No strange things are allowed to evolve!

Then they heard the weasel-faced man ask, "What do you want?"

The abbot subconsciously looked up, only to see his wife, who had just been so tender and gentle, now torn to pieces.

The body, barely pieced together, oozed blood from the gaps between its parts.

Looking at its head again, it was found that blood was flowing from all seven orifices and its mouth and nose were crooked.

The clear water in the wooden bucket was instantly stained scarlet and emitted a foul stench.

The abbot was horrified.

"How could you..."

The weasel with a human face revealed a chilling smile: "You used me as a shield at the crucial moment, causing my tragic death. It was all your doing. Why are you afraid of my appearance now?"

As he spoke, the weasel-faced man lunged at the abbot.

With nowhere to retreat, the abbot could only watch helplessly as she pressed herself firmly against his chest, then slowly melted into the bathtub...

"don't want!!!"

With the abbot's desperate scream, he finally broke free from the bewitching illusion of the rat-headed beast.

In the instant he came to his senses, he understood everything.

"You...you actually dared to?! Why did you do this?!"

His eyes were bloodshot as he questioned the rat-headed beast, his murderous intent almost uncontrollable.

But when he looked to the side, what he saw first was not that hateful rat's head.

It's not its large "buttocks" that's the problem.

Just as he was slightly stunned.

"Huh? You woke up so quickly?"

A familiar sound came from my buttocks.

The abbot will never forget that voice in his entire life.

"It's you?!"

The velvet cloth was suddenly ripped off, and Jiang Shu, hanging on the rat-headed beast, revealed a sinister smile.

He said in an extremely strange, sarcastic tone, "Wife~ I want~"

The abbot was taken aback at first, then flew into a rage, his face bursting with undisguised hatred.

"You deserve to die!!"

Anger, hatred, and humiliation clouded his judgment.

He didn't have time to think about why Jiang Shu was here.

She didn't even have time to think about why he dared to be so arrogant after she broke free from his charm.

He had only one thought in his mind: he wanted to torture and kill his opponent here with unprecedented brutality!

But just as he raised his hand, he realized something was wrong.

His arm... seemed to have become somewhat heavy.

At the same time, breathing and blood flow also seemed to have a strange sense of stagnation.

Not just allure, but also weakness and disease?!

"Why did you..." He looked at the rat-headed beast in disbelief.

Just then, the rat-headed beast added another curse to the abbot, "reduce accuracy."

"Just as you said, neither you nor I are in control of our own destiny in this world..."

After responding, the rat-headed beast thought for a moment and then refrained from further "provoking" the abbot.

The mere sight of Jiang Shu had driven the abbot into a state of frenzy, even more so than the effects of the "provocation."

This made the rat-headed beast secretly wonder, just how much must he hate Jiang Shu?

When the abbot saw that Jiang Shu had somehow managed to turn the rat-headed beast against him, his heart sank, and he instinctively activated his calamity-level skill, which had saved him from danger multiple times.

He knew that Jiang Shu, who had somehow obtained something from that mysterious trial incubation ground, was immune to this skill.

However, his target was never Jiang Shu.

A day passed, and Jiang Shu was still only at level three. Even if he could still unleash power comparable to that of a level five evolved being, it still wouldn't hurt him.

Even though he is currently covered in negative status effects, his stats have been weakened, and his strength has decreased, he is still above the average stats of a level six evolver. He is not someone that a mere level three evolver with only level five strength can easily bully.

The only real threat to him now is the rat-headed beast!

As the abbot performed the spell, Jiang Shu, sensing something, suddenly showed a look of surprise, but quickly calmed down.

He didn't warn the rat-headed beast anything, remaining calm and watching from the sidelines.

Meanwhile, cold sweat suddenly broke out on the back of the rat-headed beast.

What's going on...? Why are all my stats dropping...?

It's not about reducing it by a certain percentage, but rather about steadily and gradually reducing it towards zero.

How can someone possess such a skill?!

broken...

It turned its head to look at Jiang Shu, its heart filled with bitterness.

You bet on the wrong thing...

Then it looked at the abbot, having already dropped the smugness it had shown when it uttered the words "I have no choice in the matter," and instead had a face full of flattery.

Its bright little eyes seemed to have suddenly learned to speak—

"Hey! Is it possible to reconcile?"

But the abbot didn't even glance at it.

After the spell was cast, all he could see was Jiang Shu.

Staring intently at Jiang Shu, he slowly rose from the blood pool altar.

Despite bearing a string of negative buffs, it still exudes an immense sense of oppression.

"If he's your only support, then... have you thought about how you want to die?"

But Jiang Shu didn't seem to care at all: "Are you done with the operation?"

"What did you say?" The abbot suddenly laughed. "Why don't you turn around and take a look at your reliance?"

Jiang Shu didn't turn around, but just smiled slightly.

"You're done, right? Now it's my turn."

Chapter 85 Jiang Shu's Silky Smooth Combo (Fourth Update, 3000 words)

Upon hearing Jiang Shu's words, the abbot neither mocked nor felt angry.

The outcome was already decided the moment his skill took effect.

So now he's not in a hurry anymore.

He wanted to have some fun with Jiang Shu; if she didn't struggle at all, he would find it boring.

Now, this is exactly what he wanted.

"It seems you've mistaken yesterday's stroke of luck for part of your strength."

The abbot looked at Jiang Shu's right hand; he clearly remembered that all of Jiang Shu's fingers had been broken off yesterday.

"Your recovery ability is quite good. Well then, let me see just how vigorous your vitality really is."

He stood on the altar mountain, turned sideways, and pointed to Jiang Shu's right leg: "I'll dislocate your right leg first."

After saying that, his figure vanished like a ghost.

Even with Jiang Shu's eyesight being so well-trained that it rivaled that of an ace pilot, he still struggled to track the abbot's movements.

It is difficult to capture, but not impossible to capture.

After being weakened by the rat-headed beast, his speed was indeed slower than when he ran away yesterday.

"Old man, you've become weak!"

Jiang Shu pulled his arm off the rat-headed beast that was kneeling on the ground.

A pocket watch had appeared in his left hand at some point.

The abbot, who was severing Jiang Shu's right leg with a chop from the side, suddenly felt a familiar strangeness.

He discovered that his chop... had inexplicably shortened by an inch, just enough to graze the other person's trouser leg, but it hadn't hurt him.

I had this feeling yesterday when I wanted to kill Jiang Shu while I was clearing the level.

His wife, who was clearly some distance away from him, suddenly flashed into his chest, forcing him to withdraw his strength and causing him to miss the opportunity to rip out his heart.

It's like... someone stole a second of time.

While the abbot was puzzled, he suddenly felt unbearable pain in his body, as if his whole body was falling apart. Then, it felt as if something was stuck in his throat, and it was uncontrollably gushing out.

The next moment, a mouthful of foul blood spurted from his mouth, mixed with a broken tooth.

The abbot was horrified.

He's injured?! How could that be?

And the location from which this pain came... meant I'd been hit more than once!

That feeling of suddenly disappearing for a second...wasn't it just my imagination?!

He lightly jumped back, stopping two meters away from Jiang Shu. The abbot frowned and asked, "What...did you just do?"

"I just did a lot of things, which one specifically are you asking about?"

As he spoke, Jiang Shu took out a few small, candy-like balls from his pocket and tossed them into his mouth to chew.

He wasn't provoking the abbot; rather, he had indeed done many things during the period when the "Pocket Watch of the Deceased" was in effect.

But you could also say that he only did one thing—he was the first to use monkey tricks.

First, he avoided the abbot's attack, which was crucial; otherwise, with a physical strength of only 2, he would already be missing a leg.

Although his self-healing ability is indeed amazing, it was still quite a challenge for him to grow a new leg.

While he was dodging, he quickly threw eleven punches at the abbot.

This was not difficult for him, who used to throw 10,000 punches a day during his boxing training, especially with the added benefit of the [Enchantment: Joy].

Each time he throws a punch, the speed of his next punch increases by 2%. By the fifth punch, he has already stacked up 10% extra attack speed, which makes up for the inevitable weakening caused by the gap in his punching practice over the years.

In short, more than enough!

The reason he did this was to stack the [Enchantment: Vulnerable] effect—if the target is hit three times within three seconds, they take 10% more damage from all sources.

And the 30% physical strength reduction from the left punch, which is associated with the "high damage from the left punch, high damage from the right punch!" rule, has been removed.

This skill requires you to use an alternating left and right punch attack first before the attack effect will be applied. So the first two punches are just the pre-attack animation. From the third punch onwards, until the eleventh punch, there are five left punches and four right punches, which will stack up to 30%.

As for why Jiang Shu punched the abbot in the face but didn't attack the demon pill, that's the reason.

The reason is simple: the abbot pounced on them, and if you wanted to attack the Demon Orb, you would have to specifically go around to the abbot's back, which might not be enough time.

If the abbot doesn't lose his fighting ability after a punch, but I haven't stacked all my buffs, then it's a losing proposition.

In the current situation, he must find a way to win.

Besides these, as soon as the abbot woke up from his bewitching state, Jiang Shu secretly ordered the rat-headed beast to inflict five negative status effects on him.

When the abbot used a calamity-level weakening skill, he added another layer of weakening to himself.

Adding to the several kinds of unwanted highly toxic medicines that Jiang Shu had just eaten from the Medical Department of the Bureau of Different Principles, Jiang Shu had accumulated ten layers of [All Five Poisons], increasing the effectiveness of his attacks by 200%, which is three times the damage he could originally deal.

It also stacks the 10% true damage from [Indestructible] and the 10% damage source amplification from [Enchantment: Vulnerable].

If an attack is launched against the abbot at this time, the damage will be the theoretical limit, which is 330% of the damage that can be caused after removing his physical strength, plus 33% true damage that ignores physical strength.

In fact, when Jiang Shu was stacking eleven punches per second in the Monkey Show, it wasn't a powerful, all-out attack; he only wanted to stack them up quickly.

Judging from the abbot's reaction, the results have been quite encouraging.