CHAPTER 1176: CHAPTER 1175: BLOW FOR BLOW

Jellyfish are not afraid of fire. The principle that water and fire don’t mix holds true, but the strength of each element matters; water can extinguish fire, fire can evaporate water, it’s not absolute.

This jellyfish is enormous, its body spans tens of zhang, composed of hundreds of thousands of jins of water and gelatin mixture, which cannot be burned by ordinary flames. The previous three allied demons mostly relied on speed and fire to deal with it, but to little effect so far.

Cang Guang’s approach is not novel either, but it doesn’t excel in speed, and its fire breath is limited in power. Its real asset is its innate divine strength and a body of steel sinews and iron bones, so after a few rounds of struggle, it inevitably gets enveloped by the jellyfish.

Enter the jellyfish’s time.

As tens of thousands of demon clan members from the alliance waited anxiously, Cang Guang felt himself as though sinking into a swamp, even worse than a swamp; movement was painfully slow, the gelatinous mucus made every step laborious. Without speed, its charge became meaningless, and it didn’t know how to use other divine skills in such an environment.

But it roared and struggled fiercely, all to cover up the jade bottle; it quietly crushed the jade bottle, letting the chameleon gland blend silently with the jellyfish’s gel, as both belong to life fluids, no repulsion occurred. This is the magic of the chameleon’s transformation.

Once the mysterious liquid slowly merged, Cang Guang began focusing all on defense, relying on its robust body and several defensive divine skills; it had reached this point not thinking about how to actively attack, as it couldn’t figure out an effective attack method, its only choice was to stall for time, waiting for the mysterious liquid to take effect.

Fortunately, it crushed the jade bottle decisively, just completing the action, it felt its limbs being restrained, something either pinning its horns or binding its legs, and a sharp object probing its passage, utterly vile.

In the mucus, eyes couldn’t see, but at such intimate proximity, it sensed what was attacking it—it was five humans!

How shameless! If it could survive, it must expose the Sea Clan’s collusion with humans, revealing the truth to seek vengeance for its fallen demon clan brethren.

Cang Guang firmly believed in its unmatched defenses.

Yet, the shamelessness of the Daoists was beyond what a mere earth demon like it could comprehend, especially as these five cultivators weren’t ordinary Daoists but top cultivators from the Upper Realm, with ever-changing skills. Would its thick skin pose anything formidable?

Inside the jellyfish, Dao Realm power couldn’t be used recklessly, requiring restraint, controlling its spread beyond the jellyfish; this gave the ox a slender chance for struggle. Despite various inconveniences, the five Daoists quickly broke through the ox’s defenses, far shorter than its imagined duration of resistance.

In its dying moments, Cang Guang heard the Daoists’ conversation among themselves.

"This dumb ox thinks its tough hide can withstand us? Haha, it’s just iron, the Daoists will make it mush in minutes."

"Stop talking, cut whatever can be cut, materials are treasures, although not valuable, leave the ox whip and ox balls to me, I’ll soak it in liquor..."

Cang Guang’s heart bled, feeling a surge of agony from beneath...

"Something’s amiss, the jellyfish is changing color, what’s happening?"

"It must be this old ox’s trick, not necessarily its issue, likely methods of those outer space fierce demons. This color is out of control; any ideas?"

"No good, can’t control it! This is the way of transformation, aligned with the Great Dao principles, so the jellyfish won’t repel, and it could turn into a color-changing jellyfish in the future."

"What do we do? During transformation, spots appear, marking our positions. The jellyfish can follow, but we can’t! The transformation isn’t obvious now, we’re safe for the moment, but it won’t last long..."

"We can’t stay inside the jellyfish anymore; those outer space fierce demons are suspicious, we’re retreating."

"A shame, only managed to kill a demon sheep! And next is the Winged Demon Clan, but we’re unfamiliar with them."

...Under the eyes of the demons, as expected, Cang Guang finally turned into blood water; but the ox’s death wasn’t without cost—it caused the jellyfish to become a color-changing jellyfish, vibrant and uncanny.

No similar transformation happened in previous battles, but nobody would think it’s the jellyfish advancing, more likely it was poisoned?

A poisonous jellyfish harmed by an ox that never dabbles in poison? Sounds unbelievable.

The demon clan’s internal battles were lenient in rule demands, healing could occur in-between, or continue, purely based on mood; yet this time, the jellyfish obviously faltered, drifting slowly among the Sea Clan, two smaller jellyfish came over to heal it, appearing to be its juniors.

After a while, the jellyfish resumed its normal movement, floating back to battle, but its color seemed uncontrollable, kept changing, flickering between bright and dim.

The familiar face that emerged from the alliance side was the bear; despite having Golden Core cultivation, whether deep demonic power, battle experience, or divine power, was among the top level in the Golden Core level, stronger than many Nascent Soul demon beasts.

Last time, it made a spectacular show; this time sent out with high hopes, the outer space demon lord imparted a few methods to subdue the jellyfish, therefore brimming with confidence.

The bear stayed some distance away, spitting out beads, one after another. The bead directly targeted the jellyfish, exploding into a blue water curtain brilliance, appearing powerful.

The jellyfish remained unmoved, knowing the bead could do nothing to it, but under the blue brilliance, instinctively changed color to blue; its body’s chameleon gland’s influence, unable to control its color change, passively altering with the external hue.

Once launched, the bear’s beads didn’t stop, continuously spitting them out, shared limited power but varied in color shifts, emitting bright light in blue, yellow, black, or green, bewildering the watching demon crowd.

However, the bear understood its purpose; the jellyfish’s color change followed its beads’ light change, with two objectives behind.

One goal was uncovering secrets hidden within the jellyfish; at the instant color changes, a brief transparency occurred inside, exposing everything.

If no anomalies were in the jellyfish, once the color change grew frequent, it’d signal its action time, a tactic the outer space demon lord discussed clearly with it.

Staring at the jellyfish changing colors like a chameleon, the bear prepared to strike.