Chapter 669: Male Mom (1/10, Autumn Subscription)

These 【Zhangzui Xiaoshou】, upon seeing Fang Yue inflict wounds on the two, would rhythmically undulate, like musical beats, celebrating Fang Yue's phased victory.

Yet they dared not approach too closely, fearing the residual shockwaves of the three's battle would eliminate them.

After losing his arm, Zei Laoer's combat power plummeted; in the prolonged struggle, the situation grew increasingly dire.

Seeing the surrounding strangeness, he could not help but roar out loud.

"Ye Niu Niu! Don't push me too far! I still have one ultimate technique—if I use it, we'll both perish!"

Look around at these little hands, mysterious and lurking, waiting for us to cripple each other so they can devour our flesh!"

In this state, can you still focus on fighting? Do you truly want to perish alongside us!"

Zei Laoda's eyes lit up upon hearing this.

"Laoer, are you going to use that technique?"

"Exactly! If he presses further, I'll take him down with me!"

Zei Laoer snarled, speaking fiercely, though inwardly he was utterly hollow.

Because… he had no such technique!

Years ago, to maintain face and deter others from targeting him, Zei Laoer had crafted a persona: he secretly possessed an ultimate self-destructive trump card.

The rumor spread among his subordinates and quickly gained notoriety within the Night Thief circles.

Faced with someone who could drag others down in death, most Night Thieves avoided him, unwilling to provoke him lightly.

Over time, in this stable environment, Zei Laoer the gang leader grew stronger, reaching his current level.

His so-called "mutual destruction" technique had become legendary—mysterious and intriguing, even Zei Laoda treated him with great deference.

After all, a self-destruct technique at mid-level Human Realm was entirely different from one at low realm—the power gap was immense.

Take Fang Yue, for example: even now, using Flame Burst, its power increases somewhat, but only slightly—it still falls far short of the standard expected of a Xiantian Realm Martial Technique, since it's merely a move inherent to a post-heaven Heart Method, with its ceiling fixed.

Only if he obtained the complete Flame Sect Heart Method and synchronized it to a Xiantian First-rate Realm self-destruct technique would the explosion's power match his cultivation level and truly become intimidating.

Now, Flame Burst is merely a toy-level technique—massive self-damage, negligible power, utterly useless.

Zei Laoer's "empty void technique" failed to frighten Fang Yue; instead, it spurred Zei Laoda.

The previously oppressive situation, where Fang Yue dominated, suddenly seemed to shift.

Yet Fang Yue remained unmoved, his attacks growing even fiercer and more aggressive!

"Ye Niu Niu!" Zei Laoer shouted fiercely: "That strange entity beside us keeps growing stronger by the moment! If you let it consume the corpses of us Human Realm experts, the consequences will be endless! Even if not for yourself, consider the people of 【Chunuan City】!"

Fang Yue:???

I'm being lectured by Night Thieves on morality and saving the world?

Fang Yue sneered, and his assault intensified.

"No matter how strong this strange entity becomes, it's still just a strange entity—someone else will deal with it. But if you two live, that's the true, endless danger to me!"

Already struggling to defend himself, the armless Zei Laoer, subjected to Fang Yue's relentless, injury-for-injury assault targeting his weaknesses, was cut down in several strokes—his body erupted with multiple deep wounds, and he lay on the ground, barely alive.

Zei Laoda immediately pinned Fang Yue down, preventing him from pressing the advantage, and roared in frustration: "Laoer! Why haven't you used the 'mutual destruction move' yet?! I'm ready to retreat at any moment—don't care about me!"

If I had a mutual destruction move, I'd be Number One on the Night Thief Rankings, not stuck in second!

Zei Laoer's eyes flickered with venomous hatred.

At that moment…

"Shattered Feathers!"

As Fang Yue dodged Zei Laoda's attack and waited for 【Night Breathing】 to heal his wounds, he shattered the black blade in his hand into countless fragments, which zipped, zipped, zipped through the ground and pierced Zei Laoer's body.

As the corpse trembled, Zei Laoer's eyes widened in shock, dying with his gaze still open.

"How could this be?!"

The Number One on the Night Thief Rankings stared, eyes bulging, unable to believe Zei Laoer was dead.

That man, who had always been a ticking bomb everyone feared, had just died without even getting a chance to self-destruct?

Until the surrounding little hands surged wildly toward Zei Laoer's corpse and swallowed it whole.

Until Fang Yue had fully healed and turned his suffocating assault solely upon him.

Only then did Zei Laoda snap back to reality, struggling to defend himself—but still retreating step by step; after barely holding on for over ten more strikes, a fresh wound tore across his body.

Yet for some reason, he felt Fang Yue's assault had grown less urgent—even his movements had slowed considerably.

But Fang Yue's expression and aura showed no signs of fatigue or anything else.

Is he feigning an opening to land one final killing blow??

Simple tactics often yield remarkable results.

Today, every one of the top ten on the Night Thief Rankings fell beneath Ye Niu Niu's blade—even the Rat Seat of the Phoenix Organization's Twelve Seats was no exception.

This boy's terror had become Zei Laoda's nightmare—he dared not underestimate him for a moment.

Previously, even the four of them combined had failed to subdue Fang Yue.

Now, with all others dead and only he left alone, with that unknown, powerful strange entity lurking nearby…

No matter how you looked at it, this was no time to fight head-on.

"Not a match! Retreat!"

"No 【Weirdness Value】 or 【Neili】 left—fall back!"

Amidst a resonance of Neili, Zei Laoda precisely parried Fang Yue's blade strike and suddenly retreated in a burst of speed!

Yet to his shock, as he retreated, he realized Fang Yue was retreating too!

The two rapidly and synchronously pulled apart!

What's going on?!

No sooner had he stopped than he saw the ground erupt with countless little hands, flooding the sky and crashing down upon him.

"Does this guy think anyone Ye Niu Niu knocks down is automatically dead and food?! I'm still alive!"

His face darkened, and the bandit leader drew his sword and struck.

However...

Clang clang clang clang!

The long sword slashed against 【Zhangzui Xiaoshou】, yet it only produced a clanging sound of impact, leaving sword marks and cracks on the little hand's arm — but it failed to sever the little hand!

His expression changed, and the bandit leader retreated violently, dodging the attack, his heart pounding wildly.

Only now did he recall once more... this 【Zhangzui Xiaoshou】's strangeness was a genuine mid-tier disaster-grade anomaly!

In other words, one would need at least several times — or even a dozen-plus times — the number of ordinary mid-tier human-grade anomalies to have the strength to fight it!

He'd been careless... lulled by this anomaly's constant pretense of weakness, he'd nearly lost his life.

Looking again at Fang Yue's side, what infuriated the bandit leader was that the area over there was spotlessly clean — not even half a little hand had poked out.

No! Looking closely, a few fingers had indeed poked up from the ground, but they were like little babies following their daddy, eagerly awaiting daddy's next feeding.

What the hell!?

In his shock, the ground beneath his feet suddenly surged — whoosh! — and a riot of colorful little hands erupted from the earth like an iron cage, swallowing him whole!

Here they come, here they come!

I wanted to update yesterday, but I was stuck badly — what I wrote wasn't satisfying, so I just went to sleep.

Today's make-up update.

(End of chapter)