Demonic Dao Fanfiction: Protecting You from Worries for a Lifetime

"Those fire lizards and centipedes are so disgusting! I really don't want to fight them! If I do, I probably won't be able to eat for the next month."

Seeing them lose their composure like this, Lan Wangji was filled with confusion. He frowned and asked, "Wei Ying, what are you talking about? What exactly is in that secret realm?"

Wei Ying took a deep breath and stepped forward to lie in Lan Wangji's arms, his eyes filled with helplessness. "Lan Zhan, we weren't sure at first if this was a place we'd been to before, but Ah Hua just said that he could sense it, which means what we saw was correct. The secret realm we've just left is one we've been to before. The reason we're like this is because there are creatures in that secret realm that none of us want to face: fire lizards and fire centipedes."

Lan Wangji: “Why?”

Wei Ying frowned and said with a distressed look, "Actually, it's not difficult to eliminate them, but the problem is that there are so many of them, and their appearance is extremely disgusting. What's even more troublesome is that after they die, they will emit an indescribable stench. The smell is like a mixture of burnt feathers and rotten meat, which makes people want to vomit. What's worse is that this stench will linger for a long time. Once contaminated, whether it is a person or an object, it will retain this smell for a long time and it is difficult to remove. We suffered greatly from it when we were training there. During that time, our whole body, including our weapons, was covered with the stench. Lan Zhan, do you think you can bear it?"

When Wei Ying recalls that experience now, his face is filled with headache and pain. He would rather fight monsters stronger than him than go to fight the fire lizards. Killing them would only hurt himself.

Where did Wei Ying and the others come from? During that period, he, Meng Yao, Xue Yang and Fen Hua became the objects that everyone avoided. As they walked, they left behind all kinds of insect corpses. You can imagine how terrible the smell was.

Lan Wangji's brow furrowed as he listened to Wei Ying's narration. He had never imagined such a disgusting creature could exist in the world. Lan Zhan reflected again on the odor emanating from his own body, and how it had affected the Bichen Sword as well, and a wave of disgust rose within him.

Lan Wangji: "Can you dodge?"

Wei Ying: "Lan Zhan, if we could have avoided it, we wouldn't be in such a difficult situation."

Lying on the ground, Xue Yang added, "Brother, you forgot one thing. Those fire lizards and fire centipedes are not only numerous, but also extremely cunning. They can also hide in the dark, using terrain and numbers to launch surprise attacks, making it difficult to defend against them. If I'm not mistaken, we might encounter them the first step into the secret realm. Otherwise, 'Fentian' wouldn't have smelled that 'tempting' scent outside the secret realm."

Fen Hua: "Well... indeed, it's just as Ayang said. 'Fentian' was awakened by the stench, and now his sense of smell has been shut down." When mentioning this, Fen Hua's face also showed an indescribable expression. He almost didn't want to recall the pungent stench that almost made him faint when he took 'Fentian' from Chaoyang.

At that time, Fen Hua was about to discard "Fentian" and choose another weapon instead.

It is also conceivable that the spear spirit of 'Burning Sky' had suffered such a heavy mental blow that it could be awakened from its slumber even at the other end of the secret realm.

Wei Ying sighed and continued, "Yeah, those guys are really too difficult to deal with. During our previous training, every time we encountered them, it took a lot of effort to get rid of them. We didn't dare to kill them for fear of getting involved. This time when the secret realm opened, I didn't expect to encounter them again. This luck is really unbelievable. It makes me not want to go anymore."

Lan Wangji was silent for a moment after hearing this, then asked, "Is there any way to restrain them?"

Wei Ying shook his head and said helplessly, "No, once they die or are seriously injured, they will emit a foul odor. In order to avoid being bothered by the stench, there is no other way except to block the sense of smell. Even if they are frozen or burned directly, the stench will still linger. There is no way to completely solve the problem."

The stench was suffocating, even for cultivators. Even Wei Ying's crimson lotus fire couldn't completely eliminate the odor; it seemed omnipresent and inescapable. After escaping the fire lizards and centipedes' territory, even after carefully avoiding them, the stench still followed. While the scent didn't linger long, he still didn't dare to use his sense of smell easily, fearing that the stench would overwhelm him if he wasn't careful. Imagine how persistent the fire lizards and centipedes were.

"Wei Ying, how did you escape last time?" Lan Wangji asked.

Wei Ying sighed softly and said, "It's not that easy to escape! We can only block our sense of smell and attack directly. After all, the smell there is really unbearable. However, the fire essence and blood flame grass produced in their territory are precious materials in the fields of refining weapons and alchemy."

Wei Ying, Xue Yang, and the others later concluded that the two materials were valuable because they grew in foul-smelling environments, making them rare and difficult for ordinary people to collect. To obtain these precious materials, the monks had to venture into the territory of the fire lizards and fire centipedes, enduring the disgusting stench and carefully collecting them.

After all, it would be so frustrating for a cultivator not to fall in the battle with the monster but to die because of the stench.

Wei Ying's words silenced everyone present, and the air was filled with an indescribable depression.