Chapter 501 - 315: Liu Xingyuan: Don’t Come Over Here

Although Liu Xingyuan now only had a single scarlet eye, he couldn’t suppress his shock in the slightest.

A colossal body hundreds of meters tall!

A Tier Four Wizard’s true form—a mere tentacle monster body a few dozen meters tall—was nothing in comparison!

’Whose work is this? What kind of Extraordinary Profession is this?’

’Why have I never heard of it?’

GULP!

SPLAT!

Just as Liu Xingyuan was reeling from shock, he caught sight of another stunning scene out of the corner of his eye.

Two incredibly disgusting, humanoid balls of flesh, wrapped in swathes of long, black hair, fell from the sky and smashed into the monster’s single scarlet eye.

’What in the world are those things?’

The shock in Liu Xingyuan’s eye was practically overflowing as he suddenly looked toward the H3 Skyscraper.

Thankfully, he saw Baili Xueyuan was still there. She stood, calm and composed, atop the H3 Skyscraper. Even with the monster—as tall as the building itself—right before her, she remained as still as a mountain.

’Reinforcements from the Eastern Alliance?’

Even as Liu Xingyuan made his guess, his tentacles never stopped moving.

Liu Xingyuan restrained the tentacles emerging from the giant monster’s scarlet eye. His own tentacles wrapped around them, controlling their position and preventing them from retracting into the eye to fight the two flesh balls that had fallen from the sky.

The two Tentacle Monsters, similar in appearance yet different in their details, began to grapple.

A sea of tentacles intertwined, like the gnarled roots of two ancient trees.

Tentacle after tentacle became matted together, some even twisting into impossible knots during the struggle.

Surrounding them, a large amount of metal circled, constantly severing the monster’s newly sprouting tentacles.

...

Inside the single scarlet eye, King Arthur and Master Ma’s vision was severely obstructed.

It wasn’t just the gelatinous substance inside the eyeball; the ball of flesh Lin Qi had used to conceal them was also hampering King Arthur and Master Ma’s ability to assess the situation.

"Wizard, I can’t pinpoint the monster’s main body, and there are tentacles inside this eyeball, too."

"This thing looks exactly like one of your Wizard true forms. You guys don’t get this disgusting when you transform, do you?"

King Arthur had no idea if the Wizard could hear him, so he just started rambling inside the ball of flesh.

Lin Qi could, of course, "hear" him. Spiritual Vision wasn’t limited to just "seeing."

He vibrated the vocal cords he’d grown near King Arthur’s ear, producing a heavily distorted, low-quality voice: "To your lower left, less than nine meters away. Drag it out!"

King Arthur felt the Wizard’s voice coming from all directions, giving him the impression of a surround sound system.

This wasn’t King Arthur’s imagination; Lin Qi had simply created a few too many sets of vocal cords with his Rapid Growth ability.

Lin Qi had to control too many cells at once, so the positions where the vocal cords grew were naturally a little off.

’What to do if they grow too far away?’

’Rather than waste effort moving the cells, it’s easier to just grow a new one closer!’

’It’s a malformed entity, after all. A misshapen appearance is perfectly normal.’

As Lin Qi informed King Arthur, he simultaneously relayed the message to Master Ma.

The two quickly locked onto the monster’s position and used their respective skills to close in.

...

Meanwhile, Lin Qi was far from idle. While acting as an information relay, he was also continuously pushing his Rapid Growth ability.

Wu Yong’s face had already gone pale. With his defenses voluntarily lowered, Lin Qi was draining his Spiritual Power faster than Wu Yong himself would consume it in battle.

Only a Tier Four Peak like Baili Xueyuan could withstand such a drain.

’I refuse to believe I can’t drain you dry!’

’Time to ramp it up!’

’She’s not involved in the direct fight anyway, so draining her dry won’t affect the outcome.’

’I have to drain her dry before this battle is over!’

’That’s the only way to ensure the follow-up plan goes smoothly.’

’A safe escape is the most critical part of the operation.’

The malformed entity continued to swell, and the sight caused Baili Xueyuan to frown ever more deeply.

Baili Xueyuan was no fool. She could tell the other party’s aim was to drain her Spiritual Power.

The only ones actually in action were the two who had entered the monster’s eye; this person before her was clearly just observing.

"You’re just wasting my Spiritual Power, aren’t you?"

Baili Xueyuan stated it bluntly, slightly restricting the rate at which her Spiritual Power was being drawn.

The malformed entity’s enormous body twisted its head around. The nearly boneless head rotated a full one hundred and eighty degrees as the muscles in its neck tore apart, leaking copious amounts of a pale yellow, transparent fluid.

A deep voice, which sounded like a chorus of countless voices blended into one, emerged, like the chanting of a vast crowd. "Letting them use their full power and shielding the sole Bearer from interference with the Prosthetic Body consumes a massive amount of Spiritual Power."

"The changes in my body are a visible side effect of my Ability, not something I am doing intentionally."

Lin Qi had backed Baili Xueyuan into a corner.

’She has no idea how my Ability works, anyway. I’ve linked the operation’s success to her Spiritual Power consumption.’

’If you’re not willing to provide the Spiritual Power, the operation will fail, and you, Baili Xueyuan, will have to bear the consequences!’

It was a blatant threat!

Baili Xueyuan gritted her teeth in frustration. It had been a long time since she became a Tier Four Extraordinary that someone had manipulated her so brazenly.

But she had to accept his explanation, even if she thought he was completely full of it.

A kilometer away, inside an underground pipe, a triumphant smile spread across Lin Qi’s face.

The smile was subtle. After all, Lin Qi didn’t feel like this really counted as screwing Baili Xueyuan over.

He had kept a mental tally of all the things that woman had done to him before.

’For now, this is just self-preservation. But in the future, once my Extraordinary Power breaks through to Tier Four or even higher, I’ll make her pay—and pay dearly!’