nyslfriends Chapter 97 : You’ve Fallen Into Demonic Corruption
Chapter 97 : You’ve Fallen Into Demonic Corruption
Chapter 97: You’ve Fallen Into Demonic Corruption
Flames surged into the sky while screams rose and fell without end.
Some people sprinted wildly while clutching severed limbs. Others were hung by threads wrapped around their necks before the houses.
Elsewhere, two or three people grappled together, stabbing blades into each other’s abdomens.
The entire fortified manor had become a giant meat grinder.
Night wind drifted through the air.
The purple flames of Purification Altar Talismans streaked overhead.
Fang Chang swaggered openly down the street.
Whenever anyone approached, Zhao Yuntong—dressed in brilliant crimson robes—would appear like a ghost. Threads burning with Thought-Flame scattered outward, tangling around her enemies before killing them.
The Obsession Path had always been the sort that grew stronger against stronger opponents.
Especially Zhao Yuntong.
With Fourth Realm strength, she was more than capable of slaughtering gods and Buddhas alike throughout the first battle royale phase.
“Brother Fang?”
Not far away, Chen You suddenly halted his movement while rushing down from the rows of descending houses.
He carried a sword stained with flowing blood.
Spots of blood dotted his luxurious robes, yet that proper and upright face still maintained its usual righteous expression.
“Brother Chen, long time no see.”
Fang Chang cupped his hands from afar.
“It truly has been quite some time.”
Chen You smiled and returned the salute before suddenly lowering his head to inspect himself.
“Look at me, stained and filthy... We agreed to let the weaker cultivators slaughter each other first, yet I couldn’t resist joining in early. Ah, my mind.”
As he spoke, he jokingly tapped his own head.
The darkness within his eyes grew increasingly dense.
“Only human nature. When encountering exciting matters, one always gets a little impatient to act.”
Chen You nodded in agreement.
“Exactly, exactly. That Ancestor Lord is about to descend. I should add more firewood and speed things up. Junior Sister Lü Shu simply failed to understand the situation, insisting something was wrong. I became impatient and hurried to kill her.”
As he spoke, his gaze suddenly froze.
His eyes landed upon Fang Chang and swept up and down across him.
A muddy crimson abruptly stained his pupils. His eyes narrowed vertically like a serpent’s while black patterns spread across the whites.
“Brother Fang, it seems your body does not contain the spiritual seed left behind by the Ancestor Lord?”
“Indeed, it does not.”
Chen You frowned tightly with anger.
“If you do not possess one, then you have no right to participate in this grand feast! Hurry and kill yourself so as not to taint this sacred ground!”
Fang Chang shook his head.
Very few people infected by Demonic Seeds still possessed functioning brains.
Seeing Fang Chang’s disdain, Chen You grew even angrier.
“Good! Good! Good! Then allow me to show you the sword technique I newly comprehended here! Given enough time, this sword shall surely surpass even the sword of my Sword Sect’s Sect Master!”
As he spoke,
He danced sword flowers through the air before suddenly thrusting forward in a streak of sword light.
The two stood three or four zhang apart.
Beneath the moonlight, the dazzling radiance expanded instantly before Fang Chang’s eyes.
Clang!
The phantom of the Black Tortoise Square Cauldron blocked before him.
It was not sword qi.
The actual sword body had collided directly against the phantom.
A flying sword?
Not that either.
Chen You’s arm had stretched outward like rubber.
He held the sword while extending all the way before Fang Chang.
“What a marvelous treasure!”
Chen You’s eyes lit up at the sight of the Black Tortoise Square Cauldron, yet no greed whatsoever appeared within them.
Spinning across the rooftop, he rapidly pulled the sword back while his seven-to-eight-meter-long right arm twisted together with the motion. The sight was bizarre beyond words.
“Yet even compared to this, my refined Sword Arm is no less impressive!”
“What a fine cheap arm!”
Fang Chang burst into loud laughter.
Demonic Seeds naturally possessed the power of Dao Tribulation, greatly increasing the comprehension abilities of those they influenced.
Players could even gain experience-boosting buffs by becoming infected with Demonic Seeds.
Yet though invisible and formless, once infected, the Demonic Seed could alter cultivators on an even more microscopic level.
The medicinal garden elder of the Hidden Treasure Path becoming demonized.
Chen You’s Sword Arm before him.
Both were products of this corruption.
“Hmph!”
Chen You froze momentarily after realizing the unfortunate implications of the name of his new sword technique, then coldly snorted.
“While you waste time with your tongue, behold my Thousand Wheel Rotating Slaughter!”
His entire body spun through the air while his Sword Arm stretched even longer, like an elastic rope accumulating momentum.
The moment he finished speaking, he suddenly released it.
Sword qi exploded outward into rings of silver-white light.
Wherever the circular sword radiance passed, houses were sliced apart at the waist, while the ground was plowed open into massive trenches. Broken stones scattered like rain.
“Hahahahahaha! With such a Sword Arm divine ability, I shall surely ascend the Great Dao and live as long as heaven itself, together with the hea—AHHH!!!”
A bolt of heavenly thunder descended.
Chen You’s words ended abruptly.
Before the residual force had even dispersed, the circular sword light swept past the charred body, shaving away yet another layer of the ruined structures.
He stood frozen in place, resembling a burnt tree stump before collapsing into blackened charcoal.
Light flashed from the Twin-Dragon Grass Talisman Treasure in Fang Chang’s hand.
Kill without torture.
Old Chen counted as a lawful good NPC, so Fang Chang decided to grant him a swift death.
Demonic Seeds should not have spread this quickly.
It was simply because the cultivation world at this point still lacked perfected Dao Heart cultivation techniques.
Combined with the Demonic Seed residing at the convergence point of the two spirit veins, its influence had surged massively and spread extremely far.
Fang Chang raised his eyes into the distance.
Zhang Su, dressed in black robes, had already arrived beside the fleeing Lü Shu.
The moonlight upon the mountainside shone even brighter, making her black robes appear even more elegant and abstinent.
She had already begun exchanging blows with the several cultivators chasing behind.
Though she still wore her veil, so Lü Shu remained unaware of her identity.
Fang Chang slowly walked forward.
The sounds of slaughter shook the heavens around him.
Fang Chang killed one little friend with each bolt of thunder, moving through the battlefield as though entering an uninhabited land.
Zhang Su had more than enough defensive strength and had long since stabilized the battlefield with ease.
But upon seeing Fang Chang approach, her expression changed as she carefully shielded Lü Shu behind herself. Her gentle eyes filled with pleading.
“Don’t kill her, Benefactor Fang.”
Lü Shu had already been startled upon seeing Fang Chang.
But hearing Zhang Su’s voice caused her entire body to tremble as she looked over.
She saw a slender waist, smooth flowing lines across the shoulders and back, and a pair of enormous soft mounds curving visibly even from behind.
The exposed skin was pale almost to transparency, faintly glowing with the sheen of cold jade.
“Auntie Zhang Su?”
She knew Fang Chang had taken Zhang Su’s corpse.
She also knew Fang Chang would refine it into a Yin Corpse.
But that gentle voice was exactly the same as Zhang Su before death!
Could the Corpse Refinement Path truly achieve such a degree?
Zhang Su ignored her entirely.
Her blood-red eyes stared fixedly at Fang Chang.
“She’s fallen into demonic corruption. Those corrupted by Demonic Seeds cannot be saved. You know this yourself.”
“Lü Shu is different. She hasn’t gone mad. Perhaps her Dao Heart is stable and unobstructed.”
“Is that really so?”
Fang Chang casually fired a qi sword forward.
Zhang Su hurriedly raised her Immaculate Glazed Body to disperse it.
At that same moment, a strange crimson shadow flashed past Lü Shu.
Zhang Su could not see clearly and panicked as she turned to protect her—
Only to discover Lü Shu still standing there blankly without injury.
Only her clothing had been cut slightly.
A diagonal tear opened across her collar, exposing delicate collarbones and a small patch of snowy-white chest. The faint curve between her breasts appeared vaguely visible.
Meanwhile, Zhao Yuntong slowly walked to Fang Chang’s side, sneering while indicating the golden pendant in her hand.
Zhang Su still failed to understand.
Then suddenly, Lü Shu let out a muffled groan beside her.
Clutching her head in agony, she weakly collapsed to the ground.
“Xiao Shu!”
Zhang Su pulled her into her arms while the vow power of the Immaculate Glazed Body flowed into her body.
Yet that sensation of ‘gnawing’ surged violently.
Something had previously suppressed the Demonic Seed within her, but once released, it rebounded explosively like floodwaters bursting through a dam.
“Save her, Benefactor Fang!”
Fang Chang merely smiled silently while slowly approaching.
Night darkness lingered heavily behind him, gathering together into vast black clouds.
Zhang Su weakly pleaded in sorrow:
“She’s Muxue’s younger cousin. Save her, Fang Chang. You can do anything you want to me.”
“What could I possibly do to you? You’re already my Corpse Puppet.”
“What happens upon the bed... what happened between you and Zhao Yuntong in the forest... I know what your gaze toward me means... all of it is fine. I only beg you to save her.”
“But if you do this, then you will have broken your vows.”
Tears flowed from Zhang Su’s eyes.
The tears of Yin Corpses were blood-red.
She raised her head, her pale and gentle face appearing even more delectable.
“As long as she can be saved... I can do anything...”
Fang Chang saw a trace of purple-black corruption flash through her eyes.
Shaking his head, he smiled.
“You’ve fallen into demonic corruption, Shigu Zhang.”