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Chapter 1078 - Chapter 1078 Chapter 680 Just These Tricks

Chapter 1078: Chapter 680: Just These Tricks? Chapter 1078: Chapter 680: Just These Tricks? In the vast obscurity, a light sound arose in the surrounding air, carrying an indefinable tenderness and a numbing sweetness, filled with lingering emotion.

From the sound alone, one could tell that its owner must be a delicate, boneless creature, so tender that one could devour her in one bite, and she would taste as delightful as a beautiful jade figure.

Jiang Hui’s brow twitched almost imperceptibly, but his steps did not falter; he continued walking slowly towards the “Starlight” hanging in the distance.

However, he had not walked far when the specks of starlight suddenly vanished, obscured as if by dark clouds, while in front of him, a pink cloud like peach blossoms mysteriously surged up from the hazy dust.

Following that, the pink mist dispersed, revealing the scene ahead.

It turned out to be a pond, neither too large nor too small, paved all over with pebbles.

The pond was enshrouded in a faint mist. Mixed with the singing, it seemed distant then near, creating an atmosphere that led one’s thoughts astray.

“Hehe…”

From the pond ahead, a burst of laughter like the chime of silver bells echoed suddenly.

Moments later.

The water rippled, generating waves of ripples, and the faint mist melted away like snowflakes under the scorching sun.

A woman with a tall and exquisite figure and a face of delicate features, her eyes brimming with allure, slowly stepped out of the pond.

She was clothed in mere threads, barely covering the essentials, exposing vast expanses of pale skin that glistened with drops of crystal-clear water,

The boldly dressed woman looked at Jiang Hui and, covering her mouth, chuckled, then crooked her delicate jade hand at him and said in a gooey, warm voice, “Kindred spirit, come here!”

Jiang Hui could distinctly feel, the moment she spoke, that the warm breath felt as if someone’s tongue was closely pressing and provocatively caressing his ear.

It was indeed quite numbing…

But, is this all?

Jiang Hui’s expression remained unchanged, his eyes deeply scrutinizing the proud figure of the woman standing before him.

It seemed she sensed the thoughts of the tall figure in the white robe.

The scantily clad woman slowly extended her white, slender fingers, inching closer to Jiang Hui’s cheek with a tender, watery affection. The moment her palm touched his face, she shyly smiled, blushed, retreated to her original position, and continued to gaze at Jiang Hui with longing.

Among a thousand expressions, she appeared as bashful as a maiden yet to be married.

“I thought there would be some incredible new trick, but is this all? Boring, truly too boring…”

Jiang Hui sighed, and his ancient, deep eyes finally showed a slight change.

He strode forward and, faster than lightning, grabbed the woman’s wrist, which was smooth as a lotus root, and then, amidst her astonishment and incredulous expression, he directly tore off the white threads wrapped around her body.

“It rattled…”

As the threads were forcefully and directly torn off, there was no breathtaking beauty to behold as one might imagine.

Instead, what appeared was a dense mass of entangled, root-like structures akin to octopus tentacles.

And, at the moment the threads were torn off, the woman’s voluptuous and full body deflated like a punctured balloon.

Her delicate features twisted and deformed in an instant, morphing into a mass of unidentifiable root-like tumors.

At the same time, those root-like structures, as if coming to life, began to twist wildly and spread at a visible rate towards other parts of the body.

In just a moment, they completely enveloped the already withered shape of the woman.

“Thinking of escaping?”

Jiang Hui’s gaze was cold and detached. He firmly grasped those root-like structures and, with a strong pull, ripped them off the woman’s body, now shriveled into a mere husk.

“Ah…”

A sharp, piercing scream emerged from the woman’s skin, excruciating to the ears, as bloody spots appeared where the root structures had been torn away.

Jiang Hui held a woman’s skin in one hand and in the other, a root-like object that ceaselessly swayed in the air, revealing a hint of contemplation in his gaze.

“And here I thought there would be some clever trick, yet even the most basic seduction is so poorly learned.”

With a cold laugh, a trace of disdain flashed across Jiang Hui’s eyes.

He had practiced for many years, and his mind had become as hard as a rock; how could he be bewitched by such low-level illusions?

Besides,

not even one ten-thousandth as charming as his own beautiful wife, yet this was supposed to seduce others?!

Clearly a green tea bitch, yet she insisted on putting on an innocent sweet act. Honestly, even if Jiang Hui were a man, viewed through an exceedingly tolerant lens, he could not help but feel a bit nauseous.

Her fingers were pinched like a eunuch’s, her skin was frightfully pale, and her features looked like a botched cosmetic surgery…

Other than being utterly indiscriminate in her appetite, Jiang Hui didn’t think this woman’s skin could tempt any person.

Not knowing to learn a thing or two before running into this venture, a failure indeed!

Shaking his head, the moment his hands touched the two items, Jiang Hui immediately cast a Surveillance Technique.

The basic information of these two strange objects appeared before him.

First was the root-like object.

Name: Undying Worm

Description: A centipede, dead but not stiff; a thousand-legged creature, from death comes life; a ten-thousand-legged creature, undying till the end.

Effect: Can adhere within any Treasure medicinal plant, taking its place.

The time required depends on the degree of attachment to the Treasure medicinal plant.

Next, was the shriveled woman’s skin.

Name: Painted Skin

Description: A low-level human skin with its own consciousness, able to attach to any person until the host body rots away.

After a brief glance, Jiang Hui retracted his gaze, utterly uninterested.

Especially that Painted Skin, considered quite eerie in mortal legends, but for Jiang Hui, a mere glance was enough to kill it countless times, even a cultivator at the Rune Level wouldn’t let this painted skin come near.

The Undying Worm was somewhat interesting, but after thinking it over, Jiang Hui couldn’t figure out what use it had?

To replace any Treasure medicinal plant sounded impressive, but in reality, it was utterly useless. Who would willingly let this thing take the place of a hard-found, valuable Treasure medicinal plant?

Furthermore, whether it retained the medicinal properties after replacing a Treasure medicinal plant was another matter. Even if it did retain the properties, why bother with such redundancy?

Anyway, Jiang Hui couldn’t understand it.

He carelessly stored these two items, but the thick fog and smoke around him showed no sign of dispersing.

Jiang Hui was not surprised either.

Neither Painted Skin nor the Undying Worm could cause such an effect.

Since the Undying Worm could assimilate any Treasure medicinal plant, but hadn’t parasitized the Celestial Exquisite Fruit, it was probably due to the Painted Skin.

These two seemingly unrelated items had formed a special balance in the chaotic space of the immortal plant.

It definitely wasn’t a coincidence.

Moreover, in the instant he took action, Jiang Hui had already sensed what mischief was at play!

With a thought, he strode forward, his towering figure instantly vanishing from the spot.

When he reappeared, he held a glowing orb in his hand.