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Immediately afterwards, the enormous creature let out a roar filled with pain and rage, and layers of dark light immediately emerged around it. The surrounding mist poured back like a storm in an instant, clinging tightly to the beast's head.

As if nourished by some kind of force, the octopus-like tentacles suddenly grew tenfold, frantically lashing out at every inch of the surrounding space.

Amidst the terrifying howling and deafening roar of a Category 10 typhoon, the brick and concrete ground shattered in an instant, and buildings were easily overturned like Lego toys, turning into a scene of utter devastation.

Within a few breaths, most of the town was ruthlessly razed to the ground!

Chapter 397 Luring the enemy into a trap, then killing them on the spot

The countless long, thin black shadows danced wildly like ghosts, sometimes gathering into clusters, sometimes scattering in all directions, weaving together into bizarre scenes composed of chaotic lines.

The deafening sonic booms continued, houses collapsed, trees snapped, and debris was stripped away and quickly ground into dust.

Regarding the division of extraordinary power levels, the people of this world share a consensus:

Using fully armed elite soldiers from the classical era as the unit of measurement, if the killing power of the [Squire] and [Knight] ranks is equivalent to ten men and a hundred men respectively, then starting from the [Lord] rank and above, it is equivalent to a thousand men and ten thousand men, which means one person can destroy an army.

The beast's own strength alone has reached the [Lord Rank] level, and with the added advantage of its size, its power output is now even approaching the next level, the [Scepter Rank], making it capable of easily defeating a thousand armies and destroying a city!

Centered on the behemoth, the earth within hundreds of meters cracked open with deep ravines, the air was almost churned into a paste, and thick fog and dust floated up and down weightlessly, as if the end of the world had arrived, leaving nothing standing...

No... there are still some!

Amidst the frenzied attacks, a lone wisp of smoke drifted in the wind, swaying back and forth without any support, just like a petrel battling a storm, repeatedly brushing past the killing intent. Outside, the wind and rain raged, but I strolled leisurely.

Among the Thirty-Six Heavenly Generals of the Xuanmen School, there is the Five Elements Great Escape Method, which is said to be able to evade all weapons, water, fire, magical artifacts, and supernatural powers.

After Zhu Mingyao advanced to the Golden Core/True Talisman realm, although he still couldn't master such advanced techniques as the Five Elements Great Escape, he could still manage the Five Elements Lesser Escape by relying on the opening of the Five Internal Organs Divine Treasury.

Not only that, but even wisps of dark red flames emerged from his hands, like weightless phantoms, passing effortlessly through the countless tentacles and drifting onto the giant beast's body.

Its large, dark eyes suddenly turned slightly red with hatred, and its fierce attack faltered.

Depression turns into heart fire—no matter what kind of demon or monster you are, as long as you have a physical body and can experience joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, you have to obediently take this trick of mine!

Taking advantage of a moment of inattention, Zhu Mingyao suddenly pushed back his palm, and a burst of brilliant white light shot out. With a single leap, he traversed a vast space and appeared before the giant beast.

The profound inspiration honed by ancient times is chilling and alarming. The giant, bony maw, like that of a reptile, hastily opens slightly. A gray glow forms a wide hexagonal shield to protect the vital parts of the face. A massive amount of spiritual energy is concentrated in one place, even exhibiting a crystallized, shimmering texture.

However, the expected collision did not occur. The pure white light, seemingly straight yet curved, bypassed the shield and landed on its neck.

"Clang—!" A silver star suddenly flew up, like the rising moon, and slammed into the giant beast's mouth!

It turns out that at some point, the captured Cold Iron Sword Pill had returned to its original size of a longan, and quietly crawled to its mouth while hanging from the base of its tentacles. At this moment, it absorbed the Geng Metal evil energy that had come to support it and immediately unleashed its power!

The grayish-white exoskeleton armor suddenly bulged outwards, crackling and splintering as dense, spiderweb-like cracks spread, as if some immense power was surging within its skull, ready to burst forth at any moment.

Time seemed to freeze for a second as thick, murky gray blood gushed out like a flood bursting its banks, mixed with jelly-like crystals.

A silver-blue sword with cloud-like patterns and a fully-fledged blade and guard rose from the ground like a towering peak, bursting out from the giant beast's left eye and soaring straight into the heavens with its remaining momentum.

The blade that pierced the azure sky remains unbroken! What follows is the collapse of hills and mountains, and the imminent toppling of a great building!

The giant beast's two front legs gave way and it collapsed to its knees, the hard, jagged bone spurs of its knees silently creating a ten-meter-wide crater, causing the earth to tremble.

Having suffered this calamity, one of its eyes and half of its head were completely obliterated by the sword energy. Even though its physiological structure is different from that of ordinary creatures, it was still an extremely serious injury.

The surprise attack was successful. Zhu Mingyao pressed his advantage, and as he rubbed his palms together, his internal organs materialized, trapping the enemy at the core.

The Dragon Boy stands to the east, and the jade chime resonates with wondrous sounds.

The canopy-covered boy is in the west, with plain-colored clouds stretching out like swords.

Dan Yuan Tong Zi is in the south, with crimson ropes, golden bells, and fiery flames.

Xuanming Boy is in the north, and the Azure Brocade Divine Banner dances with dragons and snakes.

The child dwells in the center, and the tiger-shaped talisman cleanses away the yellow dust.

The five-colored electric snakes, carrying an almost visible and awe-inspiring aura, intertwined, devoured and merged into one, and finally transformed into a beam of clear light and lightning that shot out.

Like an ancient, dormant dragon suddenly awakened, it twisted its body, still grumpy from being woken up, and whipped everything it could touch. The first thing to be hit was, of course, self-evident.

Where the massive bolt of lightning swept across, the rough, thick, grayish-blue skin froze instantly, then quickly lost its original color.

Then, little by little, it was pulverized and peeled away, and the remaining embers were gradually worn away, no longer able to turn into mist and escape.

Skin, muscles, tendons, and bones disappeared one after another, as if they had never existed.

Most things in the world are subject to the cycle of birth, death, and change, with only a very few exceptions that can transcend these. But the monster before us is clearly not one of them.

The five elements of divine thunder combined to unleash the immense power of the turbulent demon, binding and binding the giant beast's body, which could not break free no matter how hard it tried to resist.

Zhu Mingyao exhaled and spoke, intending to exert even more force to completely subdue this troublesome opponent.

However, at this crucial moment, a disruptor suddenly barged in:

—A string of translucent bubbles rose slowly, their surfaces shimmering with iridescent colors, like bouncy soap sheets, drifting leisurely between the thunder and the behemoth.

However, at the very beginning of the war, the purplish-red eggs laid by the giant beast unexpectedly hatched into lobster-shaped monsters that were two meters tall, which were now desperately spewing out energy bubbles to loyally protect their master.

The lobster monster's own strength was only average, but the bubbles it created had the wonderful effect of isolating spirituality. Although they burst in the blink of an eye, they still managed to buy the mother body a little breathing room.

Whoosh! A strong wind surged.

Seizing this fleeting opportunity, the Mist Beast, dragging its half-broken body, charged forward with all its might, breaking through the Demon Refining Five Thunder Net, and flew off in a certain direction.

There, the life force is strongest; it seeks prey to heal its fatal wounds.

"Where do you think you're going!" Zhu Mingyao roared and gave chase.

The billowing gray clouds and smoke trailed long tails as it fled in panic, only to be caught by a single golden ray of light. The chase was swift as wind and thunder.

In an instant, a supermarket with half of it collapsed appeared in front of them, and panicked faces were clearly visible beside the broken glass walls.

The behemoth let out a deep, joyful roar, its tentacles unfurling beneath its jaws to reveal a gaping maw as dark as an abyss, before lunging fiercely at the panicked crowd!

boom!

The clouds and smoke shifted, and huge waves of mud surged high as the giant beast plunged deep into the ground.

There was no supermarket or crowd in sight; only an empty lot in the suburbs.

The golden light that had been chasing him suddenly stopped. Zhu Mingyao, who had been furious just seconds before, was now grinning like a cunning fox who had stolen a chicken.

"You beast, you've been tricked!"

Thousands of talismans spread out of thin air, forming ethereal and mysterious, magnificent palace eaves, firmly covering the giant beast.

It writhed and struggled, trying to pull its head out, but the movement was only halfway through before it convulsed and deformed, as if it were enduring boundless pain.

The hidden instigator soon emerged.

The behemoth's throat rippled rhythmically, revealing something forcibly burrowing into its belly through the wound on its cheek. Then, the upper half of its blue-green blade emerged and swept across, tearing apart large sections of flesh, bones, and muscles from head to tail.

The ferocious ghost general, covered in blood, leaped out and cruelly and mercilessly swung his axe down!

Piercing the skin and breaking the bones, life and death are instantly severed!

A line of blue-purple bloodstains gradually widened, and the giant beast's head and body were severed with a crash.

The demon generals of the Yaksha have vanished underground, and the Three Palaces of the Three Elements are lurking in secret, all to lure you into their trap!

The twelve illusory divine figures each resided in their palaces and exerted their power to guard them. The battered and bruised ruler of the alternate dimension finally could not hold on any longer and completely collapsed and disappeared.

As the mist dissipated, a small, grayish-black remnant appeared, seemingly about to disappear into the sky. However, the prepared Yaksha demon general pounced first, its sharp claws piercing through the afterimage and seizing it tightly.

"As expected, something is controlling things, which is why we're on guard against this."

Zhu Mingyao looked as if he had expected this. With the old woman Camo's strange behavior before him, he had long suspected that there was something else behind the disaster, so how could he take it lightly?

"Let me see what you are?"

Is Chapter 398 the end? Or...?

Slay the Mistweaver Mother [Behemoth], gaining 8620 points...

"Hmm, it's worth the money. The reward is commensurate with the prey's strength..." Zhu Mingyao scanned the system information with his mind and clicked his tongue in satisfaction.

My estimation was indeed correct. Those so-called Children of the Mist and this behemoth were in a superior-subordinate relationship, with the former likely being merely the latter's subordinates.

Strictly speaking, their life form is only somewhere between a derivative and a summon, so the rewards for killing them are meager. Only by taking down the mother can one get the lion's share.

Regarding its name... Zhu Mingyao also found its origin in his knowledge base.

The word Behemoth has several different meanings.

Originally, it was used to describe a divine monster that appeared in the Bible.

Legend has it that God created Behemoth from clay on the sixth day of creation. Its tail was as straight as a cedar tree, its muscles as strong as stone, and its bones as hard as bronze and iron. This beast was insatiable, capable of devouring a thousand mountains and drinking the rivers dry every day.

In demonology, this title is usually used to refer to the demon god who represents the opposite of hope among the seven rulers of Hell, the king who governs lust.

One is a mythical beast, the other a demon god; both are incredibly powerful and have been the primary focus of conversations throughout history.

But in modern times, its most inconspicuous third meaning has surprisingly surpassed the fame of the first two. The name that refers to all large, clumsy, and unknown animals is called...

—Behemoth.

One can only marvel at the terrifyingly powerful promotional effect of tabletop role-playing games and video games.

As a superhuman, Zhu Mingyao naturally knew some secrets beyond those of ordinary people.

For example, Behemoth is not actually a single creature, but a collective term for a type of giant magical beast that lives on land. Together with the sea monster Leviathan and the divine bird Shiz, they symbolize the wild power of the earth, the sea, and the sky, respectively.

These powerful beast-like spirits were once totems worshipped by people in ancient times.

As for the Christians' style... those who know, know. After rising to power, they went on a rampage, destroying mountains and temples, either driving them out or sealing them in the void.

Incidentally, in accordance with its usual propaganda tone, the church should have naturally denigrated them as inferior and barbaric beings, at most watching them as they were muddle-headed and unwilling to lower itself to antagonize them, and not directly accusing them of being demons.

This one we encountered should be one of them, but we don't know why it broke free and ran here.

As he reminisced about the past, a sliver of cold, white moonlight suddenly caught his eye. Looking up, he saw that with the death of the giant beast, it was as if a corner of a tent had collapsed due to the loss of a crucial support. In addition to the remaining lobster monsters dying automatically, even the vast fog instantly dissipated by nearly half, and the crescent moon timidly revealed half of its face in the sky.

After the fog dissipated, a scene of devastation unfolded before our eyes—piles of ruins, craters everywhere, flames raging. The land was unrecognizable, presenting a desolate and cruel beauty.

Having no interest whatsoever in the sentimentalism and melancholy of the artsy type, Zhu Mingyao focused his gaze on a pair of large hands with protruding bone spurs and bulging fleshy scales.

There, a thin black line slid and twisted, like a venomous snake lurking in the shadows. In Zhu Mingyao's spiritual vision, it gleamed with a dark, cold light, appearing exceptionally sinister.

The black line vibrated rapidly, leaving afterimages, and actually pierced through the hard, diamond-like scales of the Yaksha, about to escape successfully.

Zhu Mingyao reacted quickly, extending his arm and placing his palm against the ghost general's back. He channeled his magical power and together they suppressed the ghost general.