I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 467 - 367: Undue Contempt_1

Chapter 467: Chapter 367: Undue Contempt_1

The power of the curse exploded, and in that instant the countdown displayed on the projection screen plummeted to less than a minute.

Two of the amulets on Liu Hongzhao’s body shattered, and the remaining one was riddled with scars, on the verge of falling apart.

"Burst threshold recorded," Lilith’s voice sounded, utterly unfluctuating. A new amulet popped out, and Liu Hongzhao quickly hung it on himself, watching the countdown regain ample time, his expression growing even colder.

Zheng Yichen was also affected by the burst of the curse. Such an explosion caused the air membrane on his body to tremble, but the curse’s power was not direct damage. Even with an explosion, it was not a potent blast attack. Its direct damaging power was not strong, having virtually no effect on Zheng Yichen.

"Your curse is really useless," the Wolf God said with a sneer, looking at the state of Zheng Yichen and Liu Hongzhao.

"Shut up!" Bull God snorted angrily. His curse was not supposed to be this weak. It was understandable for Zheng Yichen with his special air membrane protection, but those amulets on Liu Hongzhao were a problem. Those amulets weren’t Supreme Demon Weapons, yet they had the aura of Supreme Demons.

Otherwise, such amulets would have failed long ago, not slowly becoming ineffective in the face of his curse. When he triggered his curse’s power, those amulets also underwent a ’self-explosion,’ blowing up two amulets right away, then focusing on the impact of the curse explosion.

His curse was not for harming or torturing, but a puppet curse. With an endless potential human being who had the potential of a Supreme Demon, any Supreme Demon would want to keep them, and now two appeared at once, naturally, Bull God would want to keep them.

But the curse couldn’t exert its corresponding function, which even led to mockery from the Wolf God. Being straightforward, Bull God simply changed his approach, whereby the continuing Bull Demons burst into pieces, sacrificing their power, which gathered into a blood seal.

"Fuck!" Seeing tens of thousands of Bull Demons get sacrificed like that, Zheng Yichen felt a twinge in his heart. This Bull-headed Supreme Demon was ruthless, seeing that things were amiss, he decisively sacrificed all his subordinates. In Zheng Yichen’s thermal vision, after those Bull Demons exploded, their power all converged into the blood seal.

In Zheng Yichen’s eyes, the blood seal already radiated a ’sunlike’ brilliance, but without a doubt, it was an extremely dangerous object.

The Wolf God also looked at the blood seal with a wary expression. Sacrificing a large number of Supreme Demon servants to create the cursed blood seal, it wouldn’t have absolute dominion over Supreme Demons, but it could still significantly influence them. Getting hit would feel extremely disgusting.

The Bull God, holding the blood seal with ill intent, stared at Zheng Yichen and then hurled the seal in his hand, but not at Zheng Yichen, rather at Liu Hongzhao.

Zheng Yichen could resist the curse with his own strength, while Liu Hongzhao did so with the help of the amulets. The curses carried by the Bull Demon army could be blocked by amulets, but not this one—it was not something the small trifling thing could withstand.

An amulet flew towards Liu Hongzhao as a streak of red light, leaving a trail of rampaging aura from the Bull God. Even the Wolf God beside him couldn’t help but cringe at the corner of the eye at this aura, which came from Zheng Yichen, immediately recalling the Battle Maniac Asura from the past.

"This person... no, the one who might not be human, must die. His threat is too great," said the Wolf God in a heavy voice.

As he spoke, Zheng Yichen had already confronted the red streak of light. A wisp of ghostly green flame emerged on the black spear, rapidly growing and concentrating on the tip of the spear, colliding with the red streak.

Zheng Yichen had always been in front of Liu Hongzhao, so it was impossible for the blood seal to bypass him. That thing was a kind of curse, becoming unpredictable after being released, but thermal vision allowed him to clearly see its trajectory.

As it neared Liu Hongzhao, the cursed blood seal began to take effect. Blood-colored threads wrapped toward the red-robed girl, but those blood-colored threads did not fully spread out. The ghostly green flames spread along those ’heat source’ threads and ignited.

The blood seal and Zheng Yichen’s attack fiercely contended with each other, the highly concentrated Hellfire completely igniting the blood seal in mid-flight. The center of the seal was burnt through first, and after being completely pierced by the spear, the entire seal became a fireball.

Even so, Zheng Yichen didn’t stop. Though the fully ignited blood seal seemed no longer threatening, in his thermal vision, its power still hadn’t dissipated but was rather dispersing, the scattered curse power attempting to silently go around him.

The Hellfire flung by Zheng Yichen’s swing of the black spear ignited all around him, turning his surroundings into a sea of ghostly green flames.

"—Penetrative energy neutralized, danger resolved," a projection screen in front of Lilith disappeared. The screen had displayed an image regarding Liu Hongzhao, where just seconds before, within a radius of forty meters around her, numerous ’line-shaped’ unknown energies penetrated.

Similar to the energy released by the Evil Spirit before, but this energy was more dominant. By comparison with existing records, those lines of energy most likely contained the function of ’spiritual interference.’

As those energies seeped through, the protective countdown of the amulet was decreasing at a rate of dropping by half a minute every second. This was still the effect of only a minimal amount of energy getting through. With the increase of such energy, this speed was also rapidly increasing.

Lilith analyzed and took out all the amulets, yet even directly facing the blood sigil, she couldn’t hold on for ten seconds.

"..." Liu Hongzhao looked at the sea of fire surrounding Zheng Yichen in silence. She realized she had been too naive. With the increase in her strength, she started to feel that she could somewhat contend with a Supreme Demon. However, the situation she faced this time made her more acutely aware of her shortcomings.

If the Supreme Demons weren’t using schemes, given their current weakened state, she could still put up a fight, but the powers mastered by Supreme Demons weren’t merely for combat. How could those who had lived for so long not possess several more formidable methods?

Even when weak, those methods could be nearly as effective as in their prime.

"I’ve underestimated the Supreme Demons—we retreat," Liu Hongzhao said decisively. Even though Zheng Yichen had intercepted the blood sigil, she still didn’t rule out that the enemy might have other tricks up their sleeve. She might not be able to directly engage in the coming battle, so it would be better to find an opportunity to block a possible escape by the Supreme Demon.

"A very wise choice."

"Let’s pull back," said the Bull God crisply, watching the pale green flames gathering around Zheng Yichen. What hadn’t those Supreme Demons who had lived for ages seen?

The blow with the cursed blood sigil was made at the cost of sacrificing many of their young, and yet it had been crushed head-on by Zheng Yichen. Though when Zheng Yichen used those flames, the power that burst forth was just like the Battle Maniac Asura’s Blood Combustion Transform to Origin.

It was a method of exchanging blood for power. It seemed fine to fight this way for the moment, but it was unstable. Zheng Yichen being a native like Liu Hongzhao was one thing, but his identity was well known to them, the Supreme Demons. The outsider who had brought the Demon Flower had previously provided information about Dusk.

That information included ’Proxy Agents’. Zheng Yichen, by appearances, looked human, but only he himself knew what he truly was.

Just now, under Zheng Yichen’s gaze filled with unbridled fury, the Bull God felt not just the manic demonic thoughts but also a chilling aura of Oblivion. Supreme Demons thought they had seen much of the world, even more so than the Battle Maniac Asura from before.

But the aura of Oblivion that came with it was truly something they had never encountered.

"It’s too late," the Wolf God said solemnly. The Bull God’s recent move had clearly touched upon Zheng Yichen’s inverse scale. If a mortal’s inverse scale was touched, so be it to the Supreme Demons; in the end, they just watched for fun. No matter how much one’s inverse scale was touched, in the eyes of a Supreme Demon, it was just Powerless Rage.

As long as the target was weak enough, no matter how angry they became, they would only appear ’endearing’.

Boom—

The somber sky of Hell gained a vast expanse of pale green fire clouds, within which brewed some perilous attack. The Bull God and the Wolf God watched the fire clouds warily, but the turbulent green fire clouds gradually returned to normal.

"...It’s gotten worse," said the Wolf God. It would have been one thing if Zheng Yichen, in his fury, had used his ultimate move, which would be considered a drop in intelligence, but he managed to retract the attack just before unleashing it. The restless Hellfire surged on the black spear, replacing the blood dragon that had originally covered it.

They then saw the blood-red aura on Zheng Yichen disappear, and his figure vanished in an instant after the aura dissipated.

A flash of light appeared before the Bull God, and when the light disappeared, Zheng Yichen’s figure re-emerged. By his side, the frenzied aura reappeared with a gust of wind, and up close, the Bull God could clearly see numerous blood vessels protruding from beneath Zheng Yichen’s skin, which had turned nearly red.

The Bull God even heard the sound of Zheng Yichen’s blood flowing at high speed.

Faced with Zheng Yichen, who appeared in an instant, the Bull God swung his axe. The piercing clash ringed out, and the Bull God widened his bull eyes, thinking at first glance that Zheng Yichen’s weapon had shattered. But the shock to his hand made him realize that he was the one who had fallen short!

Zheng Yichen’s weapon had only shed a superficial layer of black material, not the ’short stick’ that was wrapped within.

He was pushed back. The Wolf God did not stand idly by, lunging with a claw at Zheng Yichen. Before the attack could reach him, Zheng Yichen turned his head and roared, the blood-colored shockwave forcing the Wolf God to retreat with a contorted expression.

Bypassing the Wolf God, Zheng Yichen rushed to the still unsteady Bull God, stepping on his chest with a dull thud. Just as the Bull God tried to resist, a fist came crashing down, the penetrating power clouding the Bull God’s consciousness with dizziness.

Had this man truly gone mad?