Whether Big Head had started “boiling water” or not was unknown. Before he could sink into the dark green fluid, he was swallowed by the churning and pressing of the evil demon’s squirming inner cavity flesh.
“Big Head!” Yu Qing cried out in alarm, immediately raising his sword and hacking wildly at his feet, hoping to break open the devouring mass below that was sucking and compressing him, so he could escape.
However, the devouring power of this evil demon was so formidable that it was not something his cultivation could resist. Chopping and breaking it was useless. The broken places spewed dense evil miasma, which ordinary people could not endure at all. Moreover, new flesh instantly surged up and attached to drag you down. In no time, it had swallowed him up to his thighs.
A figure flickered at the cave entrance. It was Nan Zhu arriving. Seeing Yu Qing’s situation, he immediately jumped in to rescue him.
Immediately after, Mu Aotie’s figure also appeared at the cave entrance.
Yu Qing, turning his head to look, became anxious and shouted, “Don’t come in!”
But it was already too late. Both jumped in one after another. Nan Zhu had just grabbed his hand and pulled when he immediately noticed something abnormal about himself. He discovered that his calves had already sunk halfway down rapidly. He then tried to lift his legs alternately with force but could not pull them out, only then realising how formidable the devouring power of this evil demon was.
In this place, once you entered, there was nowhere left for you to leverage yourself up again. The more you struggled, the faster you sank. If your cultivation was insufficient, once you entered, you could forget about getting out again.
The surprised Nan Zhu reacted quite quickly. Hearing movement behind him, he swiftly turned back and thrust out his sword, placing it under the feet of Mu Aotie who had jumped in. With a single arm he swung his sword and flicked, sending Mu Aotie flying back out.
Mu Aotie, who had flipped and landed back at the cave entrance, seeing the situation inside the cave, especially Yu Qing who had already sunk to his hips, immediately felt his eyes about to split. He swung his sword wildly at the cave walls.
Yu Qing said, “Old Nine, it’s useless. Its ability to regenerate and recover is too formidable. While its ‘brain’ has not yet recovered, while it still has no self-protection ability, quickly get fire to burn it. It fears sunlight, so fire attacks should work!”
Mu Aotie paused his hand, looking at them with anxiety-filled eyes. It went without saying, if I leave, what will happen to you?
Yu Qing immediately roared angrily, “This beast views the living beings of our human world as ants. Seeing the countless wronged souls beneath Yuan Mountain, born as humans, how can we tolerate it! I have twice risked my life for this. If I still cannot eliminate it, would not my death be in vain?”
Nan Zhu said anxiously, “Old Nine, go quickly. We will try to delay the rebirth of its ‘brain’. If you promptly bring fire attacks, we may not necessarily breathe our last. Go quickly!”
Only then did Mu Aotie awaken, shouting, “You all hold on!” Having said this, he turned and jumped directly down.
After several consecutive jumps on the massive tentacles, landing on the ground, he looked around blankly, burning with anxiety. After the three experts had caused their devastation, the destructive momentum made it difficult to find even a blade of grass in the surrounding area. Where could he find something for a fire attack?
But just at this moment, the colossal entity clearly began to tremble violently.
Mu Aotie suddenly turned back, seeing the colossal entity begin to twist its countless tentacles sweeping wildly. A black shadow swept over, and he quickly lay down and rolled to dodge.
Fortunately, the colossal entity did not treat him as an attack target, but was merely thrashing about randomly, allowing him to escape the sweeping range of the colossal entity through a series of jumps and rolls.
At the core of the evil demon, Yu Qing who had been devoured to his waist, suddenly exchanged a glance with Nan Zhu who had been devoured to his legs. Both felt the sudden relaxation of the devouring power, as if it had suddenly abandoned its devouring of them.
At the same time, both also felt a scorching heat from the object devouring them. Those dark green fluids were rapidly drying up.
In any case, the opportunity must not be lost. The two quickly struggled free and jumped out one after another.
Before they could react to what was happening, the interior of the evil demon’s core suddenly began to spin, shaking violently. Evil miasma surged within the inner walls, spewing everywhere. Throughout the entire cave wall, red light threads rapidly spread, seemingly the blood vessels and meridians of the evil demon.
“What is happening?” Nan Zhu, who had already lain down, shouted while asking.
Yu Qing, who also could not stand steady and had lain down, replied irritably, “Who am I supposed to ask?”
However, the two quickly discovered that wherever the red light traveling along the evil demon’s blood vessels and meridians reached, everything became dry and brittle, gradually mottled.
Wherever the red light reached, it was like cracks forming as molten lava rapidly cooled.
The evil miasma spewing everywhere also rapidly subsided.
Fragments continuously fell and crashed down. The two lying prone raised their hands to shield their eyes and looked up, seeing that a large crack had actually appeared above, and the crack was continuously growing larger.
The two immediately flipped up in the shaking space, grasping the cave entrance, intending to rush out. But the scene outside made the two even more astonished.
Those red light threads were spreading from the central hub of the flesh disc toward countless large and small tentacles, as if cracks emitting red light had appeared on all the tentacles.
The traveling red light was clearly following the fluids circulating within the evil demon’s body, spreading to every corner of the evil demon’s massive body.
Countless large and small tentacles gradually stiffened. Some began to crack, then one by one crashed down with rumbling sounds.
Mu Aotie standing on the ground also watched this scene in astonishment. Suddenly he saw two human figures at the opening of the flesh disc. Seeing that Nan Zhu and Yu Qing were still alive, a look of extreme joy actually appeared on his normally expressionless face.
Suddenly, the tentacles bearing the entire weight of the evil demon finally could not support it any longer. They began to crack and explode one by one, and the colossal entity immediately collapsed.
The two at the opening above held on tight. Following the colossal entity’s toppling was safer.
Boom, boom, and boom again. The rumbling sounds of various sizes continued for a while.
The main body collapsed, and the tentacles continuously collapsed as well.
Dust rose in all directions.
Mu Aotie immediately leaped up, flying toward the collapsed central hub of the flesh disc.
Arriving after a series of jumps, he was looking around when he suddenly saw a hand grasping a sword thrust out from a pile of ruins, followed by two figures breaking through the ruins and crawling out one after another. They were precisely the dust-covered Yu Qing and Nan Zhu. Mu Aotie immediately sheathed his long sword and jumped over to pull each of them up with a hand.
The two who had crawled out circulated their power to shake off the dust on their bodies, but it was difficult to change their sorry state. They still looked dust-covered. Their shoes and socks were gone too. The hems of their long robes were missing half, and their trousers had become shorts. Barefoot and bare-legged.
There was no helping it. The devouring power earlier was too strong, forcibly helping them tear off some parts.
The three martial brothers stood side by side on the charred ruins of the flesh disc, looking around in astonishment.
In places slightly farther away, they could still see un-stiffened tentacles twisting. Those red light threads were still traveling, finally causing the tentacles to stiffen and collapse.
“What is this situation? Because we prevented its rebirth, after being unable to reborn for a long time it collapsed and died?”
Nan Zhu asked in doubt.
Yu Qing shook his head. “Who am I supposed to ask?”
Suddenly, all three turned to look behind them. From a charred shell, there were faint click click sounds emerging.
Yu Qing suddenly thought of something, jumped over and tapped it with his sword. Crack. That charred shell immediately shattered into pieces. From inside, a point of light suddenly flashed out, rushing to the upper air and dancing in circles. It was precisely Big Head, red light like cracks covering his body.
In this form, Big Head was either boiling water or had been enraged.
Seeing this, the three exchanged glances, all showing expressions of sudden realisation, vaguely understanding what that red light was about, the one that had charred the colossal entity and traveled within its body.
“This evil demon probably circulated liquid that Big Head had boiled within its body.”
Yu Qing, who was looking up, sighed with emotion, briefly explaining the truth of the evil demon’s collapse.
The two senior brothers understood his meaning. Just like how drinking water boiled by Big Head could ward off evil for them, this evil demon had circulated water boiled by Big Head throughout its entire body. It would be strange if there were no reaction.
Nan Zhu let out a hehe. “It really is one thing subduing another. No wonder Yun Xi feared Big Head. No wonder she created a Qin Jue who absolutely had to have Big Head.”
By now, even if Yun Xi and Qin Jue did not speak, the three had guessed what was going on. Qin Jue had definitely been bewitched by Yun Xi.
Yu Qing snorted. “This is the consequence of dancing with evil demons!”
When the three were fleeing for their lives in the lake earlier, they had all turned back to see the scene of Qin Jue being thrust out of the water by a long spear.
At this time, Big Head had clearly also discovered that the matter was over. The red light of anger on his body subsided. With a flash, he descended. Yu Qing extended his palm, welcoming him to land in his palm.
Looking at this little fellow, Mu Aotie actually rarely opened his mouth to praise, “Good Big Head!”
“Di di di.”
But Big Head stared at Yu Qing and let out a clear chirp. No one knew what this call meant, but all could see it was shouted at Yu Qing.
Yu Qing did not care what it meant. In any case, giving benefits was certainly not wrong. He immediately promised, “Later, spirit rice and bones will be provided in abundance…” Slightly hesitating, he added, “Wait until we get out next year before doing so.”
Speaking of this, he seemed to remember something, turned to look in the direction of the lake, “Finished, my silver notes. We have nothing left. After going out, we won’t even have travel expenses.” His face showed an expression of extreme distress.
His silver notes, the two senior brothers did not care about. In any case, they would not fall into their hands, and would make them have to look at his expression. It was good that they were gone. If they were to be poor, they would be poor together. No one should be superior to another.
“Alas, that gold mountain is gone too. Shall we find an opportunity and time to pan for gold?”
Nan Zhu sighed worriedly while asking.
How could there still be any mountain-like accumulation of gold sand? It simply could not withstand the thrashing of Yun Xi’s colossal entity’s body, and had long since scattered into who knew what. Moreover, with the appearance of the three great experts, even people could be easily blown away, so how could those grains of gold sand possibly remain stable?
When they climbed out of the water onto the shore, they had not seen even a shadow of a single grain of gold sand.
Yu Qing scoffed. “Pan for gold? Like hell. Too much can’t be taken out, too little is not worth the effort. Better to go into the water and look for my silver notes.”
Nan Zhu suddenly reminded in a small voice, “Golden Ruins.”
Yu Qing rolled his eyes. “Fatty, haven’t you seen it yet? We were able to see that iron house only because Yun Xi orchestrated it. We were lured here by her. Damn it, being tricked by her into Little Cloud Space once was not enough, you still want to go to Golden Ruins to die again?”
Nan Zhu continued to remind in a small voice, “Old Fifteen, this doesn’t make sense. If she wanted to kill us, luring us to the lakeside would have been enough. There was no reason to set up such a house by the lake, and to pile up a bunch of gold sand to increase credibility. Was there any need for that? This time she lured us here. Do you think she didn’t have the certainty to kill us? Setting up this trap again would serve no purpose. In my opinion…” He raised his chin, with an expression of you know what I mean.
Yu Qing fell silent. Mu Aotie also seemed to be deep in thought.
Nan Zhu added, “Whether to go or not is another matter. Later they will definitely interrogate us. We must first unify our story.”
At this time, the surrounding dust had basically all settled. The three who were pondering slowly turned back again, because they noticed that in the charred shell beside them, there was one spot still continuously spewing evil miasma. Everything around had subsided, but that one point had not yet completely calmed, somewhat eye-catching.