章節 21: A Strange Occurrence At The Mystical Village Tower
編輯: EndlessFantasy Translation
The Mystical Village Tower was a restricted area in the Shaolin temple because it was where the demons were imprisoned. It had a total of nine levels that were all built underground.
The first three levels were used to trap demons of Lower Realms. On the other hand, the fourth to the sixth levels were used to trap demons of the Middle Realms and the seventh to the ninth levels were used for the demons of the Upper Realms. At that moment, third levels were used to trap demons of the Lower Realms. At that moment, there were no demons of the Upper Realms who were imprisoned.
A man who sat in a corner within the second level of the Mystical Village Tower suddenly opened his eyes. His eyes were blood-red and it emitted a strong light.
"Hahahahahah! I've finally entered!" This man looked toward the other demons that were locked up within the Mystical Village Tower as his eyes revealed his insatiable greed. He was a well-known and powerful demon within the Jianghu realm. He was known as the Blood-Sucking Devil.
A long time ago, he changed his identity and appearance to deliberately sneak into the Shaolin temple just to enter the Mystical Village Tower. Many martial artists of the Evil Sect were fond of consuming the Life Essence of others to replenish their stores.
The Blood-Sucking Devil belonged was the same.
The martial arts style that was practiced by the Blood-Sucking Devil allowed him to advance his cultivation level by consuming the Life Essence of others. The stronger the other party was, the further the advancement of the Blood-Sucking Devil's cultivation level. Hence, the Blood-Sucking Devil had set his sights on the martial artists of Jianghu.
However, the martial artists were not idiots. After numerous sly experiences with the Blood-Sucking Devil, they were all alert. They spread the word to friends and family and finally managed to ambush the Blood-Sucking Devil.
After he fell into their traps a couple of times, the Blood-Sucking Devil was forced to abandon his plan. At that moment, he suddenly recalled that the Mystical Village Tower of the Shaolin temple imprisoned countless demons.
All the demons in the tower were doomed to spend the rest of their lives trapped until they die of old age. When he recalled this, the Blood-Sucking Devil suddenly had an idea. If he were to have infiltrated the Mystical Village Tower and consumed the Life Essence of the demons there, there was more to be gained and nothing to have lost.
Since he had that idea, the Blood-Sucking Devil worked hard at planning to infiltrate the Mystical Village Tower.
The Shaolin temple was one of the world's greatest martial arts sects and its foundations cannot be underestimated. He would not have been able to dive in straight. The only way he could have entered without trying to break in was to be deliberately caught by the Shalin temple. Then, he would have been locked in the Mystical Village Tower.
There were two crucial points for his plan to succeed. The first was that the Shaolin temple could not discover his true identity. If they did, a martial artist of the Upper Realms would have personally ended him.
The second crucial point was that he needed to discover the way that led in and out of the Mystical Village. If he could not do that, there was no point in even consuming the Life Essence of all the demons in the Mystical Village Tower.
The first point was easily accomplished. It was because there were many ways to change one's appearance using techniques of the Evil Path. The Blood-Sucking Devil could even bind his ability without causing harm to himself. He would have pretended to be a weak demon of the Lower Realms.
As for the second point…
In an old manual, the Blood-Sucking Devil discovered that there would have been a brief moment every full moon where something faulty would occur in the protective mechanism of the Mystical Village Tower.
Now that he solved the second part of the puzzle, the Blood-Sucking Devil laughed to himself.
"Hahahahaha! Look at all the delicious food around me…"
The Blood-Sucking Devil licked his lips greedily as he looked at all the demons trapped there.
Whoosh!
The Blood-Sucking Devil took a step forward. He stood in front of a demon and immediately clutched his throat.
Whoosh!
The Blood-Sucking Devil took a deep breath. All one could see was the look of horror on the face of that demon before his body withered rapidly. In barely any time at all, he turned into a dried-up corpse.
"No one knows how much it took just to enter the tower. Now that I'm here, it's time to fast!"
The aura of the Blood-Sucking Devil grew powerful as it gushed in all directions. Instantly, a great number of demons within the second level dropped like flies. Their Life Essence was sucked dry and all that was left was a pile of dried-up corpses.
Very quickly, the remaining demons noticed that something was wrong and scurried as far as they could from the Blood-Sucking Devil.
"This is bad!"
"Someone's attacking us!"
An old demon shouted angrily, "It's the Blood-Sucking Devil!"
"Drats, how did he end up in here?"
The demons' surprise and fear grew as they wore expressions of terror.
A demon such as the Blood-Sucking Devil should have been imprisoned on the seventh level of the Mystical Village Tower at the very least after falling into the hands of the Shaolin temple.
"Hahahaha. Thinking about running away? How are you going to escape to? You might as well be one with me. After all, I'm onto the next level."
The Blood-Sucking Devil's aura was serene as he glanced at all the other demons coldly. After letting himself be captured by the Shaolin temple, there was no way that he would have stopped there.
The Blood-Sucking Devil's true objective was all the demons in the ninth level of the Mystical Village Tower.
*****
It was late at night and the moon hung high in the sky.
Su Qin sat cross-legged as he took deep breaths.
If there was a martial artist of the Upper Realms present, they would have been astonished by their discovery. Each time Su Qin inhaled a large amount of heaven and earth vitality gushed into his body.
The amount of heaven and earth vitality that entered his body with each breath was enough to cause the physical body of a typical Upper Realms martial artist to explode! Since martial artists of the Upper Realms had access to both heaven and earth, their bodies constantly went through cleansing.
The cleansing was gentle and increased gradually. Just like the water in a stream, it flowed slowly. However, the heaven and earth vitality that Su Qin inhaled was as vast as the ocean. Seemingly endless waves this vitality surged into him.
Even a first-rank grandmaster would have chills down their back if they saw Su Qin take in heaven and earth vitality in that manner.
To have understood how violent and forceful heaven and earth vitality can be, one needed to know that it could have endangered the physical body of even a first-rank grandmaster if they made a slight mistake.
Once their physical body was injured, especially while inhaling heaven and earth vitality, the recoil from the force would have been unimaginable. No sane first-rank grandmaster would have been willing to do it.
'The Impenetrable Armor technique's truly one of the great styles of the Shaolin temple sect,' thought Su Qin as he opened his eyes.
Su Qin's physical body allowed him to absorb the heaven and earth vitality with no restrain. That was because he mastered the Impenetrable Armor technique. He did not have to worry about any potential pitfalls.
'If this was before, I would've said that the Impenetrable Armor technique's perfect. There are no flaws or downsides to it. But, now that I assessed myself with the Truth Seeing Eye, I see a shortcoming of the Impenetrable Armor technique. It has too much Yang.'
Su Qin sighed softly. He sensed the power of his Truth Seeing Eye technique.
The original attribute of the Impenetrable Armor technique was that it was undefeatable, solid, and strong. However, in life, there needed to be balanced in everything. If he wanted to truly achieve longevity, the forces of yin and yang needed to be balanced.
The Impenetrable Armor technique was truly powerful. It could have elevated the physical body to the point where it could have defeated an Upper Realms martial artist. However, it was too extreme.
If Su Qin wanted to advance to the next level and attain the Luohan status, it was impossible if he relied on the Impenetrable Armor technique to train his physical body,
Su Qin needed to find another Yin martial arts style to train his body and to create balance with the Impenetrable Armor technique.
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