158: A fatal battle in the Altar Square

Before Su Lei could respond, Webber's figure had already darted out like a ghost.

His movements were incredibly light, each step precisely avoiding the writhing fleshy vines on the ground.

As Webber gradually approached the ruins, Su Lei's heart involuntarily quickened.

Fifty meters from the ruins, an indescribable chill suddenly swept over his entire body.

The "soldiers" in the ruins suddenly turned their heads in unison.

Their necks twisted at impossible angles, and the same eerie smile appeared on their faces simultaneously.

The next moment, their heads split open like petals into four parts, revealing wriggling black tentacles within.

They instantly burst forth with a speed completely inconsistent with their human forms, pouncing on Webber from all directions!

"They're brain leeches!"

"These beasts parasitize human brains!"

Webber roared, sweeping his bone blade in a bloody arc.

Three "human figures" burst apart in response, but what splattered out was not blood, but countless wriggling black nematodes.

Su Lei's body tensed, his fingers already on the hilt of the Kaitian Blade.

Just as he was about to charge out,

Boom!

The entire plaza suddenly erupted!

The previously aimlessly wandering monster horde simultaneously turned, like sharks smelling blood, surging towards Webber's location like a tide.

The ground vibrated violently under the trampling of countless monsters, and a pungent, foul smell permeated the air.

Webber's figure suddenly erupted with dazzling crimson Protective Aura.

He no longer concealed himself, but instead actively charged towards the densest concentration of monsters; wherever his bone blade passed, severed limbs flew everywhere.

"Go!"

This furious shout was like a clap of thunder.

Webber actually suddenly changed direction, sprinting towards the city area, away from the altar.

Each step left spiderweb-like cracks on the ground, and he deliberately hacked at buildings on both sides with his bone blade, creating deafening collapsing sounds.

Su Lei's gaze was as dark as water.

He understood that Webber intended to use himself as bait to create an opportunity for him to approach the altar!

The retreating figure gradually blurred in his vision, and the deliberately created roars grew more distant.

No time to hesitate... Su Lei took a deep breath, abruptly closed and then opened his eyes, which were now clear.

He stealthily moved towards the center of the plaza, using the cover of shadows.

His mental membrane perfectly mimicked the monsters' aura, allowing him to weave through the monster horde like a fish.

Five hundred meters from the altar, three mantis-like monsters suddenly stopped their patrol, their tentacles constantly swaying in the air.

The next moment, their six compound eyes locked onto him in unison, and a sharp hiss emanated from their abdomens!

"Hiss—!"

The monster at the very front suddenly opened its mouthparts, spraying foul-smelling black mucus.

His disguise had been seen through!

Su Lei no longer hesitated, his figure shooting out like an arrow released from a bowstring.

The Kaitian Blade instantly unsheathed, its azure blade light streaking like lightning, and three monster heads flew off in response.

But this move immediately attracted even more terrifying existences—

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The ground vibrated violently, and ten mountain-like beetle monsters surrounded him from all directions.

Their dark shells were covered in barbs, each glowing with a faint blue poisonous light.

The one at the very front was exceptionally large, its single horn on its forehead shimmering with a metallic luster, its aura so strong that it was in no way inferior to Webber's!

"Roar—!"

The one-horned beetle leader let out a deafening roar, and the plaza ground cracked in response.

The nine other beetles in the distance simultaneously opened their massive jaws, spewing a sky full of poisonous mist.

Su Lei's figure flashed over a hundred meters in an instant.

In his vision, the energy nodes around the beetle leader transformed into countless lines and points of light.

The next moment, the Kaitian Blade, imbued with fierce Protective Aura, tore through the black energy field like a hot knife through butter, heavily striking the black outer shell!

However, that layer of strange black energy ripples completely corroded and dissolved the blade's Protective Aura.

"Clang!"

Amidst the ear-piercing clang of metal, a shower of sparks erupted where the blade met the carapace.

Not even a white mark was left!

Su Lei's heart sank.

Although most of the monsters had been lured away,

as he continued to approach the altar, roars began to echo from the distance, one after another.

His peripheral vision caught sight of the distant monsters; they had given up chasing Webber and were all turning back, rushing towards the plaza!

Only a few hundred meters from the altar, he could already clearly see Hong Tian Venerable's remains.

Yet, he was blocked by these ten beetle monsters... But just as he was about to launch another attack, a dense whooshing sound suddenly came from above—

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Dozens of bone spikes, glowing with a faint blue chill, rained down like a storm!

Looking up, dozens of huge flying insects with wingspans exceeding five meters circled in the sky.

Their abdomens constantly contracted, spewing a new round of bone spikes.

At the same time, the other nine beetle monsters were already crushing forward like mobile fortresses.

Their heavy footsteps made the ground crack, and the one at the very front even directly crashed through half a ruined wall, sending debris flying like cannonballs!

Two seconds... no, at most one and a half seconds until he would be completely surrounded!

Su Lei took a deep breath, his gaze terrifyingly sharp.

"Demonic Dismemberment!"

The Qi and blood in his body instantly boiled, and wisps of life essence transformed into crimson mist, steaming out from his pores.

His hair visibly turned gray, but his aura surged several times over!

Whoosh—

Just as the bone spikes were about to pierce his body, Su Lei's figure suddenly blurred, turning into several afterimages.

He fully unleashed Dragon's Startling Flight, constantly shifting and dodging within a small space, each movement precisely avoiding the bone spikes' fatal trajectories.

Like a ghost, he slipped through the gaps in the beetle monsters' encirclement, speeding towards the altar!

Three hundred meters... two hundred meters... one hundred meters... Hong Tian Venerable's remains were within reach!

But just then, the one-horned beetle actually abandoned its pursuit.

The single horn on its forehead suddenly lit up with a dazzling black light, and an energy torrent over three meters in diameter shot out with a roar!

Su Lei gritted his teeth and changed direction; the energy torrent grazed his back, instantly evaporating the ruins along its path into a charred trench.

The scorching heat wave left his back a bloody mess, but his sprinting speed did not decrease at all—

Ten meters!

The altar was right in front of him, but monsters surging from all directions had already formed an encirclement.

Su Lei could even smell the putrid odor emanating from the mouthparts of the nearest beetle... "Boom—!"

The crimson Protective Aura, gained by sacrificing ten years of Lifespan, exploded around Su Lei, and the Kaitian Blade transformed into a crimson lightning bolt.

The first three monsters to pounce were instantly cut in half; their black bodily fluids were burned into blue smoke by the steaming Qi and blood before they even hit the ground.

But before the joy of victory could emerge, a chilling "squelch" suddenly came from beneath the altar.

Five giant cysts simultaneously burst, and five figures slowly rose from the viscous liquid.

Although they still retained human outlines, and their original facial features could vaguely be discerned, their eyes now held only bloodthirsty ferocity.

Wings made of bone spikes extended from their backs, and their entire bodies were covered in dark carapaces.

Furthermore, the dark light flowing on their carapaces was of the same origin as the one-horned beetle's!

The next moment, the dark light surging around them actually drew in the Origin Qi of heaven and earth, condensing into a swirling Protective Aura vortex above their heads!

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