32: The 8th Evil King, Stitching Skill

"I've encountered this moss before!" Xing Shaoshan said.

Cheng Jingjing and the others looked over, and they heard Xing Shaoshan continue: "That time, I was chasing a fugitive and ventured into the Baiyue Mountain Range alone."

"But before I even reached the inner perimeter, I encountered this kind of moss."

"I watched with my own eyes as an Advanced Rank 9 Beast Tamer was swallowed by the moss just like that, without any ability to struggle at all."

Xing Shaoshan's words caused everyone present to look grave.

If even an Advanced Rank 9 could be swallowed, then there was no way Chu Chongsheng and his group could have survived if they ran into this thing.

As expected, what people feared most wasn't how strong an enemy was, but this kind of unknown enemy.

After everyone digested this for a moment, Cheng Jingjing gestured for Chu Chongsheng to continue.

"That strange, bloodthirsty moss blocked our retreat. We had no choice but to dodge toward areas without moss."

"But we soon discovered a fatal problem... we had lost our sense of direction!"

"We seemed to have inadvertently blundered into an illusion. No matter how far we ran, the surrounding environment remained exactly the same."

"At that point, we were certain we had encountered a Ghost Wall..."

Since even mirages could appear, encountering a Ghost Wall didn't seem that strange.

However, Chen Fei felt that this was all too coincidental.

It just so happened that there was moss where the five-colored divine stone flower was, and it just so happened that there was a Ghost Wall where the moss was.

No matter how he heard it, it sounded like... a trap.

"We don't know how long it took, but we finally escaped that Ghost Wall. The terrible thing was, we had unknowingly blundered into the inner perimeter."

"Fourth-level Yao Beasts roamed everywhere there, and occasionally, we could hear the roar of a fifth-level Yao King."

"The most terrifying thing was that the place was filled with many unknown creatures."

"Monsters with human bodies but red lanterns for heads;"

"Walking tree demons, their trunks covered in human faces."

"The most frightening part was those faces—they were actually our own faces, each one twisted beyond belief;"

"There was also a normal Capricorn Lion, but it had a leopard's head and an ape's head attached to its side;"

"A Storm Demon Snake, but it had bat-like fleshy wings and a venomous scorpion's tail... everything looked incredibly eerie."

"We were truly terrified at the time. We didn't have time for a close look and just fled for our lives."

"But as we ran, we realized we had fewer and fewer teammates."

"Out of a full 42 people, only the eighteen of us remained in the end, and all of us were injured to varying degrees..."

As he spoke to this point, Chu Chongsheng's face clearly still bore several hints of terror and breakdown.

Cheng Jingjing and Xie Xun looked at Xing Shaoshan, but they saw him shake his head: "The last time I entered the inner perimeter was already a year ago."

"I have no idea what changes have occurred inside now."

Xing Shaoshan didn't know, but Chen Fei was lost in thought.

In his past life, he had heard a few rumors that Evil King No. 8 among the Ten Evil Kings could stitch together Yao Beasts.

By stitching two or several completely unrelated Yao Beasts together, the resulting mutated Yao Beast's strength would increase significantly, and it would retain the characteristics of each individual beast.

It was quite bizarre!

According to Chu Chongsheng's description, it was very likely that those eerie creatures he saw were all the... experimental subjects of this Evil King.

He hadn't expected this Evil King to appear so soon; he should be in the process of accumulating strength right now.

At the thought of this, Chen Fei's heart felt stifled.

He really wanted to pour out everything he knew to make Cheng Jingjing, Xing Shaoshan, and the others more vigilant.

But he didn't know how to start, nor could he explain how he knew these things.

He couldn't exactly say he had experienced Rebirth, could he?

After considering it for a long time, Chen Fei swallowed those words back down.

Wait!

If he let the Small Ten Thousand Venom Gu go deep into the inner perimeter and then shared their vision...

Wouldn't what they saw with their own eyes be the best evidence?

Strength—what he lacked right now was still strength!

If he wanted the Small Ten Thousand Venom Gu to enter the inner perimeter, they would need at least Third-level high-tier strength.

Furthermore, they had to have an existence like the Ghostly Dream Soul Fox that could see through illusions.

Otherwise, no matter how strong they were, if they just spun around in circles within an illusion, the actual effect would be zero... While the several people were lost in thought, the Small Ten Thousand Venom Gu had already completely cleared the toxins of the Apocalypse Mad Ants.

They then began to observe if there was anything unusual about the people.

Through the vision shared by Little Gu, they could feel that the auras of these 18 people were all quite low.

There was also a woman named Lingling who had fallen into a coma, and no one knew when she would wake up.

Aside from that, nothing else could be seen.

Cheng Jingjing approached the microphone: "You all understand the rules. You must stay in the temporary observation room for at least half a month. I will have someone deliver food to you every day."

"If you're all fine after half a month, we'll let you out."

Since things had reached this point, Chu Chongsheng and the others resigned themselves to their fate.

They could only hope that nothing else would happen during these two weeks... Subsequently, Cheng Jingjing looked at Chen Fei: "This time, you deserve a third-class merit."

"If you hadn't discovered it early, the consequences would have been extremely serious once this group entered the city."

"Do you two have any objections?" Cheng Jingjing said this to Xie Xun and Xing Shaoshan.

Both shook their heads; they also acknowledged Chen Fei's contribution.

What they feared wasn't that these people might all die, but that they might bring back things they shouldn't.

At that point, it would truly require human lives to fill the gap.

Chen Fei wasn't overjoyed because of a third-class merit; he always felt that things weren't that simple... After returning to the dormitory, Chen Fei tossed and turned, unable to sleep.

The suspected traces of Evil King No. 8 felt like a lump in his throat.

Since he couldn't sleep anyway, Chen Fei had Little Gu share its vision.

At this moment, a group of advance troops had already headed toward the middle zone.

In the middle zone, Third-level Beasts roamed everywhere, but it wasn't completely without opportunity.

Gu One controlled the Jade Light Mantis and led a group of Small Ten Thousand Venom Gu to a hidden spot.

Being smaller in size was actually more suitable for assassination operations here.

A Rank 1 Third-level Raging Lotus Flame Butterfly!

This butterfly was the evolved version of the Red Lotus Flame Butterfly, with A-rank Aptitude.

Its flame poison had upgraded from Level 2 to Level 3. Even if not inhaled into the lungs, just being on the skin's surface would cause a strong burning sensation, followed by layer-by-layer burning that went straight to the bone marrow.

The Raging Lotus Flame Butterfly also possessed many fire-type skills and usually traveled in groups of three to five, making it a relatively dangerous existence in the middle zone.

Its biggest weakness was its fragile physical frame, and this became Gu One's only chance.

A thousand Small Ten Thousand Venom Gu Kings were already prepared, just waiting for Chen Fei's command.

As the Raging Lotus Flame Butterfly approached, Little Gu's command went out: "Boys, use Silver Thread Entanglement together."

When a thousand spider webs flew out, the scene was particularly spectacular and enough to make one's scalp tingle.

If Tang Jian's Purple Thunder Phoenix were to face these thousand spider webs, it would also be left dazed.

Sometimes, quantitative change can lead to qualitative change.

Moreover, the Silver Thread Entanglement skill was already at the Mastery Level.

Second-level Beasts found it hard to break free, and Third-level Beasts needed a certain amount of time.

But being stuck by over a thousand spider webs simultaneously, how could the Raging Lotus Flame Butterfly possibly break free so quickly...