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Chapter 127 The Tower of Flesh and Blood

Liu Shuyue's reaction was remarkably quick.

Realizing that it was impossible to escape the collapsed area by speed alone, she immediately pulled out a Wind-Riding Talisman from her pocket. As the fall occurred, she had already begun to ride the wind, grabbed A-Jiu a few meters away, and flew directly into the sky.

On the other side, Fu Jiaolu also grabbed Ahua, and the two of them clung to a large tree in the yard as they sank deeper into the ground.

In contrast, a giant pillar of flesh, composed of blood, eyeballs, and countless hands, rose from the ground, resembling a newly built tower.

Just looking at this thing gives you the creeps.

And its "spire" is the piece of white bone that was just in the center of the room, imprisoning Ji Yanshu.

This wasn't some underground pitfall at all. Liu Shuyue finally realized that what they had just seen was merely the tip of the iceberg; the vast majority of it was hidden underground, which was why the mental cultivation technique's scanning was intermittent. Now that it had broken through the ground and was beginning to rise, the surrounding houses and streets would naturally collapse towards the center to fill the void left by its departure.

Its energy still appears scattered, but due to its extremely large body, its total amount is also astonishingly large.

Is this a powerful demon?
No... far more than that, even the Azure Dragon Vortex is not even one-tenth as good as it!

Its base is also covered with white, fibrous intestines, much like the roots of a plant. If someone were to fall in, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Liu Shuyue had no other choice but to throw out a Wind Riding Talisman, "Ajiu, take this to your senior brother!"

She had to focus on controlling the wind and couldn't attend to the two people falling at the same time.

Fortunately, Ajiu immediately understood her meaning, summoned the Thousand Thoughts Sword, and flew towards the other two with the talisman on its back.

The moment the talisman deer successfully obtained the talisman, the two of them had already fallen to a depth of forty or fifty meters underground, and were about to be swallowed by countless intestines.

Neither of them had received any training in riding the wind.

However, everyone knew they had no time to hesitate. The weight a Wind Rider could carry was related to their own weight; exceeding that limit would greatly reduce its effectiveness. Therefore, this talisman had to be used by the Talisman Deer.

"Hold on tight!" he roared, channeling his spiritual energy into the talisman.

Ahua wrapped her arms tightly around her senior brother's waist.

A gust of wind suddenly rose from beneath their feet, carrying the two of them at high speed!
At first, Fu Jiaolu managed to maintain his direction, but two seconds later, he realized the wind was no longer under his control—the gale was pushing him to one side, gradually turning from a vertical ascent into horizontal flight, as if drawing a parabola. Following this downward trajectory, the two wouldn't fly more than two streets wide before falling back into the deep pit beneath their feet.

Liu Shuyue had already escaped the collapsed area, placed Ajiu on the roof of a temporarily safe house, and then turned and flew towards the direction where the horned deer was.

The whole process took only a dozen seconds.

But the horned deer could no longer wait for the immortal master.

Their height was rapidly decreasing; the edge of the pit, which they could have looked down at just moments before, now required them to crane their necks to see. The uncollapsed area stood like an insurmountable wall before them.

"Charmed Deer!" came Liu Shuyue's shout from above.

"Immortal Master... I entrust everything to you." Fu Jiaolu lifted Ahua with one hand and threw her upwards with all his might!

"No—!" Ahua cried out in alarm.

In this way, at least one person will survive.

Liu Shuyue swooped down and barely managed to grab the little girl who had been thrown up, but it was too late to catch up with the horned deer. She watched helplessly as the girl plummeted to the bottom of the pit.

Just then, a sword of energy appeared out of thin air beneath the horned deer, piercing his thigh with lightning speed! Not only that, the sword of energy continued its upward momentum, carrying him a short distance before disappearing. Before the horned deer could fall again, another sword of energy shot forth, striking the same spot and lifting him into the air once more!
Whose Thousand Thoughts Sword is this?
Although Ah Jiu and Ah Hua learned this move, they haven't had enough time to execute it skillfully yet.

The technique before them was clearly highly skilled. Not only was the shape of the sword quite sophisticated, with a slender tip and a hilt for support, but each stab also hit the same spot, minimizing the damage as much as possible!
It's like repeating myself for years on end, without interruption throughout the four seasons.

Only one person can do this—gain the ability while simultaneously mastering all of its owner's experience and insights!

"Chen Xuan?!" She turned around in surprise and found that the familiar figure was indeed standing at the edge of the pit!

"Sorry to keep you waiting, it took me a little while to find your location." Chen Xuan smiled at her, then used the last Qi sword to bring the talisman deer back to his side.

"Shop...Shopkeeper!" Fu Jiaolu was also taken aback, then exclaimed happily, "What brings you here?"

"Of course we've come to find you. You have medicine with you, right? Quickly treat yourself!" Chen Xuan instructed.

He could have used a different, damage-free method, such as summoning the cylindrical Thousand Thought Sword, using the blade to catch his opponent, and then forming an aerial horizontal bar for the horned deer to climb onto. However, this would require the deer to be prepared, gripping the blade tightly the moment it collided with the Thousand Thought Sword; otherwise, it would only be knocked off balance. Therefore, to be on the safe side, he chose to stab himself, using his Divine Eye Technique in conjunction with his Qi Sword to repeatedly stab the same spot during his rapid fall, avoiding accidental injury to his opponent.

"When did you come in?" Liu Shuyue landed with Ahua, her face showing both joy and worry. "Did those intestines by the city wall hurt you?"

"It's strange, there was no obstacle at all when I entered the city," Chen Xuan recalled the unbelievable scene before, "The erosion boundary was very obvious, and I stepped across it in one step. But when I got here, I found that the boundary was a hundred meters away behind me, as if I had stepped a hundred meters in one step."

He then realized that it wasn't that fewer and fewer people were escaping from the city; rather, everyone was crammed onto Zhuque Avenue leading to the South Gate, unable to leave. A barrier made of flesh and intestines blocked everyone's path. The intestines also demonstrated how they were slaughtering people. Besides those who died directly from fusion and absorption, the crowd itself was being trampled, and carriages were crashing through the streets. The scene was utterly gruesome.

Finding your VIP guests isn't too difficult.

Chen Xuan immediately expanded the perception range of his LV4 Heavenly Glow Technique to its maximum, ignoring ordinary people and most cultivators, focusing only on the brightest point of light, and quickly confirmed Liu Shuyue's location. If the entire city of Chang'an were a star-studded night sky, she would be the brightest star.

"Is this what erosion is?" Liu Shuyue asked in a low voice, seeking confirmation.

"Yes, one hundred percent certain. Master Ajiu must be a wanderer. He doesn't know his own special nature, but people from another world do."

At this moment, the others also gathered around, especially the six who had not gone to the dilapidated house—when the earth shook violently, Xu Xuanling immediately led everyone to jump over two rows of houses, ultimately avoiding the massive collapse unharmed.

"Master, we've found our master!" Ahua exclaimed eagerly.

"Where?" Chen Xuan was slightly surprised, as the enemy should have been controlling the Wanderer all along.

"Right on top of that tower!" Ajiu pointed to the tower of flesh and blood not far away. "He's still alive!"

After examining it closely for a moment, Chen Xuan discovered that there was indeed a figure hanging there.

But now they have bigger problems to solve.

The sky had turned a deep, bright crimson, with the red glow flowing through the clouds almost overflowing. And in the center of the sky, directly opposite the Tower of Flesh and Blood, there was a very distinct shadow, as if a colossal object had already taken shape and was about to reveal its true form from the clouds.

As it turned out, his premonition was correct.

As all the arms on the flesh tower rose upwards, the clouds began to disperse, and the shadows gradually descended. Everyone still alive in Chang'an witnessed this horrifying scene: a gigantic membrane bubble appeared in the sky, surrounded by blood vessels thicker than a person. The bubble was filled with a murky yellow liquid, and through the membrane, one could almost see something trembling within.

Chen Xuan couldn't help but think of the amnion. When the membrane ruptures and amniotic fluid pours out, the life it nurtures is born.

(End of this chapter)