RPAGF Chapter 7265 Progressing Step by Step
Chapter 7265 Progressing Step by Step
Chapter 7265 Progressing Step by Step
Before the moon was even high in the sky, Wang Mao charged over with his sword. After all, none of the three elite groups had returned, so the reinforcements sent were all formidable. Among these veterans, Wang Mao was undoubtedly number one. Although, in Wang Mao's words, his oath could only last for another ten days or so before he was finished, it didn't matter. In any case, Wang Mao would still be number one for the next ten days.
"Thank you, Uncle Mao!" After being rescued by Wang Mao, Zou stopped pretending and collapsed to the ground, leaning against a giant tree. There was nothing he could do. Even if he were a superman, wearing heavy armor, carrying Yang Si, firing more than a dozen finishing moves a day, and constantly fighting against this kind of super demon god, he was basically exhausted. Just like Yang Si said before, he was actually just enduring it.
"What's going on with this demon god!" Wang Mao dragged Zou Ta and Yang Si out and gave the demon god a hard blow, killing it half to death. But as soon as he put Zou Ta and Yang Si down, he found that the demon god he had killed half to death had begun to regenerate at super speed, and its half-crippled tentacles were already swinging towards them.
"Let's retreat first, Uncle Mao. This thing seems to have merged with something underground. It has extremely strong vitality and no self-awareness. We may have entered its territory, causing it to attack desperately," Yang Si explained with a pale face.
“I feel the same way. This thing probably has no self-awareness and is probably in a state of chaos. Attacking it with willpower wouldn’t be very effective. It’s just a piece of moving flesh.” Zou also told Wang Mao the information he knew. “To put it simply, apart from the demon god that was marked at the beginning, which may have been a decoy released by this thing, the rest of it is probably the main body. This thing must have combined with some kind of strange creature and turned into this.”
"I'll try to kill it in one go!" Wang Mao held the Maoxian Sword in his hand, then naturally channeled his essence, energy, and spirit into it. The blade suddenly burst forth with extreme brilliance, then turned into ordinary iron. Wang Mao then swung the sword forward, and the earth cracked open. All the tentacles that the demon god had extended from the earth were severed, but it did not die!
"Retreat. The enemy must be a special new species. Several new forms of demon gods have been discovered in the past few days, and the one you encountered this time is also a new form." Wang Mao slashed with his sword, realizing that breaking the limits of will was not effective against this kind of body that seemed to have abandoned itself, completely turned into a beast, and only had instinct. He decisively picked up Yang Si with one hand, called out to Zou Ta, and ran away.
"I suspect this thing is like an earthworm. Its self-awareness is completely gone, but its physical instincts are still strong. This might be a direction for the development of a demon god." Wang Mao said as he walked. His previous attack was not strong in terms of physical effects, but rather in terms of the impact on the will. Normally, a demon god would die instantly from that attack, since it was a blow that broke through the limits of willpower.
However, even though it hit the target perfectly, it still had no effect. This could only mean that the thing had become a beast without any self, acting solely on the instincts of its body. Only in this way could Wang Mao's attack of will have no effect.
"If this thing isn't controlled by will, can you cut off its flesh and sell it for money?" Zou asked a very outrageous question that even left Wang Mao speechless.
The assimilation ability of the demon god is mainly based on the self-will at the cellular level. Therefore, people who have not broken through the limits of will cannot use the demon god's body. Similarly, veterans who have not broken through the limits of will cannot devour the demon god like Wei Jun. To be precise, Wei Jun should not have been able to do it in the first place. It's just that Wei Jun has a top-notch digestive system and a belief that is so firm that it is almost idealistic.
So when the demon entered Wei Jun's stomach, it became the nutrients that Wei Jun needed.
But if there is such a demon god without its own will, wouldn't it be a large alien beast? That would be very valuable. Zou earns a lot of his living expenses by hunting alien beasts everywhere. Moreover, compared to the size of other wild beasts, this demon god is really big. More importantly, this thing can regenerate, which means unlimited money, right?
As for its abstract appearance, that doesn't matter. It's perfectly normal for something ugly to taste good. Besides, once meat is cut into pieces, you generally can't tell what it originally looked like. This kind of regenerating beast perfectly fits Zou's definition of a family heirloom.
"You bastard!" Yang Si said weakly. Wang Mao and Zou were just nodding acquaintances, but these two comrades who could attack each other's weaknesses were true brothers.
“But that is indeed a possible approach. To be honest, I was careless this time. Now that I know the characteristics of this thing, I probed at the edge of its territory, lured it out, then destroyed a portion of it and brought it back. Isn’t that a victory?” Zou Ta, relying on the candy he took from Wang Mao, regained some of his strength and regained his ability to chatter.
“This thing is a bit different from what you’ve described. It’s not that it has lost its self-awareness, but rather that its individual will has become a collective will. That thing isn’t like an earthworm; it has become a small worm like coral.” Yang Si said wearily, “The situation was urgent before, and I didn’t have time to carefully sense the inside of my body, but now I can assure you that we have probably been contaminated.”
Upon hearing Yang Si's words, both Zou Ta and Wang Mao were taken aback, and then quickly began to sense. Their expressions darkened. They hadn't realized it before Yang Si spoke, but as soon as he did, they both noticed the tiny fragments inside their bodies.
Normally, with their combined strength, the two of them could have easily taken down this piece of debris using their own immune systems. However, considering that this thing was part of a demon god, the two of them didn't hesitate and used their respective methods to eliminate it on the spot.
"Alright, what about you?" Wang Mao asked Zou Ta, holding his sword.
"It's shattered, so it's a bit difficult to absorb. I'm trying my best." Zou said with a sigh. With extremely precise vibrations, he crushed all the fragments in his body into fine powder, and then began to use his supermodel absorption ability to assimilate and absorb them.
Do you understand the terrifying absorption capacity of someone who can reach this size by eating steamed buns without taking drugs?
"I've expelled all that fine debris." Yang Si exhaled, having filtered out all the fine debris from the demon god by creating a vacuum pump within his body. To be honest, Yang Si was very good at this job.
"Your arm is broken again!" Wang Mao said with a headache as he looked at Yang Si's severed arm. "If I remember correctly, you just had your arm reattached."
"There's nothing I can do, I was a bit careless, but as long as they're alive, that's all that matters," Yang Si said, shaking his head. "We'll just go back and pick them up again."
"Forget it, I'll go get you an arm. You can make do with this for now." Wang Mao sensed that there was a wandering seventh-level demon god nearby. He rushed up and kicked it, then drew his sword and slew the god. He crippled the demon god in a few moves. Although the thing was still not dead, and it would take a long time to kill it like Zou Ta and Yang Si did with rice cakes, its will was completely destroyed.
Afterwards, Wang Mao followed Zhao Ying's example and quickly created half an arm from the demon god whose will had already perished, which he then cut off and gave to Yang Si.
To be honest, Yang Si was completely dumbfounded by this operation. Could this thing even be used? Wouldn't it contaminate him? Wouldn't it turn around and devour him instead?
“Your worries are normal, but it shouldn’t be a big problem in the short term. The Demon God’s self-awareness has been erased, leaving only instinct. You are at least at the sixth level of tempering, so even if you haven’t reached the limit of willpower, you can hold on for a while with your own beliefs. This is actually a temporary treatment method. Of course, if you can find Yang Tuo, you can ask him to help you adjust, which should also work.” Wang Mao thought for a moment and said that this was a method he had recently learned.
Upon hearing this, Yang Si thought for a moment. Wang Mao wouldn't harm him, so he reattached his arm. After a series of agonizing screams, Yang Si had his arm back.
"Can this thing be used like this?" Zou looked on with wide-eyed amazement, already starting to think about whether he could open a surgical hospital, mainly to perform cheap arm and leg repairs.
"This is just a temporary measure to save our lives and maintain our fighting strength, because there's trouble ahead—a demon god marked in red," Wang Mao said in a deep voice. "As for taking a detour, after a day of fighting, we don't know if the surrounding situation is still the same as before, so we'll stick to this route."
"A demon god marked in red?" Zou's expression was somewhat solemn. "How many demon gods have been marked in red these past two days? When I left before, there seemed to be only one."
“Eight more. The teams we sent out before failed to take it down. The thing you encountered this time, after we give them the information, it should also be marked in red. Frankly, I don't even know how to deal with it. We'd probably have to use internal energy to launch a legion attack and blow it up.” Wang Mao said gravely. It wasn't that he couldn't deliver such an attack, but in this situation, under these circumstances, even if you give it your all, what if you encounter a tough opponent later?
"Have you suffered significant losses recently?" Zou's expression turned quite grim.
"There wasn't much damage. Yang Si's situation is already considered the worst. The other teams realized they couldn't win and just ran away." Wang Mao explained simply. Yang Si was somewhat embarrassed to hear this. He had no choice. The demon god had broken his arm, which made it impossible for him to run away. Afterwards, Zou had to protect him while he was losing too much blood, and in the end, he was stuck inside.
"Are they all eighth-level?" Zou asked in a deep voice.
“Yes, those newly highlighted in red are all eighth-level beings with some strange abilities,” Wang Mao said in a deep voice. “Let’s go. Yang Si’s arm has been reattached, and he has a certain ability to protect himself. Let’s rush over directly and try not to delay. There is a subjective time-slowing effect in the talent structure of that thing, which greatly suppresses explosive power and mobility.”
Wang Mao then told Zou Ta and Yang Si all the data about the demon god they had met. The two of them felt a chill in their hearts. Normally, encountering such a thing for the first time would result in heavy losses.
"By the way, which group encountered this thing?" Zou asked as he chased after Wang Mao, "This kind of thing can kill people, right?"
"It's Huang Tao. He lost a double and swapped out all the intelligence. Next, he'll probably send out some tough, resilient veterans to wear me down. The subjective time slowing characteristic has too much of an impact on someone like me," Wang Mao said in a deep voice. He was confident he could win, but it was hard to guarantee he could kill him. He could only say that the Demon God was really too unpredictable.
"Just like when we were clearing out the alien beasts, the first ones sent were all veterans with strong survival skills. They couldn't solve the problem, but they were safe. They would come back with intelligence and then send out targeted veterans, right?" Yang Si said with some fatigue. The broken part of his wrist was a little itchy, but as he said before, now that his hand was back, he felt relatively more at ease fighting.
On the other side, Wei Jun was supporting Wang Fu, who had two large cuts on his body. Wei Jun was also in a sorry state. The target they had originally gone to deal with was not a problem and they had finished it in a short time. However, on their way back, they encountered a wandering demon god. To make matters worse, Wang Fu's "Severing the Mind" technique had brought out the demon god's self-awareness.
Then Wei Jun and Wang Fu toiled for two days, finally managing to kill that thing completely, though it was half-dead.
"Brother Wang, let me tell you, you need to eat something." Wei Jun said, supporting the heavily injured Wang Fu. "This stuff may look strange, but it's incredibly nutritious. Look at my shiny black hair, and look at you, we're both in our early sixties, and your fighting ability has declined drastically!"
"I won't eat!" Wang Fu clutched the bloody gash on his chest, the spot where the demon god had stabbed him with the bone spear that pierced his wrist. It was only thanks to the quality of his armor that he was pierced through; otherwise, it wouldn't have been just a bloody gash. Damn it, having self-awareness is awesome, even at the seventh level, he's this awesome.
"Why not eat it? Eat this, absorb it, and your fighting power will increase greatly." Seeing that Wang Fu wasn't eating, Wei Jun didn't stand on ceremony. He threw the half-roasted piece of meat into his mouth, chewed it a few times, and then swallowed it. Soon, the fatigue on his face was greatly reduced.
"Do you have any more candy? Give me some candy," Wang Fu said in a muffled voice. He really couldn't stomach the demon god's flesh; just looking at it made him want to stay away.
"There are only three or four pieces left, here you go," Wei Jun said, handing the candy to Wang Fu.
As mentioned before, since the advent of the sugar industry, sugar has been among the strategic resources of the Han Dynasty. The high-sugar, sterile environment is only one aspect; the most important thing is to replenish physical strength. A few pieces of sugar can restore some energy to someone who is already exhausted. Therefore, before each battle, dozens of pieces of sugar would be distributed to everyone.
To be honest, this really can save lives!
"Doesn't this make you feel nauseous?" Wang Fu asked with some doubt after swallowing the sugar mixed with his blood, clutching the bloody wound on his chest.
"Why are you disgusted? Aren't they all meat?" Wei Jun said matter-of-factly. "Although most people probably can't eat them because of the characteristics of demon gods, I think Old Yellow Turban and Willpower Breaker can eat them, so you should be able to too!"
"The problem is, how many of the old Yellow Turbans and those with broken willpower who came here ate like you?" Wang Fu exhaled a breath of turbid air, ate a couple of bites of sugar, mixed it with some water, and felt a little better.
"What's wrong with eating it? It's just some cured meat from the Spring and Autumn Period," Wei Jun said, scoffing. "What's wrong with eating it? It's not like it's a living person!"
"You know they are people who evolved from the Chu people of the Spring and Autumn Period, so why can you still eat them?" Wang Fu said irritably.
"I also know that the rice and wheat outside are grown with farmyard manure, and you eat them too, don't you?" Wei Jun said disdainfully. "You really think the Demon God is a Chu person? You don't even know what these things are anymore. Can a person transform into those things? No, eating them is the right thing to do! Absorb their nutrients and make them my power!"
Suddenly, Wei Jun realized something and threw a vacuum gun forward. A terrifying spiral exploded in front of him with a shriek, causing Wang Fu to cover his wounded face. Wei Jun, this monster, is clearly over sixty years old, but he has not weakened at all, and is even getting stronger. Can this really be achieved by eating?
While others may not know if they can regain their youthful appearance through food, Wei Jun truly can. Ever since consuming the Wood Demon, the Super-sized Cordyceps, and the Chu Demon God, Wei Jun has stopped pretending and just starts eating them. The weirder the appearance, the better the effect.
"Are you alright?" Guang Yuan asked Wei Jun, sword in hand.
"I was terrified! I thought we'd run into another demon god. Yuan-ge, can't you be a decent human being?" Wei Jun saw that it was Guang Yuan and immediately lowered his guard. He thought they had encountered another demon god. Although he wasn't afraid of an ordinary seventh-level demon god in his current state, and he could even fight an eighth-level one, he was worried about triggering the demon god's self-awareness. Furthermore, Wang Fu was currently a burden, and Wei Jun figured that if he were to fight a seventh-level demon god while protecting Wang Fu, it would be a death sentence!
"It's good that you two are alright. I'm here to pick you up. Here's some medicine and candy." As he spoke, Guangyuan tossed the pouch from his waist to Weijun, who caught it and handed it to Wang Fu. After Wang Fu confirmed it was safe, the two of them completely let their guard down and ran away with Guangyuan.
In Jiangling, Chen Xi, who was still asleep at 3:45 AM, was awakened by Liao Li.
"What did you say?" Chen Xi looked at Liao Li, his brows furrowed. "You should know that I kill one of these guys as soon as I take him down!"
“The probability of a demon regaining its will in a life-or-death situation is not low; we must be prepared,” Liao Li said in a deep voice. “I can set an example!”
Upon hearing this, Chen Xi's expression darkened. "Since you have no ulterior motives, turn left as you leave now, and I'll pretend this never happened. If you say another word, you'll be at the same table as Hua Xin!"
I need to find a way to get up a few minutes earlier every day.
(End of this chapter)