Damn it! Let's smash the darkness together!-Chapter 1305 - 162: Xu Shu

"Why are you getting anxious again? I’ve promised you, and I’ll definitely follow through! I’ll be staying another day, and you just continue assisting me. You’ll get your rewards. By the way, bring me that treasure ice bead!"

"I..." The mermaid wanted to curse, feeling something was amiss.

She racked her brain for ten seconds and figured out the issue.

That scoundrel is alone now; his gang of companions, especially the one who made me feel a great threat, is gone. What am I afraid of? I’m going to fight him! At worst, we’ll go down together... Bah bah bah! Fish don’t die; I’m already at the third realm. How can this boy kill me?!

"What are you doing? Are you thinking of pocketing it?"

Xu Shu didn’t notice the mermaid’s little ambition. He frowned and tapped her head twice, then pulled it off and shook it like emptying a trash can.

"Cough, cough cough... Ugh~~"

The mermaid was shaken so hard she almost threw up, feeling furious.

Damn human, how dare you bully me! I’m going all out!!!

Her dead fish eyes widened, and she immediately inflated her gills as if determined to go down with Xu Shu.

However, in the next moment, Xu Shu puzzledly put the mermaid armor back on, mumbling, "What are you doing? Where’s the bead? Don’t tell me you’ve digested it already? Let me check where you hid it... There’s nothing? Is it in this groove?"

"Ah ah ah~"

The mermaid rolled her eyes, and her fighting spirit vanished with her shriek.

"... No, I didn’t! How could I have digested it? Stop, stop searching! I’ll take it out, give me a moment, ah ah ah, stop!" the mermaid half-compromised and half-plead, her fish body was as soft as a noodle.

Only then did Xu Shu stop, looking skeptical and mumbling softly, "Then hurry up! Strange, where did you hide it so deep..."

"Alright, alright!" the mermaid finally caught her breath.

She sneaked a glance at Xu Shu’s seemingly harmless face, feeling inexplicably scared and also cursing this human as a complete idiot.

You’re clever enough to guess I swallowed it, yet you searched the wrong path!

Absolutely damnable.

Such presumptuous fellow!

Well, I’ll just keep acting; humans can’t stay here for long and will eventually leave...

A moment later.

The mermaid obediently opened her mouth and retched, struggling to spit out the unique blue-white ice bead she had already swallowed and slightly digested.

Actually, calling this ice bead an ice ball is more reasonable because its size is not much smaller than a grown man’s fist. It’s impressive for the mermaid’s relatively small fish mouth to swallow it.

Fizz!

The blue-white ice ball rolled on the ground twice, rapidly spreading frost around it, freezing over ten meters instantly, and it continued to spread outward.

The curled mud eel inside gave an impression as if it were constantly expanding, resembling a living creature.

"Great, top-grade material, and it comes with negative effects. It seems this item’s origin might be something once housed in some unknown research facility as a sealed object!"

Xu Shu’s eyes brightened.

The mere self-diffusing frost had such power, truly delightful.

Though it seemed harmless to him now, that’s because he’s strong enough.

For ordinary people and even low-sequence Transcendents, this priceless ice bead represents a deadly threat!

Such situations are quite common. For instance, there’s a calamity where an entire shelter turned into a cannibal Demon Cave due to pollution. Many Transcendent teams died investigating until experts above the third rank were alerted and realized it was caused by someone digging up such special materials from ruins.

To ordinary people and even some low-sequence Transcendents, things involving Mid-sequence Transcendents can be accompanied by significant risks, not just being treasures.

"This item can be slightly modified to create high-grade enchantments, no wonder so many people risk great danger chasing treasures in secret realms. They are certainly alluring."

"This little mud eel inside, um... It resembles a dragon but isn’t... Looks more like an icy wyrm?"

"Sealing a cold wyrm of late third rank or higher grants such abilities... Strange, it doesn’t seem like an Extraordinary Being from the ruins of the dead..."

Xu Shu clicked his tongue in amazement, then picked up the small jade Buddha and placed the ice ball before it, indicating for Narrow Sleeve Guanyin to let the new Bai Ji have a look to see if she knew about it.

Being a ’local native’ born and raised in the ruins of the dead, Xu Shu believed Bai Ji might possess more secret knowledge than himself.

The small jade Buddha opened one pitch-black, mournful eye, full of desolation and anguish, directly connected to "Yin God·Sorrow."

Xu Shu saw Bai Ji sitting cross-legged on the ground, seemingly doing deep breathing exercises while her chest heaved dramatically. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

"Don’t pretend not to hear; I’ve made it clear you’re mine upon entering here. Obey me and I won’t mistreat you, but if you defy, you’ll suffer!" Xu Shu threatened with a mix of bravado and menace.

After all, he hadn’t yet figured out how to release the Evil Spirit already housed inside the jade Buddha’s special space.

From Narrow Sleeve Guanyin’s reaction, it seemed it was impossible to do, only letting out some attributes and abilities of the corresponding Evil Spirit for use.

Thus, Xu Shu’s simple method of threatening newcomer Evil Spirits involves rallying other Evil Spirits to gang up on her with a mix of threat and reward.