CHAPTER 260: CHAPTER 112: ULTIMATE SUMMONING—HELLISH DARK BEAST

Racing through the forest just now, Fa Xiaoyi and his companions had unwittingly reached its deep depths.

The central part of the forest, where once the Alligator Turtle resided, bore the marks of rampant wildfires. A morning breeze stirred, making the dry, deadwood crack and fall from midair.

At the site of the National Destiny Acupoint of Shang Kingdom, a hole as big as an eye socket was left. When one listened closely, they could hear the whistling sound of the Yin winds from beneath the earth.

The fickleness of the world is thus; it had sheltered Shang Kingdom for hundreds of years, and upon losing its purpose, was forgotten in this desolate forest.

The remnants led by Xie San emerged in a flash, arrayed in sequence and encircled Fa Xiaoyi and Sha Fei completely.

The tracking technique of the Assassin Alliance was indeed effective. Without the aid of creatures like the Gold Eater Worm to scout ahead, they still managed to locate Fa Xiaoyi with unerring accuracy.

The five-pointed protective shield on Fa Xiaoyi’s body had finally dissipated, exhausted in the frantic escape.

The situation seemed very unfavorable for Fa Xiaoyi.

"Prince Fa, slow down. Hand over the Earth Yin Escape, and our debts will be settled. You’ll take your path under the sun, and we can return to report," Xie San was an assassin, always cautious and never overreaching; his relentless pursuit of Fa Xiaoyi wasn’t to rescue Sha Fei, but to seize the Earth Yin Escape. Once he had it, he would leave on his own. As for Sha Fei’s life, it was insignificant to him.

Fa Xiaoyi released Sha Fei, a trace of jest in his brows. Alone, he seemed unafraid of the dozens of surrounding remnants.

He said leisurely, "Why do you think I handed the Sky Sun Shuttle over to you?"

The Sky Sun Shuttle, Xie San was surprised and subconsciously reached for the small shuttle-shaped object the size of a date pit in his bosom.

Fa Xiaoyi took out the Earth Yin Escape, aimed precisely at the National Destiny Acupoint of Shang Kingdom, relaxed his grip, and began to laugh wildly.

In the morning wind, Fa Xiaoyi’s long hair danced like willows in a storm, snaking wildly, "The National Destiny Acupoint, everyone says it’s where the fate of Shang Kingdom for a century resides, yet they do not know that it is also the acupoint of the kingdom’s demise. With the fall of Shang Kingdom, the world will be in chaos. If I do not descend into Hell, who will? Mother, your child is coming to join you."

A jet-black hairpin slid from the slender fingers of Fa Xiaoyi and plummeted into the bottomless National Destiny Acupoint.

The moment the Earth Yin Escape vanished.

"Gurgle gurgle--" A strange sound made everyone’s scalp tingle.

A feeling of crisis that Xie San had never experienced before rose in his heart; he did not know that in just a few seconds, he would face the most severe crisis of his life.

From the well-sized hole, there came a gurgling sound, as if a starving, frenzied beast was guzzling blood.

Under everyone’s feet, the soil began to roll like the babbling of a brook.

"Boom--" As if a long-dormant volcano buried deep underground had accumulated magma for millions of years, it erupted at this moment.

The black, mud-like Evil Qi, fouler and stickier than sludge, burst forth into the sky, with the black Earth Yin Escape spinning within.

Fa Xiaoyi hastily retreated several steps, chanting an ancient grey spell. Below him, a light of five stars emerged, except this time, the light was not the golden yellow from before, but an ink-like black.

Amidst the radiance of starlight, a stunningly beautiful woman appeared.

Fa Xiaoyi raised his head, a softness briefly crossed his gaze.

The woman’s upper body was enchantingly shapely, with a towering chest and a slender waist that could not be fully grasped, her lips adorned with a smile that made all men lose their minds, but instead of slender legs, her lower body was different.

The lower half of the woman’s body was cloaked in ink-jade-colored scales, her head void of hair, only entwined by over a hundred snakes constantly writhing around her body.

Even so, including Xie San, everyone was intimidated by the woman’s beauty.

"Feise, the Feise Empress Dowager," Sha Fei, who sat paralyzed on the ground, couldn’t help but cover her mouth. The snake-bodied woman looked exactly like Fa Xiaoyi’s mother, the Feise Empress Dowager.

The snake-bodied Feise Empress Dowager, beautiful from head to toe, only had her eyes remain tightly shut. She coiled her serpentine body, enveloping Fa Xiaoyi within.

From the National Destiny Acupoint, the muddy Evil Qi still surged out non-stop. As the mud spouted, the woman’s eyelids twitched, as if about to open.

Looking at the black starlight and the beautiful half-beast woman who appeared within it.

Xie San suppressed the strong unease in his heart. He remembered the oldest assassin in the Assassin Alliance once told him, "On the continent, the most powerful aren’t the Dark Practitioners. The truly supreme power on the continent, called Summoners, are the real God’s Chosen Sons. Summoners, using the powerful Six-star Summoning Array, can summon War Beasts that stand shoulder to shoulder with the gods. Child, although Summoners have been extinct on the continent, you must remember, if one day you encounter a Summoner, the first thing to do is to run. An assassin, as long as they still have life, can rise again."

Summoners, Fa Xiaoyi was actually a Summoner, a group that should not exist on the continent.

"Retreat, everyone retreat, leave this forest," the sense of crisis in Xie San’s heart grew more intense by the moment. He knew that if they stayed any longer, what awaited them would be more terrifying than death.

Xie San did not linger, at the fastest speed of his life, he swiftly dashed out, wanting to leave immediately.

"Too late, all who have betrayed me, harmed me, this Prince will make your lives worse than death," Fa Xiaoyi, like a baby lying in his mother’s swaddling, with a smile on his face, lifted his head, looking at that powerful Dark Hell Beast that had accompanied him since he was ten, the Snake Woman Ge’er.

In Fa Xiaoyi’s mind, memories gushed forth like a floodgate opened, flowing endlessly.

Everyone thought he was a treacherous subject, a traitorous villain for slaying his king. But who knew, the things in this world that were worth cherishing for him had already been destroyed many years ago.

The kindly natured Young Prince had died many years before.

His memory slowly returned to that night all those years ago.

The frail child knelt by the bed, his mother’s pale, cold hand contrasted her lifeless body, which felt like a nightmare that would never dissipate.

Elixir Pills scattered on the ground, in a palace devoid of people, only the sounds of weeping remained.

In the distant pavilions, his father, the king who feasted and drank joyfully with Dancing Girls, the Empress who secretly used the Imperial Alchemist to poison his mother, ultimately causing her death, his elder brother who daily exchanged insults with him.

This was the life of the Young Prince of the Shang Kingdom, exalted and revered by all.

The weeping child, hugging his shoulders tightly, only despair remained in his eyes. He pulled out his mother’s most cherished hairpin from her hair bun and plunged it decisively into his own throat...