Cultivation through Skin Making novel Chapter 449

Chapter 449: 188. Hiding the Trump Card, Entering the Void (7.4K characters - Major Chapter, Please Subscribe)_4

After speaking, she waved her hand and another Jade Bottle appeared.

She held it in her hands, looking at it with a pained expression, then waved it to give it to Song Yan.

Song Yan took the Jade Bottle and quickly stored it away.

Though there was still no news about the "Heaven-Stealing Pill" that Ancestor Yanzhang was supposed to procure, having these extra cards wasn’t bad either.

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Time passed, leaving less than a year until the Void Ruins opened...

The era of the Dark Calamity had passed nearly eighty years, with large swathes of cities turning to ruins, lands suitable for mortal survival becoming scarce, and the population significantly decreasing. Many of the first generations of mortals who witnessed the dawn of the Dark Calamity era had already turned to dust.

Mortals are witnesses to the Dark Calamity era, but mere passersby.

The transition of eras is always slow, even for newborns, who only need to endure these decades. Once people die, who cares if floods overwhelm the world.

Those truly facing this catastrophe are the cultivators.

The stronger the cultivator, the more anxious they become!

And because of the True Spirit Fragment, cultivators from various races and even ordinary sect cultivators were stronger than their peers from thousands of years ago.

However... the True Spirit Fragment is ultimately a consumable. They were only preserved a bit in ancient tombs or some underground ruins, and now, after decades of consumption, are thoroughly exhausted. This means this revival of cultivators will become a mere echo, and the comprehension of future cultivators will return to normal.

A large amount of Netherworld’s Qi erupted in the barren lands, with more Celestial Calamity Beasts emerging from all directions, starting to extinguish these Netherworld’s Qi.

Yet, no matter how the Celestial Calamity Beasts attack, they can only temporarily disperse and alleviate the Qi but cannot eliminate it from the root.

This makes each outbreak of Netherworld’s Qi bring increasingly severe consequences.

Fortunately, for now, the Celestial Calamity Beasts have the upper hand, and the Netherworld’s Qi can only give rise to a batch of "ghost teams", which would then be torn apart by the Celestial Calamity Beasts like a storm.

Cultivators formed a "Flesh and Blood Great Wall" at the borders to resist the Celestial Calamity Beasts, and occasionally powerful cultivators would venture deep into the disaster areas to slay the Celestial Calamity Beasts.

At this moment...

An extremely horrifying scene was unfolding on a dust-covered empty ground.

The corpses of Earth Beasts piled up into mountains, mixed with a few Wood Beasts.

A figure wearing a Ghost Face stood before this mountain of Calamity Beast corpses, gradually removing the Ghost Face and opening his mouth.

His mouth opened wider and wider, suddenly spraying out cold, stiff, deathly silent black tree roots like a tide of snakes, writhing and twisting, swiftly penetrating these Calamity Beast corpses.

Then, those tree roots began absorbing life energy.

It seemed insatiable, so the roots continued to spread.

Suddenly, a strange tree leaped out from the mouth of Corpse Demon Song Yan, it was the Nether Tree, also known as Manjusaka.

The branches of the Manjusaka, as black as iron, had already produced two bronze-colored leaves, like two small palms reaching for the sky, rustling in the wind.

Originally, the instant Manjusaka appeared, it would attract a massive amount of Celestial Calamity Beasts, even disasters, because of emitting Netherworld’s Qi.

Yet now, when Manjusaka was exposed to sunlight, nothing happened.

Its Netherworld’s Qi continued to disperse, rising into the sky, yet no disaster occurred... until the Netherworld’s Qi drifted away, and only then did a huge commotion sound in the distance.

Its leaves faced the sky, seemingly obscuring the detector of heaven, these small leaves blocking the world’s examination.

Manjusaka climbed up the mountain of Calamity Beast corpses to digest.

Corpse Demon Song Yan, on the other hand, was setting up various illusion arrays beside them.

After one day, the corpses of the Celestial Calamity Beasts were completely devoured.

Manjusaka returned to the belly of Corpse Demon Song Yan.

These actions were their routine, something they did daily for years.

But today was clearly different. One man and one tree seemed to have a realization, suddenly concealing their presence, heading in the direction of the Formless Ancient Race.

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Two months later...

On the outskirts of a human town.

The number of cultivators defending against the Celestial Calamity Beasts greatly decreased because the Mountain and Sea Demon Race invaded from the south, and many cultivators were called to support the south.

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