Tianjin, starting with unorthodox methods to achieve immortality

Chen Mo lowered his head.

A faint shadow falls on the wet blue bricks beneath my feet.

The sky was still overcast, with clouds still pressing down, but after the rain stopped, the light was noticeably better.

The shadow was right beside his feet, thin and somewhat fragmented by the water seeping from the cracks in the bricks.

With the appearance of the shadow, the shadow puppet he had previously merged into reconnected with him.

Can the Shadow Puppet handle this monster?

He wasn't entirely sure at the moment, but there were no other options available.

"Come out."

With a thought, Chen Mo's previously dim shadow suddenly began to boil.

Instantly thickening like ink, seven dark shadows peeled away from the shadows, and within a few breaths, they coalesced into seven shadow puppets, each as tall as a person, before him.

It has the outline of a human, but no facial features.

Black mist rises from their bodies and falls back into them, in a continuous cycle.

Seven, which is the highest number he can currently control.

After the shadow puppet appeared, the monster that was approaching him suddenly stopped.

Judging from its expression, the other party stopped not out of fear, but to identify the situation.

For it, the shadow puppet was neither prey nor like one of its kind.

It was something it had never seen before.

"Shadow Puppet Fusion".

Without hesitation, Chen Mo gritted his teeth and activated the spell on the "Netherworld Shadow Puppet Technique".

Otherwise, these shadow puppets alone probably wouldn't be able to withstand this infected being with at least a B-level strength.

The seven shadow puppets exploded simultaneously, like seven black flowers blooming at the same time.

Under Chen Mo's gaze, the seven wisps of black mist churned together wildly, shrinking smaller and smaller until they became one, and then a blurry outline.

Finally, it coalesced into a giant black shadow more than ten feet tall.

Shadow Puppet Giant God.

These five words popped into Chen Mo's mind.

He had to tilt his head back to see its face.

It has no facial features, only an outline, and its entire body is shrouded in churning black mist.

From the shoulders down, seven arms grow out on each side, four in front and three in back, for a total of fourteen arms, each holding a pitch-black shadow blade.

Fourteen shadow blades, fourteen arms.

The Shadow Giant stood there, like a demon god returned from hell.

He is not a living being, but a pure killing intent, the strongest combat form that the Netherworld Shadow Puppet can achieve!

The corrupted monster began to retreat, its large head tilted to the side, its scarlet eyes fixed on the newly appeared Shadow Puppet Giant God.

Unlike when facing the seven shadow puppets, upon seeing the Giant Spirit God, it adopted a defensive stance for the first time.

It was clearly scared.

"superior."

Chen Mo roared, his face turning several shades pale.

From the moment this shadow puppet giant appeared, his spiritual power and Yin energy poured out like a flood, and within just a few breaths, a third of it was consumed.

Summoning creatures of the Shadow Puppet Giant Spirit God level are simply beyond his current Qi Refining realm to control.

Forced integration cannot sustain itself for long.

The black figure, over ten feet tall, moved.

Without any warning, the fourteen shadow blades rose up simultaneously, like a black spider spreading out all its segments.

The Shadow Puppet Giant did not charge; it simply took a step forward, and its figure vanished from the spot.

The next moment, it appeared on the infected person's head.

Fourteen shadow blades slashed down simultaneously.

The monster let out a piercing shriek, and its hands and feet slammed down, creating a crater in the ground.

Its body twisted at an incredible angle, avoiding vital points, but four shadow blades still struck its back squarely.

Black pus and blood spurted out.

Where it landed, the weeds in the cracks withered immediately, and foul-smelling white smoke rose from the blue bricks.

Chen Mo felt a chill run down his spine; this thing's blood was highly poisonous, or rather, contaminated.

The infected creature, in pain, was thoroughly enraged.

Instead of retreating, it lunged at the giant spirit.

Suddenly, it opened its blood-red maw, and a thick, grayish-white thread shot out, wrapping around one of the giant spirit's arms.

As the silk thread tightened, it emitted a hissing, corrosive sound.

A gap was corroded in the black mist swirling on the arm of the Shadow Puppet Giant.

"Is it corrupting the Shadow Puppet?"

Chen Mo's pupils contracted, and he gritted his teeth to hold on.

Shadow puppets are essentially formed from paper figures and shadow energy; they are not made of flesh and blood and are therefore completely immune to contamination.

The merged giant god felt neither pain nor fear.

The entangled arm jerked, and the shadow blade flipped, severing the thread.

At the same time, the remaining thirteen arms were slashed down simultaneously, like thirteen black lightning bolts.

The infected creature tried to dodge, but its belly was too big, and no matter how fast it went, it couldn't outrun these blades formed from pure shadow.

puff.

puff.

Pfft...

The sound of the blade piercing flesh was as dense as rain.

The infected body instantly developed more than a dozen deep wounds that exposed bone.

If it weren't for the opponent's strong physique, this attack would have chopped it into mincemeat.

Black pus gushed out, corroding the ground of the yard and leaving it pitted and uneven.

It let out a piercing scream, its limbs kicking wildly as it retreated rapidly.

But the giant spirit gave it no chance to breathe, its fourteen arms slashing down like a storm, each strike landing precisely in the same spot.

In the center of its back, there was a faintly glowing gray tumor.

Chen Mo figured it out.

That tumor is its core, and also the source of the pollution.

Each time the shadow blade struck, the tumor would contract violently, like some kind of eerie heart beating.

As it throbbed, countless granulation-like things grew from the wound on its back and quickly healed.

"This thing... can regenerate?"

A chill ran through Chen Mo's heart, and he immediately urged the Shadow Puppet Giant Spirit God to speed up its attack.

The Shadow Puppet Giant's fourteen arms did not pause for a moment, and the speed of its slashes increased. The black blade shadows were almost continuous, like a tireless killing machine.

The infected creature's screams grew increasingly shrill, making Chen Mo's eardrums ache, and dust fell from the courtyard wall in a flurry.

But at that moment, the gray tumor suddenly swelled up a size without warning.

An invisible wave spread from the tumor, distorting even space itself.

Chen Mo's vision suddenly went black, and when he opened his eyes again, he found himself in front of an endless gray-white void.

In the void, there is no sky, no earth, only countless crisscrossing threads.

The silk threads were covered with countless distorted human faces, thousands upon thousands, densely packed together.

They extend from the endless distance and go back to the endless distance, like a giant spider web covering the entire world.

In the very center of the spider web hung a spider so large it defied description.

The most terrifying thing is its body.

Countless eyes covered its entire body, some as large as lakes, others as small as pinholes, each one rotating and looking in a different direction.

But at the very moment Chen Mo appeared...

All eyes were on him.

Billions of eyes and countless gazes fell upon him at the same time.

Chen Mo's thoughts froze.

That's not fear; fear is at least a human emotion.

It was a low-dimensional being that felt fear upon encountering a high-dimensional being.

Like a candle flame meeting the sun, an ant gazing at the sky, an ant being enveloped by a giant foot descending from the heavens.

He couldn't even feel fear, because under that gaze, his entire existence was negated.

He should disappear.