*Crack!
The sound of shattering glass abruptly halted Xiao Dong's advance toward the fallen Jianyu. He retreated hastily, poised to counter whatever trick Jianyu might employ.
To his astonishment, the anticipated attack never appeared. Instead, cracks began to spiderweb across Jianyu's body.
*Tsssdt!!
Dark mist oozed from Jianyu's disintegrating form, the cracks relentlessly expanding until, with a resounding thunder, he exploded into a billowing cloud of shadows.
"Huh?" Xiao Dong, taken aback by this unexpected turn, fell silent, his gaze fixed on the enigmatic mist. "Huh... He...hehe.... HahHAHAHAHHA!!"
His laughter echoed manically, relishing the sight of his foe's pathetic demise. "Serves you right! You bloody bastard! Hahaha!"
"Ahh... No... No... Jianyu..." Xifeng muttered mindlessly on the ground, her words repeating like a broken record. Xiao Dong decided to ignore her, as he was bound by his vow... not that he expects that Xifeng would survive in her current state anyways. As he turned to leave...
████ ████!!
...A mighty roar reverberated through the caverns. Within the dark shadows, the remnants of Xin Jianyu, a sphere of multicolored wisps materialized.
The shadows advanced, seeping into every crevice of the cavern. It brought an ominous transformation to the land, devouring everything in its path, including the corpse of the beast felled prior Jianyu's arrival...
The entire cavern plunged into a deep, dark shade mirroring that of the shadowy mist. Ashen dead branches lunged forth from the cursed land, devoid of life.
The spherical wisps of myriad coloured lights amid the darkness faded as the shadows gathered and condensed back onto it's origin...
"Tsk!" Xiao Dong clicked his tongue, rushing toward the faint sphere of five-colored wisps, determined to eliminate the monstrosity.
However...
████!!
As his weapon(stick) approached the sphere, a heavy blow struck his waist, sending him hurtling into the distance.
"Argh!"
Xiao Dong prepared to retaliate, "You bastar-!" Only to realize his weapon was gone.
His eyes darted around in search of his lost weapon, only to find that the condensed shadows had taken a new form—an abomination of ash and smoke, twice his height. Its upper limbs bore an uncanny semblance to human arms, yet devoid of any humanity. The lower limbs resembled those of a beast, adorned with vicious claws. Instead of typical facial features, a vertical slit ran down its face.
█... ██...
Its throat trembled freverously as roars of thunderous clouds resonated... delivering a strangely clear message. It was...
█in Ji██yu!█
...A declaration!
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How come that golden eye girl cannot see that the MC became that wraith ? Or is something else going on here, and I'm misunderstanding something?
It's related to his transformation, half of it will be discussed next chapter the rest will be later on.
to put it simply, Jianyu is being influenced and transformed by demonic dao(Cuz he basically accepted it). in Xiao Xiang's eyes he looked looked more so like grotesque mixture of a patchwork zombie of multiple deformed and ever-changing humanoid body parts covered in shadows.
i didn't include this part due to some reasons.
@Teaserpent thanks for the explanation
@HellBlazeBlue Hey i am sorry to annoy you like this but can you see the image up in the author notes? again im sorry to inconvenience you.
@Teaserpent Sure can, it's cool
@HellBlazeBlue alright, thanks. I finally figured out how to do that....