400: Chapter 399 Southwest China Suffers Robbery

With a lift of his hand, the Fire of Nirvana blazed up along Xu Ziyang's head.

"Ugh... ah..."

A low, eerie scream erupted instantly.

Xu Ziyang's whole body trembled violently, and in an instant, he underwent a drastic change, turning into a scorched red monster.

"What?!"

Wu Wanqiu paled in shock and drew her blade suddenly, never imagining that her trusted companion would actually turn into a Strange Creatures.

However, before she could strike, the monster seemed to have met its natural enemy.

Property of the Fire of Nirvana: The scorched will suffer intense pain in both body and Soul; when a Strange Creatures is burned by the Fire of Nirvana, the pain and damage it suffers will increase by 1000%.

At this moment, as the Fire of Nirvana blazed in Chu Xuan's hand, the Strange Creatures's head was pinned down firmly, leaving it with no power to resist and no chance to escape.

Bang!

Chu Xuan suddenly raised his knee and slammed it hard into its face, forcing its scream back down, before pinning its head firmly to the ground.

Chu Xuan's expression was indifferent.

If he encountered a large number of ordinary people, Chu Xuan would worry about consuming spirituality value and weigh whether it was worth it, thus using the Eye of Insight sparingly.

But for Transcendents, especially those above Level 5 who fell into the category difficult for detectors to scan, Chu Xuan would often take an extra look.

There was no need for a full investigation; just checking their identity and type didn't consume too much spirituality value.

In this special situation, with Chu Xuan himself not in peak condition, he naturally wouldn't let his guard down; the moment Xu Ziyang appeared, Chu Xuan had already used the Eye of Insight.

Laughably, the other party had even tentatively asked about Chu Xuan's ability.

Little did he know, Chu Xuan had seen through him long ago.

So, he beat the enemy at their own game; taking advantage of the opponent's attempt at a close-range sneak attack, Chu Xuan simply pressed down with a palm, subduing them with almost no effort.

The Fire of Nirvana continued to burn.

Before long, the layer of black flames that had been burning faintly suddenly surged, incinerating the monster completely in the blink of an eye.

[You have killed a B-rank Ghost:

This creature had 95 unabsorbed points of spirituality value, which have been fully absorbed by you after being burned by the Fire of Nirvana. There were 1625 points of spiritual essence remaining in its flesh, yielding a feedback of 650 points;

You have gained a total of 745 points of spirituality value.]

Having gained 745 points of spirituality value in an instant, the corners of Chu Xuan's mouth curled up slightly.

As expected, slaying a Specter still yielded the highest returns.

Through Chu Xuan's Eye of Insight, this Xu Ziyang was only a B-rank Ghost, comparable to the Great Buddha with attributes similar to a Level 7 Transcendent, yet slaying him yielded so much spirituality value.

It was significantly higher than what he got from killing Illya in the Tianxing Mountains.

"He... Xu Ziyang... was actually a hidden Specter? How is this possible?" Wu Wanqiu trembled all over, her eyes full of disbelief, her mind suffering an incomparable blow.

Even now, she continued to mutter, "How is this possible? How could it be... If he were a Specter, he had so many chances to kill us..."

"He might have had grander schemes and needed this disguised identity; or perhaps he was only infected by a Specter: Parasite when he went to investigate just now. Regardless, none of that matters now."

Chu Xuan rose slowly and asked calmly, "What exactly happened here? Why were you being hunted by Specters?"

Wu Wanqiu said blankly, "The Night Watchers from our Twelve Southwestern Cities were taking the high-speed rail to the capital for the National Captains' Offline Meeting. But just this afternoon, chaos erupted in the Southwest, and Specters are running rampant!"

"At the same time, while accidentally passing through a Dark Place, we encountered three A-Rank Specters and a group of B-rank Ghosts. Although we completed our mission and escaped, those Specters followed us out of the Dark Place and targeted us."

"Now all nine of our captains are dead, one of whom was even a Level 9 Transcendent. Only a few of us managed to escape. Xu Ziyang and I stayed behind to check on the captain who was covering our retreat, and then..."

Wu Wanqiu suddenly turned her head to stare at Chu Xuan.

Then she glanced at the clothes remaining on the ground where the body had been, her eyes, clear as autumn water, showing a hint of confusion.

Before Wu Wanqiu could speak, Chu Xuan had already caught a piece of information from her previous words and asked immediately, "You mean, there are still survivors?"

Wu Wanqiu nodded repeatedly. "They left a few minutes before us. We agreed to meet up again at the highway section ahead."

Chu Xuan lowered his eyes slightly.

It was just a few A-Rank Specters; at any other time, he wouldn't have given them a second thought.

However, his current state was poor, and those A-Rank Specters had already slaughtered many Transcendents, so their strength had likely increased significantly.

Next, they probably wouldn't let the remaining survivors go.

Although Chu Xuan didn't know the specific conditions for an A-Rank Specter to promote to an S-rank Specter, he figured it should be similar to the Night Demon, related to slaughter and devouring humans.

If they successfully promoted to S-rank Specters, they would certainly become a huge problem.

Chu Xuan wasn't afraid of a direct confrontation.

But those strange rules were not so easy to deal with.

Especially S-rank Specters who mastered Instant-death rules; they were even harder to handle.

Thinking of this, Chu Xuan immediately had Wu Wanqiu lead the way, and the two of them rushed toward the highway section.