112: Chapter 112 Some things you never know when you might need.

Wherever the extremely faint and light gray-white aura infiltrating through the Spacetime Gate reached, the color of the skeletons changed from withered gray to dark purple, and then from dark purple to an extremely ominous, oily deep black.

All the bone fragments were mutating, and the surfaces of the skeletons tainted by this aura began to grow extremely fine and dense gray-white fluff, with the tips of each piece of fluff slowly splitting into even finer fluff, spreading layer upon layer toward the edge of the Seal walkway.

Xada-Hgla looked like a giant seashell, stretching out several segmented, cylindrical pseudopodia from its half-open shell, and a mouthless face with sunken eye sockets peered outward from within its body.

And the Shituolin Swamp was now obviously transforming in this direction!

Xu Liujing and the Cultivators from the Ministry of Works maintenance crew fell to their knees at almost the exact same instant.

Their wails exploded across the Seal walkway, bouncing back and forth off the rock walls of the dome, making them sound exceptionally tragic.

Xada-Hgla's aura permeated the lower level of the Seal—a chaotic, fatuous, directionless yet ubiquitous low-frequency mental corruption.

Amid the intervals of his wails, Xu Liujing desperately shouted backward, telling everyone to draw stability runes. After shouting several times, he used his only movable left hand to thrust the rune carving knife into the crack of the bluestone slab and began laboriously carving the spell.

Several young Cultivators from the Ministry of Works had already vomited, turning their heads to vomit onto the walkway yet still unable to interrupt their wails, their faces indistinguishable between sweat and blood.

Xie Feng's jade pendant shook like a fascia gun.

As a legendary suicide infantryman, Xie Feng's mental state was beginning to become unstable again at this moment.

"What should I do? What should I do? I have many cards in my hand right now, but if I use them, I'll probably die, yet if I don't use them, I'll still die. Can seven Great Old Ones' blessings plus two Outer Gods' blessings fight against an Incarnation fragment of the Lord of the Outer Gods? Is the power balanced? Can Emperor Zhou Weixi's contingency plan handle the resulting impact?"

The jade pendant began to show cracks.

The Brain Matter inside his skull began frantically advising Xie Feng.

The Night Demon in his left eye socket suddenly contracted, its tri-lobed pupils shrinking into extremely thin and tiny dark red light points.

Xie Feng pressed his hand against the miniature sun on his chest, preparing to detonate it and completely incinerate this group of crazy bugs and the newly emerged Xada-Hgla, along with the contaminated Shituolin Swamp.

To summon Cthugha from Fomalhaut, which is twenty-five light-years away from Earth, one must continuously shout the incantation three times when the Fomalhaut star rises to the treetops that night.

As an original fan of Cthulhu novels, the summoning incantations Xie Feng could recite by heart were far more than average.

Xie Feng slowly opened his mouth:

"Ph'nglui mgfw'nafh Cthugha Fomalhaut n'gha-ghaa naf'l thagn! Ia! Cthugha!"

("Although passed yet not forgotten, Cthugha waiting at Fomalhaut, make a promise of death to you all! Descend! Cthugha!")

This was precisely the incantation to summon Cthugha in the original work. As long as it was chanted three times continuously, he could summon a small nuclear bomb to the underground Seal location.

Although Xie Feng didn't know whether the Fomalhaut star was at the treetops right now, he had a Cthugha blessing stuffed inside his chest, so the connection conditions were sufficient!

Just as the second incantation was about to slip out of his mouth, the jade pendant vibrated again!

At the same time, a familiar stone tablet slowly rose from the middle of the Shituolin Swamp!

The bone marsh split apart from the exact center into an extremely deep and long ravine, with bone fragments slowly pushing to both sides to make way for a large area of extremely smooth sludge surface.

Supported by the sludge, the stone tablet engraved with "1, 2, 3, Wooden Man" rose from the deepest part of the swamp, and the bone fragments slid away to both sides one after another, like a school of startled fish dodging a giant whale floating up from the deep bottom of the water.

Just as the stone tablet slowly emerged from the bone marsh, the Seal of the Shituolin Swamp instantly failed.

This cross-continent-level anomaly regained its freedom!

The entire bone marsh was churning! It could not wait to eat these few humans first and then rush up to the imperial city!

Meanwhile, the stone tablet paused slightly right above the sludge, and the crooked Simplified Chinese characters on the tablet surface suddenly erupted with chaotic and nauseating sounds.

A voice that couldn't be told who was speaking slowly opened its mouth:

"1, 2, 3, Wooden Man!"

The cracks in the jade pendant slowly healed.

The Insects from Shaggai stopped, the Shituolin Swamp stopped, Xada-Hgla's fragment stopped, even the fluctuations of the Spacetime Gate stopped. Everything, absolutely everything at the underground Seal site—all inanimate objects and living things—completely stopped.

Only Xie Feng was forcibly turned around, facing the rock wall at the end of the Seal walkway, with his back to that frozen everything.

Xie Feng's sanity instantly returned!

And in the minds of the Shituolin Swamp, Xie Feng, and the Shaggai Insects, a rule instantly appeared.

Xie Feng would act as the Wallfacer, and he would irregularly chant "1, 2, 3, Wooden Man."

When he turned around, neither the Shituolin Swamp nor the Shaggai Insects could move a muscle; any life that moved would instantly die.

Before the game was decided, no actions were permitted.

Until the Shaggai Insects or the Shituolin Swamp touched Xie Feng's back, or Xie Feng witnessed the Shituolin Swamp or Shaggai Insects moving.

A true madman—that transmigrated ancestor of the Xie Family.

Activated his own contingency plan.

Xie Feng previously only felt that his ancestor was not an ordinary person, but now he felt that his ancestor was not an ordinary god.

That final crazy and chaotic voice also said a sentence.

"Junior, how is it? Awesome or what?!" (Please refer back to the foreshadowing in Chapter 100)

As his sanity was forcibly locked, Xie Feng shouted with his back turned.

"Ancestor! You are my own brother!"

Because the moment his sanity returned, Xie Feng instantly realized he was bound to win.

As his intelligence occupied the high ground once again,

Xie Feng used the Shaggai Insect communication technique to send a few greetings to the insect swarm, with a polite and considerate tone.

The general idea was: since you can't move right now, why not listen to me introduce the upcoming arrangements for you:

The Xada-Hgla fragment you worship will soon be swallowed back by the Shituolin Swamp, and you yourselves will be crushed into pieces by the bone fragments. Is this considered suffering? If so, your trip here wasn't in vain.

The Brain Matter completely did not understand why Xie Feng was so confident, because it could not read Xie Feng's memories.

Why was Xie Feng so arrogant?

Because Xie Feng sensed his own abilities and found that he wasn't restricted, he just couldn't move; his magic and Spiritual Qi were all still there!

This was his own family's ancestor! How could he possibly not have considered his own descendants?!

The referee, the coach, the sponsor—they are all my people! How can you fight me?

So even if the Insects from Shaggai before him knew the rules, what could they do?

I know the Shaggai Insect communication technique! Once I activate it, can you stay still? Even if you want to stay still, you'll be forced to move!

As for the Shituolin Swamp? What cross-continent-level anomaly, what super anomaly that required three Cultivators of the Ninth Realm to Seal?

I thought you were some big shot? Turns out you're just a small-time punk!?

You're an anomaly, right?

Although I haven't used it in a long time, haven't practiced it in a long time, and haven't looked at it in a long time, I still know how to use it!

Slowly turning around, he activated his spiritual power.

A wave of fluctuation spread out.

That was the Cultivation Technique Xie Feng exchanged for the very first time—the Yingui Art.