Yama Reborn-Chapter 533 - 530: [The Way to Kill a Seed]

Chapter 530: How to Kill a Seed

A blaze of fire shot up through the woods on the mountainside!

The shimmering light instantly brightened the entire sky near Mt. Niushou, then faded as quickly as it had appeared, but one could see the light falling back down the mountain.

Chen Nuo lay on Vanel’s back and, in his excitement, slapped Vanel’s shoulder and shouted, "There it is! Over there!! Quick!!"

Vanel, slapped so abruptly, spat out a mouthful of blood on the spot, feeling as though his shoulder was about to shatter. He growled in pain and cursed, "Are you trying to kill me!"

Chen Nuo quickly retracted his hand, urgently pointing ahead. "Hurry! Something doesn’t seem right!"

Vanel sprinted forward for dozens of meters. As they both ran into the forest, they saw a deafening explosion at the end of the woods ahead, followed by a powerful and violent shockwave that tore down and snapped over a hundred large trees!

Vanel let out a roar, stomped his feet fiercely, digging them into the soil, and then spread out his arms in front of him!

As this shockwave hit, Vanel’s muscles bulged explosively, and he growled incessantly, but his clothes were already torn apart.

When it had finally subsided, Vanel gasped lowly, "I can’t go on... I can’t advance any further... Ahead is the Controller’s battle range. I’d be dead if I entered."

Chen Nuo immediately jumped off his back and said in a low voice, "Good! Davarishi, then you should quickly get out of here. I’ll walk the rest myself."

Vanel grabbed Chen Nuo. "Wait! What about... the method to break the mirror... you mentioned?"

Chen Nuo looked at Davarishi and slapped his forehead.

"Right, I’ll tell you now."

"Speak!" Vanel immediately straightened up, ears pricked to listen carefully.

Chen Nuo took a deep breath and said with solemn righteousness, "The method is... As they say, ’Where there’s a will, there’s a way. No pain, no gain!’ Train hard!"

With that, the fat dog turned tail and ran!

Vanel, with only a basic understanding of Chinese, pondered the words over several times in his heart before he realized what was going on. Watching as Chen Nuo had already run far ahead, he could only curse loudly from behind, "Chen Nuo!!! You..."

He had only cursed out once when he saw Chen Nuo, who had vanished into the woods, suddenly turn around and run back like mad.

Vanel was startled just to hear Chen Nuo shouting while running, "Shit!! Run, run! The mountain is collapsing!!"

Looking behind Chen Nuo, they saw a landslide pouring down from the mountain treeline!

Chen Nuo had lost all his abilities. He could not fly and could only sprint as fast as he could, but the landslide behind him was engulfing countless trees and was quickly closing the distance.

When Chen Nuo reached Vanel, Vanel grabbed Chen Nuo’s clothes, flung him onto his back again, and turned around to sprint away.

After a few steps, Vanel roared, exerted force with his legs, and shot up from the ground like a cannonball, leaping over the woods and into the air in an instant!

When they landed, they were already dozens of meters away!

With the landslide roaring behind them, Chen Nuo looked anxious. "She must be on the other side of the mountain, clashing with someone! It’s where the meteor fell just now! Vanel! Go around the landslide, to the back of the mountain!"

Go around my ass!

Vanel, with severe pain in his chest, rolled his eyes.

The wound where my rib was punctured is still aching, and you tricked me!

And what was that about ’Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Train hard...’? To hell with your ’train hard’!

"I’m just the Destroyer, I can’t fly!" Vanel ran, panting heavily.

Just as Chen Nuo was becoming desperate, Vanel suddenly came to a screeching halt, stood in place, turned his head, and said loudly to Chen Nuo, "You said the back of the mountain, right?"

"Right!"

"I have a way to get you directly there!"

"Great!"

"The method’s a bit rough, Davarishi, you don’t mind, right?"

"I don’t mind... Wait! What are you doing?"

Vanel didn’t answer. He suddenly grabbed Chen Nuo from his back, hauled him up by the hair, lifting him entirely, and turned towards the direction of the incoming landslide.

Well...

You’ve seen how a goalkeeper makes a long kick from the goal area, right?

Carrying Chen Nuo and taking a two-step run-up, Vanel swung his thick right leg and unleashed a mighty kick!

"Off you go!"

Chen Nuo roared, his voice trailing off into a howl as he drew an arc in midair, heading toward the back mountain...

Vanel squinted, panting as he watched, then fiercely swung a fist through the air!

Do you know how long I’ve wanted to do this?!!

Seeing the mudslide approaching, Vanel quickly turned and sprinted away...

On the ground, the water level of Yulong Lake in the distance had gone down by half! A massive amount of water was lifted into the sky by the blast wave from the explosion, then fell like a torrential downpour!

Then, as the ray of light hit the ground and buried itself, beneath the burst of light was a crater-like depression in the ground...

Lu Xixi’s knees bent upwards, just at Kamisou Ichiro’s lower abdomen, where he crossed his palms and blocked her knees.

PTHOO!

Kamisou Ichiro violently spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva. Then, suddenly, his face changed; he violently leaned back and then ducked forward!

BANG!

His forehead crashed into Lu Xixi’s. Lu Xixi screamed in pain, and her body was flung backwards.

By the time Lu Xixi got back on her feet, her face and head were already bloodied. At a distance, Kamisou Ichiro’s expression was unsightly. He fiercely wiped his mouth, and his chest, which was already somewhat sunken with broken ribs, rapidly healed after a deep breath.

"You know, I had at least three chances to kill you just now," Kamisou Ichiro said, his relaxed expression gone.

"Three times? I only noticed two." Lu Xixi wiped her forehead with the back of her hand, her broken skull rapidly mending. She then shook her neck vigorously, making a cracking noise, and slowly walked towards Kamisou Ichiro. "It seems the gap between my strength and yours is bigger than I thought..."

"So can we end this meaningless fight?" Kamisou Ichiro frowned.

"Dream on!" Lu Xixi raised her fist, the air around it crackling with electricity, and she bellowed, "I haven’t had nearly enough!"

As an electric punch smashed towards Kamisou Ichiro, he immediately used Instantaneous Movement, shifting ten meters away. But Lu Xixi’s figure also arrived simultaneously using Instantaneous Movement!

Kamisou Ichiro, having no choice, raised his hands to block Lu Xixi’s punch.

After a muffled sound, electricity exploded on Kamisou Ichiro. Blood sprayed from his body. He snorted coldly and swept a side kick at Lu Xixi’s arm.

With a snap, Lu Xixi’s right arm twisted at an irregular angle and broke. She stumbled back several steps but managed to stand firm. Gritting her teeth, she grabbed her right arm with her left hand. With a harsh twist, she set the broken bones straight and took a few deep breaths. Then, with a pained expression, she laughed coldly, waving her now fully healed right arm.

"Again!" Lu Xixi charged forward with raised fists.

"Madman!" Kamisou Ichiro’s face darkened, and he suddenly shouted, "Wait a moment!"

Lu Xixi had already leaped to Kamisou Ichiro’s face. Frowning, she stopped her fist mid-air. "What else do you want to say?"

"If I wanted to kill you, you’d be dead already! My tolerance won’t last forever." Kamisou Ichiro took a deep breath. "If you keep pestering me, even if I can’t kill you... you still have family and women..."

Before he could finish, Lu Xixi’s demeanor violently erupted!

However, just as Kamisou Ichiro uttered the word "women," before he could finish with "children"—

BOOM!!

A figure shot rapidly from the left side of the sky!

Lu Xixi saw that before Kamisou Ichiro could finish speaking, he was hit by a figure and sent flying! With a loud crash, he was buried into the mountain...

Lu Xixi: "..."

From within a big pit in the ground, a fat hand like a pig’s trotter struggled to reach out, scratching at the edge, and then a pig’s head... no, a round head emerged.

Two slits for eyes strained to open wide, looking up at Lu Xixi, then with a grin, "...Uhm, Honey?"

Lu Xixi: "...What monster are you transformed from?"

"Xixi, it’s me, Nuonuo..."

"..."

It took a full ten seconds of scrutiny before Lu Xixi recognized that the creature in front of her, who looked like he had probably eaten three pigs, eighteen ducks, and two barrels of lard, might, just might, be her husband!

Hurrying forward, she gripped Chen Nuo and yanked him from the ground, watching as he stood in place, hands propped on his knees as he gasped for breath for quite some time.

"Honey..." she began, "Did you eat something wrong to end up like this?"

Chen Nuo caught his breath, then managed a wry smile. "I mean, if I told you I ate Seed, would you believe me?"

Seeing Lu Xixi’s expression change, Chen Nuo shook his head. "Just kidding. But that guy did force me to swallow something, damn it."

Lu Xixi first froze, then suddenly looked up. "Damn! The Octopus Monster!"

By the time Lu Xixi rushed to the edge of the mountain, she saw that the slope had already been extensively hollowed out, but where within the mountain could any sign of Kamisou Ichiro be found?

Looking back, not only had Kamisou Ichiro disappeared, but the Wizard Diamond and Nolan were nowhere to be seen either!

"He led them all away," Lu Xixi sighed.

As the tension in her heart eased, Lu Xixi staggered a bit, then reached out to support herself on Chen Nuo’s shoulder.

After all, having fought a true Seed with all her might, Lu Xixi seemed high-spirited, but she’d actually been severely injured several times. If not for relying on her ability as a peak Controller to forcibly recover, she would’ve been killed long ago.

Chen Nuo quickly reached out to embrace the unsteady Lu Xixi.

But with one movement, Lu Xixi instinctively shrank back, making an instinctive move to dodge.

Chen Nuo was startled.

Lu Xixi then laughed helplessly, staring at Chen Nuo’s face as she shook her head. "You look so different, completely unrecognizable... When you tried to hug me just now, it felt like a stranger was touching me, so I subconsciously dodged."

As she spoke, Lu Xixi forcefully shook her head, her eyes fixed only on Chen Nuo’s gaze. As their eyes met, she smiled sweetly, her voice softening. "That’s right, those eyes belong to my husband."

Having said this, she threw herself into Chen Nuo’s embrace.

A few minutes later.

Inside the Chen Family’s apartment on the 5th floor of the residential complex.

After teleporting into the living room, both of them covered in mud and dust, they each collapsed onto the couch.

The only difference was that Chen Nuo was not injured, just out of breath.

Meanwhile, Lu Xixi was completely exhausted. She saw the medicine cabinet Chen Nuo had brought out—it belonged to Little Candy—and was about to grab the Self-healing Serum, but Chen Nuo restrained her hand.

"We should avoid using this stuff as much as possible," Chen Nuo frowned, his tone serious. "Seed told me a lot. One of the things he mentioned was that at our level of strength, we should strive to escape the shackles of the flesh. To do that, we must first completely control our own bodies.

This Self-healing Serum is an external force; relying on it might make the final breakthrough even more difficult."

After a moment’s thought, Lu Xixi withdrew her hand and nodded. "I’ll listen to you... However, my injuries, if I were to recover on my own, it would probably take two or three days. Healing external wounds isn’t difficult, but the loss of blood cells and many other cells need to be replenished slowly."

Chen Nuo nodded, struggled to get up, handed Lu Xixi a glass of water, and then asked, "Where are the other members of the family? Where did you hide them? It’s time to bring them back, so Mom won’t be worried."

Lu Xixi shook her head. "I’m not as foolish as you think, honey~"

Saying this, she laughed softly. "I knocked out your mother and sister. Then, before those people knocked on the door, I broke through space and had Little Candy take them to a safe place."

"Where?"

"London, in that house of mine." Lu Xixi shook her head. "My Spatial Ability is still not very stable. I’m already proficient in short-distance Instantaneous Movement. However, for long-range spatial travel, breaking through spatial barriers is difficult for me to pinpoint exactly. I can only locate the place I’m most familiar with. So... under the circumstances back then, I could only Transfer them to my home in London."

She paused and then smiled. "But don’t worry, your mother and sister will sleep soundly for seven or eight hours, and they won’t wake up in between. As long as we bring them back before they wake up, they won’t get frightened."

Chen Nuo nodded. "Our daughter..."

"Our daughter is fine, but she has started to say a few words, and you’ve missed all that time."

Although Lu Xixi’s words were calm, there was still a sense of regret. Chen Nuo felt touched and leaned over to hold Lu Xixi’s hand, speaking softly, "Yes, I haven’t been a good father."

Lu Xixi shook her head. "I know you must have had your reasons, so I’ve never blamed you. But now that you’re back, you should still explain to me in detail what has been going on."

Chen Nuo glanced at the time, thought for a moment, and nodded. "Alright. You said Mom and my sister could sleep for seven or eight hours, so there’s no rush to bring them back. Besides, there are some things that are better not said in front of them. And with my current appearance, it would probably be hard to explain to them as well."

Rubbing the fat on his face hard, Chen Nuo began slowly, "Well, let’s start then. I do indeed have some things that I need to talk to you about in more detail."

But suddenly... Chen Nuo furrowed his brow.

For some reason, it felt like... he had forgotten something?

At the base of Mt. Niushou, on the outer roads.

The continuous strong lights, explosions, and roaring in the mountains had long alarmed the relevant departments.

Fire trucks and police forces had already been dispatched and arrived at the scene.

The road leading up Mt. Niushou had been blocked off, and fire engines had driven up.

Meanwhile, the police had started to set up cordons around the area, stopping curious citizens who had heard the commotion from getting close.

For a time, the road was a chaotic scene with large engineering equipment vehicles being driven in...

On the outskirts of the bustling crowd, a figure slowly made their way through the edge of the crowd. They then tried to blend in before ducking into the gaps between parked cars on the roadside. Moving over ten meters while bent at the waist, they finally spotted the sought-after object in the window of a car.

Forcefully opening the car door, he took out a piece of clothing that was still in the back seat...

Two minutes later, behind the car, Vanel, now dressed in clean clothes and wearing a fisherman’s hat, lowered his head, crouched down, and disappeared into the crowd of onlookers...

Sukabule! That bastard! How dare he abandon me?!

"You now have roughly 40% of the strength of a Seed like the Octopus Monster?"

In the living room, Chen Nuo looked at Lu Xixi with a very serious expression and asked.

"More than that, I can probably reach about 50%, if I put my life on the line. But 50% is still not enough. If he fights me seriously, he can kill me in at most two minutes—even this estimate is very optimistic."

Lu Xixi’s reply was also very serious: "I have a feeling and judgment, which I suddenly speculated during my battle with the Octopus Monster."

Chen Nuo nodded. "Go on."

"They... Their life-form is different from ours; their life form is more advanced. So... simply coming close in terms of strength doesn’t seem to mean much. Theoretically, I’ve reached 40 to 50% of its strength. If it were human, then, husband, if you and I had comparable strength, we could confront the Octopus Monster by working together. We might even have a chance to exchange our lives for its in a desperate fight! If there were two people with strength comparable or close to mine joining forces. Then, three against one, by all logic, we should be able to kill the Octopus Monster by joining forces. Theoretically, it should be like that, right?"

"Right, theoretically it is," Chen Nuo nodded.

"But just now, when I fought it for a while, the more I fought, the more I realized that this theory doesn’t apply to the Octopus Monster, these Seeds, these non-human life forms. I’m afraid we can’t calculate it that way. Because, during the battle, I found that it’s probably due to the different life forms. Its reliance and limitations on its physical body are much smaller than ours as humans! The same serious injury, it can heal in one breath, and its overall strength seems not to have decreased at all. As for me, while I might have reached 40 to 50% of its strength, I need several breaths to mobilize my body to heal. After healing, my strength is depleted, and my combat power declines. This isn’t about the difference in strength or the total amount of energy. It’s about the difference in life form. So, I estimate, even if there were three humans with strength like mine working together, we wouldn’t be able to kill the Octopus Monster. The hierarchy crush of life forms is too obvious. Simply put, it can... not lose HP or mana in the process of fighting us!"

Lu Xixi frowned in thought, slowly saying: "But Seed can injure it. Perhaps because Seed’s life form is on the same level or even higher. Whereas our Life Level is lower than its, so we can contend with it briefly, but we can’t injure it. In the end, we are either killed by it or die from exhausting our energy."

Chen Nuo sighed heavily, his face grave: "Indeed, your judgment is mostly correct. So... that’s why during these days I stayed with Seed, it told me something, that is... In this world, the only ones who can kill a Seed are other Seeds. Humans cannot do it."