Chapter 1114: Grand Feast for the Devil King
Not long after the cries from Deng Changbai"s team, an odd scream that did not sound like a human voice echoed in the white fog. At the next moment, the fog retreated rapidly.
Li Luo could faintly tell that the spot where the white mist was retreating towards was the Devil Heart Pillar.
Suddenly, an angry shout came from Deng Changbai. "Leave them behind!"
Thunder exploded in the air and huge amounts of lightning resonant power surged up. It fought the fog, trying to push it back, but something had stopped it in its tracks.
The white fog retreated faster than they had expected. In just a few moments, it was completely gone.
Li Luo and the group had seen everything very clearly. The fog had retreated back into the Devil Heart Pillar along with two of the Greater Evil Spirits, which had liquefied and flowed back as pools of blood.
There were a few bags made of human skin being carried by the retreating blood stream. The bags obviously contained Deng Changbai"s teammates, and the outlines of their struggling faces were easy to see.
In that case, had they been captured by the Greater Evil Spirits?
The Greater Evil Spirits" retreat was too swift. Li Luo could barely catch a glimpse of their shadows before they turned into a stream of blood, flowing back into the Devil Heart Pillar, leaving not a single trace behind.
A sword filled with wild lighting energy slashed the Devil Heart Pillar directly. As the blade sliced across, the area shattered into fragments. However, the pieces simply fell down like black mud. There were no more signs of the Greater Evil Spirits.
Deng Changbai approached and looked down at the black mud. His face was dark and his eyes were full of fury.
Unfortunately, all his team members had been kidnapped by the Greater Evil Spirits.
With so many casualties, his final merit score would definitely be affected. In other words, Deng Changbai was certain to earn nothing even though the mission had just begun. Jiang Wanyu, Lu Ming, and the rest felt a chill in their hearts when they saw this scene. They were probably the ones who had caught the eyes of the Greater Evil Spirits first. Fortunately, Li Luo had sensed that something was off and activated his high-grade Duke Art immediately. If not, they would have been the ones captured in the bags of human skin.
After all, Zong Sha was not strong enough to fend off a Greater Evil Spirit.
"Oh right, isn"t there supposed to be three Greater Evil Spirits? But only two of them escaped," Lu Jinci suddenly said.
As soon as he finished speaking, a huge black coc.o.o.n fell down from the sky, landing right in front of the group.
The coc.o.o.n was made up of countless grayish-black light rays. When the coc.o.o.n broke apart, a blood-red body and a destroyed "evil" character spilled out.
It was a Greater Evil Spirit!
However, this Greater Evil Spirit had clearly been slain. The countless grayish-black light rays pierced through its body and repeatedly eroded the corruption energy.
However, the lifeforce of an Other was really strong. The destroyed body parts continued to wriggle about despite the fatal injuries. The "evil" character kept trying to form back together. However, the grayish-black light rays quickly swept towards it, destroying it before it could do so.
Everyone was shocked to see this. They took a few steps back and did not dare to get too close to it, afraid to be accidentally corrupted.
At the same time, a slender figure descended from the sky. There was a dominating presence in the eyes under her dark-red mask.
It was none other than Feng Lingyuan.
Li Luo clicked his tongue secretly. This Greater Evil Spirit had clearly been slain by Feng Lingyuan. The second ranked individual in the Upper Hall was truly formidable. Although Deng Changbai was also in the Upper Hall, he had only been able to fight on par with the Greater Evil Spirit. In the end, his team members had been taken away and he could not do anything about it.
When Feng Lingyuan landed, she took a glance at Deng Changbai, who was still venting his anger on the broken pillar. With a frown, she said coldly, "Deng Changbai, go away if you can"t calm yourself down. Don"t be an eyesore over here."
She was direct with her words.
Deng Changbai stopped. He knew that venting his anger like this was pointless. He turned around, clenched his teeth, and said with red eyes, "The information was wrong! What"s the college doing?!"
If they had been the only team in this town, he would likely have met his end too. There was no way he could have survived an encounter with three Greater Evil Spirits.
Therefore, he was shocked and frustrated.
"Your team members did not die. They"ve just been captured alive," Feng Lingyuan said.
Everyone"s faces turned dark. Sometimes, it was more scary to be kept alive than dead when left to the hands of Others. However, there truly was something odd about this. The Others usually killed off everyone without reserve. Why had they decided to capture these individuals alive now?
What were they going to do with them?
Feng Lingyuan frowned. She stretched out her slender fingers and gently beckoned at the Greater Evil Spirit trapped in the grayish-black coc.o.o.n.
The countless grayish-black rays of light around the Greater Evil Spirit rotated quickly, slicing its body into a few parts.
A rotting stench filled the air immediately.
However, Li Luo did not turn away. He stared at the body of the Greater Evil Spirit. Its body had no organs or blood; it was stuffed full of blood-red plants.
The blood-red skin was merely the outer layer of its body.
However, it carried frightening amounts of corruption. The entire sight was strange.
Feng Lingyuan studied the broken parts for a moment. Suddenly, she noticed something and lightly waved her fingers in the air again. The skin was peeled off layer after layer. Soon, the crowd could see a thin, white layer of flesh within the layers of skin.
The white layer of flesh was still wriggling slowly, making one feel really uncomfortable.
"This Greater Evil Spirit is under the command of the All-Beings Devil King. Others in his Dominion are all born from skins. Why would there be flesh and blood in it?" Feng Lingyuan asked slowly.
There were rules around how Others were born, especially for those under an Other King. They all had to follow the will of the King. The All-Beings Devil King used skin as its medium. Therefore, it was really odd to find a layer of flesh and blood in the Greater Evil Spirit.
Everyone shook their heads. No one had the answer.
"Deng Changbai, your team members have been kidnapped. You can send out a call for help using the Ancient Spirit Leaf. The other teams may see it and be able to help," Feng Lingyuan told Deng Changbai. She did not waste any more time, seeing that no one had the answer.
Deng Changbai looked slumped. He activated the Ancient Spirit Leaf with his resonant power and sent out a call for help. However, his face suddenly froze.
"W-w-what"s happening?" he stuttered in shock.
Li Luo and the rest were surprised, so they activated the Ancient Spirit Leaves on their hands too.
The light glowed up and formed a screen that looked like a map. It was the map that showed the area they were in, and it was full of red dots.
Each of the dots represented a call for help.
There were more than ten teams calling for help. It seemed they were all having trouble.
Everyone"s faces turned serious.
"So, the other teams have fallen into the same trap too?" Li Luo asked in a low voice.
If they were the only ones who had encountered three Greater Evil Spirits, it could"ve been considered a coincidence. However, there were a dozen calls for help. This meant that the All-Beings Devil King had prepared a grand feast for the arrival of the Heavenly Origin Ancient College"s students.
It was a grand feast for the Devil King.
It was a truly tragic and b.l.o.o.d.y start.
"There"s a new mission!" Jiang Wanyu suddenly shouted.
Everyone focused their minds and sensed a new message coming from the Ancient Spirit Leaves.
Rescue Mission: A-Cla.s.s.
Head over to the specified district and rescue the students. Merits will be allocated based on your performance. Up to three A Merits.
"Three A Merits?!" everyone exclaimed in shock. Even the cold Feng Lingyuan was staring with wide eyes. Based on their understanding of how the college operated, it was rare to find a mission that gave a single A Merit. Now, however, they had been presented a mission that would award three A Merits!
However, this also told them that the situation here had gone out of the college"s expectations. They had to break the rules and send out a call for help urgently.
Li Luo was very surprised to see this. He had checked the scores earlier and noticed they"d gotten a B Merit for accomplishing the mission earlier. Feng Lingyuan had one A Merit and one B Merit, most likely due to her killing a Greater Evil Spirit.
As Li Luo stared at the map on his Ancient Spirit Leaf, he noticed a red skull a little north from them. That was the location of the rescue mission.
So the kidnapped students had been sent over there?
Just as Li Luo was pondering over it, Lu Ming tapped his shoulder. She cried out in surprise, "Li Luo, take a look at the scoreboard!"
Li Luo was startled. He focused his mind and opened up the scoreboard on the Ancient Spirit Leaf.
The screen in front of him changed into a list. Li Luo glanced at it and understood what Lu Ming was trying to say.
He could see a familiar name on the top of the scoreboard.
Jiang Qing"e, three A Merits, one B Merit.
When he saw those simple words, Li Luo could not help but take in a deep breath. Had Jiang Qing"e encountered the same problem as them?
However... she had killed all three Greater Evil Spirits?!
How had she done that? Even Feng Lingyuan had only managed to kill one before the others escaped. Yet Jiang Qing"e had eradicated all of them?!
At this moment, Li Luo could only sigh in his heart.
The big goose from House Luolan was a truly terrifying killing machine.