Terrifying Heavens: I'll directly worship the Black Law of Fengdu!

Chapter 345 The Fear of the Source of the Curse

The surging undercurrents tossed Li Xuan around in the water. He forced himself to steady himself and was now in front of the giant snail meat, its long eyeballs displaying swirling patterns.

A hoarse voice faintly reached my ears again: "I'm so hungry."

That's the sound of snail meat.

Li Xuan held the magic weapon in his palm, and with a thought, it transformed into a long spear that quickly extended out and pierced into the snail's body. The feel was strange; it didn't feel like the soft, sticky texture of ordinary sea snails, but more like being inserted into a pile of sand.

The snail trembled violently, and its cry of "I'm so hungry!" turned into "It hurts so much!" The surrounding water began to swirl, trying to crush Li Xuan into pieces.

Unfortunately, Li Xuan's physical body is not comparable to that of ordinary people. Not only is his flesh and blood density high, but he also has considerable resistance to external spells.

He directly activated his lightning magic, making his spear conductive!

The snail's body was shimmering with faint electric light, and the spirals in its two eyeballs were filled with blood vessels. Suddenly, it exploded into a bloody mist that spread throughout the water. Then, its head, body, and tail all turned into a bloody mist, turning the underwater area a crimson red.

Li Xuan could sense that the strange atmosphere that had been present since entering Black Vortex Town had diminished considerably.

A black vortex appeared below where the snail meat was originally, and the huge suction force pulled the water inward. Li Xuan struggled to surge upward and even used the [Water Flow] spell.

When I climbed out of the water, the water level in the pool had dropped by more than two meters, and it was still dropping...

A thick, viscous wind blew through the air, and faint, mournful screams echoed from the sky.

Li Xuan looked up and saw gray smoke forming a vortex, with the face of Saito Shuichi's father converging in the center. This character, who was extremely crazy and obsessed with vortexes in the story, now had bloodshot eyes and a ferocious face staring at him, and the entire vortex of smoke kept pressing down...

As a "professional" in Fengdu, Li Xuan clearly sensed that it was a vortex-shaped soul.

He hurled the spear in his hand into the sky. The spearhead and the shaft separated, connected by a long chain. With a soft thud, the spearhead pierced between Saito Shuichi's father's eyebrows and became stuck!

"what……"

As Li Xuan pulled, Saito Shuichi's father let out a painful sound, strongly resisting Li Xuan's pulling.

Before the Soul-Locking Chains, any soul, regardless of its country of origin, whether human or animal, must unconditionally submit to the chains' power!
Saito Shuichi's father gradually shrank until he was the size of a mosquito coil, nestled in Li Xuan's palm.

Li Xuan looked at the deformed soul and tried to restore it. With the extension and compression of his magic power, Saito Shuichi's father let out a scream. His soul was as tough as solid rubber.

The vortex curse is truly powerful.

He used his magic to probe the inside of the soul and discovered that Saito Shuichi's father looked exactly like he was born.

The lake water had dropped to seven or eight meters below the surface, revealing a series of spiral staircases. Saito Shuichi's father wore a look of fascination and pleaded in a dry voice, "Please, let me go! I want to go down there and see the great being. Just one glimpse, just one glimpse will be enough!"

The person who was cursed by the vortex and turned into a vortex shape at the end of the story seemed to not care about his inhuman appearance at all. His mentality was as fanatical as that of Saito Shuichi's father in front of us, and he only wanted to go to the bottom of the lake to see the "great being".

Li Xuan knew without guessing that the mountain of skeletons at the bottom of the lake probably all came from these vortex people. Their efforts to get to the bottom of the lake had only one result: to have snails eat their bodies.

Such an ending.

Li Xuan couldn't help but recall a common cultivation trope in online novels: "Don't ascend! The gods of the upper realm feed on us! Our ascension is merely their slaughterhouse."

It's truly tragic. Saito Shuichi's father's idea could never be realized.

The night was as black as ink. Li Xuan flicked his left hand, and the iron chains transformed into an iron chair and a table. He sat in the chair, placed his hands on the table, looked at Saito Shuichi's father, and began his interrogation: "When did you become obsessed with something called 'vortex'?"

A true official's interrogation is not as simple as adding chairs and tables.

Li Xuan's aura reached its peak, applying pressure from all directions. Even without using the Soul-Locking Chains to suppress Saito Shuichi's soul, it was still unable to move an inch! More importantly, during the interrogation, if the person being interrogated resisted or even attacked, it would amplify the magical power of Li Xuan, this true official!
Saito Shuichi's father regained a sliver of clarity of mind under the "interrogation".

His eyeballs darted back and forth in their sockets, and his voice was like a dreamlike murmur as he said, "That day, I came back from outside town and suddenly felt like fishing, so I came here to fish. I ended up catching a lump of snail meat the size of my palm. I was hungry, so I cut it open with a knife and ate it as sashimi..."

Li Xuan raised his eyelids: "You just ate something of unknown origin?"

Saito Shuichi's father seemed unsurprised by the question, saying, "Everything in the water is purified. I've eaten salmon and conch, all as sashimi, and they're still perfectly fine."

This logic is quite novel.

Li Xuan asked, "But because of this consumption, your body and soul turned into a vortex, and it even tried to merge with your wife. Do you regret it now?"

Saito Shuichi's father chuckled, his face once again showing a look of fascination, and said, "Of course not! I am honored to be the Whirlpool Form of a great being, this is the highest glory! I only regret that my expression is flawed, and I cannot share this moment of glory with Shuichi and the others!"

This soul has gone mad.

Li Xuan felt he wouldn't get anything more out of it, so he put the soul away. It had already attacked him, so he would send it to the underworld for some reformation another day, and also let the staff check the origin of the vortex curse.

The lake's water level dropped rapidly, and the sound gradually grew louder.

Li Xuan guessed that the noise was caused by him eating the snail meat, and that it wouldn't be long before the nearby residents noticed the noise...

To avoid complications.

He left early.

Half an hour passed.

The lake was surging, and no trace of water could be seen from the shore. Half an hour later, a clattering sound came from the depths of the spiral staircase.

A small, thin, humanoid lump of flesh dragged itself up with heavy steps.

It was more like a monster whose snail meat had forcibly coalesced into a human outline, with two fleshy tendrils twitching in the air around its eyes, and tiny sounds emanating from its mouthparts: "So hungry...so scared...so hungry...so scared, leaving here...is...it's...it's...too...useless."

A humanoid mass of flesh emerged, leaving behind a trail of viscous liquid with each step it took.

It stared intently at the houses of the nearby residents, its fleshy whiskers, which served as its eyes, twitching with a hint of reluctance. After hesitating for a moment, it moved its feet toward the houses, saying, "So hungry...so hungry."

Just as they approached the houses, the humanoid lump of flesh suddenly stopped!

Because it discovered that Li Xuan, who should have left long ago, was actually standing quietly under the eaves of a house, watching it...

(End of this chapter)