I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 518 - 399: None of You Can Leave_1

Chapter 518: Chapter 399: None of You Can Leave_1

"Nobody is leaving!" Watching the Devourers trying to retreat, Zheng Yichen flung his black spear, a mixture of fierce wind and Hellfire enveloped the surroundings. The firestorm blockade could not completely stop the Devourers, but it cornered them with urgency.

One of the Devourers directly drew upon and pulled up the Hellfire; he possessed Fire type powers too. However, facing the blockade of the firestorm, he found his control insufficient to affect it, involuntarily gritting his teeth, he drew energy directly from the Earth’s veins, tapping into the Sky Pillar’s energy.

Zheng Yichen was able to release special attacks because they were imbued with Sky Pillar’s energy, hence in this environment, his attacks could exert their full potential. To counter them, they needed even stronger Sky Pillar’s energy.

By doing so, using more of the Sky Pillar’s energy, the Devourer felt his body turning somewhat rigid; it was the result of crystallization. At the same time, feeling omnipotent, he managed to suppress the forming firestorm with a wave of his hand.

A violent clash sounded; before he could feel joy, he saw his comrade being blasted away by Zheng Yichen. Zheng Yichen charged at him, an aura of rampage hitting him face on. The demonic thoughts emanating from him sent a shiver through the Devourer’s body.

He raised his hand for a massive burst of flame, but in that instant, the released blast turned into a Fireball. The Devourer watched, astonished, as the Fireball hit Zheng Yichen. The explosion was not strong, but the Fireball’s force was significant due to the Sky Pillar’s energy it carried.

Having failed to repel Zheng Yichen, only some burns were left on him; however, not being pushed back was fatal. Zheng Yichen’s long spear pierced through his fire shield and ran him through from head to torso.

To the death, this Devourer remained puzzled. Why had his massive blast turned into a mere Fireball? Why had his fire shield become so fragile?

Flicking away the now desiccated corpse that crumbled to dust upon hitting the ground, Zheng Yichen’s eyes, filled with malice, focused on the remaining Devourers. Under the surge of demonic thoughts, he felt exhilarated and wild. The Ice Heart Mantra held onto the core of his consciousness, preventing the demonic thoughts from truly affecting him.

He almost seemed untouched by the mire, but the time he had been practicing the Ice Heart Mantra was short. If pursued too long, problems would arise, but even so, it was a lot better than before.

"All in!" Seeing there was no escape, the remaining Devourers entered their strongest combat state. It wasn’t that they couldn’t run; the first to flee would undoubtedly become Zheng Yichen’s target. If killed, they wouldn’t even have the chance to return to the Path of Soul.

"Hahaha, that’s right! You want to stall for time, don’t you? I’ll give you the chance to stall!" Zheng Yichen, unbridled madness on display, his energy membrane turning an even brighter red, and his black hair, under the influence of the energy membrane, shifted slightly toward a bloody hue.

The surging demonic thoughts made the surrounding Devourers incredibly uncomfortable. Amidst their discomfort, Zheng Yichen swung his black spear, hooking up one of the Sky Pillar roots from underground and audaciously gnawed on it, making the onlookers’ hearts flutter with anxiety.

They could extract and utilize Sky Pillar’s energy, but could never reach Zheng Yichen’s outrageous levels. Though the way Zheng Yichen obtained energy was somewhat crude and seemed inefficient, let’s put it this way: they used nuclear fuel-generated electricity for combat, while Zheng Yichen directly consumed nuclear fuel to power his battles.

Zheng Yichen’s method was indeed inefficient in energy acquisition, but all they needed to do was break his fuel source... Damn it, how to break it??

Seeing Zheng Yichen like a crazed demon, several Devourers got cold feet. This guy was too tough, massively destructive, and engaging him could easily lead to a deadly trade-off of wounds. Zheng Yichen’s bloodsucking ability was the last thing he feared when injured.

The burns on his body and the gashes gouged out from his back had already healed. Now, Zheng Yichen was back in peak condition. The Devourers became more cautious, tapping into more Sky Pillar’s energy, but the combat was mainly kite-flying.

Zheng Yichen’s ranged attacks were limited to wind and Hellfire, difficult to land a lethal strike on them. The deadliest were his melee attacks – the black spear’s spatial distortion could break through their defenses.

If they got ignited by Hellfire in close combat, they would be burned to death. Even more threatening was Zheng Yichen’s bloodsucking ability; his slain comrades turned into mummified corpses.

"Hmph—cowardly as mice!" Seeing none of the Devourers willing to engage in direct combat with him, Zheng Yichen snorted contemptuously and stored his Army Decimating battle saber. In a surprise move and without the Devourers noticing, he slung off his cloak.

Hidden inside the cloak, a noise pistol was triggered by a ghost claw, emitting a piercing noise that froze the Devourers in place.

Those who reacted quickly increased their energy output, paying a price to break free from the noise’s effect on their psyche. Those slower to react found themselves close-quarter by Zheng Yichen and impaled with a thrust of his spear. Hellfire burst from their mouths and nostrils as their blood was drained by the black spear.

Although this Devourer didn’t deeply use the Sky Pillar’s energy, its body had undergone some changes, still giving Zheng Yichen a bit of feedback. With a flick of his black spear, the Devourer clinging onto it was utterly incinerated by Hellfire.

The second Devourer radiated a pale light from its body, and the sword in its hand, wrapped in purple flames, struck at Zheng Yichen. That sword carried a force that could affect the mind and the soul.

As the Burst Mode’s energy shield blocked the sword, a phantom of the blade passed directly through the energy film and cut into Zheng Yichen, who felt as if his soul had been sliced open. The phantom of the sword was repelled by a force just as the pain began to reach him.

Zheng Yichen sensed a certain power draining from his soul, although this depletion seemed not to be of Soul Power, but something akin to the stamina of the soul instead. The repelling force scattered the phantom of the sword and rendered the Devourer’s long-planned attack ineffective. The Devourer shouted, wanting to distance himself from Zheng Yichen, but Zheng Yichen wasn’t about to grant him that opportunity.

The intensity of spatial distortion on the black spear increased as he poured more power into it, the distortion coupled with the assault tore through the Devourer’s protective charms, and a hole was gouged out in front of his chest. The distortion on the long spear brought with it wind, gathering up the blood without a single drop going to waste.

In its dying moments, the Devourer’s eyes widened as it looked towards its allies. They didn’t fail to attempt a rescue, but faced with a Zheng Yichen in a rampaging frenzy, their obstructions and attacks were either ignored by Zheng Yichen or forcefully taken head-on.

Those attacks that had injured Zheng Yichen began to heal after he had killed the Devourer.

Zheng Yichen smiled grimly, his successfully landed blows causing him to eye the remaining four Devourers with ill intent. Without waiting for their reaction, he preemptively struck, closing in on the slowest Devourer.

In the earlier battle, Zheng Yichen had already gotten a good grasp of the general situation of these Devourers. He immediately disregarded the female Devourer skilled in movement and agile combat; her speed, especially for short-distance shifting, along with that agility, was practically instant teleportation.

Watching her was just a waste of time. Another had a layer of specially hardened skin that clearly wasn’t easy to finish off in seconds. The remaining two Devourers were now Zheng Yichen’s focus.

The Devourer targeted by Zheng Yichen glared at him angrily. After extracting even more Sky Pillar energy, a huge phantom emerged on his body, causing Zheng Yichen to pause for a moment—it looked somewhat familiar.

Zheng Yichen had noticed during the fight that the Devourer’s attack pattern somewhat resembled that of a "Stand User." However, upon actual combat, it was different than he had imagined—the phantom directly adhered to the Devourer’s body.

Rather than a Stand User’s manifestation, it resembled the Shape-Will Fist capable of manifesting phantoms. But now, with the emergence of this huge phantom, Zheng Yichen was reminded of something from a certain eye ninja series.

It was quite versatile. However, Zheng Yichen was still more concerned with how deeply the Devourer used the Sky Pillar’s energy. His future experience of the so-called "Unity of Heaven and Man" depended on the Devourers’ contributions.

If it weren’t for the presence of an unknown threat, he would have wasted more time, allowing them to draw more Sky Pillar energy before dealing with them. The giant phantom swung its fist at Zheng Yichen, colliding with the dragon head raised in his counterattack.

It turned out he truly wasn’t a martial arts prodigy—his conjured dragon shattered in a mere moment under the phantom’s fist, yet Zheng Yichen took advantage of the gap to swipe away a light wheel cutting towards him, dodged a ghost claw, and approached the Devourer maintaining the phantom.

The black spear, ensconced in spatial distortion, struck at the phantom’s surface, which trembled violently and faded significantly. The Devourer maintaining the phantom spat out a large mouthful of blood, watching as it crystallized into glass-like shards. Gritting his teeth, he extracted some more Sky Pillar energy despite the additional strain.

Lacking the support of the Sky Pillar energy, he had no chance of winning a head-on battle against Zheng Yichen. The real threat to Zheng Yichen now came from the enhancements provided by the Sky Pillar energy. With more support from the Sky Pillar energy, the phantom became almost corporeal, its wild barrage pushing Zheng Yichen back.

The price was that he could hear the sound of glass flowing within his own body.

"Impressive, impressive!" Zheng Yichen grinned, and as demonic thoughts intensified, his expression didn’t change much, but to the Devourers, it appeared more and more ferocious. Blood oozed from Zheng Yichen’s pores and rather than merging into the energy film created by Burst Mode, it clung to the black spear.

The spear pierced straight through the corporealized phantom body. The penetrated phantom shuddered violently, and the Devourer inside felt as if struck by a severe blow, wilting. Inevitably, he was pinned to the ground by Zheng Yichen’s spear.

A light wheel flew over, its target not Zheng Yichen, but the Devourer whose face rapidly withered.

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