Decaying World

Chapter 157 157 Savings Three (Thanks to the Cat and Mouse Control Alliance Leader)

'If it's caused by killing monsters, then this didn't happen when I killed them before?'

Lin Hui became interested; strengthening the spirit-sealing array was also a way to increase his strength, so he was naturally very interested.

Let's test it out.

He glanced at the blood rhinoceros on the ground and simply started circling around it.

Before long, they found two more monsters from the fog zone, two Mist Barbarians, each killed with a single sword strike. And that concluded the matter.

But the blue eye remained unchanged.

Lin Hui decided to venture deeper into the fog zone and soon encountered another wandering barbarian, also of the dangerous level.

This barbarian monster is much larger than the Mist Barbarians, with a towering physique of over five meters, almost like a small mountain. Its defense is even stronger than that of the Blood Rhinoceros, making it a monster that is extremely close to high-risk among the dangerous-class monsters.

It took Lin Hui three sword strikes to sever its head, but Nine Eyes still showed no reaction.

'What exactly happened?' He frowned, carefully recalling the differences and distinctions between his previous and subsequent killings.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration crossed his mind.

'etc! '

He held the Ruyi scepter in his hand, gazing at the still convulsing corpse of the wandering barbarian on the ground.

puff.

Suddenly, he thrust his sword into the barbarian's head, the tip of the sword penetrating deep into his brain.

hiss.

The next moment, Lin Hui was pleasantly surprised to find that the Nine Eyes on his shoulder had lit up with another crystal. This was the third crystal!
'So that's how it is! This spirit-sealing formation needs to absorb brain marrow to recharge. No, it might not be that disgusting. It's very likely that the head is the abode of life spirit, and what it absorbs isn't brain marrow, but the life spirit itself!'

A series of guesses flashed through Lin Hui's mind.

He cut open the head and examined the brain marrow inside. He quickly confirmed his guess: the brain marrow was still there. This meant that the spirit-sealing array was likely absorbing the consciousness or some other ethereal thing called a spirit.

Immediately, he swiftly used his movement technique and quickly found a new blood rhinoceros. This time, he once again beheaded it with a single sword strike, thus ending the life of this enormous monster.

Bang!
Blood Rhinoceros fell to the ground, blood gushing continuously from its severed head, but Nine Eyes remained motionless, showing no signs of increasing.

Until Lin Hui reached the severed head, he thrust his sword down.

laugh.

The fourth of the nine eyes lit up softly.

"As expected!" Lin Hui's eyes lit up. In his previous tests, he had instantly killed the head of the enemy, so he hadn't absorbed any spiritual energy. But now, by chance, he finally learned how to replenish the Nine Eyes!

Having found the trick, he quickly hunted down five more dangerous fog zone monsters, easily replenishing his Nine Eyes' energy.

'It seems I need to be more meticulous when testing the new ability next time. If I had been more careful before, Nine Eyes would have already been fully charged.'

Lin Hui stroked the nine emerald-green eye-shaped crystals on his shoulder with satisfaction, then pulled up his robe.

"Next, let's check out the monster-infested area of ​​Purgatory. Then we'll go to the resource points recorded in the bestiary. We're likely to encounter other powerful players from other factions who previously gathered resources there, so it's safer to go after absorbing the Purgatory monsters."

Having distinguished between primary and secondary tasks, he planned to spend some time cultivating in the fog zone.

The trip to the Moon Tower stirred a deep sense of crisis within him, which had remained calm until now. This was especially true after witnessing the Original Bloodline members indiscriminately killing people, and seeing those like A-Zhe whose lifespans had been absorbed.

If you don't eat "Wanfu meat," you'll be targeted. Something bad could happen at any time. But if you do eat it, it will inevitably leave you with hidden health problems.

Ugh.
A long sigh.

He moved forward quickly, and the cavity that Ningxiang had created around him was almost stretched into a long, flat oval shape.

This was before he was traveling at full speed.

Moo~~~
Just then, a faint, indistinct sound, like the bellowing of a cow, came from ahead.

Lin Hui raised his head and looked ahead through the thick fog. He could vaguely see a huge figure, more than ten meters tall, walking step by step to the right in the distance directly ahead.

The figure was humanoid in shape, with thick limbs, a hunched back, and dragging many ribbon-like or seaweed-like things under its feet.

He continued forward, slowing down, and gradually, the huge figure in front of him became clearer.

It was a grayish-white giant that was over ten meters tall.

It was hunched over, hairless all over, with a bald head, except for a skinny, black little man whose lower body was buried deep in the top of his head.

The little figure opened its mouth, looked up at the sky, and made a huge roar, like a bull's bellow, from its black, hole-like mouth.

The giant hurried on its way, while the little man on its head roared all the way. The two seemed to be doing their own thing, neither interfering with the other.

At this distance, Lin Hui's eyesight allowed him to clearly see that the giant's skin resembled a white interior wall swollen from being soaked in water. With each step it took, fine white powder began to fall off.

'Howling Giant.' Lin Hui recalled the contents of the encyclopedia.

Among the dozens of monsters that left a deep impression on Lin Wuhai, the disciple, was this Howling Giant.

'How did this thing get to a place like this? This area should still be within the cleanup zone of the Tu Yue Cleanup Team, right? How could they allow such a high-risk monster to approach?'

The encyclopedia doesn't have much information about this kind of monster, only three things: strong corrosiveness, immense strength, and extremely strong defense.

Compared to other monsters of the same level in the monster encyclopedia, generally speaking, the simpler the attribute description of a monster of this level, the more difficult it is to deal with.

According to the information left in the encyclopedia, when the cleanup team encountered monsters of this level, they did not dare to fight them head-on. They could only lure them away, or if they were lucky, they could wait for a powerful figure of the Palace Master level to arrive and resolve the situation.

Yes, only powerhouses at the Palace Master level can reliably win this battle. And within the area beneath the Moon Tower in the inner city, there are only about a dozen people at that level, most of whom are prominent figures from various major powers.

Therefore, to avoid unnecessary casualties and losses, the main strategy when facing these types of monsters is to lure them away.

Lin Hui quietly gripped the hilt of his sword, pondered for a moment, then stepped forward and slowly drew his sword.

'Anyway, I'm just testing my sword against high-risk monsters. Let's try it out first, and if it doesn't work, I'll just use super speed to shake them off.' Although the speed test was only a little over 100 meters per second, using the Gale Sword Technique to accelerate can significantly increase that speed. As for the Typhoon Sword Technique, that's different. The Typhoon Sword Technique doesn't actually have an acceleration function; it's more like a large-scale, stationary bombardment technique.

Therefore, in actual combat, the Gale Sword Technique is still effective in close-quarters combat within a small area.

He speculated that if the Typhoon Sword Technique were tempered to its limit, it might naturally achieve an acceleration effect surpassing that of the Gale Sword Technique. Therefore, the Typhoon Sword Technique lacks any such acceleration techniques.

'Let's try it out against monsters of the High Priest/Grand Priest level and see what it's like. The Spirit Sealing Array is fully charged, and according to the Blood Seal's description, it should be able to handle anything.'

hiss.

A subtle current of air swirled around Lin Hui, and that current gradually grew larger and faster.

Swish!
The next instant, he vanished from his spot, and Ningxiang's cavity was stretched into a thin line, also disappearing from sight.

The distance of tens of meters was covered in an instant.

The giant's plaster-like skin rapidly enlarged and drew closer.

Lin Hui raised his hand and unleashed a powerful sword strike, the Gale Sword Technique, Mountain-Sweeping Style, Piercing Cone!

puff! !

The Ruyi sword cut deep into the giant's skin, then sliced ​​a huge gash from the left side, and the blade slid out.

'This isn't particularly hard. It seems the Ruyi Scepter's sharpness is too high after the enhancement? Or is it because my internal energy has been too strengthened recently through body tempering?'

A guess flashed through Lin Hui's mind.

But the next moment he sensed something was wrong.

Because the giant's legs in front of him seemed to be much, much thicker than they appeared from a distance.

He had just seen the giant from a distance, and it appeared to be only a dozen meters tall. But now that he was closer, he felt that just one of its thighs was more than ten meters thick, like a giant stone pillar that occupied most of his field of vision.

So much so that after the 1.6-meter-tall Ruyi was cut open, the cut on the giant's leg looked like a tiny scratch, inconspicuous.

What happened?!

Lin Hui raised his head and looked at the giant's body.

The Howling Giant now appeared to him to be far taller than he had just seen.

It didn't look like it was ten meters or so high at all; it looked like it was tens of meters, even hundreds of meters high.
'No! Wait! This giant... seems to be growing taller and bigger!?'

Lin Hui suddenly woke up and realized something was wrong.

The howling giant in his eyes continued to roar like a bull, and its body was growing taller, thicker, and larger at a visible speed.

At this moment, it had become a small mountain in his eyes, almost touching the misty clouds in the sky above his head.

Moo!
The howling giant lowered its head, raised one foot, and stomped heavily down on Lin Hui.

'retreat!'

Lin Hui retreated rapidly, his figure becoming a thin line, but strangely, no matter how far he retreated, he could not escape the coverage area of ​​the opponent's feet.

'This is a mental attack!? It's not recorded in the encyclopedia! No wonder only a high priest can withstand it!' Lin Hui understood.

He didn't panic. Instead, in that short time, he used the Breaking Cone technique at lightning speed, combining it with the speed of the Gale Sword Technique.

A powerful gust of air swirled around him, so Lin Hui simply closed his eyes and rapidly circled around the giant's foot.

boom! ! !
Finally, the giant raised its massive foot and slammed it down on the ground, landing on the area where Lin Hui was standing.

At the last moment before being stepped on, Lin Hui closed his eyes and managed to escape in time, narrowly avoiding being stepped on head-on.

But the crisis was not over. He opened his eyes and saw that the howling giant in his eyes was still growing bigger.

It had grown from a small hill into something resembling a skyscraper. Its upper body was completely submerged in the mist, leaving only two towering legs that stepped towards him.

Moreover, this time, due to the larger size, the pedaling speed increased many times over.

This is like how an ant needs a long time to crawl a meter.

But for a person, one meter only takes one step. If you're fast, it takes less than a second.

The same was true for the Howling Giant at this moment. He took a step, instantly covering a hundred meters, and stepped towards Lin Hui.

The enormous foot had now swelled to a diameter of over a hundred meters, covering the entire land surrounding Lin Hui.

"How are we supposed to fight this?!" Lin Hui frowned as he stared at the white powder falling from the giant's feet.

He guessed that it was a mental attack that caused this situation, but he couldn't undo it.

Using the Gale Sword Technique at full power, layering it again and again, his speed had far exceeded the test's limit, but it was still useless.

The giant's feet were increasing in size at the same rate as his acceleration!

A white, overwhelming foot slammed down onto the ground.

Lin Hui barely managed to escape by narrowly avoiding the edge.

'This is completely different from the High Priest's mental attack! But both are equally troublesome!' Lin Hui said with a solemn expression.

Only when he truly faced a high-risk monster at the level of a high priest did he realize what kind of opponents the inner city cleanup crews faced every day.

'So, how do we dispel this attack!?'

His mind raced, and his feet relentlessly unleashed the Gale Sword Technique. This time, instead of breaking through the cone, he dodged and retreated.

His body retreated rapidly, while the giant's feet rose again, growing larger and larger at an alarming rate.

Lin Hui was surprised to find that his retreating speed was slower than the giant's speed of approaching and growing larger!

No.
It's not that he's gotten bigger, it's that I'm getting smaller!!
(End of this chapter)