The Legend of the Devil
Ch. 108 - The Jungle of the Demons
The night came. Xue Zhan scratched the stone wall with one line where he counted the days during his stay in the Gorge of Regret, the other two weeks passed, Xue Zhan started to successfully master the three basic movements of the Thousand Tree Mountain.
Xiang Yi Bai slightly laughed, "I'm sure you won't count how long you stay here again. It's no use."
The sharp blade he had obtained from the corpse stopped scratching the wall, Xue Zhan then turned around while raising one eyebrow. "Absolutely not a teacher? Oh yes, Master has been here for 20 years."
The young man again added, "But the Devil of Sin says he knows Master ... I wonder how old the teacher really is?"
"Guess yourself, having a brain worn instead of being used as an accessory."
If Xue Zhan were to stab the knife into his heart, it would probably hurt just like Xiang Yi Bai said. The boy cursed inwardly for a moment and then said, "Fifty years?"
"Not."
"Sixty? Sixty-five?"
"Wrong."
"Seventy?"
Xue Zhan could not believe that Xiang Yi Bai would agree to it, for a face as young as that 50-year-old figure was still possible. But 70 years at least there was a slight wrinkle on the man's face.
As far as Xue Zhan had seen Xiang Yi Bai did not have a single frown on his face. The skin was like ivory-white porcelain, clean but stiff. Therefore from the beginning Xue Zhan had thought Xiang Yi Bai was a fake human.
"More."
Xue Zhan was astonished, "where might ninety years be? Or even a century?"
"I must have forgotten that too."
It should have been since the beginning that Xue Zhan was more polite to Xiang Yi Bai, but that man was almost the same as his Teacher Kang Jian who was not too awkward like the old man. As Xiang Yi Bai was busy by himself, Xue Zhan was deep in thought.
It turned out that mastering the three moves was not too heavy, all this time Xue Zhan forced himself to follow what Xiang Yi Bai had exemplified, the movement followed the way Xiang Yi Bai's body moved instead of the way his body moved. As a result, his training faltered until it took four months.
As Xue Zhan followed the move in his own way, he discovered his own fighting style. Nimble but also intense, in contrast to the neat and purposeful Xiang Yi Bai.
"Heh, seriously so your face is like a monkey holding back the call of nature. Quickly eat this."
Xue Zhan turned his head, Xiang Yi Bai gave the food like death porridge stuffed into a large shell as a container. He endured the nausea as a pungent smell assaulted his nose.
"What the fuck?! Arrgh smells like chicken shit!"
"Botten boy, this is a potion to add to your growing strength like that snail. Spend it!"
There was a pungent smelling black mushroom mixed with Green Crab eggs of the River Gorge of Regret that was more rotten than rotten chicken eggs, plus the smell of strange fruits, the, the fruit lives on the walls of the ravine and has toxins that can make stomach pain. Xue Zhan closed his nose intending to run away.
While Xiang Yi Bai was chasing while carrying his cooking around to Xue Zhan, he was republishing nonstop.
If you look at the scene at a glance it is like a mother is forcing her child to eat vegetables.
Xue Zhan had already eaten the black mushroom alive and had instantly fainted.
"Bocah busuuuk!! Come here, spend this if I don't want to drown!!" angry Xiang Yi Bai.
"Noooo! Whoever saved me!!" Xue Zhan sought help from Bai Ye, but the dragon instantly turned into a sword—fear being the target of that stomachache herb.
Xiang Yi Bai moved a thin little cloth from his robe that instantly chased and wrapped around Xue Zhan's waist, dragging him back next to Xiang Yi Bai. The child was crying blood, Xiang Yi Bai really had no heart and made him swallow all the food, even Xiang Yi Bai would vomit.
"Just like a whiny, haven't met a fried lizard, maybe just saw the Gate of Death." The man's nagging seemed endless, Xue Zhan began to feel his stomach in pain.
"Fried lizards?" The young man held his stomach. For a moment he regretted asking, that question invited the next catastrophe.
"Right as well, Loreng lizard. One year after the death of my best friend I was imprisoned in one of the highest places in the Regret Trench, there Loreng Lizard lived, they had great properties but were also extremely poisonous. If you're able to neutralize the poison, I'm sure the demon will help with a lot of your inner energy development."
"Gu-teacher I don't want—"
"This loreng lizard only lives in places with extreme temperatures, there is one waterfall with very hot water in this place. They live in the cave behind the waterfall and have a very long life, can be up to fifty years. The largest can be twice as big as your body."
Xue Zhan shuddered in horror, eating an ordinary lizard he was unable to. It ate a lizard demon that was twice the size of an ordinary human?
On the other hand Xiang Yi Bai still explained at length, "Only one year have I been there and my depleted strength has returned so quickly it has even increased. I'll teach you three moves tomorrow morning, after which you go straight there and practice. Before the new year's night arrives try to master it and return to this place. If not, don't think about going back."
Usually Xue Zhan was always hungry because Xiang Yi Bai did not let him eat freely. But now it feels better not to eat two months than every day to eat lizards. Whatever the bug, Xue Zhan was amused to death. Especially with cockroaches.
At the base of the Gorge of Regret there were many places that Xue Zhan had yet to visit. After the extremely cold Ice Cave there was one place that might reach hundreds of thousands of meters following the hemisphere of the ravine, the terrain was dangerous and inhabited by ferocious demons. If Xue Zhan had gone there himself, Xiang Yi Bai was sure he would have died before touching a distance of a hundred meters.
Originally Xiang Yi Bai had also fallen in that place before coming to this place which was much safer. The place was hot and became a haven for warm-blooded demons. Crocodiles, snakes, lizards, insects or other animals live breeding there.
"Why so suddenly ... Know this I'll train even harder ..."
"You've been training really hard, kid. I'm not telling you to be aimless. Where's your hand."
Xue Zhan let Xiang Yi Bai check his blood pulse, the man nodded.
"There are signs your Second Gate will open. You can speed it up by consuming that Loreng Lizard. Looking at your body's recovery ability I'm sure you can still live after eating that poisonous demon even if it's only 40 percent possible."
"Teacher..." Xue Zhan. Unable to live alone in danger. He was used to the way of teaching Kang Jian who was like an angel, this Xiang Yi Bai was like a demon. Or his ancestors the demons.
"There's no but-but. Prepare your survival gear tomorrow."
Xue Zhan was like being told to leave her stepmother's house. Xiang Yi Bai returned to his cabin and lay down, before going to bed he still had a chance to nag.
"Tiduur, rotten boy."
Accept it or not, once Xiang Yi Bai said so it was already irreversible. Xue Zhan could only accept fate. For the next few weeks he must survive alone in the jungle of dangerous demons and train his abilities independently. There's no guarantee he'll survive. Moreover, it must consume toxins every day. Just imagining it, Xue Zhan started to get scared.
But Xiang Yi Bai was right, if he wanted to be strong there was no such thing as an easy path, this was the only way. He had many enemies in the upper world, all of them powerful and powerful. If he wanted to defeat them, he had to be stronger than his enemy.