I run a Taoist temple in a bizarre world.

Chapter 46 The Toad's External Aid?

again and again……

again and again……

"Old Zhao, did you hear anything?"

After Zhao Haiyi successfully rendered the four-legged toad unconscious with a mental shock.

Yu Ying did not act immediately, but instead woke up the four-legged toad.

Instead, they pricked up their ears and listened carefully to the sounds around them.

After they stopped, the entire strange fusion area became relatively quiet.

Apart from the occasional squawk, there were almost no other sounds.

At this point, the crisp sound becomes extremely clear.

again and again……

again and again……

The crisp, rustling sound, accompanied by the gentle rustling of grass, drew ever closer to Yu Ying and his companion.

"I heard it, it sounded like... a wooden stick tapping on the ground... was it a walking stick?"

"Never mind the cane or anything, find out who they are."

Yu Ying said.

Zhao Hai immediately nodded, closed his eyes, and directed his spiritual energy from between his eyebrows toward the direction from which the sound came.

The spiritual energy that had left Zhao Hai's spiritual space surged like a surging wave, rushing across the area he wanted to explore at an extremely fast speed.

"Found it!"

Zhao Hai let out a low exclamation, but when the image he had detected was constructed in his mental space, he was somewhat incredulous.

He then extended two more strands of spiritual energy to confirm the result he had seen.

"that is……"

"What is it?!"

Yu Ying was a little anxious, which is understandable given his reaction.

If Zhao Hai keeps showing off and wasting time, that unconscious four-legged toad will wake up.

Time is precious these days; a few extra seconds could mean more deaths.

The four-legged toad that was difficult to kill quickly was already enough of a headache for him.

If this strange and chaotic area were to develop another troublesome demon or evil spirit...

In addition, there's the resurrected four-legged toad.

Facing two demons at once,

Then this operation to break the strange invasion of the present world can be declared a complete failure.

Fortunately, after confirming several times, Zhao Hai finally spoke with some uncertainty.

"It's this thing that came here. It looks like an old man, a first-tier human old man with a cane."

After saying that, Zhao Hai immediately continued.

"However, I'm not sure if he's a day-returner or something else."

"I detected it with my mental energy, and it gave me a very strange feeling."

Upon hearing Zhao Hai's account, Yu Ying frowned, his tone tinged with surprise.

"What strange feeling?"

This was the first time he had heard such words from the captain of the Fourth Day Returnee Team of the Jiangcheng Special Operations Bureau.

If one is also uncertain about the results of their mental energy probing.

"It's...it's in my perception that he should use it to refer to something."

"It doesn't seem like one of our people; it's more like a being native to this strange world."

Are you sure?

I sought the answer.

"...I can only say that this is the result of my investigation."

Upon hearing this, Yu Ying's face darkened.

A native existence of this bizarre world.

At this stage, based on what I understand from the Special Affairs Bureau, this situation can only represent one thing.

The old man with the cane who rushed over was a humanoid demon.

"Damn it, why did it have to be this time!"

After cursing, Yu Xun quickly calmed down.

"We need to kill this four-legged toad quickly before the old man with the cane and the toad can coordinate their attack."

But that's simply impossible.

If Yu Ying and Zhao Hai had a way to quickly kill the four-legged toad, they would have used it long ago.

Why wait until now?

"We can't kill the four-legged toad quickly, so let's get rid of this hindrance, the old man with the cane, first."

"Anyway, our current goal is to avoid facing two demons at once."

"If we were to actually face both demons at once, our time in this bizarre, fused region would be extended indefinitely."

"It would have been better to just do what everyone else did from the beginning and focus on saving lives."

Zhao Hai analyzed, and then added.

"In the worst-case scenario, the old man with the cane, though only at the first level, is quite troublesome."

"This will cause us to consume too much energy. After eliminating the old man with the cane, the remaining [Strange Cores] may not be enough for me to clear out the four-legged toads."

"And this will inevitably affect the time it takes us to get rid of the four-legged toads."

Zhao Hai proposed another possibility, while also pointing out the drawbacks of this solution.

He looked at Yu Ying, waiting for him to make a decision.

At the beginning, before even entering this swampy area.

Deputy Director Zhu then decided that Yu Ying would be the leader.

Zhao Haineng could offer his opinions, but Yu Ying had to nod in agreement.

quack!

Yu should make a choice the moment the four-legged toad awakens and lets out a threatening croak.

"Focus on taking down the final boss of this bizarre fusion zone and making the swamp disappear completely."

"Anyway, this demonic evil spirit of the old man with the cane is only at the first level. At worst, you can stay far away, and I'll take on the trouble it brings."

"OK."

Zhao Hai agreed.

It waved again, delivering a mental shock to the toad that had just woken up and was about to teach Yu Ying, the human who had attacked its eyes, a lesson.

The four-legged toad had already flown out of its mouth, but its fleshy tongue, which was in mid-air, suddenly stopped and crashed onto the grass.

Another unpleasant feeling washed over me.

quack!

Before losing consciousness, the four-legged toad let out one last mournful croak.

After unleashing his mental shock, Zhao Hai absorbed the energy contained in the [Strange Core] in his hand to replenish his energy bar, which had been almost depleted due to the release of the mental shock.

He sprinted towards a destination, trying to get as far away from the old man with the cane as possible.

Yu Ying then leaped up again, and the blood-stained brass knuckles struck the four-legged toad's still relatively intact eyes once more.

However, this time he did not choose to jump away directly, but instead created distance between himself and the four-legged toad that was about to wake up.

Instead of throwing a punch, he immediately followed up with another punch that slammed into the toad's eyeball.

Two consecutive, powerful punches made the four-legged toad, which had just woken up, feel the familiar dizziness again.

But it quickly stabilized because of the humans who should have been there much earlier, in places it couldn't reach all at once.

Now it's right in front of me.

They did not let this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity slip by.

The four-legged toad's fleshy tongue struck Yu Ying with lightning speed.

snort!

Yu Ying let out a muffled groan.

Even he, at such close range, steadily took a hit from the four-legged toad, and his blood surged, his heart skipped a beat.

But the four-legged toad was not satisfied. Its fleshy tongue quickly and continuously tapped Yu Ying's chest, limbs, and even head!

The attacks rained down on him relentlessly.

It was so heavy that he could hardly breathe.

If it weren't for his ability to enhance his physical defense, and the fact that he had intentionally pursued the ultimate level of physical defense after the two subsequent advancement rituals.

Otherwise, after this series of attacks, Yu Ying would probably lose his human form and turn into a beef ball.

Only then did this four-legged toad, possessing second-tier strength, truly reveal its terrifying nature.

Fortunately, Zhao Hai recovered and immediately regained control of the four-legged toad.

Yu Yingdu was unable to escape from such a dense offensive.

Before Yu Ying could catch his breath, someone used a walking stick to push aside the weeds to his side.

An elderly man with a long beard and a cane walked out from there.

Yu Ying spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva.

"Damn it."