novelapdf Chapter 254 Shadow Assassin?
Chapter 254 Shadow Assassin?
Chapter 254 Shadow Assassin? (Bonus Chapter)
Black Prison Forest, west exit.
Jiang Mu was sitting leisurely on a flat rock at the entrance.
He placed the Blood Frenzy Blade horizontally on his lap, and carefully wiped the blade with a tattered cloth he had somehow acquired.
Jiang Mu had already used his divine sense to clearly see the few fox demons lurking and peeking out from the bushes in the distance.
However, he didn't care and couldn't be bothered to pay attention.
They're just a few peeping toms. Let them watch if they want; consider them free cheerleaders.
At this moment, what he was really thinking about was how to find Prince Sheng's "new account" that had been reborn through surrogacy within twenty days.
Although the clues we have so far are very fragmented and scarce.
However, as long as the known information is carefully analyzed, the general direction of the investigation can still be determined.
There are currently two most direct breakthroughs.
First, we need to find the monk from the sea of suffering.
Since he was presiding over the rebirth ceremony, he must know the whereabouts of the prince's new body.
However, the monk has now vanished without a trace, making it undoubtedly very difficult to find him.
The second option is to investigate the Divine Sword Sect.
Since Prince Sheng went to great lengths to choose the Divine Sword Sect's Sword Tomb as the stage for his fake death, there must be something fishy going on there.
As they were pondering, a dazzling light suddenly burst forth from the depths of the Black Prison Forest in the distance, like a blazing sun rising from the ground, instantly tearing apart the dim forest.
"Are they Yue'er and the others?"
Jiang Mu blinked and stared intently.
As time went by, the entire forest seemed to have been plunged into boiling water by a giant boulder.
The commotion surged in from all directions like a tsunami.
The ground began to rumble and tremble, and even the rock beneath Jiang Mu's bottom trembled slightly.
"They're here!"
Jiang Mu's eyes narrowed, and he casually tossed aside the rag, slowly standing up and gripping the hilt of the knife with his right hand.
Soon, the tremors on the ground became stronger and stronger.
Several rhinoceros-like monsters, each the size of a small mountain, with bloodshot eyes and foaming at the mouth, charged wildly toward this place, smashing countless ancient trees along the way.
Just as they were about to rush out of the forest, countless long, sharp thorns suddenly sprouted from the ground.
This was the defensive artifact that Qiu Yuexin had set up here in advance.
These dark brown spikes, covered with dense runes, seemed to have eyes as they burst from the ground and pierced directly through the bellies of the leading monsters.
It instantly lifted him into the air, then twisted him, exploding him into a cloud of blood mist.
"This must be the magical artifact Yue'er was talking about. It looks quite impressive."
Jiang Mu watched this scene with great interest.
As the commotion intensified deep within the forest, more and more monsters surged out like a flood.
The spikes swung more frequently, one wave after another.
Like a harvester, it frantically reaped the lives of the demons.
Occasionally, a few strong and robust fourth-tier demons would bravely charge out despite the ground spikes, but before they could even roar, they were easily killed by Jiang Mu, who was already poised to strike.
Suddenly, a fifth-tier ground rat demon passed through the magic artifact, avoided Jiang Mu, and ran wildly into the distance, covering a hundred meters in the blink of an eye.
"Whoosh!"
Jiang Mu swayed slightly.
The blade's edge traced a crescent-shaped arc in mid-air.
The ground exploded, and blood splattered everywhere.
Then a groundhog carcass flew out, breaking into several pieces.
The one-eyed fox demon, who was observing from the bushes in the shadows, couldn't help but gasp as he watched Jiang Mu swiftly and brutally kill a fifth-tier demon. He grinned and muttered under his breath, "Tsk—this pretty boy is quite ruthless."
Just as he finished speaking...
"Boom—"
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The ground at the west entrance suddenly arched up as if an earth dragon had turned over.
A gigantic beetle monster, as big as a house and covered in thick black armor, burst out of the ground!
This monster was not only enormous, but the aura it exuded was also at the sixth level.
Its sharp forelimbs resemble two enormous scythes.
With a forceful swing, he pulled out the core of the magical artifact that Qiu Yuexin had placed underground as the eye of the array.
It turned out to be a bronze compass.
The beetle monster let out a roar and twisted its front claws.
"Snap!"
The bronze ritual implement was twisted into two pieces!
Without the support of the array's core, the earth spikes that were frantically reaping demon lives also lost their spiritual energy supply.
It was accompanied by a sharp cracking sound.
The spikes were trampled to pieces by the massive horde of demons that followed.
The one-eyed fox demon and her companions, who were hiding in the shadows, turned deathly pale upon seeing this and cried out in alarm, "Oh no! The magic artifact is destroyed! We can't hold it anymore!"
Jiang Mu frowned slightly as he looked at the magical artifact that had been shredded into scrap metal, and sighed, "I knew it. External tools are ultimately unreliable; you still have to do it yourself when it matters."
Before he could finish speaking, the enormous beetle monster had already locked onto Jiang Mu.
It wielded a pair of terrifying pincers powerful enough to shear boulders, its massive body rumbling down like a heavy road roller, carrying a thick, pungent stench.
Jiang Mu charged straight at the beetle.
He didn't even bother to reveal his strength as a seventh-realm Venerable.
"Dharma form, open!"
boom!
A towering phantom of a fire god, over ten feet tall, appeared behind him, its flames raging.
The beetle monster's giant scythe-like mandibles clamped down hard on Jiang Mu.
But just three feet away from Jiang Mu, he was grabbed by the enormous hand of the Fire God's Dharma Image, which was burning with karmic fire.
"die!"
Jiang Mu gave a cold shout and gripped the Blood Mad Blade tightly with both hands.
A powerful and heavy slash.
"clang!"
The Blood Frenzy Blade struck the beetle's dark gold carapace.
Amidst the flying sparks, the dark red blade energy ruthlessly tore through its seemingly impenetrable defense.
A foul-smelling green liquid sprayed out.
After exchanging blows for less than three rounds, the monster was cleaved in two by Jiang Mu with an absolutely overwhelming and domineering strike.
The massive corpse crashed to the ground, causing the earth to tremble.
With the destruction of the obstructing magical artifacts and the giant insect clearing the way, countless demonic creatures, driven mad by the stimulation within the Black Prison Forest, surged out in a dark, endless mass.
"Come on, babies, it's charging time!"
Jiang Mu looked at the "experience packs" covering the mountains and fields, his eyes gleaming with fervent light.
He gripped the sword with both hands, and the star power within his body and the demonic energy in his magic tank surged simultaneously.
"Whirlwind Slash!"
Jiang Mu roared, his body spinning like a top at high speed.
The blade transformed into a dark red tornado several meters high, plunging headlong into the dense horde of demons.
Spin and spin, spin and spin—
Wherever the sword aura storm passed, elites of both the second and fourth tiers were shredded into a rain of blood and minced flesh.
Screams mingled with the cracking of bones.
It constitutes a symphony of death.
Jiang Mu was like a harvester, rampaging wildly through the demonic tide.
As one demon after another fell, the magic tank greedily absorbed massive amounts of demonic energy, constantly replenishing Jiang Mu's energy reserves.
That efficiency, that lethality.
It's more than a thousand times faster than those clunky earth spike artifacts from before!
The one-eyed fox demon and its companions, who were hiding in the shadows, were completely dumbfounded.
Their mouths were agape, their jaws nearly dropping to the ground, as they stared blankly at the blood-red tornado raging through the demon horde.
"What the hell is this?! Is this even human?!"
A fox demon asked in a trembling voice.
Then, something even more horrifying happened.
Jiang Mu seemed to think that waiting outside the exit for the monsters to rush out was too slow and not satisfying.
The rapidly spinning crimson tornado suddenly made a magnificent turn, going against the surging demonic tide.
It was like a red-hot dagger piercing into the depths of the Black Prison Forest.
It's like complaining that the food delivery was too slow, so they just went to the kitchen and ate at a buffet.
As the demons at the entrance dwindled under the force of the blood-red storm, until Jiang Mu's figure completely disappeared into the depths of the dense forest, the one-eyed fox demon swallowed hard, his back soaked with cold sweat.
His voice trembled as he said to his companion, "Let's go—quick! This pretty boy—we can't afford to mess with him!"
North entrance.
Elder Xiao Jiu was leading several fox demons, struggling to hold up the defensive line.
Fortunately, their defensive weapons were intact and had not been damaged.
The spikes and flying blades intertwined to form a net, relieving them of most of the pressure.
Even so, facing the increasing number of demons that seemed to have been greatly stimulated and were in a state of shock, Elder Xiao Jiu and the other demons were exhausted and covered in sweat, their clothes stained with the blood of the demons.
Just as he pierced the heart of a wolf demon with his sword, he caught a glimpse of a one-eyed fox demon leading a group of people back in a panic.
"You bastard!"
Elder Xiao Jiu was furious. He kicked the wolf demon's corpse aside and roared at them, "What are you doing back here?"
"Didn't I tell you to keep an eye on that kid on the west side, and to take over as soon as he runs away?!"
The one-eyed fox demon ran up, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and forced a stiff smile that looked worse than a grimace: "Elder, there's no need to watch over there."
That guy—that guy, he's not even human! He's incredible!
"Is that impressive?"
Elder Xiao Jiu was taken aback at first, then laughed angrily and shouted, "No matter how powerful he is, he is still a human cultivator. How much spiritual power can a mortal body squander? Don't boost others' morale and diminish your own."
Tell me, what's the situation over there now?
Has the defense line broken? Can he withstand the onslaught of so many demons?!
The one-eyed fox demon said, "Elder, over there—those demons over there have almost all been killed by him—"
"What?"
Elder Jiu stared wide-eyed, as if he had heard something out of the blue.
But he quickly realized and slapped his thigh: "I understand, that means there weren't many monsters on the west side of the exit to begin with, and most of them have come to our side!"
That kid got incredibly lucky; he snagged a huge bargain!
He brandished his blood-dripping longsword and impatiently commanded, "Since he's not under any pressure, what are you all standing around for? Get over here and help!"
"Actually, over there—"
The one-eyed fox demon opened its mouth, wanting to tell the elder what it had seen.
But looking at Elder Xiao Jiu's somewhat distorted face...
He wisely swallowed the rest of his words, and could only grimace as he drew his weapon and joined the battle to help.
As time went by, I don't know what happened.
The monsters, which had been blindly rushing outwards, now seemed to be driven by something terrifying behind them.
They became increasingly impatient and frantic.
They ignored the magical spikes that could shred bodies.
Even if they trip over the corpses of their companions in front of them, they still have to squeeze out with all their might.
With the corpses of their companions piling up, the killing range of the magical artifact was greatly reduced, and more and more demons with red eyes leaked out from under the artifact.
The pressure on Elder Xiao Jiu and the fox demons suddenly increased dramatically.
They wielded their swords with swift strokes, yet they still couldn't kill them all.
Their stamina was rapidly depleting, and gradually, the front line began to falter, being forced into a retreat by the demon horde.
"Damn it! What's wrong with these monsters? Have they all gone mad?!"
Elder Xiao Jiu cleaved back a berserk wild boar demon with a single sword strike, then took two steps back, panting heavily, and cursed loudly.
Just when they were about to reach their limit, the surging, crowded, and trampling horde of monsters in front of them suddenly broke apart.
The number of monsters emerging began to decrease visibly.
Sparse and scattered.
"What happened? Are all the demons gone?"
Elder Xiao Jiu and the other fox demons looked at each other in bewilderment.
Before they could figure it out, a muffled rumble, like thunder rolling across the treetops, suddenly came from within the Black Prison Forest.
Then, to the stunned gazes of the fox demons...
A dark red tornado, several meters long, emerged from the depths of the dark forest.
Jiang Mu gripped the Blood Mad Blade with both hands, like a giant spinning top.
With each rotation, the blade tore a blood-red arc of light tens of meters long through the void. Any demon that was grazed by this blood-red blade aura was instantly crushed as if it had entered a meat grinder.
"What is this?!"
All the fox demons guarding the north side stood frozen in place, as if under a spell.
Only after the last monster fell did Jiang Mu slowly stop spinning, lightly touching the ground with her toes to steady herself.
He flicked the blood off the blade, looked around, and his gaze fell on the petrified Ninth Elder.
A warm smile appeared on his face: "I'm sorry, everyone. I was originally chasing after a demon, but I ended up here instead."
"Keep going, you've worked hard. There should be a second wave of demons coming."
After saying that, he turned and ran into the woods.
Only a gust of cold wind remained, swirling up a few fallen leaves and a group of fox spirits bewildered in the wind.
Jiang Mu guessed correctly.
Half an hour later, another group of even more ferocious monsters, like mad dogs, rushed toward the western exit.
"Come on, my experience packs!"
Jiang Mu once again activated his berserk harvesting mode.
This time, he still relied purely on the physical strength of his sixth-realm perfect body and the blessing of his star position to unleash each strike.
It's as easy and effortless as chopping melons and vegetables.
As one demon after another fell to his blade, strands of pure demonic energy were continuously drawn out and flowed into the demonic energy reservoir within his body.
Jiang Mu felt secretly pleased.
At this rate, his magic gauge will soon be overflowing again.
Just as he was feeling pleased with himself, a gentle breeze suddenly drifted past him.
The wind carried a chill.
It felt like a cold hand brushing against my skin.
Jiang Mu frowned slightly and looked around warily.
The forest was deserted, with nothing but corpses scattered on the ground and fallen leaves.
"Is it an illusion?"
Jiang Mu thought to himself.
But the moment he lowered his head, his pupils suddenly contracted.
He was shocked to see—
The shadow beneath my feet had actually come to life.
The shadow's outline was exactly the same as his own, but his movements were completely different.
He slowly "stood up" from the ground, holding a large, black sword in his hand.
The tip of the knife dragged on the ground, making a silent scraping sound.
next second.
The shadow slashed fiercely at Jiang Mu!