Baby with Daoist Monarch System

Chapter 73: Chapter 42: Nightmare Eruption! The Sky’s Shattered? Citywide Catastrophe?

Gazing into the distance, the eerie purple-green threads have infiltrated thousands of homes, likely already ensnaring countless children. If the Nightmare Vengeful Mother truly absorbs all the children’s spiritual power, the consequences would be unimaginable.

He took out a jade flute and played it at his lips.

A melodious and captivating flute sound merged with invisible spiritual power, painting a picture of flying petals, scattering over Jing City, flying into thousands of homes, and merging into the forehead of each child.

As the flute music settled over the city.

Xu Ran saw changes in the children at the sewer entrances.

Bright white light surged from the back of their heads, spreading along the purple-green threads. The white light and the purple-green light battled and tugged, but ultimately retreated over a meter.

Though the children remained rigid, their eyes still closed, from a sensory and intuitive perspective, they were much safer!

Xu Ran attempted to sever the purple-green threads with a piece of paper.

”If it’s cut, can it just reconnect?”

Xu Ran furrowed his brow, lightly jumping down beside Ye Uncle.

Ye Ping sighed, ”Little Ran, the situation is extremely grim. My celestial flute music can barely hold it off!”

”It sowed nightmares a year ago, and its targets are young children with the weakest willpower, increasing its threat significantly.”

”I can only hold on for six hours. In these six hours, someone has to enter the underground and kill it...”

As they spoke.

The purple-green light on the nightmare threads continued to encroach forward. Ye Uncle hastily raised the jade flute, concentrating his spiritual power to play it with full focus.

”Phew—”

A peak Hill Realm expert appeared behind Ye Uncle.

”Officer Ye, the underground is inaccessible now. The Nightmare Vengeful Mother is controlling tens of thousands of children, blocking the underground passage. With the children’s human shield, the Nightmare Vengeful Mother must be completing its final stage of evolution beneath the surface.”

Ye Uncle nodded, ”I understand. Keep this area stable. I’ll think of a solution.”

He said.

Ye Uncle picked up the phone.

”Zhao Ying, Huang Liang, Gao Yuan, what’s the situation over there?”

Huang Liang, with the poise of a scholarly intellectual, replied, ”I’m underground, but I can’t attack the Nightmare Vengeful Mother. It’s using children as cover, and I don’t dare to attack.”

”It told me to retreat, otherwise it would use nightmares to kill the children from the Demigod Kindergarten.”

”I was forced to retreat from underground...”

Playboy-like Zhao Ying furrowed his brows, ”I was also forced to retreat... Before leaving, I saw it had constructed a gigantic fleshy nest and was hiding inside to evolve.”

Zhao Ying glanced back.

A mass of purple-green light rapidly spawned segments of white flesh, countless pieces coalescing into a gigantic sea cucumber monster.

The monster’s body was bloated, resembling an ominous hydrogen balloon. Embedded in the head of the sea cucumber was a face of a woman, greenish-blue, with eyes wide open and a sinister, malicious smile.

And on its body, tens of thousands of purple-rose colored umbilical cords twisted and writhed like serpentine worms, with each umbilical end gripping a zombie infant.

The zombie infants had ashen-blue skin, sharp claws, bloody eyes, vicious and fierce, like cursed infants glaring collectively at Zhao Ying.

”Come kill me. As soon as I’m harmed, the talented children from the Demigod Kindergarten will immediately die.”

The infants collectively burst into deranged laughter.

Zhao Ying silently retreated.

Gao Yuan, with his enormous nose, said, ”All forced to retreat? Alas... it has too many hostages, and I dare not act. If the children from the Demigod Kindergarten were killed...”

Ye Ping: ”...”

He exhaled deeply, ”No matter, let’s retreat if necessary. We won’t risk the children’s lives. I can hold on for six more hours—six hours in which we must find a way to break the impasse.”

”Of course, if within those six hours you still haven’t found a way to kill the Nightmare Vengeful Mother, head immediately to the Demigod Kindergarten on Qiyun Mountain.”

”Your assistance will extend the stalemate to ten hours! Please make every second count to save the 300,000 children.”

After he said this.

Ye Uncle cradled Xu Ran, darting through the city skies like lightning.

Every six minutes.

He had to stop and play the celestial flute music.

In this manner, stopping and going six times, he landed inside the Demigod Kindergarten.

The principal looked aghast, ”Pingzi, the children in the kindergarten also have purple-green threads on the back of their heads!”

Ye Ping took a deep breath, ”I know, the children infiltrated by nightmares have all been connected to the nightmare threads.”

”The Nightmare Vengeful Mother even uses the talented children from the Demigod Kindergarten as prime hostages, successfully forcing back three spiritual reinforcements... Their withdrawal means the difficulty of slaying has increased several dozen times!”

Damn the Nightmare Vengeful Mother, it’s truly troublesome!

Upon hearing this.

The principal and Li Qinghong exchanged looks.

Li Qinghong said, ”If they were forced back for such reasons... it seems there’s no option... they can’t disregard the lives of the talented ones and act recklessly. Even if they did, there’s no guarantee they can kill the Nightmare Vengeful Mother in one hit.”

”That thing might be a pseudo-god of the Ghost Element! Otherwise, it wouldn’t be so tricky.”

Hearing this, the principal instantly seemed ten years older, ”Sigh. So what do we do now... Ye Ping, you’re already among the top three Spiritual Element experts in Xia Country. Plus Zhao Ying, Gao Yuan, Huang Liang, three strong reinforcements at the late Yue Realm. If they can’t slay the Nightmare Vengeful Mother... who can?”

”It’s undoubtedly evolving underground now. When its evolution is complete, it may be the catastrophe of my Jing City! Over 300,000 children...”

The principal’s eyes were shadowed, ”No, no, no, even if it’s a pseudo-god, there must be a flaw... Can we really not find its weakness? Must we sacrifice 300,000 children to kill it?”

Ye Ping said, ”Everyone, don’t panic. I can still hold on for five hours. Let’s gather all the cultivators in Jing City to brainstorm, pool our wisdom, and find its flaw!”

Before Ye Uncle finished speaking.

A sharp, mocking laugh reverberated across the sky.

”A flaw? Hehe!”

With the spreading laughter, a streak of purple-green light shot into the sky. The sky twisted, and the bizarre body of the Nightmare Vengeful Mother, like a giant spaceship, hovered in mid-air, tens of thousands of zombie infants were bound by purple-rose colored umbilical cords, floating around the Nightmare Vengeful Mother.

Their skin was ashen-blue, with sharp claws, bloody eyes, fierce and vicious, like cursed infants glaring at the entire city.

The scene was chilling to the bone.

”The God of Nightmares is flawless.”

The massive purple-blue woman’s face curled into a sinister grin, her tongue swinging back and forth.

”Children, you are all my children, become my children, and return to my body! My body is the eternal paradise of immortality.”

It produced extremely eerie ripples, and the purple-green threads crazily encroached forward.

Upon seeing this.

Ye Uncle swiftly played the flute, petals falling into the foreheads of all the children in the city, the white light blazing, stalemating with the eerie purple-green.

Li Qinghong’s eyes blazed with killing intent, ”Is that the Nightmare Vengeful Mother’s projection? Ha. So arrogant! Does it think it has already won? Even starting to taunt us with its face.”

The principal sighed, ”Judging from the current situation, it has a 90% chance of victory. It has the capital to be arrogant.”

Cultivator Lin Chang said, ”It’s unbeatable while having hostages. Using hostages to threaten us, we’re forced to be cautious. If we can sever the purple-green threads, everything would resolve itself. Can the purple-green threads be cut? Can they be purified?”

Behind them.

Aunty Lu’s voice came, ”No. Its nightmare threads, once cut, can immediately reconnect. Purification can only delay the encroachment, not sever the threads.”

”I suspect its threads are its divine-level ability. Starting from cutting the threads is basically impossible. This is its strength. We must focus on its weaknesses.”

Everyone fell silent.

”Its weakness?”

”What weaknesses does it have?”

”Its true body hiding underground should be its weakness, but it uses children as shields and can use the talented ones from the Demigod Kindergarten as hostages to intimidate reinforcements, so this weakness is well-protected.”

Aunty Lu said, ”Little Ran, you have a Comprehension Root Bone, do you have any ideas?”

Principal: ”Exactly, the fact that the Nightmare Vengeful Mother was found at all is largely due to you... Why don’t you think with that smart brain of yours?”

Xu Ran: ”...Me?”

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