Chapter 59: Perpetual Motion Cycle, Awakening of the Gods

Ghosts can move about freely by utilizing the bodies of Soul Controllers.

However, lacking human intellect, they are actually incapable of maximizing the effectiveness of their lethal mechanics.

If a Soul Controller were operating them, they would naturally guide the enemy through various aspects to trigger their killing rules, taking the opponent down with minimal cost.

Ghosts, on the other hand, act purely on instinct, making their damage output decrease rather than increase.

Under Maomao's covert blessing, Lu Wenwu's fists were coated with a layer of eerie Huodou fire.

With a single raised fist strike, the entire upper body of a flesh puppet would be blasted into a mist of blood and gore.

The scorching, tyrannical Huodou fire would immediately engulf the flesh puppet's body thereafter, incinerating the remaining lower half and the parasitic ghost inhabiting it into absolute nothingness.

Lu Wenwu had plunged into the fray all by himself, recklessly pressing forward.

As his teammates, the remaining four naturally would not sit idly by and immediately followed closely behind.

Master Ruhuo, possessing unique evil-dispelling abilities, chanted a Buddhist verse and produced his familiar Six Paths of Samsara Prayer Wheel to provide heavy, long-range fire suppression.

Su Qinghong coated her spiritual sword with cyan-green fox fire, continuously darting through the battlefield with flying sword techniques, inflicting formidable lethality.

Facing a horde of flesh puppets whose bodies were manipulated by ghosts, Anthony’s blood magic effects were greatly diminished.

Due to the unique physical structure of vampires, although they practiced both physical and magical combat, they possessed no particularly effective lethal capability against soul-type entities like ghosts.

Having no other choice, he had to abandon his ancestral trade and use half-baked fire magic to assist Cassandra on the sidelines.

A bizarre, piercing shrieking sound exploded in the sky, and the originally dim firmament instantly transformed into pitch blackness.

The flesh puppets manipulated by ghosts across all seventeen settlements gathered en masse, attempting to stop these five uninvited guests who had come seeking a fight to the death.

Lu Wenwu took the lead entirely on his own, almost aggressively piercing straight through the flesh puppets' defensive line by sheer force.

Even his four teammates could barely keep up with his advancing pace.

Lu Wenwu, in an extremely foul mood, was advancing at an ungodly speed.

Even the old monk found it somewhat straining to keep up.

It still took time for the combination of the Six-Clean Cinnabar Subduing Demon Bullets and Glaze Pure Fire to blast apart ghosts and flesh puppets.

Meanwhile, Lu Wenwu, covered in Huodou fire, threw a single punch, and the ghosts and flesh puppets died the moment they brushed against him and vanished the second they touched him!

All the lingering resentment from slaying ghosts and flesh puppets—which failed to grant attribute points—was vented by him entirely upon the slaughter.

His military combat techniques and martial arts killing fists were pushed to their absolute limits.

Lu Wenwu resembled a human flesh grinder as he continuously plowed into the densest clusters of flesh puppets, rapidly transforming those areas into the most vacant zones on the entire battlefield.

The four followers distinctly felt that the malevolent aura emanating from Lu Wenwu was growing increasingly intense, and his overall momentum was turning more and more violent!

If there ever was a human-shaped tyrannosaurus rex, this was the exact definition of it!

Even Lu Wenwu himself did not realize that his [Innate Talent: Flesh Regeneration] and [Divine Ability: Swallowing Heaven and Earth] were being triggered simultaneously amidst his slaughter.

Dense, chilling ghost qi, nuclear radiation, and unknown pollutants were all converted by Swallowing Heaven and Earth into pure bodily attributes, strengthening Lu Wenwu's [Constitution] attribute wave after wave.

And with every single punch he threw, [Flesh Regeneration] would reclaim a massive amount of flesh-and-blood essence from the ghost-controlled puppets to replenish his own stamina.

Those ghosts manipulating the puppets had no awareness whatsoever of the need to protect their physical meat-sacks.

Lacking physical bodies to begin with, where would they ever develop the concept of protecting a physical form?

[Flesh Regeneration] was feasting to its heart's content.

Gluttonously devouring this heavenly delicacy, it frantically absorbed nutrients to feed back into Lu Wenwu's body.

One act of devouring, one act of conversion—this formed nothing short of an endless, surging cycle!

It had fortuitously taken shape right amidst Lu Wenwu's vent-driven massacre!

Although the enhancement brought by devouring ghost qi was not massive, its greatest strength lay in its stability!

"Hey, hey, do you guys feel like the big tyrannosaurus has gotten stronger over the last couple of days compared to during the mutant tide?" Su Qinghong could not help asking during a lull in the combat.

Logically speaking, this was impossible.

Who would hoard free attribute points and only allocate them after entering an instance dungeon?

Even with a breakthrough in cultivation techniques, at their stage, it was impossible for obvious effects to manifest within three to five days!

While manipulating her spiritual sword to slay enemies, Su Qinghong stared in a daze at Lu Wenwu deep within the battle cluster.

Old Monk Ruhuo and the succubus Cassandra both nodded in strong agreement, yet neither spoke.

"I have that feeling too," Anthony said succinctly. "I can distinctly feel that the blood qi within the tyrannosaurus's body is continuously strengthening, even right now."

......

Deep within the Ghost Shadow Settlement, inside a dim, church-like cavernous hall, stood a five-meter-tall giant statue.

The left half of the statue's body was androgynous and exceptionally handsome, bordering on flawless!

Meanwhile, the right half featured a green face with sharp fangs, resembling a malevolent fiend.

The exposed upper body and thighs were branded with a multitude of bizarre, twisted patterns, resembling some kind of special tattoo.

It was the statue of the God of Glory and Eternal Life!

Unlike the somewhat ethereal and illusory Great God of Evolution,

the God of Glory and Eternal Life had indeed been sculpted into a concrete form, placed here for worshippers to pay homage to and gaze upon.

A massive amount of pitch-black, viscous ghost qi, resembling ink, covered the surface of the statue, writhing upward continuously as if endowed with life of its own, completely enveloping the lower half of the statue in a very short span of time.

This process did not stop there.

It continued to creep upward, instantly covering the entire statue of the God of Glory and Eternal Life within, making it resemble a colossal cocoon.

"Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep!"

Inside the chilling, wind-swept hall, warning lights embedded in the ceiling cast a wash of blood-red light across the interior, while the pollution detectors on the walls wailed incessantly.

[Warning: Radiation levels have severely exceeded safety thresholds!]

[Warning: Ghost qi concentration has severely exceeded safety thresholds!]

[Warning: Initiating ^VT(YP)*R*R*...）..!]

A series of warnings and garbled streams of error code refreshed continuously on a blurred electronic screen, but at this moment, there was no one left to check them.

A low-level artificial intelligence was attempting to initiate certain emergency protocols or containment measures while offline from any administrator.

However, this ultimately proved to be a futile rescue attempt.

The powerful sources of radiation and pollution interference had long since surpassed the defensive limits of this antique machine.

The black cocoon of ghost qi continuously expanded and contracted, pulsing like a beating heart.

A face fusing eerie handsomeness with wicked ugliness slowly condensed and formed upon the giant cocoon, akin to a new life being nurtured and born from a maternal matrix.

Abruptly, those eyes snapped wide open, revealing a pair of crimson pupils intertwined with chilling detachment and violent fury beneath.

A majestic vortex of ghost qi swirled and condensed like a tempest, frantically converging toward this location.

"Heretics... have entered... eliminate them... eliminate them all..."

"Worshippers, offer up your... power... souls... flesh!"

"I... the God of Glory and Eternal Life... am about to awaken and return..."

"I am... immortal!"