"Little one, get out of the way!"
As Ye Feng shouted, his Tang dao flashed, slashing towards the stone needles.
"Clang~ Clang~..."
The four or five stone needles were instantly cut by Ye Feng. No longer soft, they instantly hardened and continued to fly forward due to inertia.
Fortunately, they didn't hit Xiao Xiao but instead pierced deeply into a large rock beside her, causing the rock to crack!
"Clack~ Crack~ Cough cough~..."
At this moment, the sound of grinding and colliding stones echoed.
Ye Feng turned his head and finally saw what the gargoyle that had fired the stone needles at him looked like.
In the center of a large stone, a distorted and grotesque human face was visible. Its large and small eyes stared at Ye Feng with malicious greed.
"That terrifying face within the stone is the gargoyle?!"
As the grotesque face contorted with malicious and hateful expressions, the large stone began to slowly writhe as if it had come alive.
"Did the gargoyle's blood and flesh animate the stone?!"
Ye Feng recalled the system's previous prompt.
Beside the large stone where the gargoyle resided, a pile of stones, large and small, were rapidly approaching and converging towards it.
Finally, the stones approaching and converging towards the gargoyle's stone mass softened, like melting candy, and floated up.
Under Ye Feng's gaze, the floating stones beside the gargoyle slowly transformed into cones, becoming thinner and longer.
"Not good!"
Seeing this, Ye Feng's expression drastically changed. He quickly ran to the side, scooped up Xiao Xiao, and leaped behind a large rock.
"Swish~ Swish~ Ding~ Ding~ Dang~ Dang..."
Almost simultaneously, a sound like a sudden downpour of rain erupted.
This was followed by the sharp clattering of stones hitting other stones, dense and rapid, kicking up dust and debris.
It was the gargoyle, having animated a pile of stones, that had transformed them into countless stone spikes aimed at Ye Feng. Fortunately, Ye Feng had managed to take cover behind a rock in time...
"Damn it!"
Suddenly, Ye Feng broke out in a cold sweat.
From the attacks he had endured, it was clear that this gargoyle could move freely between stones.
As expected!
The next second, the large rock Ye Feng was hiding behind rippled. Then, three large stone blades suddenly appeared on the rock.
Two were aimed at him, and one was aimed at Xiao Xiao!
"Holy crap!"
Ye Feng couldn't help but curse. He swung his Tang dao, intercepting the stone blade aimed at Xiao Xiao, and then shoved her far away from the rock.
In the next moment, Ye Feng chopped off another stone blade and simultaneously twisted his waist sharply to the side, dodging the last one.
"Bang!~"
A dull thud echoed.
Although he avoided the sharp edge of the last stone blade, Ye Feng was still struck on the back by it, and a sharp pain instantly surged through him.
Ye Feng reached up and wiped his back, his hand immediately covered in blood. The rough, furry texture made him realize his back was a bloody mess.
It turned out that the stone blade the gargoyle had thrust out was not only sharp-edged but also covered in countless protruding small spikes...
"Ugh!~"
The burning pain in his back caused Ye Feng to groan involuntarily, his teeth clenched tightly.
The gargoyle, having landed a blow, didn't continue its attack. Instead, it brought the stone blade that had hit Ye Feng to its mouth and began to chew, emitting a chilling laughter like an infant's cry.
Clearly, the gargoyle was satisfied with Ye Feng's flesh and blood!
Immediately after, the gargoyle fired several long, soft stone spikes into the remaining head of the plum blossom deer.
"Slurp~ Slurp..."
A few seconds later, the flesh and blood in the deer's remaining head were completely drained.
It turned out that the long, soft stone spikes fired by the gargoyle were not just for attack; they acted like straws, capable of draining the target's blood and flesh!
"System, begin attribute distribution. Strength 100, Agility 100!"
Ye Feng didn't hold back, making an unprecedentedly large attribute distribution.
"Warning: System is distributing attributes beyond limit!" Su Dan Novel Network
To Ye Feng's surprise, the system didn't distribute his attributes as usual but instead emitted a warning.
"What's going on? What do you mean, distributing beyond limit?"
Ye Feng was frustrated. This system was really unreliable at crucial moments.
"The current limit for attribute distribution is Strength 80, Agility 80. Distributing beyond this limit will cause the host to be instantly paralyzed or even die!"
The system's voice was mechanical and cold.
"Holy cow!~"
Ye Feng suppressed the urge to curse and said again, "Then distribute, up to the current limit!"
"Quick!"
Ye Feng was very anxious.
Because the gargoyle had already manipulated two large stone blades and was lunging at him.
"Ding!~"
After a crisp beep, a swelling pain and a nauseating floating sensation simultaneously spread throughout his body.
Ye Feng didn't have time to ponder what was happening. He instinctively gripped his Tang dao and unleashed a rapid series of slashes at the gargoyle and the large stone it occupied, which were now within striking distance.
"Clang!~ Clang! Bang!~ Crack crack~!! Clang..."
Under Ye Feng's control, the sharp Tang dao chopped the gargoyle's blades and large stone into countless small fragments that scattered on the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
"Whoosh~ Whoosh!~"
"Cough cough~"
Ye Feng panted heavily, his expression tense, coughing as the dust choked him.
Even though he had just chopped the gargoyle and its blades into countless pieces, Ye Feng felt no sense of relief.
The sense of crisis that lingered in his mind had not dissipated; it was a primal instinct!
"Big brother, above, look up!"
At this moment, Xiao Xiao, who had been thrown and disoriented by Ye Feng's shove and was just recovering, cried out to Ye Feng, her voice filled with urgency.
"What?"
Ye Feng looked up and saw, within the smoke and dust formed by the scattered debris, a grotesque face identical to the one he had seen on the large stone. It was the gargoyle.
"Heh heh heh!~"
The gargoyle let out a sinister and terrifying laugh.
Ye Feng didn't have the leisure to pay attention to the gargoyle's laughter. His consciousness had already entered his portable space warehouse. He wanted to find something that could counter this gargoyle.
After all, he couldn't kill it even after chopping it into pieces; he had to find another way...
The more Ye Feng searched, the more cold sweat beaded on his forehead. He couldn't find anything that seemed capable of dealing with the gargoyle.
As for escaping, Ye Feng didn't believe he could outrun a gargoyle that could randomly transfer into any stone in this place surrounded by rocks...
"Bang!~"
A dull thud sounded. Ye Feng was sent flying backward, having been hit by a mace condensed by the gargoyle.
"Pfft!~"
Ye Feng spat out a mouthful of blood. The gargoyle, manipulating the dust and debris, swallowed it, revealing a satisfied expression.
Just as the system had previously indicated, the gargoyle intended to begin draining Ye Feng's flesh and blood...
"Am I going to die?"
Lying on the ground, every cell aching and numb, Ye Feng watched as the gargoyle fused with stones again and fired activated stone spikes. The thought crossed his mind.
But at that very moment, a small figure blocked in front of Ye Feng...
"Big brother, you must be alright!~"
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