American Comics: Tales of Cultivator

Chapter 191: The Fisherman and the Monster Slayer

The hundred-meter-long Skullcrawler wrapped its tongue around the thick python tail of the Mingshe. Startled, the Mingshe flapped its two pairs of red fleshy wings and tried to escape into the sky.

However, the Skullcrawler gripped the basin's mountain wall tightly with its two claws, and its long tail coiled around a large protruding rock in the basin. Using the terrain, it dragged the enormous Mingshe downwards.

Two monsters, each over a hundred meters long and as massive as hills, engaged in a tug-of-war in this mountain valley basin.

The Mingshe flapped its wings, stirring up gusts of wind, while the giant beast exerted force with its claws, cracking the basin's mountain body with over a dozen cracks.

Compared to the two skyscraper-sized monsters, Tang Song looked like an ant hiding in an anthill, peeking out.

Tang Song stood in the cave, observing the battle with his divine sense, while also calculating what he had on hand that could take down these two monsters.

Compared to the Skullcrawlers that were only a dozen or twenty meters long, these two monsters, each a hundred meters long and as massive as small mountains, felt much more formidable to Tang Song.

This wasn't just a difference in size; these two monsters were somewhat similar to King Ghidorah, whom he had seen at Base Zero. Not only were they huge and incredibly resilient, but they also had their own energy attack methods.

Compared to ordinary monsters, they were completely different species.

This was also the reason Tang Song retreated after sensing the attack of the giant Mingshe.

What he didn't know was that once a Skullcrawler exceeded sixty meters in size, its life force increased, and its attack power became even more potent. In Monarch's files, Skullcrawlers exceeding sixty meters were called King Skull Lizards and were classified as Titans.

A Mingshe exceeding 130 meters in length, if observed by Monarch, would also be classified as a Titan.

Although compared to the true Titans observed by Monarch outposts on the surface, neither the Skullcrawler nor the Mingshe could be considered powerful, for humanity, these giant beasts were clearly extremely dangerous existences.

When a Skullcrawler exceeds sixty meters, only a few of humanity's existing weapons can cause damage to such a giant beast.

Take the Vulcan cannon in the Silver Armored Corpse's hand, for example. A Vulcan cannon operating at full speed is enough to bring about equality for most carbon-based lifeforms in the world.

The same goes for ordinary Skullcrawlers. With concentrated focus fire from a dense metal torrent, in just one minute, the metal warheads alone entering its body would be enough to make a Skullcrawler under thirty meters gain dozens of pounds out of nowhere.

But a King Skull Lizard over sixty meters long might have skin several meters thick, with a hardness completely comparable to the protective armor on human tanks! Not to mention the King Skull Lizard's obviously abnormal and sturdy muscle beneath the skin—

Tang Song rummaged through the space within his Five Yin Wallet.

Rifle, this thing is useless—pass!

Hand grenade—pass!

Rocket launcher—pass! Anti-material heavy sniper rifle,

Maybe with armor-piercing rounds, it could penetrate the Skullcrawler's skin, but compared to this hundred-meter-long giant beast, a bullet a few centimeters long is somewhat small! Pass!

Rocket launcher, needless to say—pass!

There were also a few Federation Stinger missiles. Whether these would be useful, Tang Song estimated it was unlikely.

Tang Song then pulled out a white, beer-keg-like thing. After looking at the instructions, his eyes lit up. This thing might be useful, but unfortunately, there was only one. He didn't know if it would be enough.

As the two behemoths fought, the gravel on the ceiling of Tang Song's cave kept falling. He rummaged through the space in his Five Yin Wallet, and the only thing he was most confident could kill these two monsters with a single strike was his ultimate trump card, the million-ton nuclear warhead.

However, that life-saving thing carried too much risk—pass!

Bah, what kind of technology weapons!

Looking at the dense array of firearms in his Five Yin Wallet that he couldn't use, a certain Cultivator expressed disdain for the technology of the Marvel World.

He then turned his gaze to his most formidable magic tools.

If there was one magic tool in Tang Song's possession with the highest grade and strongest force, it was undoubtedly the four Ghoul White Bone Banners. During this time, thanks to the selfless contributions of the Hell creatures from the Hell Dimension, all four of his Ghoul White Bone Banners had been refined to the realm of Magic Tool Great Perfection, just one step away from transforming into magic treasures.

If the orthodox Cultivators of Heshan Dao in the Jambudvīpa World knew about this, their jaws would probably drop.

After all, when they refined magic tools, besides occasionally using blood, flesh, and souls of living beings for refinement, they mostly relied on their own true essence power for nurturing. After all, none of them had a Buddha's nephew who could turn a major incident like devouring an entire city into a minor one.

So, even when using living beings to refine magic treasures, the people of Heshan Dao did so cautiously, fearing discovery.

Only some peerless demonic cultivators dared to commit acts like massacring cities and destroying nations.

Four Ghoul White Bone Banners at Magic Tool Great Perfection in just a few months—ordinary demonic cultivators wouldn't even dare to imagine it! The people of Heshan Dao would never dream that Hell creatures like these existed. Once the magical rift to Hell opened, these creatures, smelling the sweet air of the Federation, eagerly squeezed into the banners.

Then they were refined into a pool of blood water.

If they knew this, they would probably risk soul reincarnation to come to the Marvel World.

It wasn't that the Jambudvīpa World didn't have places like the Hell Dimension; the Netherworld was actually quite similar to Hell. Whether they dared to go there was another matter.

The ghosts and monsters in the Netherworld were all cunning and experienced.

If they really opened a crack to the Netherworld, they might encounter ancient ghosts coming out of the crack, and it wouldn't be certain who would end up being refined into a magic tool.

......

Four Ghoul White Bone Banners at Magic Tool Great Perfection, plus twenty-two Silver Armored Corpses—

Tang Song looked at the two giant beasts already battered and bleeding, calculating the feasibility of being the fisherman who profits from their struggle.

The King Skull Lizard and the Mingshe, two behemoths, were fighting fiercely. The King Skull Lizard had now appeared on the mountain peak of the basin, its claws leaving numerous claw marks on the cliff face.

The Mingshe, which had been flying in the sky, had also been dragged down from high altitude.

The two giant beasts were locked in combat on the mountain peak. The King Skull Lizard bit down on the Mingshe's abdomen, while the Mingshe's python tail tightly coiled around the King Skull Lizard's body, constantly tightening its grip.

It also flapped its red membranous wings, attempting to cover the King Skull Lizard's mouth and nose with the wing membranes, trying to suffocate it.

Unfortunately, creatures like the King Skull Lizard were not like a certain handsome fellow from Skull Island; its mouth and nose were located underneath. Furthermore, its sharp teeth biting down on the Mingshe's abdomen caused the Mingshe to let out painful hisses.

It sprayed out large amounts of venom, wanting to poison the King Skull Lizard. Unfortunately, the venom only corroded a layer of the King Skull Lizard's hard, rocky outer skin and caused it no damage whatsoever.

The Mingshe could only tighten its python tail, attempting to strangle the giant beast—

The King Skull Lizard bit the Mingshe's abdomen, while the Mingshe wrapped its python tail around the King Skull Lizard's body. The two giant beasts coiled into a ball on the basin's circular mountain peak. As they rolled, the entire basin seemed to shake.

Rolling rocks and gravel fell from the mountain peak, directly crushing many Skullcrawlers that couldn't dodge in time.

In the basin, several sneaky Silver Armored Corpses were dragging the corpses of Skullcrawlers that had been poisoned or crushed towards Tang Song's cave.

Tang Song held a longsword in his right hand, a Ghoul White Bone Banner in his left, and the Great Desolation Bell above his head. He sneakily watched the commotion on the mountaintop, planning to step forward and take advantage when the two giant beasts were mutually exhausted.

Rumble! The commotion from the two giant beasts fighting was like an earthquake. Tang Song felt the cave inside the mountain body shaking precariously.

Time passed little by little. Feeling the ground vibration becoming smaller, just as Tang Song was about to go up to reap the benefits, a sharp hiss suddenly came from the horizon.

On the mountain peak, a fierce wind blew. A slightly smaller Mingshe descended from the sky, flapping its red fleshy membranes. The sharp claws at the tips of the membranes grabbed at the King Skull Lizard's abdomen, which was exposed as it rolled. At the same time, it extended its snake head, and its sharp fangs bit towards the King Skull Lizard's head.

The second Mingshe, with its astonishing bite force, bit directly through the King Skull Lizard's eyelid, and a mouthful of venom sprayed directly into the King Skull Lizard's eye.

The King Skull Lizard suddenly opened its mouth, which had been biting the Mingshe's abdomen, and let out a painful hiss. The two Mingshes seized this opportunity, and the pair tightly wrapped the King Skull Lizard with their python tails, leaving no gaps—

Sensing danger, the King Skull Lizard struggled frantically, rolling its body. Its heavy body directly carried the two Mingshes down the two-thousand-meter cliff of the basin.

Boom!

The three giant beasts, totaling tens of thousands of tons combined, smashed into the valley floor. The huge roar caused the entire ground to feel as if it had bounced three times—

Large swathes of Skullcrawlers were directly crushed into meat paste by the giant beasts. This included young lizards only one or two meters long that had recently hatched, as well as adult Skullcrawlers thirty to forty meters long.

But anyone hit by these three giant beasts was without exception crushed into a pulp.

Falling from a two-thousand-meter cliff, neither the King Skull Lizard nor the Mingshes wrapped around its body seemed to suffer much impact.

The two Mingshes didn't even loosen the python tails wrapped around the King Skull Lizard. Shaking their somewhat dizzy snake heads, they continued to constrict their python tails, preparing to completely strangle the King Skull Lizard.

Unfortunately, the two Mingshes forgot that this wasn't the mountain peak, nor was it the high altitude where they reigned supreme.

This was the Skullcrawlers' lair. Even though many had been crushed to death by them, the number of Skullcrawlers in this basin could still be described as a massive amount.

Dense swarms of Skullcrawlers attacked the Mingshes from all directions.

Splurt!

One Mingshe raised its snake head and sprayed a mouthful of venom at the group of giant beasts in front of it—

The torrential venom splashed onto the bodies of these giant beasts, instantly poisoning a large area of the surrounding giant beasts.

However, there were simply too many giant beasts in this basin. Even with the two Mingshes alternately spraying venom, they couldn't hold back all the giant beasts.

A forty-meter-long Skullcrawler circled around to the Mingshe's back. Using its tail to support itself, it leaped forward with its two front claws, pouncing near the two Mingshes. It opened its mouth and bit the female Mingshe's python body.

In pain, the female Mingshe turned and bit the Skullcrawler's neck. Snap! Its sharp fangs bit down, cleanly biting off the Skullcrawler's head.

The bloody scene made Tang Song unable to resist taking out a large bucket of popcorn from his Five Yin Wallet.

A Silver Armored Corpse even thoughtfully brought him a sofa—

Tang Song sat at the mouth of the cave on the mountainside of the basin, looking down. Below, dense swarms of Skullcrawlers moved and attacked the two Mingshes from all directions.

There were simply too many Skullcrawlers. Although the venom of the two Mingshes was very potent, they couldn't withstand the principle of "ants can kill an elephant with enough bites."

The Skullcrawler that had just broken through was just an appetizer. In the time it took Tang Song to eat two pieces of popcorn, another four or five Skullcrawlers had rushed near the two Mingshes, tearing and biting at the Mingshes wrapped around the King Skull Lizard.

The two Mingshes bit left and right, killing ordinary Skullcrawlers one bite at a time. But these Skullcrawlers came in waves, quickly tearing wounds onto the bodies of the two Mingshes.

From Tang Song's perspective, it looked like bloated, rolling meat worms covered in ants.

Seemingly bitten into pain, the two Mingshes also realized something was wrong. They sprayed venom in all directions, temporarily forcing back the surrounding Skullcrawlers. Then, they released the python tails wrapped around the King Skull Lizard. The two Mingshes flapped their red fleshy wings and suddenly shot into high altitude, seemingly wanting to leave.

But just as they flew up, a huge figure pounced from the diagonal mountain wall. Its two sharp claws grabbed the female Mingshe's wing and bit its neck.

It dragged it downwards!

Seeing this, the male Mingshe immediately sprayed venom downwards and followed, diving down.

Two King Skull Lizards, two Mingshes, plus dense swarms of Skullcrawlers. From Tang Song's perspective, the area below had turned into four rolling giant meat worms plus a massive pile of ants.

"It's time!"

Tang Song casually threw the popcorn bucket downwards. From behind him, he grabbed a bomb that looked like a white beer keg or a gas cylinder. A long iron rod extended from the bottom of the bomb.

Tang Song threw the white bomb down. With a bang, it directly blew a Skullcrawler's head to smithereens. The few Skullcrawlers nearby hadn't reacted yet and were craning their heads upwards when.

With a boom, an explosion sound rang out, followed by a large cloud of white mist-like gas enveloping a large area of space.

Before these giant beasts could figure out what was happening, suddenly, with the force of thunder, the ground trembled violently. Firelight flashed across a football field-sized area, trees fell, houses collapsed, and the miserable hisses and roars of Skullcrawlers echoed continuously...

Tang Song retreated thirty to forty meters into the cave. His entire body was enveloped in golden Buddhist radiance, and two rows of Silver Armored Corpses blocked him completely.

Before the wails and explosion sounds outside completely subsided, Tang Song waved his hand, sending out the four Ghoul White Bone Banners.

The Ghoul White Bone Banners grew larger in the wind, planting themselves around the four giant beasts that were still fighting. The thick white bone rods shot up a hundred meters high like towering white jade pillars.

Clatter! The banners made of white bone unfurled with a crisp sound like jade chiming. As the four white bone banners stood, thick black mist instantly enveloped a large area of the surroundings. The four giant beasts were corroded by the black mist and instantly stiffened.

The mutual fighting, combined with the damage from the Fuel-Air Explosive (FAE) bomb explosion and oxygen deprivation, left the four giant beasts half-paralyzed on the ground, frantically thrashing their tails.

Clang, clang, clang! Above the formation set up by the four Ghoul White Bone Banners, Tang Song stood with his foot on the Great Desolation Bell, the bell's mouth aimed at the four giant beasts below—

The bell sound swept out, vibrating the souls of the four giant beasts. Just as the four giant beasts were in a daze, soul-hook chains and ox-head forks extended from within the four Ghoul White Bone Banners—

The soul-hook chain penetrated the flesh and blood of one King Skull Lizard like a phantom. As the chain tightened, a phantom identical to the King Skull Lizard was slowly dragged out by the chain.

Driven by instinct from the boundary of life and death, the soul of this King Skull Lizard shook and struggled incessantly. Its physical body also rolled continuously, and the soul-hook chain trembled.

Seeing that the phantom of this King Skull Lizard was struggling and showing signs of breaking free from the chain.

Tang Song circulated his true essence, fully activating the Great Desolation Bell. Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang—

The increasingly intense bell sound, combined with the four soul-hooking magic tools, directly shook and dragged the souls and spirits of the four giant beasts out of their husks.

Without the augmentation of their powerful physical bodies, the ghost gods within the four Ghoul White Bone Banners instantly pulled their souls into the white bone banners—

The Ghoul White Bone Banners shook but did not immediately devour the souls of the four giant beasts. Instead, they sealed them, as Tang Song had other uses for them.

Even the physical bodies of these four giant beasts were not devoured by the Ghoul White Bone Banners.

Having killed the four giant beasts, Tang Song stood atop the black cloud, finally having the leisure to overlook the explosion scene. Within a football field-sized area, mountain rocks were shattered, leaving a scene of devastation. The Skullcrawlers within the explosion radius were either scorched or suffocated to death, suffering heavy casualties.

The corpses of Skullcrawlers further from the explosion center were mostly intact, without shrapnel damage, but their mouths were wide open, seemingly having died from lack of oxygen.

"This Fuel-Air Explosive (FAE) bomb works quite well. I should have Lane get a few more to keep in my wallet for backup!"

Tang Song looked at the killing effect of the Fuel-Air Explosive (FAE) bomb with satisfaction, planning to get a few more.

Oxygen deprivation and suffocation seem to be quite lethal to these large giant beasts with high heart and lungs activity.

(On a business trip to Zibo, currently in a hotel. Need to wake up early tomorrow, so posting a bit earlier. A small part was typed on my mobile phone on the vehicle, the rest in the hotel.

Many thanks for the generous tips from the big shots.)

The only remaining military big shot, military censorship is too strict, various bans. Those who like military stuff can check it out.

(end of chapter)