Eldritch Horror Theatre - Ch. 46: I Only Seize the Day
This...
For a moment, Ji Liushuang almost couldn't resist the urge to charge forward with them.
However, a voice flashing through her mind made her restrain her impulse.
"Do you know what Ambergris is? ...It's best not to do things you don't understand."
Fu Qian's words struck Ji Liushuang's heart one by one, causing her to hesitate for a moment and simply watch the crowd rushing toward the blood pool.
The next moment, she was incredibly thankful for that sliver of hesitation.
Leading the charge were the strongest, Huang Zhaoyan and Yuan Xin. Since Huang Zhaoyan was the least injured, he leaped high into the air, almost exactly like Fu Qian had, jumping straight toward the center of the pool.
But just as he leaped into mid-air, a swirling tentacle suddenly shot out from the putrid, foul-smelling sludge at the outer edge of the blood pool.
Ah!
Amidst a bloodcurdling scream, Huang Zhaoyan, unable to dodge, had his calf directly pierced by the tentacle.
The next moment, the tentacle retracted, dragging Huang Zhaoyan down and burying him in the putrid sludge.
Seeing this, Yuan Xin, who was closely following, was greatly startled. As he hesitated between advancing and retreating, he suddenly realized two tentacles were shooting straight at him.
Dodging the tentacles' attack with all his might, Yuan Xin lost his balance and plunged half his body into the pool.
The blood pool wasn't deep. Yuan Xin propped his hands on the ground, trying to stand up, only to find that countless tentacles in the sludge seemed to be pulling his body down tightly, leaving him completely immobilized.
...
The three people wading through the water behind them froze for a moment. The next second, they frantically tried to retreat, only to find that they could no longer move either.
In an instant, all five were trapped.
"Save me!"
Fallen at the outer edge of the blood pool, Yuan Xin looked despairingly at Ji Liushuang, who was still on the shore.
He could already feel the area around his wound rapidly losing sensation. The fear of death quickly shrouded his heart. In the corner of his eye, Huang Zhaoyan had been completely submerged by the sludge.
...
Watching the tragic scene unfold before her, Ji Liushuang, having narrowly escaped disaster, felt her limbs go weak and her heart pound wildly.
She couldn't help but look again at Fu Qian in the blood pool.
His words earlier were a hint to me!
He had planned everything out, even anticipating this exact scenario!
Everyone's reaction was within his expectations!
The people in the pool were already beginning to fall one by one. Hearing their wails, Ji Liushuang felt a pang of sympathy and wanted to save them.
"If you don't understand it, don't do it."
But Fu Qian's words surfaced in her mind once again, ultimately making her simply turn her head away.
In the blood pool, Fu Qian merely glanced over before looking away.
He had absolutely no sympathy for these people.
There is no cure for idiocy!
It's true that humans have survival instincts, and resorting to any means necessary to live is understandable, but that doesn't mean you can stop using your brain.
Not understanding the true logic and blindly imitating others is completely gambling with your own life.
What made you think that just because these things on the periphery didn't react to me, they wouldn't attack you?
By now, he had used Visceral Critical Strike on Feng Yunhong three consecutive times; the opponent was practically bleeding a river.
However, this only delayed Feng Yunhong's recovery speed.
Facts proved he was right: as long as he was in here, his health bar was infinite.
Go to hell!
At this point, Feng Yunhong had gradually regained his mobility, and his counterattack arrived.
The hand gripping Fu Qian's neck squeezed with mad force. Fu Qian only felt a crisp crack as the bones inside his neck were reduced to a mess.
Then, in just the blink of an eye, the surging vitality and blood within his body repaired the bones.
What a pity, it seems my health bar is infinite now too.
This feeling is truly miraculous!
However, Feng Yunhong's absorption speed was clearly still far beyond his own. Continuing like this definitely wouldn't work.
Fu Qian thought for a moment, and for his fourth Visceral Critical Strike, he changed directions and stabbed directly into his own body.
Boom!
He felt his body being hollowed out.
Indescribable pain transmitted through him, causing Fu Qian's movements to falter.
Feng Yunhong was stunned for a moment, then burst into loud laughter.
"Afraid of torture so you want to end it yourself? In your dreams! You don't even have the luxury of dying on your own terms now!"
"You don't know shit."
Fu Qian snorted.
"This is called Residual Blood Explosive Qi Kill—"
The next moment, the massive wound on his body violently tore open in all directions, forming a literal bloody maw.
This scene looks familiar!
Fu Qian sighed with emotion and swallowed the surrounding area in one gulp.
A small half of the surrounding blood directly vanished.
"You're crazy!"
Feng Yunhong was both shocked and enraged.
"You can't digest that at all! You'll only end up exploding to death. You'll be finished before long!"
"You don't need to remind me, I already feel it."
Fu Qian grimaced and bared his teeth.
Unlike absorbing through a wound earlier, swallowing it directly this time caused an instant surge of turbulent vitality and blood within his body, and countless noises flooded his head.
"But that doesn't matter..."
He forced a smile at Feng Yunhong.
To defeat the strong as the weak, one must be good at utilizing any advantage they have.
For instance, the phrase "before long"—
Means absolutely nothing to me!
I don't care at all what happens to me when that time comes.
But you do!
Enduring the agonizing feeling of his body being pushed to the bursting point, Fu Qian swallowed another massive mouthful of blood under Feng Yunhong's horrified gaze.
His hands weren't idle either; Fu Qian delivered another Visceral Critical Strike to him.
With one fading as the other grew, Feng Yunhong's state rapidly deteriorated.
"You... lunatic!"
Finally, amidst Feng Yunhong's desperate curses, Fu Qian's last Visceral Critical Strike battered him back into his blood form.
No—
Feng Yunhong was only halfway through his shout when Fu Qian swallowed him whole.
It's over.
Fu Qian plopped down on the ground. The remaining small amount of blood continuously flooded into his body, mending his wounds and even repairing his severed arm and fingers one by one.
Of course, this was only on the surface. The chaotic vitality and blood inside him were almost completely out of control, thrashing about purely on instinct. He felt his body swelling up, ready to explode into pieces at any second.
But this was enough.
Even though his insides were a total mess, Fu Qian still felt his state was unprecedentedly exaggerated. In terms of sheer life force, he was stronger than the previous Li Weixuan.
He could even feel his existence being rejected, the very space around him becoming viscous.
As expected, the power built entirely by stacking vitality and blood had surpassed the Furnace's limits.
Next, he just needed to walk to the barrier to prove whether his line of thinking was correct.
Amidst the extreme lack of coordination across all parts of his body, Fu Qian struggled to his feet.
Hahaha!
Just as he was about to set off, a voice laughed maniacally right by his ear.
That's right, literally right by his ear.
Fu Qian could clearly feel a mouth had grown below his left ear, emitting Feng Yunhong's voice.
"You lunatic, don't ever think you can destroy me!"
"I just need to wait for you to explode, then go through the rebirth process all over again. But you will soon be utterly obliterated in body and soul!"
It wasn't just him; dozens of manic mocks rang out from all over his body.
Male and female, they were likely the Beyonders who had been devoured by Feng Yunhong.
His action of swallowing things whole seemed to have improved their conditions as well.
It seems existing in this form for too long really does affect the brain!
"Alright, I know, no need to say it so many times."
Fu Qian said weakly.
"But what if I walk out of the barrier during this time?"
...
In an instant, whether it was Feng Yunhong or the voices in his head, they all fell dead silent.
"We'll be utterly obliterated together, right?"
Fu Qian laughed as he walked.
"Well, isn't that just wonderful!"
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