novelraw Chapter 16: The Ultimate Insult to Muzan!
Chapter 16: The Ultimate Insult to Muzan!
This action was completely beyond Muzan's comprehension.
He was initially wary that the other party might use it as leverage or hide poison in the flower, but the other party simply threw it on the ground like that.
"Got it!"
The moment the blue spider lily fell to the ground, Muzan no longer cared about his image.
The ground beneath his feet instantly shattered, and his figure transformed into a streak of red lightning, appearing in the center of the corridor in an instant, reaching out to grab the miracle that was within reach.
A thousand-year-old wish is now at Muzan's fingertips!
"Whoosh—!"
Just as Muzan's fingers were about to touch the petals, a piercing shriek instantly pierced the air.
Muzan couldn't even see what it was.
An arrow, entirely black with purple enchanted fletchings, struck the blue spider lilies on the ground with perfect accuracy.
That was the bow in Pei Qi's hand, which was not only equipped with the top-tier "Power V" but also with the seemingly inconspicuous "Fire Arrow".
"boom!"
The moment the arrow touched the petals, a burst of intense flames erupted.
The delicate tissues of the blue spider lily are as fragile as a blank sheet of paper in the face of the "fire enhancement" generated by the enchantment.
Under Muzan's astonished gaze, the flower didn't even last a second before instantly turning into a charred pile of ashes.
After piercing the flower, the arrow, still powerful, pierced through Muzan's outstretched hand, pinning it firmly to the solid wood floor.
"...What?"
Muzan was stunned.
He felt no pain in his hand. He just stared blankly ahead.
The once fragrant blue flowers have now turned into a pile of lifeless ashes.
As a cool evening breeze blew by, the ashes scattered in the air like an absurd funeral, finally disappearing completely into the air.
What he had pursued for a thousand years, what he had envisioned for a perfect future countless times in his mind, was burned to nothingness in less than a second by a cheap flame.
"Since it's the 'only one,' destroying it is quite easy."
Pei Qi stood at the end of the corridor, the longbow in his hand that emitted a faint purple light had disappeared.
"Muzan, there are no more Blue Spider Lilies in this world now. How do you feel? How do you feel?"
Pei Qi's voice was exceptionally clear in the deathly silent courtyard, carrying a playful and mocking tone.
"Your thousand-year-old wish has just come to a complete 'end' with this gust of wind."
Muzan slowly raised his head.
His once elegant face was now twisted beyond recognition, and dark blue veins bulged beneath his skin from extreme rage. He exuded a ferocious aura that made the very space tremble.
He didn't say a word, but Muzan's expression was enough to show his current anger.
Muzan gritted his teeth and growled, the despair and rage erupting from the depths of his soul completely burning away his last shred of reason.
Muzan gritted his teeth and growled, the despair and rage erupting from the depths of his soul instantly burning away the last bit of his sanity.
"I want to...tear you to pieces!"
Muzan roared, his suit instantly bursting apart from his bulging muscles and tentacles.
He no longer considers the traps of Ubuyashiki, nor does he worry about whether there are pillars ambushing him.
He had only one thought: to grind the man in front of him into mincemeat in the most cruel way, and then devour him completely.
Like an out-of-control ancient beast, he charged at an astonishing speed from the main entrance toward the steps where Pei Qi was.
Pei Qi remained standing in the same spot, arms crossed, not even moving his eyes, as if he had already accepted his impending death.
This indifference was seen as the ultimate provocation by Muzan.
"Go to hell!"
Just as Muzan was about to step onto the stairs and face Pei Qi in the final five meters, a faint mechanical clanging sound caught his attention.
"Click".
It was an unusual sensation underfoot.
Despite Muzan's fury, his superhuman physique allowed him to sense the danger in an instant.
That's a pressure plate.
Muzan's reaction speed was incredibly fast. In the blink of an eye, he forcibly changed his body shape and leaped into the air by pushing off the ground with both feet.
He attempted to dodge spikes or explosives that might spring up from the ground by hovering in the air, aiming to overshoot Pei Qi and head him down.
However, the instant he leaped into the air, his vertical pupils suddenly contracted.
The space in front of him was densely covered with nearly transparent fine lines. These lines, in an extremely sophisticated mathematical and geometric way, sealed off the entire sky above the mansion. Even a meter above Pei Qi's head, layers of obstacles were stretched out.
That was spider silk connected by a tripwire hook.
They are almost invisible under normal light, but when touched, they can quickly transmit an activated redstone signal.
Unable to gain leverage in mid-air, Muzan crashed directly into the "net of heaven and earth" due to inertia.
"You think you can stop me with lines of this strength?" Muzan was extremely anxious.
According to his calculations, no matter what lies ahead, the distance he could cover in that one second of sprinting was enough for him to kill Pei Qi.
But at that moment, a sudden feeling of weakness spread without warning from the hand that had been pierced by the arrow.
"...Potion!"
Muzan finally realized. The arrow that burned the spider lily was not an ordinary fire arrow; it was a potion arrow specially made by Pei Qi.
The combined effects of "Weakness II" and "Slowness II" applied to the arrowheads are forcibly altering his physical stats as his blood flows.
Due to this fraction of a second of delay in judgment, a series of "whooshing" sounds suddenly came from the shadows of the surrounding buildings.
That's the dispenser hidden behind the disguised cube.
Hundreds of spiderwebs were precisely launched. In the logic of reality, these spiderwebs, though fragile, possess an extremely disgusting characteristic: forced deceleration.
Even though Muzan's power was enough to destroy the mountain rocks, his movements were still forcibly frozen for a moment when he swung his fist to tear apart the viscous substance.
"A mere moment's delay will suffice."
Pei Qi silently counted down the seconds in his mind.
He reached out his hand, and a dark green Ender Pearl appeared smoothly in his palm.
He didn't throw it directly, but watched it draw an arc in the air.
Muzan instinctively tried to swing his tentacles to deflect it. But at that moment, another arrow pierced through Muzan's path, getting ahead of him and penetrating the Ender Pearl in mid-air.
With the shattering of the Ender Pearl, Pei Qi's location was forcibly relocated.
A burst of purple particles flashed, and Pei Qi, who was originally a few meters away, was instantly teleported behind Muzan. Or rather, Muzan just happened to run into the teleportation point that Pei Qi had set up.
"Instead of running away, you're actually walking towards me?" Muzan grinned maliciously. Even though his body was slowed down, he was confident that he could dismember his opponent the moment he got close.
"How can I beat you to your knees if I don't get closer?"
Pei Qi's voice rang in Muzan's ears.
He was no longer dressed in a blue-purple shirt; his entire body was now completely covered in Nether alloy armor that shimmered with a purple enchanted glow.
He didn't intend to engage in a prolonged fight.
Pei Qi magically produced an object that emitted a faint purple light.
It was a specially made syringe that had been brought to the anvil, had consumed a lot of experience points, and had been forcibly imbued with the "Sharp V" attribute.
"This is a gift from Ms. Tamayo, with a little bit of... seasoning from my own hand. I hope you'll like it."
The moment Muzan's muscles hardened due to the "weakness potion," the enchanted and enhanced syringe pierced through Muzan's supposedly indestructible skin as easily as a hot knife through butter.
As Pei Qi forcefully pushed the syringe to the bottom, the medicine specially prepared for Muzan surged into the Demon King's body, spreading to all parts of Muzan's body through blood circulation...