monster
The giant rooster's body was as hard as a copper wall and an iron wall, and it was impossible to harm it in the slightest with any magical artifact.
Its feathers looked like a deadly dagger, gleaming coldly in the dim mist.
The giant rooster's sharp claws dragged the hostage that annoyed Shi Yuzhen. He rarely considered the life and death of anyone other than Xu Ya and himself, and felt constrained.
The rooster clearly saw Ah-Xi as bait to distract Shi Yu-Zhen, and it seemed to be aware of his moves, avoiding them at every turn.
A bizarre scene unfolds: a giant rooster spreads its wings and takes flight, its massive claws gripping the mangled, unfortunate creature, engaging in a chase with Shi Yuzhen in the void.
The scene is almost like a playful pet chasing its owner, except the roles are reversed, and the willing one takes the bait.
The monster resembled a rooster, its powerful comb whipping wildly in the gale, while its three-meter-long wings were incredibly strong, allowing it to soar through the air several times without showing any signs of strain.
Despite her poverty, Shi Yuzhen was determined to succeed. She swiftly attacked the monster's claw that was tightly gripping Ah Xi.
Finally, a flaw has appeared!
Shi Yuzhen activated her supreme true power, converging it onto the ink sword, and unleashed a world-shattering force upon the monster.
The giant rooster was no match for this move. Its entire claw was severed by Shi Yuzhen, and hot blood splattered from the cut. The lifeless claw immediately lost its strength, and Ah Xi suddenly fell off its claw.
The monster kept letting out shrill screams—like a group of people howling in a sea of fire, their voices overlapping each other.
Upon seeing that Ah-Xi had been released by the monster, Xu Ya immediately cast a slowing spell, allowing Ah-Xi to land smoothly.
But Ah-Xi still couldn't descend at the steady speed that Xu-Ya had predicted; he fell onto the roof with a loud thud.
The county was eerily quiet.
Xu Ya also felt a strong sense of unease.
The monster howled incessantly, and its giant outstretched wings lost their aim, followed by Ah-Xi crashing into the dust.
Now, the eerie rooster lies sprawled on the ground, flapping its massive wings, blood still spurting from the holes in its limbs, soon accumulating into a pool of filthy blood.
Xu Ya questioned, "Senior Brother, isn't its blood a bit excessive...? The amount of bleeding seems a bit abnormal, doesn't it?"
Shi Yuzhen, who had been gripping her sword tightly, replied, "Indeed, you must be careful not to step on this blood."
"Okay."
She laid Ah Xi, who had been dragged and injured by the giant rooster, flat on the ground and checked her breathing; she could still feel a faint breath.
Xu Ya breathed a sigh of relief. Heaven knows that when she saw Ah Xi covered in blood, Xu Ya almost couldn't breathe.
Now Ah-Xi's body is covered with dark, bloody holes, and Xu Ya uses her magic to restore them one by one.
The chicken was still struggling in the blood and grime, its shape gradually becoming grotesque. The loss of a leg seemed to cause it excruciating pain. Shi Yuzhen watched coldly as its strength slowly diminished and its wailing gradually subsided.
The giant rooster had been killed and rendered powerless. Shi Yuzhen did not take its life, as he was still unaware of the whole story. He simply put it into his Spirit Gathering Bag and would investigate the root of the problem upon returning to Xianze.
Ah-Xi's condition is not optimistic. His breathing is abnormally intermittent and scarce. Xu Ya and Shi Yuzhen are unable to maintain his physical condition with spiritual energy. It seems he will not live to see the return to Xianze.
Xu Ya looked worried. Shi Yuzhen pondered for a moment and suggested that they find a doctor to keep A Xi alive in a normal way.
There is no other way but to try this.
The county was eerily quiet; Xu Ya knocked on several doors, but there was no response.
This was very unusual, and quite different from Shi Yuzhen's previous trials. The two knocked on the door for a long time before finally deciding to break it down and see what was going on.
The situation was worse than expected; the county town had long since become a ghost town, with every house and every household deserted!
How could this be? Seeing that Ah-Xi's condition was already unbearable, they knocked on the next door to peek at the situation.
While the two were preoccupied with this matter, they did not notice that Ah-Xi had developed a dark circle under her eyes, the blood hole on her head was growing at an eerie speed, and the pores on her body were slowly expanding.
In an instant, Ah Xi's limbs twisted to a bizarre degree.
"Ah... Ah-Xi?!" Xu Ya, with her keen eye, immediately noticed the unusual changes in Ah-Xi and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
But soon, thick, familiar feathers that didn't belong to him grew on Ah-Xi's body—
The growths on Ah-Xi's head gradually widened and thickened, and her eyes drooped in the center of her face, which was quite eerie. A bird's beak that did not belong to Ah-Xi grew out of nowhere in Ah-Xi's face.
The more Xu Ya looked at the situation, the more creepy it became, and her hair stood on end in shock.
...It actually transformed into...a rooster whose feathers hadn't fully grown in?!
Xu Ya was suddenly confronted with a sudden appearance of a living person, and this living person was even her own employee whom she worked with day and night? What on earth was going on?
Shi Yuzhen immediately thought of the strangeness of the giant rooster. Could it be that it was also transformed from a human?
Shi Yuzhen quickly released the giant rooster that was stuffed into the spirit-gathering bag in the open space.
The two roosters now placed in front of the two are giant roosters, each about 3 meters tall. One of them is the one that Ah Xi transformed into naturally earlier, about 50 centimeters in size, which is quite different from ordinary roosters.
Xu Ya and Shi Yuzhen, as if on the same wavelength, immediately thought of that chilling guess.
"Could this giant rooster be one of us in disguise?!" Xu Ya exclaimed. "Is that why it's bleeding so much?"
During the conversation, the giant rooster, which was on the verge of death, seemed to confirm what Xu Ya had said, and began to roll on the ground, constantly changing its shape.
Initially, the rooster's form was always shrouded in a thick mist. The Spirit Gathering Bag had the function of absorbing the spiritual energy of living beings to keep the prey in a non-aggressive state. Therefore, the giant monster had become a lamb to the slaughter.
The monster began to "mitotically split" right before Xu Ya's eyes.
It is indeed mitosis...
The spiritual energy around the giant rooster had been completely absorbed by the spirit-gathering bag. Now, only its remaining body lay on the ground, shedding feathers. As it shed feathers, its skin swelled and shrank, and it appeared as if it had hallucinated at least five pairs of limbs!
No, it's not a hallucination!?
Fortunately, Shi Yuzhen had prioritized saving lives and hadn't harmed the monster. However, the severed area looked extremely horrifying, and upon closer inspection, there were several pairs of human limbs attached to each other.
What should we do?
Xu Ya swallowed hard, her eyes involuntarily glancing at Shi Yuzhen.
Shi Yuzhen felt Xu Ya's gaze and was somewhat pleased.
Normally, Shi Yuzhen would simply use her magic to destroy the monster in the world. No matter how indestructible it was, there was always a way to deal with it. Whether it was human or ghost, as long as it blocked Shi Yuzhen's path, it would naturally have no chance of survival.
However, this time the giant rooster has a clear target, and it cannot be dealt with using the usual methods.
Furthermore, through her long-term interactions with Xu Ya, Shi Yuzhen gradually began to have strong doubts about the so-called way of survival in Yunmeng Immortal Marsh.
The original purpose of Xianze was for Master Xu and his companions to advance their cultivation to a higher level. However, due to the secret buried deep in the founder's heart, the spirit-detecting stone that could rank strength gradually changed the nature of Xianze.
Nowadays, Xu Ya's fried chicken shop is very popular among cultivators in and around Xianze, and even some traveling cultivators come to buy from it.
After tasting Xu Ya's cooking, they all praised it highly, and no one cared about Xu Ya's cultivation level anymore, which is perhaps normal.
Thinking of this, the rooster that Ah-Xi had transformed into was about to spread its wings and pounce on Xu-Ya, perhaps because it had lost control.
Mo Jian blocked in time, cleaving the gap between the two and separating the monster from Xu Ya.
Xu Ya was worried about Ah Xi and couldn't help but scream. This noise attracted the giant monster that was on the verge of death. The giant rooster staggered a few steps and used one leg to maintain its balance, joining the fight. Ah Xi, who was in the form of time and space, saw that its prey was being targeted by something else, so it instantly changed its target and began to tear at the giant rooster in a ridiculous attempt to overestimate its strength.
The scene became quite chaotic.
Shi Yuzhen had to finish the battle quickly. The rooster that Ah Xi had transformed into was extremely excited. Its body, which was originally covered in bloody holes, was now filled with thick, tattered feathers, which piled up to form a unique protective armor. In the ensuing struggle, it actually gained the upper hand.
Xu Ya knew she couldn't hold Shi Yuzhen back, and she kept thinking about how to deal with this situation using the system that had been with her for many years.
Xu Ya knew that the reason Shi Yuzhen hadn't made a move was because Ah Xi was also one of the monsters. Perhaps he didn't want to disappoint her, so he showed mercy everywhere.
In such a comical scene, the aloof and arrogant male protagonist, a hermit immortal, is struggling against two giant roosters. Xu Ya, unable to laugh at all, dodges the attacks, feeling both surprised and delighted by Shi Yuzhen's hesitation in making her move.
But at the crucial moment, the system remained silent, as if it had never existed in Xu Ya's world, without any response.
Xu Ya stamped her foot in frustration.
The giant rooster, with its superior size, flapped its wings and flew to a high place. Then, it swooped down from the top and knocked Ah Xi, who had transformed into a rooster, flying dozens of miles away.
It landed right at Xu Ya's feet.
Xu Ya looked at Ah Xi, who had grown up beside her since childhood, and felt reluctant to approach her.
However, a problem arose with Shi Yuzhen.
Shi Yuzhen's suspended figure froze for a moment, and he suddenly felt very uneasy, as if an indescribable force was controlling his limbs and bones.
Logically speaking, cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage should no longer experience any similar situations of being controlled, as they are practically invincible in the world.
But now, Shi Yuzhen felt as if an invisible hand was gripping her vital point, and a tingling sensation shot straight to her head.
In that instant, the inner demon invaded and took over Shi Yuzhen's body.
These past few days, the demon that Shi Yuzhen had been secretly suppressing finally broke free of its cage.
Xu Ya noticed Shi Yuzhen's unusual behavior in the air.
The system appeared instantly. Ignoring Xu Ya's question, it instead issued a long, piercing alarm—
[Please help the male protagonist overcome this life-threatening ordeal.]
[Please help the male protagonist overcome this life-threatening ordeal.]
[Please help the male protagonist overcome this life-threatening ordeal.]
Xu Ya was very familiar with this sentence.
Xu Ya, who recognized the name, almost thought that the system had malfunctioned again.
Xu Ya looked up, fantasizing about the male lead, and frowned.
What's the reason this time?
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