Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

62: Chapter 62: Soul Capturing, Promoted to Intermediate 62: Chapter 62: Soul Capturing, Promoted to Intermediate At this moment, the valley ground was littered with the fragmented bodies of seven to eight hundred people.

Dense white lines burst forth from the Wood Puppet Monster’s body, connecting accurately to all of these scattered corpses without missing a single one.

When they first rushed back, the valley floor was strewn with severed limbs, and everyone thought that when the Wood Puppet Monster went on a killing spree, the camp members scattered and fled, resulting in the horrific scene of corpses everywhere.

Now it seemed that this was done deliberately by the Wood Puppet Monster.

“Don’t just stand there, quickly cut off those white lines!”

Yang Ning’s voice came from behind.

He swiftly swung his sword to sever the closest white line before turning around with a solemn expression, shouting urgently at everyone.

Everyone snapped back to reality and hurriedly followed him, quickly hacking at those white lines.

Unfortunately, Yang Ning’s silver longsword managed to create sparks as it cut through the white lines, which then snapped apart.

But their sabers didn’t work.

“Your weapons are useless, go disrupt it!”

Realizing the weapons were ineffective, Yang Ning quickly gave another prompt.

Li Hu, who had the most seamless cooperation with Yang Ning, charged at the Wood Puppet Monster even before Yang Ning finished speaking;

Besides him, Xia Hong had also realized earlier that the saber couldn’t cut the white lines and had already charged at the Wood Puppet Monster.

Only after hearing Yang Ning did Luo Ming and the other four rush over.

Yang Ning’s speed was astonishingly fast, cutting hundreds or even thousands of white lines, but compared to the countless white lines bursting from the Wood Puppet Monster, it was just a drop in the bucket.

In an instant, the six of them reached the Wood Puppet Monster, even Li Baihe, who originally used a bow, had switched to a saber.

The six of them slashed out six gusts of wind, targeting almost all the critical parts of the Wood Puppet Monster’s body from the neck to the waist.

But in the end, they were still a step too slow.

Their sabers hadn’t yet struck when the Wood Puppet Monster suddenly raised its head.

Its crimson pupils abruptly contracted into pinholes, and its face broke into a sinister smile as it slowly opened its mouth, emitting a bizarre and piercing laughter.

“Heh heh heh heh heh……”

The unwavering momentum of the six slashes came to an abrupt halt.

Not only did the swords stop, but all six had a change of expression.

It wasn’t due to the Wood Puppet Monster’s laughter, but because they all sensed a fatal crisis from behind.

“Hu Zi, dodge quickly!”

Yang Ning, who was the furthest away, shouted, and as if by reflex, Li Hu immediately abandoned the Wood Puppet Monster, withdrew his saber, and dodged aside awkwardly.

Yang Ning only shouted at Li Hu, but naturally the other five also heard it.

Without any hesitation, all five abandoned their strike, swiftly distanced themselves from the Wood Puppet Monster, escaping quickly, their awkward state not much better than Li Hu’s.

Whoosh…

whoosh…

whoosh……

After dodging, the six had yet to look up when the whistling sound of wind filled their ears, clearly indicating numerous things were flying at great speed.

Upon looking up, everyone’s face turned incomparably shocked.

The Wood Puppet Monster, using the countless white lines from its body, was pulling all the fragmented corpses on the valley ground back inside itself at an astounding speed.

Seven to eight hundred people’s scattered remains were an incredibly staggering amount, and as these remnants continuously entered the wound beneath its right armpit, the Wood Puppet Monster’s body began to expand and swell rapidly.

Two meters…

three meters…

five meters…

ten meters……

No, it wasn’t just the body size.

“Leader, why won’t you save me…”

“Father, you shouldn’t have killed me, you shouldn’t have killed me…”

“Why am I the only one dead, boo-hoo-hoo, all of you must die…”

“I died so miserably, my head is gone, my legs too…”

“My intestines, give me back my intestines…”

……….

Suddenly from within the Wood Puppet Monster, countless eerie and mournful voices echoed.

These voices varied, male and female, old and young, but without exception, they were all filled with resentment and malice, targeting the seven people directly.

“My head hurts so much…”

“Ah……

it hurts so much, my head hurts.”

“Splutter…”

……

As these voices resounded in the valley, the hundred or two people just rescued from the log cabin began to stagger and sway, clutching their heads in pain.

Some, severely affected, spat blood and collapsed, writhing and rolling on the ground.

Even Huang Zhaohong and other individuals from major camps with Logging Realm cultivation began to show expressions of pain.

This, of course, included Yuan Cheng, Yue Feng, and others from the Great Xia Camp.

Not to mention others, even Xia Hong, with those voices incessantly pouring into his ears, began to appear dazed, feeling a piercing pain in his head.

“Soul Capturing, it’s evolving.

Stop it quickly, once it evolves into an Intermediate Strange Monster, all of us will die here, hurry!”

Soul Capturing?

Despite the piercing pain in his mind, Xia Hong heard Yang Ning’s voice, and his heart sank to the bottom.

Though Xia Hong didn’t understand Soul Capturing or Intermediate Strange Monsters, Yang Ning’s tone was laced with evident fear and panic.

Given the other party’s background and strength, it wasn’t hard to imagine the consequences if the Wood Puppet Monster successfully advanced to Intermediate.

“Yuan Cheng, throw me all the torches you have, hurry!”

Xia Hong turned his head, shouting to Yuan Cheng and the others not far behind.

“Leader, there are six, catch them!”

Yuan Cheng, Yue Feng, and the others, though with excruciating headaches, quickly tossed a bundle of torches through the air.

Each of them had one, exactly six in total.

After catching them, Xia Hong swiftly handed one to each of Luo Ming and the other five.

“These torches can hurt it!”

Upon receiving the torches and hearing Xia Hong’s words, Luo Ming and the others showed joy, apparently recalling the Solidified Fire Oil used previously in the wooden house.

On the other side, Yang Ning and Li Hu, slightly puzzled, instinctively intended not to take the torches, but seeing Luo Ming and the others’ expressions, they hesitantly accepted them.

Such small torches capable of hurting the Wood Puppet Monster?

How was that possible?

Xia Hong had no time to explain to the two, he forcefully scraped the torch on the ground, igniting it, and rushed straight at the Wood Puppet Monster.

He wasn’t seeking death; the crucial point was that the Demon Sound within the Wood Puppet Monster was causing his head to hurt more and more, and if he delayed, there might be no chance to charge.

Luo Ming, Shang Ping, and Li Baihe also realized, igniting their torches, and rushing at the Wood Puppet Monster like Xia Hong.

Contrarily, Yang Ning and Li Hu, who didn’t trust the torches, hesitated but eventually decided to trust Xia Hong and also charged forward.

The Wood Puppet Monster now stood over twenty meters tall, wreathed in black aura, its presence vastly stronger than before.

Yet its eyes remained closed.

Xia Hong dared to lead the charge because he noticed that the Wood Puppet Monster seemed to be at a critical moment.

No white lines blocked his way, so Xia Hong, facing no obstacles, was the first to reach beneath the Wood Puppet Monster, gripping the sword in his right hand, he gritted his teeth and fiercely slashed at its leg.

Crunch……

Without the white lines in the way, the Wood Puppet Monster’s body wasn’t invincible.

Yet even with this full-force strike from Xia Hong, it only opened a half-meter-long wound, and the wound didn’t bleed a drop; only broken flesh was visible, with faint glimpses of the faces from the slaughtered at Rogel Camp.

Suppressing his discomfort, Xia Hong exerted force with his left hand and forcefully shoved the lit torch inside.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle sizzle……

“Ah………”

The torch ignited the flesh within the wound, producing a thick black smoke instantly.

Along with the black smoke came a piercing scream from the Wood Puppet Monster.

“It really works!”

Seeing this, Yang Ning and Li Hu were momentarily stunned, but their charge sped up significantly.