Fantasy: Immortality Begins with Absorbing Demons

Chapter Eleven: Beast Tide

Huh, Huh

After surviving a brush with death, Han Yi was exhausted from the loss of adrenaline, and he was panting heavily.

This was the first time Han Yi had personally killed someone!

Although he had witnessed many separations and deaths when he was still a refugee, and had seen many people leave, he thought he had long since adapted to this cruel world.

but…...

In this world, big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat shrimp.

If you're not ruthless, you won't survive.

If others don't die, he will; if he doesn't want to die, then he can only let others die. It took him a while to recover.

After the bandit fell, Han Yi probed him several times to confirm his death before going over to check on him. He was about to touch the body.

Han Yi was quite skilled at touching corpses and showed no signs of discomfort.

After all, to survive among refugees, one inevitably needs to use the things of the dead. Moreover, these things are useless to the dead, so it would be a pity to waste them!

Let's see what's inside," Han Yi said, turning the bandit's corpse over with his knife.

stab

After cutting open the outer layer of clothing.

Several small packages rolled out.

Several hidden arrows, lime powder, and four or five taels of broken silver.

Han Yi's eyes lit up. With lime in his left hand and a mark in his right, the future of becoming a Lime Martial Saint seemed promising! He then peeled back the inner layer of clothing...

A bamboo tube and a small booklet were revealed.

'Flying Swallow Leg'

Han Yi's expression shifted. He had been thinking about learning a leg technique while chasing someone, but he had no martial arts training available. It was truly a case of getting something for nothing.

As the saying goes, there are three treasures for roaming the world: limestone, hidden weapons, and good legs and feet.

I've gathered all the thieves for you all at once, you're truly my treasure-delivering boy...

And this bamboo tube... Han Yi thought to himself, it looks like a bamboo product, but it feels like jade to the touch.

This material, which resembles neither bamboo nor jade, along with the strange patterns engraved on it, seems unlikely to be a product of the Xuan Kingdom…

At that moment, a faint rustling sound came from behind.

A thin, blood-red worm crawled out of the bandit's ear canal, as if it had drunk its fill of blood and was lazily basking in the sun.

A value of '5~1' floats above the insect.

"Could this be the 'Brute Force Gu' that the bandits were talking about?" Han Yi frowned and thought, "The lower limit is 5 and the upper limit is 1, but it can greatly increase the strength of bandits!"

"A wicked thing!"

Han Yi used his knife to lift up the 'Brute Force Gu'.

Swish, swish, swish

With a few slashes, the 'Brute Force Gu' was cut into several pieces.

"Such a strong vitality!"

Even so, the 'Brute Force Gu' continued to wriggle, seemingly trying to glue the severed limbs back together!

Han Yi took out quicklime and sprinkled it carefully on the insect. But that wasn't all. He then picked up some dry twigs and leaves and spread them on the insect before taking out a flint.

A spark ignited the tinder, which then set the pile of dry branches ablaze. "They can't possibly still be alive like this!"

By the way, I think I just felt like my swordsmanship has improved...

[Realm Level]: Late Stage of Skin Refining (93/100)

[Martial Arts]: Mountain-Shattering Fist Technique (Common Rank, Minor Success 4/20, Trait: Stone Shattering, Can be Improved); Basic Swordsmanship (Common Rank, Trait: Sword Dance, Minor Success 0/20)

Have you mastered the basic knife skills?

It seems I have quite a talent for swordsmanship, but what about wielding the sword?

Could it be that there's some kind of bonus from the flower-shaking technique? Han Yi's expression turned somewhat grim.

Swish, swish, swish

Han Yi twirled his sword a few times.

Not bad, that knife-flipping technique looks even better now…

Of course, this 'sword dance' also seems to make the transitions between moves in the basic sword technique smoother, and the power seems to be a bit greater than before!

After waiting for a while and seeing that the Gu worm was no longer moving, Han Yi carried the bandit's corpse and prepared to go back to meet up with Li Feng and the others.

"Han Yi, over here!" Pan Sheng waved to him from a slope.

After Han Yi climbed up in a few steps, the scene before him astonished him.

Three bandit corpses lay scattered around, their bodies twisted like pretzel hands, as if they had been ravaged by a giant hand!

“We had these three thieves tied up properly, but they suddenly went berserk and became incredibly strong. They broke free of their ropes, and I was even accidentally slashed!” Wang Meng said with a wry smile. “But strangely enough, before we could deal with them, these three people died on their own.”

Suicide by suicide? A thought crossed Han Yi's mind: Could this be related to the 'Brute Force Gu'...?

Rumbling...

Then, a low rumbling sound came from afar.

"What's the noise?"

Pan Sheng looked into the distance and saw a large cloud of dust rising up, accompanied by a slight tremor from the ground beneath his feet.

His face paled: "That sound? Could it be a beast tide?!"

Black-backed wild boars, gray-striped wolves, two-headed pythons…....

A black 'wave' is raging toward this slope!

As Pan Sheng described the scene, everyone's faces grew even paler.

"How could such a large-scale beast tide erupt on the outskirts of the mountains..." Li Feng murmured.

"Go! Go quickly! Get within the range of the beast-repelling powder!" The crowd disregarded everything else and fled frantically!

This beast tide may not be of high level, but if one is swept up in it, probably only a master of the Meridian Opening Realm can escape!

"This beast tide feels like it's coming for me..." Han Yi, whose cultivation level was the lowest, was at the very back of the group and always had a feeling of being watched, like a thorn in his back!

Moreover, he could sense that when he changed direction, the large horde of beasts also changed direction!

"Is it just my imagination? But why would a beast tide be heading towards me for no reason? Could it be..." A thought flashed through Han Yi's mind.

With a flick of his hand, he threw the strange bamboo tube away!

Perhaps it was Han Yi's actions that had an effect, or perhaps everyone had entered the range where the beast-repelling powder was effective.

The beast tide gradually dispersed in all directions, with only a few small groups of beasts lingering near the beast-repelling powder.

"I'm... I'm saved!" Wang Meng gasped for breath as his bandaged wound burst open again, bleeding profusely.

"Let's rest for a while. This beast tide is strange. We need to hurry back to the camp and report this!" Li Feng said with a solemn expression.

"Hmm, the Yin energy is insufficient. It seems the Beast Slave Gu can no longer sustain the beast tide. I will spare your lives for now!" From the slope, a figure in black robes revealed a vicious look.

"A martial artist's flesh and blood are a great tonic..." A hint of drooling appeared in his eyes. "Hmph, a few brats who haven't even reached the Meridian Opening Realm, if it weren't for my injuries..."

The man in black had a wound the size of a bowl on his back, and wisps of black energy were spreading around it, seemingly trying to fill the hole.

cough, cough, cough

"Anyan County, Xuanjia Guard, Yangyan Arrow, I'll devour the Crimson Flame Sect first, then I'll devour Anyan County!" As if aggravating his wound, he coughed up several mouthfuls of black blood.

Then, the man in black robes appeared next to the bodies of the bandits.

"Useless! You took my martial arts but can't even do something as simple as spreading Gu worms properly," he said, lifting his black robe to reveal sharp, inhuman claws. "You almost lost my spirit Gu jade tube, but thankfully, your flesh and blood still have some value!"

stab

The body was instantly torn to pieces and fell down the slope below.

On the slope, countless thin worms, as dense as hair, were tangled together, emitting a nauseating stench.

"Black Wind Stronghold, if you weren't still somewhat useful to me, I would have swallowed you all whole!"

His narrow eyes were filled with malice!