Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Chapter 1031: Chapter 574: The Emergence of a Strange World, Birth of the Hungry Great Ability

After extracting no new information, Sha Jiutong let out a sinister laugh, exerted a forceful kick with his foot, and instantly shattered the man’s internal organs, killing him instantly.

Zhao Sheng sighed lightly, scanning the others, and noticed that Gong Sanzhang’s expression was anxious, looking as if in despair.

"I knew something was wrong here! We’ve been in here for less than two months. Yet that dead man said they had been inside for almost five months. A time difference of three months... Hmph, it doesn’t match at all!" Gong Sanzhang suddenly yelled hysterically.

"Taoist Sha, Master Hei! If I’m not mistaken, the issue lies with the flow of time. Do you recall how long it took for us to follow those in front into the corridor?"

"Hmm, this humble monk recalls it was about three keystrokes."

"Hehe! Three keystrokes equal ’three months’ here. From the time we entered, only two keystrokes have passed in the outside world. Is it really so short?"

Zhao Sheng nodded, smiling bitterly, "Based on the information we have, it indeed seems that way!"

"Infinite Immortals and Buddhas! Could this be the power a True Immortal possesses? Truly unimaginable!" The Black Monk put his palms together, a rare expression of terror crossing his face.

"Hehe! Whether it’s the work of a True Immortal or not, we are now pawns crossing the river, with no retreat. Let’s go!"

As he spoke, Sha Jiutong bent down to pick up the two corpses on the ground, along with the half-dead Bo Hua Wanderer, slinging them over his shoulder. He then strode swiftly towards the depths of the Skeleton Land.

At this moment, the massive corridor walls on either side had already become extremely distant, like two towering peaks reaching up to the sky, majestic and perilous.

...

Unconsciously, another two months passed.

"Hmm, new Great Power Crystal Bones?"

Zhao Sheng saw amidst a pile of bones ahead, several scattered, gleaming bones, feeling a slight thrill.

Bang!

Splash——

Zhao Sheng leaped to the front of the bone pile, kicking the bones apart, and with a wave of his hand, several crystal bones floated up and swiftly fell into his wide sleeves.

Just then, a fragmented blade resembling a horse-slaying saber caught his eye.

Zhao Sheng reached out to pick up the fragmented blade, holding it in front of his eyes for a closer look.

"Ten-thousand-year-old Xuan Iron! Unfortunately, all its spiritual nature has vanished, and the Treasure Restriction has dispersed completely. Otherwise, even a trace of spiritual nature remaining would be worth over ten thousand Spirit Stones."

Feeling slightly regretful, Zhao Sheng casually tossed it back to the ground and then hurried onward.

Crunch, crunch, crunch...

Zhao Sheng and the Black Monk walked closely together, maintaining a constant distance from Sha Jiutong as they moved forward.

Just three days ago, after devouring three corpses, Sha Jiutong suddenly attacked Gong Sanzhang, quickly transforming him into something new.

Rather than feeling any regret for the food he shared, Zhao Sheng realized Sha Jiutong had fallen too deeply into a demonic state, unable to turn back.

Through months of exploration and summarization, Zhao Sheng discovered that the Prohibition in the corridor not only altered time and space, but also continuously drained human Primordial Qi.

It actually concealed a more insidious "killing move."

The environment here could unknowingly amplify human inner desires.

For instance, the most obvious "appetite."

Hunger drove men to lose their minds. When extreme hunger set in, one would naturally resort to cannibalism.

Once cannibalism started, the unique environment here would magnify the desire to eat humans exponentially, eventually making escape impossible.

Zhao Sheng vaguely suspected that if there were no more people to eat, the cannibal might just devour themselves completely.

Hmm?!

As he trudged forward across the endless white bones, Zhao Sheng suddenly looked up at the sky, filled with astonishment.

At that moment, sparse "dust" drifted gently from the sky.

This dust resembled bone ash from burned bones or perhaps some unknown type of ash, gray-white and scattered.

Landing on the ground, it layered a thin gray coat over the countless bones.

Zhao Sheng extended his right hand to catch a bit of the "ash" falling from the sky.

But before he could examine it closely, his vision blurred, and all the ashes inexplicably vanished into thin air.

"Master, did you see that?" Zhao Sheng pointed skyward, asking gravely.

"Infinite Immortals and Buddhas! This old monk’s eyes are dull; I don’t know what Baimei Tanyue saw?" The Black Monk responded, bowing.

"Nothing! Perhaps I made a mistake."

Although he said this, Zhao Sheng did not believe he was mistaken.

He held his breath, focusing his attention, and once again surveyed his surroundings.

In an instant, the ashes reappeared in the sky!

Looking at the "ashes" that landed on his shoulders, Zhao Sheng instinctively shook his shoulder, trying to shake them off.

However... the ashes stuck tightly to his shoulder, not moving an inch.

By this time, the ashes had already fallen on his arms and all over his robe. Zhao Sheng secretly exerted his strength to shake them off, but he couldn’t make the ashes fall to the ground.

They seemed to be in a different space-time, ordinary means couldn’t touch them at all.

Seeing this situation, his mind turned quickly, and the brilliance of his will surged onto his body surface in an instant, like electric light sweeping away all the ashes that covered his body in a flash.

Seeing this, Zhao Sheng felt relieved, and the brilliance of his will turned into a "light film" that enveloped his entire body, completely separating his flesh from the ashes.

...

Clang~

A long, rusty knife was casually thrown back on the ground.

"Tan Yue, I’ve collected three more Jade Bones. Here, take them!"

Zhao Sheng brushed off the rust and reached out to take the Great Ability Bone handed over by the Black Monk, then openly and without hesitation put it into the Sumeru Space right in front of him.

Immediately afterward, a Thousand-year-old Spirit Ginseng appeared out of thin air in his hand.

Over the past few months, as he continuously took out various foods, the secret of the Sumeru Space could not be concealed for long.

Since it couldn’t be hidden, he decided not to hide it at all!

Zhao Sheng pretended to say this was his natural talent, and Black Monk and the others believed it so easily.

Later, he learned from Black Monk that all people chosen by the Burial Immortal Ruins possessed special talents related to space-time.

For example, Black Monk’s talent is the "Chang Chun Body," which is manifested by a metabolic rate much slower than ordinary people. The essence of this talent is that the flow of time "slows down" on specific individuals.

Zhao Sheng handed the Thousand-year-old Spirit Ginseng to the Black Monk, while his eyes swept over his body.

At this moment, the Black Monk’s entire body was covered with a thick layer of ashes, yet he was completely unaware of it.

Zhao Sheng sighed silently, looking ahead, only to see the land covered in pale ashes.

On the ashes, there grew clusters of furry, twisted, swaying "fungal filaments."

The "fungal filaments" stretched into a continuous blanket, like an endless fungal carpet.

Looking up into the air, countless tentacle "mushrooms" were floating everywhere.

These "mushrooms" extended from the sky to the ground and were found everywhere. The large ones were like floating islands, while the small ones were like dust particles.

Underneath the fleshy-looking umbrella canopies, hundreds of meat-like tentacles curled out, seemingly twitching and waving according to some rule.

Of course, such a terrifying sight couldn’t be seen in a normal state, it could only be glimpsed when the brilliance of will gathered in the eyes.

Suddenly, a sticky and wet sensation quietly brushed past his neck.

It felt like an octopus tentacle slowly wiping over the skin, giving a bit of a creepy feeling.

Zhao Sheng was secretly startled and instantly dispersed the brilliance of his will.

In an instant, that sticky and wet sensation vanished into thin air.

As his vision returned to normal, the pervasive ashes, fungal carpet, and tentacle mushrooms all disappeared, leaving only the land covered with skeletal remains.

Half a day later, Sha Jiutong suddenly threw back his head and howled insanely: "Roar... there is food!"

Before the words finished, a pile of white bones, over ten feet high, several miles away in front, exploded into pieces.

A white shadow, moving astonishingly fast, darted out from below and surged directly toward the three of them.

Sha Jiutong let out a creepy laugh, suddenly turning into a black shadow, fiercely crashing into it.

Boom, boom...

A black and a white stream of light frantically engaged in a fierce battle on the Skeleton Land, and a large number of bones were ground into ash, quickly raising bone dust within several miles.

For months, seeing a living unknown life form here for the first time greatly shocked Zhao Sheng.

"Roar!"

"Heh heh!"

Sha Jiutong and the opponent fought from the sky to the ground, the battle between the two sides was fierce and intense, and it was evenly matched.

"Who... who can actually survive until now?"

Zhao Sheng was full of wonder, he enhanced his vision to the extreme, only then could he clearly see the opponent’s emaciated figure, with all muscles reduced to a thin layer of skin tightly clinging to the bones.

However, it was still possible to see clearly that the opponent’s bones were as transparent as jade, revealing that this person was a Great Ability above Returning to Void.

However, it seemed due to having slept for too long, this person’s strength had already declined to the extreme and had completely lost sanity, biting and not letting go of Sha Jiutong relentlessly.