Chapter 348: High-Tier Immortality (35k)

"Tao Baibai's perception range is extremely large, visually estimated to exceed 5 kilometers; the decoy site has been destroyed."

"Tao Baibai's regeneration ability and source of Immortality exclude negative energy creatures such as Vampire species and Demon species; holy spells have not produced any effect..."

"That is all, Boss Millennium Worm, good luck..."

Splat!

A sound like a watermelon being smashed appeared. Millennium Worm's expression grew increasingly cold. He sat on a white clay bird, and while his flight speed was not slow, the two parties were too far apart; it would take him dozens of seconds to arrive.

【Team member yt10337043 (Cub) has died.】

Millennium Worm immediately turned and flew toward the other side.

After analyzing the information transmitted by Wildfire before his death, the members of 【Black Water】 analyzed that Tao Baibai must possess some kind of powerful perception ability; at the very least, Wildfire, who had fired from three kilometers away, had his position locked onto immediately.

Therefore, during this operation, 【Cub】, who was responsible for support, and 【Ghost Wolf】, who was responsible for mobility, had placed a camouflage prop at the three-kilometer mark, while their true selves hid further away.

But as it currently appears, they were still found by Tao Baibai.

Ghost Wolf, whose body radiated purple-black mist, also saw the notification of Cub's death. His mind turned cold, but he was not overly sorrowful; he simply calmly contemplated the intelligence transmitted by his comrade before death.

All Reincarnators within 【Black Water】 shared a consensus: they would continuously transmit information about their opponents during battle, so that even if they died, the team could obtain the intelligence and conduct analysis to counter it, allowing other members to take revenge for them.

Ghost Wolf stood in this abandoned open space. The withered yellow weeds were tall, reaching almost to his waist, and precisely because of this, he clearly saw an unusually strong wind blowing from the distance.

"Tao Baibai is suspected of possessing the ability to control wind."

"Ghost Wolf, you retreat first; Tao Baibai cannot kill me."

Millennium Worm gave the order. Ghost Wolf already saw the Captain flying toward him in the air; his face and both hands were completely shrouded in purple-black mist.

Although he generally served in a logistical role for the team, this Superpower was actually quite powerful; it was a Rare spatial-teleportation type Superpower. Even though he did not like that work, he had to admit that being able to hunt Plot Characters in that world and then draw the Superpower he wanted made him very lucky.

"Rest assured, Captain, I will collect a bit more information for you before I leave."

The purple-black mist produced within his body possessed the properties of an alternate dimension, capable of completely teleporting whatever the mist covered to a location in his memory.

This ability was both offensive and defensive, the type that, as long as resources were invested to continuously advance it, would eventually reach considerable strength.

With Ghost Wolf's current ability, he could teleport to coordinates within 100 kilometers. The reason Millennium Worm could appear silently near that small building of Tao Baibai's was because he had scouted the location in advance and obtained the coordinates.

If not for his own weak combat ability, today's operation should have involved him teleporting Tao Baibai to the ambush site for a surprise kill.

Hum~

As if stepping out from the wind, the surrounding air rotated violently before gradually calming. Tao Baibai appeared less than ten meters in front of Ghost Wolf. Ghost Wolf confirmed the intelligence in his heart, and the mist immediately shrouded him completely.

"Captain, Tao Baibai's ability is not controlling wind, it is Wind-Turning!"

"I leave the rest to you."

The black mist was thick, the space within began to rotate, and the coordinates began to distort.

Ghost Wolf saw Tao Baibai just standing in the distance, watching him quietly. Could it be that he saw through the foundation of his ability and thus did not want to risk being teleported?

Ghost Wolf felt his body begin to distort and relaxed slightly in his heart. Although this teleportation ability could immunize against the vast majority of attacks, it still had some weaknesses.

Before the teleportation was completely finished, there would be local areas of his body that could not be covered by the black mist.

Suddenly, Ghost Wolf felt a terrifying aura erupt from within Tao Baibai's body, like a hurricane passing through, sweeping across his body in an instant.

The world seemed to turn black in his eyes, and the intense aura caused his Spirit to fall into a blank state for an instant.

This is... Conqueror's Haki?!

The next moment, golden Ripple mixed with purple-black Killing Intent Wave wrapped around a Taoist Palm with muscles bulging inch by inch, fiercely stabbing in from outside the black mist.

Crack~ Splat!

The shield on his body shattered in an instant, followed by a terrifying force stabbing into his neck. That bone-chilling cold and intense pain caused Ghost Wolf to wake up instantly.

He looked at Tao Baibai, whose left hand was completely submerged in his neck. His face distorted in an instant; his trachea and throat had been pulverized, and his neck had even been almost completely torn apart.

Am I going to die?

I am going to die! At least, I must take this hand with me!

Ghost Wolf opened his mouth to roar, blood plasma sprayed within the black mist, the black mist contracted in an instant, and the space completely collapsed onto a void coordinate, completing the teleportation.

Boom!

The terrifying potential energy of the space collapse collided with Bai Cangshu's left hand, erupting with an unimaginable shockwave.

Bai Cangshu drifted backward in an instant. Millennium Worm, flying at high speed from the air, leaped off the clay bird; the bird instantly crashed into Bai Cangshu and exploded with a roar.

【Team member gl14775421 (Ghost Wolf) has died.】

Millennium Worm landed on the ground, his hands trembling slightly. Turning back, he indeed saw Tao Baibai emerging from the explosion, the injuries on his body healing rapidly.

The power of his explosive escape was enough to shatter the defenses on his body surface, but it could not kill him.

And... Millennium Worm looked at Tao Baibai's left hand. The opponent's left hand was indeed special; even Ghost Wolf's teleportation ability could not cut it. That arm... was very dangerous.

Bai Cangshu looked at Millennium Worm, whose expression remained calm as he continuously analyzed his own abilities. A flash of light appeared in his hand, two Scarlet Drop Cards appeared, and the smile on his face became increasingly distorted.

"The reason they died is probably because they followed a weak captain."

Bai Cangshu found that he was beginning to understand why villains in many works liked to say a lot of "trash talk" before a battle, because he found that when he faced a beast that disguised itself as a nice guy using "rules" and rationality, he also found it hard to resist... wanting to tear open the opponent's chains bit by bit to see what that beast really looked like.

Millennium Worm was stunned, then looked at Bai Cangshu with the gaze of someone looking at a dead man.

His two smaller mouths opened once again.

"Kneel!"

Compared to extreme Curse Words like 【Death】, Curse Words that interfered with actions, such as 【Stop】 and 【Still】, had much lower consumption and costs.

Once Millennium Worm's Curse Word was uttered, his figure also vanished instantly. He naturally knew Body Flicker Technique, a form of High-speed Movement. Millennium Worm spread his hands, and white clay, like unformed colloid, was spat out from the mouths in his palms.

Millennium Worm quickly circled around Tao Baibai, preparing to completely cover Tao Baibai with a large amount of explosive clay, then detonate it to kill the opponent.

Even if the characteristics Tao Baibai displayed also possessed Immortality, things like 【Immortality】 were not absolutely invincible; most 【Immortality】 required the consumption of something to complete the resurrection.

As long as one could kill them enough times, low-to-mid-tier Immortality could absolutely be cracked!

He did not believe Tao Baibai could compare to him in this regard.

Whoosh!

The purple Killing Intent Wave ignited like flames. When the Worm was struck in the face by that wave, its facial skin felt as if it had been pierced by countless needles; that was the excruciating pain caused by massive cell necrosis and nerve damage.

Amidst the trembling of his pupils, he realized that Tao Baibai had not knelt at all; he had merely performed a low-crouching motion. The Worm's eyes shifted, noticing the blood flowing from Tao Baibai's ears.

This guy... pierced his own eardrums the moment he activated his 【Curse Word】?!

By using this act of self-mutilation, he made it impossible to be affected by his own 【Curse Word】...

The Worm's eyes shifted and saw Tao Baibai's mouth curl into a grin. His left hand, held like a blade, swept the purple-black Killing Intent Wave like a fan, instantly slashing across his neck.

Pfft!

Fresh blood surged into the sky, and the head rolled a few times before finally coming to a stop in Tao Baibai's hand.

Bai Cangshu held the Worm's head by the hair, looking at the opponent's eyes that had yet to close, his tone mocking.

"Look, I told you that you were weak..."

He then turned abruptly, his right arm becoming abnormally thick in an instant. Leveraging the momentum of his turn, he threw the head directly toward the colorful sky in the far distance, where the Spirit World Infestation Zone lay.

Boom!

Because the throwing force was so great, the head moved with a terrifying momentum like a launched missile, crashing through the air and leaving a white trail of airflow before disappearing from Bai Cangshu's field of vision.

【Demi-human】 is a very special Bloodline ability, possessing an abnormally high 【Immortality】. Looking at Immortality purely from the level of flesh and blood, the survival ability of a Demi-human is even higher than the cell-level resurrection of 【Majin Buu】, and naturally far superior to the flesh-and-blood tissue resurrection of Muzan and Bai Cangshu today.

A Demi-human is a special Bloodline that will resurrect again no matter how its body is destroyed; in terms of survival ability alone, it is already close to the top-tier Bloodlines.

But this ability, which approaches true immortality, also has a weakness: the resurrection of a Demi-human is closer to a Concept-level Regeneration.

That is to say, the body tissue of a Demi-human is actually closer to a special information state. In normal times, it is no different from ordinary human flesh and blood, but after death, the Demi-human will have its body information "read" again and regenerate the body.

Each time it resurrects, it does so with the largest piece of body tissue as the center. This resurrection first recovers the lost flesh and tissue in the body, completing the entire process from decomposition to reorganization; and if a part of the body is too far away from the largest body tissue, the Demi-human will regenerate a new corresponding tissue.

This special resurrection mechanism gives rise to a new problem, which is what Bai Cangshu is doing now: throwing the Demi-human's head into a space far enough away that it cannot be reached. If the Demi-human cannot recover that part of the body tissue, it will choose to regenerate it.

But since even the brain has been replaced with a new one, the memories once held in the brain naturally cannot be preserved. This method can, from a certain perspective, kill a Demi-human from a social standpoint.

Watching the headless corpse swaying and falling to the ground, a large amount of pitch-black particles were condensing; a new head was being generated.

Bai Cangshu was curious: in this situation, would this Demi-human, who had lost the memories of a Reincarnator, still be judged as a Reincarnator?

Bai Cangshu felt a prick between his brows; the sensation of being locked onto by killing intent made him instantly realize there was another enemy.

The next moment, he suddenly extended his left hand.

Bang!

Bai Cangshu took two steps back. A long, narrow golden bullet fell from his left palm to the ground. Electric currents flickered twice on his left hand before disappearing.

The 【King's Left Arm】 is not only hard, but it also cannot be destroyed by various energies; it is an Absolute Defense in the true sense.

He turned his head to look toward the southeast. The person shooting was extremely far away, even exceeding 10 kilometers, beyond the perception range of his 【Heart Net】 at this moment.

Bang!

Another special bullet accelerated by electromagnetism shot over, forcing Bai Cangshu to retreat two more steps.

The person hiding in the distance seemed to be deliberately provoking Bai Cangshu, firing shot after shot continuously. Bai Cangshu retreated step by step; of course, it was also possible they were trying to stop Bai Cangshu from attempting to kill this Demi-human.

"Tao Baibai, don't be impatient, I'm coming to kill you..."

The air rumbled and vibrated like rolling thunder. The incomparably vigorous voice carried through the air, with powerful internal energy mixed within it.

Just hearing it made one feel their mind being affected.

Bai Cangshu looked at the Demi-human who was gradually finishing its resurrection, then looked at the golden bullet at his feet.

"Ha~ there's an expert?!"

Bang!

Bai Cangshu rose from the ground, leaping into the sky, and then stepped on Moon Walk to jump forward. He saw a man with long red hair on the dilapidated asphalt road, slowly tearing open the clothes on his upper body. A large blade emitting intense cold air was held upside down in the man's hand.

Seeing Bai Cangshu approaching from the sky using Moon Walk, Hongchen also revealed a fanatical smile. He took a step forward, gripped the blade with both hands, and slashed down violently.

The next moment, Bai Cangshu felt the air for several thousand meters in front of him being emptied in an instant. A massive blade light of several hundred meters appeared above the opponent's head and descended in an instant.

【Six Styles of Cold Frost】!

(End of this chapter)