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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 534

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:17:05 AM


Chapter 534: Trade

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Chapter 534: Trade

Hei Bai reached the skeleton and the ring. The ghostly red skull seemed to bob with excitement. At the same time, Sage stood in front of the giant scorpion and kept his gaze focused on that ghost. He called out behind him, Xiezi, get Uncle Zhuo out of here!

He was on edge as this was the most dangerous moment. While theyd done a sort of hostage trade and he was standing between Hei Bai and Uncle Zhuo, the problem was that he wasnt confident in being able to hold her back. In their previous clashes he was fast enough to keep distance from her and his power was enough to grind her down, but that didnt mean he could hold her back. They had to escape before Hei Bai finished collecting those items. Since shed turned into a ghostly form like that, Sage wasnt sure if she had any way to easily store physical items, and so he was hoping that would buy him the time they needed.

In the future, he saw Hei Bai not moving. That red skull floated in place above the skeleton and ring. Was she so happy she was frozen in shock? At that instant he realized something was wrong. Then he felt a sharp pain from behind.

The giant scorpion that hadnt moved since they returned sprung into action. Its huge stinger suddenly shot forward and stabbed into the giant cobra. While the cobra was absolutely monstrous in size compared to a normal human, it was quite small in comparison to the scorpion. The cobra was over a hundred feet long, with a three foot wide body, but the scorpion was like a moving building. Each of its pincers was the size of a large shed and its tail was like a crane reaching high into the sky. The stinger stabbed into the back of the cobra and then the scorpions body moved into action, one of those huge pincers fell down upon the snakes body, pinning it to the ground.

Sage had no time to contemplate the why, and could only fight back with desperate ferocity. Upon feeling the stab into his back he started to slither away, dislodging the stinger in the process, but the giant pincer pinned him down. The movement of a serpent required the undulation of its body, without limbs to push with, it took far less strength to restrict its movement. Without being able to escape, he had to switch tactics, suddenly curling backwards and wrapping around the scorpions other pincer. The scorpion had moved quickly to pin him down, but if he let it catch him between those massive claws there would be no hope of any escape.

Pinned by one pincer and wrapping around the other, his serpentine body was like a pair of handcuffs on the scorpion. Unfortunately, that left the tail free and that huge stinger came down again and again, poking large holes into his scaled hide. Each time the stinger pulled out, a layer of bluish ice formed, sealing up the hole.

Only at that moment did the red skull finally turn around and Hei Bais vicious cackling was heard. She laughed raucously while Sage continued to get stabbed by the giant scorpion. Then, there was a red flash of light and Hei Bai was knocked back. The ghostly skull spun around, floating through the air and dodging a flashing red light that was flitting back and forth around the skull like a bee. A burning beam shot out from the skulls eyes and tracked the fast moving red flash. Two red lights danced through the air, one of them burning lines in the ground and slicing through the nearby trees and stones, while the other darted around like an agile comet.

Aieee!

Anything is possible.

The giant cobra slowly uncoiled, the huge head zooming slowly towards her. It moved with perfect stillness, the eyes focused on hers. The head didnt twist or tilt in the least, the serpentine body carrying it like it was on a gimbal directly towards her. The cobras face slowly grew larger and larger from the perspective of that little ghostly skull. Its mouth slowly opened and two huge fangs hung down. A viscous green liquid spilled from the fangs and hit the ground with an acidic sizzle.

Hahaha, you think youre the only one immune to poison? You think poison can hurt a spirit?

She was snapped from her amazement in order to laugh at the snakes foolish attempt to bite her, a spirit form. Her eyes brightened, getting ready to fire her eye beams directly into the snakes mouth, wanting to make his soft insides burn.

The beams shot forth from the skulls eyes and scalded the inside of the cobras mouth, but only for an instant as the mouth was already snapping shut far before it reached her. The giant cobra struck like lightning and rather than biting the little ghost, it twisted and merely tapped its nose against the skulls forehead.

Boop!

Hei Bai thought she heard a strange sound and then felt pain. The wind was knocked out of her lungs and she felt rocks dig into her back. Her hands pressed on the ground and she bounced back onto her feet instinctually. Righting herself and facing down the giant snake. She took a few steps backward to get some distance while assessing the damage from the At that moment she felt like a bomb had gone off in her head. She looked down at saw hands. Her hands. Feet. Her feet.

Ahhhhh!




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