Chapter 1390: Unwilling to Turn Back
Outside Room 1818 on the Eighteenth Floor, the Five Elements Talisman—Fire Generates Earth.
Cold, bleak rain fell from the overcast sky, soaking a blood-red talisman.
Starting on the first floor, dense blue-gray smoke began rising level by level, spiraling upward.
It was now clear that the Fire Generates Earth Barrier caused upheaval across the Yin Yang Two Realms because the Yin World and the Yang World were connected at the Eighteenth Floor and the first floor.
Once the ghost fire burned in the Yang World, spleen earth would surge upward into the Yin World, triggering the Ghost Tide Ascent.
Ji Li snapped his own right arm, tossed the broken bone fragment aside, and leaned against the wall, clutching his lighter with a trembling hand.
He could see nothing. All he could hear was increasingly labored breathing coming from somewhere away from the talisman.
"I'm only giving you five minutes. I don't want to stay here anymore."
One mission, two barriers. Especially after the Evil Spirit had possessed him, Ji Li's injuries were not visible on the surface, but the damage inside his body was already irreversible.
An exhaustion rising from his soul threatened to engulf him.
Five minutes was the time Ji Li had granted Clyde out of humanity. It was also the final stage of the Old Yu Street mission.
Vast supernatural power spiraled upward. The pressure of spleen earth made even breathing difficult, while the burning heart fire left him anxious and agitated.
The Ghost Heart beat faster than any normal heart, driving his body beyond its limits.
"Whew..."
Ji Li took a deep drag on his cigarette and dropped the still-open lighter at his feet.
The open flame drew out the heart fire, making that invisible blaze burn more fiercely than