Free Web NovelChapter 268: Chapter 255: Lurking 1
"Hm? Something’s approaching?"
The floating Lin Hui suddenly sensed something and turned to look behind him.
From within the fog, a gaunt, two-headed man suddenly transformed into a green meteor and accelerated toward him.
"MINE!! HAHAHA! I made it! You’re MINE!!"
SWISH!
The man shot past Lin Hui.
The hilt of the sword at Lin Hui’s waist gently settled, as if it had never been drawn.
’Two heads. Is it some kind of wild beast?’
He wasn’t sure what species the creature was, but it seemed a bit foolish, charging straight over without a care in the world.
SPLAT!
The two-headed man abruptly disintegrated behind him, turning into countless chunks of green flesh that scattered across the sea’s surface.
But in the next moment, all the pieces of flesh rapidly converged, reforming into the same two-headed man.
He turned, naked, the corners of his mouth splitting into a massive grin.
"This is it!! The pain, it really hurts!! Devouring you will definitely let me transcend reality! I’ll establish my own city-state!!"
The third eye on his brow suddenly flashed like a colorful sun, releasing a dazzling light.
"Descent of the Heart God!!"
The two-headed man’s body imploded, actively turning into countless green particles.
All the particles disintegrated further, becoming a green fog that enveloped the surrounding several kilometers of sea.
This expansive fog immediately put Hawkman Island on alert.
The piercing screech of a hawk rang out as an alarm.
The crowds and boats on the outskirts of Hawkman Island began to flee.
Several figures exuding powerful auras soared into the air, flying in this direction.
They didn’t get close, merely hovering in the air a kilometer away from the green fog.
At this point, the green fog began its second transformation.
From within the fog, a grotesque, dark-red bird hundreds of meters long, with no feathers to speak of, rapidly took form.
This monstrous bird had no skin, allowing one to clearly see its internal muscles, tendons, and blood vessels from the outside.
Its face was covered in green eyes, at least several hundred of them packed tightly together.
At this moment, all the eyes turned to look at Lin Hui.
’A Fog Person?’ Lin Hui’s brows furrowed.
The move Descent of the Heart God was an innate ability of the Fog People, and a troublesome and powerful one at that.
He had asked Xie Chang’an about this ability before.
One of the most perverse things about this move was its immortality. Normally, when someone externalized their Heart and Spirit, you just needed to use your own to counter and defeat it.
But after the Descent of the Heart God, the opponent’s Heart and Spirit fused with an induced mystical power to form a new kind of power. Therefore, unless you completely annihilated the entire entity, it was impossible to harm the Heart and Spirit within.
And this form of Descent of the Heart God was extremely difficult to fight.
Generally, this move could increase a Fog Person’s power and defense by at least tenfold!
The Fog People already had absurdly tough physical defenses; strengthening that tenfold was truly unimaginable.
Not to mention their power.
Last time, Lin Hui had to borrow the Celestial Spin Power to directly confront Tuyue’s Descent of the Heart God.
But here...
’Using Typhoon Swordsmanship directly has too large of an area of effect and is too distinctive. It’d be easy for someone to recognize me... It seems...’
Lin Hui watched the enormous, dark-red monster bird hurtling toward him. It looked like a featherless hawk, an image that, oddly enough, complemented Hawkman Island.
However, this Fog Person in front of him didn’t seem very strong, quite a bit weaker than Tuyue had been.
Even...
’It’s not even giving me any sense of pressure...’
Lin Hui’s hand once again rested on Ruyi.
The Three Seals activated all at once.
Qingyuan Body!
SWISH!
His body rapidly elongated and expanded, growing to a height of three and a half meters. His black hair swiftly turned blue, taking on a faint, translucent quality.
Patches of blue markings appeared on his skin, and his eyes began to glow blue. Three golden Dharma Seals floated behind him like guardians.
In the instant his Magic Body activated, the dark-red monster bird was already upon him.
But in the next moment...
The monster bird suddenly stiffened. Its body split in two right down the middle, the two halves parting to either side as they shot past Lin Hui and crashed into the sea.
BOOM!
Waves splashed high into the air, shattering into a mist of water.
"USELESS! USELESS! USELESS!!!"
Soon, the dark-red monster bird shot out of the sea again. It had fused and recovered in less than half a second, and was once more lunging at Lin Hui.
’Can’t even the Wind Disaster Power decompose it?’ Lin Hui’s brow furrowed slightly.
The Qingyuan Body state came with the decomposing power of the Wind Calamity. He had just sliced the creature open with a lightning-fast slash and thought that should have been the end of it.
He hadn’t expected it to seem completely unharmed.
’No, it did have an effect...’ Lin Hui suddenly noticed a faint, thin blue line glowing softly down the center of its body.
That was the wound he had just inflicted.
’Is the amount of Wind Disaster Power too small, so it’s being temporarily suppressed?’
He instantly assessed the situation, watching the dark-red monster bird charge at him once more.
’If there’s not enough, I’ll just add more!’
He hovered in the air, suddenly gripping Ruyi with both hands. He twisted his body, gave ground, and executed an upward slash!
SWISH!
Another strike, and the monster bird was once again cut in two.
But that wasn’t all.
Lin Hui’s figure flickered as he swung his sword again, unleashing new flashes of light.
In an instant, hundreds of silver sword flashes wove into a net, dicing the monster bird into hundreds of pieces.
SQUELCH SQUELCH SQUELCH!!
The pieces crashed into the sea, but in the next instant, they fused back into a new monster bird and lunged at him.
"It’s endless!"
Lin Hui’s brow tightened. He decided to just move in close.
A gale howled, swirling around him.
Ruyi suddenly transformed into an invisible wind in his hands, howling as it rushed toward the monster bird.
This time it was Gale Swordsmanship, infused with Wind Disaster Power.
He wanted to see just how this Fog Person would react to such a large dose of Wind Disaster Power.
WHOOSH!
The gale swept over, no longer reliant on Lin Hui’s sword but a vast, sweeping expanse of wind.
In the next moment, the monster bird’s flesh and blood began to break down, shedding tiny red particles.
It shrieked, struggling in midair. It held on for a full ten seconds before finally dissipating completely.
’Finally dealt with.’ Lin Hui’s brow relaxed. ’Its life force is certainly strong...’
But before he could turn to leave, a brand new dark-red monster bird rapidly emerged from the very spot where the previous one had disintegrated and vanished.
"Fool! The evil fog cannot be destroyed! It cannot be annihilated!! You can’t kill me!!"
The monster bird spoke in a human tongue as it lunged at Lin Hui again.
This time, Lin Hui noticed that the wounds from the Wind Calamity had also completely vanished. Its entire body seemed to have been reborn.
This discovery made his expression turn completely grave.
All along, he had thought the Wind Calamity was absolutely invincible, capable of decomposing anything.
But now, it seemed the powers he had encountered before were all low-level. At the level of a Fog Person, a power had finally appeared that could rival the Wind Calamity.
"I’ll try again... and see if it has a limit. But this isn’t the place for testing."
He noticed more and more powerful experts appearing in the sky above Hawkman Island.
There were no auras on the level of a Fog Person yet, but if this continued, it would sooner or later attract the patriarch of Hawkman Island.
’I need to find another place!’
With his mind made up, he turned, flashed, and transformed into a meteor, speeding off into the distance.
"Trying to escape!? You can’t escape!!" The monster bird gave frenzied pursuit. One chasing the other, the two of them soon vanished from the seas near Hawkman Island.
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BOOM!!
In an unfamiliar stretch of sea.
The monster bird rammed headfirst into a small island, which shattered, caved in, and then sank into the sea.
The monster bird used the momentum to launch itself back into the air, charging toward Lin Hui, who was hovering high in the sky.
Its strength seemed endless and inexhaustible. Even the Wind Disaster Power couldn’t damage the fused Power of Heart and Mind within it.
SHIING!
In the next instant, the monster bird was once again disintegrated into hundreds of pieces that fell into the sea.
This was the ninety-ninth time Lin Hui had disintegrated it.
But it was useless!
In the next instant, a new dark-red monster bird rose from the sea.
At this moment, Lin Hui finally understood the suffering of the Fog Spirits.
When the Fog Spirits faced the immortal Fog People who couldn’t be killed no matter what, they probably felt much as he did right now.
It was said that even Fog Spirits could only wear down the essence of a Fog Person’s true evil fog by killing them over and over, slowly using their Divine Power in the process.
Generally, it would take at least several hundred thousand kills to have even a chance of killing a single Fog Person.
This was also why the Wild Fog People usually decayed on their own rather than being slain by Fog Spirits.
Because even if their power was far weaker than some Fog Spirits, they were still extremely difficult to kill.
And Fog Spirits weren’t monsters with infinite stamina and Divine Power. They would grow tired after a few dozen strikes at most and would have to take turns.
This was the key reason why a single Fog Person could defend an entire city in many urban districts.
Because normal Fog Spirits were unwilling to provoke these extremely troublesome Fog People.
The evil fog could not be damaged; it could only be devoured and transferred.
Therefore, the only thing that can kill a Fog Person is another Fog Person.
Recalling that sentence, Lin Hui now felt its truth deeply.
’To think that not even the Wind Disaster Power can kill it completely. This kind of power... is too dangerous...’
He watched the monster bird, once again fully restored, charge toward him.
’A monster like this shouldn’t exist in this world.’
Gripping Ruyi, he made a decision.
"Wind!"
In an instant, a gale erupted.
A terrifying torrent of air carrying the Wind Disaster Power surged from behind Lin Hui like a flood.
The gray-white torrent of wind once again blew the monster bird apart, pulverizing and disintegrating it layer by layer, from the outside in.
"You can’t kill me! A low-level being like you is destined to be our food! Just accept it, hahahaha!!!" The monster bird’s final words echoed through the air, unable to be drowned out even by the wind.
Lin Hui ignored it, instead tapping a single hand on the first of the nine jade-green eyes on his shoulder.
’Seal Spirit!’
SHIING!!
In a flash, nine emerald beams shot out from the nine eyes, transforming into nine ropes of light. They connected all the pieces of the monster bird’s flesh and blood, quickly weaving them into a massive, green-glowing cage.
A second later, the ropes of green light dispersed, turning into a vast expanse of green light that completely dyed all the monster bird’s flesh green.
The immense power of the Spirit-Sealing Array began its attempt to seal the Fog Person.
But the Fog Person’s own power was too immense, and it actually brought the final stage of the sealing process to a standstill.
Within the green light, monstrous faces continuously appeared, twisting, howling, and exerting their strength.
But not only did the light fail to shrink, it was forcibly broken apart and expanded by the Fog Person.
’Just as I thought, the sealing ability of the Nine Eyes is still too strained against a Fog Person. I’ll have to lend a hand personally.’
Lin Hui raised his Longsword. The Wind Disaster Power coiled around the blade, forming a faint, blue-black halo.
SHIING!
In the next instant, he vanished in a flash, lunging toward the monster bird.
At the same time, the monster bird Fog Person also activated its godspeed, attempting to forcibly break free from the restraints of the Nine Eyes’ seal.
