Hunting God Era

Chapter 89 Only after devouring all the ghosts of the human world can the light shine.

Swallowing filth, as the name suggests, means to devour filth.

Li Ye's first reaction upon gaining power was that he had finally transitioned from consuming theoretical garbage to consuming historical facts, specifically unofficial history.
The second reaction is to devour the pollution.

Demons are certainly corrupting; they often succeed in averting disasters, but in doing so, they ultimately cause them to calamity.

For example, right now, if this bone cave were to become polluted and turn into a demon, Li Ye could think of several kinds of disasters with a wide range of pollution.

Either it's a "Bone-Body Field," where once born, the skeletons transform into handsome men and beautiful women, immediately becoming brothels and brothels, specifically designed to lure passersby in for a night of pleasure before turning into skeletons and remaining there forever.

It's essentially an alternate world of Lanruo Temple, but without the Tree Granny.
It is either a 'grave centipede', a centipede made up of broken bones and remains, the land it passes over becomes a graveyard, and once it appears, the place it crawls over is full of graveyards without inscriptions. If a living person sees it, he will be contaminated, and he will carve his name on the gravestone and then wait to die.

After death, it transforms into centipede limbs and moves with them.

This thing is recorded in history. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in this world, there was a demon like this.

It caused quite a stir, spanning three prefectures and involving five counties, and the area it occupied was full of graveyards.

Others include 'Drowning Bone Abyss', which transforms into a deep abyss; 'Skull Mortar', which consists only of skulls but has sacrificial properties; and 'Bone Ginseng Stone Forest', where bones have transformed into a normal forest, but pollution has mutated everything in the area into demonic beings.

None of them are easy to get along with.

Any demon associated with large numbers of skeletons is difficult to deal with.

Under normal circumstances, Li Ye would definitely choose to retreat in this situation. This is not something that the Disinfection Bureau can handle alone. He would need to contact the military and use heavy firepower or more martial artists to resolve the issue.

Solving demons is difficult, but solving demonic disasters is even more difficult.

Either blow it up completely, or wipe out all the demons, make sure no more demons are born, and then leave the place empty for a few years; otherwise, the place is completely unusable.

But it's different now.

Li Ye can devour the pollution of demons, whether it is their own or the residue left after death, it can be completely devoured.

This time, however, it's not about improving blood and qi.

His method of absorbing qi is less about improving qi and blood, and more about truly experiencing the flavors of everyday life; improving qi and blood is just a side effect.

Swallowing filth means ingesting pollution and turbid air. Once it passes through his lungs, it is purified and becomes pure air.

This authority, when you breathe in through your nose, is polluting; when you exhale through your mouth, it's pure air.

In mild cases, inhaling pathogenic air can cause illness or plague; vomiting it can lead to health and well-being.

In severe cases, it can absorb unusual phenomena from mountains and rivers, and revive withered trees in spring.

In short, he was able to enhance his own qualifications.

A person's aptitude has an upper limit; this is something innate. No matter how much one consumes the Qi-nourishing method, it still requires countless times more accumulation than the average person to force it to reach that level.

But swallowing filth is more direct; it nourishes the body and can directly enhance its aptitude.

Moreover, after gaining power, he discovered a new use for it.

Whether it's because they're both food-related or for some other reason, these two powers have a synergistic effect that's greater than the sum of their parts, making them even stronger when used together.

Pan Zhengyang finally managed to cut through the ground and charged straight at him, asking, "Are you alright?"

Li Ye laughed and said, "I don't eat Liuliumei."

"what?"

Pan Zhengyang was taken aback, looked Li Ye up and down, and breathed a sigh of relief, "It's good that you're alright. Where's Ren Changtian? I saw it burrow underground, did it run away?"

"Who?"

"It's just a cloud of blood mist, can you see it?"

Li Ye: "..."

His expression turned strange for a moment, then he nodded and said, "I've perished with the demons."

He didn't gain any qi or blood from eating the demon's arm; it just went into his stomach without contaminating it.

This type of demon prevents him from improving his qi and blood.

Later, when he absorbed the pollution, it didn't increase his qi and blood, but a cloud of blood mist appeared out of nowhere and increased his qi by a lot, enough for him to practice the Dragon Gate Realm again.

After confirming that Li Ye was truly alright and there seemed to be no signs of pollution around, Pan Zhengyang asked:

"What demon?"

"Yaksha".

"what?"

“The Bone-Painting Yaksha, also known as the Vishavaraksha, is a Buddhist term,” Li Ye said.

This time it was Pan Zhengyang's turn to be stunned. "Wait, how come something Buddhist has suddenly appeared when the Painted Skin is paired with the Taishan Fujun Sacrificial Wine?"

Li Ye was also completely baffled. "There must have been Buddhist elements involved."

Famous deities come from all sorts of sources; who can really figure it out? More than these myths of unknown origin, Li Ye was concerned with the implication in Pan Zhengyang's words, "You're talking about the Lord of Mount Tai, what is that?"

"Come out and talk."

Pan Zhengyang leaped up, leaving the underground cave and heading outside.

He marveled at the sight of dismembered corpses scattered everywhere along the way, made a phone call to Sun Shun, and then, upon arriving at the Ren family's gate that had been smashed open, handed Li Ye a cigarette.

"You little rascal, you're even more ruthless than me. I was just joking when I said I'd kill my whole family. I've really not killed many people in my life, but those few are still talked about now."

"What's wrong with you? When Old Sun came to report to me, I was shocked. You killed people as if they were demons."

"I'm not smoking anymore, it's disgusting."

Li Ye waved his hand and laughed, "It's better for me to kill them as demons than for them to transform into demons and then kill even more of them."

"Good, good, good, that's what I like about you. Yes, a real man doesn't hesitate when he does things. If the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up. As long as you don't die, there's nothing to be afraid of!"

Pan Zhengyang took a deep breath, exhaled smoke, laughed a few times, and then suddenly gritted his teeth:
"It's done! Damn it, what a local tyrant! The entire pest control department has been wiped out! I've been here for three years, trying to reason with them, but it's not as effective as just cutting the Gordian knot!"

Upon hearing this, Li Ye laughed and said, "The nature of the matter is different. I couldn't have done it without you tearing off the mask."

"But without your strength, it really won't work. Martial artists, no matter how much they argue, ultimately let their fists speak for themselves."

Pan Zhengyang took another drag of his cigarette, looked outside by the moonlight, and said:
"The world wasn't always this big."

Li Ye frowned.

Pan Zhengyang said, "We don't know why they were formed, we don't know the specific rules, and they even exist in different eras. These beings descend into reality and expand the area of ​​the real world, just like forcibly adding a plot of land to a map."

"We call this place the Demon Realm."

"There are many things inside: magical artifacts, weapons, materials, and resources. If you're lucky, you might even find a huge oil field. Of course, the most abundant things are demons."

"That Taishan Prefecture Lord's Sacrificial Wine was something Ren Changtian obtained from some demonic realm. Maybe it was a magic weapon, maybe it was just a pot of wine, I don't know. Anyway, it's gone now. I'll submit a report and let the higher-ups figure it out."

He looked at Li Ye and said, "You are qualified to go to this place, but you have to go through the university. The places that are sent down to the university are relatively safe Demon Realm."

"Like a game instance?" Li Ye laughed.

"Much more dangerous than that thing."

Pan Zhengyang clicked his tongue. "Do you know Yancheng?"

"From Jiangnan Province?"

"No, it's from the West, it appeared in Gaul, in the salt city of Sodom."

Pan Zhengyang still feels a bit scared when he talks about it now, "The thing from the Bible suddenly descended one day, covering two cities. The moment it descended, all the people in those two cities, whether martial artists or commoners, turned into pillars of salt."

"This is also the Demon Realm, the Demon Realm that has not been resolved to this day."

Pan Zhengyang said in a deep voice, "This stuff has its good and bad sides. The good ones are the resources in the Demon Realm that can make a country take off, while the bad ones might mean it's gone."

Something occurred to Li Ye: "Is the pollution extremely severe?"

"That's not a question of how serious the pollution is. If the demons in the Demon Realm could leave, the world would be in chaos by now. There would be no need for our extermination bureau. It's a sign of conscience that we didn't join the Ren family," Pan Zhengyang said.

Heavy pollution is good, heavy pollution is good!

Li Ye took out his cigarette case, lit a cigarette, and looked outside.

"Isn't it disgusting?" Pan Zhengyang asked, bewildered.

"Highly addictive."

Li Ye exhaled a puff of smoke, stared at the embers on the cigarette, and then looked into the distance. Not far ahead was the national highway, and he could see streetlights. Beyond the streetlights, he could also see the lights of the suburban buildings clustered around the national highway.

"Only after the pollution was removed could these lights be seen."

Li Ye sighed, "Only after devouring all the ghosts of the world can the lamps shine."

Let's call it 'Demon Eater'.

The method of consuming qi is to consume human food, while swallowing filth is to consume filth.

Taken together, they represent the most filthy creatures of the world, which of course is the demon.

This new power, which can be used in combination, allows Li Ye to properly devour demons and ghosts!
It wasn't the kind of power he had imagined—cutting the natural demons into pieces and swallowing them whole—but rather a power that could truly be swallowed by Li Ye, skin and bones, along with the demons' own corruption.

When combined, it not only enhanced his aptitude and vitality, but Li Ye also devoured Ren Changtian and the bone demon that was about to be corrupted. Under the influence of the Devouring Ghost, he gained 'spirituality'.

Ghosts are also spirits.

He can use this to accelerate his cultivation beyond his aptitude and forcibly deduce martial arts techniques!

This authority is very useful!

It not only solved his problem of being unable to practice top-level martial arts due to his limited aptitude, but also introduced Chen Xin.

From this moment on, all martial arts in the world are open to him!
　The total word count is over nine thousand, exceeding the minimum of eight thousand. The upload was rushed, and the message I received was incorrect; that was my fault. I will maintain updates, then adjust for a few days and gradually stabilize. Thank you!
　　
　
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