229: Chapter 225 Black Water Leech Emperor 229: Chapter 225 Black Water Leech Emperor “Pfft…
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Within two large face-sized plates, there were at least a hundred leeches placed inside.
At this moment, as Chen Hai attempted to communicate with that terrifying existence in the unknown, using the divine charm left within his Sea of Consciousness as a guide and these leeches as sacrificial offerings,
The leeches, one after another, kept exploding, turning into dark green clouds of blood mist, which began to coalesce continuously.
Traditional Tao Cultivators, even when casting a minor spell, had to communicate with their founding ancestor and pray to them.
For slightly more complex spells, mere verbal communication was simply not enough.
When casting such spells, the Tao Cultivators also had to establish an altar and offer offerings to their founding ancestor to successfully perform the spells.
When discussing Taoist Skill with Hou Donggui, Chen Hai also learned quite a lot about the experiences related to the Borrowing Technique.
However, Chen Hai himself didn’t have such a founding ancestor; the source of his power was the divine charm left in his mind by that terrifying creature from an unknown space-time.
To put it frankly, he had long pondered whether it was possible to communicate with his power source and try to borrow power from it successfully.
Although such a thing carried a lot of uncertainties and potentially unknown fatal risks,
Chen Hai still felt that communicating with his power source and asking that terrifying existence to lend him power probably still had a certain chance of success.
After all, in his view, his action actually had a lot in common with Tao Cultivators seeking power from their founding ancestor.
However, as much as he thought about it, he still couldn’t truly decide whether to go through with it.
He had Buck Teeth Zhu’s subordinates bring so many leeches over just in case.
Considering the divine charm that the existence had left in his brain and the way his Divine Soul presented itself, it was very possible that the leeches in the real world had some kind of bloodline link with that existence.
Given this, using these leeches as a sacrifice to attempt to communicate with that existence would surely have a much higher chance of success than using normal offerings.
Whether this was indeed the case, Chen Hai couldn’t be sure, but that’s what he believed!
All along, hadn’t his practice of Taoist Skill been a matter of blind guesses and training to get to where he was today?
As for the risks, how could Chen Hai be concerned about them at a time like this?
Facing the shadow projected by the Spider Demon Spirit, he was crushed over and over again.
Although relying on his thick skin and the Undying Characteristic, he was still alive.
But the so-called “undying” surely had its limits.
The Undying Characteristic Chen Hai had acquired was just a sliver, and he was unclear how much longer he could hold on.
When that sliver of Undying Characteristic was completely worn away by the gigantic spider shadow, it would certainly be the time for his soul to scatter.
Now that he was in such a predicament, what more did Chen Hai have to hesitate about?
With a hardened heart, he could no longer care about the consequences; after all, the worst outcome couldn’t be much worse than his current situation.
“Kill?
Dare to touch Brother Zhu, chop them to death?”
“Brother Zhu is in the sky, chop what?”
“There must be invisible things we can’t see, pulling Brother Zhu up into the sky.
If you want to help Brother Zhu, just greet the empty space around him with what you have in your hands!”
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Buck Teeth Zhu’s subordinates, within the span of a few breaths, had already grabbed their weapons and rushed beneath Buck Teeth Zhu.
After being dumbfounded for a moment, they shouted and swung their weapons at the empty space in vain.
Perhaps because one of them inadvertently intersected with the web in the void and the giant spider on it, they attracted some of the creature’s attention.
It opened its mouth wide, ejecting a strand of spider silk.
In the next moment, the unfortunate one was entangled by the spider silk, lifted into the air, and pulled into the spider’s maw, which was even wider than a doorway.
With a few audible crunching sounds, skin and bone together, that person was directly consumed by the giant spider.
“Holy shit, where did Mountain Dog go?
How come he suddenly disappeared into the sky?”
“Ghost!
There’s a ghost…”
“Run, run quickly, we can’t deal with these evil things at all!”
…
The remaining few, panicked, screamed in terror the moment they realized what was happening, scattering in different directions.
Strictly speaking, Buck Teeth Zhu’s close subordinates could also be reluctantly considered ruthless people.
Without a bit of courage, they wouldn’t have dared to come up with their weapons to help when they saw Buck Teeth Zhu suddenly flying up.
While they couldn’t see the web or the giant spider in the void at the moment,
they could witness their companions being yanked into the sky right before their eyes, then devoured in one bite by an invisible maw in this bizarre scene.
Their courage drained away, and naturally, they started to feel fear.
In fact, not to mention them, even Buck Teeth Zhu himself had turned ashen, his entire body quivering from extreme terror.
His subordinates merely saw the person known as Mountain Dog swallowed whole by the unseen maw.
But Buck Teeth Zhu had not only witnessed Mountain Dog being devoured by the giant spider, he also heard the crunching sound of the spider chewing on Mountain Dog.
Though Hou Donggui had commanded the Five Ghosts to assist with all their might, Buck Teeth Zhu had not been dragged into the maw.
However, it was clear to anyone that Hou Donggui down below had nearly expended all his strength and was in an extremely dire state.
Perhaps in the next instant, he would no longer be able to hold on.
By that time, Buck Teeth Zhu would become the next Mountain Dog, crunched and swallowed in just a few bites by the giant spider.
Faced with this situation, even if Buck Teeth Zhu were fierce and ruthless, he couldn’t possibly remain composed and maintain his cool demeanor.
“Young Master Chen, save me, save me…”
Before Chen Hai had formally started helping him clear the curse, Buck Teeth Zhu had repeatedly promised to let Chen Hai ignore his plight should anything go awry.
Finally, he couldn’t bear it and began to plead for help from Chen Hai.
Chen Hai’s leech-like Divine Soul became visible to both Buck Teeth Zhu and Hou Donggui while he was being brutally tortured by the giant spider.
Hou Donggui was fine, after all, he too was a Cultivator.
When he saw Chen Hai’s Divine Soul manifesting, he was merely surprised and had no other reaction.
In fact, even if he wanted to react, he couldn’t, because at that moment, he was commanding the Five Ghosts, doing his utmost to prevent Buck Teeth Zhu from being dragged into the maw.
He was a man of warm-hearted nature, and Buck Teeth Zhu had helped and saved his life before.
When he first commanded the Five Ghosts, he had already been exerting all his strength, his face pale as gold paper.
And now, his black hair began to turn white and fall off in clumps, which almost left him completely bald.
It seemed that to preserve Buck Teeth Zhu’s life, he had now begun to consume his own lifespan.
It was just unknown how many years of life he had expended in this short period.
Though the events occurring at the scene seemed slow when spoken of, they were in reality taking place in merely an instant.
As Buck Teeth Zhu’s subordinates screamed and scattered in every direction, the two basin-sized leeches near Chen Hai finally burst open, turning into a fist-sized clump of dark green blood.
Immediately following this, the clump of blood transformed into an extremely intricate pattern that caused dizziness just by looking at it, then disappeared into the void.
The next moment, the bright moon hanging in the sky suddenly vanished without a trace.
The entire sky turned gray and dark, with only some brownish patterns flickering in and out of visibility in the void.
At this moment, Chen Hai, as if uncontrollably, fell into a trance-like state of strange and profound confusion.
His mind seemed to cross time and space, returning to that initial instance when he accidentally peered at that terrifying existence during his haphazard visualization.
At the extreme point of horror, a monstrous creature with a flat body hovered in a zigzag fashion in the void.
Its existence eclipsed the sun and the moon, covering the stars.
Upon seeing this terrifying creature for the first time, all things between heaven and earth would be automatically overlooked, as if the existence of this creature alone represented the entire world.
It was unknown whether it was because of the sacrificial offerings of the leech bloodlines that Chen Hai had presented, but they seemed to have had some effect.
Motionless and emitting an aura of death, that terrifying creature suspended in the void had its ten compound eyes tightly closed until, slowly, one of them cracked open just a sliver.
Its gaze, transcending time and space, shot directly to Chen Hai’s location in the Material World.
“Squeak, squeak, squeak…
squeak, squeak, squeak…” The giant spider crawling on the web seemed, at that moment, to have encountered something extremely terrifying.
Its strange calls were incessant, its massive body pressed against the web, its entire form quaking violently.
“Black Water Leech Emperor…” Across the endless void, the gaze from that unknown existence seemed to convey a profound sense of weariness and weakness.
The moment this gaze fell upon Chen Hai, an irresistible feeling of warmth engulfed him, akin to returning to the womb.
Such a title, along with some fragmented information, suddenly surfaced within his mind.
Close on the heels of that gaze, it shifted from Chen Hai to fall upon the giant spider on the web.
“Great unknown entity, spare me…” Full of fear, the spider’s shrill squeals reached Chen Hai’s ears, and it seemed he instantly understood the meaning behind the spider’s squeaking cries.
Regrettably, after only a couple of cries, both the web in the void and the phantom body of the giant spider began to come apart, rapidly dissolving into nothingness.