Witch Special

Although defeat was inevitable, the tentacle monster still relied on its extremely tenacious vitality to struggle in the water for nearly half an hour before it was completely cooled down.

This was the only living creature left in the Mist Lake besides the flowing slimes. The slimes worked together to push this huge corpse ashore.

They actually wanted to dismember and devour their prey, but Lin Zhenxi stopped them and demanded the body be handed over. Fortunately, the slimes had a low IQ. While they couldn't follow complex commands, they listened to everything Lin Zhenxi said. If they weren't so dumb, it would have been much easier for Lin Zhenxi to obtain the body.

After pushing the body ashore, the water slime returned to the Mist Lake. Obviously, as a creature made entirely of water, they preferred staying in the Mist Lake rather than on land.

Even though the water in the Mist Lake is black and doesn't look like a good thing at first glance, it doesn't seem to have much of an impact on these simple-structured lower life forms.

With the giant tentacle monster in the Mist Lake surrounded and killed, these slimes lost their value. Lin Zhenxi could have easily forced them to die en masse, but she wasn't such a heartless boss. She'd just turned around and let them all die after the slimes had fought her to death. So, Lin Zhenxi chose to let them go. "Do whatever you want, I don't care."

After sending the slimes away, Lin Zhenxi moved closer to examine the now-cold tentacle monster's corpse. With the surrounding puppet soldiers providing illumination, Lin Zhenxi didn't need to generate additional light sources to see the corpse clearly.

First, let's set the tone: ugly. But that's normal, after all, it's a product of the Deep Chaos. So far, Lin Zhenxi hasn't seen anything good from the things eroded by the Deep Chaos. They're either distorted or misplaced, and the main focus is on being as disgusting as possible.

The giant tentacle monster lying in front of Lin Zhenxi is obviously no exception. It looks like a giant octopus, but it is obvious that an octopus will not grow arms next to its head, so this is also a deformed monster.

Aside from its arms, the monster's head lacks a normal face, looking neither like an octopus nor a human. It's a fusion of the two. Judging from the curve of its lips, it appears to be a female face, but the upper half has completely transformed into an octopus face, making it look like an alien.

The giant tentacle, several meters thick, that Lin Zhenxi had seen when flying over the Mist Lake was the tentacle monster's main leg. The monster had two such long legs, each exceeding fifty meters in length. This was Lin Zhenxi's conservative estimate, as not all of the tentacles had been pushed ashore, leaving an unknown number remaining in the Mist Lake.

Besides its two exceptionally long main legs, the tentacle monster also had seven or eight tentacles over ten meters long. These tentacles were quite unusual, with their ends evolving into various weapons: axes, hammers, and scythes, all heavy cold weapons that required dual wielding.

Wow, this guy has such a strong martial spirit. With such a big body, he is actually a martial artist.

But there wasn't much to see here, after all, it was already dead. Lin Zhenxi then went to observe the part where the tentacle monster's head and tentacles connected. That was where the slimes had entered the tentacle monster's body. It was a bloody mess with no intact flesh left.

It was obvious that the slimes had resorted to extreme methods to get inside the monster and wreak havoc. The flesh beneath the tentacle monster's head was practically shredded, its state now described as a broken lotus root with only threads still attached.

Wow, that's so miserable... Lin Zhenxi was amazed when he saw the bloody wound on the tentacle monster.

However, when Lin Zhenxi got closer to observe the monster, he found that there seemed to be something wriggling inside its broken body, trying hard to crawl out.

That shouldn't be the case. In Lin Zhenxi's perception, this monster was already dead, without any breath of life. How could it still be moving?

Although full of doubts, out of the thought of being responsible for his own safety, Lin Zhenxi still took several steps back, letting the puppet soldier fill his previous position and prepare to deal with emergencies.

At the same time, Lin Zhenxi also released a magic eye into the sky to observe what happened next from a better perspective.

A ball of flesh, wrapped in fetal membranes, rolled out of the tentacle monster's rotten abdomen. Then, a rough-looking broadsword slashed the membranes from the inside, revealing a huddled, skeleton-like figure within.

This skinny human figure, still covered in mucus, was like a chick that had just hatched from its shell. He couldn't even stand up. In the end, he used the rough big knife growing on his hand to support himself on the ground, and then he tremblingly straightened his body.

It was only then that Lin Zhenxi discovered that this guy who was as thin as a stick was actually a big-headed doll. He was so thin that not even two pounds of flesh could be seen on his body, except for his head which was as big as a watermelon.

Inside its watermelon-sized head, Lin Zhenxi saw numerous bubbles and a shimmering, fluorescent-like substance, which made its large head resemble a starry sky. It wasn't particularly beautiful, but it was certainly bizarre.

Lin Zhenxi then looked at the crescent-shaped knife on the skinny man's left hand. He had just used this thing to cut through the amniotic membrane of the meat ball and let himself out.

Just like its tentacle monster, the large knife in this guy's hand also grows from its hand. However, unlike its tentacle monster, this big-headed doll is purely humanoid, with two hands and two feet, without any extra limbs, and is not even a soft-bodied creature, but more like a human.

Lin Zhenxi saw that the legs of this big-headed baby were as thin as sorghum stalks. It was difficult for it to even stand upright with its nearly three-meter-tall body. Its whole body was shaking. Suddenly, she felt a little reluctant to let it face this extremely cruel world.

So Lin Zhenxi waved his hand, and the puppet soldiers beside the big-headed doll raised their hands at the same time, and golden thunder flashed on their hands.

There are all kinds of martial arts, including face-to-face sunlight gun and circle kick.

A circle of sunlight guns exploded at the same time, blasting a pillar of light into the sky directly in the open space in the center. The unlucky big-headed baby who lost his horse before he was born didn't even have time to wail before his whole body turned into ashes in the dazzling golden light, without even a trace of residue left.

And when the big-headed doll wielding a big knife was evaporated by the sunlight gun, the light ball next to Lin Zhenxi also popped up a prompt in time.

"Well, I've captured the new ruins of 'The Sealed Planetary Passage' and gained a new buff, 'The Hidden Fan Connecting Mountains and Seas'."

There's actually a ruin beneath the Mist Lake? This one Mist Lake actually condenses three ruins, and its value is no less than that of Youkai Mountain.

Lin Zhenxi took another look at the newly acquired enhanced state and almost thought that he was dazzled. He rubbed his eyes and looked again, and found that he was not mistaken.

"When a soldier attacks, he ignores distance restrictions and attacks multiple enemies at the same time. This effect is limited to line of sight."

In other words, as long as the puppet soldiers can see them, they can hit them at the same time.

The Hidden Ruins' buff state is really powerful, turning melee attacks into ranged attacks while also adding the ability to split attacks.

However, this attribute conflicts with the Soul Swords, as their attack range is now directly equal to their field of view, rendering the Soul Swords' increased attack range useless. Fortunately, the Soul Swords' primary function is to transcend and attain Buddhahood, and the increased attack range is merely incidental.

All in all, this newly acquired buff state also brought a huge improvement to Lin Zhenxi's puppet soldiers. It can even be said that it completely changed their fighting style, making them more invulnerable.

Lin Zhenxi discovered that the buffs in these hidden ruins were significantly stronger than those in plain sight. Apparently, finding these hidden ruins was the correct way for "ordinary people" like her to complete the celebration game.

Well, actually, Lin Zhenxi is not ordinary. But in the environment of the Departed Garden, where gods roam everywhere and monsters are worse than dogs, Lin Zhenxi, who is likely to encounter unexpected events as long as she leaves the protection of Teacher Patchouli, should be no different from ordinary people.

Anyway, Lin Zhenxi felt that even if it was the most difficult "Moon Watching", if he could gather the series of enhanced states on the puppet soldiers now, he should be able to move forward smoothly.

The real problem is how she can break the situation and gain a foothold in the face of the crazy monster siege.

Even at the current difficulty of Taixiao, Lin Zhenxi had to spend a lot of effort to conquer the first ruin and set up his base. At the difficulty of Wangyue, it would probably be even more difficult to attack the first ruin.

Forget it… I'll worry about it when we actually meet. For now, the real business is returning to the sunflower field and using the sunflowers there to fire a sun cannon to blast that annoying, hairy eyeball in the sky.

So Lin Zhenxi led the puppet army around him and took off to the Magic Forest to give a boost to the slow progress of the strategy in the Magic Forest.

There were already several thousand puppet soldiers in the Magic Forest, clearing out the deformed creatures. Even adding the thousand puppets accompanying Lin Zhenxi would only be icing on the cake and would not significantly impact the overall progress.

But this kind of group activity is all about participation. It feels good to work together to accomplish something.

Anyway, with the collective assistance of Lin Zhenxi's puppet soldiers, the last visible ruin in the entire celebration world was occupied.

And the big eyeball in the sky, which had been dormant, seemed to have made a new move.

Under the blood-red cover, the eyeball slowly opened, revealing the pale and lifeless eyes under the eyelids, staring at the earth below.

The true body of deep chaos finally awakened.