Published: March 2, 2025
The sky was red.
It seemed as if it had been scorched by flames. In the center of this crimson expanse, there was a pitch-black hole, resembling a scar on the sky. From a distance, Wen Yu and Tang Haofei could see countless demonic clan experts traversing back and forth inside the hole. This was the teleportation passage violently opened by the spirit of the demon lord—fearless of being destroyed and possessing immense transport capacity!
The air was thick and the oxygen was thin—this was the aftermath of the lava giant rampaging through the Demon Palace Level -988. Upon arriving here, the tasks of the two guides from the Demon Palace were already concluded.
Wen Yu and Tang Haofei ignored the two bewildered and tense guides, quickly established a tactic, and then vanished into light in the distance.
……
Demon Palace Level -988, in an abandoned village.
Wen Yu activated void walking, drifting through the void. He paid no attention to the war-torn scenes below him, merely exuding soul perception to locate his desired target.
Air Variant Soul Puppet.
Once, when he went to the Demon Palace with Bai, this little thing had taken Wen Yu by surprise. The essence of the Variant Soul Puppet was vastly different from that of a regular soul puppet—according to Wen Yu's estimation, this creature should be a normal soul puppet that had undergone natural mutation after living for many years in conditions rich in origin power.
But who really knows the actual situation?
Wen Yu was already quite familiar with capturing the air Variant Soul Puppet. As he perceived his surroundings, he noticed several masses of air abruptly distorting and deforming. The dim Creation Energy and origin power surged forth like lightning.
This anomaly appeared quickly and disappeared just as fast—similar to the natural breathing of an air Variant Soul Puppet, but Wen Yu detected something amiss.
He suddenly stepped out of the void, and with the fluctuations of soul energy, he released and wove a net. In an instant, five air Variant Soul Puppets were under Wen Yu's control, sealed into ball shapes, and tucked into his Spatial Ring.
The entire process was simple and efficient, just as Wen Yu had done before.
Capturing air Variant Soul Puppets was just a trivial matter for Wen Yu, but it was not so easy for Tang Haofei.
With Tang Haofei's skill set, it was very challenging for him to detect the presence of air Variant Soul Puppets. To him, these mutated little creatures were indistinguishable from normal air, completely unobservable by standard detection methods.
In fact, when assigning tasks, Wen Yu had already considered this possibility, which led to the division of labor...
However...
Thinking about the troublesome nature of the lava giant, Wen Yu couldn't help but grin awkwardly.
He wanted to take it easy, but ended up putting pressure on Old Tang.
The lava giant, in comparison to the air Variant Soul Puppet, was not even in the same league.
……
“Whoosh~~”
A turbulent fire column erupted instantly.
Red-hot lava spewed forth from the mouth of the lava giant, transforming into a line accompanied by a strong shockwave directed at Tang Haofei.
In order to experience the true strength of the lava giant, Old Tang did not dodge but instead watched as the fire line approached. Just as it reached Tang Haofei's face, a frenzied lightning light flickered before Old Tang.
The lightning light formed a barrier that instantly came into contact with the fire line.
Then, there was a series of sizzling explosive sounds...
Plasma turned into the finest ions, scattering and splattering, yet the fire line remained tenacious, like rebar driven into the earth!
In the next second, Tang Haofei burst out of the volatile ion energy cluster and swiftly retreated!
He gazed at the lava giant before him, feeling the pain from burns caused by the fire line and couldn't help but frown deeply.
Upon first contact, Tang Haofei had already realized the lava giant's troublesome nature.
Wen Yu was absolutely right—this lava giant, in terms of physical quality, wasn't particularly strong, at most equivalent to a slightly stronger tenth level limit breaker. However, its attacks contained a small amount of origin power.