Chapter 377 The world is Black and White
*Woosh!*
*Tap!*
"Who goes there?" Feeling a gust of wind coming from the cave leading to the lower levels of the volcano, every guard raised their weapons in that direction. Upon turning, they all heard the sounds of footsteps echoing in the hall.
The alert look in their eyes changed to a fearful one when they all saw the face of the person who exited the cave.
It was none other than Li Rong. Walking out of the dark passage, she looked around with an authoritative look in her eyes.
"Young Miss!" Every guard bowed their heads to the woman upon seeing her standing there. 'Why is she here? Wasn't she supposed to stay down there?'
"Are you here for decoration?" Her cold and chilling words sent shivers down everyone's spine. "Even with all of you core formation level cultivators present here, an enemy managed to sneak past your senses and enter my cultivation chambers."
"An Enemy?" they all gasped in disbelief and looked at each other before glancing at the person who almost discovered Yuan Ming.
Seeing them acting strangely, Li Rong released her cultivation at the first level of the core formation level.
"I can take that reaction as you seemed to have had some suspicions, right?" Even though she was not as strong as them, at this moment, everyone had only one thing about the woman.
Fear!
And there was a proper reason for them to feel fear.
"We… thought… it was just a puff of smoke coming from the lava." The same guard who was acting all annoyed before now stammered in fear in front of Li Rong.
"Puff of smoke?" Li Rong looked at the man and asked emotionlessly, "You mean like this?"
*Poof!*
As soon as she said that, the lava surrounding the stone platform he was standing on released a huge puff of smoke.
*Boom!*
"Aarrghhh!!!" The smoke surrounding the man exploded all of a sudden. The man screamed at the top of his lungs as he was burned alive by Li Rong.
"He died…." Everyone else looked at the burning bones of their dead companion and muttered in shock.
There were two reasons they were afraid of Li Rong.
One, her rank was higher than them in the cult. The orders of the higher-ranking individuals are absolute.
Second, Li Rong had some control over the lava of the volcano, which gave her a huge advantage over them despite being weaker than them.
"Just like that…." The guards continued to mutter, "Without being of any use to the lord."
"How terrible!"
"I don't want to die like that!" The guards screamed in panic as they looked at Li Rong in panic.
"Take that as a warning; you all will die like that if you do not perform the duties that are given to you!" Li Rong looked down on everyone before turning around to leave.
The lava returned to its calm nature. Everyone sighed in relief seeing her walking back to her cultivation abode.
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While this was going on, a couple of miles away from the volcano, a flying ship stopped in the middle of the air.
"What a small world, she hasn't changed much, I guess." Standing on top of the ship, a white-haired man muttered after opening his golden eyes and looking in the direction of the volcano.
"Who are you talking about?" A dark-skinned woman walked up to him with narrowed eyes. She followed his gaze and saw an empty valley and calm mountains in front of them.
"Just an acquaintance." Noah shrugged before lowering his ship towards an open field where he could not see anyone in the area.
"Why are we stopping here, are they hiding in one of the mountains?" Ruo'er frowned, seeing Noah's actions. She could not even sense any major qi fluctuations in the area.
"A lesson for you kid, don't always believe what you see… Unless you are almighty and have special eyes." Jumping off of the ship, Noah landed on the ground followed by Ruo'er.
Noah looked forward at the fields in front of him for a second before looking at Ruo'er.
"Now that I think about it, you have a special eye technique too, right?" Ruo'er looked at Noah with her head tilted and nodded.
"More than a technique, it's an ability of the bloodline," Ruo'er muttered before closing her eyes.
As soon as her eyes opened, they were replaced. Instead of her brown eyes with black pupils, they were entirely white eyes with black dot-like pupils.
"So… do these pupils show you something different than normal?" Noah asked curiously, leaning in to look into her eyes with interest.
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"I… all I see is a black-and-white world and something like a wisp of energy around everything." Even though Ruo'er had used this ability before, this was the first time she had looked at everything so closely.
"Although I have so many questions to satisfy my interest, now is not the time. We have more important things to do." Noah sighed as Ruo'er watched the gleam in his eyes, realizing she was almost overwhelmed by seeing the expression on his face.
'So just what was that look?' she wondered while keeping a calm look on the surface.
Noah walked forward a couple of steps and stopped suddenly.
"Hmm~ This should be it.." muttering to himself, Noah raised his hands and started peering in the air, but his hand would pass through the air without anything stopping it.
Ruo'er silently looked at him, wondering what he was doing. But when she carefully looked at the place he was touching, she felt like she saw something, even though everything ahead of her was black and white it looked dull to her. 'How can something black and white be more dull than it already is?'
"Is it a maze-type array?" After stopping, Noah stroked his chin before raising his hands to the same land before his hand glowed with an ethereal energy shaking the air around him.
*Zheng!*
Ruo'er's eyes widened in shock. She watched as a hole appeared in the middle of the air. The hole was the size of a small ball but it widened in no time to the size twice that of a person.
Around the hole, she could see a black energy trying to push back but to no avail.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
"Let's go." Saying that, Noah entered the hole. Ruo'er snapped out of her trance and followed after him.
Back inside the cave, Li Rong, seated on top of a flat rock, opened her eyes and looked around in confusion.
"Did I sense something? Maybe I am just over thinking." shaking her head, she closed her eyes.