Chapter 27 - Tourist's 'Mermaid Waifu Search' Ended in Failure, So He Cut Innocent Kraken in Half
"Me? Dead?"
The immortal burst into laughter. He turned to the monster army and ordered them.
"I'll torture this brat. March forward! Slaughter all with the surname 'Ji'. Capture all women and children! You can eat the rest!"
The giant squid and monsters below smirked and roared, resuming their march. Moreover, in the sky, seven immortal bodyguards of Xiao Han Ce appeared and got into a deadlock combat with seven celestial foxes in disguise.
The immortal shifted his attention to Fu Tong and clenched his grip. He mocked.
"Let's see who will die here. How about I destroy your mind first!"
Starlight Tamer Guild's members excelled in mind control arts, as they were necessary skills for pacifying and taming monsters. Some of the members could defeat high-ranked immortals with such techniques. Facing a Qi condensation cultivator, the tamer believed he could make Fu Tong go crazy with a bit of effort.
As soon as his Qi entered Fu Tong's mind, he found an anomaly.
In the sea of Fu Tong's consciousness was the memory of his death when he was killed by the protagonists and Xiao Han Ce's shadows. The pain and the death experience was transferred to the tamer's mind.
Shuddered in fear, the tamer released Fu Tong's neck. He coughed and vomited digestive fluid.
Fu Tong calmly turned around and smirked.
"How did that feel? Was it fun peeking into my mind?"
The tamer scowled. "You, what are you?! Why is your sea of consciousness like that?!"
"Simple. If you die repeatedly, you will have the same sea of consciousness like me."
Fu Tong purposely got himself killed a thousand times in his sea of consciousness to counter against mind controllers, such as Xiao Han Ce. It also worked against tamers like this unknown immortal.
"…You… What?!"
That was not the end of what Fu Tong had learned.
Fu Tong's body emitted red smoke while his iris and pupils emitted a white glow. He spun around and swung his halberd horizontally.
The tamer was sliced in half from the waist.
Despite being cut into two, the tamer laughed. "A mere mortal can't kill me with that! I have a soul physique! Physical and Qi attacks can't do anything to me!"
The tamer unleashed his Qi and attempted to reform his soul physique. Similar to demonic fox Yuemei Xie, he could also regenerate lost limbs or restore his severed body. Even if he was beheaded, he would still survive.
However, his soul slowly degraded into fragmented shards.
Fu Tong didn't explain his skill effects like a cliche character. He adjusted the halberd and diagonally slashed, cleaving the tamer into four pieces.
The tamer's eyes widened, opening his mouth wide and screaming in confusion. However, his entire broken body parts turned into glass shards and dissipated into dust.
Fu Tong deeply exhaled and turned to the army of monsters. In the sky, the seven celestial foxes and the tamers were still in the middle of a dogfight. Beams flashed, flying energy weapons chased after targets, and explosions erupted everywhere.
Deciding to give them a hand, Fu Tong charged toward the closest immortal tamer. But as Fu Tong moved, the giant squid swung its tentacle at him.
Fu Tong scattered a hundred karma coins around him. The coins turned white as Fu Tong converted their energy into Qi barriers.
The tentacle clashed with the barrier and bounced back.
Fu Tong switched target, flying straight toward the squid's head. Throwing a hundred more karma coins at his halberd, they merged into the energy weapon and expanded its size, transforming into a giant butcher knife.
SWUA
He swung the energy knife down and cleaved the giant squid in half. The massive monster collapsed on top of its allies and scattered its blue blood everywhere.
The butcher knife vanished as it served its purpose. He discarded the dissipating metal rod and pulled out more coins. A new halberd manifested.
He then charged toward the chaos.
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150 Kilometers north of Sea Watcher Fortress, Xiao Han Ce's flying castle settled over a burning town. Following the castle was a massive army of 10,000 wyverns, 200,000 flying sharks, 50,000 sirens, 10 giant squids, and a million mermen riding on giant alligators.
Xiao Han Ce watched the carnage from the castle wall while his men did all the work. He also listened to the reports.
"Ji Fengyu's family and his city have been purged."
"I have Ji Linyan's head. Can I have his wife and daughter?
"The Northwest region is secured. One of the local sects has spotted us and fled east. Should we follow them?"
"We've run into a problem southwest. The Sea Watcher Fortress is putting up a fight. There seem to be multiple immortals in the city."
"West Ocean Fort has fallen. We have captured Ji Chenyan and his family."
Xiao Han Ce's ears perked when he heard about the presence of other immortals. He picked the jade slip that had informed him of the news related to Sea Watcher Fortress.
"Is there a casualty?"
"We've lost half of the brainwashed sea monsters. Two of our men have been killed.
Hearing about the casualty, Xiao Han Ce's expression turned dark. He rushed back into the castle while he held the jade slip.
"Who are we fighting? Which immortal clan is in the area?"
"Foxes. They're celestial foxes, young master!"
"Foxes?!"
Xiao Han Ce stopped his feet. He turned around as his smile widened. Thinking of a nine-tailed celestial fox, he salivated.
"Is there a nine-tailed fox?"
"We spotted one, but he already vanished along with one-third of the monster army and one of our guys. We don't know where he went."
"He?"
Xiao Han Ce was disappointed. He rolled his eyes and turned around, returning to his castle for safety. He grabbed all the jade slips and ordered his men.
"Tell all able men to return to the castle and resupply. Grab some anti-demon scrolls and demon-sealing talismans from here. If the foxes show up, we'll capture them. Even male foxes can be sold for 1,000 karma coins!"
"What about the prisoners, young master?"
Xiao Han Ce paused again. He thought for a moment and grinned.
"Take only women. Kill the rest."
"Children, too?"
"Yes. All of them. Infant and chickens included, unless you want to refine them into pills. Oh, talking about pills… I've changed my mind. Kill the children and take their corpses. We can still sell them to those necromancer freaks."
"…Understood, young master."
Xiao Han Ce cut the communication. He entered his room and gazed at the naked beast women, mermaids, and sirens, who had been chained to the wall. As he was tired of them, he picked up a sword and beheaded them one after another.
After throwing the corpses away, Xiao Han Ce meticulously cleaned the shackles, getting ready for new prisoners and toys. He thought of the female nine-tailed fox that he accidentally bumped into years ago and recalled her name.
"Ah, Jin Yu… Where are you?"