Chapter 666 - 413: Superpower ’Skin Abnormalization

Chapter 666: Chapter 413: Superpower ’Skin Abnormalization

WHOOSH...

A breeze swept across the swamp, sending ripples across the calm surface of the water.

On the shore, Wang Hao, dressed in a black suit and sunglasses, stared blankly at the white skeleton lying in the grass.

’A coincidence. It must be a coincidence...’

Although a terrible thought had sprung into Wang Hao’s mind the moment he saw the white skeleton, he clung to a final sliver of hope and began to search it.

There wasn’t much to search. The only thing on the white skeleton that could be examined was the clothing it wore. It was a task that took less than a minute.

"..."

After turning out all the pockets, Wang Hao found a nearly destroyed item inside one.

This nearly destroyed item was a mobile phone. He had an identical one himself.

Staring at the phone he had found, Wang Hao’s hands began to tremble before he was overcome with grief.

When he saw the phone—developed by the Heilin Society’s R&D department and specially issued to personnel on undercover missions—Wang Hao had no choice but to accept the cruel reality. The white skeleton before him was the remains of his good friend, Liu Menglong.

’What in the world happened? Why did Liu Menglong die here?’

Wang Hao was completely baffled. He couldn’t understand why Liu Menglong would have entered the wilderness, let alone died in it.

"..."

As he looked at his friend’s remains, memories of his voice and smile surfaced in his mind. Wang Hao’s fists clenched so tightly his nails nearly dug into his flesh.

"Liu Menglong, may you rest in peace! I will get to the bottom of this."

"If someone harmed you, no matter who they are, even if they’re hiding at the ends of the earth, I will hunt them down and kill them with my own hands to avenge you..."

Rage filled Wang Hao’s heart. A Second Order High Rank Spiritual Energy Wave radiated from his body as he swore an oath to his friend’s remains, his eyes bloodshot and his teeth clenched.

In a lush, leafy tree near the swamp, an all-black crow stood on a branch, preening its feathers. Hearing a sound from the distance, it looked up.

"CAW...?"

When it saw that it was a human shouting, it was first confused, then its gaze shifted toward the surface of the water in the distance.

Standing high, it could see far. The crow saw a dark shadow appear in the distant swamp. The shadow was immense, moving through the water and slowly approaching the shore.

"CAW...!!!"

The crow, startled by the movement in the water, let out a panicked cry as it took flight from the tree, heading away from the swamp.

Deep in his grief, Wang Hao was snapped back to his senses by the raucous cawing overhead. He frowned and looked up. When he saw it was a crow, he cursed his bad luck internally.

Averting his gaze from the crow as it receded into a black dot, Wang Hao suppressed his sorrow, bent down, and prepared to collect his friend’s remains before leaving.

But just then, something unexpected happened.

SWISH.

A slimy tongue suddenly shot out from the swamp, lashing toward Wang Hao as he prepared to collect his friend’s remains on the shore.

"Huh?!!!"

Although he was distraught over his friend’s death, Wang Hao, a Second Order High Rank Cultivator, still reacted with incredible speed when faced with a sudden attack.

Stomping his left foot, he dodged sideways to the right, narrowly avoiding the surprise assault.

Having missed its target, the slimy tongue made a CRACK in the air before rapidly retracting back into the water.

Having dodged the attack, Wang Hao stared grimly at the swamp. His Spiritual Perception quickly extended outward, covering a small section of the marsh.

SPLASH.

The instant after Wang Hao’s Spiritual Perception spread out, the swamp water churned, and a behemoth more than twenty meters long emerged. Its body was covered in purple scales, and a single, sharp red horn grew from the top of its head.

’It’s a Mutant Beast... And a Peak Tier Two Mutant Beast at that!!!’

Wang Hao stared at the behemoth before him, feeling the Peak Tier Two Spiritual Energy Wave emanating from it. His eyes widened in shock, his jaw dropping.

The moment he was attacked and dodged, he had realized there was a Mutant Beast in the swamp.

But he never imagined that the Mutant Beast that attacked him would be at the Peak of Tier Two.

Due to inherent differences, only a rare few human Cultivators could defeat a Mutant Beast of the same rank in a one-on-one fight. And although Wang Hao was a Second Order High Rank Cultivator, he was not one of those rare few.

Wang Hao couldn’t even defeat a Second Order High Rank Mutant Beast of the same rank, let alone this Peak Tier Two creature that was even stronger than him.

A moment ago, his mind was consumed with thoughts of avenging his fallen friend. But after the Peak Tier Two Mutant Beast appeared, his grief vanished instantly, replaced by a single thought... ’Run. I have to get away, now.’

The Red-horned Purple-scaled Lizard Beast had been dozing in the swamp when he suddenly sensed a Second Order High Rank Spiritual Energy Wave right on his doorstep, which snapped him awake.

When he quietly approached the water near the shore and saw it was a human, he couldn’t help but become wary.

Not long ago, he had suffered a loss at the hands of Lin Li. Now, suddenly seeing a Second Order High Rank human on his doorstep, he couldn’t help but wonder if humans had come looking to finish him off.