Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 297 - 137: The True Martial Great Emperor Reveals His True Form! The Cunning Daoist Immortal of the Outer Domain’s Heavenly Demon! (Big 10,000-word - , please subscribe)_2
Previously, after about half an incense stick’s time of walking, one could encounter one or several odd creatures.
Now... he had already walked for another half an incense stick’s time, yet he encountered nothing at all.
Not to mention encountering odd creatures.
He hadn’t even seen a mosquito.
Even the slightest chirps and croaks were absent from his ears. Instead, he could hear someone persistently following him from behind, although never quite managing to catch up.
Who could that person be...
Fan Wu naturally knew that it couldn’t be anyone else but the Nanjun County Prince, with that distinctive odor of not having bathed in at least half a month.
He remembered vividly!
As the sounds from behind, emanating from the Nanjun County Prince, grew louder in Fan Wu’s ears, he realized that the County Prince was about to catch up... It was no small feat for the elderly County Prince, who had been following for so long.
"Wait..."
"Wait a moment!"
From behind.
The voice of the Nanjun County Prince called out: "Don’t... don’t walk so fast!!"
Fan Wu slowed down his pace slightly.
Finally, the Nanjun County Prince caught up.
"Huff—"
"Huff—"
"You... you rascal..." The Commandery Prince walked up to Fan Wu, panting and scratching an itch on his buttocks with one hand, while supporting himself on a nearby tree with the other: "Couldn’t you walk a bit slower?"
"And why did you just leave without saying anything? Making me search for you for so long in this Great Demon Forbidden Land, do you have any idea how dangerous this place is?"
"Stop for a while... just a little while... let me rest for a bit, it has exhausted my old bones."
Without any regard for his image, the Commandery Prince flopped down on the ground.
He couldn’t help but scratch the itchy spot on his neck either.
Then he noticed that Fan Wu’s gaze was somewhat strange, as if looking at an exotic species, which made the Commandery Prince feel uncomfortable.
Though the Commandery Prince also realized he was seen as an oddity in the eyes of others, Fan Wu himself was also an oddity!
To be stared at by an oddity... with a gaze reserved for oddities.
The Commandery Prince felt an indescribable discomfort.
"There shouldn’t be anything weird about me, right?" The Commandery Prince looked down at himself and noticed aside from some areas where he had torn his clothes from scratching... and some parts of his skin that were scratched till they bled, there didn’t seem to be anything strange, right?
"You don’t see it?" Instead of answering the Commandery Prince’s question right away, Fan Wu responded with another question: "In your own eyes, what do you see now?"
The Commandery Prince was taken aback, furrowing his brows, he replied: "I see my dirty clothes, I see that my skin has been scratched open... Uh, I also feel very itchy."
"However, I think this is quite normal. Because every time I venture deep into the core area of the Great Demon Forbidden Land, I feel like this."
"You only see these? You only feel itchy?" Fan Wu asked.
"Yeah!" The Commandery Prince replied puzzledly: "Besides these, what else is there? What did you see?"
Fan Wu answered: "I see that you are about to die."
The Commandery Prince: "???"
In Fan Wu’s eyes, although the Commandery Prince’s Power attribute hadn’t changed much, his Life attribute shockingly was at 300! This number was incredibly high for an ordinary person, but for someone of the Commandery Prince’s status, it was abnormally low.
Fan Wu remembered that when he first met the Commandery Prince, his Life attribute was in the four digits.
Now, it had dwindled to a mere three-digit figure.
Even rounding up wouldn’t bring it back to a four-digit number.
And...
Fan Wu narrowed his eyes, observing the Commandery Prince’s exposed skin, with sores like the mouth of a volcano, draining disgusting pus.
He then looked at the Commandery Prince’s face, noticing the countless grotesque sores on his disheveled face, as if he had contracted some bizarre and sinister illness.
One of the sores had already taken over a quarter of the Commandery Prince’s right cheek, the sore was so severe that Fan Wu could see several of the Commandery Prince’s yellow teeth through it. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
The Commandery Prince’s eyes were bloodshot and utterly lifeless, one eye, in particular, had turned a grayish-white, as if undergoing some sort of pathological change.
His nostrils constantly leaked yellow pus mixed with blood, dripping down his lips and chin onto the ground...
Yet the Commandery Prince seemed completely unaware of the mucus streaming from his nose, oblivious to the transformations occurring on his body.
Fan Wu also saw that the backs of the Commandery Prince’s revealed hands had a grayish-white hue to their skin, resembling waterlogged pork.
It seemed like one could easily tear open the flesh on the back of his hands with a gentle pull.
The odor emitting from the Commandery Prince was no longer that of neglected hygiene but a scent of decay.
Around each sore were dense clusters of tiny blisters, resembling strings of miniature white grapes.
Fan Wu even watched, eyes wide open, as a small "cauliflower" growth began to sprout from the edge of the Commandery Prince’s lips.
