Free Web NovelChapter 254: Chapter 202: Dark Degeneration (2)
Merely standing before it exerted an immense, irresistible pressure.
’In the end, the difference in our strength is just too vast... I’ve done all I can...’
At this moment, dark blood streamed from every orifice on Lü Xiuning’s face. His complexion was terrifyingly pale, as if he were a corpse just wheeled out of a morgue.
The Wood Demon guarding him wanted to fight to the death, but Lü Xiuning recalled it into his Soul Beast Space.
SKREEE~
The giant centipede roared, opened its terrifying mouthparts, and swallowed Lü Xiuning whole.
After swallowing Lü Xiuning, it turned, moving with an agility that defied its massive body. With a single leap, it returned to the side of the insect swarm. By simply rearing up, its head was high enough to reach Fei Lie’s hovering position. It then spat out the barely conscious Lü Xiuning, who tumbled onto the back of a red beetle.
Fei Lie reached out and snatched the front of Lü Xiuning’s clothes, lifting him into the air as easily as if he were grabbing a chick. freewebnσvel.cøm
Before the ugly Insect Master’s nearly three-meter-tall frame, Lü Xiuning looked like a small child, his blood-soaked feet dangling limply in midair.
"I really underestimated you. Tell me, what trick did you use just now to fool my senses?"
Fei Lie tilted his head, extended his left hand, and casually poked a thumb-sized hole through Lü Xiuning’s shoulder blade.
"Hmph..."
The immense pain of his flesh being torn open jolted Lü Xiuning’s mind, and his fading consciousness sharpened slightly.
But Lü Xiuning was already resolved to die. He remained silent in the face of Fei Lie’s question.
"Tell me honestly, and I’ll give you a quick death. If you refuse, I’m afraid you won’t even get the chance to die." Fei Lie smiled faintly, his features twisting. To Lü Xiuning, it was the smile of a Demon.
Yet, Fei Lie was met with only silence...
"Not talking?"
Fei Lie’s smile didn’t waver. He raised his left hand and casually gouged another gruesome hole in Lü Xiuning’s right shoulder blade.
SPURT~
A torrent of blood gushed from the wound, forming a pool beneath him.
"Quite the brave one."
Seeing that the gravely injured Lü Xiuning still refused to speak, the smile on Fei Lie’s face grew chilling. His gaze shifted from his captive and swept casually downward.
He easily spotted a figure completely enveloped by the insect swarm.
Then, he sent out a ripple of Spiritual Power, conveying a message to that part of the swarm.
The giant Red Centipede beside them stirred its massive body and abruptly charged toward the location Fei Lie had indicated.
A dozen seconds later, another human appeared on the beetle’s back.
"T-Teacher Lü..." Covered in blood, He Yang fell with a thud before Fei Lie. He instinctively lifted his head, only to see Teacher Lü, even more grievously wounded than himself, hanging limply from the strange Insect Master’s grasp, barely breathing.
"He..." Lü Xiuning’s pupils dilated slightly, as if he’d realized something. In an instant, his once-listless eyes turned bloodshot.
Two trails of bloody tears streamed from the corners of his eyes.
"Oh? It seems you’ve figured it out. A pity... it’s too late."
Fei Lie watched Lü Xiuning’s sudden change of expression with great interest. A dark, eerie smile spread across his face as he pulled a spear-like insect limb from a pouch at his waist and swung it viciously at He Yang’s head!
"Don’t!"
In that instant, Lü Xiuning’s pupils dilated to their limit, and a flicker of Starlight seemed to flash in their very centers.
The air rippled, and He Yang, who had been lying near him, bizarrely vanished. When he reappeared, he was on the ground beneath the red beetle.
At the sight of this, an expression of utter astonishment uncontrollably spread across Fei Lie’s face.
He stared at Lü Xiuning, whose face was already turning blue, and exclaimed in amazement, "Incredible... This is... a Spiritual Power Talent!"
’How is this possible... Legend says only the Five Great Ancestors and the supreme Queen possess Spiritual Power Talents... Yet a weak member of an Alien Race, not even an Insect Master, has actually awakened a Talent...’
"Interesting, very interesting. In that case... it’s all the more reason I can’t let you live."
Fei Lie’s expression shifted rapidly before he suddenly composed his features.
As a High Priest of his tribe, his intelligence, if not the greatest in the Red Centipede Race, was at least in the top three.
He knew with but a moment’s thought that allowing these members of the Alien Race to grow stronger would pose a tremendous threat to the Red Centipede Race!
"Farewell, warrior of the Alien Race."
"Stop!"
Just as Fei Lie raised the insect limb to swing at Lü Xiuning’s head, a heaven-shaking roar of fury suddenly thundered from the distant horizon.
ROAR!!!
Egg Pancake, wreathed in a dense, earth-yellow halo and burning with an outer ring of bewitching, blood-red flames, shot toward Fei Lie like a flaming meteor.
’A Giant Dragon?’
Egg Pancake’s form reflected in Fei Lie’s pupils, but his hand didn’t falter in the slightest as it continued its sweep.
SPURT!!
Blood arced into the sky.
Lü Xiuning’s head tumbled limply through the air.
With Lü Xiuning’s beheading...
...the air before him began to ripple.
His Wood Demon tumbled out of its collapsing Soul Beast Space.
"Ling!!"
The moment the Wood Demon appeared, it let out a mournful wail. It tried to shoot out vines to cradle Lü Xiuning’s body, but a fireball from the giant centipede blasted it into smithereens.
A Spiritual Power message, seething with extreme rage, exploded in Fei Lie’s mind: "I’ll kill you! I swear I’ll kill you!"
His expression changed instantly as he felt the terrifying Spiritual Fluctuation within that wave of Spiritual Power.
The invisible spiritual pressure instantly silenced the previously chatty Fei Lie.
At the same time, thick billows of black mist suddenly appeared before him.
A figure cloaked entirely in black bizarrely emerged from the mist. It caught Lü Xiuning’s head just an instant before it hit the beetle’s back, then grabbed the headless corpse and vanished back into the fog.
WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!
After a few quick movements, Fei Lin returned to the back of the Storm Butterfly, carrying Lü Xiuning’s body.
"Teacher Lü... I’m sorry. I was too late."
Han Ning gazed at Teacher Lü’s bruised, silent face as tears streamed from his eyes.
He cradled Lü Xiuning’s corpse as the true form of the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm shot out from his body and burrowed into Lü Xiuning’s.
At Han Ning’s command, the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm let out a painful wail as its body split into two. One section burrowed into Lü Xiuning’s chest, temporarily taking the place of his heart and beginning to beat.
The other section shot into Lü Xiuning’s head, where it erupted with vigorous Blood Qi to restore circulation to his brain.
Just like when Han Ning himself had been beheaded, countless scarlet threads shot out between the head and body, stitching Lü Xiuning’s head back onto his neck.
BA-DUMP~ BA-DUMP~
Thanks to the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm, Lü Xiuning’s heart, which had stopped, began to beat once more.
The bruised pallor of his face improved slightly.
But... what Han Ning had hoped for didn’t happen.
With his Spiritual Power nearing the peak of Tier Two, he could clearly sense that the Spiritual Fluctuation in Teacher Lü’s brain remained as still as a stagnant pond...
’Thank you, All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm. You’ve done all you can.’
Though he had braced himself for it, Han Ning’s expression was still incredibly grim as he looked upon the scene.
He wiped the tears from his face, shielded Teacher Lü’s body with his own, and stared with an icy gaze at the approaching insect swarm... and at the academy, which had become a sea of flames.
Without the slightest hesitation, his Tier Two Spiritual Power became fuel and began to "burn" fiercely.
Egg Pancake, flying at the forefront, and Yin Yi, standing on its back, both sensed their master’s rage. A terrifying Spiritual Pressure erupted from them, sweeping indiscriminately in all directions.
Even the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm, having just completed its repairs, disregarded the damage to its own body, burrowed back into Fei Lin, and vanished into the black mist.
