It was already ten o'clock!
Ling Ping'an looked at the data refreshed by the author's platform.
42...
Another five collections had increased.
It was really very average!
More than half of the manuscripts that he had written had been sent out.
The young web novelist held his cheeks and thought, "Looks like I have to speed up my writing..."
"From tomorrow onwards, I have to write seven thousand words a day!"
"Only then can I have enough manuscripts!"
And this undoubtedly put a very high demand on him.
That meant that he had to continue to give up his hobby of gaming.
For the sake of interest, he had to give up his hobby...
It was really a little uncomfortable.
He scratched his head, "There's nothing I can do..."
"I have to do what I promised even if I have to kneel down!"
There was only a month left before his aunt returned from her vacation.
He had to earn the money for the big meal that he promised his aunt as soon as possible!
"Sigh!" The young bookstore owner couldn't help but sigh, "If only a rich man came..."
But the problem was that the last time this bookstore's turnover exceeded a thousand was before he took over.
Thinking of this, Ling Ping'an lowered his head.
A good bookstore had been run by him to its current state.
He was a little ashamed.
Fortunately, he had always been open-minded, so he quickly thought it through.
"It's not that I'm incompetent..." he said, "But the situation is like this, and the general trend is like this!"
The mobile Internet, with its rapid development, devoured everything.
He wasn't the first to be affected, and he wouldn't be the last.
So...
"It's not the fault of the war!"
Thus, the young bookstore owner laughed heartlessly.
… …
Jumping up from the ground, Xiaoman tightly gripped the short sword in her hand.
"Die!" A determined look bloomed in her eyes.
Clang!
The short sword in her hand let out a crisp dragon roar.
Rays of sword light bloomed from the blade.
In the sword light, Xiaoman's figure was like a swimming fish, stabbing upwards.
In the sky, although the target of Xiaoman's attack was ambushed, it didn't panic at all.
It only rolled its pair of grayish-white eyes that looked like dead fish.
A severely deformed large hand reached out.
"Remnant of the Sword Dao..." it opened its mouth, full of sharp teeth, and let out a mocking laugh, "I was just worried about where to find you!"
"But you delivered yourself to me..."
"Very good!"
On the deformed arm that stretched out, lumps of sarcoma-like things bulged, and then directly grabbed at Xiao Man.
With just a light grasp, the sword light blossoming on Xiao Mang's blade was completely caught by that disgustingly deformed hand.
The sharp sword gleams were like strands of green foxtails that were twisted into a ball by the deformed hand that was full of sarcomas.
Then, that pair of dead fish-like grayish-white eyeballs only lightly glanced at Xiao Man, who was still fearlessly and resolutely charging towards it.
It understood the will of this swordsman.
She was here to die.
How ridiculous!
It thought, these ridiculous humans always have all kinds of ridiculous reasons.
These ants thought that their sacrifice was useful.
But …
But the truth was …
Whether they resisted or surrendered …
Or was he going to throw his life away like this …
Nothing could change their fate of being exterminated.
That was a given.
However …
It looked at the human swordsman …
Her flesh and soul must be very delicious.
At the thought of this, it couldn't help but grind its sharp teeth together.
"Human, be obedient and come to my mouth..."
"Become my food!"
Xiao Man listened to the terrifying monster's voice, even though her flesh and soul were already trembling.
But she still mustered up her courage and used all her strength and will to control her body.
She had to buy time!
Buy time for the children in the village to escape!
Even if it meant death!
Thus, she clenched her teeth and used her remaining spiritual energy to summon a few more sword rays.
She knew that she was fragile and vulnerable in front of such a monster.
However, as long as she could stall it for even a breath, it would be good.
For every breath she stalled, the chances of the children in the village escaping would increase.
She even shattered a special sachet in her arms to make her flesh and soul more delicious to the monster so that the monster could chew a few more mouthfuls.
That was the sorrow of this world.
Immortals and gods had long been a term of the past.
Even demons had become a term of history.
After the fall of the sky, the otherworldly demons swarmed in.
Between heaven and earth, countless great cultivators were caught off guard and were taken advantage of by these invisible and intangible Heavenly Demons.
Their souls became a delicious meal for the Heavenly Demons.
And their bodies were occupied by the Heavenly Demons and turned into tools for the Heavenly Demons.
Only Sword Cultivators, and only Sword Cultivators, were able to survive this unprecedented catastrophe by a fluke.
The other cultivators were all devoured by the Heavenly Demons and their bodies were stolen.
They became monsters that were neither human nor ghost.
They became a disaster between heaven and earth!
Just like this monster, this deformed monster.
Its body was a great cultivator of the Core Formation stage!
Recalling this, Xiao Man closed her eyes. She had the courage to die, but in the end, she didn't have the courage to watch herself die.
She felt that the stench emitted by the monster was getting stronger and stronger.
The twisted and evil Spiritual Qi on its body was also constantly pressing towards her.
"Goodbye..." Xiao Man said in her heart, "The elders in the village..."
"Goodbye..."
"Master... Uncle... Senior Sister..."
One familiar figure after another flashed through Xiao Man's mind.
She was still full of attachment to this world.
But it was precisely because of this that she had to die generously.
For her family, and for everyone!
Someone had to be sacrificed!
But …
Xiao Man suddenly couldn't sense the aura of the Core Formation stage Heavenly Demon.
She also didn't feel the pain or torture of her body or soul.
The surroundings were quiet …
And …
Xiao Man found that the spirit energy around her body seemed to have dried up.
Without the supply and support of spirit energy, her body was inevitably falling rapidly. This was something that couldn't be helped. She was just a sword cultivator who had just built the foundation. A sword cultivator who didn't even have a sword pill still needed to rely on the spirit energy of the outside world to support herself.
She opened her eyes.
There was a gray fog in front of her.
She couldn't even see her fingers.
That Core Formation stage Heavenly Demon had already disappeared.
There was only fog around her.
The sky was fog, the surroundings were fog, and even the ground was fog.
This fog was a world made of fog …
Her body, on the other hand, continued to fall in this world.
"Could it be..." Xiao Man was puzzled, "I met a Mirage Demon?"
Legend had it that in the ancient times, there were Mirage Demons.
They swallowed and spat out the Mirage Mist, trapping travelers in the illusory world they created.
But the problem was …
Mirage Demons were usually by the sea, or even in the deep sea.
Moreover, they only appeared in ancient legends.
After ancient times, there were no more witness records.
So …
This couldn't be an illusory environment created by the Mirage Demon.
And soon, Xiao Man knew that her guess was correct.
Because, she fell to the ground.
She fell from the fog to the solid ground.
Pa!
Her body made contact with the ground, making a crisp sound.
Fortunately, as a sword cultivator, even if she was just a sword cultivator who had just built the foundation, her body was still strong.
Therefore, she didn't suffer any injury at all. She jumped up from the ground with a carp jump.
The fog in front of her was still deep, and she couldn't see anything at all.
But …
Xiao Man jumped on the ground. The ground was hard and flat.
"So..." Xiao Man thought, "There are people or intelligent creatures here!"
Moreover, they must be creatures that could communicate.
Because, like the Sky Demon, although it had intelligence, it was an evil creature that only had the impulse to kill and destroy. It would not be able to build anything.
Creatures that could build, even if they were demons, were ten thousand times better than the Sky Demon!
They could even become allies!
This was the common sense of people after the fall of heaven.
In the face of a greater crisis, the demons and the human race had long abandoned their past grudges and stood together hand in hand.
Therefore, Xiao Man couldn't help but feel a little happy.
But …
This fog was too thick.
She couldn't see her surroundings clearly at all, nor could she see the road clearly.
She could only be like a headless fly, bumping around in this fog.
Suddenly, her foot seemed to have touched something.
It was soft …
Xiao Man tried to kick it, and it felt a little physical.
She squatted down and touched it with her hand.
What she touched was a cold, deformed corpse.
Just touching the corpse, Xiao Man felt her hair stand on end, as if she was a mortal who had encountered a tiger or leopard.
She swallowed and continued to touch it.
She felt the protruding scales and the hard, misshapen skin beneath them.
When she touched it again, she touched a piece of cold metal.
She picked it up and put it in front of her eyes to take a look.
Xiao Man was silent.
This was a token of the sect master. On it was engraved: Green Mountain Token!
This was the token of the sect master of the Green Mountain Sect!
Legend had it that the Green Mountain Sect was founded by Master Qing Shan.
Before the fall of heaven, the Green Mountain Sect was the largest sect in Green Mountain County, and the sect master, Xuan Qingzi, had already cultivated to the late stage of Core Formation.
Xiao Man took a deep breath.
Naturally, she knew that this corpse was most likely the monster whose body had been stolen by the Heavenly Demon, whom she had ambushed and attacked earlier.
Sizzle … sizzle …
Xiao Man heard a strong sound of flesh and blood being corroded coming from the place in front of her.
As she listened, her nose caught a whiff of a fragrant scent.
It was a bit similar to the strange fragrance that descended when a cultivator formed his core in the legend.
Xiao Man swallowed her saliva. She squatted down and touched the corpse on the ground again.
She didn't touch anything.
It was as if there was nothing on the ground before.
That corpse, the corpse of the great cultivator of the Core Formation stage, the body of the great cultivator that had been stolen by the Sky Demon, was evaporated completely in the blink of an eye by something in front of her.
Even the clothes and utensils were all evaporated.
"Impossible!" Xiao Man was extremely shocked.
Because this was beyond her knowledge and common sense.
As everyone knew, after the fall of the sky, the immortals and gods were no longer there, and the Sky Demons no longer had anyone who could suppress them.
These terrifying monsters caused countless demonic disasters between heaven and earth.
As they killed and devoured more and more humans and demons.
The bodies of these monsters began to distort and deform.
From then on, ordinary weapons and spells could no longer hurt them.
Moreover, these monsters also had all kinds of unimaginable abilities.
Immortality was one of them — even if they were killed and chopped into pieces.
After a period of time, these pieces of flesh would come back together and become more dangerous and terrifying monsters.
There was only one way to prevent them from resurrecting — burning all the flesh and blood of the Sky Demon.
However, this was only a temporary solution.
Because the Sky Demon without a physical body was only driven back to the void.
But the sky fell!
Therefore, it would still crawl into the world through the hole between the void and heaven. As long as it found a cultivator's body that could be stolen.
Then, it would come back again.
This was the terror and terror of these things!
Therefore, after understanding these things, both the demon race and the human race had forbidden anyone from practicing other methods other than the way of the sword.
But …
In this place, in this fog, Xiao Man witnessed the body of a Core Formation Stage Heavenly Demon being evaporated by some special power.
What did this mean?
Xiao Man was a little excited.
Because she knew that there was a power that could destroy the Sky Demon here!
Suddenly, Xiao Man saw a light source flickering on the ground not far in front of her.
A green halo was circulating.
She walked over, reached out, and picked up the glowing object.
It was a spherical crystal.
It was about the size of a pigeon's egg, and it felt warm to the touch.
Xiao Man took a closer look and saw wisps of cyan light emanating from the crystal from time to time.
"This is..." Xiao Man said solemnly, "a Core Formation stage cultivator\'s golden core!"
The golden core was the symbol of a Core Formation stage cultivator.
It was the foundation of one\'s cultivation!
Legend had it that if a Core Formation stage cultivator could give birth to a Nascent Soul in his golden core, then he would step into a whole new realm and become an existence qualified to comprehend the path of longevity.
But after the fall of the heavens, there were not many people in the entire world who could step into this realm.
Because, the soul of a great cultivator of this realm had a fatal attraction to the Sky Demons.
Even if it was a sword cultivator, other than abandoning the sword, there was no other pursuit. A sword cultivator with a firm Dao heart could not escape the fate of being besieged by countless Sky Demons and falling.
What surprised Xiaoman even more was that there was a distorted afterimage within the golden core, and it was struggling and wailing.
If one looked carefully, Xiao Man recognized it.
That was the remnant soul of the Sky Demon!
"Hiss!" Xiao Man held the golden core in her hand and sucked in a breath of cold air. "In this fog, even the Sky Demon can\'t break free..."
"It was destroyed by the power of this fog!"
"Only this wisp of remnant soul avoided evaporation because of me!"
"What exactly is this place?"
Xiao Man asked herself, but she didn\'t have an answer.
She knew that even the immortals and gods before the fall of the heavens did not have an answer.
Because, before the fall of the heavens, the Sky Demons also existed.
However, at that time, the immortals and gods guarded the world.
Any Sky Demon that slipped into the current world would be found and expelled by them.
Expel!
Even the immortals and gods could only expel and not completely destroy the Sky Demon, but here, in this fog, there was no way to escape. They were evaporated and destroyed by some kind of power.
At this time, Xiao Man suddenly saw that in the depths of the fog, there was a light source that was illuminating the surroundings.
There was someone there!
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