Chapter 30: Cannibalism

  "Roar......"

  That enormous beast with a body as big as two zhang high and five zhang long glared at Gu Chen with its lantern-sized eyeballs, letting out an earth-shaking roar.

  Gu Chen's sudden appearance made the giant Soul Devouring Beast very unhappy. The disgust towards humans was the nature of most demon beasts.

  Even that normal Soul Beast was bitten by the giant Soul Beast until it was covered in wounds, and its eyes were filled with hostility towards Gu Chen.

  Gu Chen looked at the two-headed Nian Beast, but there was no hint of disgust on his face, only joy, with a joyful expression all over his face.

  This giant Devouring Spirit Beast is much stronger than ordinary Devouring Spirit Beasts, and has already evolved to the Innate Realm. Originally, Devouring Spirit Beasts are a very rare type of spirit beast, and those that have evolved to the Innate Realm are even rarer.

  Unlike ordinary Soul Devouring Beasts, an evolved Soul Devouring Beast must have swallowed a treasure with extremely high spiritual energy to undergo transformation. Its body will produce beads similar to those of the Demon Dan, called Spirit Essence, which is the concentrated source of spiritual energy formed after devouring the Soul Devouring Stone. This is a rare and precious treasure that can be encountered but not sought.

  Whether it's a demon or a spiritual beast, the spiritual essence has a huge effect. Taking the spiritual essence directly is equivalent to serving a top-grade spiritual elixir, and cultivation will surge explosively.

  A piece of spiritual energy is enough to drive most cultivators and some demon beasts into a frenzy.

  The giant Devouring Beast let out a roar at Gu Chen, whose cultivation was only at the fourth layer of the Acquired Realm, which wasn't even worth mentioning in front of the giant Devouring Beast's power as a pre-Heavenly human cultivator. Turning its head, the giant Devouring Beast's gaze fell on an ordinary Devouring Beast again.

  "Roar......"

  "Roar......"

  The two-headed Devouring Beast let out a thunderous roar, the giant Devouring Beast's massive jaws opened wide and it bit down on the ordinary Devouring Beast.

  The ordinary Devouring Beast's body leaned to the side, but it was unable to completely dodge the giant Devouring Beast's attack. It was bitten by the giant Devouring Beast on its lower back.

  "Ah......" The ordinary Soul Devouring Beast let out a pained howl.

  The flesh that was even harder than ore was pierced by the giant Devouring Beast's sharp fangs, and the stone pillar-like fangs were inserted into the body of the ordinary Devouring Beast. The ordinary Devouring Beast had several more wounds on its body, with fresh blood flowing out.

  However, the flesh of the Devourer Beast was ultimately too hard, and the giant Devourer Beast could only bite down on the Devourer Beast's body, but it couldn't directly bite through its back in one mouthful.

  The giant Devouring Beast's head shook, and the Devouring Beast in its mouth immediately flew over to where Gu Chen was. The Devouring Beast was one zhang tall and three zhang long, weighing at least 2,000 jin. With a single shake from the giant Devouring Beast, it flew over with even greater force. Even if Gu Chen used the Heaven Defying Body Tempering Technique, he didn't dare to take it head-on, hastily retreating and dodging the giant Devouring Beast's attack that could kill two birds with one stone.

  Hiss...

  The Devouring Beast crashed heavily to the ground, smashing out a massive deep pit.

  "Ah......" The Soul-Devouring Beast let out a mournful cry, struggled to lift half of its body, and then fell back down.

  Before Gu Chen arrived, the Nether Beast had already been fighting with the Giant Nether Beast for a long time and was covered in wounds. After being bitten on the back by the Giant Nether Beast, it heavily fell to the ground, its injuries worsening, and it couldn't even crawl anymore.

  Gu Chen stood ten zhang away from the Soul Devouring Beast, watching the battle ahead, and handed the Night Pearl to Xiao Bai, secretly clenching the Spirit Suppressing Seal in his hand.

  The gigantic Devouring Beast has already entered the Xiantian Realm, and even if Gu Chen uses the Heaven-Defying Forging Body Great Technique, he still won't have a chance of winning. He can only use the Spirit-Sealing Charm to make a final stand.

  The strength of the Devouring Beast is slightly stronger than the 9th layer of the Post-Heaven Realm, but slightly weaker than the 1st layer of the Pre-Heaven Realm. Even if this giant Devouring Beast evolves to the Pre-Heaven Realm, its strength shouldn't exceed that of the early Pre-Heaven stage. With the Spirit-Sealing Symbol, Gu Chen can explosively increase his cultivation to the mid Pre-Heaven stage, so dealing with the giant Devouring Beast should not be a problem.

  Being able to obtain the beast spirit of the giant devouring beast will make it much easier to kill the Blazing Tiger afterwards.

  The Blazing Tiger likes to live in the underground Magma Cave, where the heat is unparalleled. Even a cultivator of the Innate Realm can only withstand half of their usual power when entering this place due to the intense heat emanating from the magma. However, the Blazing Tiger's strength doubles within the magma. Unless one is a powerful cultivator of the Divine Sea Realm, it would be extremely difficult to defeat the Blazing Tiger in its lair.

  If there is a spirit, it would be different. The spirit has an irresistible temptation to all the demon beasts. Gu Chen only needs to use the spirit to lure, and he can make the Blazing Tiger come out of the underground molten cave, onto the ground, away from the underground molten fire. The Blazing Tiger's strength will be greatly reduced, killing it and taking its inner dan will no longer be difficult.

  The giant devouring beast glared at Gu Chen, still ignoring him, and took two steps to stand in front of the devouring beast. Its huge mouth opened wide, and it bit down towards the devouring beast on the ground.

  The Soul Beast had already been seriously injured, and this time it was unavoidable. It was bitten on the head by a giant Soul Beast. Although the Soul Beast's head was as big as a basket, it was still smaller than its body. The giant Soul Beast bit down on half of the Soul Beast's head.

  "Click..."

  The little half of the Devouring Beast's head was bitten off by a giant Devouring Beast.

  "Crunch, crunch, crunch..." A series of "crunching" sounds rang out, and the small half-head of the Soul-Devouring Beast was actually chewed into powder by the giant Soul-Devouring Beast in just a few bites, swallowed into its belly.

  Two-headed devouring beast fighting, it turns out they are competing for who gets to swallow?

  However, the Devouring Spirit Beast is a spirit beast that survives by eating spirit stones, so the amount of spiritual energy contained in its body must be very high. The blood flowing through it completely surpasses the spiritual energy content of the Congealed Spiritual Liquid, and what's more, the Devouring Spirit Beast's blood is naturally formed, making it even more effective than refined spiritual liquids.

  The body of the Soul-Devouring Beast is even thicker than the spiritual energy of the Ling Stone, and it makes a living by devouring spiritual energy. It's not surprising that they would devour each other.

  Gu Chen could understand this, but seeing the tragic scene of the same kind of beast devouring each other, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

  Soon, the Devouring Beast's head was almost completely eaten by the giant Devouring Beast. The giant Devouring Beast seemed to have enjoyed an extremely delicious food and forgot about Gu Chen's existence beside it, taking another bite at the Devouring Beast's head.

  The beast's head was bitten in half and it was already on the verge of death, then it was bitten again by a giant beast and instantly died.

  Seeing the giant devouring beast, he ignored him and focused on eating. Gu Chen was overjoyed and patted Xiao Bai, who understood and jumped lightly onto a nearby rock without making a sound, holding the Night Pearl that illuminated the cave like daylight.

  Gu Chen's right hand pinched, the Spirit-Sealing Charm quickly merged into his body, and his cultivation suddenly surged, reaching the realm of Pre-Heaven Fifth Layer. The first time Gu Chen used the Spirit-Sealing Charm, he was only at the Mid-Late stage of his cultivation, and could only exert the power of Pre-Heaven Fourth Layer. Now, with his cultivation already at the Post-Heaven First Layer, he could exert the power of Pre-Heaven Fifth Layer.

  If he reached the Innate Boundary, Gu Chen would be able to exert the full effect of this Low-Grade Spirit Descending Talisman and bring out the power of the six layers of the Innate.

  The innate true energy moved, and a flying sword suddenly flew out of the Qian Kun ring. The flying sword shot out a dazzling sword light that was several feet long, swift as an arrow off the string, slashing down towards the neck of the giant Soul Devouring Beast.

  "Clang......"

  Just like a sword cutting through steel, a loud clang was heard and the flying sword actually bounced back.

  Even if it were iron, being cut by Gu Chen's flying sword would still split it in two.

  But...

  Just now that sword cut down, the flying sword was actually bounced back?

  Although the artifact is separated from its body, its power will be greatly reduced, but it shouldn't be to the point where it can't even cut through the flesh of a giant Devouring Beast.

  Gǔ Chén is now being surrounded by the Ling Yu symbol, with a strength of Xiantian Realm 5th layer. The flying sword released from his Xiantian Realm 5th layer cultivation can't even cut through the giant Devouring Spirit Beast's skin?

  This giant Devourer Beast's defense is actually so powerful?

  That ordinary Soul Devouring Beast also has strength that surpasses the 9th layer of the Postnatal Realm, no wonder it only left some attack marks on the Giant Soul Devouring Beast's body. Even the flying sword released by a First Heaven stage cultivator can be withstood, how could an ordinary Soul Devouring Beast possibly cause any damage to a Giant Soul Devouring Beast?

  "Roar......" The giant devouring beast was interrupted by Gu Chen during its delicious meal, suddenly furious, baring its teeth and letting out a loud roar at Gu Chen.