Fantasy: Immortality Begins with Absorbing Demons

Chapter 526 Jewelry (Part Two)

"Lin'er, Lin'er?" Liu Yongding called out tentatively twice.

There was no response at all.

His ominous premonition grew stronger.

Upon entering the side room, one finds a small storage room filled with various vegetables, fruits, and daily necessities.

When Liu Yongding opened the door, it was still empty.

"Lin'er..."

A terrifying thought gradually formed in his mind.

Liu Yongding walked out of the side room in a daze, and looked towards the bedroom with some hesitation.

He feared a thief had broken into his house, and that opening the door would reveal a horrific scene. Suddenly, he felt a chill run down his spine, as if something was lurking in the crack of the window, secretly observing him.

He quickly turned his head to look, and through the main house window, it seemed as if someone had suddenly flashed by.

Anger instantly filled his mind and body.

All the fear vanished instantly.

A thief broke into our house!

Liu Yongding took a deep breath and slowly and cautiously approached the main house.

Squeak...

He gently pushed open the door to the room, and an unpleasant screech of wood scraping against each other filled the air.

It was already late, and the low-hanging gray clouds had even blocked out the moonlight.

The room was also dark, and nothing could be seen clearly.

Liu Yongding slowly extended his mechanical arm, and a slight clicking sound came from the mechanism. His left arm instantly transformed into a sharp longsword, gleaming coldly in the darkness.

He lost his left arm, but gained even greater strength.

Liu Yongding groped his way forward. Although it was pitch black, he quickly adapted to the darkness thanks to the extremely faint light and his familiarity with the location of the furniture.

puff…...

A slight sound of something moving could be heard.

Without hesitation, Liu Yongding turned and ran over. He could vaguely see something like a long, thin tentacle peeking out furtively from under the square table on the right side of the room.

The silver blade flashed like a bolt of moonlight, fiercely tearing through the night.

puff!

However, the moment the blade pierced through, he sensed something was wrong. As a seasoned veteran of countless battles, he was intimately familiar with the feeling of a weapon piercing flesh.

But right now, he felt like he was chopping a solid, blunt piece of wood.

The blade fell slowly and sluggishly, as if it had hit something.

Bang! ! ! !

The immense impact rebounded from the tentacles, shattering Liu Yongding's mechanical left arm. He was thrown against the wall and knocked unconscious.

"Husband, husband... wake up, wake up quickly..."

It's like the most comforting call a drowning person hears underwater.

Liu Yongding was in a coma, but he vaguely sensed that a huge, slimy, soft monster was constantly hovering over his body.

It was clearly an extremely terrifying thing. But strangely, he felt a sense of comfort, a feeling of familiarity…

This feeling...

Just like the way Lin'er would stroke him every night before going to sleep...

The thought of Lin'er and the thief inside the house brought Liu Yongding back to his senses.

"My husband, you're finally awake! I was so worried about you..." Lin'er's voice rang out.

“Lin’er…” Liu Yongding held his forehead and slowly sat up.

He felt a splitting headache, nausea, and extreme discomfort.

After a while, he opened his eyes, lowered his hands, and looked around.

A bright room, warm bedding, a naked body…

He found himself lying in bed, while Lin'er stood at the door, holding a candle as thick as his forearm, illuminating the entire room clearly.

"I... how..." Liu Yongding was a little confused. He clearly remembered that he was fighting with the thieves and was knocked unconscious.

How did you end up lying in bed...?

"I was cooking when I heard a noise at the door. I went out to check and found you passed out in the yard..." Lin'er said softly, "It took me a lot of effort to get you to bed..."

"..."

Liu Yongding fell silent; he was still somewhat skeptical.

He repeatedly recalled the scene he had just witnessed, confirming that he hadn't misread it.

I clearly passed out during the fight...

If you want to verify this...

Liu Yongding seemed to remember something and quickly looked at his left arm.

To his astonishment, the mechanical left arm was hanging there intact, without a trace of breakage or fighting.

"Could it be that I accidentally fell and passed out on my way home, and that I was just dreaming?" Liu Yongding muttered to himself.

"Husband, how could you not believe me!" At this moment, Lin'er's voice suddenly became somewhat angry.

Seeing Lin'er's excitement, Liu Yongding immediately became flustered.

His years of experience had taught him that if a woman was angry, the best solution was a gift.

He remembered the pearl necklace he had specially bought from that Western Region vendor and hurriedly took it out.

"Lin'er, look what this is..." He smiled and gently shook the box in his hand.

"This...it can't be..." Lin'er exclaimed excitedly. "Yes, it's that thing you've always wanted..."

Liu Yongding opened the box, and the emerald-green halo and pearl necklace made the whole room look lush and vibrant.

"Are you sure it's for me?" Lin'er asked hesitantly.

"Yes, if I don't give it to you, who will? I know you're reluctant to part with it, so I specially got it for you." Liu Yongding said with a smile.

"Give it to me... Are you really sure?" Lin'er continued to press.

“Of course it’s true. When have I ever lied to you?” Liu Yongding said gently.

"My husband, you are so good to me..." Lin'er smiled through her tears.

"Come here quickly, let me put it on for you!" Liu Yong looked at Lin'er at the door.

At that moment, he suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Only then did he realize that Lin'er was standing at the door, her back to him the whole time.

But if she's facing away from him, how can the light make out the candle in her hand?

"Lin'er, what's wrong with you...?"

"I'm coming right now..."

Lin'er's voice rang out, and she slowly turned her head, but her voice quickly changed from a gentle woman's voice to an old, deep, and terrifying tone.

It was a face that was constantly melting, devoid of features, like the candle in her hand.

White mucus was dripping continuously from Lin'er's chin, and her entire body was melting, vaguely resembling the tentacles of a mollusk.

"So... the deal is done!!!!!"

The old man's voice rang out loudly.

Only then did Liu Yongding remember. When had he ever had a wife?

He doesn't have a wife at all!

His only wife had long since died in the demonic calamity along with his son.

This is also why he had no ties to the world and only wanted to die on the battlefield.

If he doesn't have a wife, then the pearl necklace he's holding...

Liu Yongding looked down, his head trembling.

What she was holding wasn't a pearl necklace at all, but the core of the Black Smoke Fortress's protective array...

"I…..."

Just as he was about to shout, he was suddenly enveloped in white, and his vision went dark instantly, plunging him into a permanent, silent darkness.

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The Secret Realm of a Hundred Flowers.

Han Yi stood quietly in the cave, silently observing the surroundings.

Behind him was a deep, winding cave tunnel. At this moment, the large amount of soil and dust gradually began to settle down.

He followed the crevice he found in the rock wall downwards, smashing through any obstacles he encountered with his fist, and eventually arrived at the cave.

The cave was pitch black, with only the moss in the crevices of the rocks in the corners emitting a faint green glow, illuminating a small part of the ground.

"There seems to be some trace of human presence here..."

Han Yi walked to the side of the cave and carefully observed it by the faint green light.

There is a small, recessed hole here, and the environment is dark, so you can't see it at all if you don't look carefully.

In the small hole, he saw a stone basin in the middle, directly facing him. He stretched out his hand, intending to take it out.

Not moving.

The stone basin appears to be fixed inside, or rather, it is part of the cave, only carved out by human hands.

Han Yi noticed that there were some vessel-like objects around the stone basin, and there seemed to be some dark stuff on the edge of the basin, like extremely viscous blood that had dried for a long time and turned into a black solid.

He didn't persist, but simply groped around inside the cave, exploring everything around him.

The cave was pitch black. He moved very slowly, observing little by little.

They walked for an unknown amount of time, perhaps the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, or perhaps half an hour, but it was at least several hundred or even a thousand meters.

The size of the cave was beyond Han Yi's imagination.

He continued forward, his feet constantly stepping over uneven boulders. Gradually, the surrounding environment changed.

In the darkness, the sound of a stream flowing through the cracks in the rocks could be heard, making a soft, gurgling sound.

"This water..."

Han Yi became interested and followed the stream to its source.

The source of the stream was found to be extremely strange, seemingly flowing out from a crack in the rocks.

He frowned as he looked at the thick rock wall.

It's strange; even though there are no gaps, clear water can still flow out.

Han Yi didn't dwell on that point. He got up and continued walking forward. The cave gradually began to slope upwards, as if he were walking on a steep mountain path inside the rock wall.

Strangely, even as you walk upwards, the water in the cracks between the rocks continues to flow slowly upwards.

He didn't touch the water. The stream looked clear, clean, and sweet, but he instinctively felt that something was amiss.

The dark cave was devoid of light and contrast, with no distinction between day and night, and the time of day was unpredictable.

Han Yi could only silently count his breathing rate in his mind as a way of keeping track of time.

After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, a faint light finally appeared in front of him. A huge stone wall blocked his way.

The light did not come from the stone wall itself, but from the countless fine, twisted symbols on it. From top to bottom and from left to right, the symbols slowly lit up, then flickered and dimmed, forming a dark white light.

The streams converge here, forming a small lake as if it were their final destination.

The scene before him was as magnificent as the command center of those interstellar spaceships in the space war science fiction movies he had seen in his previous life.