Chapter 19: Undead Disaster

Although unaware why this human suddenly made a move, feeling that vacuum ray streaking across the sky like a meteor, the Grand Peach Pig King only felt a chill all over its body!

It could be certain that once hit, even its proudest, toughest fur would instantly dissolve, and finally along with the flesh and bones inside, all would corrode.

“Humph humph humph!”

The Grand Peach Pig King immediately got up and moved toward the stream, loudly indicating its willingness to drink water to give Lu Yu sleep.

“Ying?”

What does ‘give sleep’ mean?

Little Spider tilted its head, full of curiosity written on its face.

“No need to bother, it’s just the pig plague acting up,” said Lu Yu with a dark face, continuing to watch the vacuum ray without any intention of stopping it.

This scene angered the Peach Pig King, scorned beyond limits! Not getting angry would truly make it seem too easy to bully?

“Roar!”

Just as it roared to the sky, displaying its sharp teeth and preparing to counter-attack with its forelimbs scratching the ground, those six rays ignored it and whistled past right over its head, hitting the stream behind it.

Or rather, they hit the area where large amounts of green duckweed gathered, covering a group of Taohua spotted frogs that were still croaking.

“Croak… croak… croak…”

Faced with this deadly onset, these Taohua spotted frogs, similar in size to bullfrogs, seemed as if they couldn’t see it coming at all, still continuing their croaking sounds.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!

The vacuum dissolving rays instantly pierced through the bodies of the frogs, and yet there was no scene of flesh crystallizing, rather it was like tearing paper, directly ripping them apart.

The broken frog skins fluttered, turning into crystal powder in the air and dissipating, while the flesh inside had long since disappeared.

The rest of the Taohua spotted frogs were also pierced by the vacuum rays, but apart from the frog skins, all of their flesh was hollowed out.

That is to say, from the very beginning of their cries, all were a group of corpses!

“Humph?!”

This eerie scene made the Grand Peach Pig King widen its eyes, realizing that Lu Yu was not targeting it.

Feeling that something was amiss, it decisively moved many peach pigs in front of it to protect them.

The reason it had survived seventy to eighty years was because it was sufficiently cautious.

“Still planning to keep hiding?” Lu Yu looked towards the stream and revealed a cold smile at the corner of his mouth.

Originally, he hadn’t noticed anything amiss, but the continuous frog croaks woke him abruptly.

The whole stream source had been spread with dreamweaving spider silk by Little Spider, containing illusions and the power of dreams, even the thick-skinned peach pigs couldn’t withstand it, and all obediently fell into sleep.

And the Taohua spotted frogs were just the lowest level of subordinate creatures, even without drinking the stream water, once in contact with the flowing water, as amphibians relying on lungs and skin for breathing, they were naturally eroded by the poison of dreams and fell asleep.

However, the result was drastically different, these Taohua spotted frogs were as if completely unaffected, even being washed away by the water while still emitting croaking sounds.

And after Lu Yu activated the Eye of Truth, their state was directly displayed.

【Taohua Spotted Frog (Cursed Poppet Status)】

A consistent curse of puppets!

A group of dead beings without consciousness, how could they possibly dream?

“As for the chief culprit…” Lu Yu’s gaze turned profound, and he had a rough guess in his heart, commanding: “Use spider silk, probe into the bottom of the stream!”

“Ying!”

Little Spider reached out its hand, and a massive amount of spider silk condensed and shot out explosively.

With Little Spider devouring a large amount of the power of dreams, the threads were further strengthened in toughness, no less durable than ordinary wire, only more delicate, containing a terrifying lethality to easily pierce through flesh in the high-speed webbing process.

Just as the spider silk whistled out like arrows, preparing to pierce through the bottom of the stream in a sweeping clean-up, a hoarse and sinister frog croak resounded:

“Croak!”

As if coming from the bell of hell, the sound wave burst forth, blasting a huge water column at the same time, also breaking all the spider silk into fluff, scattering it in the air, mixed with droplets, fluttering and sprinkling.

A figure also leaped out from the water flow and revealed its true appearance.

A Taohua drum frog evolved from Taohua spotted frogs appeared, half a meter tall with a large drum on its abdomen to play and soothe the spirit, its racial potential at the elite primary stage.

However, this Taohua drum frog appeared emaciated, with a body tattered beyond belief, yet its face wore a humanized kindness, looking extremely bizarre.

Crack!

Suddenly, its abdomen was torn open from the inside out, a multitude of organs scattered on the ground, and a lamb-sized eerie frog species leaped out from within, emitting a hoarse and resentful low growl:

“Croak!”

Its body was covered in gray, skin adorned with large amounts of mucus, two huge eyeballs much bigger than its head, its originally strong hind limbs atrophied, appearing top-heavy.

Besides, its lower jaw and cheeks were covered with numerous blood-red stripes, looking very odd.

“Gu croak!”

At this moment, it was especially angry because it was forced to be born prematurely, with a ferocious countenance, it opened its huge mouth to inhale, and the air sacs on both sides of its cheeks swelled rapidly, the original blood striations also becoming visible on the sides.

Along with those eerie large eyes and twisted appearance, it truly resembled a ghostly face.

“It really is you, Ghost Face Curse Frog!”

Although Lu Yu had some guesses when he saw the cursed puppets, he couldn’t help but be shocked when he truly saw it.

The Eye of Truth floated with related information.

【Ghost Face Curse Frog】

【Attributes: Undead Type】

【Strength: Elite Primary Stage】

【Racial Potential: Commander High Stage】

【Skills: Curse Croak, Tongue Lash, Poppet Curse Technique, Poison…】

【Description: An extremely rare type of frog beast pet, undead in type, they do not reproduce offspring through mating, but instead randomly appear in large groups of frog species.

It requires a female frog to nurture a dead egg, evolving at this precise time, followed by pregnancy again, intertwining the egg of life with death, thus there’s an extremely small chance a Ghost Face Curse Frog will be born.

The Ghost Face Curse Frog is extremely brutal in nature. Once the gestation is complete, it will not be born immediately but will bewitch and draw nutrition from the mother’s body until it survives the seven-day weak period. During this time it will devour a large amount of the same species’ internal organs to make cursed puppets for its own use.】

【Evolution Path: Curse Witch Frog, Plague Curse Frog…】

“Elite primary stage, looks like this fella’s been lurking for several days…”

Lu Yu searched his memory and found that after awakening the Door of Truth, he had seen a mention of that pregnant Taohua drum frog (from the beginning of the third chapter).

The content mentioned its weakened state after pregnancy.

But at the time, with the threat of the Nightmare Mark and the other party hiding inside the mother’s body, the Eye of Truth was not triggered, so Lu Yu naively thought it was due to malnutrition.

Luckily today, the cursed puppet controlled by the other party was overly rigid, allowing him to spot the clues.

It should currently be the fifth or sixth day after birth.

Otherwise, once the Ghost Face Curse Frog survives the weak period, its strength will rise to the peak of the elite intermediate stage. By that time, no matter how tough the Grand Peach Pig King’s fur is, it will not be able to stop the invasion of curses.

The final result would be the complete downfall of the peach pigs, becoming part of the army of cursed puppets.

And with a large accumulation of flesh and blood, it could completely attempt to break through to the commander stage. Once successful, the enclosure of Taohua Forest will no longer be able to contain it.

A large number of cursed puppet armies, along with a commander stage Ghost Face Curse Frog, would directly become a small-scale undead disaster!