Chapter 69 Siege <TOC> Chapter 71 Changing Weapons
Translator: SumTLMan
The three-headed horse-like blood beast was not dead. Having had one of its heads cleanly chopped off made it very angry.
It directly trampled and kicked away the some of the timid thirsty blood beasts in front of it. Its four claws flew and scratched the rocky ground, charging towards Li Mu.
This blood beast’s speed was astonishing, and its huge body almost turned into a phantom.
It was squeezed among the blood beasts and didn’t have time to use its own speed advantage. It was no wonder that it was so irritable after having its head chopped off.
Li Mu was pleased to see it charging straight towards him to its death. He held his great sword with both hands, the tip of the sword resting on the ground.
Their figures passed by each other.
The horse-shaped blood beast’s body was directly split in half, falling to the ground.
Li Mu shook his sword, shaking off the blood on the blade. The speed of the horse-star blood beast was not fast enough for him in the accelerated state of his nerves.
While he was fighting the blood beast, Shen Luoyan was also fiercely fighting against the Goss in the blood pool.
Several thick and strong wrist-feet extended from the blood pool, flexibly reaching out to grab at Shen Luoyan.
Shen Luoyan’s face was serious as she continuously fired high-energy beams that flashed and disappeared, cutting off these wrist-feet. These wrist-feet were as fragile as tofu under the beams, but they were unexpectedly tough and flexible.
She needed to concentrate all her attention to intercept all the wrist-feet in mid-air.
“Divine Light Energy Seal – Seven.”
Shen Luoyan suddenly placed both hands on the giant rock on the ground. The next moment, a dense array of light spears pierced through the bottom of the source blood pool, crisscrossing each other.
Those giant wrist-feet were directly pierced through, and the source blood dripped back into the source blood pool. The liquid level of the source blood pool did not decrease at all.
Shen Luoyan raised an eyebrow and her face became even more serious. The attack just now was not to destroy the wrist-feet, but to penetrate the rock layers at the bottom of the source blood pool and destroy it.
But this plan had failed. The source blood pool was even more mysterious and tenacious than she had imagined.
“Something’s not right!”
Li Mu suddenly shouted out loud. He was most worried that these blood beasts would bypass him and attack Shen Luoyan, who was fighting against the Goss. That’s why he took the initiative to charge towards the blood beasts.
But what puzzled him was that these blood beasts had no intention of attacking Shen Luoyan at all, and even consciously avoided the source blood pool. They were tightly entangled with him.
The fervor of battle subsided slightly, and he finally realized that something was wrong.
These blood beasts also feared Goss, although they were very chaotic, so far none of the blood beasts had entered the attack range of those wrist legs. When they rushed over, they even deliberately avoided the source blood pool.
This was definitely not Goss’s doing. By now, Li Mu had confirmed that Goss could not control the blood beasts as accurately as he had with Smolte before. Otherwise, their attacks would not be so disorderly, and even situations where bloodthirsty beasts feared the enemy would not occur.
“Goss! You cannot leave the source blood pool.”
He shouted at Goss loudly.
There was a moment of silence in the cave, and after a moment, Goss slowly floated up from the source blood pool.
“Your senses are very accurate, intruder.”
He sneaked into the bottom of the source blood pool and used the secret method of the Soul Cult to open the sealed stone box of the holy relic, holding the blood of the Soul Lord in his hand and blending with the source blood pool.
Now, he was the source blood pool, and the source blood pool was him.
With the never-ending source blood pool, Goss was almost indestructible. But because of this, he could not leave the source blood pool.
The flesh and blood shaped by the source blood would automatically disintegrate after a certain distance away from the source blood pool.
Trapped in the source blood pool, he turned his attention to these blood beasts. The blood beasts had flesh and blood bodies and a high affinity for the source blood, perhaps able to reshape a body using the flesh of a blood beast.
The first victim was his proudest work, the Blood Snake.
Goss controlled the Blood Snake to swim into the source blood pool, then ruthlessly stole all its flesh.
But the Blood Snake’s body was too weak to bear the blood of the Soul Lord and collapsed directly.
To Goss’s delight, although the body of the Blood Snake had collapsed, its flesh remained in the blood pool, still full of vitality.
He began to capture and control the other blood beasts in the cave, forcing them to jump into the source blood pool and plunder their flesh. He believed that as long as he accumulated enough flesh, he would be able to create a strong enough body.
But although the blood beasts had had most of their souls eaten by the soul worms, they were not completely devoid of intelligence. Only relying on their beastly instincts, they knew how to seek benefits and avoid harm, and directly hid in the depths of the cave. If it were not for the intimidation of the Soul Lord statue, they would have fought to escape the cave long ago.
Goss tried every means to lure them out of the depths of the cave, but to no avail.
If he lifted the binding of the Soul Lord statue, he could not guarantee that he could capture enough blood beasts. This put him in a stalemate.
If the stalemate continued until the return of the Ghost Owl, he was very likely to be wiped out of his consciousness by the holy relic. This made Goss extremely anxious.
The appearance of Li Mu and the other broke the deadlock.
As long as the blood beasts fought with them, regardless of who the final victor was, he could gain a large amount of flesh and blood.
Although it was impossible to overcome the blood beasts’ fear of death and make them approach the blood pool, driving them to attack Li Mu was not difficult for Goss, who had merged with the source blood pool.
What excited him was that Li Mu’s efficiency in slaughtering blood beasts was astonishingly high. In no time, he created a large number of corpses.
Li Mu’s gaze fell on the body of the horse-like blood beast, and he carefully observed it before discovering that there were source blood filaments as thin as hair that were protruding from the source blood pool and penetrating the body of the beast.
In the dim environment of the cave and the intense battle, these almost invisible blood threads were impossible to detect.
He directly struck the body with his sword, and the originally tough body was smashed like foam. Within a short moment, most of the flesh and blood inside had been sucked away.
Above the blood pool, Goss let out an extremely sharp laugh.
“Intruder, you’re too late to realize it. Your senses are sharp enough, but unfortunately, my killing speed is even faster!”
His face became beastly, with large canine teeth growing out of his mouth. His rotten and skinny body rapidly swelled like an inflated balloon, becoming extremely muscular. The rough black fur tore through the skin, and a pair of tattered bat wings grew out of his back, while a sticky long tail swayed slowly behind him.
The blood beasts looked at Goss with fear and trembling, even the giant blood beast was shivering.
“Feel the power of my new body.”
Goss said in a booming voice.
“Beast of Darkness.”
Shen Luoyan clenched her fist. She didn’t expect to be deceived by a madman.
“Not bad insight, woman. I didn’t expect the body I created to be like this. I thought I could have a body like the Lord of the Soul. Perhaps this has something to do with the Beast of Darkness holy relic that I implanted in the past.”
Goss said calmly.
He could feel the immense power possessed by this body, and his mentality had expanded to the limit.