Chapter 664: Repeated Jumps (6/10, Autumn Subscription)

He saw a dense cluster of over a hundred unread system prompts, all flashing wildly.

"System prompt: You have fallen into the 【Gu Poison: Hundred Flowers Poison】 state."

"System prompt: You have fallen into the 【Gu Poison: Stone Bone Poison】 state."

"System prompt: You have fallen into the 【Gu Poison: Nuomian Powder】 state."

"System prompt: 【Gu Poison: Hundred Flowers Poison】 state has been removed."

"System prompt: You have fallen into…"

"System prompt: 【Gu Poison: Stone Bone Poison】 state has been removed."

"……"

These were no ordinary poisons at all — straight-up 【Gu Poison】, this novel thing he'd never seen before.

Fortunately, 【Breath of Night】 performed as steadily as ever.

Looking over at the five-person squad, sure enough, a few arms had sprouted from some of their bodies too.

Wait, no! How could it only be a few arms? On his side, hundreds of arms were erupting like crazy!

Fang Yue was just feeling it was unfair when he quickly realized that he was only at Xiantian Realm, while the others were Human-Rank early- and mid-stage experts — the base values were different, the realms were different, so naturally the effects were different too.

Fortunately, he was also something of a cockroach type. Seeing the others notice the little hands wildly sprouting from his right arm, yet he still retreated and moved like nothing was wrong, those Human-Rank experts were all dumbfounded, each of them a bit stunned, until the lower half of the 【Nuomian Gui】 charged up, and only then did they hastily pop pills, brace themselves, and for a time, chaos reigned.

Generally speaking, Guai are stronger than humans!

A Calamity-Rank mid-stage Guai, by rights, those three Human-Rank mid-stage experts should have been struggling badly to fend it off.

But looking at the results, they weren't.

Just like him, they could very easily cut down this 【Nuomian Gui】 before them, which only had half a body.

The only problem was that the 【Nuomian Gui】 would grow full of little hands again, its colors becoming more vivid, and the poison seemingly growing stronger too.

And unlike their side where only a few arms sprouted, on Fang Yue's side, his right hand was nearly covered in little hands, with even a trend of spreading toward his shoulder.

That was downright terrifying.

Fang Yue's face darkened — he had always only been able to tough out things like 【Gu Curses】 and 【Gu Poisons】, never knowing how to resolve them.

The best method was to chop the main body to death, but the problem was the main body simply couldn't be killed.

Fang Yue, while still being hindered by the little hands wildly sprouting from his right arm, cut down the 【Nuomian Gui】 several more times, but each time only resulted in more little hands burrowing out from the wounds.

By now, the corpse of the bandit leader Lao Qi was already just a lump of mangled flesh, and on that mangled flesh, densely packed were arms of every color.

The arms crisscrossed, becoming the main body, each moving on its own — it looked utterly revolting.

And what annoyed Fang Yue most was that the little hands on his right hand were moving along with it, tearing open the skin of his arm, digging out fresh blood, the poison sinking deep into his bones!

If not for 【Breath of Night】 being truly too reliable, offsetting a large amount of the poison, Fang Yue would have already collapsed by now.

Even so, amid the ever-intensifying poison, Fang Yue began to feel occasional dizziness, even nausea and the urge to vomit, bodily weakness, attribute decline, and various other states.

This was the sign that 【Breath of Night】 was about to fail to suppress the poison.

The problem was that the little hands on his arm, if cut off, would only make the poison stronger; if not cut, they would move on their own and attack his own body — truly revolting.

Forcing himself to calm down, Fang Yue gathered black qi and condensed it onto the blade.

"If I grind the bandit leader Lao Qi's corpse, the container, into powder, what will happen to these arms?"

There was no Guai that truly couldn't be killed — even Guai that grew stronger the more you killed them had a limit!

Fang Yue had learned a lot of knowledge from Lord Han, so at this moment he wasn't that panicked.

Taking a deep breath, his figure flashed, and he swung his blade with full force.

Hum!!

The blade let out a clear ringing sound, crossing past the 【Nuomian Gui】 itself.

Boom——

After a momentary pause, the 【Nuomian Gui】's body exploded, fresh blood gushing out, and it was directly chopped into a shower of flesh and blood.

Fang Yue retreated far away, observing the 【Nuomian Gui】's situation, only to find in shock that the 【Nuomian Gui】 had indeed split apart.

But what happened was that on every single little chunk of flesh and blood, a single Nuomian little hand had grown on its own.

In a sense, the container really was just a container — no matter how it was destroyed, not a hair's breadth of damage was done to the 【Nuomian Gui】's true body; it only made it stronger!

Fang Yue truly had never encountered such a perverted Guai, and couldn't help but break out in sweat on his forehead.

The little hands on his right arm became even more frenzied, as if stimulated, all lengthening their arms and reaching for Fang Yue's face — only to be sliced off by Fang Yue with a backhand slash.

And from the severed ends, new little hands sprouted out again.

Fang Yue had thought about simply chopping off his right arm and reattaching it.

Back in Gu Yue Cun, Fang Yue had done this kind of thing before, and Breath of Night supported this kind of operation too.

The problem was, looking at the state of bandit leader Lao Qi's corpse, even if he chopped off his arm, these Nuo Mian Mian little hands wouldn't transfer away — it would still be wasted effort.

Just as Fang Yue was thinking this, he saw a group of people in the distance rushing over in panic toward him.

"Bandit leaders, save us! Save us!"

"Bandit leaders, Guai — Guai everywhere!"

Only then did Fang Yue recall that besides those few bandit leaders who had come to deal with him earlier, there had also been many low-level Night Thieves surrounding but not attacking.

It was just that later when the Guai appeared, they had all fled far away — he hadn't expected them to come running back now begging for help.

Fang Yue hadn't paid it any mind, but the next second, he suddenly froze.

Because he discovered that the 【Nuomian Gui】 little hands, which should have been parasitizing every piece of flesh and blood of bandit leader Lao Qi, were now all merging into the flesh and blood and disappearing.

And the next moment, on the bodies of those Night Thieves running over, a chaotic explosion of big hands immediately burst out all over.

Some sprouted from their heads, some from their mouths, and some from their arms, thighs — densely packed little hands growing out, wildly grabbing, corroding, and parasitizing the human bodies.

Screams, pleas for help, and begging for mercy rang out without end.

Now it had become extremely chaotic, but Fang Yue broke into a smile.

He sliced off his own right arm with one slash, and like a hand grenade, hurled it into the crowd.

"The big pill is coming!"

The bloodstained arm had barely hit the ground when the grotesque little hands parasitizing it, as if sensing fresh flesh and blood, frantically withered and vanished from the arm that had lost its nutrient support, then sprouted from the other Night Thieves' bodies, becoming even stronger and more vivid.

"Stasis World!"

To be safe, Fang Yue even activated Stasis World before charging in.

He picked the arm back up, pressed it against the stump for a while, and under the effect of Breath of Night, the flesh tumors immediately intertwined and reconnected.

Releasing Stasis World, Fang Yue had long since fled far away, still clutching an uninfected Night Thief in his hand.

"Where is Rat Seat!"

"U-up, upstairs! Yi Shi Ting!"

The Night Thief, scared out of his wits by the grotesque sight, very naturally sold out Rat Seat.

Night Thieves have no honor to speak of.

(End of chapter)