Seeing that the three were about to have an internal conflict, Xiao Feng extended his right hand, pressing down to signal them to slow down their offensive, giving them ample ti to speak completely.
Ji Shengli loudly said, "Only by living can there be hope. If we all die here, what would the Celestial Defect Sect rely on to grow and prosper? On what would it revive?
Everyone has their own aspirations. You believe dying for your beliefs is right, but does that an I can't endure hardships to achieve my goal?"
Hearing this, Xiao Feng glanced at Hui Yi.
Besides him, this was the first ti he'd seen soone talk about "fear of death" so boldly and confidently.
Zheng Wei also felt a deep resonance, as when he surrendered, wasn't it this sort of reasoning he used to comfort himself?
At this mont, Holy Army and Feng Haotian exchanged a look.
The next mont, both of them simultaneously gave up resisting outwardly, turning their hands against Ji Shengli.
"Thud!"
"Thud!"
Two successive sounds like butchers in a slaughterhouse, the sound of plunging a knife into an animal awaiting slaughter, echoed.
Ji Shengli's abdon was pierced through, emitting a scream so horrific that it barely seed human.
"Ahhhhh!"
The sound echoed throughout the cetery, causing the nightingales perched in the trees to take flight, chirping joyfully.
"Attack!" Xiao Feng decisively ordered.
The Martial Monks sward forward, seizing the opportunity to launch an attack.
Holy Army and Feng Haotian simultaneously spat out blood, crashing into Ji Shengli, the three of them squeezed tightly together.
"Bah! Hahaha!" Holy Army spat out the blood in his mouth, then burst out laughing, saying, "I'll go ahead first!"
As he spoke, he placed his left middle finger to his mouth, actually biting off a piece of flesh, and then put his finger into his mouth, beginning to suck.
His complexion changed from ghostly pale to purple, and the muscles on his face twisted and convulsed from the pain, yet he continued to suck desperately, as if nothing were more pressing.
"Quick! Stop him!" Zheng Wei, who was witnessing this, widened his eyes and quickly warned.
In fact, no reminder was needed.
Because anyone could notice this glaring abnormality, so as Holy Army sucked for less than two seconds, soone imdiately interrupted him.
"Brother Ho, wait for , let's go together!" Feng Haotian shouted.
With that, he exerted force, pulling his arm from Ji Shengli's belly, gripping a sticky mass larger than the six Ji Shengli had previously spit out.
"Snap!"
Feng Haotian tossed the sticky mass aside, his right hand drooped, and a needle about twenty centiters long with a diater of about five milliters dropped from his sleeve, which he grasped in his hand.
"Yaaaa!"
As if to bolster his courage, Feng Haotian shouted loudly, and before the Martial Monks could react, he stabbed the long needle into his heart.
"Boss, look!" Lao Ha suddenly shouted.
Following his finger direction, Xiao Feng saw Holy Army's belly swell larger, as if sothing inside were trying to burst out.
"Retreat!" Xiao Feng ordered.
The situation was now clear; the three from the Celestial Defect Sect were certainly going to die.
But the issue was, their deaths seed not to be the end, but rely a beginning.
"Bring Zheng Wei over." Xiao Feng said, looking grave.
Undoing a knot requires the one who tied it. The Celestial Defect Sect's thodologies needed soone from their sect to resolve them.
Soon, Zheng Wei was brought over.
He looked around, his expression turning to horror: "Run quickly!"
"We would've run if we were going to, why bring you over?" Xiao Feng said irritably, "What's going on? What will happen next? Is there any way to avoid it?"
Zheng Wei took a few deep breaths and explained: "What they are doing is a way of releasing what was raised within them via suicide; it's a last resort.
As for how to avoid it, I regret to say there's no way to prevent it.
Burning, dousing with water, even chopping or hacking with axes won't work."
"What about striking with lightning?" Xiao Feng asked.
"Well…" Zheng Wei responded with a wry smile, "No one's tried that before, so it's unknown if it'll work."
Xiao Feng said no more, taking out the Thunder Pattern Steel, crouching before the continuously wriggling mass, and struck it directly.
The mass instantly stopped wriggling, emitting a "crackling" noise, with the mucus and blood covering it splattering around.
Since there was a reaction, Xiao Feng didn't hold back, striking the mass more rapidly, a nonstop "crackling" echoing as if setting off firecrackers celebrating the New Year.
After about two minutes, the "crackling" ceased, the mass's shell hardening and blackening, akin to a burnt pancake.
"Bang!"
One more strike, and the shell shattered and peeled away, revealing a steaming turtle within.
With a gust of wind, the fragrant sll of at wafted, causing involuntary swallowing.
"I wonder how this turtle at tastes." Lao Ha smacked his lips.
Aspergillus oryzae responded, "Why don't you take a piece and try it?"
"I can take a piece, but the tasting task is all yours, will you eat it?" Lao Ha eyed Aspergillus oryzae.
Xiao Feng ignored them, instead approaching Holy Army's side, opening his shirt, exposing his belly.
What they saw was a network of purple veins like tree roots, tangled but interconnected.
Xiao Feng wasted no ti, striking down with the Thunder Pattern Steel.
"Sizzle sizzle sizzle…"
Holy Army's corpse twitched uncontrollably, his hair standing on end, while a black mark appeared on his stomach where the steel struck.
However, just as he prepared to strike a second ti.
With a "pop!" sound, Holy Army's belly burst open, his innards exploding outward like petals blooming.
Everyone, including Xiao Feng, quickly retreated, and after seeing what erged from Holy Army's belly, they gasped, then began violently coughing.
The sharp intake of breath was instinctual, while the coughing was due to the overwhelming stench of blood, provoking a strong urge to vomit.
As Zheng Wei had stated, indeed it was a serpent inside him, about as thick as an adult's head, its length unknown for now.
"How could sothing so large be inside him and he still live?" Lao Ha was stunned.
Aspergillus oryzae remarked faintly, "Really brave; one bite at random to the heart or liver, and he'd be done."
"Boss, how about we temporarily retreat?" Hui Yi suggested, trembling.
Xiao Feng disregarded him, and under everyone's gazes, picked up the Thunder Pattern Steel and approached.
The serpent's head lifted sharply, opening its maw to flick its tongue at Xiao Feng.
A nearly suffocating stench emanated from the serpent, rushing towards him.
"Buzz!"
Xiao Feng's mind went blank imdiately; although he instantly held his breath, he was nearly knocked unconscious by the sll.
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