Chapter 559: Unbreakable Defense

"I have a feeling this place is connected to the World Eater outbreak. After all, the World Eaters first appeared in the towns around this area, and Brightcrest City was destroyed the very next day."

[ Host, please do not tease the system. The system is only offering a recommendation. You may decide for yourself how to proceed. ]

The mechanical voice remained just as rigid.

Sigh. The system must never have heard the saying that the more someone tells you not to do something, the more you want to do it.

The young woman felt even more tempted to tease it.

"Then let’s go inside and have a look! We’ll try to find out why the place self destructed, preferably within two days. It would be even better if we could find some clues about the World Eaters."

She paused, her expression turning serious.

"If there were no World Eaters... With his flawless defensive abilities, I would never have been able to succeed on my own. And all those things that happened afterward would never have occurred..."

[ The system is always ready to follow the host’s commands. ]

Meanwhile, Xiao Shou had no idea that the Myriad Ghosts Grotto, an event that had never appeared in the book but would happen in reality three days later, was about to self destruct.

After hearing Tushan Shanhe’s explanation, Xiao Shou immediately nodded in agreement. "Yes, Great Granduncle Shanhe makes a good point. I also want to get a closer look at these creatures and discover their weaknesses. That way, we won’t be helpless if we ever have to face a large number of World Eaters in the future."

"Mm! I’ll listen to Master." Fu Young gazed at Xiao Shou with an obedient expression.

However, his words nearly made Tushan Shanhe jump in frustration.

What does he mean, he’ll listen to his master? Does that mean he would have ignored everything I just said and retreated on his own if Xiao Shou hadn’t agreed with me?

Tushan Shanhe felt deeply aggrieved.

Unaware of Tushan Shanhe’s frustration, Xiao Shou carefully observed every movement of the two fighting sides with his spiritual consciousness.

The World Eaters had only just reached maturity and had not consumed anything further to evolve. Yet the group fighting them still couldn’t break through their defenses.

Whether it was the mighty righteous virtue energy wielded by confucian cultivators or the elemental spiritual energy used by daoist cultivators, none of their attacks left even the slightest scratch on the layer of bony hide covering the World Eaters.

The only person who had managed to leave wounds on the World Eaters was Young Master Ximen Xuanji. However, for some reason, his emotions seemed extremely unstable. His eyes were bloodshot, and his expression revealed barely suppressed anger.

Had something happened to make him so furious?

Xiao Shou wondered as Ximen Xuanji and the others continued fighting while retreating. When they were about to reach the area where the three of them were waiting, a flash of light passed through Xiao Shou’s eyes.

"They’re here," he said quietly.

"Both of you, use every method at your disposal to attack them. Once you discover which attacks are effective, eliminate these creatures as quickly as possible. Then we can ask them where these things came from."

As soon as Ximen Xuanji and his group entered Tushan Shanhe’s field of vision, he transmitted these instructions to Xiao Shou and Fu Young.

Even without Tushan Shanhe’s instructions, Fu Young had already planned to do exactly that.

Xiao Shou, on the other hand, had not thought of this at all. He had assumed they should simply unleash powerful spells, sword techniques, and other attacks all at once to determine the limits of the World Eaters’ defenses.

After hearing Tushan Shanhe’s words, he thought about it briefly and understood.

Tushan Shanhe did not intend to test how much damage the World Eaters’ defenses could withstand. Instead, he wanted to discover which types of power could actually injure them. That was likely the key to finding their weaknesses.

Once the World Eaters entered their field of vision alongside Ximen Xuanji’s group, Xiao Shou immediately flew forward with Tushan Shanhe and Fu Young to join the battle.

Now that they were close enough to see the World Eaters with their own eyes, they no longer had to rely on their spiritual consciousness to observe the creatures.

Perhaps all the World Eaters belonged to the same species, as they all had identical appearances and body structures. The three of them saw that each creature stood about three meters tall and was roughly one meter wide. Their bodies resembled a mixture of human and beast, with three heads and four limbs.

Their heads, faces, torsos, and limbs were all covered in a layer of ghastly white bony hide and bone spikes, which served as protection.

The most striking feature was undoubtedly their three heads.

The head in the center resembled a human head, but its appearance differed from one World Eater to another. Xiao Shou remembered that, according to the original novel, this head resembled the first person each World Eater had eaten during its juvenile stage.

Once they reached maturity, they would use the first person they had devoured as their main head. Two beast heads would then grow on either side of it.

The author had never explained where these two beast heads came from, so Xiao Shou did not know about it either. However, the author had made one thing clear: despite having three heads, the World Eaters were different from humans in that their heads were not their vital points.

Even if all three heads were cut off and destroyed, they would quickly regenerate. If a World Eater ever failed to regenerate its heads, it meant that the amount of tissue it had regenerated had consumed too much energy. It would need to feed again before regaining its regenerative abilities.

Therefore, the key was to locate their vital cores. Otherwise, things could become extremely troublesome.