Chapter 364: Chapter 364
"Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm, summon five clones, and we’ll start purifying the underground pipelines through different routes and find the whereabouts of the Eternal Songstress."
The Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm flapped its wings, and five beams of light converged in midair.
In just a moment, the Light Goddess Butterflies appeared one by one.
"If you encounter dark element exotic beasts, eliminate them immediately."
"If you discover a large number of dark element exotic beasts appearing, notify the main body immediately."
Ye Bai instructed the Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm.
If a clone of the Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm is destroyed, it will transmit the scene before disappearance.
Another part of the underground pipeline.
The Eternal Songstress, Zhang Jie, was covering her nose, enduring the rotting smell. When she fled into the underground pipelines, she had just avoided the pursuit of corpse puppets created by the Corpse Speaker.
However, she couldn’t relax. She felt a great crisis approaching; a slight mistake could lead to her being captured by corpse puppets sent by the Corpse Speaker and turned into a corpse puppet herself.
She knew her talent was unique, her voice possessing a soul-stirring influence.
If captured and cruelly tortured by someone skilled in undead magic, she could turn into an ugly wailing banshee.
"I don’t know what happened to my sister. I’ve been dead for so many years; this unexpected rebirth means I must go home and see."
She knew she no longer had a home; she and her sister depended on each other. Wherever her sister was, that was her home.
When the South Celestial Gate was breached, she had the chance to escape, but she couldn’t bear to see the life and land devastated, so she used the Song of Extinction.
Her Pet Beast Space was still sealed, and her pets were in a state of suspended animation.
However, Zhang Jie’s pets were more of an auxiliary type, so even if her Pet Beast Space was opened, with her current state, it would be difficult to fight against the Corpse Speaker.
Even though she was a Tier Seven Pet Beast Master.
Zhang Jie felt she must escape; this underground pipeline led to the upper level of the South Celestial Gate, which was an intricate maze.
But there was a direct tunnel to the rear kitchen of the South Celestial Gate.
As long as she got there, she could ask Flame Country for help.
She discovered this secret once by accident.
The damp and moldy air in the underground pipelines made Zhang Jie feel uncomfortable; suddenly, the sound of wings flapping came through the air.
At the same time, piercing sounds followed, and the sound waves made Zhang Jie feel extremely uncomfortable.
"Damn it, they’re catching up."
Zhang Jie endured the discomfort and staggered forward.
She must live to reach the South Celestial Gate; she didn’t want to become someone’s tool!
Just then, a massive Dark Night Blood Bat appeared, flapping its wings and emitting piercing sound waves.
Blood Demon Du Bo was soaking in the blood-filled Blood Pool, surrounded by massive Dark Night Blood Bat Kings.
These were subordinates he created using a special talent.
A blood mirror formed from blood appeared in the air, and through its images, Blood Demon Du Bo saw a woman fleeing in panic.
"Found you, Eternal Songstress."
"To be honest, I find it hard to let you become a corpse puppet."
"How about turning you into the Crimson Empress instead?"
The Crimson Empress is a blood demon above Tier Seven, more precious than a wailing banshee.
She’s akin to royalty among blood demons, and Du Bo believed that by summoning Blood Demon God Cain and harnessing that great entity’s power, he could completely convert the Eternal Songstress into the Crimson Empress.
Frankly, Du Bo had heard of the Eternal Songstress’s legend. Even when he was young, he thought turning the Eternal Songstress into a blood demon would be interesting.
Especially turning into a high-level species like a blood demon, even the soul and mind would undergo transformation, becoming the most loyal subordinate of the Blood Demon God.
He harbored a dark fantasy of seeing these positive figures fall into blood demons.
"I wonder if the Eternal Songstress, after transforming into a blood demon, would target the Pet Beast Masters of the South Celestial Gate!"
"Really looking forward to it!"
"Oh, right, it seems like some ’little mice’ have entered the underground pipelines."
"But that’s fine; the blood essence condensed by the Phantom Crow can let me cast blood magic."
Blood essence the size of a thumb floated in the air, and with a snap of the fingers, black streams emerged from the blood demon’s fingertips.
"Blood Magic: Plague Infection."
The black stream entered the blood essence, forming a very special rune in the shape of black mountain rock.
"I remember a large group of black-furred rats inhabiting the underground pipelines. Let’s have these plague-infected black-furred rats play with you."
The blood essence disappeared into thin air, transferred away. Fınd the newest release on n͟o͟v͟e͟l͟f͟i͟r͟e͟.net
At this moment, in a part of the underground pipeline, a group of black-furred rats were scavenging for food.
These rats, covered in black and hard fur, were as big as rabbits from the real world.
Their eyes glowed a dark green, two long incisors protruded from their mouths, and their sharp claws emitted a chilly glint under the dim light.
These black-furred rats were common in the cities of Flame Country, but they were only palm-sized, with powers around Tier One.
However, those entrenched in the underground pipelines had grown robust from gnawing on corpses from the Exotic Beast Battlefield.
All of them reached Tier Three, becoming a dominant force in the underground pipelines. Ordinary exotic beasts dare not provoke these black-furred rats easily.
At this moment, a ripple appeared in space.
A thumb-sized blood essence, exuding black gas, dropped to the ground with a plop.
A black-furred rat tried to sniff it but hadn’t expected the blood essence to become alive, turning into liquid, covering the rat.
The rat fell silent as the blood essence corroded its entire body, standing still as unusual changes occurred.
Its eyes started to bulge, oozing green pus, hair falling off in clumps.
The grinding of its teeth echoed, producing a gnashing sound.
When another rat passed by, it opened its sharp teeth, biting into the rat’s throat.
You could hear the sound of gulping as it swallowed large mouthfuls of blood.
The rat, drained of blood, twitched and died.
In the blink of an eye, it moved again, its stiff body climbing up, charging at its companions.
More black-furred rats fell, and after conversion, the plague black rats emerged.
They seemed to follow some command, their eyes glowing red as they charged far away, leaving behind green slime wherever they went.
One after another, plague black rats surged out from the narrow underground pipelines like a tide. Their sharp cries shattered the underground stillness.
The stone slabs covered in moss were black with their movement, leaving strings of green footprints.
At this moment, the Light Goddess Butterfly clone from the Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm raised its head to discover a large swarm of plague black rats.
It was startled, and sacred light radiated from the Light Goddess Butterfly, bathing the plague black rats in light, emitting black gas.
It was as if they were burned by fire, soon turning into black skeletons falling to the ground.
With a crack, the black skeletons disintegrated into dust.
A dark green crystal core appeared, emanating a bewitching glow under the sacred light.
Soon, information about large amounts of dark element mouse-type exotic beasts encountered by the Light Goddess Butterfly clone was relayed to Ye Bai by Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm.
"Very good, it seems those guys are also looking for the Eternal Songstress."
"We must get there first."
Ye Bai stood at a fork in the path, contemplating which way to go when a piercing sound came from one of the tunnels.
The ground trembled slightly, and groups of plague black rats appeared, their eyes aglow with red light, looking terrifying in the dim underground passage.