Free Web NovelAfter throwing Zhang Dexian out, Lu Yibei turned around and ran far away, shrinking back onto the roof of a remote factory building, far from Jiang Li and Zhang Dexian.
When she stopped and looked back, seeing Zhang Dexian in mid-air, holding a sharp weapon and stabbing his chest three times, a feeling of admiration welled up spontaneously, and she couldn't help but cup her hands in salute and sigh in admiration.
"Well played, well played. I didn't expect you, kid, to be a life-sacrificing player too?"
Someone like her, who would wail for half a day if she cut her hand while chopping vegetables, admired people who were ruthless enough to stab themselves the most.
Of course, this method of using high-level Spiritual Energy items to enhance strength in the short term through rough, even tragic means, naturally has a very good and powerful effect.
Fresh blood gushed from the bloody hole in Zhang Dexian's chest, instantly turning into golden lightning, like a swarm of golden snakes pouring out of their nest, coiling and dancing wildly along his body, condensing into a piece of golden Sanskrit that was impossible to understand. His Spiritual Energy fluctuations surged higher and higher, reaching a terrifying level in the blink of an eye.
Amazing. This Spiritual Energy fluctuation is probably as strong as seventeen or eighteen Mr. Rabbits or half of a Great Serpent God, Lu Yibei thought.
She suddenly felt a bit envious of Zhang Dexian's ancient, simple Vajra pestle, but after a second thought, that thing had too long a casting time and required self-mutilation to be effective, so she immediately lost interest.
How much of a reckless fool does one have to be to be able to lay hands on oneself?!
Can't provoke, can't provoke!
However, why does the feeling of this lightning on him always feel so similar to the mingwang statue?
Lu Yibei frowned slightly; she missed the days spent with the mingwang statue.
In the sky, the glorious, righteous golden lightning poured down, and the actions of the three urban legend on the ground also stiffened for a moment. The black thick fog rising and rolling all over their bodies also seemed to be suppressed by some force, shrinking back into their bodies.
"Divine Transmission Victorious Dharani Curse, Buddha-Granted Vajra Prajna Body! Monsters, surrender!"
Zhang Dexian roared, and a golden long rainbow descended from the sky, like the Heavenly River pouring down.
"Ow--!" The urban legend' screams instantly echoed over the South Suburb Slaughterhouse.
"Huo! Good! NB!"
Lu Yibei summoned Big Muscle Man. Big Muscle Man used a technique of a fist descending from the sky, and the effect was outstanding. Lu Yibei couldn't help but clap her hands in praise.
Zhang Dexian fought with the three urban legend, swinging his fists wrapped in golden lightning. In an instant, surging air waves swept out in all directions, mixed with bursts of scripture chanting.
Listening to the meaningless scriptures, Lu Yibei felt an inexplicable discomfort in her heart. She slightly furrowed her brow and then withdrew her attention from Zhang Dexian, looking to the other side, at Jiang Li, who was battling the pig-headed man.
Yes, she was now quite certain that Miao Miao Jiang was Jiang Li, at least ninety percent sure.
When she woke up at the Hua Yu Sunshine Resort Hotel, she had seen Jiang Li's Spirit Mark in its fully expanded state.
That image of a centaur wearing silver armor engraved with azure runes and with fur as white as the moon left a deep impression on her.
Especially since she had ridden a big white horse in her dream when she was kidnapped by the cicada...
Uh, that's not the point.
The point is Miao Miao Jiang's appearance at this moment, except for the half of her skin-colored face exposed under the armor and the golden twin ponytails fluttering behind her like a battle flag, which were different from Jiang Li, everything else was almost exactly the same.
If this isn't Jiang Li, then I'll... I'll... Uh, that's why I only have ninety percent certainty!
As a person, you always have to leave yourself a way out.
Jiang Li and the Strange Tale named Big King fought back and forth, like a monster from myths and legends battling a stitched-together creature crawled out of the abyss.
In the blink of an eye, the monsters had clashed many times, leaving behind countless afterimages. Iron hooks and long knives tore translucent trails in the air that lingered for a long time.
On Big King's massive body, which was like a small hill, the accumulated face-like tumors squirmed, their lips opening and closing, accompanied by loud, high-pitched screams like whistles, emitting breaths containing the resentment of countless victims of the South Suburb Slaughterhouse.
And in Jiang Li's eyes, which were exposed from her armor, there was no fear at all. She calmly and steadily swung her twin knives. The knife light was like a silver ribbon. The spitting blade light cut down the incoming breath, and black thick smoke rose from the blade, instantly evaporated by the azure flames.
In places invisible to the naked eye, there were even collisions of Spiritual Energy fluctuations, exploding like bombs.
Lu Yibei propped her chin with one hand, turned her head to look at Zhang Dexian, who was fighting the three urban legend with bare fists in the distance, then looked back at Jiang Li, and muttered to herself, "It seems like I'm not needed for help here for now..."
"But this can't go on! I always have to find something to do, right? Just watching like this, wouldn't I seem useless?"
"No, no, let me see if there are any easier-to-deal-with urban legend hidden in this haunted place. Since I'm already here, I should at least participate."
As she spoke, she suddenly increased her speed to the extreme with the help of the Imitation Divine Traveling Armor Horse, disappearing from her original spot. When her figure reappeared, she had already reached the highest point of the entire South Suburb Slaughterhouse—the office building rooftop.
She found a corner of the rooftop that jutted out, crouched down like those superheroes in American comics squatting on the corner of a building, watching over the city, and scanned the vast factory area of the South Suburb Slaughterhouse back and forth with her eyes, searching for targets she could bully.
Then.
She saw Li Weiyi sneaking towards a remote small house in the slaughterhouse. On his shoulder, he was carrying a dark blue body bag.
The body bag seemed to be stuffed with the carcass of some huge creature, bulging so much that the zipper couldn't be fully closed. Vaguely, one could see half a rotten pig's head hanging out, and reddish-brown liquid dripped from it, splashing all over the ground.
"Hmm? Isn't that the young man I met during the day? Is he indeed here to undergo the assessment as well? But..."
"What is he doing? While others are fighting for their lives over there, he's secretly stealing a pig?"
Lu Yibei mumbled to herself. Just then, the door of that remote small house opened, and someone walked out from inside, standing in front of the door, with most of their body blocked by the door, making their face unclear.
Li Weiyi exchanged a few words with that person, looked around nervously, and then threw the body bag on his shoulder into the small house. He also went in and closed the door.
What is /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ this doing? It feels a bit off! Lu Yibei muttered inwardly, pondered for a moment, got up, and quickly left the office building rooftop.
She decided to follow and see what kind of trick the man who had entered the South Suburb Slaughterhouse early but hadn't shown up yet was up to.
If he's doing something shady, don't blame me, Flower City Torment King, righteous little partner Lu Yibei, for being merciless!
Who told you that you look like a equally matched newbie with me? Lu Yibei thought.
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Outside the South Suburb Slaughterhouse.
Among the mountains and forests, a group of white bone strange beasts and a group of wild cats alienation by black fog were fighting fiercely.
The strange beasts composed entirely of white bones gathered together, looking almost like a zoo: wild dogs, Monkeys, giant pythons, grizzly bears, and even a saber-toothed tiger with fangs like scimitars.
Looking around, there wasn't a single duplicate.
Their only common point was their enormous size. Their huge bodies were entirely composed of skeletons, with pale bones piled together like heretical armor.
In stark contrast were their opponents—a group of wild cats.
They were a group of wild cats that were skin and bones, with dull fur and varying degrees of disability on their bodies, looking as if they had been abused by someone. Their entire bodies were enveloped in deep dark flames, and their scarlet eyes flickered with the light of revenge.
But it was these small and pitiful creatures that were locked in a fierce battle with the seemingly grim and terrifying white bone strange beasts.
Among the mountains and forests, a fleeting pale figure left a residual trail in the air, which was then stirred by an intercepting black shadow, shattering into a piece of pale bone shards.
The bone shards, like buckshot, 'thud-thud-thud' embedded themselves into the nearby tree trunk, and then the trunk broke in two, falling to the ground with the torn white bone strange beast.
And those wild cats shrouded in black fog, although many were torn apart by the white bone strange beasts, their flesh and blood scattered on the ground would soon differentiate into more wild cats, which would pounce back up.
As one side grew and the other diminished, the white bone strange beasts gradually felt a sense of being suppressed.
At the same time, the leaders of these two distinct "Strange Tale" legions were also clashing back and forth in the treetops of the jungle.
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After a hard clash with the Cat-Eared Girl, the bone armor and bone blades covering Suo E's arms shattered. He used the force to retreat rapidly, passing freely through the dense canopy and landing steadily on a branch.
He glanced out of the corner of his eye at the white bone puppets being pushed back on the ground, secretly startled.
Taking advantage of the opportunity provided by obtaining the 《Qing Ling Potion》, his strength had improved by half a grade during this period. If it weren't for the lack of sufficient materials, his Spirit Mark could have already advanced.
However, even so, he was still no match for the Cat-Eared Girl. While he struggled to cope, she appeared at ease, with energy to spare.
But thankfully, time was almost up, and the ritual was about to begin. Suo E thought.
"Swish!"
The Cat-Eared Girl followed closely, just about to attack, when she heard Suo E sneer, "I admit you are a very strong opponent, but are you really not worried about the people inside the slaughterhouse at all?"
The Cat-Eared Girl paused slightly, tilted her head, and said, "What's there to be afraid of? Have our examinees completely suppressed the urban legend in the slaughterhouse?"
"Maybe the urban legend of the South Suburb Slaughterhouse will even..."
Midway through the Cat-Eared Girl's sentence, the roar of battle not far away suddenly stopped, followed by a woman's scream.
That slightly off-key voice carried a hint of trembling and rapid gasping, sounding like some indescribable, ancient and sacred chromosome exchange ritual was taking place.
"Ah~! You... don't come any closer~!"
"Hehehe! Scream! The louder you scream, the more excited I get!"
"Damn it! When did I say I was going to scream?!"
"..." The Cat-Eared Girl covered her forehead, an unconcealable look of disdain appearing in her eyes. She turned her body to look at Suo E and said, "You see, instead of worrying about our examinees, you should worry about your companion. I think she's going to become, uh, unclean very soon."
Unclean refers to? Suo E was stunned for a moment, then quickly regained his composure and sneered, "I'm not worried about her at all..."
To be honest, he didn't care much about Miss Rabbit's life or death. She and the Eclipse Society were just in a cooperative relationship; when necessary, she could be completely discarded as a pawn.
"Heh, before I came here today, I said something to someone: only one person will leave here alive tonight. Do you know who that person is? It's me!"
"What do you mean?"
The Cat-Eared Girl asked suspiciously. Just as her voice fell, a sense of unease suddenly rose quietly in her heart.
Something was awakening, quietly opening its eyes. It was hidden somewhere inside the South Suburb Slaughterhouse.
The chaotic, fragmented terrifying Spiritual Energy slept curled up, growing continuously as if returning to the womb, spreading ominous shadows in all directions, as if to turn this land into hell.
And within that aura that was constantly transforming towards a higher form, the Cat-Eared Girl detected the long-lost Spiritual Energy fluctuations of Li Weiyi and another Spiritual Energy fluctuation of unknown origin.
Both Spiritual Energy fluctuations were very weak. If deliberately hidden, they would be difficult to detect, which was one of the reasons she and the tall, thin man hadn't been able to find Li Weiyi before.
She was stunned for a moment, then her heart tightened.
"You... you incited Li Weiyi!?"
"Correction!" Suo E held up a finger and waved it left and right at the Cat-Eared Girl, "It wasn't inciting, but rather, for revenge, he willingly cooperated with us and became part of the ritual."
Ritual? The Cat-Eared Girl's face turned pale as if she suddenly remembered something.
Hearing Suo E's words, she suddenly recalled what Void had mentioned to them: several evil rituals controlled by the Eclipse Society for creating urban legend.
One of them was a ritual that aimed to create high-level urban legend or Psychic in a short period by disassembling the origin of a Strange Tale, then recombining it to counterfeit the Power of a higher-level Strange Tale with a similar origin.
The four urban legend in the South Suburb Slaughterhouse, one main and three subordinate, all had origins similar to the higher-level Strange Tale Beelzebub. Pigs are also one of Beelzebub's symbols. It was indeed possible to simulate Beelzebub's abilities through this ritual and create a Son of Gluttony.
I can't keep getting entangled with this guy. I have to stop the ritual quickly.
Thinking this, the Cat-Eared Girl was about to move when the ground suddenly trembled. Immediately after, with a loud bang, countless walls of white bone rose from the ground around them.
"Bone Arena! Open!"
Suo E suddenly let out a low roar. Those walls of white bone instantly converged towards the two of them, locking together with the sound of bone friction, enclosing her and Suo E together.
"Little kitty, it's too late, everything is too late! You and your companions are too late to rescue them. Just enjoy the final moments of life in battle!"
As Suo E spoke, the flesh on his spine suddenly split open, revealing pale bone arms that extended and merged into the surrounding white bone walls. The next moment, the surface of the white bone walls began to writhe in rhythm with his breathing, as if they were integrated with him.
For a moment, the Cat-Eared Girl felt as if she had fallen into a bloody gladiatorial arena created by Suo E, where she could only leave by killing her opponent.
However.
The panic and anxiety Suo E expected did not appear on her face. Instead, she curled her lips and said, "That's not necessarily true. Don't forget, there's still someone else in the slaughterhouse."
She had previously been unable to understand why Wang Bu Liu Xing had been hiding and watching Zhang Dexian and Genius Mahjong Girl fight, as if completely uninvolved.
But at this moment, she sensed Wang Bu Liu Xing's Spiritual Energy fluctuations approaching the source of that ritual, and she instantly understood.
It was very likely that she had already sensed something, and so...
When choosing an opponent, she chose the fiercest one!
Thinking about it carefully, as the strongest examinee, making such a choice was very reasonable.
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The narrow, cramped, dimly lit room was filled with a strong smell of formaldehyde mixed with a thick stench of decay.
Three large pig specimens and a human skull were placed in the center of the room. Li Weiyi had found these items, which were closely related to the existence of the urban legend within the slaughterhouse, during the chaos of the urban legend fighting Jiang Li and Zhang Dexian.
On the ground, complex incantations drawn with mercury mixed with complex Alchemy materials covered the entire room.
In the corners of the room, many pale candles were placed. Their flickering green flames formed an invisible force field to prevent Spiritual Energy fluctuations from escaping.
Two figures knelt in a strange posture in two corners of the room, continuously emitting strange guttural sounds, as if praying to a distant entity.
As the two prayed, the dark sun totems on their bare backs emitted an ominous green glow. Under the glow, the mercury on the ground boiled, and a cloud of poisonous steam filled the room.
Wrapped in the poisonous steam, the surfaces of the corpses and bones in the center of the room began to show signs of melting. They melted very quickly, turning into a foul-smelling mass of blood plasma that seemed to possess some bizarre vitality in the blink of an eye. freёwebnovel.com
The blood plasma hovered in mid-air, writhing rhythmically as if an embryo was breathing. As it writhed, it sprinkled crimson light in all directions. As the light projected down, pairs of eyes, seemingly located in distant time and space, gradually became clear, as if the distance was constantly shortening.
Those bizarre Eyeballs rotated restlessly, their pupils flashing with dreamy, enticing light, like a hallucination. The buzzing of a swarm of flies echoed in their ears.
The next moment, Li Weiyi and the Eclipse Society member who had willingly become a sacrifice suddenly raised both arms in unison, picked up the silver ritual daggers they had prepared, and fiercely cut into their wrists, one on the left, one on the right.
"Puff—Puff—!"
Hot blood sprayed from their wrists, splashing onto the sphere of condensed blood plasma. The candle flames suddenly extinguished, and the surroundings instantly darkened. Countless dark red, slippery threads rippled through the air.
They surged towards the two people in the room, instantly wrapping and enveloping them, like a spider wrapping its prey in silk.
Just then, with a crisp sound, someone threw a stone the size of a bucket towards the window. Glass shards flew everywhere for a moment.
"You dog things, I knew you weren't up to any good! It's high noon, accept the judgment of justice! RUA!"
Along with a sweet shout, several smoke and miasma talismans and several glass bottles containing calamity water flew in. The next moment, dense smoke rose in the room, and shattered glass bottles splashed out purple-black liquid, polluting the ritual. That Spiritual Energy fluctuation that was constantly transforming and strengthening suddenly stagnated.
