đź“– Chapter 1341 - Hill Beast
“Qing Yangzi?” Wang Baole stared at the woman’s head that he’d yanked out of the void.
Although she was just a head and there was a somewhat fierce expression on her face, traces of beauty could still be seen on her. Many years ago, this woman must have been famous for her appearance.
Unfortunately, times had changed. Now, only hatred remained in her gaze, enduring through the years and falling on Wang Baole.
“Qing Yangzi, you are Qing Yangzi!!” As the woman screeched, the black hair all around her twisted like venomous snakes, piercing toward Wang Baole from all directions.
Wang Baole frowned slightly and let out a cold snort, unleashing his law of tongue’s desire. The hairs coming toward him suddenly seemed to come alive and gave up on targeting him in an instant. Under the influence of the law of tongue’s desire, these black hairs all began devouring each other immediately.
Some of them also attacked the woman’s head, but the woman herself wasn’t affected at all. It was as if… her hatred was so strong that nothing else could matter to her. At this moment, she rushed toward Wang Baole, still screeching with hatred.
"Qing Yangzi, you are Qing Yangzi!!"
Wang Baole’s body flickered, and he instantly appeared in front of the head, swinging his right hand down heavily. A powerful force burst out, turning into a Nightmare of Desire that grabbed the woman’s head and slammed her downward. No matter how hard she struggled, she couldn’t escape after being embedded deep in the ground.
Her strands of hair continuously devoured each other, becoming fewer and fewer with every passing instant.
However, her voice didn’t abate at all. She continued to scream again and again, and Wang Baole gradually came to understand that she seemed to know only that single sentence.
Furrowing his brows in thought, Wang Baole landed on the ground and moved closer to the woman’s head embedded in the soil. As she screamed, he pressed his finger to the center of her brows to look at her divine soul.
“Huh, no soul?” Wang Baole was stunned. Looking at the head in front of him carefully, he found that there really were no signs of a soul. It seemed that she really was driven entirely by her lingering hatred.
“Or maybe she’s being controlled by some will that I can’t detect?” Lifting his head, Wang Baole scanned his surroundings. After a moment of silence, he didn’t pay any more attention to the woman’s head and instead flew into the distance.
"Qing Yangzi, you are Qing Yangzi!!"
Behind him, the woman’s shrill screams continued to echo. As their distance increased more and more, her voice faded to the point that he could finally no longer hear it. At that point, Wang Baole waved his hand, and the Nightmare of Desire keeping the woman’s head stuck in the ground suddenly disappeared.
After being freed, the woman’s eyes that were originally full of hatred slowly turned blank. In the end, they turned hollow, and she numbly floated up into the air.
She drifted mindlessly for a long time, until a long arc of light appeared on the horizon. In an instant, fire seemed to ignite in the woman’s blank eyes, and she became full of hatred once again.
“Qing Yangzi, you are Qing Yangzi!!” The woman’s head screamed shrilly as she flew straight toward the newcomer. This newcomer, once of the mincemeat acolytes, had been looking behind himself and running away, so he didn’t have time to dodge the head. In an instant, he was entangled by the head’s long hair and dragged over to the mouth before being swallowed up.
Even as he was being swallowed, aside from terror, there was also deep confusion and doubt on his face. It seemed that his final thought before his death was wondering why the woman’s head called him Qing Yangzi.
This scene was observed by another mincemeat acolyte, who had been chasing the previous one from a distance. As soon as he saw this, his scalp turned numb, and he quickly fled far away.
After he left, the woman’s head chewed slowly, and her eyes turned blank again. She returned to a numb state, drifting into the distance without realizing that a strand of her hair had fallen to the ground.
Upon touching the ground, this strand of hair turned into a Nightmare of Desire. Staring at the woman’s head in the distance, the Nightmare of Desire gradually blurred and disappeared.
At the same time, far away from that place, Wang Baole suddenly paused in his flight. His expression shifted slightly, and after a moment, his brows relaxed, having been mostly cleared of doubts.
“So it turns out she screams like that at whoever she sees…” Wang Baole didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry. When he encountered the woman’s head previously, he really had been shocked by the hatred in her words. But now, he no longer thought about Qing Yangzi or the woman. Instead, he lowered his head and looked at the ground.
All this time, he had been searching for a passage to the underground. Although someone of his cultivation base could normally just blast through the ground, this Buried Realm was extremely strange. Wang Baole could sense that there were countless chaotic wills here, and acting without thinking would lead to unnecessary trouble. Thus, he was searching for places with weaker wills.
Finding such a place wasn’t too difficult. After a few days of searching, Wang Baole discovered a hill in the boundless Buried Realm where the ubiquitous chaotic wills were relatively weak.
This hill was pitch-black, and it seemed similar to a volcano. However, rather than magma, there was only a tunnel inside connected to the ground.
Glancing over, Wang Baole was about to go in, but at that moment, his pupils suddenly contracted. Raising his right hand, he pushed at air, and the earth suddenly exploded. A tube-like object one thousand zhang long burst out from the ground and pierced violently toward Wang Baole.
But after touching Wang Baole’s outstretched right hand, the thousand-zhang-long tube suddenly retracted and fell to the ground with a thud. At the same time, the hill trembled violently, and then, unexpectedly… moved!
Looking carefully, it wasn’t a hill at all! It was a strange beast that looked like a hill, but was really a living thing. The tube-like object was like the beast’s proboscis, and when it was stabbed into the earth, it seemed like a tunnel.
The strange, hill-like beast seemed to feel threatened by Wang Baole and wanted to leave. However, its massive body wasn’t very agile. Although its lumbering form bore earth-shaking power and momentum, it was actually rather slow.
“This Source Universe Dao Void really has all sorts of oddities. Even a creature like this could be born.” Wang Baole raised his eyebrows in surprise. He flew over to the moving hill, eyes flashing with a strange light.
The fact that he hadn’t noticed the hill was a living thing until he got this close was already a shining endorsement of the hill beast’s concealment abilities.
As the hill beast moved, the wills that had originally seemed feeble suddenly grew stronger, causing Wang Baole’s eyes to flicker brightly. His body flickered, and he suddenly appeared on the hill beast’s back. Just as the hill beast seemed enraged and let out an earth-shaking roar, Wang Baole narrowed his eyes and let loose a bit of the aura of his true body.
Boom!
The hill beast instantly trembled and didn’t dare to move.