Chapter 308: Blood Rain Ba Serpent

At first, it was just a wisp of shrill whistling in the gale, like intermittent wails and sobs, bringing signs of evil.

But when that bottle covered in cracks completely shattered, infinite darkness boiled and surged into the sky in an instant, like a vortex eruption. Tangible Sin-Tainted pollution rose into the firmament, merging into this cruel and narrow world.

And then, everything became completely different.

When the last trace of faint light was thoroughly obscured, the lightning flashing in the clouds couldn't illuminate the gloomy surroundings. Only the shrill sound of the wind echoed in the dead, silent mountains.

Even the disaster beasts hibernated in their caves, unwilling to appear, or perhaps, they felt the threat...

The thick rain curtain that had once covered the sky began to thin out at some point, but there was no warmth or relief to be seen. The drizzling rain carried an increasingly strange, sorrowful cry, falling like tears.

The rain falling toward the earth turned pitch black.

In the pitch black, wisps of scarlet rose. Falling on people, it brought a bone-chilling cold, staining the fingertips with a layer of indelible scarlet.

The rain was like a living thing. Falling into Ji Jue's palm, it actually began to wriggle rapidly, converging with each other. The strange chill and aura quickly eroded along the skin toward the inner fascia, bones, and internal organs. Pure malice dripped, eroding the soul.

It was as if, in an instant, he had left the present world and fallen beneath the vortex.

Ji Jue closed his five fingers, expressionless. The heat of the Furnace Blood flashed and vanished, burning away all the chill and erosion, but he felt the malice and covetousness that were everywhere in the world.

The sky, the earth, the mountains, and even the wind blowing in his face seemed to have been endowed with strange deformities amidst the irrigation of the rain, hungrily wanting to prey on all targets.

Amidst the rain curtain falling like countless wriggling worms, one eerie shadow after another flickered in and out of the darkness—like crying children, women wailing with their faces covered, or twisted, grotesque non-human things. Everything once submerged in the disaster emerged from it entirely; resentment and curses swirled within the rain, entangling in thousands of threads upon every trace of supreme goodness, yearning to drag everything into the same hell as themselves.

The whole world had become his enemy.

"Brother Ji Jue, be careful—"

At this moment, An Ning had already jumped onto the car, as if her whole body was bristling. The pure Bai Lu aura manifested from her soul, resisting the Sin-Tainted erosion.

But immediately after, she saw Ji Jue actually taking the initiative to walk outside the rock cave into the blood rain?

"It's fine, this level of pollution is still within the tolerable range."

In the blood rain, Ji Jue felt the curses and resentment lingering. His breathing was steady. He caught a drop of rain, and the matrix of Non-Aggression manifested from his palm, spreading.

Refined by hand.

From the invisible flame of the Furnace Blood, the rain suspended above his palm evaporated rapidly, dissociated, and then, strangely swelled, like an endless blood spring, scarlet gushing and spreading.

"The vortex is still very far away, and the stability of the present world has not been shaken. In other words, it wasn't a rift to the vortex opened directly from the present world, but a certain part beneath the vortex was moved to the present world in some way?"

No, even Heaven-Humans wouldn't be so insane. The barrier between the vortex and the present world wasn't that simple, not to mention the existence of the 'lock' in the mouth of the old bastard Tianlu...

From his brief contemplation, he had already made an inference: "It should be some kind of disaster that happened in the present world, which was sealed and stored by an Awakened of the Gate of Eternity, and now released separately... Comparing it by characteristics, it should be the 【Blood Rain Disaster】 that happened in the northern part of the Central Plains more than forty years ago?"

Forty-three years ago, the Massacre of the Iron Bang, the genocide launched by the Sacrifice King of the Red Bang, resulted in the genocide of more than one million foreigners in three cities within six days. The subsequent organized massacre lasted for four years.

Bones blocked the river channels, blood water burst the banks and overflowed, the thick smoke from the incinerators burned day and night, the flames of burning never ceased, and hundreds of miles were filled with a nauseating scorched stench that didn't dissipate for decades.

And the terrifying disaster born in such a human hell was the blood rain that flowed endlessly amidst wails and cries.

What he saw before him at this moment was not even a fraction, not even one in ten thousand.

But what could be more suitable as a weapon than such a Sin-Tainted disaster?

It was truly a genius idea.

It made Ji Jue couldn't help but applaud.

At this moment, as the disaster borrowed this downpour to return and reappear from the present world, the entire interior of Kunwu was shrouded in infinite scarlet, with no way to escape.

Every trace of supreme goodness would be targeted and suppressed, and all living things would be rendered unrecognizable amidst the erosion of sin-tainted distortion. Even the most troublesome opponents, facing the overwhelming blood rain and erosion, could only struggle in vain and gradually sink...

As for the infinite future troubles? There was no need to care at all!

It was just...

"How strange."

Ji Jue looked up in confusion, whispering, "Why is there someone adding buffs to the opponent before the battle?"

That moment, amidst the echo of the wailing and crying rain, he stared at the blood-weeping firmament. On that indifferent, calm cheek, a smile suddenly curled up.

It made An Ning instinctively hold her breath.

Her whole body was cold.

It looked full of joy, but it had no temperature or substance.

It was like a crack gradually spreading, revealing the bottomless void behind it.

Crack!

It seemed like another invisible chain had been unlocked. The weak illusions and disguises shattered and dissolved amidst the washing of the rain. The tangible Great Sin aura manifested in the void, descended, and flowed around Ji Jue.

From that body, burning flames seemed to rise. Blood fire danced, expanded, and gushed out.

The Mo Xie silent in the Dragon Blood Sheath shook violently without warning, clanging, but it was hard to distinguish whether it was excitement or trembling.

An Ning instinctively took a step back. When she came to her senses, her palm was pressed on the Ku Zhou in her arms, her hair standing on end.

Abyss, White Hall, Mad Slaughter, Stagnant Rot, Ghost Frost—

At this moment, accompanied by the blood fire flowing on Ji Jue's body, the tangible Great Sin aura manifested from the void, outlining strange emblems. In the flickering, heavy changes, the love that ordinary Sin-worshippers dreamed of actually manifested on the body of a Supreme Virtue Awakened.

It even included the Unborn Tower that seemed to reach the sky in the shadows, and even the strange beast looking back hungrily in the long night of the wasteland.

—Wolf!!!

But the next moment, everything disappeared. The blood fire and Great Sin converged, as if it were a hallucination.

Only the blood rain all over the sky suddenly opened from the center. The wails and countless phantoms scattered in fear, as if they didn't dare to approach that returning figure.

"Don't worry, it's just a small problem."

Ji Jue reached out and rubbed her hair: "Mere blood rain, it doesn't constitute an obstacle."

For a moment, An Ning wanted to speak but stopped.

But the palm pressed on the top of her head had a touch that was so familiar, without any change.

The temperature remained.

It made the shock and unease dissipate without a trace, never to be seen again.

Soon, in Ji Jue's hands, mercury flowed, reconstructed, and intertwined into a light bracelet, which was fastened to her wrist, replacing her to bear the erosion of pollution, isolating deformity and Sin-Tainted.

"Get ready."

Ji Jue released his hand, and a smile appeared on his blood-stained face.

"It's been a long time since it was this easy."

He said, "I can't wait to thank them."

In the deepest part of the blood rain, the earth shook, and amidst the movement of countless disaster beasts, strange and ferocious outlines rose from between the mountains.

Roaring!

Three minutes ago, when the disaster in the bottle was completely released, the culprit Gao Cheng, watching such a scene, couldn't help but have his expression change.

Even in countless imaginations, the most exaggerated scene couldn't compare to the ferocious appearance of the blood rain pouring down at this moment.

"It's your turn."

He turned his head and glanced at Lu Yang behind him, and the box with layers of seals in Lu Yang's hand, "Blood Rain Disaster... it goes well with this piece of bait."

The Entropy-rank navigator beside Lu Yang's expression changed, subconsciously wanting to persuade, but unable to speak.

At this point, there was no way back. Either win, or die!

That was all.

What else was there to hesitate about?

Slap!

A shattering sound rang out. Lu Yang pinched the pitch-black box to pieces, revealing its contents—a rotting, foul-smelling, strange tumor!

It didn't know how many deformed tissues were intertwined and grown together, becoming this nauseating appearance. The sweet, foul-smelling, and rotting aura spread in the wind, making others subconsciously take a step back.

What was even more hair-raising was that beneath that fist-sized tumor, there were still tissues slowly writhing, as if they hadn't died yet. Amidst the writhing flesh, faint wailing faces were formed, but they couldn't be seen clearly, constantly changing, as if countless evil spirits were gestating within.

Yet, in such a ferocious appearance, what it emitted was actually a pure life aura. Even the rotting, foul smell became sweet after smelling it for a long time.

On one hand, he instinctively wanted to vomit and stay away, but on the other hand, an uncontrollable appetite and desire surged in his heart, wanting to swallow it in big mouthfuls.

Two completely different feelings were mixed in his heart, conflicting with each other. Even if he stayed for a long time, it would make people completely crazy.

But at this moment, amidst the countless falling raindrops, everyone couldn't help but be stunned on the spot.

Rigid.

Wisps of light emerged from the air out of thin air, like the disturbance of an invisible water surface. The moment the bait appeared, the fish was attracted.

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Across the deep and blurry water waves in the void, a huge eye seemed to gradually emerge, leaning closer. The strange, lusterless pupil was empty, but it seemed to carry eternal hunger and greed.

Quietly looking down.

That was a... goldfish?!

At this moment, just by looking across the water waves, a single eye revealed from the distant darkness seemed to fill the entire world.

Just by staring, it brought a supreme suppression as if from the top of the food chain, making all living things tremble, unable to control themselves.

And as a Vortex-rank Awakened, Lu Yang, in front of the strongest and only remaining 【White Hall Sin】 in this world, could barely stand, about to lose his sanity.

The only thing he could do, the only thing he could do, was just as he had told himself countless times before, trembling, gathering courage, holding the 'bait' in his hand with one hand, toward the rippling water waves in the void.

The fish eye looked down indifferently. After a long time, it seemed to lean closer.

Open mouth—

Slap!

The bait in Lu Yang's hand disappeared out of thin air. Along with it, his hand, shoulder, and most of his body disappeared, swallowed in an instant!

But there was no gushing blood or shattered bones to be seen, and there wasn't even any wound. The incomplete Lu Yang fell to the ground wailing, the gap on his body was extremely smooth, without any scars, as if he had been born like this!

Thus, enjoying the small offering from the mortal, swallowing it whole, without even looking like it was carefully savoring it.

The fish finished the bait.

Amidst the flowing light, the behemoth in the darkness swung its body and left without any attachment.

Only in the earth-shattering tide after the water light, when the giant tail that seemed to fill the world was raised and waved, a tiny phosphorescence fell from it, flew out, and landed on Lu Yang's body.

Like a gift.

The moment the palm-sized fish scale touched the flesh, shrill roars and wails rose from the blood rain. The incomplete body swelled as if it were being inflated, flesh and blood proliferated endlessly, spreading, simply like a mountain of meat fountain, starting to surge at a speed that made people stare in tongue-tied amazement!

At the same time, the wails of giant disaster beasts sounded. Under the shroud of the blood rain, countless disaster beasts turned into shriveled skeletons out of thin air, died on the spot, and were sucked dry by the invisible giant mouth!

Amidst the growth and flesh explosions time and again, massive amounts of plasma and tissue gushed out.

Within just a few snaps of a finger, strange limbs had already spread and grown from his body, thousands of hands and feet, changing constantly.

Scales grew, spread, and spread.

In the end, it turned into a giant egg, which exploded with a bang.

Amidst the sky full of meat chunks and blood mist, a strange creature a few meters high walked out of it. Six limbs unfolded, a head like a human and a snake raised, toward the firmament, roaring loudly.

It looked like a mixture of a human and a giant snake, with vertical eyes, shooting out gloomy light.

The supreme evil thing recorded in the White Hall Record manifested here.

—【Ba Serpent】!

Amidst the writhing flesh all over his body, on the deformed face, Lu Yang's face gradually emerged, breathing in the fishy smell in the blood rain as if he were in his element.

The blessed creation on his neck shone, maintaining his sanity and soul.

"How does it feel?" Gao Cheng asked, looking up.

"Very good, very good!"

Lu Yang narrowed his eyes, feeling the near-endless life and power in his body, grinning crazily: "It's just... a bit hungry!"

—Hungry! Hungry! Hungry! Hungry! Hungry!!!!!

Blood eyes opened one by one from the deformed body of the Ba Serpent, looking in all directions. Then, the arms suddenly changed, shooting out like tentacles, crossing several miles, rolling up a giant snake writhing and hiding in the mud, pulling it violently.

The giant snake, hundreds of meters long, was actually dragged to his eyes.

Then, the flesh on the arms writhed, mouthparts emerged, and it unceremoniously sucked the struggling giant snake into an empty shell, then, gorged on it, quickly eating it all, but still unsatisfied.

The hungry gaze swept over his teammates, but fortunately, a little sanity remained, and he didn't open his mouth, or perhaps, it was purely out of fear of Gao Yue Chen, who was watching coldly from further away.

Only thick saliva kept seeping from his mouth, falling to the ground, hissing.

"Where is that Artisan?"

Lu Yang sniffed the blood Qi in the wind, hungry and unbearable.

It wasn't just hunger, but also fear.

The fish scales were assimilating him...

Unlike other Great Sins that had many subordinates, the Sin of the White Hall had only one. To be precise, there was only one fish.

The fish was eternally hungry, the fish was immortal. There were millions of fish in the world, but there could only be one such Sin. Before the second White Hall Sin was born—no, before it was born, it would be sensed by it, and then swallowed, integrated into that endless life that was fundamentally a curse.

Even if imprisoned beneath the vortex, it still couldn't allow anything similar to itself to exist.

Things of 'immortality' were destined to have only one. However, if one could be immortal, what was the meaning of the existence of any creature other than oneself?

The bait was just a temporary transaction. The life force that could be called endless in his body at this moment didn't belong to him at all, just a remnant of a fraction.

The longer the time, the more serious the assimilation would be, until he could no longer resist, was thoroughly dissolved, swallowed again, and became one of the billions of scales.

At this moment, suppressing the life and power in his body that was about to explode completely, Lu Yang laughed strangely: "I can't wait to give him a taste of his own medicine!"

Gao Cheng lowered his eyes, the matrix operated, and the perception spread along with the blood rain disaster he released, instantly shrouding everything.

Without any effort, he captured the traces left in the rock cave.

But immediately after, he felt an unexpected void.

The pervasive blood rain erosion actually failed there. No matter how he urged and urged, it was difficult to close, and instead, it sent him a kind of unspeakable fear. It was simply as if, the moment the blood rain fell, it had been annihilated by some terrifying thing!

Without any disguise, like a scorching furnace, it burned away all Sin-Tainted and pollution, wiped out all deformity, and created a hair-raising void in the blood rain disaster.

That position was right...

That moment, he stood frozen on the spot, turning his head in a daze.

—Behind himself?!

BOOM!!!

Lu Yang's head exploded suddenly.

Right behind them, on the blood rain mountains, Ji Jue lowered his eyes, pulled the trigger, staring at the headless corpse twitching on the ground in the scope.

Immediately after, following the explosion of the head, large swaths of scarlet, pale, and pitch-black colors spread from the blood, gushing, and falling into the mud pond of the earth.

"The color is average."

Ji Jue sighed, commenting: "Not very good-looking."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 309 =====