Longevity: Starting as a menial servant in the Green Wood Sect

In the chaotic forest of rocks, the stench of blood was so thick it was impossible to dispel.

Gu An knelt on the ground, panting heavily. His lungs felt like a broken bellows, each breath carrying the scorching smell of rust. Although he had applied hemostatic powder to the penetrating wound in his left arm, the excruciating pain still throbbed against the top of his head.

"Don't stop...it's not over yet."

He gritted his teeth and forced himself to stand up. His vision went black for a moment, a backlash from the fading effects of the Explosive Spirit Pill, and coupled with excessive blood loss, he felt as if he were walking on cotton.

Gu An didn't look at the alarming deduction of lifespan on the panel; that would only disturb his mind.

He staggered two steps and grabbed Wang Mazi's ankle. The corpse, at the fifth level of Qi Refining, was as heavy as a lead stone. Gu An dragged him, step by step, toward the hollow used to lure the enemy. Behind them, a long, dark red trail of blood was left.

Wang Mazi's throat was completely crushed by the Gengjin Finger, his arteries ruptured, and scalding blood gushed out like it was free. This blood seeped silently into the ground through the cracks in the rocks, staining the grayish-white stones red and soaking the soles of Gu An's shoes.

"This place... won't work."

Gu An stopped and looked around. The terrain here was too high, and the traces would easily be blown away by the wind.

To fabricate the scene as a case of "being greedy for merit, accidentally triggering the poison array, and ultimately being devoured by poisonous insects," the body must be at the bottom of the pit where the "blood lingzhi" was supposedly buried.

The place is filled with yin energy and poisonous insects. After two or three days, the corpse will be gnawed beyond recognition, and no one will be able to tell that he died from the Gengjin Finger.

"call……"

Gu An wiped the blood from his eyes and exerted his strength again.

However, just as he dragged the body to the edge of the depression...

A faint, yet chilling, hissing sound came from beneath my feet.

The sound didn't resemble the wind; it sounded more like hot oil being poured onto raw meat, or like countless tiny mouths sucking up broth.

Gu An paused, then looked down.

The pool of blood that spurted from Wang Mazi's neck did not gather into a puddle in the low-lying area, but was absorbed by the rocks and soil below at an eerie speed.

The originally grayish-brown soil now had a layer of damp, sticky, dark red sheen.

Something's not right.

Gu An felt a chill run down his spine; an instinctive sense of crisis instantly overwhelmed him. He had been feeding the Tai Sui underground for years and was all too familiar with this aura.

Normally, that thing is hundreds of feet underground, separated by layers of seals and rock strata, its aura obscure and unclear.

But now, the rocks under my feet are no longer cold and hard; instead, they feel warm and soft to the touch.

Thump. A dull thud, no longer a vibration through the rock strata, came right under my feet.

Then came the second tone, and then the third tone.

Boom, boom, boom!

The sound was no longer regular, but became rapid and greedy, with the frenzy of a starving ghost seeing a meat bun.

The essence blood of a Qi Refining Level 5 cultivator was an absolute delicacy for that flesh-and-blood Tai Sui, which had been tormented by poison for half a month and was already starving.

The blood seeped through the cracks in the rock and dripped directly into its mouth.

"Damn it!"

Gu An's expression changed drastically. He didn't bother to set up any fake crime scene anymore. He released Wang Mazi's body and tried to retreat to higher ground.

The monster from the ground has gone mad from the smell of blood!

However, as soon as he lifted his foot, he found it incredibly heavy.

Looking down, Gu An's pupils suddenly contracted.

The soil beneath his feet had somehow turned into a pool of dark red, gelatinous sludge, like some kind of digestive fluid, with extremely strong stickiness, firmly gripping his feet.

The soles of the shoes were smoking, a sign of strong acid corrosion.

"rise!"

Gu An roared, unleashing the remaining spiritual power within his body, and was about to forcefully pull away.

Without any warning, without any cracks in the ground, and without any warning, the depression within a radius of ten feet, along with the surrounding rocky forest, collapsed entirely in an instant.

This time, it was no ordinary landslide.

The hard rock layer seemed to have turned into a fragile eggshell, with a terrifying gaping maw covered in dark red barbs and slime opening beneath it.

That mouth was so big, big enough to swallow a small mountain.

A foul-smelling hurricane surged up from the abyss, followed by a terrifying, despairing suction force.

"No--!!!"

Gu An felt a sudden lightness in his body, and then he felt weightless and fell.

Beside him, Wang Mazi's corpse also rolled down. Before it had fallen more than a few feet, it was grabbed by a thick, fleshy tentacle that emerged from the darkness. With a snap, it was cut in two, and blood sprayed out like rain, further stimulating the monster below.

"Golden Light Technique!"

At the critical moment of life and death, Gu An disregarded the excruciating pain in his meridians and forcibly squeezed out the last bit of spiritual energy from his dantian to barely activate the protective technique.

Driven by the incantation, golden light flashed across his body, and a thin film enveloped him. Although this golden light was as thin as a cicada's wing in the face of such a colossal creature, it was his only lifeline.

The collapse continued, and under this powerful suction, Gu An was still falling endlessly.

All I could hear was the howling wind and the roar of rocks shattering.

Gu An struggled to adjust his posture in mid-air, trying to grab the edge of the rock face.

But this wasn't a rock wall at all. All around were dark red, constantly writhing fleshy walls covered with barbed bone spikes, each one taller than a person, with rotten remains swallowed up countless years ago.

"Bang!"

Gu An crashed heavily into a fleshy wall. The golden light shield only lasted for a moment before shattering into countless specks of light.

Next came his copper skin. That proud defense, under the high-speed impact and the cutting of the bone spikes, was ripped open with several deep cuts that exposed the bone.

"puff!"

Gu An spat out a mouthful of blood, his whole body bouncing and tumbling between the flesh walls like a fly being swatted away, continuing to fall towards the abyss that emitted a strong acidic smell.

The true form of this Tai Sui was more than ten times larger than he had anticipated! What he had shown before was merely the tip of the iceberg.

Now that the seal has completely collapsed, the monster has hollowed out the entire underground of Ghost Valley, turning it into its stomach.

"Am I going to die here...?"

Gu An's consciousness began to blur, and the excruciating pain nearly made him faint. The downward momentum finally slowed down.

His body went limp, and instead of falling onto the hard rock, he landed in a warm, viscous, and highly corrosive liquid—the stomach acid of the Tai Sui.

Sizzle—the clothes melted away instantly, and a burning pain shot through the skin.

Gu An mustered his last bit of strength and used both hands and feet to climb onto an "island" that was floating in gastric juices.

That wasn't a stone; it was half of Wang Mazi's undigested corpse.

Gu An lay on the corpse, panting heavily, his body covered in blood and gore, looking like a demon.

He struggled to lift his head and look up at the sky.

The sliver of light that was once visible there is rapidly shrinking.

The enormous, dark red mouth was closing.

Countless buds intertwined, like a heavy curtain drawn, mercilessly shutting out the last glimmer of light.

As darkness fell, the only sounds in the world were the bubbling of stomach acid and the nauseating friction of the surrounding flesh walls as they writhed.

Gu An's fingers dug deep into Wang Mazi's flesh, the last glimmer of light before his eyes vanished, and his consciousness sank completely into darkness.

Ding.

Only the pale blue panel emitted a faint and indifferent light in this absolute darkness.

[Current Status: Extremely Close to Death (Being corroded by stomach acid, possessed by malevolent spirits)]

[Location: Inside the belly of a second-tier demon (high risk)]

Lifespan: 19/90 (Severe damage: -1 year/month)