Damn it! Let's smash the darkness together!-Chapter 1197 - 129: Second Bloom, Ultimately Unable to Escape
"Strange, strange, the Split Mouth Woman has killed countless people. No matter how you answer her question, you’re bound to get a cut from her scissors. So violent and cruel, yet her emotion prefix is actually ’Love’?"
"The world is truly bizarre and puzzling."
During the lightning-fast rush, Xu Shu silently mused, slightly puzzled.
He initially thought that her title should be something like ’Yin God·Anger’, but was totally surprised by the seemingly unrelated word ’Love’ instead.
Actually, since learning that the secret realm targets were those two familiar faces, Xu Shu had been planning to absorb them.
The reason was none other than the countermeasure to the Split Mouth Woman’s [Question-and-Answer Game], which required close contact, thereby meeting the condition for the small jade Buddha to absorb people without injury.
It’s important to know that the Evil Spirits within the Narrow Sleeve Guanyin, except for the Corpse Dog, were all absorbed by Xu Shu himself, and this theory had been thoroughly confirmed by Wu Jie.
As long as a relationship is established, one can be absorbed, and since establishing a relationship is necessary to counter the Split Mouth Woman, how could he miss such a heaven-sent opportunity?
Therefore, when Xu Shu used the Tai Chu Scroll to determine that the opponent indeed had an emotional suffix, he promptly carried out his plan to the end.
In the end, he withstood a round of "Five Thunders Bombing", kept the Split Mouth Woman alive, and successfully seized the opportunity to have the Narrow Sleeve Guanyin include her in the harem.
Though it cost him a resurrection chance, the reward made it all worthwhile.
The only downside was that Lu Bingwei barged in too quickly.
Xu Shu had just died, subtracted a life, and entered [Transcendental Mode], preparing to leisurely explore what this small secret realm was about.
But then turned his head, only to see Lu Bingwei anxiously break through the remaining barrier, rushing in to check the situation.
This left Xu Shu quite annoyed.
What’s the hurry, are you the king of Gigi?
Sometimes, having a teammate who’s too assertive isn’t a good thing!
Hmm, and her power was beyond his expectations, that lightning move just now seemed to be reaching the Demigod level in destructive power...
Does she have an exotic treasure? A one-time attack maybe?
Xu Shu pondered, watching as Lu Bingwei approached his "death point" nearby, to avoid being found out that he could die and revive, he reluctantly ended the Transcendental Mode, quickly returned to his position, and played along to gloss over the events.
Originally, he thought about pulling out three purple crystals from Shinkai Haoye and pretending they were items dropped after the Split Mouth Woman’s death.
After all, secretly hogging the loot when the team farmed together didn’t seem right.
But because Lu Bingwei came too quickly, Xu Shu had just "returned to his body" and had no time to take the items out of the storage bag and throw them on the ground.
Seeing this, Xu Shu simply went with it, making up excuses, and lied to her that the Split Mouth Woman got away.
He thought surely his explanation wouldn’t hold, and suspicion would arise, right? Xu Shu prepared to toss the crystals elsewhere during the search later and put on an act.
After all, before they entered, it was agreed that the crystals from the two Ghost Kings would go to him, and they just needed the bowl from Knot’s hands.
To his surprise, she believed him directly and hurried off to support the fight on another side!
With things this way, Xu Shu was in no mood to waste more words.
But then, two things puzzled him.
Firstly, the power of that Palm Thunder from Lu Bingwei was so great that, despite his strong body and activating the Yang God technique "Farewell with A Heavy Heart," he was blasted to bits in a second, proving that move was unquestionably unavoidable.
Yet strangely, his clothes were unharmed.
Xu Shu had expected to explain why he suddenly appeared in new clothes upon revival.
The second puzzling thing was...
"Why does each have a small orb of light inside them, hovering over their heads, looking so pointy?"
Xu Shu couldn’t help but glance at Gu Yue Ming’s back, murmuring softly.
Acting in such a short time in Transcendental Mode, he naturally focused his main attention on the battlefield on the other side.
He saw Yan Huoxing, Ali, and others handling countless Ghost Soldiers and Fujiang clones, effortlessly slicing through as if cutting vegetables; saw, to the north of the temple, a disheveled female little devil locked in a dry well alongside the true form of Fujiang.
Moreover, in the Main Hall, he saw an old bald friend—Knot, frail as ever, kneeling in front of a Buddha statue, holding a golden bowl and gently hitting a wooden fish.
With just a blink, Xu Shu identified where their key adversaries’ true forms were in this secret realm.
Under real sight, all secrets exposed without any place to hide, revealing entirely.
This is the extreme confidence that [Transcendental Mode] gave Xu Shu.
Within the ruins, he knows he’s pretty much invincible!
It’s worth mentioning that the state of "Knot" differed notably from what he remembered.
His body showed clear mutations, with gills forming on his cheeks, a fish tail growing behind, and octopus tentacles wriggling on his chin; he appeared to be undergoing a certain degree of merfolk transformation!
Xu Shu suspected whether Knot might turn into a "mermaid," perhaps he could find out later.
Besides this, in a hurried glance, he noticed that small orb of light inside everyone.
What this little light orb was, Xu Shu had no idea, as Gu Yue Ming and Lu Bingwei each possessed one, looking quite similar.
