Welcome to Ability Store-Chapter 125 - 124: Human Hunting Ground

"Someone save me! Help! I don’t want to die!"

At this moment, a heartrending plea came from several meters away.

A carriage was entangled by two intestines.

The horse, indistinguishable from humans, quickly fused with the intestines upon contact and was rapidly sucked into the sky. The moment the coachman jumped off the carriage, his calf touched a dangling intestine, and he watched in despair as his leg bone was drawn out.

Liu Shuyue did not hesitate to slash out a Qi Sword, severing the intestines from above.

However, an unexpected situation occurred—the coachman did not survive, instead a large amount of flesh and blood spewed from the severed intestine opening, splattering everywhere like some invisible force was squeezing him. He opened his mouth as if to say something, but could only emit a "ho ho..." breathy sound.

"Oh my!"

The people around were terrified, wishing they could grow several more legs. As the crowd dispersed, the coachman saw Liu Shuyue and her group, with their waist badges. He reached out, grasping at Liu Shuyue as if she were his last straw, but unfortunately his flesh quickly sprayed away, his body shriveled down, becoming a hollow shell.

"How is this possible?" Xu Xuanling covered her mouth in disbelief.

Liu Shuyue’s expression grew even more solemn.

She jumped onto a rooftop, locating another nearby victim, directly cutting the part connecting the person to the intestine. But the effect was unchanged. The person still died, blood and entrails squeezing out from the incision at high speed, dying even faster than if left alone.

After failing twice, she realized that this kind of attack was irrational, once the body fused with the intestine, the outcome was only death.

The only somewhat good news was that although these dangling intestines were numerous, they could only sway slowly within a small range, as long as you watched carefully, you wouldn’t collide.

Compared to agile cultivators, it posed a much greater threat to ordinary citizens.

Liu Shuyue once thought Zhangwei City’s refugee camp was hell on earth, but now compared to Chang’an City, it’s child’s play.

As more intestines fell, the number of affected Chang’an citizens was rapidly increasing, wherever she looked, there was roiling flesh and gut-wrenching wails.

Ten minutes felt like half a year. When they finally retreated to the city gate, everyone was stunned.

Where’s the city wall?

Even the ground had turned to flesh, houses wrapped in countless tendrils and veins, looking alive. Numerous intestines hung from the sky, merging with the ground, forming a dense web-like blockade. Strangely, they couldn’t see this wall from afar, only upon nearing did it appear out of nowhere.

Thousands of citizens blocked the streets entirely, afraid to venture into this gut net, wanting to turn back but pushed by those behind, truly caught between a rock and a hard place. If pushed into the net, they’d be instantly entangled by multiple intestines, leaving no remains.

"What do we do now?" Xue Xiaojin couldn’t help but panic.

"Why not take refuge at my place." Xu Xuanling said anxiously, "I have a basement, these disgusting things seem unable to penetrate walls."

"Maybe we carve a bloody path here, leading the citizens out?" Fu Jiaolu shouted, "At worst, I’ll fight this demon!"

"Don’t act rashly! Even if we cut more tendrils, it probably won’t help!" Liu Shuyue shouted, "From this angle, we can’t see how thick the gut net is, maybe before we break through, the intestines behind have replenished."

As for hiding, Liu Shuyue also didn’t think it was a good idea. Look at the houses here... the erosion seems to proceed from exterior to interior, intestines indeed can’t penetrate roofs and floors, but what if houses eventually become one of them?

That’s no different than waiting for death.

"Let’s go back." After pondering briefly, Liu Shuyue said, "Find the source point of the erosion."

Even if roads are blocked, cultivators can easily jump onto buildings, running along rooftops.

"Source point? What is that?" Everyone looked puzzled.

Liu Shuyue didn’t know how to explain, she had heard Lin Qing mention that if a Wanderer keeps traversing their corresponding invasion points, the world’s entrance can rapidly expand in a short time, forming a superimposed state of two worlds, a man-made erosion.

This catastrophe seems just like that, originally clear skies suddenly became overcast.

No one had time to react, the erosion had already grown too large to escape.

All signs indicate that the anomaly here should be caused by a Wanderer. Since escaping is impossible, they might as well believe Lin Qing and capture this Wanderer. If they can catch the culprit, maybe they can stop the disaster.

Yet despite this, Chang’an City is so vast, with the invasion point no longer in a gate form, who knows where it originated?

Liu Shuyue had no idea.

But they could only try their best.

Turning back and jumping onto roadside buildings, everyone maintained a distance visible to each other, splitting into multiple routes to search the direction they came from. Without a definite target, she temporarily set two main search areas, one was Moon Gazing Tower, the other was Chang’an City center. The former gathered cultivators, the latter was easier to observe conditions in other districts. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

If anything unusual or suspicious was found, they would wave their hands to signal.

At this time, city cultivators have started showcasing their abilities, battling the descending intestines. Some used blazing fire, some froze with ice, even setting arrays to protect their own disciples.

However, what they can’t change is, these terrifying and deadly blood ropes can’t be killed off entirely, as long as erosion hasn’t completely stopped, people in the city remain in peril.

Suddenly, Liu Shuyue saw Jiu on the left wing of the lineup quickly waving his hands, accelerating further left.

There belonged to the West District, where Chang’an City’s lower-class citizens lived.

Liu Shuyue hurried over.

Upon meeting up, she noticed Jiu’s eyes fixed on the crowd below.

"Immortal Master Lord! I saw... the murderer of my family!" Jiu said excitedly, "It’s that person!"

Murderer? Even at a time like this?

Liu Shuyue was about to calm him, but saw the cultivator Jiu pointed at was moving against the crowd. For example, citizens here were escaping to the West City Gate, yet he indifferently bumped into civilians, walking northeast alone, his speed not fast, with a leisurely stroll manner.

What was even harder to understand was, when she used the Celestial Mist Skill to scan him, his aura was somewhat unusual.

As a cultivator, his energy cluster was overly scattered, not matching his considerable Spiritual Qi volume.

"I’ll keep an eye on him, you go call the others over." Liu Shuyue ordered softly.

Jiu quickly complied, aware of the urgent situation, the team mustn’t disperse.

During the assembly pause, Liu Shuyue took out an Invisibility Talisman, briefly sprinting several dozen meters, circling to the person’s front, observing his appearance.

This cultivator wore a satin robe, a jade badge on his waist, clearly an Immortal Alliance orthodox cultivator. Yet his expression was twisted, eyes staring straight ahead, as if something was drawing him forward. His hand swings and steps maintained the same measure, trained maybe, but inflexible like a puppet.

Liu Shuyue returned to the rear, removed the invisibility, waiting for the group to assemble.

And just then, the cultivator suddenly turned right, stepping into a rundown courtyard.

Rumbling...!

Thunder echoed in the sky.

Liu Shuyue instinctively looked up, noticing the clouds stained with a hint of blood. It no longer appeared dim and dull, instead it brightened considerably. But all the light came from the red glow flowing within the clouds, upon closer inspection it was as if absorbing too many people’s flesh and blood, turning it this color!