20: Chapter 20: Mosquitoes Team Up with the Empress! Achieve Fifteen Kills!

But the current situation allowed her no time to overthink.

"Opportunity!"

A flash of brilliance crossed her eyes, and she instantly suppressed all the shock and doubt in her heart.

No matter what was going on, such a good opportunity could absolutely not be missed!

She turned her head to look at Chu Sheng, her gaze carrying a hint of inquiry.

Chu Sheng was sharp; as soon as he saw her expression, he understood, and smugly transmitted a thought: "Rest assured, leave it to me!"

With a shift of his mind, the group of "underlings" still chasing the pigs vanished instantly, recalled into his space, leaving a perfect attack route for Gu Yuexi.

The next second, Gu Yuexi moved!

Her figure was like an arrow released from a bow, silently rushing towards that lone Iron-skinned Pig!

The Iron-skinned Pig had just run to the edge of the pond and hadn't yet entered the water when it felt a vicious gust of wind strike from behind!

It turned its head sharply, only to see a cold glint flash before its eyes!

Squelch!

Relying on her ruthless eye as an Empress and her precise application of force, the dagger in Gu Yuexi's hand effortlessly pierced through the Iron-skinned Pig's eye socket—its weakest point of defense—and drove straight into its brain!

"Wuu—!"

The Iron-skinned Pig couldn't even let out a scream; its massive body swayed twice before crashing to the ground, its life force extinguished.

Killed in one strike!

Clean and efficient!

Gu Yuexi quickly dragged the pig carcass into a hidden patch of grass to conceal it, then breathed a sigh of relief, preparing to use this one to fulfill the mission first.

For such an ordinary demonic beast that didn't even have a bloodline, she would absolutely not use the "Myriad Beast Melting Furnace Art" to consume it.

Because the essence blood of this kind of demonic beast contained too many impurities, and its bestial will was even more chaotic and violent; absorbing it not only provided little benefit but was also extremely likely to cause Qi deviation, making the loss outweigh the gain.

However...

Just because she wouldn't absorb it didn't mean a certain mosquito wouldn't!

"Hehe, Empress, if you aren't eating it, then I won't be polite!"

Chu Sheng had long been unable to wait; he leaped down from her shoulder, landed on the pig carcass, and drove his thick, hard [Armor-Piercing Spike] deep into it!

[Ding! Host has absorbed 5.8 Qi and Blood!]

[Warning! The quality of the target's blood is too low and contains a large amount of impurities, significantly reducing conversion efficiency! After digesting this blood, an estimated 1.2 Evolution Points will be obtained!]

The system's notification made Chu Sheng pause.

"Damn, this four-hundred-plus-pound pig only gave less than six points of Qi and Blood? The conversion rate is this low?"

He instantly understood; it seemed that the demonic beast's bloodline directly determined the "cost-effectiveness" of his blood-sucking!

This Iron-skinned Pig was a typical "water-injected pork"; it looked large in quantity, but in reality, it was all trash with very little nutritional value.

"Forget it, a mosquito is still meat no matter how small; I won't be picky!"

Chu Sheng wobbled as he flew back to Gu Yuexi's shoulder and let out a burp.

Gu Yuexi then returned to the clearing where the pig herd was gathered and, looking at the remaining fourteen Iron-skinned Pigs, fell into deep thought once again.

The mission still required two more...

How should she handle it?

"Watch me!"

Chu Sheng saw through her thoughts and once again released his Zerg army, repeating his previous method to launch a "Mental Pollution" attack on another unlucky pig at the edge of the herd.

That familiar scene played out once again.

Gu Yuexi watched the cloud of insects appear out of thin air and attack with such precision, and she was completely dumbfounded.

Her exquisite, pretty face was filled with bewilderment.

At this moment, she was one hundred percent certain!

These insects were definitely created by this mosquito!

But... why?!

How did it do it?

Where did these insects come from? Could it really possess a space that can store living things?

This... this didn't conform to the common sense of Beast Taming!

Gu Yuexi felt like her brain was about to crash; all the knowledge and experience she had accumulated over two lifetimes became like a joke in front of this mosquito.

Her perception of Chu Sheng underwent a heaven-turning, earth-shattering change at this moment.

Shock, curiosity, confusion, bewilderment... various emotions intertwined, causing her to momentarily forget what she was supposed to be doing.

It wasn't until Chu Sheng lured out the second pig that she snapped out of her daze, seized the opportunity again, and cleanly killed it.

Just like that, with Chu Sheng's "assistance," the third pig was also quickly dealt with.

Looking at the three pig carcasses hidden in the grass, Gu Yuexi let out a long breath; the mission could be considered complete.

But...

She glanced at the remaining twelve Iron-skinned Pigs leisurely rooting in the ground not far away, then looked at the "monster" on her shoulder that was currently digesting blood and looked harmless to humans and animals, and a bold idea suddenly popped up.

Since... it was so easy...

Then why... not finish them all off?

These were all money!

One pig could sell for ten thousand, and a dozen would be over a hundred thousand! With this money, she could buy better cultivation resources!

Once this thought appeared, it could no longer be suppressed!

"Do it!"

A trace of the decisiveness and ruthlessness belonging to an Empress flashed in Gu Yuexi's eyes!

In the following hour, this Black Forest staged a massacre that could only be described as bizarre.

One Iron-skinned Pig after another was harassed by a group of insects that came and went without a trace, causing them to separate from the main herd, only to be killed in one strike by a girl who appeared and disappeared like a ghost.

Even the strongest First-Rank late-stage Pig King, when facing the "Insect Sea Tactic" and Gu Yuexi's tricky and ruthless attacks, only struggled for a few more minutes before falling unwillingly into a pool of blood.

In the end, the entire Iron-skinned Pig herd was wiped out by one person and one mosquito in a manner that could be called "dimensional reduction strike"!

Looking at the pig carcasses all over the ground, Gu Yuexi wiped the blood off her dagger, and a satisfied smile couldn't help but appear on her cold face.

With so many pig carcasses, she certainly couldn't take them all at once.

She dragged the three smallest ones, tied them up with vines, and prepared to carry them back to complete the mission first.

As for the rest, she covered them with a large amount of branches and fallen leaves, made marks, and prepared to come back and retrieve them in batches later.

As for Chu Sheng, he sucked every one of the dozen pig carcasses on the ground, and finally, satisfied, lay on the Pig King's massive corpse, sucking dry the last drop of essence.

[Ding! Host has absorbed 6.5 Qi and Blood! Current total Qi and Blood is 86.9!]

[Note: Due to consuming a large amount of low-quality blood, after digesting this blood, an estimated 5.3 Evolution Points will be obtained! Current total Evolution Points: 22.8 (Upgrade skill?)]

"Almost there, almost there! Just over ten more points of Qi and Blood and I'll reach 100!"

Chu Sheng looked at his panel, feeling incredibly excited.

He was just 13.1 points of Qi and Blood away from reaching one hundred, allowing him to prepare for his third evolution!

Unfortunately, these dozen pigs had already been squeezed dry by him; he had almost sucked out the oil from their bone marrow.

"Forget it, no need to rush; maybe I'll run into another unlucky guy on the way back!"

Not long after Gu Yuexi and Chu Sheng, satisfied, carried the three pigs and temporarily left this "slaughterhouse."

Chen Hao and his few classmates were emerging from the woods on the other side, looking disheveled.

All of them had sustained injuries, their clothes were torn to shreds, and their faces were covered in dirt, making them look utterly wretched.

"Damn it! What the hell, how unlucky! How come there's more than one herd of Iron-skinned Pigs in this Black Forest!"

The thin, tall classmate patted his chest with lingering fear, "The herd we ran into was even fiercer than what was written in the mission report; they almost wiped us out!"

"Yeah, if it weren't for Brother Hao's Wind Blade Wolf risking its life to cover our retreat, we probably would have all died there today!"

Chen Hao's expression was also very ugly; his Wind Blade Wolf was currently lying on the ground with several wounds slashed open by tusks, its aura weak, clearly having suffered serious injuries.

Let alone completing the mission, it was lucky they hadn't been wiped out.

"Damn, even we are in such a sorry state..."

Chen Hao gasped for breath, but a sudden sense of schadenfreude welled up in his heart, "That Gu Yuexi, a mere First-Rank early-stage, if she ran into the pig herd, she probably wouldn't even have bone scraps left by now, right?"

Upon hearing this, several classmates also revealed expressions of agreement, and the gloom in their hearts immediately dissipated quite a bit.