Chapter 559: The Bizarre Mind-Bewitching Strange Creature

When Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan chewed up that "candied hawthorn," Li Luo, Lu Ming, and Sun Sun Dasheng all felt their body hair stand on end, disgusted and at the same time exceptionally fearful.

"Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan!"

Li Luo roared like thunder, trying to wake Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan out of this mind-controlled state.

But at this point, Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan was already very hard to rouse by such means, because the whites of his eyes were rapidly vanishing, a pitch-black color spreading out, his pupils turning gloomy and dark.

At the same time, a thick aura of malice radiated from his body.

He had been corrupted.

"This unlucky kid, and he's still a senior of the Two-Star House. Li Luo, your Two-Star House of the Sacred Mystic Star Academy seems pretty trashy, huh." Sun Sun Dasheng's face was ugly as he couldn't help but say.

This Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan being corrupted would inevitably cause them no small trouble.

"This Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan's character seems rather lacking." Lu Ming frowned tightly and said.

That strange creature earlier should have possessed a mind-bewitching ability; caught off guard, all of them had taken the hit. Fortunately, Li Luo woke up quickly and promptly shouted them awake, but although Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan also heard Li Luo's shout, he failed to completely break free of the enchantment, and thus took the hit.

Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan was at the Fourth Transformation of the Manifestation Phase, a level higher than Lu Ming and Sun Sun Dasheng at this point, yet he alone ended up eating the "candied hawthorn."

Clearly, this was no longer a matter of strength, but of insufficient mental resilience, letting that strange creature find a gap to exploit.

Li Luo could only sigh helplessly; he hadn't expected that among the four of them, the first to take the hit would not be the three of them from the One-Star House, but rather Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan from the Two-Star House.

Truly embarrassing.

"Where is that strange creature?" Lu Ming's beautiful eyes warily scanned the surroundings; the eerie old man selling candied hawthorns had already vanished.

"It should be hiding in the shadows." Li Luo's expression was somewhat grim as he said, "But this strange creature's rank shouldn't be too high; it probably hasn't reached true Calamity level, otherwise it wouldn't need to play these tricks."

"I feel the trouble right now might be our dear senior from the Two-Star House." Sun Sun Dasheng gripped his iron staff tightly, his gaze fixed intently on Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan.

Because at this moment, on Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan's skin surface, things like earthworms began burrowing, making him look even more terrifying, and those pitch-black pupils also turned toward the three of them.

The next instant, he directly transformed into a streak of black light and pounced toward the nearest Lu Ming.

A stench of blood surged within the black light.

Fortunately, Lu Ming had long been on guard; lightning phase power flickered across her body's surface, and then her slender figure appeared over a dozen meters away, dodging Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan's attack.

"Senior, don't blame me for getting rough!"

Sun Sun Dasheng let out a furious roar, phase power erupting within his body; behind him, a faintly visible howling ape light-shadow formed, and the iron staff in his hand was also wrapped in extraordinarily violent force,

tearing through the air, viciously smashing down toward Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan's head.

Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan raised his pitch-black palm; his fingernails had all become sharp and dark at this moment, and then he met Sun Sun Dasheng's staff shadow head-on with a hard punch.

Boom!

A low sound rang out. Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan's figure didn't budge an inch, while Sun Sun Dasheng's arms trembled violently, his figure hastily sent flying back over a dozen steps, his palms numb, and he immediately changed color and said, "His physical body has gotten a lot stronger."

Clearly, after being corrupted, Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan's strength had increased.

Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan repelled Sun Sun Dasheng, his pitch-black pupils locked onto the latter, waving his sharp fingernails as he pounced to kill.

Whoosh!

Lu Ming also struck at this moment. One saw her graceful figure sweep past, seemingly transforming into three phantoms, and then Lei Guang flickered—three Lei Guang sword shadows cut through the air, carrying rumbling sounds, stabbing extremely cunningly toward Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan's vital points all over his body.

Hiss!

Yet such a fierce attack, falling on Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan's body, only pierced the skin; the blood flowing out there was dotted with black specks.

Sun Sun Dasheng also roared and pounced again.

"Ape King Three Staffs, Mountain-Moving Staff!"

The two went all-out, launching an extremely swift and violent offensive against Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan. Although they were only at the Third Transformation of the Manifestation Phase right now, a level weaker than Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan, neither of them was ordinary; fighting above their level was routine for them, so with the two joining forces, even though Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan was in a corrupted state, he was still entangled by their assault at this point.

Li Luo did not join in; his gaze kept sweeping the surroundings, because compared to the corrupted Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan, that earlier strange creature with the mind-bewitching ability was undoubtedly more dangerous.

Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan here couldn't break through Lu Ming and Sun Sun Dasheng's joint effort; he believed that strange creature would inevitably appear again.

And Li Luo's guess was not wrong. As Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan was locked down by Lu Ming and the other, that strange creature soon began to show traces of itself.

It appeared among the crowd, holding that candied hawthorn stick, its pitch-black, cold pupils gazing at Li Luo.

Then, it plucked off a skewer of "candied hawthorns" and gave it a violent shake.

The "candied hawthorns" on it shot out, and this time, these "candied hawthorns" actually shot toward the pedestrians coming and going on this street. These pedestrians had originally been walking along the street on their own, and as for Li Luo's group's battle, even when they were sometimes caught in the crossfire, they paid no attention at all.

That scene was as if Li Luo's group did not exist in their perception.

But this situation, after those "candied hawthorns" shot out, immediately underwent a change.

Li Luo clearly sensed those pedestrians suddenly stop in their tracks; their eyes stared fixedly at the incoming "candied hawthorns," a fervent craving and desire bursting from their eyes.

The next moment, someone grabbed a "candied hawthorn" and stuffed it into their mouth in one go.

As the "candied hawthorns" were eaten, one saw thick aura of malice rising from those pedestrians' bodies, their faces gradually becoming eerie and twisted, their bodies emitting crack-crack sounds, and their pitch-black, venomous gazes locking directly onto Li Luo.

Then, one figure after another shrieked and charged out, pouncing straight at Li Luo.

Li Luo's expression was icy. Gripping the Profound Elephant Blade, the two phase palaces within his body trembled at this moment, and dual-phase power erupted.

The blade light swept past, seemingly transforming into a cascading water curtain that poured out; the ground became damp at this moment.

Then Li Luo stomped his foot, and earth-phase power radiated out; immediately, mud pits appeared in the surrounding area. Those charging corrupted ones stepped into them with one foot, and were then sucked in by the mud pits, both legs rapidly sinking in.

Li Luo's face was expressionless as he swung the Profound Elephant Blade; rippling blade light swept horizontally, slicing these corrupted ones clean in half at the waist.

Yet even with their bodies cut in half, these corrupted ones seemed to still be alive, struggling violently, and only after a moment did they gradually collapse, turning into black qi and dissipating.

However, although Li Luo cut them down quickly, that strange creature's speed in creating corrupted ones was even faster. One "eyeball candied hawthorn" after another kept flying out, rapidly transforming the pedestrians on the street into corrupted ones, endlessly charging to kill Li Luo.

This kind of human-wave offensive made Li Luo frown as well. The mind-bewitching strange creature before him might not be strong in direct combat, but these tactics were truly troublesome. If this continued and he didn't find a chance to break the deadlock, he might really be drained of phase power.

And Lu Ming and Sun Sun Dasheng on their side couldn't give him aid either; being able to hold Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan was already their limit.

"Capture the king first; that 'mind-bewitching strange creature' is the source. Only by slaying it can the current situation be resolved; otherwise, the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it becomes." Li Luo's thoughts raced, and immediately, while dealing with the corrupted ones' charge, his gaze also kept sweeping the surroundings, beginning to look for a chance to lock onto that "mind-bewitching strange creature."

And Li Luo's wait didn't last long before he once again saw the "mind-bewitching strange creature's" ghost-like figure appear among the crowd on the street.

In that instant, Li Luo knew the chance had come.

Boom!

Within his body, the rumbling of thunder suddenly rang out.

The thunder's sound waves spread through his body like lightning, and his physical body received an extremely powerful amplification at this moment.

Li Luo took a single step forward, the stone slab beneath his feet directly exploded and cracked, a shockwave erupted outward, blasting the nearby Polluters bodily into the air; the next instant, his figure seemed to transform into a bolt of lightning and shot forth.

After just a few steps, he appeared before that "Bewitching Heart Aberration."

Killing intent surged in Li Luo's eyes; the Profound Elephant Blade in his hand swept up a flash of blade-light, and then his figure crossed past that "Bewitching Heart Aberration."

A smooth, mirror-like crack appeared on the street.

What was left behind at the same time was the blade-scar slashed down the forehead of that "Bewitching Heart Aberration."