pang Jian could use himself as a reference point to pinpoint the location of each person because the golden bees spread out in twelve directions with him at the center!
Once he could roughly determine their location and their distance from him, he could sketch out a rough map in his mind.
Pang Jian was overjoyed.
The beehive within the bronze pendant was truly miraculous.
With the golden bees on his side, he was confident he could escape the bizarre mist!
Through one of the golden bees, he saw a silver thread stuck to Zhao Yuanqi's and Zhou Qingchen's earlobes.
Sure enough, there's also a silver thread.
Fang Boxuan, Qi Qingsong, and Dong Tianze also had silver threads on their earlobes.
Only Zhuang Yuyan, in the Spirit Condensation Realm and with a refined divine soul, did not have such an attached thread of divine sense.
This Li Yuanchen truly has malicious intentions, Pang Jian thought as he calmly observed.
Chen Lushi of the Demon Heart Sect stood by a broken windowsill in one of the rooms upstairs, dressed in a purple gown and adorned with exquisite accessories.
Her watery eyes brimmed with unmistakable sorrow.
She sighed softly, unsure how to resolve their predicament.
"You're always clever. Do you have a way to break this stalemate?" Jiang Chao asked inside the room.
"Break the stalemate?" Chen Lushi let out a self-deprecating smile and shook her head. "Right now, I just hope they stop fighting and don't make me worry so much."
The Demon Sect's cultivation techniques emphasized the following of one's inner desires, leading to factions within the sect producing unruly and lawless individuals.
This was also why the Demon Sect always had the highest cultivation deviation cases among the major sects.
It was not only among those in the Second World either but among all the sects in the entire Abyss. The Demon Sect always had the most cases of disciples losing control in special environments due to failing to hold firm to their inner selves.
The present situation was evidence of this.
Most Celestial Lagoon Sect disciples had remained calm in the overwhelming despair of the situation, while half of the Demon Sect disciples had already died fighting each other.
The other half had either left to find a way out of the bizarre mist or had succumbed to despair and become living dead.
At this rate, it would only take another half month at most for all the Demon Sect disciples to be wiped out.
"What about Wu Yuan? Isn't he going to intervene?" Jiang Chao asked.
"Don't bother mentioning him. He's an oddity in our Demon Sect and is the only one to consistently hold firm to his true self. Perhaps, only such a stubborn rock can endure this harsh environment." Chen Lushi sighed.
"Ah, this trip has been nothing but bad luck. I feel like we've been set up by those above," Jiang Chao grumbled as he chewed on bitter tea leaves. "They said we would break through the bizarre and reach Absolute Heaven if we charged straight through it. We did exactly that, but we're still lost."
"You forgot the white crane that attacked us."
"The white crane? Did we get lost because we chased it?" Jiang Chao asked skeptically.
"Maybe."
Jiang Chao knitted his brows and fell into silent contemplation.
"Um..." Jiang Chao awkwardly broke the silence, eyes filled with desire as he gazed intently at Chen Lushi's curvaceous body. "Chen Lushi, if we were to face inevitable death, would you let me taste your lips?"
Chen Lushi did not even turn around. "Let's talk about it when that day comes."
She continued watching the Demon Sect disciples fighting on the deck below with a hint of disdain in her icy eyes.
"I found the Mountain Stream Spirit Boat..." said a golden bee floating in the bizarre mist above.
But no one heard it.
***
Elsewhere in the bizarre mist floated a gigantic mystical bird's skeleton, larger than even the Boundless Sky Divine Kingdom's warship.
Its bones gleamed with a jade-like luster, with many luxurious buildings standing on its outspread wing bones.
A handsome man with a high nose bridge and deep-set eyes sat on the mystical bird's fleshless forehead.
He wore a cloak woven from white feathers, hands resting on his knees as he stared ahead with a calm expression.
Whoosh!
A vertical eye on his forehead opened, emitting a blinding divine light.
"A golden bee?" His expression changed as he pursued it through the bizarre mist.
He seemed to cover a million zhang with every step!
Even so, the golden bee was far faster than him and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
***
In yet another part of the bizarre mist, a white crane soaring in a lightning vortex flew happily, humming to itself.
"Almost there. I'm almost out of this cursed place. I'm so close to reaching Absolute Heaven."
The white crane had a clear sense of direction and knew it was flying straight toward Absolute Heaven.
It suddenly turned its head.
"Who's spying on me?"
It spotted a flash of golden lightning in the bizarre mist.
A golden bee had stopped a hundred zhang away.
The golden bee stared curiously, then asked, "Do you know the way to Absolute Heaven?"
"This voice..." The white crane scratched its head with its wing in a human-like manner.
It then released countless interwoven white lightning bolts, forming a cage of lightning that enveloped the space where the golden bee was before it dodged.
"This voice...why does it sound so familiar? Let me think."
"I'm Luo Yuan."
1. In biological terms, a compound eye is a type of eye found in insects and some arthropods. It's composed of multiple small visual units called ommatidia, which work together to provide a broad field of vision. Each ommatidium captures a part of the overall image, allowing the organism to see from multiple angles simultaneously. ☜