"It's best if you use your head before you speak. If you don't need it, I can remove it for you!" Li Qingshan raised his head impatiently.
"Woman!"
The long-horned beetle demonfolk let out a furious roar. His skin glowed blue as the crown on his head bulged, elongating into a huge horn that slammed towards Li Qingshan viciously.
"Be careful, venerable! He's demonified!"
Duoge called out. If Li Qingshan died, only death would await him too. He would not be able to escape the fate of being eaten.
Li Qingshan casually grabbed the huge horn. The long-horned beetle demonfolk constantly stepped backwards, but what blocked his way was like a mountain, standing firmly.
Li Qingshan pulled gently, and the long-horned beetle demonfolk felt an irresistible force. He was pulled over against his will before his neck tightened. Li Qingshan's other hand had clamped around his neck.
He used force with both hands at the same time and pulled gently. His skin and flesh ripped open, revealing Sen Bai's neck bone. Blood gushed out like a fountain. He forcefully ripped off the great head of the long-horned beetle demonfolk and tossed it away like a ball.
With a bang, it struck the gilded door and shattered, sticking to it.
Several dozen demonfolk bellowed out together, all demonified and charging over together.
… …
A while later, the corpses of the demonfolk were scattered on the ground, forming a thin layer of blood. Only the two demonfolk who only had half their bodies left continued to fight in a frenzy.
Li Qingshan made his way towards the gilded door and kicked them aside. They slammed into the golden wall with a thud and turned into a pile of mush. They merged with each other and slid down slowly.
"Duoge, what's behind the door?"
"There are many very powerful demonfolk, but there are no Demon Generals. Demon Generals can't come up? "Duoge rummaged through the long-horned beetle demonfolk's chest excitedly.
Demon Generals? They were probably equivalent to Corpse Generals! Li Qingshan pondered slightly. "Can't come up? You mean there's a prison down there? "
"Yeah, I fled up from down there, or I would have been eaten a long time ago." Duoge buried his head in his search. He did not even care about his bloodied face. "Hmm? Why isn't there anything?"
Li Qingshan recalled the Unraging monk's warning again — don't venture too deep or too far.
So that was how it was.
The Demon Suppression hall actually did not have a single floor. According to Duoge, the weaker demonfolk had fled to the very top floor out of fear of being eaten. As for those experts, they were probably suppressed at the very bottom.
"How many more floors are there?"
"Ninth floor. Ah, it's here! " Duoge said in surprise and joy. He found something from the head of the longhorn beetle demonfolk stuck to the wall and offered it to Li Qingshan with both hands. "Venerable, please enjoy."
"What is this?"
Li Qingshan saw that Duoge was holding a black tumor-like object in his hand. It was suffused with traces of green, and at first glance, it looked like a condensed, hideous skull. It exuded a strange aura, and the stench was mixed with a hint of sweetness.
He couldn't help but feel disgusted. It was as if he could see the blasphemy, corruption, and pollution, and smell the real sin.
"This is a demon heart." Duoge licked his lips.
"I don't want to."
Li Qingshan did not want to eat an unknown object that had been removed from a person's head. Although it contained power, the power did not benefit him at all. If he really ate it, he would probably have to use the power of the spirit turtle to suppress and purge it.
"Venerable One, can you give it to Duoge?"
"If you want to eat, then eat!"
"Thank you, Venerable One!"
Duoge was overjoyed. As if afraid that Li Qingshan would go back on his word, he hurriedly stuffed the demon heart into his mouth and swallowed hard. He nearly choked on it and slapped his chest before swallowing it down.
The Dauntless monk and the Unraging monk witnessed this. The Dauntless monk said, "What a fool. This will only make this little demonfolk's demonic nature even stronger."
Li Qingshan pressed his hand against the gilded door and slowly drew the Heavy Water sword. "Little Duoge is among the demonfolk. What's the most vicious thing you can say to someone? "
"You're a good person!" Duoge said after some thought.
Li Qingshan's expression stiffened. "Alright then!"
He pushed hard, and the gilded door parted extremely quietly.
The first thing Li Qingshan saw was a pair of widened eyes, glaring at him furiously. He glared at him angrily. His heart skipped a beat and the hairs on his body stood on end. He actually felt frightened.
There was actually such a dangerous enemy here!?
But when he calmed himself down, he realized that it was not a living person, but a statue of a male Devil Cultivator in his prime that was several meters tall. He was bare-chested, revealing his lean body, and his lower body was wearing a calf nose skirt.
The statue was not looking at him either. Instead, it brushed past his head, gazing at the horizon.
However, it was far too life-like, and the emotions it contained were extremely intense, almost on the verge of erupting, which was why he was mistaken.
The demon spread his arms as hard as he could. His face was twisted, his veins bulging, and his fangs protruded. Sharp claws extended from his fingers as if he was undergoing "demonification", about to engage in a great battle against an invisible enemy.
"Who are you?" "Not a demon, but a human!"
Li Qingshan stared at the statue for a very long time. Only when he heard the sounds in the surroundings did he return to his senses Just Now. All he saw was a huge, circular square around the statue. Including the one behind him, there were a total of nine gilded doors around the square.
As it seemed, this was the very centre of this "maze".
Looking at the square again, there were over a dozen demonfolk scattered around. Every single one of their auras were even more powerful than the bull demonfolk Just Now. They maintained their distance from one another, all staring at the demon statue closely.
For once, a female demonfolk had appeared among them. Clearly, it did not matter whether they were male or female. The strong were revered. There was no food here, so the only way to survive was to devour one another.
Little Ann's appearance caused another disturbance. Pairs of greedy and hungry gazes looked over.
However, compared to regular demonfolk, they were clearly better at controlling their desires. They studied Li Qingshan, estimating his strength. If Li Qingshan were a weakling, then what awaited him would be a hellish sight.
Li Qingshan glanced around, but it was like he was looking at dead people.
He sucked in a deep breath and stressed each word.
"You, are, all, good, people!"
The demonfolk fell into an uproar. They all stood up as if they had been greatly insulted.
Seeing how this worked, Li Qingshan sniggered and continued, "Your entire family are good people! You've all been good people your entire lives! "
The demonfolk were all furious. They all demonified and lunged over.
At this moment, Li Qingshan's gaze swept past them and landed on the demon statue again. He thought of something. He's not demonifying. It's the exact opposite. He's resisting demonification.
The demonfolk lunged over. The Heavy Water sword extended to thirty meters — the Siege Breaker sword.
Li Qingshan gripped it firmly with a single hand and swung it horizontally, cutting through seven powerful demonfolk. The sword qi entered their bodies and exploded, ripping them to pieces.
Li Qingshan could clearly see the shockwave of the sword qi land a few feet away from the demon statue before being blocked by an invisible barrier. He came to a realisation. The statue is probably the centre of the hall.
Li Qingshan took a step forward. With a twist of his wrist, the huge Heavy Water sword whistled back.
As if a curtain of blood had been pulled back, flowers of blood bloomed before him. They ignored the remains of the corpses and brushed past him like a storm.
Li Qingshan ignored all of this. He only raised his head and stared at it. The demon's eyes don't contain fury, but pain.
What did the statue seem to be hiding?
Only the female demonfolk fled towards the gilded door opposite to Li Qingshan. She was not driven by lust. Her desire to survive triumphed over her fury.
Li Qingshan tossed out the Heavy Water sword without even looking at it. A streak of blue light shot out in an arc, passing through the demonfolk and returning to Li Qingshan's hand.
The demonfolk was stunned before exploding loudly.
Li Qingshan finally arrived before the statue. From this angle, the demon male extended his arms towards the sky.
"He's not fighting or killing anyone. Instead, he's praying. What is he praying for? Who is he praying for? "
"I heard that as long as you can understand the secret within the statue, you can escape from here," Duoge suddenly said.
"The statue is passing on some kind of cultivation method."
Little Ann arrived behind Li Qingshan and said with certainty.
Li Qingshan rubbed his chin and nodded.
He was not a supreme prodigy like Little Ann, but the feeling the statue gave him was far too familiar.
When brother ox passed on the Nine Transformations of the Demonic and Divine to him, he had used a similar method. The eight figures of the demonic and divine still remained in his sea of consciousness, and they were definitely of a much higher level than the statue before him.
He had already comprehended the true meaning of the ox demon and tiger demon from the figures. When he looked at the statue again, he felt like it was "not that difficult to understand".
… …
"Impressive. You actually managed to see the Demon Suppression Statuary with a single glance."
The Unraging monk chuckled. When regular people saw the statue, they would only think it was a relatively more realistic statue. Who would have thought there would actually be other mysteries within it?
"Seeing it is one thing. Whether you can comprehend it or not is another."
The Dauntless monk said disapprovingly, but he was rather confused inside. Li Qingshan did not seem like a person with exceptional ability to comprehend, so how did he manage to see the mysteries hidden within the statue with a single glance?
The existence of the Demon Suppression Statuary was not a secret in the Chan Monastery of Deva-Nāga. There had been plenty of talented and clever disciples who had entered the Demon Suppression hall for training, and they had sensed the existence of the Demon Suppression Statuary. However, no one had managed to comprehend this cultivation method. They could not even comprehend the simplest first layer.
Even with the Dauntless monk's current knowledge and cultivation, he could only discover some of its mysteries. He could not truly comprehend it.
It was rumoured that this cultivation method was not prepared for the monks of the Chan Monastery of Deva-Nāga. Instead, it was for the demonic prisoners who had once been imprisoned here. It required people with extremely powerful demonic natures to cast aside their weapons, repent, and become a buddha.
However, this was clearly anything but simple. Over the past several millennia, not a single demonfolk had managed to comprehend it.
The Unraging monk asked, "If he really does comprehend the Demon Suppression Statuary, what should we do?"
Speaking of which, the Demon Suppression Statuary was the greatest cultivation method of the Chan Monastery of Deva-Nāga. Even the Chant of Deva-Nāga paled in comparison. However, because no one had managed to practise it over the past several millennia, it was not renowned.
"That's impossible!"
The Dauntless monk said firmly. Over the past several millennia, whether it was the monks of the monastery or the demonfolk imprisoned here, there had been countless people with extraordinary intelligence, but none of them had managed to comprehend the Demon Suppression Statuary. How was it possible for him, a measly Foundation Establishment cultivator, to do it?
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