Chapter 178: Corrupted Land

Just as Weituo and Salvatore were about to be swallowed whole by the Ghoul King, the mountain of corpses beneath the giant monster's feet suddenly collapsed.

The monster stepped into thin air, and its entire massive body fell heavily backward.

"Boom!"

The corpse mountain collapsed, and dried corpses rolled away.

The giant ghoul's head knocked fiercely against the ground, creating a large pit in the rocky floor.

And its right claw, which had suffered repeated heavy damage, finally couldn't hold on; Weituo and Salvatore, along with some dried corpses, were flung away fiercely, hitting the stone wall and ending up battered and bleeding.

Shaking his head and flicking away a few drops of blood, the strong Gladiator was the first to recover; seeing the deep passage not far from his side, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"Mars protect us! Weituo, fate still favors us!"

Weituo, beside him, also regained his senses; his feet were faster than his mouth as he ran toward the passage; he never wanted to face that terrifying monster again.

"Yes, yes, fate favors us! But let's run quickly, while that monster hasn't reacted yet!"

One after another, the two Travelers quickly fled into the craggy passage, which caused the Ghoul King, who had fallen to the ground, to let out an angry roar.

Following that, the left claw that hadn't been injured reached fiercely into the passage, attempting to retrieve the duck that had already reached its mouth and flown away.

"Clang—"

A sound of metal colliding came from within the passage; clearly, Salvatore had used that shield skill again to block the Ghoul King's sharp claw.

"Roar!"

Having failed again, the Ghoul King could only let out a loser's roar.

Just as it accepted defeat and prepared to withdraw its left arm, a row of three black-red, weird bamboos broke through the soil at the passage entrance.

The bamboos had no leaves, only sharp and hard branches, but these sharp branches only pierced halfway before being stuck by the Ghoul King's muscles and bones.

"【Undying Body】 is truly worthy of being a purple entry; even my 'Red Thorn Bamboo' couldn't pierce it completely."

Xie Yaoyao, wearing a white mask and a tuxedo, stood on a corpse mountain nearby, dancing the small red umbrella in his hand into beautiful umbrella flowers.

"However, I can—force creates miracles!"

Xie Yaoyao lifted his index finger with one hand, and those three 'Red Thorn Bamboos' seemed to instantly gain infinite power; amidst a vibration and the ghoul's angry roars, they forcibly snapped its arm bone, pierced through its muscles, and nailed its left arm firmly to the craggy passage entrance.

The Ghoul King had never suffered such a big loss, and it struggled fiercely amidst angry roars.

As long as there was no holy-attribute damage, even if its body were torn apart, the ghoul wouldn't feel a shred of pain; watching the nailed arm almost being torn off, Xie Yaoyao had to admire the powerful characteristics of these undead creatures.

With a thought, the corpses nearby began to melt like candles into meat paste, and countless sharp thorns pierced out from the meat paste, wrapping around the Ghoul King's body in the blink of an eye.

Even the 'Red Thorn Bamboo' could only barely pierce the Ghoul King's muscles, and the thorns of the sharp thorns could only leave white marks on the ghoul's body.

However, nourished by the meat paste all over the ground, the toughness of the sharp thorns was greatly improved; even the Ghoul King's brute force couldn't tear them apart, and it could only use 【Corrupting Claw】 to sever a few.

But facing the sharp thorns reinforced by 【Net—Imprisonment】, for every one severed, two more grew; the endless sharp thorns bound the Ghoul King's massive body firmly in place in the blink of an eye, unable to move a single inch.

Xie Yaoyao's mouth curled into a smile; controlling the authority of flesh and blood, he could be said to be the natural nemesis of this Ghoul King, whose 【Corpse Explosion】 couldn't be cast without corpses.

Watching the Ghoul King's left arm pierced by the 'Red Thorn Bamboo', blood flowed out like a sluice gate.

The ghoul army that had originally fled was attracted back one after another, gathering more and more, like hungry hyenas.

But because the Ghoul King's aura was too intense, although the ghouls were restless and extremely hungry, not a single one dared to step forward.

This restlessness became more and more intense as the ghouls gathered.

Many ghouls that couldn't control their desire to kill and devour began to slaughter each other.

Xie Yaoyao, wearing the 【Faceless One's Peering】 mask, was almost crushing these mindless monsters; the ghouls turned a blind eye to Xie Yaoyao beside them, each roaring in low voices at the blood left by the Ghoul King, eager to try.

The Ghoul King also sensed that the situation was bad, but unfortunately, it couldn't escape the binding of the sharp thorns at all.

Xie Yaoyao gave an evil laugh, and his pupils began to be dyed with a touch of red.

At the same time, a strange blood-red flower grew from the Ghoul King's bleeding left arm, and the stench of blood in the cave instantly became ten times more intense.

The ghouls, which had originally been suppressed by the Ghoul King's aura, instantly lost their final rationality and pounced on the massive monster imprisoned in place like zombies out of a cage.

The moment these ghouls came into contact with the Ghoul King's blood, they instantly entered berserk mode, crazily tearing and devouring the Ghoul King's flesh; of course, it wasn't just the Ghoul King's flesh, they didn't mind the flesh of other ghouls beside them either.

Until all the ghouls in the cave joined in, a massive feast of flesh and blood unfolded!

"Hahahahaha!"

Xie Yaoyao's laughter echoed in the cave; the original corpse mountain all turned into meat paste covering the cave, and one after another, strange and eerie plants grew from the meat paste.

Vines covered with flickering fluorescent spots, with tiny suckers on the vines and spherical structures resembling human eyes at the ends.

A group of strange deep-purple mushrooms with patterns resembling human faces on the caps and long, twisted stalks.

Flesh-and-blood flowers with dark red petals and blood-vessel-like patterns, with liquid resembling blood seeping from the stamens.

Strange trees with trunks as black as charcoal, branches twisted like claws, and translucent leaves.

With the appearance of these eerie plants, large swathes of highly toxic mist continuously rose and spread; the berserk and crazy ghouls slaughtered and devoured each other in the toxic mist, gradually beginning to undergo infection and mutation.

Fangs spread, saliva splattered, and the ghouls died one after another, only to stand up again as plague monsters.

The most terrifying of them was the original Ghoul King, which was still black-red all over, but its flesh was already covered with terrifying spores; its completely severed left arm had been replaced by countless intertwined dark green vines, and the saliva dripping from its mouth corroded the ground into pits.

Thus, the entire underground cave had become a corrupted land filled with mutated flesh and plants.

Xie Yaoyao's figure flickered, appearing on top of the mutated Ghoul King's head.

Crouching down, he gently pressed his palm onto the monster's body, and countless memories surged in like a tide.

After a long while, Xie Yaoyao opened his eyes.

"King Otto? Interesting! I guess I've stumbled upon this by accident!" ===== CHAPTER 179 =====