Ch 367: Share With Me
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Xu Liang finished the cold steamed buns in a whirlwind, wiped his mouth, looked at Liu Ke, and curiously asked: “Liu Ke, where are you going?”
Liu Ke answered calmly: “I am a Blade Catcher, naturally I am going to carry out a mission.”
Xu Liang’s eyes lit up upon hearing this, and he quickly said: “Hey, Liu Ke, how about this, I’ll help you complete the mission, and you’ll share half of the reward money with me, how about that?”
Liu Ke was stunned at first, then he asked doubtfully: “Reward money?”
Xu Liang scratched his head, and said somewhat embarrassedly: “Uh… I don’t know how to put it, anyway, that’s the meaning.”
Liu Ke thought for a moment, then said: “I can lend it to you or give it to you directly.”
Xu Liang quickly waved his hands, and said earnestly: “No, I don’t like borrowing money, and I don’t like others giving me money, so I’ll go with you to complete the mission.”
Seeing this, Liu Ke nodded and said: “Okay, since you insist, I can’t refuse. My mission this time is to go to Yueqing Temple on Nanqing Mountain, if you want to come, then come with me.”
“Okay!” Xu Liang readily agreed.
So, the two of them walked in the same direction.
After walking for a while, the mantis on Liu Ke’s shoulder suddenly asked: “You just believe him like that?”
Liu Ke smiled and replied: “I’ve had several encounters with him, and I don’t think he’s a bad person.”
At this time, Xu Liang suddenly interjected: “Liu Ke, are you married?”
Liu Ke was a little dumbfounded by this sudden question. He looked at Xu Liang and asked incomprehensibly: “No, why are you asking this?”
Xu Liang chuckled and said: “I want to introduce one to you.”
“No need, none of us Blade Catchers know how long we can live, maybe we’ll die tomorrow, we don’t need to marry and have children.”
Xu Liang scratched his head, somewhat unwillingly saying: “That’s not necessarily true, maybe you’ll be lucky and live a long and peaceful life. The girl I’m introducing to you is very good, gentle and virtuous, and beautiful.”
Liu Ke remained unmoved and said calmly: “My mind is made up, don’t bother.” Xu Liang, seeing that he couldn’t persuade him, stopped mentioning it.
After walking a while, a mist suddenly appeared ahead. Liu Ke became alert, he drew his sword from his waist and said in a low voice: “Be careful, this mist has a strange aura.”
Xu Liang also clenched his fists and followed behind Liu Ke. As soon as they stepped into the mist, they felt the temperature drop sharply, and they could faintly hear some strange sounds.
The mantis also flew off Liu Ke’s shoulder and circled around to scout.
Suddenly, a huge dark shadow darted out of the mist and pounced towards them.
Liu Ke raised his hand and dropped his blade, and the huge figure was instantly split in two, like a piece of tofu being cut, the cut surface was smooth and without any hindrance.
With the splitting of the huge figure, Liu Ke finally saw its true face. It was an extremely strange existence, its body composed of various strange substances: branches, mud, flesh, and hair, these things intertwined and entangled together, forming a nauseating whole.
Liu Ke widened his eyes, wanting to see the internal structure of this thing, but no matter how hard he tried, he could only see a blur. This made his heart pound, wondering if this strange thing was a demon or an evil calamity.
Liu Ke swallowed hard, and a layer of fine sweat appeared on his forehead. He secretly prayed in his heart, hoping that this thing was just an ordinary demon, because if it was an evil calamity, especially one that appeared during the day, then he would really be done for.
Liu Ke dared not hesitate, and quickly shouted: “Mantis, what exactly is this thing?”
“I don’t know either!” The mantis’s voice came from afar, sounding somewhat panicked.
“What? There are even evil calamities or demons that you don’t recognize?” Liu Ke could hardly believe his ears.
“I’ve only been alive for two hundred years, how could I know everything?” The mantis’s tone revealed a hint of helplessness.
While Liu Ke and the mantis were talking, the two split creatures suddenly moved again, they were like a pair of hungry wolves, baring their fangs and claws and pouncing towards Liu Ke.
Seeing this, Liu Ke immediately used his unique skill. He waved his hands, and two red marks, like lightning, dashed out and accurately attached themselves to the hands of the two creatures.
Liu Ke thought, and the two red marks instantly exploded with a loud “boom.”
The two creatures were blown to pieces, turning into a puddle of mud.
However, before Liu Ke could breathe a sigh of relief, the puddle of mud began to wriggle again, and in the blink of an eye, it recombined into four identical creatures, and they were even more ferocious than before.
At this time, Xu Liang opened his sword case, and four swords flew out.
The four swords drew four silvery arcs in the air, like well-trained hunters, accurately stabbing towards the four newly recombined creatures.
A few “puchi” sounds were heard, the blades sank into their bodies, but there was no expected resistance of piercing a solid object, instead, it was like stabbing into a thick paste.
Xu Liang raised an eyebrow and shouted: “Turn!”
The four swords immediately spun at high speed within the creatures’ bodies, bringing up black-brown liquid, the liquid fell to the ground and “sizzled,” corroding small pits.
But the creatures seemed to feel no pain, still opening their “mouths,” pieced together from mud and hair, and rushing towards Liu Ke.
“This thing is very evil!” Xu Liang exclaimed, “It can’t be killed or blown up.”
Liu Ke had no time to respond, he found that every step closer the creatures took, the mist around them became denser, and even the sound of the mantis’s scouting became blurry.
He reached back for the fire starter at his waist, just as he was about to light them, he saw the four creatures suddenly stop, their bodies began to tremble violently, and the branches and flesh on their bodies moved like living things, drawing closer together.
“No good, they’re going to merge again!”
As soon as Liu Ke finished speaking, he saw the four figures instantly merge into a larger monster, about the height of three people, its arms transformed into two thick vines with barbs, lashing out at the two of them.
“Xu Liang, left!”
Liu Ke slashed at a vine with his sword, he used fire combined with the mark against the thing, and the sparks splashed on the broken part, igniting a dark blue flame. He took the opportunity to shout: “This thing is afraid of fire!”
Xu Liang’s eyes lit up, he took out an oiled cloth package from his bosom, tore it open and threw it into the air.
The gunpowder in the package was scattered by the wind, he made a swipe with his sword qi, and the sparks instantly ignited the gunpowder, exploding a sea of fire in the air.
The monster, scorched by the flames, let out a piercing shriek, and the mud on its body began to melt, revealing dense black insects underneath.
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