Ch 536: The Vanguard

A “living” severed head.

Its face was ashen, its eyes bloodshot and bulging, its nose was two black skeletons, it had no upper lip, revealing sharp teeth stained red with blood, and its hair, tangled like straw, was extremely prickly.

What was most incredible was that this severed head also emitted an indescribable stench.

Jiang Nanyu hissed a curse, and before the severed head could react, she threw it away!

“There’s more!”

Before the words were finished, another dark shadow flew towards Jiang Nanyu!

Jiang Nanyu quickly grabbed the Demon-Slaying Sword, holding it with both hands and swinging it at the incoming severed head like a baseball bat.

“Dong!”

The severed head landed in a puddle.

Before Jiang Nanyu could breathe a sigh of relief, several severed heads flew out of the poisonous fog again.

“What the—”

Severed heads continuously flew towards their direction, even the Feather Fan was startled and quickly stepped forward to help, fanning all these severed heads that flew out of the poisonous fog away.

After a long time of busy work, Jiang Nanyu finally had some free time and quickly leaned against a Giant Tree to rest, shouting to the Old Taoist whose figure was still unclear in the poisonous fog: “Master, stop kicking, it’s no use!”

“How many?”

The Old Taoist’s voice came from the poisonous fog.

Jiang Nanyu glanced, quickly answering: “Countless, I don’t know!”

“Eighty!”

The Feather Fan followed with a shout.

“The last one!”

As soon as the words fell, another severed head flew out from the poisonous fog.

Jiang Nanyu was about to knock this severed head away, but Chang Yinzi’s figure quickly emerged from the black mist, and the next second he grabbed the severed head’s hair and brought it down in front of Jiang Nanyu.

Upon closer inspection, this severed head looked exceptionally eerie.

It clearly had an ashen human face, but two thumb-thick antennae grew from its head, its open mouth revealed teeth as sharp as a shark’s, uneven and jagged, and two long tails protruded from its ears, still wagging incessantly.

“…What the hell is this thing, so ugly!”

“These are the corpses of those things from the bottom of the Water Pool, and this one is from inside that Coffin.” Chang Yinzi looked down at the thing in his arms, smirking slightly, “With this, we naturally have a way to enter the Netherworld Barrier.”

Jiang Nanyu looked at the strange severed head with puzzlement, while the Feather Fan seemed to have remembered something, but his memory was rather hazy: “I seem to, I seem to remember…”

“Remember what?” the Demon-Slaying Sword asked impatiently.

After hesitating for a long time, the Feather Fan still gave up: “I can’t quite remember, the missing feathers also took away most of my memories, anyway, I vaguely remember something that could take us into the Netherworld Barrier…”

The Demon-Slaying Sword said angrily: “What good are you, good for nothing!”

“…” Jiang Nanyu twitched her mouth, pressed down on the Demon-Slaying Sword, and whispered, “Ancestor, I never realized you were so gossipy and impertinent before!”

The Demon-Slaying Sword retorted resentfully: “Nonsense, Ancestor I have always been very kind!”

Jiang Nanyu pointed to the severed heads: “What about these, how should we deal with them now?”

“Go pick them up, we’ll set up the Formation and enter the Netherworld Barrier!” Chang Yinzi patted his sleeve, narrowing his eyes slightly, “Master has already cleared up the severed heads for you beforehand, if you can’t even handle this small matter of setting up the formation, then we’ll just go home.”

Jiang Nanyu: “…”

He should have said so earlier, she wouldn’t have knocked all those things away.

With no other choice, Jiang Nanyu could only reluctantly go to look for those disgusting severed heads. Of course, the General who was preparing to sneak away was also caught by her to work. It took two hours to finally collect most of the severed heads.

But there should have been eighty-one severed heads, but even including the stubborn one the Old Taoist had been holding, there were only eighty.

Where was the remaining one?

Jiang Nanyu searched back and forth but couldn’t find the last severed head.

One fewer severed head meant the Formation couldn’t be activated. Jiang Nanyu was stunned, she couldn’t possibly cut off another head on the spot, there was nowhere to cut it from…

“Wait, what’s that?”

As soon as the words fell, the General “whoosh” darted out, and after a while, the sound of a brawl came from the dense bushes.

The Demon-Slaying Sword quickly flew out, worried that the Little Kitty would be bullied, but when it arrived, it saw the General being completely entangled by something like vines, even its mouth was tightly sealed.

But before it could make a move, the General roared, its body instantly swelled and grew larger, breaking the vines and fiercely tearing and dragging something out from the depths!

It was the missing severed head!!!

What was terrifying was that half of this severed head’s face had been eaten away by something, and the remaining half showed a distorted expression of extreme pain.

The General was about to go back in to investigate when a black shadow, swift as lightning, quickly darted out—