38: A golden light shone brightly, terrifying the old demon!

“Tickles, doesn't it?”

Lin Jingyu's icy words were like poisoned steel needles, brutally piercing the Corpse Skeleton Ancient Demon's chaotic and furious consciousness!

“ROAR—!!! ant! Die!!!”

The roar, formed by the superposition of countless malevolent thoughts, nearly shattered space!

The massive, rotting head twisted and deformed from extreme rage, and the ghostly green Soul flame surged wildly, almost bursting out of its eye sockets!

It had never suffered such a profound humiliation!

A human bug in the Bone Forging Realm had not only torn apart its limbs and withstood its killing move, but dared to mock it, the Dominator that had occupied the Rotting Bone Forest for a Centuries-Old Great Demon!

“Rumble—!!”

The entire Corpse Skeleton Hill completely erupted! All the twisted limbs inserted into the dark mud below churned madly!

Even more majestic and foul Corpse Malice Yin Qi was forcibly extracted, mixing with Dark Green Miasma Poison compressed to the extreme, covering the entire surface of the hill like boiling black ink!

The hill violently writhed and rose, the bones, rotting flesh, and moss on its surface proliferating and mutating wildly under the catalysis of the Corpse Malice Yin Qi!

“Crack! Snap! Crunch!”

The grating sound of bones exploding and restructuring filled the air!

Several terrifying giant arms, thicker than before, covered in heavy, pale bone armor, and dripping thick, black-green poisonous slurry, burst through the hill's surface. Like demonic claws from Hell, they brandished and flailed in the air!

At the end of each giant arm, various killing weapons materialized—a massive bone hammer, a mace covered in barbs, a chain hammer dripping corrosive poison, and several pale green sickles flashing with ghostly light!

Even more terrifying, beneath the rotting head atop the hill, the Corpse Malice Sludge surged madly, and a larger, more hideous silhouette was rapidly forming!

The outline of a bony ribcage and a twisted spine was vaguely visible!

The Ancient Demon was condensing its true Core Combat Body!

“A... Thousand... Years... of Bitter... Cultivation... Shall not... be profaned!” The overlapping consciousness carried monstrous killing intent and a faint, hard-to-detect trace of dread. “Forcing me... to reveal... my true form... you... will die... ten thousand times... over!”

Facing this terrifying scene, like the awakening of a Hell demon, Lin Jingyu's golden pupils remained completely undisturbed, holding only cold indifference and burning Battle Intent.

“A pile of rotten bones, no matter how many, is still trash!” He took a step forward, and the ground beneath his foot silently cracked!

The pure Undying Golden Light flowing over his body suddenly intensified, scorching the approaching dense Corpse Malice Miasma Poison with sizzling sounds, forcing it to retreat!

“Your attacks cannot break my Golden Body,” Lin Jingyu's voice was like a judgment. “Now, it's my turn!”

He stopped waiting for the Ancient Demon to finish condensing its hideous body!

His robust figure transformed into a golden lightning bolt tearing through the darkness, actively initiating the charge!

“Boom!”

All that remained in his original spot was a spreading wave of Qi and spiderweb cracks.

His speed, amplified by the Peak mastery of the Indestructible Vajra Divine Art, was even more terrifying than before!

The air was forcibly ripped apart, emitting an ear-splitting boom!

Target—the main body of the Corpse Skeleton Hill that was frantically writhing and rising!

“Stop him!” The Ancient Demon's consciousness, a mixture of shock and fury, exploded like thunder!

“Whoosh—! Roar—!”

The several terrifying giant arms waving in the air acted like commanded poisonous snakes, howling as they tore through the air, smashing and strangling Lin Jingyu from different angles as he charged!

The bone hammer was like a mountain descending! The mace tore space! The chain hammer was wrapped in toxic fire! The pale green sickles severed vitality!

Before the attacks even landed, the terrifying pressure, combining immense physical force, Corpse Poison corrosion, and spiritual impact, was enough to make an ordinary Martial Artist of the Tendon Changing Realm instantly collapse!

However, Lin Jingyu's eyes only saw the churning Corpse Malice Origin!

Facing the overwhelming attacks, he neither dodged nor retreated, nor did he even use any Martial Skill!

“Thud! Clang! Bang! Sizzle—!”

Dull, thunderous impacts, crisp sounds of metal striking metal, and the sizzling of poison burning instantly merged into one continuous sound!

The bone hammer smashed onto Lin Jingyu's shoulder, erupting in a shower of sparks! The heavy bone armor instantly became covered in spiderweb cracks, and the rebound force caused the entire giant arm to sharply recoil!

The hideous barbs on the mace scraped across his chest, producing a grating friction sound, yet only left a few rapidly disappearing white marks on his dark golden Indestructible skin!

The chain hammer wrapped in toxic fire tried to lock onto his waist, but Lin Jingyu grabbed it with a backhand, his five fingers, containing Dragon-Elephant Giant Strength, acting like Divine Pliers, forcibly twisting and deforming the tough bone chain, instantly extinguishing the toxic fire!

Several pale green sickles slashed his back and arms, bursting forth with dazzling green light and golden radiance. The sickle blades chipped, and the wailing vengeful Souls dispersed!

Lin Jingyu's figure only experienced an extremely brief delay under the barrage of the several Peak Tendon Changing Realm giant arms!

The Undying Golden Light on his body was like an Eternal Bedrock, Immune to All Methods!

All attacks, whether physical impact, energy erosion, or spiritual pollution, were forcibly endured, rebounded, and purified by this ultimate, pure Indestructible Golden Body!

“How is this possible?!” The Ancient Demon's consciousness was filled with unbelievable dread! The killing giant arms it had expended its Origin to conjure could not shake the opponent in the slightest?!

In this moment of shock, Lin Jingyu had already charged through the storm of attacks, fiercely reaching the proximity of the Corpse Skeleton Hill!

His golden pupils were locked onto the hideous chest outline rapidly condensing beneath the massive rotting head at the top of the hill!

“The core... is here!”

Lin Jingyu clenched his right fist!

Pure Undying Golden Light instantly converged on his fist, making the entire fist appear as if cast from pure gold!

Muscles bulged and swelled, and bones emitted a dull rumble of thunder!

The power of Dragon-Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength was pushed to the extreme, mixing with the absolute defense and rebound power of Indestructible Vajra!

“Roar—!”

A battle roar, like the cry of a Dragon and the bellow of an elephant, shattered the sky full of miasma poison!

A simple, unadorned punch, yet containing the power to shatter mountains and split the earth, was fiercely launched at the core of the violently writhing Corpse Malice Sludge and twisted bones!

“BOOM!!!!!!”

Where the fist aimed, space seemed to be compressed and solidified!

Pure golden light violently collided with the viscous, foul Corpse Malice Sludge!

Time seemed to pause for an instant.

The next moment—

“Puchi—!!!”

Like a red-hot iron rod plunging into solidified lard!

Lin Jingyu's fist slammed unimpeded into the core sludge, which was condensed from countless corpse essence and Centuries-Old Corpse Malice Yin Qi!

“Sizzzz—!!!”

Piercing sounds of corrosion and purification erupted wildly!

Wherever the golden light reached, the viscous, foul sludge was instantly evaporated and purified, leaving large empty cavities, as if meeting its nemesis!

The pale bone fragments and twisted fascia hidden within were instantly charred and disintegrated, like snow exposed to the blazing sun!

“Awoooo Awoooo Awoooo—!!!!!”

A shriek, far more agonizing, painful, and filled with the despair of a tearing Soul than any before, burst from the mouth of the massive rotting head atop the Corpse Skeleton Hill!

The entire hill convulsed violently, shaking like it was having an epileptic fit! The ghostly green Soul flame flickered erratically, seemingly ready to extinguish at any moment!

The giant arms that were attacking in the air instantly went limp, as if their tendons and bones had been pulled out, drooping weakly!

Lin Jingyu's fist was deeply embedded in the core sludge. He could clearly feel that this punch had shattered something extremely important that was being incubated!

That was the Core Node of the Ancient Demon's power!

“Not enough! Explode... completely!” Ferocious light burst from Lin Jingyu's eyes. His left fist immediately followed, like an angry Dragon emerging from the sea, carrying the same terrifying Undying Golden Light and Dragon-Elephant Giant Strength, slamming fiercely into the exact same spot!

“Bang—!!!”

A duller, more terrifying explosion rang out inside the Corpse Skeleton Hill!

Centered around Lin Jingyu's fists, a destructive energy wave mixed with dark gold and dark green violently spread out!

“Crack! Rumble!”

The massive body of the Corpse Skeleton Hill was forcibly blasted open from the inside, creating a huge hole several zhang in diameter!

Countless pale shattered bones, foul-smelling rotting flesh, and viscous black-green sludge, mixed with purified blue smoke, violently erupted from the hole like a volcanic explosion!

The entire structure of the hill instantly became extremely unstable, its surface covered in massive cracks, teetering on the verge of collapse!

[Ding! Critically struck the Core Node of target 'Corpse Malice Aggregate/Centuries-Old Great Demon' (Peak Tendon Changing Realm)! Target has entered an extremely weak and chaotic state!]

[Ding! Slew subsidiary Corpse Skeleton Demonic Arms (Tendon Changing Realm 1st-3rd Layer) *4. Gained evolution points +20000!]

[Current evolution points: 2311 + 20000 = 22311!]

The cold notification tone carried the pleasant melody of harvest!

Lin Jingyu withdrew his fists, the Undying Golden Light circulating to purify all the contamination.

He stood before the erupting torrent of filth, his golden pupils coldly observing the massive Corpse Skeleton Hill, which was convulsing painfully and nearing collapse due to the core damage, and the ghostly green Soul flames atop the hill, which were filled with endless pain, malice, and... deep-seated fear.

“A hundred years of accumulation...” Lin Jingyu shook his fists, his voice like the declaration of final judgment. “Nothing more than this.”

He stepped forward again, treading over the spurting filth, walking toward the depths of the tottering Corpse Skeleton Hill.

The Yin Corpse Sect token in his embrace was now like a Vicious Beast that had been starving for ten thousand years, its greedy intention almost bursting out of his body, locking tightly onto the purest Origin of the Corpse Malice Yin Vein deep in the mud beneath the hill!

The true harvest was right before his eyes! And the ninety thousand evolution points required to Break through to the ninth layer of the Bone Forging Realm were also within reach!