novelraw Chapter 582 - 267: Symphony of Flesh and Blood (Part 2)
Chapter 582 - 267: Symphony of Flesh and Blood (Part 2)
The two of them tumbled out in a sorry state, crashing into the ice rocks, blood seeping from their mouths and noses, helplessly watching as this hellish creation descended upon the ice field.
The entire camp was plunged into a deathly silence in an instant.
Everyone stopped fleeing, as if struck by an immobilization spell, gazing in stupor at this terrifying presence that occupied their view.
Deep red!
Wriggling!
Enormous!
This isn’t a relic at all; it’s a goddamn living monster!!
"Report to headquarters..."
Old Li’s voice came through the encrypted communicator, hoarse beyond recognition, filled with an unprecedented gravitas.
"The relic was suddenly torn open by a blood-colored flesh sphere, forming a supermassive flesh aggregation! Diameter exceeds fifty meters! Fang Qingyu and others are missing... The flesh sphere is currently... currently rolling towards the northeast! I repeat, it ran! Request... Request top-level support!"
Before he could finish his sentence.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
The massive flesh sphere began to roll slowly like a soccer ball kicked by a mischievous child.
Each roll was actually supported and propelled by countless thick, dark red fleshy tendrils underneath, alternating like giant treads.
It rolled over the ice field, crushing scattered tents and equipment, rolling over everything in its way, heading towards the more desolate, deeper part of the northeastern glacier, with an increasingly rapid speed.
"Chase... chase it!"
In the camp, a burly, scar-faced man suddenly snapped out of it, a light of madness mixed with fear and greed bursting from his eyes as he roared at his subordinates, "This thing... this thing is worth ten thousand times more than any damned relic! Follow it! See where it’s going! There must be a heaven-sized secret inside!!"
His shout was like a spark thrown into an oil pan, instantly igniting the greed of some of the remaining desperadoes in the camp.
Several small teams that arrived late, observing, along with some fierce solo Grandmasters, gritted their teeth, braving the nauseating bloody storm and earthquake-like tremors, like moths to a flame, recklessly pursuing along the dark red viscous trail left by the giant rolling flesh sphere.
The people from Deep Blue Heavy Industries also moved.
After Old Li finished reporting, he suddenly drew the battle blade from his waist, looking decisively at the huge trail left by the flesh sphere over the ice field and the increasingly smaller dark red silhouette in the distance, shouting to those around him, "Chase! Don’t let it get away! At least... lock onto its whereabouts, the others are entering the relic!"
...
The blood-colored flower field, the deathly silence was completely shattered.
When Jiang Wei’s tiny figure floated upwards, scarlet light burst forth from her pupils like a supernova, converging into that budding red lotus flowing with tribulation fire...
The Taotie Blood Shadow in front, condensed from endless greed and violent will.
Not only did it show no fear, but its enormous blood pupils, burning with hellfire, erupted with even more fervent, purer ecstasy and desire!
"Roar aaahhh——!!!"
The Taotie Blood Shadow, towering over ten meters, a fierce form shaped by pure violence and greed, after confirming the "delicious" essence contained in the small figure before it, plunged into utter madness.
It recognized it!
No, perhaps it didn’t even need to recognize it; the greed and devouring instinct from its Origin had, since the instant Jiang Wei’s aura leaked, tightly locked onto this ultimate delicacy that surpassed all else.
The existence that its true form could not touch in the past, now had a trace of Origin manifest here!
It’s Him!
Truly the Origin aura of that legendary existence.
Though faint, the suppression and temptation on that level made even this projection imprinted with a trace of the Taotie’s Origin feel an extreme longing from Life Origin.
Devour her! If only it devoured her!
This insignificant projection might seize control, even replace the main body, and reshape the true murderous form of the Taotie!
The flames of greed completely incinerated the last shred of the Taotie Blood Shadow’s rationality.
Its massive body suddenly reared, its limbs covered in illusory scales fiercely crushing the ground, its tail, thick as a giant python, wildly flailing, stirring up a sky full of blood mist.
Its abyssal maw, occupying most of its head, gaped to the limit, unleashing a destructive charge towards Jiang Wei, who was suspended in mid-air, enveloped by the red lotus.
Rumble——!!!
Wherever the blood shadow passed, space distorted and wailed.
The turbulent air currents shredded the remaining pollen and blood mist completely.
Facing this cataclysmic pounce, Jiang Wei, floating amidst the scarlet flames, showed no ripple on her small face.
Her pupils, transformed into two burning red suns, calmly reflected the grotesque maw of the Taotie Blood Shadow lunging at her.
She didn’t even glance at the imminent threat of death, her clear eyes rather penetrated the Taotie’s massive body, accurately gazing at the dark red flesh wall far to the left in this blood-colored garden space, indistinct from other areas.
Just as the Taotie Blood Shadow’s maw was about to touch the outermost phantom lotus petal...
Jiang Wei’s tiny lips moved ever so slightly.
Two syllables, carrying an ancient and icy rhythm, rang clearly in this boiling blood-colored space:
"Red Lotus... Ashen Heaven."
Buzz——!!!
With the utterance of these two words, the enormous red lotus in bud enveloping her, suddenly bloomed!
Layer upon layer of lotus petals...
Instantly unfurled outward, drifting away.
Each drifting petal, dragging long scarlet trailing flames, like meteors streaking across the blood-colored night sky, beautiful yet deadly.