Chapter 87

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Before Wei Xun bit down, he wondered if he could really do it. Even though he knew that what he was eating was just demonic energy and had nothing to do with the thousand-year-old human skin, Wei Xun felt a little grossed out in his heart.

This feeling of Wei Xun’s hunger fighting his reason felt really uncomfortable.

However, when the first mouthful of the devil entered his mouth, Wei Xun tossed all negative thoughts to the back of his mind.

Did such a delicious thing really exist in this world!

It was actually really hard to describe the taste and texture of the devil, but this food seriously brought a great sense of satisfaction to Wei Xun. It was common for people to suddenly like a certain food, and most of the time, it was because they were unconsciously supplementing a certain element that was lacking in their body, causing the food to give them a very strong sense of satisfaction. This was how Wei Xun felt.

With every bite of the devil Wei Xun took, he could feel that something he lacked was being supplemented, and his power was strengthened. Both warm and cold energy were pouring into the butterfly tattoo, and they returned to Wei Xun’s body after circulating in his tattoo.

The more Wei Xun ate, the stronger he felt. This feeling of being filled with energy couldn’t be brought to him by any kind of normal food. At this moment, he could clearly feel his heart beating vigorously, and could clearly sense the three mantis brothers, Xiaojin, Xiaocui, and even the four maggots thousands of miles away all becoming stronger because of him.

Especially when he had eaten to a certain extent, Wei Xun was no longer limited to merely “eating.” Even without someone there to teach him, he knew what he should do. When demons devoured each other, it wasn’t simply “eating.” Based on how energy sources worked, it could be said that the demons polluted and assimilated one another. Just like how his pollution almost turned Dog IV-1 into an actual dog without intellect when he possessed him.

I absolutely love eating demons!

Wei Xun sighed in his heart. After he realized what pollution meant, he “devoured” the devil faster, and the more he devoured, the more control he could gain over the devil, leaving the devil nowhere to escape!

The devil’s shadow was still struggling desperately, but at this time it was too late for it to escape. From the moment it made a vain attempt to devour Wei Xun, it could only bite air when it tried to eat Wei Xun. It froze in shock, and Wei Xun took the opportunity to consume the devil while taking out the gusin thangka, and firmly wrapped it around the grayish white devil’s human skin.

The seal that was naturally made to restrain the devil made it expend a lot of energy to break free. It attacked Wei Xun like a mad man, and the grayish-white skin tightened around Wei Xun’s neck like a snake. However, Wei Xun was still eating it, and he wasn’t stopping. Even the devil panicked when it felt a steady flow of energy being lost.

‘Let go, let go of me! Otherwise, I will set off a disaster and bury you deep underground!

‘My physical body’s strength is a thousand times stronger than this shadow. If you continue doing this now, I will hunt you down to the ends of the earth!

‘The earthquake has started again. If you don’t run away, then even if you eat me up, you won’t be able to escape!’

Was this man a lunatic who had been hungry for many days and nights!

The devil’s skin had a mental breakdown inwardly, and its fury triggered the nine-story 卍 crystal tower. The ground began to vibrate violently again, and the narrow and cramped catacombs collapsed in half. A terrifying crack appeared on the ground, and one of Wei Xun’s legs almost fell into the crack.

But he just refused to let go, no matter what the devil did!

Is he a dog?!

Not only did Wei Xun not run away, but he even took out the wet corpse with the golden eagle head. As soon as the wet corpse appeared, it filled up the small space, and after it appeared, the grayish-white skin suddenly struggled frantically and wanted to stick itself on the back of the wet corpse. The devil now lost its mind. The devil, which was a wisp of demonic energy in the shape of a black snake, even forcibly stretched itself out from the skin crazily after it had originally hidden itself under the human skin.

Then the freshly exposed devil’s body was all eaten by Wei Xun!

‘Trash, idiot!’

The demon cursed the human skin crazily. It had been sealed in this human skin for too long. As Wei Xun thought, although the demon’s consciousness far surpassed the resentment of the human skin, the two actually shared a symbiotic relationship. If the devil wasn’t present to possess the skin, the human skin wouldn’t be able to contain the resentment. But now that the devil had possessed the human skin for a thousand years, the human skin’s obsession has also been catalyzed to a terrifying extent.

The human skin’s obsession was to find its own body!

This was also the reason why even though the devil had been unsealed, it was still wandering in Qianzong Mountain, unable to meet up with its physical body. The devil was preparing to resolve the obsession the human skin had, and then completely rid itself of its shackles and escape. Who would have thought that it would capsize in the sewer here?!

One mistake triggered the next.

From the moment Wei Xun began devouring it but it couldn’t devour him back, the devil had thoroughly fallen into a predicament. When Wei Xun took out the wet corpse with the golden eagle head and completely attracted the attention of the human skin, it became extremely difficult for it to escape.

No, it wouldn’t run away in shame, it must teach this daring human being a lesson!

‘Even if you devour my shadow, my physical body will avenge me!’

The demon laughed harshly. ‘I curse you, curse you to never leave this nine-story 卍 crystal tower, and curse that you will be tortured to death by someone gouging out your bones and skinning you alive. I will take the crown off your head to make a bowl, and I will suck all your blood dry. I’m going to tear up and eat your flesh one bite at a time so that you can watch yourself being—’

Wei Xun ripped off another large piece of the devil as he crouched and squatted his body, steadying himself. Then, he ordered Xiaocui to summon the insect swarm to open the passage to the ninth story. But instead of going out, he ate the last bite of the devil, finishing all of it completely. The grayish-white skin that originally rolled and twitched like a python suddenly stopped moving, and it fell softly like a cramped snake.

Wei Xun didn’t have time to take care of it as a violent, restless, and powerful energy was coursing through his body. He closed his eyes fiercely and let out a long sigh, knowing that he was somewhat out of control just now.

He was now a tourist, hence, the increase of abyssal energy would be relayed more to Xiaojin and Xiaocui. For the time being, it couldn’t bring many gains to Wei Xun, because he couldn’t mutate himself now. And the consequence of being completely focused on eating the devil was that he would be trapped by the collapsing rock wall.

The unprecedented sense of satiety and the senses of crisis and rationality were pulling each other. Wei Xun opened his eyes to the anxious call of the young fox, only to see that the golden garuda horn crown and other objects wrapped in the grayish white skin had fallen into the depths of the fissure, and he would never be able to pick them up from here.

And at this moment, another violent wave of seismic shocks had arrived!

Wei Xun made a choice decisively. He stored the grayish-white skin and the carbonized wet corpse into the belly of the young fox and jumped to the ninth story using the newly excavated passageway from the insect swarm. Just as Wei Xun left the catacomb, the rapidly expanding ground fissure swallowed everything like a bloody mouth in mere moments. The passage from which he came out collapsed in an instant and was buried by rubble.

However, the situation on the ninth story was horrible. The numerous mummified corpses appeared like surging waves due to the severe earthquake. Their thin limbs and bodies took up the empty space here, and it felt like stepping in the swamp when one stepped on them. Their legs would suddenly sink, and they would be trapped here. In this case, Wei Xun could not cross most of the ninth story to the spot where there seemed to be cold wind blowing from. There might be a southeastern part of the passageway leading to the outside, so he could only continue to climb upwards!

The entire nine-story crystal tower was shaking violently, and even someone with the best balance could not stand firm. Moments after Wei Xun reached the eighth story, the black stone stairway beneath him completely cracked. He saw more and more spider web sized cracks on the crystal of the collapsed tower.

If the nine-story crystal tower was destroyed, he would be buried under the ruins, and even if the fox fairy possessed him, it would be hard to survive. The dark-colored river outside was completely blocked by falling rocks long ago, when the first earthquake hit. If Wei Xun wanted to leave, then he had to go through the nine-story 卍 crystal tower to Xikang temple, where there was a passageway leading to the outside.

Countless broken crystals fell like hail. Wei Xun saw the falling crystals that broke apart piercing into the crystal coffin on the eighth story. Stunned, the crystal corpse crawled up from the ground like a beast and attacked Wei Xun at a rapid speed.

As for the other two corpses, one was unlucky and had its corpse destroyed and pierced, and its crimson internal organs dripped all over the ground, unable to move. The other, whose body was cut in half, also crawled towards Wei Xun. The devil shadow’s last resentful curse caused a big earthquake, and also resuscitated the various ancient corpses that it had controlled in the crystal tower. At this moment, they were all enemies of Wei Xun, and they would madly attempt to trap him in the crystal tower!

Before he was besieged with corpses, Wei Xun had reached the stairs leading to the story above him. But the worst thing happened, and he saw several thick blue-black figures crowding there, struggling to climb down from above. It turned out to be the mummified corpses of the warriors of the sixth story! They managed to skip the seventh story and completely blocked the stairway here.

If there was enough time, there were countless ways to deal with them, but now the crystal tower was crumbling, and with each second, the tower would collapse even more. There were dozens of mummified corpses along with the gusin’s mummified corpse above. Presumably, Wei Xun could tell that the situation above wasn’t going to be ideal.

He didn’t have time to tarry. The crystal corpse had already rushed in front of him, and Wei Xun swung at it with his travel bag. He saw that its fragile body cracked and shattered and its limbs and internal organs fell to the ground, while its head was still firmly biting the fabric of the mountaineering bag. The corpse appeared very intimidating. The other crystal corpse that rushed towards Wei Xun was hit by a falling crystal stone the size of a tabletop, and it turned into bloody mush straightaway.

He had to leave the crystal tower as soon as possible, so Wei Xun gave up on trying to move up. Wei Xun had to first find a way to break the crystal wall and break out of the tower, and then find a way to get out of this sticky situation once he reached an open space.

But at this moment, Wei Xun vaguely heard the cry of a snow leopard from the story below him.

“Howl——howl——”

It was not an illusion, it was really the cry of the snow leopard, coming from the ninth story! Wei Xun didn’t know how the snow leopard found this place, but he immediately realized that there was a passageway leading to the outside on the ninth story!

Seeing that several bluish-black mummified corpses had squeezed through the stairs and swayed as they rushed to kill him during the earthquake, Wei Xun jumped through the crack in the crystal floor and fell back to the ninth story, with the surging ocean of corpses beneath his feet. Wei Xun threw the spider silk climbing rope out at the last minute.

The spider silk stuck tightly to the top of the cave that was about to shatter. Wei Xun fell down a sizable length, but he managed to hold onto the rope. Under his feet were the overlapping limbs of the headless corpses. As he looked in the southeast direction, as expected, he saw the silverish-white nimble figure in the mountain of stacked corpses!

A cracking sound came from above his head, and Wei Xun’s body fell downwards again. The already fragile crystal wall would soon be unable to support his weight. Before he could think about it, Wei Xun swung in the southeast direction with the climbing rope.

The extremely elastic spider silk climbing rope helped him leap across most of the ninth story. Wei Xun could already see the figure of the snow leopard. Its front paws had stepped on a corpse as it looked anxiously in his direction, and the mummified corpse that it stepped on under its claws no longer struggled, just like a real corpse.

However, Wei Xun didn’t have time to observe more. The crystal wall that supported the entirety of his weight finally shattered in the earthquake. Wei Xun fell down, and he was still some distance away from the passage located in the southeast. The mummified corpses stretched out their hands and grabbed Wei Xun’s feet and calves.

“Roar!”

Accompanied by a roar, to Wei Xun’s shock, he saw the snow leopard jump into the sea of corpses and run towards him while stepping on the mummified corpses!

The author has something to say:

It’s a useful leopard-y! It’s not an emotionless tool that only provided Yang Energy qwq