Chapter 118 – Consumed

The skies suddenly darkened and turned a dark red color.

Only the nine brilliant stars in the bloody skies flickered in this quiet yet creepy atmosphere.

If one looked carefully, one would have noticed that these stars seemed to be sentient as they swallowed the murderous qi scattered in the reddened skies.

“Descend!” Gu Suihan pointed his sword at the sky, shouting as though he were a king who commanded an army of thousands of soldiers.

The star that was the darkest in color glowed brightly, drawing an elegant arc in the sky as it came down as swiftly as a shooting star and was instantly absorbed by Questioning Heaven.

Woong! Questioning Heaven’s blade rang softly, as though it had been awakened. The ferocious monsters surrounding the hilt of the sword seemed to have come alive as they roared, their bloodthirsty red eyes shooting out murderous beams of light.

The sword qi measured less than half an inch, but the red color was so dark, it was almost black, and the stench of blood actually smelled oddly fragrant. The other stars fell from the sky and landed on the blade, their glow shining bright as runes swirled around the sword.

Gu Suihan took a step forward with his sword in hand. His bright eyes were fixed on the beast that was slowly becoming clearer and clearer to the eye and he could even smell the creature’s stench.

“Now!” yelled Gu Suihan as he brought his sword down diagonally, the stars glimmering with an immeasurable force.

ROAR! The creature instantly sensed danger, but after living peacefully for so many years, it ignored its instinct and leaped out of the wave of sand and stones, refusing to back down. The yellowish-brown indifferent and cruel eyes inside a head that was about 20 meters in diameter gleamed greedily. It seemed like there was some flesh left behind on its sharp teeth.

Its head was covered in a dense layer of scales and its gigantic nostrils expanded in excitement as it breathed out a steady stream of air.

The glow from the sword flashed brightly and its roaring resounded in the clouds.

The murderous qi around Questioning Heaven exploded, instantly stabbing itself into the nose protruding from between the beast’s eyes.

Pfft! A fountain of blood flowed from the beast’s nose and blood filled the air.

A wound that measured slightly more than three meters appeared on the beast’s head, so deep that its bone could be seen. The blood that sprayed out from the wound reached a height of nearly 50 meters.

ROARRR! The creature roared furiously as it sent a massive sandstorm toward Gu Suihan.

“Finding a way in a desperate situation!” Gu Suihan’s bloodshot eyes glowed brightly and looked eerie against his deathly pale face. He had no more spiritual energy left inside his body and his skeleton was covered in tiny cracks. He stabbed his sword into the ground to hold up his thin and frail body.

At that moment, Gu Suihan gulped as he swallowed the pill that he had placed in his mouth beforehand in preparation for such a moment. He used the energy from the pill as he leaped toward the open mouth of the beast that was roaring in pain, enduring the sharp stabbing pain he felt with every step he took.

Pfft! Questioning Heaven stabbed itself deep into the creature. The beast suddenly shuddered as it felt pain coming from a weak part of its body before twisting itself about even more furiously.

The violent shaking made Gu Suihan feel like his body was about to fall apart and he felt a terrible pain coming from his internal organs. Blood kept spilling from his mouth, so he had to use both hands to cling onto his sword and continue using it to slice through the beast.

“I’m not going to die. This is merely a beast that doesn’t even have sentience. There’s no way it can kill me!” A mocking smile spread across his lips as a murderous gleam seemed to flash in his eyes.

“Flesh Turns to Spirit!” A black mist rose from his left hand and the flesh of his hand turned so dry, that it looked more like the claws of a demon. Gu Suihan frowned and his bloodshot eyes flickered as if he was trying to find something.

“Here it is!” Gu Suihan’s eyes lit up as he fixed his gaze on a trembling organ not too far from him. His eyes could see in the dark, so he could see a never-ending flow of blood very clearly.

He pulled his sword out, which came out with some flesh and blood. He then stomped hard on the hole he just made to leap toward the place he spotted just now.

Gu Suihan used Questioning Heaven to steady himself, using one hand to stab the sword into the top so that he remained suspended. He had a maniacal smile as he raised his left hand which was covered in black mist and dug his fingers into that trembling organ.

The creature struggled even more violently and he had no choice but to use his other hands and legs to hang on.

“This feels really good!” Gu Suihan’s body was like a dried-up river bed and was now being nourished again by taking in the creature’s blood.

“I need this to go faster,” thought Gu Suihan. He used his other hand to rip a hole where his left hand was and put his entire body in.

“Flesh and blood goes back to the soul! Nourish my body!” he chanted as the black mist around his right hand dug into the creature.

Gu Suihan consumed the beast’s life essence like a bottomless pit. The hairline cracks on his bones were slowly repaired while his severely injured organs started to heal.

His bones started to gleam with a faint golden glow and the thin dark gold lines on them became more and more obvious, adding a mysterious air to his skeleton.

His graying sideburns slowly turned black again and became extremely shiny.

His crow’s feet ironed themselves out and his previously mature features slowly became more youthful. He looked like a young man in his twenties again.

The beast’s struggle began to weaken. It howled repeatedly and its body began to give off a rotting smell.

“Regretting it now? Too bad – it’s too late.” He scoffed when he sensed that the beast was struggling less and less. He increased the suction force in his hands so as to absorb every last drop of vitality that this beast had.

After a long time, the bloody symbol in his eyes became even more complex in design and more deeply set in his pupils. His thin and frail body began to fill out. His skin became fair and as smooth as silk. He didn’t look anything like the haggard person he was before fighting the beast.

“Oh, and your soul too!” Gu Suihan withdrew the sword that was done drinking all the blood it wanted. He walked out of the dried-up organ he had entered earlier, then unleashed enough sword qi to tear through the skin from inside.

“Poor, poor you!” He stood on top of the deep wound he had created without caring about how the beast felt as he stared down at the barely breathing creature.

He stretched his long and slim fingers out and stabbed them into the creature’s skull, ignoring the pleading look in its eyes. His spiritual sense got to work as it activated a secret technique to draw the soul out. It took some effort to finally pull its gray soul out from its head.

The attack that Gu Suihan had made with his sword earlier had not only injured the creature’s body. Its weak and limp translucent soul was proof of that.

That attack had hurt it both physically and spiritually. Unfortunately, Gu Suihan was only able to muster up one-hundredth of the power this move was actually capable of unleashing. Otherwise, never mind a cultivator at the Nascent Change stage – even the one who created this domain would have to kneel before him.

“I wonder if it has the bloodline of the Demonic Race. If its brain contains any information from ancient times, then fighting it would have turned out to be a blessing in disguise.”

He chuckled, then swallowed the soul immediately and began to refine it.

A short while later, he opened his eyes again. The bloody red gleam in his eyes looked terrifying. “Ah, too bad. It does have some information, but nothing on the language of the Demonic Race. I suppose its bloodline is way too diluted.”

He snapped out of his thoughts and split his sword into a few hundred beams of light that could delicately skin the creature and remove its bones. He consumed all of its insides and was left with just its pretty outer shell and its blackened skeleton.

Gu Suihan was the type who made sure he consumed everything that was of benefit to himself. He wouldn’t miss any opportunity.

He looked around and started wondering where he was. The entire area around him was a yellowish brown because it was covered in nothing but sand. The wind stirred up the sand grains and they felt like needles as they hit his body. At the rate the wind was going, an ordinary person would have been sanded down to their bones in less than an hour.

He looked at the dried-up bloodstains and figured out which direction he had come from. He then headed back that way.