When system cheat becomes rampant!-Chapter 676 - 499 Broken Throat

Among these three people, the third Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage was a one-eyed man. His left eye was replaced by a large hole, and one could vaguely see his brain through the left eye socket, but the rest of him appeared quite normal.

"There was some disturbance at the Blood Altar just now," Broken Arm said, gazing towards the summit.

"But?"

Broken Throat's words were always very simple because if he spoke too much, blood would start flowing from his throat.

"I also find it odd. It's as if the Blood Altar suddenly became activated," the one-eyed man said.

"You, me," Broken Throat said simply.

"Yes."

Though Broken Throat's words were simple, the one-eyed man and Broken Arm understood him perfectly, and they quickly leaped up, flying towards the summit—presumably to the Blood Altar in Marquis Domain to check the situation.

Broken Throat, however, remained in place, his gaze sweeping into the distance. His powerful Orifice Perception manifested, searching the entire Withered Forest.

"Three in the Orifice Transforming phase."

Xiang Beifei frowned slightly. Dealing with these three wasn't too difficult for him in his current state—he probably had a seventy percent chance of winning even if he took on all three of them.

But he didn't rashly reveal himself, because this place was no longer as simple as the third dangerous area, Tranquil Domain!

In last year's Newcomer's Contest, Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage lured the participants of the team trials taking place in the second dangerous area, Marquis Domain, to the Withered Forest using blood altar projections. When union members arrived, they were in the third-ranked dangerous area, Tranquil Domain, but the Withered Forest had vanished.

From Xiang Tianxing's pioneering stone, one could infer that the Withered Forest was actually from the fourth-ranked dangerous area, Marquis Domain!

That is to say, this place had now become a very strange area, no longer under the control of Jiuzhou humans, but rather the territory of desolate beasts.

Now, three Ghostly Visages appeared here again, one of them being the familiar Broken Throat. It was clear they had been monitoring the Withered Forest all along.

Most importantly, he had just perceived a sense of Orifice Perception that was even more powerful than these three—a source he did not know, which made him quite wary!

Broken Throat, standing on the cliff, was deep in thought. Suddenly, numerous black tendrils erupted from his body. These tendrils spread quickly, extending into every corner of the Withered Forest.

The black tendrils swept over every broken branch, stone, and root like a tide of insects, seemingly intending to search the area thoroughly once more.

Soon, the tendrils were approaching the location where Xiang Beifei was hiding. He furrowed his brow slightly; a direct departure was impossible since the space here had been sealed off as soon as the three Ghostly Visages appeared.

Mere invisibility was useless when his physical body could easily be touched by the tendrils. He signaled to Erha, who immediately clawed at his hoof, causing the nearby tree to split open and envelop them, then sealed back up.

The black tendrils quickly passed over the bark of the withered tree where they were hiding, like a tide, but failed to find them inside. The rustling sound from outside, similar to a swarm of locusts passing by, was quite uncomfortable.

"Woof!"

Xiaohei was ready to rush out with a brick to give the offender a beating, but Xiang Beifei shook his head slightly. It wouldn't be wise to do so.

Although enclosed within tree bark, Xiang Beifei's spiritual power perception was still intact. He could clearly sense the entire Withered Forest being covered by Broken Throat's tendrils, which surprised him.

Although the Withered Forest was not that large, it was at least ten thousand times larger than the City of the Old Days, Jingsu, where he had been last time. Broken Throat was alone, yet the tendrils he spread out could cover so wide an area. Xiang Beifei found that he had underestimated his opponent.

Broken Throat and those like Lin Long from Ghostly Visage were different. Lin Long and others, to blend into Jiuzhou, had fused their hearts with Beast Pills and were greatly restricted. But Broken Throat's parasitic method was boundless, and the means at his disposal were certainly more abundant than Lin Long's.

Such a species with wisdom was not to be underestimated.

The black tendrils had almost searched through all the withered trees. Broken Throat found no anomalies, but he obviously wasn't giving up and began to gather all the branches.

Crack! Crack!

The branches were being compressed by the tentacles of Broken Throat, shattered once more as if to ensure that not a single creature in the entire withered forest escaped its destruction, even though the trees had already been wrecked.

Those tentacles also coiled around the tree trunk where Xiang Beifei had been hiding, beginning to squeeze it. This time, even Erha was out of options because if it tried to control the trees to make them harder, the anomaly would surely be detected, and it would be better to just burst out and fight them head-on.

Xiang Beifei had no intention of fighting here. A faint white glow immediately lit up on his body, the power of "Stand Aside" was already affecting him and Erha!

Stand Aside could forcibly prevent a third party from participating in the battle between Xiang Beifei and another target!

And Xiang Beifei's opponent was naturally set to be Erha, thus treating Broken Throat as the third party! freēwēbnovel.com

Being affected by Stand Aside, Broken Throat was unable to touch Xiang Beifei and Erha.

The black tentacles passed through Xiang Beifei's body without catching him.

Crack!

The section of the withered tree that he had been dodging was once again ground to dust by the black tentacles.

"Luckily, this guy is not too powerful, unable to break through Stand Aside."

Xiang Beifei let out a sigh of relief.

Last time, when he was in the God Refining stage, he had faced two Ghost Whiskers of Remnant Visage in the orifice transforming stage alone, using Stand Aside. However, Stand Aside was easily neutralized by the opponents, but now that he was in the orifice transforming stage, Broken Throat could not detect him at all.

After another rampage of the black tentacles through the withered forest without discovering anything suspicious, it took a long while before Broken Throat retracted all of the black tentacles.

At this moment, the two men, Severed Hand and One-Eyed, who had gone to check the blood altar, had also come down from the mountaintop and landed beside Broken Throat.

"We didn't find anything." One-Eyed said.

"Im, possible." Broken Throat frowned deeply.

"Could it be Youmeng struggling to survive?" Severed Hand asked.

"No." Broken Throat said flatly.

"That's right, Youmeng would turn back into a tree as soon as he approaches this mountain. They can't get near the blood altar." One-Eyed said.

"If it's not Youmeng, could it be another member of the Beast Race?" Severed Hand asked.

Broken Throat did not speak further; he slowly lifted his head, took another look over the entire withered forest, then waved his hand and disappeared from the spot.

Severed Hand and One-Eyed exchanged glances and immediately followed.

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Xiang Beifei was still standing in the same place, motionless.

About half an hour later, he leaped out, carrying the sapling and crossed outward. As he reached the edge of the withered forest, he found that the space here was still sealed. The withered forest seemed to be shrouded by an invisible boundary.

This was not a system space lockdown. Xiang Beifei couldn't just pass through it directly.

But this time, he wasn't stumped. Xiaohei quickly slapped a brick onto the empty seal in space, and immediately golden patterns rippled out, fixing the forbidden seal in place. Then he climbed over the boundary and left the range of the withered forest.

However, he hadn't walked two steps when suddenly, a terrifying aura pressed down on him. This aura was extremely powerful, and it was the fourth perception that had not yet revealed itself.

Boom!

The spot where Xiang Beifei stood was directly hit by a thick black tentacle, creating a huge deep pit!