CHAPTER 622: CHAPTER 114_8

So, I can choose to stay and eliminate this demon, or lead my team to quickly leave if the situation turns bad.

Even more radically, we can fight it off and then immediately leave the Array, recuperate outside, and come back in to fight it again. Since it can’t leave the Array, we can keep wearing it down over and over, and eventually we’ll exhaust it to death.

Yin Meng took out a can of yellow peach from her backpack.

But the can no longer contained yellow peaches or syrup, but a thick substance of various colors.

Run Sheng glanced at it and asked, "What is this?"

Yin Meng: "It’s a dish I cooked myself, there was some leftover from last time."

As she spoke, Yin Meng spread the leftover food from the can onto the Demon Exorcism Whip, reminding:

"It’s corrosive, be careful when we start fighting."

The last time, the Fish Demon that loved to eat rats exploded in front of her, and the liquid that burst out corroded the entire room into pits and hollows.

At first, Yin Meng thought it was the fish that had the corrosive property.

But later, after learning about the behavior of the Fish Demon when it died from Tan Wenbin and Run Sheng, she realized it wasn’t the fish that was corrosive, but her cooking.

"Thump thump thump!"

Big Fish arrived, stopping just a few dozen meters away from everyone.

Its condition was actually quite poor. It could conceal its state somewhat when in the water, but now that it was fully exposed, one could see the extensive decay across its body, with fish bones visible in some places.

Beneath a thin film, one could faintly see dark red granules resembling a honeycomb.

Yin Meng pointed to it and asked, "Is that fish roe?"

Run Sheng responded, "It should be."

The little fish, and the slightly larger ones, all hatched from there.

Yin Meng said, "After we kill the fish, I want to get some roe to cook with."

Run Sheng: "Just don’t use the pots from the shop."

"Roar!"

Big Fish let out another roar, bringing with it bursts of fishy wind.

It seemed to be expressing its dissatisfaction—it had already arrived, yet you all were still chatting and laughing.

Run Sheng and Yin Meng indeed controlled their smiles, knowing they had to buy enough time for Binbin behind them.

However, Li Zhiyuan had his own methods for buying time.

The young man said, "You were just asking why, weren’t you? I can answer you now, since we have plenty of time."

Big Fish’s gaze fell on Li Zhiyuan, its fish lips wriggling, making a "gurgling" muffled sound.

Li Zhiyuan shook his head: "I don’t understand."

Big Fish’s gills lifted, and though it wasn’t clear how it communicated, amidst the muffled sounds, one could hear a voice:

"Tell me, how did you see through my disguise?"

Li Zhiyuan smiled.

Tan Wenbin was setting up an Array behind them, and the opponent had seen it.

They were deliberately playing for time on their side, but wasn’t the opponent also deliberately stalling?

What, you want to try and use the Array I set up, hoping to take the opportunity to leave this place?

He felt that the opponent had underestimated him at first, but after what had just occurred, the opponent was now holding him in infinitely high regard.

The Array they set up, their own people could leave, but how could you, who are specifically targeted by this Array, possibly get out?

Making such a foolhardy mistake, indulging in such daydreams, indicates that the opponent is truly frantic and in disarray, having lost all sense of judgement.

Seeing that Li Zhiyuan wasn’t speaking, Big Fish’s gills opened and closed rapidly: "Speak to me!"

Li Zhiyuan said: "Why bother with all this ’your excellency’ talk, doesn’t it feel awkward? Continue calling yourself ’poor Daoist’, my Daoist Yu Xuzi."

Uncertainty and anxiety showed in Big Fish’s eyes, but soon, they were filled with rage again:

"What are you saying to me?"

"I’m saying, Daoist Yu Xuzi, when exactly are you going to end this act?"

Big Fish stopped moving, gills completely shut.

Li Zhiyuan continued: "Isn’t it tiring to act all the time, or is it that you so rarely see outsiders here that once you started performing, you just couldn’t stop?"

The mouth of Big Fish opened again, this time very widely, revealing a human figure inside, it was Yu Xuzi himself.

But Yu Xuzi’s body had multiple patches of flesh attached to the fish’s body, they were essentially one entity, or more precisely, Yu Xuzi had grown out of the fish’s body.

This could be considered... a Corpse Demon.

But unlike traditional Corpse Demons, as a human corpse, it’s the fish’s body that’s the main body, not the human’s.

Yu Xuzi inside the fish’s mouth no longer had the aura of a Daoist, covered from head to toe in sticky fluid, he looked like an animal that had just hatched.

Yu Xuzi asked: "How did you find out?"

Li Zhiyuan: "Find out what? That the real mastermind here isn’t the Fish Demon, but our Daoist Yu Xuzi who had tasked himself with the duty of exorcising demons and had left behind a self-aggrandizing stone tablet?"

"How did you... find out!"

"I realized after coming in, when I reached the riverbank and saw you, the Array Eye, appearing in front of me, I figured it out.

To be honest, when I first observed the Array from the outside, I thought it was poorly designed.

Although it did serve its purpose, it lacked a critical component—it could suppress but could not grind down.

Relying purely on time to exhaust an evil spirit, how long would it take to actually vanquish it?

At that time, I thought not only did I need to help you repair the Array, but I also had to modify and improve it based on its original structure, at the very least, to compensate for the Array’s ability to wear down the trapped.