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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 310

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:27:20 AM


Chapter 310: You’re still alive?

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Chapter 310: You’re still alive?

While flipping the beast the bird made him feel better it didnt solve anything. Sage slid across the thickened air and approached the crimson monster again. While in motion he thought of a new plan and the Blue Icesilver tendrils wrapped around his body, one of them laid against his spine and coated each of his bladed back pieces. Not changing their shape, but adding an additional layer of thickness. The other three tendrils did similar things for his hands and teeth, creating outer blades to act as insulation. The still liquid and mobile parts of the tendrils filled the gaps so his limbs werent locked in place.

Hed already learned a few tricks from Hei Bai about manipulating the Blue Icesilver as a single large mass, but this method was tailored to assaulting her golem. He swooped back down from the air with a swish of his tail, and then loped across the ground to close the final bit of distance. The monster was still faster than him, but with Foresight, that didnt matter much. He could already see the moves that it was going to make.

The shadowy pits of its eyes and mouth could only watch in horror when its opponent slowly swayed out of the way of each of its strikes. Brutally fast and violent swipes of its razor clawed hands passed harmlessly through the air, over and over again. The only damage it dealt to its foe was caused by its own blood spilling upon it. The dragon used its claws and fangs to block and parry the monsters attacks that it wasnt fast enough to avoid. At the same time it would spin from time to time, using its tail as a sword to slash huge wounds into the monsters legs and sides.

Of course, it wasnt blood spilling, it was that burning hot red oil. It continued to do its damage, but the Blue Icesilver shielded Sage. It stuck to his body and melted the Blue Icesilver with its heat, but Sage continually supplied more Qi, shedding the burning layers and adding new fresh ones. Using it as an ablative coating to engage in battle with the monster. Without Hei Bai there to restrict him, he was free to follow the safest method of destroying the monster, a war of attrition. When his energy started to run low, he retreated into the Formation Machines area of effect and bought himself a few moments to rest.

The monster chased after him quite ferociously, but when it hit the area of the Formations, it was drastically slowed. The blood colored monster wasnt affected by the blinding formations at the outer edge, but it was slowed by high winds, swirling sands, and a torrent of water. None of them really damaged it, but it restricted its strength. Already at a disadvantage, it ran back out of the formations and strode down the path to escape.

If the red monster was like a monster made out of sticky magma, the ghostly old woman hitting it was like tossing the monster into a lake. An immense amount of burning hot steam blasted outwards from the place the two collided. The heat didnt seem to affect the ghost at all, and instead the red monster was the one screaming in pain. Or at least thats what Sage felt it was doing. The only sound came from the burning release of steam, the pained scream was not sound, but a fluctuation of its aura. Sage felt it with his Spiritual Sense. Just like aura could show strength or induce fear, he now felt it releasing pain, extreme pain.

The old womans ghost slowly sank into the red monster. As it did, the red monster started to lose its color. The red receding and the black once again taking over. It was like the red coloring was being being melted off by that harshly burning steam. When its body was about at the halfway mark, Sage saw a ghostly shape pulling out of the monsters other side. It was the blood red ghost that had first entered the monster, but now it was being forced out while the old womans ghost was pushing its way in.

Sage took the opportunity to recover his strength, the healing ability of the Fat Grass Worm regenerated the many wounds on his back with startling speed. Given the volume of burning steam being released, he chose to avoid further wounds and instead return to his peak condition. After a few minutes it looked like the transfer had finished.

The blood red ghost finally exited the body of the monster and drooped in the air, like it was utterly exhausted. The monster made of black oil started to bubble and then shed its outer layers. The oil spilled to the ground and left the shape of a human body in its wake. It slowly turned around to face Sage and he saw the familiar face of Hei Bai once more. Except now she had both eyes, and was wearing a much simpler black robe. She waved her hand towards the pile of rubble and the bone staff flew out and back into her hand. Then she pointed it towards the red ghost and its aura screamed with pain once again. The skull on the end of the staff seemed to emit some sort of suction force and the red ghost was pulled in like a cloud of dust. Then the skulls eyes started to glow red instead of green like it had in the past.

Hah, fortune in calamity. Ive finally subdued the Blood Ghost!

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