Thorough Bright Light Illumination

A fierce flash of blade light fell. Shifting luminous mist rose from the blade, and in an instant, it seemed to pass into another plane.

The blade clearly swept through Rot Firefly, yet it did not seem to cause the same damage as before. Still, Chen Chuan felt as though it had cut something.

A moment later, the writhing Mutated Tissue tangled together suddenly went rigid, as though all its life had been drained away. It crumbled apart. Each piece shriveled and dried, curling into a thumb-sized blackened lump that gave off wisps of charred smoke.

The Mutated Tissue gradually vanished. When the entire brain-like mass had nearly disappeared, Chen Chuan saw something emerge from the smoke: a radiant, smooth, perfectly rounded object like a pearl.

With its appearance came an intensely enticing sensation. It was no fragrance, but it seemed to stir the greed buried in every heart. Every creature nearby grew restless.

The reaction was many times more violent than when he had taken the Azure Winged Flying Serpent's Mutated Tissue.

Creatures surfaced in the bay and the river upstream, burst from beneath the beach, and surged in from the sea. Night had twisted them into grotesque forms under the influence of the spiritual world, and now they were all drawn toward the source of that sensation.

Boom! The Esoteric Ritual he had set up shook violently. Even the stones buried underground trembled.

Chen Chuan looked up. Something seemed to be striking the thin membrane formed by the Esoteric Ritual against the night sky. Vague, enormous, distorted figures showed through it.

Faced with beings that might have come from the spiritual world and a dense tide of frenzied creatures threatening to engulf him, he remained calm.

He looked at the lustrous pearl-like sphere. It reflected his figure with