Chapter 517: Embroidery Kingdom of All Things

The wolf eyes under the moon shifted slightly, locking onto an elderly figure in the embroidery room through the floor-to-ceiling window. Sinister killing intent mixed with the moonlight, filling the floor like frost.

Xiao Chunping held an embroidery needle in one hand, sitting quietly before a messy embroidery picture. Intricate threads were woven on the cloth, vaguely outlining the silhouette of a museum...

Her fingertips lifted slightly, and the needle pierced lightly into a certain point again.

Thud—!!

A dull, massive sound came from beneath the floorboards. Nie Yu’s wolf eyes locked onto Xiao Chunping’s position, and just as he was about to act, the ground beneath his feet collapsed!

Countless fine embroidery threads intertwined. From a distance, it looked like an infinitely large embroidery needle traveling through the earth beneath Nie Yu. In the blink of an eye, it pierced a circular abyss several meters wide. The threads wrapped around Nie Yu’s limbs, dragging him deep into the earth!

In the seemingly endless abyss, Nie Yu was dragged down rapidly. The ground where the museum stood grew further and further away in his vision. The next moment, countless embroidered characters jumped into the abyss, swarming toward him!

The narrow space and the falling body almost sealed off all of Nie Yu’s retreat paths, but he didn't panic. The killing intent in those wolf eyes grew even stronger.

"[Sharp Threads]."

Nie Yu’s hand, holding the hunting knife, spun beneath him. Invisible sharp threads instantly cut the embroidery threads wrapped around him, and then he slammed the knife into the wall of the hole, slowing his descent.

When he stabilized his position on the wall, he used the leverage to kick off and dash back toward the surface, but the overwhelming embroidered pictures were also surging downward.

Nie Yu held the hunting knife in one hand and the rifle in the other, his entire body covered in black, crashing into the surging group of embroidered pictures. Sharp threads and exploding bullets outputted wildly, carving a bloody path through them!

"Such a strong [Heavenly Wolf]." In the distance, Chen Ling braked his car to a stop in an open space near the museum, his apricot-red eyes gazing from afar at Nie Yu, who was gradually killing his way out from underground.

In the Aurora Realm, Chen Ling had seen plenty of [Heavenly Wolf] path practitioners, from the Second-Order Xi Renjie to the high-ranking Seventh-Order law enforcers. But none were like Nie Yu, whose wolf-like wildness and ferocity shone from the depths of his eyes, as if he were a true hunter.

Chen Ling even suspected that if Nie Yu had been born in the era of the Nine Great Realms and given enough time to grow, the position of the [Heavenly Wolf] leader in the Aurora Realm might have changed hands... He was simply born for the [Heavenly Wolf] path.

Boom—!!

With a gunshot, numerous embroidered pictures flew out of the abyss. Nie Yu, covered in blood, killed his way out from underground. He kicked off the ground, and his figure ghosted through all obstacles, passing through the floorboards and walls of the first and second floors, knife in hand, arriving at the door of the embroidery room!

The edge of the hunting knife wasn't stained with blood because the characters in the embroidery pictures had no flesh and blood; only a few scattered threads drifted to the ground from the blade... Nie Yu stood in the dim corridor, his wolf eyes piercing through the door panel, staring at the elderly figure in the room.

He slowly raised his hand, opened the door, and stepped into the embroidery room with bloody footprints.

That was the blood he had shed during his own slaughter.

"Your methods are impressive." Nie Yu said calmly. "Unfortunately, you seem far inferior to me in terms of combat... Without those embroidered pictures, with this old, weak body of yours, you are no match for me."

Xiao Chunping sat quietly before the floor-to-ceiling window, still holding an embroidery needle. The frosty moonlight made her gray hair look like it was plated with silver.

"Young man, judging people by their appearance is not a good habit." She said hoarsely.

"This isn't judging by appearance... I can tell, your lifespan is coming to an end, isn't it?" Nie Yu’s wolf eyes stared at Xiao Chunping’s figure. "You are too old, and your lungs don't seem very good? An old lady with one foot in the grave, even if your rank is higher than mine, you might not be better at fighting than me."

"Oh?"

Xiao Chunping’s eyes narrowed slightly. "Young man... are you very good at fighting?"

"I have seen one or two people with abilities, but none of them were as good at fighting as I am... My ability seems to be born for combat." Nie Yu held the hunting knife, his tone calm and confident.

In this era, the existence of the Fourteen Divine Paths was not known to everyone, let alone "wild" Divine Path practitioners like Nie Yu. He only knew he was strong, and by following this path, he would become stronger.

"Hehehehe." Xiao Chunping chuckled. "Young man, your experience is still too limited... When I was young, I saw someone on the same Divine Path as you. He was about your age, but even stronger than you."

A cold glint flashed in Nie Yu’s eyes. "Where is he?"

"Him... he’s already dead. About five or six years ago, he died of old age." Xiao Chunping shook her head.

"No matter how strong you are, no matter how good you are at fighting, it doesn't mean you can defeat time. In this world, perhaps only a very few paths and very few people can wrestle with time... But a 'Soldier' who only knows how to kill cannot do it."

Nie Yu’s brow furrowed tighter. He snorted coldly and walked straight toward Xiao Chunping with his knife.

"I may not be able to defeat time... but right now, I can kill you."

"Unfortunately..."

Xiao Chunping said faintly, "You can't even kill me."

As her voice fell, Xiao Chunping’s fingertips, holding the needle, loosened slightly. The long, thin needle, carrying a wisp of thread, fell silently. As it touched the floorboards beneath her feet, ripples in the void began to spread!

A terrifying aura swept out from Xiao Chunping’s body. Nie Yu’s wolf eyes contracted slightly, his instincts making the hair on his body stand on end!

He had no time to think. Holding the hunting knife in one hand, he slashed at Xiao Chunping’s neck in an instant!

His intuition told him he had to kill Xiao Chunping immediately!

But before the sharp threads could touch Xiao Chunping’s body, the distance between them began to stretch crazily. The wooden floorboards, which had been naturally joined together, now seemed to be woven from embroidery threads, beginning to stretch infinitely...

Not only that, the ground beneath the high stool Xiao Chunping sat on suddenly churned, as if all the matter around her had turned into embroidery products!

The floor-to-ceiling window automatically opened a gap, and the high stool seemed to come alive, instantly turning into an embroidered Eastern dragon that carried Xiao Chunping’s body, lifting her rapidly out the window.

Under the frosty moon, a meticulously embroidered Eastern dragon rose from the museum into the sky. An elderly person with gray hair sat calmly upon it, deep eyes gazing leisurely at the museum below...

At this moment, the entire museum surged like ocean waves. Corridors, chairs, bedrooms, willow trees, rockeries... everything began to return to its original form. A giant "museum" embroidery picture began to bare its fangs around Nie Yu.

Green Divine Path, [Embroidery Master] Path Domain:

——【Embroidery Kingdom of All Things】.