Soon, beneath the scorching flames of the two great Soul Spirit Divergent Flames, the endless vicious rats were burned to ash, and the rotting corpses fell one after another, leaving not even fragments of bone behind.
Mu Bai had no intention of lingering here. He turned and was about to step into the air and leave when the water in the courtyard's stone well suddenly churned. A round monster covered in blue-green hair shot out of the water and charged straight at him.
Mu Bai stared at the strange-looking thing, pondering what means he should use to deal with it.
The round thing looked like a head, its entire body a great, perfectly round face draped in blue-green hair. Its eyes were scarlet, and it squealed as it lunged at Mu Bai with its huge, fanged mouth open.
Mu Bai dared not be careless and hurriedly raised a Soul Power Light Screen to protect himself. A savage gleam shone in the round-faced monster's eyes as it sprayed green liquid from its mouth. On contact, the Soul Power Light Screen sizzled and hissed, giving off white smoke as it corroded. Before long, the liquid had eaten straight through.
Faced with such ferocity, Mu Bai hastily retreated. The round-faced monster was even swifter, its blood-basin maw about to reach his face in an instant. Without time to hesitate, Mu Bai brought forth an iron staff and smashed it down on the monster's forehead, sending it hurtling toward the ground like a cannonball.
The instant the round-faced monster struck the ground, it bounced straight back along the same path, faster than it had fallen. The iron staff in Mu Bai's hand was formed from his metal-attribute Origin Power. With a thought, he rapidly extended it, thrusting it straight into the monster's mouth and