Seeing a large group of clay puppets rushing towards it, even if the Female Parasitic Vine was thick-skinned, it knew those clay puppets were big trouble. Reluctantly giving up its attack on the Ghouls and Mummies, it dispatched dozens of demonic vines to deal with the clay puppets.
However, the clay puppets were extremely cunning and hard to catch. Moreover, the tricky part was, even if a demonic vine managed to grab a clay centipede, it would end in tragedy, because the meter-long clay centipede would explode violently! Its power was immense, instantly destroying all demonic vines within a two-to-three-meter radius!
The agility of the clay grasshoppers and clay doves went without saying. One hopped erratically on the ground, the other soared freely in the sky. The demonic vines had great difficulty touching them, at most only managing to slightly suppress them, preventing them from approaching the giant eyeball.
But did the Female Parasitic Vine think this was useful?
It was still too naive!
"Crash crash crash!"
From the tiles next to the giant eyeball, several clay spiders, only the size of ants, drilled out!
They had burrowed into the tiles much earlier, drilling their way underground until they finally approached the Female Parasitic Vine's main body!
Seeing the clay spiders bursting through the tiles, the giant eyeball widened in fury!
The Female Parasitic Vine unleashed a psychic storm!
But it had no effect, because the clay spiders weren't living beings; they were just puppets, lacking a sea of consciousness!
In the blink of an eye, the clay spiders had already scurried onto the giant eyeball. Their bodies swelled violently, then with a "Bang!", produced a small but significant explosion, roughly equivalent to the power of a mini-grenade.
The Female Parasitic Vine wasn't injured. As a psychic-type demonic creature, it could use its psychic power to form a protective psychic field on its surface. Mere small explosions really couldn't hurt it!
However, the close-range explosions still impacted the Female Parasitic Vine's consciousness, slowing its actions by a beat. And in that same instant, the clay doves in the sky and the clay grasshoppers on the ground simultaneously broke through the demonic vine defenses, attacking the giant eyeball in one concerted effort!
The next moment, all the doves and grasshoppers completed their mission, transforming into over a dozen deafening large explosions!
BOOM!
It was like a small bomb detonating in a pit.
Centered on the Female Parasitic Vine, countless fragments of concrete and marble flew up from the ground, along with endless dust and smoke. The dance hall's decorative lights and glass doors were all blasted apart. The entire gymnasium shook several times, looking as if it might collapse with just a few more impacts!
Black smoke from the explosion rose, but was quickly dispersed by the cold wind and rain. Li Jiayu saw that at the center of the explosion, the Female Parasitic Vine had crashed to the ground, looking utterly wretched!
Green blood flowed from the giant pale eyeball, its retina blown to shreds, several parts of the white sclera destroyed. And the overwhelming demonic vines had all lost their vitality, collapsing limply like dead snakes!
"Good! Didn't expect this move to resolve the battle so easily..."
Li Jiayu coughed up blood, smirking coldly with a mixture of excitement and cruelty. A feeling of exhilaration from succeeding against a higher-level opponent surged within him. But outweighing that was the bitter taste of his own potential demise. To think he would fall again so soon after rebirth – he was truly unwilling.
This was all thanks to the Female Parasitic Vine!
He had to grind it to dust; otherwise, he wouldn't rest in peace even in hell!
"Mummies, Ghouls! Use your cruelest methods to torture and kill the Female Parasitic Vine! Tear it, bite it, trample it, devour it!"
Li Jiayu's eyes were burning. That ferocity, like a primeval beast, that despairing aura of death, like a bottomless abyss, infected the Mummies and Ghouls entirely, making them crane their necks and let out heart-wrenching corpse roars!
Although only two Mummies and three Ghouls remained, it was still enough to send the heavily injured Female Parasitic Vine to hell!
They staggered towards the giant eyeball, waving bloody claws, opening their mouths to reveal foul-smelling teeth, and bit down hard!
Green juice splattered, flesh flew. In the blink of an eye, the Female Parasitic Vine's giant eyeball was chewed beyond recognition, and the pupil was gouged out by a mummy, leaving a bloody mess!
Just as the Female Parasitic Vine was about to be completely killed, suddenly, something happened that left Li Jiayu utterly speechless.
Several fissures opened around the Mummies and Ghouls, pulling them all out of this world!
Huh?
What happened?
A deep sense of fatigue washed over Li Jiayu's mind. He knew his mental power was probably reaching its limit, unable to sustain the consumption of so many undead creatures!
And precisely at this moment, a faint glow appeared on the heavily injured Female Parasitic Vine. The flower bud on top of its giant eyeball seemed to tremble slowly – it was about to bloom!
Li Jiayu's heart shook. He didn't know what would happen after the Female Parasitic Vine bloomed, but even thinking with his ass, he knew it would be a bad result!
"Damn it, why bloom at a time like this..."
Li Jiayu desperately wanted to pick up Hyorinmaru from the ground and run over to stab the Female Parasitic Vine's flower bud to death, but his injuries were too severe; he couldn't walk at all. He wanted to place his hope on the Dark Octopus, but saw the creature riddled with over a dozen wounds, half-dead. Relying on it was out of the question.
And there was complete silence from the dance hall. He feared the Female Parasitic Vine had previously placed a mental restraint on Ran Hongxia; she wouldn't be able to wake up anytime soon. He probably couldn't count on her running over to stab the Female Parasitic Vine either. As for the few axe-wielding warriors lying on the battlefield, they either had their heads exploded by the psychic storm or were in a deep coma. How could they help?
Looking at it this way...
He still had to act personally...
"Endless void, profound fissures, even separated by thousands of spatial barriers, we are connected by fate in the unseen..."
The summoning song rang out once more, the same incantation he used to summon the Dark Octopus. This was the classic incantation for random summoning; it consumed the least mental power, and the burden on the body was the lightest. Li Jiayu could manage to use it at his current stage, but the summoned creature was really unpredictable. It could be a hen with near-zero combat power, or it could be a relatively decent Skeleton Knight.
In an instant, a magic circle appeared before Li Jiayu, and faintly, a human figure materialized!
Hmm? Seems like luck is good, a humanoid creature? Humanoid creatures usually have decent combat power, at least mid-Tier 1 or higher, right?
But when Li Jiayu saw the so-called humanoid creature clearly, his expression became extremely strange.
It was a woman wearing a Qing dynasty court dress (Qipao style), with a wooden plaque on her head!
A woman, yes, but specifically an arrogant-looking old woman with a face full of wrinkles!
In her hand, she held several steel needles, each reflecting a cold light, incomparably sharp!
Li Jiayu had never seen such a strangely shaped humanoid creature before. Holding steel needles... hmm, was she a banshee skilled in using hidden weapons?
But this banshee was a bit too old and ugly... weren't banshees supposed to be charming and glamorous?
"Ziwei, you little slut! Watch how I, Rong Momo, teach you a lesson..."
Completely unexpectedly, the first words out of this humanoid summon's mouth were such inexplicable words, leaving one baffled. Less like a battle cry, more like harsh words spoken during a jealous quarrel!
What... what on earth is this?
Li Jiayu had summoned thousands of different otherworldly creatures, big and small, but he had never encountered one that opened its mouth with "little slut." Wasn't this banshee too uncivilized?
And during random summoning, the summoning laws provided no information prompts. Li Jiayu had no idea which plane this "banshee" came from, nor did he know her combat power or reliability!
"Excuse me, you are..." Li Jiayu coughed and inquired.
"Eh?"
The old banshee finally came back to her senses. Rainwater streamed down her face, melting away large patches of foundation, making her look like a life-claiming female ghost. She touched her old face, staring blankly at the unfamiliar buildings around, the ruined battlefield, the collapsed axe-wielding warriors, the scattered body parts, and the two inhuman monsters, the Female Parasitic Vine and the Dark Octopus. Suddenly, she understood she had arrived in a terrifying place!
"Ah! Where is this? Wasn't I just teaching that little slut Ziwei a lesson? I know, it must be that little slut Ziwei using evil magic on me... Protect the Empress! Protect the Empress! With Rong Momo here, I absolutely won't let Her Majesty the Empress be harmed by a single hair!"
The humanoid summon calling herself "Rong Momo" looked flustered, trembling slightly, but her voice carried the courage of facing death willingly. She tightly clutched the blood-dripping steel needles in her hand!
"Apologies, may I ask, which plane are you from... and what is your combat power?" Li Jiayu asked patiently.
"Who are you! Hmph, white hair, blue eyes, you look like an evil heretic! You must be a demon conspiring with 'Princess Pearl', right? If you have guts, come at me, Rong Momo! I'd like to see what's so scary about evil heretics! Little slut Ziwei, you can't confuse me!"
"Evil heretic" on the left, "little slut" on the right – Li Jiayu felt his head aching. For the first time in his life, he had summoned such an inexplicable creature. It didn't listen to commands, fine, but even communication was impossible! This... this really violated the norms of summoning!
Could it be that this summoned beast named "Rong Momo" didn't know Li Jiayu was her master?
"I don't care who you are... In short, I now command you to go stab the Female Parasitic Vine to death!" Li Jiayu looked somewhat exhausted, his eyelids growing heavier. He felt his life force draining away; soon, he probably wouldn't be able to stay conscious.
"Who wants to listen to the command of an evil heretic like you? Do you think you're Her Majesty the Empress? Such a terrifying monster, how could I, Rong Momo, possibly handle it? What if it suddenly attacks and hurts someone?" Rong Momo retorted with a pout.
"You..."
Li Jiayu was stunned. This summoned beast actually disobeyed him!
How could this be possible?
Could this summoned beast be high-Tier 2?
Li Jiayu's current mental power, after burning his soul, had barely reached mid-Tier 2. Logically, only summoned beasts one tier higher than the summoner could break free from the summoner's restraints and act independently without orders!
Looks truly can be deceiving! This Rong Momo was unremarkable in appearance, her speech and mannerisms showing no air of an expert, yet unexpectedly she was a high-Tier 2 powerhouse!
Seeing the dripping blood on the steel needles she used, he guessed she must be the Steel Needle Queen from the Abyss plane?