The Ascension of Contracted Spirits

Chapter 686 - 288: Human-faced Cockroach_1

Innumerable afterimages streaked like lightning; rapidly engrossing the entirety of the Star Battle Platform.

Ye Hanjun unfurled his Wings of the Night and flew into the horizon.

But at the very last second, a ghastly claw that reeked rot swooped down, nearly grazing his back.

"Nishang, hundreds of zombie dogs...They’re going to be the death of us!"

"It’s not just that! Look at the eyes of the zombie dogs, red within green. Clearly, they have been injected with some stimulating substance, making them more bloodthirsty than usual!"

The clan members fell into chaos, especially those who had only recently ascended to the 6th Rank but did not possess the battle power of the Young King. They were startled at first, then turned deathly pale.

They dared not to fight and instead scrambled wildly on their Contracted Spirits, looking like rats scurrying across the street.

Ye Hanjun was among them, with no intention of calling upon the Absolute String for a counterattack.

—The number was too great, the strength too formidable.

Zombie dogs were notorious for their toxic bite and swift attacks, known to originate from the womb of Heaven and Earth.

Being injured by them, even if it meant a minor surface wound, would cause the zombie virus to infiltrate one’s organs.

If there is no specific serum, or an Ability to resist it, or an excellent healing Fond Spirit, the victim’s body will quickly rot, eventually becoming a ghastly puppet, // something like a zombie or a zombie beast.

"Run!"

"Roar!"

People like Ye Hu and Ye Min escaped in a panic.

Ye Tao was a bit slower. His Contracted Spirit’s hind legs were bitten off. In his desperate struggle, what he got in return was a broken hind leg and seven or eight zombie dogs pouncing on him.

"Useless!"

The Black Phoenix rushed in rapidly. With one sweep of its wing, it struck off the zombie dogs, the mutilated Contracted Spirit, and the sweaty Ye Tao, with its claws clutching them both.

"You can’t even handle this, but you still dream of exploring the Tomb of Asura?"

Ye Nishang, sitting astride the bird, sneered:

"I won’t kill you, but the one who performs the most poorly during training will suffer torment far more agonizing than death!"

"Bang!"

The Black Phoenix flew far from the Star Battle Platform, swooping down and threw Ye Tao away when they still had hundreds of meters to the ground.

"No one is allowed to heal him, let him figure out how to detoxify himself!"

When she coldly spat these words, the Healing-type Elder who had rushed forward paused, and then casually strolled back.

"Truly tragic."

Ye Dong muttered under his breath, sitting upright, his concentration focused even more on the task at hand.

She had just recently concluded the Night Trials, a young, fledgling chicken, still wet behind the ears.

No matter how diligently she’d tried to increase her rank over her last six years, the 5th Rank was the limit. She was far from the criterion needed to enter the Tomb of Asura.

Thus... although she had to participate in the special training, she did not have to enter the Star Battle Platform, nor join in the most brutal carnage and competition.

"Ye Qiyu, Ye Mochou, your opponent is above!"

Once again, Ye Nishang’s crisp command echoed from above the clouds.

Both Ye Qiyu and Ye Mochou, who were tens of thousands of meters apart, opened their eyes at the same time as they were meditating.

"Hisssss!!!!"

Nine gigantic Heaven Flying Crickets, each a hundred meters long, pulled a round coffin and whistled through the air.

With a loud snap, the lid of the coffin shattered into pieces.

A greyish-white fog spread across the sky, and a giant head that resembled a rotting fruit opened its eyes at the end of the sky.

"Is that...Mist Head?!"

Ye Liuying, who was still fleeing from the pursuing zombie dogs, felt the sudden surge of a horrifying aura above her, and upon glancing up, she was struck by surprise.

Ye Hanjun was also taken aback for a moment, but then saw the ascendant White Bird Demon and Tonsure Rakshasa fleeing even faster.

"This is an Immeasurable Void Pull Mist Head, I don’t care how long it takes, no tools are allowed, no borrowing a hand from anyone else, just you two, come up with a way to kill it."

Ye Nishang coldly issued her order, while Ye Qiyu sneered:

"This is interesting, a big leap across major ranks... this is what gets me excited!"

"Clan brother Qiyu, any plans?"

Ye Mochou shot him a glance, asking directly.

"Heh!"

Ye Qiyu flashed his pearlescent teeth, confidently saying:

"The Mist Head is a semi-solid entity, and has the advantage of rank, making it impossible to kill face on."

"But it is weak in terms of recovery. Once its fog is depleted, its fighting capacity will gradually decline."

"To hunt such a creature, one needs nothing more than patience, caution, and focus."

"We don’t need to coordinate specifically; we just each rely on our own skills. Within a hundred days, we will definitely have it suppressed and killed!"

"Hahaha, continuously fighting for a hundred days, how can we manage that?"

Ye Qiyu was making outrageous claims, but Ye Mochou was even more so, his Destructive Demon Eye opening in a rage, infused with killing intent:

"Seventy days!"

"At most seventy days! We must slaughter it!"

"Kill!!!"

A peculiar, guttural noise filled the air. The head of the Demon Snake King emerged from the Abyss, its hissing roar directed towards the Mist Head hovering above.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Urgent drumbeats echoed; it was the heartbeat of the Fission Snake Demon, each beat heavier and more horrifying than the last.

"Hiss!!!!!!"

Behind the White Bird Demon and the Medicine Demon, illusory bodies of the Demon Snake King appeared, like shadows tightly affixed to their backs.

The transformation of the Snake Demon was even more exaggerated; its body enlarged by five times, stretching more than five hundred meters.

The illusion of the Demon Snake King overlapped with it, forming a hazy twin-snake shadow.

When it attacked, it was quick as a gust of wind, unstoppable as a flood.

While it coiled, it was fierce like a tiger, brutal like an ancient elephant.

When the fog began to corrode it, it opened its gigantic mouth and swallowed the fog, absorbing it into its body.