Jiang Kuisha

Compared to Liu Wuniang, who used ancient Snake Vein, the other party's methods seemed even more unorthodox.

While Liu Wuniang was indeed ruthless and cruel, raising her own daughter as a backup body, it's debatable whether the one before her could even be considered a "body".

"There are a lot of people passing by here; it wouldn't be good if someone saw us. Let's finish this quickly."

The Hu Mang muttered to itself.

The next moment, a goose egg-sized spear landed in his hand, and instantly, rolling thunderclouds began to spread rapidly from him.

Even if not used as the main offensive technique, the Heavenly Devil Field and the Wisdom King Aizen are still very powerful auxiliary Cultivation Method. One is used to cultivate the seven emotions and six desires, and the other is used to absorb distracting thoughts and improve State of Mind.

Two figures, one Buddha and one demon, clashed back and forth. Hu Mang's eyes were quickly covered by a silvery-white Thunder Net, his pupils turning from their normal color into a dazzling silvery-white, as if two thunderclouds were churning in his eye sockets.

Meanwhile, "Jiang Kuisha" on the opposite side also sensed a terrifying aura brewing in the dark clouds. A human face made of black threads squeezed out from the snake flesh where the facial features were originally, her face filled with surprise and fear.

Then a hairpin popped out from between her eyebrows; it was the Withered Brain Neon Hairpin that Hu Mang had seen before.

Then, in the next moment, "Jiang Kuisha" disappeared, and the seawater disappeared as well, replaced by a neon-lit virtual world.

The streets are lined with towering skyscrapers, their surfaces covered with a dense array of neon tubes and holographic advertising screens, constantly flashing various colors of light—red, blue, green, and purple—creating a dazzling display of light pollution.

The air was filled with the smell of overheated electronic components, mixed with a cloying, artificial fragrance.

There were no stars or moon in the sky, only a thick layer of gray-black clouds slowly rolling overhead, with flashes of Divine Sense data occasionally streaking across the sky.

At the end of the street, behind a half-collapsed building, a huge monster was slowly crawling out.

The monster was the size of a three-story building, its entire body woven from countless Spiritual Qi tubes of varying thicknesses and cables implanted with Divine Sense, resembling a white worm magnified ten thousand times and pieced together from various Law Artifact components.

Its head has no eyes, only a huge, round mouth that takes up half of its head. Inside the mouth are rotating, serrated neon halos that emit a low-frequency buzzing sound.

Its body has dozens of segmented limbs of varying lengths, made up of Law Artifact.

"So this is what Brain-Eating Worm look like," the Hu Mang murmured.

Looking at the layers upon layers of rotating neon lights, it was remarkably similar to the "Neon Divine Sense" that Jiang Kuisha had mastered.

"In other words, you've already merged with this Brain-Eating Worm to some extent. If I had actually believed your lies, I'd most likely have been devoured by you by now. You're really cunning."

Faced with the surging onslaught of Brain-Eating Worm, the Hu Mang's eyes turned completely silver-white. He gripped the lightning spear, not even moving an inch.

He simply raised his gun and fired a shot.

That shot had no fancy moves, only pure, concentrated lightning power.

Silvery-white lightning erupted from the tip of the gun, like a white pillar of light piercing the heavens and the earth, swallowing up all the neon lights along its path—those flashing advertising screens, those towering neon buildings, those data streams flowing on the ground, all turned into a blinding white the moment the lightning passed, and then disappeared completely, like pencil marks erased by an eraser.

The giant Brain-Eating Worm was struck head-on by the lightning, splitting in two from its head along the center line of its body. The cut was smooth and clean, like butter sliced by an extremely thin, hot knife. The two halves of the body continued to rush forward for a distance due to inertia, before disintegrating in the aftershocks of the lightning.

On the cross-section of the Brain-Eating Worm, which had been split in two, dozens of "Jiang Kuisha" crawled out from the white flesh, their expressions either ferocious or fearful. Some of them had hands but no feet, and some had only half of their facial features, making them look very deformed.

"Impossible, impossible! The Brain-Eating Worm is Divine Sense at the Nascent Soul level!"

"Who exactly are you? How can you possess such domineering Thunder Method?"

"No, it's not Thunder Method, it's Devil Cultivation Method. I can smell the aura of the Holy Son on you."

"Spare me! Spare my life!"

However, as lightning flashed, these "Jiang Kuisha were reduced to ashes one by one.

Hu Mang said calmly, "It's not only you cyber Evil Cultivator who possess the ability to fight beyond your level."

His own Divine Sense had already reached the Mid Golden Core.

The Heavenly Devil Field buffs a wave.

Wisdom King Aizen gives another boost

While it's hard to say for sure that they've reached the Nascent Soul level, since it hasn't been truly verified.

But dealing with this kind of brain-eating monster, created by Evil Method magic and with explosive side effects, is still a piece of cake.

Then, with a flick of his Hu Mang, the Profound Yin Devil Fire rained down, igniting the entire cyber city.

The illusion vanished, Jiang Kuisha's corpse was engulfed by raging demonic fire, visibly turning black and cracking.

However, the intent conveyed by the Profound Yin Devil Fire was somewhat peculiar.

"Ugh~ This tastes awful. I've never tasted such awful essence before."

"I feel nauseous and want to vomit!"

"What the hell is this?! How can there be such awful food in the world?!"

"Huh? I think I bit something?"

The next moment, the "corpse" visibly melted, turning into a pool of liquid.

The pool of corpse water churned and boiled violently amidst the demonic fire, then suddenly exploded, shooting out streams of grayish-black corpse water like dense arrows in all directions. The Profound Yin Devil Fire that was hit by the corpse water extinguished itself before it could even send out its thoughts.

Hu Mang stared at the pool of corpse water, activated his Yin-Yang Eyes, and then he saw a very strange "snake".

"Is this the legendary Private Dragon? Why does it look a bit deformed?"

Its body is a sickly grayish-white color, covered with a layer of fine, fish-scale-like scales, but most of those scales are incomplete, and in some places even reveal the pinkish, granulation-like tissue underneath.

Its head was several times larger than that of a normal snake, and its shape was irregular, as if it had been squeezed by something, making it appear somewhat flat. On each side, there was a row of tiny, needle-like protrusions, which were either vestigial horns or some kind of proliferating bone structure.

The most striking feature is its abdomen, where four extremely short, underdeveloped claws dangle limply from its sides, seemingly unusable for crawling or grasping, more like remnants of some evolutionary failure.

The "Little Snake" seemed to notice that the Hu Mang could see her, and it shot towards the seabed in terror.

However, the next moment, a giant ghostly claw emerged from the seabed and grabbed the other party.

"Sorry, I also raise Private Dragon, but they're the completely natural, pollution-free kind."

"Wait, wait, spare my life, you don't want to wake her up."

The deformed Little Snake struggled to speak human language, and once again, the facial features of "Jiang Kuisha" appeared on its flat head.

Hu Mang raised an eyebrow.

Under the influence of the Heavenly Devil Field's emotional perception, the other party was not lying.

"Let me go... I want to show you her."

"Who is she?"

"Jiang Kuisha, the real Jiang Kuisha!" the other person said, trembling.

After a moment's hesitation, Hu Mang released the other party.

The Little Snake swam to the pool of corpse water from before and began to absorb it frantically.

Its body rapidly expanded, growing from the thickness of an arm to the thickness of a thigh, from three or four feet long to more than a person's height. The broken scales began to fall off, revealing the new, fair skin underneath; the four underdeveloped little claws began to lengthen and deform, transforming back into slender human limbs; the deformed head began to stretch and reshape, returning to a delicate and aloof face.

Soon, a naked Jiang Kuisha stood on the water again, almost exactly the same as before, except that her face was a little pale.

"What exactly is wrong with you?" Hu Mang asked, puzzled.

"I am a corpse demon cultivated through the Dragon Sha Fiend, just like... just like the water demon under your Ghost Dragon Vein," Jiang Kuisha said in a low voice, her previous arrogance completely gone.

Hu Mang lowered his head, and he could naturally see the densely packed reflections of the water ghosts standing at the bottom of the water.

But the fact that the other party could see it was quite rare.

What's the real Jiang Kuisha you're talking about?

Jiang Kuisha hesitated for a moment, but the situation was beyond her control. She wiped her face with her jade-colored hand, and her features disappeared again, replaced by a face full of broken dragon scales.

She pulled at one side with one hand, and soon a bloody gash appeared in the middle of her face, blood seeping out from the gap. Her whole body was trembling, but she dared not stop moving.

Then, through the crack, Hu Mang saw a real cyber city, a cyber city entirely composed of "Jiang Kuisha".

The walls of the high-rise buildings are densely covered with countless bodies of Jiang Kuisha.

Some of them had their eyes open, some had their eyes closed, some were expressionless, some had smiles, some were young, some were old, some were whole, some were incomplete, like bricks being built into a wall, stacked layer by layer, forming the basic structure of the entire city.

The pedestrians walking on the street were all Jiang Kuisha.

They wore different clothes and did different things; some were walking, some were talking, some were shopping, and some were daydreaming, as if a city made up of countless replicas of the same person was operating in an orderly manner.

At the top of those skyscrapers, thick pipes extend out, from which flows a grayish-white, brain-like liquid that flows into a huge container in the city center.

The thick pipe branched into countless thinner pipes, and at the ends of these pipes were selected "Jiang Kuisha.

Then, "Jiang Kuisha" opened her eyes, revealing a hint of humanity.

"..."

Hu Mang stared at the bloody gash, remaining silent for a long time before finally speaking, his tone carrying an indescribable complexity.

"I'm not afraid to compare goods; I'm afraid of not knowing their value."

Compared to your side, my fifth aunt is definitely a great philanthropist, the kind who's been kind for ten lifetimes.