The slime monster advanced at an incredibly rapid speed. Its body skimmed tightly along the ground, as if sliding. The slime monster appeared in a deep red colour, with a texture like jelly. Within that jelly, struggling puppet beasts, tiny puppet tribespeople, and some puppet plants unique to this world could be seen. The limbs of those puppet beasts and tiny puppet people extended from the surface, like countless legs dragging along the ground, allowing the slime monster to slither like a snake or insect.
A puppet beast crawled out from a crevice in the ground, trying to flee in terror. However, a tentacle suddenly extended from the slime monster’s body, wrapping around the puppet beast and swallowing it inside.
Wherever it passed, it seemed capable of absorbing all matter, incorporating it into its own body!
Soon, it had entered the Double Lips Basin and was about to appear before Ye Chui and the others.
“Its speed is so fast. This must be something the Devil created. It can even summon apostles,” Ye Chui said gravely.
“An apostle like the Sea Angel?” Fazhe asked, his voice carrying some disbelief. The people of the Tidal Empire were most familiar with the Sea Angel. That evil sea monster was closely linked to the legend of the ghost ship. It was something every Tidal citizen knew about. Fazhe, Neil, and the others knew even more clearly that the Sea Angel was the Church’s sixth apostle.
Now, another apostle had appeared. Without doubt, it would possess power no less than, or even surpassing, the Sea Angel.
“This is troublesome,” Fazhe said solemnly.
“What’s the big deal? We’ve fought apostles several times already,” Debbie said casually. “We took down the Sea Angel too. This snot monster is nothing.”
Fazhe stared at Debbie with wide eyes. “You defeated the Sea Angel?”
Ye Chui’s group had liberated the Sea Angel, freeing the three major pirate fleets from the curse. Afterwards, they had flown directly to the Tidal Empire’s capital on Flying Demon vehicles. This information had not yet reached the Tidal Empire, so Fazhe was unaware of events at sea.
Ye Chui did not answer Fazhe. He quickly deployed, “Debbie, Turtle Baby, you two stay and assist me. Everyone else, hurry into the Nostril Deep Cave and help Jarvis enter the soul magic array. I’ll buy you time and hold this thing off.”
“We’ll stay too!” the puppet elder said immediately.
But Ye Chui refused. “This thing can clearly absorb other puppets and turn them into its own power. If you stay, you’ll only be a burden to me!”
“What?” The puppet elder felt slightly angry. Ye Chui’s words were indeed quite blunt.
Fazhe also felt slighted by Ye Chui. The implication was that he too should enter the Nostril Deep Cave, meaning he was a burden as well?
Fazhe clenched his iron fist, looking at the sliding slime monster. “I wonder if it can withstand my iron fist strike.”
Ye Chui shook his head at Fazhe. In truth, since battling Eliza and her army of faith spirits, for a long time afterwards, although Ye Chui had been through many fights and fully demonstrated his strength, those battles could hardly be said to require his full effort. To Ye Chui, they mostly felt like play. The enemies he encountered had not forced him to use one hundred percent of his power and focus.
But this slime monster, as an apostle, was bound to be a formidable opponent.
After saying this, Ye Chui saw the displeased expressions on Fazhe and the puppet tribe’s faces. He knew they were unhappy with his arrangements, but it did not matter. Ye Chui beckoned to Turtle Baby and walked towards the slime monster.
Jarvis, Green, and the others were already preparing to enter the nostril cave. They had one hundred percent trust and obedience in Ye Chui’s plans.
Fazhe snorted coldly, swung his puppet iron fist once, and walked behind Ye Chui. As the Tidal Empire’s top expert, his combat experience was vast. He could judge the slime monster’s characteristics. He said, “This thing can absorb other living beings. If absorbed, you become part of it. The key is not to get enveloped. As long as you’re fast enough, you can avoid absorption.”
“To avoid absorption, speed alone won’t work. It has high speed itself and can deform. I’m certain your speed couldn’t escape its absorption,” Ye Chui interrupted Fazhe. His fingers tapped lightly on the iPad magic book.
“Speed won’t work? Then what will!” Fazhe retorted unconvinced.
“Simple. Just be bigger than it.”
With that, Ye Chui turned around. Suddenly, rousing music rang out around him. It was “Guren no Yumiya”. Accompanied by this stirring BGM, mist began swirling around Ye Chui’s body. Amid the stunned expressions of Fazhe and the puppet tribe, a giant twenty metres tall emerged. Black hair flew wildly. The body was covered in muscle-like textures. The face faintly resembled Ye Chui’s.
At this height, he nearly reached the level of the Nostril Deep Cave. One could imagine a giant standing on the upper lip of an enormous head, level with the nostrils.
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Because of its massive size, the body bore most of the “breath”. In the fierce winds, it swayed, barely able to stand, as if it might topple at any moment.
The slime monster had climbed into the Double Lips Basin. Its size was indeed huge, but it could not compare to the giant Ye Chui had become. The slime monster was about ten metres tall, with an elliptical body roughly fifteen metres in diameter.
“This still isn’t enough. I’ve long wanted to try this.”
From the giant’s mouth came a voice like muffled thunder.
Immediately afterwards, the giant clenched its fist and roared. The muscle textures on its body tensed instantly. The originally blood-coloured skin rapidly turned green.
Ye Chui had unlocked Invincible Hulk and comprehended the advanced life magic Savage Hulk. This magic could transform his body, granting him the Hulk’s physique. Now, under the premise of using the giant BGM to transform into a giant, Ye Chui activated Savage Hulk magic.
Ye Chui had long wanted to test combining these two powers. Theoretically, he had found it feasible, but he had never put it into practice until now!
Green spread. The body expanded. The already immensely huge giant swelled once more, its height increasing by half, reaching thirty metres.
Its appearance was utterly ferocious and powerful. The body brimmed with terrifying destructive force.
The originally swaying body in the nasal breath now stood firmly.
The green giantised form boosted defence and strength several times. This giant body was no longer merely tall. It now possessed explosive power matching its size.
But this was still not enough.
The green giant looked down at the ground, towards Turtle Baby.
Turtle Baby pouted. Though she had not known what Ye Chui planned when he asked her to stay, she understood now. She snorted coldly, handed Celty’s head to Dragon Baby beside her, leaped up, and terrifying roars echoed through the air.
“What is that sound!?” Neil asked in some fear.
“The roar of a giant turtle. A chaotic giant turtle,” Dragon Baby explained. Seeing the shocked expressions on Neil, Fazhe, and the others filled him with excitement. “What? Master didn’t tell you? Turtle Baby’s true form is a chaotic giant turtle, the strongest magical beast living in the endless chaotic sea.”
As he spoke, the phantom of an immensely huge giant turtle appeared in everyone’s view, blotting out the sky. Though this world had no sun, it still cast everyone in dark shadow.
The moment the massive turtle phantom appeared, it instantly fused into the green giant’s body, forming a layer of turtle-pattern battle armour on its surface!
Turtle Baby’s power was chaotic space. She could freely manipulate spatial forces. She was inherently a defensive magical beast. Back then, the God of Gods had allowed Dragon Baby to bring her to the divine realm precisely because of interest in her defensive capabilities.
The slime monster was now close at hand. It had sensed the threat from the colossal entity before it. Its originally smooth surface suddenly sank deeply, forming an enormous mouth lined with teeth. Those teeth were the tiny puppet people it had previously swallowed.
The slime monster opened its giant maw to bite the turtle-armoured green giant.
The green giant’s right fist fell like a meteor from the sky. With a boom, it smashed directly into the slime monster’s giant mouth. The slime monster’s body shattered into pieces. Some previously swallowed puppet beasts and tiny puppet people gained temporary freedom, shrieking as they tried to escape, only to be recaptured by the writhing slime body.
The slime monster’s shattered body rapidly reformed. Some damaged fallen parts leaped constantly onto the green giant, attempting to envelop it, but the powerful turtle armour defence blocked the slime monster’s erosion.
Ye Chui had asked Turtle Baby to assist precisely because of her formidable defensive ability.
Underground, Fazhe’s fist-clenching posture seemed to stiffen slightly. His aged face was filled with shock and dejection. He soon snapped awake, turned decisively, and headed into the Nostril Deep Cave. He shouted loudly, “Let’s hurry to the soul magic array. I’ll take the lead. Follow behind me!”
At this moment, the puppet elder also made a swift decision. He shouted to the over one hundred puppet warriors, “We move out. The Eternal Puppet Tribe will never hinder Mr Ye Chui!”
Green saw their reaction and nodded satisfactorily. “Hm, your resolve is correct.”
