Seeking Truth with a Sword-Chapter 373 - 324 Insect Cocoon

Chapter 373: Chapter 324 Insect Cocoon
What is... that...
As if their capacity to think had been seized, Sui Yi and the others gazed blankly upward at the massive demon that had burst forth from the Floating Tower, akin to a towering mountain.
Inhale.
Exhale.
The colossal Nameless demon exhaled scorching breath, ignoring the ants beneath its feet, and gazed in the direction where the Demonic Qi boiled.
Its long, spiny tail carelessly swept forward, clearing a bloody corridor in the sea of monsters.
Limb fragments flew through theair.
Stimulated by the formidable presence, the monsters that originally surrounded Sui Yi and his group unanimously shifted their target. They screeched as they lunged toward the Nameless demon, like ants shaking a tree.
THUD, CRACK, BANG...
Countless monsters gnawed with sharp fangs, scratched with claws, smashed with deformed fists, and pounded with blades. Yet, they couldn’t even penetrate the scales on the Nameless demon’s surface.
"..."
The demon, indifferent, glanced at the dense swarm of monsters around it and slowly clenched its fist.
TWANG—
The dense spines on its surface suddenly shot out, piercing through the bodies of the monsters.
Filthy blood cascaded down like a waterfall.
Countless monsters’ corpses, in various forms, hung on the thorns covering the Nameless demon’s surface, forever losing their vitality.
It was almost like... a gruesome monument of corpses.
Sui Yi and the others belatedly thought, and out of the corner of their eyes, they caught sight of several shadows. Several mutated monsters sprang from the black fog and charged at the demon from all directions.
These were Demons, transformed from Jialan Sect Martial Monks and foreign Cultivators who had been eroded by Demonic Qi.
In addition to their larger size, they seemed to retain some instinct and intelligence, planning to launch a sneak attack during a pause of the Nameless demon.
"GAH—"
A bird-like monster, resembling a bald vulture, extended its sore-covered, hairless, soft neck. It was brewing acid in its throat, intending to spit poison. But the Nameless demon abruptly seized its neck with a hand and, with a light pinch, severed its head from its body.
A Longsword-wielding ape was flung by a tail swipe from the Nameless demon, turning into mush in mid-air.
A four-armed Martial Artist, scratched by blade-like nails, was gutted on the spot.
The strongest and unluckiest multi-eyed Martial Monk was grabbed by the Nameless demon with both hands and torn in half like a wrung towel. His bloody, bisected body was even strung on his own Demon-Subduing Staff.
Several elite monsters capable of annihilating Sui Yi and his group several times over were nonchalantly reduced to mutilated corpses.
"..."
Having witnessed the horrifying scene, Jiu Fenghai and his group instinctively gaped.
They wanted to flee, but the gaze of the Nameless demon unintentionally swept over their heads.
An omnipresent deterrent force rooted their feet to the ground, rendering them unable to move.
While they couldn’t flee, those lower-level monsters that scattered like monkeys from fallen trees indeed tried.
TAP TAP TAP.
Countless monsters turned around and fled in all directions.
Meanwhile, the Nameless demon raised its arms, encircling them in front of its body, pausing for a few seconds.
CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK—
Like the hands of a clock belonging to Dr. Su Feng from the Academic Palace,
the feathered wings on the demon’s back slowly expanded, and with a light TWANG, they fully spread.
Then, they flapped.
Violent winds swept across the land.
Sui Yi instinctively thrust the Yinghuo Sword into the ground, leaning on it,
while Ashina Que Teqin plunged his right arm into the earth, and with his left hand hurriedly caught Xiao Da, who was nearly blown away by the wind.
The tempest dispersed the surrounding black Demonic Qi fog. Sunlight from the heavens once again illuminated the earth, also revealing the fleeing monsters.
CLANG!!!
From the wings of the Nameless Demon, countless long nails were shot out.
Each nail accurately hit the running monsters, piercing through their bodies, embedding them deep into the ground.
Then, using the ropes at the ends of the nails, the still-living creatures were dragged back and hanged from the ends of the wings. They were left to roar and howl in agony as the demon swung each wing, grinding all the monsters into dust.
A cascade of blood formed a crimson lake beneath the feet of the Nameless Demon.
The execution was overly bloody and brutal, yet it possessed a certain violent beauty. This caused Xia Jun and the others to feel as though they had fallen into an ice cave.
At that moment, there were no monsters left around, only a few human Cultivators...
"Run!!"
Jiu Fenghai shouted this word with the last shred of his sanity, and everyone fled in different directions.
Only Sui Yi darted directly beneath the Nameless Demon towards the Floating Tower.
CLANG!
The Nameless Demon fired its wing nails again, but a second before striking them, it disintegrated the nails into countless threads, thoroughly wrapping them up.
Overcome with fear, Ashina Que Teqin, realizing the demon intended to capture him alive, immediately prepared to bite his own tongue to commit suicide.
As he was about to exert force on his lower jaw, the Insect Cocoon wrapping him extended a spike internally. This spike pierced his spine, halting all his movements.
What’s... happening...
Ashina Que Teqin struggled desperately, but his strength uncontrollably diminished, and his eyelids grew increasingly heavy, eventually closing.
Consciousness sank, consciousness lost.
Success.
The Nameless Demon, or rather Li Ang,
controlled Mo Si and retracted the "Insect Cocoons" imprisoning his companions.
To prevent them from running amok or seeing things they shouldn’t, Li Ang had Mo Si parasitize their bodies.
By controlling the spine, he quelled any resistance.
By controlling the nerves, he put them into a deep coma.
The group had joined forces. Without them breaking the Prohibition of the Floating Tower and guarding the tower to fend off demons, he would not have been able to absorb the special metals and allow Mo Si to evolve.
"Now, only the Demon Buddha remains."
Li Ang hung the Insect Cocoons from the ends of his wings and turned to look toward the towering Demonic Qi in the distance.
The Demonic Qi was still deep and bizarre but no longer unstoppable.
CREAK, CREAK, CREAK, CREAK.
Li Ang moved the demon body, adjusting and optimizing its details, then flapped his wings and soared into the sky.
Above the square, the stalemate between the Demon Buddha and the Mountain Guarding Array was nearing its end.
Abbot Liao Wu kept transforming the power of the Mountain Guarding Array into a two-finger formation to counter the overwhelming Demonic Qi of the Demon Buddha.
But his face and flesh were deeply sunken, tightly adhering to his bones. He looked as gaunt as those unprocessed Golden Bodies.
Even with his Cultivation, his temperament, and his experience, it was still too difficult to control such a massive Mountain Guarding Array. It was almost as if he were burning his own life to exchange for moments of breath.
"Abbot!"
"Master!"
"Brother!"
The few remaining monks of the Jialan Sect were in tears as they watched Liao Wu slowly kneel down, powerless to intervene.
Abbot Lian Nan’s facial muscles twitched a few times; the bleeding on his shoulder had stopped, but his face remained pale.
"Scholar Lu!"
Abbot Lian Nan took a step forward. His gaze moved past the Demon Buddha toward the old scholar lying in front of the Buddha Altar within the Grand Hall. He shouted enraged, "Is this what you wanted?"