He did not rush to kill Leo but leisurely said, “Your strength is indeed strong, but how could a Cultivator be an opponent of a Demon Cultivator.”
“You injured my treasure, which makes me very angry. I’m actually not fond of killing, but today you will die no matter what… because the fangs are poisoned!”
Before Rafferty could finish speaking, Leo already knew the fangs were poisoned because his body began to show abnormal symptoms quickly.
His consciousness became blurry, and even breathing became difficult. The flow of his Spiritual Power also turned chaotic.
Leo never imagined that he would end up dying here, but reality often proved to be cruel.
In his haziness, Leo suddenly felt his heart beating rapidly, and in this muddled world, the only thing left was the “thump thump” sound of his heartbeat.
Normal people cannot feel the flow of blood in their veins, but at this moment, Leo could clearly feel the rapid circulation of blood throughout his body.
His heart, like a high-powered pump, was beating abnormally. Under its abnormal beating, blood rapidly flowed from the right ventricle into the thing then out of the left ventricle through the aorta, reaching every part of the body through branches of arteries, and after circulating throughout the body, flowed back to the heart.
After circulating like this three times, the blood’s severe toxicity was gradually metabolized away.
The black color on Leo’s face gradually disappeared, and the expression of pain was also nowhere to be seen.
Suddenly, he opened his eyes, a sharp gleam flashing across them.
This frightened Rafferty a great deal, causing him to retreat several steps, muttering in shock, “Impossible… How could this be… A demon, an absolute demon!”
After the shock, a killing intent flashed in Rafferty’s eyes. With a hand seal, a talisman seal struck towards Leo sitting on the ground.
Boom!
A loud noise rang out, and Leo’s figure had already disappeared from the spot where the ground seemed to have been struck by a cannon shell, throwing dust into the air.
“Thinking of escaping?” Rafferty snorted coldly, formed a gesture as if embracing a guitar, and a bizarre guitar appeared.
This guitar was strange, colored in grey-white, and at a glance, it seemed to be made from bones, with black strings as thin as a hair.
This was an evil weapon Rafferty had refined over thirty years, known as the Bone Guitar.
The sound produced by the Bone Guitar possessed special magical power. In battle, if it absorbed the blood of a Demon Cultivator, it could even disassemble into a bone armor to protect its master.
Rafferty stroked the guitar gently, and it produced a series of peculiar tunes.
Although the tune was not loud, it was especially clear in this desolate construction site.
After the tune sound, a painful scream sounded from a dark corner, revealing Leo’s figure.
Leo didn’t hold any belief in the notion that “If the sword survives, the person survives; if the sword perishes, the person perishes.” Moreover, he was injured.
Adhering to the principle that survival is of prime importance, he originally planned to escape first and recover from his injuries before returning to take revenge on Rafferty and retrieve the Divine Dragon Sword.
However, a series of strange sound waves penetrated the ground, directly shaking him out.
Before he could react, Rafferty appeared in front of him again.
“I’m saying, Cultivator, it would be boring if you were to run away. Even if you don’t care about your spiritual weapon sword, you should consider my feelings. If you run away, to whom should I go to demand the strange mountain-like thing you summoned just now?”
Facing Rafferty’s conceited expression, Leo was truly angry.
“Don’t talk nonsense, who’s running away, hey… look, what’s that behind you?!”
Rafferty, unsuspecting anything, turned his head to look behind him.
At this moment, Leo formed a hand seal and fiercely struck towards Rafferty.
Although Rafferty didn’t react to Leo’s trickery, the strange guitar in his arms did sense it.
In an instant, a bone armor appeared on Rafferty’s body, protecting him.
The hand seal struck Rafferty’s body, like throwing a stone into the water, causing a dull sound but not even hurting a single hair on Rafferty’s body.
This infuriated Rafferty, who with a sinister laugh, revealed the Bone Guitar again and began to play.
There was no melody in this sound, and the sound waves entered Leo’s ears, causing his head to suddenly feel heavy, then severe pain.
Rafferty moved his right hand non-stop across the guitar strings, causing unceasing pain in Leo’s head.
Although Leo tightly covered his ears with both hands, it didn’t help much, the sound still clearly entered his ears, vibrating and stimulating the pain nerves in his brain.
While playing, Rafferty even began to sing as if he had returned to the stage, his face showing a look of enjoyment.
However, this expression quickly froze on Rafferty’s face, as the spiritual weapon protected its master, and the Nine Abyss Suppresses Evil Peak appeared.
The Nine Abyss Suppresses Evil Peak hovered above Leo’s body, emitting black mist that enveloped him.
Inside the black mist, Leo finally ceased to feel pain, the sound waves from the Bone Guitar unable to penetrate the mist.
Immediately afterward, a strange power emanated from the Nine Abyss Suppresses Evil Peak into Leo’s body.
Leo’s injured chest rapidly healed, his vitality soared to an extremely powerful level in an instant, and the Spiritual Power within him became abundant.
As the mist dispersed, a vast oppressive aura radiated from Leo’s body.
This oppressive force formed strong waves that, despite the Bone Guitar again transforming into armor, forced Rafferty to continually retreat.
Under the terrifying gravitational suppression and oppressive impact, the bone armor cracked, emitting a “crack crack crack” sound, with fine cracks appearing on its surface.
However, Rafferty remained indifferent to the changes in the bone armor on his body, still staring at Leo wide-eyed.
His face expressing incredulity was difficult to describe; even seeing a rooster lay eggs wouldn’t shock him as much.
Soon, the bone armor on Rafferty’s body completely shattered and fell off.
Immediately afterward, he spat out a mouthful of blood, his complexion pale as paper.
Staring at the shattered guitar on the ground, Rafferty felt extreme heartache, his face filled with fierce anger as he cursed, “Damn it, I’m fighting with you to the end, come out, Corpse Hand!”
Rafferty took out a Talisman from his body, squeezed a drop of essence blood from his right index finger onto the Talisman, then slapped the Talisman onto the ground.
The ground echoed with a loud sound, and amidst a tremendous “bang,” the earth in front of Leo revolted, rolling outward with blood-red light shooting from the ground, casting a bizarrely bloody red hue over the surrounding darkness.
Within this blood light, a gigantic entity slowly emerged from the ground.
A massive blood-colored hand appeared, its intense demonic energy fluctuations, like tidal waves, rushing towards Leo.
Then the giant hand clenched, with tens of blood-colored beams sweeping towards Leo.
Leo tensed up, muttering incantations while rapidly forming a hand seal, condensing a wolf hairbrush in his right hand, and began swiftly drawing in the air.