90: The Lord of Shadows has revealed his might!

"Dead... bug..."

The monster's roar sounded like two rusted pieces of iron rubbing together.

The infrasound waves made people's eardrums ache.

The air exploded with sound!

That bone spear, capable of piercing a main battle tank, thrust toward Chen Du's eyeball within a thousandth of a second.

It was too fast.

Human neural reaction speeds couldn't keep up with this level of hunting.

An Nuonuo was so scared she buried her face in her hands, while Xia Lai stared with wide, desperate eyes.

The women's screams were all stuck in their throats.

A certain-death situation?

Chen Du didn't even have time to blink.

But the shadow beneath his feet was enraged.

The pitch-black shadow spread across the ground began to boil and surge!

An instant before the bone spear pierced his eye, two giant shadow hands, ink-black and radiating pressure, lunged out without warning!

Bang—!

There was no buffer, no stalemate.

Extreme motion instantly turned into extreme stillness!

One shadow hand gripped the bone spear like a hydraulic clamp, preventing it from advancing an inch;

The other black hand brutally throttled the monster's throat, hoisting its multi-ton body into the air!

This wasn't just a confrontation of strength; it was an absolute crushing of ranks.

"Gah?!"

The wide mouth on that eyeless face froze.

Its brain, no larger than a walnut kernel, was completely unable to comprehend—

Why did this clearly fragile mortal possess such an aura?

...It was even more ancient and greedy than its own mother!

"Got you, you little exotic thing."

Chen Du chuckled lightly, his gaze gradually becoming violent.

"You enjoyed eating just now, didn't you?"

"Scaring my people, were you?"

As his voice fell.

A third, even more massive shadow fist condensed above the monster's head!

Carrying the force of ten thousand tons, it slammed down like a pile driver!

"Get the hell down!!"

Thump—!!

The ground shook violently!

The monster's massive body was smashed into the ground like a meteorite.

The hard rocky ground instantly cracked, exploding into a deep pit several meters wide.

Purple blood mixed with shell fragments splashed everywhere.

"Roar-ow-ow-ow!" The monster shrieked in pain.

One of its front legs had been snapped clean off, and white bone shards pierced through the flesh.

This scene directly stunned the women behind him.

"Did I... wake up too fast?"

Xia Lai rubbed her eyes, staring dumbfoundedly at the man with the black shadows dancing wildly behind him.

"Good grief... with this many tentacles, it's a pity he doesn't go film one of those movies..."

She swallowed hard, her eyes glazed, "Who the hell is the villain here?"

However, an Evil God's spawn was not an ordinary mutated beast after all.

The intense pain instead triggered its ferocity.

The monster lying at the bottom of the pit suddenly arched its body, its abdomen swelling and writhing violently like it was being inflated.

Under the shell, the spiracles opened fully.

"Watch out!"

Li Yaozhi's face changed drastically, "It's an area-of-effect attack!"

Before her voice could fade.

Countless venomous bone spikes sprayed indiscriminately from the monster's abdomen!

Like a Storm of Pear Blossom Needles, they were dense and packed!

They blotted out the sky!

This wasn't just targeted at Chen Du; it covered the entire cavern space!

Chen Du's gaze sharpened.

With a thought.

The shadows behind him closed like wings, turning into an indestructible black cocoon that wrapped around him.

But behind him... were the wounded and the fragile!

"You want to touch them?"

Chen Du was about to split off shadows to rescue them, only to find it seemed... unnecessary.

"Don't you dare touch my Big Sister!!"

Xia Lai roared, slamming the bone shield in her hand into the ground!

Regardless of whether she could hold out, she threw her whole body against it!

"Block it for me!!"

Clang, clang, clang!

Dense bone spikes slammed into the shield, sparks flying everywhere.

“Damn! My arms are gonna break!”

The skin between Xia Lai's thumb and index finger split, blood flowing down the back of her hand.

The surface of the bone shield was already smashed into a web of cracks, looking like it was about to shatter.

At the critical moment!

Xia Mo let out a sharp cry, her S-rank talent fully activated.

The sword name in her hand danced into a blurred image, and the moisture in the air condensed.

"Ice Wheel · Barrier!"

Extreme freezing energy erupted, and a crystal-clear ice wall rose from the ground just as the bone shield shattered!

A seamless transition!

"And me! Al-although I'm scared..."

Lin Keke gritted her teeth, pulling out the Slowness Totem from her bosom.

"But I won't let you hurt my teammates!"

Hum—

A circle of earthy yellow light rippled out.

The moment those bone spikes entered the circle, they visibly slowed down for a beat.

That single beat gave Xiao Ai and Mao Mao time to react.

"Mao Mao! Get down and act as cover!"

"Awoo!"

The Ghoul obediently lay on the ground, using its hard back to protect the weakened Tang Ran and Xia Xin.

After one round of volley.

The cavern was filled with smoking poisonous spikes, and the ground was riddled with corrosion.

But within this rain of deathly arrows.

Only the corner where the women were located hadn't even had a scrap of clothing torn.

The dust settled.

Xia Lai knelt on the ground panting, shaking her numb arms: "Heh... want to wipe us out? This spider spirit is still a bit too green!"

"Nicely done."

The black cocoon dissipated.

Chen Du walked out completely unscathed.

Looking at the exhausted but resilient women, a flash of admiration passed through his eyes.

"Now that the worries about the rear are gone..."

He didn't look back, reaching out behind him.

"Catch!"

Xia Mo understood immediately, and the famous blade sword name drew a graceful arc in the air.

Chen Du caught it steadily!

Then he looked at the monster in the pit, which was recharging its strength.

This time, the killing intent in his eyes was no longer suppressed.

"Then I'll play with you properly."

Swish!

His figure abruptly disappeared from where he stood.

A literal disappearance!

The monster was stunned, its underdeveloped brain still searching for the enemy's heat source.

Suddenly.

It felt a bit... cold underneath.

It looked down.

The shadow that originally belonged to it was now connected to a thin black line.

It was as if two pools of ink had merged into one.

The next second.

A figure emerged like a ghost from its shadow!

"Surprised, you ugly freak?"

Chen Du's cold face appeared almost pressed against the monster's belly.

"Slash!"

A cold light exploded!

Purple blood sprayed wildly!

The famous blade sword name, with its armor-piercing attribute, sliced through the monster's other supporting leg like it was cutting tofu!

The massive body lost its balance and collapsed with a crash.

Chen Du stepped on the monster's head, using the force to leap into the air.

The shadow beneath his feet turned into countless black lines, pinning the monster firmly to the ground, spread-eagled.

Just like how he had treated Lisa before.

Karma comes around.

"This strike is to pay you back on behalf of the victims."

Puchi!

The long blade pierced through the left shoulder!

"This strike is to pay you back on behalf of that woman in the red dress."

The long blade pierced through the right abdomen!

"This strike..."

Chen Du paused, his gaze incredibly cold.

"Is because you're so ugly you scared my girls."

Chen Du gripped the blade with both hands and fell from mid-air like a black meteor!

"Screech-gah—!!"

The dying monster exploded with its final ferocity.

A large mouth suddenly split open on its chest, attempting to bite the Chen Du in the air to pieces.

"Still struggling?"

Chen Du's gaze was indifferent.

The shadow beneath his feet instantly turned into a spear, piercing through that giant mouth first!

Immediately after.

The long blade, carrying a purple armor-piercing light, pierced through the monster's crown without any resistance,

Nailing that ugly head, along with its final counterattack, onto the rock!

"Awoo..."

A few bone spikes on the monster's body twitched a few times before going completely limp.

The entire cavern was deathly silent, with only the sound of blood dripping.

The dust settled.

By now, Chen Du was covered in blood.

Most of it was the monster's purple blood, dripping from his messy hair and torn shirt.

He stood there on the corpse, pulling out the long blade with one hand.

The shadow behind him fluttered like a cloak.

In this moment.

In the eyes of Xia Lai, An Nuonuo, and the others, he was more towering than a god and more charming than a demon.

"So... so handsome..." An Nuonuo covered her burning cheeks, her legs so weak she couldn't stand.

Xia Mo wiped the blood from the back of her hand, her eyes fixed on the man.

This was her man.

"Is it over?" She sat on the ground with a thud, feeling completely drained.

Chen Du flicked the blood off the blade,

Bent down, and pressed his palm against the monster's corpse.

It was an Evil God's spawn, after all.

In his mind, the sacrifice notebook became scorching hot again.

[Mythical creature corpse detected!]

[Sacrifice?]

"Dinner time," Chen Du thought silently.

The notebook had been impatient for a long time.

The dark red light was like a hungry dog seeing a meaty bone, gushing out greedily and crazily.

It immediately covered the entire corpse.

However.

Chen Du's pupils shrank, and he instinctively wanted to retreat.

"What?!"

The corpse, which was shriveling up, suddenly turned into a pool of fluorescent pink liquid.

This liquid did not dissipate.

Instead, it gathered into an eerie, twisted pink lip mark!

Whoosh—!

Before Chen Du could mobilize his shadows for protection, the mark crashed directly into the space between his eyebrows!

"Ugh..."

He groaned, clutching his forehead as he stumbled back two steps.

In his mind.

A lazy, husky female voice that made his soul tremble echoed faintly:

"...You broke my vessel... what a crude fellow..."

"But... your body seems more interesting, more durable..."

"I will be watching you... mortal..."

"Until... you belong to me completely..."