Chapter 176: 173: The Rot of the Human World

173: The Rot of the Human World

"When the Void Demon reveals its true body, people will swear that the Molting One's act of donning a Vessel to walk the Real World is a supreme mercy; when she takes off her exquisite 'woven' 'outer garment,' people will see the rot of the human world..." This statement is recorded in the Forbidden Book *On the Evolution of Molting*, treasured by the Inverted Sanctuary.

Faced with such a mad and grotesque sight, those present had their expressions change drastically.

Huge, twisted, rotting, evil, terrifying... what other adjectives should be used to describe this blasphemous thing that seemed to have been born from purgatory? This existence, which should not appear in the Real World, appeared before human eyes in its true form for the first time. To be precise, this was still only a part of the Void Demon's body; behind those thick clouds, it connected to a vast and chaotic different dimension, where the remaining majority of its body was hidden.

"Li Duojin, wake up!" Drake noticed that while everyone else seemed to have had their souls snatched away by that hideous thing, Li Duojin seemed not to notice; his reaction of attempting to commit murder became increasingly violent, his hands gripping the knife handle tightly, the tip of the blade aimed at Chen Xiaolin's eyes, charging toward her fiercely. He was the first to break free from the state of being distraught, immediately pouncing on Li Duojin to stop Li Duojin's actions.

Pinned down, Li Duojin glared with a pair of white eyes, struggling with all his might without fear of pain. Even though his hands were pressed down firmly by Drake, the instinct of his mind-lost self to desperately break free meant that even as he dislocated both shoulders during the struggle, he still did not show any trace of pain or any sign of his consciousness being revived by the stimulation of agony.

Yu Lianyun fell to her knees with a thud. As she completely unleashed her inspiration, this meant that the sensitivity and perception of her intangible "inspiration organs" were amplified to her current limit; what she could perceive far exceeded that of the others.

She seemed to have captured the complete appearance of the twisted thing hidden in that black cloud, which was entirely created by the devil based on the blasphemy of biological greatness and natural beauty, and could even hear the sinister and frantic ghostly inner voice of the Void Demon.

She wants to descend into this world, open the gate to the dimension where her mother is, let the great Inverted Creator dominate this world, and enslave this planet.

She also wants to collect the living beings of this world, devour them, obtain their bodies, and let them become her own Vessels. When she possesses the Vessels of all life in this universe, she will be the eternal one of this universe.

She wants, she still wants...

This greedy and twisted creature, her thoughts are as ugly and dark as her appearance, and her appetite is enormous.

Because of her intense inspiration, Yu Lianyun's soul briefly collided and resonated with the Void Demon's inner voice, which immediately caused a huge reaction in her body; she bled from her Seven Orifices uncontrollably, her bodily functions suffered inexplicable disorder, she began to convulse and twitch, and her mouth uncontrollably muttered the ghostly language that filled her mind.

Also in a bad state like Yu Lianyun was the reporter Chen Xiaolin, who was just an ordinary person. The first moment she saw the Void Demon's true form descend, her spirit felt as if it had been hit by an out-of-control speeding truck; she lost consciousness, her face bloodless, as if she were already dead, leaving only a stiff and tense "corpse."

Xin Junmao was also shocked by the Void Demon's true face. His body, trembling with fear, was gradually covered by blood-colored granulation. Soon, Miss Zhao, who was twice as large as normal, temporarily swallowed him into her body. The little-giant-like Miss Zhao roared toward the Void Demon in the sky, as if venting her dissatisfaction that the other party had harmed her beloved servant.

In an instant, Miss Zhao's body expanded and deformed, turning into a huge, flowing mass of primordial matter. It had countless sharp-toothed mouths on its body, limbs pieced together from various crooked biological limbs, and its torso rose abruptly from the ground, with countless sharp mouths and teeth biting incessantly at the intestines and stomach sacs hanging beneath the inverted sky.

Feeling the provocation and the pain of being attacked, the intestinal walls hanging under the black clouds and the spikes hidden in the black clouds thrust toward that mass of huge primordial biological matter. The two monsters, whose bodies were still constantly expanding, tore at each other and wrestled together...

Drake was desperately suppressing Li Duojin. He discovered that humans influenced by the brand of the Inverted Creator possessed terrifying power. He could feel the strength of the struggle under his control slowly increasing. Even more bizarrely, Li Duojin's body seemed to have been affected by some kind of power, and his torso underwent a certain degree of strange change; the swelling of his muscles was only one manifestation, and even more, blister-like swellings began to emerge on his body, the skin swelling until it was almost translucent, so much so that he could almost see the flesh and blood being corroded by acid beneath the swellings.

Bang, bang, bang—

Suddenly, the swellings burst, and a large amount of foul-smelling acid shot out, instantly corroding Drake's merman body, which was covered in blue-black Scales, making a hissing sound and eroding his body.

Those acids were like a large number of conscious, tiny destructive insects that easily broke through the armor of his Scales, broke into his body, and tore and gnawed at his flesh and blood.

Enduring great pain, Drake briefly relaxed his strength, while Li Duojin was also suffering from the effects of the acid corrosion, his body almost scorched into a skeleton covered in acidic fluid. Yet, he almost ignored the pain, seized the opportunity, pushed away Drake's suppression with force, and climbed up from the ground. Then, he opened his arms, which were covered in corrosive acid, and embraced the fallen Chen Xiaolin.

Drake reacted quickly, endured the pain, and grabbed Li Duojin's legs. His golden merman eyes surged with a cold chill, he bared a mouthful of sharp teeth, and said in a low, hoarse voice: "Don't blame me for what happens next, Li Duojin."

Drake grabbed Li Duojin's legs, then opened his mouth and bit down hard on the other's thigh. With a bite of his sharp teeth, blood spurted from the wound, and with a tooth-aching cracking sound, he forcibly tore off one of Li Duojin's right legs.

Li Duojin still could not feel pain and wanted to crawl forward.

Drake followed suit, tearing off Li Duojin's left leg as well, and finally bit off both of his arms, tossing them far away.

Li Duojin was finally unable to move, but he still tried to crawl by using the friction between his body and the ground for leverage, biting the grass roots on the ground with his teeth, and relying on this meager strength to move forward, "unwaveringly" wanting to kill the fallen Chen Xiaolin.

Drake lay weakly on the ground, unable to move, his mouth pitch black, and smoke from cooked meat and grease drifted from his mouth. He had torn off Li Duojin's limbs, but because of the acid corrosion from the other party, his entire oral cavity was ruined, and some acid had already flowed into his body from his esophagus.

Drake looked up at the black clouds spreading in the sky and thought: "With such a huge body, even in the suburbs, others can't help but notice, right? I hope those who see them can still keep their sanity."