Witch Wind

Chapter 366 Killing the Chicken Step by Step (Part 1)
This place is strange, very strange.

The laws of heaven and earth are extremely strange.

Logically, Xing Tianli could easily have stopped Hei Lie, preventing him from speaking recklessly and paying no attention to that eerie shadow.

However, driven by some strange law, Xing Tianli momentarily ignored Hei Hun.

Even his reaction was a beat slow.

After Black Hyena opened his mouth, when he uttered the first syllable, with his mere Celestial Immortal cultivation, Xing Tianli, a Great Luo Realm cultivator, had at least a hundred ways to prevent him from uttering the next word.

However, it failed to do so, still due to some kind of invisible interference. By the time Xing Tianli tried to stop it, Hei Lie had already finished speaking.

The shadowy creature laughed maniacally. It raised its head, revealing a strange face made of woven straw. It laughed hoarsely, "Ah, there are still good people in the world! In this world, there are still kind-hearted people!"

"Good man, you've spoken to me and are willing to help me. So, I'm poor, please use all your wealth to save me."

Black Mane snapped out of his daze and roared, "This is utterly unreasonable! I only asked you a question, why should I give you my entire fortune, you bastard..."

What followed was a long string of insults, over a thousand words long.

Because the insults were so offensive, Xing Tianli pretended not to hear them.

The shadowy figure laughed maniacally until Black Hyena finished cursing, then it chuckled and said, "Look at you, trying to do a good deed but acting all shy and hesitant. Why bother? Since you've paid attention to me, you have to give me all your wealth!"

Behind the shadowy figure, a small grave mound with a rough stone tombstone slowly moved aside, emitting a dull rumble, revealing a dark, water-jar-sized opening. A terrifying suction force emanated from the grave mound, clinging to the black-maned figure and forcibly pulling away all his treasures.

On Black Lizard's body was a complete set of Taiyi Immortal Artifacts that Xing Tianli had gathered for him.

At this moment, more than fifty Taiyi Immortal Weapons simultaneously emitted strange light, vibrated wildly, and emitted a buzzing sound, about to detach from Black Hyena's body and fly towards the entrance of the grave.

Black Hyena panicked and screamed loudly.

However, before he could stabilize the Taiyi Immortal Artifacts on his body, his mane had already taken the lead, flying away one by one. Each hair, as thin as an iron wire, flew away, and at the end, one could still see tender little hair follicles that were faintly glowing.

The Taiyi Immortal Artifacts are, after all, powerful artifacts, and they have sufficient resistance to the strange suction force of the grave mound.

But Black Hyena is different; he is merely a Celestial Immortal!

In the blink of an eye, Black Hyena's mane was stripped clean, and all of it flew into the grave. Before Black Hyena could even cry out, his skin, fat, and flesh all began to tremble violently, with waves of small waves rolling in. The so-called 'entire fortune' of this Shadow was not only Black Hyena's possessions, but also meant to take his life.

A ghostly laugh.

Black Hyena howled in agony.

With a furious roar, Xing Tianli's body suddenly swelled to a height of over a hundred feet, his blood vessels surging, and strands of vast magical power surging forth. With a flick of his hand, Xing Tianli unleashed all his strength, and a supreme Daoist demon-subduing heavenly thunder—the Purple Heaven Sacred Thunder—silently descended.

The Great Way is formless.

The greatest sound is silent.

The Purple Heaven Sacred Thunder has a simple name, and when it is activated, only a faint purple light flashes by. However, its power is immense and unparalleled. It is the supreme method used by Taoist cultivators in the deep mountains and forests to refine demons and protect the righteous path.

With a muffled 'thud,' roughly equivalent to an egg falling from a height of six or seven feet onto the concrete ground, the eerie laughter of the shadowy creature abruptly ceased. Its body suddenly stiffened, and the sinister grave behind it began to tremble violently. Accompanied by an extremely sharp scream, the grave was blasted to ashes.

The rough stone slab tombstone on the grave mound fell heavily to the ground, kicking up wisps of dust.

On the shadowy, straw-covered face, wisps of purple holy flame rose. It let out an extremely mournful cry, and its clothes and everything else were burned to ashes.

The surroundings returned to calm.

From the outside, the ginkgo trees appear to cover only a few dozen miles in radius, but from here, the nearest building in the distance is indistinct and seems to be three to five hundred miles away.

A bizarre abyss, bizarre laws, bizarre space, bizarre ginkgo leaves...

There was no one around, not even a ghost in sight.

Xing Tianli exhaled, looked at the black mane whose body was completely smooth and whose skin was even more delicate than that of a sixteen-year-old girl, and sneered: "You've actually benefited from this misfortune. Look, all the old mud on your body has been washed away. You must have lost at least ten pounds, right?"

Black Lizard smiled bitterly, shook off his fat, and bowed solemnly to Xing Tianli: "Thank you for saving my life, Master. Otherwise, all my fat would have really benefited that guy."

Then, this guy started muttering to himself.

Things like, "I often go into graves, but I absolutely don't like being dragged in"... and "I, Old Black, am still a virgin, full of life essence, how can I let a straw bundle give me away?"

The three women of Liujing laughed together, constantly tracing their fair faces with their fingers, hiccuping and mocking Hei Lie.

Zhong, with her aloof personality, glanced at Liu Jing and the other two women, puzzled as to why they were laughing… But after a while, she too began to chuckle. Anyway, she figured she might as well learn from them; the guidance her innate abilities provided would never be wrong.

Black Mane, feeling a bit embarrassed after being mocked, chuckled and said, "Master, shall we get up? It's all dark and desolate out here, and I, Old Black, am getting a chill down my spine."

Xing Tianli shook his head. He slowly walked to the stone tablet that had fallen to the ground and sneered, "A mere Golden Immortal dares to cause trouble. On the way to the Black Abyss, I encountered a senior from your clan, a peak Great Luo Immortal, who was also killed by me... You are truly blind, coming here to die."

The stone tablet let out a strange cry, and suddenly two arms and two legs emerged from it. A rough, blurry face also appeared on the front of the stone tablet. It leaped up and ran away.

But there's no time to waste.

The Heavenly Bamboo suddenly swelled to the thickness of an arm, becoming a perfectly handy bamboo stick. Xing Tianli, holding the Heavenly Bamboo, gently struck it down with a 'bang'.

Without using any magic or supernatural powers, just the power of the 360 ​​luminaries of the physical body, combined with the weight of 100 luminaries displayed by the Tongtian Miaozhu at this moment... with such a light strike, the stone tablet instantly turned into dust.

With a 'bang', a huge pile of messy stuff sprayed out.

There were various utensils for cultivation, as well as various medicinal herbs and minerals containing spiritual energy. But more often, there were miscellaneous items from the secular world, such as pots and pans, gold and silver jewelry, and even rouge and face powder used by women.

Uh, I really don't know where this guy got so many odds and ends from.

Xing Tianli muttered, "So, he's a highway robber...tsk, his judgment is really poor."

Among the four Great Luo Immortals—Black Lizard, Bell Maiden, and their impoverished background—there stood an extremely tall black stone tablet. The tablet possessed formidable power, and the treasures it plundered truly made Xing Tianli a fortune.

Compared to that large stone tablet, this grave mound and tombstone are far inferior in cultivation and wealth, by more than a trillion times.

Xing Tianli casually picked and chose, collecting all the cultivator's utensils, spiritual herbs, and materials.

He glanced at the mountain of mundane odds and ends on the ground, among which were some stained undergarments, some bloodstained foot bindings, some embroidered shoes covered in dog feces, and other such things...

Xing Tianli was devastated. He really didn't know what the stone tablet wanted to do with these things. Even if these things were melted down in the Heaven and Earth Furnace and returned to their original state as Primordial Qi, Xing Tianli felt that they were too dirty and he couldn't bring himself to do them.

Shaking his head, Xing Tianli waved his hand and led the group forward.

They had only traveled a dozen or so feet when a sharp whooshing sound suddenly came from behind them. Everyone turned around and saw a black shadow, only four feet tall and extremely thin, surrounded by black smoke, flying with terrifying speed, leaving a trail of afterimages, towards the pile of scraps that Xing Tian Carp refused to take.

From the side, accompanied by earth-shattering shouts and curses, a round, bulging ball of flesh, nearly eight feet in diameter, bounced rapidly like a rubber ball, spinning at high speed with a 'buzzing' sound, and rushed towards the pile of debris with a whirlwind.

In my mind's eye, the gaunt figure in the black smoke seemed to be reaching its limit.

But the round, obese ball of flesh, devoid of facial features and limbs, was a fraction faster than the withered figure. The ball crashed headfirst into a jumble of odds and ends. A ghostly light shimmered on its body, and large pieces of clothing, pots and pans, even a doghouse and a duck shed, vanished in the light, swallowed whole.

The gaunt figure in the black smoke cursed angrily. With a loud clang, two thin streams of black smoke shot out from its hands, like two long knives, and slashed directly at the ball of flesh.

"You fat pig, you're trying to steal my business again!" the gaunt figure cursed angrily.

"What's wrong with pigs? Did pigs get in the way of your whole family and cause your death?" Heaven knows what kind of monstrosity the laws of this world are, but the language used by that gaunt figure was absolutely unfamiliar and absolutely unpleasant to hear. However, to everyone's ears, the word 'pig' sounded vivid and clear.

It's unclear what Black Hyena meant by those curses.

It's unknown whether there are creatures like 'pigs' in the mother world of that skinny figure and the black hyena... but that doesn't stop them from having a fierce verbal argument over the word 'fat pig' in their respective mother tongues.

Black Mane cursed loudly, while the thin figure's hand slashed fiercely across the fleshy ball with thin black smoke. With a hissing sound, the extremely sharp black smoke only made two insignificant wounds less than half an inch deep on the surface of the fleshy ball.

The white fat on the wound twitched slightly, and the wound healed instantly.

The ball of flesh continued to pounce on the pile of scraps, frantically devouring them.

The gaunt, dark figure was clearly an old acquaintance with the fleshy ball. Seeing its appearance, it abandoned its attack on the fleshy ball and, leaving a trail of afterimages, charged madly towards the black hyena.

"You pig-headed bastard, how dare you insult your ancestors? Die!"

Countless afterimages surrounded Xing Tianli and his group from all directions, with thousands of extremely thin black wisps of smoke shooting through the air alongside each afterimage. It was like a world-destroying rain of arrows, dense and impenetrable from all sides, and the destructive power of each wisp of black smoke reached the mid-stage of the Taiyi realm.

Xing Tianli let out a long roar.

A sword light rippled from the Tongtian Miaozhu, and the Boundless Sword Technique was activated. Xing Tianli, a Great Luo Realm cultivator, wielded the Boundless Sword Technique, and in the blink of an eye, eight hundred billion sword lights shot into the sky.

A sword beam, ten thousand times, even a hundred thousand times more powerful than the black smoke, shot into the sky. The gaunt figure let out a blood-curdling scream: "Senior, Grandpa, it was my fault... I have a lousy back..."

The 'pfft' sound was incessant.

The sword's edge pierced through countless afterimages.

A subtle feedback came through, and Xing Tianli was horrified to discover that this guy's supernatural power was terrifying. Each of these afterimages was actually a real physical body!
The afterimages scattered and disintegrated, exploding into countless pieces of flesh and blood.

Amidst the chaotic black mist, a gaunt figure covered in blood materialized out of thin air. He let out a shrill scream, tumbling and fleeing in a sorry state.

"Great template!" Xing Tianli shouted, and the Tongtian Yuling Banner shook violently. A wisp of soul-capturing demonic light, carrying a faint, long, illusory tongue, shot out, wrapped around the black shadow, and directly extracted his soul, pulling it back along with his stiff body.

Just as he pulled the gaunt figure to his side, before he could even stuff him into the Tower of Creation to imprint his essence, the fleshy ball had already devoured all the scraps discarded by Xing Tian Carp on the ground, and suddenly turned around.

The fleshy mass suddenly split open, revealing large patches of white fat inside.

Heaven knows what kind of monster this fleshy ball is. Its body is full of fat, as white as snow, with a jade-like crystalline quality, and a strange, herbal fragrance.

"Oh my god!" Liu Jing and the other two girls screamed in unison, instinctively hiding behind Xing Tianli.

The three women were indeed gluttonous, but they hated fatty meat the most—well, perhaps this is a common problem among all women who love beauty.
This fleshy ball, filled entirely with fat, was a horrifying sight that the three women, including Liu Jing, could only dream of in their most terrifying nightmares!
With a whoosh, the split fleshy ball squeezed hard, and instantly, white fat surged like a tidal wave, overwhelming Xing Tianli.

Xing Tianli went berserk.

He froze, almost yelling, "Don't come any closer!"

No demons or monsters, Xing Tianli fears none... Even if you send a few devastating nine-tailed fox spirits, Xing Tianli is confident he can hold his own... But this overwhelming surge of white, glistening fat... he, he, he...

In both his past and present lives, Xing Tianli never imagined he would encounter such an enemy when he had nightmares.

Fat. Fat. Fat!
Enraged, Xing Tianli unleashed a sword strike. This strike showcased Xing Tianli's exceptional skill as a Grand Luo cultivator in his early stages. His sword strike unleashed a staggering twelve trillion sword beams, which coalesced into a tidal wave that surged and trembled as it met the overwhelming fat.

The "plop" sound was incessant as the original block of fat was cut into extremely fine fat particles.

As a result, the fluidity improved, and the forward propulsion speed increased.

Thick, fine fat particles passed effortlessly through the gaps between the sword beams... With a hissing sound, the fat, carrying a faint glow and a delicate fragrance, almost sprayed onto Xing Tianli's face.

This guy is completely immune to physical damage!

A pure sword slash couldn't even scratch a hair on it—well, this thing didn't have a single hair to begin with!

With a long roar, Xing Tianli transformed his sword technique, and the pure, sharp sword light suddenly turned into a raging inferno—each ray of sword light was engulfed in a dazzling innate Bing Fire Divine Flame.

With a 'sizzle' sound.

The ball of flesh let out a sharp, miserable howl: "Innate fire... why can you, a swordsman, also set fire?"

Xing Tianli and the three women, including Liu Jing, were completely baffled.

What words?

Why can't someone who practices swordsmanship set fires?

Well, cultivators in the Nine Provinces have a wide range of skills. While they may not be proficient in every single one, they should at least have a few tricks up their sleeves. It's quite normal for a sword immortal to know how to refine pills, set up formations, draw talismans, perform divination, and even practice yin-yang cultivation to help people find ancestral graves and dragon veins.

How did this become such an incomprehensible thing in the case of this fleshy ball?

Flames rose.

The ocean of fat is burning wildly.

Such a disgusting sea of ​​fat, once burned, leaves not a trace of residue or black smoke; instead, it fills the air with an extremely rich fragrance of a hundred flowers!
Black Hyena murmured, "Ah, what fine lamp oil this is!"

With a loud 'bang,' Black Mane was kicked in both the backs of his knees at the same time. Liu Jing and Liu Xing kicked him in the backs of his knees with both hands, making him kneel down with a 'thud.' Liu Luan pulled out a short stick and started smashing it wildly at his head with a 'bang bang bang'.

"Don't even mention this disgusting thing."

Black Hyena muttered, "Disgusting, isn't it? I, Old Black, haven't even said I'd use it in cooking..."

A surge of frenzied blood essence erupted from Liulu's arm, and she struck Black Hyena with her staff, causing stars to flash across his head and nearly making him faint. Liulu shouted sternly, "Shut up, or I'll feed you to it as pig feed!"

Black Hyena obediently shut its mouth.

The fat that the fleshy ball spewed out was burned away in the blink of an eye. It screamed madly, returned to its fleshy ball form, and with wisps of flame on its body, it leaped and flew away into the distance.

Its body is much more heat-resistant than the sprayed fat.

However, it had only run less than ten miles when a gaping maw suddenly appeared from the side and swallowed it whole with a 'crunch'. The huge mouth didn't even chew it before swallowing the burning ball of human flesh.

Its large mouth opened slightly, exhaling a burst of fire, and it let out a burp.

"Hey, I've finally gotten to eat this delicious meat."

"But kid, this thing was supposed to be a delicious piece of meat that would have filled my stomach, but now you've taken away at least 70% of its weight... You have to make it up to me!"

(End of this chapter)