Chapter 417

These arrows were stronger than any before.

They felt heavier, and even more… alive. It pushed hard and drilled against Qin Ye’s Prestige of the Luminary. Then, as Qin Ye’s eyes finally recovered from his initial discombobulation, he soon discovered that there was nothing in sight.

Everything was black.

It was an endless darkness..

The skies and the lands, and everything around were all pitch-black.

The arrows had black feather tails, and there were at least tens of thousands that were still rushing towards him right now, completely blotting out the rest of his surroundings. It was a chaotic shower of arrows that appeared no different from a towering, crashing wave. Then, before he could even react in time, everything slammed straight down onto the Prestige of the Luminary.

Dong, dong, dong! The intense pulses of drilling caused Qin Ye’s heart to stiffen with fear. The strength of tens of thousands of arrows was different on a qualitative level. From the outside, it looked as though Qin Ye had turned into a human pincushion of sorts.

Just then, he suddenly heard a voice.

It was a man’s voice.

It was soft, but still incomparably clear despite the sonic booms generated by the arrows slicing through the air. This was only possible if that man was a Judge-class expert.

“Explode.”

A split second later, Qin Ye suddenly felt his entire surroundings tremble violently!

Whoosh! Bursts of light penetrated the dark sphere of his Prestige of the Luminary. It was only then that Qin Ye noticed how there was a talisman tethered to the end of each arrow, and each one of these were trembling violently.

The tremors grew wilder and wilder, and the intense Yin energy that surrounded him began to penetrate his defenses like mercury seeping through the ground. From outside, he appeared to be no more than a black speck that was consumed by an entire sun raging with solar flares.

I can’t hold on any longer…

He knew the gravity of the situation he was in right away, thus he immediately whipped out the faux Book of Life and Death. Meanwhile, with a resounding bang, the entire sun appeared to twist and contort as both its heat and volatility intensified!

Rumble! A massive solar flare swept through the entire military garrison, leaving a cloud of smoke and debris in the wake of its eruption. But before the dust could even settle on that, a second solar flare erupted, followed closely by a third, a fourth… until there were ten eruptions of solar flares!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Even the monarch Yin beasts in the distance couldn’t help but look away in fear. Despite the allure of Yin spirits, their instincts told them that what they were witnessing was undoubtedly more than what they could devour.

The flares transformed the suspended sun into a twisted spider lily that blossomed in the sky. Moments later, the spider lily slowly wilted away, leaving countless sparks and flames in its wake, all of which rained down on the ground as though they were now in a fiery hell. As the flames gradually subsided, they also revealed two spots of darkness within. On the left, there appeared to be a Book of Life and Death enclosing a humanoid figure within, while on the right, Arthis remained suspended in mid-air, with her hair completely wrapped around her entire body.

“Not bad, eh…” With a hoarse chuckle, the hair forming the hairball slowly receded, revealing the entity within, “The Three Yin Netherflame Talisman… To think that you would employ a hundred twenty thousand C-grade talismans just to take us down… How ostentatious…”

Rustle… The book’s defensive manifestation on the left soon opened up, and countless loose sheets of paper began to scatter all over the sky as it transformed back into the image of the Book of Life and Death and returned to Qin Ye’s hands.

“You flatter me. It’s a pity I wasn’t able to take you down.” A man’s voice responded softly.

Qin Ye’s senses had returned to normal by now, and he could finally perceive everything in his surroundings.

Yin soldiers…

Countless Yin soldiers!

The entire military garrison was completely swamped with rank after rank of Yin soldiers. Innumerable spots of netherflame drifted in the void spaces around them, while a ferocious nethergale swept through the lands. Everything was completely dark save for a single source of light.

There was a sky lantern.

And it was placed right in front of their eyes.

The lantern was a meter tall, with flames shooting up over ten meters high. If one looked closely enough, they would even be able to see faces of certain Yin soldiers of the new Hell fading in and out of the flickering flames. These faces were clearly screaming, crying and begging for mercy, only to be dragged straight back into the blazing flame where they would continue to fuel their own suffering with their own souls.

How dare you… how dare you subject t