Chapter 168

  Having learned from past lessons, Tang Yin no longer dared to collide head-on with it, either dodging with agile movements or drifting away with a dark shadow.

  Exerting his physical skills and Shadow Drift also required stamina and spiritual energy, but the monsters seemed to be unaware of fatigue, attacking incessantly, wave after wave. As time went on, Tang Yin couldn't hold out either. Now he had two options: either drill into a small hole and run away or stay and kill the monster.

  Escape, not Tang Yin's style, and he was unwilling to escape like this. Such a huge monster, it must be the legendary ancient demon beast. If he could absorb it, his cultivation would increase by how much? But how could he absorb it? The monster's skin was thick and its flesh was hard, and it didn't fear his spiritual sword or dark fire at all.

  Watching the monster charge towards him again with no signs of fatigue, Tang Yin steeled himself and thought to himself that he had nothing to lose. He stood his ground without retreating, ready to clash head-on with the monster. The monster didn't fear him at all; seeing that he wasn't dodging, it charged forward even more fiercely, its mouth wide open.

  Plop!

  The monster rushed to Tang Yin's side, and with one bite, it had him in its mouth. Then, with a crunching sound, the teeth ground together, but instead of crushing Tang Yin, they squeezed his sickle out of his hand. Cursing under his breath, Tang Yin reached out to grab it back, but the monster spat it out like a projectile, and with a loud "plop", the sickle flew away.

  Bang!

  The sickle crashed into the stone wall and fell to the ground. Without the support of its master's spiritual energy, the sickle returned to its original form and turned back into two ordinary curved knives.

  But for Tang Yin, losing his weapon was fatal. He was struggling to escape from the monster's mouth when it suddenly raised its head and swallowed him whole with a gulp.

  Damn it! Tang Yin rolled into the monster's belly, cursing incessantly in his heart.

  However, there was no oxygen in the monster's belly, and there was no time for him to curse. Tang Yin's body was tightly pressed by the meat wall filled with digestive juice, and the digestive juice stuck to Ling Kai immediately made a hissing sound, quickly corroding. If Tang Yin couldn't get out of it immediately, he would be melted alive by the monster's digestive juice even if he wasn't suffocated to death.

  He gritted his teeth and suddenly mobilized the spiritual energy, covering his entire body with dark flames. Originally, he thought that the monster's thick skin would not be afraid of the burning of the dark flames, but its internal organs would definitely not be able to withstand it. However, this time he was wrong again. The dark flames came into contact with the monster's digestive fluid and were extinguished instantly, just like fire meeting water.

  Finding that his Dark Fire was ineffective, Tang Yin's head buzzed with fear. This time he was truly scared - if even the Dark Fire couldn't harm the monster's internal organs, how could he possibly escape? Was he really going to die inside this monster's belly?

  Tang Yin once again employed his spiritual energy, causing the spiritual armor on his fingertips to grow sharp claws. He then frantically tore and scratched at the surrounding flesh walls, but their tenacity exceeded his imagination. Even with the spiritual armor transformed into claws, he couldn't tear them open, instead provoking the monster's digestive fluids to secrete more violently.

  The oxygen in his body was getting less and less, Tang Yin's physical strength was also getting weaker and weaker. What was even more fatal was that the spiritual armor on his body had been severely corroded, dissolving layer by layer, and was about to corrode into his flesh.

  Now, Tang Yin only has one choice left, which is to immediately use the soul burning in the Dark Fire. However, the soul burning can only cause harm to monsters. If he can't make it work, he will die inside the monster's belly.

  Life and death were only a line apart, the desire to survive stimulated Tang Yin's will, making every nerve, muscle and even every cell in his body tense.

  He summoned his last ounce of strength, opened his palms, and let out a loud roar. Suddenly, his palms ignited with black flames that grew stronger as he continued to shout, until finally, a faint blue glow emerged.

  It's wonderful, the flame is black, but the fire core is blue, and the blue light is getting stronger and stronger, dazzling and eerie.

  Tang Yin didn't know what extent his released Dark Flame had reached, but this was his final blow at the moment of life and death.

  All the spiritual energy in his body was concentrated in the dark fire on his palm, and then his palm slapped heavily into the intestinal wall of the monster.

  Sizzle——the digestive fluid touches the dark fire of the blue heart, instantly evaporating.

  "Waaaah——Waaaah——"

  The monster suddenly let out a mournful cry, and the originally bright red flesh walls around Tang Yin instantly dimmed, along with the digestive juices attached to them all disappearing.

  The dimness of the flesh wall spread rapidly, and the strands of spiritual energy that grew with it automatically drilled into Tang Yin's body. At that moment, Tang Yin felt as if he had merged with the monster, and he could clearly feel the monster's thoughts, even empathize with its joys and sorrows, and sense everything it had experienced.

  This is the soul burning in the dark fire.

  One hundred percent absorption of a living being's spiritual energy and capture of their soul, incorporating it into one's own body for personal use.

  Rumble!

  The monster's massive body shook a few times, and then crashed to the ground. For a moment, the cave fell into a dead silence, as if time had stopped, leaving only the monster's belly heaving up and down.

  It was unclear how much time had passed, perhaps it was a few minutes or several hours. At this point, those humanoid monsters that had originally fled in disarray began to emerge from large and small caves one after another, communicating with each other through eerie cries, and then slowly approached the fallen monster without prior agreement.

  They walked cautiously, as if a monster would crawl out of the ground at any moment and swallow them whole. Soon, a humanoid creature approached the giant creature, plucked up its courage, poked the creature's body with its hand, saw no reaction, and poked it several more times. The creature still showed no response, and it excitedly let out a series of loud howls.

  Affected by it, other humanoid monsters also swarmed forward, tearing and beating against the giant corpse.

  At this moment, the monster's belly began to inflate rapidly, like a balloon being blown up constantly. The humanoid monsters standing on it cried out and fell down one after another. Before they could figure out what was happening, there was a loud bang, and the corpse's belly suddenly exploded open. Then, Tang Yin, clad in his suit of armor, walked out step by step from inside.

  At this time, the spiritual armor on his body had changed, with layer upon layer of texture appearing on its surface, like scales. The spiritual armor on his fingers and toes extended outward, as if they had grown sharp claws. Looking at his eyes again, a faint green light flickered, and with a cold gaze, he looked even more monstrous than these humanoid monsters.

  The eyes could not see objects, the humanoid monsters did not know what happened, but they also keenly sensed the approaching danger. No one made a move on Tang Yin, and the many monsters dispersed in a hurry, hiding far away, quietly listening to Tang Yin's movements.

  Now, Tang Yin's soul was burning with the absorption of the monster's spirit and soul. The vast and pure spirit caused his cultivation to undergo a qualitative change again, directly flying from the Lingyuan realm to the Lingtian realm. After merging with the monster's soul, his spiritual armor also changed quietly, with an additional layer of scales formed by the condensation of spiritual energy on the outside, making it even more durable. At the same time, he also possessed the monster's night vision, and even in such a dark cave, he could see clearly as if it were daylight, seeing every corner of the cave clearly.

  This is the wonderful use of the Dark Fire Soul burning.

  "Haha......hahaha----"

  Tang Yin raised his eyes and looked around, then stretched out his hand. In the space of a thought, black flames and blue fire sparks danced in his palm. He first smiled lightly, then threw back his head and laughed loudly, the sound of his laughter shaking like thunder and echoing in the cave for a long time without dispersing.

  Whoa! The humanoid monsters hiding around him were shocked by his laughter, their eardrums aching without him even lifting a hand. The monsters quickly scurried into the small holes in the stone wall.

  After reaching the Ling Tian realm, Tang Yin also wanted to try out what was different about himself from before. He bent down and picked up his dual blades, merging them into a scythe, then his body moved like lightning, flashing into a cave entrance.

  The cave is complex and interconnected, with many paths leading to vast underground spaces. It's like a huge underground labyrinth, and exploring it thoroughly would take at least a few months. Even the subterranean creatures that live here haven't traversed every nook and cranny.

  Tang Yin chased and killed for a while, after absorbing more than a dozen monsters with his soul burning, he retreated.

  Whether it was due to his cultivation improvement or the absorption of the humanoid monster, his hearing and sense of smell had also become much more acute than before. This expedition into the depths of the cave had already brought him great benefits.

  He returned to the circular pit where he had just arrived, looking at the monster's corpse, feeling very strange, after all, he had just absorbed the monster's soul.

  Leave its corpse behind, estimated to eventually become a meal on the plate of other monsters. Tang Yin releases the dark fire of death burning, incinerating it.

  The essence of the monster has been burned out by the soul, leaving only a shell. After death burns out, such a huge body does not even produce a wisp of spiritual energy.

  Having disposed of the monster's corpse, Tang Yin took a deep breath and headed towards the massive cave from which the creature had emerged.

  Because he absorbed the monster's soul, Tang Yin obtained all its memories. So after entering this cave, he seemed to be familiar with it and didn't take any detours or twists and turns. He came to a spacious cavern, which was different from other caverns in that it was filled with green crystalline stones, like quartz but also like precious gems. Tang Yin casually picked up two larger ones before exiting the cave.

  He didn't know if these crystals counted as jewels or not; bringing back a sample for Fan Mian to take a look would reveal its value.

  Tang Yin no longer stayed in the cave and quickly climbed up along the vertical and long passage.

  When he came down, he didn't know what the situation was below, so he crawled with caution and at a very slow speed. But when he came out, he was triumphant and extremely fast, using his curved knife to insert into the stone wall, making a vertical jump to rush up two or three meters, then continuing to climb up again with his curved knife inserted into the stone wall.

  When Táng Yín came out, the sky was pitch black, and the mountains and valleys were even more frighteningly dark. Strange cries occasionally pierced through from all directions.

  He no longer pays attention to those black beetles, and is too lazy to think about finding them. He slightly recognizes the direction and then heads straight back to where he came from.