"Hmm?"

All of a sudden, Li Ang sensed something. He abruptly lifted his head, his eyes seemingly piercing through the tree hollow, staring into the far distance.

The Soldier Bees surrounding that area had mysteriously died off in large numbers, and the surviving Soldier Bees, fortunate to escape, were now desperately scattering in all directions.

"Something is charging this way."

Li Ang shook his head and leisurely rose to his feet, his hands on his knees. "I hope it's that Water Nightmare."

Wanli Fengdao's expression changed slightly upon hearing this. He tightly clutched the Dragon-Slaying Sword in his hand; the previously broken ribs in his chest began to ache again. "Should we run or fight?"

"Three against one. There's no reason to run."

Li Ang crawled out of the tree hollow and said nonchalantly, "Oh? It's moving quite fast..."

THUD. THUD. THUD. THUD.

In the depths of the forest, a Water Nightmare with pale, sagging skin was sprinting wildly, stomping on the ground.

Its nose had long since rotted off, leaving behind two narrow holes from which it constantly exhaled damp, putrid air.

Chains clinked at its waist, dragging a dozen or so bodies of various forms, slicing through fallen leaves and stones as they trailed across the ground.

Just fill all eighteen chains, and it could shed this gradually decaying body to complete its transformation...

In the forest, apart from the two tall, burly men and the wretched skinny man from before, two fresh scents of living humans had mysteriously appeared. It must be quick; I have to seize their bodies before any other monstrosities do!

BOOM!

With the sudden peal of thunder, the Water Nightmare's white, cataract-covered eyes slowly turned. Its desiccated, branch-like hands reached for a chain at its waist that wasn't tied to any body and abruptly hurled it into the air.

The chain, like a sinister, venomous snake, lashed through the air at strange angles. In one strike, it smashed three Scout Soldier Bees flying high above into powder, causing them to fall from the sky like rotten mush.

These bugs were becoming more numerous. They didn't attack; they just followed it through the air... Were those two new humans responsible?

The Water Nightmare's mind, nearly overwhelmed by bloodlust, could only spare a limited portion for thinking.

Forget it, it doesn't matter. As long as I find those few humans and turn them into sacrificial substitutes.

In this Pitch Black Forest, where an eternal downpour fell, the Water Nightmare had no rival.

SWOOSH—

A barely audible sound of something cutting through the air came from the right front, causing alarms to blare in the Water Nightmare's mind. Its body abruptly stopped, its hand grasping the chain and fiercely swinging it toward the direction of the sound.

The human-arm-thick chain, with a BANG, shattered a giant tree standing in its path. Without losing momentum, it struck a plain metal Arrow arcing towards it at high speed.

The savage, tyrannical power imbued in the chain directly blew the metal Arrow apart, turning it into fragments that scattered across the sky.

Just as the Water Nightmare was about to retrieve its chain, it saw that the Arrow fragments didn't fall to the ground, pulled by gravity. Instead, after a brief pause, they dived from mid-air, converging towards its head.

The sure-hit property of the Good Horn Bow was too bizarre. The Water Nightmare couldn't avoid it and was struck head-on by the metal fragments, its head and face riddled with sharp iron pieces.

BOOM!

All the iron pieces exploded simultaneously, and the Water Nightmare's gaunt body was instantly engulfed in blazing flames.

Compared to the last time they met, Liu Wu Dai's strength had increased considerably. With the Sure-hit Bow Arrow combined with the Great Power Exploding Arrow, as well as some auxiliary enhancement methods, he had enough power to instantly kill a batch of enemies whose capabilities were unknown at first sight.

Before the firelight had dissipated, a gaunt figure sprang from the forest. Wanli Fengdao, holding the Dragon-Slaying Sword, his mustache drenched and drooping over his upper lip from the rain, looked haggard, but his eyes were clear and bright, seeing nothing but the Water Nightmare.

SLASH!

The Three-foot Autumn Water Sword, without any flashy sound or light, simply and unremarkably slashed at the Water Nightmare, the cut extending diagonally from its neck down to its waist.

This sword strike had actually split the Water Nightmare's body almost in half. Red-yellow, fetid pus poured out as if it cost nothing, spilling onto the damp pile of dead leaves and emitting a sizzling, corrosive sound.

The Water Nightmare's emaciated body slowly fell backward, but Wanli Fengdao twisted and swung his sword behind him.

The Three-foot Frost Blade firmly blocked a swollen, pale hand missing part of a finger.

Wanli Fengdao looked up to see a bloated, pallid, giant human figure looking down at him.

This was... the body of an adult man dressed in ragged clothes, one of those bound to the Water Nightmare's chains.

Wanli Fengdao's pupils suddenly constricted. There was no chain around this corpse's waist...

Without time to think further, Wanli Fengdao's Dragon-Slaying Sword Qi whirled, directly severing the giant corpse's hand that was grasping the blade. Then, from bottom to top, he attempted to split open the bloated corpse's abdomen.

However, as soon as the blade touched the bloated skin of the corpse's abdomen, he felt a strong stickiness, as if the blade itself were being sucked in, making it impossible to cut through.

HURGH—

The corpse emitted a garbled exhalation from its throat. Its left hand and its right arm, now missing a hand, moved towards the middle to clap together, trying to trap Wanli Fengdao.

SWISH—

An Arrow with a spherical object attached to its head shot through the air in a curved trajectory, hitting precisely the back of the bloated corpse's head. The spherical arrowhead instantly exploded with intense electricity, charring the back of the giant corpse's head.

Seizing this brief window, Wanli Fengdao drew his longsword and retreated explosively. Tapping the ground with his toes, he leaped upward, landing on a tree branch to look down upon the area below.

The Water Nightmare was still sprawled on the ground, its body burning, but the ends of the eighteen chains around its waist no longer held any corpses.

All the bodies seemed to have disappeared. Or rather, they had been set free... Just like that giant floating corpse.

Wanli Fengdao's pupils suddenly constricted, and a chill surged up his spine. In the instant his body involuntarily leaped up, the tree branch he had just been standing on was blown to pieces.

The thing that shattered the branches was a pale object curled into a ball.

It was a deathly pale infant with a gaping maw, a strangely distended belly, and blood-red eyes.

The child still had remnants of tree debris in its mouth. Having missed its strike, it fell towards the ground like a little monkey, landing right into the arms of a female floating corpse and returning to a calm and adorable appearance.

Mother and child looked up together, their murky eyes covered in a white film just like the Water Nightmare's, gazing at Wanli Fengdao, who was frozen in midair. They both revealed bloodthirsty smiles.

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