The Demon with Holy Radiance-Chapter 104 - 94: Separation of Flesh and Blood, the Ancient Collection Opens to Myriad Eyes

Chapter 104: Chapter 94: Separation of Flesh and Blood, the Ancient Collection Opens to Myriad Eyes

Soon, under Mother Divination’s guidance, the flesh boat arrived at a place where countless arms converged.

But as soon as they set foot in the area, the surrounding arms began to move as if they had a will of their own. Dozens of interconnected arms, like chains, whipped toward them.

There was no need for Elder Life Crane to act. Mother Divination formed a Seal Decision with her hands and pushed outward. An invisible wave of energy rippled through the water, repelling all the flailing arms.

Yang An had been a little worried, but seeing how easily Mother Divination dealt with the arms, he relaxed.

’It makes sense,’ he thought. ’Even though I’m just a nobody, I’m with two powerhouses. I don’t need to worry about this kind of danger.’

Once all the arms were pushed back, the water at the riverbed began to churn violently.

Silt from the riverbed swirled up, dislodging countless withered bones and other strange, unknown things that had been buried beneath the sand.

They were all skeletal remains, impossible to distinguish whether they were human or Demon Fiend, and there was no telling how long they had been buried at the bottom of the river.

After long-term corrosion from the river water, many of the bones disintegrated into dust the moment they were unearthed.

After a few breaths, the current at the river’s bottom gradually calmed. The surrounding arms seemed to be held at bay, finally revealing a massive, circular stone platform on the riverbed below.

The platform was enormous, over a hundred feet in diameter. From the inside out, one could see concentric circles of patterns. The designs were complex and mystical, yet they also exuded a strange, eerie feeling.

Just looking at the patterns on the stone platform made Yang An feel incredibly dizzy, and he quickly averted his gaze.

But besides him, neither Mother Divination nor Elder Life Crane seemed to be affected at all.

"This is the entrance to the Ancient Collection. Senior, please open it!"

Mother Divination said.

Elder Life Crane nodded slightly, but He Tou on his shoulder stretched its neck out, bringing its head right in front of Yang An.

"Little apprentice, go down and scout the way for us."

"..."

’Here it comes!’

Yang An knew that traveling with the old bastard meant he wouldn’t be able to just stand by and watch. ’Trying to get away with doing nothing is impossible.’

But there was nothing he could do about it. He had to get the Cultivation Technique, and after all, they had an agreement.

"Yes!"

Yang An could only nod in agreement, not daring to disobey.

But before he could leave the flesh boat on his own, He Tou let out a sinister laugh.

The next second, Yang An felt an immense force strike him from behind, and his body was sent flying uncontrollably into the river water.

River water flooded his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. The sound of rushing water echoed in his ears, and a bone-chilling cold erupted from every part of his body. It felt as if he were naked in a frozen wasteland or had fallen into an icy abyss.

’I’ll kill you sooner or later, you old bastard!’

Yang An knew He Tou had done it on purpose. He quickly circulated the Mana in his body to protect himself and held his breath, which lessened the cold considerably.

While cursing inwardly, he quickly extended his senses to watch for any danger.

As a Cultivator who had reached his current Cultivation Level, holding his breath for a short time was quite easy.

His vision in the water was poor, so he could only rely on his senses to scan his surroundings. Yang An glanced back at Mother Divination and the old bastard on the flesh boat. Seeing that their attention was fixed on him, he had no choice but to head toward the huge stone platform below.

He tried his best not to look at the patterns on the platform to avoid feeling dizzy again.

Soon, Yang An landed on the stone platform.

The platform was like a massive, natural slab of stone. From above, he couldn’t see a single crack or seam; it seemed perfectly formed by nature.

Yang An didn’t know what path the old monster wanted him to scout. He couldn’t see any entrance on the platform, so he simply picked a random direction and started walking, remaining vigilant.

Within his senses, everything here seemed perfectly calm.

After walking around for a while with no results, Yang An had no choice but to look back up at the flesh boat.

But just as he turned his head, a bright ray of moonlight pierced through the river water and shone down on him.

At the same time, Yang An suddenly felt the speed of the surrounding current increase dramatically, as if it were beginning to rotate around the stone platform.

"Little apprentice, if you move again, you’ll die!"

The voice traveled directly through the water to Yang An’s ears. He immediately looked toward Elder Life Crane on the flesh boat.

But one look with his senses was enough to stun him.

He Tou was stretching its neck with all its might, violently tearing away at the flesh on Elder Life Crane’s body and pulling out a large amount of blood.

It was just a head, but its roots were inside Elder Life Crane’s body. Countless red sinews and gory flesh were forcibly dragged out with it as it detached from Elder Life Crane’s torso and plunged into the water.

"HAHAHAHA! Freedom!"

He Tou cackled madly. The sinews and flesh seemed to form a body and wings for it, instantly transforming it into a thick red streak that darted frantically through the water.

Originally, the current at the river bottom had been very slow, influenced only by the undercurrents.

But now, under He Tou’s frenzied churning, the water began to spin around the stone platform, creating a monstrous vortex in the blink of an eye.

Standing on the platform, Yang An struggled to keep his balance, enduring the violent scouring of the accelerating current.

It was like sharp knives repeatedly slashing at his flesh, or steel wool balls scrubbing fiercely across his body.

In just a few breaths, countless bits of flesh were stripped from the surface of Yang An’s body by the current. A massive amount of blood gushed from him, instantly dyeing the surroundings crimson.

A wave of intense pain appeared, only to turn into numbness an instant later. Yang An hastily activated the flesh-and-blood essence stored in his body, using Meat-Eating Life Nourishment to forcibly heal his wounds and stop the blood loss. The essence in his body was consumed at a rapid rate.

But even so, his constantly healing wounds couldn’t keep up with the speed of the current’s scouring. He was losing more and more blood and flesh.

Meanwhile, around the stone platform, within the colossal vortex, a red shadow continued to dart and flicker.

At the center of the platform, directly above Yang An’s head, a cone-shaped vacuum began to form, rapidly descending toward him.

Yang An knew he couldn’t move. It was just as the old bastard had said: if he moved recklessly, he would absolutely be swept into the current and torn to shreds in an instant. This place was like a frantic meat grinder.

Yet he could only watch as the vacuum continued to fall, the tip of the cone about to reach his head and touch his body.

If it touched him, he would likewise be torn to pieces.

He couldn’t just do nothing. He immediately summoned the Extreme Day Divine Aspect. The Divine Aspect, over twenty feet tall, appeared and bent over to forcibly block the vacuum’s erosion for Yang An.

But even a Divine Aspect had its limits. Under such a violent assault, the Divine Aspect soon couldn’t hold on, and large specks of light began to peel away from it.

In this situation, and underwater to boot, the Light and Shadow Escape Technique was completely useless. He couldn’t move his position either. ’If this keeps up, I’m going to die!’

Yang An stared directly at the figures on the distant flesh boat. Under the threat of death, he finally couldn’t stop himself from cursing out loud.

"FUCK YOU, OLD BASTARD! HURRY UP!"

But the words he blurted out couldn’t travel through the current. The moment they left his mouth, they were reduced to incomprehensible gibberish by the rushing water.

It was hard to say if Elder Life Crane noticed, but his gaze actually turned toward Yang An.

At the same time, a red shadow suddenly shot through the water and finally returned to Elder Life Crane’s body.

As a Great Power Cultivator, all the wounds on Elder Life Crane’s body had already healed in the instant He Tou was gone.

But after He Tou returned, it once again forcibly burrowed into his flesh, and the two re-merged into one.

"I wasn’t done playing! You fucking...! I’ll ***** your ***..."

He Tou was cursing nonstop. In truth, it hadn’t wanted to come back; it had been summoned by Elder Life Crane and dragged back by force, filling it with rage.

But Elder Life Crane ignored it, simply extending a hand and flicking it.

PSSHH!

A few drops of blood flew from his hand, shot into the river, and instantly transformed into a vast blood mist. It moved with the current, and in the blink of an eye, it completely surrounded the stone platform, forming a red wall.

A few drops of blood could create such a terrifying scene, but Yang An wasn’t the least bit impressed right now.

Because the entire stone platform was already crimson. As far as the eye could see, there was only a blood mist—and it was all his blood!

He had no idea how much blood he had lost. If not for the Meat-Eating Life Nourishment forcibly sustaining him, he would probably be dead already.

And right now, more than half of the flesh-and-blood essence he had just replenished on Golden Egg Jade Island had been consumed. If this continued, he wouldn’t be able to hold on.

Fortunately, the appearance of the blood wall abruptly blocked the violent current.

Feeling the current suddenly slow down and seeing the cone-shaped vacuum above his head gradually shrink, the healing speed of his Meat-Eating Life Nourishment finally surpassed the scouring speed of the water. Yang An finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But as his injuries gradually healed and the surrounding water slowed down more and more, eventually coming to a complete standstill... 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

He looked up again, and his pupils contracted violently. He was speechless.

He saw that at the edge of the stone platform, beyond the blood wall created by Elder Life Crane, there were nothing but arms. They were packed densely together, surrounding the entire platform without a single gap.

It seemed these arms had been brought here by the violent scouring of the current just now.

A single glance gave Yang An the illusion that he was in Hell.

The moonlight that pierced the river water to fall upon him was now refracting endlessly through the surrounding blood-red water, its light reflecting onto all of those arms.

Yang An could almost hear a skin-crawling sound.

He saw the arms, which had been grasping one another, all let go. They opened their palms, and under the moonlight, eyes began to emerge from within them, one after another.

If Yang An were given a chance to describe his feelings right now...

He would definitely want to ask a very important question:

’Excuse me, what does it feel like to be the center of attention? Waiting online for an answer, it’s pretty urgent.’

However, he wouldn’t get an answer, because the next moment...

BANG!

Under the gaze of so many countless eyes, an invisible and abrupt pressure suddenly erupted from within Yang An’s body.

The flesh of his body below the chest and abdomen completely burst apart, exploding into innumerable chunks of meat.

All the blood in his body gushed out at once.

And on the huge stone platform below, those complex and mystical patterns suddenly began to glow with a red light.