Chapter 331: Who Is the Bizarre (5/10, for Alliance Leader 'Yi Diudiu de)

Fang Yue was wondering why they were reacting this way.

The sky lit up once again.

A bolt of lightning descended from the heavens, striking straight down on a person up ahead.

Boom!!

"Holy shit!"

Fang Yue jumped in fright, instinctively stopping his steps. A Ming beside him even shouted, "Watch out!!"

Amid the thunder's explosion, that person was directly struck into a charred-cinder state, lying on the ground.

The people around them frantically scattered in terror.

"He got struck by lightning!"

"Run! Run! Any later and we're done for!"

"He's going to turn! He's going to turn!!"

The shouts of the surrounding people made Fang Yue's heart clench, and a vague guess formed in his mind.

When he looked again at the charred corpse of the person struck by lightning.

He saw that corpse, contrary to all reason, slowly stand up.

A chill rose from Fang Yue's heart.

His mind was occupied by just two words—Bizarre!

Only at this moment did Fang Yue truly realize the terror of this Bizarre.

How fast is lightning? At the very least, Fang Yue had no confidence he could dodge it.

And once you couldn't dodge it, that meant being charred on the spot, transforming immediately!

In other words, even Fang Yue... could potentially be transformed into a Charred Corpse Bizarre!

Clenching his fists, Fang Yue couldn't help but look up at the Black Cloud above.

So... the Bizarre's true body is actually on the clouds?

Just as Fang Yue was thinking, a black shadow whooshed past him.

Then he saw Bai Xiaoya, expressionless, swing once and send the freshly transformed Charred Bizarre's head flying.

The corpse hit the ground, no longer moving.

Only then did Bai Xiaoya turn back to look at Fang Yue: "What are you spacing out for? Let's go."

"Mm!"

Fang Yue nodded.

Indeed, in the face of lightning's speed, thinking more was useless—better to withdraw from this place quickly.

Grabbing A Ming beside him—who was somewhat dazed seeing Bai Xiaoya grow increasingly fierce—and tucking Bai Xiaoya, who was walking ahead, under one arm, in the moment the two of them were slightly stunned, Fang Yue burned his lifespan and activated Synchronize.

Hum!!

His speed erupted suddenly, directly overtaking the others, charging straight toward the exit.

Rumble!!

Thunder roared behind him, bolts of lightning falling one after another—either striking people and transforming them into Charred Bizarres, or missing entirely, merely illuminating the surroundings.

But Fang Yue paid none of it any heed, charging straight for the exit.

All of this sounded complicated, but in reality happened within just ten seconds.

By the tenth second, Fang Yue had already charged to the exit.

Just as Fang Yue's heart relaxed for a moment, a black shadow suddenly darted out from in front of him, heading straight for his chest.

His expression shifting slightly, Fang Yue set A Ming down, grabbed hard with his left hand, and instantly seized that black shadow in a death grip.

Looking closely, it was unmistakably a clump of black hair, condensed into the shape of a fist.

Following the hair's origin into the distance, a handsome man in ancient dress, with long hair flowing, was climbing up step by step along the mountain path.

A forked portion of his long hair, as if with no limit, spread outward, reaching Fang Yue's position, where Fang Yue had grabbed it.

Fang Yue immediately felt this person looked somewhat familiar, but for the moment couldn't recall where he'd seen him.

And just then, the long-haired handsome man moved.

His hair suddenly exploded outward, the extending hair like a spring contracting, then slamming into the ground, using the impact force to launch his entire body toward Fang Yue, speed pushed to the extreme.

"Bizarre, let go of that girl!"

In a violent shout, the long-haired handsome man had already charged up to Fang Yue, his hair transforming into blade shapes mid-sprint.

Blade Blade Blade!

But this was not the final form.

The long-haired handsome man seemed like a successor of the Nine-Blade Style, his hair grown long enough to cover his body like an extension of it, and beyond the hair, nine arms had appeared, each hand gripping a Tang saber, like an Asura.

Upon closing in on Fang Yue, all nine blades moved at once, slashing toward him.

This gave Fang Yue quite a fright; he hurriedly set Bai Xiaoya down and retreated violently backward.

The long blades formed from hair swung continuously, blade-light flashing repeatedly, forcing Fang Yue to retreat step by step, pushed back inside Jiangyun Temple.

Fang Yue's expression turned somewhat ugly. He didn't dare meet these hair-blades head-on, not knowing their power, and combined with having no weapon in hand, he was this wretched.

He could tell this long-haired handsome man wasn't actually fast; after adapting for a while, he could already catch the openings in his attacks.

So Fang Yue struck.

Catching the gap between the nine blades' alternating attacks, Fang Yue advanced instead of retreating, suddenly closing in, and in the moment the long-haired handsome man's pupils contracted—he clearly hadn't reacted yet—a fist was already slamming toward his face.

Before the fist arrived, fresh blood suddenly dripped from the corner of the long-haired handsome man's mouth.

"Tai Gu Yi!"

Thud!!

The drumbeat seemed to explode right beside his ear.

As the sound rippled outward, Fang Yue's fist seemed to slam into an invisible wall of air, bursting apart with a thunderous crack.

Fang Yue's right hand went slightly numb, but the feeling faded quickly.

Looking again at the long-haired handsome man, he had been sent flying backward by Fang Yue's Supernatural Strength; even though long hair sprouted in midair to cushion the impact, he was still wrapped in those locks, rolling clumsily across the ground several times before finally stopping.

Boom!!

Thunder cracked again, illuminating the two men's expressions at that moment—one a mask of ferocity, as if enduring the utmost agony; the other perfectly calm, lost in thought.

Rising to his feet from the ground, the long-haired handsome man immediately glared furiously at Fang Yue and said through gritted teeth, "No wonder the 【Weirdness Index】 has risen so much—turns out a big anomaly like you has smuggled yourself in!"

A big anomaly?

Fang Yue was caught between laughter and tears; he had already remembered who the fellow before him was.

"Qiu Dugu! Don't wrong a good man—I'm a model citizen!"

"You know me?"

Qiu Dugu froze for a moment—and in that very moment of freezing…

Swoosh!!

The long hair wrapped around his back was suddenly sliced clean through, cut clean in two.

Qiu Dugu turned his head to look and saw the girl Fang Yue had 'held hostage' earlier now gripping a charred arm, hacking at his back!

The tough long hair he had grown through the weird artifact was, before that strange charred arm, as brittle as white paper—breaking at the slightest touch!

But Qiu Dugu did not panic; he ducked to dodge, his long hair shifting, and with a casual toss, flung the sneak-attacking Bai Xiaoya away.

Compared to Fang Yue's exaggerated speed and strength, Bai Xiaoya really was just an ordinary person.

"Bai Xiaoya!"

Fang Yue hurriedly caught her steadily.

"Are you crazy? You actually rushed in for this!"

Bai Xiaoya shot Fang Yue a glare, said nothing, only broke free from him, and turned her head to fix a cold stare on Qiu Dugu ahead.

"What on earth are you two? I can tell she's just an ordinary person—have you been controlling her!"

Qiu Dugu demanded, but Fang Yue wasn't about to take that blame.

He didn't even have a girlfriend, didn't know the first thing about PUA—control a ghost, my foot!

"Misunderstanding, total misunderstanding! Qiu Dugu, both Bai Xiaoya and I are human. That black cloud up above and the Charred Corpse formed from its lightning strike—that's the anomaly!"

(End of this chapter)