Chapter 665

Not just this Night Thief.

The Zei Lao Shi before him was the same.

He was ready to betray the Mouse Seat, but Fang Yue lost control and killed him for no reason.

Now that he'd learned the Mouse Seat's whereabouts, and seeing how chaotic things had become here, Fang Yue dropped the Night Thief he held and didn't linger.

He circled around the Night Thief army and headed straight for the mountain path.

Freed from the Nuomian Gui's restraint, Fang Yue felt utterly light, and even his Gui Poison status had been mostly washed away by Night Breath, returning to normal.

Just as Fang Yue ascended the mountain path…

"Look over there! That guy!"

It was the Zei Shou team, overwhelmed by the Nuomian Gui, who noticed Fang Yue's actions.

"Why is he running off… Bad! The Mouse Seat Lord is still up there!"

"If the Mouse Seat Lord is harmed, our quota matter will be completely ruined!"

"Don't let him get up there!"

The quota matter hadn't even been finalized yet—it was only that the Mouse Seat Lord had said he'd help secure it after this mission, and it was likely to happen.

But if the Mouse Seat Lord were harmed during this mission, the whole quota matter would vanish without a trace.

Faces darkening, the Zei Shou team abandoned the Nuomian Gui and chased after Fang Yue; those with ranged techniques immediately began disrupting him, but Fang Yue blocked them all one by one, his speed not slowing but increasing—black qi coiled around his legs as he shot toward the summit.

"His speed…"

"It's faster now—he was holding back during our fight!"

"If he'd unleashed that speed earlier, even we couldn't have held him!"

Watching Fang Yue's speed suddenly surge, the Zei Shou team's expressions turned grim.

That speed could only be matched, barely, by the Mouse Seat Lord, a specialist in velocity.

More Xiaoshou erupted from the ground, cliffs, and even their own bodies; as the Zei Shou team pursued, they had to fend off the strange creatures, slowing them considerably.

Watching Fang Yue grow ever more distant, the Zei Shou team's faces grew darker, but they could only rage helplessly, shouting threats they knew were useless.

Fang Yue naturally ignored them.

Killing Night Thieves carried no psychological burden for him.

But his true goal was still to find the Phoenix Organization, to find An Dong'er.

The Night Thieves could be killed anytime.

If this rat-faced, quick-running Mouse Seat wasn't caught today, next time it wouldn't be so easy.

Sprinting nonstop, Fang Yue quickly reached the summit.

But to his surprise, he saw countless Xiaoshou swaying like weeds in the wind.

Fang Yue was stunned to discover that the Xiaoshou sprouting from the ground now had tiny mouths on their palms, devouring everything around them.

From soil to trees, flowers, and grass—nothing was spared.

Thousands of Xiaoshou clung to the ground, as if sucking something in, feasting happily, even ignoring Fang Yue—the living man who had just rushed up from below.

Fang Yue noticed bloodstained fabric scraps and bone fragments on the ground, and immediately understood what had happened here.

No wonder the stench of blood was so thick, yet there were so few corpses.

Looking farther out, Fang Yue's expression darkened.

On rooftops, walls, tree roots, branches, even leaves—everywhere grew these eerie Zhangzui Xiaoshou.

He stepped into a sea of Zhangzui Xiaoshou.

Boom!!

Amid spurts of black blood, the ground caved into a small crater; an airwave exploded, fragile arms shattered, staining the surroundings red.

Fang Yue didn't pause—he crushed his way forward, reaching the Yi Shi Ting before the black blood could stain his clothes.

But to his dismay, the Yi Shi Ting itself was already parasitized by swaying Zhangzui Xiaoshou, devouring the furniture.

Fang Yue was about to retreat and search elsewhere when, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed something curious.

A dozen or so Zhangzui Xiaoshou were devouring the floor tiles.

And the tiles had been genuinely eaten away halfway, revealing… stairs beneath!

A secret passage?

The Phoenix Organization really does love this kind of trick.

But if the Zhangzui Xiaoshou hadn't eaten away the entrance, Fang Yue would never have found the secret passage so easily—it was tucked in a corner of the hall, hard to spot.

"Night! Awesome!"

Behind him, the Zei Shou team roared—by the sound, they were still on the mountain path, but not far from the summit.

Without hesitation, Fang Yue rushed forward and stomped on the remaining floor tiles covering the tunnel entrance.

Boom!!

With a thunderous explosion and swirling dust, the secret passage entrance lay bare before Fang Yue.

Without hesitation, Fang Yue plunged into the secret passage.

But as soon as he entered, he was stunned to find the staircase walls lined with dense, countless Xiaoshou.

The back of the staircase was entirely covered in Xiaoshou, emitting a rustling sound as if devouring the tunnel's stairwell.

Attaching a Fluorescent Bead to his waist for light, Fang Yue grimly sprinted down the stairs.

Soon, light appeared below—apparently a flat area.

Leaping down, the ground surged as if welcoming him, erupting nearly a hundred colorful arms upward, reaching to embrace him.

"Get lost!"

He roared, unleashing his inner power; his Aura crushed the charging Zhangzui Xiaoshou, sending black blood and severed limbs splattering across the ground as he landed steadily.

Following the staircase down, at the end on level ground, there was only one exit.

Looking toward the only passage ahead, one could see faint Human Soul candles providing light.

Under the glow of the candles, far off, a half-destroyed corpse could be seen being gnawed on by something, slowly losing mass.

From the corpse's condition, it must have died not long ago.

It seems the Rat Seat must have just passed through here too!

Recalling the moment 【Zhangzui Xiaoshou】 had shot up from the ground, Fang Yue's heart sank.

"Growth-type Gui!"

If Gui were categorized by type, there were many varieties—this was a small set of experience gathered by the people of this world.

And the Growth-type Gui was the kind most people dreaded encountering.

Because… it was a nuisance!

Take 【Nuomian Gui】, for example.

At first, 【Nuomian Gui】 merely sprouted small hands and carried potent poison, seemingly able to parasitize only corpses.

But soon, 【Nuomian Gui】 began growing rapidly, gaining regenerative ability, and when weaker Night Thieves entered the battlefield, it immediately shifted to absorb their nutrients and strengthen itself.

By the time Fang Yue reached the mountain peak, 【Nuomian Gui】 had begun growing small mouths, no longer content with passive parasitic absorption—it now actively consumed nutrients by feeding.

Undoubtedly, 【Nuomian Gui】 possessed a true body and some degree of intelligence, similar to the Gui-knowledge of Yang Xu Gui.

But its true body was hidden too well, and Fang Yue had no time to waste on it, so he let it go.

And now, 【Nuomian Gui】 had learned the concept of "hunting"!

Three more chapters left—push on!

(End of Chapter)