Chapter 21: Decisive Kill!

Midair

“Croak!”

The Ghost Face Curse Frog sensed danger and looked at the incoming black and red sword light. Instinctively, it wanted to retreat, but it felt utterly helpless in the air and could only let out croaks in an attempt to hinder its opponent.

“Croak!”

However, Little Spider didn’t halt in the slightest. Its delicate ears were, at some point, covered with spider silk earplugs, blocking the Ghost Face Curse Frog’s last resort. The frog could only watch in unending fear as the black and red sword light descended upon it.

Like the endless darkness that envelops everything!

Crack!

Accompanied by the flash of cold light, the sound of flesh and limbs being severed resounded!

The tongue was sliced into several parts midair, and the excruciating pain nearly shocked the Ghost Face Curse Frog into unconsciousness. Its body stiffened, falling into the muddy ground along with the severed tongue, splashing mud everywhere.

Countless droplets of blood fell like rain, creating a blood-red hellish scroll on the ground.

Little Spider stood in the void, wielding the bloodied spider silk dual blades intertwined before it, like an elegant…

Peerless Sword Ji!

Lu Yu watched cautiously, not letting down his guard, but his words carried a playful provocation: “Are you done so quickly? Don’t you want to get up and croak a bit more?”

This round, using the provocation skill, let’s see whether the Ghost Face Curse Frog has indeed suffered a heavy blow?

“Croak… croak…”

Faced with the taunt, the Ghost Face Curse Frog wanted to rage, but its head was dizzy, and a large amount of blood welled up, clogging its throat and causing unbearable discomfort.

The dual impact of torn tongue and mental damage affected the vocal organs of the Ghost Face Curse Frog, including a large number of skills such as curse croons that became unusable, directly rendering it half-crippled.

Seeing this, Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

The Ghost Face Curse Frog was being cautious with every move, but wasn’t he the same?

Facing a pet beast of the elite rank, even if it was born prematurely and still in a weak period, equivalent to battling while still attached to a milk bottle. In theory, it should be weaker than a regular elite pet beast, but this one’s intelligence was too high.

Throughout the battle, it maintained distance, weakening opponents with curse croons and curse golems, hiding its own disadvantages and advancing cautiously, even becoming more troublesome.

If this went on, the battle would become a stalemate.

Under the continuous effect of curse crooning, the weakness curse would keep stacking, eventually reaching the threshold for eye-blocking control, and start to weaken Little Spider’s strength.

Moreover, frequent use of the void ray would lead to weaknesses that could put him at a disadvantage.

Therefore, Lu Yu deliberately exposed a flaw, using his opponent’s scheming nature to let it attack along his line of thought.

Basically, any normal person seeing so many space-based abilities would assume Little Spider was a glass-cannon mage and couldn’t help but attempt a close-range attack.

Unfortunately, they encountered a bug!

A top predator youth birthed by secret feeding, not only masters void and dream powers but also possesses exquisite swordsmanship inherited from the Nun of the Heavens!

A genius at the pinnacle of the low-tier worlds, born with a golden spirituality through swordsmanship, whose talent even the native gods admired.

Swordsmanship reaches divinity!

Thus, in the final blow, Little Spider executed the “Soul Eye Governing Sword,” infusing a hint of soul power, not only severing the tongue but also incorporating a mental attack.

A successful cross-tier reverse strike against an elite-rank pet beast!

Most crucially, it had the “Phase Shift” ability as a safety net, able to start over even if it failed.

“Croak, croak, croak…”

The Ghost Face Curse Frog looked at the approaching Little Spider with a sword, as if seeing the Grim Reaper, its large eyes filled with terror.

Brutal by nature and as an undead-type, the Ghost Face Curse Frog did not ignore life and death but was even more terrified of dying.

It crawled frantically on the ground with its forelimbs, manipulating many puppet birds and frogs to advance in an attempt to block Little Spider.

However, with the interference from the elite rank gone, these were just targets. Little Spider captured attacks from all directions with its inner eye.

Though a nun of the Silver Sun Church, the Nun of the Heavens, blind in both eyes, has never seen the sun for what it is, relying only on the inner eye to sense everything.

Therefore, in her view, the Sun God is also the God of the Great Black Heaven!

And she is a seeker of light in the endless darkness!

【Great Black Heaven Sword Dance First Form—Chasing Light】

With a flicker of form, the sword bladed like a dragon-snake soaring to heaven and plunged into the abyss in an instant.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

As Little Spider sheathed the sword and slowly advanced, all the curse golems came to a halt mid-air, as if time had stopped. The next moment, they disintegrated instantaneously, turning into countless fragments scattering in every direction.

“Croak, croak, croak…”

Utter despair overcame the Ghost Face Curse Frog, lying on the ground and pleading in a whimpering sound, indicating it was willing to submit in hopes of receiving mercy from Little Spider.

“Squeal…”

Little Spider hesitated for a moment upon hearing this and actually retreated a few steps, dispersing the spider silk longsword in its hands.

“Soft-hearted?”

Lu Yu frowned, thinking Little Spider lacked experience; such hesitation would definitely lead to a loss.

However, before he could speak, he saw a scene that made his jaw drop.

Swoosh, swoosh!

Little Spider manipulated dozens of spider silk threads in an instant, piercing its body and halting the Ghost Face Curse Frog’s joyful expression, followed by over a minute of corpse whipping.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The ground was pierced by spider silk, shattered, and sank more than half a meter deep, with numerous stones flying, the scene extremely gory.

“Snort!”

Elsewhere, the Grand Peach Pig King, though massive in size, was unusually cowardly and feared death as those with stubborn heads had long been killed.

Therefore, at the very beginning, it fled to the distance with the other peach pigs, just about to catch a breath, and then witnessed this scene, shivering in fright.

So… so vicious!

The human’s strength was formidable, and with such a petty heart, he enjoys whipping corpses. It was fortunate that the pig king hadn’t offended him before.

Otherwise, it would be over.

In the future, when it’s time to sleep, it best does so without being stubborn!

After confirming the creature was truly dead and that the spider silk had repeatedly flipped the corpse, Little Spider excitedly shouted at Lu Yu: “Squeal! Squeal!”

“Master, everything is fine now; there’s no poison on the body, so no dangerous gases will be emitted.”

Hearing this, Lu Yu was stunned.

He thought Little Spider was going to be soft-hearted and was ready to educate it on life philosophy.

It turned out… the retreat was just to prevent the opponent from spewing poison gas for a mutually assured destruction.

In the end, even repeated corpse whipping was done to ensure it was dead!

My pet beast is really… overly cautious!

I’m the one being educated here.

Lu Yu swallowed his words and touched Little Spider’s head with mixed feelings, praising: “Well done.”

“Squeal!”

Little Spider’s smile grew bright, climbing onto its master’s shoulder and taking out a fragment of a dream to nibble, puffing up its mouth like a little hamster as it began to replenish its lost strength.

Lu Yu, on the other hand, turned his gaze towards the curse frog’s body, now buried under the rubble. A hint of pity flashed in his eyes as he silently commanded to extract materials.

Accompanied by a beam of eternal white light only he could see, the Ghost Face Curse Frog’s body instantly decomposed, turning into an orb of light that fell into Lu Yu’s hands.

【Ghost Face Curse Frog’s Curse Golem Organ (Two-Star Level): The Ghost Face Curse Frog can spread curses through sound, create curse golems, and enhance the power by devouring the entrails of living beings.】

The damaged material was fully stripped away under the ability of all-thing extraction, a miracle not even a grandmaster of materials science could achieve.

However, for Lu Yu, who mastered truth, it was as simple as eating and drinking.

In fact, the Ghost Face Curse Frog, though dangerous, was highly sought after due to its rarity. Combined with its two racial abilities of curse crooning and curse golem mastery, it could easily create a small army of golems if its mental power was sufficient.

Therefore, on the undead type’s most coveted golden pet beast list, it ranked ninth. If one could capture a live one, it could easily fetch a sky-high price.

But Lu Yu still chose to kill it, not just because a Ghost Face Curse Frog past its weak period would be even more dangerous.

It was rather because the Eye of Truth revealed a “Skill Secret Feeding” recipe using the transcendent organ of the Ghost Face Curse Frog as the main ingredient!

A technique too irresistible, especially suitable for Little Spider.

Just as Lu Yu was preparing the materials for the skill secret feed, he suddenly felt a massive surge of spiritual energy. Instinctively turning his head, he saw a giant figure descending from the sky, shuddering the earth.

Rumble, rumble!

Amidst the sky full of falling sand and the slight tremors of the earth.

A beast resembling a giant deer, three meters tall and nearly six meters long, appeared on the ground. The reason for the resemblance is its face was not that of a deer, but rather as if it were welded with a lion mask, majestic in appearance, the powerful oppression of the command rank released unabashedly in all directions.

The pressure hit Lu Yu squarely.

A command rank pet beast, Lion-faced Deer!

Before Lu Yu could react, a puzzled voice came from the back of the Lion-faced Deer: “Where is the enemy?”