The City of Terror

 The savage black beetles from earlier had terrified Zhang Jin Hua immensely. As such, the constantly struggling Thousand Eyed Devil in the distance looked a lot cuter, especially when its silhouette was obscured by its yellow light.

However, just this one glance and she immediately fell prey to its illusions.

In her slowly morphing vision, a handsome young man on a white horse and in golden armor was riding across the lake toward her. His voice also made Zhang Jin Hua beyond excited.

“Jin Hua, I love you! Come here, my baby! Let me run with you and fly away! ”

 Retch!

If Wei Xiao Bei saw this hallucination, he would probably vomit instantly.

However, Zhang Jin Hua was completely different.

As an ordinary white-collar worker, her greatest dream in life was to find a prince charming that loved her beyond all else. Handsome, rich, noble and subservient to her every whim. Probably also very jealous and envious if she even talked with another guy, one who would start thinking about killing off that person.

Ok, yes, Zhang Jin Hua read too many web novels.

Not one person in the entire company could compare to her amount of data usage.

It was either something like The Legal Wife’s Not As Good As the Concubine or The Reserve Queen Monopolizes the Young Prince or Overbearing President Falls In Love with An Unfortunate Girl or One Million Men That Kissed Me or Popular Boy Loves An Ugly Girl. All of these were novels that Zhang Jin Hua read over and over again.

And yes, Zhang Jin Hua had fallen prey to its illusory light. She was jumping into the lake and desperately swimming into its depths.

Even the ice-cold water couldn’t help her break free from the illusion. The cold water was like Prince Charming’s embrace and loving caress to Zhang Jin Hua’s senses.

If the Thousand Eyed Devil had not left yet, it would probably have devoured her in a single bite, turning her into food swimming in its stomach.

However, at this moment, the Thousand Eyed Devil couldn’t care for enjoying this tiny human dessert as it was writhing in pain at the surface of the lake. The water that it sent splashing onto Zhang Jin Hua caused her to blush instead.

She was probably experiencing some pretty enjoyable stuff in her illusion right now. Illusions came from the heart and for Zhang Jin Hua, all of the hallucinations she was experiencing were what she desired the most.

Disregarding the completely unrealistic things that she was seeing in her hallucinations, Xiao Bei was now pressing further into its body. He was hitting all the muscles that he ran into with his jian.

Even the elastic muscles were either burnt to a crisp by the electricity or smashed to minced meat by the Hard Metal Jian’s vibration effect!

For the Thousand Eyed Devil, Xiao Bei was like a bug that had entered through its air and was advancing toward its brain. Even it didn’t know how to deal with such terror and panic.

It even started to reach into its wounds with its tentacles. However, it was not that intelligent. After entering some distance into the wounds, the tentacles started feasting on its flesh.

Moreover, the flesh seemed to be very much so to the taste of it, as it let even more tentacles surge into its own body.

Soon, Xiao Bei passed through all the obstacles and arrived in a room filled with some white viscous substance. He was in the innermost parts of the Thousand Eyed Devil now. A fist-sized yellow crystal floated there.

There was no doubt that the yellow crystal was an amazing treasure!

Wei Xiao charged forward and reached with his left hand, quickly grabbing the yellow crystal.

A [Status Appraisal] fell on the crystal.

Name: Core of the Thousand Eyed Devil (Rare)

 Introduction: This object is the most important organ of the Thousand Eyed Devil. It can freely create or undo hallucinations.

 Effect 1: Illusions From the Heart, it can cause lifeforms to be trapped in hallucinations created by their inner desires. It is very difficult to awaken an individual from such a hallucination aside from a lethal attack.

 Effect 2: Undo Illusions, can undo the illusions of trapped lifeforms.

 Effect 3: ?????

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 The core of the Thousand Eyed Devil?

Wei Xiao Bei couldn’t help but be overjoyed. This should be the source of its powers.

This object is truly a treasure!

Apart from its rare quality, its third effect was also just question marks. Even Wei Xiao Bei’s [Status Appraisal] couldn’t discern its effect. It had to be extraordinary.

Without any hesitation, Wei Xiao Bei put the core into his storage bag.

As the core entered his bag, the Thousand Eyed Devil started to struggle intensely. A few moments later, it stopped struggling and all the glowing eyes outside started shutting down.

At this moment, Xiao Bei was using his Hard Metal Jian to do destructive damage to its brain.

It wasn’t until a thousand evolution points were suddenly added to his status panel that he finally stopped.

The Thousand Eyed Devil had finally been killed.

Xiao Bei let out a breath of air.

One had to admit that the battle between him and the Thousand Eyed Devil was a shocking but ultimately harmless encounter.

Of course, if it wasn’t for his [Indomitable Spirit] ability and if his Willpower was slightly lower, he would probably have been defeated by the Thousand Eyed Devil the moment they met. He would not even have the opportunity to kill it.

Since it had died, Xiao Bei had no intention to continue destroying its body. Instead, he exited through the same wound he had cut his way through.

Xiao Bei submerged himself in the water after jumping out of its body, giving it a good rub as he did so.

It couldn’t be helped, the corrosive flesh and blood gave an unpleasant feeling.

As the Thousand Eyed Devil died, its thousands of tentacles went limp and floated above the water, moving along its currents.

This was a big monster, and a Three-Stor Terror Creature as well. Who knows how much power the spear could absorb.

Xiao Bei wasn’t thinking about the Fledging Life Altar at the moment.

It was still squaring off against the Anāgāmi Finger Bone. Judging from the look of it, it was going to be a bit more time before the Life Altar could devour the finger bone.

A slightly thicker tentacle would probably be enough for the Life Altar’s need for flesh.

Hmm?

 Tentacle?

Xiao Bei raised his brow when his eye brushed past the tentacles floating on the water.

They did look quite similar to squid tentacles.

He pressed the tentacles lightly. He then took out a dagger from his storage bag and sliced off a piece of the tentacle. He put it into his mouth and after some chewing, he came to a conclusion.

Compared to the body of the Thousand Eyed Devil, this tentacle had higher protein content, was much chewier and had a slightly salty taste to it.

More importantly, it wasn’t very poisonous. After a bit of treatment, he should be able to get rid of all the remaining poison.

These tentacles of the Thousand Eyed Devil had become a very excellent ingredient in Xiao Bei’s eyes.

~Good stuff!~

Xiao Bei’s eyebrows were pointing up now. He had a happy smile on his face as he started choosing the tentacles he wanted.

Not every tentacle could be used as an ingredient.

The massive tentacles directly connected to the Thousand Eyed Devil were completely unsuitable.

They were too tough and had many fine tendons in them. Even the dagger couldn’t sever these tendons, making them have a very poor texture, as tough as old horse meat.

The most suitable tentacles were the ones that were growing out of the large tentacles. The even finer ones that grew on these tentacles were too fishy and the smell could not be concealed. Thus, Xiao Bei eliminated them as well.

After cutting the tentacles with his dagger for a while, he realized that it would probably take over five hours to cut off all the tentacles he wanted.

After a moment of hesitation, Xiao Bei chose the more violent and wasteful method of smashing it up.

He used the jian to smash apart the tentacles he needed and took off the smaller tentacles on them that he didn’t need.

Of course, the parts that he smashed could no longer be consumed.

After just an hour, Xiao Bei had managed to put all the tentacles he needed into his storage bag.

Three hundred and seventeen tentacles took up much of the space in the storage bag.

Of course, after some treatment, the portion of tentacles within would be much smaller.

Every time he smashed up a tentacle, he would stab it with his spear and let it absorb the energy remaining within.

There wasn’t much energy in each tentacle, but it was still a great amount when added together.

Xiao Bei returned to its body after storing the tentacles.

He had already tossed a [Status Appraisal] at the corpse of the Thousand Eyed Devil before this.

This step had become a necessary procedure for Wei Xiao Bei before he harvested his spoils.

Through the [Status Appraisal], he could pinpoint the parts of the corpse that were suited for harvesting.

For instance, apart from the tentacles that could be used as ingredients and the core that he had put away, there were only three things on this Thousand Eyed Devil’s corpse that could be harvested.

 The Eye of Desire! The Eye of Terror! The Eye of Slaughter!

Judging from these names, you should know what was going on.

Indeed, the things that could be harvested from its corpse were the eyes all over its body.

Wei Xiao Bei couldn’t help but feel hurt over all the eyes he had destroyed when he thought about this.

However, as he started harvesting the eyes, he understood that these eyes would explode when he harvested them, even if he didn’t actively stab them.

The eye was the size of half a palm. The dagger slowly stabbed around the eye and cut it out.

Bang!

This noise rang out and the eye exploded on its own, splashing yellow liquid all over Xiao Bei’s face. Some shattered crystal within it also created bloody cuts on his face.