NOVEL WEB Chapter 400: Stop it!
"Damn you! It's all because of you two-legged beasts!"
The piercing blade light flashed by, catching Master Mop off guard, slicing him in half. His upper body fell to the ground, and only two seconds later did a heartrending wail erupt.
"Aaaaaaaahhhh!!"
Seeing the "half" of Mop rolling and struggling on the ground, the pupils of the rest of the senior members of the Brothers contracted, and their gaze towards the centaur instantly turned hostile.
With a venomous and hateful glare wandering back and forth, the immediate tension made Hong Jila painfully close his eyes.
It's over!
The next second, as if igniting a powder keg, a terrifying energy was released with a roar, turning the Central Army Tent into chaos. The last stabilizer, the Imperial Guard, completely lost control and joined the bloody, frenzied brawl.
"Kill, kill, kill!"
"Kill, kill, kill!"
...
Reason was burned to ashes by the fire of anger. On an unseen level, a sphere of scarlet flame with a diameter of hundreds of miles blazed, using all beings as fuel to refine a strand of Divinity that emitted a high-temperature red glow.
Under a bizarre power of the mind twist, even Hong Jila couldn't control his internal anger, roaring as he chopped those who disobeyed him into pieces.
"I told you to stop!"
"Stop! Stop!"
"Didn't you hear?!!"
Slaughtering through the Central Army camp, Hong Jila cut every living creature in sight into minced meat, his blood-red eyes filled with a fierce glare over the entire scene.
Yet, the unparalleled pressure not only failed to intimidate the unruly troops, but instead drew wrathful and venomous looks of solidarity against him.
"Kill, kill, kill!"
The mindless centaurs and Brothers surged, fearlessly launching a charge towards Hong Jila.
Meanwhile, up in the sky outside the battlefield, Zhu Haomiao stood atop the clouds, observing a massive blood-red vortex on the ground devouring life continuously, his lips involuntarily curved slightly upward.
"Keep going, the time is almost right."
In the reflection of his pupils, the slowly rotating blood-red vortex cast a wicked and sinister expression on the black-clothed youth, who chuckled softly, recklessly wielding the Original Sin Authority to twist reality with his mental will.
Under an unseen Evil Authority's veil, people forgot about pain, fatigue, hunger, friend and foe. Their minds were left with one single thought—kill everyone!
The bloody, brutal slaughter continued for three days and nights. Nearly a million troops killed each other until nothing remained but ashes…
When the last enemy was beheaded, the severely wounded Hong Jila stood in the center of the mountain of corpses and sea of blood, letting out a beast-like insane roar.
"Hahaha! I told you to stop fighting! Everyone who disobeys must die!"
But the next moment, with his intestines spilling and losing nearly half of his flesh, Hong Jila collapsed with a crash, his breath quickly fading.
As the blood drained from his body, it gradually turned cold. A hint of clarity returned to his scarlet eyes, and only on the brink of death did Hong Jila regain a shred of reason.
What…what happened to me?
What have I done?
Lying in the mountain of corpses and sea of blood, Hong Jila's vacant eyes grew dim, his breathing growing weaker.
Only at this point did he realize that he...and even the nearly million-strong army had been manipulated by some evil force, leading to their live self-destruction!
An ice-cold chill enveloped his body and mind, and Hong Jila couldn't understand how, as the Heavenly Destiny person beloved by the world, he had been so unaware of this manipulation?
What kind of insidious, evil force could cause such a horrifying massacre!
Just then, his hollow, dilated pupils narrowed slightly as he saw a pair of pitch-black boots enter his view, lightly touching the ground like weightless feathers.
Looking up, he saw the young man in a luxurious black brocade robe reaching out, grabbing the golden saber that fell beside him, letting it smoothly fall into his palm.
His eyes widening slowly, Hong Jila opened his mouth to speak but found himself unable to form words, his blurry vision gradually fading into darkness.
Duke Yu, Li Lin!
"In Da Zhen, too, a Divine Person descends..."
In his final moment of life, the words once spoken by the Heavenly Lord echoed in Hong Jila's mind, filling his heart with endless regret.
An equal to the Heavenly Lord, a God Demon...
So...he wasn't human...
Elsewhere, Zhu Haomiao examined the elegant and elongated golden saber in his hand, twirling it with interest.
Shhh~
With a casual swing, the sharp blade left a dozen-meter-long, two-to-three-inch-wide gash that reached unfathomable depths on the ground. Zhu Haomiao couldn't help but nod in satisfaction.
This grade, at least a Mythical SS-level!
As Zhu Haomiao pondered selling it, a strange hunger rose within him, causing the golden saber in his hand to appear inexplicably "delicious."
"..."
Humans shouldn't, at least they shouldn't have to...
His brows furrowed tighter, and the black-clad youth pursed his lips in a peculiar manner, hesitating for a long time.
But ultimately, he followed the desire of his heart, projecting a formidable and majestic dragon-shaped serpent head from behind.
Gulp~
Casually feeding the golden saber to the giant snake, its head tilted back to swallow it whole, its neck moving as it ingested it.
Feeling a strange sense of fulfillment in his chest and abdomen, Zhu Haomiao patted his belly, puzzled, smacking his lips.
Even a True Object can be eaten?
Why am I becoming less and less human?
Yet, as Zhu Haomiao found himself deep in thought, Hong Jila beneath him unwillingly swallowed his last breath.
With the main sacrifice in place, the final crucial step was complete, and an intangible, profound touch reached directly into his spirit.
With joy welling up in his heart, Zhu Haomiao instinctively gazed skyward, witnessing endless scarlet particles invisible to others steaming up from the earth, merging with the sky-covering haze of the surging sea of blood. Then they slowly rotated and contracted, blossoming in the center with a visible high-temperature red glow.
The flesh, life, soul, and Source Quality of nearly a million people concentrated and refined. Under the drive of the anger authority, the blood sea that shrouded the heavens and the earth spiraled and collapsed, condensing into a drop of viscous blood akin to liquid metal.
Emitting blistering radiance like molten gold, the blood rolled and writhed, descending slowly from the sky, landing precisely at the center of Zhu Haomiao's forehead.
Buzz~
The blood instantly seeped into his skin, pouring endless brutal power into his spirit and body, making Zhu Haomiao simultaneously experience extreme pain and a sickening delight!
"Roar!!"
With eyes wide open, the surrounding flesh and muscle tore apart suddenly at the corners of his eyes, causing Zhu Haomiao to involuntarily let out a heartrending roar. Starting from his forehead, veins burst and wriggled like earthworms, emitting a scorching red glow that couldn't be concealed by his skin.
The writhing and wriggling veins spread throughout his entire body, making Zhu Haomiao radiate blinding high-energy light, as if molten liquid metal surged through his veins instead of blood.
Sizzle~
Ruthless energy flooded into flesh and muscle, tearing through his skin and muscle alive. In some places, even the white bones were visible.
As the savage energy continued to spill forth, blood flames steamed around Zhu Haomiao's body, then transformed into a straight pillar of light piercing the heavens.