Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 294 - 136: The Great Revered One’s lair? The sword’s glow that illuminates the Great Demon Forbidden Land! (A large - of 10,000 words seeking subscriptions)_5
He discovered that when his hand touched the carcass of the insect, his skin actually felt hot and painful as if it were being scorched.
Then he shoved the insect into his mouth.
He started chewing continuously, frowning as he chewed, "This thing tastes so strange, and the juice from its body is even more disgusting than watery shit."
"Ptui, ptui, ptui!!!!"
His Highness the Prince of Nanjun spat the insect out of his mouth, then leaned against a nearby tree trunk to vomit, "Ugh—this thing is no simple matter, after it entered my mouth, it actually disrupted my mana!"
His face was full of astonishment. He had not expected that such a small insect could possess such strength.
And this was a dead insect at that.
He had thought that he had come to thoroughly understand the Great Demon Forbidden Land, yet he was still naïve.
With a sense of unsettled suspicion,
he advanced another dozen steps forward.
He found that the number of insect carcasses underfoot was increasing—they’d already formed a layer on the ground, and the insect fluids were utterly repulsive. Even someone like him, who had not bathed in over half a month, found it unbearable.
And that acrid smell was constantly irritating his nostrils.
Making him frown all the more.
"Strange."
"Very strange!"
"It’s one thing for the Great Demon Forbidden Land to be filled with such bizarre insects, but who killed them?" mused the Commandery Prince, "Surely it can’t be Fan Wu?"
Then, as he walked a few more steps forward, he saw many cracks on the ground.
Here,
it seemed as though there had been a great battle.
There were also even more insect corpses here, so that with each step he took, he was stepping on those strange insects. But the Commandery Prince no longer cared about the insects underfoot.
Because he noticed that the combined bodies of all those small insects on the ground... were not as large as the carcass of the giant monster insect right in front of him!
The Commandery Prince was dumbfounded for a moment.
"Demons and Devils?"
"No, that’s not right!"
He looked at the giant carcass of the monster insect, frowning as he muttered, "Demons and Devils wouldn’t have such a weak aura. It’s more like some kind of fiend... to think such creatures exist in the Great Demon Forbidden Land. And it’s dead, as if someone blew up its head."
"Could it really have been Fan Wu? Did he take an unusual path and encounter fiends within the Great Demon Forbidden Land? There’s no blood on the ground, so he must not have been injured."
"If he encounters fiends all along the way, then with my speed, catching up to him is just a matter of time. I reckon that in the time it takes to burn one or two sticks of incense, I could catch up to him."
Thinking so, the Commandery Prince felt frustrated, "I told him so much earlier; didn’t they realize his importance?"
With an unhappy face, he followed the trail of clues on his way.
And then...
The Prince of Nanjun realized he was wrong.
Terribly wrong!
But not entirely wrong.
In his previous assumption, Fan Wu would have surely encountered a considerable number of fiends on his way, for the Great Demon Forbidden Land was a forsaken place that few dared to enter in a decade. Once those fiends discovered Fan Wu, they would surely covet his flesh and soul and attack him.
By then, Fan Wu would inevitably be entangled with the fiends, giving the Commandery Prince a chance to quickly close the distance between them during this time.
Until he found Fan Wu.
To bring him back on track.
Unfortunately, while the beginning of these predictions was correct, the latter part was wrong...
Fan Wu indeed encountered many fiends. By the time the Commandery Prince followed his trail, he found more than a dozen fiends had been slain!
However, most of them were very weak.
There were only a few fiend corpses that gave the Commandery Prince a slight sense of oppression.
Logically, so many fiends.
They should have held up Fan Wu, right?!
Unfortunately... the Commandery Prince had yet to see even a hair of Fan Wu!
He was dumbfounded!
"Thirteen fiends... plus such a treacherous mountainous terrain, how is he moving so fast?!" He couldn’t understand at all.
Are these fiends that rubbish?
None of them a match for Fan Wu? Didn’t hold him up for even a second?
But he thought a few of the fiend corpses looked quite oppressive! Meaning, if they had been alive, they would have given him, the Prince of Nanjun, quite a bit of trouble.
Yet, such powerful fiends still failed to hold up Fan Wu and were neatly turned into several corpses.
Ah, this...
One could only say that Fan Wu’s strength was greater than he had anticipated.
...
Meanwhile, outside the Great Demon Forbidden Land.
"The guards outside have confirmed that His Highness the Prince of Nanjun entered the Great Demon Forbidden Land with Fan Wu," Yun Shouji gazed towards the distant Great Demon Forbidden Land, seeing only the faint outlines amidst the pitch-black night.
He could feel the ominous aura emanating from that place.
The Thousand Household Leader of the Qiantian Divine spoke up, "His Highness has been in the Great Demon Forbidden Land for thirty years without incident, so logically, as long as he’s leading, Daoist Priest Fan should be safe. But..."
