NOVEL NEXT Chapter 8: I see you're playing with a modifier on.
"*Cough! Cough!*"
"This thing is really tough-skinned and thick-fleshed..."
A petite figure staggered to her feet on the ground, wiped a bit of blood from the corner of her mouth, and her crimson blood-colored pupils were filled with a glint of excitement.
"However, it's just right. I'm in need of a punching bag like this."
*Whoosh!*
In the next moment, the petite figure in red clothes emanated wisps of violent blood qi all over her body and rushed into the temple again in an instant with the sound of breaking through the air.
Constantly surging from within were mighty aftershocks where the blood qi and Yin qi intertwined, making Shen Mu, who was hiding behind a withered giant tree, secretly click his tongue in wonder.
"*Tsk...*"
It's really not going as one wishes. Why are there always accidents that disrupt my plans wherever I go?
However... Judging from the blood qi that little girl burst out with and her appearance and attire, she seems to be a character that only appears in the middle stage of the game.
Could it be...
A rather ominous guess emerged in Shen Mu's mind.
"*Damn it... Now it's really going to be like snatching food from the tiger's mouth...*"
At the thought that he might have to face a difficult-to-deal-with demonic cultivator next, Shen Mu felt a headache.
...
"*Aah!*"
Before long, an angry roar that resounded through the mountain stream shattered the temple, sending up several zhang of gray dust that submerged the surroundings.
In the center of the broken walls and ruins, two figures, one big and one small, were locked in a fierce confrontation, evenly matched in terms of physical strength.
"This is what makes it fun!"
Accompanied by that extremely excited, youthful, and tender female voice, the blood qi around the petite figure in red clothes began to burn like a raging fire!
In an instant, the blood-colored flames quickly spread to the entire body of the white-haired corpse ghost that was about three zhang tall, with a blue face and ferocious fangs.
Making its candle-like eyes suddenly shrink, bloodshot, and both of its thick arms covered with white hair made crackling sounds as if they were being burned.
Even if it had a body as tough as bronze and iron, it couldn't withstand the burning of the blood flames.
"*Urgh!*"
The corpse ghost let out a painful howl, its arm strength gradually weakened, and it no longer resisted the petite figure in front of it.
And that petite red-clothed loli seized this opportunity and directly threw a pink fist that seemed to contain tremendous power, sending the corpse ghost flying hundreds of meters away.
It kept rolling on the ground until it crashed into a giant tree and finally came to a stop.
"Now I have another pet."
The red-clothed loli clapped her hands, and her small, delicately carved face smiled slightly. In an instant, she leaped to the side of the now silent corpse ghost to check on its condition.
At this time.
Shen Mu also seized the opportunity, activated the Cloud-Treading Footwork, and like the silently floating clouds, quietly slipped into the collapsed and damaged temple.
While that guy still has a second stage, I have to quickly enter the treasure-hiding place and get that thing. Otherwise, if they keep fighting endlessly, there will be more accidents.
While keeping an eye on the red-clothed loli's movements out of the corner of his eye, he quietly searched around for the entrance to the treasure-hiding place located under the lair.
...
"*Rumble...*"
After a while, the ground began to rumble as if a large number of unknown creatures were surging up from underground and quickly gathering in the direction where the corpse ghost had fallen.
And Lin Yuhe, who was fighting fiercely on the periphery, frowned slightly when she saw the human corpses in front of her like a tide disappearing underground one after another.
"Is he that fast?"
[*It seems that when I first met that kid, he was hiding something.*]
Lin Yuhe looked in the central direction of the deserted village, narrowed her eyes slightly, closed them, and concentrated on sensing the movement of the Yin qi around her.
"!"
"No, this is the corpse ghost starting its second stage."
As a player who had cleared this immortal cultivation game, Lin Yuhe still had some understanding of the mechanisms of some bosses and elite monsters in the game dungeons.
The convergence trend of this Yin qi and the abnormal behavior of the human corpses were clearly signs that the guy was starting its desperate and violent stage.
"I have to hurry up and help him!"
In its violent stage, this thing's strength could reach the Foundation Establishment Realm. With his current strength, he would either die or be seriously injured.
"*Whoosh!*"
With that said, the crimson spiritual wind around Lin Yuhe gradually grew fierce and turned into a golden afterimage as she quickly rushed towards the center of the deserted village.
...
At this moment.
The red-clothed loli looked at the white-haired corpse ghost in front of her that was shrouded in a large amount of pitch-black Yin qi and was growing taller and taller as it absorbed one human corpse after another. There was a bit of surprise in her blood-red eyes.
"So you still have such a trump card?"
There was no fear in her eyes at all. Instead, she was rather interested and waiting for it to enter its next form.
It seemed that she was quite confident that she could completely subdue it.
However, in the next instant, her figure was sent flying over a hundred zhang away by the airwave released when the corpse ghost completed its transformation!
She directly crashed into a huge rock, coughed up a large mouthful of blood, and her internal organs were all displaced.
"Hmm?"
Shen Mu, who witnessed all this, remained calm and jumped straight down into the dug black hole...
After a while, he landed in a vast and dark underground space.
"*Snap!*"
Shen Mu snapped his fingers, and a bright red spiritual fire ignited in his palm, illuminating most of the space.
It could be seen that all around him were piles of gold and silver treasures that glimmered with a faint light, countless in number, as if he had stepped into a mountain of gold, silver, and jewels.
"*Heh... What a pity.*"
Shen Mu turned a blind eye to these large amounts of treasures, easily leaped over those mountains of gold and silver, and rushed straight to the deepest part of this underground space.
In an inconspicuous corner, he found a square black block with clear edges and corners.
It looked completely ordinary, without emitting any spiritual qi, just like an ordinary black iron block that could be seen everywhere in a mine.
Even the feel of it when picked up was as heavy as an ore, no different from other iron and stone minerals.
However, it was precisely such a half-palm-sized "black iron block" that Shen Mu had been longing for for a long time.
"Finally got you..."
Looking at the black block in his hand, sincere joy flowed in Shen Mu's eyes. Without a second thought, he bit his fingertip and dropped a bright red drop of blood in the center of it.
The blood visibly seeped into the block, and the surface began to show straight and crisscrossing sky-blue patterns, dividing it into identical square areas.
Then in an instant, the black block split into countless fragments along those patterns, surrounding Shen Mu like stars arranged in the sky.
"Now... I finally have a decent trump card too."
"*Rumble!*"
Before long, the entire underground space started to shake violently, with some small stones and dust falling down, as if it was about to collapse.
He knew that the guy had discovered that a "mouse" had sneaked into its treasure-hiding place.
"Time to finish this task."
Shen Mu's face remained calm all along. With a slight thought, the black fragments surrounding him combined and condensed into a pitch-black longsword that glinted with an extremely sharp and cold light under the illumination of the fire...
...
Among the broken walls and ruins on the ground.
The corpse ghost in its violent form had a body surface as pale as cold iron, its white hair had fallen off, and its height had increased to about ten zhang, like a human-shaped hill.
At this moment, it was crazily smashing and trampling on the ground, having already smashed out a huge deep pit, determined to shake out that "mouse".
In a shallow pit not far away, the red-haired loli was lying there with disheveled hair, blood at the corner of her mouth, and covered in dust.
Her vitality had been beaten to a weak state.
"How can I help him now..."
Lin Yuhe, standing on a withered tree, looked at the second-stage corpse ghost that was as big as a hill and didn't know how to make a move for a moment.
There was no other reason. The defense of this thing in the second stage was too high. The magic treasures in her hands currently couldn't cause much damage at all.
Maybe I should ask that newly appointed master for help. At least if she comes, there should be no problem in saving his life.
Lin Yuhe felt powerless and finally decided to call for help to deal with this guy.
"It seems that your understanding of this world is still a bit shallow after all."
A calm and clear voice rang out. In an instant, a black figure nimbly flashed on the corpse ghost's body and leaped into the air from its shoulder in just two breaths!
Then, with a flash of the pitch-black and sharp sword light, it was like a heavenly blade for beheading falling from the sky, slashing down sharply from the back of the corpse ghost's neck!
"*Whoosh!*"
In an instant, the black blood tinged with a bit of dark green spilled like flying flowers, continuously sprinkling on the ground along with the falling blue-faced and fanged head.
"Don't even know the weak point that can cause the highest damage to it. I think you were playing with cheats, right?"
Shen Mu, who landed steadily on the ground, casually teased Lin Yuhe on the treetop.
Behind him, the headless corpse ghost's body that was like a small hill also crashed to the ground with a "*Rumble!*", and a large amount of black blood flowed out from the neat cut.
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