The King of Curses

Chapter 198 Enlightenment
The reptiles released by the black-robed men moved with a terrifying tacit understanding. They climbed along the walls, drilled into every crack and fissure, and bit into cement, wood and all materials.

The exterior of the banquet hall seemed intact, but the interior was already riddled with holes.

If someone were to observe these insects with a high-power magnifying glass at this moment, they would see their hideous and delicate faces, with sharp fangs that are as hard as alloy, and they are born to gnaw on everything.

The originally solid beams and walls gradually became fragile under the sharp teeth and collapsed at the slightest touch, like a bunch of dry branches piled up.

The erosion process is silent yet extremely rapid. Every inch of land underfoot is gradually disintegrating under this black torrent. The door frames begin to shake and the floor makes ominous creaking sounds, foreshadowing the impending collapse... Just like the mudflats after a tsunami, everything is swallowed up by this endless erosion.

When Cen Dongsheng hit the vampire in the face with his fist again, knocking him more than ten meters away, he was slightly stunned when he saw the enemy's body penetrate several walls and the ceiling above his head collapsed along with the surrounding walls.

But he soon understood.

This was not only because he was too strong, but also because the house itself was already crumbling.

The man raised his head, looking at the spider-web-like cracks blooming on the wall above his head, and watching a chandelier falling towards him.

Cen Dongsheng waved his hand and slammed the crystal chandelier to the side, letting it smash into pieces. He stepped on it and continued to chase the target regardless.

……

"Even if we two join forces, we can't take him down!"

The vampire was tossed around like a ball in the collapsing space, barely able to resist the attacks. He was completely powerless to fight back and could only hold on against the storm of punches and kicks.

For someone like him who is proud and arrogant, this feeling of being frustrated is really infuriating.

But the opportunity he wanted never appeared. His companions were still setting up the battlefield, and those little bugs could not affect the two supermen.

He knew that the man in black was also waiting for an opportunity, but... the anger in the vampire's heart was burning like a smoldering fire, and he could no longer bear it.

It turns out that one cannot rely on others, opportunities should be created by himself.

The vampire's pupils opened like red moons, locking onto the figure that pounced towards him.

--It's now!
The power he was proud of, as he himself openly revealed, was the most well-known monster in Western legends: the vampire.

He feeds on life, especially human blood, and possesses terrifying endurance and recovery abilities, superhuman speed and agility, and is especially powerful in the dark. At his level, he is no longer afraid of sunlight or silver, and has almost overcome all of his shortcomings.

These abilities also include the ability to deceive people and perform mind control.

His palms burned with blood-red Qi, and his sharp nails suddenly grew several inches, like daggers growing out of his body;

At the same time, the vampire uses mental control to suddenly control the opponent's movements in close combat. This trick has been tried and tested and is enough to defeat the enemy with one blow!
But at this moment...

When the vampire and the young man looked at each other, they saw mockery in each other's eyes.

The bewitching power had just touched the other person's heart when it was instantly countered, and the surging waves in turn engulfed his mind.

"Varied……?!"

This was a development he had never expected.

……

The corners of Cen Dongsheng's mouth curved up in mockery.

He didn't know beforehand that the vampire in front of him had the ability to control minds, but as he said, the difference between the two was "lack of experience" -

Future spell-binding masters will never dare to carelessly use mental interference on people whose background they don't know.

When it is uncertain whether the other party has a hidden trick, the consequences of mental interference being countered are quite serious.

The vampire in front of him may think that his abilities are invincible, but unfortunately, Cen Dongsheng's supernatural power - "preserving the spirit" which is mutated from "tiger soul" - is a characteristic that even "Tiankui Quanshou" can resist.

"Well……?!"

The vampire only felt that his spirit had touched an immovable mountain; the next moment, Cen Dongsheng took the initiative to use his supernatural powers to fight back.

The tiger roared, and the vampire was terrified, and for a moment he stood still, unable to move.

"Cun Shen" is passive and "Hu Po" is active. Although the former has been elevated to an incredible level under the influence of "Tai Hua Zi Zai", the latter remains at the original level.

It was originally very difficult to interfere with a spell-binding master of the same level. Cen Dongsheng only used it as a means to create a brief gap, but who knew that the other party would take the initiative to present his weak point.

Cen Dongsheng naturally would not miss this opportunity.

He raised his fist slowly, ready to strike, like a bow with a string drawn—

"call……"

The young man exhaled a breath of foul air, and the dissipated airflow blew up the smoke and dust debris around him.

This process lasted for a full three seconds until the vampire recovered from his shock and was greeted by a full-force punch.

"puff!"

Cen Dongsheng's arm passed through his chest.

This time, the vampire didn't have time to make any resistance. His Qi lost control due to his momentary mental slackness. His strong body could no longer block the heavy iron fist...

The vampire looked down at the huge wound on his chest in disbelief. Cen Dongsheng pulled his hand out, bringing up a large amount of blood, like raindrops all over the sky.

In the young man's palm was a huge, dark red heart, with a large number of blood vessels still connected to its owner's body and beating strongly.

"Wait……!"

The vampire opened his eyes wide in fear, but in the next second, Cen Dongsheng clenched his five fingers without hesitation!

"Pooh!"

His heart was crushed as the vampire spat out blood foam in despair.

……

“This idiot…!”

The man in black robe saw this scene from afar and couldn't help but curse in his heart.

The situation suddenly took a turn for the worse.

Before this, although the vampire had been suppressed and looked a little frustrated, the two were obviously opponents of the same level and type, with the same thick skin and strong flesh, and the same physical strength. The balance of victory and defeat would not quickly tip to the other side, and it was possible that the fight would continue for several days and nights.

He is not fighting alone. As long as they persist for a while and cooperate with each other, victory will be theirs sooner or later.

But what he didn't expect was that the vampire's heart was taken away at the first sight. Although he was still struggling, the situation was precarious.

Although the man in black robe did not see the details of the fight between the two, he was very familiar with this guy's style.

Arrogant, cold, and using the power of the curse to do whatever he wants. Not to mention ordinary people, even his companions like him are looked down upon...

It goes without saying that he was careless and was caught in an opportunity!
"I have no choice but to force it...!"

The black-robed man really despised and hated his companion, but he had to save him. He knew that this guy had the ability to regenerate, and as long as he could get out in time, he would have a chance to survive. He didn't have such good intentions, but the situation was critical. If the vampire fell, he would be the next one to take the place, and he would never be a match for this young man in close combat.

The black-robed man's insect-controlling skills are incredibly powerful, and the place where they can really come into play is in positional warfare. The black insects that can even eat away at modern technology's alloys and concrete are enough to make all battlefield fortifications meaningless.

Once the swarm of insects multiplies, they can silently capture a town in just over ten minutes, destroying everything from cement bricks and tiles to living things, leaving nothing behind.

But if the target is just one person——

……

Cen Dongsheng shook off the blood on his hands and looked down at the target who was gasping for breath in front of him with a smile on his face.

The vampire whose heart was destroyed was still alive, showing the amazing vitality unique to the human-immortal curse-master; but after losing the most important circulatory organ, the opponent's physical fitness had weakened to the extreme.

The vampire, with red eyes, waved his hands and feet, trying to resist, but was grabbed by the young man, who broke and tore them off one by one without mercy.

Blood splattered everywhere, tearing the opponent's "parts" into pieces and turning him into a human stick. Cen Dongsheng took advantage of the situation and grabbed the vampire's throat with one hand and his hair with the other.

He suddenly exerted force with both hands and was about to pull the guy's head off.

Cen Dongsheng wanted to know, this man could still move even though his heart was gone, his vitality was indeed very strong; if both his heart and his head were gone, would he still be able to continue moving?

But at this moment——

"Ahhh!"

The vampire suddenly roared, and then with a "bang", the whole person exploded on the spot, and blood and flesh flew everywhere.

Cen Dongsheng frowned.

He certainly didn't think that this guy was dead just like that, because the remains after his self-explosion were almost all pieces of flesh of the same size, which were scattered into more than a dozen parts, and then turned into bat-shaped monsters and dispersed.

In addition, there are even smaller pieces of flesh. The Yin Qi on this part is slowly evaporating. It seems that only the body tissue transformed into a bat has a chance of surviving.

As soon as he thought of it, he summoned a strong wind from afar. The bats flew high into the sky at an astonishing speed, flapping their wings and swaying in the strong wind, but there was no sign of falling.

...It’s really hard to kill, Cen Dongsheng thought.

This guy's various abilities can almost be regarded as a low-end version of him. Putting aside the changes caused by "Hehua Zizai" being stimulated by the outside world and responding to Cen Dongsheng's wishes, the two are actually very similar.

He suddenly felt something empty under his feet. He looked down and saw a huge hole in the middle of the banquet hall's floor. Black insects like waves had devoured all the soil supporting the surface and were swarming towards him from all directions.

Judging from the behavior of this group of insects just now, Cen Dongsheng had no doubt that their teeth were sharp. If they really crawled up together, they would be a threat enough to chew through the skin and flesh.

If it was a week ago, he would have to wait for a chance to jump out of the trap after falling, but now...

Cen Dongsheng's cheeks suddenly puffed up, and with a "whoosh" sound, a strong wind blew again.

As insects, they were powerless to resist the forces of nature and were swept into the air by the whirlwind, and a blank area appeared in the middle of the dark ocean;
At the same time, Cen Dongsheng took advantage of the situation and took advantage of the opportunity.

……

"What exactly is this guy's curse like?"

Although the process of manifesting supernatural powers is not restricted by form, the range of this person's abilities is too large, and it doesn't seem like the abilities were developed based on the same kind of curse.

"There is more than one Grade A curse..."

The man in black robe looked solemnly as he looked at the young man flying into the sky.

Seeing that the other party was still chasing the remains of the vampire, the man in black robe knew that he would be the next one.

There is only one way left -

With a thought, the robe on the insect master fell off and was eaten up by the densely packed black insects in less than a breath.

At the same time, his real body has already merged into this dark ocean...

"There is only one way, and that is... escape!"

*
The entire Jiang family mansion slowly collapsed in the thick smoke and dust. Cen Dongsheng flew into the sky and looked down at the environment below.

The night was vast above his head and the wind and clouds were surging below his feet. Standing at this high vantage point, he immediately noticed that in addition to the vampire who turned into a bat and flew away, the man in black was also planning to escape.

A black swarm of insects erupted from the ground and spread around like a spring.

If the former can still be eliminated one by one, the scale and number of the latter...

It was obvious that he saw that I was a human-immortal who relied on close combat with the flesh, so he deliberately made this noise in order to distract attention.

Cen Dongsheng snapped his fingers, and the surrounding wind gathered together. A whirlwind appeared out of nowhere, making a whistling sound and blowing violently towards the ground.

Part of the black tide formed by the insects was blown away, but it was quickly replenished by the endless waves that followed.

"If it were Yutang, she might hope for it more than I do..."

As he expected, the current "wind control" ability has limited lethality. In terms of strength, it seems not bad. The strong wind he controls is enough to blow away crossbow arrows and even pistol bullets; it can also break trees.

But if you want to kill the monsters released by a first-class spell-binding master, it is almost impossible, as it is far from the real earth immortal spell-binding.

If he wanted to compete with a spellcaster of the same level, he would have to rely on his fists...

"fist."

Cen Dongsheng raised his hand and stared at his thick finger bones.

"Fist, control the wind."

The power of fists and kicks is great enough, but the whip is out of reach; controlling the wind is useful as it is a long-range attack with a large range, but the power is slightly insufficient.

So, is there a way to --

Combining the best of both worlds?

This idea did not come out of nowhere. Not long after he awakened "Wind Control", he had a vague understanding of it, because the interesting thing about this ability is not its strength, but its flexibility that can be used as easily as an arm.

"The last ability of the Tiger Demon power may very well be the key to a higher level."

The next level above ordinary A-class spell-forbidden masters is the "magician", which is still far from the special-class spell-forbidden masters, but is already the highest level that ordinary people can reach.

To reach this level, the principle is very simple -

That is the comprehensive application of multiple Grade A spells.

"The multiple powers in my body are actually extensions of the same special forbidden spell. Logically speaking, it would be easier for me to reach this realm than an average Grade A forbidden spell master."

Cen Dongsheng didn't hesitate for too long. He took a deep breath and slowly raised his fist.

Another gust of fierce wind was invited in from all directions. This time it was not used to attack directly, but to guide the airflow to gather between the fingers...

(End of this chapter)