Chapter 263 (1/2)

A mist covered sky lit up in bright red after a large explosion. The source of this eruption was a large flying ship with sails. It was pierced by a monstrous appendage that was able to take it out in one attack.

This thing looked quite bizarre, dark in coloring, and made out of flesh. From it, a myriad of squiggly tentacles was wiggling around. Each one of them covered in mouths, these mouths weren't uniform in design. They were a mix of beasts and humanoid creatures alike, the teeth on them looked to belong to carnivores as well as to herbivores.

The shrieks of a thousand creatures were heard from those flailing tentacles. Their cries were soon erased by a red beam of molten plasma. It connected with the thick dark tower of flesh and caused it to burn up. The tentacles attached to it went up in flames along with it while screaming in a high pitched wail.

”How's that?”

”Qiang watch out, below you!”

Huo Qiang who was up in the air and also the first one to attack looked down. He was quick to react by dodging to the side as another large spire of flesh tried devouring him from below. This one actually looked more like a giant worm with a toothy mouth but it also had a lot of those slimy tendrils coming out of it.

”The mist is a lot thicker in this part...Captain, activate the formation!”

Zhang Dong called out while also moving down from the Argonaut. It was time to get his hands dirty and to help out his sect brother that was getting swarmed by some strange tentacle monsters. Zhang Liena wasn't far behind as all of the nascent soul masters sprung into action. The other cultivators remained on the ship that was equipped to protect them.

The ship that went down belonged to the Divine Fist Sect. Fang Heng the man responsible for them was on the other ship but he was now hovering above it. There was enough time to evacuate the core formation elders onto the other flying vessel before the skyscr.a.p.er-sized monster flesh trees got them.

Thanks to The Argonaut what they were facing would soon come to light. The large metallic sh.i.p.s' large array formation started glowing bright gold. Runic symbols started appearing on the bubbly like barrier before it started expanding outwardly.

Within a matter of moments, the whole ship lit up in a bright golden hue. It started pulsating with energy that was shooting outwardly in a burst of bright light. This continued for a time while causing the miasma around the area to get pushed back forcefully.

Finally, everything was appearing before them, the fog was clearing up. The people that were looking at the ship's screen and the ones that were outside to witness everything started gasping. What they saw was truly appalling, a sight that they didn't expect to ever see.

Where everyone expected to see ruins or some sign of a city that was here, they witnessed flesh. Everything was covered in a layer of meat, squiggly living one to be exact.

What used to be the ground or the ruins were covered in a mountain of flesh. Tentacle-like appendages were protruding out of everything, strange mouths, eyes, even ears and noses were attached to that flesh. It was like out of a horror flick where some kind of alien monster had fused with every living being that it came across.

”What is all of this…”

Zhang Dong had to do a double-take over everything. He wasn't sure what he was looking at, was this mass of flesh the Cthulhu monster that he was supposed to be facing? He tried examining everything with his system but it showed corrupt numbers and question marks over everything. Even it had trouble identifying what this thing was and he had a sinking suspicion as to why.

”This thing… it's made up of thousands… no millions of living beings... It has somehow fused with them together... ”

He detected vast amounts of demonic qi coming from the creature below. It was on different wavelengths that brought him to his conclusion of it being composed of various living creatures, humans included.

The ship continued to send out waves of divine energy into the distance which helped in keeping the mist at bay. The tentacle mass below wasn't all too happy about this fact and started thrashing its tower sized tendrils at the unwelcome guests. Luckily for Zhang Dong and his people, their ship was quite mobile and this monster below wasn't the speedy kind, evading its attacks was manageable.

The Argonaut wouldn't be taking a passive stance in this battle. The crew inside was ready and waiting. The ship was equipped with large spirit cannons that were powered by the ship's engine. Their power could be further boosted by the person using them. The order to attack was given long ago and the people were quite trigger happy.

A rain of various colorful projectiles descended from the sky. It was as if shooting stars were descending from above. These energy attacks collided with the screeching monster below, tearing into it while it tried to defend itself with its massive body of squiggly flesh. The sight wasn't pretty as the moment the monster's body was pierced dark blood and pungent smell followed.

This wasn't the only enemy that was waiting for them. There was a myriad of flying monsters separate from it coming their way. They were quite strong at the pinnacle of core formation and able to move even without the mist surrounding the area around them.

Zhang Dong looked at the monsters but he didn't join the battle yet. The other three nascent soul elders had joined with the flying sh.i.p.s to support them but he was still looking around. There was something off about this whole place. The flesh monster did give off nascent soul fluctuations of energy but it wasn't that strong.

The only thing it had going for it was its size. It didn't look like it would be able to handle all of them, which would make this an easy victory for their side. From his experience when things looked too good to be true, most of the time they were. That is also why he remained vigilant while scanning for other enemies.

”What is that…”

It wasn't long since the mist cleared out but now he noticed something. In the distance there was a strange structure, it was still composed of flesh and part of this monster. It looked like three arches coming together into one spot. At the spot that they connected was some kind of fleshy rope that dangled around.