Chickens Pecking at Each Other?

Ever since the Tiger Pillar God possessed him, Li Fan had felt a sense of intense panic deep within his heart.

He was terrified.

At first, Li Fan mistook this for his own fear of the Spider-Legged Monster, or perhaps a manifestation of his trypophobia.

But now, as he calmed his mind, he realized this fear did not originate from his own soul.

It came from the Tiger Pillar God.

Upon closer inspection, he realized the Tiger Pillar God wasn't afraid of the Spider-Legged Monster, either.

It was afraid of Li Fan.

Li Fan was inexplicably amused, a realization dawning on him.

This must be the Tiger Pillar God's dread of him, the Master of the Prison of Suppression.

He immediately used his consciousness to offer some "comfort":

"What the hell are you afraid of? Fight properly for me! If you can't even beat a mop, I'll twist your tiger head right off!"

If I can't deal with the Cleaning Association, can't I deal with you?

Sure enough, after "comforting" the Tiger Pillar God, Li Fan could clearly feel that sense of panic intensify sharply, before reluctantly subsiding.

In its place, the power flowing from the Tiger Pillar God grew significantly stronger.

His body now seemed to possess infinite strength; keratinized scales began to emerge along his arms.

The teeth in his mouth grew longer and sharper.

His toenails similarly morphed, becoming curved and razor-sharp.

As he waved his arms, they moved with a serpentine fluidity, as if they had no bones at all.

The snakes covering the Spider-Legged Monster hissed, suddenly erupting from its body like a massive, writhing bouquet, charging toward Li Fan!

The Spider-Legged Monster's hole-riddled body also leaped into the air, its sharp, bone-spiked legs descending to pierce Li Fan and tear him to shreds!

Simultaneously, Li Fan felt a bizarre psychic force entangle his body, making his muscles ache with a sensation of melting.

But that was all it amounted to.

Li Fan felt a tingling, itchy sensation in his sciatic nerve, and he immediately spun in a whirlwind rotation. The spirit-form tail extending from his back swept instantly across the incoming swarm of snakes.

"Boom!"

The battered snakes were shredded to pieces, raining down onto the ground like a downpour.

A few that dodged the impact lunged at Li Fan, but they couldn't penetrate the Tiger Pillar God's spirit-form to get inside.

At the same time, Li Fan raised his arms, and two giant python spirit-forms shot out, biting the descending Spider-Legged Monster in mid-air and pinning it down.

With a violent tug to the left and right, the monster's arms were ripped clean off, and its mangled body crashed to the ground.

Li Fan felt his strength surge once more; the once-terrifying Spider-Legged Monster now felt like it wasn't even in the same league as him.

Is this the true power of the Tiger Pillar God?

Li Fan nodded.

After all, it had the word "God" in its name; it had to have some real substance.

Why didn't it exert itself sooner? It had left him, the Master of the Prison of Suppression, in such a sorry state.

"Squeak—" The armless Spider-Legged Monster hit the ground with a heavy thud and let out a hiss. Its two severed arms used their fingers like legs, scurrying rapidly across the ground toward the main body.

In the blink of an eye, the arms fused back onto the torso. The Spider-Legged Monster let out another strange cry, and along with the Human-Faced Snakes on the ground, it scattered in a chaotic mess, preparing to flee!

If I let them get away...

Li Fan frowned, feeling a flicker of irritation.

Immediately, he felt the Tiger Pillar God's deep-seated fear once again.

In the next instant, a violent surge of psychic energy erupted from the Tiger Pillar God. The giant python spirit-forms detached from his arms, instantly tracing two glowing circles of psychic energy on the ground, spanning dozens of meters.

Draw a Circle as a Prison!

The swarms of Human-Faced Snakes hit the psychic boundary and were blocked, bouncing back like ping-pong balls.

They turned and dove back into the Spider-Legged Monster's body, reforming into its complete state.

The Spider-Legged Monster seemed thoroughly enraged; the massive vertical slit on its chest tore open, and a face emerged from within!

Its aura skyrocketed!

The Human-Faced Snakes seemed to have been fed a stimulant; they began to thicken rapidly, each one growing to the size of a goose egg—long, thick, and writhing in a dense, dark, chaotic mess.

The face emerging from the monster's chest was deathly pale and sinister, blood-red tears streaming from its eyes as it glared at Li Fan with venomous hatred.

It seemed that emerging from the chest had cost the monster a great deal of psychic energy, a move that was perhaps not worth the price.

The blood-teared face opened its mouth and let out a piercing shriek, its eyes bulging. The empowered Spider-Legged Monster charged at Li Fan once more!

Li Fan flinched, and suddenly, he couldn't help but tilt his head back and let out a roar that shook the heavens.

The Tiger Pillar God seemed to have been provoked by the Spider-Legged Monster, and it was finally starting to show some guts!

Violent mental energy surged from Li Fan's body, followed by faint murmurs as if people were whispering to one another, accompanied by a solemn, grave language that was impossible to understand, as if a sacred ritual were being performed.

Li Fan stood upright involuntarily, spreading his arms and waving them forward.

A massive phantom of a bronze pillar erupted from the ground, along with several chains that blocked the path of the leaping Spider-Legged Monster; the chains moved like living creatures, binding the monster firmly in place.

Surrounding the phantom bronze pillar, blurry figures appeared, kneeling in pious postures.

The Spider-Legged Monster struggled desperately but could not shake off the restraints; even every individual Human-Faced Snake was tightly bound by thin chains.

Li Fan recognized it immediately.

This was the sacrificial scene the Tiger Pillar God had attempted when they first met.

He hadn't expected it to possess such formidable offensive power.

To think that mental attacks could be staged like something out of a myth.

What should he do next?

As he pondered, the power of the Tiger Pillar God surged once more. Li Fan's entire body shuddered, and he began to pace in a strange rhythm, his limbs twitching as he walked toward the restrained Spider-Legged Monster.

He chanted bizarre words.

With every step he took, his mental power increased by a notch!

This was the Nuoyi Ritual of ancient shamans!

He mocked himself inwardly:

Two rookies pecking at each other, yet acting like it's the real deal...

More than a dozen blocks away, just as the second face of the Spider-Legged Monster appeared, Yang Gan, who was pedaling his bicycle, instantly heard the buzzing of the Mental Radiation Detector.

He looked down and stumbled.

"Snap." The right pedal broke off.

The bicycle came to a sudden halt.

The value displayed on the Mental Radiation Detector had actually reached over 800!

Yang Gan felt his breathing turn rapid in an instant.

An abnormal mental power value of over 800 was enough to trigger a yellow alert!

And it was right in the middle of the city!

What on earth was that thing!?

He had to evacuate the civilians immediately!

But before he could even think, the Mental Radiation Detector in his hand buzzed violently again, much louder than before.

Taking another look, the hair on Yang Gan's arms stood on end.

The screen displayed the value of a newly emerged abnormal mental entity.

2000!

And it was still climbing!

What kind of sacred monster was this!?