Chapter 355: Version Update

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

“What is this thing?”

The monster in front of Lu Ming stunned him…

He had never seen such a twisted thing before.

The first thing that caught his eye was a slippery, crawling tongue.

The tongue did not crawl quickly, and its length was astonishing—about a thousand meters long.

Looking into the distance along the tongue, one could see a war memorial standing a kilometer away!

The war memorial was entirely built from piled-up heads, forming a spherical shape with no limbs, only heads all over.

It looked like a bunch of grapes.

These heads varied in size. Some were sleeping, some murmuring, some looking around, and some sticking out their tongues.

And that long tongue was one of the tongues spat out by these human heads.

“What the hell is this!?”

Lu Ming could not help but mutter again.

The hearing of the monsters inside the war memorial seemed to be quite sharp.

As soon as Lu Ming finished speaking, the head with the tongue immediately turned to look at Lu Ming.

Its facial features were already half decayed, and sticky pieces of flesh hung on its entire face. However, one could still see the clear malice and murderous desire on this face.

“Hungry!!”

An eerie low growl, unclear whether it was hungry or something else, echoed from the head, and the next moment, the tongue shot towards Lu Ming like a bolt of lightning!

The speed of the tongue was very fast.

Roughly equivalent to the speed of a blood patterned quasi-god-level wielding a weapon with all his might.

This speed would be more than enough to deal with most people, but Lu Ming was indeed not in that category.

He did not have the slightest intention of testing the attack power of this monster.

That appearance alone made Lu Ming lose the desire to fight it.

With a slight sidestep, he easily dodged the tongue’s attack. However, something surprising happened to Lu Ming.

The air wave brought about by the long tongue seemed to have a strange magic power.

Even though Lu Ming was certain that he had not been scratched or touched by the long tongue at all, just being brushed by the air wave slightly, he felt his body stagnate.

In the next second, two streams of source power dissipated from Lu Ming’s body.

One stream originated from the three silver patterns on Lu Ming’s body, and the other came from the shrunken Boshi Tower!

Under the circulation of the force system, the black mist could not block Lu Ming’s senses.

It was also because of this that Lu Ming clearly saw the two streams of source power automatically surge towards the monster in the war memorial. In the blink of an eye, they were devoured by the monster and disappeared inside it.

“Burp!”

The monster burped.

“Oh, oh, oh, oh—”

It let out joyful strange cries.

Lu Ming could clearly sense that as the monster consumed his source power, its speed and strength increased again—manifested by the tongue’s attack speed becoming even faster.

At the same time, perhaps sensing the fluctuation of source power dissipating here, Lu Ming could clearly hear more footsteps and strange cries ringing out continuously.

Attracted by the source power, more monsters were swarming over.

Lu Ming instantly understood.

“These things feed on Source Power and Divine Source.”

“Anyone or anything with Source Power and Divine Source will be drawn to them and be devoured completely.”

“This even includes the power of silver patterns.”

What devoured Source Power and Divine Source was not the black mist. The black mist only had the effect of isolating the perception of non-mutants.

What truly devoured Source Power and Divine Source were these strange monsters in the black mist.

Thinking of this, Lu Ming turned around and left.

Lu Ming moved at a rapid pace and quickly escaped the pursuit of the monsters in the war memorial.

At the same time, he also minimized the aura of himself and Boshi Tower to the minimum.

This move was effective but not entirely foolproof.

The monsters’ perception was extremely sharp. Even the slightest source power fluctuation could attract their pursuit and hunting.

And Lu Ming could only suppress the source power aura to the maximum, but he could not completely block the source power aura emitted by the silver patterns and the source power fluctuations of the Boshi Tower.

The difference was that the higher the concentration of source power, the more powerful and stronger monsters it attracted—large prey would always attract larger hunters.

On the other hand, small prey like insects would only attract birds and other small animals.

This allowed Lu Ming to travel relatively safely.

Carefully avoiding a strange creature that looked like a toilet bowl, Lu Ming observed briefly and found that he had already left the urban area of Xuanshui City.

However, this black mist spread too quickly. Even outside Xuanshui City, it was filled with black mist.

Looking into the distance, the black mist stretched as far as the eye could see, and Lu Ming could not see the boundaries at all…

Further away, more monsters came into view.

“There are more and more of them.”

Lu Ming discovered that these abnormalities were increasing in number and density.

Logically speaking, since the Ten Thousand Devil Abyss was the starting point of the black mist outbreak, the farther Lu Ming went outward, the fewer abnormalities he should encounter—yet the reality seemed to deviate from this logic.

This made Lu Ming frown and fall into deep thought.

Very soon, Lu Ming had a plan.

“I can’t go any further.”

The fluctuations of source power on his body could not be completely concealed.

This made Lu Ming like a beacon in the darkness, attracting many abnormalities.

Although they were weak abnormalities, even the weakest abnormalities could trigger the source power in the silver patterns and Boshi Tower, causing Lu Ming to leak more source power aura once he engaged in battle.

More source power aura would attract more powerful abnormalities.

It was a vicious cycle.

Thinking of this, Lu Ming looked around cautiously and quickly found a relatively intact house, and rushed inside.

The house was empty, with no signs of any intelligent beings. It was unknown if the original owner were eaten by the Ancient Demons or the monsters.

In any case, apart from a pool of bloodstains and chewed bone fragments, Lu Ming could not find any traces of any intelligent beings.

He walked to the window and looked outside.

He could clearly see that the streets outside were empty, with only occasional traces of abnormalities appearing.

An explosion suddenly sounded in the distance.

Lu Ming looked into the distance and clearly saw a quasi-god level ancient demon soaring into the sky with a despairing expression.

Hundreds of blood patterns covered its demonic body, roughly looking at least as many as Lu Ming had, and even more gold patterns and silver patterns covered its body.

However, in the black mist, it was blind.

Like a headless fly, this quasi-god could not find its direction at all. It could only keep flying higher and higher until it crashed into a giant jellyfish floating in the air, about a hundred meters in size.

Pfft!

The Ancient Demon crawled into the big jellyfish’s body.

Through the transparent skin of the jellyfish, Lu Ming could see the gold and silver patterns on the ancient demon’s body rapidly collapsing, its source power cultivation dropping continuously until there was no further to descend.

Suddenly, his gaze froze, and after the source power cultivation of gold and silver patterns was discarded, he finally regained his perception.

But it was too late.

Faint air currents swept up from within the jellyfish.

The air currents swept across the ancient demon’s body, bringing with it scales, flesh, and bones.

In just three seconds, this quasi-god of the Ancient Demon Clan, who was far stronger than Lu Ming, disappeared from the jellyfish’s strange body, leaving behind a pool of scarlet that was spreading.

“Wuwuwu—”

The jellyfish in the sky emitted a joyful cry.

Then, it swung its body and leisurely flew into the distance.

Lu Ming watched the bizarre jellyfish fly farther and farther until it completely disappeared from his sight, then muttered to himself.

“The version has been updated, huh…”