His tone was casual and careless, much like a street punk.
Yet the look on his face was exceptionally vigilant, and his stance left absolutely no openings, showing that he was clearly on guard.
However, such a seemingly heartfelt proposal was completely ignored, because... the monk didn't pay him any attention.
The monk stood straight with his hands pressed together in prayer, softly chanting Buddhist scriptures. The golden light on his body, which had dimmed slightly, began to brighten once more.
In the pitch-black withered forest, he looked like a giant lantern radiating golden light.
Seeing this, the man standing not far across from him experienced a sudden change in expression.
He let out an angry laugh.
“Fine, fine, fine! You don't understand human speech, do you?”
“Alright then! Since you're looking for death, don't blame me!”
“Did you really think that killing a few of my lackeys gives you the right to challenge me?!”
“I, Chang You, am the top third-generation disciple of the Ghost Gu sect! I've never feared anyone in all my years of cultivation! Come to think of it, I've never killed a Buddha's Son before!”
Furious, Chang You raised his hand and slapped his chest.
“Today, I'll let my babies taste what a Buddha's Son tastes like!”
With that, he tensed his muscles and clenched his fists as if waves were surging beneath his skin. However, the patterns appearing on his skin were not black.
Instead, they were... crimson.
Seeing this, Xu Youyou couldn't help but mutter.
“Are the bugs inside his body all red?”
They felt more advanced than the black ones. No wonder he had the confidence to challenge the monk.
Right then, the monk let out a loud shout.
The golden light on his body instantly flared several times brighter than before. Taking several strides forward, he rapidly closed the distance to Chang You!
Just as the golden light was about to hit him, the crimson patterns on Chang You's skin shattered, transforming into a thick blood aura that enveloped him completely.
Meanwhile, the shattered red patterns on his skin began to rapidly reform.
The golden light clashed with the blood aura, producing a violent sizzling sound.
Even from a distance, Xu Youyou could smell the sickening stench of burning flesh in the air, mixed with a bloody odor that carried the smell of a decaying corpse. It was truly unbearable.
He pinched his nose shut.
“So stinky...”
As the golden light and blood aura wore each other down, the monk did not stop moving. He unleashed a rapid barrage of punches and palms, occasionally delivering a swift kick whenever Chang You showed a lapse in concentration.
But just as he had claimed, Chang You was no ordinary opponent. Relying on the protection of the crimson patterns, he fought the monk on equal terms.
Yet no matter how strong he was, the Buddhist golden light still countered his Ghost Gu.
Consequently, under the continuous erosion of the golden light, the blood mist dissipated at an accelerating pace.
However, Xu Youyou could easily spot the underlying danger.
Although the golden light still countered the Ghost Gu, eradicating these red bugs required a far greater price than the black ones—perhaps even several times more.
“Maybe the monk consumed too much energy while chasing down those four people earlier?”
He muttered quietly to himself.
Before long, most of the blood mist was wiped out by the golden light, no longer able to block it.
In the very next instant, the golden light broke through the remaining blood mist and struck Chang You directly.
Chang You felt an intense burning sensation spreading across every part of his body.
But he did not scream, choosing instead to grit his teeth and endure the pain.
Even so, he knew that the Ghost Gu he cultivated was countered by the Buddhist path, and he wouldn't be able to hold on for much longer.
Moreover, seeing how relentlessly the monk pursued him, he knew that this fight would only end in death.
Judging by the current situation, he probably wouldn't be able to escape.
Still... even if that were the case, he wasn't going to let this damned bald donkey off easy.
Perhaps heaven had heard his inner cry, for at that very moment, he suddenly felt the monk's golden light weaken significantly. The monk had overexerted himself and exposed a flaw!
Great!
Here was his chance!
Abandoning all defense, Chang You frantically gathered all the crimson Ghost Gu in his body into his right hand. Instantly, his right hand and forearm turned a deep, blood-red color.
Even his fingernails grew long and sharp, glinting with a chilling light.
Meanwhile, the rest of his skin, stripped of the Ghost Gu's protection, was instantly scorched black by the golden light.
Yet Chang You paid it no mind. Seizing the moment of the monk's weakness, he thrust his right hand forward violently, clawing straight through the golden light and breaking the monk's defense.
Then, that blood-red hand actually pierced through the skin, sinking halfway into the monk's abdomen.
Under Xu Youyou's astonished gaze, Chang You's entire body rapidly deflated, while something strange seemed to stir beneath the monk's flesh.
This Chang You... had actually transferred all of the Ghost Gu from his own body into the monk's.
“You won't let me live?”
Chang You's shriveled skin could actually still speak!
“Then you don't get to live either!”
As soon as those words fell, his skin completely collapsed, quickly turning into a few wisps of dark, bluish-black smoke under the eroding glow of the golden light.
The moment all traces of Chang You's life force vanished in absolute death, the golden light on the monk's body instantly dispersed. He then violently spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.
When the blood hit the ground, one could see red, thread-like worms squirming within it.
“Ah!”
He let out a miserable shriek and collapsed to one knee. He struggled to raise his hands and press them together, perhaps trying to cast some technique, but in the end, he was too late.
His body suddenly stiffened, his eyes growing dull and vacant as he stopped moving entirely.
Xu Youyou could feel that the monk's life force was completely gone.
However, the worms inside his body were still relentlessly devouring his flesh and bones.
In less than a minute, he was eaten down to nothing but a hollow skin. The remaining crimson worms then crawled out of the tear in his flesh and burrowed into the ground.
The tattered skin, mixed with shredded clothing, drifted lightly onto the ground.
In the distance, Xu Youyou put away his phone and sent this exciting video to Zuo Lin'an.
【Xu Youyou: Brother An, since these two ended up taking each other down, will they both turn into unsolvable specters?】
Zuo Lin'an was currently dozing in the crevice of the cliff. When his phone received the message, he opened his eyes to check it.
First, he watched the full video.
It was actually quite good this time.
Xu Youyou had filmed from the moment the two started fighting all the way until their mutual demise.
“In the far south, the Buddha's Son of Fuling Temple?”
“In the western mountains, the top third-generation disciple of the Ghost Gu sect?”
【Zuo Lin'an: They are both players. Since they were killed by a player, even if the killer is dead, they should theoretically still turn into unsolvable specters.】
【Xu Youyou: Then there's no problem.】
【Zuo Lin'an: Six people and one ghost died on your side, so aren't there only three players left now? It should be over soon, right?】
【Xu Youyou: Yes, I'm going to kill them right now!】
Zuo Lin'an silently did the math.
Xu Youyou's side had yielded six unsolvable specters, which were essentially freebies. Six unsolvable specters meant thirty Contribution points, plus one point as a reward for wiping out the players.
That made thirty-one points in total.
He currently had eighty-two Contribution points. Adding this harvest, he would have one hundred and thirteen points.
Rate on N.U.
