Chapter 271: One Slash, I

Before Fang Yue could figure out what the 【Fangyuan Pill】 truly was, another furious voice erupted from the black hand gripping his throat.

"Kid!! You've angered me!!"

The next instant, the black hand twisted with all its might…

But the expected crack of a broken neck never sounded.

Instead… came the blade's glow.

A crimson blade glow, too swift for the naked eye to track, flashed once before the black hand.

Then, its flaming palm rose high and fell to the ground.

How… is this possible!?

The 【Ghost Master】's severed hand, oozing black blood, stared in disbelief at the man who had violently yanked the small black hand with Supernatural Strength, casually swung his long blade, and landed lightly.

All of this was utterly unbelievable!

Why had his strength suddenly become so immense?

His eyes… was this guy also a weirdness?

And how could he still have the strength to resist? Under my absorption, where did he get the stamina to fight back!?

One question after another left 【Ghost Master】 utterly baffled, frozen in place with a face of stunned shock.

Meanwhile, Fang Yue, eyes streaming black blood, had already cleanly severed the two small black hands coiling around him, and grinned at 【Ghost Master】.

"Now… who's angered whom?"

Time remained: only thirty seconds!

The horde of Yangxu Weirds from all directions was now visible.

Why the 【Fangyuan Pill】 turned people into this state, Fang Yue could only seek answers from An Shenyi later.

Now was not the time to think about this.

Power—he needed power!

Boom!!

The flames, already soaring high, erupted once more into the sky, illuminating the entire night!

His internal energy surged wildly, as if inexhaustible.

Fang Yue squandered his internal energy without restraint, burned it, and unleashed everything he had!

"Starfire… Blade Technique!!"

Zzzzz!

The Cold Moon Blade, charged with furious power, vibrated violently as it slashed toward the severed black hand.

Splash!!

The blade cut through the black hand like tofu, paused for an instant… then the blade light became a shadow.

In a single instant, Fang Yue struck over thirty times, completely dismembering the black hand—and before its fragments could hit the ground, they were incinerated by fierce flames into ash!

9500!

An enormous amount of damage appeared for the first time.

But the damage appeared not on the black hand… but on the headless corpse standing before it.

I destroyed the black hand, yet the damage came from the headless corpse?

Fang Yue narrowed his eyes and faintly understood what was happening.

Almost the instant Fang Yue looked at the headless torso.

The torso instinctively, almost humanly, took a step backward.

Damn! I'm damn impressed!

Now, Fang Yue had no hesitation—he kicked off the ground, which exploded in a puff of dust, and his figure shot forward in a long trail of flame, zipping straight toward the headless body!

"Baa baa baa!!"

In desperation, 【Ghost Master】 didn't even use human language—it screamed in Yangxu Weird speech.

Though Fang Yue didn't understand the words, the tone and emotion clearly revealed its panic and fear!

"Yell all you want—no one's coming to save you!"

Fang Yue grinned savagely, already at 【Guizhi】's face—just as he raised his blade to strike, he noticed a sheep's face had appeared on the headless torso, smiling eerily.

The next instant…

Swoosh Swoosh Swoosh!

Countless tiny black arms erupted wildly from beneath the headless torso!

As the black arms shot toward Fang Yue, their fingers twisted and transformed into goat hooves.

Hundreds of tiny goat hooves slammed violently into Fang Yue's body.

Caught off guard, Fang Yue had no time to block—he was hit.

Thud Thud Thud!

52!

21!

21!

32!

81!

21!

59!

Muffled impacts erupted furiously across Fang Yue's body, followed by a dense stream of health-loss notifications above his head.

The damage wasn't large, but the attack speed was relentless. By the time Fang Yue finally managed to start blocking with clang-clang-clang and pulled back some distance, a "-1 -1" prompt popped up in his head.

He couldn't help but do some quick mental math — during the moment he hadn't reacted earlier, he'd lost at least two or three thousand HP!

But... Fang Yue didn't die.

He even felt a little like laughing.

Looking at the little lamb hooves that had stopped attacking, and at 【Guizhi】's expression — as if stunned, dumbfounded, with his whole worldview shattered — Fang Yue couldn't help but curl his lips into a smirk.

"No way! No way! There can't really be someone I can't even drop a total of 400 HP on, right?"

Night Breathing! Forever the GOAT!

As long as it wasn't an instant burst of massive damage, or a fatal strike to a vital spot, or an attack frequency as terrifyingly dense as 【Night Rain】's, other minor attacks — Fang Yue simply wasn't afraid of them!

Especially the small damage at the very beginning — his HP dropped fast, but he recovered fast too. In the rise and fall, before he started blocking, he'd only lost twenty or thirty points. Once he began blocking, the Force-Releasing attribute kicked in, and his HP refilled completely.

"This shouldn't be... Who exactly are you? Or rather, what kind of anomaly are you?"

【Guizhi】's expression grew solemn.

At the time, it had chosen to mark Fang Yue simply because the little lambs' intel had traced the aura back to him. It wanted to use Fang Yue to find the Wu Yu Clan.

But it had never imagined that Fang Yue's strength would be this terrifying!

The little lambs' attacks were still too weak — it was my carelessness.

【Guizhi】 is the 【Guizhi】 of the Yang Xu Gui, also called 【Yang Xu Guizhi】.

It evolved from the Yang Xu Gui as a base, so it inherited the Yang Xu Gui's characteristics.

First, Supernatural Strength; second, defense; third... low attack power.

As a 【Yang Xu Guizhi】, its skill 【Black Hand Lamb Hooves】 actually borrows the massive number of nearby Yang Xu Gui, attacking under its empowerment.

It's equivalent to several hundred Yang Xu Gui attacking one person at the same time!

Under normal circumstances, even in a siege, when several hundred Yang Xu Gui attack one person simultaneously, spatial and other issues arise, meaning only the Yang Xu Gui at the very core can actually reach the enemy.

But under 【Guizhi】's control of 【Black Hand Lamb Hooves】, the enemy takes full damage of 【number × attack】!

By all rights, no Postnatal Realm martial artist should be able to tank this move head-on!

But... the monster in front of him, he tanked it!

This is absolutely not a human method — this is... an anomaly's method!

But that doesn't add up either — why would an anomaly go against me?

【Guizhi】 was bewildered, completely unable to figure out what Fang Yue actually wanted to do, or what his stance was.

And at this moment... only ten seconds remained from the time the sheepskin parchment had mentioned.

When 【Guizhi】 came back to its senses, it was scalded back to awareness by the searing heat!

That fierce flame, accompanied by a vicious blade-gleam, came slashing toward the face on its chest.

"One slash, and you're dead!!"

(End of chapter)