Chapter 141
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Ye Ruan and Wen Yian watched in disbelief as Lou Yan rushed into the body of the Water Ghost.
Ye Ruan didn’t believe that Lou Yan could kill the Water Ghost, but because of a faint sense of unease, he sat up straight, gripping the wheelchair’s armrests tightly, his gaze fixed on the Water Ghost.
Wen Yian was even more nervous than Ye Ruan. She wasn’t sure if Lou Yan could kill such a terrifying Water Ghost. If Lou Yan failed… Wen Yian pursed her lips, glanced at Ye Ruan without leaving a trace, and quietly moved behind Ye Ruan’s wheelchair, placing her hand on the handlebar just above Ye Ruan’s neck, ensuring that she could kill Ye Ruan at any time.
If Lou Yan succeeded in killing the Water Ghost, then everything would be fine. If not, Wen Yian, the traitor, wanted to survive and had to be prepared for the worst.
Ye Ruan suddenly asked, “Wen Yian, do you think Lou Yan’s strength is stronger than the Water Ghost? Can he kill the Water Ghost?”
Wen Yian didn’t know the answer, but she remained calm and confident, saying, “Of course. If Lou Yan wasn’t strong, why would I betray you and join him?”
Ye Ruan smiled upon hearing this, leaning back in his wheelchair, the slight tension disappearing. “Is that so? If you really think he’s stronger than the Water Ghost, you wouldn’t have come near me to be ready to kill me at any time.”
“Lord Saint,” Wen Yian sighed, “you don’t have to be so clever.”
She stopped talking, stiffly moving her fingers to guard against any actions from Ye Ruan, while also keeping an eye on the Water Ghost’s movements.
Ye Ruan narrowed his eyes, discreetly taking out a small glass bottle from his sleeve and holding it in his palm.
The clouds in the sky churned, and the massive Water Ghost stood beside Xiaoqing Mountain, as if it were holding up the sky and earth. As each minute passed, even though it hadn’t been long since Lou Yan rushed into the Water Ghost, it felt exceptionally long.
Suddenly, the Water Ghost’s figure began to violently distort, appearing to be in great pain as it swayed a few times. The towering body formed of flowing water suddenly lost its strength to maintain its form, the water scattered, rushing down from the high altitude in a panic.
Like a river falling from a broken sky, a huge amount of water formed a wide waterfall in the air, continuously washing away the land at the edge of Xiaoqing Mountain. Ye Ruan’s pupils trembled violently, he slapped the armrest uncontrollably and blurted out, “How is this possible!”
The rushing sound of water drowned out Ye Ruan’s words, but couldn’t mask Ye Ruan’s ugly expression. Wen Yian, after the shock, was overjoyed, muttering to herself, “Did it succeed? Lou Yan actually succeeded?!”
What exactly did Lou Yan do???
He actually solved the Water Ghost like this?!
Oh my god!
This time, Wen Yian truly admired and respected Lou Yan to the highest degree. He could actually kill such a terrifying Water Ghost. How strong had Lou Yan become?
Ye Ruan opened the glass bottle in his hand with a stern face, and the blood flies inside the bottle flew out instantly to attack Wen Yian. Wen Yian’s face changed, immediately stepping back to avoid the attack of the blood flies. Ye Ruan took the opportunity to try to move the wheelchair away, but he saw a looming figure in the waterfall descending from the cliff beside him.
This figure seemed to be human-like, but not quite. Ye Ruan looked at the figure, and an extremely dangerous feeling rose instinctively. This dangerous aura was thick and pervasive, as if it were substantive, pressing on the heart like a physical weight, making it difficult to breathe.
Ye Ruan broke out in a cold sweat, his fingers twitching nervously. He could feel his mental power dropping rapidly, such a reaction only occurred in the face of extremely terrifying anomalies.
Even the “Water Ghost” didn’t cause him any mental contamination!
What exactly is this figure!
Ye Ruan immediately turned his head to escape. But as the wheelchair began to tilt, he heard several sharp screams in succession.
Following the sound, he saw five blood flies flying in the air, emitting a mournful cry before falling to the ground, their wings weakly flapping a few times before becoming still.
Large beads of cold sweat dripped from Ye Ruan’s forehead. His whole body stiffened, and his brain told him very clearly: these blood flies couldn’t withstand the even more powerful anomaly and died under the pressure.
This realization made him even more anxious.
Wen Yian’s mental power was also continuously decreasing, her dizziness growing heavier. She gritted her teeth and moved her gaze away from the blood fly corpses on the ground, looking at the black figure approaching the edge of the cliff in the waterfall.
Who… is that… Lou Yan?
But how could Lou Yan… how could he be so terrifying…
The figure in the water seemed to be completely unaffected by the rushing water, steadily approaching the two people at the top of the mountain. The closer the figure got, the more nervous both Wen Yian and Ye Ruan became—they could already tell that this figure was not a human silhouette.
The water automatically parted, sending the figure to the edge of the mountain.
The moment Wen Yian saw this figure clearly, she felt her head spinning, almost suffocating in disbelief.
“Lou, Lou Yan…?”
That figure was Lou Yan.
But it wasn’t just Lou Yan.
Lou Yan stood quietly at the edge of the cliff, his whole body soaked, with water dripping from him. But beneath the water stains, his body was covered in a layer of mucus.
This layer of mucus slowly dripped from his hair and fingertips, forming long, transparent white threads. From his neck to his arms, he was covered in white bone flowers, beautiful yet eerie, dangerous and bizarre.
Lou Yan’s upper body still had clothes on, but they were messy and torn, with several tears in the fabric.
Wen Yian’s gaze lowered to Lou Yan’s lower body, and when she saw it, her whole body began to tremble slightly, unable to believe her eyes.
If Lou Yan’s upper body still resembled a human, his lower body had completely transformed into something anomaly. His legs had turned into a pure black, slimy fish tail shimmering with a dark light.
A wide, slender fish tail!
Wen Yian’s entire body went cold. This fish tail resembled the tail of a mermaid from literary works, but appearing so vividly in front of her, especially in this situation, on a human body, made her feel terrified and horrified!
This Lou Yan, with this appearance, had completely transformed from “him” into “it.” Wen Yian even felt that the current Lou Yan was more like the Water Ghost than the Water Ghost itself!
Lou Yan stood motionless, his head lowered. He didn’t make any moves, but the pressure he emitted was heavy, making it impossible for anyone to move.
The atmosphere on the top of Xiaoqing Mountain seemed to freeze, with Lou Yan unmoving and the other two humans also motionless.
Ye Ruan felt a piercing pain in his temple, and he bit his tongue hard, the pain clearing his mind. He dared not look at Lou Yan again, subtly rolling his wheelchair to leave.
Wen Yian was awakened by the sound of Ye Ruan’s wheelchair rolling. She swallowed hard, carefully moving her gaze away from Lou Yan. Seeing Ye Ruan about to run, Wen Yian quickly rushed forward and grabbed the wheelchair, Ye Ruan’s warning gaze met Wen Yian’s eyes, as he pulled out a palm-sized monster puppet from under the blanket.
Wen Yian’s heart jumped, worried about what powerful strange artifact this was. Suddenly, she had an idea and forcefully pushed the wheelchair, directly pushing Ye Ruan in front of Lou Yan.
Her attack wasn’t enough, so let Lou Yan deal with the Saint Son!
Ye Ruan’s face turned green. “Wen Yian!”
Wen Yian didn’t care about Ye Ruan’s thoughts at all. She tentatively shouted, “Lou Yan, can you hear me?”
Lou Yan stood still like a statue.
Ye Ruan, realizing that Lou Yan didn’t react, quickly rolled his wheelchair, intending to get away from Lou Yan.
Wen Yian gritted her teeth and said again, “Lou Yan, the person in front of you is the cultist Saint Ye Ruan. He wants to escape! We can’t let him escape, otherwise, we’ll all die! Li Sanxin and the others will die too!”
“Wen Yian, shut up!”
Ye Ruan’s killing intent surged towards Wen Yian. How didn’t he realize how despicable and hateful this woman was?
But Wen Yian’s words seemed to hit something in Lou Yan, who hadn’t moved at all. Lou Yan slowly raised his left hand, covered in bone flowers, towards Ye Ruan trying to escape. A stream of water rushed from Lou Yan’s side to under Ye Ruan’s wheelchair, swiftly sending Ye Ruan in front of Lou Yan.
Lou Yan grabbed Ye Ruan’s neck, lifting Ye Ruan from the wheelchair as if picking up a small animal.
Ye Ruan’s legs weakly swayed, and he struggled to climb up Lou Yan’s hand holding his neck. His face was pale, bloodshot veins visible in his eyes.
Lou Yan raised his head, his pale face covered in mucus still so beautiful, but beautiful in a cold and abnormal way. His crimson eyes stared directly at Ye Ruan, without any fluctuation of “human” emotions. When Ye Ruan was stared at by him, a shiver of horror rose from the depths of his soul. His vision darkened, and he struggled to pull Lou Yan’s hands off, but he was too weak to resist.
—he couldn’t summon the courage to resist at all.
Lou Yan opened his mouth, as if still retaining some human rationality, yet also instinctively asking, “Where… is it…”
Ye Ruan struggled to breathe. “Who?”
Lou Yan’s grip tightened, blue veins protruding on his white backhand, his nails sharp and black like a wild beast’s. He tilted his head, looking at Ye Ruan, his crimson eyes like the thickest blood soaked into them.
His voice seemed to come from a distant place, mysterious, terrifying, and chaotic. “…Where… is the Anomaly Lord…”
“In the Arctic… in the Arctic!” Ye Ruan, whose Mental Power was almost depleted, had hollow eyes, completely unable to refuse any questions from Lou Yan. “It’s in the Arctic!”
Lou Yan seemed to understand this sentence, yet also seemed not to. He stood still for a while, then suddenly grabbed Ye Ruan and turned, jumping off the cliff.
“Lou Yan!!!”
Wen Yian instinctively rushed forward, only to see Lou Yan disappear into the accumulated water at the foot of the mountain.
Author’s Note:
The next day’s appearance of Xiao Fu: ▼-▼ Why did my wife turn into a mermaid?
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