Read Novel Full Chapter 1378: They Said
Chapter 1378: They Said
They Said
When he saw that expanse of aurora above Tongzhou, Chen Ling had actually made some guesses. After all, there were no souls present in the residual auroras, only a pile of empty husks... And the only one capable of taking away so many souls was the Lord of the Aurora.
When he witnessed Yang Xiao's incredibly powerful soul with his own eyes, he suddenly realized that the power of the Lord of the Aurora was far more terrifying than he had imagined!
Tuning the biological magnetic fields of others and integrating them into his own. In other words, he could absorb the souls of the recently deceased around him to become his own power!
The last person capable of doing something similar was the Lord of Wuji, Lou Yu. However, Lou Yu needed to rely on the alchemy of the Path of the Witch God to forge the Philosopher's Stone. But Yang Xiao didn't need to; he could directly absorb the souls themselves for his own use.
In other words, the more chaotic the era and the greater the casualties, the faster Yang Xiao's growth rate would be!
"Why is it like this..." Yang Xiao stared blankly at the aurora surrounding him, subconsciously shaking his head. "No... I never thought about absorbing them into my soul... I don't know what's going on!"
"You were hit by a nuclear weapon. Survival was just your ability's instinct. It's not your fault."
Remorse and agony once again surfaced on Yang Xiao's face. He was already drowning in guilt for failing to save those people. Now, knowing that he had survived precisely because of their deaths, his inner torment became even more agonizing.
Those charred hands stretching out from behind him in his dream seemed to rest upon his shoulders once more, dragging him little by little into an endless abyss...
Yang Xiao's breathing became incredibly heavy.
"When they merged with you, you should have been able to hear their voices, right?" Chen Ling looked into his eyes. "Think carefully... Were they really all blaming and cursing you?"
Yang Xiao was slightly stunned.
He furrowed his brows tightly, as if trying hard to recall the situation at that time. He remembered the flames engulfing everything, the endless aurora swirling around him, and a million noisy voices almost bursting his mind...
Back then... what were they saying?
After the explosion occurred, what appeared most on the faces of those souls seemed to be bewilderment.
Death had come too suddenly. By the time they realized they were already dead, their eyes revealed sorrow and helplessness. Some hugged their children, some held their lovers' hands, some angrily clutched their heads and wept bitterly, and some cursed furiously at the sky... Of course, there were also those who glared at him with venomous resentment, blaming him for failing to protect them.
But when Yang Xiao's ability activated, and his soul gradually merged with those of the deceased, his memories, his personality, and his thoughts linked with theirs.
They sensed Yang Xiao's pure and simple soul.
The cursers stopped their cursing. Pity and compassion surfaced in the eyes of those weeping bitterly. Millions of souls, taking the form of auroras, swirled around Yang Xiao, looking at the 'Lord of the Aurora' who was on the verge of collapsing in the sea of fire with incredibly complex gazes...
They knew he had tried his best; they knew he truly wanted to save them;
It was just... he wasn't strong enough yet.
Little by little, their souls turned into aurora and merged with Yang Xiao. At the same time, they all opened their mouths to say something, raising their hands in the air and reaching out toward the Lord of the Aurora in the sea of flames.
The sky full of aurora rushed toward Yang Xiao, just like how they had desperately swarmed toward him before the nuclear bomb fell.
Inside the cabin, Yang Xiao clutched his head with both hands, seemingly trying hard to remember exactly what they had said, and why he had chosen to fly toward the sea afterward... He felt he was just about to hear it clearly.
Chen Ling didn't interrupt him. He knew Yang Xiao would have to face all this sooner or later. Just then, the roar of numerous fighter jets sounded from above.
Chen Ling frowned and looked up at the deck above him.
"Eagle calling Seal-3!"
"Eagle calling Seal-3!!"
"Please respond if you copy. Repeat, please respond if you copy!"
Chen Ling knew that these few destroyers were merely the vanguard of the US Seventh Fleet. The true main force was right behind them... And now that these destroyers had been blown up by him, the Seventh Fleet had probably realized something and locked all their firepower onto this sole surviving destroyer where no one survived.
The main force behind them likely had nuclear-powered aircraft carriers holding the line, along with a massive fleet. Their thermal weapon strike capability was indisputable. Chen Ling himself wasn't afraid, but the problem was that Yang Xiao was still on the ship. He didn't possess a powerful Rank 8 Calamity body like Chen Ling did. If he encountered a large-scale thermal weapon strike head-on, he would likely struggle to survive.
"They've locked onto this place," Chen Ling said in a deep voice. "Let's go. I'll take you away."
Yang Xiao, who was struggling to remember, suddenly seemed to recall something, and his entire body trembled slightly.
"I remember now..." Yang Xiao muttered to himself.
"The last sentence they said to me before merging into my soul... I remember now."
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh—!!!
The dense, piercing sound of missiles tearing through the air streaked across the sky, rapidly approaching the destroyer Chen Ling was on!
Chen Ling's expression changed. He immediately stepped forward, wanting to take Yang Xiao away first. But in the next second, a burst of resplendent aurora erupted explosively from Yang Xiao's eyes!
A terrifying aura, akin to a tsunami, forced even Chen Ling to take a half-step back. He stared in astonishment at Yang Xiao, who was continuously radiating aurora. At this moment, the Yang Xiao before him actually bore a trace of the shadow of the Lord of the Aurora from Aurora City!
Dozens of missiles howled through the sky, flying toward the destroyer like an inescapable net. At the exact instant they were about to detonate...
Yang Xiao slowly opened his mouth,
"They said..."
"'Avenge us'."
A magnificent and colossal wave of aurora swept out from within the destroyer like an explosive shockwave. The sky full of missiles that were about to touch the hull of the destroyer seemed to be grabbed by an invisible giant hand, instantly frozen in mid-air!!
No matter how their tail flames spurted, no matter how their propulsion surged, these missiles were completely unable to advance even an inch!
The aurora illuminated the previously dim cabin with incomparable brilliance. Under Chen Ling's gaze, Yang Xiao slowly raised his head. With a mere thought, the metal frames and screws that made up the deck and cabin ceiling simultaneously began to vibrate. They actually started to automatically disassemble and float away, directly opening a circular gap straight through to the deck above!
The dim light from the sky shone down through the gap onto Yang Xiao inside the cabin. He lightly tapped his toes, and his body seemed to break free from the constraints of the Earth's magnetic field, gradually floating upward...
Under the distant observation of the Seventh Fleet, Yang Xiao's figure ascended from the destroyer, and an unparalleled, mighty aura surged wildly in all directions!
His white researcher's coat danced wildly in the sea breeze. Unbeknownst to anyone, auroras had already blanketed the heavens!