However, although he didn't know why this human suddenly took action, feeling the Void Beam slicing through the horizon like a shooting star, the Great Peach Pig King felt a cold chill course through his entire body!
It was sure that if it got hit, even its proud tough fur would be instantly dissolved, eventually corroding all the flesh and bones inside with it.
"Hmph hmph hmph!"
The Great Peach Pig King quickly stood up, moving towards the stream, shouting its willingness to drink water, to let Gary Smith sleep for a while.
"Ying?"
What does he mean by sleep for a while?
Little Spider tilted its head, its face full of curiosity.
"Don't mind, it's just swine fever."
With a stern face, Gary Smith added, continuing to watch the Void Beam, without any intention of stopping.
This infuriated the Peach Pig King, this was too much!
Does not showing anger mean that I'm easy to bully?
"Roar!"
Just as it roared to the sky, showing its tusks and prepared to fight back with its forelimbs, the six beams simply ignored it, whizzing overhead and hit the stream behind it.
Or to be precise, they landed on the area where a large number of lily pads had gathered and a bunch of Peach Blossom Spotted Frogs that were still croaking.
"Croak... Croak... Croak..."
Facing this fatal strike, these Peach Blossom Spotted Frogs, similar in size to bullfrogs, seemed to be oblivious, continuing to croak.
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!
The Void Melting Ray instantly pierced the frog bodies. However, instead of causing the flesh to crystallize, it seemed to tear them apart like ripping paper.
Fragments of torn frog skin fluttered in the air, turning into crystal powder that dispersed, the blood and flesh inside had long since disappeared.
All other Peach Blossom Spotted Frogs were pierced by the Void Beam, but all their blood and flesh was scooped out, leaving only the skin.
Which means that from the beginning,
The croaks were coming from a bunch of dead bodies!
"Snort!?"
This eerie scene made the Great Peach Pig King's eyes bulge. It realized that Gary Smith's target wasn't him.
Feeling that something was off, it decisively placed all the other Peach Pigs in front of itself.
What enabled him to live seventy or eighty years was his steady nature.
"Are you still planning to keep hiding?" Gary Smith looked at the stream, a cold smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.
Originally, he hadn't noticed anything was amiss, but the continuous croaking woke him from his obliviousness.
The entire upstream part of the stream was filled with Dream Spider Silk spread by Little Spider, filled with illusion and dream power. Even the rugged Peach Pigs couldn't handle it and obediently fell into a dream state.
Yet the Peach Blossom Spotted Frogs were just the lowest servant creatures. Even if they didn't drink the stream, as amphibians breathing through their lungs and skin, contact with the water would naturally expose them to the Dream Poison, and they would fall into a deep sleep.
However, the result was completely different. These Peach Blossom Spotted Frogs seemed unaffected, they even croaked while being washed by the water stream.
And when Gary Smith activated the Eye of Truth, it directly showed their status.
[Peach Blossom Spotted Frog (Cursed Puppet status)][Cursed Puppets all over!
How could a group of already dead, unconscious puppets be brought into a dream?
"As for the chief culprit..." Gary Smith's eyes were deep, there was a vague guess in his heart, he commanded: "Use the spider silk to probe the bottom of the stream!"
"Ying!"
With its hand stretched out, Little Spider launched a large number of spider silk threads.
As the Little Spider consumed a significant amount of Dream Power, the tenacity of the spider silk evolved and became comparable to ordinary iron wire. However, it was more delicate, and under high-speed spinning, it contained a horrifying lethal force that could easily penetrate through flesh and blood.
Just as the spider silk whistled out like arrows, ready to shoot through the stream's bottom and prepare for a ground-sweeping massacre, a hoarse sinister frog croak sounded:
"Croak!"
It sounded like a hellish bell tolling, as the resulting wave of sound erupted and created a massive water column that disintegrated the spider silk into a flurry of scattered fragments, mingling with the droplets.
A figure leaped out from within the stream, revealing its true form.
A Peach Blossom Drum Frog, evolved from a Peach Blossom Spotted Frog, appeared. Half a meter in size, with a large drum on its belly, capable of calming the mind with its beat, of elite initial stage potential.
However, this Peach Blossom Drum Frog looked ragged and thin, despite its clearly battered body, and a human-like benevolence spread across its face, which looked eerily strange.
Crack!
Suddenly, its belly was torn from the inside out, scattering organs all over the ground. A lamb-sized, eerie frog jumped out, issuing a hoarse, resentful growl:
"Croak!"
It was a gray color, lathered in a large amount of mucus. Its two eyes were prodigious, even larger than its head, giving it a top-heavy appearance due to the once robust hind legs having withered away.
In addition, a multitude of crimson patterns spread all over its cheeks and lower jaw, making it look incredibly bizarre.
"Ribbit!"
At this moment, because it had been forced to be born prematurely, it seemed extraordinarily enraged. Its face was twisted and ferocious. As it opened its mouth wide and took a deep breath, the air sacs on both sides of its cheeks rapidly inflated, revealing the crimson patterns on its face.
Along with its peculiar huge eyes and twisted appearance, it looked like a ghost-face.
"Sure enough, it's you, a Ghost-Face Curse Frog!"
Although Gary Smith had a hunch as soon as he saw the cursed puppet, when he truly saw it, he couldn't help but be astonished.
The Eye of Truth projected related information.
[Ghost-Face Curse Frog]
[Attribute: Undead Species]
[Strength: Elite Initial Stage]
[Race Potential: High-level Leadership]
[Skills: Curse Sound, Tongue Whip, Curse Puppetry, Venom...]
[Description: A highly unusual frog-like pet beast. The undead of their drill not relies on breeding to reproduce, but randomly appears in large aggregated frog populations.
It requires a mother frog nurturing a death egg, to evolve at precisely this time and be pregnant once again. The intertwining of life and death within the eggs, only by then, there's a minuscule probability a Ghost-Face Curse Frog would be born.
The Ghost-Face Curse Frog has a savage nature. Once it's nurtured completely, it won't be born immediately, but deceives and usurps the mother's nutrition until it overcomes a seven-day Weak Period. During this time, it will devour a large amount of the same species' organs to create cursed puppets for its own motives.
[Evolutionary Path: Witch Frog, Plague Curse Frog...]
"Elite Initial Stage, it seems this guy has been lurking for several days..."
After searching his memory, Gary Smith discovered that he had seen the entry of the pregnant Peach Blossom Drum Frog after awakening the Door of Truth. (At the beginning of Chapter Three)
The content described the withering state after pregnancy.
But then there was the threat of the Nightmare's Mark, coupled with its hiding in its mother's body without triggering the Eye of Truth. Gary Smith misconstrued it as merely being malnourished.
Fortunately, today, the cursed puppet it controlled was too rigid, allowing him to notice the abnormality.
It should be between the fifth and sixth day after its birth.
Otherwise, once the Ghost Face Curse Frog overcomes its Weak Period, it will boost its strength to the Elite Middle Peak. However hard the Great Peach Pig King's skin and fur were by then, it would not be able to resist the erosion of the Curse Technique.
The result would be the Peach Pig's complete annihilation, becoming a member of the Army of Cursed Puppets.
Meanwhile, under the accumulation of a large amount of flesh and blood, it could entirely strive to reach the Leadership Tier. Once successful, the wall of the Peach Blossom Forest would no longer confine it.
A large Army of Cursed Puppets, along with a Leadership Tier Ghost-Face Curse Frog, could directly transform into a small-scale Undead Disaster!