I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 517 - 398 Skill Change_1

Chapter 517: Chapter 398 Skill Change_1

The keen chill made Zheng Yichen’s wrist feel as if it was being sawed at. The attack from the saber-carrying visitor left Zheng Yichen with no avenue for evasion, but he had no intention of dodging. His black spear thrust straight out.

Seeing Zheng Yichen fight so desperately, the saber-carrying visitor agilely flipped to avoid the thrusting long spear. However, the subtle pain alerted him that he hadn’t fully evaded the attack and that in the instant he was wounded, he lost a significant amount of blood.

As he was the one initiating the attack, he was more flexible in changing his tactics. With his evasion, the blade shifted to slice at Zheng Yichen’s shoulder. The moment the swift blade touched Zheng Yichen’s cloak, he knew he had struck true.

Thanks to his precise control over the saber, he could distinctly feel the feedback from anything the blade touched—it had become instinct. The saber in his hand was an extension of his arm.

Clang—

What is this!? In the blink of an eye, the saber-carrying visitor’s eyes widened. He was about to dismember Zheng Yichen’s arm—a surefire strike—when it got intercepted. He didn’t need to look; he could feel through the feedback from his weapon what had happened.

His saber was bitten by something!

Out from Zheng Yichen’s cloak leapt a ferocious black cat, filled with a twisted and cursed aura. The cat’s teeth clamped firmly onto his saber, even as the saber had deeply carved into the massive black cat’s teeth.

The vicious and ferocious black cat swung its claws at him, the traces of spatial distortion obvious upon them. Against such an attack, the saber-carrying visitor didn’t dare to be careless. While those spatial distortions scattered around the environment did cause damage, the impact was relatively low.

But when used directly in an attack, the killing power was very high.

And with the intense cursed aura on the black cat, one scratch would exact a painful toll.

The saber was withdrawn, and the black cat’s sharp teeth were sliced off. The saber-carrying visitor dodged the cat’s claws and could only manage to block Zheng Yichen’s strike with his saber.

The Army Decimating battle saber and the saber-carrying visitor’s parried weapon collided, producing a grating noise. The saber-carrying visitor’s eyes went wide—there was something wrong with this saber!

The saber intent he had imbued on his weapon was instantly dissolved. The body of his saber was fully exposed to the edge of the Army Decimating battle saber. In that instant, he felt his beloved saber’s agony, which caused a minor mental lapse. Zheng Yichen, with his surging Qi waves, appeared increasingly ferocious to him.

In that moment of eye contact, the rampant demonic thoughts struck his spirit like a heavy punch. A mix of rage and unwillingness filled the saber-carrying visitor’s heart. How could someone who didn’t know how to wield a saber show off in front of him—and succeed?

Fueled by anger, his battle suit became more aggressive. At that moment, the saber-carrying visitor felt like he had achieved a new breakthrough. Nevertheless, the sound of breaking that echoed in his ears and the piercing pain in his heart left him stunned in place.

The saber that had accompanied him through countless battles, the one he maintained daily... had broken!

The broken saber failed to leave any substantial damage on Zheng Yichen’s blade. In shock, the Army Decimating battle saber cut him down cleanly. Pain awakened the saber-carrying visitor’s affected senses, as he bit down and swung the broken blade in his hand. Under his strength and saber intent, the remnant blade became whole again.

His resistance however was futile, and not even the aid of his allies had any effect. The remnant saber was shattered by Zheng Yichen. The cat spirit swallowed the upper half of the saber-carrying visitor in one bite.

The severed lower half turned to ashes when pierced by the black spear. In his thermal vision, the heat source from the Devourer, swallowed by the black cat, rapidly vanished.

After dealing with that Devourer, Zheng Yichen didn’t have a moment to catch his breath before his black spear blocked an attack from another direction. The cat spirit shrieked and lunged at another eerie figure.

That eerie figure weaved through the cat spirit’s attack and carved a huge wound on its belly. Only a ominous black aura seeped from the wound. The saber-carrying visitor’s desiccated corpse, ravaged by the cursed aura, fell along with the ominous aura.

That eerie figure glanced at it and didn’t pay further attention to the saber-carrying visitor’s body. There was no saving him. Had it been a normal death, the saber-carrying visitor’s soul would have been collected, but swallowed by this curse-infused cat spirit, there was no hope.

Even slashing open the cat spirit’s belly didn’t change this. That cat spirit had a part of Sky Pillar’s energy aura, and as a Spirit of Curse, it had strong soul-damaging capabilities. Once swallowed, the saber-carrying visitor was in a state isolated from the world, and his soul didn’t last long in the cat spirit’s stomach.

The wounded cat spirit quickly recovered and pounced fiercely on that eerie figure. Winds with twisted spaces circled the cat spirit, causing the eerie figure to slightly frown. He could ignore the wind, but not the spatial distortion.

Thus he turned his attack towards Zheng Yichen. A pair of lethal claws struck the blood-colored Qi membrane on Zheng Yichen’s body, and after causing it to fracture, he turned back to deal with that cat spirit.

But while he was dealing with the cat spirit, the cat spirit disappeared along with the shattered firestorm.

Zheng Yichen’s black spear stabbed into the ground, followed by his motorcycle falling straight down, and several Devourers who had surrounded Zheng Yichen without giving him a chance to breathe realized that real trouble was coming.

At this moment, Zheng Yichen’s expression was somewhat ferocious, his eyes covered by darkness, with rampant demonic thoughts assaulting their mental state. In this state, Zheng Yichen appeared very dangerous.

Zheng Yichen felt that his active use of Asura Battle Intent seemed to trouble after he willingly used the Black Light to invoke demonic thoughts. It had become less honorable, evolving from stimulating the enemy’s battle spirit to having a more aggressive effect.

The intense demonic thoughts directly affected the enemy, unlike before when they simply stirred up the enemy’s battle spirit to fight him. Now, Asura Battle Intent not only could incite their battle spirit, but it seemed to scare the weak-willed to death... No, it could directly cause them to undergo Demonization from the influence of demonic thoughts!

There was no need anymore to directly stir up the enemy’s battle spirit, letting them be affected by demonic thoughts was enough to forcibly induce Demonization, and after Demonization, the released demonic thoughts would only grow stronger!

The Asura Battle Intent had a wide range of influence, and although the several strong Devourers nearby were not affected by Asura Battle Intent, some distant Devourers were.

The Demonized Devourers looked ferocious, and some had their cultivated powers degenerate due to Demonization, dark aura emanating from them. The Demonized Devourers, not distinguishing friend from foe, went into a rampage.

Zheng Yichen didn’t have the energy to pay attention to those rampaging Devourers; he just needed to collect the demonic thoughts produced by the Demonized Devourers.

He also had to face these diverse Devourers who could each use Sky Pillar’s energy, which turned them from elite monsters into mini bosses after its application.

If it weren’t for Sky Pillar’s energy, Zheng Yichen wouldn’t have had much difficulty dealing with them right now, but with Sky Pillar’s energy, it became a lot tougher.

This place was near the Sky Pillar, the enemy’s home ground, where they naturally received various and substantial enhancements. If Zheng Yichen wanted to obtain Sky Pillar’s energy, he would have to do it through consumption.

Even without Sky Pillar’s energy, he could still fight. His fishing rod, enhanced by Sky Pillar’s energy, could break through these people’s inherent protections, albeit with lower efficiency.

A sinister claw curved its way out of Zheng Yichen’s sight, the claw glowing pale as it stabbed towards Zheng Yichen’s back. The pale light pierced through the blood-colored Qi membrane and scratched the cat spirit cloak—

"Hm? This doesn’t feel right—" The pale man who scratched Zheng Yichen’s skin showed a surprised expression as his claw got stuck in powerful muscles, unable to be pulled free. The Sky Pillar’s energy accompanying the claw was also suppressed by the Blood Asura inner force carrying similar energy and couldn’t erupt.

This guy’s physique was unexpectedly robust; Zheng Yichen didn’t look mighty, even if the cloak made him appear less robust, but the strength of the muscle was still ridiculously exaggerated.

"Idiot! Has your brain rotted from sucking blood? He is the Proxy Agent who can confront Baylock head-on!!" A female Devourer watching the scene waved a light wheel in her hand, trying to intercept Zheng Yichen’s counterattack.

But the light wheel was split in two under the cutting field of the Army Decimating battle saber, which wasn’t enhanced by Sky Pillar’s energy, but its accompanying Blood Asura inner force was.

And this world was not purely technological; the Army Decimating series battle sabers were meant to be paired with elite warriors, and no warriors from those native worlds were ordinary people; they all possessed special powers.

The weapon’s cutting field could be paired with special powers. Inner Strength and the Army Decimating battle saber might not be the perfect fit, but they could be used together without significant issues, according to information provided by the Wise Dragon, each specialized Army Decimating battle saber had a corresponding user.

The cutting field would also undergo various adjustments to maximize compatibility with the special power the user possessed.

It’s just the user corresponding to the Army Decimating battle saber in his hands had died before receiving the weapon.

As the light wheel was split open, Zheng Yichen thrust the black spear in his hand behind him. The pale Devourer screamed in an attempt to dodge, but his barbed claw was firmly trapped by muscle, and the black spear’s tip pierced through his protection, turning the Devourer into a torch.

Screams arose instantly; Zheng Yichen curled his lips, displaying a cruel expression, and relaxed his muscles to toss the Devourer to the ground, ignoring the Hellfire burning on the other’s body as he stepped on his head.

A streak of light appeared and shot towards the sky, but this streak of light emitted the Power of Death and was burning with Hellfire, not getting far before breaking into pieces and vanishing into thin air.

The fishing rod’s Power of Death could even kill a Supreme Demon, let alone these Devourers who lacked the immortality of Supreme Demons. It was a pity that this Devourer and the saber-carrying visitor from earlier didn’t use Sky Pillar’s energy excessively to enhance themselves.