Mythology Returns! Starting with Folklore and Strange Tales

Chapter 83 The Dragon Seed Rat, Thunder Rising from the Ground!

The speed and the absurdity of the development were just like Zhang Wei's unexpected escape from the top scholar.

Having guessed the rat spirit's identity and seeing the lifelike coffin, he initially thought it was a sentimental rat. However, the old monster then gave his worldview a severe shock.

Husband and wife are one.

However, it is in the literal sense.

The moment the coffin entrance was reached, the blood demons that had fallen into the underground space were able to emerge from the ground. The giant blood shadow that had reassembled no longer charged back and forth, but instead opened its mouth wide and swallowed the rat demon whole.

The surging blood demons, like a constantly rotating vortex, relentlessly ground and refined the rat demons enveloping within them.

Pieces of charred flesh and bone fragments were constantly being ejected in a bloody mist, but Zhang Wei, standing high in the sky, never showed any sign of relief.

The lethality of the Blood Fiend is beyond question.

Strangely, in the forbidden area where all flesh and blood had been removed and even spells could not be cast, the rat demon's mutilated body in the blood mist was being repaired at an unimaginable speed.

Not only is the consumption not keeping up with the replenishment, but the suppressive power of Yazi Zhenyi is also slowing down.

Listening to the grinding sound in the wind below, which was like a millstone, gradually mixed with the sound of metal colliding, Zhang Wei sighed.

Yazi Tian is the bane of all evil spirits, demons, and monsters. His Blood Fiend can destroy all things and suppress magic.

However, there is a problem: Yazi belongs to the dragon family and is one of the nine sons of the dragon.

This rat demon had once received the emperor's imperial seal and held the dual identities of a top scholar and a prince consort. Even though it had been deposed, its past experiences would leave traces of the Ming dynasty's fortune in its records.

This was not enough to withstand the power of the divine law, but the owner of that coffin was a genuine royal princess.

Even though the Ming Dynasty was gone, some of its remaining fortune still lingered. After being swallowed by this rat demon, it was protected by dragon energy.

Looking at the flesh and blood gradually forming on the withered bones within the Blood Fiend, along with the gray-black scales and the mouth that transformed from hair and beard into flesh and blood, Zhang Wei knew that things were probably not as simple as he had thought.

This is not the remnant of a fallen dynasty that a dead princess should possess.

This rat spirit has stolen countless vestiges of the Ming Dynasty's legacy and buried them within this princess.

Looking at her lifelike face, this fortune may have once been used to resurrect the princess, but now it has become the means for this rat demon to change its allegiance and recreate itself!

With the dragon's energy, one's bloodline undergoes a transformation.

Although it is still a cripple, it has begun to break free from the category of demons and monsters.

Dragons are not yet demons or monsters, though they are still evil and abominations. However, the lethality of the Yazi Law has been greatly reduced.

Fortunately, the rat demon could withstand the Yazi Law, but no matter how its species changed or how powerful it became, it could never escape the aftershocks of the mushroom. Its newly grown flesh and scales began to rot and decay in the blink of an eye.

Although the process was slow, it still took up a lot of the rat demon's energy and left many festering wounds on its intact scales.

Since the Yazi spell wasn't working, Zhang Wei didn't dwell on it. He frowned, raised his hand, and formed a hand seal. Faint lightning gradually condensed in his hand, quickly growing from the size of a walnut to the size of a palm. The lightning ball was still expanding.

The surging magical power within his body continuously poured into the lightning in his hand.

Aside from reserving a tiny amount to maintain [Wind Control], Zhang Wei squeezed out all the mana in his body to exchange for more powerful lightning magic.

Unfortunately, it wasn't a thunderstorm or a cloudy day, otherwise he would have been more confident.

Next, after transforming to a certain stage, the rat demon, whose remaining energy, like the coffin, had been completely exhausted, suddenly had a tear slide down the corner of its eye, which was covered by scales.

Then, its eyes widened, and it looked up at the sky. In a daze, it seemed to see Zhang Wei's true form through the blood demon.

The next moment, the massive body, like a giant machine being activated, transformed into a streak of black light amidst the shattering sound of glass on the ground. It burst out of the Blood Fiend's embrace, and as soon as it appeared, the demonic energy within its body transformed into a whirlwind that blew out from its mouth.

Amidst the billowing black smoke, countless scarlet bright spots emerged from the swirling, eerie smoke, accompanied by the squeaking of rats.

Wherever the demonic smoke passed, a swarm of rats followed.

Thousands upon thousands of rats swarmed with the wind, chattering as they swept toward the crowd that was gradually gathering in the distance.

Seeing the rat swarm that they had just dealt with return, the travelers, who had barely caught their breath, looked helpless. But when they noticed the enormous rat demon that followed the demonic smoke, which resembled a small building, crawling on all fours and sweeping towards them with the speed of a great wind, their helplessness turned into despair.

Even without that suddenly exploding mushroom, it would take them five or six days to wipe out the rat swarm in the town, and they still wouldn't be able to guarantee it would be completely eradicated.

Now, with the addition of the half-dragon Huangming Old Demon on top of the original, and everyone being injured and exhausted, who can possibly defeat them?

Of course, even without these negative buffs, they might not be able to win.

Otherwise, the Bureau's mission wouldn't be to gather intelligence, but rather to eliminate the shadows!

If before they were blaming the two young men for recklessly using mushrooms to explode, now, seeing this hundreds-of-years-old rat demon, the travelers only wanted to ask An Yixi if he had brought a few more powerful weapons with him.

Staring indifferently down below, Zhang Wei gritted his teeth and poured the last bit of his magic power into his hand.

The thunderbolt, already the size of a football, swelled up a little more.

Raise both hands high, then suddenly flip the hand seal.

Immediately afterwards, in broad daylight, a clap of thunder boomed.

In an instant, the dazzling lightning traversed thousands of meters in the sky, heading straight for the rat demon that was charging with evil magic.

Although the rat demon was on guard, it quickly withdrew the smoke and condensed it above its head. It also opened its mouth and spat out a round, gray-black bead with a blurry dragon shadow coiled around it. The demonic energy rolled straight into the sky.

But it still couldn't stop the descending lightning.

The next moment, the dense demonic clouds were torn apart by lightning, and the egg-sized bead, propelled by the lightning, smashed directly onto the rat demon's head.

The already blurry dragon shadow became even more indistinct under the bombardment of thunder, and several fine cracks suddenly appeared on the smooth bead.

The rat demon, which had been so arrogant just moments before, suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood, its high spirits instantly waning. But reality didn't even give it a moment to catch its breath, as the remaining lightning struck it directly on the head.

"Boom!"

The deafening thunder finally sounded, and under the scattered lightning, the rat demon was struck as if by a heavy blow, and its upright posture immediately crouched down and knelt down.

Under the scattered arcs of lightning, the newly grown scales on its head shattered, and the flesh on its face was charred. Streams of blood flowed down its cheeks and dripped to the ground from its chin, making the rat demon's already terrifying appearance even more ferocious.