Chapter 405 The Evil Ghost King
As a seasoned game player, Li Muyang was all too familiar with the screen visual of a BOSS entering its Second Phase.
Before his eyes, the three mysterious culprits in the fog all swelled and twisted horribly into three lumps of ugly, oozing flesh monsters.
Li Muyang immediately cautioned Little Wild Grass to be on guard.
“Be careful! They will be even more terrifying now!”
The three massive monsters in the fog were covered with pale dead arms and faces distorted with pain, as if made up of numerous corpses.
The chilling aura of death surged within the fog.
The health bars above the heads of the three mysterious culprits changed from [Mysterious Culprits] to [Spectral Demon King].
In Li Muyang’s view, a system notification suddenly popped up.
[Forbidden Specter Detected—Spectral Demon King, please eliminate it as soon as possible!]
Along with this system notification, Li Muyang saw information about the Spectral Demon King’s terror.
[Spectral Demon King: An extremely mysterious forbidden specter, said to be a collective of resentment from the deceased, briefly appeared in ancient times causing severe disasters, and even the clan that enslaved evil spirits feared it.]
It wasn’t just the system notification.
The moment he saw the three ugly monsters, Li Muyang’s instincts made his hair stand on end, and he felt a primal fear awakening deep within his blood.
That kind of fear, inscribed in one’s DNA, was like a person seeing a slippery snake or touching a furry spider for the first time, inexplicably trembling.
Li Muyang instantly understood.
The clan from ancient times must have fought this terrifying forbidden specter.
They had suffered heavy casualties and left behind a deep fear in their genes, which persisted down to Jiang Xiaoyu’s descendants.
Although Little Wild Grass was not from that clan, she still realized the horrors of these three monsters.
She hesitantly said, “Big Brother, how about we escape now!”
Now that she had finally freed herself from the Soul Binding Chain, Little Wild Grass instinctively wanted to leave with Big Brother.
She was afraid that if they continued to fight, Big Brother might encounter some mishap.
However, the three flesh monsters in the fog emitted a piercing howl.
The next second, they all contracted and then expanded.
During this contraction and expansion, a piercing cry came from within the bodies of the monsters.
Accompanying the cries that spread all around were pale arms.
Caught by surprise, Li Muyang and Little Wild Grass found themselves surrounded by countless pale dead arms.
They were surrounded from all directions, above and below, with every inch of space occupied by cold dead arms.
These ghastly hands viciously reached for Li Muyang and Little Wild Grass, and the moment they made contact, a bone-chilling aura of death invaded their bodies.
In Li Muyang’s view, a grey debuff popped up, [Death Aura Invading…]
As this debuff appeared, his health bar rapidly drained.
Li Muyang was startled and immediately resisted.
But no matter how many ghost hands he cut through with his combos, they seemed endless, and his health bar continued to drop rapidly.
His vision also quickly blurred.
At the moment of death, he seemed to see countless resentful souls wailing on a desolate land, with cruel deities trampling over the souls’ bodies, roaring and cursing at the sky.
This scene…
[You have died, game over.]
In the quiet room, Li Muyang opened his eyes and stared at the failure CG in front of him, silent for a while.
This battle’s failure CG showed him the world where the Spectral Demon King existed.
Though it differed slightly from the shattered Peaceful Realms of ten thousand years later, there was no doubt that this terrifying world of wailing souls and brutal deities was the same shattered Peaceful Realms he had once visited with his Jade Mantis.]
However, the Peaceful Realms, a millennium later, had already become shattered and forlorn with only some powerful spirits wandering around, and the corpses of deities scattered in the fog…
But a millennium ago, the Peaceful Realms were not yet completely devastated.
At least the land was swarming with countless resentful spirits, and those brutal deities were not yet extinct.
“Could it be that the essence of the Dark Catastrophe was an impact on the mortal world from the Peaceful Realms?”
“Did the Immortals of the mortal realm eventually win?”
Li Muyang frowned as he speculated.
Although the Immortals in the mortal realm had disappeared after the Dark Catastrophe, and even the cultivation lineage had been completely severed.
The cultivation Sects of today were all re-established after the Dark Catastrophe.
But at least the creatures of the mortal realm were able to continue their existence, and the Cultivation World gradually rediscovered the ancient lineages.
However, a millennium later, the Peaceful Realms had become completely desolate, devoid of any vitality.
“…What a pity that I can no longer wander in the Peaceful Realms.”
Li Muyang felt somewhat regretful.
Initially, when he controlled the Jade Mantis, he had roamed the Peaceful Realms for a long time.
At that time, he was unaware of the horrors of the Peaceful Realms, so he didn’t take them too seriously.
It was only now that he realized the origin of the Dark Catastrophe had actually started in the Peaceful Realms… Tsk…
Suddenly, Li Muyang grew curious about this devastated Peaceful Realms.
Why did the Peaceful Realms from a millennium ago suddenly launch an assault on the mortal realm?
That world was full of resentful spirits and deities were cruel and fierce, completely a realm of the dead.
Could it be that all those resentful spirits in the Peaceful Realms came from the mortal realm… Hmm… The more I understand, the more intricacies it seems to involve!
Li Muyang paced inside his quiet room for a long time, organizing his thoughts for quite a while.
Finally, he calmed down and temporarily set aside these chaotic thoughts.
Currently, the most important thing for him was not the Dark Catastrophe that happened a millennium ago.
It was to rescue Little Wild Grass and claim the ultimate reward!
With these thoughts, Li Muyang took a deep breath and re-entered the game.
Having succeeded once before, dealing with those three mysterious criminals was much easier now.
With steady and solid play for two hours, Li Muyang successfully cornered the three mysterious criminals.
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After their health bars dropped to one-third, they simultaneously mutated, their bodies swelling, transforming into terrifying flesh monsters.
Little Wild Grass was unsure and apprehensive.
“Big brother, should we…”
“No escape!” Li Muyang decisively interrupted her, saying, “While they are weak, take their lives!”
The last time they failed was because Little Wild Grass had hesitated and lost her guard, allowing the three monster lumps to successfully ambush them.
Now, seeing the three monster lumps transform, Li Muyang immediately activated his skills, numerous pitch-black Nether Soul Worms chirping as they surged like a tide toward those three monstrous clumps lost in the fog.
This game had no invincible frames.
When the BOSSes transformed during the Second Phase, they were not invincible!
Li Muyang instantly launched a charge attack, not giving the three monster lumps any chance to complete their transformation.
A dense swarm of black Nether Soul Worms covered the sky and overwhelmed the three monster lumps in an instant.
Chunks of putrid flesh were torn off by the Nether Soul Worms, and the three monster lumps immediately emitted angry howls.
Their bodies produced eerie green ghost flames that quickly incinerated the Nether Soul Worms crawling and gnawing on them.
However, the next round of attack from Li Muyang and Little Wild Grass had already arrived.
The three monster lumps immediately wailed continuously, green ghostly blood splattered in the fog as the three were pushed into a disadvantage, utterly unable to fight back.