Devour

Chapter 278 8 Scenery Lights

After blocking a round of fierce attacks, Cheng Bai retreated again and again. His eyes glanced at the killing sword, and he could clearly see the scars all over it. Although the damage was not serious, and the spirit sword's own regeneration ability was slowly repairing it, it was still shocking.

"It's not easy to successfully hunt for food without using the poison. I haven't seen such a good prey for a long time." Cheng Bai saw victory in sight, so he advanced instead of retreating, and his knife light became more fierce. While the huge body was going crazy and exerting all its brute force, he followed the knife and used the fourth move, Soul Return to the Underworld Road, to slash the Thousand-Eyed Centipede fiercely.

"Blow it up!"

Cheng Bai shouted loudly, and the power of the four swords in front and behind exploded at the same time, projecting from the soul to the flesh. With four light "swish", the four terrible knife wounds on the Thousand-Eyed Centipede's body burst open, and the unique colorless blood splashed like a waterfall.

As his realm improved, he became more and more free to use force in the Six Paths of Illusion Sword Technique. Although he failed to truly master the move of flickering illusions, he perfected the move of returning the soul to the underworld from the inside out.

"The blood of the demon king is a tonic, how can we waste it?"

Cheng Bai was delighted to see prey, and urged the Taotie beast head to chase it relentlessly. The devouring power enveloped the Thousand-Eyed Centipede, and it took in big mouthfuls of colorless blood like a dragon sucking water.

The Taotie vision sucked blood and devoured souls, and the gains and losses became more and more obvious. The vitality of the devoured slowly drained away, as if being tortured. However, Cheng Bai felt comfortable all over, his skills and lifespan were steadily increasing, and he easily advanced to the middle stage of the Wuxiang realm.

The Thousand-Eyed Centipede found the pain unbearable and became more and more out of control, crashing into everything it came into contact with.

That solid and huge body scraped across the rock walls, causing an endless stream of harsh friction and explosion sounds, and the impact caused rocks to fall from the ground, creating a mess everywhere as if the end of the world had come with a landslide.

The Thousand-Eyed Centipede struggled desperately, its breath gradually weakened as it staggered. Suddenly, it regained a bit of sanity and said in shock: "It's over! My essence has been drained, I have no strength left, and my soul can't even escape..." It suddenly collapsed to the ground like a collapsing building, and its soul flew away.

Cheng Bai observed the results and weighed it in his mind: "The land of the Nine-Layered Abyss is much more solid than what we have seen before. It may be related to minerals. If the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster were to make trouble on Earth, it might cause a major earthquake in the surrounding areas."

After a great victory, we cleaned up the battlefield and counted the spoils.

Cheng Bai stored the corpse of the Thousand-Eyed Centipede in the Shengjin Pagoda and said happily, "The centipede meat, if washed clean, is the delicious and top-grade product as mentioned in the legend. The shell can be used to refine Dharma robes and armor, and there is also a pill of the Unfettered Realm."

He found the Kun Silver Knife and put it in his pocket, another Horcrux, and then looked up at the lantern floating in the air.

"Is it a top-grade immortal weapon? Its grade is higher than yours." Cheng Bai asked Li Tong. It seems that the Thousand-Eyed Centipede did not refine the magic weapon, but only discovered that it had the ability to break through false illusions, so it has been kept until now.

Li Tong said seriously: "It is called the Eight Scenery Lamp, and its grade is far superior to that of immortal artifacts. I cannot control a divine artifact, and the Eight Scenery Lamp is not an ordinary divine artifact! No matter how high the cultivation level of the Thousand-Eyed Centipede is, it is impossible for it to control it, and it may not even recognize this treasure."

Cheng Baiqi asked: "Is there a higher grade than the divine weapon?"

Li Tong said: "There are also ancestral divine weapons. Such divine weapons made by the great emperor are called great emperor Dao weapons. Ancestral divine weapons made by the ancient gods are also called ancient Dao treasures. I can never compare with them."

Cheng Bai reached out and easily took down the Eight Scenery Lamp. He took a quick look at it and put it into the Sumeru mustard seed. There was no abnormal movement at all.

Logically speaking, only high-level magic weapons can take away low-level magic weapons silently.

Cheng Bai couldn't help but be amazed and said, "There's no reaction after I put it into the spiritual weapon? On the surface, it's not as good as the spiritual weapon, and it doesn't even have a spirit."

Li Tong explained, "It's not that there is no spirit, it's just sleeping. It's fine if you put it in casually, just keep it. If the magic weapon forcibly takes it, it will automatically suppress magic to defend itself, or even attack the opponent. If the spirit of the weapon wakes up, this layer of the continent will be crushed."

Cheng Bai was secretly surprised: "So powerful! How did the Thousand Eyed Demon get it?"

After the war, the area was devastated and desolate, with only the dark and gloomy tree root cave remaining intact. Cheng Bai and Li Tong walked slowly inside.

The cave was not dark. Instead, a disgusting stench of decay wafted into the air, even more pleasant than the smell of burning wood.

Cheng Bai held his breath and checked the inventory items. The place was clean and tidy, with tables, chairs, and beds. Except for being a little old, they were in perfect condition.

A huge, exquisitely polished moonstone lantern is placed on the large table in the hall. It serves as the cave's eternal lamp and illuminates most of the area.

A jade treasure chest was placed on the charred altar.

"Beware of traps, it's better to be careful." Cheng Bai used the power of the phoenix to lift the lid of the treasure chest from a distance. He didn't find any mechanism. There were twenty-five nine-leaf Ganoderma lucidum stored inside, which he happily put into his bag.

In addition, there is an antique stone bed in the cave, which is made of a whole piece of pure poison-repellent stone. It is huge in size and suitable for the humanoid giant figure of the Thousand-Eyed Centipede. There is nothing else good.

Cheng Bai took away the moonlight stone lantern and the poison-repelling stone bed, and sighed, "It's just a good-quality treasure and a good-quality magic weapon. How can a great demon king be so poor as to be like this?"

Li Tong asked: "Do you want the entire Migu Tree Cave Mansion?"

"It stinks, don't use it! Save it for future generations to dig for Ganoderma lucidum."

Cheng Bai put away the inheritance cube with a look of disgust, teleported back to Huianju, and set up a small chaotic five elements formation in the room again, and set out the Four Symbols Cauldron to refine the magic weapon.

Be well prepared and take out the inner elixir of the Thousand-Eyed Centipede for careful inspection.

Li Tong identified the runes and said, "The inner elixir of the middle stage of the Unrestrained Realm contains five secret arts: 'Tenacity', 'Shadow Escape', 'Crippling Poison', 'Dissipation', and 'Golden Light Evil Eye'. What magic weapon are you going to refine?"

Cheng Bai said: "All the materials for the Heavenly Grade Spiritual Artifact Demonic Void Rope are ready."

Li Tong suggested: "Using this inner elixir, maybe it can be refined into a top-grade soul weapon. Let's consider the Golden Spirit Void Rope, its properties are just right."

Cheng Bai studied the diagram provided by the inheritance magic cube and was satisfied. He said happily: "The new plan is better. Not leaving the inner elixir of the Desire Demon Bat behind will actually make things better."

After studying the atlas carefully, he threw the Void Rope, the Nine-Transformation Heavenly Silkworm Silk Thread Ball, and the Thousand-Eyed Centipede Inner Elixir into the Four Symbols Cauldron one after another.

The Golden Spirit Void Rope was not directly embedded with the Danling, but required the entire inner elixir to be refined into one, which was quite laborious. It was not until the end of the second day at midnight that the magic weapon was finally refined.

It was already late at night in the Nine-Layered Abyss. If one wanted to set out, they had to wait until dawn the next day, when columns of smoke rose from the abyss.

Cheng Bai leaned over to check the magic weapon in the cauldron and sighed, "It took a lot of time. It's best to calculate the time difference in the Ninth Layer Abyss so that it's suitable for refining treasures."

Siye reminded, "My lord, if the Golden Spirit Void Rope is nurtured with a few soul fragments, it can become a heavenly soul weapon. Once it is born, it will have to survive a minor heavenly tribulation. Now that the Small Confused Five Elements Formation is blocking the heavenly secrets, it has not yet triggered a thunder tribulation. It is better to make full preparations before launching it."

"Right now the underworld wind is strong, and I don't know what will happen if I bring about a heavenly calamity. I can't go out into the world at this time." Cheng Bai pondered for a moment, first hid the Four Symbols Cauldron into the Shengjin Pagoda, then cleaned up the moonlight stones used for setting up the formation, opened the door and walked out slowly.

Jiaoshi Town was completely silent at night, like a huge tomb where time had stopped at a certain moment and was forgotten in the endless darkness.

There was a smoker standing outside the door, having been guarding there for a while.

Cheng Bai was aware of the surrounding affairs while he was busy, but he was too immersed in them to be distracted, so he asked, "The retreat lasted a little longer than expected. What happened when there was so much noise outside?"

The Smoker said, "Gou Yifan has been coming to see you repeatedly these past two days, and he seems very anxious. This caught my attention, so I specially guarded the door to keep him out so as not to disturb Your Majesty."

"You did a good job. Gou Yifan wants to comprehend the Buddha's Purple Qi again."

Cheng Bai heard a little bit of it in the house, but he didn't take it seriously. He said casually, "It's said that how much you learn depends on your understanding and chance. The skills need to be taken back to treat Ruan Taoran, and they can't fall into the hands of others. Tell him when you see him, and then show him next time we rest in the wild."

The Smoker leaned forward and said, "As you command."

Gou Yifan's room was not far from here. He stretched his ears close to his door and listened to the conversation outside. He felt unhappy. "What a great Baidi. He left the peerless magic skills to his family, but delayed sharing it with his teammates with excuses. I have already dispersed my skills and practiced Fu Tu Zi Qi. That skill is like my lifeblood. Sigh... Sigh... What should I do?"