Chapter 258: One, Two, Three, Four

Chapter 258: Chapter 258: One, Two, Three, Four

One, two, three... four.

Feng Ling counted four large-headed Pseudo-Gods.

Some had kind, gentle faces, while others were ferocious. One was covered in a white beard, and another had a green lizard head with a pair of horns.

Feng Ling suspected the Maze was trying to create an Old Dragon King, but the result wasn’t quite satisfactory, producing a deformed lizardman instead.

The birth process of the Pseudo-Gods was very slow, their movements extremely sluggish. They needed the help of little mice, pulling them to crawl out of the viscous mixture of flesh and blood. As the Pseudo-Gods appeared, a vast spiritual power began to spread in all directions—

No longer a field of joy, but of rage!

Extreme rage!

The combined spiritual power of the four Pseudo-Gods was amplified, clearly overpowering Feng Ling.

Feng Ling could only retreat to avoid being affected.

Ye Zheng also sensed the issue with the spiritual power. She hurried to Feng Ling’s side and asked, "It looks like their spiritual power can stack?"

"Yeah. When the first one came out, it wasn’t obvious. Now the range of their spiritual power is probably fifty meters," Feng Ling replied.

This meant that whenever they were within fifty meters of the Pseudo-Gods, they would be affected by the spiritual power, which would cause emotional fluctuations and even hallucinations.

Feng Ling sighed. "How come their spiritual power can stack, but ours can’t?"

"Because they actually come from the same thing." Ye Zheng stared at the four Pseudo-Gods fifty meters away. "Do you see? Behind them."

"I see it..." Feng Ling’s gaze shifted slightly downward.

The Pseudo-Gods used flesh and blood to condense their forms. The more they condensed, the less flesh and blood remained on the ground, gradually revealing the "truth" wrapped within—

It was a creature with pure black scales, like a snake, but also like a dragon. It lay motionless on the ground, its slender body covered in layers of pustules and tumors. These pustules and tumors grew intermingled with severed limbs and chunks of corpses, achieving a delicate and balanced symbiotic relationship.

In terms of length alone, Feng Ling felt that after transforming into her second form, she would be about as long as this creature.

But she was clearly stronger. This unknown black creature was too thin and skinny, with barely any flesh on its bones. Through its scales, one could almost see the bumpy outline of its skeleton.

"It’s a Jiao," Ye Zheng said in a low voice. "Four claws, a single horn, and covered in Scale Armor—it fits the ancient legends’ image of a Jiao Long."

"But it doesn’t match my image of a Jiao Long..." Feng Ling muttered. "It’s too skinny."

The four Pseudo-Gods had now fully stood up. They held their overly heavy heads with both hands and looked toward Feng Ling.

Feng Ling frowned and took two steps back. "Do they want to eat the offerings?"

The large-headed Pseudo-God she had just dismembered lay at her feet, and on the ground were several Mouse Monsters killed by grenades.

So Feng Ling reasonably suspected that these fake Immortals were attracted by the corpses on the ground.

The next second, however, one of the Pseudo-Gods raised a hand and pointed straight at her!

Feng Ling froze. Then, she saw all the Mouse Monsters around the Pseudo-Gods charge toward her!

"What’s going on?" Feng Ling was completely baffled and immediately released her Spiritual Suppression.

Her released spiritual power clearly hit a wall. Within the Pseudo-Gods’ Spiritual Power Field, her suppression had no deterrent effect on the Mouse Monsters!

"Hurry! Get some distance!" Ye Zheng shouted, turning and running deeper into the street.

Feng Ling caught up with Ye Zheng. After running for some distance, she tried to release her Spiritual Suppression again.

This time it finally worked. All the Pollution Bodies near her froze in an instant, including Ye Zheng right beside her.

Ye Zheng glared at her, displeased.

Feng Ling swung her Bone Blade, quickly reaping a circle of surrounding Mouse Monsters. She once again felt her spiritual power being suppressed and turned to see the Pseudo-Gods approaching her.

If her spiritual power was a wave, then the spiritual power of the four Pseudo-Gods was a bigger wave, capable of completely overwhelming her!

Feng Ling didn’t try to fight it head-on. She withdrew her Spiritual Suppression and pulled Ye Zheng along as they ran forward!

"We have to find a way to separate them," Feng Ling said as she ran. "They’ll be easy to kill as long as we can split them up."

Just like the one she had killed earlier.

Ye Zheng agreed. "Once separated, their spiritual power shouldn’t have the stacked intensity anymore. But why four Pseudo-Gods and not eight?"

Feng Ling glanced at her with a smile. "All those explosives we used weren’t for nothing."

Ye Zheng spoke rapidly. "Since firepower is effective, let’s keep bombing them. As long as we can interrupt their spiritual power, we can separate them immediately. The stacking effect will definitely disappear once they’re more than fifty meters apart."

"Okay, I’ll grab the old white-bearded one. Serves it right for pointing at me." Feng Ling took out her two remaining grenades.

Seeing this, Ye Zheng said, "Then I’ll take care of the Dragon King."

In just a few words, the two quickly decided on a plan and turned around in unison!

Feng Ling threw the grenades with all her might! Then, they charged forward into the heatwave of the explosion—

One grabbed the old white-bearded one!

The other grabbed the Dragon King!

Then, with perfect coordination, they ran in completely opposite directions, doing their best to create distance before the Pseudo-Gods’ spiritual power could recover!

Feng Ling dragged the old one into an alley—

She had hoped to escape the Mouse Monsters behind her, but their numbers just kept growing. For the first time, she experienced what could only be called a rain of rats!

Rats kept falling from both sides of the alley!

Some crawled out of windows, some jumped directly from rooftops. Even if the fall would kill them, they threw themselves at Feng Ling, one after another, endlessly!

She sped up, sprinting wildly forward, only to be met by a huge swarm of Mouse Monsters surging from the alley’s exit! They almost trapped her inside!

Something was wrong!

There had never been this many Mouse Monsters in the Divine Travel Team!

The current situation was as if every Mouse Monster in the entire Maze had been lured over!

Feng Ling took a deep breath, released her Spiritual Suppression, and forced her way out of the narrow alley.

Outside was another, wider street. A quick glance revealed that the once-empty street had become unusually lively. Mouse Monsters were crawling out of the doors and windows of buildings in an endless stream, and every single one was targeting her!

Even if Feng Ling were slow on the uptake, she would have understood by now. The old white-bearded one she was holding was basically a rat lure!

Fortunately, the distance was now surely more than fifty meters. As long as it was separated from the other Pseudo-Gods, killing it would be a piece of cake.

Having figured this out, Feng Ling didn’t want to wait even half a second. Her Teeth and Claws bit down hard on the old one’s shoulders, and she swung it up, intending to smash it to the ground!

But she couldn’t swing it—

Feng Ling was astonished.

As she had been running, Mouse Monsters had been constantly leaping at her. Although she had dodged them all without injury, those Mouse Monsters had piled onto the old white-bearded one, one by one, like a human pyramid.

Now, what she was dragging wasn’t just a single Pseudo-God, but also a pile of rats stacked on top of it!

In that moment of shock, her Spiritual Suppression faltered slightly, and the rats immediately swarmed! They came at her from all sides, overwhelming her!

At first, Feng Ling was still fighting back, but the sheer number of Mouse Monsters instantly crushed her!

She was... buried alive... by the swarm of rats!