This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous
Chapter 1340 - 589: Breaking Out of the Cocoon and Becoming a Butterfly

Chapter 1340: Chapter 589: Breaking Out of the Cocoon and Becoming a Butterfly

"I’m sorry, I’m sorry... Brother Ju She, rest assured, I will leave immediately and never dare to set foot in your territory again..."

Under Ju She’s intimidating gaze, the Mirage Tapir’s voice trembled as it apologized repeatedly. After finishing, it quickly drew in its trunk, ready to retreat from the bottom of the lake.

However, as soon as it started to move, it was scared stiff by Ju She’s rebuke.

"Hold it right there. Do you really think you can come and go from my territory as you please?"

The Mirage Tapir was on the verge of tears, "Big Brother, I really didn’t mean to, I swear I won’t dare to do it again..."

"Heh heh, I’m in a good mood today. Leave that trunk of yours behind as a tribute to me, and I’ll let bygones be bygones," Ju She spoke languidly.

"Ah, this..."

Startled by this demand, the Mirage Tapir wanted to argue, but didn’t dare to speak directly. After wrestling with the dilemma for a few seconds, it hesitantly replied, "Brother Ju She, that’s what I use to eat. Could I keep a bit of it... maybe a third? How about that?"

"Are you telling me how to do things? Trying to negotiate terms with me, Ju She—do you have the strength for that?" Ju She immediately gave it a sharp look, his chilling aura erupting once again.

The Mirage Tapir began shaking in fear again: "No... Brother Ju She, I didn’t mean that, I wouldn’t dare... I was just..."

"Leave the trunk, and get lost!" Ju She bellowed.

With a shiver, the Mirage Tapir dared not say another word. Its entire trunk quietly broke off from the surface of the lake and fell with a crash, as the body of the Mirage Tapir swiftly retreated to the lakebed and disappeared.

At the same time, the surrounding Mirage Energy, along with the shrimp soldiers and crab generals within it, began to visibly shrink back towards the teleportation point beneath the lakebed, disappearing without a trace.

The scene quickly quieted down. The Medicinal Plant Gatherer looked around, confirming the complete dissipation of the Mirage Energy, before taking out the Stone Plate and carving a stoppage symbol onto it.

Above the Watchman’s head, a huge snakehead phantom quietly emerged and quickly extended, solidifying into a massive long snake phantom in the air.

The next second, the long snake opened its maw wide, biting onto the broken end of the trunk, and began to devour it piece by piece.

...

"It’s finally over!"

At the bottom of the dark cavern, Ling Long glanced at the circular script appearing on the Stone Plate and breathed a slight sigh of relief. She was then ready to immediately drop the Holy Spear and re-seal Ju She.

"Hold on, wait a moment!" Inside the barrier, Mu You suddenly called out to stop her.

"Ah?" Ling Long looked at Mu You with puzzlement, having thought that re-sealing Ju She would be a race against time. Why was there a request to prolong the time?

Inside the barrier, Mu You sat with his eyes closed, sweat on his forehead, evidently not as relaxed as he appeared on the surface.

The reason he stopped Ling Long was simply to wait for Ava’s progress.

"Data parsing... 97%... 98%... 99%..."

"100%! Data collection complete!"

With Ava’s prompt.

Mu You then opened his eyes with difficulty and nodded at Ling Long.

Ling Long immediately understood and stopped exerting force on her arm.

As her force withdrew, the Holy Spear began to fall.

Ju She, sensing what was about to happen, struggled even more violently but was still firmly suppressed by Mu You.

A mere one hundred meters distance was instantaneously crossed in the descent.

A few seconds later, with a thunderous boom, the spearhead precisely stabbed into the center of Ju She’s body, piercing through without resistance, and nailing the snake’s body firmly to the ground.

"Wuu..."

The entire dark cavern’s bottom echoed with Ju She’s moans, filled with immense anger and unwillingness.

With enough preparation time, the sealing this time was even more perfect than the last. Once the Holy Spear was back in place, the restless Ju She immediately calmed down, and the snake eyes in the sky blinked a few times before closing wearily amidst overwhelming tiredness, falling into silence.

...

The Watchman watched the clean disappearance of the Mirage Energy around him, still somewhat unresponsive.

"Little Eight, I didn’t see it—turns out you’re so fierce?"

He had guessed that Ju She had the ability to suppress the Mirage Tapir, but he hadn’t expected the Mirage Tapir to be so terrified of Ju She that it didn’t dare resist even when asked to give up its whole trunk...

"What nonsense you’re spouting!" At this moment, Ju She had just finished devouring the entire trunk, licked his mouth, and snorted proudly upon hearing those words.

"But wasn’t the Mirage Tapir supposed to release Mirage Energy with that trunk? You just swallowed their trunk whole—no issue with that?" The Watchman was somewhat puzzled. He understood Ju She’s dominance; oftentimes, the more tyrannical one appears, the less likely others will dare to challenge them.

But he couldn’t quite grasp why the Mirage Tapir would agree to such an excessive demand. After all, both were on the same level of existence. How could it be so easy to hand over its tool of sustenance to another?

"Relax, Beasts of Catastrophe are incarnations of illusion; what we call their body parts are actually condensations of energy. Eating its trunk is just tantamount to capturing some of its energy. Give it some time to recuperate, and its trunk will grow back," Ju She said nonchalantly, letting out a burp and expelling Mirage Energy from his snake mouth.

The surroundings became misty with clouds and fog again.

At this moment, Ju She suddenly sensed something and frowned.

"Tsk, count yourselves lucky this time..."

After saying that, the phantom of Ju She above quickly shrank and returned inside the Watchman’s body, disappearing from sight.