Free Web NovelChapter 2411: Chapter 2475: Eerie Power
Li Yifei frowned. He didn’t want to give the black tiger time to mutate, nor add trouble for himself, so he lifted his blade, his feet moving in quick steps, and swung the Mohist War Blade toward the black tiger.
At the same time, Yellow Bull let out a miserable scream. Her hammer was knocked flying. Just now, after she saw the tragic state of White Sheep and the black tiger, she couldn’t help getting distracted for a moment, and the Saintess seized the chance to knock her warhammer away. At the same time, a combo from the Saintess also sent Yellow Bull flying, and she crashed heavily to the ground with a cry of pain.
In the instant Li Yifei turned his head, he lost a few seconds. When he looked back again, the black tiger had already retreated dozens of meters. He wasn’t trying to run; he was using what remained of his clarity to open up some distance so he could wait for the drug to take effect, rather than be directly finished off by Li Yifei.
The Saintess didn’t stop. She understood the principle of pressing the attack against a routed foe—killing the enemy was the safest choice. So her body flickered as she stepped on Yellow Bull’s body.
Li Yifei lunged forward again. While still in midair, he raised the Mohist War Blade. The black tiger’s body trembled in front of him, and he didn’t dodge or evade the blade. Li Yifei’s knife chopped straight at his other arm. He’d thought one strike would sever the remaining arm, but this time the result was slightly off.
The instant the Mohist War Blade fell on his body, the edge tore through his defense, and Li Yifei suddenly felt a surge of deathly aura erupt from within the black tiger. It was a sense of decay, death, bone-chilling cold, and rot all mixed together, so intense that even Li Yifei’s sea of consciousness shuddered.
The Mohist War Blade was a supreme-grade weapon, but not a purely Yang-attribute weapon. Li Yifei’s cultivation method, however, was extremely heavy in Yang energy. That was also why he could suppress the cold energy in Su Lio’s body, so he was very sensitive to extreme Yin auras. At this moment, the black tiger’s body was filled with that kind of deathly, icy Qi.
That aura followed the Mohist War Blade, about to surge into Li Yifei’s body. He hurriedly yanked the blade back with force while circulating his True Qi to block the deathly aura on the blade. It took a full ten-plus seconds before Li Yifei finally dissolved that aura.
That drug... really is abnormal. In those ten-plus seconds, the black tiger had already undergone some changes. His body trembled, and from the stump of his severed arm, another arm suddenly sprouted, growing at extreme speed. But that arm was no normal limb; it was formed from a mixture of black and dark-red Qi.
Over there, the Saintess had already finished off Yellow Bull, not giving her a chance to take the drug. Seeing that something had gone wrong on Li Yifei’s side, the Saintess rushed over. When she saw the changes in the black tiger, she frowned.
"How is it demonicization?" The Saintess observed for a moment and couldn’t help asking. freёweɓnovel.com
"Demonicization? What does that mean?" Li Yifei didn’t rush to attack. He instinctively felt that the black Qi in the other party’s body was extremely sinister. This black Qi was different from the Drought Demon he’d encountered before. While the overall feel was similar, in truth it was also distinctly different.
"It’s what we call it. In contrast to the holy power that represents sanctity in Western religions, some extremely evil organizations develop extremely evil powers. We call this demonicization. This kind of power is utterly intolerable to us. Once discovered, we will pursue it to the end and completely eradicate it, even if it means launching a Holy War."
Li Yifei nodded. The Saintess had also heard the conversation here just now, so before Li Yifei could ask, she said, "From the looks of him, demonicization has undergone a new evolution, and it seems even stronger. Unfortunately for him, he ran into me!"
"My dear wifey, do you have a way to handle him?" Li Yifei turned his head and asked with a grin plastered on his face!
The Saintess rolled her eyes at him, not correcting the title, and said, "Of course I have a way. Since I’ve said so, how could I not? It’s just that this matter is far too vile. The Noah’s Ark Organization actually developed this kind of demonicization technique. These people deserve to be wiped out even more!"
"Heh heh..." As the two were talking, the black tiger, whose drug had now taken effect, let out a strange laugh. His eyes turned from red to black, as if his eyeballs were gone, replaced by swirling black Qi. The severed hand had regrown. The black tiger had become different; his facial features began to blur. With black Qi coiling around him, his features seemed to be writhing and changing nonstop, yet when you looked closely, it was as if nothing had changed.
Li Yifei gave the Mohist War Blade a shake and said to the Saintess, "My lady wife, this one’s on you. Your husband is at a bit of a disadvantage against this so-called demonicization thing."
The Saintess gave a soft "mm," walked a few steps forward, formed seals with both hands, and started chanting under her breath. It looked like a prayer, and also like she was calling on something. When it came to wiping out this kind of Evil qi, the Saintess clearly had the upper hand. After all, much of what she’d learned was specifically meant to counter these crooked, unorthodox methods—like the Holy Light Baptism.
"Holy Light Baptism" was just the common name; strictly speaking it should be called a baptism. It was as if holy light from heaven poured down from the sky and landed right on Black Tiger’s head. He had just completed his "devilization" with the help of the drug and was full of killing intent, but under the baptism of Holy Light, he suddenly let out a cry of pain.
The Holy Light clashed with the aura inside his body, and the air sizzled. Two streams of energy kept canceling each other out. The Saintess’s hand seals continued to build up, and the power of the Holy Light not only failed to weaken, it actually grew stronger and stronger. Li Yifei bared his teeth in a grin, thinking back to that duel between the two of them. If the Saintess had used these moves back then, even if he could still win, he’d have had to put in a lot more effort. Of course, these methods might not work on Li Yifei as fiercely as they did on Black Tiger—after all, the two of them were different.
Black Tiger had never in his wildest dreams expected to run into someone who could wield Holy Light. It wasn’t that he didn’t know the Saintess’s identity, but... the few of them had completely ignored the Saintess’s abilities and methods. They had no idea that the Saintess’s techniques could perfectly counter the change triggered by the drug.
So under the scorching burn of the Holy Light, the power Black Tiger gained not only failed to help him grow stronger and kill Li Yifei and the Saintess, it instead... didn’t even stay cool for three seconds. In what seemed like a very short time, he completely withered. His body crashed down and collapsed on the ground like a pile of mud. Unlike Black Dog—who was also one of the Twelve Holy Beasts and went insane after taking the captain’s drug—he didn’t even get the chance. He was directly killed by the Holy Light Baptism.
Li Yifei reached out to support the Saintess. Her body was a bit weak and her expression exhausted. It seemed that using this baptism was also a huge drain on her own strength.
Their battle record was still terrifying. Before this, he hadn’t known that the Noah’s Ark Organization had such high-level combat experts. When they’d met before, Li Yifei had looked full of confidence and calm on the surface, but inwardly he’d still been quite cautious. Now that he had actually fought them, he was much more assured. These people’s cultivation level was high enough, but in terms of strategy and tactics, they seriously underestimated their enemies. On top of that, their luck wasn’t great, and there were errors in the intel they’d received.
So they didn’t lose unjustly. After all, the combination of Li Yifei and the Saintess was definitely one of the strongest teams in the world right now.
Li Yifei carried the Saintess away from there. He did a quick search of the three corpses. Other than their respective IDs—a jade-engraved token each, with the characters for Tiger, Sheep, and Ox from the twelve zodiac signs—there was nothing else. As for White Sheep’s two weapons and Yellow Ox’s hammer, Li Yifei tested them. White Sheep’s weapons weren’t bad, but that hammer was way too heavy, which also proved that Yellow Ox, that woman, really did have monstrous strength.
Sold as scrap iron they’d probably go for a decent price. Li Yifei didn’t think much of this type of weapon, but it wasn’t a bad idea to keep them. So he buried all three weapons on the spot, planning to dig them up and take them back after things were wrapped up here.
He couldn’t possibly carry that hammer around on him. Aside from a woman like Yellow Ox, there were probably very few people who would choose to use such a heavy weapon.
Of course, Li Yifei’s own Mohist War Blade was also an extremely heavy weapon. If it hadn’t acknowledged him as its master, even he would find it extremely heavy to hold, let alone use.
An hour after the two of them left, a group of people arrived at that desolate battlefield. Leading them was none other than the short, somewhat sleazy-looking Green Mouse. He rushed over with his men, and when he saw the three corpses on the ground, the corner of his eye twitched violently, a bit of fear creeping in. He had rushed here the moment he got the news, worried that the three might fail—but he had never imagined the three would be directly taken out by Li Yifei.
"How is that possible? Are Li Yifei and the Saintess really that strong? Or did these three fall into a trap and get ganged up on and beaten to death?" Green Mouse looked at the scene before him. The three of them had died horribly, and Black Tiger had even taken the drug... yet he was still killed. After checking the scene, Green Mouse dismissed the possibility that they’d been killed in a group ambush, because from the traces on-site and the wounds on the three bodies, it was clearly the work of two people. It was just that... Green Mouse knew his own situation all too well.
Even if the three failed, he still had ways to explain it away. But with all three directly killed, that was a huge problem. Even Noah’s Ark had only managed to cultivate twelve people like this over all these years to form the Twelve Holy Beasts, and now... three of them were dead. Three gone in one go. These three had practically just come out of seclusion to do missions, and they died right away...
Thinking of this, Green Mouse only felt a splitting headache. If he’d known these three were this useless, he would have stopped them no matter what earlier. But now it was too late: the three were dead here, and he was going to be dragged down with them. The key point was that he’d once again lost track of Li Yifei and the Saintess. Who knew if they would suddenly pop up and kill him too.
After suffering for a moment, Green Mouse ordered his men to carry away the three corpses. He was the last to leave. Before going, he glanced at the scene, shook his head, took out his phone, and prepared to report to Green Dragon. Three members of the Twelve Holy Beasts had died. Whether or not it was done by Li Yifei and the Saintess, this matter had to be thoroughly investigated—and they had to avenge them.
Of course, it could basically be confirmed that this was the work of Li Yifei and the Saintess, a joint operation by Huaxia’s side and the Saintess from the Holy War Organization. This bill, they would have to settle.
