Chapter 491 Falling Cherry Blossoms Like Blood (11)

After speaking, Chong Wenguma had people carry up a huge black iron box.

The surface of the box was covered with runes, and even carrying it took a great deal of effort for four Professionals.

Chong Wenguma carefully opened the box.

Inside was a golden pendulum clock.

The clock body was covered with intricate runes, but at the moment it lacked any energy fluctuations, looking utterly ordinary.

But the moment he saw the pendulum clock,

Chong Wenguma's expression was incomparably solemn, and his eyes revealed a burning passion.

He extended his trembling hand, stroking the cold clock body with utmost infatuation.

He was unwilling to let a single corner or detail slip past.

He observed it closely.

After a long while, Sato Kenji at the side whispered a reminder.

"Lord Wenguma, everything is ready. Should we… begin now?"

Chong Wenguma snapped back to his senses and took a deep breath.

He nodded, lifted the golden Pendulum of Life out of the box, and held it high above his head.

"Hum—"

With a soft hum, golden light suddenly burst from within the pendulum, instantly swallowing Chong Wenguma.

Blinded by the intense light, Sato Kenji instinctively took a few steps back and used his arm to shield his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, the scene before him left him dumbfounded.

That half-meter-tall golden pendulum clock left Chong Wenguma's hands, suspended in mid-air, and rapidly grew larger amidst the golden light.

One meter, five meters, ten meters…

Eventually, it turned into a thirty-meter-tall behemoth, and a terrifying coercive aura spread out.

The Pendulum of Life rose above Fuji City, hovering motionless.

Blinding golden light poured down, illuminating the entire dark city as bright as day.

The protesting crowds down below in the city were stunned at first.

They raised their heads simultaneously, looking toward the source of the sound.

"What is that?"

"In the sky… what is that thing in the sky?"

"What kind of trick is the Kujo Family pulling again? What on earth are they trying to do?!"

The angry curses had no time to spread before they were completely swallowed by a distant hum.

"Hum—"

The huge pendulum clock suspended in the firmament suddenly bloomed with boundless golden light.

That radiance was blinding to the extreme, like tens of millions of suns exploding at the same time.

At this moment, the entire world turned into pure gold.

"Ah! My eyes!"

"I can't see! I can't see anything!"

"It hurts! It hurts so much!"

On the square, tens of thousands of civilians let out painful wails at the same time.

They instinctively closed their eyes and covered them tightly with their hands, but that omnipresent golden light seemed capable of piercing everything, still scorching their retinas.

Tears gushed out uncontrollably from between their fingers.

Before they could recover from the pain of blindness,

an indescribable, tangible, and terrifying coercive aura descended from the sky!

That pressure was as heavy as a mountain and as vast as the firmament.

"Thump!"

On the square, a man closest to the center felt his legs go soft and involuntarily knelt down.

His knees collided with the hard ground, producing a muffled sound.

This seemed to be a signal.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

At this moment, thousands upon thousands of people could no longer stand.

Some knelt on both knees, while others dropped to all fours, like a group of sinners judged by gods, humbly crawling on the ground while their bodies trembled violently and uncontrollably.

"My… my body!"

"I can't stand… I can't stand anymore!"

Panic spread among the crowd.

Immediately afterward, an even more terrifying sensation swept over everyone.

Suffocation.

It was as if an invisible giant hand was tightly gripping their throats, instantly evacuating all the air from their lungs.

"Urgh…"

"Hah… exhale… inhale… I can't breathe…"

Countless people let out painful groans, opening their mouths wide and desperately trying to draw in a breath of air, but what they inhaled was only despair.

Their faces turned flushed red due to hypoxia, their eyeballs protruding and covered in bloodshot veins.

Vitality was being forcibly stripped from their bodies at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Daddy… I feel so awful…"

The daughter in the man's arms let out a weak cry, her small face turning purple from holding her breath.

The man's heart felt like it was being twisted by a knife; he wanted to speak and comfort her, but he couldn't utter a single word.

He could feel his life rapidly slipping away, and his consciousness began to blur.

…

Meanwhile, on a highway dozens of miles away from Fuji City,

a black sedan was speeding along.

Suddenly!

Inside the car, Polina, Kalen, and Kujo Kazuya all shuddered simultaneously.

Their faces all revealed identical shock and horror.

The three of them cast their gazes toward the direction of Fuji City at the same time.

In that distant horizon, a golden radiance so rich it could not be dissolved shot straight into the sky, dyeing that patch of night sky golden.

Polina's seductive eyes shrank violently, her red lips slightly parted.

"It's the aura of the Pendulum of Life!"

Just as the Ever-changing Star Lord said, the Pendulum of Life was indeed here.

On Kalen's charred face, there was first shock, and immediately afterward, that shock was replaced by an extreme fanaticism.

"Found it!"

"We've finally found it!"

Ever since infiltrating Sakura Country, this was the closest they had ever been to the Pendulum of Life!

They had finally found the whereabouts of the Pendulum of Life!

Zhou Huai's Information Bug was observing every move inside the city at all times.

His consciousness was inside Caesar's body, quietly watching the images transmitted back by the Information Bug.

In the image, the huge golden pendulum clock was suspended in the firmament, exuding a dazzling radiance.

Beneath it was a city resembling purgatory, where countless civilians struggled in despair while their vitality was continuously extracted.

Clearly, this was preparing to resurrect that ancestor of the Kujo Family, Kujo Eisei.

"The car's speed is too slow."

Zhou Huai quickly said,

"We'll fly directly from here."

"We must be fast."

"We must snatch away the Pendulum of Life before Kujo Eisei is successfully resurrected."

"If we wait until Kujo Eisei is successfully resurrected, it won't be easy for us to snatch the Pendulum of Life from the hands of two high-Rank SS-Rank Professionals."

Polina and Kalen nodded simultaneously.

They naturally understood this reasoning.

"Screeech—"

Kujo Kazuya slammed on the brakes, steadily stopping the car by the roadside.

As soon as the car stopped steadily, Polina and Kalen impatiently pushed open the car doors.

Behind Polina, rich shadow energy gushed out, transforming into a pair of huge and gorgeous black wings.

With a gentle flap of her wings, her entire body shot straight into the sky, transforming into a streak of black light.

As for Kalen, he took out an archaic golden scarab badge from his embrace.

He tossed the badge into the air, where it rapidly magnified in mid-air. Countless golden sands poured out from the badge, converging into a pair of huge wings composed of quicksand, attaching themselves to his back.

"Hum!"

The Wings of Quicksand vibrated, and Kalen's figure closely followed, flying rapidly toward the direction of Fuji City.

Kujo Kazuya blankly watched the two streaks of light disappearing into the night sky, then looked at the figure in the back row who was still sitting steadily without moving, opened his mouth, and didn't know what to say.

Caesar ignored him.

He just sat there quietly and raised his hand.

"Hum—"

Countless tiny Soldier Beetles appeared out of thin air, converging at his feet like a black tide.

They rapidly stacked and combined, forming a black throne full of metallic texture within a mere second.

The throne supported Caesar's body, slowly rising into the air.

The next second,

"Boom!"

with a piercing sonic boom,

the black throne instantly accelerated, transforming into a pitch-black lightning bolt with a terrifying speed far surpassing Polina and Kalen, tearing through the night sky and whistling toward that city shrouded in golden light.