Gou's Liver Experience in the World of Demons and Demons

Wherever the dark red, murderous blade of light passed, the air hissed and corroded, as if even the space itself was polluted by that extreme negative emotion. Several blades of light intertwined into a net, instantly enveloping Gu Sheng's path!

The protective aura that automatically rose from Gu Sheng's body was instantly eroded and dissolved upon contact with these murderous blade lights, just like ice and snow encountering scalding hot oil. It emitted a "sizzling" sound and was quickly eroded and dissolved, producing large swaths of dark red blood smoke with a foul odor!
A cold, violent, and destructive negative emotion, like a leech, tried to crawl into Gu Sheng's mind through the connection of the Qi and disturb his mind!

"Haha! Have you felt the power of the 'Daoist Aura' of the Venerable Realm? You mere ants of the Sect Realm, no matter how strong your physical body or how abundant your true energy, before the true 'Dao,' you are nothing but a clay chicken and a clay dog! Obey your death and become a soul under my blade, merging into this bloody aura!"

Seeing Gu Sheng's protective aura being rapidly eroded, the Bone Demon couldn't help but let out a smug and cruel sneer, as if it could already see Gu Sheng's miserable death as his mind was consumed by boundless killing intent and his body rotted away.

However, faced with this strange and domineering killing intent, Gu Sheng did not show any panic on his face. Instead, a cold, slightly mocking smile appeared on his lips.

"Daoist essence? Only those at the Venerable Realm can initially grasp it?"

He muttered to himself, his voice not loud, but it clearly pierced through the howl of the Blood Demon and reached the ears of the Bone Demon.

The next moment, something happened that made the Bone Demon's pupils shrink!

Gu Sheng suddenly withdrew the protective aura on his body that was being rapidly eroded! Immediately afterward, a pale golden aura of blood energy, more dazzling and refined than before, seemingly containing an immortal and indestructible will, erupted from his pores and acupoints like a volcanic eruption!

"Om-!"

A pale golden aura of blood and qi formed a thick, solid light shield around him! The golden aura of blood and qi, which contained Gu Sheng's tenacious martial will and the vitality of the path to immortality, collided fiercely with the dark red killing intent of the blade!
"Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!"

An even more intense corrosive sound rang out, but this time, the situation was completely different! The invincible killing intent that could break through qi and erode the mind crashed into the pale golden qi and blood shield, like boiling water splashing on snow.

However, it was still violently consuming its vital energy, emitting a piercing sound and releasing more blood smoke, but its rate of erosion suddenly slowed down several times! More importantly, the negative emotions that tried to invade Gu Sheng's sea of ​​consciousness were firmly isolated by the blazing masculine energy containing an immortal will, and could no longer affect Gu Sheng in the slightest!

"What?! This blood and qi... can actually resist the erosion of Daoist principles?!"

The sinister smile on the Bone Demon's face froze instantly, its eyes filled with disbelief.

This completely overturned his understanding! Even if a cultivator at the Sect Realm has a strong physical body and abundant blood and qi, before comprehending the corresponding Dao essence, they should be as fragile as paper when facing the Dao essence attack of a Venerable Realm cultivator! But the quality of Gu Sheng's blood and qi and the tenacity of his will were simply unheard of!

"Who told you that only those at the Venerable Realm can touch the power of the 'Dao'?"

Gu Sheng's voice rang out again, calm yet tinged with a hint of mockery.

Although the Daoist principles of the four Great Daos—the Dao of Longevity, the Dao of Fate, the Dao of Divine Revelation, and the Dao of Thousand Illusions—were not outwardly manifested within him, they quietly circulated within. In particular, the boundless vitality of the Dao of Longevity and the steadfast nature of the Dao of Fate subtly enhanced his blood and will, giving him the ability to resist or even eliminate some of the negative Daoist principles!

Before he finished speaking, a flash of starlight appeared beneath Gu Sheng's feet. He unleashed the full power of his Shadow Escape technique, his figure moving as if by teleportation. Despite the relentless, eroding killing intent of the blade, he closed the distance between himself and the Bone Demon once more! His pale golden fist was already poised to strike!

Gu Chi's face darkened completely. He realized that relying solely on killing intent and Daoist aura would likely be insufficient to quickly subdue or even stop this monstrous Sect Realm youth. Seeing Gu Sheng closing in, a fierce glint flashed in his eyes, and he no longer held back!

"Blood Fiend Chain Slash!"

He gripped the ghost-head broadsword tightly with both hands and swung it wildly, unleashing dozens of incredibly condensed dark red blade lights in an instant, weaving into an even denser web of death, attempting to slow down Gu Sheng's pace.

At the same time, his empty left hand suddenly grabbed at the empty space beside him!
"Buzz!"

With a slight fluctuation in space, a short bow, as black as ink, with an ancient design, only the size of an ordinary short bow, yet exuding a chilling and destructive aura that made one's soul tremble, appeared out of thin air in his hand!

This short bow has no bowstring, but countless fine blood-red runes are naturally engraved on the bow arm. Those runes flow slowly as if they were alive. Each flash causes a slight distortion in the surrounding space, as if they can even devour light!

The instant the dark, short bow appeared, Si Mingdao's powerful early warning ability was suddenly triggered in Gu Sheng's mind! An unprecedented, chilling sense of impending death, like a polar wind, instantly swept over his entire body, making his scalp tingle and his hair stand on end!

"Divine Weapon of the Sacred Realm!"

Gu Sheng's pupils suddenly contracted to the size of pinpoints, and his body abruptly stopped its forward momentum! He recognized the origin of this short bow at a glance—this was definitely not a weapon that a Venerable Realm cultivator could forge and fully control. The Daoist charm and pressure flowing over it were completely different from the ghost-headed broadsword that Bone Demon had used before; it belonged to a higher level of power!

This is a divine weapon truly crafted by a Saint Realm expert, imbued with the Daoist principles and rules of the Saint Realm! Although the Bone Demon cannot unleash its full power, even a mere wisp of it is something that no physical body below the Venerable Realm can withstand!
"retreat!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Gu Sheng made a decisive move, retreating instead of advancing! He activated his Shadow Escape technique to its maximum, his figure resembling a startled wild goose, rapidly retreating backward, trying to create a safe distance from the dark short bow!
"Trying to escape now? Too late!"

Upon seeing this, the Bone Demon grinned with a cruel and gleeful smirk.

The demon-headed broadsword in his right hand suddenly trembled and transformed into a viscous blood-red light.

With a "whoosh," it plunged into his own chest! In an instant, his aura surged, countless fine blood-red lines appeared on his skin, and his eyes turned blood red, as if he had transformed into a Shura crawling out of a sea of ​​blood!
He gripped the black shortbow tightly in his left hand, while his right hand moved as if to draw the string. The moment he made the drawing motion, the crimson runes on the bow's limb suddenly erupted with blinding light. A terrifying suction force emanated from the bow, frantically drawing away the immense true energy and blood essence within the Bone Demon, which had been fused with the bloodthirsty power of the Ghost Head Greatsword!

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

Three sharp, ear-ripping sounds rang out almost simultaneously!

Three arrow-shaped energy beams, each only the thickness of a thumb but extremely refined and radiating a dark red and black intertwined light, shot out from the stringless short bow!

These three arrows were incredibly fast, seemingly ignoring the constraints of space. They appeared less than ten feet in front of Gu Sheng the moment they left the bowstring! Where the arrows passed, three fine but clearly visible black cracks were carved into space, which could not be healed for a long time!

The power of the divine weapon in the sacred realm is terrifying!
The moment the death warning appeared, Gu Sheng's entire body was on edge. Faced with these three arrows that moved faster than he could think, he pushed the limits of his Shadow Escape and the predictive abilities granted by the Dao of Fate!

The first arrow grazed his left rib, and the sharp wind tore a hole in his clothes at the rib, causing his skin to burn with pain!
With the second arrow, he turned to the side and tilted his head back at the last second. The arrow grazed his chin, leaving a shallow bloodstain on his neck with its sharp edge!
However, the third arrow... was too fast! And the angle was too tricky! It was as if it had predicted his dodge trajectory and blocked all his possible escape routes!
"Pfft—!"

A dull thud of a sharp weapon piercing flesh rang out!

Gu Sheng felt an indescribable pain coming from the back of his left shoulder. The pain was not just a simple physical tear, but also mixed with a cold, eerie power that seemed to freeze the soul and corrode life!
He looked down and saw an energy arrow, a mix of dark red and black, piercing through the back of his left shoulder and emerging from his chest! The arrow had exhausted its energy and dissipated the moment it pierced his body, but blood, red with a hint of gold, gushed out from the wound like a spring, instantly soaking a large part of his clothes!
His resilient body, capable of withstanding the full force of a Venerable Realm Level 3 expert with only a white mark, was easily pierced through by the arrow fired from the Sacred Realm Divine Weapon, as if it were made of paper!

Gu Sheng's expression instantly turned extremely solemn. He quickly circulated his longevity Daoist essence and blood qi to seal the wound and prevent the strange power from further eroding it, but his heart was already filled with dread.

This is the power of a divine weapon from the Sacred Realm! Even if the user is only at the Venerable Realm, even if they can only exert a fraction of its power, it is by no means something that can be resisted by ordinary means!
The wound that pierced his left shoulder brought not only excruciating pain, but also a chilling, deathly, and eerie power that seemed capable of eroding all life and energy.

Gu Sheng instantly realized that the jet-black short bow was indeed a divine weapon crafted by a true Saint Realm expert! Even if its original owner had long since perished, the trace of Saint Realm-level rule power and aura remaining within the divine weapon was something that martial artists below the Saint Realm could not withstand with their bare bodies! That was a fundamental difference, like the difference between rotten wood and fine steel.

Not far away, Gu Chi saw Gu Sheng get shot with an arrow and his sinister smile grew even wider.

He once again assumed the posture of drawing a bow. On the bow arm of the stringless, pitch-black short bow, crimson runes flickered wildly, greedily devouring the energy within his body that had been fused with the bloodthirsty power of the Ghost Head Greatsword. At the illusory bowstring, a dark red light, even more solid and radiating a heart-palpitating fluctuation, was rapidly condensing and compressing!
"This bow is named 'Star Eclipse,' and it was the personal weapon of a certain Celestial Star Saint Lord! Although the Saint Lord has been dead for a thousand years, the trace of 'Obliteration' Saint Realm Daoist essence remaining within it is more than enough to obliterate ants like you!"

The Bone Demon's voice was hoarse, carrying a cruel pleasure, as if it were enjoying the prey's dying struggle.

He could feel the silent yet vast power within the bow responding to his call. Although his cultivation level only allowed him to unleash its full potential, it was enough to deal with a Grandmaster!
Gu Sheng's expression remained calm, as if the shocking penetrating wound on his shoulder did not exist.

Within his body, the Thirty-Six Heavenly Cave Techniques were activated to their fullest extent. The thirty-six acupoints were like thirty-six miniature furnaces, gushing forth blood and vitality. The pure white Daoist aura of the Longevity Path flowed rapidly to the wounds like the gentlest spring water.

Two bloody, mangled holes appeared on his shoulders, and the muscle tissue around them was visibly writhing, growing, and healing! The pale golden bleeding stopped quickly, and fresh granulation tissue began to grow. The icy, corrosive power that had invaded his body was gradually forced out and dissolved by the boundless vitality of the Longevity Path and Gu Sheng's own powerful blood and qi!
In just a few breaths, the penetrating wound that would have rendered an ordinary cultivator at the Human King Realm powerless had healed almost completely, leaving only a patch of new, slightly pink skin!

"Hmph! You're about to die, and you still dare to act tough!"

Seeing this, the Bone Demon's eyes flashed even more fiercely. Without saying another word, it locked onto Gu Sheng's aura and loosened its grip!
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Three dark red blood arrows, faster and more refined than before, tore through the void in a triangular formation, arriving in an instant! This time, the corrosive Dao rhythm contained within the blood arrows was even more pronounced, leaving three lingering black marks in the relatively stable space of the secret realm wherever they passed!
Gu Sheng dodged swiftly, his Shadow Escape combined with Si Ming's prediction reaching its peak. Like a willow catkin in a storm, he swayed repeatedly in the blink of an eye, narrowly avoiding the two arrows aimed at his head and heart! However, the third arrow was ultimately a fraction too fast, and its trajectory was even more treacherous!
"puff!"

Blood splattered again!
This time, the arrow pierced Gu Sheng's lower right chest, just inches away from his heart! The violent corrosive power exploded within his body, causing him to groan, his face instantly paling, and a trace of pale golden blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.

However, at the very moment that blood splattered and excruciating pain struck, a barely perceptible, warm, spiritual light, which only he could sense, flickered subtly at the Tanzhong acupoint on Gu Sheng's chest.

Using the violent fluctuations in his blood and spirit when he was injured as a cover, he quietly awakened Qin Ling'er, who had been in a semi-dormant state to recover her spiritual essence after the self-destruction of her spiritual embryo incarnation!

"Gu Sheng..."

A faint but urgent and concerned thought entered Gu Sheng's mind.

"Ling'er, I need your help."

Gu Sheng responded quickly with his mental power, but his gaze involuntarily turned once again to the pure white-gold light shining brightly like the sun above the dilapidated main hall in the distance, attracting everyone's attention!
His primary objective remained the treasure that had triggered the strange phenomenon! While the Bone Demon's interception and the threat of the Holy Realm's divine weapons were certainly troublesome, he could not afford to be trapped here and miss the opportunity to seize the treasure!
"You ants, do you see this? This is the difference!"

Seeing that Gu Sheng was injured again, although his recovery ability was amazing, his aura had obviously dropped. Gu Chi couldn't help but become even more imposing and shouted with murderous intent.

"Retreat now, and I might spare your life out of respect for Tantai Mingjing! Otherwise, the next arrow will surely take your head! Tantai Mingjing is currently being held back by my ancestor and cannot save you!" (End of Chapter)