"Bam!"
Lu Sheng's knifehand and the minotaur's palms did not make contact, but there was a loud thud. Both of them were swept away.
"Secret Art, Cloud Refining!" Black smoke flashed around Lu Sheng, and a pale white flame exploded in front of him. The flame was surrounded by rune-like white chains and rushed toward the minotaur.
The minotaur's right eye also glowed red. A black crow flew out of its pupil and pecked at Lu Sheng.
"Caw!"
The black crow grew larger and larger. Its wings grew from a few meters long to seven or eight meters long, almost blocking Lu Sheng's vision. All he could see were black feathers.
The pale white flame and the black crow collided. Both shattered at the same time, sending white fire and black mud flying in both directions.
"Die, worm!" The minotaur took a few steps back, trying to put some distance between them, and clawed at Lu Sheng.
But between the exploding white fire and black mud, a black shadow dashed out, drawing a straight line in the air.
"Hiss!"
The black shadow dodged the sharp claws and slid down, leaving a huge wound on the minotaur's arm.
"Descent of the Divine Shadow!" The minotaur roared. Black mud poured out of the wound on its arm, trying to pull Lu Sheng in like a living creature.
At the same time, all the shadows in the cavern turned into living creatures and rushed toward Lu Sheng.
Shadows engulfed him in all directions.
Lu Sheng's arms drooped. Large amounts of Prime Devil Qi surged out and formed two huge black sabers in his hands.
"Hiss!"
Purple and black Eight-Headed Divine Beads circled around the blade. He didn't even try to dodge. Instead, he charged straight at the bull's head.
The saber flashed.
"Hiss!"
With a crisp sound, the minotaur's body was torn open from top to bottom.
The dark red flesh in the wound wriggled and charged toward Lu Sheng, trying to pull him into it again.
"Bam!" "Bam bam bam bam!"
Just then, a series of purplish-black flames exploded from the wound. The Eight-Headed Divine Pearls were all exploding, and the flames quickly spread across the minotaur's huge body.
"Ahhh!" It howled in pain. The surrounding shadows also quickly retreated and lost their vitality.
Lu Sheng landed lightly on a boulder and raised his head to look at the deer-antlered minotaur in astonishment.
Originally, he was prepared to use his full strength to fight against this guy who looked very strong. However, the moment the Eight-Headed Divine Pearl appeared, the purplish-black flames seemed to be extremely powerful. The moment they touched it, they spread and burned the minotaur's body.
"What kind of flame is this!?" The Minotaur's entire body was ignited at this moment. He rolled around, trying to make his body roll on the stone wall to extinguish the flames, but it was useless.
Soon, as time passed, the entire Minotaur's body began to melt. Large chunks of charred flesh fell off, and more bones and muscles melted into boiling magma-like liquid, flowing into the depression on the ground.
In less than a moment, the huge minotaur with antlers completely dissolved and disappeared.
"This …!?" Lu Sheng was still in the Yin Yang Integration Mode. His two-meter tall body was like an exquisite work of art. His body was slender and perfectly proportioned, and he was covered in pure mirror-like scales. Coupled with his slightly swaying tail, he didn't look like a human from afar. Instead, he looked more like some kind of demon in human form.
"Logically speaking, the Eight-Headed Divine Pearl is only a special flame developed from Yin Fire. No matter how powerful it is, it shouldn't be this powerful. It can easily kill a monster that's at least above the upper three tiers. " Lu Sheng walked up to the corpse of the minotaur and carefully examined the boiling red liquid around it.
"Did I not encounter a sealed demon, or is this Eight-Headed Divine Pearl too powerful?" Lu Sheng was uncertain.
After the death of the minotaur, there was a white wooden door that wasn't too big or too small.
There was a staircase drawn on the wooden door that led downwards. Because the drawings were extremely realistic, it was easy to mistake it for a real stone stairway if one was in a trance.
Lu Sheng walked up to the wooden door and pulled lightly. There was no response. He pushed again, and the door slowly opened.
Inside was another equally huge cavern.
But this cave was deeper than the minotaur's cave. The opening of the wooden door was at the top of the cave.
Lu Sheng looked inside.
There were no demons in the cave. There was only a huge altar in the center. There were more than half of the sacrificial offerings on the altar. They were all raw and unprocessed. Some of the meat had already dried and molded, while others were completely black and dried.
Strangely, there was a small and exquisite wooden sculpture of a minotaur with antlers in front of the sacrificial offerings on the altar.
The brown wooden sculpture was already covered in cracks. It was so damaged that it was about to shatter.
"Could it be … that the one I just encountered wasn't a demon, but a monster formed by the contamination of Demonic Qi?" Lu Sheng understood. With a light leap, he jumped into the second large cave.
As soon as he entered, he heard what seemed to be countless people whispering in his ears, murmuring something.
"Demon's Contamination Field …" He had a similar ability. The Snake of Jealousy had this ability. Since it was a secret art created by imitating Devils, Lu Sheng's polluting force field was pitifully weak compared to the evil murmurs that were currently ringing in his ears.
Lu Sheng landed lightly on the altar. He stood in front of the wooden sculpture and picked it up.
But as soon as he touched it, the wooden sculpture broke into pieces. It was obviously completely damaged.
"No wonder it was so weak. It was just a monster that was contaminated and mutated. "
He threw the wooden sculpture away and looked at the altar in front of him.
"If that's the case, then this altar should be used to seal real devils." He noticed that there were countless complicated runes carved on the edges of the altar.
These runes were almost the same as the ones he saw in the Secret Arts Hall. Of course, the style of the runes was the same, but the complexity of the runes here was much higher than in the Secret Arts Hall.
If the complexity in the Secret Arts Hall was one, then the complexity here was dozens, or even hundreds. The difference was obvious.
Lu Sheng walked around the altar. He quickly noticed a stone tablet that was half sunk into the ground at the side.
The stone tablet was only a dozen steps away from the altar. There were strange and curved words written on it. Lu Sheng did not recognize the content.
But when he walked around to the back, he saw that behind the stone tablet, someone had written many words in the ancient Song language.
Lu Sheng moved closer to read it. Among the words, the most obvious line was slightly protruding to show the difference.
"The ninth altar at the mouth of the Demon Abyss, sealed by the Shadow Demon King. Danger Level C "
This was the content of the words.
There was a similar line of words above this line.
"The tenth altar at the mouth of the Demon Abyss, sealed by the Dark Cloud King of the Moon Demon Race. Danger Level D "
Lu Sheng frowned, and continued to look down.
"The eighth altar at the mouth of the Demon Abyss, sealed by the Chaos Demon Lord of Madness, danger Level B."
"The seventh altar at the mouth of the Demon Abyss, sealed by the Chaos Demon Lord of Ice Sand, danger Level A."
"The sixth, fifth, fourth, third. The second and first altars were all blank and blurry. He did not know if it was because there was no one sealed, or because too much time had passed, but the words were blurred.
'There's no' caution 'at the end of the words. It seems that the lower the rank, the more powerful the sealed devil.' Lu Sheng guessed. After reading the content of the stone tablet, he walked around the cave a few times but did not find any other clues.
It was just that the evil murmurs in the air made him a little irritated and annoyed. Even with his Devil Body, he had a similar force field and was very resistant to it. But someone was still chanting in his ear, and it made him very annoyed.
'I wonder who left this seal. Could it be a Weapon Master of the ancient Song Dynasty?' Lu Sheng returned to the altar.
'Forget it. I'll go back first and seal this place to prevent others from entering by mistake.' Since he did not find anything, Lu Sheng did not plan to stay here for long.
He turned around and was about to rush back to the door.
"Crack …"
Suddenly, he heard a faint cracking sound.
"This is …?" Lu Sheng stopped in his tracks and quickly turned around to look in the direction of the sound.
At a corner of the altar, there was a crack.
It was pitch black inside the gap. Large amounts of thick Devil Qi roiled about, and it was very similar to the thick Devil Qi in the River of Poisoned Fog.
"This is …" Lu Sheng finally understood where that extremely tempting and delicious smell came from.
"Come … Come … Such pure Devil Essence … You won't find it anywhere else outside of here …" An evil and gentle voice rang in Lu Sheng's ears.
This voice was hidden among the countless murmurs and was inconspicuous. Even Lu Sheng did not notice it.
'Such pure and thick Devil Qi … Absorbing it here for a day is equivalent to absorbing it outside for at least half a month!' An extremely strong desire welled up in his heart. Lu Sheng happened to lack large amounts of Devil Qi for his Devil Body to transform his body. Now that he saw the large amounts of high-purity Devil Qi in the gap, he was also tempted.
In the depths of the altar, in the pitch-black, enclosed space, a pale face without a hint of blood was staring greedily at Lu Sheng who was standing outside.
Through the Devil Qi, outsiders would be lured in and devoured in large amounts, contaminating them. Their bodies and minds would gradually become lost, causing them to hallucinate and be digested. Then, they would be dissolved into a part of their own strength.
This was one of the methods he, King Shadow, had used to expand the gap in the altar.
Lu Sheng walked over step by step and sat down cross-legged at the gap in the altar.
"Hiss …"
Countless Devil Qi swirled around him and was quickly sucked into his mouth and nose.
"Eh? Not bad. His body can actually withstand such a rapid absorption … the aura on his body … he should be a pure human. "Inside the altar, King Shadow was slightly surprised." Are the bodies of humans so strange now? Interesting. "
Half an hour later.
Lu Sheng suddenly stopped. He stopped absorbing the Devil Qi and stood up.
"What is he doing? Is he going to leave? That shouldn't be the case. My Devil Essence itself has a strong allure, and I don't feel any spiritual reaction. "King Shadow continued to observe, puzzled.
Then, he saw Lu Sheng walk to the gap in the altar and shove his entire head into it.
His mouth opened.
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