Chapter 243: Breath Soil Gunfight!
Hisss! Hisss! Hisss!
The water gun immediately shot out powerful streams of water, which dispersed into droplets in mid-air. These droplets sprayed furiously towards Shi Renmei.
Xiang Beifei had "Learned by Analogy" from all firearms knowledge, very clear on how to modify the water gun to maximize its power.
And with breath soil that could become whatever he wished, armed with a stormwater gun, he turned it into a lethal weapon, leaving Shi Renmei totally stunned!
She had never imagined that someone would actually use the stream water here for a water fight!
Are human thought processes always this novel?
Compared to Xiang Beifei's showy operations, her own act of dipping branches in water seemed utterly naive!
As naive as a blank sheet of paper!
However, Shi Renmei couldn't afford to say anything; with the water droplets spraying over, she had to dodge them hastily.
This breath soil water gun posed a huge threat to her!
Swish!
Shi Renmei retracted her tentacles and leaped out nimbly. Originally, with many tentacles, it was convenient to hit people, but with Xiang Beifei armed with the water gun, sweeping over a large area, the tentacles were simply foolish targets. She had to retract them quickly, or risk being amputated.
Xiang Beifei turned his head and saw Li Zimu surrounded by several tentacled beasts. He turned back and shot, directly spraying the once high and mighty Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage to "wail and howl"—or perhaps it was the body that the Ghost Mustache had parasitized on that began to "wail and howl" before dying; he thought both possibilities were likely.
That Ghost Mustache was hit straight on by the stream water, its entire body trembling with pain. It turned its head in anger, and Xiang Beifei noticed a large hole in its heart.
Before this person died, they must have been clawed in the heart by a desolate beast, the gaping wound in the heart was a horrific sight.
But with a single shot from Xiang Beifei, the stream water penetrated its chest.
"Waaah, waaah, waaah!"
The Ghost Mustache hadn't expected Xiang Beifei to shoot like that; it frantically covered its own chest, as tentacles immediately flooded out of the hole in its heart, seemingly trying to escape the body that had been contaminated by the stream water. But Xiang Beifei shot two more times, and white smoke rose from the tentacles, which then turned into ashes.
Another Ghost Mustache had been destroyed!
"This water gun..."
Li Zimu turned his head to see Xiang Beifei holding a gun and helping him escape from danger, pausing in astonishment.
"Don't let your guard down," Xiang Beifei said without explanation. He charged at another Ghost Mustache, intending to take this one down as well.
But just as he fired the water gun, a tree on the ground was suddenly uprooted, its lush canopy instantly blocking him, stopping all the water.
Xiang Beifei thought it was the tree man returning, ready to throw a punch when he carefully realized it was Shi Renmei who, using her tentacles, had forcibly uprooted a tree to block him.
This tree with lush branches and leaves was like a huge umbrella, easily blocking Xiang Beifei's water gun.
"Don't think you can deal with me just like that," Shi Renmei said as she used the tree as an umbrella in front since the leaves were covered in stream water, allowing her to also wield the large tree against Xiang Beifei.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The large branches swept over rustlingly, at extremely tricky angles. She followed Xiang Beifei's example, whipping the tree hard, throwing the water from the tree canopy at Xiang Beifei.
Xiang Beifei didn't dare to directly face this water; the stream water could devour his Spiritual Power. If he was thoroughly drenched, all his Spiritual Power would likely be devoured, leaving him as a powerless muggle.
"Learning quite fast," Xiang Beifei couldn't help but think.
Both sides were wary of the stream water. It was a back-and-forth battle where superior skill depended on movement and tactics.
The other Ghostly Visages began to learn from Shi Renmei's method, prepared to uproot trees to drench these humans first.
The situation worsened for everyone else because Xiang Beifei currently didn't have enough breath soil to cultivate and couldn't distribute water guns to others. Besides, Li Zimu and the others had no way to control breath soil.
He had thought about creating a water grenade, but considering that the stream water could harm not just the Ghost Whiskers but their own people as well, amounting to indiscriminate attacks, he gave up on that idea.
"Then just go all out with firepower like Lu Zhiwei!"
Xiang Beifei quickly thought of another method. He spun his breath soil water gun, which made various "click click" sounds as it transformed into a large pineapple machine gun!
Since Shi Renmei had employed the tree canopy for defense, ordinary water guns placed against the foliage were ineffective, so Xiang Beifei reconfigured the breath soil machine gun, turning a small handful of breath soil mud into hard bullets, each enveloping stream water within.
Then, using his Spiritual Power, he fired the bullets wrapped in stream water! Since the stream water didn't make direct contact with Spiritual Power, using it in this manner didn't get devoured by the stream water.
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Ratatatatatatatat!
Xiang Beifei pulled the trigger, and the Breath Soil Big Pineapple brand machine gun fired wildly. The modified bullets with immense penetrating power were not inferior to ordinary firearms.
Each bullet, encased in a hard breath soil exterior, shot out, shattering the leaves in front of Shi Renmei into flying fragments. The trees couldn't stop the bullets, breaking to pieces directly, the water on them useless.
After piercing through the trees and reaching Shi Renmei's front, the bullets would automatically explode, blasting the stream water inside towards her!
"Dammit!"
Shi Renmei's face underwent a drastic change; she hadn't anticipated Xiang Beifei pulling off such a bizarre move!
This tree is useless now!
"Xiaohei, go help them, defend for a moment, I'll join you after I've dealt with this one."
Xiang Beifei had to deal with Shi Renmei first, as she was the most troublesome, having already used her tentacles to uproot three large trees to attack him, and had even soaked all the trees in the water, leaving the crown of her tree dripping wet.
"Woof woof!"
Xiaohei immediately hopped down from Xiang Beifei's shoulder, grabbed a clump of breath soil that Xiang Beifei had divided off, and dragged the soil to the edge of the creek.
Being relatively small, Xiaohei only needed a tiny portion of the breath soil, which it quickly fashioned into a small water gun. This water gun's design was different from Xiang Beifei's, not meant for human use, but specifically crafted for a dog's paws, fitting perfectly in its small digits.
Xiaohei was busily glugging water into the gun, but suddenly, its eyes shifted as if struck by an idea, and it carefully extended a paw to lightly touch the creek water, flinching back as soon as it made contact, worried about being corroded by the stream.
But it seemed to have discovered something, its beady eyes suddenly gleamed with excitement!
Then with a "plop," it leaped into the creek!
The water that could erode the Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage's body and devour everyone's spiritual power seemed to have no effect on Xiaohei!
After splashing around in the water twice, Xiaohei's snowy white coat was drenched, shrinking into a tiny, wrinkled ball. However, after gulping down a few mouthfuls of water, it quickly took up the small water gun and rushed toward the nearest Ghostly Visage.
The Ghostly Visage was busy dealing with Xi Keyao and Ma Ziqian; Xi Keyao was speeding up Ma Ziqian, while Ma Ziqian was protecting Xi Keyao. Both were in the advanced stage of Qi-Controlling, and even though they were fast, they were hard-pressed facing the Meridian Opening stage Ghostly Visage.
At that moment, Xiaohei dashed up to the noseless Ghostly Visage and began to shake off water droplets from its body!
Splurt! Splurt! Splurt!
Xiaohei shook with all its might, its droplets hurling forth like a splashing showerhead, drenching the Ghostly Visage completely!
"Agh!"
The Ghostly Visage, having had the upper hand, didn't expect to be suddenly assaulted this way. The water droplets weren't powerful, but to the Ghostly Visage, they were like tiny steel beads. Striking its tentacles, they pierced right through!
The beleaguered Ghostly Visage curled its tentacles in pain and began to retract them.
Seizing the moment, Ma Ziqian, who was paired with Xi Keyao, swept his dagger in a swift arc, creating several flashes of cold light in the air and sliced the defenseless Ghostly Visage into countless segments.
He was already an attacker who relied on speed; the Ghostly Visage could regenerate its tentacles while alive, but after being splashed with the stream's water, things were different. Before it could recover, Ma Ziqian had already thrown all of the severed limbs into the creek!
Splash!
The Ghostly Visage fizzled into foam in the water, leaving only its pitiful corpse floating on the surface.
Xiaohei then flew to another Ghostly Visage, which was proudly gaping its torn mouth, cackling strangely as it battled Long Guocheng.
Long Guocheng was being forced back, having expended a great deal of spiritual power in this continuous combat.
Seeing this, the Ghostly Visage's gaping, laughing mouth widened even more.
"Pounce!"
Xiaohei flew above this wide-mouthed Ghostly Visage, spat out the creek water it held, and accurately hit the Ghostly Visage right in its gaping maw.
The Ghostly Visage, not having seen Xiaohei, never expected someone to spit into its mouth!
On instinct, it swallowed the water spat out by Xiaohei—
Then the Ghostly Visage suddenly froze!
"Aaaaah!"
The Ghostly Visage cried out in horror and rage, its voice echoing from its throat as it backed away, but soon, it couldn't make a sound anymore.
What Xiaohei spat out was creek water, which, once inside the Ghostly Visage, flowed like aqua regia, corroding from the mouth down to the throat and chest, eating away from top to bottom!
The parasitic body of the Ghostly Visage was eroded by the creek water to form a huge hole. Struggling frantically, it seemed unable to bear it any longer, and its myriad tentacles began to surge out of the host body.
It wanted to abandon this body!
However, the moment the Ghostly Visage emerged, Xiaohei, holding its small dirt gun—
Splurt! Splurt! Splurt!
Splash!
Unable to withstand the terrifying droplets, the Ghostly Visage's tentacles dried up, turned to ash, and dispersed among the trees.
It was eradicated by Xiaohei!