Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don’t Call Me a Demon! - Chapter 76

Chapter 76: Chapter 74: Bone Forest

Thwack, thwack, thwack!

In the midst of the downpour, a round of applause came through the rain.

“Brilliant, just brilliant. Worthy of Brother Pei, your strength is truly formidable. You dealt with those Purple Mist Sect disciples so easily.”

Standing atop the head of the thousand-hand centipede, Su Jie narrowed his eyes and clapped his hands.

“I thought you wouldn’t dare to show yourself. Do you think you have a chance to defeat me because my spiritual power is greatly depleted? Haha, you overestimate those pieces of trash. The reason I engaged the Purple Mist Sect to act on my behalf is because I’m confident I can handle them.”

Pei Haibing turned around and showed some surprise in his eyes upon seeing Su Jie appear.

He had thought that after witnessing the battle just now, Su Jie would most likely be scared off.

However, as soon as he recognized the thousand-hand centipede beneath Su Jie, his gaze turned solemn, and he understood the source of Su Jie’s confidence.

With his insight, although he did not pursue the path of a Gu Master, in the Ghost Ridge Palace sect, who hasn’t seen a pig run even if they haven’t eaten pork?

The exaggerated size of the thousand-hand centipede made it immediately apparent that it was a powerful three refinement poisonous insect of Low Grade.

Su Jie smiled and said, “Who knows unless we try? No one can be on guard against a thief every day. Rather than living in constant fear, it’s better to kill you here and pin the blame on the Purple Mist Sect, wouldn’t that be perfect?”

As he spoke, Su Jie also took the White Bone Sky Slaying Sword out of his storage bag.

“You want this flying sword, don’t you? Come on, let’s see if it likes you.”

With a smile on his lips, the flying sword in Su Jie’s hand suddenly vanished, piercing through the clouds and breaking through the air. In the next moment, it approached right in front of Pei Haibing.

Pei Haibing’s hands clapped together fiercely, trying to grab the flying sword, but the sharpness of the White Bone Sky Slaying Sword exceeded that of his bones.

In the instant of contact, the flying sword ascended once again, while two of Pei Haibing’s left fingers dropped to the ground, severed by the sword.

The very bones that Hou Yongqing couldn’t break no matter what were no match for the sharp edge of the White Bone Sky Slaying Sword.

“What a treasure, indeed a fine one.”

Having lost two fingers, Pei Haibing did not care. His eyes greedily followed the White Bone Sky Slaying Sword as it attacked again, while numerous White Bone Tree Branches surged wildly in mid-air, like a horde of serpent-like poisonous snakes, chasing and entwining themselves around the sword as it grew.

Under Su Jie’s control, the White Bone Sky Slaying Sword moved like a nimble bird, threading through every gap and opening.

Simultaneously, Su Jie patted the head of the thousand-hand centipede he was sitting on.

The thousand-hand centipede raised its head, and its facial plates cracked open, revealing purple luminescence flowing within the crevices.

Boom, boom, boom!

A second later, dozens of purple light rays scorched the air, blasting a large area of White Bone Tree Branches, turning many to flying ash.

Immediately after, several pale corpse hands crawled out from under the thousand-hand centipede’s belly and rushed towards Pei Haibing at high speed.

“Skypiece!”

Pei Haibing was somewhat fearful of the high temperature of the purple light ray, but he still retained his confidence in victory and coldly spat out two words.

The rain in the sky began to pause, a strong sense of crisis swept over him, and Su Jie suddenly looked up.

In the sky, the rain stopped, and large snowflakes began to fall in a dense flurry.

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Upon closer inspection, these weren’t snowflakes at all but clearly bone powder.

As the bone powder landed, dyeing the earth white, Su Jie wasted no time in having the thousand-hand centipede wrap around him for protection.

Hiss hiss!

The thousand-hand centipede let out two cries. Bone powder was ineffective against stones and trees, but its contact with living flesh was entirely different.

The bone powder actually melted its chitinous insect shell, which even high-velocity machine gun fire struggled to damage.

The insect shell on the surface of the thousand-hand centipede kept cracking and breaking into smaller centipedes, which then died off. It healed its wounds through super self-healing.

Fortunately, Su Jie acted quickly, or else if he had come into contact with this bone powder, his end would have been miserable indeed.

This was evident in Chu Pu’s case, who had been touched by the falling bone powder, his bones dissolving into nothingness and, in the end, could not escape his demise.

“Earth Bones!”

Pei Haibing clapped his hands together and, suddenly, it was as if dragons and serpents churned beneath the ground. The soil heaved and white bones mixed with dirt and rocks, growing into white bone trees that branched out endlessly, shielding the curtain of the sky.

Looking down from above, a dense White Bone Forest blossomed upon the land with layers upon layers of crisscrossing white bones, transforming the area into a White Bone Domain.

No sooner had he charged into the White Bone Forest than both the White Bone Sky Slaying Sword and the pale corpse hands faced continuous and relentless assault by the white bones, with branches above and roots below, nearly completely blocking all lines of attack.

“How would the Three Refinement Poisonous Insect fare in the White Bone Forest I created? Not a single insect shall fly in,” Pei Haibing declared, his voice emanating from the Bone Forest. This was his true strength, cultivation at the Yunling Realm Seventh Level. In combat with Zhang Changxin and the others, he merely controlled a single giant White Bone Tree. Now, however, it was a White Bone Forest, with dozens of trees, which showed just how wary he was of Su Jie.

“If one insect isn’t enough, what about a swarm of them?” Su Jie slapped his Insect Control Bag at his waist as a black smoke swiftly rose from the bag.

Tens of thousands of human-faced moths flapped their wings, resembling a thick black cloud rushing toward the White Bone Forest.

“Body Worm Focusing Method? You’re not an inner disciple, where did you learn that?” For the first time, Pei Haibing’s voice was a bit troubled, obviously caught off guard by Su Jie’s trump card.

Directed by Su Jie, their Insect King, the human-faced moth swarm braved the bone powder falling from the sky, using the moths on the outer layer to shield those within. The entire swarm plunged straight into the White Bone Forest.

Human-faced moths are insignificant poisonous insects with little more than a good bite and corrosive acid, but that’s just a single moth. When it comes to a flock of them, a human-faced moth swarm turns into a truly devastating weapon.

Boom.

The White Bone Forest began to collapse in succession. Wherever the human-faced moth swarm passed, it was like a surging torrent, corroding and devouring all vegetation and rocks in its path, leaving behind barren white lands.

The White Bone Forest met the same fate. In ordinary Body Worm Focusing Methods, that might not be very powerful. Yet among Su Jie’s well-cultivated swarm of human-faced moths, there were dozens shining with a golden light, having broken through to the Low Grade level. A single acidic vomit from them could dissolve a large swath of white bones. Leading the swarm through the forest, crashing and smashing, any White Bone Tree Branch that attempted an attack was instantly eaten clean by the moths.

“Found you.”

Suddenly, the corner of Su Jie’s mouth lifted into a smirk. Amidst the smashing and crashing of the swarm, vast sections of the White Bone Forest were destroyed, and Pei Haibing, hiding within, was now exposed in Su Jie’s sight.

“Human Bones.”

Pei Haibing’s face turned ugly as he watched the approaches of the Supersonic White Bone Sky Slaughter Sword, the creepingly sinister pale corpse hands, and the engulfing swarm darkening the sky. In a desperate struggle, he bit off his tongue, using the blood on its tip to draw a twisted character of a human on his forehead.

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