Chapter 19: The Mist Demon
Qingmao Mountain!
Su Heng’s eyebrows twitched suddenly.
"These are the two Grandmasters from Qingmao Mountain, no wonder they haven’t arrived yet, they had already encountered disaster on their way."
He had originally nned to learn something from these two Grandmasters.
Now it seems...
Su Heng was shocked, and a bit speechless as well.
He tried to deduce the events that had urred here, the two Grandmasters from Qingmao Mountain were on their way, passed by Heikui Mountain, only to be ambushed by demons and brutally killed.
However, given the bloody scent left at the scene, the two Grandmasters from Qingmao Mountain were not undeserving of their reputation, at the very least, before they died, they managed to injure the mysterious demon of Heikui Mountain.
As for how serious the wounds were on the demon, it was hard to say.Su Heng ced the Token aside and picked up a torn cloth package from the ground.
Regrettably, it contained only some spare clothing, indiscernible trinkets, as well as some metal throwing weapons, fragments of silver tael, and so on.
As for the Cultivation Techniques that Su Heng longed for, there were none inside.
"Indeed, after all, no one would carry two secret manuals with them while wandering the jianghu." Despite having anticipated this, Su Heng still felt a bit disappointed.
He sorted through the items in the package, grouped them to studyter, perhaps they would yield some fruit.
After finishing these tasks.
He looked up,
The mist around him grew thicker, so dense it had reached the point where one could barely see their own hand before them.
There wasn’t a single sound in the environment around him, the white expanse was eerily quiet, driving one to madness, yet the unique scent of the demon became even more pronounced.
It wasing!
A sense of rm rose in Su Heng’s heart.
The demon hidden in the mist had killed the two Grandmasters from Qingmao Mountain.
This demon was very strong!
At least ten times stronger than the water ghost he had encountered before, not at the same level at all!
It lurked in the mist, attacking passersby, and he was being targeted as the next victim, the situation was very dangerous.
Su Heng’s breathing was heavy.
The battle had not yet begun, but a strong sense of warning was already stimting his body.
It was as if there were multiple silver needles, floating above his skin, emitting a faint and cold light.
Ever since he began practicing martial arts.
This was the first time Su Heng had encountered such a situation.
Pure Yang Skill silently circted, red muscle fibers surfaced on his skin, crisscrossing, forming beautiful corona patterns. The scorching Yang Extreme True Qi roared through his veins, further enhancing his senses.
mes ignited in Su Heng’s pupils, his piercing gaze cut through the mist.
In the forest.
Two goldennterns lit up, those were the eyes of the demon in the mist.
Kill it!
It was very weak now, with its wounds not yet fully healed.
Kill it, then devour its flesh and blood, plunder its talents, and he would certainly undergo a transformation.
The tangy scent of the demon began to seep into Su Heng’s nostrils.
His mouth secreted saliva, his stomach churned, his muscles tensed like iron chains, storing power. Every cell in his body was cheering, as if a terrifying demon army was roaring, sending to his brain the craving for ughter.
His!
In the leaden sky.
Large raindrops fell, sshing on Su Heng’s arms.
The rain was evaporated by the ferocious temperature of his body, making a noise, turning into a handful of dissipating mist.
Then came the second drop, the third drop... More and more rain started to fall, pouring like a torrential shower, the sound of which resounded from all around.
Boom!
The muffled thunder exploded, echoing between the valleys.
It had started to rain,
The mysterious white fog that obscured the line of sight began to dissipate, and the molten gold pupils in the jungle vanished without trace.
The demon had left.
Su Heng inwardly sighed in regret.
His taut muscles rxed as he slowly rose to his feet, only then noticing the greasy sweat that coated his body.
The sweat that seeped from his pores mixed with the rain that fell from the sky. Su Heng’s clothes werepletely soaked, giving him a feeling of wet, greasy sluggishness.
Crack!
He reached out and tore open his cor a little.
His robust chest was exposed, and droplets of water clung to his bronze skin.
Su Heng realized that without knowing it, he hade to the slope at the foot of Heikui Mountain, with the Nine Twists River to the north and Changqing County to the south.
Standing at a high ce, he could see most of Changqing County in his field of view.
The grey, ancient city walls were covered with green moss and nketed by ayer of lead-grey rain clouds.
Raindrops fell, and bundles of dark yellow smoke rose above the city.
"Smoke, water demons, gue, decaying corpses..." Su Heng’s brow furrowed slightly as he remembered the numb scene he saw when he left Changqing County, and his heart gave a sudden thud.
’In the year 116 of the Great Zhou, water demons appeared in Lianshan City... The rain poured down for ten days without cessation, gue spread, people bit and tore at each other, and over a hundred thousand of the city’s residents were dead or injured.’
’Water can spread the gue...’
’Those infected by the gue will go mad, gaining immense strength and biting each other.’
"Changqing County is in trouble." Amidst the rain, Su Heng slowly opened his eyes, his forehead throbbing with two thick, twisted veins.
"It’s raining, and that water demon is starting to move."
"Water demon... Good, it’s time for a showdown."
"Since the people from Qingmao Mountain have been killed, let me do it. As long as it dares to show itself, it must die!"
"However..."
Su Heng opened the attribute panel, focusing his attention on the ck Evil Technique.
Add point!
Add point!
Add point!
"ck Evil Technique elevated to the breakthrough realm, detected an ovepping with Pure Yang Skill, do you choose to merge the cultivation techniques?"
"Confirm..."
"Merging in progress... Merging... Mergingplete!"
[Yang Pole ck Evil Skill (Special Effects: Yang Extreme True Qi, Evil-breaking Roar)]
The scorching Yang Extreme True Qi flowed through his abnormallyrge veins, evaporating arge amount of rain, forming a mist.
Roar!
A non-human roar came through the mist.
The trees on both sides violently trembled, sshing water everywhere, and flocks of birds took to the sky with pping wings.
...
"This, this, this... what the hell is going on?"
In the Su family estate.
Amidst the heavy rain, Su Gui stood under a straw hat, his face deathly pale, his whole body trembling uncontrobly from excessive fright, stuttering in his speech.
"Have all these people gone mad?"
Bang!
Bang!
The wooden gate shook violently from the impact, and even though two strong Protectors were bracing it with wooden stakes in front.
It was to no avail as the sound of collision continued.
The wooden gate shook fiercely.
Cracks appeared on the middle wooden bolt as thick as an adult’s thigh, and dust fell from the beams above.
Crack!
With a crisp sound, the wooden bolt broke.
The vermilion gate copsed, and like a tide of ck water, the frenzied, rotting corpses flooded in from the outside streets.
Their faces were numb and expressionless, their bodies bloated.
The exposed skin was covered with dark yellow, rotting sores, and their mouths secreted thick saliva. Upon seeing Su Gui and the others, their eyes shed with a greedy red light.