Chapter 1856: Chapter 1953: The Anomaly of the Wood Carving

"Hmm?" Fang Lin hadn’t reacted yet when the wooden carving had already flown to the front of the Big Black Mystical Crow.

The Big Black Mystical Crow was startled, thinking the wooden carving was Fang Lin’s treasure meant to take its life, and immediately turned to flee.

Who knew that the wooden carving, like bone maggots, continued to follow behind the Big Black Mystical Crow, releasing a strange power that constantly drained the life force from the Big Black Mystical Crow.

"What the hell is this thing?" The Big Black Mystical Crow clearly felt its life force being drained away by this bizarre wooden carving and couldn’t help but scream.

Fang Lin also hadn’t anticipated such a change, frowning immediately as he quickly followed to see what was happening.

The wooden carving remained behind the Big Black Mystical Crow, and no matter how the crow attacked it, it couldn’t be knocked away, not even getting slightly damaged.

The speed at which the wooden carving absorbed life force became more and more rapid. In just a brief moment, the Big Black Mystical Crow could clearly feel a significant loss of its life force.

The Big Black Mystical Crow felt miserable, as it was indeed a case of misfortune piling up. Its soul was severely injured, and now this haunting object was continuously draining its life force. Although it was a dominant creature among the many Demon Beasts of these hundred thousand mountains, at the peak of Nine-Transformation, today it was as embarrassed and wretched as could be.

At this moment, the Big Black Mystical Crow not only hated Fang Lin but also hated the red-eyed lion. If it weren’t for the red-eyed lion’s request, how would it have confronted such a calamity? How would it have fallen into such a predicament?

Of course, thinking about these things was already too late for the Big Black Mystical Crow. Now it had to rid itself of this eerie wooden carving; otherwise, its life force would be entirely drained, and it wouldn’t even need the Human Warrior to lift a finger—it would already be dead.

With a breath, the Big Black Mystical Crow spat out a faint purple stone, which flew from its mouth and hit the wooden carving with a streak of light.

The wooden carving slightly trembled, pausing for a moment in mid-air from the impact but then continued closely following the Big Black Mystical Crow, not stopping its draining of the life force.

The purple stone continuously collided with the wooden carving, each time causing a momentary pause, yet the wooden carving was remarkably sturdy. No matter how the purple stone struck, the wooden carving remained unscathed.

"Damn it! What on earth is this thing? Why does it seem alive?" The Big Black Mystical Crow cursed in its heart, the fear apparent in its eyes.

Although the Big Black Mystical Crow was after all a Nine-Transformation Demon Beast, its life force was vast and magnificent like a boundless ocean. The wooden carving’s absorption rate was not slow, but to say it could directly drain the crow to death still would take a considerable time.

But regardless of how abundant the Big Black Mystical Crow’s life force was, if the wooden carving continued at this rate, there would eventually be a moment when the crow’s life force was entirely drained.

If the wooden carving couldn’t be stopped, the Big Black Mystical Crow would be left to wait for death.

Boom!!!

The Big Black Mystical Crow suddenly turned its head, sharply grasping the wooden carving with its razor-like talons, trying to crush the wooden carving with its sharpness.

But upon exerting force, the Big Black Mystical Crow found the wooden carving incredibly hard, completely immovable, and instead the speed of life force absorption increased.

The Big Black Mystical Crow spewed black fire from its mouth, enveloping the wooden carving in an instant. This black fire was the beast fire generated within the Big Black Mystical Crow and had extraordinary power, enough to make ordinary martial artists shy away.

The wooden carving broke free from the black fire but hovered around the Big Black Mystical Crow, seeming somewhat intimidated by the beast fire, not daring to approach too closely.

Seeing this, the Big Black Mystical Crow was delighted and immediately spewed more beast fire at the wooden carving, which indeed retreated, unwilling to come into contact with the beast fire.

Fang Lin, watching from not far away, was somewhat surprised by this scene, not expecting the wooden carving to fear flames.

Upon reflection, since the wooden carving was related to the demon beast, and the demon beast in Fang Lin’s memory was also afraid of flames, this was quite understandable.

Though the wooden carving feared the Big Black Mystical Crow’s beast fire, it had not abandoned its draining of the crow’s life force, releasing a gray mist from within to envelop the crow.

Although the Big Black Mystical Crow didn’t know what the gray mist was, it understood it couldn’t be anything good. With a flap of its wings, it flew out of the mist.

But unexpectedly, just as the Big Black Mystical Crow flew out of the gray mist, a strange arm extended from the wooden carving and grabbed onto one of the crow’s legs.

In a panic, the Big Black Mystical Crow breathed out beast fire to burn the arm. The arm was charred black but remained clamped onto the crow’s leg.

"Damn it!" The Big Black Mystical Crow felt a significant part of its life force being sucked away through that arm and decisively abandoned that foot, freeing itself from the grasp.

This way, the Big Black Mystical Crow temporarily escaped the wooden carving’s entanglement and fled for its life.

Rather than chasing the Big Black Mystical Crow, Fang Lin approached the wooden carving, wanting to control it.

Unexpectedly, the wooden carving flew in another direction, unwilling to be controlled by Fang Lin.

"Trying to run?" Fang Lin quickly caught up with the wooden carving, preventing it from escaping far and grasped it in his hand.𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Unbelievably, the wooden carving started to absorb Fang Lin’s life force unabatedly.

Fang Lin’s expression changed, and his Skyfire surged out, prompting the wooden carving to free itself from his grasp, displaying a deep fear of Fang Lin’s Skyfire.

Thus, Fang Lin found himself in a bind, as the wooden carving behaved wildly, immediately starting to drain his life force upon contact, but retreating swiftly at the release of Skyfire.

Fang Lin felt helpless; it seemed hard to control this wooden carving, and he did not want to end up as embarrassed as the Big Black Mystical Crow was.

The wooden carving stared at Fang Lin, and Fang Lin stared at the wooden carving. It seemed neither could do anything to the other, and they were locked in a stalemate.

Meanwhile, in the myriad mountains, formidable Demon Qi began to emerge, seemingly drawn by the commotion caused by the Big Black Mystical Crow and Fang Lin, catching the attention of these powerful Demon Beasts.

Fang Lin sensed trouble; after all, this was the myriad mountains, and being besieged by numerous Demon Beasts would indeed be very troublesome.

Besides, Fang Lin wasn’t here to fight these Demon Beasts; he was looking for the ancient cave and didn’t want to create more problems.

Unbeknownst to Fang Lin, from above the Nine Heavens, a pair of cold, indifferent eyes had already taken notice of him.

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