Chapter 28
Ji Tang waited patiently for Jiu Jun to move closer to her. She clasped her hands together, opened and closed her mouth, but made no sound.
Ji Tang waited and waited but Jiu Jun didn't speak, so he just said it himself: "You are Jiu Xiao's sister, right? Hello, I am Huan Mang's sister."
A title can dispel all of Jiuyun's concerns, so why not do it?
Jiujun screamed "Ah" and covered her mouth in pain before she could say anything.
When Jiuxiao heard the cry of pain, he no longer had the heart to discuss the plan. He walked a few steps to Jiujun, looked at Jiujun's condition, and glared at Jitang coldly.
His cultivation level at the initial stage of Lingji was released, instantly making it difficult for Ji Tang to breathe.
Even though the two are only one level apart, their cultivation levels are actually worlds apart.
The spiritual power required to upgrade each small level is extremely huge, not to mention a large level.
Only Ji Tang could feel this kind of discomfort, because Jiu Xiao was targeting only her.
In the blink of an eye, two people blocked Ji Tang's way.
Su Jinzhou was the first to arrive in front of Jitang.
His cultivation was not as good as Ji Tang's, and he was even more helpless against Jiu Xiao who was in the early stage of Ling Ji. However, he still gritted his teeth and released his spiritual power, trying to cut off the spiritual pressure that Jiu Xiao was putting on Ji Tang.
As a result, only the outer layer of Jiuxiao's spiritual power vibrated slightly and returned to normal in an instant. However, Su Jinzhou was counterattacked by Jiuxiao's aggressive spiritual power. Blood immediately flowed from the corner of his mouth, and he couldn't even take out the magic weapon.
He nailed his feet to the ground. If he lost his strength, he would be knocked away by the spiritual power, and Ji Tang was behind him.
"We'll stay all night on the boat!" Ji Tang's eyes were red.
She wasn't afraid, nor was she aggrieved; she was simply angry.
Under the absolute suppression of strength, both she and Su Jinzhou were like grass. They could only endure and had no possibility of fighting back.
Not only that, what is even more terrifying is that this spiritual power that is superior to oneself not only destroys the human body, but also constantly erodes the human heart.
It makes people unable to muster the slightest thought of resistance, because as soon as they have the thought, they will be immediately crushed by the terrifying spiritual power.
Ji Tang's eyes became redder and redder.
This is strength.
If she doesn't want to be suppressed, she must become stronger. Only in this way can she protect herself and the people she wants to protect.
Huan Mang was one step later than Su Jinzhou. He released his spiritual power and stood in front of the two men. The spiritual power wall blocked the three of them tightly.
Jiuxiao was bounced back a few steps by the spiritual power wall, the spiritual power he released dissipated, and the pressure disappeared.
Huan Mang's expression was cold and chilly.
Jitang often saw him with a smile on his face, always looking lazy and casual, so he always thought he had no temper.
But now his smile suddenly disappeared, and his eyes became cold. Ji Tang realized that he was quite scary when he became serious.
The two of them confronted each other silently, and it was Jiujun who broke the tense atmosphere that was about to explode.
"Brother, I just want to talk to Jitang, what are you doing?" She might be anxious, and her nervous and shy expression disappeared, and her speech speed became much faster.
Jiu Xiao withdrew his momentum first, but his voice was still cold, "I saw you covering your face. Did she hit you?"
Jiujun shook his head vigorously, "No! It was me... I bit my tongue..."
Ji Tang ignored what the brother and sister said, took out the Soul-Boosting Pill from his storage bag, poured out one and stuffed it into Su Jinzhou's mouth, "Eat it quickly!"
As Su Jinzhou swallowed it, his mouth was filled with the taste of blood.
When Ji Tang was feeding him medicine, she inevitably touched the corner of his mouth, and her fingers were immediately stained with blood, and her fingertips trembled violently.
He said angrily: "Why are you blocking my way? Your cultivation level is not as high as mine!"
Su Jinzhou's eyes darkened and he did not agree as usual.
He looked into her anxious eyes, his hands hanging at both sides of his body clenching tighter and tighter in his sleeves.
Facing the early stage of spiritual silence, not only Ji Tang felt the gap of helplessness, but he did the same.
Huan Mang first made sure Ji Tang was alright before sending spiritual energy to Su Jin Zhou. However, before the spiritual energy could enter Su Jin Zhou's body, it was blocked by Su Jin Zhou.
He couldn't even resist the early stage of spiritual silence, let alone the middle stage of spiritual silence. Su Jinzhou suddenly vomited blood again.
Huan Mang said anxiously: "Why can't you tell good from bad? I'm healing you!"
Su Jinzhou suppressed the surging blood in his chest and asked, "Which cultivator would let someone else's spiritual power in for no reason?"
Huan Mang: "Didn't you also let Ji Tang—"
He paused, then sighed deeply, and said in a voice only audible to the two of them, "Alright, I'll assume you don't want spiritual power, just nightmare energy."
Su Jinzhou didn't say a word.
Huan Mang withdrew his spiritual power and turned to Jiu Xiao, saying, "Jiu Xiao, you have to give me an explanation for hurting my people, right?"
Jiu Xiao now knew the whole story. He was being stared at by Jiu Jun. Seeing his sister's accusatory look, as if she had done something wrong, he said shamefacedly, "I misunderstood. I'm sorry!"
Huan Mang: "It's no use telling me. Look, my sister won't forgive you."
Jiuxiao looked at Jitang.
As a result, Ji Tang had a blank expression on his face. Not to mention forgiveness, he looked as vicious as if he was looking at an enemy.
Jiuxiao: "...I'm sorry."
Ji Tang ignored him and was taken away by Su Jinzhou to meditate and heal his injuries.
Jiuxiao felt disappointed. He touched his nose, lowered his head, and met Jiuyun's resentful eyes again. He felt powerless.
"I will never get involved in your little girl's affairs again."
Jiujun hummed softly.
An hour later, Huanmang and Jiuxiao told everyone about the battle plan.
Although Su Jinzhou relied on the spiritual elixir to temporarily stabilize the restless spiritual power in his body, his face was still very pale.
When Huan Mang divided the teams, he intentionally put Huan Yue, Ji Tang and Su Jin Zhou into the same team.
Huanyue knew that he was worried and nodded to him silently.
There are many people in both tribes, but only Huanmang and Jiuxiao can fight against the monsters.
Jitang's team of three, together with three other teams, was responsible for clearing the eyeballs that emerged from the swamp.
The three of them took their positions in advance. While Huan Mang was luring out the monster beast, Huan Yue warned them, "You were just affected by the Nine Owls' spiritual power. Don't try to be brave later, especially Jin Zhou."
The two agreed.
Huan Mang moved quickly. He used his spiritual power to protect himself and reappeared after a while after falling into the swamp.
The swamp suddenly began to boil as he appeared, as if on fire. However, the surrounding temperature remained unchanged—the swamp wasn't boiling because of any heat, but because the demonic beasts within had awakened.
Dense bubbles appeared on the boiling swamp. Some bubbles were only the size of a thumb, like before, while others continued to expand until they were the size of a fist before bursting.
As the bubbles burst, eyeballs appeared one after another in front of everyone.
If the bubble is the size of a thumb, the eyeball is also the size of a thumb. If the bubble is the size of a fist, the eyeball is the size of a fist.
Suddenly the swamp was filled with eyeballs of all sizes.
The black circle of the gray eyeball moved around, and as long as someone's eyes met the eyeball, a scream would be heard in a short period of time.
Huan Mang had already stressed the danger of eyeballs, but there were simply too many of them. If one avoided one, they would collide with another in the blink of an eye, forcing them to retreat.
Before they could deal with a few eyeballs, a large bulge suddenly appeared in the swamp. Thick black liquid wrapped around a huge spherical object, forming an arc as high as a small hill.
Everyone looked and saw a smooth dome emerging from the top of the liquid. The liquid slid down the dome, and they soon saw the full appearance of the monster.
The monster has smooth, hairless skin, is gray-brown all over, and its head and body are connected together. From a distance, it looks like a round rice dumpling floating on the swamp.
Although it looks like a round rice dumpling, it is not cute at all.
From the point where its head and body met, what could barely be called a neck, extended countless long, gray-brown tentacles. Each tentacle seemed to have its own thoughts, swimming in different directions. At the end of each tentacle was an eyeball, which slowly rotated.
Ji Tang rubbed his arms, feeling uncomfortable. "Do you think that everything those eyeballs see can be transmitted to the monster beasts?"
Su Jinzhou guessed: "The eyeballs in the swamp might also do that."
Ji Tang's scalp tingled. "Doesn't that mean there are tentacles underneath these eyeballs, but they're hidden in the swamp and we can't see them?"
Su Jinzhou: "Most likely."
Jitang couldn't help but imagine that scene, and felt even more uncomfortable in an instant.
Huan Mang and Jiu Xiao flew towards the monster on their swords. Before they got close to the monster, the tentacles had already woven a web of flesh in front of them.
In the gray-brown flesh net, the cross-hollowed spaces were filled with eyeballs. The eyeballs were squeezed and deformed, and the black circles on them were still rotating, densely packed.
Jitang felt nauseous and couldn't help dry heaving.
"Be careful!" Su Jinzhou grabbed Ji Tang's waist in a hurry and pulled her back, "Look at what's in front of you!"
Ji Tang's back bumped into Su Jinzhou's. She looked down and saw that the eyeballs in the swamp had climbed onto the grass at some point. Each eyeball was connected to a tentacle, just as she had just imagined.
Jitang's body was covered with goose bumps.
"vomit……"
Su Jinzhou hooked her with one hand and drew his sword with the other, cutting off the tentacles that were approaching Ji Tang.
The liquid flowing out of the broken tentacle was also gray-brown and emitted an earthy smell.
The tentacles struggled a few times, and the part connected to the eyeball shrank and wrinkled in just a few breaths due to the loss of gray-brown nutrients, and the eyeball also shrank rapidly.
Although the long end of the tentacle was leaking liquid, the wound site suddenly swelled up and new skin slowly grew out. When it grew to the same length as before, a round ball bulged out of the tentacle and a new eyeball grew out.
Huanyue was facing a formidable enemy: "This thing's self-healing ability is too strong! At this rate, we can work ourselves to death and still not clear all the eyeballs in the swamp!"
Su Jinzhou shouted, "Look at the ground!"
On the ground, a shrunken and dried-up tentacle and eyeball were slowly sinking into the soil.
Jitang's expression changed again and again, "Is the soil absorbing this?"
Su Jinzhou seemed to be lost in thought. "Do you think the place we are standing on is also part of the monster's body?"
Ji Tang's hair suddenly stood on end.
Huanyue frowned, "We'll know if it's part of a monster once we take a look!"
His outstretched left arm swelled with blood at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his sleeves began to tear with sounds, hanging on his arm in pieces.
His arms were a whole circle thicker than before, covered with dragon scales, and his five fingers were slightly shorter, but the skin looked extremely hard - this was no longer human skin, but the skin of his dragon form.
The fingertips darkened in color, and the nails grew long and sharp, like curved sickles.
He inserted his bare hands into the soil, then pulled hard, and the soil instantly split open a crack.
The cracks contained tentacles and eyeball debris that had not been completely absorbed. In addition, if you looked closely, you could see many smaller and thinner granulations drilling in and out of the soil, much like maggots.
Ji Tang couldn't hold it in any longer now. He turned his back, covered his mouth and retched repeatedly.
Behind her was Su Jinzhou, who subconsciously circled her, seeing her facial features were twisted together. Her eyes were wet and red from retching, and she looked like she was about to faint.
Su Jinzhou patted her back repeatedly and said, "Can you spit it out? It will feel better if you spit it out."
Ji Tang supported his arm, "I can't vomit... Ugh..."
Ji Tang kept retching here.
Huanyue over there was also disgusted.
His dragon claw was almost shaking out of thin air. Su Jinzhou listened carefully and heard what he was mumbling: I'm dirty, I can't keep my hand anymore...
After saying this for a few minutes, he vomited.
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