The moment he unleashed the last sword strike. A wave of dizziness overtook him, and his body nearly tumbled on the black glossy sh.e.l.l under him. Thankfully, he managed to find his footing back and glanced at the result of his relentless attack."I can already sense it. Her lifespan flowing out of her, akin to a hole in a bottle…", he mumbled while feeling the change happening to the creature"s life essence.
Time ticked quietly, and a few seconds pa.s.sed without any change happening to the situation. Ghastly shrieks escaped the creature"s horrific mouth in a continuous manner; their intensity rose after the round of attack chained by the black-haired youth.
And before long, what ought to happen happened. The intersection between the head and the main trunk released an otherworld noise akin to a ma.s.sive wood branch snapping. The head gradually began weighing down too much for the injured spot that linked it with the rest of the spider"s body.
And with those kinds of injuries, what was ought to happen gradually happened. The head fell with the might on an avalanche, and another round of dust cloud"s billows happened. A satisfying sensation traveled the young cultivator the moment he saw the scene unravel in front of him.
He felt as if this scene of him taking down the fierce creature had been worth the sacrifice he had done one after the other during their fight. He couldn"t help but look at the arm grasping Soldier"s Fortune, and a self-deprecating smile drew itself on his bony figure.
"I"m going to need a lot of food to fix this malnourished state my body is in…", he said with a pitiful tone. He couldn"t help but feel as if he was back in the days where he had lacked food for more than two weeks. His body had looked so malnourished that a few bones he couldn"t name could be seen on his frail and bony figure.
The trembling under him soon came to a stop, and the main trunk filled with an incredible amount of vitality was soon void of any movement. Fell finally moved and began descending from his spot on the back of the dead spider monstrosity. He quickly finished his descent from the creature"s humongous body and landed near the head of the creature.
"Yikes, what an ugly face we"ve got there.", he mumbled from between his parched up lips. A single weak laugh escaped from his weak body, as even that could somehow tire him now. He glanced for a long moment at the creature that gave him this much trouble.
Even if the episode where he had nearly been buried alive wasn"t exactly caused by it, he had still nearly died when coming for the creature"s life.
As he gazed at the creature with a mindless gaze and was in the midst of commemorating the numerous event that arose during their intense fight. A change arose from the inside of the dead creature"s head.
From inside of her unsightly crooked mouth. A purple-colored gas flew out of the creature"s aperture, and wisps of that strange matter gradually made their way toward the young cultivator.
"d.a.m.n, I"m hungry…", thought the young cultivator in the middle of his dozing. His nose twitched a few time, and he inevitably took a deep breath as he felt a strange aroma in the air around him.
The moment he finished taking a deep breath to his lungs, his eyes opened widely as he felt a strange effect in his body. And that change concerned the most recent mysteries that were related to his body. Inside of his soul palace that could be entered by the white-colored hole in his body, the mysterious purple gas had made its way to this special place.
"Wh-?", he mumbled incoherently while controlling his ego body. He gazed at the mysterious gas appearing and tried focusing his senses back to the real world. "What is this!?", he nearly scream out loud when he finally saw the odd scene in front of his sight.
The surroundings of the humongous head had already transformed into a hazy purple cloud smell with an odd aroma. Fell couldn"t tell if the aroma smelled good or not, but an especially sweet yet odd tone that hung around his mouth when he came back to his senses alerted his senses.
He took a step back, and a pained gasp of pain forced him to absorb part of the purple cloud surrounding him. "f.u.c.k, I"m too weak to walk… I need to rest. With this cloud surrounding me, I don"t know what might arise after inhaling it…", his thought spun in his thought at lightning-fast speed.
But Fell"s muscles didn"t move at all. The young, black-haired, cultivator could be seen standing with his hand around his face. An alert expression could be seen on his face, but after a few efforts from the youth, he managed to calm down part of his inner panic.
"I need to calm down… Panicking serves me nothing in the current situation. First, I need to regulate my blood flow to avoid the propagation of the strange mixture through my organism."
"Sadly, I have already inhaled part of this thing… I just hope that hose quant.i.ties aren"t enough to take me down…", he sadly didn"t think he had the luxury to have the chance that the strange gas might be beneficial to him.
Anything coming from an ominous creature such as this would never be good. Those were the kind of thoughts that hang around the youth"s head.
"f.u.c.k…", he thought as he felt the strange purple cloud travel toward his internal organs through his blood. Although he did his best in controlling his blood flow, his state was terrible to the point where the amount of influence he managed to produce was too minute to cause anything.
Suddenly, the small parts of the purple clouds that existed around the white-colored hole near Fell"s head disappeared one after the other. They turned into wisps of purple snakes that turned ephemeral and flew through his flesh toward the white-colored hole.
"My soul palace!", he thought as he didn"t know yet if the situation was good or bad. His attention refocused on the mysterious s.p.a.ce, and the sight of his soul palace appeared as he possessed his ego body once again. There he saw the source of his panic, wisps upon wisps of purple cloud rose in one spot of his soul palace.
Those purple wisps soon gathered together in one cl.u.s.ter, and before long, a dense small-sized purple clouds had appeared there.
"What the h.e.l.l is that matter?", he asked himself before approaching it with his ego body.
He couldn"t help but have apprehension fill his heart, but he soon remembered that this place was where his soul existed. If the purple cloud had made his way here, then if it was dangerous to him in any way, he was already in a bad position.
"Well, nothing to worry now that it"s already there.", he exclaimed with a wry expression on his ego body. He hovered toward the strange purple cl.u.s.ter of the strange matter, and before long, he stood in front of it.
He extended his hand, and a wisp of purple cloud flew out of the ball of cl.u.s.tered wisps and turned into an arrow that darted toward Fell. In a split second, it arrived at his hand due to the short distance that separated them. And before he even had the time to have a last-minute worry though, he felt the effect of the strange mixture.
At first, he felt his mind go blank from the strength of the ominous energy laying in the properties of the purple cloud. Then he felt the pure potency of soul power existing in the purple wisp fill every crook and inch of his ego body.
As his ego body was a reflection of the large s.p.a.ce that existed inside of the veined white colored hole. Small parts of the large s.p.a.ce began acquiring a minute but detectable purple hue, and as he absorbed more of the wisp energy content, he felt his soul energy grow stronger.
After finishing the absorption of the small purple wisp, a surprised expression flashed on his face, and he immediately regained control of his body.
"This is definitely good stuff!", he exclaimed in a high pitched voice before humming a deep breath the air around him. He breathed a maximum of the purple cloud surrounding him and began walking toward the head of the creature.
"This is coming from here, very good stuff must definitely exist inside of it for such good stuff to arose around it.", he exclaimed with greed brightening his amber-colored eyes.
His figure swiftly moved through the cloud, and while taking deep breathes to inhale the purple cloud, he made his way toward the humongous ugly head.
His greed had been kindled by the discovery, and in his sight, the ugly head had turned much more beautiful.