Chapter 40: The Giant Demon! Second Update

  Only in the pitch-black cave above, those countless jagged rocks with dog-like teeth slowly cracked open a seam, like lips, and several figures fell from outside, landing around Tang Lin's body, making a heavy sound.

  Tang Lin had a kind of inexplicable fear in his heart, seeing the mountain rocks crack and close together, after a while without any movement, he turned his head to look at the few figures falling down.

  At this glance, Tang Lin's hair stood on end.

  Only these few corpses were seen, they were indeed human in appearance, but their bodies were icy cold, and it was feared that they had been dead for a long time.

  "This cave, how can it crack open automatically? These human skeletons, where are they from?" Tang Lin's heart was filled with terror, and he felt as if there was a pair of cold eyes staring at him in the darkness.

  Tang Lin didn't dare move much, held his breath tightly, and lay on the icy cold water, using all his strength to repair his skeletal body, hoping to leave this haunted place as soon as possible.

  Time flies.

  It was unclear how much time had passed, as if it were over ten days or half a year. Tang Lin couldn't keep track of the time, but he felt that most of his skeletal injuries had healed and he could get up and move around.

  Tang Lin crawled out of the water, releasing his spiritual energy. Seeing the rotting flesh on his back, he furrowed his brow and immediately took out a brand new set of clothes from his storage ring and quickly changed into them. Then, he took out the Purple Jade Knife and cut off all the rotting flesh on his back.

  Tang Lin's arm twisted back in a strange posture, cutting off pieces of rotting flesh one by one. Cold sweat seeped from his forehead, and he felt almost nauseous to the point of vomiting.

  Soon, the rotten flesh and blood on Tang Lin's back were cut off, and fresh blood flowed continuously. Tang Lin took out clean clothes, padded them behind him, and sealed the acupoint, stopping the bleeding from the wound.

  After doing all this, Tang Lin began to look around in all directions.

  All that can be seen is the dark and deep cave, with many corpses piled up at the foot, layer upon layer like a mountain of corpses. A strong stench of rotting flesh fills the air, while on the sharp rocks above, drops of icy water fall down, flowing to the lower-lying areas and gathering into puddles.

  "Huh?" Tang Lin looked at the corpse next to him that had not yet rotted, and found that its face was exactly like that of the demon head who had sealed himself.

  "He's already dead?"

  Tang Lin's heart was racing wildly, and he suddenly remembered the demon's mournful cry before he fainted: "Heavenly Lord, don't——"

  God?

  Tang Lin looked around, shocked and uncertain: "Could it be that the Lord of Heaven lives in this cave, and these corpses... are all killed by him?"

  The strength of this demon lord, Tang Lin had seen it before, yet he died here now. It can be seen that the strength of that "Heavenly Lord" must be extremely terrifying!

  "I didn't die after all, could it be that I was too heavily injured? What kind of heaven is this that didn't kill me and instead ignored me?" Tang Lin furrowed his brow. After thinking for a moment, he still couldn't figure it out, so he concentrated his spirit and felt his way towards the cave.

  Saw countless corpses along the way.

  Tang Lin's scalp was numb, his face looked terrible, and he almost vomited. After walking for a long time, Tang Lin finally arrived at a dry cave, where it was dark and deep, and there seemed to be a faint light in front of him.

  There was no rotting corpse nearby, but the dull air that filled the air made Tang Lin's spirit lift.

  He held his breath tightly and walked quietly to the edge of the cave, sticking to the wall and looking inside.

  Outside this cave is a vast open space, the walls of which are covered with countless red insects. These insects are extremely soft and keep crawling.

  Tang Lin's whole body was covered in goosebumps, and he prepared to retreat. At this moment, a sound of footsteps came from the dark cave.

  Tang Lin's heart seemed to have stopped beating.

  Is anyone there?

  Tang Lin hastily squeezed his body against the rocky wall of the cave, just as there was a recess in the wall beside the cave that allowed him to fit inside.

  Under Tang Lin's gaze, only a few black-armored warriors were seen dragging a carriage full of rotting corpses.

  Tang Lin's eyes were sharp and he saw the corpse of the demon head right in front of him.

  He broke out in a cold sweat, his heart racing wildly, knowing that if he hadn't left early, he would probably be lying in this car right now, being taken to who-knows-where.

  A few black-armored warriors, with scarlet lights flickering in their icy helmets, pulled a carriage and walked away from the forked path not far in front of Tang Lin.

  Tang Lin hesitated for a moment, then quietly followed the few warriors from a distance, entering the passageway. Tang Lin watched them enter for a while before carefully making his way to the entrance of the passageway, sticking close to the rocks as he stealthily looked inside.

  All that can be seen is a suddenly open space, with a altar-like thing standing upright in the center, and at the top of this space, there is a large tree.

  Towering ancient trees, countless intertwined roots, each root is three or four zhang thick, from which we can imagine how majestic the whole tree is.

  Tang Lin's pupils suddenly constricted.

  What shocked him was not the majesty of this big tree, but the dense roots above, each with a rotting corpse, like insects attached to the roots.

  "Monster!" Tang Lin's heart was racing wildly.

  It's obviously a tree demon with many years of Taoist practice!

  And those rotting corpses were actually the tree demon's nutrients!

  Tang Lin's whole body was covered in cold sweat, and he immediately held his breath tightly, hoping that the tree demon had not detected him. His body quietly retreated backwards.

  The tree demon surprisingly really didn't discover Tang Lin outside the tunnel, and even when Tang Lin was very far away, there wasn't any movement.

  Tang Lin let out a slight breath of relief and immediately dared not approach this place, following the original path to sneak towards the other end of the passage.

  Not long after, Tang Lin arrived at the place where the corpses were piled up before. On this other side, however, was a dead end that was sealed off.

  Tang Lin felt a pang of sorrow in his heart.

  "If we encounter that demon king, at most we'll be killed. But if we're caught by this tree demon, our bodies will become its nutrients!"

  "That 'Heavenly Master' in Mo Tou's mouth should be this demon."

  Tang Lin sighed in his heart.

  There is no way out in heaven and no gate to enter on earth.

  He sat among the pile of corpses, thinking about a way to escape. After an unknown period of time, the rock on Tang Lin's head opened again, and several more corpses fell out from it.

  At the moment the rock opened, Tang Lin immediately lay down among the pile of corpses, pretending to be a dead body.

  As the rocks closed, Tang Lin sat up and looked at the few corpses. He found that they were all human corpses, and one of them was still breathing, with a faint sign of life in his chest.

  Tang Lin was overjoyed at what he saw.

  However, this person seemed to have fallen heavily and suddenly had a few violent convulsions of the chest before dying directly.

  Tang Lin was immediately stunned.

  "These corpses, are they the ones who were sent to subdue the demon this time?" Tang Lin muttered to himself as he searched through the bodies and soon pulled out several tokens.

  "Ten thousand husbands, small generals." Tang Lin saw the tokens on these corpses and confirmed their identities. He furrowed his brow, looking up at the empty space above the rocks.

  "Could it be that this rock is a living thing? How can it split open by itself? Or perhaps, this is the transformation of a demon?" Tang Lin couldn't figure it out, he sat here pondering for a long time, when suddenly he heard footsteps again, and the sound of metal armor scraping "clank clank".

  Tang Lin immediately hid behind a group of corpses.

  Only a few red glows were seen approaching, and when they got closer, Tang Lin saw that it was those several warriors. They pulled the wooden cart, picked up the rotting corpses on the ground and threw them onto the cart. After filling it up, they pulled the cart away.

  Tang Lin watched this mysterious scene with a frown.

  Looking at the fewer and fewer corpses on the ground, Tang Lin suddenly thought that if a few more fell from above, he would eventually be dragged away to become fertilizer.

  As soon as this idea emerged, Tang Lin was shocked and quickly gave himself a slap in the face.

  "To prolong one's own life by taking someone else's, it's better to die than live like this!" Tang Lin muttered.

  The scorching pain on his face made Tang Lin's mind clear for a few moments, and he suddenly thought that sitting like this was not the way to go. These corpses should have quite a few treasures on them. Although it is said that the dead are great and cannot be desecrated, thinking that they would fall into his own hands is still better than falling into the tree demon's hands.

  Tang Lin immediately began rummaging through the corpse.

  "There are many storage rings." Tang Lin discovered that among these corpses, there were humans, demons, and demon heads, all of whom were very powerful.

  Tang Lin immediately recognized each of the storage rings one by one.

  "Huh? Are these mummies condensed from yokai?"

  "Hmm, Restorative Elixir, Primordial Qi Pill."

  "So many weapons, huh? 'Tianmo Jue'?"

  Tang Lin couldn't stop turning things over and soon discovered many precious treasures, his eyes shining brightly.

  "Divine Wind Sacred Body Tempering Method", "Darkness Sacred Body Tempering Method", "Ten Thousand Demon Array", "Three Thousand Corpse Array"...

  Tang Lin saw many martial arts secret books, some of which were human, some were demon, and some were monster.

  Tang Lin gazed at them with unblinking eyes, especially the Saint Body Refining Sect's manuals. He carefully flipped through each one.

  "Nine Great Fundamental Sacred Bodies, namely White Gold Sacred Body, Azure Wood Sacred Body, Heavenly Water Sacred Body, Divine Fire Sacred Body, Posterior Earth Sacred Body, Divine Wind Sacred Body, Diurnal Radiance Sacred Body, Dark Sacred Body, and Violet Lightning Sacred Body."

  "Moreover, there are some rare and powerful sacred bodies, such as the Ice Coffin Sacred Body, the Barbaric Expanse Sacred Body, the Origin Sacred Body, the Eight Extremes Sacred Body, etc."

  Tang Lin flipped through a copy of "Dark Sacred Body Tempering Technique".

  "Condense the dark sacred body, must be in a desolate land, sit quietly for a thousand years, with pure black energy to cleanse the body, pass through 108 calamities, with dark power to penetrate the whole body, purify flesh and blood, use energy to shape the physical form..."

  Tang Lin furrowed his brow, flipping through the Divine Wind Sacred Body Cultivation Method manual. He discovered that these two sacred bodies were almost identical in their cultivation methods and both required over a thousand years of meditation to refine pure energy and nourish the body before transforming it from its roots.

  Only nine princesses like this, people with innate sacred bodies can directly break through and become saints.

  Like Tang Lin, a mortal of later generations, being a flesh-and-blood body, must use pure energy to thoroughly cleanse the body in order to condense a holy body.

  "Unfortunately, I still haven't found the balance point of the two energies within me." Tang Lin sighed inwardly, knowing he was still far from condensing his Sacred Body.

  No matter how talented or gifted you are, you need time to mature and refine your abilities in order to transcend and become a saint.

  ……

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