Free Web NovelXie Erlang, whose neck had been cut open by a blade, knelt on the ground in a posture that normal people would find impossible, his spine arching backward in an exaggerated curve, his chest and abdomen split open like carelessly torn wrapping paper, revealing his internal organs to the air.
His heart had stopped beating.
Normally, a person injured like this would be absolutely dead, and even a urban legend would have lost half his life, but Xie Erlang was still moving.
His hands were moving.
His hands seemed to have gained independent consciousness, no longer belonging to that body, his ten fingers rhythmically twitching, like two strange large worms, crawling up from the pool of blood, along his broken body, finally reaching his throat and gripping it tightly.
Blue veins bulged on his pale, bloodless arms; if Xie Erlang hadn't already died a few seconds ago, he would probably have been strangled to death by his own hands.
“I... killed him... I... lived through it?”
Vaguely, Shen Baiwei heard Xie Erlang, with his hands covering his throat, muttering in a low voice.
When he swung the blade to cut his own throat, the battle saber had almost completely ripped his throat, making his voice a chilling rasp, like a broken bellows, as if the sound might slip away from one's ears if not careful, then sneak into one's mind without a trace.
Following that, amidst the rampant laughter and cheers filling the hall, the viscous sound of flesh squirming began.
At first, only the flesh around the terrifying, grotesque wound edges subtly squirmed, but it quickly escalated, and the flesh of his entire body, as if it had turned into a formless gelatinous substance, began to boil and squirm violently and erratically amidst the rising cheers and mad laughter.
“Look, it’s going to live! It’s really going to live!”
“Hahaha, I won, I won!”
“Get lost, don’t touch my money with your dirty hands! The other Miracle Saint hasn’t died yet, how could you have won?”
“...”
As an outstanding product of Tethys Laboratory and having served as an experimental assistant at Tethys Laboratory for a long time, Shen Baiwei had seen many “grand spectacles,” but this scene before her still made her feel a hint of nervousness.
However, her nervousness wasn't due to unfamiliarity /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ with such scenes, but because Disaster had told her before leaving that if a person corrupted by the Shaman King truly accomplished something that could be called a “miracle,” it would prove that the plan to prevent the Shaman King from eroding the God Kingdom Prototype had failed.
But what did failure mean?
Disaster hadn't told her...
Just as Shen Baiwei briefly hesitated, a series of explosive sounds suddenly erupted from the violently squirming corpse in front, as if it could revive at any moment.
It sounded as if flesh had exploded.
Following the sound, a large amount of viscous, dark red, almost black liquid, shimmering with a tar-like sheen, gushed out from his opened chest like a spring.
It was hard to imagine that the originally somewhat slender body could produce several, or even more than ten times, its own volume in liquid.
It was even more absurd than the oranges in infomercials that could yield two large cups of juice each!
The dark red, almost black liquid churned, with limbs like hands and feet constantly forming and then instantly disintegrating within it.
Upon seeing this, Shen Baiwei's heart skipped a beat; she had seen similar existences before, right when she had just entered the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate.
The overwhelming black tide had claimed the lives of many Miracle Order members and Half-Guitan...
After a breath, a head with a face similar to the boy's forcibly squeezed out from the churning, viscous liquid, its bloodshot eyes staring at Shen Baiwei, slowly opening its mouth, which grew wider and wider, gradually exceeding the normal human range.
The mouth was like a violently torn wound, jagged and uneven, with several eye-sized smaller mouths nested within the large one, and tongues of varying lengths, thicknesses, and coarseness, like fleshy tentacles, churning in the enormous oral cavity.
As his mouth opened and closed, the massive wound on his body also opened and closed like a huge mouth, and together they emitted a high-pitched, ear-piercing sound.
Although he said nothing, the moment the piercing high-pitched sound entered her ears, Shen Baiwei miraculously understood what he wanted to convey.
He said, “I lived through it, now it’s your turn!”
Seeing this, Shen Baiwei's heart tightened, and she instinctively prepared to chant a spell to cast a Spell, but then, as if remembering something, she frowned, activated her authority, and summoned her beloved little notebook.
The situation had almost spiraled out of control; simply destroying the urban legend's body with a Spell could no longer fundamentally solve the problem.
It was time to reload.
Her life was threatened; what was she waiting for if not to reload? fгeewebnovёl.com
Although Disaster hadn't told her what to do after failure, how could the dignified Time Princess fear failure?
In her dictionary, there was no such word as “failure”; as long as success was possible, even if there was only a one in ten thousand chance, theoretically, if she could endure the pain of reloading, she could reload ten thousand and one times to grasp success in her hands.
“...”
That bastard Disaster probably thought of this, which is why he deliberately didn't tell me what to do after failure, right?
Damn it! Couldn't he just say it directly? Did he have to use such a mind-bending method?
Although she hadn't yet returned to Tethys Laboratory to find that “very important thing” to transform The Serpent of the Years's authority from suppression to subjugation, and thus couldn't use her reloading ability recklessly.
But now... at worst, she would be trapped within this Divine Kingdom Jade Gate from a thousand years ago and not go back!
Shen Baiwei thought fiercely, her gaze slightly condensing as she looked at the urban legend before her, then her fingertips gently turned the pages of her little notebook.
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“Evil creature, how dare you cause trouble here?!”
Seeing that the situation was bad, Soldier Chen Long took a few steps forward, picked up his saber, then stepped forward and swung it, raising a fierce wind, striking towards the monster.
What about the outcome of the true and false Miracle Saint's competition? At this point, there was no time to worry about such things.
However, before the blade could even touch the monster, a sudden gush of viscous liquid swept him and his saber away.
Immediately after, before he could get back up, the converging crowd, with many hands and feet, forcefully pinned him to the ground.
Xia Lianqing, who had just recovered from the shock of the young man's self-decapitation, had not yet had time to react when she watched helplessly as the young man's corpse transformed into a grotesque and terrifying urban legend within a few breaths.
In her horror, she frantically pushed her way towards the center of the crowd.
But those who had fallen into a state of frenzy dared to attack even the troublesome Longxiang Army Armored Soldiers, so they naturally wouldn't pay her any mind.
Before she could get close, she was forcibly blocked outside the crowd by hands and feet reaching out from unseen places.
Mad, everyone was mad!
Completely insane. freewёbnoνel.com
Witnessing the young man's revival and transformation into a urban legend, the surrounding onlookers, instead of panicking and fleeing, rushed towards him in a scramble.
“He’s really alive now, alive!”
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“miracle!”
“miracle! I saw it... it’s a flower! A miracle flower!”
“...”
Soon, the continuously gushing red-black viscous liquid engulfed half of their bodies.
Their bodies above the waist were exposed, rising and falling with the squirming red-black viscous liquid, waving their arms and legs, their faces filled with pilgrimage-like piety and joy.
Under the influence of the red-black viscous liquid's power, some even felt they too could possess that bizarre ability, pulling out their personal blades or picking up sharp objects nearby, gesturing back and forth on their bodies, eager to try.
From a distance, the entire hall, with hundreds of people, resembled human rice seedlings growing in a red-black paddy field, swaying involuntarily from side to side with the wind.
A shrill explosion, sudden and piercing.
It stung everyone's eardrums, tore apart everyone's consciousness, as if to brand suffering and fanaticism into every soul.
Accompanying the explosion, countless viscous dark red substances appeared out of thin air in the middle of Daimu Courtyard's hall, transforming into gushing springs, and the smell of blood spread.
Xie Erlang's “resurrection” miracle pushed this carnival to its climax; the Shaman King's power, after eroding the perception of miracles among hundreds of people in Daimu Courtyard, was about to materialize.
Squirming, an enormous, invisible entity was violently squirming within Daimu Courtyard, and even in a wider space.
As if summoned, countless deep red streaks of light, invisible to the naked eye, surged from all corners of the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, dancing wildly and circling in the hall of Daimu Courtyard, like a deep red flower with exceptionally long and soft petals, blooming fiercely here.
The monster that Xie Erlang had transformed into was its robust root system, and the hundreds of vibrant lives that were about to perish would become nourishment, helping it to grow continuously.
The “miracle flower” formed by the Shaman King's twisted Hong Bian authority was initially complete; next, it only needed to be spread until its layers of petals cast shadows, covering every corner of the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate...
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Outside Daimu Courtyard.
As if dark clouds had obscured the sun, the sky above, which illuminated the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, suddenly turned gloomy, with a hazy darkness.
Countless deep red streaks of light quietly spread from underground, rising into the sky, circling like flocks of vultures waiting for food to die.
As those deep red streaks of light continuously gathered, a grotesque outline gradually formed in the sky above the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate—it was a gigantic eye.
The moment that eye slowly opened, revealing its eerie double pupils, the entire Divine Kingdom Jade Gate fell into a deathly silence.
It was quietly looking down upon the earth.
On the earth, figures, under its gaze, emerged from hidden dark corners, heading towards the Longxiang Army Camp, the Lords Manor, the South City Wall, Daimu Courtyard, and all directions of the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate.
From a certain perspective, they were like Xie Erlang, all “seeds.”
The “seeds” of the miracle flower, corrupted and twisted.
Now, it was time to plant these “seeds” in the fertile soil of the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate.
“Rumble—!”
A low rumble, like a hoarse roar of thunder, exploded from the depths of the sky.
As if repelling or punishing the deep red streaks of light gathered in the sky, golden lightning suddenly descended; wherever it passed, the deep red light instantly dissipated, only to re-condense as if uttering a malicious taunt.
Thus, two torrents of Spiritual Energy from different sources violently collided in the sky, stirring up a series of roars.
But all this struggle beyond human comprehension could not be seen by the living beings on the ground; all they could see were distorted figures in various corners of the city pass, gushing out viscous, bloody, red-black tides that could incite madness and escalating murderous intent.
Huge, deep red flowers bloomed in every corner of the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate.
The entire Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, however, seemed to gradually transform into a massive battlefield; an extremely oppressive atmosphere spread, waiting only for a command to sound, and a tragic slaughter would descend upon this place.
But before that, cheers and mad laughter filled the entire Divine Kingdom Jade Gate.
Under this tense atmosphere, almost no one noticed that the temperature was quietly rising, and distorted heat waves appeared in the air, just as few people would notice when the first blade of grass withered or the first stream dried up when a drought arrived.
Even fewer would notice that in a remote corner of the vast city pass, on a “petal” of a blooming deep red flower formed by converging deep red light, a tiny, almost imperceptible spark quietly appeared.
Then.
Like a spark falling onto the center of a piece of paper and igniting it, a scorch mark rapidly spread across the entire petal.
Starting from the outermost edge, the “miracle flowers” that had just bloomed quickly withered and faded...
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Inside Daimu Courtyard.
“Stop! All of you, stop!”
“Can’t everyone see that’s a monster? Wake up!”
Her body gradually covered by the tar-like viscous red-black liquid, seeing familiar and unfamiliar people about to face misfortune, Xia Lianqing let out powerless cries.
Just as she was about to despair, a scream reached her ears.
“Ah—!”
Following the sound, a musician stared wide-eyed at the monster in the center of the hall, her face filled with terror.
“Help... help me! Help!”
Before Xia Lianqing could understand how her sister had escaped that horrifying state of frenzy, trembling cries for help arose beside her.
“Oh my god! What... what is that thing? A monster, there’s a monster!”
“My body... damn it, I’m stuck? Someone help me?!”
“...”
More and more cries for help erupted, making the entire Daimu Courtyard boil.
Strange! How did they... suddenly stop being mad? A look of confusion appeared on Xia Lianqing’s face.
Silently, an unknown change occurred; the hundreds of people who had previously been completely engulfed in frenzy suddenly became lucid in an instant.
“Boom—!”
Accompanied by a sudden explosion, the monster's twisted and terrifying body in the center of the hall exploded, splattering blood and flesh across the entire Daimu Courtyard hall.
The red-black viscous liquid gushing from the exploded body instantly unleashed a powerful wave, pushing everyone outwards...
