Wu Pifu's entire body trembled slightly.
This was neither fear nor excitement, but rather a natural suppression of a high-level life form over a low-level life form.
In nature, there exists what is known as natural enemies!
Wu Pifu did not know whether the giant pig demon before him could be considered a natural enemy of humanity or mortal beings, but he was certain that his flesh was indeed trembling involuntarily.
This was by no means pollution or distortion, nor any negative influence, for the Unresting Spiritual Light in his sea of consciousness was shining brightly, and he also had the passive effect of Death's Return to resist it.
For instance, when he devoured the blood and flesh of this pig demon, he felt as if the flesh had come to life, and there were wails of ghosts and howls of wolves crashing into his consciousness.
However, under the illumination of the Unresting Spiritual Light, it was suppressed, and the flesh in his belly became "dead."
Thus, Wu Pifu was very certain that he was instinctively afraid at this moment.
He immediately struck his thighs and chest with his hands, forcibly stopping the tremors, and fixed his gaze on the giant pig demon.
The giant pig demon emerged from the dust, standing before Wu Pifu like a small mountain.
It was panting heavily, its bone spines constantly extending and retracting.
At this moment, Wu Pifu noticed that one of its two tusks was dark black, with vengeful spirits swirling around it.
He immediately understood that this tusk was the magical artifact known as the Xuan Yin Soul Slaughtering Blade.
Indeed, this giant pig demon had refined one of its tusks into a magical artifact.
The giant pig demon glared at Wu Pifu with its enormous lantern-like eyes, which were pitch black.
Then, in the next moment, it lowered its head and aimed its tusk directly at Wu Pifu, proceeding to charge at him.
It did not flee!
Wu Pifu immediately prepared to unleash his qi to increase his speed, but the next instant, a grayish dust flickered around him, and a heavy force suddenly descended, pressing down on him and reducing his speed by more than thirty percent.
Despite his explosive effort, he was unable to evade it.
Although he dodged the tusk's piercing attack, he was still directly struck by the pig's snout on one side of his body.
With that single blow, Wu Pifu felt as if he had been hit by a train, and his entire body was sent flying into the air for a full thirty to forty meters.
When he landed, he could hardly feel any pain or itchiness on the side of his body that had been struck.
He rolled another twenty meters before crashing into a pile of logs, shattering them and sliding another four to five meters, finally coming to a stop.
"Wow!"
Wu Pifu spat out a large mouthful of fresh blood, which contained numerous fragments of internal organs.
He looked at the side of his body that had been struck; although his limbs were still intact, they had already taken on a twisted, crushed, and flattened appearance.
At this moment, the giant pig demon charged at him once more, and the oppressive force descended upon Wu Pifu again.
At this life-and-death moment, Wu Pifu finally unleashed all his strength, and the trump card of his controllable demonic transformation erupted at this time.
Qi surged from his spine all the way up, ultimately rushing into his brain's spiritual platform.
In the next instant, Wu Pifu's eyes turned crimson.
The negative mental backlash rate was at ten percent...
Fifteen percent!
Wu Pifu directly raised his negative mental backlash rate to fifteen percent, and although he felt his mind swaying, he still retained his rationality and consciousness.
As expected, the advancement of the Unresting Spiritual Light, combined with the passive existence of Death's Return, greatly enhanced his resistance to negative mental backlash.
He even felt that raising it to twenty percent might be manageable.
However, Wu Pifu did not do so, as that would be too risky.
Even at the current fifteen percent, he felt his physical vitality significantly enhanced, with his flesh, bones, and internal organs rapidly absorbing nutrients from his stomach to heal themselves.
He felt as if every part of his body had its own life consciousness, yet all were under the control of Wu Pifu's main consciousness.
In the instant the giant pig demon charged in front of him, Wu Pifu slammed both his hands and feet against the ground, shattering the gray force field, and leaped at least ten meters high, landing on top of the giant pig demon's head.
The giant pig demon continued to charge forward due to inertia, but its bone spines bent and aimed at Wu Pifu.
However, Wu Pifu seemed to have eyes on the back of his head, skillfully dodging the nearest bone spines.
Then he raised his arm high... so high that it seemed as if his arm had transformed into rubber, stretching out.
Before more bone spines could bend towards him, Wu Pifu's extended arm suddenly shrank down, smashing with immense force onto the giant pig demon's cervical spine.
With a crack, Wu Pifu's arm exploded, leaving only bone fragments, while the giant pig demon's head sank down, tilting at a forty-five-degree angle.
The force of the strike had actually broken the giant pig demon's spine!
At that moment, the bent spines accelerated once more, and Wu Pifu had no choice but to jump off the giant pig demon.
As soon as he landed, all the bent spines returned to their original state... no, it seemed that even more bent spines were sprouting from the giant pig demon's body.
These things, resembling bones yet also like metal, grew upwards from beneath its skin.
Wu Pifu could not afford to be distracted by this.
The giant pig demon's body was still recovering, and its head, which had been at a forty-five-degree angle, was slowly returning to its original position.
After landing, Wu Pifu actually grabbed one of its legs and began dragging it towards Bianliang City!
This wild boar was nearly ten meters tall and eighteen to nineteen meters long, a massive creature weighing perhaps two to three hundred tons.
Even if Wu Pifu exerted all his strength, it would only amount to forty to fifty tons.
Even now, in his controllable demonic transformation state, his strength would not exceed one hundred tons.
Fortunately, he was only dragging it, not lifting it.
Although it was slow, he was indeed pulling the giant pig demon forward through the muddy ground.
However, after dragging it less than a hundred meters, the giant pig demon's spine had already healed.
The thrashing giant pig demon kicked its four hooves wildly, pressing its body towards Wu Pifu.
During this dragging process, Wu Pifu was not idle, continuously gnawing at the flesh on the pig's hoof, having already bitten out a large hole.
His shattered arm was also in the process of healing, but the recovery speed was far slower than that of the giant pig demon, and it still appeared somewhat deformed.
As the giant pig demon's body pressed down, its snout wildly thrusting at him, Wu Pifu lifted the pig hoof with all his strength, then leaped upward.
The entire pig hoof, along with the pig leg, bent backward, causing the giant pig demon to let out a piercing scream, its cries echoing across the wilderness.
In the next second, Wu Pifu jumped onto the giant pig demon's head, then crouched slightly on its forehead.
Just as he did, several bent spines shot out from beside the giant pig demon's head.
At that moment, as Wu Pifu crouched slightly, gathering his qi in his dantian, the bent spines surged forward, stabbing at his body.
With a whoosh, three bent spines pierced through his shoulder, chest, and thigh simultaneously.
At the same time, Wu Pifu thrust both palms forward, unleashing all his qi and blood force onto the giant pig demon's forehead.
With a loud explosion, the giant pig demon's forehead, along with a large portion of its brain matter, burst open, and its two eyeballs tumbled to the ground, half of its head reduced to mush.
Immediately afterward, Wu Pifu's entire body moved, and all the spines that had pierced him were shattered.
A sense of wholeness coalesced throughout his body.
(This is...
Danjin!?)
In that brief moment, he had unleashed a virtual Danjin through his Sitting Lotus Technique.
However, seeing the bent spines approaching, he hastily attempted to strike midway.
Yet, in his controllable demonic transformation state, his mind began a frenzied calculation of virtual Danjin, Danjin, qi and blood, qi force, and so on.
It seemed like just an instant, but he had calculated it tens of thousands of times in his mind.
When he unleashed this strike and instinctively broke free from the bent spines, his body naturally erupted with a surge of wholeness.
This was by no means merely transformed strength!
This power came from the dantian, with qi and blood converging at the moment of the power's eruption.
It seemed as if every part of his body was exerting force, yet all the strength was solidified into one, resulting in a tremendous increase in power.
In just a brief moment, the explosive force within a small range had reached at least over one hundred tons!
(No, it is still not complete; it remains between virtual Danjin and true Danjin, but it is only a hair's breadth away!)
Wu Pifu felt a surge of joy in his heart.
At this moment, the giant pig demon began to heal itself again, and he immediately jumped down, hoisting another pig hoof, and began to pull with all his might.
With the power of wholeness, all the strength in his body twisted into one force, instantly increasing his dragging speed by more than ten times.
Although it was still not fast, it had reached a speed comparable to that of an ordinary person walking briskly.
At that moment, Wu Pifu keenly observed the truth behind the giant pig demon's healing.
It was not a natural recombination and growth of flesh; it was entirely different from his body's healing.
Instead, within the giant pig demon's body, there were countless things resembling mycelium.
These things intertwined and moved, causing the blood and flesh they touched to proliferate rapidly along the mycelium, achieving the effect of super-speed healing.
The roots of these mycelium... were those bone spines that had broken through its skin!
(What is this!? Is this monster parasitized?)
Wu Pifu could not clarify, but he sensed keenly that these bent spines and the pig demon itself seemed not to be of the same kind.
These bone spines appeared to be something even more terrifying, and he felt an itch at the spot where he had been pierced.
Upon careful inspection, it seemed that fine root-like spines were rapidly growing within the wound where he had been pierced, and he could not determine what exactly they were.
At that moment, the Unresting Spiritual Light in Wu Pifu's consciousness suddenly radiated light from his flesh.
Under its illumination, black gas floated out from his wound, dispersing upon contact with the air, becoming formless.
The source of pollution!!
Wu Pifu immediately sensed what it was.
This was pollution!
And the giant pig demon before him was a nightmare that had been polluted!
Suddenly, from afar, a mournful horn sounded, followed by dust rising from the east, west, and north.
Flags were raised, and cavalry appeared in droves.
Wu Pifu's eyes turned crimson as he gazed ahead.
Cavalry!
Groups of golden-armored cavalry were rushing towards the battlefield between him and the giant pig demon.
These golden-armored warriors, whether conspicuous or concealed, almost all had bone spines protruding from their bodies!!
(End of Chapter)