CHAPTER 634: CHAPTER 633: INDISCRIMINATE ATTACK

In just a moment, Hu Zhili’s emotions were like riding a roller coaster.

Immersed in the excitement of his biological daughter getting close to a powerful ally, his mood soared to the peak;

Then, a sudden change struck him, fearing that his beloved son might get hurt, his thrilling feelings disappeared instantly, leaving him anxious.

Fortunately, he arrived just in time to rescue his son unharmed, which made him breathe a sigh of relief, calming his mood considerably, but then a gentle voice behind him struck like a thunderbolt, dropping his heart to the bottom!

"Father, who is he?" Hu Zhixun was frightened, his heart pounding wildly. Fortunately, his father appeared in time to save him from the mysterious blades, barely calming him before noticing his father’s face turned pale instantly.

He followed the voice and saw a human cultivator, about his age, standing on a sculpture not far away, staring at him coldly as if looking at a dead person.

Hu Zhixun couldn’t help but shiver.

Unable to sense a trace of the other person’s aura, yet facing such chaos and remaining indifferent and even coldly observing, this person surely isn’t ordinary.

Could a Void Hunter be this terrifying?

"Mr. Jiang..." Hu Zhili looked at his son and the powerful ally, momentarily at a loss, "He won’t contaminate us, Mr. Jiang, I assure you the child will behave and won’t cause you any trouble..."

The more he spoke, the more uncertain he became.

The sounds of battle below seemed to fade away, his mind buzzing. Even though he had a medicine pill now, he didn’t dare let his son take it, or the other would suspect his true identity.

Jiang Yuan shrugged, indifferent, "Cultivators and the mysterious can never coexist peacefully, regardless of who he is. I think you understand well, Hu Daoist, that you should best keep your distance; otherwise, if there’s even a hint of contamination..."

No need for more words; the other person’s face was already pale as gold.

"Father!" Hu Zhixun suddenly recalled, what did father say about a sister?

He was young back then and couldn’t remember much. He vaguely knew there were two sisters who landed here with them, both dying tragically with their mother.

Where did another sister come from now?

Right, the Ninth Elder mentioned two Void Hunters earlier; could one be my sister?

A sense of crisis surged sharply, and Hu Zhixun realized his situation was quite perilous!

"You—stay here and don’t move." Hu Zhili’s eye twitched, facing Jiang Yuan’s seemingly gentle yet imposing gaze, defying it, arranging his son in a corner away from battle, then flying off, avoiding suspicion, intending to find Hu Jun for medicine pills.

Under no circumstances could he expose himself!

"Hu Da’an, where’s the medicine pill?" Hu Jun reacted quickly, charging into the crowd of the mysterious with great speed as the palace collapsed and passages were revealed.

Amidst the fighting and swallowing of the many black tentacles, employing magic and swordsmanship, he seized Hu Da’an, dragged him to a relatively safe corner, asking while searching his body for the newly made medicine pills.

"Pill my head! I haven’t had time to make them!" Hu Da’an was also anxious.

The appearance of human anomalies was so sudden. If he had time to make new medicine pills, he’d at least have some negotiating leverage. Now empty-handed, what could he use to negotiate with this old fox?

He panted heavily and explained, "I need some time! You wanted me to make medicine earlier, yet no one here listens to me, and the storage bag is long gone, just dragging the corpse over wasted a lot of time."

Ninth Elder, I only need a stick of incense! In the time it takes to burn a stick of incense, I guarantee I can give you ten..."

"Useless thing!" Hu Jun was furious, his eyes burning red, having plotted for years with victory in sight, just shy of crossing the line! Damn humans and their anomalies, neither coming early nor late, but choosing this moment to enter the tunnel and disrupt!

He thought of the recent Void Hunter attack on their clan, which must have alerted the other side. Following the trail, they entered the main base below the palace, utterly cursed into misfortune!

"Quickly grab any corpse and hide; as long as you can make a pill to swallow, muddle through and I can take you away." Hu Jun glanced over, noticing the Void Hunter fixating on Hu Zhili and his useless son, painting a rosy picture for Hu Da’an.

With so many chaotic anomalies fighting, the Void Hunter couldn’t possibly focus on every single one.

If Hu Da’an made a good effort, rushing to make medicine pills and blending as a righteous cultivator, he wouldn’t expose anything, and could keep at it, making more pills;

If he failed to make even the pill to save himself, then he’s useless. Anyway, any pills in my pocket won’t be shared, leaving him to survive as he will.

"Alright! Yes, I’ll do it!" Hu Da’an was deeply annoyed; if only he anticipated this, he’d have worked without rest after retrieving the corpse.

A mistake at one step leads to further errors; hopefully, he could seize some time amid the chaos to secure his own life!

Under Hu Jun’s assistance, he grabbed a random corpse, hid behind the palace ruins, and began making pills.

[Hu Da’an: Fox Demon anomaly, self-taught some pharmacology. Based on: World’s deadly poisons, cures within five steps principle, attempted discovering use of mutated anomaly corpse for toxin counteraction to cover anomaly aura in pills...]

Jiang Yuan had long locked Hu Jun and Hu Da’an in his sight’s "targeting" system, directly identifying details.

"Antidote through poison? Isn’t that just eating..." He saw the raw materials for making pills, grimacing a bit.

Ten minutes felt neither long nor short.

To Jiang Yuan, watching tigers fight from a mountain perch, standing hands behind his back observing their brutal battle quickly grew tiresome, as ultimately, dense clouds of dark mist served to augment poison resistance, but most of all hindered sight.

Moreover, the other two races, polluted into the same anomaly type, were quite Cthulhu Mythos-like, with tentacles, various eye types, growing nauseating to behold, such that he’d feel uneasy about eating his favorite teppanyaki squid for a long while.

So, he counted down each second, the passage of time feeling prolonged, turning his attention to unnoticed little details and small characters.

For example, there was actually a mysterious human hiding in the palace ruins, searching for something, and a mysterious fox demon lying among the corpses pretending to be dead, probably thinking it could fool everyone...

For both parties in a chaotic battle, ten minutes is way too short.

Having weathered many disputes and battles between the two clans like storms, those who survived all have some life-saving skills. Both sides are now evenly matched in strength, so one side trying to take advantage would cost a lot.

Especially since becoming strange, Life Energy is particularly resilient. By devouring opponents, one can rapidly become stronger and regain combat strength.

Therefore, apart from those unlucky enough to be quickly killed, the remaining ones might seem fiercely engaged in battle, but in reality, the outcomes are often fifty-fifty, with neither side gaining much.

[Special Task: Benefit from the Standoff]

[Task 3: Find a suitable location to watch the tiger fight on the mountain, wait for ten minutes, completed. Reward: Spirit Stone +10000 has been issued]

[Task 4: Eliminate all strangeness and purify all pollution. Reward: Fusion right for the remnants of this world]

"Finally, it’s time to end!" Jiang Yuan watched as the countdown reached zero, a new task appeared. He stretched his body and moved his wrists, then directly used the Soul Hook!

[Mysterious Soul Fragment +1]

As fast as lightning, the Soul Hook captured the fragment into the Storage Bag, and a mysterious fox demon fell to the ground, dead and motionless.

"Hahahaha! Thanks for helping, fellow cultivator..." The proud mysterious human who was fighting alongside was laughing before his words finished, but then Jiang Yuan cut him into two pieces, backward he fell, silent.

The indiscriminate attack of the Void Hunter made all the strangeness panic. The scariest thing was that whatever Magic he used, there was no Spiritual Power fluctuation detected, and starting with 0 frames, he could assassinate an anomaly in three gauges at most.

"Stop fighting! Stop right now!"

"Run, run! That guy is insane!"

"Didn’t you say he was avenging us? Why is he killing our people now?"

"Damn it! Fooled, run away quickly!"

...

The mysterious human sensed something was wrong and wanted to escape, while the fox demon who suffered was fighting madly, and now their hiding place was gone. How could they escape so easily?

Thus, some wanted to flee while others were furiously entangled, and Jiang Yuan was very cautious, reaping from a distance and refusing to get too close—given the system’s nature, just this small Karami couldn’t possibly reward a double Resurrection Talisman.

Since the reward was so great, it showed that this world remnant definitely harbored deadly risks, and unless the dungeon was completed, no one knew who the final big boss would be.

"Father..." Hu Zhixun instinctively wanted to seek protection from his father, called out, then quickly shut his mouth and crouched down, reducing his presence in the ruins.

That Void Hunter was terrifying!

The mysterious human making even his father worried would inevitably die under his gaze! The key point was that he wasn’t only killing mysterious humans, but also mysterious fox demons.

Fearful he couldn’t call his father for protection, Hu Zhixun worried he might attract the Void Hunter’s attention and lose his life in the next second.

Jiang Yuan glanced at him, thinking he was too lazy to kill him. If he killed Hu Zhixun easily, his contract pet wouldn’t be able to relinquish its obsession. Hu Zhixun was his pet’s prey, not his own.

"Elder Nine, what... should we do?" Hu Rao looked at the tribe members being equally reaped, feeling a bit sympathetic, and went over quietly to ask.

Hu Jun gritted his teeth and said, "What else can we do? We are survivors now, we must distance ourselves from the strange!"

He glanced behind the ruins, thought Hu Da’an better do his best! If you manage to mix in and survive, there are still one or two days to make some more contributions for me. Only with more Medicine Pills will I feel at ease.

"Hmm? Can’t be just this?" Jiang Yuan’s reaping speed was fast; some smart anomalies seized the chance to flee. Soon, the palace ruins only had the scattered corpses of the two clans left.

A glance revealed merely seven fox demons who swallowed Medicine Pills still alive, alongside the trembling Hu Zhixun.

"biu!"

A tiny Ice Flame flickered at Jiang Yuan’s fingertips, he looked at the little juvenile creature and the large area of pollution pending purification, clicked the "cultivate" button.

[Will you consume 100 Immortal Jade to cultivate the juvenile Ice Flame?]

With an account balance of over ten million, spending a million Spirit Stones wasn’t too distressing; after all, it spent would earn it back.

"Boom!"

Accompanying the rapid jump of the account balance, a dazzling flame effect flashed across his vision.

[Ice Flame: Level 1, needs 1000 Immortal Jade to reach the next level]

"biu!"

Once again summoning the Ice Flame, the flame was visibly larger.

"Go, burn slowly!" With a flick of his finger, the pale blue Ice Flame, carrying an overwhelmingly scorching yet chilly aura, flew toward and landed on the pollutants, a shallow blue flame rising to begin purification.

Then, Jiang Yuan leisurely teleported down, hands behind his back, walked to the ruins where Hu Da’an hid, peeking and asked, "What are you doing here?"