79: Chapter 79 These local demons are far too impolite!

Flee!

It had to flee immediately!

This thought of survival suddenly exploded within the Black Water Demon's chaotic mind.

Without hesitation, it sprayed black water outward frantically while rapidly retracting its deeply buried root system into its body.

After forcefully enduring two fierce slashes, the Black Water Demon finally pulled all of its roots up from underground.

Immediately after, it leaped violently upward.

Like a kneeling person suddenly standing up, its form instantly towered upwards.

The demonic plant body whose lower end had been rooted in the floor suddenly grew several massive branches as thick as legs.

Thump, thump, thump!

The giant branches swung rapidly, like legs running wildly, supporting the Black Water Demon as it fled with all its might.

Every heavy step landing on the ground threw its demonic plant body over ten meters away, rumbling across the area with astonishing momentum.

The sight of the Black Water Demon pulling up its roots and fleeing without a word left Qin Muyuan, who was happily logging and sucking blood, stunned for a moment.

"We agreed that if we're brothers, we'd hack at each other! Why did you run?!"

Qin Muyuan frowned, an annoyed look on his face.

Whatever happened to "I slash you once, you whip me once"?

How could you just grow legs and run away without even saying a word?

"Isn't this local demon a bit too impolite?!"

Qin Muyuan snorted coldly, violently channeling the internal force in his body into the sea of corpses and blood:

"Blood Qi Value, explode for me!"

As soon as the words left his mouth, a sharp "pfft" echoed.

A bursting sound like a long blade piercing a massive water balloon exploded violently.

The Black Water Demon, which was pulling up its roots and fleeing, suddenly froze in its tracks.

Immediately after, a continuous, thunderous roar of bursting Qi and blood erupted from within its body!

Its massive demonic body stiffened following the sound and crashed heavily onto the ground!

This was the terrifying power of the sea of corpses and blood's [Special Effect Two]—the instant explosion of Blood Qi Value.

Even a demon had to bleed and collapse due to the sudden explosion of Blood Qi Value within its body!

Seizing this opportunity, Qin Muyuan's figure flickered instantly as he unleashed the Wind-Riding Step.

In an instant, he crossed a distance of over ten meters and charged right in front of the fallen Black Water Demon.

"Run? Did I give you permission to run?!"

Blood-red glow and thunderous light intertwined on the blade's edge. Qin Muyuan twisted his waist like a spinning top, turning the sea of corpses and blood into a sharp, semicircular blade light that slashed toward the Black Water Demon.

Crack, crack!

Layers of crisp snapping sounds burst out in succession!

The sharp blade of the sea of corpses and blood swept through the newly grown giant root-branches that the Black Water Demon had used for fleeing.

In an instant, countless root-limbs snapped at the impact, crackling and shattering onto the ground in disarray.

The severed branches flew everywhere while black water and blood droplets splashed out wildly from the wounds, showering the air.

"Chhh—!"

The Black Water Demon let out an extremely tragic, agonizing shriek.

Hearing this shriek would bring sorrow and tears to anyone.

It even gave Qin Muyuan the weird sensation that instead of severing the Black Water Demon's root, he had cut off its manhood.

"Fleeing? Are you still fleeing now?"

Qin Muyuan cast aside that strange association, stepped onto the wounded root system of the Black Water Demon, and plunged the sea of corpses and blood into its stem.

A gulping, swallowing sound echoed.

Sensing the satisfaction emanating from the sea of corpses and blood, Qin Muyuan once again channeled his strength, madly slashing away at the Black Water Demon that lay collapsed on the ground with its roots severed.

"Chhh! Chhh chhh!!!"

The Black Water Demon let out tragic wails one after another, echoing throughout the entire county center.

Making the group of Border Guard soldiers at the outer periphery look at each other in bewilderment.

"This sound... was it made by that Black Water Demon?" The soldier who had spoken to Qin Muyuan earlier said with a solemn face.

Beside him, the squad leader, who was struggling to contain his emotions, had a look of utter astonishment.

Among all the Border Guard soldiers, he was the most educated, and thus knew the most about monsters like the Black Water Demon.

And precisely because he understood, he found it perplexing and unbelievable.

Books had mentioned that the call of a Black Water Demon was a "chhh" sound, similar to the crowing of a chicken.

Normally, the Black Water Demon would not make noise on its own initiative, making sounds only under a few special circumstances.

If ordinary folk heard this "chhh" sound, they would already be unable to escape death.

Because this signified that the Black Water Demon had devoured enough flesh and blood, and was about to make a Breakthrough and advance in rank.

Once the Breakthrough was complete, its strength would surge several times over, making it even harder to deal with.

During the advancement process, the previously accumulated flesh and blood would be entirely consumed, making the Black Water Demon's need for flesh and blood even more urgent.

Therefore, when the "chhh" sound rang out, common people had almost no chance of survival; the Black Water Demon would surely devour the flesh and blood of everyone within range, leaving none spared.

Only...

"Why does this sound so tragic?"

The squad leader couldn't understand. If the Black Water Demon was about to advance, why was it making such a miserable noise?

It was as if its own manhood was being sliced to pieces blade by blade.

Even though he was not the same species as the Black Water Demon, and even though he hated it to death in his heart...

Hearing the Black Water Demon's wails and shrieks still made the squad leader feel an empathetic chill down his spine!

It was as if he too could perceive some terrifyingly horrific thing through those screams!

"Scream! Scream! The more you scream, the happier I get!"

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Listening to the Black Water Demon's wails, excitement washed over Qin Muyuan's face.

This little creature was really interesting.

It screamed every time it got slashed, and the screams were so soul-stirring, almost like it had sensitive skin.

It gave Qin Muyuan the feeling of popping bubble wrap, where popping each bubble rewards you with a crisp "pop" sound.

This feeling was truly stress-relieving.

"Hmm? Why did you stop screaming?"

After delivering over a hundred consecutive slashes, Qin Muyuan listened as the Black Water Demon went from its initial soul-stirring "Chhh!!"

...to a later "Chhh!"...

...then to a faint "Chhh~"...

...followed by a weak "Chhh~~~~"...

...until now, when the Black Water Demon didn't even make a single "Chhh" anymore.

"Can you hang in there, buddy?"

Qin Muyuan slashed the Black Water Demon once more, finding that it lay collapsed on the ground gasping fitfully, as if it had been completely drained.

Even the black water that had been continuously spraying outward seemed to have run dry; after gurgling for a long while, it could barely squirt out a palm-sized puddle of black fluid.

"That's it?"

Seeing this, a flicker of disappointment flashed through Qin Muyuan's eyes.

Earlier he had heard Wangcai mention how tough and hard to kill demons were.

As it turned out... when actually fighting one, it was just so-so!

After taking a few hundred slashes and having its blood sucked a few hundred times, it was already done for?

"Way too weak!"

Qin Muyuan swung the sea of corpses and blood and landed another slash on the Black Water Demon's stem.

Slash.

As the blade fell, it left a wound half a meter long on the Black Water Demon's stem.

Unlike previous wounds that could heal rapidly on their own, this scar showed no sign of closing up, remaining clearly visible.

It seemed the Black Water Demon's power had reached its limit, unable to even mend its own injuries now.

Seeing this, Qin Muyuan reversed his grip on the sea of corpses and blood, aimed the long blade at the wound, and thrust it in forcefully.

The entire blade of the sea of corpses and blood penetrated into the Black Water Demon's body. Qin Muyuan mobilized his inner force, absorbing the surrounding blood through the blade like a vacuum suction cup.

Gulp~ Gulp~

Under Qin Muyuan's full-force suction, after sucking for quite a while, he finally extracted two drops of demon blood from inside the Black Water Demon.

As these two drops of demon blood were squeezed out and sucked clean by Qin Muyuan...

The Black Water Demon emitted a faint, feeble wail, sounding like an exhausted old ox gasping for breath.

Immediately after, its massive body rapidly shriveled and dried up, collapsing in the blink of an eye into a pool of dirty black water splashed across the ground.

This pool of black liquid did not linger; instead, like water vapor meeting heat, it rapidly evaporated and dissipated into the air, leaving no trace behind.