Netherworld Retrograde

Chapter 376: Chapter 179 Supreme Skeleton_2

But its spiritual power strength only vacillated between the First Awakening and the Second Awakening.

”What kind of creature is this?” Li Yelai wondered in his heart, but his hands didn’t stop moving. The Red Thunder Spear in his left dragon claw instantly transformed into a Thunder Blade.

Facing the sudden attack of the giant python, he didn’t retreat but advanced instead, charging forward with a burst step. His Thunder Blade followed the weakness line and chopped down!

With a crack, a loud noise followed, and the giant python was bisected by Li Yelai’s Thunder Blade.

However, this time, Li Yelai still didn’t see any blood. What splattered was still the already rotting chunks of flesh and viscera.

Was this really a living thing?

Amidst his shock, Li Yelai saw two figures emerging from the severed belly of the snake.

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At the same time, the Little Mad King had already photographed the monster and developed the picture.

Then he quickly placed it on the Red Wanted Order. A small gold block provided by the Red Dart Commerce was attached next to it.

However, the Red Hunter, who should have taken the gold block and immediately set out, now showed no movement at all, nor was the gold block taken.

It rejected the employment and refused to hunt the target!

The Little Mad King’s expression changed slightly; this situation had never occurred before.

Even when facing higher-level enemies, the Red Hunter would act without hesitation.

Relying on its immortal body as a Void Realm Creature, it would continuously clash with the opponent until the target was killed or the user couldn’t pay the continued bounty.

But the Red Hunter had never refused to act.

Unless the actual body wasn’t captured in the photo, or... the target was already dead!

The Little Mad King’s expression turned serious as he took out his double-handed greatsword from the Spiritual Power Well.

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On the other side, Li Yelai looked at the two figures emerging from the broken snake belly, or more accurately, from the decaying flesh of the giant python.

They were wearing charge coats, with the Red Dart Commerce branding visible on them.

But their state was very abnormal; their charge coats were already contaminated by blood and decaying bodies beyond recognition.

Their bodies were pale and swollen; one’s head had collapsed, exposing blurry brain tissue and a skull stained with blood. His arm was missing, leaving only a muddy trace of flesh at the fracture.

The other man had only his upper body remaining, with his lower half seemingly torn away.

Their pupils were already dilated, yet they appeared cold and lifeless.

Clearly, they were the Spiritual Ability Users hired by the Red Dart Commerce who had gone missing last night.

Now, their bodies were merged with the python’s skeleton, as if they were parts grown from the snake bones themselves.

The moment they appeared, they attacked Li Yelai.

Shocked, Li Yelai decisively swung his long spear, using Single-handed Eighteen Strokes·Elephant Step!

He decapitated both figures in an instant. Even when they were alive, they weren’t a match for a single move from Li Yelai, and at this moment, they were instantly killed.

But even with their heads gone, their bodies continued to twist.

Seeing this, Li Yelai cut through the snake bones, severing them.

The long spear fell, tearing open the snake bones of the two figures, causing them to immediately lose activity and revert to being corpses.

Li Yelai also took this opportunity to distance himself, using Aerial Stepping to move away from the monster.

”It’s not a creature.” The Little Mad King’s voice emanated from the Void Realm.

”Yes, I have witnessed it. I saw the corpses of the two Spiritual Ability Users hired by the Red Dart Commerce. They are being controlled; the enemy possesses the ability to control corpses. What kind of extraordinary creature is it?” Li Yelai’s projection also responded in the Void Realm.

After reaching the Four Awakenings, Spiritual Ability Users can communicate with other Spiritual Ability Users via projections in the Void Realm. Communicating in the Void Realm is the most convenient and delay-free communication method found by humans thus far. But for Li Yelai’s level, the shouting range isn’t far.

”As far as I know, there isn’t one,” replied the Little Mad King, ”Let’s take a look at its true face first.”

As her words fell, she transformed into a cold light and dashed across the river surface, or rather, the shadow cast by the monster on the river surface.

In an instant, the monster’s body violently shuddered, and while the shadow was attacked, it also suffered a terrible slash.

A massive wound appeared on its body, and the water grass covering it scattered, revealing its true appearance.

The expression of everyone from the Red Dart Commerce in the distance turned pale and fearful. Xu Shi, trembling, pulled out a cross, muttering, ”Amitabha! Amitabha!”

Even Li Yelai stiffened his face as the water grass fell.

What Li Yelai saw was a pile of bizarre and twisted muscles and remnants.

It was a monstrous creature assembled from countless corpses.

Li Yelai saw the huge ribcage, seemingly derived from some extraordinary creature’s body, with old and new rotten flesh clinging to it.

The muscles were further coated with various animal limbs and skeletons—human, wild wolf, stag, black bear, tiger... and many more strange limbs and skeletons from extraordinary creatures, writhing.

In its neck area, human heads, tiger heads, and snake heads were rotating their dull eyeballs aimed in Li Yelai’s direction.

It’s hard to describe such a creature, a combination of various skeletons and limbs, making it fragmented and mad.

Too terrible, countless living beings were cut open and assembled into such a terrifying creature. A single glance at it could cause nightmares.

”This...” Li Yelai’s pupils trembled, and he finally understood.

No wonder its system was so abnormal, its spiritual power strength fluctuated, and no wonder it had so many weak lines. It was truly arming itself with corpses.