Yangxian City
[The Bone Monster]
[Body Assessment: 2.1; Life Energy Derivation: 0.6]
[Soul Assessment: 2.5; Spiritual Energy Derivative: 3.6]
[Category: Phenomenon Manifestation]
[Cause of formation: A phenomenon that manifests after a human's death due to certain natural factors.]
[Special Abilities: (1) Bone-Eroding Blood: The woman who died tragically from the Dragon-Sow harbors immense resentment; those pierced by her bones will have their blood rapidly decay. (2) Body of Resentment: Resentment sustains her body, allowing her to live a normal life and granting her considerable strength. (3) Normal Life: She desires a normal life and will kill anyone who intrudes upon it.]
[Weakness: This is a natural phenomenon.]
[Review: This White Bone Demon deserves a bad review.]
From Lu Li's perspective, wisps of black energy began to emerge from the pile of white bones, and the bones began to piece themselves back together. The skull fragments that Lu Li had pierced also drifted back, and the black energy continuously dispelled the Shadow Magic Lu Li had attached to them.
Seeing this, Lu Li to the door, looked outside as dusk approached, thrust his spear, piercing the white skeletal skull. With a flick of the spear, the skull was thrown off. Lu Li raised his right foot, Muscle Release, imbued it with Shadow Magic, and kicked out fiercely.
A white ball flew into the sky and disappeared into the gradually darkening village. Lu Li watched the pile of bones tremble, but ignored it. Instead, he looked into the inner Zhou Chu, where Zhou Chu raised his fist, as big as a sandbag, and punched the Yellow-Faced Man repeatedly.
Lu Li could see that with Zhou Chu's punch, the black aura on the Yellow-Faced Man's body was directly destroyed, and he couldn't even regenerate. In the end, he turned into a bloody, cold corpse, lying on the ground unable to move.
Because of this observation, Zhou Chu's second ability Fearless Spirit, also became apparent:
[Fearless Spirit: You possess abundant energy and are naturally bold. Your power has the ability to reach the source; curses and similar abilities have no effect on you.]
It seems that even without Lu Li, Zhou Chu is unstoppable. The methods of those ghosts and monsters are completely useless against him. They can only rely on sheer toughness. His terrifying physical strength and superb martial arts skills can completely crush these ghosts and monsters.
Zhou Chu grabbed the blood-soaked, sallow- Yellow-Faced Man's body, pushed open the door to the backyard, and threw him out. Meanwhile, the little girl just leaned against the corner of the wall, watching silently.
After disposing of the body, Zhou Chu returned from the backyard. His blood-stained hands touched the little girl's head, and he smiled gently. Then he walked towards Lu Li, pointed to the pile of trembling bones, and laughed heartily, "Yingzhi, you have quite the skill. Zhou Chu admires you."
"Not at all." Lu Li knew very well that the reason Zhou Chu was slower than him before was just to vent his anger. Otherwise, Zhou Chu could have blown the Yellow-Faced Man to pieces with a single full-force punch, so why would he have needed so many punches?
Seeing the cracked table and the filth on it, Zhou Chu picked up the teacup and kettle with his bloodied hands, went outside to the courtyard, scooped some water from the large water vat to wash them clean, then filled the kettle with water, returned to the inner room, placed the kettle on the stove, rummaged through the chests and cupboards to find some tea leaves, glanced at the little girl still leaning against the wall, and said with Zhou Chu smile, "Little brat, cook the dishes, and call me when the water boils."
The little girl still had bloodstains on her head from when Zhou Chu touched her head. Her father's dark red blood slid down from her head, staining her little face with a red mark. Looking at Zhou Chu's smile, the little girl pursed her lips and nodded.
Zhou Chu nodded, returned to the main hall, looked at Lu Li, and said with a hearty laugh, "Yingzhi, wait a moment, I've hunted some game, we'll be able to eat it soon!"
Before long, the water was ready. The little girl came in carrying the hot water jug in her small arms. Zhou Chu took the jug, waved for the little girl to go back and continue processing the wild game, and then brewed water and drank with Lu Li.
This Zhou Chu is incredibly audacious. He just ate a large bowl of tea made with fingernail saliva, and then killed someone's father in front of them. Now he still dares to drink tea and have a little girl cook for him.
After a while, the little girl brought out the dishes. Some of the dishes were burnt, and some had too much salt, making them extremely unpalatable. However, Zhou Chu and Lu Li still finished them and did not make things difficult for the little girl.
The little girl squatted beside her mother's bones, her lips pursed in silence. She looked at the two villains before her, guarding her mother's remains, thinking of her father in the backyard, wondering if he would ever come back to life. She quietly waited for the two villains to leave, because life had to go on.
After having taken advantage of each other, the two left behind a mess of scraps and talked for a while before finding their own rooms to sleep. There was a banging sound outside the door. The little girl quietly opened the door, and the skeletal head of the Bone Lady jumped in from outside.
With a rustling sound of bones, the Bone Lady rose again, regaining her human form in the illusion. She wept alone as she went to the backyard to bury her husband's body, waiting for the day he would come to life again. Then she returned to the main hall to tidy up the mess there, and huddled in a corner with her little girl in her arms.
As dawn broke, Lu Li and Zhou Chu woke up and saw a skeleton embracing the slightly smelly corpse of a little girl in the corner of the room. Lu Li and Zhou Chu quickly washed up, and Zhou Chu, without even glancing at the horses tied up there, called Lu Li to leave.
Lu Li glanced at it; half of the black horse's body had been hollowed out. When it saw its owner, it breathed out and neighed twice, but as if it received no response, it continued to graze on the weeds in the yard with its head down.
As night falls, the house transforms into a ghost town, but the male owner may never be able to stand up again. The surrounding villagers lower their heads, pick up their tools, and begin to work, not daring to look at the two of them. They had also heard the commotion here last night, which made them even more terrified.
The two walked along a country path and gradually came to a main road. There were some people pushing carts or carrying baskets, hurrying along. They walked even faster when they saw Zhou Chu, as if Zhou Chu was a scourge to be avoided at all costs.
More pedestrians appeared around, and the city wall could be seen in the distance, with two large characters on it: Yangxian.
Pedestrians on the street would avoid Zhou Chu from afar, and those who couldn't avoid him would lower their heads and not dare to look at Zhou Chu. In such an environment, it's no wonder that Zhou Chu looked up to Lu Li, who dared to speak to him normally, and regarded him as a close friend.
"Yingzhi, you didn't eat well last night. I promised to have a good meal with you. Come with me!" Zhou Chu seemed to know the way well. He led Lu Li to a restaurant in no time. He slammed his hand on the table, and most of the people who were eating left. The waiter also came over to greet him nervously.