Chapter 145 – Dark Qi


    "Huh? What''s going on? The formation changed. Did something happen?"


    Leyvi and the others who were in the carriage heading back to the homestay suddenly saw the changes in the formation covering the Holy Cat City.


    They also heard a sonic boom in the sky shortly after.


    "This is the Grand Kitty Nine Layer Formation! It is only deployed if a threat above the Nascent Soul leveles attacking the city." Ava exined.


    Leyvi''s eyebrow twitched. Who gave all these cat-based names? Holy Cat City and Grand Kitty Nine Layer Formation. Was it the city founder?


    "A Soul Formation expert is attacking the city? Are we going to be alright?" Leyvi was worried.


    That was a level they absolutely had no chance of surviving if they met. Heck, even a Nascent Soul realm cultivator could kill them easily.


    "You don''t have to worry. Even if a Soul Transformation expert came, they couldn''t harm the formation!" Ava reassured Leyvi with a smug face.


    Girl, why are you proud of it? It''s not like you made it. Are you shameless like your brother, too? Leyvi said inwardly.


    "So we are safe here?" La asked.


    "That''s right, we will be fine. But until the threat is gone, the city will be under a lockdown and nobody can enter or exit." She borated.


    "Hmm...I wonder who dared to attack the city?" Leyvi asked.


    "Probably another demonic beast. We saw a bunch of their skeletons in the museum. Maybe they will add a new one after this," La guessed.


    Meanwhile, outside the east gate.


    Two figures hovering in the air, one was a hunched old man, and the other was a middle-aged man wearing a very dark green robe.


    "Master, everyone here has been captured. But a few escaped. What should we do now?" The ck-robed man asked.


    He had always been following his master''s orders, but he never knew what actually his master''s real objective was. He would be scolded every time he asked.


    "Don''t worry about a few who escaped. I already got what I needed. Now we can finally proceed with the final n. You should go hide now. The city lord is here." The hunched old man instructed.


    Just as he finished his words, a loud sonic boom reached their ears. A woman with a cat ear headband and a white cat with a tiara appeared just near the gate. A cultivator at her level could easily fly through the air by manipting Qi flow around the body to create an ''invisible path'' that parts the air gently, preventing a sonic boom from urring. However, Caterina didn''t apply this method because she liked the boom.


    "Don''t worry, I will deal with that guy. Tell the city''s Law Enforcement Squad to stand by inside." Caterina ordered the city guard. In a lockdown, only some selected people could go in and out of the city freely.


    "Yes! City Lord!"


    After she went out, the smell of smoke and blood reached her nose. She had seen many things throughout her life, so this level of tragedy didn''t faze her at all. However, she wondered where all the corpses were.


    "Ho? A peak Soul Formation retard who is one step away from kicking the bucket. Is this why youe to cause trouble? To show off thest spark before you die?" Caterina mocked, after seeing the hunched old man.


    While she was speaking, the dark-robed man had already retreated into the woods, as his master instructed. He couldn''t do anything in a battle between two Soul Formation experts.


    "Now, don''t say it like that. I could still live for a few decades, enough time to do something about it. But you are indeed right about meing to cause trouble." The hunched old man replied with a scratchy voice.


    "What? Do you want to brag about killing a measly few thousand cultivators much weaker than you? I assume you are the retard who had been killing all the mortals in the surrounding areas too? That''s what you want to be remembered for after you die?"


    "Actually, I have a better idea for that. Tell me your name and after you die, I''ll put your corpse in my museum. You can join all other retards in there. That way, everyone who visits my city in the future will learn about the retarded hunched old man who is proud of killing a few nobodies." She continued mocking the old fart.


    "Kikiki, youngss, your mouth is really unfiltered, eh? A thousand years ago, we fled the continent because of your so-called ''Protectors'', but a few of us came back to cause chaos again for fun. I didn''t expect that this continent had be so boring since then." The hunched old man revealed his identity.


    "The remnants of thewless cultivator in the past?" Caterina''s expression turned vignt as she scanned the surroundings.


    "Kikiki, you don''t have to be so wary. I''m the only one here. I alone am enough to cause chaos here. My fellow evildoers are in the other regions, causing chaos as we speak."


    "Since you have been somewhere else for the past a thousand years, what''s the point ofing back here? Just to cause chaos? Revenge?" Caterina questioned.


    "You see, in the past a thousand years, I joined a sect in another continent and had been learning new powers. I haven''t been able to use them as much as I wanted because of some restrictions. But here, I can go all out with it. Kikiki!"


    "Hmph! Is it rted to the creepy atmosphere here? Your new power doesn''t seem too good." Caterina wasn''t afraid.


    If there were more Soul Formation experts here, it would have been a bit troublesome, but the old fart alone? No problem.


    "Before this continent got purged again, I will have some fun first! Witness the power of my long range formationbined with the power of Necromancy! My chosen soldiers, receive the death energy I collected for the past few months!" The hunched old man flicked his hand and the giant bird cage opened again.


    Dark Qi poured out from the giant bird cage and seeped into the ground, dyeing it ck. The flood of dark Qi then flowed into the city very fast towards the city center.


    A town around 100 kilometers north of Holy Cat City.


    "Formation Grandmaster Atok, look! There is ck stuff flowing out of the formation!" A member of the Bureau of Investigation informed the formation expert they invited to decipher one of the many formations trapping towns and settlementstely.


    "What is this thing? It''s going south very fast. It feels like Qi, but I''ve never seen a Qi like this. The aura feels very unsettling. Sigh, it seems like we are toote. Whatever this person who set up the formations wanted to do had started." Formation Grandmaster Atokmented.


    The same phenomena also happened simultaneously at over a hundred other ces around the Holy Cat City within 200 kilometers range.


    Endless dark Qi pouring out of the formations dyed the ground ck, forming rivers of ck fluid. These ck rivers were flowing quickly toward the same ce, the Holy Cat City.


    Caterina frowned. She had never seen things like this. Her intuition told her that if she didn''t stop this dark Qi, things would turn ugly.


    She brought out her favorite spirit weapons and equipped them instantly. They are a pair of cat w gauntlets.


    "Meow des!"


    She wed the air a few times and hundreds of wind des shed at the flowing dark Qi.


    Boom! Boom! Boom!


    The earth was destroyed into pieces by the wind des, but nothing happened to the dark Qi. It only dispersed for a little, gathered again, and resumed flowing into the city.


    "Kikiki. It''s futile. This is a part of my long-range formation. Your ipetent Bureau of Investigation couldn''t even decipher any of my formations in the past month, so you can keep dreaming of stopping my n."


    "Even though my n was discovered a bit earlier than I expected because of a malfunctioning formation, I didn''t expect that this continent''s formation knowledge hadn''t progressed at all in the past thousand years. You couldn''t even decipher a simplebination formation! Leading to this situation. Trash!" The hunched old man kept ridiculing the Cloud Continent.


    "Is the other continent that much advanced?" She mumbled. Caterina wasn''t sure what the dark Qi would do, but if she kill the old fart first, maybe it will stop.


    "Luna! Let''s kill him quickly!" Caterina ordered.


    "Meowkay!" Luna jumped from Caterina''s shoulder and grew much bigger.


    However, she didn''t be as big as a building like many demonic beasts people see in the beast tamer tournament, but only the size of a normal leopard.


    Luna transformed into a big white cat with its pristine white fur glowing radiant. Her white fur carries intricate patterns that resemble celestial constetions or swirling clouds.


    They were the patterns symbolizing the awakened bloodline of the White Tiger Auspicious God Beast!


    It was the reason the General Level Demonic Tiger was so infatuated with Luna in the past and wanted to marry her. They awakened the same White Tiger bloodline!


    The Demonic Tiger saw this coincidence as fate and began to court her for a very long time. After all, the offspring of demonic beasts with identical bloodlines would also be born with the same bloodline.


    Furthermore, the offspring don''t have to wait until they be amander or a general level to have their bloodline awakened; it awakens the moment they are born.