Opening Kill (No Mistake)

The wind in the valley stirred restlessly.

Yu Sheng didn't know what was happening, but he could clearly feel the "atmosphere" filling the entire Otherworld changing. It was a feeling difficult to describe in words, but if he had to put it into words, it was...

He felt the entire valley gradually "coming alive."

The distant forests were awakening, the mountains were awakening, the earth was awakening, and even the sky overhead was emanating a chilling gaze, filled with a cold, hungry desire that made his scalp tingle.

He noticed Huli, who was beside him, trembling slightly. The demon fox girl clutched her food tightly, her face etched with fear. She looked up at the dark night sky, her footsteps inching backward behind Yu Sheng. She kept murmuring something, and as she got closer, Yu Sheng finally understood the repeated words:

"This is what it was like when the Immortal died... This is what it was like when the Immortal died..."

"What's going on now?" Eileen asked quickly. The little doll also tensed up, her whole body rigid as she clutched the kitchen knife in her arms. "Do you know something?"

But Huli didn't answer her, as if she had fallen back into a state of delirium, only repeating the same sentence over and over.

Soon, neither Eileen nor Yu Sheng could focus on Huli's abnormality anymore.

Yu Sheng sensed a familiar presence nearby. In the corner of his eye, he saw an Entity rapidly coalescing from the shadows at the edge of the ruined temple. Its deformed, swollen flesh layered and grew, with grotesque limbs, seemingly cut from various creatures, sprouting from the mass. Dozens of hungry eyes opened on its surface, interspersed with sharp teeth and torn mouths, emitting a murky growl.

The Entity—Hunger—had finally appeared near its prey.

"What the hell!" Eileen exclaimed, "This thing is so ugly!"

"Watch out for its sneak attacks. Its limbs can all deform, and it can suddenly grow tentacles and tails from its body," Yu Sheng immediately warned. Then, he turned to Huli beside him, "Just protect yourself later. You've already been deeply corrupted by this thing, you can't fight it."

Huli's current state was very off. After the monster appeared, she still looked at the sky with a terrified expression. But after hearing Yu Sheng's words, she still nodded blankly. She grabbed the scattered food from the ground and retreated, but didn't dare to retreat too far, as if afraid something would happen to Yu Sheng.

"What are you planning to do next?" Eileen whispered. The monster not far away was still prowling, seemingly waiting patiently for something, but this delay only made her feel more uneasy. "Don't tell me you're just going to charge at it bare-handed and fight it with basic combat drills. You didn't even bring any weapons when you came, but I at least brought a kitchen knife."

Yu Sheng knew he hadn't brought any weapons because he had already tried. Most of the monster's structure was harder than stone. Even if he could chop off a small portion of its softer skin and flesh with an axe, the effect would be negligible. That's why he hadn't planned to bring any "weapons" from the start. For an ordinary person who had never received any weapon combat training, let alone holding a kitchen knife, even if he brought a dragon-slaying sword, he would most likely end up cutting himself.

He had prepared other "lethal" means.

"It's the same plan we discussed at home. You just control its movements, use those threads of yours," Yu Sheng said quickly. "I'll charge up and 'tear a hole' in it. Watch carefully. If I fail, you immediately take Huli and run. Don't worry about me. Huli can survive under that monster, and you won't be actively pursued by Hunger..."

Eileen blinked. "Ah, and then what?"

"We'll regroup after I survive and try again. This thing will die eventually."

"You bastard, so you're still going with that simple and crude plan, right? We agreed to try not to use 'revival' as a basic attack!"

"Isn't this me 'trying'?" Yu Sheng said quickly, but then his brow furrowed. He felt something was off with the monster not far away. "Why isn't it attacking yet..."

Eileen had the same question. "I have a feeling it's deliberately stalling, as if it's waiting for something—does this thing already have the concept of 'strategy'?"

"Then we can't let it wait any longer," Yu Sheng gritted his teeth. "We'll attack first!"

As soon as he spoke, he moved to meet the monster. At almost the same time, Eileen, who was on his shoulder, skillfully flipped off him and extended her right hand towards the monster. The moment she landed, the doll's eyes turned pitch black, and countless fine, inky black threads emanating a strange, chilling aura spread from her hand, rapidly expanding like a swift-growing spiderweb throughout the entire space!

All the "spider silk" bypassed Yu Sheng's trajectory. He accelerated again within the spreading web of threads. His enhanced body almost left a blur in the air as he lunged towards the terrifying, grotesque flesh beast!

The monster finally moved. Faced with the "prey's" proactive attack, it seemed somewhat taken aback, but it quickly retaliated. A ferocious claw was raised high from the beast's back and smashed down towards Yu Sheng's charging path.

At that very instant, Yu Sheng suddenly felt that strange... "pre-cognition" again.

He felt which part of the monster's muscles were contracting, he felt its desire to attack and the true focus of its gaze at that moment. He seemed to see a tentacle extending from behind the claw, blocking all his possible escape routes for the next second...

Whether it was an illusion or not, he felt his "pre-cognition" was even more accurate this time. In fact... he began to realize that it wasn't "spiritual intuition" at all.

Because he now had true spiritual intuition and had experienced what that felt like. He found that when he predicted the monster's actions, what he "saw" and "felt" was completely different from so-called spiritual intuition.

When he sensed the monster's actions in advance, it was almost like a first-person perspective.

All thoughts flashed by in an instant. Yu Sheng crossed the last few meters in the blink of an eye, and the flesh beast's claw descended.

Yu Sheng didn't dodge at all. In his peripheral vision, he saw the threads extending from behind him closing in the air. In the next moment, countless black lines wrapped around the monster's limbs, and as if piercing through bone, they crisscrossed and penetrated its claws, tentacles, and maw...

Coldness, numbness, sluggishness, as if even its thoughts were instantly pierced through, and its soul was enveloped by a chilling spiderweb...

A wave of overwhelming negative sensations washed over him. Yu Sheng momentarily saw an illusion—he saw himself trapped in a spiderweb, with countless threads entwining him, even piercing his limbs. At the edge of the web, a shadow with scarlet eyes lurked in the darkness, slowly crawling towards him with a strange and grotesque posture...

"Yu Sheng! Don't space out! I can barely hold on!"

The sudden shout in his ear instantly jolted Yu Sheng awake. He looked up and saw the flesh beast frozen in the center of the layers of black threads in a bizarre posture. The ends of the threads were taut, as if the monster would forcibly break them in the next second.

With no time to ponder the "illusion" he had just experienced, Yu Sheng lunged towards a position beside the monster. In the precious time Eileen had bought him, he grabbed the black threads in mid-air with one hand and reached out into the air with the other, concentrating all his mental energy, and then slowly pulled—

A door appeared, its surface rippling with phantom-like flowing light and shadow.

Opening a door out of thin air required more energy and time than opening a physical door. Yu Sheng had to concentrate in a relatively stable environment to complete this process. Looking at the monster's trembling limbs and the slowly cracking black threads, even a few seconds felt as long as a lifetime to Yu Sheng.

—Although his "lifetimes" hadn't been very long in recent times.

The next second, with the sound of the door opening, the illusory door finally opened completely.

It was larger than any door he had opened before, so large that it could even fit the entire monster inside.

Blazing fire erupted from the door, illuminating a large area around the entrance.

Opposite the door was a churning lake of lava.

This was the "surprise" Yu Sheng had discovered during countless door-opening experiments.

He didn't know where that place was. He only knew that there was endless molten rock and erupting flames, like a scene from hell.

The Entity—Hunger—was powerful, but its threat came more from mental pollution and its own "hunger" power, which was almost like a rule. As for its materialized "carrier"—compared to the rule itself, it wasn't particularly tough.

It could be roasted.

If it couldn't be roasted, they would use more firepower.

"Throw it in!"

Yu Sheng shouted at Eileen.

"You got it!"