63: Chapter 63 Evil Cultivator, Awesome!

Pushing open the door, a pitch-black figure flashed before his eyes, bringing with it a gust of fishy, sweet wind.

In the blink of an eye, the figure darted into the room where only whimpering remained, followed by a teeth-grinding sucking sound.

"Junior Brother, why are you out so late instead of resting in your room?"

Wang Gang turned his head and wiped the crimson liquid from the corner of his mouth.

Su Mo's eyes sharpened; he hadn't expected the person before him to be Wang Gang, whom he had seen earlier that day.

Looking at the skin-bag behind him, he could faintly recognize it as one of the people who had taken the five earthen jars today.

There were five finger-thick blood holes in the chest of the skin-bag; at a single glance, Su Mo recognized that these had been gnawed out by Gu.

"Senior Brother Wang, I am new here and couldn't sleep tonight, so I came out to clear my head and look for some water to take a bath."

"A bath?"

Wang Gang's Adam's apple moved abnormally, and his 'tongue' poked out of his mouth and retracted. "There is a pool of water in the back mountain, perfect for bathing..."

"Then I won't disturb you further, Senior Brother."

Su Mo walked away quickly; he really couldn't stand Wang Gang's androgynous voice—couldn't he just straighten his tongue when he talked?!

Watching Su Mo's suddenly departing figure, Wang Gang paused, revealing a meaningful smile.

"To be able to step into Qi Refining so quickly... interesting..."

Wang Gang turned to face the fresh desiccated corpse, suddenly opening his mouth, and a red thread shot out from his fingertip.

"The Gu were not easy to raise, so they mustn't be wasted..."

"Crunch, crunch..."

In the darkness, only the hair-raising sound of chewing remained.

Meanwhile.

Su Mo had arrived at the back mountain.

Under the moonlight, the clear pool water shimmered with an eerie dark red, occasionally bubbling and sending out ripples, as if there were living things inside.

"This color... why is it so eerie?"

He crouched down, smelled nothing unusual, and dipped his fingertip into the pool water, immediately sensing a trace of Spiritual Qi contained within.

"Oh, there's still Qi."

Su Mo took off all his clothes and, naked, had just taken half a step into the blood pool.

Suddenly, ripples appeared on the water surface, and several red leeches, half the size of a palm, rapidly attacked his face from the water, their suction-cup-like mouthparts flashing with fine, sharp teeth.

"Heh, I was wondering why I didn't see any other living things."

Su Mo narrowed his eyes, a thought stirred, and countless blood threads as fine as ox hair instantly seeped out from the surface of his skin.

In the space of a breath, they had already entangled the leeches in mid-air, the blood threads inserting into them and, in the blink of an eye, sucking them into shriveled, empty shells.

[Blood Leech: Blood-Sucking Regeneration]

Feeling the new talent added to his body, Su Mo continued walking deeper into the blood pool with satisfaction.

The blood leeches that lunged up from the pool water all became nourishment for Su Mo.

With every step he took, the pool water grew darker.

When he reached the center of the blood pool, he suddenly felt a strange sensation under his feet.

Soft yet hard, and with a hint of sliminess.

Su Mo looked down, his pupils suddenly contracting—

Beneath the water were layers upon layers of bones; some were from beasts, but most were human bones!

On every segment of white bone, dense, long, thin insect eggs were lodged, swaying slightly with the water ripples.

Su Mo reached out and scooped up a leg bone, his fingertip brushing against the egg sacs attached to the surface. Those insect eggs immediately burst with a "pop," and white Gu as fine as hair crawled out, frantically burrowing into his skin and flesh.

"Damn it, that Wang Gang really didn't have good intentions!"

Su Mo cursed angrily and casually crushed these Gu.

They were all immature Bone-Eroding Gu, unable to even break his skin, but they truly disgusted him.

Shaking the residue off his hands, he leaped back to the shore.

"Junior Brother, did you enjoy your bath?"

"Splash!"

Wang Gang casually tossed a bag of skin and bones into the pool water; in the splashed water, several Bone-Eroding Gu were frantically burrowing into the bones of the desiccated corpse.

"Won't doing this violate the Sect's rules, Senior Brother?"

"Hahaha..."

"Sect rules?"

Wang Gang burst into wild laughter upon hearing this.

"My good Junior Brother, did you think you had joined a Righteous Path Sect?"

"Let me tell you the truth: here in the Profound Yin Demon Sect, there are no rules to speak of. You either become someone who eats people, or you wait to be eaten by others!"

Su Mo slowly put on his pants.

"Senior Brother, one last question: what is your current cultivation?"

Wang Gang's mouth stretched to his ears:

"Qi Refining Level 5, only one step away from Level 6..."

"What? Do you know fear now?"

Su Mo leisurely tied his waistband and revealed a brilliant smile:

"No, I just wanted to confirm..."

Black exoskeleton instantly appeared on his body, and the bone spurs on the edges of his arms transformed into three-meter-long blades, shimmering with a ghastly white cold light under the moonlight.

"Whether it's enough to fill the gaps in my teeth!"

Before the words had even faded, Su Mo's figure suddenly vanished from where he stood.

Wang Gang's pupils shrank violently; the Blood Thread Gu inside his body screamed a warning, but he had no time to react—

"Puchi!"

The bone blade instantly severed Wang Gang at the waist.

"This Demon Sect is exactly to my liking!"

Blood-red threads inserted into Wang Gang's two halves, and the three traits 'Spiritual Power Siphon,' 'Bloodlust,' and 'Bone Devouring' activated simultaneously!

"You... how is it possible..."

Wang Gang's body shriveled at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his natal Gu lost all signs of life the moment Wang Gang died.

To Su Mo's pleasant surprise, Wang Gang had actually refined a Blood Thread Gu as a secondary Gu.

In less than a moment, Wang Gang had been sucked into a layer of skin, and even his bones were absorbed by Su Mo to strengthen his own skeleton.

Wang Gang at Qi Refining Level 5, plus the Qi Refining Level 3 Blood Thread Gu—the Spiritual Power within them nearly overwhelmed Su Mo, causing his entire body's Meridians to ache as if they were about to burst.

He hurriedly picked up Wang Gang's Storage Pouch and flew toward his wooden house, leaving behind only a light human skin, which slowly drifted into the blood pool in the night wind.

Inside the wooden house, Su Mo sat cross-legged; tidal waves of Spiritual Power clogged his Meridians completely, and every breath was accompanied by tearing pain.

Fortunately, his Meridians were unusually tough; otherwise, he would have long since been burst apart by this massive amount of Spiritual Power.

Su Mo gritted his teeth, putting his full effort into circulating the [Gu Transformation Mortal Shedding Scripture], and the Qi vortex in his Dantian spun faster and faster, with the Spiritual Power in his Meridians constantly flowing into the vortex.

"Boom!"

With a muffled sound, the Spiritual Power in Su Mo's body surged violently, and a second Qi vortex appeared in his Dantian.

Qi Refining Level 2 achieved!

But it wasn't over yet; Wang Gang's Spiritual Power was too thick, and combined with the essence of the Blood Thread Gu, the Qi vortex in Su Mo's Dantian was still spinning wildly!

"Click—"

The third Qi vortex, the fourth Qi vortex, the fifth Qi vortex...

Not until the sixth Qi vortex did the Spiritual Qi in his Meridians finally stabilize.

Su Mo suddenly opened his eyes, a brilliant light flashing within them, and a shocking pressure radiated from his entire body.

Qi Refining Level 6!

"Breaking through five levels in a row..."

He clenched his fist, feeling the surging Spiritual Power within his body.

"No wonder Evil Cultivators Cultivate so quickly."

"However, will my Foundation be unstable?"