Chapter 380 Done For
Xu Yi suddenly discovered, in astonishment, that those illusory faces were fleeing from his soul as if they were escaping.
Seeing this scene did not make him feel happy at all.
Something abnormal indicated the presence of evil spirits, and he still needed these illusory faces to contribute to the progress of his Divine Transition.
If circumstances had allowed, he would have pleaded with them not to go.
An enormous shadow enveloped them overhead; the clouds were dense, making it impossible to see what was above, but Xu Yi could still roughly guess the identity of the being.
Unbeknownst to them, the peak where the royal court was situated had disappeared without a trace.
Breaking through the clouds, the shadow descended slowly, and Jason looked up, a rare expression of solemnity in his eyes.
Xu Yi gasped in shock—it was an immense mountain of flesh, the pale beige fat rolling like waves, bringing with it an indescribable sense of discomfort.
Growing on the meat mountain was a layer of "moss," which was an interconnected formation of contorted faces in agony.
In the center of the mountain was a giant pair of fiery red lips, slightly upturned as if smiling.
The meat mountain before them may not have been as powerful as Isoson, but the eerie feeling it gave was beyond comparison.
"F**k Isoson! You motherf**ker set me up! This Kingdom of Sorrow is actually Oss's territory!" Freddie suddenly cursed out loud.
The meat mountain Oss moved toward Jason as if the sky itself were collapsing. Jason's vision was utterly engulfed by the meat mountain.
But no matter who the enemy was, Jason did not hesitate for a second, silently swinging his large cleaver.
A blood-red blade light soared into the sky, striking the base of the meat mountain. The fatty waves of the meat mountain surged, absorbing the blade light silently, dissipating it without a trace.
The massive meat mountain fell, but Jason wasn't crushed into a pulp; at the moment he touched the meat mountain, the fat became as soft as cotton, and he was instantly swallowed up.
Inside the meat mountain, it was pitch black, but faint red lights began to shine, emanating from the surrounding flesh, growing brighter and brighter.
This was not a good sign; along with the emergence of red light, the temperature of the entire space began to rise rapidly.
The flesh glowed hot, its temperature alarmingly high, and this intense heat targeted the soul specifically. Jason felt as if he had fallen into a steel furnace, and after struggling for a moment, his body began to melt away.
"That's it, we're all done for!" the transformed flesh worm Freddie writhed in agony.
Although Freddie screamed continuously, he did not seem to show signs of dissolving.
"This guy's vitality is really tenacious!" Xu Yi could not help but admire. He might have underestimated Freddie's ability to "survive against the odds."
Xu Yi soon had no time to pay attention to Freddie, because the extreme pain reappeared, and if the previous sensation of pain was like the tide, now it was like a tsunami.
On the verge of completely losing consciousness, he glanced at the system panel.
[Divine Transition progress: 56/100]
Xu Yi was completely submerged by the pain, feeling like a little boat navigating the sea of sorrow, the boat being pushed under the waves time and again, but thanks to the World Tree's protection, he resurfaced time and again.
He was in so much pain he wanted to kill himself, but he didn't even have the capacity to commit suicide, he could only endure the endless agony.
God knows how long had passed, he got so used to the pain that it even started to numb, and the agony began to subside.
Xu Yi's consciousness gradually returned, but he just stared blankly ahead, doing nothing, thinking nothing.
After a long while, he began to check the information on the system panel.
[Divine Transition progress: 91/100]
He only needed to hold on a little longer, and the Divine Transition would be complete, but he didn't feel any regret.
If it weren't for the fact that there was no other choice but to endure it passively, he would have chosen to give up long ago.
It wasn't something that a human could endure. He felt that his mind was a little off now, but he didn't even have a chance to perform a self-check.
After a very long time, Xu Yi finally felt up to observing his surroundings.
To his surprise, Freddie had also managed to survive, truly worthy of being an extremely rare Soul of the Realm; indeed, he possessed a few tricks.
However, it was evident that Freddie wasn't having an easy time either. The insect he had transformed into was completely shriveled up, lying within the mush that Jason had turned into, without a sound.
An incurable chatterbox suddenly fell silent; one could imagine just how weak he must be.
Xu Yi couldn't see Jason's figure; inside the "Red Furnace," all he could make out was a lump of rotten flesh.
One could imagine that due to the excessively high temperature, Jason, having just resurrected, was immediately melted.
But now, the temperature around was gradually dropping, and the burning red light was also fading.
Xu Yi was a bit puzzled. Could it be that Oss thought he had already killed Jason and therefore stopped the smelting?
Out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught sight of two eyeballs, dazzling as gold, with lava seeming to flow in their pupils.
Though the color had changed, and the presence too, he still recognized them immediately; those were Jason's eyes, that same indifference to life as if it were mere vegetation.
"Sun Wukong got fiery-golden eyes from Laozi's Eight Trigrams Furnace, but what has this Jason developed?" Xu Yi couldn't help but want to make a snarky remark.
He suddenly understood why the temperature had dropped.
Eyes could be said to be the most fragile organs in the human body, but now, even the eyeballs couldn't be melted, so what use could the "Red Furnace" still have?
The flesh mountain Oss must have realized this point, hence stopped the smelting.
Oss must be utterly bewildered right now. The tactics that were once invincible, now he couldn't kill any of the three people.
"A bit late!" Xu Yi sighed in his heart, obviously referring to Oss.
In his opinion, to deal with Jason, the best would be to choose suppression or something similar; trying to kill him completely was just too difficult.
Oss was only now reacting, which was somewhat late. He had already sensed an aura that sent chills down his spine.
From the pupils as the origin, black tendons extended in all directions, forming a human shape. Flesh was rapidly growing on the meridians, and Jason was reborn!
Jason looked around. The furnace's remaining heat couldn't harm him in the slightest. He suddenly opened his mouth and roared; a blood-colored beam of light surged out from Jason's mouth.
Jason twisted his body, and the blood-colored beam, like a scalpel, sliced through the base of the flesh mountain. The faces on the flesh mountain screamed in agony, and fresh blood gushed from the incisions, falling like a torrential downpour.
"Awesome....!"
Freddie wanted to cheer, but he was too weak, his voice hoarse. He slowly coiled around Jason's thigh...which was, in all sorts of ways, truly clinging to a powerful coattail.
Jason temporarily didn't pay attention to Freddie, perhaps sensing that Freddie posed no threat. Jason rushed towards the flesh mountain above, which secreted a massive amount of blood. The blood congealed into a red Crystal Wall.
The strength of the Crystal Wall far exceeded the Boundary Membrane, but in the face of Jason, it was not durable at all, and the wall shattered inch by inch.
Jason, like a sharp knife cutting into the flesh mountain, saw the faces on the mountain reveal expressions of fear, sensing the imminent danger.
The premonition came true; a blood-colored beam shot out from within the flesh mountain, sweeping across like a sharp broadsword, slashing the mountain apart. Large chunks of flesh plummeted, and blood rained through the sky.
The faces on the flesh mountain let out thunderous howls, as Jason had thoroughly enraged it. The flesh mountain began to contract, and Jason was forcibly expelled.
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Jason wanted to charge again, but he suddenly found that he couldn't move.
The flaming red lips above the flesh mountain silently parted, forming a black vortex within, swiftly shaping. The enormous suction force acted upon Jason; he was slowly being pulled towards that vortex.
Xu Yi's face changed in an instant; compared to suppression, the flesh mountain Oss had chosen a more ruthless method—exile.
At the other end of exile, undeniably, lay a terrifying land of death.
Whether Jason could survive was not clear to him, but he and Freddie were almost certainly doomed.
Freddie also realized this, trying to escape from Jason's body; but just as he was about to leave Jason's thigh, he was almost sucked into the vortex.
Xu Yi stared at the black vortex inside the red lips, his heart filled with extreme anxiety, yet he was utterly helpless.