While I was chanting a curse, the system said I was Xiao Yan?

Chapter 172 Evolution Again

In the middle of the street, the ram-headed demon's posture remained unchanged, its curved, bony horns gleaming with a dull, old white luster in the setting sun filtering through the gaps in the clouds.

The scales covering its body surface were like an invisible film, and the air around it created slow, undulating ripples, like water being gently rippled by a breeze.

Its magical energy continued to radiate outwards from its four-meter-tall body, creating an even heavier sense of oppression, like a slowly rising river that was still climbing.

In Tianyan's perception, this thing, based solely on its curse power, has already reached the level of the previous Four Calamities, and is no longer an ordinary special-grade thing!

He glanced down at the broken bone in his chest; the cut was jagged, and new bone was slowly extending towards the break.

His gaze shifted from the broken edge and refocused on the outline of the ram's head opposite him. With his mimicry ability evolved to this extent, a casual strike had shattered his own bone armor.

The voice of the goat-headed demon that Nurarihyon evolved from has changed; it is now a deeper tone, and every word seems to resonate directly from the depths of its chest: "Your fighting style... slashes, flames... I have become completely accustomed to every move and every technique."

adapt?

Tianyan was slightly taken aback when he heard this, and subconsciously looked at the top of its head to check if there was a rotating wheel.

Finding nothing, he withdrew his gaze, raised his right hand from his waist, palm up, and pink flames condensed into a fist-sized fireball in his palm before he threw it forward.

The fireball traced an arc through the night sky, flying straight toward the ram-headed demon's chest. But when it was about two meters away from the demon, it seemed to hit an invisible barrier, and its speed slowed down!

Then the fireball began to deform inward, from a sphere to a flattened oval, then further collapsed into a thin line, and finally even the outline of that thin line disappeared. There was no explosion, no embers, as if it had never existed, leaving not even a trace of pink smoke.

The goat-headed demon's voice came from that location, still deep: "I've already told you, your flames are no longer effective."

As expected, my previous impression was not an illusion; it does indeed possess a power capable of defending from a distance!

The Nurarihyon's tentacles swayed slightly behind it. The movement was small, but the distortion of the air around it intensified by half a circle in that instant, as if some invisible force field was being slowly pushed outward by it.

Tian Yan narrowed his eyes and took a step to the left. The next moment, a gust of wind swept by, and a hole half a meter in diameter suddenly appeared in the wall behind him. The stone on it was actually pushed away from the wall by a force and completely disappeared behind the wall!

Also disappearing was the elbow blade on Tianyan's right arm. He readjusted his stance, and the broken blade on his right elbow was repairing itself at an even faster speed. Purple-gold curse power spread along the break, covering the growing bone surface and strengthening the newly formed blade structure.

Clearly, the Nurarihyon has evolved to have the ability to attack from a distance, and its trajectory is difficult to detect, yet its power is considerable!

In that case, keeping a distance is not a good option.

He took a step forward, his toes lightly touching the gravel ground, and his body slashed in from the side, even faster than before. The newly formed bone blade on his right elbow drew a cold arc in the night, its target precisely aimed at the ram-headed demon's neck, at the relatively weak connection point of the scale-covered area.

Nurarihyon didn't dodge; as if to prove its earlier statement, it didn't even raise its arm to block!

The moment the bone blade struck the scales on its neck, a burst of dazzling sparks erupted at the point of impact, like an iron hammer striking a cast iron anvil. The bone blade shattered directly near the point of contact, breaking in two!

The broken blade spun as it flew out from the impact, tracing an arc in the air before diagonally embedding itself in a crack in a concrete wall by the roadside.

Under the force of the recoil, Tianyan's body spun half a circle to the side. He then flipped in the air, landed back on the ground, and stopped with his heels leaving a short mark on the ground.

After he stopped, he did not immediately press forward again. Instead, he looked down at his right elbow. The break was deeper than he had expected. About two-thirds of the length from the tip of the blade to near the elbow joint had broken off.

He moved his elbow joint to make sure the skeleton itself was not damaged, then raised his head to reassess the strength of the opponent's defense. The physical defense had improved by at least several levels compared to before!

The Nurarihyon took a half step forward with its hooves, then its tentacles swung violently, the movement larger than ever before. Several slender, dark tentacles simultaneously spread out to the sides of its body, then suddenly retracted as if pulled by some force.

The entire process was silent and without flashes of light, only the violent vibration of the air. This vibration was not audible, but rather felt by the entire body, as if the air pressure of the entire area was being continuously pressed down by an invisible hand.

Tianyan felt the force first land on his head, then his entire upper body, and then his whole body. It didn't feel like a shockwave, but more like someone had placed a slowly sinking mountain on his head!

The ground beneath his feet cracked open in that instant, with gravel and sand shooting out from the fissures. His knees bent at an angle under the immense pressure, and then he was forced to kneel on one knee.

Centered on him, the asphalt road surface within a radius of about 20 meters sank by 5 meters!

A ring-shaped fracture zone was formed between the road surface at the edge and the unaffected area, with cracks extending outwards like a spider web.

This is like a gravity attack!

Under the continuous pressure, the upper body bone armor of Tianyan in the pit began to emit a dull sound like metal fatigue. Several scales on his shoulders and back began to crack and fall off from the edges, breaking into small fragments along the patterns of the bone armor and falling to the ground, revealing the purple-gold spell power membrane covering it.

The battle crystals within his body spun rapidly, and purple-gold spell power surged forth, climbing upwards along every crevice of his bones, repairing the deforming bone armor.

The shattering of the bone armor stopped during the thickening process, and then, supported by the continuously infused magical power, it began to slowly reform, forcefully pushing back that invisible pressure.

The pressure disappeared, signifying the end of Nurarihyon's attack. Tenyan stood up, his kneecaps covered with fine cracks, a testament to the immense pressure he had just endured!

He jumped up and landed firmly on the shattered pavement. Although most of his bone armor was broken, it had been re-covered with new scales. Although the new scales were much thinner than before, they were enough to support him to complete the next step.

Purple-gold wings unfurled from his back, and the moment his right foot stomped on the ground, the wings flapped and shattered into tiny specks of light!

But the price is exorbitant speed!

The ground beneath his feet blasted open a shallow crater more than two meters in diameter where he started, and debris flew backward like bullets, leaving a white shockwave ring in the air along the path his body had taken!

In that instant, his body traversed the distance between himself and the ram-headed demon. The ram-headed demon's tentacles had already begun to thrash, but Tianyan's speed was much faster than its reaction!

Before it could even make any effective attack gesture, it had already discovered that Tianyan had appeared within a meter of it!

Tianyan's shoulder collided with the ram-headed demon's chest in the next instant!

The impact propelled its four-meter-tall body backward for about three meters, its hooves carving two deep furrows in the asphalt road, with gravel and dust churning outward from the edges of the furrows!

Tenyan continued forward, thrusting his right elbow upward from below, aiming directly at the area covered by scales on Nurarihyon's chest!

"Eight Extremes Collapse!"

The hidden force of Baji Beng was pushed into the opponent's body the moment the elbow made contact with the scales. The energy, compressed to the extreme, spread outwards along the muscles and bone structure beneath the scales like a released shockwave.

He didn't stop, his right fist followed closely behind, the surface of his fist covered with shattered bone armor fragments and condensed purple-gold spell power. The moment his fist touched the scales on the ram-headed demon's chest, the hidden force and black flash exploded simultaneously!

That black electric light was not an ordinary black flash that spread outward from the point of contact, but rather it first penetrated inward, guiding the internal cracks caused by the hidden force outward along the cracks, and then the two energies exploded simultaneously on the inside and outside of the contact surface!

"Snap!"

The sound was like a huge piece of tempered glass being shattered in the middle, or like thunder rolling across the ground and echoing through the empty street.

The ram-headed demon's body began to swell from its chest under the force of the internal impact. Then, cracks appeared on its scales, which spread rapidly along the gaps between the scales, spreading like a spider web to its limbs, waist, abdomen, the base of its tentacles, and even extending upwards to its jaw and the base of its horns. Dark purple liquid seeped out from those cracks, sliding down the edges of the scales and dripping onto the ground with a soft hissing sound.

Its mouth opened slightly, and a hoarse voice emanated from its bony structure: "You... you can still use such an attack?!"

Its body staggered, the cracks continued to widen, and dark purple liquid was gushing out at an accelerated rate, but it still maintained its upright posture, its tentacles trembling as if trying to launch an attack!

Tianyan wouldn't give it that chance. Just as it expected, the external evolution was triggered by its previous attack, but the internal attack was something it had never encountered before, so the internal evolution was still not achieved and it remained fragile!

Another punch landed on the same spot!

"Snap!"

The second black flash detonated at the same location. The impact of this attack propelled deeper along the already shattered lines, shattering the skeleton of the body from the inside!

At that moment, the ram-headed demon's body completely lost its support. Starting from the center of the crack in its chest, the entire body shattered, with scales, bone fragments, tentacles, and dark purple flesh flying and scattering in all directions. The fragments landed on the already cracked road surface, making a dense cracking sound.

After falling into the rubble and cracks, they did not dissipate into black mist like ordinary cursed spirits, but instead began to pulsate slowly on the ground.

Each fragment shimmered with a fine, dark purple light, contracting like a heartbeat, a prelude to the awakening of something dormant.

Tianyan noticed this and his gaze swept over the nearest fragment, which was about the size of a palm and had irregularly torn edges. However, the light inside it was flashing at an increasingly faster frequency, as if something was reorganizing its structure inside.

Then came the second, the third, and the tenth fragments. All the fragments began to pulsate at almost the same moment, and then they all left the ground at the same time.

They were drawn together by an unseen force, converging towards a fixed point in mid-air, where all the fragments merged together.

Broken scales covered the outer layer of the internal structure, purple flesh fragments filled the gaps, and shattered bone fragments interspersed and connected like a framework, forming a spherical outline with a diameter of about three meters and a surface covered with grayish-white patterns.

It hovers about 100 meters above the street, and the vascular patterns on its surface light up with a dark purple light with each pulse, then dim, and then light up again.

Tianyan stood still, looking up, his gaze fixed on the cursed embryo that was taking shape in the air. He could feel the cursed power accumulating inside it rising at a speed far exceeding that of a normal cursed spirit condensation!

Will it evolve further?

Is he really the same as Mo Xu Luo?

He sensed the concentration of cursed energy around him and discovered that the residual cursed energy in the air was converging towards the cursed embryo in mid-air at a noticeable speed, unlike before when it would automatically stop absorbing a certain amount.

Tianyan discovered that the black mist rising from the corpses of the cursed spirits killed in the aftermath of their battle, which should have dissipated naturally, was now drawing tiny arcs in the air and flying towards the cursed embryo, being absorbed by the patterns on its surface.

Further away, one could even vaguely see the cursed mist drifting from the end of the street, from the remnants of the cursed spirits that had not yet completely dissipated, also shifting its trajectory in the same direction.

Tianyan's brows furrowed deeply. He sensed the rate at which the cursed power accumulated within the cursed embryo, as well as the area it absorbed, and then concluded: "...Still absorbing? Could it be that all the cursed power in Osaka is flowing here?"

"They were already so strong before, how strong will they become if they evolve again this time?"

Tianyan didn't want to wait for it to finish taking shape. The pulsation frequency on the surface of the cursed embryo had doubled compared to when it first took shape, and its volume was also expanding continuously. The grayish-white patterns on the surface were becoming brighter and brighter, like a membrane being stretched open from the inside.

If it is allowed to continue absorbing, who knows what kind of monster it will eventually give rise to!

Tianyan raised both hands simultaneously, pink flames appearing in his left palm, carrying a unique sweet scent, while sky-blue sea flames appeared in his right palm. He slowly brought the two flames closer together.