Damn it! Let's smash the darkness together!-Chapter 1273 - 153: Beauty Fades Easily

Deep in the passage was actually a shaft leading underground, and Xu Shu followed the momentum to enter it, finding it to extend in all directions below.

Fortunately, there were occasional groans guiding Xu Shu, who soon discovered many corpses near a platform.

A humanoid giant, over three meters tall, holding a large axe with a triangular cone-shaped cement cart on its head, was lying on the ground.

It was clutching the head of a human with wide-open eyes, filled with regret, in its left hand, maintaining a climbing-the-ladder posture, but a blood-dark blade was piercing through the forehead completely.

This was obviously a fatal hit, and the giant monster died because of it. Its body was gradually dissolving, with two purple crystals vaguely visible emerging from its abdomen, each entwined with eighteen fibrous threads.

This was clearly a Second-order Peak monster!

And not far away, in the rusty underground passage, lay several human corpses in disarray.

They were missing limbs, with clear and obvious injuries, intestines and organs scattered everywhere, clearly all killed by this triangular axe monster, amounting to six people.

Xu Shu noticed that after these people died, a faint blue or green fluorescence was lingering and dissipating in the air, while on them were some clearly extraordinary accessories, like earrings, bracelets, etc., that stood out upon careful observation.

Undoubtedly, these items should be "Ascension Drives."

This was a Transcendent team sent to subdue the triangle-headed monster!

Unfortunately, their strength was insufficient, or they underestimated the triangular-head monster, and although they eventually killed the creature, they paid the price of annihilation.

Then, Xu Shu noticed a young and beautiful woman in the corner, her body filled with deep wounds visible to the bone, with her flesh still being corroded continuously. Even though she was constantly trying to cover her wounds with blood silk, it was to no avail.

The medicines were exhausted, the team’s healer had already sacrificed, and she could only watch helplessly as her life slipped away quickly.

The scream Xu Shu had just heard was from her.

"Oh, it’s Tang Ying... Oh no, it’s Tang Rou!"

Xu Shu’s eyes narrowed slightly as he recognized her true appearance from her blood-stained face, marveling at how small the world was to encounter a familiar face in such a relatively "niche" relic secret realm like Death Report Ridge.

He remembered clearly that back in the wasteland of the D8B3 District, Gu Pan, Gu Yue Ming, and other exploration teams from the Hunter Association were trapped in the Tailed Ksitigarbha Illusion Realm, where Tang Rou was the leader of these "assassins" from the Tang family.

She and Xu Shu’s former subordinate Tang Ying might have had a relatively close familial relationship, with some resemblance between their eyebrows, which was why Xu Shu almost mistook her at first.

Old friends meeting once more, tears welled up in their eyes, having met before at least once.

Seeing her still seem to have a faint breath of life, Xu Shu’s compassion surged, and he immediately returned to his body, rushing over quickly.

He carried several bottles filled with "cat saliva," using this Third-order "Enchanting Demon’s" Blessing Holy Water to treat a Second-order Transcendent. Even if it couldn’t revive her immediately, it should keep her alive.

He planned that once Gu Yue Ming and the others arrived, the three healers working together could easily save her.

That was Xu Shu’s intention.

Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned.

Despite his remarkable speed, taking less than twenty seconds for the round trip, by the time he returned to the scene, Tang Rou had already stopped breathing.

The injuries left by the triangle-headed monster were severely corrosive, and she was already at the end of her strength. After waiting for so long, more than seventy percent of her flesh and blood had been lost, and ultimately she couldn’t wait for passerby Xu Shu’s kind intervention, dying completely.

"Uh..."

Xu Shu was slightly stunned, feeling a bit of sorrow.

He recalled that in the Tailed Ksitigarbha Illusion Realm, most people had lost their lives, with only a few managing to escape, including Tang Rou.

Later, the D8B3 District faced Ning Baishou’s betrayal, the Jianqi Sect’s invasion, and the fall of the Star Tower. At that time, more than a million people died, yet this Tang Rou escaped once again.

This girl’s luck certainly couldn’t be said to be bad.

If she had "briefly resuscitated" a bit earlier and screamed, letting Xu Shu notice her sooner, maybe she could have escaped death once more.

But unfortunately, this time her luck finally ran out, leading to her ultimate demise.

Alas! When you think about it, Tang Rou seemed quite charming and endearing, the kind one finds captivating.

However, a great beauty also turns to dust in death, receiving no special treatment; it is truly fascinating to ponder.

The path of cultivation, seeking strength, is akin to rowing against the current; any slight negligence and it’s the end of the line.

Including himself, if it weren’t for his rapidly advancing to the Third-order, he might have already perished in countless dangers.

The world is so cruel it sends chills down the spine, and only continuously increasing strength can bring some confidence and warmth, but even the Third-order is far from enough.

Too weak! Power, I need even more power...

"Squeak squeak~"

A rustling noise interrupted Xu Shu’s impassioned reflection.

He looked up to see a group of sewer rats, each as large as a wild boar with sharp teeth, drawn by the scent of the dead.

They fixed their gaze on the corpses below, eyes shining with madness, squealing anxiously. Were it not for Xu Shu’s intimidating presence giving them a severe sense of danger, they would’ve pounced on the remaining Transcendents’ corpses without hesitation.