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CBGC - ch170
🕑 Added 2024-09-23 03:05:01 +0000 UTCWARNING: sensitive content ahead.
Chapter 170: Feed
What is a demonic creature?
Demonic creatures are powerful, ferocious, bloodthirsty, and combative. Most of them lack any intelligence, and all negative emotions serve as the nutrients that fuel their growth. But why are they often defeated?
It’s because they have no companions, nor do they know how to cooperate. They don’t understand sacrifice, and only know how to fight relentlessly. When danger arises, they instantly scatter like sand, and even turn to infighting.
And so, Xuanyuan Wentian hides as soon as there’s trouble, and he’s even making sarcastic remarks—Su Tingyun can’t do anything about it.
After all, he is a demonic creature, and not just any demon but the first Demon Lord of them all! Their relationship is one of mutual restraint and exploitation, with no trust between them!
Now, Su Tingyun can only rely on herself. She gazes at the glazed soul lamp she hung on the branch beside the Five Elements Plate and sighs inwardly.
She frowns in thought, connecting the clues she has gathered so far.
Before the Yayu froze itself, it also sealed off the entire cold cave.
Jiu Yue mentioned that it was heavily affected by fire poison, and the Yayu also said that Big Bai was infected by the same poison. Su Tingyun then realizes that the fire poison they’re talking about is the Sacred Fruit.
They said that eating more than three Sacred Fruits will cause your body to explode and turn you into a king. That Beast Saint must have consumed many Sacred Fruits, which is why it has fire poison in its body. Its high level of cultivation is probably linked to the Sacred Fruit. This means that if Big Bai survives, she will also have a tremendous opportunity.
Big Bai ate the entire tree of fruits, making her body burn like a fireball. Holding her feels like holding a small sun, while Little Bai’s leaves have almost dried up from the heat. If it weren’t for the icy river water in the cold cave, Little Bai would probably be withered by now.
Su Tingyun must protect Big Bai and Little Bai.
She first walks along the ice river, trying to find an exit, only to discover that the cold cave is surrounded by a barrier. The thick ice at the bottom of the river can’t even be scratched by the Springwater Sword, and after burning with Heavenly Fire for half a day, her spiritual energy is nearly depleted, and she’s only managed to melt a tiny bit. It’s impossible to take it away. The ring that once absorbed the Tianhe river water in the True Immortal Realm now has no effect on the ice river at all—it can’t store even a drop.
After several attempts, Su Tingyun has no choice but to give up.
What can she do now that she’s trapped in the cold cave?
Su Tingyun paces back and forth, frowning. She glances at the red Big Bai half-submerged in the water, feeling the urge to slap her awake. If only she could wake the other up with a couple of slaps!
"We really can't escape?" That Yayu doesn’t look like it’s going to be easy to deal with. She can’t just sit and wait for death. If Big Bai wakes up, the fire poison in her body could be a lifesaver, but in this current state, can she be relied upon?
Su Tingyun rubs Big Bai for a long time and tries to call the other with her soul, but Big Bai remains unconscious with no sign of waking up.
"You’re too weak. If I use my soul to break the barrier, I’ll have to exert all my strength. When the divine punishment comes down, if you consider the Yayu guarding on one side, I won’t be able to withstand it. It's possible that I might even be absorbed by that thing as nourishment," Xuanyuan Wentian won’t risk it. He simply says, "Your ring is a celestial artifact. If something goes wrong, just hide inside it. When the time comes that I make my move, even if the Yayu knows you’re nearby, it won’t be able to do anything to you."
Should she hide in the ring and leave Big Bai and Little Bai outside to soak? Even if the Yayu comes out, it probably can’t do anything to Big Bai and Little Bai, right?
But hiding isn’t a solution. She's gone out to find the Ice Jade Realm, so how can she allow herself to be trapped here?
Now, she can only hope for Big Bai to wake up soon.
Su Tingyun sets up an array plate near the ice sculpture and then establishes a barrier. After completing everything, she returns to the ring’s inner world to cultivate. She continues to cultivate while keeping an eye on Big Bai and Little Bai, always on guard against the Beast Saint in the ice sculpture. Days pass by one after another, and in the blink of an eye, a month has gone by.
On this day, disordered footsteps and the sound of iron chains dragging on the ice echo from outside the cold cave. The cave’s barrier blocks spiritual sense from probing, but the noise is too loud, and the low, suppressed sobbing reaches Su Tingyun’s ears. The sound makes her heart clench as if someone squeezed it, pulling her out of her cultivation state. She perks up her ears and listens carefully. At this moment, Xuanyuan Wentian suddenly sits up, the black aura around him growing wild. He chuckles, "Despair and sorrow, what a delightful treat."
Outside the cave, Jiu Yue’s voice calls out, "Your Holiness, the three thousand offerings have been prepared."
As her voice falls, the ice sculpture in the array begins to crack, and large pieces of ice fall off in a cascade. Since Su Tingyun had already set up a barrier, the ice doesn’t scatter everywhere.
Su Tingyun quickly puts the water-soaked Big Bai into the ring’s space.
When the dragon-headed, tiger-bodied Beast Saint emerges from the ice sculpture once again, it glances at Su Tingyun’s position and lets out a hoarse roar. Then it strikes the riverbank with its paw, causing the water to freeze mid-air and envelop the space around Su Tingyun in ice.
Her ring is the same as a new world, outside the laws of Heaven. Going in would be that same as instantly disappearing into a parallel space. But right now, the ice seems to invade the ring, like a spider web tightly wrapping around the world where Su Tingyun resides.
A powerful aura splits into countless threads, reaching out toward her world. Just then, the pressure from the ring’s soul suddenly intensifies, blocking the Yayu’s probing. The Yayu growls low in its throat and says, "Let’s see how long you can hide!"
It lifts its paw and stomps heavily, its dragon eyes shooting two golden beams toward the entrance of the cold cave. The entrance slowly opens, revealing Jiu Yue’s unnaturally pale face.
Behind her is a large group of female demon beasts, including some with long rabbit ears, some covered in colorful feathers, and others with scales. All of them have their hands and feet bound by long iron chains, linked together. They're crying as they stand at the entrance of the cold cave.
The Yayu scans the female beasts with its golden eyes, causing most of them to tremble like leaves. A few, however, look excited, their eyes filled with admiration as they meet the Yayu’s gaze, their cheeks flushing in a shy manner.
Jiu Yue leads the way, her whole body stiff with cold, not daring to step inside. She slightly spreads her arms, wanting to shield the girl beasts behind her, but she doesn’t dare to, she cannot.
At the beginning, everyone thought they were choosing maids for the Beast Saint, and all the female demon beasts wanted to participate. However, none who entered ever came out alive, the longest anyone survived was about a month.
Now, more and more female beasts are being sent in. Many know they are being sent to their deaths, yet some naive ones from remote clans still blindly worship and look forward to serving the Beast Saint.
Jiu Yue feels numb. She can face those despairing eyes with calm, but she cannot bear to look into those filled with hope and expectation.
"Jiu Yue-sister," the little rabbit beast behind her is only eighteen years old, having red eyes, and long ears perched on her head, looking adorable.
"Jiu Yue-sister, is that the Beast Saint?" The little rabbit demon peeks out to get a look at the dragon-headed, tiger-bodied Beast Saint, shudders, and hides behind Jiu Yue again. Having been chilled by the wind on the Kunpeng’s back, the ice and snow at the bottom of the cold cave feel even colder. She clings to Jiu Yue’s fox tail all the way down, unwilling to let go.
The little rabbit's voice is crisp, like the tinkling of silver bells.
At this moment, the Yayu grinds its claws, "Get in here!"
At its command, Jiu Yue forces herself to move forward, the chain-bound procession behind her following suit. Soon, more than ten female beasts have entered the cave.
The cave isn’t large, and Su Tingyun doesn’t think it can hold so many. Yet, unexpectedly, the altar at the center of the ice sculpture slowly descends, while the barrier at the back of the cold cave retreats several meters, revealing a large expanse of thick ice.
Jiu Yue leads the three thousand female beasts onto the floating ice, where they huddle together for warmth, clinging to each other.
Once all the demon beasts are on the ice, Jiu Yue carefully starts to leave, but then the Yayu says, "The Priestess can stay too."
All the blood in her body seems to rush to her head, her face alternating between blue and white, and finally, turning completely bloodless. Among the group of female beasts, a venomous voice rises, "Nine-tailed fox, you captured us for sacrifice, and now you can't escape either, serves you right!" After speaking, she spits on the ground, but at that moment, an invisible force lifts her into the air. The chains binding her break with a snap, and she is thrown directly at the feet of the Yayu.
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Su Tingyun becomes tense. At first, she naively thought that sacrifice meant being eaten by the Yayu, but she never expected that the Yayu would strip the female beast of her clothes and then, in its beast form, press down on her.
"Oh, struck by fire poison, naturally needing to vent it. No wonder its cultivation is so high, no wonder this world had to be sealed off," Xuanyuan Wentian clicks his tongue in amazement. "The fruit of the Tihu tree must be the most extraordinary in the Three Thousand Realms, even more practical than the Kunlun Divine Tree. After all, the Kunlun Tree's fruit can't be picked by ordinary people, they can only look at it without using it. Such a fruit is a rare treasure that all realms would fight over. The Beast Saint naturally wouldn’t reveal its existence before it has become a deity."
Seeing the pained expression on the female demon’s face, Su Tingyun can't help but curse loudly, "And this bastard still thinks he can become a god?"
"A Demon God, perhaps."
Xuanyuan Wentian shakes his head, "This kind of cultivation is like human demonic cultivation, different from the demonic creatures of the Demon Realm. In fact, they won’t even suffer the weaking of the soul and reincarnation, so they live far better than I do."
In the Demon Realm, demonic creatures devour all life, whether righteous or demonic. Even if the Yayu becomes a demon god, it would still be an enemy of the demonic creatures Xuanyuan Wentian represents.
The screams of the female demon beast continues, but at this moment, Su Tingyun is helpless.
Her ring's inner world is already frozen, surrounded by powerful spiritual energy. Xuanyuan Wentian has completely sealed and concealed both her and the ring. Meanwhile, the Beast Saint's aura lurks outside, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
She cannot save them.
