Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 298 - 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)_3
Nanjun County Prince seemed to have felt something and scratched at his lips.
The small pimple that had just formed on his face was scratched open, oozing blood and pus slowly.
With an indifferent expression, Nanjun County Prince said, "Don’t mind my itchiness all over my body, it really is just a normal reaction. By the way, why don’t you feel itchy? I remember the first time I ventured deep into the Great Demon Forbidden Land, I felt something was very wrong with my body."
Fan Wu didn’t answer the Nanjun County Prince’s question.
Instead, he remarked with a slight sense of amazement, "So, you have experienced this not only once, but possibly several times, maybe even ten or dozens of times... You’re really lucky to be alive until now."
Suddenly, Fan Wu drew the Demon-Slaying Sword, an action that startled Nanjun County Prince.
He sprang to his feet with a swish, his face instantly filled with a wary expression, ready to turn and run at any sign of anomaly from Fan Wu, "Why have you drawn your sword?!"
Nanjun County Prince was very aware of how formidable Fan Wu was; the terrifying sword marks on the mountain cliff were evidence enough.
He was certainly no match for Fan Wu now.
If Fan Wu intended to attack him, all he could do was turn and run.
Moreover...
Considering that he had been chasing after Fan Wu for so long, there was a good chance he wouldn’t even be able to escape!
"Rest assured, I won’t take your life," Fan Wu replied calmly, holding the Demon-Slaying Sword horizontally with one side of the blade facing Nanjun County Prince. The smooth, undamaged surface of the sword was like a mirror, showing no signs of the recent slaying of many strange creatures; it was too pristine.
Using the side of the Demon-Slaying Sword as though it were a mirror, Fan Wu asked the Nanjun County Prince, "Looking at this sword, can you see what you look like right now?"
Nanjun County Prince was taken aback; he cast his gaze upon the surface of the Demon-Slaying Sword and looked at his reflection with surprise and curiosity, from left to right.
He even lifted his beard to take a better look.
Frowning, he replied, "I just accidentally scratched some blood marks on my face, that’s all!"
Fan Wu pondered thoughtfully.
He sheathed the Demon-Slaying Sword and said to Nanjun County Prince, "Take me straight to the core area of the Great Demon Forbidden Land. A creature capable of such tricks must not be simple."
As he spoke, the smile on Fan Wu’s face turned more and more unrestrained, "I’m very much looking forward to it."
Nanjun County Prince scratched his head.
He asked, "You, can you see something I cannot?"
"Indeed," Fan Wu glanced at him and noticed that several new pimples had formed on his face. Fan Wu continued, "You look more terrifying than a ghost right now; even if you went out in broad daylight, you could faint people on the spot."
Nanjun County Prince was taken aback. Skeptical, he carefully felt his own face but noticed nothing odd.
He said suspiciously, "Could it be that something strange has happened to me that I’m unaware of? Or is there no strange change on me, and you are the one who’s seeing things?"
"Perhaps," Fan Wu replied nonchalantly.
As time ticked by, under Nanjun County Prince’s guidance, Fan Wu and the prince kept getting closer to the core area of the Great Demon Forbidden Land.
But as they approached closer, the bizarre changes on Nanjun County Prince’s body became even more exaggerated.
He now had gaping cuts all over his face.
His body was starting to swell in an unhealthy way, making him appear several sizes rotund, to the point where his clothes seemed like they were about to burst at the seams.
Coupled with his grayish-white skin, now riddled with wounds, one could reasonably wonder if this was the corpse of a giant from Qiulong Temple.
Well... a walking corpse of a Qiulong giant.
What was even more disturbing were the volcano-like sores on Nanjun County Prince’s body, within which something seemed to be squirming slightly. Upon closer inspection, they were actually small worms!
This reminded Fan Wu of Xuan Shizi from Qiulong Temple, but the appearance of Nanjun County Prince was... even more nauseous than that of Xuan Shizi.
It made one think that he might collapse and bite the dust in the next second!
Yet, bizarrely, his spirits were remarkably high. Nanjun County Prince had not the slightest awareness of the discomfort in his own body; his vitality was at a relatively peak state.
Only his Life stat had inexplicably started to drop again, from the previous 300 points of Life to just 250 points now.
That’s a drop of one-sixth!
Finally.
Nanjun County Prince stopped.
"Haha! We’re here!" Unable to resist, Nanjun County Prince took a deep breath and said as he looked ahead at a large swath of grey miasma, "That expanse of miasma up ahead is the core of the Great Demon Forbidden Land! Make sure to stay close to me; this path that I walk is the only way to reach the most hidden parts of the Great Demon Forbidden Land."
He warned, "Don’t disappear suddenly like you did before; this time I will keep a close watch on you."
"Also..."
Before Nanjun County Prince could finish his words, he saw Fan Wu already walking straight toward the front.
This left Nanjun County Prince completely dumbfounded!
By the time Fan Wu’s figure had vanished into the layer of grey miasma, Nanjun County Prince managed to regain his composure, swallowing nervously and muttering to himself, "I was just about to say... this miasma is not ordinary; inhaling too much can erode the Mana within one’s body."
