Chapter 383: “Hmm? Trying to run?”
“You’re the ones forcing me!!”
The Pale Man gave up on dodging, charging straight at the ambushing righteous cultivators. Even as his left arm and half his shoulder were cut off mid-stride, he didn’t retreat a single step. Instead, his body rapidly expanded, and in an instant, an enormous surge of Spirit Power and Demon Energy erupted from his body.
“Watch out!”
At his injury site, a turbulent mix of Spirit Power and Demon Energy sprayed out, morphing instantly into a new ‘shoulder and arm’. Or rather, more like a long, gleaming Blade.
He swung the Blade directly at the nearby cultivator. The cultivator hurriedly tried to block, but the sturdy sword shattered in less than a second. If he hadn’t taken a hurried step back, he’d probably be halves by now.
Even so, his upper body bore a deep wound.
The Pale Man lifted the bl**d-stained ‘Blade’, licked his lips with his tongue, and a wild, crazed smile spread across his face — seemingly crazier than before: “Delicious!”
“What the heck is that thing?”
The nearby cultivator swallowed hard. He’d never seen such a bizarre demonic way.
Hiding in the shadows, Bai Feng frowned slightly. Clearly, the immortal’s finger was off. If it had just been cut from an immortal… well, no matter how strange an immortal’s finger was, it shouldn’t turn a cultivator fused with that finger into such a monstrous mess.
This was already crossing the line into abnormal behavior!
“The formation is ready, prepare to strike.”
Bai Feng turned to Bai Yu Mo and Yun Yue Yao, who looked eager as a puppy.
This time, he didn’t use the Extermination Sword Array. After all, they were currently inside a formation. Setting up a new one would take too much time. So he decided to activate the Medicine Garden’s formation instead.
Even though the Medicine Garden’s formation was mainly defensive, it was enough to deal with a muddle-headed Transformation God Stage cultivator.
At this moment, the man who had lost his humanity was single-handedly beating all the other cultivators here. He almost completely abandoned defense — even if swords chopped off his head, he could instantly grow a new one. But this new head had no features; just a flat face with three empty holes.
Faced with a foe that couldn’t be killed no matter what, the ragtag team quickly lost their nerve.
“Is that all you’ve got? Just you chickens dare to k*ll me?!” the madly laughing foe roared, his voice echoing with insanity. “Who else can k*ll me?!”
Suddenly, a flash of sword light streaked across. In an instant, his limbs and his head were all sliced off simultaneously. Although his face was just a flat plane, his abrupt silence hinted at his surprise.
“It’s Bai Sister — we’re saved!”
“Such a genius with a Celestial Bone, she cut through that stubborn enemy with a single sword.”
“Wait—what’s that demonic cultivator? He’s not dead yet!”
Next moment, a large gush of liquid spurted from his right arm’s wound. Moments later, he reappeared before everyone, but his form was even more deformed. Sharp Bone Spikes jutted out from his back, and except for his right hand, he no longer looked human at all.
“Incredible… but useless to me,” he sneered.
He turned his head toward Bai Yu Mo and the others behind Bai Feng. Suddenly he halted, his hollow face fixed on Bai Feng. Then, with his hollow mouth splitting open, he burst into a wicked laugh:
“Must be the scent of other fingers. Haha… heh heh heh!! My luck’s great — if I swallow you, I’ll become even stronger!”
“Stop him.”
Bai Feng didn’t waste words. Immediately, he called upon the power of the Medicine Garden’s formation.
In the next second, the pallid man froze as if caught in a binding spell. Several golden chains emerged from all directions, swiftly entangling his malformed body to reinforce his imprisonment. Bai Feng felt it wasn’t quite enough, so he activated the formation again. Suddenly, the muddy ground beneath began to melt into Liquid, which reached out and dragged his legs underground.
While Bai Feng ensnared the Pale Man, Bai Yu Mo was not idle. She raised her sword and lunged straight at the Pale Man’s right hand.
The Pale Man wanted to resist, but under the formation’s constraints, he couldn’t even move a finger. Despite his best effort, his hands merely struggled free from the chains.
But that did nothing — in the next moment, his right hand was sliced clean off along with five fingers.
The severed fingers did not hit the ground; instead, they blasted away at high speed toward the distance.
Bai Yu Mo didn’t chase. Instead, she retracted her sword into her scabbard.
Those fleeing fingers suddenly stopped mid-air, then, in a flash, fragmented into tiny pieces less than a centimeter wide, dissolving into the flames that flickered below. The fragments, cut into bits, shot back upward and scattered in all directions.
“Hmm? Trying to escape?”
Yun Yue Yao, already prepared, swung her sword at the little fleeing chunks. She only made one slash, but all the pieces felt like the sword was heading straight for them — and they couldn’t dodge.
Strangely, the pieces seemed to dodge at first, but then bizarrely collided with the blade, as if they sought to slam into it deliberately.
This time, they could not avoid it. Roaring flames engulfed and obliterated the tiny pieces, reducing them further.
“Is that from Lady Tian Yan’s inheritance?”
Bai Feng watched with some amazement. Unfortunately, the inheritance of Fairy Tian Yan was closely tied to the Holy Land of Tian Yan. He had previously tried to study Tian Yan Fairy’s swordsmanship but found it impossible — it wasn’t just a sword technique; it was more like a method of deduction, and the sword was just a tool.
【Alert: New residual special energy detected. Successfully absorbed. Progress increased by 10.3%.】
“Huh? That’s 2% more than last time — seems every finger’s situation varies a bit.”
White Feng murmured internally as system prompts popped up. Then, he looked a bit more at Bai Yu Mo.
Her contribution this round was the greatest. He hadn’t expected her to shatter an immortal’s finger with a single sword strike — remember, that was just from the remains of an immortal! Even after years, it wasn’t so easy to cut apart.
Just as he was marveling, he suddenly felt his clothes grasped. Turning his head, he saw Bai Yu Mo leaning on him, slightly exhausted.
“……”
Seems not so easy after all.
No wonder she immediately retracted her sword — probably out of stamina.
White Feng chuckled lightly, offering a hand to her shoulder: “Next time, don’t push yourself too hard. It’s not like it’ll grow wings and fly away. Just slowly wear it out.”
“I know my limits…”
Bai Yu Mo quietly retorted, but her small face was lightly pinched.
“If you had any sense, you wouldn’t be like this right now,” White Feng said, lowering his hand from her face. With many people around, he’d wait until they were alone to scold her properly. “We’ll talk when we get back.”
“That’s because I still have you and Yue Yao.”
Bai Yu Mo lowered her head, whispering. If it were just her and White Feng, she wouldn’t do this.
And she really wanted that Storage Ring White Feng had used.
