Chapter 269: Now, Tell Me…

An entire bottle of Zha Yuan Pills, poured directly into his body all at once, while also not forgetting to gulp down those ten mid-grade Zha Yuan Pills along with them!

In an instant, Fang Yue's internal force value began jumping up and down like a stock chart, as if the data had glitched, rising and falling erratically.

Fang Yue had just begun drawing on his internal force, madly burning through the Leng Yue Blade, cleaving open the Sheep Hollow Gui blocking the path ahead.

The next second, the internal force recovery effect accumulated from over a hundred pills began frantically boosting Fang Yue's internal force value.

Although because the effect was pitifully low, it could barely lift his internal force recovery at all.

But fortunately, Fang Yue had properly recovered his internal force before, so before the battle, his internal force value was kept at full.

Even when the internal force value began jumping up and down during battle, it could be maintained above 70%.

The only problem was that swallowing over a hundred pills in an instant caused a massive accumulation of pill toxin, which directly began madly burning Fang Yue's lifespan.

His lifespan seemed to drop bit by bit with time, making Fang Yue's heart ache terribly.

But now was no longer the time to fuss over these gains and losses—if he didn't go all-in and charge forward to kill 【Gui Zhi】 now, all his previous efforts would be wasted!

Moreover, Fang Yue could feel that this plummeting drop in lifespan had clearly begun to slow.

Night Breathing! You can always trust 【Night Breathing】!!

With no worries left behind, Fang Yue roared once more, slicing open the last defending Sheep Hollow Gui with one blade, and charged toward the bonfire ahead.

"Gui Zhi!!!"

Opening his mouth wide, Fang Yue let out a wild roar, his speed exploding as he charged madly toward Gui Zhi; the Leng Yue Blade in his hand was almost so hot he could barely hold it steady.

Fang Yue understood this was the Leng Yue Blade beginning to fail under the dual high temperatures of the Blazing Fire Heart Method and the Spark Blade Technique, the material's wear feeding back to him.

But there was no choice—this was already the best blade in Fang Yue's hands.

Actually, Fang Yue had also searched around Mo Cun, considering whether he should switch to a better weapon to boost his strength.

But the blade sellers in Mo Cun were either too expensive or of worse quality than the Leng Yue Blade, so Fang Yue gave up on the idea.

Still, a vague worry lingered in his heart—when might the Leng Yue Blade collapse from being unable to withstand the Blazing Fire Heart Method?

He hadn't expected this problem to come so quickly.

Fortunately, the Leng Yue Blade could still hold on for now!

"At least wait until I've cut down this 【Gui Zhi】, then you can shatter on me!"

The flames on Fang Yue's body surged violently, almost trailing fire all the way as he charged toward Gui Zhi.

If viewed from above, this scene looked like a man engulfed in flames, dragging a long trail of fire as he rushed toward the bonfire!

"Baa baa baa!"

The Sheep Hollow Gui left behind by Fang Yue cried out in alarm one after another, chasing him desperately, but in terms of speed, they could no longer catch up.

And farther away, the army of over a thousand Sheep Hollow Gui Fang Yue had seen before seemed to suddenly receive some signal, their marching speed suddenly exploding!

That dark, dense mass was rushing over here at top speed!

All the Sheep Hollow Gui's gazes were fixed on Fang Yue.

And at this moment, Fang Yue had already charged up before the Gui Zhi in the form of a giant Sheep Hollow Gui.

"Die for me!!"

The man had not yet arrived, but his voice reached first!

The raging flames, like a heatwave, swept directly toward 【Gui Zhi】, and within that fiery heatwave, Fang Yue's figure had already charged up to Gui Zhi, leaping into the air, and Fang Yue slashed his blade straight at 【Gui Zhi】's head!

Hum—

The blade's hum sounded once again.

A human head flew high into the air.

That was… 【Gui Zhi】's head!

"Baa baa baa!!"

The Sheep Hollow Gui behind them all widened their eyes and cried out in unison.

They had experienced Fang Yue's prowess, but had never imagined that their great 【Gui Zhi】 would be so pathetically weak as to have his head lopped off by this human in a single slash!

Thud!

The Sheep Hollow Gui's burning head hit the ground, rolling forward two turns from inertia, when a black shadow had already arrived in an instant.

"System system system system system!!!!"

The figure roared wildly at this sheep head, slashing out with his blade in a frenzy.

Stab stab stab stab stab stab!

Slash slash slash slash slash slash!

Fang Yue held nothing back, as if he were forging iron, every strike blazing with fire!

However… not a single damage prompt popped up.

At first, Fang Yue thought something had just gone wrong, that as long as he attacked the head, damage numbers would surely appear and he could kill 【Gui Zhi】.

But after his wild slashing frenzy, with no damage prompts appearing, Fang Yue slowly stopped his movements, looking at the pile of mush on the ground like rotten meat and mud, his expression turning ugly.

Not… the main body!

At this moment, the time remaining indicated by the sheepskin paper prompt was only three minutes and fifteen seconds.

"Human?"

Just then, the mush on the ground like rotten mud actually made a sound!

Fang Yue's pupils contracted, and he instinctively slashed two more times, but it only wasted internal force.

"Baa baa baa!!"

The Sheep Hollow Gui behind, who had thought 【Gui Zhi】 had dropped dead, upon hearing the sound from 【Gui Zhi】, all let out cries of delighted surprise.

"I'm fine, I just got careless and didn't dodge! This little fellow darted out from the grass, one Blazing Fire Blade Technique, one Corpse-Whipping Blade Technique, every strike precise, bullying an old anomaly of several hundred years—clearly came prepared… Hmm! Wait! This scent… it's you?!"

Very strange!

An indescribable strangeness!

Most of the bizarre entities Fang Yue had encountered before couldn't speak very fluently, and their thinking ability wasn't much to speak of either.

But the pile of debris before him spoke just like an ordinary human—orderly, with clear logic, and even a touch of humor.

Like a truly elderly old man facing a sneak attack from a child, utterly unbothered.

Only when he uttered that last sentence did his tone suddenly shift, becoming somewhat startled and grave.

"That's right, it's your granddaddy, the eighteenth-generation disciple of the Blazing Fire Sect, Niu Niu himself!"

Fang Yue still couldn't understand how a pile of debris could speak, or how it was still alive.

But without a doubt, this thing absolutely was not the main body! Otherwise it would have jumped up with a damage value!

The system doesn't lie!

The parchment doesn't lie either!

So, there must be something I've overlooked!

Cautiously scanning his surroundings, Fang Yue suddenly froze.

Because, he saw… the giant body of 【Ghost Master】 whose head he had previously chopped off was now burning with flames all over, crackling and popping, but that body was indeed still standing tall, as if looking at him, facing his direction, motionless.

"So your name is Niu Niu, a person of the Blazing Fire Sect—that makes things easier!"

Sizzle! Sizzle!

Fang Yue's ears twitched, as if he had heard some strange sound.

It was… a sound like charcoal being burned by raging fire until red-hot, sizzling away.

Fang Yue's whole body tensed up, staring warily at the headless corpse burning in the distance.

Then…

The next moment, a large hand shot out abruptly from the debris on the ground, so fast that Fang Yue had no time to react and could only barely retreat one step.

Then, his neck was gripped tightly!

At this moment, three minutes and thirty seconds had already passed!

Only 1 minute and 30 seconds remained before the encirclement of over a thousand Yangxu Bizarre army arrived!

"Now, tell me, what is your relationship with the Wuyu Tribe! And… where did the Wuyu Tribe go!"

Ghost Master's voice emanated from this charred-black arm that had shot up from the ground.

As if its main body were hidden within the arm itself!

(End of this chapter)