35: Slaying demons is as easy as mowing grass

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At the edge of the Rotting Bone Forest, silence reigned like a tomb.

Twisted withered trees resembled the sharp claws of demons reaching for the sky, and gray-white bones covered the ground, emitting a grating crunch underfoot.

The dense Demonic Qi, thick as substance and reeking of decay and blood, tried to seep into every pore.

Lin Jingyu's two-meter-tall burly figure stepped into this land of death, like a scorching sun falling into a cold pond, instantly shattering the silence!

He didn't deliberately activate his Qi and blood, but the immense power that had just broken through the Star Body Tempering Method and settled in his flesh and bone marrow, as well as his Physical Body infused with the power of the stars, naturally exuded an invisible, mountain-heavy pressure!

"Om!" The air seemed to be disturbed by his entry, rippling slightly.

"Hiss—!"

"Hoo hoo!"

In dark corners, decaying tree hollows, and beneath piles of bones, countless scarlet, eerie green, and pale white eyes suddenly lit up!

Low hisses and greedy roars instantly converged, surging from all directions like a tide!

The first to pounce were a dozen "Rotten-Fanged Demonic Hounds," resembling hyenas but with putrid, festering bodies and jagged bone spurs!

They moved with ghostly speed, their foul saliva dripping onto the ground, corroding it into wisps of green smoke, and lunging at Lin Jingyu's throat, joints, and other vital points from different angles!

Following closely were several "Moss Giants," massive in size, wielding crude bone clubs, and covered in thick, filthy moss! Each step they took made the ground tremble, and their bone clubs swung down with a dull whooshing sound!

Further away, floating in the air like ghosts, were translucent Vengeful Spirit Demonic Bats, emitting sharp, ear-piercing mental shrieks, attempting to disturb his mind; and Bone-Digging Corpse Worms, lurking underground with only their sharp bone claws exposed, waiting for an opportunity to ambush his lower body!

The Demonic Qi instantly boiled, and killing intent spread like a net!

In Lin Jingyu's golden pupils, there was not a ripple, only an icy indifference.

"Noisy."

Two words, like the clash of metal, coldly shattered the air!

Facing the demonic tide surging from all directions, he didn't even pause his steps!

"Boom!" An invisible, terrifying pressure, heavy as a falling star, erupted with him at its center!

"Puff! Puff! Puff!" The seven or eight Rotten-Fanged Demonic Hounds charging at the forefront seemed to hit an invisible, spike-covered wall of steel!

Their bodies stiffened abruptly in mid-air, then, like rotten watermelons struck by a heavy hammer, they exploded without warning!

Rotten flesh, shattered bones, and foul internal organs mixed with filthy blood splattered in all directions like bloody fireworks!

"Awoo—!"

The bone club swung down by the Moss Giant was still half a foot from Lin Jingyu's head when it seemed to strike invisible adamantine!

"Crack!"

The thick bone club instantly covered in spiderweb-like cracks, then exploded with a bang!

The terrifying impact force rolled back along the bone club, and the Moss Giant's thick arm twisted like a pretzel by an invisible immense force, bone fragments piercing through its skin, emitting a hair-raising crunching sound!

Its massive body was sent flying backward as if struck by a stampeding savage elephant, howling as it crashed through several withered trees, then lay on the ground twitching uncontrollably!

The Vengeful Spirit Demonic Bats in the air suddenly ceased their sharp mental shrieks!

Their translucent bodies twisted and evaporated violently, like drops of water thrown into boiling oil, letting out shrill, distorted wails before instantly turning into wisps of green smoke and dissipating!

As the Bone-Digging Corpse Worms emerged from underground, before their sharp bone claws could even touch Lin Jingyu's pant leg, an unimaginably heavy pressure squeezed them from all directions!

"Splat!"

Like crushed stink bugs, these lurking predators were directly pressed into the ground, turning into puddles of foul, fleshy paste!

With just one step, one thought, the Physical Body's pressure erupted!

Dozens of peripheral demons, at least at Body Refining Realm seventh or eighth layer, and even some at Meridian Opening Realm Early Stage, were instantly cleared out!

The entrance to the Rotting Bone Forest fell silent!

Only scattered pieces of flesh, foul blood, broken bones, and an even stronger, pervasive scent of blood and death remained.

A cold system prompt sounded in his mind:

[Ding! Slaughtered 8 Rotten-Fanged Demonic Hounds (Body Refining Realm 7th layer), gained 160 evolution points!]

[Ding! Slaughtered 3 Moss Giants (Meridian Opening Realm 1st layer), gained 600 evolution points!]

[Ding! Slaughtered 5 Vengeful Spirit Demonic Bats (Body Refining Realm 9th layer), gained 100 evolution points!]

[Ding! Slaughtered 7 Bone-Digging Corpse Worms (Body Refining Realm 8th layer), gained 140 evolution points!]

[Current evolution points: 8511!]

"Even mosquito legs are meat."

Lin Jingyu's gaze swept over the panel without pausing, then coldly fixed on the churning, almost materialized darkness deeper within the Rotting Bone Forest.

The Yin Corpse Sect token in his embrace continued to grow hot, and the intent pointing southwest became clearer and more greedy!

No longer restraining his aura!

His burly figure was like a lit furnace, a condensed, almost material dark-gold Qi and blood smoke, mixed with specks of starlight, shot up into the sky from above his head!

Although only about a zhang high, far from reaching the level of a Tendon Changing Realm's Qi and blood column that could shake heaven and earth, the terrifying essence of power and the star-like pressure it contained instantly attracted the attention of all the demons in the outer reaches of the entire Rotting Bone Forest, like a lighthouse in the dark night!

"Roar—! Awoo—! Hiss—!"

More violent, more bloodthirsty roars echoed from all directions!

The earth began to tremble! The withered trees shook wildly!

Countless scarlet, greedy gazes pierced through layers of darkness, locking onto the human-shaped light source exuding both "deliciousness" and "danger"!

The true demonic tide was completely ignited!

A cold and fervent arc, however, appeared at the corner of Lin Jingyu's mouth.

"This... is more like it!"

He moved! No longer slowly advancing, but like an ancient Vicious Beast in human form, he suddenly burst forward!

"Boom!"

The ground beneath his feet suddenly caved in, blasting open a shallow pit several meters in diameter!

Spiderweb-like cracks spread wildly!

His body tore through the viscous air, leaving a visible white air current trail, moving so fast that it left afterimages behind him!

Target—southwest!

The convergence point of the Corpse Fiend Yin Vein!

Demons blocking his direct path, regardless of size, strength, or type, faced only one outcome before him!

"Bang!"

A "Skeletal Demon Guard," nearly three meters tall and covered in thick bone armor, had just risen from a pile of bones and attempted to intercept him with a massive bone blade.

Lin Jingyu didn't even look, simply maintaining his charging posture, his burly shoulder slamming into it like a battering ram!

"Crack! Boom!"

Ear-piercing bone-cracking sounds exploded densely like firecrackers!

The Skeletal Demon Guard's thick bone armor and sturdy skeleton shattered and disintegrated piece by piece like paper upon contact!

Its massive body was sent flying by this brutally unreasonable force, completely disintegrating in mid-air, turning into a sky full of bone fragments and putrid, dark-green viscous liquid, splattering in all directions!

[Ding! Slaughtered 1 Skeletal Demon Guard (Meridian Opening Realm 5th layer), gained 1000 evolution points!]

Lin Jingyu's figure did not pause in the slightest, smashing through the rain of bone fragments and continuing forward!

"Pfft!"

A flash-quick, sickly green venom arrow shot from the side, accurately hitting Lin Jingyu's temple!

The potent venom, capable of corroding refined steel, couldn't even penetrate the imperceptible dark-gold luster on his skin, instead being deflected and splattering on the ground with hissing sounds.

Lin Jingyu didn't even bother to turn his head, simply throwing a backhand punch in the direction the venom came from!

"Boom!"

The violent punch wind condensed into substance, like a dark-gold shockwave!

Dozens of meters away, a "Poison Arrow Demonic Vine" hidden in a giant rotting corpse flower, along with the corpse flower it inhabited, was blasted into scattered fragments by this punch from a distance!

[Ding! Slaughtered 1 Poison Arrow Demonic Vine (Meridian Opening Realm 3rd layer), gained 600 evolution points!]

"Roar!"

A Phosphor Fire Giant Corpse, its body the size of a small mountain and burning with sickly green phosphor fire, roared as it blocked his path, its massive rotten palm, carrying Soul-burning phosphor fire, slammed down fiercely!

Lin Jingyu's eyes sharpened, not dodging, but spreading his five fingers, his dark-gold palm, as if cast from divine iron, directly met it!

"Clang!"

A dull impact sound rang out!

The Phosphor Fire Giant Corpse's massive palm, capable of smashing small hills, was actually firmly held by a "tiny" human hand!

Unable to press down even an inch further!

The terrifying phosphor fire fiercely burned Lin Jingyu's palm, but only emitted hissing sounds like metal clashing, unable to leave even a single scorch mark!

"Give me... open!"

Lin Jingyu let out a low roar, the muscles in the arm holding the giant palm suddenly bulging, as if countless coiled Dragons had instantly awakened!

Dark-gold indestructible divine light, mixed with specks of starlight, frantically circulated beneath his skin!

"Rip—!"

A hair-raising tearing sound rang out!

That massive rotten arm, burning with phosphor fire, was actually torn off the Phosphor Fire Giant Corpse's shoulder by Lin Jingyu with pure, ultimate brute force!

Dark-green foul blood splattered like a waterfall!

"Awoo—!!!"

The Phosphor Fire Giant Corpse let out an earth-shattering wail, its massive body staggering backward, its phosphor fire dimming!

Lin Jingyu flicked his wrist, swinging the still twitching and burning severed arm like a meteor hammer, smashing a Demonic Wolf that had pounced on him into a meat patty.

He took a step, his figure appearing before the stumbling Phosphor Fire Giant Corpse's chest as if teleporting!

"Dong!"

A simple, unadorned punch landed on the Phosphor Fire Giant Corpse's chest, covered in rotten flesh and bone spurs!

"Boom!!!"

Time seemed to stand still for an instant.

The next moment, a visible dark-gold shockwave rapidly spread out, centered on Lin Jingyu's fist!

The Phosphor Fire Giant Corpse's mountain-like body violently caved inward, forming a massive fist-print!

Immediately, countless cracks spread from the fist-print, instantly covering its entire body!

"Bang!!!"

Like a water-filled balloon smashed by immense force!

The entire Phosphor Fire Giant Corpse exploded with a roar!

Burning flesh, broken bone spurs, dark-green foul blood, sickly green phosphor fire... bloomed violently in the darkness of the Rotting Bone Forest like the most dazzling yet most defiled fireworks!

[Ding! Slaughtered 1 Phosphor Fire Giant Corpse (Bone Forging Realm 1st layer), gained 5000 evolution points!]

[Current evolution points: 13511!]

Lin Jingyu bathed in the foul blood rain and phosphor fire, his dark-gold body like an immortal deity, unstained by a speck of dust.

He slowly retracted his fist, his knuckles seemingly still retaining the lingering power of smashing mountains, his cold murmur echoing in the bloody air:

"Bone Forging first layer... too weak." His steps moved again, heading deeper into the profound darkness.

The Yin Corpse Sect token in his embrace was now scorching hot, like a branding iron!

The greedy intent had almost materialized into a tangible hiss, frantically pointing to the deep southwest!