Witch Wind

Chapter 367 Killing the Chicken Step by Step (Part 2)
The giant mouth roared.

A figure slowly emerged from the darkness.

Xing Tianli and the others all glanced at Zhong Nu. Xing Tianli sighed silently—on Zhong Nu's head was an ancient bell, and on the neck of this burly man with four arms, well, was a crocodile mouth.

The crocodile's mouth, almost as big as its body, was filled with sharp teeth, and it also had a large tongue covered in barbs.

This creature was about two zhang tall. With such a body and a two-zhang-long crocodile mouth, one can imagine how astonishing its visual impact was.

"Not enough, not enough, seventy percent of the meat is lost. You have to make up for it!" the guy yelled. "Hmm, tender-skinned boy, hmm, tender-skinned girl, hmm, rough-skinned pig head."

"Start with the tender young girls, eat two girls first, then a boy, then two more girls, and finally use this thick-skinned, fleshy thing as a teething toy after the meal. It's wonderful!"

Black Mane protested again, shouting, "Where is your Black Master's skin thick and tough? Look, have you ever seen such oily, shiny skin?"

The tombstone had just sucked away all the hair on his body, even the old dirt on his skin. At this moment, Black Mane only looked like he had dark skin, which seemed very rough, but in fact his skin was extremely delicate.

With a grotesque laugh, he brandished two long swords and two long forks from his four arms, displaying the gluttonous look of someone poised to feast at a dinner table. The next instant, he pounced on Xing Tianli and the others. He possessed no magical power, no supernatural abilities, only pure physical strength.

This fellow possesses the physical strength of a peak Taiyi cultivator, but alas, his power is purely physical. No wonder he couldn't eat that fleshy ball before; it's immune to physical attacks. If Xing Tianli hadn't severely injured it, how could that giant mouth have possibly eaten that delicious piece of meat?

This guy launched a violent attack. Xing Tianli looked at the people around him and shook his head slightly.

No one could defeat this guy, so he had to take matters into his own hands. He stepped forward, wielding the Heavenly Bamboo, smashing the knife and fork in Big Mouth's hand to pieces with a series of 'bang bang bang bang' sounds. Then he unleashed a brutal beating, breaking Big Mouth's arms and legs, before kicking him in the stomach, nearly shattering his internal organs. Big Mouth clutched his stomach, crying and howling in agony on the ground.

Xing Tianli stepped on the edge of the giant mouth and asked in a deep voice, "What's going on here? Fighting outside the Black Abyss Market, and the people of Black Abyss aren't doing anything about it?"

Big Mouth realized the power of Xing Tianli and hurriedly shouted, "What do you care? What do you care? These are the rules of the Black Abyss... Either you can step into the Black Abyss Market, which is a once-in-a-millennium lucky person... or you have to fight and kill outside the market. The one who fights the most and kills the most will be dragged into the market."

Xing Tianli was astonished. Was there really such a saying?

He said in a deep voice, "No pattern?"

Big Mouth paused for a moment before shouting, "What is a pattern?"

Xing Tianli slapped his forehead hard. Well, these guys, although the aura emanating from this big mouth is powerful, and he is among the most powerful in the Taiyi Peak realm, his aura is extremely mixed and chaotic, clearly originating from a mother world where the laws of heaven and earth are extremely chaotic.

In such a world, the way living things survive might not allow them to understand the meaning of the word 'law'.

With a single slash, the giant maw crashed to the ground, spraying blood. With a 'poof', the fragments that had just been swallowed by the fleshy ball spewed out, and several times more fragments sprayed out like fireworks.

Xing Tianli looked at the mountain of debris, pondered for a moment, and then with a wave of his hand, threw out a ghost king.

The Ghost King took a deep breath, and instantly, countless fragments of yin wind swept up from the ground and were sucked into his mouth. The furnace of heaven and earth then smelted and refined him, and within the Ghost King's body, wisps of primordial energy surged.

Xing Tianli himself would never touch these messy things. Just now, among the fragments spat out by the big mouth, he actually saw dozens of moldy coffin lids covered with mushrooms... Heaven knows where these things came from and how the big mouth swallowed them as treasures.

Xing Tianli looked at the coffin lids. They were made of ordinary spiritual materials, probably only good enough to forge magic weapons and flying swords for cultivators at the Qi Refining and Spirit Transformation realm. That was about it. Even the personal treasures of Human Immortals and Earth Immortals wouldn't be made of such inferior materials.

What's the point of a supreme being at the pinnacle of the Taiyi realm collecting such junk? What's its value?

Xing Tianli couldn't understand it, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

A ghost king devoured it, melting it completely, leaving not a trace for anyone else.

With a flick of his finger, a burst of flame shot out, and the corpse of the giant mouth was burned away bit by bit, turning into a wisp of ashes in an instant.

Just as Big Mouth's corpse began to burn, a low rumble came from afar. After Big Mouth's body was completely burned, a strange creature, five or six zhang tall, carved entirely from grayish-white rock, with a rugged and handsome face, wearing stone armor, carrying a heavy shield in its left hand and a flail in its right, strode over.

The creature's body, once covered in smooth stone armor, was now densely covered with marks from knife cuts and axe strokes.

A strange power surged within the wounds, as if to repair them. Strands of grayish-white powder were continuously flowing from the creature's body, being applied little by little to the wounds.

However, a terrifying power remained on the wound, constantly colliding with the powder and making a hissing sound, turning the powder into wisps of white vapor that drifted away.

On the chest of this enormous creature, a huge character was cleaved out with a sharp weapon like a sword—an unfamiliar character. However, due to the strange laws of this space, Xing Tianli and the others immediately understood the meaning of the character—'prisoner'!
This fellow is actually a prisoner?

Yes, it looks like it—this guy has a bluish-black metal ring around his neck, on both wrists, and on both ankles. Long iron chains, as thick as buckets, are attached to these rings. At the end of each chain is a metal ball about ten feet in diameter. These balls are incredibly heavy. As the big guy moves forward step by step, the metal balls rub against the ground, constantly sending up large amounts of sparks.

It's hard to imagine how heavy this metal ball is, making it impossible for this guy, who clearly also follows the path of physical strength and has such a burly physique, to even run. He can only move forward slowly, step by step.

"Damn it, these are my treasures!" This big guy, whose face was quite rugged and handsome by human standards, had four eyes that simultaneously emitted a bluish-green light. He shouted angrily, "I've been watching them, watching them for many years. I can't catch up with them. I've been chasing them all along... They're mine, they're mine!"

"Hand over my treasure, you bastards... You've stolen my spoils, this is a huge insult to me... If you don't give me a hundredfold compensation, I'll grind you into mincemeat!"

The big guy walked step by step to Xing Tianli and stood still, huffing and puffing.

He bent down slightly, looking down at Xing Tianli, the flail in his hand was absurd, the meteor hammer head on the flail alone was half the size of Xing Tianli's body.

"Hey kid, did you hear me? Do you want to be smashed into mincemeat, or do you want to obediently offer compensation?"

Xing Tianli looked at this guy with great curiosity.

Limited mobility and slow movements.

However, it seems to be quite hard.

Xing Tianli released his grip, and the Tongtian Yuling Banner floated beside him. Suddenly, his left hand moved like lightning, and he punched forward. The huge flail head was hanging in front of him, and he hit it with his punch.

'boom'!
The flail hammerhead swung wildly, dancing around the flail handle like a windmill.

Large amounts of stone dust were scattered.

Xing Tianli's attack utilized the full power of his physical body. Although he didn't employ any of the Wu Clan's combat techniques, he unleashed a pure, unadulterated barrage of 360 luminaries. Such immense power, concentrated on a small fist, created an unimaginable instantaneous impact.

This big guy easily withstood the impact of the force; his arm didn't even sway.

He just muttered, "Kid, you still have some strength left."

With a slight tremor of his arm, the flail stopped swinging. A clear fist print was visible on the massive flail head, deeply embedded three inches deep.

Xing Tianli's pupils suddenly narrowed!
The physical strength of 360 stars is an overwhelming force among early-stage Great Luo cultivators... This behemoth is only at the early stage of Great Luo. Yet, the punch I unleashed with all my might only left a three-inch-deep mark on this hammerhead?

This hammerhead, it's clearly made of the same material as this big guy's body, how can it be so hard?

The giant lowered its head, its four eyes fixed on its weapon. Suddenly, it roared in a fit of rage, "Bastard, how dare you, how dare you! This is my family's treasure, my heirloom... Ah, bastard, a thousandfold compensation, or else I will..." The Heavenly Spirit Banner trembled, and a beam of soul-capturing demonic light struck the giant's head.

The demonic light paused slightly, accompanied by a sharp screech, and after about a tenth of a finger's time, it finally managed to painstakingly drill into the giant's head. With a furious roar, the giant's soul, which was almost half-fused with its physical body, was forcibly dragged out by the Heavenly Spirit Banner, which had already reached the Acquired Spirit Treasure level and was further refining and fusing with a top-grade Acquired Supreme Treasure.

The soul of this giant creature is also quite similar to that of his physical body.

His total spiritual energy was not much, barely reaching the entry level of the Great Luo Realm. However, his spiritual energy was extremely condensed—not that his spiritual energy was very pure, as it was full of various impurities, but rather that it was like a pile of household garbage that had been frantically hammered by a 10,000-ton hydraulic press, all sorts of messy things tightly compressed together, as solid as a block of iron.

It must be the change brought about by his strong, heavy physical body.

Xing Tianli flicked his wrist, throwing the soul that had barely reached the Great Luo Realm into the Tongtian Yuling Banner. A burst of ghostly fire scorched it wildly, and countless messy impurities turned into black smoke that spewed out from the Great Luo soul... Uh, Xing Tianli shook his head speechlessly. After the soul was completely melted and purified, its grade actually dropped to the Taiyi Realm!

Well, one more Ghost Emperor is good!
The Tower of Creation, shrunk to a mere foot square, eagerly emerged. A beam of light fell upon its body, and the tower slowly, bit by bit, began to rise.

The Tower of Creation, which had also reached the Later Heaven Spiritual Treasure Realm, actually used all its power to barely drag this behemoth's body up—this guy's weight should be over a thousand yao...

Xing Tianli was horrified.

The Tower of Creation finally managed to swallow the creature's body, and its eerie light fell on the five enormous metal spheres below. Despite using all its power, it was unable to shake these five behemoths.

Each of these five metal spheres weighs nearly ten thousand yojanas!

Xing Tianli remained silent for a long time—even when he used his Battle Divine Power to amplify his strength thirtyfold, it was still only a little over ten thousand Yao's maximum strength... while this big guy had been dragging around the burden of fifty thousand Yao for years.

In a direct confrontation, if Xing Tianli were to fight this guy in his true form as a great sorcerer, he would definitely be beaten so badly that he wouldn't even have the power to fight back.

Fortunately, this guy only cultivates the physical body, not the spirit.

Faced with the soul-capturing demonic light of the Heavenly Spirit Banner, he had no power to fight back and was easily defeated.

Luckily, really lucky.

Xing Tianli took a deep breath and, in coordination with the Tower of Creation, used all his power, even drawing on the power of the Ghost Lords within several Tower of Spirit Banners, to finally throw the five incredibly dense metal lumps into the Tower of Creation.

Xing Tianli immediately used all his strength to begin analyzing the material composition of these metal lumps.

Fortunately, it is a postnatal spiritual material. Although the material is infinitely close to that of innate materials, it is still wrapped with postnatal Daoist rhyme. With Xing Tianli's cultivation at the Great Luo Realm and his complete mastery of the 'Manipulating Creation' divine power, this material has just reached the critical point of his creation divine power.

He could actually create this material, but the consumption would be enormous.

After a moment's contemplation, Xing Tianli imprinted the 'essence' of the five metal spheres into his Natal Heaven-Reaching Cauldron. He then placed all five metal spheres into the Natal Heaven-Reaching Cauldron and began to forge them with his Natal Witch Flame.

The metal spheres slowly melted, and the five metal spheres quickly merged into one.

Xing Tianli threw a section of the World Mother Tree branch, which was a thousand miles long, into the molten metal. He silently recited incantations, and the section of the World Mother Tree branch rapidly transformed from the innate Jia Wood power into the innate Kun Wind.

Wisps of cyan-gold wind, like mercury spilling onto the ground, seeped into every crevice, merging into this strange metallic liquid.

The most significant difference between innate and acquired power is that it has the ability to influence and permeate all acquired things. For example, if a piece of innate earth-elemental material is placed together with a large pile of wood, over time, the wood will gradually be permeated and transformed into clods of earth.

When different acquired spiritual materials are placed together, even if they have different attributes, they can at most generate or restrain each other, creating infinitely possible changes, but they can never transform into each other out of thin air.

Thus, this pool of molten metal gained an extra strong Kunfeng attribute out of thin air.

The wind was strong, light, and ever-changing, with extremely strong penetrating power. As these metallic liquids gradually acquired the innate wind attribute, Xing Tianli, in one breath, exerted all his strength to infuse tens of thousands of innate runes into this mixture of liquids.

'Buzz'!
A crudely crafted seal appeared out of thin air inside the Heavenly Cauldron.

This seal, imbued with the power of Kunfeng, can transform and purify itself. At its lightest, it possesses the power of a single celestial body. However, once it returns to its original weight, it exerts a pure pressure exceeding fifty thousand celestial bodies.

Furthermore, the power of the wind allows this seal to fly at an extremely high speed.

Just imagine, a seal weighing 50,000 yao (a unit of weight) – no, just imagine 50,000 suns shrunk together and crashing into you at the speed of light – what an unpleasant experience that would be!
In an instant, this seal became the most lethal weapon in Xing Tianli's hands.

"Let's call it the Heavenly Seal!" Xing Tianli, who was terrible at naming things, casually gave this seal a name: "Let's save some materials for now, and slowly improve you by gathering more materials later."

"Hehe, once you are fully transformed into innate material, you will have more variations to unleash."

The Heavenly Seal hovered beside the Xingtian Carp, with wisps of breeze gently swirling around it—the creature was rather simple-minded, offering no response whatsoever. After all, it was merely crafted from acquired spiritual materials, and even with the blessing of a branch from the World Mother Tree, it hadn't developed sufficient spirituality and could only rely on slow, nurturing growth.

For now, that's enough.

If someone were to suddenly throw it out and smear it all over someone's face, the sheer destructive power of that attack sent chills down Xing Tianli's spine.

The Tower of Creation has also completed its analysis of the giant's body.

Well, it's not worth copying or replicating—besides being extremely sturdy and powerful, its speed and agility are a complete mess...on the battlefield, it would be a sitting duck.

Of course, if you're going to attack a city, this big guy is quite useful as a battering ram.

Therefore, the Tower of Creation imprinted his 'essence' and stored his body as a specimen within it, too lazy to bother with it anymore.

Incidentally, within this guy's body was a small, cramped space, containing only a few odds and ends. Xing Tianli summoned a Ghost King and ordered it to devour these odds and ends.

The primordial energy that was transformed was less than a thousand units.

This big guy is really shabby.

From near and far, in the darkness, more eerie figures approached... but Xing Tianli had already taken down several troublesome guys, whether it was the tombstone, the withered figure and the ball of flesh, or the big mouth, especially the huge stone guy at the very back...

They were undoubtedly extremely difficult to deal with outside the Black Abyss Market.

Don't look. There are so many terrifying creatures anchored around the ginkgo leaves. Their leader has already entered the Black Abyss Market and hasn't been able to come out for a while.

Those high and mighty people would never interact with or contact these wanderers.

Among the creatures roaming the outskirts of Black Abyss Market, the four-armed stone golem that had just been killed was among the strongest... Xing Tianli had dealt with him so easily that no one dared to act recklessly in front of him anymore, spouting nonsense or engaging in robbery.

Xing Tianli and his companions traveled safely and peacefully along the road.

After traveling hundreds of miles, a market entrance suddenly appeared ahead of them. Amidst the complex gazes of many figures behind them, Xing Tianli and his group easily stepped into the market.

(End of this chapter)