Twin Tails (1)

Yang Dingding saw their expressions and glared. “What are those faces for? Don’t you believe my lord?”

“All of you, go hide! When the fighting starts, don’t get caught in the crossfire!”

The little demons finally reacted and quickly scattered in all directions.

The little gecko ran a few steps, then suddenly stopped and looked back at Chen Zhou. “My lord…”

Chen Zhou asked, “What is it?”

The little gecko hesitated, then mustered his courage and said loudly, “Good luck, my lord!”

“I believe in you!”

After speaking, he blushed and turned to run.

The little rabbit followed behind him, also shouting back, “My lord, you must win!”

Chen Zhou smiled and waved his hand. “Go hide quickly. No need for you little demons to worry; just take care of yourselves.”

The little demons scurried far away, burrowing into buildings in all directions, hiding themselves thoroughly.

Not long after, the eerie blue light emanating from the crack grew brighter and brighter.

In the light, two translucent giant tails emerged from the crack.

One was emerald green, like an ancient vine, its surface covered in intricate patterns, with eerie blue light flowing within them.

The other was deep red, covered in blazing flames that were transparent yet radiated a scorching heat.

Yang Dingding’s scalp tingled as he watched. “What in the world is that?”

Tao Tuantuan’s face was pale as she softly said, “They are the messengers of sacrifice. Every time a ritual is performed, they appear to take the offerings.”

Yang Dingding swallowed. “I’ve never seen them before.”

Tao Tuantuan said, “Before, we offered our tributes on time, and they would take them and leave without revealing themselves.”

The two tails swayed gently, distorting the air wherever they passed.

Chen Zhou waved his hand, and death qi surged, condensing into a bone spike in his palm.

He looked at Jian Huaishuang. “One tail each.”

Jian Huaishuang nodded, drew his greatsword, and its blade was instantly enveloped in death qi, turning ash-white.

The two giant tails seemed to sense something, simultaneously turning towards Chen Zhou and Jian Huaishuang.

The green giant tail lashed out like a massive vine whip, whipping towards Chen Zhou with a whistling wind.

Chen Zhou neither dodged nor flinched, raising his hand and waving it.

Countless bone spears pierced out from the void, instantly pinning the green giant tail to the ground, and Hatred Fire spread along the bone spears, igniting the giant tail.

But the giant tail merely paused for a moment, then continued to struggle. Although the Hatred Fire could ignite it, it burned very slowly.

Chen Zhou frowned and activated Hate Prison. White bones pierced out from underground, weaving into a massive cage that tightly trapped the green giant tail.

Then he activated Faith Conferment.

His Evil God Points burned wildly, and his aura began to surge, skyrocketing from seventh-stage third symbiosis contract, directly breaking through to fourth symbiosis contract.

At the same time, he split off a wisp of divine power and bestowed a divine seal upon Jian Huaishuang.

A faint golden light appeared on Jian Huaishuang’s body, and his aura also surged, directly breaking through to second symbiosis contract.

Chen Zhou could feel that the phantoms of the two tails were roughly at the fourth symbiosis contract level, something that could be easily dealt with without needing to use any trump cards.

He fully expanded his Ghost Domain, and ash-white death qi enveloped a hundred zhang radius around him.

Then he waved both hands, and countless white bones pierced out from the void, transforming into skeleton ghost servants.

The skeletons rose upon landing, their eye sockets burning with netherflame, wielding bone blades and bone shields, and charged towards the emerald green giant tail.

Clang, clang, clang, clang—

The bone blades struck the giant tail, sending sparks flying.

The patterns on the giant tail’s surface flickered wildly; with each attack, a wisp of emerald green light was dispersed.

But at the same time, some skeletons were swept by the giant tail, shriveling as if withered, turning brown, and crumbling into powder with a light touch.

Chen Zhou didn’t care.

He summoned one batch to replace each one destroyed.

For every ten destroyed, he summoned a hundred.

With a continuous supply of death qi and ample bone material accumulated, the skeletons were endless. Low-tier Ghost Servants were, after all, consumables.

Each skeleton that attacked the giant tail left an extremely faint layer of ash-white on it.

That was the color of Withering Venom.

The poison was very faint, almost imperceptible, but the sheer number of skeletons made up for it.

One skeleton left one layer; a hundred skeletons left a hundred layers.

With the attacks of a thousand, ten thousand skeletons, the poison accumulated very rapidly.

The giant tail’s struggles grew slower and slower, and its emerald green light dimmed.

The eerie blue light within its patterns was being corroded by the ash-white, growing dimmer little by little.

Chen Zhou observed the giant tail carefully while controlling the skeletons.

The more he looked, the more familiar it seemed.

When the giant tail was stained with the color of Withering Venom and its emerald green completely darkened, Chen Zhou realized that if this tail were a bit more withered, wouldn’t it be identical to the tail he saw coiled around the stone door before entering the Eternal Dark Abyss?

It just didn’t possess the abnormal recovery ability of that previous tail.

Chen Zhou frowned.

On the other side, Jian Huaishuang’s battle was also raging intensely.

The deep red giant tail’s strength was comparable to the emerald green one. Its entire body burned with transparent flames, and with each flick, a sea of flames swept forth.

Jian Huaishuang’s paper armor was scorched black, large patches of white paper flaking off, only to quickly recondense.

He gripped his greatsword, charging forward again and again, leaving wounds on the giant tail, then swiftly retreating to evade the pursuing flames.

After several probes, Jian Huaishuang realized that with his current strength alone, he couldn’t resolve the giant tail by himself.

This wouldn’t do. His death qi was depleting, and his paper armor’s recovery speed was getting slower.

Moreover, the giant tail was of a higher rank than him; though scarred, it remained fierce.

A direct confrontation wasn’t the way, but it seemed the opponent had no significant recovery ability, so he needed to change his approach.

Jian Huaishuang took a deep breath and slashed at the air with his sword.

Sword light flashed, and white paper drifted from the sword blade, paper snow falling in flakes.

Each piece of white paper was as thin as cicada wings, glowing faintly under the illumination of the transparent flames.

They floated very slowly, very lightly, like real snowflakes.

But when the giant tail swept past, the white paper strangely avoided the flames, drifting and settling upon it.

A piece of white paper adhered to it.

More and more white paper stuck to it.

The red giant tail shuddered, seemingly sensing something, and thrashed wildly.

But the white paper seemed to have taken root, impossible to shake off.

Jian Huaishuang stood at a distance, closed his eyes, and fully activated his Lie Sword Domain.

At the same time, he raised his hand and beckoned.

“Come out.”

As his words fell, the white paper stuck to the giant tail suddenly came alive.

They rapidly folded themselves on the giant tail, transforming into paper people.

“Boss, what’s going on? I’m burning up!”

“What kind of hellhole is this? It’s so hot.”

“Boss, are you calling us out to die again?”

The paper people immediately started chattering upon emerging, but quickly realized something was wrong.

Flames were everywhere; the transparent flames burned so intensely that the air itself was distorted.

They looked down to see their paper bodies already beginning to smoke.