Chapter 74 Embrace of Death <TOC> Chapter 76 Fountain of Souls
Translator: SumTLMan
Li Mu’s whole body was covered in goosebumps. He could feel the opponent’s icy and damp skin clearly.
The muscles under its skin were like steel cables tightly entwined, holding him in place and making him unable to move.
That face was pressed against his ear, and a moist whisper came through.
“All things are one, and all things return to one.”
The body suddenly contracted, trying to pull Li Mu into the giant snake’s body.
More bodies crawled out of the giant snake’s body, and densely packed palms grabbed at various parts of Li Mu’s body.
Because they took up a large amount of flesh, the entire body of the giant snake became thin, revealing its ribs and spine.
Some of them muttered the soul lord’s prayer of “All things are one, and all things return to one” blankly. Some murmured indistinctly.
Li Mu stood on the giant snake’s body with both feet, struggling to resist fusion.
“Boom!”
With a loud noise, Li Mei calmly fired a rocket, hitting the head of the giant snake and preventing it from healing.
She directly threw away the empty tube in her hand and picked up another one.
“Boom!”
This shot directly hit the layered human meat mass. The meat mass burst into a mist of blood, exploding like a hornet’s nest.
Countless pale body parts were blown away, and broken meat scattered everywhere. The remaining human body revealed a chilling white bone.
Shen Luoyan exclaimed, and her heart almost jumped out of her chest.
“That shot was a simple high-explosive shell used to kill personnel. The built-in steel ball should not be able to cause fatal damage to Li Mu after penetrating those layered bodies.”
Li Mei calmly said, throwing the smoking disposable tube aside. The level of difficulty of this monster has surpassed that of the same level of kin.
The PT08 rocket launcher has multiple warheads to adapt to various enemies. Among them, the HE441 warhead is a prefabricated fragmentation high-explosive shell with an embedded 800 tungsten alloy ball, mainly used for personnel killing.
Li Mu shouted and shook off most of the flesh entangled on his body. Then, he used an iron spear to prop himself up on the giant snake’s body, breaking off the remaining flesh and freeing himself from the giant snake’s body.
He was gasping heavily, breathing fresh air. If he hadn’t broken free in time, he would have been suffocated alive.
Li Mu took a sip of Sun Spring from his water bottle. His condition was extremely poor, with palm-shaped bruises and fingernail scratches all over his body, two broken ribs, and muscle contusions all over his body.
With such injuries, simply drinking Sun Spring was not enough to heal him; he needed to soak in the spring water.
He closed his hand and disappeared into the air, only to reappear in the same spot in the blink of an eye. All his injuries had disappeared, the sticky source blood had been cleaned away, and even his torn clothes had been replaced.
Li Mei was so shocked that she almost dropped the rocket launcher in her hand. She rubbed her eyes, thinking she had seen things wrong. Shen Luoyan, on the other hand, had a knowing expression.
“Now it’s the second round.”
Li Mu shook his spear in both arms and continued to restrain the giant snake, allowing Li Mei to continuously output damage with her rocket launcher from a distance.
Bodies kept springing out from the giant snake’s body, trying to grab him.
Li Mu could only use his spear to slap or poke these terrifying death bodies away from him, occasionally jumping up to dodge the snake’s tail strikes and impacts.
If it weren’t for Li Mei constantly consciously bombing the snake’s head, disabling its strongest attack method, Li Mu might not have been able to hold on.
What made him breathe a sigh of relief was that after transforming into its current form, Goss’s strength had indeed skyrocketed, but its mind had become much stupider, only attacking Li Mu who was nearby and ignoring Li Mei far away.
It took seventeen rocket launcher hits before the giant snake began to falter, during which time Li Mu had to return to the Exile Realm twice to recover his state.
Li Mu pinned the huge, winding snake body to the ground with his spear. Those pale, moist bodies slowly sank into the snake body, staring at Li Mu with numb eyes.
“All things become one, and all things return to one.”
Li Mu was startled to see Goss’s face among the many faces. His expression was blank, his face pale, and he pursed his lips. There was no difference between his face and the other faces.
The weirdness of the Source Blood Pool exceeded his imagination, and Goss had indeed become one of the many sacrifices.
“We have completely merged with the blood of the Lord of Souls.”
Goss moved his lips and spoke.
“The Lord of Souls is an ancient ruler who surpasses the first level. We cannot destroy His body with just the few of us, even if it’s just a drop of His blood.”
Shen Luoyan never expected that there would be relics of ancient rulers in a monastery.
This dangerous thing is usually tightly sealed. Because every holy relic has the potential to communicate with the ancient rulers who can no longer freely enter the Earth.
Communicating with the gods is dangerous, and it is also true for believers who have faith in them.
The language of the ancient rulers contains too much mysterious knowledge that humans cannot perceive. It’s very easy to fall into madness and then mutate into terrifying monsters when communicating with them.
Anyone who tries to gain power through holy relics will ultimately end up in a miserable fate.
Goss’s luck was that there was no will of the Lord of Souls in that drop of blood. This prevented him from losing his mind in the first place, but his greed for devouring eventually invited disaster.
When facing that drop of blood, his soul was equal to all the other souls, and the blood of the Lord of Souls did not show any preference because he was the first to merge with it.
Their knowledge, emotions, and will, their self-awareness and perception of the world, were all turned into nutrients absorbed by the blood.
This is also why the face on the giant snake gradually became wooden.
Before long, a strange intelligence mixed with all consciousness will be born in the blood.
Among all the people, Shen Luoyan, whose intuition was the strongest, didn’t know exactly what had happened, but she could clearly feel that as the giant snake weakened, its threat level continued to rise.
Li Mu stepped on the constantly convulsing and squirming body of the giant snake, took out the sharpest ring knife among all his weapons, and directly cut open the body of the giant snake bit by bit.
When the blade cut into those faces, the faces immediately opened their mouths and let out a miserable scream.
All kinds of eerie screams were heard one after another. Sticky blood splattered on Li Mu’s body, making him look like a notorious murderer.
“Now that you have merged with the blood of the Lord of Souls, I will dig it out.”
He said as he cut.
“I wonder if you can still be resurrected without this drop of blood!”
The battle so far had aroused the ferocity hidden deep in his soul.
Chapter 74 Embrace of Death <TOC> Chapter 76 Fountain of Souls