Chapter 419: Giant Frog (10/10, Autumn Subscription)

Lin Ling's heart skipped a beat.

It shouldn't be this much of a coincidence, right?

The Bìguā Guǐ's blood had never taken effect before, and they had washed it off in time on their side—so what on earth had still drawn something here?

"Be on guard! Everyone, be on guard!"

Better to believe it exists than to assume it doesn't.

Out of cautious prudence, Lin Ling immediately had the team rally themselves once more.

Accompanied by several more rumbling tremors, something was drawing closer and closer, heading with clear purpose in their direction.

Boom!

Another rumbling tremor, like some enormous existence leaping high on its legs.

At the edge of the darkness, at the far edge of the Human Soul Bonfire's light, an enormous frog head abruptly appeared!

That giant frog face looked almost identical to the Bìguā Guǐ's appearance, but its body size was several times larger at the very least.

That massive head, caught between the Human Soul Bonfire's glow and the darkness outside, only revealed half a face.

With its proportions scaled up, the giant Bìguā Guǐ's exaggeratedly huge bright-copper eyeballs slowly rolled downward with a deep thud.

Its gaze seemed to lock onto the tiny humans below.

Lin Ling's heart skipped a beat. Setting aside why this Bìguā Guǐ was so huge, just the fact that those enormous bright-copper eyes weren't streaming black blood was enough to make one's scalp crawl and shout that things were going badly.

"Black Grade… mid-stage!"

Lin Ling's heart sank as he forced the words out.

At his words, everyone's faces changed at once, and panic instantly broke out.

A Black Grade Initial Stage Gui Yi like the Bìguā Guǐ, they could coordinate and slaughter together.

After all, the Bìguā Guǐ was only a relatively low-level existence among Black Grade Initial Stage.

But a giant Bìguā Guǐ at Black Grade mid-stage—that was something numbers alone couldn't make up for.

If there wasn't a single Second-rate Realm cultivator holding the line on site, encountering a Black Grade mid-stage Gui Yi under normal circumstances would be a near-certain death!

"Wake Xiao Ye! Wake Xiao Ye right now!" Lord Han, protected at the very core of the formation, shouted at once.

Waking Fang Yue could indeed resolve the crisis before them.

But…

Lin Ling clenched his fists tight.

Am I really this useless, unable to even create a safe environment for Xiao Ye to cultivate in?!

What's more, forcibly waking Xiao Ye mid-cultivation right now could very well cause internal injuries, damage the meridians, or even trigger Qi Deviation!

"Captain Lin!" Lord Han called out again, but Lin Ling, his back to Lord Han, suddenly cut in: "…I can do it!"

"What?"

"I can hold it off!"

Lin Ling roared, and without waiting for the giant Bìguā Guǐ to attack, he charged in at the head of the pack.

"Captain Lin?!"

"Don't act rashly!"

"Damn it! Follow Captain Lin!"

Seeing the situation, the others gritted their teeth and followed one after another.

Like a suicide squad charging into battle, they rushed forward.

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu saw this, froze for a moment, instinctively wanted to retreat, but the moment she thought of her own performance tonight, her head ran hot with blood, and she gritted her teeth and followed as well.

Lin Ling, leading the charge, leapt high the moment the giant Bìguā Guǐ rolled its eyeball, and drove his spear straight through the enormous bright-copper eyeball!

Squelch!!

Before Lin Ling could attack again, foul-smelling fresh blood spurted from the eyeball, drenching him head to toe, and his vision was blocked by the blood—he couldn't see a thing.

Before he could react, his falling body was struck sideways by a burst of Supernatural Strength, and he was sent flying, crashing hard onto the village road, shattering the porcelain-white stone surface on impact.

The intense pain made Lin Ling let out a "wah" and spit out a mouthful of blood; he nearly passed out on the spot.

Enduring his injuries, he used his spear to prop himself up with great effort and looked ahead.

His pupils instantly contracted.

He saw the giant Bìguā Guǐ leap high once more. During its jump, like an elephant scattering ants, the charging team members and Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu were all sent flying by its massive body, crashing down scattered in all directions.

Lin Ling's eyes instantly went red. He propped himself up with his spear and was about to charge, but before he could rise, his body suddenly pitched forward and collapsed onto the ground.

His injuries were so severe that he couldn't muster any strength for the moment! He could only barely raise his head and watch the enormous Bìguā Guǐ land precisely in the middle of the village road.

The one lucky thing was that the giant Bìguā Guǐ, like an ordinary Bìguā Guǐ, had a lower body that was a horizontally halved human torso fused with a huge bulging frog.

So when the giant Bìguā Guǐ landed, it actually only had four points of contact, perfectly avoiding the carriage right in the middle of the village road.

Its reverse-jointed enormous hands and feet slammed down around the village road, leaving four deep pits.

Judging from this, the giant Bìguā Guǐ's weight had to be at an absurd level. The sheer pressure from its weight and the force of its landing alone had smashed out such deep hand- and footprints—this was simply terrifying.

"Lord Han!"

"Captain Ye!"

Those who had been sent flying but were still alive all cried out in alarm.

Meanwhile, the team members who had originally stayed by the carriage went pale in an instant, trembling all over.

"Wuu wuu wuu…"

Xiao Xuedou also seemed to sense the enormous threat from the colossal creature looming overhead like a roof. It whined softly, trembling violently in Jing Yan's arms, and Jing Yan even felt his clothes getting damp and sticky, giving off a stench of urine—Xiao Xuedou had actually been scared into peeing itself!

Jing Yan, jolted back to his senses by the stench of urine, held Lord Han in his left arm and Xiao Xuedou in his right hand, and was about to run outside.

But after only two steps, Lord Han snapped sharply: "Stop! Don't run outside—go wake Xiao Ye…"

Before Lord Han could finish speaking, there was a sudden splat. A pool of fresh blood poured down from above, drenching his head.

Lord Han had no hands — he couldn't even wipe his face — and stood dumbly, feeling the bloody taste that had accidentally seeped into his mouth, then looked up.

The less he looked, the better; one look and he got a fright.

Lord Han's eyes instantly went wide, his heart pounding wildly.

He saw that the giant human body — the bulging frog that had been carrying the upper half of the giant 【Bixia Gui】 — was now bursting open from its belly, a massive bloody hole torn through it.

Through the bloody hole, a huge bright-copper eyeball could be seen, peering down at the situation below.

That giant 【Bixia Gui】 had actually used its bulging frog form to pierce through its own human half-body, just to open a hole and look down at the village path.

What… did it want to see?

Lord Han had never seen such a bizarre scene.

And in Lord Han's confusion, he noticed the bright-copper eyeball move.

It slowly turned, surveying the crowd, then suddenly stopped, locking onto a target.

It was none other than the man who sat cross-legged cultivating, unmoved no matter how fierce the fighting outside — the man everyone called Captain Ye!

"Croak!"

(End of chapter)