Ye Chui and his group arrived at the hot spring villa, originally planning a covert operation to kill the blood serpent beast. But after encountering the blood serpent beast, its bizarre combat methods caught them completely off guard, and they soon forgot their initial intent. Almost as soon as they began battling the blood serpent beast, the brilliant flames and deafening noises had already spread throughout the entire imperial capital, drawing the attention of countless people to the anomaly here.
Ouroboros Yuren himself was staying in a villa in the west of the city, relatively close by. After sensing the disturbance here, he rushed over immediately. At this moment, his face was full of fury, along with a touch of surprise: he was not surprised that someone dared to intrude here, but rather by the identities of Ye Chui and his group.
“You are the Whatever Name Magic Guild, the illegitimate children! I never expected you to dare show up in the imperial capital, and even come to this place!” Ouroboros Yuren said coldly. He had recognised the identities of Ye Chui and his group, but this did not make him show any fear or alarm. Instead, a hint of excitement crept onto his face, as if he could not wait to capture Ye Chui and the others.
This was not only because of the 400,000 gold coin bounty on Ye Chui and his group combined, but also because these people were rumoured to be strong experts. And everyone in the imperial capital knew that Ouroboros Yuren was a fiercely combative zealot.
Ye Chui was not surprised that Ouroboros Yuren had recognised their identities. In fact, during tonight’s operation, Ye Chui had specifically instructed everyone to wear their usual attire without any disguises, because he was concerned about being discovered and forced into battle. From their distinctive fighting styles, it would be easy to identify them. If they wore the circus disguises, the circus would no longer be able to maintain its pretence.
Ye Chui could sense the terror of this Ouroboros Yuren. He quietly turned his head to glance at Jacob behind him, signalling him to do something. Jacob nodded understandingly.
Debby walked to Ye Chui’s side. The little girl suddenly asked an untimely question. “Are you that Ouroboros Yuren?” She had heard the name from Silos before, but one thing bothered her greatly. “But why do you not have any hair?”
This Ouroboros Yuren, despite his nickname of snake hair, was actually bald.
“Debby, this is not the time to worry about such things.” Ye Chui cautioned Debby warily. But after saying that, he found himself quite curious about the question too, so he asked Ouroboros Yuren, “Yes, why do you not have any hair?”
Ouroboros Yuren did not answer them, but several veins bulged prominently on his bald head. To cultivate a certain magic, he had lost all his hair, and because of that magic, he was called Ouroboros Yuren. However, this matter was always his taboo, something he would absolutely not mention lightly to others. He raised both palms, and the magical tome beside him flipped through its pages with a rustle. The magical tome had an orange cover.
From its vague outline, it was clear that this magical tome was quite old, more worn and substantial than ordinary ones. It was an inherited magical tome. Ye Chui and his group were encountering a user of an inherited magical tome for the first time!
The strength of a magical mentor was usually gauged by rank, but rank was not absolute. Some people, even low-rank magical mentors, could hold their own against high-rank ones. On one hand, this depended on personal combat talent; on the other, the magical tome was an important criterion.
Magical mentors who used inherited magical tomes were definitely stronger than those using ordinary ones. Magical tome covers came in five colours: white, blue, green, purple, orange, with power increasing progressively. But ordinary and inherited were two different classes. An ordinary orange could only match an inherited green or purple, while an inherited orange completely surpassed ordinary magical tomes.
Moreover, inherited magical tomes varied, divided into first-generation inherited, second-generation inherited, and so on.
Generation referred to the number of previous owners the tome had. The more generations of inheritance, the greater the power naturally. At the pinnacle of inheritance stood the twelve-phase magical mentors, whose magical tomes were supreme divine artefacts inherited for over a hundred generations.
Ouroboros Yuren’s magical attribute was lava magic, a fusion attribute of fire and earth. His hands rapidly turned red, emitting a scorching temperature like molten lava. His face was full of cold cruelty as he looked at Ye Chui and his group, his eyes revealing a bloodthirsty frenzy.
But just as battle was about to erupt, Yuren suddenly heard a girl’s cry of alarm. The cry came from Denny’s mouth. When he looked over, he saw Jacob holding Denny hostage, with a sharp knife pressed to her neck.
“Do not move. Let us leave, or I will kill her right now! She is the only daughter of the Anduin family!” Jacob shouted, feigning ferocity.
This was a strategy Ye Chui and the others had planned in advance. Their actions could not bring any danger to the Anduin family. Now, outsiders knew that Denny was being held hostage by them, so Ye Chui had prepared accordingly. If their identities were exposed, they still needed to maintain the facade, with Jacob holding Denny hostage to mislead Yuren.
Seeing this scene, Yuren was momentarily stunned. Rumours outside said that the Whatever Name Magic Guild had kidnapped Denny. He had not expected this woman to be the little clown girl. But using her as a hostage?
His mouth cracked into a serpentine cold laugh. “Go ahead and kill her. It would be perfect for wiping out the Anduin family line.”
“Ah?” Jacob’s feigned ferocious expression froze upon hearing this. How could you be so decisive? How was he supposed to continue the act now…
Denny was also slightly taken aback, but this girl was sharper than Jacob. She fully immersed herself in the role of the kidnapped maiden, crying out hurriedly, “Yuren, please save me. The Anduin family will never treat you unfairly. Please do not abandon me. If you can save me, I… I will marry you! This young lady’s peerless beauty will be yours for the taking…”
When acting, one had to commit fully. Since Denny was playing the desperate kidnapped maiden, she naturally had to offer the best bargaining chip. And in Denny’s mind, what could top her peerless beauty?
However…
“Ha!” Ouroboros Yuren could not help but scoff at Denny’s words. “Who would want to marry you, you ugly freak!”
“…” Ye Chui and his group all stiffened. Denny’s greatest confidence in daily life was her peerless beauty. She was indeed a very beautiful young woman. For Denny, who was hopeless at everything else, this was her only source of pride. Yet Yuren had now dealt her such a cruel blow. Those who knew Denny well, like Ye Chui and the others, immediately sensed trouble.
And sure enough, after a few seconds of silence, Denny erupted in fury. She stormed towards Yuren with menacing momentum, ready to argue. Jacob hurriedly tried to pull her back: Stay serious, he is holding you hostage! But Denny swung her hand back, slapping away the hand Jacob was using to hold the knife. Amidst Ye Chui and the others’ stunned, slack-jawed expressions, she charged right up to Yuren’s face, rolling up her sleeves and demanding aggressively, “Say that again if you dare!”
“Bloody hell…”
When Ye Chui snapped back to reality, Denny was already in front of Yuren, only half a metre away. The closest among them to her, Ye Chui, was still three or four metres distant. Girl, had you forgotten you were supposed to be playing the kidnapped maiden?
Fortunately, Ouroboros Yuren was clearly stunned by this unorthodox approach. For a moment, he did not react to the fact that the hostage maiden had furiously planted herself right in front of him. When he did react, his eyes lit up with delight. He reached out to grab Denny’s shoulder. If he could rescue Denny from Ye Chui and his group, perhaps he could extort something from the Anduin family. This thought surged in his mind. But in the next instant, a green vine suddenly wrapped around Denny’s body.
“Ah!” Denny let out a cry of surprise, and her body was instantly yanked back to Ye Chui’s side. Her body was firmly bound by the vines. This was Ye Chui’s elven wood escape magic.
Ye Chui handed Denny over to Jacob’s side. “Watch her properly! She nearly slipped away!”
“Yes, guild leader. I absolutely will not let her run again…” Jacob agreed, wiping sweat from his forehead.
Ye Chui then turned to Ouroboros Yuren, adopting a battle-ready stance. “Ouroboros Yuren, I hear you are quite famous in the imperial capital. Allow me to experience your magic.” Hmm, hurry and divert his attention…
A trace of annoyance appeared on Ouroboros Yuren’s face. He was usually alert, but the scene of Denny charging up to him just now had shocked him too much. It was like a galaxy-destroying great demon king suddenly seeing his opponent do an awkward dance and momentarily losing focus in astonishment!
He quickly regained his cold composure. His lava-like hands began flowing with fiery red molten rock. “You must be the almighty magical mentor Ye Chui. Let me see your magic!”
Before his words finished, the magma flowing from his body instantly condensed into a stone wall in front of him. The stone wall was covered in sharp, blade-like stone spikes. “Buzz,” the stone wall then pressed towards Ye Chui and his group.
A phantom of a cannon appeared on Ye Chui’s body. Boom! As the stone wall flew towards him, it was instantly blasted to pieces.
But the stone wall was merely Ouroboros Yuren’s feint. As it shattered, a terrifying giant covered in stones and magma suddenly appeared before Ye Chui and the others. It was Ouroboros Yuren himself. He had used his lava magic to cover his body in a layer of stone and magma, transforming into a terrifying giant.
Blood-red eyes flowed across his body, some drops falling to the ground with a sizzle. He strode forward, swinging a stone fist towards Ye Chui and the others. The fist rubbed against the air, instantly igniting blazing magma flames.
Ye Chui hurriedly crossed his arms, his arms rapidly transforming into Hulk arms to block this fiery punch. Boom! The flame fist landed on Ye Chui’s green arms, the scorching sensation instantly transmitting into Ye Chui’s heart. His body involuntarily slid back several steps. The Hulk-transformed Ye Chui had immense strength, yet now he could barely withstand this stone giant!
He hurriedly retreated, his arms reverting to normal, now bearing a patch of burn marks.
Gurney’s figure leaped over him from above, swinging the fire ant greatsword to slash at the giant head-on.
Bang!
The greatsword was blocked by the magma giant’s arm. Phantoms of fire ants emerged one by one, crawling over the stone giant’s body, but they could not inflict any damage on the giant.
“Gurney, fire attribute sword qi is ineffective against him!” Lessa shouted hurriedly. She raised both hands high, beginning to chant holy words. As Gurney stepped on the stone giant’s arm for leverage and jumped away from the stone giant’s body, a pillar of holy light descended from the heavens. The holy light pillar swiftly condensed into the shape of… a thigh!
A massive foot sole stomped down onto the stone giant.
[Holy Word: Mum, I’ll Squash You Dead]
However, the stone giant’s body merely dipped slightly. Its arms braced upwards, actually withstanding this divine attack through sheer force.
Splash splash,
The sound of flowing water rang out instantly. A water serpent crawled out from the hot spring. It was condensed by Ye Chui using [Water Serpent’s Dance] to absorb water from the hot spring. Because it was not formed by conjuring water elements with magic but by directly absorbing the hot spring water, this water serpent was enormously large. It instantly surged onto the stone giant that was holding up the foot.
Sizzle,
The spring water met the magma, emitting a piercing sound. A mist of water vapour spread in all directions!
“The spring water cannot extinguish my flames!” Ouroboros Yuren’s voice emanated from the stone giant’s ferocious body. He roared, his body surging upright. The ground beneath the foot cracked into two large pits, and the divine foot condensed by Lessa shattered and crumbled. Flames blazed even more fiercely on his body, and the water serpent formed by Ye Chui was swiftly evaporated by the flames, unable to take shape.
But Ye Chui revealed a cold smile.
“I never intended to use the water serpent against you anyway…” As he spoke, Ye Chui’s hands suddenly began emanating icy chill. The pervasive water mist instantly turned into ice crystals, falling to the ground like snowflakes. The damp ground rapidly began to freeze, white ice crystals spreading like a serpent, swiftly climbing up the stone giant’s body.
In the blink of an eye, the stone giant had become an ice stone giant, its body frozen motionless.
Ye Chui’s [Doomsday Ice Chill] could not create ice itself, only generate chill. So the purpose of using [Water Serpent’s Dance] was not to douse the magma flames on the stone giant, but to cover him in water, then freeze him with the chill!
“Have we taken him down?” Debby breathed a sigh of relief.
Ye Chui’s expression was somewhat grave. He had just scanned Ouroboros Yuren’s point value: 553 points! Excluding freaks like the little clown girl or the devil, this placed him among the top terrifying foes they had encountered. There was no reason such a guy would be taken down so easily.
“No!” The bound Denny suddenly cried out in alarm. “He still has a trick up his sleeve… The reason he is called Ouroboros Yuren is because he transplanted a Medusa’s Eye onto himself! That eye can petrify others!”
