Chapter 6: Demon Seed
Five Miles Temple, a hundred miles away from Qingshan County, adjacent to neighboring Yunlu County.
It is a small mountain village, where villagers rely on fishing and hunting for sustenance.
The fourth watch of the night.
The moon gradually sinking west.
A figure arrives at the village ferry terminal.
At the terminal, boats are docked in an orderly fashion.
They must belong to the local villagers.
Chen Yuan steps onto the shore, looking at the faintly discernible village in the darkness.
His chest heaves, breathing becoming longer and more drawn out between contractions.
His whole demeanour turns deep and restrained.
After doing these, Chen Yuan moves elusively towards the dark village.
Just as he enters the village entrance.
Chen Yuan senses something is wrong,
Silence!
An eerie quiet!
Though it's deep in the night, there should be some noise from domestic animals or dogs.
But, there is none in the village.
Even the noisy spring insects are silent.
His ears flick rapidly, yet he only catches the rustling sound of the mountain wind brushing through the leaves.
Chen Yuan no longer conceals his presence, rushing into the village.
House by house, he breaks in.
Corpses.
Corpses.
On beds, by roadsides, at the village entrance... they are everywhere.
Some people, just before death, were running outside, their mouths agape in despair and terror.
Their death is the same as that dart master surnamed Lin.
The whole village, no one survived.
He obviously arrived too late.
But where did those pollen spores go?
Chen Yuan also noticed another issue.
Even if this evil thing strikes fast, there should be some survivors who escaped.
But why did these villagers not leave the village entrance before dying?
A sudden chill wraps around his heart.
In the darkness, it seems like a venomous snake is staring at him.
Chen Yuan's gaze sharpens, sweeping through the darkness, but perceives nothing.
He takes a deep breath, pondering his next move.
In the quiet night, suddenly a weak cry for help is heard.
Chen Yuan's eyes sharpen, he looks towards the direction of the voice, quickening his pace to the back of the village, in front of a solitary wooden house.
He kicks down the door.
Scanning the inside of the house.
Chen Yuan's gaze locks onto a bed.
On the bed lies a boy about eight or nine years old, with sallow skin, pale lips, a gaunt body, but an unusually large belly.
Just like a woman, in the last month of pregnancy!
Even stranger, his whole body is tied with ropes.
Upon seeing Chen Yuan, the boy twists his deformed body, his eyes desiringly gazing at Chen Yuan.
"Uncle, I'm so hungry, so hungry."
"You seem to be sick!" Chen Yuan speaks very calmly.
"Yes, I'm sick, my mother went to the neighboring county to get medicine for me, I heard there's a Feixian Sect there, very effective, my mother fed me the medicine, but why did she tie me up and lock me here."
"I'm so hungry."
The boy's voice becomes more urgent and shrill.
Seemingly starved.
Chen Yuan keenly catches a crucial clue.
Neighboring Yunlu County, Divine Sect.
"Where is your mother then?"
"Yes, where is my mother?" The boy violently shakes his head.
The next second, his voice becomes extremely shrill.
His body also undergoes a bizarre transformation.
His body starts emitting a glamorous red glow, his veins turn dark and fierce, and then his body swells up like being inflated.
Taking on a giant's appearance.
"Snap"
"Snap"
"Snap"
The finger-thick ropes break one after another.
The boy turns into a monster with bared fangs.
"Haha, I ate her, people in the village said I turned into a monster, they all shouted to kill me, she didn't help me, still tied me here."
Laughter squeezed out from the bloated neck of the monster.
Like the friction of metal against metal.
And the creature's belly, as large as a fighting arena, suddenly flashed red, emitting a strong fragrance.
This fragrance was identical to the one on the body of the dart master Lin Sheng, but many times more intense.
Even though Chen Yuan isolated his mouth and nose with True Qi, the fragrance seemed to arise from within his heart,
Soon, his vision changed and the surroundings suddenly transformed.
Divine melodies and auspicious white clouds.
He saw women in colorful clothes emerging from the clouds, holding pipas, playing celestial music,
There were Desire Realm Demonesses, with half-undone clothes, their enchanting dance encircling him, stirring his lust.
Yet Chen Yuan's eyes gradually became hazy.
But the next second, just as he reached out to embrace those fairy witches, his hand suddenly transformed into a fist.
Fist Mastery vibrated, shredding and pulverizing these women.
His eyes snapped open, emitting a white stream of light,
"Break!"
With one punch, the entire Illusion Realm instantly shattered!
Meanwhile, the monster let out a pained cry.
The blood-red color on its belly dimmed slightly.
This seemed to enrage the monster.
The huge giant, almost thirty feet tall, charged at him with all its might.
Amidst the monster's punch, a demon-red light mastery seemed capable of scorching the air, sizzling loudly.
Chen Yuan's Dantian vibrated wildly.
True Qi layered on top of each other, covering his fists, as he met the creature's attacks head-on.
A few seconds later,
The building could not withstand the vibration of their energies and collapsed with a loud crash.
And as the house fell apart, bringing down billowing dust,
The monster was about to charge again, ready for another fight.
Chen Yuan lightly uttered a word from his mouth.
"Explode"
"Bang Bang Bang"
A series of explosions.
The monster's huge body quickly had several gaping holes exploded in its joints.
Chen Yuan possessed the Heart Eye Skill, not only could he Break Illusion, but also See Micro.
The monster displayed an energy not weaker than his,
But its magic was suppressed by his Divine Skills.
Soon, the massive body of the monster fell to the ground.
Just as he was about to finish this demon,
A sudden change occurred!
The ground beneath his feet suddenly caved in,
The soil, as firm as metal, trapped his legs.
Right after that, a sinister voice rose.
"This is not for you to touch!"
With that, a middle-aged man with a covered face and a Hooked Nose appeared, his whole body exuding a dangerous aura.
Yet Chen Yuan's eyes hardened,
And he suddenly spat fiercely.
The Sword Qi nurtured in his Dantian flew out from his mouth.
Directly slashing at the neck of the monster.
The next second, the monster's head rolled off, completely shredded by the Sword Qi.
"You!"
The Hooked Nose middle-aged man, completely unable to stop it.
Paused for half a second,
Then his eyes turned grim, staring at Chen Yuan,
And at that moment, within Chen Yuan's Mud Ball, the Banshan Tiger Talisman trembled.
"Killing a Demon Seed, Luck Points +3"
Chen Yuan had no time to ponder what kind of demon he had just killed; he silently added the points in his mind.
The progress bar of the Taoist Inner Scripture Map instantly jumped from fifty-four percent to sixty percent.
And the three Luck Points instantly transformed into surging True Qi, rushing directly towards Jade Pillow Pass.
Taking advantage of the surging True Qi breaking through inside his body, Chen Yuan violently attacked the ground beneath his feet.
With a loud shout,
The ground exploded, stones flying chaotically.
Amidst the dust, Chen Yuan turned into a shadow, charging fiercely towards the position of the Hooked Nose.
At this moment, Chen Yuan, in the midst of his breakthrough, was surging with energy.
He wanted to seize the momentum!
With a burst of energy,
He struck first.
The Devil Suppressing Fist in his hands, utterly robust and fierce, specialized in breaking demons, now unleashed a tremendous offensive.
The Fist Mastery roared mightily, roaring through the air.