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"My little ones, you must be like me: when you see humans treating them as food, don't be polite to them!"

The Great Tengu waved his hand forcefully.

"Oh! Long live the General!"

The monsters below immediately cheered loudly.

Surrounded by countless monsters, however, lay the unseeing corpse of the priestess...

Bah!

A one-eyed, one-legged umbrella-shaped monster was blasted away and then struck by lightning, instantly turning into ashes.

Then, a wisp of purple, thread-like mist, almost invisible to the naked eye, flew over and gathered around Xu Ming's body.

"Is this the external manifestation of demonic energy? It's truly amazing."

Xu Ming looked around his body with curiosity.

At first, there was no change, but as Xu Ming and the others continued to kill monsters, the purple demonic energy on his body accumulated more and more, and now it has gathered into a thin layer of light purple mist, which is very conspicuous.

These demonic energies did not merge into his body; they simply floated peacefully around him, like planetary rings.

It's unclear what criteria Suwa Taisha uses to judge the numerical values ​​of these demonic auras.

However, that's something Suwa Taisha should worry about.

Xu Ming quickly put this question out of his mind.

Leaving the lake where the elephant frog lived, Xu Ming led his shikigami towards the monster mountain.

On their way to Monster Mountain, the group encountered a few monsters.

The monsters here are very strange.

After Xu Ming signed a contract with his sister, he began to exude her aura, which would terrify ordinary little demons who even saw him.

But the monsters in Monster Mountain acted as if they had killed their own mother. As soon as they saw Xu Ming, their eyes turned red, and they pounced on him with howling cries.

While casually killing these monsters and gaining a small amount of demonic energy, Xu Ming also sensed something was amiss.

From the moment he entered this eerie place, he felt a strange atmosphere.

"Xu Ming, there's trouble ahead!"

Haruyuki Arita, who had already taken off to act as a reconnaissance aircraft, suddenly used telepathy to convey a message to Xu Ming.

'What happened?'

"There's a very strange forest directly ahead of you. Be careful!"

After ending the call, Xu Ming walked for about 5 minutes, rounded a large rock, and immediately saw the strange forest that Haruyuki Arita had described.

Indeed, as he said, this forest is very strange.

The trees throughout the entire forest, from branches and trunks to leaves, were all white.

This white is not the pure white of snow, but rather like bones exposed to the air, weathered by wind and rain, showing a grayish hue.

From a distance, the entire forest appears to be covered with a layer of white ash.

There's something strange about this grove.

"My lord, shall we take a detour?"

Erina suggested in a low voice.

Xu Ming observed from a distance and realized that the forest was very large, and it might take a long time to find a way around it.

Although he can also roam around the outskirts of Monster Mountain, killing some less dangerous monsters to earn monster energy points.

However, since the rules clearly state that the stronger the monster you kill, the more demon energy you can obtain, and the stronger the monster, the closer it is to Monster Mountain, then taking a detour is meaningless.

Since he followed Kato Megumi's advice to participate in the White Snake Festival, he naturally hoped to win first place as a reward.

"No need to detour, just go straight ahead."

After Xu Ming finished speaking, he led the way towards the grove of trees.

As Xu Ming approached the woods, he quickly discovered more unusual things.

Even at lakes where elephant frogs roam, animals would sneak over to drink, but in this forest, there wasn't a single bird, let alone any small animals; the entire forest seemed to be dead.

"Everyone be careful."

Xu Ming quickly reminded him.

The two women behind him nodded slightly.

The three of them cautiously and slowly walked into the woods.

Click!

Xu Ming suddenly stepped on and snapped a grayish-white 'withered branch'.

He glanced down instinctively, and his expression changed slightly.

What kind of dead branch is this?

It's clearly a human skeleton!

Looking around, the ground in the woods was covered with grayish-white 'dead branches'—all human skeletons!

Could it be that……

Xu Ming suddenly thought of something and looked up at the nearest tree.

Although we don’t know what happened here, we can vaguely make out that the trunks of these trees are made up of bones!

This eerie forest seemed to realize it had been exposed, and immediately underwent a terrifying change.

Click!

The skeletons on the ground, the skeletons that made up the trees, the skeletons throughout the entire forest began to tremble violently.

These skeletons seemed to be drawn together by a force, forming bizarrely shaped skeletal monsters in front of Xu Ming.

A humanoid skeleton made entirely of skulls, a skeletal dog with two heads, one in front and one behind, covered in bone spurs, resembling an enlarged hedgehog...

The most terrifying creature was a skeletal centipede over 30 meters long, covered with countless tentacles. Its hundreds of skeletal legs trembled violently, emitting a piercing cracking sound.

Soon, the skeletal monsters subtly surrounded the three of them.

Xu Ming immediately used 'Twins of the Other Shore'.

With its short cooldown and significant enhancement effects, 'Twin Souls' is currently the most suitable equipment for Xu Ming.

The two-colored crystal flower immediately flew into the sky and began the judgment process.

The crystal flower's color kept changing until it finally turned black and settled, thus being identified as the 'Abyss Flower'!

Black 'snow' fluttered and fell onto the skeletal monster, instantly merging into its body and forming a black flower-shaped mark.

This is the curse from the abyss.

The aura emanating from the cursed monster visibly weakens rapidly.

Without Xu Ming giving any signal, Erina and Asagami Fujino immediately launched their attack.

The two worked together seamlessly. Erina erected a wall of fire around the three of them to prevent them from being surrounded, while Asagami Fujino kept glaring through the fire wall.

Xu Ming also raised the crowbar and kept waving it around.

Chapter 306 Luring the Monster and Trapping People

Crackling sounds!

The skeletal monsters cursed by the 'Flower of the Abyss' not only become much slower and more stiff, but also extremely vulnerable.

Xu Ming could often smash a skeleton monster apart with a single tap of his crowbar, allowing him to once again experience the thrill of mowing the grass.

The skeletal monsters tried one after another to get through the wall of fire, but after being weakened, not one of them was able to cross it.

This wall of fire is like an insurmountable barrier.

Soon, the skeletal monsters all around were wiped out one by one.

Even the most terrifying white bone centipede was broken down into osteoporosis by the force of the blows, lightning, and twisting power.

The skeletal monster that was knocked down turned its bones into ashes, which dissipated with a gust of wind.

These skeletal monsters didn't put too much pressure on Xu Ming, so in his spare time, he began to actively observe his surroundings.

He naturally witnessed this scene as well.

He certainly didn't believe that Erina's flames were too hot and directly burned the skeleton to ashes.

This area seems to be special; these skeletons appear to be protected by some mysterious force.

Before long, the skeletal monsters were completely wiped out.

Xu Ming continued forward with his shikigami.

This time, however, Xu Ming chose a very safe approach.

They set fire to the forest.

He directly instructed Erina to use flames to clear a path.

call!

The scorching flames transformed into a sea of ​​fire, sweeping forward and turning the still-intact white bone trees into ashes under the blazing heat.

"Oh ho ho ho~! Is that all there is to it? That's it? That's all?"

Erina raised her head slightly, put one hand on her hip, covered her mouth with the other, her cheeks were slightly red, and she looked excited, letting out a standard queen-like three-part laugh.

Behind her, Xu Ming wiped non-existent sweat from his forehead.

He had previously asked Erina to set the mountain on fire, but it seemed to have turned on some strange switch for her, making her even more unrestrained (wild).

Of course, the effect was also outstanding. Under the scorching heat of the flames, the bones in the forest turned to ashes before they could even assemble into a monster.

Erina enthusiastically set off, while Xu Ming followed behind, doing nothing.

Just then, Haruyuki Arita, who was flying in the sky, suddenly sounded an alarm.

"Xu Ming, something's up!"