Chapter 38 The Girl of the Juniper Tree Song

The sound of rushing water echoed, and a massive shadow stirred.

Before Xiao Tan's shout could finish, the black, grotesque shadow had "drilled" through the winding river channel, revealing its true form.

"This thing... must be the 'sister' from 'The Juniper Tree Song'..." Feng Bujue quickly deduced as he made out the monster's appearance.

Although the monster was nearly the size of an elephant, its basic form was still that of a young girl, and her clothes were intact. But... this "little girl," like her "father" and "mother," had become hideously disfigured and terrifying.

"Jue-laoshi, what do we do..." The giant monster ahead undoubtedly put a lot of pressure on Oub. In this situation, he naturally asked Brother Jue for his opinion at the first moment.

"Simple..." Feng Bujue's reaction was calm and collected. He paused for half a second and said loudly, "Ruo Yu, Xiao Ling, turn back and meet the pursuers; Oub, share your oxygen equipment with Xiao Tan and Buu so they can catch their breath; as for the monster up ahead..." He released Oub's arm at this point, "...I'll handle it."

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone did as Brother Jue said... In his teammates' eyes, it was as if it were a matter of course. No one questioned Feng Bujue's strategy, and no one thought he couldn't beat the monster ahead.

"Xiao Ling, I'll take care of the pursuers; just provide a little cover from above." Ruo Yu immediately flipped around in the air and said to Xiao Ling, who was closest to her.

"No problem." Xiao Ling followed closely behind and responded.

Their teamwork was also very smooth. Ruo Yu knew that the winding river terrain was not conducive to Xiao Ling's ranged attacks, so she simply took on the task of main attacker. Anyway, for Ruo Yu... any terrain was the same.

"Buu, change to a floating-on-water state." On the other side, Oub, who had fallen back into the water, immediately took out another set of breathing equipment from his bag and handed his own set to Buu, who was floating beside him. At the same time, he turned his head and shouted to Xiao Tan, "Hey! Xiao Tan-ge, come over here."

For Xiao Tan, whose face had already turned purple from holding his breath, Oub's shout was simply a lifeline. He rushed over without hesitation, grabbed the breathing apparatus, and started breathing heavily.

"Huff... thank you..." After a few breaths, Xiao Tan finally said, "Ha... I... almost... ha... suffocated..."

"Ugh... I was in pretty bad shape too..." Buu, who had just connected to the breathing device on the side, also chimed in, "Being dragged at high speed in a balloon state and having to withstand forces from two directions, I almost threw up..."

"Speaking of which... Jue-laoshi is really ridiculously powerful..." Oub then added, "Not only can he breathe in this black pollen, temporarily repel pursuers (Brother Jue had told his teammates about the monsters chasing them in the previous three minutes), and drag the four of us at high speed for several kilometers, but he still doesn't change his expression or skip a beat..."

Buu also nodded and added, "And... after all that, he still acted as if nothing had happened and charged alone towards that monster..."

When they got to this point, they all subconsciously looked at Brother Jue, but saw...

At that moment, Feng Bujue had already jumped high into the air, came above the monster, and took out [Yi Da] to aim. This time, the ammunition he used was... a giant diamond he'd scooped up from the bottom of the river.

Of course, "giant" was also relative. It was no match compared to a brick, but compared to the commonly used cut gems on jewelry, this thing was definitely a behemoth. If you had such a diamond in the real world, you would probably have alarmed the government long ago...

"Monster! Eat my 'Diamond Starburst Shot'!" After aiming, Brother Jue pulled back the slingshot and shouted in a rather chuuni (delusional) manner, launching the attack.

"Tch... imitating Monkey King's tone and shouting out this temporary, made-up move name..." Ruo Yu, who was dozens of meters away, heard Brother Jue's shout and couldn't help but mutter in a low voice, "Does he think he's very cool..."

"Wow! How cool~" In the same second, Xiao Tan, Buu, and Oub behind her all widened their eyes and exclaimed in amazement as they looked at the sky.

"Sigh..." Ruo Yu sighed helplessly, "Hopeless..."

Chi Ying—

At this moment, the sound of the diamond breaking through the air suddenly rang out, and the dazzling light was like a falling star.

"Ah—" The monster had just straightened up and roared when it was hit squarely by the "Diamond Starburst Shot."

Then, an incredibly disgusting thing happened...

The "cannonball" fired by [Yi Da] acted like a drill, piercing into the "sister's" crown and spinning rapidly... beginning to sink.

In the next second, blood, flesh, skin, bone, tendons, marrow... and many solids and liquids that no one knew what they were, all spewed out of the monster's body... The scene was like a great white shark swallowing a propeller, even more so...

About eight seconds later, the "Diamond Starburst Shot" failed. The monster... naturally died, and died very "heroically." The area within a dozen meters around it was all covered with a pasty, viscous corpse fragment...

"I'll be damned... that's so strong..." Even Feng Bujue himself did not expect the power of this shot to be so amazing. Fortunately, he reacted quickly, and had used Moonstep to climb a distance higher when the first wave of brain matter sprayed out, otherwise his whole body would have been covered in corpse sludge.

"Mm... as expected of Jue-laoshi, even killing a monster is done with such depth..." After the monster's corpse sank into the water, Buu muttered while wiping the blood and flesh from his breathing mask.

"Mm... as expected of Jue-laoshi, his moves are just a little bit more ruthless than the average person..." Oub also slowly poked his head out of the water (he had cleverly dived into the water and held his head), and said in a deep voice.

"Ah... it's so dirty..." Xiao Tan was more miserable, as he was standing a little closer to the monster and got splattered the most. Fortunately, he was a doctor in reality and had long been accustomed to these organs, blood, and flesh, so he could barely stand it. "Forget it... anyway, we're in the river, I'll just wash it off..."

"The guys over there seem to have taken care of it..." Xiao Ling, who was far away, turned her head to look at the situation with Brother Jue and the others, and said to Ruo Yu.

"As expected." Ruo Yu replied coldly, "The current Bujue is very powerful... as long as the system doesn't restrict his abilities, even if he encounters a Level 1 Derivative, he has a chance of winning..." She paused for a moment, "But that's beside the point... anyway, on our side..."

At this point, the "father," who had previously been pierced by Brother Jue, finally caught up from behind.

"...on our side... let's also make a quick decision." Ruo Yu said, holding Feng Sheng vertically in front of her chest, adopting a peculiar stance...