Book 12: Chapter 13: Beast of Destruction

Part 13 Beast of Destruction

Underground drainage system, deepest part.

The massive underground space shaped like a calabash was filled with the demonic qi of the Demonic Cult.

Whether they were an ordinary person or someone who had mastered internal energy, if they contacted and observed it the demonic qi of the Demonic Cult left them with no choice but to have their physical bodies eroded and their minds corroded, turning into madmen.

Those who had tracked the Demonic Cult for a long time the members of the Demon-Subduing Evil-Destroying Squad, had also become half-mad for this very reason.

And.

What the Demonic Cult hiding in Luoyang took as the source and foundation of their demonic qi was here.

It was the deepest part of the underground drainage system.

However, the bizarre entity shuddered.

“W-What…?!”

Gooooooo-.

The demonic qi surging from the Dark Venerable's body was conversely eroding the suffocatingly thick demonic qi of the Demonic Cult.

“You bastard—!”

The bizarre entity was formed from the fusion of countless corpses and the mouths of the corpses tangled to that entity opened and sucked in the surrounding demonic qi.

And the demonic qi sucked in like that was concentrated in the organ that could be called the mouth of the bizarre entity and shot toward the Dark Venerable.

“———-!”

In its aftermath, the calabash-shaped deepest space was uncontrollably shaken and even the massive underground drainage system spread across almost all of Luoyang vibrated as if an earthquake had occurred.

So strong was the demonic qi shot out grgrgrk, grgrgrgk.

The bizarre entity was pushed backward by its own force, to the point where its hundreds of feet scraped the floor, casting sparks.

However the demonic qi of the Scripture of Controlling Darkness and Shaking the Heavens, with the reins of the Dual Principles Mind Art completely released, transcended imagination.

“Is this mere amount all you have?”

In the middle of the thick dust and the vortex of demonic qi in all directions, the Dark Venerable's pale blue ghost fire flashed and suddenly, a snow-white hand popped out.

Then, it ripped away the lower jaw of the giant mouth that the bizarre entity was gaping open wide.

It was already at a level that could not even be called grip strength.

Just as the Dark Venerable had walked while tearing away all the corpses forming the passage he tore away from the giant body the corpses that were tangled together to constitute the mouth, as if plucking them out.

Splat-!

From the torn surface, black blood that had long lost its vitality soared like a fountain.

“Grruuuh-!”

How could the already dried and long-rotted nerves of the clump of corpses feel any pain?

Yet, the bizarre entity wailed as it felt a terrible, sharp pain.

It was proof that it was conversely being eroded by the demonic qi of the Scripture of Controlling Darkness and Shaking the Heavens.

Thump, thump.

When the giant body took backward steps from that sharp pain, the underground space vibrated from that alone.

“After instigating those ignorant people, deceiving the world, and trapping them in pain so they can neither live nor die,” tapat!

The Dark Venerable climbed up that giant body on all fours and sneered from on top of its head.

“Do you yourself, in fact, wail at a mere pain of this level?”

This time, it was the upper jaw.

The fingernails formed by the demonic qi of the Scripture of Controlling Darkness and Shaking the Heavens dug deep into the upper jaw.

“Aaargh-!”

“Kruuuh-!”

The corpses constituting the bizarre entity screamed in pain.

If an ordinary person had been here, their eardrums would have burst and their brain would have been concussed from that scream alone, but to the Dark Venerable, it was merely nothing more than a singing voice.

Crunch.

The Dark Venerable, stepping firmly on the head, grabbed the upper jaw and began to rip it off.

Tear-.

As greater force was applied to the Dark Venerable's feet stepping on the giant body, the corpses screeched while being crushed under his feet, and the corpses tangled together to form the upper jaw desperately clung to each other to not fall off, but rip-!

“Gaaah-!”

The more the Dark Venerable bent back and pulled the upper jaw, the limbs of the firmly tangled corpses instead broke off and flew away, and even waists were pulled out, chests were torn apart, and the eternally rotting organs spilled out in streams.

“Uooooo-!”

Only then regaining its senses in the midst of the sharp pain, the bizarre entity violently clapped its giant hands together toward the Dark Venerable on top of its head.

Boom-.

At that immense power, the air screamed and the underground space shook.

It was an impact powerful enough to crush the corpses forming the giant hands all at once.

The corpses that had formed the hands were miserably shattered and fell to the floor in streams.

However “You said you would overthrow the State of Zhongyuan and destroy the world,” but the Dark Venerable was already no longer in that spot, and his voice was heard from below.

“And is that resentment and determination only of this level?”

The corpses forming the lower body reached out hands to try and grasp even the hem of the Dark Venerable's clothes, but instead, the hands that had grabbed the hem of his clothes began to burn up.

“Ack!”

“Feeling wronged by the pain you yourselves received, you try to make even the innocent wail,” and every time the Dark Venerable ran low between the giant body and the ground, extending hands like claws, the things caught in his hands were randomly torn away, and the legs supporting the bizarre entity were cut off in chunks.

“Pouring out lost anger, you resent those who strive to live uprightly even at this very moment.”

“Uaaah-!”

Eventually, when it lost more than half of those many legs the bizarre entity could not withstand its own massive weight.

Thump-.

The giant body collapsed onto the spot, and the remaining legs were crushed and mashed under that weight.

“Those who cannot even support their own weight discuss the weight of the world with those mouths.”

“Dark Venerable–!”

At the Dark Venerable's outright sneer, the infuriated bizarre entity shouted with its torn mouth.

“Not yet! I…!”

The faces hanging on the torso also screamed together.

“We are not done yet!”

“It does not end like this!”

As if responding to those voices, weird screams were heard from the passages connected to the deepest layer, and new corpses began to fall from the ceiling.

“Grruuuh!”

“Uuuuh!”

And the bizarre entity swallowed the corpses falling like rain with its mouth that had only a throat remaining.

As what appeared to be the esophagus wriggled and passed the corpses inside, the lost legs grew back, and corpses sprouted and tangled.

“How bitter!”

“How resentful!”

The already giant body grew even larger and newly created a snout like that of a beast.

Yet, even after seeing that bizarre sight the Dark Venerable snorted.

“It is a futile effort.”

The bizarre entity created giant fists and repeatedly struck the floor.

The floor broke, the walls collapsed, and blood and flesh splattered.

However, not a single drop of the Dark Venerable's blood and flesh was mixed in.

The ghost fire starting from the white mask stretched long like a beast's tail, and the bizarre entity merely broke the floor and the walls.

“Dark Venerable!”

Hundreds of voices shouted simultaneously.

“We will see how long you can maintain that demonic qi!”

Flashing his pale blue teeth, the Dark Venerable countered.

“I will see how long you can maintain that body.”

Black blood poured, and flesh and organs splattered.

The reality distorted by demonic qi strangely poured corpses through the passage relentlessly, and the bizarre entity continued to maintain its size and carry out repairs with those corpses, but for some reason, the Dark Venerable's demonic qi showed no sign of decreasing.

“Uuuuuh-!”

The bizarre entity, along with a weird scream,

Boom-!

Struck the floor with its fist once more, but with a low shout, this time, the Dark Venerable conversely countered that giant fist.

“Hup!”

A roar as if a Heaven-Shaking Thunder had exploded shook heaven and earth, and the giant arm exploded and scattered as it was.

“——–!”

Screaming unintelligible shrieks with hundreds of mouths, the bizarre entity realized.

Far from decreasing, the Dark Venerable's demonic qi was only increasing from beginning to end.

“Just how…?!”

The pillar-like leg with a mouth that was asking that exploded once more.

“Just what are you…?!”

The shoulder with a mouth asking that was torn to shreds.

Screaming in pain with its limbs and entire body, the bizarre entity realized.

The opponent, the demonic qi of the entity called the Dark Venerable was not simply eroding its demonic qi.

It was devouring all of its demonic qi.

And it was growing stronger by that much.

This was not a battle.

It was now being eaten alive.

“Aaargh-!”

The bizarre entity squeezed its remaining demonic qi, pulled up four arms at once, and struck the floor and wall simultaneously.

Boom, boom, boom!

The wall of the deepest layer, which was already half-ruined, began to collapse.

As the wall supporting the immense pressure of the underground broke and began to crumble underground soil began to pour in like a tsunami beyond it.

‘I must escape!’

The bizarre entity climbed up the collapsing wall.

With its tattered entire body while scattering corpses into the air.

‘I must escape from him!’

It began to flee to survive.

Writhing its giant body, the bizarre entity, which ascended against the wall and soil pouring down from the collapsing ceiling, shoved its head into the passage.

It was the passage Yeon So-hyeon had entered.

“Gaaah!”

When it squeezed that absurdly giant body into the narrow passage, the corpses forming the outer layer, the body, were torn away like being peeled while screaming, but crunch, crunch.

“Aaah!”

As soon as the bizarre entity succeeded in crawling into that narrow passage somehow, it crawled frantically.

The corpses stuck in the narrow walls on all sides were ground away, and its body decreased by that much, but the bizarre entity did not stop.

No, it could not stop.

‘Why did I misunderstand…?!’

Because the Dark Venerable was also an entity that went around leaking demonic qi, it had mistakenly thought it understood that.

It had mistakenly thought it knew about that.

“Aaargh!”

A sharp pain rushed.

He was grabbing and tearing away the torso that had not yet entered the passage.

“Uaaaaaaaaah!”

The walls of the passage that it desperately gripped were pulled and torn away in streams.

Clearly, its side was of an overwhelming size but it felt as if a giant were pulling it from behind.

However, the desperate resistance paid off.

Snap-!

In the end, the torso, unable to withstand the forces applied in opposite directions, broke and tore off.

Chew, chew.

Hearing the sound of chewing something from behind the bizarre entity, which had only a fraction of its size remaining now, crawled desperately.

‘He was not of our kind…!’

He was a demon, but he was a demon that devours demons.

His appetite was endless.

Behind it, crawling desperately along the passage with its body stretched long and winding like a snake the Dark Venerable was following while tearing apart the remaining torso.

The guy burst into a mad laughter and was gradually getting closer to the direction of the head, tearing through its body as if flowing backward.

The remaining body was being cut away from behind.

It was being eaten.

Unlike itself, which was losing its body and losing its demonic qi he was only becoming stronger.

“Kahahahahaha!”

That was the Dark Venerable was not their kind, but a natural enemy.

‘He is completely incompatible with us…!’

It was fear.

“Uaaaaaaaaah-!”

The scream cut off there.

Splat-!

It was because the last remaining head was torn and split open.

The Dark Venerable, who had torn apart the torso and climbed up along the throat, had finally reached the head.

“Gurgle…”

In the hand of the Dark Venerable, who was drenched in black blood and pieces of rotten organs all over his body, the last struggling corpse was held.

The Dark Venerable's mouth stretched wide, forming a smile.

“I finally caught you.”

An obese body that looked like several people combined, with a toad-like face.

Although it was a corpse rotting away in real time even now the Dark Venerable accurately knew its identity.

“Geum-jil.”