Chapter 688

Too careless…

Thought my strength had grown, so I got a little cocky… forgot how terrifying and stubborn the Guai are, nearly capsized in a ditch!

Fang Yue frowned and lifted his foot to look.

Sure enough, two thumb-sized holes had appeared on the sole of his foot without him noticing.

It seems only two large white worms initially entered my body, but now, having absorbed nutrients, who knows how many have been cultivated.

The most terrifying thing about Symbiotic Type Guai is symbiotic transformation!

If not dealt with immediately, these Guai will gradually replace vital human organs with themselves.

For example, if we delay further, Fang Yue might even have his heart eaten by the white worms, then the worms would nest in the heart's position, connect to other blood vessels, and become a replacement heart… capable of killing him at any moment!

If things reach that point, everything is finished!

Fang Yue's palms and soles were drenched in cold sweat, his whole body trembling.

The current Guai level outside has synchronized to the point where death in the game means death in reality.

So he absolutely cannot afford to die in the game.

He activated the vigorous Foundation Establishment-level internal force, making it violently surge and reverberate within his body.

An invisible shockwave erupted from within Fang Yue, violently knocking Yang Hongxia back several steps, sending her tumbling to the ground.

When he looked up again, the air around Fang Yue seemed subtly distorted.

Fang Yue let out a thunderous roar.

Boom!!

As black mist coiled around his body, the shockwave around Fang Yue's form exploded outward!

This tremor was a full-body resonance of all organs and blood, directly killing the white worms inside him.

With the flow of internal force, he gathered the remnants of the white worms into his right arm and hand.

A large bulge immediately swelled on his arm, as if about to burst open.

Fang Yue lightly slashed with his black blade; the bulge split open, and a torrent of worm remains gushed out.

One, two, three… five white worm Guai of varying sizes tumbled to the ground.

Only then did Fang Yue exhale deeply—he was temporarily safe.

Opening the 【Innate Qi Shield】 effectively blocked the white worm Guai's attacks.

These white worm Guai themselves aren't particularly strong; their danger lies in silently piercing the human body.

During attack, they seem to release an acidic fluid that numbs bodily sensation, similar to summer mosquitoes—after numbing perception, they slip inside the body to begin symbiosis.

After handling his own situation, Fang Yue turned to look at the young mistress—Yang Hongxia, lying on the ground, had several dark pinpricks on her arms, yet she seemed completely unaware.

Fang Yue snorted coldly, grabbed her wrist, and flooded her body with violent internal force.

Yang Hongxia was merely a Postnatal cultivator, lacking formidable strength; the internal force tremor made her feel as if her entire body would fall apart.

Soon after, a small bulge swelled on her right hand—Fang Yue slashed it open, and seven much smaller white worms spilled out, clearly having just entered her body.

Yang Hongxia turned pale with terror; Fang Yue lifted her and carried her to the rooftop.

"Night Lord, what exactly is this…?"

"Symbiotic Type Guai, called 【Gongruigui】. But strangely, a Guai of this threat level should have triggered Chunuan City's detection array."

Fang Yue had asked Yang Hongxia and had some understanding of Chunuan City's Guai detection array.

Minor Guai might slip through, but dangerous Guai are usually detected.

Especially with so many of them, and such widespread activity.

Yet, ever since the 【Nuomian Gui】 appeared, the detection array seems to have failed—this is deeply puzzling.

"Night Lord, what about the others?"

"Have everyone uninfected climb to the rooftop. As for those infected, I'll handle them."

Fang Yue used his high-level dominance to crush low-level cultivators, killing the symbiotic Guai inside via internal force resonance, then expelling them.

This is an extremely crude, brutal method, causing heavy damage to the body.

Fang Yue's body has 【Ye Zhi Hu Xi】, so he recovers instantly—but others won't be so lucky.

According to Fang Yue's deduction, the Guai emerged from underground, invading the body through the soles of the feet.

So everyone with holes in their soles was left below; everyone else leapt onto the rooftop.

In moments, the rooftop and walls were packed with people, leaving only over thirty others below, terrified and helpless, staring toward Fang Yue.

"Night… Night Lord! I don't want to die! I don't want to die!"

"Save me! Save me!"

"Night Lord, save us!"

Fang Yue wasn't heartless—he glanced at the system prompt and leapt down.

"System Prompt: Congratulations, player 【Yese Liming】, you have slain 【Gongruigui】. Reward: Control Power +50, Dissipate Power +50, Yang Lifespan +6 months."

"System Prompt: Congratulations, player 【Yese Liming】, you have slain…"

Slaying 【Gongruigui】 yields modest and varied attribute rewards.

It seems the rewards differ based on the maturity and individual variation of each 【Gongruigui】.

But killing 【Gongruigui】 isn't difficult—Fang Yue wouldn't mind going down to slay a few more.

The only issue is, this internal force resonance method consumes considerable internal force—he'd need to pause after each batch, swallow a pill, and recuperate.

Seeing Fang Yue descend, the crowd immediately gathered around him eagerly.

But before they could approach, the former head guard suddenly screamed and collapsed.

Everyone turned—his two arms had transformed into giant white worms, his palms now the worms' heads; his entire arms had been replaced, becoming a symbiotic form, rapidly absorbing nutrients, visibly withering away.

"Night…"

Boom!

The head burst apart in an instant, yet the human body still held its previous posture, and at the severed neck, the head of a white worm poked out from the stump, taking the place of the head that had just vanished.

A bizarre symbiotic human body—one head in worm form, both hands part of the worm's body—was thus born.

"D-Dean of Protectors?!"

"Dean of Protectors, he…"

"Dead… he's absolutely already dead!"

That's right—symbiosis does not mean it won't kill.

When the symbiotic anomaly senses a threat, the anomaly within the body will find a way to take the host's place and fight.

As for whether it's better to fight using the human's original body, or better to fight using the symbiotic anomaly's form, that depends on whether the symbiotic anomaly has enough spiritual intelligence.

(End of this chapter)