jdhmnovel Chapter 1569 805: Medicine and Poison (Part 2)
Chapter 1569 805: Medicine and Poison (Part 2)
"All right, I can join You Sui."
Ji Jue's voice rang out, utterly unwavering: "As long as I can ask the Craftsman Grandmaster to kill you to vent my anger—I'd imagine, when faced with this kind of multiple-choice question, You Sui knows the right answer, doesn't it?"
"No problem!"
Hui Nao said flatly, without a moment's hesitation: "As long as you, Mr. Ji, are willing to abandon all resistance, to receive the essence of Zhi Fu, then what's the harm in killing a piece of trash like me?"
In that instant, the two faces equally hidden in the shadows showed identical contempt and mockery.
Utter, delusional wishful thinking.
Both sides knew it perfectly well. Just as Hui Nao knew that even if Ji Jue did end up belonging to You Sui, he would never let him go.
He would never give Ji Jue the chance to walk out of the Crack Realm alive.
The better the material, the more it had to be strangled completely.
Even if, ten or a hundred years from now, You Sui could gain a Craftsman Grandmaster, if that meant using himself as the price, then absolutely not!
A living Ji Jue would only be an endless source of future trouble; only a dead, Mutated Ji Jue could truly become the stepping stone for his own further ascent.
Even if Ji Jue dropped all resistance now and accepted the Mutation, with Hui Nao currently in control of the Secret Ritual he would only fan the flames, force-feeding him all the way to full runaway materialization, until he degraded into a mere Mutant construct.
This boy is terrifying to such an extent; he must not be allowed to live!
At this moment, while both tacitly put on a show, haggling and bargaining over every ounce, the moves they ought to take and the precautions they ought to keep up had never once stopped.
If anything, they intensified!
BOOM!!!
The storm of Blood and fire erupted again; the quadrangular spinning Light and Heat Sword erupted from Long Shan's hand, cleaving down without mercy. Under the impact of Jing Zhen, the sounds of shattering rang out one after another.
Under Hui Nao's feet, defensive constructs shattered one by one, but more constructs kept appearing from the briefcase, flung out like water, like gold, like ten thousand taels—utterly disregarding any cost-effectiveness to block the impact.
Each time at a critical moment, the scabbard in his hand would give a faint tremor, interfering to the greatest extent with the operation of the Nine Forms, suppressing Ji Jue's performance.
The Light Swallowing Lamp erased all light and heat, glowing red-hot, hissing in his grip.
And right in front of him, Ji Jue's movements suddenly stalled for a moment.
Countless threads of essence circulated, seeped, and had already gathered on Ji Jue's body—his hands, his chest, his face—about to sink into the bone.
Ji Jue came to an abrupt halt.
His futile struggle was like waiting for that final straw to fall.
No! I can't laugh yet! Hold it in, I have to hold it in!
Hui Nao forcibly suppressed the urge for his lips to curl, eyes wide. The hourglass on his back suddenly flipped, and after consuming a sea of materials, the ritual stepped into a brand-new phase.
Instantly, the boon surged!
BOOM!
Ji Jue raised his hand, aimed at his own face, without the slightest hesitation.
[Jing Zhen]!
The metal face shattered completely, countless components shearing off, revealing the twisted, broken fine structure within. The metal skull was covered in cracks, almost smashed to pieces by his own hand.
Next came the chest, then the hands.
Without hesitation he stripped off every materialized segment, replaced them, and restored them again to wholeness; Chun Jun Piercing through once more, shackling soul and flesh, freezing them utterly.
Once again, he returned to full integrity!
Those Blood-red eyes turned toward Hui Nao once more, making his expression twitch for an instant.
Completely insane!
Even if the rebirth form could be patched up at will, that didn't mean there was no pain. Moreover, with the overlap and Transformation between the rebirth form and flesh and soul, the soul likewise suffered grievous damage, agony down to the marrow.
Even if completely repaired, he was still weakening himself, like cutting an ulcer from his own body with a knife. Each time, he was hacking down into his own life, excising the Mutant, alienated parts completely.
"Come on, let's keep going."
Ji Jue laughed wildly. Wreathed in Purple Lightning Black Flame, the burning red of the mechanical face, he was as savage as a Ghost God, striding forward.
Under layer upon layer of protection, Hui Nao's eyelids twitched violently.
Courting death!
It was like drinking poison to quench thirst: once materialization began, it could not be stopped. Even if you purged and replaced it, as long as the ritual continued, the backlash would only grow more and more savage, impossible to sever.
He could see that within Ji Jue's soul, the boon from Zhi Fu had already taken deep root!
Just a little more!
Just a tiny bit more!
Only the final step remains…
But why is it still that one step short?!
In an instant of dazed confusion, Hui Nao heard the roar of shattering. Cracks finally appeared upon the sheer cliff projection.
The violently alienated Dragon Mountain Giant had nearly fallen completely into a beast-like state. Dragon Blood's hunger devoured everything, even swallowing the mire and the fragments left after disassociation into its belly.
Countless iron shards gathered; on the Mutant face, two hideous, back-curving horns slowly grew out, pointing forward. A single stomp kicked up a tidal wave of Gravity.
Again, it slammed forward, making the entire altar quake with a thunderous boom, swaying for a moment.
What made Hui Nao's expression uncontrollably sink even further was something else.
Long Shan was only a surface phenomenon, nothing to truly fear—a beast's rampage, nothing more. The more dangerous, the more crucial thing was Ji Jue! Ji Jue, who controlled everything!
Upon Long Shan's back, amidst coils of emerald flame and the Erosion of Mutation, that metal face stared fixedly at him, baring a savage grin.
The silver radiance in those eyes surged like flames.
Blazing, furious.
Even bearing the weight of ten thousand jun, he showed not a shred of wavering, charging down a road of certain death without hesitation, never once looking back!