I am Master Maoshan

Chapter 2127 Octopus Monster

"This is the road that leads deep into the Blackwater Swamp." Sui Yang glanced at the muddy path made by the group of miasma frogs and lowered his voice.

Liu Jun swallowed his saliva. The humid air was filled with the mixed smell of rotting plants and some kind of sweet and fishy smell. He caught a glimpse of the huge queen of miasma frogs staring at him with amber vertical pupils, and her forked tongue slowly stretched out, as if she wanted to lick him.

"The road has been cleared, what are you standing there for? Let's go!" Liu Jun suddenly raised his voice, as if to dispel the uneasiness in his heart. He deliberately avoided the direction of the frogs, and the black water splashed when his boots stepped into the mud wet his trouser legs.

He really wasn't very fond of this kind of frog. The densely packed bumps on them made him feel a little trypophobic.

The miasma frogs made a series of "grunting" sounds, like some strange farewell song. Sui Yang noticed that a few young frogs tried to follow, but were immediately stopped by the adult individuals with their webbed feet. This abnormal courtesy made the hair on the back of his neck stand up.

The dirt road was gradually eroded by the oily black water, and everyone had to move forward on the raised meadows.

"Be careful." Xu Baoer, who was walking at the end, suddenly said, "The meadows here are all floating islands. Don't step into them."

About half an hour later, Sui Yang, who was leading the group, suddenly stopped. The front was completely covered with dense marsh grass, and the dark green grass leaves were entangled with each other, forming an airtight barrier. The water surface that occasionally appeared was a strange blue-purple color, as if it was mixed with some minerals.

"There's water underneath, right?" Liu Jun took out a wooden stick and pushed aside the grass, and ripples immediately appeared on the water surface.

Sui Yang squatted down, lightly touched the water with his fingertips and quickly retracted them: "It's running water." He shook off the transparent filaments sticking to his fingers, "and"

The water surface suddenly exploded, turbid water splashed everywhere, and a purple-black tentacle covered with suction cups broke out of the water like a giant python, rushing straight to Sui Yang's face with fishy water vapor. The surface of the tentacle was covered with mucus, and it glowed strangely in the moonlight.

"Be careful!" Liu Jun shouted, and his figure flashed in front of Sui Yang like lightning. His right hand turned into a claw, and the fingertips glowed with a light golden light, and he grabbed the tentacles fiercely. With a "swish", the tentacles were torn into three bloody marks, and dark green liquid splashed on Liu Jun's clothes, immediately corroding several small holes with white smoke coming out.

The tentacles retracted into the water in pain, stirring up whirlpools.

Liu Jun shook off the slime on his hands, frowned and looked at the calm water surface: "What is this? A mutant octopus?"

Xu Baoer blinked and explained, "Brother, this one with tentacles is called Pink Bubble. I remember the book said that they like it the most."

Before he finished speaking, the entire water area suddenly began to boil. With a tooth-grinding "gurgle" sound, a huge monster broke out of the water. The splashing water droplets formed a short rainbow in the sunset, which made the monster even more terrifying - its upper body was a humanoid body covered with tumors, and blood vessels could be seen wriggling under its pale skin; its lower body had more than a dozen tentacles dancing wildly, each with a suction cup of different shapes, and some were embedded with shell fragments.

"You call this thing pink bubbles?" Liu Jun took a half step back with his mouth twitching, clenched his right fist again, ready to hit this guy at any time.

Xu Baoer shrank her neck and said, "Well, you'll know in a moment."

"Guwa——" The octopus monster suddenly opened its bloody mouth, revealing three spirals of sharp teeth. With a creepy swallowing sound, its swollen abdomen contracted violently, spewing out dozens of pink bubbles.

The bubbles were covered with a film of rainbow-colored oil, which rushed at the speed of bullets, leaving a sweet and rotten smell in the air.

Liu Jun instinctively swung his fist to fight back, and just as the fist touched the first bubble—

"Don't touch the bubbles!" Xu Baoer and Sui Yang's exclamations overlapped.

Unfortunately, they were still a step too late. The bubbles that were touched by the fist suddenly expanded and burst, emitting a cloud of pink smoke. The nearby meadows withered and turned black in an instant, and even a layer of white dead fish floated on the water surface.

More bubbles are approaching, like ghost lights in the night.
"Then how do we deal with these bubbles?" Liu Jun asked with a frown, and at the same time quickly took a few steps back, staring vigilantly at the pink bubbles floating in the air and getting closer and closer to them.

Xu Baoer did not answer immediately. She bit her lower lip and looked around for something. Suddenly, her eyes lit up and she took out an emerald green jade fan from a brocade bag embroidered with strange runes on her waist. The fan was as thin as a cicada's wing and glowed green in the dim environment.

"Big, big!" Xu Baoer's clear voice echoed around. Following her spell, the fan, which was originally only the size of a palm, quickly stretched out like a living thing, and in the blink of an eye it became a giant fan half a person's height. The runes carved on the fan bones began to emit a light green light, as if they were alive and beating.

At this time, when the nearest bubble was less than half a meter away from Liu Jun, Xu Baoer took a deep breath, held the fan handle with both hands, and swung it forward with all her strength. In an instant, a violent hurricane roared out from the fan, and the airflow formed a visible green wind wall.

"Whoosh—" Wherever the hurricane passed, the pink bubbles seemed to be grabbed by invisible big hands and deviated from their original trajectory. The bubbles drew an arc in the air and were all thrown back to the direction of the octopus monster.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" A series of crisp explosions sounded, and hundreds of bubbles exploded on the octopus monster at the same time. Pink smoke instantly spread, completely covering the behemoth. The smoke was as thick as substance, forming a strange pink cloud around it.

"This thing? Does it have any effect on this monster itself?" Liu Jun narrowed his eyes and subconsciously held his breath, fearing that he would inhale a trace of that suspicious pink smoke.

It was quiet in the smoke. There was neither the roar of the octopus monster nor any sound of its struggle.

Liu Jun and Xu Baoer exchanged a puzzled look. Logically, a creature that can release hallucinogenic bubbles should be immune to its own toxins. "It can't be so easy to be killed by the bubbles it releases, right?" Liu Jun muttered in a low voice, with a bit of disbelief in his tone.

At this moment, the pink smoke suddenly surged violently, as if something was waking up in it, and then a low and angry buzzing sound was heard coming from the depths of the smoke.

"It looks like we've pissed it off." Xu Baoer smiled bitterly and clenched the jade fan in her hand. The runes on the fan lit up again, preparing for the upcoming counterattack.

"Spirit of Wutong, come here!" Liu Jun took a deep breath and muttered to himself.

As a green light flashed, the air was filled with a faint fragrance of grass and trees.

The small body of the cactus emerged from the light - it was a emerald green cactus about the size of a palm, with a small tender yellow flower on the top.

Looking like this, let alone facing the huge octopus monster, even standing next to Liu Jun, who is 1.85 meters tall, she looks particularly small and cute.

"Hey, it's evolved? It looks pretty cute," Liu Jun said with a smile.

"You plan to use this little guy to deal with that monster?" Sui Yang's eyes widened, his voice trembling slightly with shock.

He looked at the giant octopus monster that was charging towards him from a distance - the tentacles of the monster that were exposed above the water alone were seven or eight meters long, not to mention its size. A cactus of that size could probably be blown away by a sneeze from the monster.

Liu Jun grinned, revealing two rows of white teeth: "Well, don't worry, my little Wutong can do it."

He reached out and gently touched the small flower on top of the Wutong Spirit's head. The latter rolled its eyes in a very human way and pricked Liu Jun with its thorn.

At this moment, the octopus monster seemed to sense the threat and let out a piercing scream. It waved its tentacles at the same time, stirring up the muddy swamp, and rushed towards Liu Jun and the others at a faster speed.

Faced with such a terrifying attack, the Wutong Spirit was not in a hurry. It gently waved its short arms, and its movements were as graceful as a conductor.

In an instant, the water surface suddenly churned violently, and dozens of vines as thick as an adult's waist broke out of the water! These vines were not ordinary plants, but were made up of special aquatic plants that grew in swamps. The surface was covered with sticky algae, exuding a strong fishy smell, and glowing with a strange dark green luster under the moonlight.

"Bang, bang, bang!" A series of dull collisions sounded. The vines wrapped around the octopus monster's tentacles accurately like living things, some whipping it like a whip, and some tightly wrapping it like a giant python. The octopus monster roared in pain and struggled frantically to break free, but the Wutong Spirit waved his hand again - more vines emerged from the water, and this time they actually had sharp barbs!

The swamp was stirred up to be extremely muddy, and water splashed more than ten meters into the air. Sui Yang had to raise his hand to block the mist coming at him, but he still stared at this unequal battle intently. He never thought that this seemingly harmless little cactus could burst out with such amazing power.

Xu Baoer, on the other hand, looked as if she was used to it.

She has been with Liu Jun for quite some time and knows that her adopted brother has many tricks up his sleeve, and this little cactus is just one of them.

As the Wutong Spirit's attack power increased, sharp cactus thorns poured down like a rainstorm. Under the moonlight, those green-glowing spikes accurately pierced into the slimy skin of the giant octopus monster in the swamp, and soon left dense wounds on its body covered with suckers.

"Hiss—Roar!" The octopus monster howled in pain, and its eight thick tentacles slapped the swamp water frantically, splashing smelly mud. It tried to wrap its tentacles around the Wutong Spirit floating in the air, but it was nimbly dodged every time. Dark green blood continued to seep out of the wound, mixing with the turbid muddy water in the swamp.

Liu Jun and the others stood at a safe distance, while Xu Baoer formed seals with her hands to hold up a spiritual power barrier. The splashing mud made a "sizzling" sound when it hit the light blue barrier.

At this time, the strength of the octopus monster's struggle was weakening at a speed visible to the naked eye. The tentacles that could originally stir up three-meter-high mud waves could now only weakly splash out a few water splashes.

The Spirit of the Wutong suddenly emitted a blinding green light, and hundreds of spikes gathered around it to form a swirling storm of thorns. With a sound of breaking through the air, the storm went straight through the octopus monster's head.

The giant octopus monster let out a final unwilling roar, and its huge body fell down with a bang, stirring up a huge mud wave. The surface of the swamp shook violently for more than ten seconds before gradually returning to calm, leaving only a few broken tentacles still twitching slightly on the water surface.

The light on the Wutong Spirit gradually dimmed, and it lightly jumped back onto Liu Jun's shoulder. Liu Jun froze for a moment - he only now remembered that the Wutong Spirit in its combat form was a genuine cactus.

"Well, be careful not to prick me." Liu Jun tilted his head carefully, feeling the hair on his neck stand up. He could clearly see the spikes that were so close to him, flashing dangerously cold light in the moonlight.

The spirit of the Wutong tree shook its body mischievously, and a few tiny thorns fell on Liu Jun's collar, just a hair's breadth away from Liu Jun's neck.

"Hey!" Liu Jun was about to protest, but found that these thorns turned into green light and dissipated into the air the moment they touched his clothes.

"So you can control these spines?" Liu Jun breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at the place where the octopus monster sank.

Floating on the swamp water at that location were several dark green beads emitting faint light. They were the beast cores in the octopus monster's body.