LWGP - Chapter 240
Chapter 240: Madman
Suo Nu was very surprised. Having received her inheritance from the ruins, her skill system was also quite complete, but it wasn't as extreme as Wang Jiu's.
No, Black Witches were always extreme.
She felt as if she were witnessing a true ancient Black Witch Spirit King descending upon the battlefield.
However, even if the others knew these were Spirit Bodies, they didn't understand what Wang Jiu was trying to do.
An army of Spirit Bodies? Weren't they just coming out to be blown up?
The crowd hiding on the periphery was inexplicably shocked. They saw Wang Jiu suddenly grip her staff with both hands, her stats soaring to over seven hundred thousand in all attributes. She closed her eyes and touched the end of the staff to the point between her eyebrows.
Hum!
A massive amount of black elemental power crawled out from between her eyebrows, traveled down the Gilded Abyss to the ground, and rapidly spread out, drawing a giant totem array.
The Black Witch aura grew wildly. As her mental power surged, this characteristic of a Black Witch became even more pronounced.
After devouring the Black Witch Spirit King's soul, she had learned not only how to use mental power to attack her opponents but also the ancient Spirit King's sacrificial method.
The Ten Thousand Corpse Sacrifice.
The array forming now was for the Ten Thousand Corpse Sacrifice.
Previously, she could use a series of abilities to summon an army of Spirit Bodies. But for Wang Jiu, the situation was always changing, and the difficulty was always increasing. Only by leveraging her acquired assets to reach a higher tier could she handle the circumstances.
So, after devouring the Black Witch Spirit King's soul, she had been frantically experimenting on her own body, forging Spirit Bodies, while simultaneously digesting the ancient sacrificial methods from the depths of its soul memory.
Both were very difficult and not easy to learn. With time being tight, she had directly chosen Soul Impact and the Ten Thousand Corpse Sacrifice.
As for the effect of the Ten Thousand Corpse Sacrifice...
The ten thousand corpses melted, turning into streams of bone fluid that reassembled. The resulting form was strikingly similar to the former Frost Bone Dragon King.
That's right. This woman had once tried to turn the Frost Bone Dragon King into a puppet but failed. How unwilling she must have been. Now, she had used its biological structure and genetic framework to reassemble a similar, or even more brutal, skeletal azure python.
It was bone-white, but its aura was profoundly black. At first glance, it resembled an azure python.
Hum!! The azure python roared. As the explosion rained down upon Wang Jiu, it coiled like a dragon, shielding her body and head.
After that, the crowd could see nothing else, because the entire plain had exploded.
Amid the terrifying explosion, they could faintly hear the sound of the blasts striking the bones.
After the brilliance faded, the azure python's form reappeared, riddled with fractures. But in the blink of an eye, with a series of cracking sounds, it broke apart and then infinitely reassembled.
Because Wang Jiu possessed a level-five Book of Immortality, the azure python, refined and reassembled from over ten thousand corpses, was incredibly tough.
The Bloodthirsty Beast was likely surprised as well. While continuing to control the falling celestial fragments, it charged toward Wang Jiu and swiped with its claw.
It wanted to kill Wang Jiu, but the three emperors' avatars had already arrived.
Amidst the falling explosions, only they, possessing Boundary-Breaking Scepters, could evade the damage. They couldn't possibly cede all the damage output to Wang Jiu, so they had come over.
Boom! The Bloodthirsty Beast was knocked back a few steps by three beams of light but immediately charged back.
A frantic 3-vs-1 battle ensued.
But Xing Yao and the others noticed that the Bloodthirsty Beast seemed to be trying to break free and kill Ma Lisu.
It was a bit strange. The Bloodthirsty Beast still had BOSS attributes. According to the rules of aggro, it should be more wary of their trio, as they were, after all, Great Emperor avatars. Even with the summoned azure python, Wang Jiu's threat level shouldn't have surpassed theirs—unless she posed an even greater danger.
A glint flashed in Lue Jue's eyes. He was, of course, eager for Wang Jiu to draw the Bloodthirsty Beast's aggro, so he deliberately eased up on his attack, allowing the beast to successfully break free and charge at Wang Jiu.
Meanwhile, Wang Jiu, who appeared to have been saved by the three emperors' avatars, hovered in the air. As the Bloodthirsty Beast charged again, Wang Jiu's eyelids flickered. She formed a hand seal with her left hand, and the protective azure python behind her frantically surged into her body through the wounds on her skin.
Everyone: "???"
The three emperors' avatars were also startled.
Xing Yao had a sudden realization. Reassembling the azure python was never Wang Jiu's goal. Her true objective was to merge the bones of these Spirit Bodies with her own body.
If she had tried to merge with them directly, the corpse qi would have been too dense and the sheer mass of bone too great for her to bear. By first turning them into Spirit Bodies and then merging, her body could withstand the process.
This was the true purpose behind her series of Spirit Body skills.
Every inch of her body had been forged by her, a process that must have been painful. This current reassembly was bound to be even more agonizing.
Yet her expression didn't change in the slightest.
Her transformation caught the attention of Xing Yao and the other two.
Crack. The bones sealed shut. Wang Jiu slashed out, and the Bloodthirsty Beast's descending claw was sliced halfway through, nearly severed to the bone.
The Bloodthirsty Beast howled in agony.
It was too terrifying.
Wang Jiu's current damage output was off the charts, crushing everyone. Even the three Great Emperor avatars were far inferior. The Bloodthirsty Beast's health bar took a significant hit; in terms of output, Wang Jiu had already surpassed the three of them.
The Bloodthirsty Beast's health bar was now at forty percent, about to enter the critical phase.
Wang Jiu had been lying in wait for the battlefield casualties to exceed ten thousand, providing her with corpses to create Spirit Bodies. At the same time, she was leveraging the power of the three empires to deal damage.
This saved time, allowing her to finish everything before the three emperors' true bodies returned, all while positioning her damage output to rank number one.
What a damn calculating woman.
By the time the people of the three empires understood, they were powerless to stop the situation—unless the three Great Emperors' true bodies returned.
But they couldn't possibly return. Lue Jue knew Xing Yao and Mo Ran wouldn't allow it. So, the avatars of the latter two exchanged a look and continued their attack, ignoring Lue Jue's private message proposing they kill Wang Jiu first before dealing with the Bloodthirsty Beast.
Lue Jue was furious. Just as he was about to continue persuading them, he suddenly received a sensation from his true body.
What was that?
Outside the celestial ring, Lue Jue's true body had been severely wounded, with no chance to escape. Xing Yao and Mo Ran were meticulous, giving him no openings. Their killing intent was resolute; they didn't even care about the Bloodthirsty Beast inside. Lue Jue had no chance. Frustrated, he made repeated mistakes, and it seemed he was about to be killed by the two of them here today.
Suddenly, all three of them vaguely sensed a strange yet familiar aura stirring restlessly deep beneath the planet.
"Is it the Eternal Night Race?"
Horrified, Lue Jue suddenly felt he had seized an opportunity. Sure enough, he saw Mo Ran and Xing Yao waver slightly.
On Desolate Ridge Star, Wang Jiu, who had only been wary of the three emperors' true bodies returning, also sensed something was wrong. Horrified, before she could react, she saw dense black shadows suddenly burst from the ground.
They were cockroaches.
Wherever they passed, nothing was left alive.
"It's them."
Everyone couldn't help but recall the cockroach army that had once appeared on the territorial battlefield. The moment they appeared, they had devoured both armies and then vanished in the blink of an eye.
They were so terrifying, yet the empire's investigations had yielded nothing. No one had expected them to be on Desolate Ridge Star.
But now, with experts as numerous as clouds and the presence of the elemental bodies, after the two sides clashed, some of the slain cockroach bodies could be examined.
Grabbing one and crushing it in his palm, he saw that the inside was not entirely flesh and fluid. Half of it consisted of various cast metals. Duke Mi Sa observed it, his expression suddenly turning grim. "It's a mechanical body!"
"It's the work of the Eternal Night Race!"
The Eternal Night Race was terrifying in any spacetime. Upon their arrival, the three empires and the elemental bodies were like defenseless flora, constantly being devoured by their terrifying numbers and powerful attacks.
Saling examined the mechanical cockroach from a medical perspective and immediately reported to Xing Yao: "It's likely a special mechanical incubation method. Half of the organism is left to breed naturally, while the other half passes down mechanical genes. Cockroaches have a terrifying reproduction rate, can survive in extremely harsh subterranean environments, and have a simple genome that cannot resist the encroachment of mechanical genes. This allows the Eternal Night Race to naturally develop their own mechanical cockroach army within our spacetime."
"If the Eternal Night Race had descended from outer space, we could have monitored them in advance. But if it's a mechanical cockroach army already based within our spacetime, we can't track them, can't exterminate them all, and that means..."
"The true predator was the Eternal Night Race."
For the people of the Fourth Spacetime, this was a devastating disaster. It was a disaster for Wang Jiu as well.
Her expression was grim. But unlike the people of the three empires, who were worried about the safety of their spacetime and nations, her first reaction was to look toward the outer atmosphere.
With such a development, the three emperors' true bodies would certainly rush back.
A mechanical cockroach army created by the Eternal Night Race, and the three emperors' true bodies on their way—she had no chance!
Even the System had a headache on Wang Jiu's behalf. This was too difficult!
She just wanted to recall the Old Lady's soul. Why was it so damn hard!
But just then, the System was suddenly startled. "Holy shit, what are you doing!"
Wang Jiu activated the last hidden card she had planted.
The Bloodthirsty Beast suddenly felt something move in its stomach. The corpses it had devoured during the battle had long since been digested into bones. Now, these bones were scurrying, climbing toward a severed, white-boned hand hidden in a corner.
She had deliberately broken off this hand and left it behind when she escaped from the beast's stomach.
Normally, from such a distance, Wang Jiu wouldn't be able to cast spells on these corpses. But she could control that severed hand. The hand formed a seal—Detached Spirit Body!
The bones reassembled, attaching to the severed hand to form a long chain, which then wrapped around the mysterious cocoon.
The power released by the mysterious cocoon could destroy all energy; this bone chain could only maintain its hold for fifteen seconds.
But fifteen seconds was enough.
It was being dragged.
The Bloodthirsty Beast's entire body went limp. Unable to attack the chain inside itself, it could only let the chain drag it... upward into the sky.
At the same time, Wang Jiu had also taken flight.
The woman and the beast shot toward the sky at incredible speed. The cockroach army below, assuming they were trying to escape, also rose in a massive, glittering swarm, giving chase.
Simultaneously, the three emperors' true bodies were rapidly returning from beyond the celestial ring. They saw Wang Jiu dragging the Bloodthirsty Beast into the atmosphere. Just as the two sides were about to meet, the three emperors attacked at once!
Lue Jue's attack targeted Wang Jiu. Mo Ran's was non-specific, a wide-area attack that could hit Wang Jiu, the Bloodthirsty Beast, or the mechanical cockroach army surging up from below.
She didn't care if Wang Jiu lived or died, but Xing Yao intercepted both her and Lue Jue's attacks.
In that instant, the three emperors' attacks canceled each other out. The shockwave exploded above Wang Jiu, but even if it had hit, it wouldn't have mattered, because she had already charged into the celestial ring.
The three emperors, who had been planning a second attack, were stunned.
Was she mad?
Taking the Bloodthirsty Beast and the swarm of mechanical cockroaches into the celestial ring? Didn't she know that if they went berserk and attacked the ring, it would be a death sentence?
The resulting large-scale explosions would be far more terrifying than the previous ones from the falling fragments. Even with her reassembled Spirit Body, she wouldn't be able to withstand it.
Was she trying to avoid the three of them?
Or did she have a way to pass directly through the celestial ring?
Xing Yao narrowed his eyes. Based on his understanding of this person, she must have been prepared.
After Wang Jiu entered the celestial ring with the Bloodthirsty Beast in tow, the beast didn't go berserk. It was intelligent.
Intelligent beings weigh the pros and cons. It knew it was currently being controlled by Wang Jiu. If it dared to make a move within this dangerous celestial ring, the surroundings would explode endlessly. It couldn't handle that; it would die.
Of course, it was unwilling to die. It would just wait. The thing inside its body would be corroded away in a few seconds.
When it broke free, it would make this damn human woman pay the price!
But what was she doing?
Wang Jiu stopped amidst the drifting celestial fragments. As the mechanical cockroaches frantically collided with the fragments, causing explosions, she used an item to activate a spacetime tunnel.
When the spacetime tunnel opened, the Bloodthirsty Beast's tiger-like face twisted. Madman! This woman was a madman!
The three emperors were all stunned.
But Wang Jiu showed no hesitation, forcibly dragging the Bloodthirsty Beast into the spacetime tunnel.
She just left a parting word for Xing Yao.
"Future father-in-law, please train my future husband well. I'm waiting to call you Dad in the future."
Xing Yao was stunned for a moment, a complex look in his eyes, but he still replied, "Mm, alright."
Then she was gone, and the spacetime tunnel closed.
Clean and decisive.
"That future daughter-in-law of yours is a madwoman," Mo Ran remarked lightly.
Her calculations were meticulous, her plans layered. Even in the worst-case scenario, she was prepared to see things through. Admittedly, her current situation was the most perilous, but it was a way out nonetheless.
She took the ultimate risk, gambling everything for a sliver of a chance at survival.
Mo Ran genuinely thought she was a madwoman.
Xing Yao, however, was thoughtful. "If all the women in the world were like you two, men would truly be in danger."
It was unclear whether his words were lamenting Wang Jiu's 'dangerousness' or complaining that Mo Ran herself was no easy character to deal with.
Mo Ran raised an eyebrow, noncommittal.
Just then, boom!! Lue Jue suddenly took the opportunity to detonate the celestial fragments near the two of them, attempting a sneak attack.
But both of them vanished simultaneously—a dual Boundary-Breaking Teleport!
Lue Jue's pupils constricted. Not good!!
He was immobilized!
The two emperors had joined forces to immobilize him!
Hum. Far away, beyond the celestial ring, several lingering flying ships fired light cannons, directly bombarding the area around Lue Jue.
Lue Jue's figure was engulfed by the massive explosion.
The two emperors were stunned for a moment, then followed up with their own attacks. As they did, they glanced at the flying ship.
That flying ship was rather special. It was very small, its surface covered with a layer of blood skin—a Spirit Body blood skin—and equipped with a top-tier item that merged with the ship. Not even the three Great Emperors had noticed it. The celestial ring itself was unique, with a high energy density that made comprehensive detection difficult. With its presence concealed, the small ship had been lying in wait. It seemed Lue Jue wasn't the only one who had initially planned to use the celestial ring for nefarious purposes.
Previously, when Wang Jiu heard from the System that the celestial fragments were 'high energy,' she'd had an idea. Before passing through the ring into the atmosphere, she had positioned a small flying ship.
This woman had always had a habit of casually planting mines to blow people up in service of her schemes.
But in the end, this flying ship was used to ambush Lue Jue.
Was it revenge for that bastard trying to ambush Wang Jiu earlier?
She always repaid every grievance.
However, she had also assisted them.
Mo Ran suddenly recalled that as Wang Jiu was leaving, while she was teasing Xing Yao, her eyes had swept over her.
There was actually a hidden meaning.
While pondering Wang Jiu, the follow-up attacks from Xing Yao and Mo Ran completely sealed off Lue Jue's path of escape.
Just like Wang Jiu's determination to save the Old Lady, the two emperors of Xingyao and Heiyan were also incredibly resolute in their desire to kill Lue Jue. They had chased after him not to covet the Bloodthirsty Beast, but to give Lue Jue a chance to turn the tables with a sneak attack.
If you succeeded, you won.
If you failed, you died.
The Fourth Spacetime could only have two empires.
In a sense, those who achieve great things are all madmen at their core.
Five minutes later, after a series of explosions in the celestial ring, Saling and the others, who were struggling to resist the mechanical cockroaches, saw a large portion of the pursuing swarm destroyed by a descending brilliance.
"Father Emperor!"
"Your Majesty!"
The two emperors' true bodies had returned, but Lue Jue had not.
The people of the Taihuang Empire panicked. But before a few seconds had passed, Mo Ran, high above, cast a glance, and terrifying flames blossomed across the plain.
It killed the mechanical cockroaches, and it also killed the people of the Taihuang Empire.
Unless they surrendered.
From that moment on, the people of the Fourth Spacetime's three empires knew—a new crisis had begun, but a new era had also dawned.
But one person was missing.
A person who had arrived abruptly and left just as decisively.
Later, the Young Prince couldn't help but ask Xing Yao, "Father Emperor, where is Ma Lisu?"
Xing Yao didn't speak. The Young Prince's eyes suddenly reddened, and he blurted out, "Did you give her to Mo Ran? How could you do that! Even if you don't want me to be with her, you can't be so despicable!"
Xing Yao: "..."
Is this my son? Why does it feel like he's become even more warped, as if he's been influenced by some bad person.
In the distance, Mo Ran, who had been inexplicably dragged into the conversation, heard him. Expressionless, she shot a cold glance in their direction.
The Young Prince immediately trembled and hid behind Saling.
At that moment, he was both fearful and sad. Would Ma Lisu be able to wait for the day he grew up and became strong enough to marry her?
Would he ever see her again?
In the spacetime tunnel.
With Wang Jiu's current attribute levels, she should have died the moment she entered the spacetime tunnel. Even the Bloodthirsty Beast was howling in pain, its body unable to withstand the tunnel's destructive force.
"Madwoman, madwoman! You'll die too!" the Bloodthirsty Beast cursed. Wang Jiu glanced at it, took out the ancient Calendar, and opened it. A cold and bizarre soul howled out from within.
It was somewhat familiar, yet utterly terrifying.
It was that thing.
It really was the one from the cave on Miao Mountain.
It shot into Wang Jiu's body, heading straight for the depths of her soul. Before it could devour her soul, Wang Jiu borrowed its power to directly attack the Bloodthirsty Beast's soul.
She struck too swiftly. The Bloodthirsty Beast's soul was stunned by the impact. Still filled with unwillingness, it was too late. Wang Jiu had already thrust her hand into its body.
A Spirit Emperor-level energy body was only infinitely restricted within a spacetime tunnel. Only then was there an opportunity to act.
As the soul frantically attacked her spiritual body and the spacetime tunnel continuously battered her physical form, she withstood immense pressure. Her palm pierced through the thin cocoon, and she grasped the mysterious and powerful Spirit Core.
She pulled it out, shoved it into her own chest, and then used a three-million-point enslavement scroll to forcibly enslave the Bloodthirsty Beast.
Having lost its Spirit Core, the Bloodthirsty Beast's genetic tier dropped infinitely; otherwise, Wang Jiu wouldn't have been able to enslave it even with a thirty-million-point item.
The Bloodthirsty Beast was unwilling. Before being successfully enslaved, it cursed, "You won't live either! You will definitely die!"
As her own body was being destroyed, Wang Jiu regarded it coldly. "You won't get to see that, my dog."
An understatement, yet immensely damaging.
The about-to-be-enslaved Bloodthirsty Beast wailed, but finally, it softened, calmed down, and obediently became a slave. Wang Jiu quickly stored it away.
Now, she alone had to face the terrifying spacetime tunnel.
She took a deep breath and began to focus on dealing with the soul from Miao Mountain and the fierce assault of the spacetime tunnel.
Now, her only trump cards were her own will and the Spirit Core containing the energy of a Spirit Emperor.
If she couldn't withstand it, she and the Bloodthirsty Beast containing the Old Lady's soul would both perish in this spacetime tunnel.
If she survived, she could once again see that old woman—a peerless beauty in her youth, and a chubby, loving, yet picky and proud old lady in her later years.
System: "If..."
Wang Jiu: "There will be no 'if.'"
She would not allow a second outcome.
Everything depended on these next few minutes of transit.
The Third Spacetime.
Huaxia City, Ninth District. It had been over two months. The power of the masses was immense. From that desolate night over two months ago when the game loaded, a scene of wailing and despair, humanity had banded together for warmth and rebuilt their homes. Finally, the first city in the Ninth District had appeared.
It was called Huaxia City.
It was also currently the strongest city in the Ninth District. Buildings stood tall in a classical style, and the revival of prosperity was visible to the naked eye. No weaklings walked its streets.
There were experts skilled in combat, and there were those who were not. The latter went into business. Some opened restaurants, some made clothing, some provided entertainment. Even the film and television industry had been revived.
Humanity could be very fragile, but it could also be very strong.
Some people were also in the hot spring business.
This time, it wasn't for wellness, but for healing.
During the ongoing Undead Race expansion, wars of all sizes were breaking out everywhere. Huaxia City was the strongest, and when not at war itself, it would send forces to fight in other territories. The Undead Race possessed corpse qi, which ordinary priests couldn't dispel. Only a very small number of powerful priests had the relevant detoxification skills. But priests were few, and top-tier priests were even fewer—a drop in the bucket. That was, until a few individuals obtained a related unique item and opened a hot spring pool.
Recently, business at the hot spring pool was booming because the scale of the Undead Race's invasion had intensified, plunging the Ninth District into a peak period of war.
"Pool 1002, for two!"
"Sorry, we're full, completely full. The private pools are all occupied."
"The VIP area? Apologies, that was booked long ago."
The front desk was bustling. The service staff politely refused. Though annoyed, the newcomers didn't dare cause trouble, only muttering, "Some people book the VIP area but don't even use it themselves and won't let others use it. That's just outrageous."
"Shh, quiet down. Before or after the apocalypse, it's always been the strong who are respected. Arguing about this is just childish, isn't it?"
His companion stopped his complaining to avoid attracting trouble. This wasn't the pre-apocalypse world; the price for killing someone now was pitifully small.
So he didn't mention that the children of the strong also possessed special privileges.
Fortunately, this person wasn't an idiot and knew what was good for him. Seeing a few young masters with bodyguards coming and going in the distance, he gritted his teeth and squeezed out, "Oh, right. Some of the powerful are still very down-to-earth. I just saw a few people from our Huaxia City's main team go into the public pools."
"Huh? Isn't today the joint meeting with the Third District?"
"Not everyone is attending. Some have just returned from fighting elsewhere... See? Teleportation arrays have been activating from time to time these past two days."
Speaking of teleportation arrays, a surge of spatial airflow was suddenly felt across more than a dozen streets in a ten-li radius centered on the hot spring pool. A majestic aura was released. With experts as numerous as clouds, many people were alarmed.
Upon suspicious investigation, they only heard a scream like a pig being slaughtered coming from one of the hot spring's pools.
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