# 1130
Chapter 1131: Breaking Through the Encirclement
A cold, sinister glint flashed across Lin Qiye's eyes!
He pressed his hand backward, summoning a formation array. Ame-no-Murakumo fell into his palm, sword light burst forth, and in an instant, he bisected the monster before him!
With a dull thud, the tumor-covered spirit was cleaved in two and collapsed into the piled ash, but no blood flowed from its body. Its pale eyes remained fixed on Lin Qiye and the other person. Far from being dead, it grinned even more sinisterly.
"Hehehe..."
"Jijiji..."
"Gegenge..."
Countless mouths uttered spine-chilling laughter simultaneously. Its hands braced against the ground, as if about to climb out of the ash.
Several sword lights flashed consecutively, shredding its entire upper body into minced meat. Lin Qiye gripped Ame-no-Murakumo, his expression阴沉 (dark/gloomy).
"This thing can't be killed. Let's go!"
That previous scene had been far too uncanny. Though Lin Qiye had sensed no realm fluctuation whatsoever from this tumor-covered spirit, his instincts told him he absolutely could not continue entangled with them any longer.
At the same time, the spirits that had been standing in the surroundings had begun closing in.
As their forms swayed, the ash covering their bodies fell away in successive layers, revealing bodies covered in tumors. They stared unblinking at the central Lin Qiye, and诡异 (bizarre/macabre) smiles gradually curved their lips.
"So hungry... I'm so hungry... Give me a bite of your heart, won't you... just one bite..."
"Why? Why do you get to be so beautiful... I want to tear your faces apart..."
"That's the smell of blood... That's the smell of blood... Oh hehehehe..."
...
Successive whispers came from all directions, encircling Lin Qiye and An Qingyu completely. These tumor-covered spirits' expressions grew increasingly unhinged, and the tumors on their body surfaces burst open one after another!
Crimson wriggling worm eyes, mouths without lips, fetid purulent sores, tiny limbs like lizard beast claws, wrinkled and bloodstained baby heads... They were like monsters stitched together from flesh and blood, like squirming balls of meat that continuously emitted teeth-grinding sounds. From any angle, they no longer resembled anything human.
Lin Qiye's expression turned extremely grim: "Fight our way out."
He tossed the Ame-no-Murakumo in his hand to An Qingyu and drew his own [White Slash]. The two figures launched themselves toward the depths of hell.
An Qingyu's right hand hadn't fully regenerated yet, so she gripped the sword with her left hand, positioned on Lin Qiye's left flank. Beneath her feet, frost vines burst forth from the earth, clearing the path ahead for both of them, while sword light flickered continuously, decapitating the spirits lunging toward them.
Lin Qiye gripped [White Slash], swinging his blade regardless of distance. Consecutive blade rays swept through space, precisely harvesting the spirits' bodies.
Gale-force winds swept the nearby ash, spiraling rapidly around the two of them. The spirits blocking their path were swiftly cleared away. With blade and sword light, they carved a bloody path through the enemy.
At this moment, more and more tumor-covered spirits were appearing around them. They seemed utterly unafraid of the two's lethality, flapping their fleshy wings and surging toward them like rolling ground-bound balls of flesh, dense and numerous. Deranged laughter echoed throughout the valley:
"I'm an angel! Hehehe... I'm not a spirit, I'm an angel!"
"This is paradise! This is our paradise!"
"Look, do I look like an angel, or a demon?"
"Like an angel! You look like an angel, I look like an angel too, we're all angels! Gegegaga..."
"Those are two sinners! They shouldn't exist in paradise! Judge their sins and cast them into hell! To endure endless torment!"
"Judge them! Judge them!"
"Judge their sins and inflict eternal torment! Let them suffer in hell for eternity and never be reborn! Never be angels!"
...
These disgusting tumors burst forth one after another, like walls blocking Lin Qiye and An Qingyu. On faces covered in pus and worms, expressions of compassion and sanctity somehow appeared, as if they truly were archangels judging sins, gazing down at the two罪恶无可赦 (incorrigibly sinful) mice.
"Absolute lunatics!"
Lin Qiye watched himself being surrounded by endless spirits and couldn't help but curse. Then he said沉声道 (in a heavy voice), "I'll break through first. Stay close behind me, and be careful not to touch the ash."
"Okay." An Qingyu nodded solemnly.
Lin Qiye waved his left hand, and a dazzling summoning formation unfolded. His black pupil transformed into a shadow that attached itself to Lin Qiye's body. A crimson single eye opened from his brow, taking over his physical form.
Lin Qiye took a deep breath. His soul phantom drifted out from his sprinting flesh body. The spiritual energy floating in the heavens and earth surged wildly into his soul, inflating it like a balloon in a storm. Within several breaths, it transformed into a world-dominating Demon Ape, charging ahead of the two.
[Heaven-Equaling Avatar]!
Surging demonic energy gathered in the valley. The Ape's massive form tore through the oppressively dark spirits with overwhelming force, forcibly ripping open a passage. With every step it took, the valley trembled slightly, and several spirits were crushed into pulp beneath its feet.
With the Ape leading the way, a passage of dismembered limbs and severed body parts appeared before An Qingyu and Lin Qiye's physical forms.
The two followed behind the Ape, dashing at full speed.
Once they had completely broken through the spirits' encirclement, the Ape dissolved into boundless demonic energy and vanished. Lin Qiye's soul returned to his body, and he exhaled weakly.
This hell was not Great Xia's Kunlun, nor was it Great Xia's Heavenly Court. The spiritual energy permeating the air was practically nonexistent. Even using [Heaven-Equaling Avatar], neither its combat power nor its duration could compare to when in Great Xia. Fortunately, the time had been sufficient for the two of them to break through the encirclement.
"There's no road ahead."
An Qingyu shifted her gaze from the pursuing spirits behind them, scanning the area ahead, and frowned as she spoke.
"Climb over that mountain." Lin Qiye had already planned the route, pointing toward a jagged mountain peak ahead.
The two sprinted along the steep mountainside, leaping toward the summit. This peak was no different from the other mountains in hell—its surface was practically devoid of vegetation. On the mountainside were several smooth cuts, with rubble piled at the ravaged base, as if some earth-shattering battle had once occurred here.
While racing toward the mountaintop, Lin Qiye simultaneously perceived the situation below.
Those massive fleshy balls surged to the mountain's base. Their fleshy wings flapped, seemingly wanting to fly up like angels or demons. However, their bodies were far too heavy, and their fleshy wings were merely decorative, completely incapable of flight. Thus, they could only encircle layer upon layer at the mountain's base, squirming like maggots.