Chapter 146: Instructors Are Wonderful Things!

Thunder Dragon! Flame Phoenix! Rise!!

Mu You let out a sky-shaking roar as phoenix flames surged and lightning danced in all directions!

Above his head, a gigantic thunderous fireball condensed into shape, gradually taking on a destructive momentum. Having absorbed Wu Feng’s power, Mu You’s command of spirit-word power had become even more proficient.

"Miao You, scout the terrain. Slaughter and absorb the ones you can, and mark the ones you can't so we can take them down together in a moment!"

"Hehe, got it."

Miao You broke into a happy, gap-toothed grin and scampered elusively into the air ahead, not forgetting to plant a kick squarely on Nuo Nuo's backside just as she left.

"Ah, mother dear, you scared the life out of this lady-baby!"

Although Nuo Nuo had harbored murderous intent, she was still, after all, a child. Terrified, she let out a shrill screech, her panic-stricken expression sweeping across her surroundings. Though she couldn't see Miao You, she could completely and utterly feel that icy-cold touch.

Within this Death Row Paradise, everyone harbored a deep-seated fear of the unknown.

"I'll ask you one last time, are you going to move or not?!"

"I won't, I won't, I simply won't! A Nuo Nuo who fails her mission stops being a lady—*splat*!!"

Nuo Nuo abruptly cut off mid-sentence. A mouthful of blood spewed forth, and the next second, the world spun upside down as her head went flying into the air. In the instant she fell, she saw blood spurting from her own severed neck.

A gigantic thunder-and-flame saber, fully ten meters long and entirely materialized from boiling blood, had descended. Nuo Nuo, an A-rank instructor, hadn't even been able to withstand a single blow.

"Your soul is rotten to the core. You murdered your own parents. No matter how aggrieved you claim to be, could you possibly be more aggrieved than someone like me who has neither father nor mother?"

The blood dissipated into thin air, turning into a liquid that streamed into Mu You's body.

"Instead of letting Mo Han play with you until you die, allow me to grant you release."

Gazing down at Nuo Nuo's corpse, Mu You frowned. The wound on his arm was throbbing with an extraordinary, intense pain, and his own blood kept welling up and spilling outward. Given his current constitution, a wound like this should have already begun healing, but instead, it was festering and rotting away.

"Hiss~~"

Mu You drew a sharp breath; the wound was burning with agonizing pain.

Picking up the folding knife from Nuo Nuo's hand, Mu You gently touched it with his fingertips. Before he even made contact with the blade, the blood beneath his skin rapidly withered and turned necrotic.

Poison?!

"This isn't poison."

Yantai Mingyue removed the scale from her forehead and pressed it against Mu You's wound. Following a silky, cool, and smooth sensation, the bloody gash actually began to close.

"Have you ever heard of cordyceps? Fungi parasitize the bodies of insects, killing them from the inside out by secreting digestive enzymes. What's attached to this is also an enzyme secreted by a fungus, and it is the nemesis of the Meridian-Severing Soul-Eating Insect. Fortunately, the grade of the Meridian-Severing Soul-Eating Insect inside you is extremely high. Under normal circumstances, just that single touch a moment ago would have completely decomposed your entire arm," Yantai Mingyue explained.

"So overbearing." Mu You was utterly shocked.

The Death Row Paradise had actually invented such a thing, and coupled with the fact that the instructors themselves possessed A-rank strength, the death row inmates participating in this tournament were dead for sure.

Fortunately, there was a variable like Mu You.

Nuo Nuo's soul was somewhat different from those of ordinary death row inmates; it was amber-colored. After absorbing her soul, Mu You discovered that his body had actually begun to develop a resistance to that enzyme. Although the blade could still inflict damage upon him, it no longer caused the agonizing, piercing pain of moments before.

At this thought, Mu You cracked a grin.

It seemed that instructors were quite valuable treasures. If they knew what was good for them, fine; otherwise, they could only blame him for being merciless!

Seeing the eager look in Mu You's eyes, Yantai Mingyue sighed. It seemed that this immoral story was heading toward a massive disaster.

...

The Underground Crystal World.

"Metal, wood, water, fire, earth. I've got metal, I've got wood, I've got water. Earth... too filthy, don't want it. Let's try fire instead. SS-rank, SS-rank, where, where, where, where is the fire-attribute SS-rank..."

Zhi, an SSS-rank death row inmate, boredly unpicked the surgical stitches on his own body, muttering to himself. Beside him, Heitongzi draped herself gently over his knees like a well-behaved, docile kitten.

"I heard that there seems to be a newly promoted SS-rank trash recently, and she happens to have the fire attribute..."

Zhi abruptly yanked hard on the long thread in his hand, tearing it out with a spray of fresh blood. The sensation filled him with supreme, ecstatic pleasure.

"Let's go with her, shall we, Heitongzi?!"

Zhi glanced at the lovely creature beside him, hooked his finger under her chin, and gave her a playful, lingering kiss.

A massive, golden Meridian-Severing Soul-Eating Insect crawled out from between Zhi's lips, probing this way and that before drilling straight into Heitongzi's body. Instantly, an overwhelming, formidable aura surged and boiled from within her, while Zhi—the SSS-rank death row inmate standing right in front of her—remained completely unharmed.

"Go on, bring back the one they call Princess. Now that you possess two of my Meridian-Severing Soul-Eating Insects, not even I am your match anymore in this entire Death Row Paradise. If you still retain your sanity rather than being a mere puppet under my control, I suppose the person you most want to kill at this very moment is me, *hehehe*!!"

...

"I've tracked them down, Brother Mu You! Among these people, there are 63 low-tier S-ranks, 26 mid-tier S-ranks, and 11 peak S-ranks. Earlier, at a place called the Unique Bar, 27 people died all at once, leaving a total of seventy-three people remaining."

Miao You's face was exceptionally flushed at the moment; it seemed she hadn't fallen short on absorbing souls along the way.

"How many of our people are left?"

"The one called Hulei is dead. Sister Ruxiang and the others are huddled together, so their situation is somewhat better, but all three of them have used a Holy Word once. The instructor Dian Shao was an instructor escorting the trial-takers; during the recent fierce battle, he broke through to the S-rank and possesses a weapon identical to Nuo Nuo's. Even mid-tier S-rank death row inmates are no match for him. However, the current situation remains far from optimistic. The strength of the peak S-rank death row inmates is simply too terrifying. Everyone is hiding inside the Glacial Chi Realm of Manifesting Heavens, being hunted down by a pack of S-rank death row inmates led by three peak S-rank poweragers."

"We mustn't delay, let's go save them right now."

The twin wings of thunder and fire materialized out of thin air. Mu You shot straight up from the ground, soaring swiftly across the landscape with a murderous glint burning deep within his pupils.

Possessing the bug-like ability of soul devouring, his leveling journey in the Death Row Paradise had only just begun!

One hundred S-rank death row inmates—*heh*, just imagining how immensely powerful he would become after absorbing them all made Mu You's heart race with excitement!