Chapter 234: The Inner Demon Brought by the Bizarre Creature

"Looks like I arrived at just the right time!"

Illusory flames enveloped the entire underground, but Zhiwei felt no burning.

These illusory flames were not as scorching as the blazing sun, yet they carried a comforting warmth and purity.

Zhiwei felt her body infused with new firepower under the flames, as if she herself were being refined within the fire.

Her previously withered body regained health, and the chilling aura was swept away, making Zhiwei feel she had returned to the mortal world.

In fact, she truly had returned to the material realm.

As a nexus between the spirit realm and the material realm, this place easily pulls people into the spirit realm, especially beings like Zhiwei with innate high perception.

If Mu Yi had been delayed even a moment, Zhiwei would already have been devoured completely by the bizarre creature.

Mu Yi looked at Zhiwei with curiosity; he hadn't noticed before, but when he used his Thousand-mile Eye, he immediately saw the extraordinary aura surrounding Zhiwei.

Simply put, Zhiwei is a destiny‑born child endowed with great atmospheric fortune.

Previously Mu Yi couldn't perceive qi flow, but now he can clearly see the manifestation of Zhiwei's destiny behind her—a phoenix spreading its wings.

"Can you still move?"

Zhiwei stared blankly at Mu Yi, and only when she heard his voice did she snap back to awareness.

"I can…"

Then Zhiwei fainted...

Although her bodily strength was gradually recovering, the taut nerves relaxed the instant Mu Yi arrived, causing Zhiwei to slip into unconsciousness.

Glancing at the unconscious Zhiwei, Mu Yi sensed she was not seriously injured, but leaving these people here was not an option.

"Chuyi!"

Mu Yi softly called his companion; thanks to the Zongnet contract, he can summon Chuyi at any time.

"Take care of them; I'll go handle this trouble!"

A holy sword materialized in Mu Yi's hand, and with a casual slash at the void, the phantom realm created by the bizarre creature shattered instantly.

This is the border between the material realm and the spirit realm; the bizarre creature has not fully entered the material realm, and can only, like a lantern fish, drag patients who entered the hospital basement to this border, then siphon their essence and spirit.

When the phantom realm shattered, the true form of the bizarre creature was revealed.

A massive meatball, its single eye glaring angrily, stared at Mu Yi.

Upon closer inspection, one would notice that the single eye is composed of countless tiny eyes fused together.

Its body is covered with thread‑like tentacles, and the tips of those tentacles also consist of composite single eyes.

They are densely packed, connected like a honeycomb; a single glance makes one feel nauseous and uneasy.

"Because it entered the material realm, it was partially assimilated by it?"

Mu Yi looked at the colossal beast before him and curled his lip in disgust.

Disorder and chaos were displayed to the fullest on this bizarre creature; a single glance made it clear that such a thing was certainly not benign.

"If you intend to come into the material realm, then come!" Mu Yi sneered briefly, then spread his arms.

"Reincarnation!"

Space warped in an instant, and the massive bizarre creature and Mu Yi vanished from the hospital, leaving Chuyi crouching in place, gathering the earth‑vein's power to gently nurture those whose essence had been drained by the creature.

If left unattended, these people would likely fall gravely ill, and in severe cases could die outright.

"I've been curious for a long time—what kind of power I can unleash on the main stage."

Mu Yi reflexively reached for his formation blade, only to grasp at nothing and remember that he no longer had a blade.

Silently withdrawing his hand, he clasped the holy sword in both hands.

"Roar!"

The meatball‑like bizarre creature roared at Mu Yi, its roar interlaced with a strange mental attack.

Ignoring the mental assault, Mu Yi swung the holy sword at the creature with a heavy, forceful slash.

Against such evil, chaotic beings, the holy sword grants a very high extra bonus.

At Mu Yi's speed, before the meatball evil thing could react, he rushed to its front and hammered down with the holy sword.

"Clang!"

The bizarre texture, though it resembled a slippery marine creature, felt as hard as granite when the holy sword struck.

The bizarre creature defied material‑realm rules; it appeared soft‑bodied, yet its body hardness was extremely high.

However, Mu Yi, on the main stage of Reincarnation, was an even more incomprehensible presence; he swiftly adjusted his posture, his body forming a subtle organic coordination, and a chilling force radiated from his muscles through the holy sword!

Holy light also burst in synchronized time, and terrifying power exploded across the meatball evil's body, tearing its flesh instantly!

A massive scar appeared on the bizarre meatball's body, bearing the burn mark of holy light; countless granulation tissue sprouted from the wound, healing the injury in the blink of an eye.

Mu Yi frowned; this subtle sense of déjà vu reminded him of the Xiang Liu he had just ground to death, whose nauseating speed of life recovery was the same.

Although the bizarre creature possesses a material body, that body is not a flesh-and-blood being in the ordinary sense, but a product of its own existence fused with the material realm.

In fact, aside from the flesh, as a special monster whose essence is active in the spirit realm, the evil thing primarily powers its material body with a semi‑material, semi‑spiritual force derived from some kind of mental energy.

Thus, this thing before him resembles elemental life; it has no vital point, and only by exhausting its power can it be destroyed.

"Aoo!"

Intense pain caused the bizarre creature to go berserk!

Zhiwei's attacks could not even draw its attention, but Mu Yi's strike truly damaged its core.

It wildly waved its countless tentacles, aimlessly lashing the surroundings, while rolling to charge at Mu Yi!

Although bizarre creatures always appear with corruption and scheming, their primitive chaotic minds tend more toward beasts and plants.

Inability to control themselves is their norm, which also makes their whereabouts easy to detect.

And those bizarre, evil spirits that can lurk and cause trouble through scheming are high‑level beings; by material‑realm standards, they are at least a Legend creature.

And the one before Mu Yi, though it possessed some awareness, was not truly a high‑level bizarre being; the moment it was wounded it fell into disordered chaos and could no longer control itself.

The sky‑filled tentacles were all cut off by Mu Yi's Holy Sword, which bore Holy Light, in a few swings.

The bizarre creature let out an angry roar while continuing to attack Mu Yi.

Yet the tentacle attacks were feeble before Mu Yi; this chaotic assault could not pierce the sword net he wielded.

"Aoo!"

The bizarre creature suddenly let out a sky‑ward howl; all its eyes emitted eerie spiritual power, and countless gazes instantly enveloped every area around Mu Yi, the twisted force seeming to try to plunge him into slumber.

The myriad composite eyes of the bizarre creature radiated poisonous spiritual energy, even more potent than Medusa's petrifying gaze, serving as its best aid in hunting prey.

Zongwang Prompt frantically refreshed messages; creatures locked by this power must repeatedly make will checks to stay conscious.

"Enemy mental attack detected, with corrosive effect; performing will check…"

"Check succeeded: you are immune to this spell effect, but you still must endure the full damage from the attack."

"You are immune to the enemy's mental damage…"

"Performing will check…"

Because the information was too dense, Mu Yi temporarily blocked it.

Although the bizarre creature's power is indeed strange, it has no effect on Mu Yi.

In the Reincarnation Land, Mu Yi, empowered by Reincarnation state, is immune to all negative conditions; unless the entire Reincarnation is shaken, trying to control him here is a dream.

"That's kind of disgusting!"

Although he suffered no effect, Mu Yi, as a normal human, still felt a sense of nausea.

"Hell Path!"

Mu Yi sheathed his Holy Sword; the test ended, and now it is judgment time.

From his brief testing, any existence below Legend can be single‑handedly eliminated by him in the Reincarnation Land.

If the blade were still intact, he'd be interested in letting this guy practice with it; unfortunately the blade is broken, and this creature looks far too much like Xiang Liu, so Mu Yi now just wants to erase it as quickly as possible to prevent unpleasant memories from surfacing.

Illusory flames burned across the heavens and earth.

Unlike the flames within the Barrier, the fire burning in the Reincarnation Land is bone‑piercing and icy.

The Hell Path flames inside the Barrier are the smoldering will‑fire Mu Yi ignites from his soul, whereas the fire in the Reincarnation Land is the nether fire linked to the Underworld's gloom.

Nether power from the hidden veins of mountains and rivers converged in the Hell Path among the Six Paths, now radiating a chilling force.

The bizarre creature's massive body began to stiffen and chill at a visibly rapid pace, not as if scorched by flame but as if covered by ice.

The waving tentacles froze mid‑air, and even the ever‑emanating spiritual ripples from the bizarre evil entity's body came to a standstill.

"Seal!"

Mu Yi clasped his hands together, and an invisible pressure instantly descended upon the immobilized bizarre evil entity.

A tremendous roar sounded as the massive body of the bizarre creature suddenly plummeted.

It was as if a tomato were tossed into a fifty‑times‑gravity environment, crushed by its own weight onto the ground, oozing an indescribable fluid.

Countless chains reached out from the Animal Realm, and the bizarre creature would be suppressed into the Animal Realm, continuously ground down by the power of Reincarnation until it fully merged, offering all its life and soul to fuel Reincarnation.

Freed from the nether fire, the bizarre creature thrashed wildly, emitting an earth‑shaking wail, as some invisible spiritual force seemed to violently spread through the air!

Burst after burst, each seemingly capable of raising towering waves, yet none could ever sway the chains' restraint.

The bizarre creature twisted desperately, but under the slow suppression of the chains it could only sink deeper into the Animal Realm.

With Mu Yi's palm pressing down gradually, the bizarre creature wailed as it fell into the Animal Realm; the chains grew denser until, at last, the creature was entirely enshrouded, like an insect sealed in amber.

"Seal!"

Amid the final wail, the bizarre creature fell into eternal silence.

"It's over!" Mu Yi calmly gazed at the Reincarnation Land now shrouded in silence.

He could feel the bizarre creature being continuously ground down by the Reincarnation Land, its power then poured into the Reincarnation Barrier.

"Never thought it could be like this!"

Mu Yi clicked his tongue in amazement; if he could replicate this incident and lure more bizarre evil spirits, perhaps his Barrier would grow faster.

A bizarre creature not inferior to the one that challenged the boss Xiang Liu in the Dungeon made no splash in the Reincarnation Land, being easily crushed by Mu Yi like an ant.

"Zongwang Prompt: You sealed a powerful creature, completing its Reincarnation rebirth; you gained massive special class experience!"

"Absorbing and digesting the powerful creature, the Animal Realm gains experience boost!"

"Zongwang Prompt: You killed a chaotic creature; based on the enemy's level, you received a 5000‑point Universal Experience kill reward."

"Because you killed an alien‑invading creature, you earned a Jiuzhou Awareness commendation and received a small amount of merit!"

"Plane consciousness detected attempting energy infusion; performing judgment…"

"Judgment concluded; pursuant to Plane Regulation Article 479, accepted."

"Based on your kill event, you received a Plane gift; your maximum HP has received a slight permanent increase."

As warm currents kept flowing in, Mu Yi could feel his vitality being somewhat reinforced.

Although, compared to Mu Yi's current vitality, this boost seemed negligible, it was still an extra gain.

The abundant harvest made Mu Yi suddenly realize why the Jiuzhou Heavenly Court is eager to eradicate all manner of demons and monsters, making resistance to alien foes their top priority.

Just the thought of such a rich reward moves no one's heart.

Mu Yi even entertained the notion of letting bizarre evil spirits spread unchecked, then harvesting them worldwide.

But the thought was instantly cut down by Mu Yi himself; though he's no saint, not a Holy Warrior, he still claims to be a kind person.

He would never commit such evil deeds as inviting wolves in or raising tigers as a menace.

And as Mu Yi's spiritual world shifted, new prompt messages refreshed on his retina:

"You have completed a spiritual choice; undergoing spiritual ascension…"

"Based on the intensity of the temptation you faced (epic level), your spiritual realm has gained a certain growth (the degree of increase based on the character's current spiritual realm)."

"Due to the advancement of your spiritual realm, your perception attribute has increased; current perception is 28!"

Mu Yi nodded at everything he was thinking, he just... Is this giving rise to a heart demon?

Indeed, the notion of raising strange creatures is a terrifying greed; even though he easily eliminated it, it still had an effect on him.

(End of chapter)