Chapter 429: Chapter 429: Priest of Holy Light
The Moon Lady’s perception was incredibly sharp.
She halted her steps, her eyes calmly fixed on the end of the dark alley.
There, an eerie mass of blackness wriggled, solid shadows began to coalesce.
Baiyu sensed a thick aura of distortion emanating from it.
The Moon Lady was eager for action.
From their initial encounter to now, Baiyu had long realized the Moon Lady was extremely combative, unafraid of a fight.
In this situation now.
It only made her somewhat excited.
"Don’t be impulsive."
Baiyu stopped her, stepping forward, his Blood Qi coursing swiftly through his body, "Who are you?
Pretending to be mysterious.
If you don’t answer, I’ll make a move directly."
Silence echoed through the alley.
At this moment.
He realized that the environment around him had changed.
Patch after patch of viscous blackness appeared on the walls and floor.
The rough outline of the creature started to form.
This is no human!
Seeing the shadow’s bizarre appearance, Baiyu couldn’t help but twitch.
Its entire body was covered with spines.
A head resembling a rectangle, with no eyes.
Instead, its body was filled with strange, eerie pupils.
Baiyu gasped, feeling his Spirit under immense impact at that moment.
He took two steps back.
Just about to launch an attack on the monster.
But his hand was caught by a man.
Turning around.
A Priest of Holy Light dressed in a white robe had appeared in the alley at some unknown time, a face unable to suppress fear.
But, after all, he was a professional.
At such a crisis moment, he was not timid.
Instead, he continued to retreat with Baiyu.
"Hurry, this is a sinister projection, there’s no need to tangle with it."
said the Priest of Holy Light.
Baiyu’s expression subtly changed; although the monster exuded extreme malevolence, its true strength was not formidable.
If he wasn’t afraid of distortion, he could fight.
However.
Given the unknown circumstances now, retreating was always the safer choice.
The professional had said so.
He also decided not to stubbornly insist.
In quick succession.
After the Priest of Holy Light acted, Baiyu immediately lifted the Moon Lady, and the two started returning to the alley’s exit.
The entire street was eerily quiet.
There were no pedestrians.
Darkness and silence enveloped the surrounding space.
"This monster created a Simulation Realm upon appearing; what on earth did you trigger to invoke such an entity?"
The Priest of Holy Light was both shocked and furious.
However.
As a servant believing in the Lord of Radiance.
He had been taught from childhood to step forward against the darkness.
If there was no light thereafter.
Then they must become the torch!
So he came.
Upon discovering the sinister aura here, he rushed over without hesitation.
But now.
He had still far underestimated the horror of the sinister presence.
"I’m not sure either, I was originally planning to go home after work, but when I passed this alley, I encountered such a thing."
Baiyu was quite upset.
He hadn’t provoked anyone, so why was his luck so bad?
Normally speaking.
He would now be back at his apartment building, quietly and comfortably swimming in the sea of knowledge.
"No time to explain, let’s escape first and talk afterwards."
The Priest of Holy Light’s expression was cold and resolute.
He tore open the Spiritual Technique Scroll he carried with him, and the steadfast and swift chanting reverberated through the space.
A blinding, radiant Holy Light rose from his body.
The surrounding space, wrapped in viscous, chaotic darkness.
Began to rapidly decay.
Part of the alley returned to the real world.
However.
It was only a mere part.
The three of them couldn’t escape the Simulation Realm created by the monster, and the space of the Simulation Realm was still shrinking.
Even the terrain had changed.
The alley originally connected to the street had now become a dead end.
The side where the monster was birthed had become the alley’s only exit.
To escape.
They would have to face the monster head-on.
"It’s over, this sinister presence clearly wants none to escape, we’ll all die here."
The Priest of Holy Light showed a look of despair.
Baiyu frowned.
Sinister presence.
What’s this new species?
He could clearly ascertain that the monster emerged directly from the void, from the shadows in the corner.
It was absolutely not formed by biological distortion.
Yet.
No matter how curious he was, Baiyu could now only suppress his doubts and focus fully on the monster.
"Blood Extreme Dao, Blast Hand!"
His Blood Qi swelled, and his right arm expanded into a fist.
Then.
His entire body shot out like a cannonball.
The dense Blood Qi seemed to almost turn into a river, inundating the surroundings.
The Priest of Holy Light was startled.
This person was actually a Martial Artist, and an Elite Level Martial Artist with strong Blood Qi?
Of course.
Baiyu didn’t possess Elite Level strength.
So far.
He was only touching the edge of Elite Level, at the cusp of a breakthrough.
Yet still.
His ability.
Was absolutely sufficient to face standard Tier Six Martial Artists.
Bang!
An ear-piercing explosion scraped the eardrums.
The wall of the alley burst open with a menacing gap, Blood Qi erupted from the fist, enveloping the entire monster.
This fist, which could flatten a truck, landed on the monster’s spiritual summit.
If it had a spiritual summit.
The ensuing scene was extremely bloody and brutal, reaching an R-rated level.
The monster’s bones and flesh began to swell, like a wad of cotton, then exploded, spewing forth countless black, foul-smelling substances.
Fortunately, Baiyu was already prepared.
Normally when such a thing was blown up, it would produce inexplicable things, easily disgusting people.
Many times.
Those Martial Artists who eliminated distorted beings experienced increased Pollution Levels not because of witnessing the distortion.
But rather because the distorted being’s ruptured flesh overwhelmed them.
As an old hand skilled in combating distortion with intelligence and courage, Baiyu was well accustomed to and adapted to this process, and after each enemy’s demise would instinctively step back.
To avoid having some creature’s brains splatter onto the ground when they burst, splattering onto him.
"That’s it, over?"
The Priest of Holy Light was somewhat dazed.
"Not yet, I mean it’s over for it, not for us." Baiyu’s voice brought him back, "This thing, you should know what it is, right?
Give me an explanation."
The Priest of Holy Light initially thought of refusing instinctively.
After all.
Though not confidential, spreading it could easily cause widespread panic.
The church’s stance.
Was to maintain secrecy as much as possible.
Yet.
After witnessing the brutal scene earlier, he now faced Baiyu without much bravado.
"It’s complicated, if you want to learn more, we can find somewhere to discuss in detail.
I still don’t know your identity..."
said the Priest of Holy Light.
"Baiyu, Deputy Director of the Inspection Department at the Veterans Mutual Aid Association."
Baiyu displayed his badge.
Only then did the Priest of Holy Light breathe a sigh of relief, extending his hand: "Wales, Priest of the Church in the old town."