Free Web NovelSeeing her companions suddenly freeze like a crashed computer, their eyes unfocused and expressions blank, Jiang Li looked puzzled.
Immediately after, before she could react, an unsettling Spiritual Energy fluctuation surged around them.
Accompanying the surge of Spiritual Energy, thick mists appeared out of thin air around everyone, and ugly, spherical, translucent limbs extended from the mists.
With a series of wet and viscous sounds, the flesh at the ends of those limbs slowly opened, revealing countless teeth in their mouths, and deformed tissues like long tongues lashed out from the openings.
Seeing this, Jiang Li instantly snapped back to reality, stepping back a pace. A long blade quietly appeared in her hand, skillfully tracing an arc, raising it, and swinging the blade towards the gradually approaching ugly limbs.
Cut!
With a slight tremor of Spiritual Energy fluctuations, a translucent limb section was carried away by the trajectory of the long blade. Blood with an inexplicable stench splattered and fell to the ground, instantly transforming into a substance resembling soaked hair.
Without time to think, after severing the ugly limb in front of her, Jiang Li immediately rushed to the next person.
Gripping the blade hilt with both hands, her body weaved and ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) dodged in the small living room, like a dance, swinging the blade without reservation.
A shrill whooshing sound suddenly erupted. With the increase in Spiritual Energy fluctuation level, the power and toxicity on the blade's edge surpassed anything before.
The ethereal blue arc outlined by the long blade cut through the air, easily severing ugly limbs as if mowing grass.
Blood splattered!
Every time a tentacle was severed, Jiang Li faintly heard whispers in her ears.
“Stay up all night tonight, just this once.”
Not advisable! Unless there are special circumstances, even a Psychic must ensure basic sleep!
“Have a drink.”
Meaningless! Don't believe the nonsense that moderate drinking is good for your health!
“Have a smoke.”
Absolutely not! Smoking is harmful and has no benefits, harming both oneself and others!
“Swish!”
After severing the last limb, Jiang Li followed the downward momentum, plunging her long blade into the ground. She steadied herself with one hand on the blade, looked up, and her pupils trembled slightly.
She saw that after she had severed all the limbs, the flesh tree in the vortex behind Tan Qiuming seemed unwilling to give up, once again spewing out thick mists.
As if blown by a strong wind, the misty branches and leaves on the flesh tree shook violently, and then clumps of thick mist, like withered leaves falling from branches, drifted down lightly, rapidly surging towards the people inside the house.
Without any order, clumps of thick mist reached everyone almost simultaneously.
“Like before, defeating them one by one might be too late, so Jiang Li slightly furrowed her brows, parted her thin lips, and whispered, “In the desolate northeast, there is a beast, like a deer with a single horn...”
As she chanted the description of her Spirit Mark Power, the Spiritual Energy within her body surged as if boiling, and green armor instantly covered her entire body.
As her thoughts stirred, the majestic eyes of the Xiezhi-shaped shoulder pauldron suddenly gleamed with cold light. Wherever the cold light swept, a glowing hoof-shaped imprint appeared on all the ugly limbs extending from the thick mist.
【Punishment of the Nineteenth Generation】, activated!
Seeing those imprints, Jiang Li hesitated slightly before gripping the long blade in her hand and striking the ugly limb closest to her.
After this Spirit Mark successfully advanced, she had only used this new ability a few times during stability tests at the Si Ye Hui Headquarters. Now, she was about to use it on so many targets at once, and she felt somewhat uncertain.
“Thump—thump—thump—!”
With one strike, a series of muffled sounds of flesh shattering echoed.
Almost identical, gruesome severed wounds instantly appeared on all the ugly limbs.
Effective! Jiang Li let out a slight sigh of relief, then immediately swung her second and third strikes.
Those ugly limbs, marked by the 【Punishment】 imprint, would suffer the same damage in the same location if any one limb was attacked. They prospered and suffered together.
Thus, when Jiang Li continuously struck the limb closest to her with several full-force blows, all the surrounding limbs simultaneously stiffened, sharp screams erupted, and flesh disintegrated. All the limbs, following the faint line of light drawn by the long blade as it slowly descended, met their destruction.
Just as Jiang Li thought everything was over, she suddenly heard a strange noise.
“Bang—bang—bang—!”
It sounded as if some behemoth was rampaging through the apartment building, and muffled thuds came from above, growing closer and closer.
Accompanying the muffled thuds, the entire apartment building trembled, as if on the verge of collapse.
In a breath, the sounds were directly overhead. After a brief silence, a huge mud flower exploded on the ceiling, raining down countless gravel and dust. Several ugly tentacles crashed down from above.
Jiang Hao subconsciously tried to block with her long blade, but before she could even raise her hand, her vision went black, as if she had been hit head-on by a speeding truck, and she was sent flying backward.
Pain spread across her body, and sharp, piercing sounds came from her armor, as if countless blades were scraping against it.
After her back collided with the wall and she fell to the ground, Jiang Li didn't have time to think much. She endured the pain and rolled several times, then, using the momentum of the roll, she slightly parted her long legs the moment she landed, stabilized herself, re-gripped her long blade, and aimed its edge forward.
As the smoke and dust cleared, Tan Qiuming, who had been lying on the ground, suddenly stood up. Several faint bloodlines extended from the vortex behind him, connecting to the cracks in the broken ceiling.
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Within those cracks, dark red flesh slowly writhed.
“When did that flesh manage to corrode the entire apartment building?” Jiang Li’s eyes widened slightly.
As she pondered, Tan Qiuming slowly raised his hands and gripped Zhong Huai's throat. The next second, countless thick limbs shot out from the flesh tree, coiling around Zhong Huai's body.
“Oh no!” Jiang Li’s heart tightened. Just as she was about to step forward, she saw the grotesque phantom behind Zhong Huai suddenly move.
“Hahahaha—!”
Amidst a burst of unrestrained laughter, the grotesque phantom's free arm suddenly swelled several times its size in a breath.
Immediately after, that thick arm, like a swinging pendulum, whistled as it swung in a circle, and its large hand gripped all the ugly limbs, pulling them with force.
“Buzz—!” The air current generated by the collision of Spiritual Energy spread, emitting a low hum.
Amidst the humming, the grotesque phantom raised the arm gripping the profound broadsword, swinging the long blade in a wide arc towards the ugly limbs.
Jiang Li, watching from the side, her eye twitched slightly. The arm was clearly swinging a broadsword, yet it gave the illusion of swinging a giant axe.
After severing all the ugly limbs, a series of crisp sounds of bone Creep immediately came from the grotesque phantom.
Accompanying the crisp sounds, the phantom's mouth opened to an exaggerated degree, revealing countless sharp teeth. Like a high-speed rotating saw chain, it writhed, shredding the limbs it brought into its mouth.
“Bang—!”
With a heavy thud, as if a gate had fallen, the grotesque phantom's large mouth slowly closed, followed by a chilling sound of chewing and swallowing.
【Devour Ghost】!
After the phantom condensed by the Spirit Mark Power almost instinctively devoured those ugly limbs, Zhong Huai briefly gained immunity to the Power corresponding to the flesh tree's Power and regained consciousness.
He steadied himself and looked around. When he saw Jiang Li, who was holding a long blade and seemed to have just experienced a battle, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.
He had always been reckless when dealing with urban legend incidents, but that was because he had the capital to be reckless. The phantom condensed by his Spirit Mark Power would instinctively devour the Spiritual Energy attacking him when it sensed danger, thereby gaining temporary immunity to the corresponding Power.
But what he didn't expect was that Jiang Li had woken up before him.
Could she also have some ability to be immune to the influence of urban legend Power?
Without time to think further, Zhong Huai shook his head, reactivated his Power, and used the shackles spawned by his Spirit Mark to wrap Tan Qiuming layer upon layer like a zongzi. Then he quickly retreated to Jiang Li's side and whispered, “Take them and go!”
After speaking, he picked up two of the three unconscious companions who were with him, cradled them under his armpits, and sped down the stairs and out of the apartment building.
Hearing explosions and seeing flames erupt from the direction of Minhe Community.
Lu Yibei didn't even think, dropping Zhou Tong, with whom she had been chatting excitedly, and turned to run towards Minhe Community.
However, she hadn't run far when her Coat writhed, delivering the vibrating Mourning Azure Osprey badge into her hand.
“Coat,”
“There's a call, Demoness Adult, here!”
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Taking the Mourning Azure Osprey badge from the Coat, Lu Yibei lightly stroked the badge, and then heard Jiang Li's voice.
“Lu Yibei, don't come over. I'm not in danger!”
At this time, more than half of the Night Watch's personnel were there. If Lu Yibei, after her urban legend transformation, suddenly appeared, she would definitely be seen as trying to take advantage of the chaos.
“Not in danger?” Lu Yibei frowned and said, “It exploded, such a big fire... wait, are you really Jiang Li? You're not some urban legend that took her badge and is trying to trick me, are you?” frёewebnoѵēl.com
“You have a grave in Lion Mountain Cemetery, and buried inside is...” Jiang Li said faintly.
Lu Yibei only heard half of the sentence before she hastily interrupted, “Dear, please don't say it, okay?”
“Mm.” Jiang Li responded, then changed the subject, “Anyway, just don't come over. The explosion just now was to blow up the building.”
“Blow up the building?” Lu Yibei tilted her head. “Why? When did the Night Watch pick up the White God Group's habits?”
The White God Group is a Russian organization similar to the Night Watch. Although Lu Yibei had not interacted with their members, she had heard of their modus operandi. When the White God Group discovered a urban legend incident, they usually resolved it in the simplest and most brutal way, such as blowing up buildings.
“There was no other way. That entire apartment building was corrupted by some urban legend,” Jiang Li explained. “The inside of the walls was full of flesh of unknown composition.”
In fact, when Jiang Li and Zhong Huai discovered that those ugly limbs, like parasites, had hollowed out and corrupted the entire Unit 7 building, they were both shocked.
To this day, it was the first time they had seen a urban legend that could transform reinforced concrete and stone into flesh on such a large scale.
Lu Yibei nodded thoughtfully and asked, “What about Tan Qiuming?”
“Don't worry, we caught him,” Jiang Li said. “I'll be escorting him to the Three Gorges Mental Hospital with Senior Zhong Huai later. I'll tell you once we get information out of him.”
Lu Yibei was silent for a moment, then nodded, “Okay.”
After speaking, she put the Mourning Azure Osprey badge away again, sighed silently, and raised her hand to hail a passing taxi.
Since Jiang Li was no longer in danger, it was time for her to meet Dorees.
