Chapter 625 - 371: The Tail Is More to My Liking
’The real Magical Artifact must be...’
With this guess in mind, a strange look appeared in Zou Feng’s eyes. Still, he kept his grip on the flower fox’s tail, gave a slight tug, and pulled!
With a POP, the big, fluffy tail was actually pulled out.
Under normal circumstances, having a tail ripped off so forcefully would certainly result in a bloody scene.
However, when the flower fox’s tail was pulled off, no blood spurted out.
And that "POP" sound from a moment ago was clearly off.
It was less like Zou Feng had pulled out a tail and more like he had uncorked a bottle.
After losing her tail, the flower fox, who had been screaming, suddenly fell silent.
At the same time, as if all her strength had been drained, her eyes rolled back in her head and she collapsed to the ground.
The next moment, intense spatial fluctuations caused the surroundings to distort.
The source of these spatial fluctuations was the tail Zou Feng had just pulled off.
To be precise, it was a small, oval bottle at the very base of the tail.
This little bottle was what the flower fox had truly wanted to hide.
Zou Feng stared at the small bottle, feeling the ever-intensifying spatial fluctuations. ’This is bad,’ he thought.
Without hesitation, he immediately flung the bottle away.
The moment he threw it, the auras of two Dao Foundation Realm Cultivators locked onto him.
A brothel would inevitably have bodyguards and thugs.
However, the thugs at Hundred Demons Hundred Flavors were of an unreasonably high caliber.
Two Dao Foundation Realm Demon Race members appeared out of nowhere.
One was a Wolf Demon, the other a cat demon.
To Zou Feng, however, they were just cannon fodder. The poison on that Wolf Demon, in particular, looked quite good.
He formed a hand seal for a Technique, about to attack with the Great Universal Hand, but his vision suddenly blurred.
When he could see clearly again, he found he was no longer in the brothel, but in a dim, dark valley.
To have suddenly arrived in a completely unfamiliar place in the blink of an eye, Zou Feng knew exactly what had happened.
Even though he had thrown the small bottle away with all his might, he had still fallen into the trap and been sucked inside it.
That’s right. The bottle the flower fox was hiding could not only absorb the Power of Emotion, but was itself a spatial Magical Treasure.
Some of the Tribulation Cultivators from the Yama Underworld and the Ninefold Celestial Court who had snuck in were definitely hiding here.
The fact that he could now sense the bait—the Female Celestial Soldier—with whom he had just lost contact was proof enough.
Fortunately, he had already made arrangements after noticing something was wrong, so he wasn’t too panicked.
Looking around, he saw that both sides of the valley were lined with all sorts of massive, lifelike statues.
Zou Feng even saw the Ten Directions Divine King among these giant statues.
Indeed. Back in Great Yan, when he first started his Cultivation of the Great Universal Hand, Zou Feng had performed Visualization on countless portraits and statues of the Ten Directions Divine King. He couldn’t be more familiar with its appearance.
At this moment, however, the statue of the Ten Directions Divine King was nothing special compared to the others around it.
To put it bluntly, every single statue here looked no weaker than the Ten Directions Divine King.
As for why a statue of the Ten Directions Divine King was here, Zou Feng had already guessed the general reason...
It was simply that the beliefs in these false gods, canonized by the Yama Underworld, had been packaged by the Tribulation Cultivators and spread far and wide, eventually reaching Great Yan and giving rise to the Ten Directions Sect.
"Are you in such a hurry to die, Zou Feng?" From behind a statue about a hundred paces away, a woman in a pure white long dress and a tall white hat walked out briskly.
Not only were her clothes all white, but even her skin and hair were a deathly pale white.
Zou Feng was certain he had never seen this woman before.
But he wasn’t surprised that she could recognize him.
After all, ever since he had turned the tide with the Universal Salvation Burial Flower Domain, Zou Feng was undoubtedly on the assassination lists of both the Ninefold Celestial Court and the Yama Underworld.
Zou Feng was almost certain this woman was Kong Xia, the White Impermanence who had previously injured Zhao Feixiong.
After Kong Xia appeared, more than a dozen Tribulation Cultivators emerged one after another from the surroundings.
Among them, including Kong Xia, there were a total of six Impermanence-level experts at the Dao Foundation Realm.
The only good news was that Kong Xia was the only one at the Dao Foundation Realm Late Stage.
But this was clearly not all the Tribulation Cultivators in this Alternate Space. No one from the Ninefold Celestial Court had shown themselves.
Zou Feng could guess the reason for this.
It was actually quite simple. The commotion he had just caused at Hundred Demons Hundred Flavors would have attracted the attention of the hunting squads, even if he hadn’t used the Token to notify Jiang Wanzhao and Su Qingyu.
In other words, the Tribulation Cultivators hiding here should be fleeing as far away as possible right now.
However, as a Poison Cultivator, Kong Xia was unwilling to pass up the golden opportunity to capture Zou Feng, which led to a disagreement with the Ninefold Celestial Court.
So she took the lead, staying behind with the Tribulation Cultivators from the Yama Underworld, while those from the Ninefold Celestial Court chose to flee.
"I’m very curious. Who gave you the courage to stay here and wait for death when you’re already surrounded?" Zou Feng said in a low voice, his gaze sweeping across the group.
Zou Feng appeared calm, but he knew full well that his situation was actually quite dire.
Under normal circumstances, he certainly wouldn’t be afraid of this lineup.
The problem was, he had been forcefully dragged into the enemy’s Magical Treasure.
’Heaven knows what other troublesome effects this Magical Treasure has...’
Zou Feng’s words made Kong Xia laugh. "Boasting shamelessly when you’re at death’s door. It’s true that we’ve been exposed, but today, you will die without a doubt!"
Before her voice had even faded, Kong Xia triggered the vengeful spirit poison within Zou Feng’s body.
Previously, even from a great distance, Kong Xia had been able to control this poison to some extent in an attempt to torture Zou Feng.
Now that they were so close, she was naturally even more capable of making the vengeful spirit poison in Zou Feng’s body erupt completely.
Fortunately, Zou Feng had long been prepared and had remained in a state of Cultivation. Thus, Kong Xia’s attempt to fully detonate the vengeful spirit poison was an utter failure.
Seeing that Zou Feng showed no corresponding symptoms, Kong Xia was slightly surprised.
But she immediately shouted an order, "What are you all standing around for? Kill him!"
The Tribulation Cultivators from the Yama Underworld were already prepared. Upon hearing the command, they immediately unleashed their various Divine Skills, bombarding Zou Feng with a frenzied barrage.
Meanwhile, Kong Xia cast a spell to control the giant statues.
It wasn’t that she was bringing the statues to life. Rather, they were all equivalent to Magical Artifacts for Kong Xia, each capable of being manipulated to launch its own unique attacks.
As for the energy consumed by the statues’ attacks, Zou Feng could clearly feel that it was the very Power of Emotion that had just been gathered and absorbed.
Continuously bombarded by so many overwhelming attacks, Zou Feng was developing a major headache, even though he had already deployed his Poison Domain for defense.
Even with the assistance of his Poison Domain, he couldn’t completely block all the attacks. The statues’ attacks, in particular, could directly penetrate his sea of consciousness, delivering wave after wave of mental assaults.
Knowing this couldn’t go on, Zou Feng had no choice but to brace himself and cultivate the Tribulation-Indestructible Body, using it to transfer the damage he couldn’t fully withstand.
This was actually quite risky. After all, only torment the body could endure counted as cultivating the Undying Body. If he couldn’t withstand it at all, it wouldn’t be Cultivation, but suicide, and the side effects could naturally not be transferred.
Fortunately, the person who currently posed the greatest threat to him also happened to be his biggest "contributor."
Once this torment was successfully transferred, it should, in theory, stop Kong Xia from being able to attack further.
The subsequent developments unfolded exactly as Zou Feng had predicted.
His gamble paid off. Due to a sudden onset of various physical discomforts, Kong Xia truly didn’t dare to personally join the fight.
Kong Xia, overcome with suspicion, kept looking around, clearly suspecting that powerful reinforcements had arrived for Zou Feng and were causing trouble from the shadows.
Just as Kong Xia reluctantly began to consider retreating, the surrounding space suddenly began to tremble violently.
The earth-shaking, mountain-swaying scene meant that this Alternate Space was already at risk of collapsing.
Kong Xia’s expression grew even uglier. It was obvious that outside the Magical Treasure, a powerful Cultivator was attempting to break through into this Alternate Space.