Chapter 923: Death and Revival (2/2, begging for monthly votes)

Tiger Head Spear froze.

Th-this thing just came back from the dead?

But even Wu Feifei had said this Moon Lord Gui was dead beyond a doubt.

【Sin-Cleansing Twin Scythes】 had already stopped fighting, believing the Moon Lord Gui had been dealt with.

Could this Moon Lord Gui really be this tenacious, surviving even something like this?

After a brief daze, Tiger Head Spear immediately snapped back to his senses, the hairs on his back instantly standing on end.

Don't be fooled by what those people just said about the Moon Lord Gui being a Silver Spear with a wax head—that was aimed at someone of 【Sin-Cleansing Twin Scythes】's caliber. Judging by the aura the Moon Lord Gui had displayed before, if it were him, he'd be flat on his back in an instant.

Deciding on the spot, Tiger Head Spear violently retreated several steps and roared, "Everyone be careful, this Gui isn't dead yet!"

The moment the words fell, the others all froze in unison.

Even 【Falling Sky】, who had already walked far away, suddenly stopped in his tracks and looked back toward Tiger Head Spear's direction.

"Impossible!"

【Sin-Cleansing Twin Scythes】 was the least able to accept it.

Because Fang Yue's head—he had been the one to chop it off.

If Fang Yue were still alive, wouldn't his previous killing strike have become a laughingstock?

His figure moved, and in the next instant he was in front of Tiger Head Spear. With a shove that pushed Tiger Head Spear aside, he appeared before Fang Yue's head.

He looked down at the severed head below, his brow furrowing.

He couldn't sense any aura on that head whatsoever—it was completely, utterly a dead thing.

But... that severed head was indeed moving.

"How can this be? It's still alive?"

In that instant, countless thoughts flashed through 【Sin-Cleansing Twin Scythes】's mind.

A Gui with an ability to conceal its aura to the extreme, a Gui with some special survival skill.

All manner of guesses flashed through and vanished.

Then 【Sin-Cleansing Twin Scythes】 raised his foot and stomped down.

Boom!!

Fang Yue's head instantly burst apart like a watermelon.

The others reacted a beat slower. Though they saw 【Sin-Cleansing Twin Scythes】 stomp Fang Yue's head to pulp, they still rushed over one after another, surrounding Fang Yue's corpse and head in a tight ring, standing ready.

"This time, it should be thoroughly dead."

【Sin-Cleansing Twin Scythes】 said coldly.

And the one he was looking at was 【Falling Sky】, who had just walked back.

"Indeed, I can't sense any aura from this Gui either. No matter how you look at it, it should be dead."

Gui are born carrying an aura.

Most Gui can conceal their aura.

But no matter how powerful a Gui is, no matter how it hides its aura, some will always leak out.

When the difference in strength isn't vast, a Gui's aura is extremely hard to conceal.

Only when a Gui is thoroughly dead does its aura truly dissipate.

With 【Sin-Cleansing Twin Scythes】's strength, even a Rain-tier Gui—as long as it isn't too powerful a Rain-tier Gui—can be barely sensed by its aura.

And once 【Sin-Cleansing Twin Scythes】 can't sense it, under normal circumstances, it means the Gui is already thoroughly dead.

Even 【Falling Sky】 thought so, so this time, this Moon Lord Gui should really be...

Just as 【Sin-Cleansing Twin Scythes】 thought this far, his train of thought suddenly halted.

Because before his eyes, light appeared—black light.

Speckled dots of black light emerged one by one before his eyes, and after a brief pause, suddenly accelerated, multiplying into dense clusters of black light that gathered together.

Just as 【Sin-Cleansing Twin Scythes】 still hadn't grasped what was happening...

The shattered flesh and blood suddenly, as if time were rewinding, madly surged back and coalesced into shape!

That head he had just stomped into pulp had, in an instant, been restored to its original state!

"Impossible?!" 【Sin-Cleansing Twin Scythes】's eyes went wide on the spot.

"I actually misjudged it," 【Falling Sky】 said, his face unusually grave.

"Prepare for battle!!" Wu Feifei roared, and everyone drew their weapons in unison, surrounding Fang Yue's body in a tight ring.

At this moment, Fang Yue's head, as if time were flowing backward, rolled in reverse, lifting off the ground and rising into the air.

At the same time, Fang Yue's corpse on the ground cooperated, rising in a bizarre, reverse-flowing manner—from lying on the ground to the standing posture it had held before 【Sin-Cleansing Twin Scythes】 had severed its head.

When the body finished standing, the head flew back with perfect naturalness to its place on the neck, completing the reunion.

The shattered bone fragments, those tiny scattered pieces, as if time were flowing backward, returned one after another to Fang Yue's neck, restored to their original state.

The blood that had splattered out flowed back into the neck, and the broken blood vessels were directly repaired.

That bloodline on the neck vanished even faster, returning to the appearance of undamaged skin.

When all this was complete, Fang Yue had fully returned to the state he had been in before 【Sin-Cleansing Twin Scythes】 severed his neck—as if defying the laws of nature, time itself had reversed, sending the body back to the moment before the injury!

This seemingly heaven-defying ability left everyone present stunned on the spot.

Because everyone present was of a high caliber, they could all see that what was happening with this Gui before them was no simple matter of repairing a body—it was genuinely, truly... rising from the dead!

Rising from the dead—what a concept that is! Even the legendary immortals, once fallen, are simply fallen. Unless some special means had been arranged beforehand, once dead, one is dead, with no possibility of coming back to life.

But this Gui before them, this obscure little Gui, had accomplished something even immortals couldn't!

Between life and death, there lies great terror.

Between life and death, there also lies great secret.

How this monster managed to do this, how it came back from the dead, left everyone feeling it was inconceivable.

While everyone was still stunned.

The black aura… that aura that made one tremble from the depths of one's heart, once again overflowed from Fang Yue's body.

The black qi burst forth from his body like a wild dragon, a terrifying aura shooting skyward!

Violent black qi coiled around Fang Yue's entire body; the dense black qi set off his frame as he slowly rose into the air, as if like a sovereign, looking down upon the surrounding crowd.

"Half-step… Rain-rank!"

【Twin Sins Sickles】 stared blankly at Fang Yue floating in midair, muttering to himself.

"The gap… is it really this huge…"

【Falling Sky】 gripped the sword in his hand, brows tightly furrowed.

"Resurrection from the dead… impossible! Could he have some connection to the imperial clan?"

Wu Feifei's thoughts were in complete disarray; the monster's revival before her eyes had thrown her off balance.

While everyone was still immersed in Fang Yue's resurrection from the dead.

Boom!!

A bolt of black lightning suddenly descended from the sky, striking straight down a few meters in front of Fang Yue.

Black… lightning?

Wu Feifei looked up toward the sky, and only then noticed… the black ring that had originally been hovering just above Fang Yue's head had, at some unknown point, flown up into the sky and merged into the clouds above, forming a black cloud.

Black Cloud flashed with thunder, as if brewing something.

The black lightning from moments ago had fallen from that Black Cloud.

And as the black lightning vanished…

Drip.

Drip.

Drip.

Black raindrops landed on Wu Feifei's face.

"Night… Rain?"

(End of chapter)