Unique Legend Volume 9 Chapter 4

*Sorry for the late release, I had a bunch of homeworks and a project that I totally forgot about…

Chapter 4: Ghost vs. Ghost

Atlantis  11:31 PM

We all heard an insect issuing a declaration to kill.

Honestly, if he had a human face, then right now the surroundings definitely would've been filled with tension, tension, and no matter what, still the same tight tension that brimmed with a murderous aura. However, it's a pity that a triangular mantis head isn't a human head, so when he issued his declaration to kill, all I could feel were four black dot dot dot dot appearing in my mind.

Turning around to see the others' reactions, it was only now that I realized the water weirdo had already disappeared at some point. Then I saw the three brothers gathered together as they helped the five-colored rooster head with his treatment. And the person getting treated completely didn't have the awareness of being a wounded person, as he snacked on the breads they provided. The only one paying attention to the current situation like me was probably just Chifuyu.

Hey! At any rate, this is still a very intense battle, alright?

"Gasai can't win against him…" The only one watching the battle scene tensely, Chifuyu didn't even s.h.i.+ft his eyes away, and softly muttered this as if he was talking to himself.

"Then do we need to go and help him?" I felt that the sentence I said was quite reasonable.

Chifuyu turned his head, and looked at me with a rather strange gaze. "You'll be killed in a second." He used an extremely serious expression to say such a horrifying and terrible sentence.

"Uh…Won't we have better odds if we all go together?" At least having more people gives us more strength.

The one said to be the next leader of the intelligence clan very regretfully shook his head at me. "The seven experts of Ghost King Jing Lothian are said to be extremely strong, and Ghost King Jing Lothian himself together with Ghost King Bishen, Ghost King Yelu, and Ghost King Shunaleon, were once known collectively as the Four Great Overlords of the Ghost Tribe. Among all the Ghost Tribe's kings, they were tied for the highest position. However, after a long time had pa.s.sed since Ghost King Yelu was exterminated, the remaining three Ghost Kings suddenly kept a low profile, and nothing happened for a long time." Pausing for a moment, Chifuyu had a solemn face as he continued to help me explain, even though I actually didn't understand most of it. "Among them, Ghost King Yelu was the most ferocious, and he was also the most powerful leader, but because he was too cruel, he was eliminated."

[T/N: V3C3 explains more about Ghost King Yelu]

Oh, I know about this. I even went to visit the person himself before.

"After him, Ghost King Shunaleon is ranked second, and because he doesn't like being around the other groups, he almost never appears and interfere with them. However, many Ghost Kings have challenged him before, including Yelu and the other two; he only lost one battle with Evil Ghost King Yelu, so his name was also included, but in fact, he's considered the least threatening one."

Which means that this person is the hermit within the evil ghosts?

I suddenly had a feeling that there were so many cla.s.sifications in the Ghost Tribe.

"As for the last two, Evil Ghost King Jing Lothian and Evil Ghost King, even though their strengths are not as good as the previous two, the degree of their ambition and cruelty is not any lower than Ghost King Yelu, especially Evil Ghost King Jing Lothian, who's been repeatedly making moves. The seven experts directly under him are almost on par with the three great experts of Evil Ghost King Yelu in the past." s.h.i.+fting his gaze back to the triangular mantis person and Gasai, Chifuyu, who was very worried, unconsciously added some weight to his tone, "And under these circ.u.mstances, do you think Gasai can win against him?"

Honestly, I don't know whether or not he will be able to win.

Because my head has been stuffed full with a bunch of words, and is currently in the process of digesting them, so I'm temporarily unable to think of whether or not he's going to win.

At the same time that I was digesting the information, the triangular mantis person was the first to move.

Staring at Gasai, the triangular-mantis person stretched out his human hand, with the palm facing up, followed by bit by bit of something coming out of his palm. At first it seemed like sand, fine and fragmented, and then it gradually expanded.

A huge piece of white fog circled his hand.

"Blood snake…So these things are your doing." Gasai narrowed his purple eyes, and with a swing of his hand, the black whip smoothly returned to his hand.

"Ji ji, these are my children and my pride." Moving his fingertip, the white fog circled the triangular-mantis person's hand. "Come on, tell me which one is your partner, and I'll dismember him first, before I come back to settle the score with you." He was still so persistent about the order of killing.

Sure enough, a mantis is a mantis, doing things in such an inefficient way. If I were him, I would definitely kill everyone off first.

Wait a minute, why did I pretend I was a mantis!

"The blood snake eats people. Where did all the people in the town go?" Not answering his words, Gasai calmly looked at him, completely ignoring the white fog gradually approaching him.

"They were all eaten by my lovely children, of course." Playing with the white fog, the triangular-mantis person once again "ji ji" laughed a few times. That kind of sound was ear-piercing, making one want to hit his mantis head onto the ground and use it as a ball to kick. "Though they weren't really much of a meal. Such a large town, and yet it only amounted to a single day's worth of food. The number of people was even smaller than I'd expected. So disappointing."

"A long time ago when Ghost King Yelu crossed over to this world, there had been similar incidents occurring too. Just what was your purpose in suddenly allowing the blood snakes to eat so many people?" Directing the question towards the heart of our goal in coming here, Gasai took a step forward. "In the town, there are corpses of small animals, and yet no worms; there is wind and yet no sound of the wind; there is a lifeless atmosphere in this town. All of these are signs of a lack of natural spirits. Just what exactly did you do to this place?"

The triangular-mantis person looked at Gasai, and suddenly "hei hei" laughed. "Why do I need to tell you? You little child actually wanted to coax information out of me, go back and a.s.sess your own ability first!"

Saying that, the white fog that was originally still circling suddenly increased explosively, instantly striking Gasai's body like a raging rain.

"Ga…" I quickly wanted to summon Minas out to help, but my hand was pulled back by Chifuyu beside me.

"Don't move, as soon as you move, that Ghost King's subordinate will switch his target to you." Chifuyu narrowed his eyes; a drop of cold sweat rolled down his cheek.

But, I feel like I can't just not move.

"Yǔ wǒ qiāndìng qìyuē zhī wù, ràng xíjí zhě jiànshì nǎi de jué zī." I remember that someone had once told me, when that huge back towered over me, he had once told me that I shouldn't give up so easily on the things that I can do.

[T/N: The one who signed a contract with me, allow the attacker to witness your absolute appearance.]

"Yang Yang!"

I heard Chifuyu's shout.

My hands were trembling, involuntarily and desperately trembling.

But, I think I should be able to do this.

In fact, to be honest, I'm not quite sure what I did either.

Everything just happened so beautifully, exactly like the sort of situation that happens every time some people try to jump off a building in a daze and then get saved: they all say that they don't know why they had gone up there, and then everyone would question whether that person got possessed by a ghost.

A big water bubble separated from  Minas' little cute muzzle before leisurely floating in the air.

To give an example, during childhood, everyone should have played with a five yuan* or a ten yuan bubble blowing toy before, or even earlier when it was only one yuan, right?

[T/N: Five yuan is about $0.79 USD, ten yuan is $1.59 USD, and one yuan is $0.16 USD, or at least that's how much it would be right now. I don't know how much it was when this volume was published.]

That big water bubble was very similar to that sort of thing.

Everyone looked at that bubble, with a stunned look, including myself.

Minas ah Minas, you could've at least given me a earth-shattering, vigorous super cannon to smash apart that triangular-mantis person's head, alright? This is just a harmless bubble floating through the air at the speed of 0.1 millimeter. It's making me feel so embarra.s.sed.

The surroundings were silent for three seconds.

While everyone was still unable to react, a sharp wind suddenly grazed my ear, and I even saw a few strands of hair getting sliced off and blown away with it. The whole thing was very movie-like.

That wind directly blew away the white fog, and the whole group of white fog instantly scattered everywhere like pigment being broken up. And senior Gasai, who had been surrounded by it, was still standing on the same spot, without moving a single step from the start, and was extraordinarily calm.

I turned around. The person who made that move was the five-colored rooster head, who was still in the middle of treatment.

"b.a.s.t.a.r.d! Don't just attack my teammates whenever you want! You pest want us to get disqualified from the compet.i.tion!?" The five-colored rooster head, whose thinking followed a straight line, let out a violent roar, and beside him, Yado and Leido grabbed his hands on his left and right, in order to prevent this guy from rus.h.i.+ng in in the next second.

The triangular-mantis person turned around, moving his gaze over to our side, but because there was a big bubble separating us in the middle, he quickly turned his gaze back to Gasai, who was in front of him.

"Don't pretend you didn't hear me!" The five-colored rooster head sprang up, and was immediately pushed back down.

To be honest, I really hope he's pretending he didn't hear…

That bubble was still floating in the air, as it continued using an extremely slow speed to painstakingly move forward; there was a very desolate sense of struggle. And so it simply became a corner of the background, and no one bothered with it anymore.

"Ziray, Chu, both of you don't attack." Completely ignoring the threat of the white fog blood snake, Gasai put away the black whip in his hand, and then pulled out a white talisman paper. Painted on it was a pattern that couldn't be any more familiar. "Don't act rashly." In the next second, a silvery-white iron whip that had a touch of green totems appeared in his hand.

A wind charm.

Turbid eyes stared at senior Gasai, "Little child, out of the two who attacked just now, which one is your partner?" The triangular-mantis person issued a hair-raising laugh, giving me a very bad feeling.

"Neither of them."

He replied too quickly, causing the triangular-mantis person to laugh slyly instead, "You think you can lie to me…the first one to attack just now must be your partner…ji ji ji…"

Sure enough, a mantis is a mantis. He doesn't know how to use his head.

Wait a minute, the first one to attack just now…

Seems to be me.

"Xiao Ting!"

In just an instant, I didn't even have time to blink when the triangular-mantis person's face suddenly enlarged right in front of me.

"Yang Yang!" Chifuyu, who was just standing beside me, had a much faster reaction than me. A red talisman paper flipped over, and a sharp scimitar slashed down in between the triangular-mantis person's face and me, and separated us. At the same time, I was forcefully pulled back by someone.

I fell back dazedly, and a few seconds later, I saw that the person who threw me backwards with her infinite superhuman strength was called the little black snake MeiMei.

Right after my vision focused, the scene in front of me blurred again, and a very crisp sound drifted into my ears.

Before I could realize what that breaking sound was, a broken blade piece was rotating as it pierced through the air with a couple of "hu hu" sounds, and directly stabbed itself into a place not too far away from me.

I raised my head, and saw that Chifuyu's scimitar had been broken into two. Having thrown aside the blade piece, the triangular-mantis person stretched out his hand. His fingertips had black sharp nails that were nearly twenty centimeters long. "Ji ji…You're not his partner! Get lost!"

Reflexively raising the broken blade to block, Chifuyu was a step slower. The triangular-mantis person had already hit him heavily on his face, and with a blunt heavy sound, Chifuyu was sent flying toward the wall behind. The entire mask mostly composed of energy broke into five pieces, as it fell one by one onto the ground. Behind the mask, three black streaks of blood appeared on his right cheek, as blood continued to flow down.

"Xiao Ting, hurry!" Being continuously hindered by the swarm of blood snakes, Gasai wielded the white iron whip. Although it was able to knock down a whole piece of white fog at a time, after the old white blood snakes got knocked down, new ones would replace them in a blink of an eye, as if it was never-ending. The surroundings were full of patches of white worms.

"Move back!" Receiving her master's message, Xiao Ting's action should be considered kind with the intention to protect me, as she forcefully grabbed my collar and hurled me backwards.

In that instant, I had an illusion of almost hanging myself to commit suicide.

My whole neck was tightened in a second, and then I was flying backwards. With a "kou dong," the back of my head hit the hard wall. For a moment, my vision was completely blurred, and a buzzing noise echoed in my ears.

I suspect that this little imp took this opportunity to mess with me. She just had to make me crash hard enough to get a concussion.

A golden totem spread out on Xiao Ting's forehead, and then Xiao Ting issued a few strange sounds. In the blink of an eye, the little girl's body turned into the large, golden-eyed black bird that I've seen before. With a piercing cry, the black bird suddenly charged towards the triangular-mantis person's face, without any hesitation at all.

Probably also startled, the triangular-mantis person's movements were clearly slower by a beat. During that moment, the black bird's sharp beak had already poked through that mantis' turbid eye. Without waiting for him to issue a cry of pain, the bird's beak pulled itself out with a "ka" sound, together with the mantis' entire eye, which was also abruptly plucked out.

I saw an stringlike thing following behind the eye, before black blood began flowing down the triangular face of the triangular-mantis person.

The black bird only had time to do these things.

Contrary to everyone's expectation, the triangular mantis person didn't even make a single sound. All of a sudden, he stretched out his hand, grabbed the black bird's neck, and then threw the large black bird towards the wall at the side.

I heard Xiao Ting's body issuing an unnatural sound, and then she fell to the ground, and didn't get up for a while.

The triangular-mantis person was standing right in front of me.

I'm going to die.

I'm going to die for sure this time.

"You're his partner?" The eye socket that was bleeding black blood gradually enlarged in front of me, and I smelled a trace of a very subtle odor.

I was trembling. My whole body was trembling nonstop.

A speck of white light streaked across from the corner of my eye. With one on the left and one on the right, they wrapped the triangular-mantis person's right hand that was reaching towards me, and then fiercely pulled it to the side.

"Yang Yang! Get away from there!"

On the other end of the unknown white thread wrapped around the triangular-mantis person's right hand, Yido and the five-colored rooster head, who had put aside the treatment, and the twins, who were respectively maintaining the thread on both sides, simultaneously shouted out to me.

As soon as I heard these voices, it was like some curse on me was lifted, and I immediately took several big steps back.

"Míng léi zhī shén, xīfāng tiānkōng dòu yǒng, qiūzhī lǚ zhě pò chángkōng." Yado stretched the thread, and on the other side, his brother made the same move. "Léi jí zhī jì!"

[T/N: G.o.d of thunder, the western sky bravely fighting, the autumn traveler breaks the wide sky.]

[T/N: Lightning slaying technique]

With a loud crash, the entire white thread issued piercing "zhi zhi" sounds, and an intense white light drew out from the thread across the air, and struck the triangular-mantis person.

Based on what usually happens in the movies, at this time, we should be able to see the birth of the Flash.

That's not right! Why would I wish for the enemy to become the Flas.h.!.+

Scratch that and let's try again. From this moment on, we should be able to see the appearance of the legendary extra-large exploding afro head in the manhuas!

Speaking of which, mantises don't seem to have hair.

After the white lightning flashed past, the triangular-mantis person standing in the middle shook a little. When the smoke dispersed, I saw that the triangular-mantis person was actually perfectly fine as he stood on the same spot. However, there were s.h.i.+ny specks all around his body. It felt like if you touch him, you'll get an electric shock.

"Ji ji ji…So this the ability of the Water Clan. Turns out it's nothing special at all." Following the sound of that annoying laughter, the triangular-mantis person didn't give them time to react. In the blink of an eye, he appeared right in front of Leido, "Scram!"

Just like how he dealt with Chifuyu, the triangular-mantis person aimed a heavy blow at the top of Leido's head at the speed of lightning. However, this time, Leido's speed was much faster than his, as he easily avoided it by dodging sideways, before turning around to counterattack. "Míng léi zhī shén, xīfāng tiānkōng fēi liú, qiūzhī xíngzhě léiguāng shuò." He flipped himself back, and pressed his palm to the back of the triangular-mantis person's head, "léidiàn zhī jì!"

[T/N: G.o.d of thunder, the western sky swiftly flowed, the autumn walker's lightning glare.]

[T/N: Lightning technique]

I saw a white light appearing in between Leido's palm and the back of the triangular-mantis person's head. That lightning penetrated the triangular-mantis person's head, surging out from his eye socket that was missing an eye.

Not giving him any time to take a breather, Yado appeared in front of the triangular-mantis person, and like his brother, he reached out his fingertip, pointing it towards the triangular-mantis person's forehead. "Míng léi zhī shén, xīfāng tiānkōng kuáng hǒu, qiūzhī wángzhě tiān léidòng." A stream of white light burst out of his fingertip, "léi bào zhī jì!"

[T/N: G.o.d of thunder, the western sky wildly roared, autumn king brings down heavenly lightning]

[T/N: Lightning explosion technique]

The second the white light went through the triangular-mantis person, I saw that triangular head bursting open right in the middle of the two brothers. A greenish-white-mixed-with-black liquid sprayed out, dripping on the ground and spattering the two people nearest to him.

"Yado, Leido! Take off your clothes quickly!" The five-colored rooster head, who was pressured into getting his wounds treated, saw the two people covered in black blood, and immediately issued a roar.

At the same time, I heard a subtle sound.

I turned around and saw the source of that sound. The ground that got sprayed with black blood just now actually had black smoke rising up from it. The black blood had corroded several small holes in the ground.

"The blood is poisonous!" Immediately realizing the truth, Yado ripped off his brother's white robe and threw it on the ground, before tearing off his own. The two white robes fell on the ground, and the black blood on them instantly corroded the robes, emitting a terrifying black gas.

Perhaps the robes' protective spells were still effective to some degree, since the robes' damage wasn't as serious as the entirely corroded ground. However, it seems that they probably can't be worn anymore.

From this it can be proven that the triangular-mantis person's blood is even more toxic than aqua regia.

"Are you alright?" After finally annihilating all the white fog, Gasai hurried back to this side. It was only after Yado and Leido, who were standing, had nodded at him to confirm that they were unharmed that he walked over to pick up Xiao Ting, who had fallen to the ground. "Xiao Ting, transfer to another body." He took out a little doll that we've seen before, and that black bird's color immediately faded. A golden-eyed black snake appeared, before it burrowed into the little doll. Not long after, a lively little girl was bouncing around on the ground.

"It hurts, he broke my neck just now!" As soon as she finished changing into another body, Xiao Ting immediately pointed at the still-standing triangular-mantis person, with an accusation.

"His head has already burst open." After Gasai casually appeased the little black snake MeiMei, he turned around and looked at the other side. Chifuyu, who was similarly thrown, was already sitting up, treating his own wounds on his face. "Yido, how is Ziray's injuries?"

Yido, who was still treating him, shook his head. "We have to send him to a medical team as soon as possible."

"Hey! What medical team! This uncle has an immortal body. I don't need to go to that kind of place for no reason!" As soon as he heard that, the five-colored rooster head, who was said to be a seriously injured patient, immediately leaped up to protest. Two seconds later, he was pushed back to his original spot by Yado, who came back to a.s.sist.

"Aiyo, aiyo, if you're injured then you should go and get healed. It's cuter if you don't try to be brave, Ziray little brother." Leido, who was adding fuel to the flames, fanned his hand.

"You're looking to die!?" The five-colored rooster head, who looked like he would rush up and bite someone at any time, fiercely glared at Leido.

"Sure sure*." Replying very perfunctorily, Leido circled the headless mantis person, and stared at the body that was standing upright from the side. "Speaking of which, I never thought that the Ghost King's subordinate could be finished off so easily. And here I thought it would be a very difficult fight. I never expected that just the lightning technique would be enough to finish him."

[T/N: It's more along the lines of okay and fine, but I'll put Miau Miau Yeen's translation (is that alright?) since it's a lot shorter than what I was thinking of.]

In fact, I also have this doubt. I felt like the triangular-mantis person lost too easily. His level wasn't exactly the same as the face-changing person.

"After killing him, does that mean that Lake Town's mission is solved?" I puzzledly asked Chifuyu, who walked over to my side, but he shook his head.

Then what do we have to do for it to be considered completely solved?

There's still more?

Leido turned around to look at me, "In fact, it should be considered pretty much finished. After this, as long as we figure out what purpose this mantis was using the blood snakes for, then…"

"Leido! Hurry up and get away!"

Gasai's voice interrupted Leido's unfinished words, but it was a step too late.

In that instant, an unnoticed hand went through Leido's left shoulder.

Black blood flowed out from the surrounding wounds joined together.

"Yado!" At the other side, Yido's treatment was interrupted. Yado, who was originally a.s.sisting him, collapsed, and his left shoulder similarly started bleeding black blood.

Then, that hand slowly pulled out, and Leido's body seemed like it had lost its center of gravity as it toppled forward. The five-colored rooster head, who lost the person restraining him, rushed forward and caught him.

Behind Leido's body, the triangular-mantis person retracted his hand, and then a lot of little bubbles that seemed to be made out of skin emerged above his neck. The bubbles continued to acc.u.mulate upwards, and just a few seconds later, a triangular head reappeared in front of everyone. Its originally turbid eyes became blackish-red, protruding as if it's about to roll out.

"You little children who don't know the immensity of heaven and earth*." The triangular-mantis person issued a sound as cold as ice, causing one's hair to stand on end. "You think this little trick could deal with me?"

[T/N: He's calling them ignorant and foolish]

Without waiting for everyone's reactions, that pair of blood-red mantis eyes directly appeared in front of me, almost touching my face.

I forgot to breathe, and then my eyes met that pair of blood-red eyes.

"I'll kill you first, and then slowly kill off the others one by one!"

An icy-cold touch slowly went into my stomach, and then a sharp pain arose, bit by bit as it pierced through. It was so painful that I couldn't even utter a sound. All I could do was continuously tremble in fear.

So painful, so painful…

My vision began to blur. The blood-red eyes turned into a pool of red drifting around before my eyes, illusionary and elusive.

What's that colour?

My head was filled with the two words "so painful," making it almost impossible for me to think about other things.

Then, the icy-cold piercing through my stomach suddenly stopped.

"Jing Lothian's subordinate, do you want to die?"

Within the haziness, I heard an even colder voice.

After I strained to focus my vision, I saw the triangular-mantis person stop what he was doing.

Then, behind him, I saw a face that couldn't possibly be mixed in here.

The face of the purple robe, Tenju.