Chapter 112: Four Mouths Melt Gold (Second Update)

All seven little ghosts had already been roasted into ash, and the flames inside the carriage were still raging!

These little ghosts had grown fat by eating Zheng Rongkui's blubber; their bodies were full of fat, making them perfect accelerants!

Throw a tongue in, and it instantly becomes charcoal-grilled beef tongue.

Xu Yuan moved closer to those ghost soldiers again.

Although he had figured it out just now, seeing Xu Yuan's behavior, Fu Jingyu still found it somewhat sneaky.

Thirty zhang outside the earth qi, a giant toad with rotting skin all over, oozing pus and emitting poison mist, had appeared.

It was even larger than the elephants in the nearby mountains, with a mouth on its head, one on its back, and one on each of its two thick hind legs.

The tongue in the mouth on its back had already been severed.

The tongue in the left leg's mouth retracted; the one hundred and twenty ghost soldiers were still trapped within the earth qi.

The tongue of the right leg coiled around the earth qi, continuing to emit poison mist constantly.

As soon as the earth qi disperses, these fellows must be poisoned to death immediately.

In the large mouth on its head, the tongue coiled and twisted, with a thin slit tightly closed at the tip, as if something was inside—exactly the fourth one that hadn't had time to be unleashed.

Indeed, just as Xu Yuan had guessed, it had been lurking near the poison mist, preparing to burst out suddenly and eliminate all enemies in one strike.

Zheng Rongkui stumbled out of the poison mist; seven of his eight little ghosts were dead, and he himself had suffered severe backlash.

Just now, when he retreated into the poison mist, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the Haikou Toad's control over the poison mist was exquisite; the poison mist around him had automatically dispersed.

He was feeling gratified when suddenly one of the Haikou Toad's tongues was severed—

The Haikou Toad, in extreme pain and fury, instantly lost control.

A mouthful of poison mist surged into his nose and mouth, nearly sending Zheng Rongkui off the spot!

Fortunately, the Haikou Toad remembered in time that he still had this "ally," dispersed the poison mist, and even detoxified him.

But Zheng Rongkui was now truly at his weakest.

"Senior, we can't wait any longer; quickly unleash the 'Four Mouths Melt Gold'!"

The Haikou Toad had just turned its rear and kicked with its hind legs, finding the earth qi solid and hard, with no other means to break it, and was already so frustrated and depressed that it cursed, "Get far away!"

This strange technique is no small matter; its activation cost is great, and it has many restrictions.

If it could be unleashed at will... or even without unleashing it at will, if it could be used once every three days, there would surely be a place for it on Guanghuo Street.

Zheng Rongkui left in disgrace, but he didn't understand why he was told to stay far away.

The Haikou Toad didn't want anyone to see it perform this strange technique.

Its four mouths are difficult to adjust to open at the same frequency.

It's like someone who can never learn the "Left-Right Mutual Combat" technique.

This is its secret, so of course it cannot be seen by others.

But today its condition seemed good; after adjusting for a while, the four large mouths had quickly achieved consistency in the step of "silent opening and closing."

Perhaps having half a tongue cut off, the excruciating pain had triggered its potential...

After achieving this step, the rotting skin on the Haikou Toad's body exploded, and pus and poison juice sprayed everywhere from its massive back.

When they hit the ground, they rolled around, got covered in dirt, and transformed into chubby, rotting-skinned tadpoles, then darted everywhere in search of living beings to parasitize!

Zheng Rongkui was startled and quickly retreated even further, thinking to himself: "Although Senior Haikou Toad has a gruff attitude, it is actually for my own good..."

Those shameless tadpoles drilled around everywhere; unable to find a host, they became even more desperate.

The Haikou Toad showed some weakness; it had already paid the price for the "Four Mouths Melt Gold" technique.

If the technique fails next, this price cannot be recovered.

The four giant toad mouths opened together, spitting out the first character:

"Earth,"

The Haikou Toad's massive belly kept heaving, sucking vast amounts of yin qi from the mountains into its abdomen; it was giving its all as it spoke the second character:

"Qi,"

The pale belly, covered in rotting cracks, rose and fell at an even higher frequency.

"Transform,"

Xu Yuan suddenly put away Aunt Wang's spleen!

Boom...

Without the spleen's qi—the massive earth qi instantly collapsed, and the thirty-zhang-high earth that had risen quickly sank down.

Xu Yuan and the others were revealed.

But the Haikou Toad's one hundred and twenty elite ghost soldiers had vanished, captured by Fu Jingyu using the Maoshan method!

And Xu Yuan was holding several water skins, pouring water onto the human skin!

The human skin absorbed the water and shrank rapidly.

What the Haikou Toad originally intended to say was: Earth Qi transforms into Yin Qi.

This technique has many restrictions; saying it this way, with both "Earth Qi" and "Yin Qi" containing the character "Qi," makes success easier.

But now the earth qi summoned by Xu Yuan had suddenly vanished entirely!

But the Haikou Toad was not panicked, because its technique had already been activated, and the earth qi had not disappeared completely; the ground beneath its feet was full of earth qi.

It was just that previously, when the technique was activated, Xu Yuan and the others would have been submerged in an ocean of yin qi.

But now, they would be stepping into a swamp of yin qi.

The former results in instant death, transforming into an eerie entity.

The latter results in a slow death, also transforming into an eerie entity.

In fact, the latter suits the Haikou Toad's wishes even better.

Cut my tongue?

I cannot let you die so easily.

But just as Haikou Chan was about to speak the fourth character, an incomparably intense hunger surged!

This hunger did not even come from the stomach, but arose directly from Haikou Chan's four great mouths!

Haikou Chan even felt that the four great mouths seemed to possess their own will, wanting to break free from the body and rush out to eat their fill!

In an instant, the four great mouths could no longer maintain synchronization.

The fourth character could not be spoken no matter what!

Fury raged in Haikou Chan's heart; evil spirits are already mad and violent. Having paid a huge price for this诡 technique only to have it interrupted for nothing, it lost its reason and threw itself at Xu Yuan without restraint.

One great mouth was about to devour Xu Yuan first!

Xu Yuan had been prepared; he urged the Fire Wheel and sped away.

This time, Seeing Fu Jingyu, being very close to Xu Yuan, was also affected by the "Hunger-Eating"诡术.

Yan Lao had already chewed and eaten the three tally sticks in his hand.

Seeing Fu Jingyu bit down on the Dog-Head Guillotine, shattering one of his front teeth, yet still would not give up; clutching the guillotine blade, he tried to gnaw on it...

Lu Zhengyan held a handful of arrows in one hand and a Great Guan Blade in the other, wishing to stuff them all into his mouth.

Bai Laoyan suffered the most. As a mountain runner, he already had some issues himself; affected by "Hunger-Eating," he leaped into the air, swooping over the ground like a hawk or falcon, grabbing two handfuls of those stubborn tadpoles still scrambling about, hooking their heads and pecking them down to eat...

Once Xu Yuan took the human-skin and ran away, they felt somewhat better.

However, after Xu Yuan dodged Haikou Chan's lunge, he circled around right beside Haikou Chan.

Haikou Chan's four great mouths became even more uncontrollable, eating whatever was nearby.

In an instant, the stubborn tadpoles on the ground, the trees, flowers, grass, and stones by the road were all swept into its great mouth.

(End of this chapter)