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Chapter 223: Hate Me, Despise Me!
Chapter 223: Hate Me, Despise Me!
The stone mountain was silent.
Below an ordinary spirit tree, a faint purple light shone, revealing a corner of a mineral upon closer inspection.
The three of them hid their presence in different ways, waiting for the two-headed armadillo within the stone mountain to fall into their trap.
Lu Chen hid in the bushes. Because of Qian Dinghong and the others, he was using the breath-hiding technique he had learned early on to suppress his aura and was not using the more effective Grade 3 Invisibility Cloak.
Through the rustling sounds, a strange demonic beast with two heads drilled out not far from the mineral. Its pair of gray-white eyes shifted warily as it looked around.
The demonic beast was gray-black in color, with an elongated body. Black scales covered its body, extending from its neck all the way to its tail.
Lu Chen and the others patiently waited.
Slowly, three more two-headed armadillos drilled out from other places. Two of them kept watch on the left and right, while the third stood by to assist. The first one that had come out confirmed that it was safe and, appearing and disappearing in the soil, slowly approached the location of the spirit mine.
Suddenly, a pair of slender claws drilled out from the soil and hugged the purple-violet mineral.
"Make your move!"
Deng Yi's voice sounded in Lu Chen's ear, and the Purple Electric Sword was instantly unsheathed, causing the sword sheath to vibrate continuously.
At the location of the spirit mine, the rune on the ground flashed, and a vine cage quickly grew, trapping the two-headed armadillo within. Countless barbs grew on the dark green vines, piercing deeply into the armadillo's body.
Lu Chen and Deng Yi each locked onto one of the watchful two-headed armadillos, while the other one, which had been standing by at a distance, had gray-yellow spiritual light flashing over its body, and it was about to drill into the soil. However, a ray of gray light shot out and immobilized it, causing it to fall to the ground. It took a few breaths before it recovered.
Qian Dinghong was holding a gray stone mirror in his hand, and the gray light had shot out from the mirror.
With one of the armadillos trapped in the vine cage, Lu Chen and Deng Yi each killed one of the others. Qian Dinghong stood by and controlled the situation, ready to immobilize any escaping armadillos with the stone mirror artifact at the first opportunity.
Because Lu Chen was worried that the two-headed armadillo demonic beast would escape, the flying sword in his hand was like incessant spring rain, with an endless stream of attacks, relentlessly pursuing the beast.
When the two-headed armadillo realized it couldn't break free from Lu Chen's sword intent, the two heads let out a simultaneous low roar. Hundreds of stone spikes drilled out from underground and shot towards Lu Chen.
Lu Chen's spiritual sense perceived the change, and his sword intent changed with the flow, instantly becoming violent and frenzied. Sword qi crisscrossed, cutting off all the stone spikes.
Purple lightning flashed on the Purple Electric Sword, and a bolt of lightning, like a venomous snake, struck the armadillo's scales, sizzling and emitting a burnt smell.
In this way, Lu Chen did not use any other means at all. He relied solely on the unique properties of the Purple Electric Sword and the layer upon layer of changes in the 'Four Seasons Sword Manual' to firmly control the two-headed armadillo while constantly causing various types of damage.
The whole process was smooth and effortless, and everything was under his control.
As he watched the other two-headed armadillo, which was entangled with Deng Yi, about to perish, Lu Chen had a thought, and spiritual power madly surged into the Purple Electric Sword, and the sword intent became like a scorching sun. Thunder and lightning rang out in the clear sky, and the sword intent slammed into the demonic beast's two elongated heads.
With the inherently violent nature of the Summer Sword Technique, combined with the lightning power of the flying sword, the two heads of the two-headed armadillo instantly turned to black ash.
Lu Chen and Deng Yi joined forces and attacked the two-headed armadillo that had been controlled by Qian Dinghong all this time.
Within the cage, the trapped two-headed armadillo, like a cornered beast, struggled desperately. Seeing that the situation was not good, its body erupted with gray-yellow spiritual light, causing its body to swell several times in size. Ignoring the barbs deeply embedded in its abdomen, head, and the cracks in its scales, it broke free from the vine cage.
Before it could get far, a ray of gray light shot out from a distance, and a black spear artifact descended from the sky, nailing it firmly to the ground.
"Brother Lu's enthusiasm and obsession with spirit beasts far exceed my imagination. But since you've made the request, Brother Lu, we'll naturally satisfy it."
Qian Dinghong laughed heartily.
Usually, when encountering demonic beasts in blessed lands or secret realms, few cultivators would want to capture them alive to rear them. But Lu Chen's request wasn't excessive, so the two didn't mind granting it.
The three two-headed armadillos were neatly laid out on the ground. Lu Chen slightly healed one of them and then used a rope artifact to bind it, placing it in front of the corpses of its three companions.
Deng Yi and Qian Dinghong began processing the demonic beast materials.
The most valuable parts of the two-headed armadillo were its scales, which could be used to forge high-grade defensive artifacts, followed by its claws, meat, and blood.
Since Lu Chen had claimed one that was half-dead, he naturally received fewer demonic beast materials.
He mainly took some of the beast's meat and a small portion of its scales.
"Do you two have enough beast scales for your artifact forging? If not, you can take what I have here."
Lu Chen offered with a smile.
"How could we possibly..." Qian Dinghong and the others felt a bit embarrassed. More armadillo scales were indeed better, but it would be awkward to accept Lu Chen's offer.
"It's fine. I wasn't planning on using them for artifact forging anyway. However, I will be taking the bones and eyes of these three armadillos."
Lu Chen stated. Compared to the small number of scales, the bones and eyes were of greater value to him.
The bones could be used to cultivate Thorn Bones, and the eyes could serve as nourishment for the Hundred-Eyed Mystique Wood; both were third-grade materials with noticeable effects.
"Very well, then all of these will belong to Brother Lu."
The two felt obliged since they had taken something from Lu Chen, and as the bones and eyes weren't rare parts of the two-headed armadillo, they readily agreed.
After dividing the spoils, Lu Chen bid farewell to the two, who tried to persuade him to stay but didn't press further when they saw his determination. They went their separate ways.
Half an hour later, Lu Chen's figure reappeared in front of the stone mountain. He swept his spiritual sense over the surroundings.
With a single hand wave, the injured two-headed armadillo appeared on the ground, tightly bound by the rope artifact. Its eyes darted between fear and resentment as it glared at Lu Chen.
"How does it feel to watch your three companions being torn apart right before your eyes?"
"You came out together to search for treasures, but your three companions were killed. Their scales were ripped out one by one, their flesh was cut into pieces, and their blood was spilled everywhere, while you could only watch helplessly from the sidelines."
Lu Chen's tone was filled with mockery.
The two-headed armadillo was highly intelligent, and as it heard Lu Chen's words, its eyes burned with increasing hatred.
Seeing this, Lu Chen revealed six bloody eyeballs in his palm, grayish-white and filled with pain and unwillingness.
He rolled them around in his palm as if they were nuts.
Seeing its companion's remains being treated so insultingly, a dense grayish-yellow light surged from the two-headed armadillo.
"If you want to kill me, then hate me, despise me!"
"Then live on with your ugliness, run, run, and use your hatred to bring about my destruction!"
Lu Chen laughed loudly.
(End of Chapter)
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