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The beastman-like glutton wasn't fat. The large belly Su Yan had seen under the black robe was actually the arms hanging down from the glutton's chest. Those arms made the black robe look bigger, giving everyone else an illusion.

"click"

The glutton's four arms, hanging low in front of his chest, slowly and eerily stretched out and straightened, then pulled back to hug his chest, blocking Su Yan's view of his chest cavity and also obscuring the vertical indentation in the center of his chest cavity.

"This is also my mouth. I habitually use my arms to attract the attention of other creatures, making them think that the vertical line on my chest is a weak point."

When the glutton saw Su Yan looking at his chest, he offered an explanation.

"You're actually a pretty good person."

Su Yan mentally complained, but his body didn't move an inch. He lowered his eyelids and looked at the red jade hairpin sword in his hand, which was still emitting a green light. A sense of confidence to fight back gradually grew in his heart.

Su Yan's strength was utterly insignificant compared to Lao Tao's. With Lao Tao's strength, even a single sneeze from him could wipe out a row of Golden Core cultivators standing nearby.

Su Yan was able to withstand the old glutton's two attacks entirely thanks to the formidable power of the Red Jade Hairpin Sword. Now, seeing that the Red Jade Hairpin Sword was still as powerful as ever, Su Yan, holding the sword in both hands, felt a surge of desire to retaliate.

Of course, Su Yan's definition of a counterattack is not really about fighting the glutton to the death, but rather about using a counterattack to find an opportunity to escape.

Moreover, Su Yan doesn't know how long the Red Jade Hairpin Sword can remain powerful, so getting entangled with the glutton is pointless.

Once the Red Jade Hairpin Sword loses its power, Su Yan might lose even the chance to escape.

"Give us a boost with the hairpin sword! Our next move will be to target the formation in the sky that's already on the verge of collapse, and let the seawater flood into the city and give that glutton a good thrashing!"

Seeing the strange shape of the glutton in front of me, I could tell no matter how I looked at it, it must have been inherited from the Taotie.

Taotie is a ferocious land beast, and its agility in the sea could never surpass that of the dragons.

"cut!"

Su Yan gripped the Red Jade Hairpin Sword with both hands, staring at the gluttonous old man in front of him. He took a big step forward, his body moving in a wide and sweeping motion, and thrust out a sword shadow that was infused with his own spiritual power.

The sword shadow, having just detached from the blade, resembled a jade dragon, roaring as it lunged at the glutton not far away.

As it turned out, Lao Tao hadn't lied to Su Yan. Facing Su Yan's fierce sword strike, Lao Tao neither dodged nor evaded. He opened his four arms, which were wrapped around his chest, and a spiral-shaped mouth opened in the vertical indentation in the middle of his chest, with a large number of fine canine teeth mixed in with the writhing flesh.

The gluttonous man spread his four arms and two arms out in front of his chest, letting the sword shadows pierce into his chest.

Su Yan stared wide-eyed at all of this, completely unable to understand what the glutton was doing.

With this sword strike, Su Yan combined the power of the Dual Perfection Technique, aiming to injure the glutton if possible, or at least severely damage the artificial sky, causing trillions of tons of seawater to flood in.

Unexpectedly, the glutton opened its chest wide and devoured the sword shadow without dodging or flinching.

"Grumpy"

After completely devouring the sword shadow, the gluttonous beast's worm-like maw on its chest instantly closed, and streams of white light converged from its chest toward the dragon head on its neck.

The gluttonous creature slightly bent its body, and a scorching ball of light gathered at the top of its throat, containing a compressed beam of light containing the power of the Dual Arts. It then spewed out from the gluttonous creature's head towards Su Yan.

"What kind of monster is this?!"

Su Yan held the sword in both hands in front of him, urging the Red Jade Hairpin Sword to exert more force, and also gathered all his spiritual power into the blade to condense a sword light containing the power of the Dual Perfection Technique to resist the white beam of light.

"So be it, grit your teeth and go for it!"

The dazzling light illuminated the entire coastal city. In this intense light, Su Yan couldn't help but close his eyes and hold the sword blade upright in front of him.

"Zizzi"

One, two, three, four, nine—nine fluffy fox tails extended from behind Su Yan, as beautiful and unparalleled as summer flowers in full bloom. The nine fox tails circled around Su Yan's figure and converged into a sphere in front of him, completely enveloping Su Yan in the fox tail protective layer.

Sister Xi'er emerged from Su Yan's body, raised her hand to touch Su Yan's eyes, and gave him a temporary blinding effect before directly intervening to help Su Yan withstand the Taotie's devouring beam attack.

"Still, I lack experience! The Taotie's innate supernatural abilities are incredibly difficult to deal with."

The Taotie's innate supernatural power is extremely simple and brutal: it can accumulate energy by eating, and it can also use its supernatural power to extract the characteristics of the objects it devours, and use its own power to amplify and counterattack these characteristics.

Simply put, as long as the Taotie can withstand your magical powers, it can extract the essence of your skill by swallowing it, amplify it dozens or hundreds of times, and return it to you in the form of a pillar of light.

The unique characteristic of the Dual-Power Method is its ability to break spirits. This spirit-breaking power, amplified by the Gluttonous Divine Power, is no joke.

If Su Yan continues to hesitate and refrain from taking action, he will be doomed when faced with the Taotie's counterattack.

I was supposed to update last night, but I think I caught a cold and have a bit of a headache. I was going to send a leave request to ask for half a day of rest to take a break.

But after thinking about it for a while, I decided not to say anything and just told the book lovers in the group.

So, I'm writing now. (Regarding votes and subscriptions)

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 399 The Changing Landscape of the Red Desert

"Zizzi-"

The Devouring Beam shot straight out from the dragon's head, heavily bombarding the protective layer formed by the fox's tail. As the tail caved inward, the energy beam began to accumulate into a ball of energy at the depression formed by the fox's tail.

"Boom-"

The fox tail, which had been concave inward, suddenly bulged up, directly deflecting the gluttonous light orb spat out by the old glutton. The orb, carrying terrifying mass, landed in a corner of the near-sea city, unleashing a white spiral wave that turned the area around the landing point into nothingness.

"The power of the Gluttonous Beast is really troublesome."

Xi'er, who emerged from Su Yan's body, personally intervened in Su Yan's combat power, blocking the deadly technique that the gluttonous beast was about to unleash.

Those with the Taotie bloodline are thick-skinned and possess extremely terrifying defensive and counter-attack capabilities. If one's cultivation is insufficient to kill in one blow, facing a Taotie alone is an extremely agonizing and painful protracted battle.

During this time, you must absolutely not use any magical techniques to bombard the Taotie. Otherwise, the Taotie will devour the techniques to restore its own mana, or, as before, devour the techniques to analyze their essence and characteristics, and use its own power to amplify the characteristics of the techniques, returning them to the attacker in the form of beams of light.

Sister Xi'er slowly retracted her tail, looked at the stunned old glutton in front of her, raised her hand, and grabbed the old glutton's body from a distance. Suddenly, she raised her hand and used the old glutton as a cannonball to smash him directly into the artificial dome.

"boom"

The artificial dome above the coastal city instantly cracked open, creating a crater over a hundred square meters in size. The dragon head of the gluttonous creature, which had no eyes, ears, or nose, collided with the protective array of the coastal city. Upon contact, the dragon head of the gluttonous creature was squeezed by the terrifying impact and exploded on the spot, turning into spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

The body of the dead glutton began to disintegrate, leaving no trace of flesh or blood; it all turned into spiritual energy and dissipated.

The gluttonous creature that jumped to block Su Yan's escape was not actually the gluttonous creature itself, but rather an avatar that the gluttonous creature had specially arranged in the city lord's mansion before going to the merfolk banquet. It was in case Su Yan encountered an unexpected situation and escaped to inform the dragon clan.

The glutton's true form was still in the merfolk's banquet hall. With the death of his avatar, the divine consciousness within the avatar, along with its memories, returned to the glutton's true form.

"Oh"

Sister Xi'er dispersed the glutton's avatar, looked up towards the near-shore market, sneered, and revealed a disdainful expression on her face:

"All that fancy stuff, if you're feeling down, wouldn't it be easier and quicker to just slit your own throat with a sword or knife? I've never seen anyone make such a big fuss about committing suicide."

As if sensing what was happening on land, Sister Xi'er spoke with a hint of disdain, mocking the mastermind behind it all.

After mocking Xuan Tong's naivety as the Holy Mother of Ten Thousand Spirits, Sister Xi'er quickly shrank back into Su Yan's body.

If the situation hadn't been so critical that Su Yan's life was truly threatened, Sister Xi'er wouldn't have had any intention of personally intervening. At most, she would have quietly provided Su Yan with some spiritual energy assistance, just like at the beginning.

There are two reasons why Sister Xi'er made this decision.

Firstly, it's already late, and the Lord of Night could come to Su Yan's place to spend the night at any time.

Sister Xi'er does not possess the power of Empress Dowager Su; she is merely one of the nine ghostly souls of Empress Dowager Su. She does not have the ability to deceive the Lord of the Night based on her strength.

Once the Lord of the Night catches her, Empress Dowager Su's grand scheme will be completely ruined. Without the Lord of the Night's protection at night, Empress Dowager Su feels somewhat uneasy when she sleeps.

Secondly, it was naturally because Su Yan's feelings were taken into consideration.

With a weight of one pound and a rebellious streak, if Su Yan were to learn that an old woman who occasionally spyes on his life resides within him, Empress Dowager Su might be unable to withstand the stimulation and engage in some extreme or exorcising behavior.

There are very few vessels of the opposite sex like Su Yan, who belong to the same race and also contain the bloodline of the dragon race.

If Su Yan is lost and a suitable vessel is sought, that little dragon might jump up, point at his own nose, and start cursing.

Therefore, Empress Dowager Su kept a low profile as much as possible, and chose to play dead throughout the entire process before her strength had recovered to its peak.

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"Boom!"

Blinded by the Gluttonous Devouring Light, Su Yan gripped the Red Jade Hairpin Sword tightly in a defensive stance to withstand the Gluttonous Beam that could strike him at any moment.

However, the expected scorching light and the high weight brought by the high-density energy did not arrive in front of him as expected. Instead, a stream of clear, salty, and bitter seawater slapped against all parts of Su Yan's body.

Su Yan fell into the flooded seawater, and his eyesight and spiritual sense gradually returned.

"Grumpy"

Su Yan landed in the waves and choked on several mouthfuls of icy seawater. He quickly manifested his three-tailed fox form, using his hands, feet, and tail to transform into a white shadow and weave through the debris-strewn whirlpools of the sea.

"It's flooded!"

Su Yan stood in the sea, looking around suspiciously, searching for the gluttonous old man.

Blinded by both the glutton and Sister Xi'er, Su Yan was unaware of what was happening. He remained vigilant about the beam of light spewed out by the glutton, but the beam mysteriously disappeared, replaced by the complete vanishing of the protective array atop the near-sea city dome. In an instant, a massive amount of seawater filled the interior of the near-sea city.

Although Su Yan didn't know what happened to him during the few seconds he was blinded by the beam of light, the fact that Lao Tao didn't try to kill him in front of him was obviously a very advantageous thing for him.

Su Yan took one last look at the coastal city, at the city submerged in the sea, and at the various sizes of the undamaged grinding arrays within the city.

"I'm going to report you right now."

Su Yan muttered a curse in his heart, his three fox tails bobbing up and down as he prepared to go ashore and inquire which nearby clan had a teleportation array. He planned to go to the Weapon Sect, use the inter-state teleportation array to return to Xia Yu, and bring back reinforcements to save his aunt and the Merfolk.

"call"

Su Yan leaped out of the sea, his physical form materializing into human form. He grasped the hairpin sword beside him, preparing to fly on the sword to the near-shore market to find a cultivator to ask for directions.

But when Su Yan wiped the seawater from his face and looked towards the near-shore market, he was completely stunned by the red jade hairpin sword, unsure of how to describe what he saw and heard.

The coastal market has been engulfed in flames, and the merchants, traveling monks and traders inside are engaged in a fierce battle with a large number of monsters whose bones are white and jade-colored.

Those White Bone Demons were all highly skilled, and they were frantically slaughtering cultivators and sea beasts, devouring their flesh and blood. Every time they devoured a cultivator, flesh and blood would grow back on their bodies, gradually transforming into their former appearance.

The coastal waters have turned into a blood-red sea.

In contrast, in the distance lies the barren land, which is now gradually transforming into a yellow desert. Soil has appeared on some of the desert, and lush green vegetation has reappeared in the desert area. The dried-up riverbeds have become moist again, and water stains have appeared on the riverbed.

A surge of magical power, even more potent than that of the gluttonous one and faintly comparable to that of Ao Renlin, traveled from the depths of the Red Desert to the coastline, radiating a dense, crazed, blood-red malice.

Seeing this, Su Yan fell silent.

That gluttonous snake monster is surprisingly honest; it turns out the one who orchestrated the incident in the coastal city wasn't him after all.

He's at most an accomplice; the real culprit is already frantically digging up the West Sea Dragon Mother's grave.

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