Chapter 726: Cow Seat! (Wishing Everyone a Happy New Year!)

Fang Yue had never learned footwork; his kick landed with nothing but ordinary force.

Had it not been for the urgent need to rescue people first, and the fact that if he left, those below would be in mortal danger, Fang Yue would have already charged in to strike while the enemy was vulnerable.

Yet even without pursuing, these two casual deflections by Fang Yue had made the Nuomian Gui wary.

Seeing Fang Yue's results, Dou Hongyi and the others perked up and worked harder to pull people up from below.

Once people were pulled out, they were immediately ordered to move far away from the Renhou Juqiang beneath them.

In just this short time, half the personnel had been rescued.

Most of them were cultivators with Martial Dao strength.

Because these people possessed sufficient will to survive, as well as the strength to flee the scene quickly.

The rest were ordinary civilians—more troublesome to handle, but rescue efforts for them were proceeding steadily.

With Fang Yue holding the line, everyone felt considerably more at ease.

Whooshing.

The black circular ring's Night Rain had officially escalated from 【Lian Guan】 to the level of 【Light Rain】.

Fine droplets fell continuously onto Fang Yue's head.

But Fang Yue didn't even glance up; he stared coldly at the Nuomian Gui in the distance.

Gurgling.

The Nuomian Gui merged into the ground of the Renhou Juqiang and vanished.

Not this trick again?

Fang Yue frowned, closing his eyes.

Wind howled past his ears.

Air currents scattered along the wind's direction, spreading outward.

Soon, Fang Yue sensed the Nuomian Gui suddenly growing denser below, undergoing violent changes.

As he opened his eyes, he saw the Nuomian Gui emerging from among the crowd below.

The crowd screamed in terror and scattered, but then discovered that as the Nuomian Gui broke through the surface, its body had begun to crystallize with layers of frost, freezing it solid in place.

"Hurry up and climb! Hurry!"

Dou Hongyi shouted orders; everyone scrambled up the ice staircase, chaotic but driven by survival instinct—many unlocked hidden potential and escaped to safety.

When the frost on the Nuomian Gui cracked and shattered into a pile of ice shards, it realized Fang Yue had somehow appeared right before it.

Same circular ring above its head, same two-meter Ice Blade in hand.

But the original is always stronger than the counterfeit!

"Dark Moon Blade Technique!"

Though merely a Primordial Blade Technique, supported by the Frozen Heart Method and amplified by the Blade Technique, Fang Yue's stats surged close to twenty thousand—his furious power drove the Ice Blade straight into the Nuomian Gui.

The Nuomian Gui instinctively stepped back—but its right foot was instantly frozen to the ground, immobile.

This frost power was far stronger than before; concentrated into a single point, even the Nuomian Gui could not break free quickly, forced to take Fang Yue's blow head-on!

As the Nuomian Gui's right hand rapidly reshaped into a shield, Fang Yue's Ice Blade vanished into darkness, carving a crescent moon.

When it reappeared, it had already slashed across the Nuomian Gui's shield.

Ssshh—

Black blood sprayed high; the hand-made shield split cleanly in two, and the Ice Blade followed through, cleaving straight into the Nuomian Gui's chest, sending it flying backward with a massive wound.

68621!

The Nuomian Gui flew backward, slamming into an ice pillar, shattering it into fragments.

At that moment, from the blood-filled hole, Dou Hongyi shouted.

"Night Rain, you can go all out now—everyone's been rescued!"

Indeed, during the rapid rescue, all ordinary civilians had been saved; only Fang Yue and the Nuomian Gui remained inside the Renhou Juqiang.

Gurgling!

The Nuomian Gui struggled to its feet, glaring at Fang Yue with fury at its chest wound.

Like a rebellious child who'd forgotten how satisfying it once was to feast on corpses while following Fang Yue.

Ungrateful thing.

Fang Yue sneered coldly—suddenly, countless arms erupted from above and around him, attacking from all directions.

But all of them froze solid the moment they entered a certain radius around Fang Yue, becoming ice statues.

Moving swiftly, Fang Yue charged straight at the Nuomian Gui—only to see it retreat, merging into the wall of the massive flesh wall.

Startled, Fang Yue frowned and scanned his surroundings, realizing the ice pillars had been shattered by hands bursting from the wall—the massive Renhou Juqiang was collapsing downward, crushing toward him.

"You don't think… I'm on the same level as those people, do you?"

Fang Yue watched the collapsing flesh wall calmly, raising his Ice Blade high.

As his internal energy surged, the Ice Blade shot upward violently, piercing through the ceiling of the flesh wall, then synchronizing into a high-speed spin—like a meat grinder, drilling a massive hole through the wall.

As the massive flesh wall fully collapsed, Fang Yue stood precisely within the hole, leaping lightly to the outside.

Bathed in moonlight, Fang Yue was spotless, like a battle god.

The crowd cheered—then realized the Nuomian Gui had emerged beside them.

"Night Rain! Save us!!"

Everyone screamed; Fang Yue had already dashed toward them.

He understood the Nuomian Gui's teleportation ability better now, its mechanics clearer than ever.

The instant the Nuomian Gui appeared, the instant the crowd screamed, Fang Yue's Ice Blade—cloaked in black energy—pierced straight through the Nuomian Gui's chest.

Surprisingly, the Nuomian Gui's chest bore no trace of its earlier wound—this strike hit as if it were brand new, driving it stumbling backward, staring dumbly at Fang Yue.

152122!

"Goo goo goo…"

Fang Yue couldn't understand what it was saying, so he drew his blade and, with a backhand slash, chopped off its head.

168856!

Clearly two fatal wounds, yet the 【Nuomian Gui】 death-ear prompt never sounded. What took its place was a scene where the 【Nuomian Gui】's corpse dissolved into the ground like it was melting into water.

Fang Yue frowned, recalled the 【Nuomian Gui】's performance back at 【Dongliu Mountain】, and realized that the 【Nuomian Gui】 was not easy to kill.

However…

Using his Internal Breath to sense the changes in airflow, Fang Yue immediately perceived the 【Nuomian Gui】's core had shifted to a position a hundred meters away and was reforming.

This time, the instant the 【Nuomian Gui】 poked its head out, Fang Yue had already used frost to freeze it solid.

Every time it reconstituted its body, the 【Nuomian Gui】's strength would weaken by a fraction; it needed to absorb the corpses of the strong, feeding on them, to recover or grow even stronger.

"This time, I won't let you escape again!"

Everyone has a weakness, and the 【Nuomian Gui】 was no exception.

It was just that the 【Nuomian Gui】's weakness was very well hidden.

Only at the moment of each 'death,' during that instant of transfer, would the core be exposed.

Only by seizing the core could the 【Nuomian Gui】 truly be killed!

He raised his blade and slew the 【Nuomian Gui】 that had just poked its head out.

The power of Frozen froze everything in the surroundings completely.

The 【Nuomian Gui】's core, attempting to transfer, was indeed frozen among them as well.

"Found it!"

With a cold laugh, Fang Yue stabbed his blade straight down into the ground.

552281!

The fatal wound pierced the 【Nuomian Gui】's core directly—that thing resembling a human brain made of small hands—letting out a "goo goo goo" shriek as black blood sprayed wildly, spilling out past the flesh wall, and soon there was no more movement.

Fang Yue had thought this would be enough to kill the 【Nuomian Gui】, but soon he sensed…the 【Nuomian Gui】's core numbered a full 108, distributed evenly across various positions on the massive flesh wall beneath his feet!

Only by destroying all these cores could the 【Nuomian Gui】 truly be killed!

In combat, the 【Nuomian Gui】 was no longer Fang Yue's match, but in staying alive, it still required Fang Yue to put in some effort.

But at this point, destroying the 【Nuomian Gui】 was only a matter of time.

Though the 【Nuomian Gui】 was strong, facing Fang Yue at full strength, it was no longer a threat.

Just as Fang Yue was preparing to begin the final harvest, a dangerous aura suddenly locked onto him from the high wall in the distance.

For Fang Yue, with his current strength, to still feel this kind of heart-pounding sense of crisis meant the opponent's strength must also be at the high-tier human level, and…would definitely not be easy to deal with!

He instinctively raised his head and looked toward the high wall, and his pupils immediately contracted.

"Ox Seat!"

(End of this chapter)