231: Evolution! The strong prey on the weak!

Bang!

Loud bangs echoed continuously as tentacles fell and crashed down, stirring up considerable commotion and breaking through the dust.

Chen Ming raised his hand and waved, summoning a strong wind that carried the smoke up to the cloud peak in the form of a tornado.

"Uh..." When Chen Ming heard Li San Gui's furious and intense tone, he thought he had been pushed to his limit and decided to unleash a powerful move.

Who would have thought that guy would actually sever his own tentacles and run away.

Chen Ming saw clearly with Gods Eye that Li San Gui had regrown his tentacles and was fleeing without looking back, wanting to get away from Black Wind Mountain.

His eight tentacles worked together, and he ran incredibly fast.

The eight tentacles he had abandoned in front of him were burning with the talisman fire, dissipating like ash until nothing remained.

"Master, do you need me to go and catch him?" Qin Hongyue proactively asked.

Chen Ming put away the Talisman Gatling and waved his hand, saying, "No rush."

Chen Ming, who had previously used the SSS-grade Skill [Permanent Steal] to browse Li San Gui's skill list and was clear on its effects, indeed had no need to rush.

He was already certain of Li San Gui's next plan.

Just let Gods Eye follow him and slowly reel in the net.

The Red-Clothed Woman really wanted to say things like "strike while the iron is hot" or "cut the grass without removing the roots, and it will grow back with the spring wind."

But she was also worried that speaking up might make Chen Ming feel her actions were presumptuous.

So she simply kept her mouth shut, preferring to say nothing than to make a mistake.

If the regular customers of Shuiyue Inn knew about this scene, it would surely make many ghosts drop their jaws.

Despite being a formidable fierce spirit, before a human, her thoughts were so delicate, she considered so much, and constantly made compromises.

This was completely different from the fierce spirits they knew, belonging to two entirely different styles.

Turning his gaze to Li San Gui, he had fled for countless miles.

Turning back to look and confirming that no one was chasing him, he slowly slowed his pace.

Just as he felt fortunate to have survived, the next second, a ball of anger exploded in his heart.

"Damn it! I was actually forced to this extent by a human! If this gets out, how will other ghosts look at me?"

"No! I must get this back."

More importantly, Li San Gui couldn't let go of the Red-Clothed Woman in his heart.

He worried that if he didn't return, the Red-Clothed Woman, who should have belonged to him, would likely be trained by Chen Ming to become his exclusive plaything!

Just thinking about such a thing made Li San Gui incredibly furious.

His fiancée being taken by someone else – if this matter spread, it would definitely be more embarrassing than being defeated by a human.

Li San Gui was used to being a overlord and couldn't afford to lose face like this.

His heart was firm; no matter what, he had to kill Chen Ming, this rebel, remarry, and bring the Red-Clothed Woman back to the Li family in a grand sedan chair carried by eight bearers.

He extended his tentacles, wrapped around the two large trees blocking his path, forcibly pulled them apart, uprooting them!

No path? Then he would forcefully create a brand new one.

Arriving at the edge of a cliff, he looked at the village not far away, with its houses lit up by lamps.

Li San Gui's smile was twisted and eerie.

Not to mention humans, even ghosts would feel a chill upon seeing it!

"Very good, this is the place!"

Li San Gui quickly descended the mountain and headed straight for the village.

Sensing a dense Yin energy sweeping through the entire village, the Old Man, the short-statured village chief, brought over a hundred minor ghosts to gather at the village entrance to greet him.

Among the crowd were old ghosts, strong Young ghosts, child ghosts, and even rather attractive female ghosts...

"May I ask why you have come to our Stone Ghost Village?" The Village Chief, leaning on his cane, struggled to open his eyes into a slit, but asked politely.

Even if all the ghost energy in the entire ghost village was combined, it wouldn't compare to a single hair on Li San Gui.

Facing a fierce ghost of this level, the people of Stone Ghost Village had no choice but to feel awe.

Even a slight disrespect could lead to the demise of the entire Stone Ghost Village!

They had to be cautious, and dared not be anything but cautious.

Regarding the Village Chief's question, Li San Gui was a ghost who valued time greatly, eager for revenge, and even more unwilling to waste words.

His tentacles all extended outwards, forming a circle and enclosing the ghosts within it.

Then, they tightened instantly!

Without waiting for them to come closer, he forcibly dragged them into the true bloody maw at the center, at the base of his tentacles.

In this regard, he was quite similar to an octopus.

"Wait! We don't know how we offended you, please be merciful, be merciful!" The Village Chief, knowing he couldn't escape, threw his cane aside, knelt down without hesitation, curled up on the ground, and sincerely begged for forgiveness.

Although he didn't know what he had done wrong, at this moment, the most important thing was to appease Li San Gui's anger.

Other matters were completely not worth considering.

Li San Gui still did not answer, constantly using his tentacles to capture the ghosts trying to escape, devouring three or four at a time.

When the Yin energy accumulated to a sufficient amount, his ninth tentacle grew out.

Li San Gui had evolved!

That's right, this was the unique growth-type skill belonging to Li San Gui that Chen Ming saw, causing him to decide to slow down his killing plan. Its name was [Predation Evolution].

"Help! Help!"

Shouts were continuous.

The Village Chief was curled up on the ground, powerless against this.

He knew very well that he could do nothing but beg for mercy humbly, like an ant.

He didn't even have the courage or confidence to be angry.

Soon, the Village Chief was also wrapped around the waist by a tentacle and dragged into that endless abyss.

"Tsk, after eating so much, I only grew one tentacle? These guys are really pitifully weak," Li San Gui complained.

"Not enough! Far from enough! I need more!"

Li San Gui's nine tentacles all surged, and his movement speed became faster than before.

His eyes were filled with greed; he wanted to devour more and become stronger.

Only then could he kill his way back, deal with Chen Ming, and reclaim the Red-Clothed Woman...

It's worth mentioning that the skill Predation Evolution has a fatal flaw: using it too much leads to delirium, where one is gradually controlled and devoured by evil thoughts.

To put it more bluntly, it's similar to becoming possessed or going mad.

While devouring other ghosts, he also devoured their resentment.

This resentment cannot disappear.

For ghosts, the eternal truth that you gain something only by losing something also applies.

Now, Li San Gui's heart was completely filled with anger and hatred, unable to consider anything else.

He was wholeheartedly focused on the two words: becoming stronger.

Chen Ming's left eye remained closed, specifically to use Gods Eye to secretly monitor Li San Gui's every move.

Seeing him work so hard to become stronger for revenge against himself, sweeping through village after village, devouring minor ghosts, evil spirits, fierce spirits...

Chen Ming was quite satisfied.

He was very much looking forward to witnessing how powerful he would become if he continued to evolve like this.

The stronger, the better. That way, after killing him, he could be used for Undead Extraction.

The stronger Li San Gui became, the more the overall combat power of the Undead Legion would increase after extraction.

Why not?