How to Win

Everyone stared in shock!

None of them had ever seen anything so horrifying. They stood frozen in place.

Chen Xuan was the only one who reacted. Almost at the same instant, he summoned the Thousand Thoughts Sword and drove it straight at Zhang Zhi!

Looking inward with his Mind Method, he saw that Zhang Zhi's qi had split into three distinct parts, like golden stars strung together.

Yet the qi sword, which could normally cleave through a human body with ease, failed to pierce him. Instead, it struck him like a blunt weapon and sent him flying.

No doubt about it... Chen Xuan thought. That twisted body, those extra arms and legs—he looks just like the monsters with fused bodies in the Erosion World where Gilles de Rais discovered Black Magic!

"You're all going to die here! Become sacrifices to the Lord of the Faithless!" Zhang Zhi had lost all semblance of a human being. The words had not come from his lolling head, but from the new body bulging out of his back. It had no head or eyes, only a huge, sharp-toothed mouth in its chest.

Unfortunately for it, this was not Chen Xuan's first time facing such a monster.

The malformed beasts that had guarded the Altar and bookshelves last time were far stronger. Creatures like these were Demons by nature, and spells that disrupted Spiritual Energy were especially effective against them.

But just as Chen Xuan prepared to recreate the Shedding-Shell Tailwing Thunder Bomb, he froze.

He hadn't brought a Heavenly Thunder Command!

Apart from the same three Lotus Cloud Sect spells he always carried, he had put Law Mantra in the remaining slot!

Shit.

Chen Xuan pulled out his Scanner Gun and checked it. As expected, they were too far from the manor. The signal