172: Chapter 172 Kneel or Die!

Lu Cheng was slightly stunned when he saw this situation.

Is the influence of the Golden Toad this great?

He looked down at his own hands.

There were no signs of alienation, and Qian Shuying was also fine...

Lu Cheng didn't know the reason for this, but he didn't have time to ponder it further.

Lu Cheng turned and rushed out of the room.

In the altar hall, those researchers who had finished alienating were squatting on piles of money, staring dully at the Golden Toad sculpture with their mutated eyes.

They had completely lost their human consciousness, their mouths opening and closing, as if breathing to some kind of rhythm.

Lu Cheng bypassed the altar and rushed toward the room in the middle.

The alloy door was not closed tightly.

When he destroyed the pipeline just now, he cracked the sealing inscriptions on the door frame, and the door lock had long since malfunctioned.

He kicked the door open.

Just like the structure of Qian Shuying's room, the four walls were embedded with energy conduits, which extended from the walls to the center of the room... where a person was tied up.

Lu Cheng paused for a second when he saw Qian Duoduo.

Qian Duoduo's state was much better than those people outside, but he was not completely normal either.

He was tied to an alloy pillar, with chains wrapped around his wrists, ankles, and waist. The sealing inscriptions on the chains were still running, extracting Source Power from his body.

But the extraction speed was very slow; the golden liquid in the pipes flowed intermittently, and most of it was stuck on the pipe walls.

His body had indeed undergone some changes.

The surface of his skin was wrapped in a layer of pale golden light; the halo was not strong, but it was very stable.

This golden light covered his entire body, from his face to the backs of his hands, and every piece of skin exposed through the holes in his clothes was glowing.

His stomach was slightly bloated, his arms were a circle thicker than normal, his neck had shortened a bit, and the flesh on his face was squeezed, causing his features to be slightly deformed.

But that was it.

Moreover, his consciousness was clearly still there.

Qian Duoduo raised his head, his face covered in sweat, his lips as white as paper.

When he saw Lu Cheng, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, and then he opened his mouth with difficulty.

"Lu... Cheng... Brother..."

His voice was hoarse, but it could be heard clearly.

Lu Cheng walked over quickly, smashed the sealing inscriptions on the chains with one punch, then took out a recovery potion from his storage space and poured it into Qian Duoduo's mouth.

The pale cyan potion slid down his throat. Qian Duoduo's body shook violently, the layer of golden light on his skin flickered twice, and then slowly stabilized.

Lu Cheng stared at the source of the golden light on his body.

The difference from those people outside was obvious.

The alienation of the people outside was out of control, twisted, and monstrous.

Although the changes in Qian Duoduo also tended towards a toad shape, he maintained a certain degree of stability.

His body was emitting golden light, not green light.

What is this situation?

Lu Cheng glanced at Qian Duoduo and the researchers outside, comparing them.

"You..." Qian Duoduo gasped, his voice intermittent, "The Golden Toad... it..."

He didn't finish his sentence.

The altar outside exploded.

A croak, muffled to the extreme, erupted from the center of the underground space.

The sound was not loud, but every inch of the air was vibrated and buzzing by this croak.

The Source Array patterns on the walls suddenly flared, and those energy conduits emitted a series of harsh metallic shrieks. The floor under Lu Cheng's feet shook three times, and a few pieces of rubble fell from the dome above.

Lu Cheng turned around.

The Golden Toad sculpture in the center of the altar moved.

Its two thick hind legs straightened, its body pushed upward, and its head hit the dome, shaking down a pile of rubble and pipe fragments.

Its front claws pressed against the edge of the pool, the tips embedding into the alloy floor, scraping out five deep grooves.

The golden bead in its mouth was bitten until it creaked, and a lump of viscous golden Source Power liquid dripped from the corner of its mouth, hitting the pool, the splashed liquid evaporating into a pungent golden mist.

Its body almost reached the top of the basement.

However, because it hadn't absorbed enough energy, its body color was still faint.

The color of the entire toad looked like a sculpture painted with only half the pigment, floating and not completely settled.

The Golden Toad lowered its head.

Its golden eyeballs slowly rotated, scanning the half-human, half-toad researchers around the altar, and then it opened its mouth.

It croaked.

A strange sound exploded in everyone's ears.

The sound was like some kind of ancient language, each syllable drawn out very long, the trailing sound echoing in their minds several times before dissipating.

The sound penetrated the walls, penetrated the pipes, penetrated the alloy doors, and slammed into everyone's eardrums.

Qian Shuying let out a muffled groan in the next room, and the golden light on Qian Duoduo's body flickered violently several times.

"I want food..."

The voice poured directly into their brains.

It wasn't heard through the ears; it rang directly in their consciousness.

"I want offerings..."

The alienated researchers around the altar raised their heads simultaneously, their mouths opening wider, making gurgling sounds in their throats, as if responding to the Golden Toad's call.

"I can give you... everything you want!"

The Golden Toad's mouth stretched to both sides, and the expression on its face was indistinguishable between a smile or hunger.

It looked down at the ground.

There were still a few humans on the floor who hadn't been cleaned up.

The Golden Toad looked at them, and the smile on its face grew wider.

Its tongue flicked out.

The long, slimy tongue shot out from the corner of its mouth, accurately sticking to a person, and then retracted. The person struggled in mid-air, opening their mouth to scream something, but before any sound came out, they were stuffed into the Golden Toad's mouth.

Crack.

The sound of bones breaking was both muffled and crisp.

"Humans..."

The tongue flicked out again, sticking to the second one.

"...Delicious!"

The third... then the fourth. The living people on the ground were soon cleaned up.

The Golden Toad chewed the last few bites, and a mixture of golden liquid and dark red blood flowed from the corner of its mouth, dripping onto the floor and emitting a wisp of white smoke.

It turned its head.

It looked toward Qian Shuying's room.

Lu Cheng felt a sense of oppression spreading from the Golden Toad, locking onto the room next door.

The Golden Toad's eyes narrowed.

A hint of confusion flashed in those golden eyes.

"...White Tiger?"

Its voice was not as steady as before, and the trailing sound trembled.

It lowered its head, half its body protruding from the pool, its neck stretched out, and its head leaned toward the direction of Qian Shuying's room.

Its nose hit the door frame, bending the alloy door frame.

"White Tiger..."

It repeated it again. The confusion was heavy, so heavy that it sounded like some kind of obsession.

Then, the confusion turned into anger.

"You... it's you!! White Tiger!!"

The voice exploded.

It was no longer that strange, deep whisper, but a shriek with a harsh echo.

The Golden Toad raised its front claws, and a ball of golden light gathered at the tips of its claws.

Lu Cheng moved.

He rushed out of Qian Duoduo's room, Holy Dragon Armament fully activated, dragon scales exploding on the surface of his body, and the phantom of the Radiant Dragon Soul spreading its wings behind him.

Eternal Calamity Flame sprayed from his shoulder blades, entwining in the gaps of the dragon scale armor.

The pitch-black soul power of the Ten Thousand Souls Prison Suppression covered the ground, and hundreds of remnant souls roared as they pushed out.

He stopped directly in front of the Golden Toad, and the dragon soul phantom behind him lowered its head simultaneously.

The dragon soul's giant mouth opened.

A golden-white beam of light, carrying dragon might and Eternal Calamity Flame, sprayed from the dragon soul's mouth, directly blasting onto the Golden Toad's forehead.

"Holy Dragon Roar!!"

The air was torn into a scorching vacuum trajectory. The moment the beam of light hit the Golden Toad's head, a golden-white shockwave exploded.

The shockwave pushed out in all directions, blowing seven or eight of the alienated researchers squatting on the ground around the altar away, slamming them against the wall before they bounced down, their bodies scattering gold coins all over the floor.

The Golden Toad's head was knocked backward.

The beam of light dissipated.

There was a scorched mark on the Golden Toad's head, and black-red sparks of Eternal Calamity Flame were still bubbling at the edge of the scorch, burning the golden skin on its head and making it sizzle.

"Pain!!" The golden bead in the Golden Toad's mouth was almost bitten to pieces. It shook its head, its golden eyes wide, locking onto the figure on the ground wearing dragon scale armor, "Who are you again!!"

The voice carried pain, and also disbelief.

"I can give you everything you want!!"

The Golden Toad lowered its head, and the golden bead in its mouth erupted with blinding golden light.

It opened its mouth, and a golden Source Power, so rich it could suffocate a person, surged out, turning into a mist of light that covered Lu Cheng.

"Wealth... power... lifespan... whatever you want... I can give you everything..."

Lu Cheng didn't speak, standing still in place.

The golden mist descended, and the moment it touched the Dragon Scale Holy Guard, a circle of golden-white holy light exploded on the surface of the dragon scales, bouncing the mist back.

"Submit to me!! Kneel before me!!"

The Golden Toad took a step forward.

Its two hind legs crushed the stone platform at the edge of the altar, and stone fragments flew away. It looked down at Lu Cheng, its golden eyes full of irritability.

Lu Cheng looked at it, his mouth slightly curling up.

Then he didn't speak either, just raised his hand and gave the Golden Toad the middle finger.

At the same time, he blasted another Holy Dragon Roar onto the Golden Toad's face.

The golden-white beam of light exploded again, this time directly hitting the Golden Toad's left eye.

The Golden Toad let out a heart-wrenching scream, its head jerked away, and the wrinkled skin on its neck was burned charred by the Eternal Calamity Flame.

"My face... my face!!"

The Golden Toad's face was beaten green. However, since it was originally golden, after being beaten green, it turned into some kind of strange yellow-green.

It took a step back, its hind legs hitting the edge of the Pool of Ten Thousand Wishes, and the whole toad almost fell into the pool.

It steadied its body and opened its mouth wide.

What came out of its mouth was not sound.

It was gold and silver jewelry.

A large swath of gold coins, gold bars, jade, and agate exploded from its mouth, smashing toward Lu Cheng in an overwhelming manner. Each item was wrapped in rich golden Source Power, dragging out blinding light tails in mid-air. Before those things even hit the ground, the Source Power fluctuations they emitted had already cracked the stone slabs on the floor.

"Seal him for me!!"

The Golden Toad roared, and more and more treasures sprayed from its mouth, piling up into a small mountain, pressing down on Lu Cheng's head.

The Golden Toad didn't expect it.

This human was not tempted at all.

This was its birthplace, and the entire altar was soaked with its will.

Not to mention ordinary people, even War Generals and War Kings would be polluted if they stayed too long!

The Golden Toad threw out gold and silver jewelry to try to seal Lu Cheng...

But it was useless...

However, for the Golden Toad, even if it couldn't seal him, it didn't matter. As long as Lu Cheng had even a little bit of interest in these things falling on the ground, he would pollute himself!

The small mountain made of gold and silver jewelry crashed down, and Lu Cheng flashed, stepping on the ground and shattering it to dodge the first wave of impact.

The gold coins hit the alloy floor, actually making the crisp sound of real gold and silver.

Lu Cheng's eyes lit up.

Holy crap.

It's real?

And after these things landed, the spiritual pollution on them actually dispersed instantly.

He grinned, and while dodging, he raised his hand and swept it across the ground.

A large swath of gold coins, gold bars, jade, and agate disappeared into thin air, and were directly collected into his system space by him.

Just in case this stinky toad can still control them, I'll isolate them first.

The live broadcast room completely exploded.

[What is this situation?]

[What is this Golden Toad???]

The live broadcast from Jiangyin Platform has already exceeded 200,000!

Someone above wanted to suppress this live broadcast, but... Dean Mei is still reliable!

A sinister smile had just appeared on the Golden Toad's face.

This was the moment it was waiting for.

As long as this human had even a little bit of interest in these treasures, the pollution would entangle him along with his desires, dragging his soul bit by bit into the Golden Toad's Blessing.

But the next second, the Golden Toad's smile froze.

Nothing.

There was nothing at all.

"How is that possible?!"

The Golden Toad was furious... It decided to defeat this guy first, and then leave this place...

This resurrection was not complete, and its strength was only at the peak of the War King Realm...

But it was enough to deal with this guy...

It suddenly puffed up its stomach, and the golden liquid in the entire Pool of Ten Thousand Wishes poured back into its body simultaneously.

"Since you won't kneel, then die!!"

It opened its big mouth, and circles of ancient Source Patterns appeared on its abdomen.

The next second, a golden sound wave exploded.

Lu Cheng didn't have time to fully dodge; his dragon scale armor on his chest dented on the spot, and he flew backward, smashing through the wall behind him.

Fresh blood gushed from the corner of his mouth.

In the room next door, Qian Shuying struggled to raise her head, her face turning pale instantly.

All the comments in the live broadcast room paused for a moment at this moment...