Chapter 737: Fierce-Grade Evolution (5/10, please subscribe)

That's right, the Taurus's swordsmanship, in actual combat and contact, directly possessed the 【curse】 power of burning lifespan.

Fang Yue had no good way to deal with it; during the battle with Taurus, a fair amount of lifespan was burned away, but fortunately all within an acceptable range.

Watching his attributes reach the limit once again, Fang Yue's heart thrilled with excitement.

This meant he was about to break through to the Human-Grade Beginner realm.

Still, with strength rising so fast, would his realm become unstable—what a troublesome worry.

At this moment, Fang Yue suddenly missed the days when Niu Niu was around; after all, when showing off, having no one beside you to cheer along always lacked a certain flavor.

"Everyone carrying the wooden box containers, move toward this side!"

After finishing off 【Horn Yin Void】, Fang Yue let out a huge sigh of relief, sat cross-legged on the ground, and shouted loudly at the crowd.

The others cheered and moved toward this side one after another.

As long as 【Nuomian Gui】 was dealt with, the only one left would be Taurus, whose whereabouts were unknown.

Fang Yue was a player; no system prompt rang out, yet he firmly believed Taurus was still alive.

But where on earth was this guy hiding?

That body had died completely, and he had sensed the surroundings—no trace of Taurus's aura...

While Fang Yue was pondering, he suddenly saw the crowd ahead carrying wooden boxes and approaching, all stop in unison, eyes wide, staring in terror at what was behind him.

Behind me, isn't there only the corpse of 【Horn Yin Void】...

Wait!

Could it be that this 【Horn Yin Void】 can actually revive?!

His heart gave a sudden lurch; Fang Yue violently retreated while whipping his head around to look.

The next instant, his face instantly darkened.

He saw that at the position of the remaining ox-head of 【Horn Yin Void】's corpse, a massive swarm of tiny hands was surging out layer upon layer from the ground, completely wrapping and devouring the ox-head.

"【Nuomian Gui】!"

His footsteps halted; Fang Yue roared out the name while charging toward 【Nuomian Gui】.

That layered swarm of tiny hands seemed startled, and under 【Nuomian Gui】's consciousness, gave a collective shudder.

Like a child caught doing something naughty—first stunned in fright, then reacting like a little dog caught stealing food by its owner, frantically accelerating its devouring speed.

As the swarm of tiny hands writhed and squirmed densely, 【Horn Yin Void】's ox-head vanished at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Get the hell away from it!!"

When Fang Yue's second roar rang out, he had already charged up to 【Nuomian Gui】.

A flash of black light—a horizontal slash!

The entire swarm of tiny hands gathered by 【Nuomian Gui】 was directly cut clean in half at the waist; black blood surged and spurted out.

But 【Horn Yin Void】's ox-head had already been gnawed more than halfway, with only a small portion left, carried by the tiny hands as they burrowed underground.

How could Fang Yue let it escape; gripping his blade in a reverse hold, he stabbed straight downward.

The next instant, a strange look immediately flashed across Fang Yue's face.

Because this blade was clearly stabbing at the fleeing 【Nuomian Gui】, yet the feedback in his hand felt like cutting 【Horn Yin Void】!

That peculiar sense of blockage appeared once again!

【Nuomian Gui】 had already absorbed part of 【Horn Yin Void】's characteristics?!

The terrifying thing about growth-type anomalies is precisely this.

Fang Yue's face darkened; he gathered 【Anomaly Value】, wisps of black qi coiling around Ice Blade, and in a single stride pursued the underground-fleeing 【Nuomian Gui】, slashing at the ground once more!

Boom!!

Amid flying debris, black blood spurted out.

A huge blade mark was cut into the ground; black blood poured from the mark, and densely packed tiny hands lay inside like corpses.

"It transferred?! Where is it?"

Fang Yue released his senses, but his expression grew worse and worse.

Because he could gradually no longer sense 【Nuomian Gui】's presence.

It was as if 【Nuomian Gui】 had combined with the Yin Void's characteristics, becoming hard to pinpoint.

"The cores! Throw all the cores over here!"

Only then did the crowd come to their senses one by one, tossing the wooden boxes toward Fang Yue.

The wooden boxes were still mid-air; before Fang Yue could swing his blade, a giant hand composed of densely packed tiny hands erupted from the ground, reaching out to grab those wooden boxes!

Now!

Hum!!

A forty-meter Ice Blade, wreathed in black qi, slashed horizontally once more!

All the wooden boxes, lined up in a row, were sliced clean in half by one blade, and along with them, 【Nuomian Gui】's giant hand was cut straight through the middle.

Black blood rained down, and Fang Yue charged forward, swinging his blade again.

【Nuomian Gui】 shrank back underground as if in pain, but Fang Yue's blade severed its arm; the giant hand toppled down and landed on the ground.

The cores had already been fully collected by Phoenix Organization, and now with Fang Yue destroying them all, 【Nuomian Gui】 was left with only its main body!

A true life-or-death crisis had descended upon 【Nuomian Gui】's head!

"Gugu gu!!"

【Nuomian Gui】 was clearly panicking, letting out strange cries.

But Fang Yue would never show mercy to an anomaly.

Not to mention 【Nuomian Gui】 massacring the citizens of Chunuan City; just the fact that it had tried to kill him earlier was enough to sentence 【Nuomian Gui】 to death!

The forty-meter greatsword cut into the middle of 【Nuomian Gui】's arm like a wood saw; Fang Yue roared at the top of his lungs as he sliced 【Nuomian Gui】's arm open vertically down the middle, running and cutting all the way, black blood spurting high into the air, as if a rain of black blood had fallen.

The crowd stared wide-eyed in shock, watching Fang Yue charge forward like a god of death, roaring as he sliced through the Nuomian Gui's arm.

The situation, at this moment, seemed to freeze, the curtain falling.

In Fang Yue's battle cry.

In the Nuomian Gui's gurgling sounds.

In the bath of black-blood rain.

Everything, however, suddenly came to an abrupt halt!

The Nuomian Gui vanished into thin air right before everyone's eyes!

The black blood abruptly stopped spurting.

Fang Yue's forty-meter greatsword stopped in midair.

"It's gone?"

Stunned for a moment, Fang Yue swung repeatedly at the empty air, but felt nothing at all.

What was going on?!

The crowd jumped in fright, all completely baffled.

And at this moment…

Boom!

Thunder cracked overhead, and a faintly visible human figure was actually suspended in midair.

It was a figure composed of small hands, with the same design as Fang Yue's—a forty-meter greatsword, a ring atop its head… the only difference was that the Shadow figure had grown a pair of ox horns!

Fang Yue's eyes suddenly went wide—this thing… at such a life-or-death moment, had completely devoured the Ox-Horn Yin-Xu and completed its evolution!

An indescribable power faintly coiled around the Nuomian Gui's body, and a faint blood mist even vaguely rose around it!

"Li-class… Guiyi!"

Fang Yue's heart sank.

That characteristic of faint blood mist coiling around the body was unmistakably the hallmark of a Li-class Guiyi!

And just as the Yun-class experts corresponding to Li-class Guiyi could likewise have faint clouds and mist drifting around their bodies, except one was blood-colored and the other pale white.

Fang Yue was far from reaching the Yun-class level; even with all his aids forcibly raising his upper limit, at most he was at the peak of Human-class, and facing a Li-class Guiyi equivalent to a Yun-class expert, he didn't know if he could withstand it.

Just as Fang Yue was thinking these thoughts, he suddenly noticed a detail and froze on the spot.

He felt… the Nuomian Gui in midair was actually trembling, shaking with tremors!

It was afraid of something!

Keep breathing!

(End of this chapter)