Chapter 589: Escape (1/10, bonus chapter for

Bursting out of the city, Fang Yue oriented himself and headed straight for the Heiqing Xiagu.

"If that thing really is the Heiqing Weird…"

"If it really is the legendary Heiqing Weird!"

"Then the entire Heiqing Shanmai is its territory!"

"As long as I'm still in the Heiqing Shanmai, there's no such thing as safety!"

Fang Yue's thoughts raced like lightning—thank goodness he'd studied geography properly in normal days and pored over maps; otherwise right now he'd be utterly blind, not even knowing how to escape the Heiqing Shanmai.

"Giddyap!!"

Spurring the horse into a wild gallop, the stone umbrella atop his head began to hiss and crackle!

That was unmistakably… the sign of 【Heavy Rain】 shifting into 【Fierce Rain】.

Worse still, the morning sun on the horizon was nearly rising—the Night's Breath was about to go offline!

At the same time, he could already dimly feel the aftereffects of having consumed a massive amount of 【Horn Corner Pills】 reaching their breaking point.

Rampaging pill-poison was burning through his lifespan.

Without Night's Breath, without the parchment, his margin for error would hit an unprecedented danger line.

Boom!

Amid thunder and lightning, the enormous black cloud mass that had shrouded all of Qingsi County began to drift away from the county, following the movement of a certain tiny black dot below.

At the same time, more Weirds surged out from Qingsi County.

A swarming black mass, like an army crossing the border, squeezed through and smashed open the city gate, widening the breach, pouring out in a frenzy.

The moment they were outside the gate, every Weird locked onto the direction Fang Yue had taken and chased after him madly.

But while pursuing Fang Yue, their bodies were all enveloped in the 【Night Rain】, which was on the verge of completing its shift into 【Fierce Rain】.

Every Weird exposed to the 【Night Rain】 hissed and crackled; at full gallop, their flesh and blood were dissolved by the 【Night Rain】 until they became piles of white bones, then broke down completely into dregs.

The 【Night Rain】's power was so fearsome that even Fang Yue's stone umbrella had become pitted and riddled with holes.

The once-enormous stone umbrella was visibly shrinking.

By the time the stone umbrella had been dissolved by the 【Night Rain】 down to half its size, Fang Yue had already left Qingsi County far behind. Glancing back, he saw only the dark, swarming mass of Weirds still following—and they weren't even the same batch anymore; the earliest ones had all perished in the 【Night Rain】.

The new swarm of Weirds included some of the powerful ones that had chased out of Qingsi County, and some that were… wild Weirds emerging from every corner of the wilderness!

Whether wild Weirds or Qingsi County Weirds, every Weird within the Heiqing Shanmai's range went mad and charged at Fang Yue.

At this moment, if one's gaze rose and looked down on the entire Heiqing Shanmai, one could see that every Weird within the range of the Heiqing Shanmai seemed to have received some special signal, all rushing madly toward Fang Yue in unison.

The Heiqing Shanmai—countless Weirds, strong and weak alike—at this moment seemed to share a single consciousness, all doing the same thing.

And in the process of converging on him, those Weirds' strength was actually rising—rising without warning, as if some invisible hand at the end was forcibly boosting their power!

At this very moment, Fang Yue was truly making an enemy of the entire Heiqing Shanmai!

Neigh! Neigh!

Just then, two horses shrieked, their legs buckling as they collapsed to the ground; their flesh and blood had long since been washed down to white bone by the 【Night Rain】, and they lay on the ground unable to rise.

Flung off, Fang Yue was caught off guard and nearly failed to steady himself; he planted one hand on the ground to stabilize his stance, glanced back at the two Qingsi Horses, then kept running like mad.

He couldn't stop—stopping meant certain death.

A Transcendence-level Weird—the Heiqing Weird!

It was the embodiment of the entire Heiqing Shanmai; within the Heiqing Shanmai, no one was its match!

The 【Night Rain】 kept falling; the stone umbrella atop his head was completely worn away, leaving only a thin stone pillar, which Fang Yue flung aside.

Exposed to the 【Night Rain】, Fang Yue's body also began to hiss and crackle.

Every raindrop that struck Fang Yue corroded away a portion of his flesh.

With the dense rain pouring down, if not for Fang Yue's 【Night's Breath】 making one last stand and rapidly regenerating his flesh, he'd probably be a walking human skeleton by now.

But in all this, there was harm as well as benefit.

The terrifying 【Night Rain】 that even Fang Yue could barely withstand—the Weirds closing in couldn't withstand it either.

Any Weird that charged into the range of Fang Yue's black cloud was drenched by the 【Fierce Rain】 until its flesh dissolved, leaving not a trace of bone!

And… however many came, that many died!

The 【Fierce Rain】-transformed 【Night Rain】 was nothing less than a ruthless harvester of life; no living thing could endure it for long.

Weak Weirds were reduced to skeletons in a second, collapsing and breaking apart into scraps.

Strong Weirds couldn't last long enough to reach Fang Yue, couldn't penetrate deep into the black cloud, and dropped dead on the way.

The Fierce Rain was killing—killing with abandon!

【Fierce Rain】 was like the most merciless butcher in the world; no living being that stepped into its range would escape being cut down.

Watching the flowers, grass, and trees around him dissolve into dregs under the 【Fierce Rain】, Fang Yue felt for the first time the true terror of the 【Night Rain】!

Where the Fierce Rain passed, nothing grew; the earth was riddled with holes!

The Fierce Rain threatened Fang Yue's safety, and protected it too.

Apart from the 【Fierce Rain】, in the short term Fang Yue hadn't seen a single decent Weird that could withstand the 【Fierce Rain】 and cut its way to him.

No longer needing to worry about the Weirds for now, Fang Yue kept popping pills like mad.

The already severe accumulated pill-poison intensified once more.

But there was no choice!

Fang Yue had no choice but to pop pills; without them, his bloodline couldn't be sustained by 【Night's Breath】 alone.

And worst of all… at this moment, running on foot, Fang Yue saw the morning sun in the distance already rising slowly.

Day had broken.

Fang Yue's face went deathly pale in an instant.

In the end, 【Night's Breath】 still hadn't lasted long enough for him to reach the Heiqing Xiagu…

In the end, it had still come to this!

The effect of Night Rain quietly faded!

And the 【Li Rain】 overhead suddenly intensified!

"Innate Qi Shield!"

Fang Yue roared as he propped up the Qi Shield and burned 【Gu Value】, wisps of black Qi coiling around his body.

However…

Splash splash splash!

The violent rain fell madly.

In only a few seconds—crack!

The Innate Qi Shield shattered with a boom, sinking into the wisps of black Qi.

But likewise, in only a few seconds…

The black Qi, like a flame extinguished by water, grew weaker and weaker, weaker and weaker, until it was pressed straight back into Fang Yue's body.

At last, at this moment, Fang Yue's flesh faced the 【Li Rain】 head-on!

Sizzle sizzle sizzle!

In an instant, Fang Yue's body was as if riddled with holes like a sieve, suddenly becoming full of wounds, dripping with fresh blood.

As his flesh corroded, in some spots on his body, white bone was already exposed.

Fang Yue raised both hands in terror to shield against the rain. The curse 【Black Rain】 on the back of his hands burned even more wildly, instantly burning through the flesh on the backs of his hands that had been restored by 【Night Rain】 all along, burning out a blood-red-marked blood-hole, and rapidly expanding this blood-hole.

The flesh-burned-through palm and hand bones faced the Night Rain head-on, sizzling. At the same time, the burning of the curse 【Black Rain】 was still madly expanding; the flesh of the entire palm was visibly burning through.

Until this phenomenon burned to the 【Gu-Paperized】 thumb.

Boom!!

Like the sound of a bell, it suddenly emanated from the 【Gu-Paperized】 thumb!

And accompanying this sound, the wildly spreading curse 【Black Rain】, as if encountering some existence that struck terror into it, actually paused in an instant, stopping all movement.

At the same time.

As if somehow connected.

Above his head, within the Black Cloud… the thunder, stopped!

The rain, stopped.

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