Chapter 351: Chapter 259: Completely Unable to Understand the Human Thought Process (Part 2)

A look of agony twisted the Demon Fiend’s ghastly face, and the vast Red Fog behind it instantly dispersed.

"Kill me, and your Buddha’s Son dies with me!"

he roared.

Qing Xin paused for a fraction of a second at these words, but he continued to pour a massive amount of black mist into the Demon Fiend’s body.

"You damned monk!"

The Demon Fiend, not expecting Qing Xin to pay it any mind, cursed in agony.

The next moment, its partially melted body swelled rapidly. What remained of its flesh and blood exploded once more, splattering everywhere in a shower of gore.

By the time Qing Xin collected himself, the Demon Fiend’s aura had vanished without a trace. It had obviously escaped.

Still in his Arhat form, Qing Xin frantically searched the area, but found no trace of the Demon Fiend.

Suddenly, he detected a disturbance in the distance. A massive amount of Demonic Qi was converging on his position, including the auras of several Zombie Gods.

Qing Xin froze. With a final, reluctant glance around, he stomped his foot, and his towering figure transformed into a black shadow, fleeing into the distance.

He had failed to rescue the Buddha’s Son. For now, he could only choose to retreat.

「Many miles away, in a forest.」

CRASH! A vast number of trees collapsed, pulled by some immense suction toward a single point.

An endless stream of Red Fog coalesced into the Demon Fiend’s body. But now, the gaping wounds and torn flesh across its form were rapidly sealing shut.

It had activated the Power of Rules from the Forbidden Artifact Fragment again to escape Qing Xin.

However, activating the Power of Rules twice in such a short time had invited a swift backlash. The price was now coming due.

The toppled trees were drawn toward it. The Life Force they contained was faint, but in this land ravaged by Demon Fiends, there were no other living creatures to be found.

Its flesh liquefied, ensnaring the uprooted trees and dragging them into its body in an attempt to devour them.

If it couldn’t find enough Life Force to supplement its own in time, it would fall into a state of extreme weakness. That was the price.

Once weakened, even someone at the Visceral Stone realm could kill it.

Fortunately, the forest was dense. Though the Life Force in each tree was minuscule, devouring the entire forest would be enough to offset the cost.

A violent commotion soon erupted from the woods, as if the mountains were shaking and the earth was splitting. After a little over ten seconds, a wide clearing had appeared where the dense forest once stood, the soil churned as if it had been plowed.

’Not enough... Still not enough... I need more...’

The red glow in the Demon Fiend’s eyes had dimmed considerably. It had to devour more Life Force, and fast.

But just as it charged toward the other side of the forest, it suddenly collapsed, its entire body wracked with tremors.

A look of shock appeared on the Demon Fiend’s ghastly face.

’What’s happening... My flesh... My flesh and blood...’

Alarming cracks began to spread across its body, covering it like a web of fractures on a piece of porcelain about to shatter.

Inside its furnace-like body, its flesh and blood were rapidly disappearing!

’Was this that old monk’s doing?’

’No!’

’That old monk’s aura is gone, and I already purged the remnants of his Power of Rules from my body. It can’t be him.’

Then it suddenly remembered the person trapped within its body.

’It’s him! The Buddha’s Son of Great Virtue Temple!’

’But he’s only at the Late Stage of Visceral Stone. How could he possess such an ability?’

The Demon Fiend was skeptical, but a sudden, intense pang of pain from within its body shattered its doubts.

With no other choice, its body swelled rapidly like a balloon once more. A massive gash tore open, and a torrent of blood spewed out.

At the same time, a figure emerged from within the gash, reappearing dozens of feet away in an instant, drenched in blood.

As if deflating, the Demon Fiend’s body rapidly shrank back to its normal size. However, the ejected blood and chunks of flesh continued to fly toward the figure.

"It really was you?!"

The Demon Fiend stared in disbelief. The man had been trapped inside its furnace body, yet he was completely unharmed. There wasn’t even a trace of him being refined into a Demon Fiend.

’What’s going on?’

Yang An scanned his surroundings. Other than the Demon Fiend before him, he sensed no other auras.

’I can’t believe I was let out, not rescued by Qing Xin.’

’That guy really is unreliable.’

He immediately noticed the Demon Fiend’s unstable aura, a clear sign that it was suffering from the backlash of its power. Because of this, Yang An didn’t panic.

While inside the Demon Fiend, he had seized the opportunity to use the remnants of a Seal to devour a great deal of its flesh. It had been a veritable paradise of flesh and blood.

Unfortunately, he was just a little short. With just a bit more flesh and blood, he could have revived the Earth Spirit Stele, but the Demon Fiend had to go and spit him out.

Yang An’s expression darkened, and he glared at the Demon Fiend with pure indignation.

"I’m your hostage! You can’t just let me go! If you let me go, how are you supposed to threaten Great Virtue Temple? Hurry! Put me back inside!"

"???"

The Demon Fiend slowly pushed itself up from the ground. The backlash was making it weaker by the second.

It wasn’t human, so it couldn’t possibly comprehend a human’s train of thought.

But the massive, inexplicable disappearance of its flesh just moments ago had to be the work of this Buddha’s Son from Great Virtue Temple.

Moreover, this man had been completely unaffected by its furnace body. He wasn’t suffering from any backlash, nor did he show any sign of being assimilated into a Demon Fiend. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

’How could he possess such an ability?’

’Could he be under the protection of the Insect Dao?’

The Demon Fiend could think of no other explanation.