“Black Sky Buddha Mother is merciful, saving all sentient beings…”
“Stop, stop, don’t go on about saving all sentient beings. Look at yourself first. Is this how someone saving all sentient beings should look?”
A putrid, bloated mass of flesh stood upright, its lower body sprouting countless limbs, like the legs of a centipede, supporting its torso.
Its upper body was even more grotesque; its head had vanished, leaving only a gaping maw filled with sharp teeth, constantly secreting disgusting slime.
This was the current form of the warlock; as alluring as she was before, she was now equally bizarre.
Although Mo Di had shot her full of holes, her sect leader clearly didn't want to give up on her, or perhaps wanted to teach Mo Di a lesson.
A massive curse poured into the warlock's remains, directly transforming her into her current appearance.
Feeling its formidable aura, Mo Di's expression turned solemn.
He sensed a pressure similar to De Wei An from this mass of flesh; without a doubt, this was a monster with the strength of a Transcendent.
Translated into this world's martial arts system, it was equivalent to a Xiantian Realm martial artist.
“Ah—”
A sharp roar erupted from the centipede-like flesh worm's mouth; the hatred of death, the pain of losing a child, and other negative emotions exploded within him.
Even though he was a master of emotional regulation and had the Wendigo Bloodline to increase his mental resistance, he almost couldn't withstand it.
“I can understand the hatred of death, but what’s this about the pain of losing a child?”
Mo Di back-hopped, dodging the centipede-like flesh worm's sweep, calmed his emotions, and his eyes grew serious.
“If not for you, that infant would have become my sacrifice to the Buddha Mother, eventually crafted into a magical artifact to nourish my child, but now it’s too late.”
The centipede-like flesh worm wriggled its limbs, biting at Mo Di, but he batted it away with a sword.
“Oh, I see.” Mo Di rested the greatsword, taken from Ling Corporation, on his shoulder, his expression unchanged.
“So? That infant deserved to die? I see you’ve been a warlock for some time now, haven’t you? How many people have you sacrificed during this period?”
“Heh, do you remember how many slices of bread you’ve eaten?” The centipede-like flesh worm sneered, “To be able to serve by the Buddha Mother’s side, that is their honor…”
“Nonsensical creature, do not utter words that insult my intelligence in front of me.”
The greatsword swung again, smashing the charging centipede-like flesh worm to the ground; blood mixed with the slime oozing from its mouth, gradually forming a stream.
“Since you say this is an honor, then I shall send you to meet your Buddha Mother.” Mo Di’s face slightly chilled as he swung the greatsword, smashing the centipede-like flesh worm, which had just gotten up, back into the ground.
“This Ling Corporation custom-made alloy greatsword is quite useful; it’s suitable for dealing with monsters of such large size.”
With physical abilities far exceeding ordinary people, he could not only wield a greatsword almost as tall as him but also control this solid alloy block as if it were an extension of his arm.
“Unconsciously, I’ve accumulated so much physical strength.”
Like playing table tennis, the centipede-like flesh worm got up repeatedly, and Mo Di repeatedly smashed it back down.
“This guy is really tough.” After fighting for so long, besides making it leak juices, he hadn't achieved any other results.
Getting up from the ground once more, the centipede-like flesh worm was already furious; disgusting pustules bulged on its body, and dark shadows surged beneath them.
As the pustules burst, the shadows, no longer restrained, rushed out en masse.
“Insects?” Mo Di raised an eyebrow.
Those shadows were indeed flying insects; after detaching from the mother body, they swarmed towards the nearest enemy.
Afterward, of course, they were all burned to death by the spell 【Bloodflame Barrier】 he cast.
One after another, the insects charged forward; when they realized they couldn't cause any damage to Mo Di, they changed their strategy and flew out of the basement.
“Hmph, trying to escape?” Mo Di curled his lip; blood mist seeped from the pores on his body, quickly covering the passage between the basement and the outside.
Like moths to a flame, the insects that rushed into the blood mist spontaneously ignited with blood flames, burning them to ashes.
“Although it doesn't replenish much, it makes up for it in quantity.” He praised the centipede-like flesh worm for sending him blood packs.
As a token of gratitude, he specifically pulled out his Sacred Exorcism Weapon—Gatling, intending to treat it to some seaweed and egg drop soup.
The kind without seaweed or soup.
Tongues of fire spewed forth, creating splashes of blood.
All the bullets Mo Di carried were poured into the centipede-like flesh worm's body, turning it into a centipede-like beehive engulfed in blood flames.
“It's not dead yet? Its regeneration ability is a bit exaggerated, or is it due to the curse within its body?”
Through 【Aether Vision】, he observed that the curse within the centipede-like flesh worm had not diminished but had increased.
Its source could only be its sect leader.
“You cannot kill me; the Black Sky Buddha Mother protects me!”
Possessed by the curse, while gaining powerful regenerative abilities, the centipede-like flesh worm also became more deranged.
The sounds it was making now were no longer human, but more like the roars of a beast.
Another large surge of curses poured in; after the centipede-like flesh worm fully recovered, it recklessly bit at Mo Di.
Dropping the empty Gatling, Mo Di sidestepped, letting it chew the Gatling into scrap metal.
‘It seems I have no choice but to let the teacher possess me.’ He sighed, the Page of Devian empowering him.
A denser blood mist surged from his body, his figure completely disappearing within it, replaced by gusts of biting cold wind.
The temperature plummeted, the blood on the ground froze, and even the centipede-like flesh worm's body was covered in a layer of frost.
A sense of crisis emerged in its heart; its beast-like intuition made the centipede-like flesh worm dare not act rashly, trying to see through the enemy's position.
But that troublesome blood mist constantly interfered with its perception.
The greatsword, burning with blood flames, swept across; before it could react, it was cut in half at the waist by the greatsword.
Flesh rapidly grew at the wound, catching the falling half of its body, but the ensuing blood flames also burned fiercely.
This was not the blood flame attached to the bullets earlier, but a more inextinguishable cursed fire formed by combining De Wei An's Transcendent power.
It not only burned flesh and blood but also curses.
The cursed fire burned fiercely, yet it gave the centipede-like flesh worm a bone-chilling sensation.
The extreme cold originating from the Wendigo was constantly draining its physical strength, also making its flesh and blood more fragile; a mere sweep of the greatsword could smash its body into pieces.
And it was powerless to do anything about it, only able to passively endure Mo Di's attacks.
The accumulation of injuries further eroded its sanity; in a fit of impotent rage, its ferocity erupted, dragging its massive body to rampage through the basement.
It must be said that this actually worked; although the Xu Family Manor's basement was spacious, it still inadvertently forced Mo Di into a corner.
Mo Di said nothing, his eyes glinting with ferocity, he hoisted the greatsword, approached the centipede-like flesh worm, and brought the sword down.
If Ed's page made him determined to kill De Wei An, then the Page of Devian made him infected with De Wei An's madness.
Countless blood thorns grew from the ground, simultaneously entangling both him and the centipede-like flesh worm.
His skin was pierced by the thorns; the pain and bleeding became the optimal conditions for his spellcasting.
【Blood Burning Art】, 【Pain Echo】, 【Blood Ecstasy】, 【Bloodthorn Entanglement】... Under the Page of Devian's blessing, even without spell materials, he could instantly cast some of the spells De Wei An had skillfully mastered.
Numerous apprentice-level and Transcendent-level spells stacked, causing his stats to swell repeatedly; with just one sword strike, he vertically split the centipede-like flesh worm in half.
“Got you.”
In his other hand, which wasn't holding the sword, blood surged and condensed into an ice claw, reaching into the centipede-like flesh worm's body and grabbing an embryo that was beginning to take human form.
“Pfft.”
The ice claw exerted force, crushing the embryo; cursed fire ignited, burning the curses that emanated from it.
The centipede-like flesh worm, split in two, let out a mournful cry; Mo Di could barely distinguish what it shouted.
“My… child…”
This sentence became its last words; with the demise of the embryo, which contained the most curses, the centipede-like flesh worm stopped moving.
The cursed fire still burned; Mo Di looked at the rotten flesh in his hand, silent for a long time.
“An unborn evil demon offspring, this is what she called her child?” Suddenly, he felt a bit absurd, “For this thing, how many people did she sacrifice?”
Unclear, but judging from the aetheric echoes lingering here, at least thirty people; the sacrifices not made here were probably even more numerous.
‘Black Sky Buddha Mother…’ Mo Di’s heart skipped a beat, realizing that an gaze, whose origin was unknown, was watching him.
Intense malice engulfed him, and a massive curse swept over, but his protective cursed fire burned it as fuel.
“What, seeing your subordinate can't beat me, are you planning to take action yourself?”
He mocked, controlling the cursed fire to contend with the curse.
The two were in a stalemate for a while; ultimately, the Black Sky Buddha Mother's curse reserves were superior, and Mo Di's page's blessing time was also nearing its end.
“Troublesome.”
Mo Di clicked his tongue, the upgraded version of the 【Hair Loss and Skin Shedding】 ritual, the 【Blood Puppet Substitution】 ritual, appearing in his mind.
Thinking of this, he grabbed a bloodied knife and mercilessly cut off a piece of his thigh flesh.
The missing part of his body quickly regenerated, while that piece of flesh was catalyzed by him into a flesh puppet.
“Alright, the teacher’s power is really good; it even skipped the steps of drawing a magic circle and preparing materials, directly completing a ritual.”
As soon as the flesh puppet formed, it took effect, absorbing all the curses on Mo Di onto itself.
The Black Sky Buddha Mother's gaze slowly dissipated, he relaxed completely, and the Page of Devian's blessing also disappeared at the same moment.
The blood mist permeating the basement was reabsorbed into his body, transforming back into vital energy and stored.
The remains of the centipede-like flesh worm on the ground were also collected by the bloodstained book.
【Warlock - Li Lejia】
‘It's actually a warlock, not the monster she transformed into?’
Mo Di glanced at the page, then took out his walkie-talkie and called for people to come down and clean up.
Outside the basement, the crowd, who had been waiting for a long time, filed in, feeling the lingering chill in the air, and couldn't help but shiver.
“Hiss, so cold, such a heavy smell of blood.”
Long Yutian sneezed for the first time in a while, rubbing his hands.
After he had settled the infant, he had considered bringing people in for reinforcement, but they were all blocked at the entrance by the blood mist, unable to advance or retreat.
Now, seeing Mo Di safe and sound, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.