6: Demonic

Wuli Temple, a small mountain village, is located a hundred miles from Qingshan County, bordering Yunlu County.

The villagers live by fishing and hunting.

The fourth watch of the night.

The moon was gradually setting in the west.

A figure arrived at the ferry crossing by the village.

Boats were docked at the ferry, orderly arranged.

They must belong to the local villagers.

Chen Yuan stepped ashore and looked at the dimly visible village in the darkness.

His chest heaved, expanding and contracting, his breathing becoming increasingly long and deep.

His entire aura became profound and reclusive.

Having done all this, Chen Yuan's steps became ethereal as he walked towards the village in the darkness.

As soon as he stepped into the village entrance, Chen Yuan vaguely felt something was wrong.

Silence!

An eerie silence!

Although it was the dead of night, there should still be domestic animals or dogs barking in this village.

But there were none in the village.

Even the noisy spring insects were silent.

His ears twitched rapidly, but he only caught the rustling sound of the mountain wind blowing through the leaves.

Chen Yuan no longer deliberately hid his figure and rushed into the village.

House by house, he broke in.

Bodies.

Bodies.

They were everywhere: on beds, by the roadside, and at the village entrance.

Some people, before dying, were running outside, their mouths wide open in despair and terror.

Their death resembled that of the Escort (bodyguard) surnamed Lin.

The entire village, no one survived.

He had obviously arrived too late.

But where did those pollen spores go?

Chen Yuan also noticed another problem.

Even if this evil thing acted quickly, there should have been survivors who escaped.

But why did none of these villagers leave the village entrance before they died?

A chilling sensation suddenly enveloped his heart.

In the darkness, it seemed as if a venomous snake was staring at him.

Chen Yuan's gaze was like lightning, sweeping through the darkness, yet he found nothing.

He took a deep breath, pondering what to do next.

In the silent night, a weak cry for help suddenly came.

Chen Yuan's eyes narrowed, looking in the direction of the sound, and quickly arrived at a solitary wooden house behind the village.

He kicked the door open and entered.

Scanning the room, Chen Yuan's gaze fixed on one of the beds.

On the bed lay a boy of eight or nine years old, with a sallow complexion, pale lips, and a withered body, yet his belly was unusually large.

Like a woman, ten months pregnant!

Even stranger, he was tied up with ropes all over his body.

When the boy saw Chen Yuan, he twisted his deformed body, looking at Chen Yuan with longing eyes.

"Uncle, I'm so hungry, so hungry."

"You seem to be sick!" Chen Yuan's tone was very calm.

"Yes, I'm sick. My mother went to the neighboring county to get medicine for me. I heard there's a Feixian Sect there that's very effective. My mother gave me medicine, but why did she tie me up and lock me in here?"

"I'm so hungry."

The boy's voice began to become rapid and sharp.

It seemed he was extremely hungry.

Chen Yuan keenly caught a key clue: the neighboring Yunlu County, the divine cult.

"Where is your mother then?"

"Oh, where is my mother?" The boy shook his head frantically.

The next second, his voice became extremely sharp, and his body underwent a strange transformation.

His body began to glow with a seductive red light, his veins turned black and writhing, and then his body swelled like a balloon.

It presented as a giant corpse.

"Snap!"

"Snap!"

"Snap!"

The finger-thick ropes snapped one by one.

The boy also transformed into a monster with wide-open eyes and bared fangs.

"Haha, she was eaten by me! The villagers said I turned into a monster and all shouted to kill me. She didn't help me and even tied me up here."

Laughter squeezed out from the monster's bloated neck, like metal grinding.

And from its enormous, bucket-sized belly, a red light suddenly appeared, emitting a strong fragrance.

This fragrance was identical to the one on the Escort (bodyguard) Lin Sheng, but several times more intense.

Even though Chen Yuan used True Qi to block his nose and mouth, the fragrance seemed to rise from his heart.

Soon, his vision changed, and the surrounding environment suddenly transformed.

Heavenly music and wondrous words, auspicious clouds and blessings.

He saw women in colorful clothes descending from the clouds, holding pipas and playing immortal music.

There were demonesses of the desire realm, their clothes half-undone, dancing seductively around him, stirring his lust.

And Chen Yuan's eyes gradually became hazy.

But the next second, as he reached out to embrace those immortal and demonesses, his hand suddenly clenched into a fist.

The fist's power vibrated, shattering and destroying these women one after another.

His eyes snapped open, a white stream of light gleaming within them.

"Break!"

A single punch vibrated, and the entire illusion instantly shattered!

At the same time, the monster let out a cry of pain.

The blood-red color on its belly dimmed a bit.

This seemed to enrage the monster.

The colossal, nearly ten-foot-tall giant corpse charged towards him, attacking with brute force.

As the monster's fist wind vibrated, the demonic red light seemed to scorch the air, emitting sizzling sounds.

Chen Yuan's Dantian Qi mechanism vibrated wildly.

True Qi layers upon layers covered his fists, clashing head-on with this monster.

A few seconds later, the house could no longer withstand the Qi mechanism vibrations from both sides and collapsed with a roar.

As the house crumbled, clouds of smoke and dust billowed down.

Just as the monster was about to charge forward, ready to fight again, Chen Yuan softly uttered a single word.

"Explode!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

A series of explosions.

Several large holes quickly burst open in the monster's huge body at its joints.

Chen Yuan possessed the Minds Eye Divine Ability, which not only allowed him to break through illusions but also to perceive the minutest details.

The Qi mechanism displayed by the monster was not weaker than his own, but its magical techniques were suppressed by his Divine Ability.

Soon, the monster's massive body fell to its knees.

Just as he was about to slay this fiend, a sudden change occurred!

The ground beneath his feet suddenly caved in.

The earth, like metal, trapped his legs.

Immediately after, a sinister voice sounded.

"This is not something you should touch!"

As the words fell, an Eagle Hook Nose middle-aged man, cloaked in black cloth, appeared, exuding a dangerous aura from head to toe.

But Chen Yuan's eyes sharpened.

He opened his mouth and fiercely spat.

The Sword Qi, nurtured in his Dantian, flew out from his mouth, directly striking the monster's neck.

The next second, the monster's head rolled off, completely destroyed by the Sword Qi.

"You!"

The Eagle Hook Nose middle-aged man was too late to stop him.

He froze for half a second, then looked at Chen Yuan with a chilling gaze.

At this moment, within Chen Yuan's Mud Pill Palace, the Banshan Tiger Talisman vibrated with a hum.

"Killed a demonic seed, Luck points +3."

Chen Yuan had no time to ponder what kind of demon he had just killed; he immediately chanted in his mind to add the points.

The progress bar of the Taoist Internal Scripture Diagram instantly went from fifty-four percent to sixty percent.

And the three Luck points instantly transformed into surging True Qi, directly rushing towards the Jade Pillow Pass.

And leveraging this surging True Qi that broke through the barrier within his body, Chen Yuan's Qi mechanism fiercely bombarded the ground beneath his feet.

Then, with a loud shout, the ground beneath him exploded, sending stones flying.

In the dust, Chen Yuan transformed into an afterimage, charging furiously towards the position of the Eagle Hook Nose man.

At this moment, Chen Yuan was in the midst of breaking through a barrier, his entire Qi mechanism surging.

He wanted to seize the momentum, to strike while the iron was hot, and act first.

The Demon Subduing Fist in his hands was utterly firm and fierce, specializing in breaking evil, and at this moment, it unleashed an astonishing offensive.

The fist's power was mighty, whistling through the air.