Destiny is ashes

Chapter 54: Cave Monster
The sleep that follows a state of tranquility through meditation is called "concentrating the mind and nourishing the body", also known as "fetal breathing".

This is the optimal rest mode. The mind is quiet, in a state of dreaming and not dreaming, with just the right amount of consciousness to coordinate with the body's instincts, consuming the nutrients stored in the body, repairing and shaping the body in a perfect way.

One or two hours of focused sleep can meet the daily needs of an ordinary person. Even if one is injured or weak, he can adjust by sleeping more.

After waking up, An Jing felt full of energy and refreshed. Although there were still some dull pains in his muscles and his injuries had not yet completely healed, this was only because there was insufficient nutrition in his body and the time was too short.

"I'm in good shape."

With his heart beating vigorously, An Jing stood up and jumped smoothly from the beam to the ground: "Is there anything unusual?"

On the forehead, the mark of the sword spirit slowly retracted into the skin: "No. Nothing happened."

"Good." An Jing's eyes were bright at this moment, and his spirit was restored to its peak again. He glanced around: "If you attack me when I just arrived, I can only exert less than half of my strength. If you attack me when I am resting, you can only exert 60% to 70% at most."

"And now, I can at least exert 90% of my strength."

Regardless of whether the possible spiritual expert monster is there or not, it is watching carefully from the side or waiting for its prey to fall into the trap.

At least An Jing has restored his condition to the best possible state.

After resting, An Jing began to check the two roads.

The way they came from is naturally the way the corpses came from. In other words, it is the road leading to the 'exit of the ruins'.

The way out is the way the corpses came here and wanted to explore in depth, the way leading to the 'depths of the ruins'.

Both An Jing and Jian Ling felt that going deep into the ruins was not a good idea: "Even professional exploration teams have failed here. With our strength, going deeper would mean death."

However, it is necessary to explore the situation of the way forward.

The way out is located at the side and rear of the ancient ruins attic, a deep and winding corridor deep into the ground. An Jing felt that there seemed to be gusts of moist hot wind blowing out of it: "Is this a hot spring underground? There seems to be other ventilation holes..."

He shook his head slightly, with no intention of exploring further - the presence of heat and water meant there was a high probability of life.

The deeper you go, the greater the danger.

And the way here...

"Something has been here."

When An Jing reached the edge of the passage behind the corpse, he suddenly stopped, and the sword spirit was quite curious: "Oh? How did you see that?"

An Jing frowned as he looked at a corpse he had looted: "After I looted it, I deliberately placed this skeleton here and stacked it up."

"But now, the bones are scattered and show signs of being trampled."

An Jing half-crouched cautiously, holding the jade dagger in his hand, observing the footprints, but he couldn't tell what kind of creature's footprints they were: "Strange, not animal prints, not hoof prints, not shoes, monkeys or anything like that..."

"Instead, it looks a bit like some kind of reptile, with tentacles crawling around. Could it be an octopus from an underground hot spring? An octopus that eats brains and souls?"

"No, it's not an octopus either. It's more like..."

Grassy vines.

An Jing saw some fluorescent marks on the runover corpse.

He thought of the fluorescent vines in the underground cave behind him.

I hid in the attic of the ruins, away from the fluorescent vines, so I rested for three hours without being disturbed. ——Huh.

A barely perceptible cool breeze blew by.

Without any hesitation, An Jing turned around and slashed his palm with the jade dagger!
The Blood Evil Sword condensed in an instant, and then, as An Jing turned around, twisted his waist, and stretched out his arm, it transformed into a full red arc of light, slashing straight at the black shadow that suddenly appeared behind him!

Puff! Something was cut open, and the sound of liquid splashing was heard, but accompanied by a strange howl, the scattered vines suddenly turned into seven or eight whip shadows, whipping towards An Jing!

But at this time, An Jing did not retreat but advanced. The whipping only caused great damage at the extremities, and was powerless when it was close to the body.

The blood-killing sword in his hand was extremely sharp. When he swung it, the roots were severed, just like cutting paper and separating oil, cutting mats and cutting grass. In an instant, four or five vines were cut off.

Then, An Jing held the long sword in both hands, and the sword light flashed, piercing straight into the center of the black shadow's body.

Then, with a crisp cutting sound, An Jing pulled and cut the monster's body into two pieces!

But at this moment, An Jing, who was slightly relaxed, heard the sword spirit's reminder: "Collect your mind, be alert!"

"This monster is not dead yet!"

"Yes, this is a vine!" An Jing reacted immediately. If everything was as he guessed, it would be impossible for the monster to die because its body was cut off!

Sure enough, the next moment, all the fluorescent vines in the entire cave suddenly lit up!
Its color is incandescent and its shape is like a net, illuminating this dark and gloomy underground cave as if it were daytime!
At the moment of bright light, an invisible soul shock spread out, and the soul shock that was enough to kill a warrior in the Inner Breath Realm instantly filled the entire cave.

At the same time, the vine aggregate that was cut in half began to wriggle again, trying to pounce towards An Jing!

However, apart from shaking his body, An Jing still held the sword tightly in his hand.

A blood-red halo flashed by.

The arm tightly grasped the hilt of the sword, then swung it, leaving a trail of red flames, with a sharp edge, and slashed out three swords, one vertical, two horizontal.

Wherever the sword passed, the oncoming vine cluster split into four parts, then six, and then eight.

These sword energies were just like the sword that An Jing swung out when he broke through his inner energy. The force was so powerful that it broke through the body, leaving traces on the ground and splashing dust all over the sky.

The vine aggregate, which was cut again, collapsed to the ground, and the many fluorescent vines that had exploded with mental shock also dimmed, and the entire cave fell into darkness.

Only An Jing's eyes were left, and the sword in his hand was emitting flaming blood.

"It's easier to deal with than I thought. It's an ambush monster."

After completely defeating his opponent, An Jing heaved a sigh of relief and shook his head wearily.

With the protection of the sword spirit and the blessing of his fate, An Jing's mental resistance is indeed not low.

Especially since he had been on guard and was alert in his heart, the full force of the vine monster's attack on his soul only stunned him for a moment and he felt a stabbing pain in his head, but he was not unable to move.

These killer moves had little effect on An Jing, so what followed was naturally a massacre. After An Jing took a breath, he planned to cut these vine aggregates into small pieces and make them into sauce to kill them completely.

However, when he cut halfway, An Jing also discovered something unusual.

A human skull.

(End of this chapter)