I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 194 - 164 That flower is alive_1

Chapter 194: Chapter 164 That flower is alive_1

The task board’s listings regarding the Supreme Demon were disappearing one by one, did this mean those Supreme Demons no longer needed handling?

"..."

"Eh? Are the Proxy Agents starting to exert their strength?" A Dusk Hunter who had been planning to leave the world paused at the sight of the information on the task board, momentarily letting go of the idea to leave. After all, he had secured the bare minimum, and there wasn’t much danger in this place. Staying here to pay close attention to the specific situation was also an option.

"Can the Proxy Agents even defeat Supreme Demons?"

"That I’m not sure of. The Proxy Agents are certainly strong, but generally speaking, they shouldn’t be able to wield top-tier power just like that."

The speaking Dusk Hunter briefly explained that the Environmental Adjustment meant it was simpler the deeper one went, to the extent where everyone couldn’t withstand bullets, and thus, everyone who went down there was at the human peak.

Full strength, agility, physical fitness, and so on, but at that environment’s depth, being at the peak meant nothing, as one couldn’t withstand bullets and artillery fire. Martial arts might work, as for magic, it depended on the environment, with strict limitations to only starting a fire.

If the conditions became too harsh, don’t even think about externalizing Inner Strength or anything like that, as martial arts could only make use of physical moves.

Going down where everyone was as powerful as dragons was simple, but going up was another story altogether. For example, someone who was at the top of the ranks in this world could go to a higher environment, and even with the environmental adjustments, they might face local champions who could suppress them with just a finger.

Such worlds were not common, but they did exist.

The gaze then returned from the task board, and the knight-errant looked outside the Dusk Territory at the red sky, which still hadn’t changed. Only the Proxy Agent himself would know exactly which stage he had reached, but the continuously disappearing tasks on the board—did it mean things were getting better?

He saw the number of Boundary Breakers listed to be cleared had decreased by one...

"You..." A Boundary Breaker stared with an open mouth at the ’youth’ before him, wanting to say something, but the black spear piercing through his chest robbed him of the chance to speak. That strike directly shattered his heart and lungs, and while his tenacious Life Force prevented him from dying on the spot, the rapid loss of blood hastened his death.

"Catching you was not easy." Zheng Yichen watched as he shook off the Boundary Breaker, who possessed a rather advanced set of equipment. Not only could it rapidly cloak him, but it also could deploy a powerful protective shield. Zheng Yichen had found an opportunity to only break the shield, after which the guy became very cautious in his attacks.

He no longer targeted Zheng Yichen, but instead, focused on attacking Qi Xiangyun and the others. Zheng Yichen could now block bullets, but they couldn’t, and the tremendous impact of a bullet was enough to send them flying.

Zheng Yichen shook his arm, looking at a blood hole on it. It was caused by the enemy’s firearms; the bullets used by the Boundary Breaker were not ordinary. After being shot, he could feel his arm muscles rupturing and disintegrating under the impact of the bullet.

Luckily, his flesh was tough enough that his arm was not blown apart. The price paid for being shot was the Boundary Breaker’s life.

The hole in his arm was rapidly healing. He glanced over at the battle in the distance; the fight with the Battle Maniac Asura was drawing to a close, and he had also collected enough Life Sources. The blood absorption of the black spear was initially fed back at the highest priority. After his physical state was restored, this finite level brushed down.

It was just that his body’s age had not directly recovered, but he could feel his body was in a state of rapid ’growth.’ With sufficient nutrition absorbed, it wouldn’t take long for him to fully recover. Obviously, the post-exuvia shrinkage was not something that needed to be regrown slowly over time.

It was capable of quickly recuperating afterward.

"Brother Chang Qing, it looks like your hair has grown a bit longer." Lin Yaoyao looked curiously at Zheng Yichen. His hair was as short as before the fight, but after the battle, it had already covered half of his ears.

"Don’t worry about it." Zheng Yichen grabbed the hair on his head, the rapid hair growth was related to his body rapidly growing. He found it somewhat distracting, so he tore off a cloth strip and wrapped it around his forehead to prop up the hair at the front.

With the length of his hair now, he couldn’t tie it back even if he wanted to.

"Be extra careful, you all, and don’t get hurt," Zheng Yichen’s eyes tinged with a faint red as thermal vision allowed him to see an overwhelming cluster of red, very dazzling to the eye. But considering there might be other stealth attackers, he decided to maintain this state.

Thermal vision wasn’t so useful in the face of legions.

His view returned from the battle-state Asura; Zheng Yichen didn’t care what was happening on that front. Just because he was fighting other Supreme Demons didn’t mean he was an ally.

His battle with other Supreme Demons could buy him more opportunities.

Under the Demon Flower.

Zheng Yichen stared at the enormous Demon Flower, the black spear in his hand blazing with surging Hellfire. The intensity of the flames rose from weak to extreme, compressing until about eighty percent of the vast Life Force accumulated through Blood Combustion Transform to Origin and Return to Origin was fully transformed.

The surging Hellfire dispelled the surrounding red mist, making Zheng Yichen feel like what he held in his hand was no longer a weapon but a nuclear bomb about to explode. Without hesitation, all the Hellfire contained in the long spear was released, and the flames thrown from his hand turned the front into a sea of fire.

"Still not enough."

The Demon Flower was set ablaze, yet the spread of the flames was too slow. This was not a wildfire. If ignited in one spot without control, it would quickly consume the entire mountain. The Demon Flower itself had a certain degree of resistance to Hellfire.

"...As expected." Ming Yue, observing from a distance, confirmed Zheng Yichen’s thoughts, "I’m going to extinguish the fire."

"Brother Chang Qing, the flames are going out." While Zheng Yichen was harvesting the aberrant creatures, Lin Yaoyao noticed the weakening fire at the Demon Flower and hurriedly informed Zheng Yichen.

Zheng Yichen glanced back and saw the Hellfire, creeping slowly under the influence of a vast expanse of moonlight, its spreading pace greatly diminished. Afterwards, the flames gradually peeled off the Demon Flower under the wash of another power.

The scorched part of the Demon Flower was exposed, a pitch-black area that did not reach the crucial parts of the flower.

He also spotted some figures near the Demon Flower.

"Hmph, ignore them." Zheng Yichen exhaled, suppressing the irritation in his heart. He lacked powerful long-range attack methods, and even if he charged over at this distance, the others would have already fled.

He realized he had many weaknesses to address. First was a very powerful burst attack. Blood Sacrifice wasn’t sufficient; while it could be effective when built up over time against a single target, the attack was too concentrated. Against something as large as the Demon Flower, it could at most punch a hole in it.

If he had the Battle Maniac Asura’s 10 Directions Annihilation ability, a surprise attack applied directly on the Demon Flower might very well uproot it.

"This Proxy Agent lacks the ability to annihilate the Demon Flower in one strike; he can only burn it by igniting it," Lu Jingming observed the scorched marks on the Demon Flower. The flower would absorb nutrients from the soil, so such scorched marks could heal after not too long, and the pollen it constantly dispersed was also generated by absorbing the essence of the aberrant creatures.

By not giving Zheng Yichen the chance to set fires, delaying him would be effective.

Watching the Demon Flower gradually recover, Zheng Yichen’s eyebrows slightly raised. He suddenly recalled something. In Katrina’s world, he had once destroyed a tree, the Tree of Death, which was linked to the world of the dead. The interior of that tree was alive, bleeding when cut. And what about this Demon Flower?

After a gust of wind swept away the nearby aberrant creatures, a shockwave reached Zheng Yichen’s side. The familiar destructive force prompted him to shield the three girls immediately. The burst from Blood Sacrifice and the incoming shockwave clashed, with the red glow quickly being dissipated within the impact.

The battle-state Asura’s move was outrageous. They were already on the fringe of the shockwave’s reach, yet the strength of the shock didn’t seem to have diminished much with distance.

Once the impact faded, the fight involving the Battle Maniac Asura had completely calmed down. Zheng Yichen peeked at the location of the Demon Flower, where last time the Battle Maniac Asura had blasted away the surface barrier of the flower with 10 Directions Annihilation.

Without the barrier’s protection this time, the Demon Flower incurred direct damage. Its surface layer was scraped off, blood-like fluids gushing out and pooling on the ground to form a Blood River, which flushed buried skeletons out from underground.

"..."

"This really couldn’t be better." Without any hesitation, Zheng Yichen dashed towards the Blood River. He was now determined to treat the Demon Flower as the Tree of Death.

His long spear swept over the Blood River, which slowly began to shrink. Zheng Yichen’s eyes brightened slightly. Since it can be used, why hold back at all?

"I feel... this is not good." Lu Jingming, watching the receding Blood River, widened his eyes, "It’s one thing to absorb the blood of those aberrant creatures, but he even dares to absorb the blood of the Demon Flower?"

The blood of the aberrant creatures wasn’t so highly contaminated anymore. By dispersing their blood and eliminating the Demon Flower’s pollen contained within, it would be manageable. Previously, Liu Hongzhao had tried to imitate Zheng Yichen by absorbing the blood of aberrant creatures, but that absorption wasn’t directly into the body; instead, it was transformed into vaporous blood essence before absorption.

It wouldn’t fundamentally affect him.

But the blood spilled from the Demon Flower was different. Even if transformed into vaporous blood essence, it would be saturated with a potent transformable force.

Zheng Yichen stirred the Blood River with his black spear, his eyes gleaming as he looked at the Demon Flower, as if he was beholding a powder keg without a fuse.

"...At least we have obtained more important information. The arrangements of Dusk continue to be targeted," Ming Yue sighed softly, "His blood-drinking can ignore the effects of transformation and contamination. In that way, the Demon Flower essentially becomes his blood bank."

"There really is such a person?" Lu Jingming clicked his tongue in amazement. He was very aware of the contaminative strength of the Demon Flower. Blood-drinking creatures have a certain resistance to the contamination of the blood and could resist the influence of the pollen emitted by the Demon Flower, even freely breathing that pollen. But if asked to bite into the liquid inside the Demon Flower, one would see if those blood-drinking creatures could still withstand transformation and mutation.

"We’ve now encountered one, and this information is sufficient for us to return without any punishment. Let the development department worry about it," Ming Yue’s gaze briefly touched upon the three girls who had already run to the motorcycle to follow Zheng Yichen. She had no intention of acting against them.

Some things could no longer be prevented, and initiating action against them would be of little significance, and might in fact provoke Zheng Yichen’s full wrath. Neither she nor Lu Jingming would fare well if caught and pursued, and might even be left behind here, while later Zheng Yichen would still have the chance to strike at the Demon Flower.

The Demon Flower, rooted here, wouldn’t grow legs and run away.

Lu Jingming wasn’t foolish either; at this moment, he had no extra thoughts of trying to stop Zheng Yichen. He just felt some regret, "Damn it—if only those Supreme Demons weren’t so unreliable... no telling how many died just now."