Damn it! Let’s smash the darkness together!
Chapter 521 - 136: Spiritual Perception_3

Chapter 521: Chapter 136: Spiritual Perception_3

The entrance was long, narrow, and small; damp and chill to the bone. It was extremely constricted at first but after walking a hundred steps or so, it unexpectedly opened up to a vast cavern. Crystal columns, glittering with clarity, were planted upside down on the ground. Fireflies flitted to and fro, while pieces of Night Light Stone overlapped each other, sending gentle light refracting back and forth, making the place stunningly beautiful, like something out of the Human Immortal Realm.

You faintly felt something watching you, and you chose to actively open your Spiritual Perception.

Through the haze, you saw earthworms as thick as fingers constantly burrowing in and out of the facial pores of a seated, grotesquely swollen humanoid creature, bathing in the oily green glow of this place, as if helping it consume and exhale the essence of the sun and the moon!

Feeling your gaze, it silently shifted its eyes onto you, revealing expressions of surprise, exhaustion, and confusion, then it raised its rotting palm covered in earthworms, aiming right at you.

Friendly reminder: what you have awakened is the "Frightening Corruptor," a legendary being known as the Alien Species King, Efeilus, who was clearly seriously injured and secretly recuperating here!

You have intruded into its cave, awakening it from its slumber. Though it showed no irritation at being roused from sleep, attacking you, the uninvited guest, seemed only fair and reasonable.

Without a word, you took a slap from the fifth rank Alien Species King, not just you, but also Gu Yue Ming, and the cavern behind you—all shattered into nothingness under this single slap.

You died, this expedition came to an end, settling now...

Evaluation: In the matter of seeking death, no one can compare to you; you are truly the king of seeking one’s own demise. Keep it up, and I suggest you get out more in the real world too, broaden your horizons.

You have obtained an item: Death’s Olfaction (Superior)

Death’s Olfaction (Superior): When your comrades offer sacrifices to heaven and spell power abounds, this is a persistent item. After using it, you will receive an hourglass that only fills, never empties, shielding yourself. When you or someone in your close-knit team is about to face a deadly threat, the Death’s Olfaction hourglass will empty immediately, emit a piercing alert, and provide a Superior level shield, lasting for a certain time.

Number of openings today: 0/3

...

Whoosh!

The fog before your eyes dissipated instantaneously, and the scene cleared entirely.

Xu Shu jolted back to reality.

Before him was the border of the Star Tower, close enough to touch, the dry riverbed strewn with bones just a bit more distant, and the boundless, crisis-filled wasteland stretching out as far as the eye could see.

He lowered his gaze and touched his chest, sensing the terrifyingly powerful and utterly irresistible blow from just before his death, and couldn’t help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

A fifth rank Alien Species?

So close to here?

Dammit, it’s less than ten kilometers from the border.

My luck... can’t be that good, can it?

Xu Shu opened his Promotion Drive and tapped on his Second Rank Curse Seal [Iron Armor].

Two entries appeared: one [Rascal], and the other [Yang God].

Currently, the Yang God entry contains two skills: "Blood Dome," which allows transformation into a liquid creature, and "Spiritual Perception."

Staring at Spiritual Perception for a long while, Xu Shu silently reflected on the ability’s uniqueness.

Several minutes later, he sighed deeply.

Indeed, Spiritual Perception and "Rascal"’s bloodthirst were completely different things.

Bloodthirst could help to avoid many creatures, somewhat like a radar.

But Spiritual Perception, once activated, made it easier for Xu Shu to detect those invisible existences.

For instance, just now, the Alien Species King, "Efeilus."

Heh, had Xu Shu not activated his Spiritual Perception, he would have never even noticed it!

No wonder it was initially startled. That creature probably hadn’t expected not only for two humans to suddenly barge in but for one of them to actually notice it.

So, in the expedition just now, the description provided by the Tai Chu Scroll for it included "confusion, fear."

"Seems like there’s no going to the wasteland to hunt monsters today... Not a complete loss though, the item is pretty good, it could serve as a warning and protection when exploring unknown territories."

"The wasteland is indeed too dangerous, going solo without Rascal truly won’t do... The monsters I easily hunted in the past few days, seems like my luck has run out~"

Xu Shu stroked his chin, feeling a bit frustrated but couldn’t help mulling over the creature he had just encountered in his mind.

That slightly nauseating figure, the earthworms burrowing in and out, and the suddenly striking fist, unstoppable right before his eyes, lingered in his thoughts.

The sheer overpowering strength crushed Xu Shu, inevitably giving rise to a sense of defeat.

The disparity in power was just too great...

But.

After hesitating for a moment, Xu Shu curled his lip and switched accounts.

[Gu Pan]→[Tai Chu]

Alien Species King, huh?

Fifth rank, huh?

Knocked out with a single punch, huh?