105: Fighting the Demon King, Seeking Death

At the edge of the Rotten Swamp, Lin Gou's figure stood like a spear, nailed to the silent mud.

He did not hide.

Nor did he probe.

His gaze pierced through the pervasive toxic mist, locking onto the slumbering mountain of flesh.

The next instant, he moved.

A dense popping, like stir-fried beans, erupted from all his bones—a symphony of power pushed to its limit.

A layer of dazzling, blinding gold swiftly covered his right fist, rendering his entire arm as if cast from divine gold.

Inside his Dantian, the three-colored Golden Core spun wildly.

The purity of the Dao, the Weird of the Demon, the majesty of the God.

Three utterly different supreme powers roared and surged through his Meridians, finally converging like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, all pouring into his right fist.

Boom!

The ground beneath his feet collapsed with a roar, and spiderweb-like cracks spread wildly in all directions.

And his figure had already vanished without a trace.

A pure golden fist aura, like a miniature sun tearing through the sky, carrying an indomitable ferocity, crossed a thousand meters.

Precisely.

Fiercely.

It smashed onto the Sky-Devouring Toad's eyelids, which were thicker than city gates.

Sleep, was forcibly interrupted.

Time, seemed to freeze for an instant.

Immediately after.

"Guluo—————Aow!!!"

An indescribable roar, mixed with intense pain and monstrous rage, exploded from the Sky-Devouring Toad's massive mouth.

The sound waves materialized into a physical impact, forcibly lifting a several-meter-high wave of mud and slurry from the entire surface of the Rotten Swamp.

Countless venomous insects were instantly pulverized into blood foam by this roar.

Those mountain-like eyelids slowly opened.

Revealing a pair of giant pupils, as murky as an abyss, yet burning with lava-like fury at their core.

It had been woken up.

Woken up by a human, as tiny as an insect in its eyes, in an extremely insulting manner.

The Sky-Devouring Toad's rage completely boiled over.

It opened its enormous mouth, large enough to swallow a hill.

A beam of light, as black as ink and as viscous as oil, shot out from deep within its throat.

Wherever the light beam passed, space itself made unbearable "hissing" sounds, corroded into twisted ripples.

Its Natal Poison.

A thousand years of essence.

Yet, facing this world-destroying strike, Lin Gou stood still, showing no intention of dodging.

The Godfiend Undying Body quietly circulated.

Beneath his skin, a layer of intricate, ancient, and mysterious patterns flashed and disappeared.

The poison beam arrived.

Completely engulfing his figure.

"Zizilala—"

Amidst the grating sound of corrosion, his green robe instantly turned to ash.

However, when the poison touched his skin, a bizarre scene occurred.

The potent venom, capable of melting Magic Treasures, behaved like hot oil poured onto a red-hot iron, boiling and churning wildly, yet unable to penetrate in the slightest.

Lin Gou's skin remained smooth as jade.

He bathed in the inky black poison, completely unharmed.

The Sky-Devouring Toad's giant pupils suddenly constricted.

Contempt, vanished instantly.

Replaced by solemnity, and a deeper trace of... greed.

This was no ordinary food.

This was a great tonic, a rare divine medicine containing a powerful Origin it could not comprehend!

It must, eat him!

One human, one demon, engaged in the most primal and violent battle above this swamp of death.

Lin Gou pushed his combat power to the limit, transforming into a golden light, his fists and feet carrying nascent Laws, causing the sky to crack and the earth to split.

However, the demon king, in the Late Golden Core Stage, possessing an ancient exotic Bloodline, was terrifyingly powerful.

Its demonic power was endless.

Every strike carried an overbearing force that suppressed everything.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Lin Gou was completely at a disadvantage.

He was covered in blood, his bones groaned under the strain, his movements began to slow, and the Golden Core in his Dantian also dimmed.

He was completely suppressed.

A hint of cruelty and triumph flashed in the Sky-Devouring Toad's giant pupils.

The game, was over.

It suddenly opened its enormous mouth, and a terrifying suction, completely different from before, erupted from its bottomless throat.

Innate Divine Ability — Devouring Heaven and Earth!

"Whoosh!"

A dark red, massive tongue covered with sticky barbs, shot out at a speed beyond visual limits, ignoring spatial distance!

The powerful suction and spatial confinement firmly locked Lin Gou.

He was tightly coiled by the giant tongue, rapidly dragged towards that dark, massive mouth, emanating endless stench and death.

Desperation.

True desperation.

However.

Lin Gou, tightly bound by the giant tongue, not only showed no fear in his eyes.

Instead, a difficult-to-suppress, almost manic excitement flashed within them.

This is what he was waiting for!

He let out a roar, like a final surge of life, pushing the power of the Ten Thousand Tribulations Undying Demon Soul to its extreme, pouring it into his fists.

"Let — me — open!"

He used his last strength to smash fiercely into the Sky-Devouring Toad's upper jaw.

"Bang!"

A muffled thud exploded in the demon king's mouth.

"Guluo!"

The Sky-Devouring Toad cried out in pain, the intense agony rushing straight to its Divine Soul.

But, it still did not release its tongue.

Because in that punch just now, it felt the pure, vast energy, imbued with sacredness, demonic nature, and the aura of the Great Dao, leaking from Lin Gou's body!

That was the ultimate delicacy it had never tasted in its life!

This piece of flesh must be swallowed whole!

It would use the Origin demonic fire in its stomach to thoroughly refine and absorb every bit of his essence!

This was precisely the outcome Lin Gou wanted.

His struggle was not to escape.

But to showcase the top "quality" of his "bait."

The dragging speed increased.

The light before his eyes was rapidly devoured by darkness.

In the last moment before being completely pulled into the darkness, Lin Gou, with difficulty, turned his head.

He glanced at this world that had been turned upside down.

In his mind, the tearful yet smiling figure at the Qingyun Sect mountain gate flashed.

Zhao Linger.

Wait for me to return.

The muscles on his face slowly twitched, revealing an extremely bizarre smile.

In that smile, there was no fear of death.

Only endless greed and anticipation for the generous rewards that were about to come.

"Gulp."

His throat suddenly moved.

Lin Gou's entire body, sliding down the slick esophagus, was completely swallowed into the demon king's belly... The world spun.

Lin Gou's consciousness plunged into a peculiar space.

Around him were constantly wriggling dark red flesh walls, beneath his feet was highly corrosive green gastric acid, and in the air, quietblue Origin demonic fire burned.

Intense pain!

His skin was dissolving, his flesh and blood were decomposing.

His consciousness even began to blur under this dual torment.

But he smiled.

He smiled with boundless joy, with boundless madness.

He used his last bit of Divine Soul power to issue the final command to the cold System in his mind.

"Settle!"

"I want to resurrect here, now, immediately, right away!"

...At the center of the Rotten Swamp.

The Sky-Devouring Toad let out a satisfied burp.

It prepared to find a place to slumber and digest this heaven-sent Opportunity.

However.

Its movements suddenly stiffened.

A terrifying fluctuation, one that made its demon soul tremble, abruptly emanated from its belly without any warning!

That was not the fluctuation of energy being refined.

But a kind of... nascent, destructive, and with a hint of supreme Law, terrifying fluctuation!

A world-destroying energy was rapidly brewing within its body!

The Sky-Devouring Toad's abyss-like giant pupils suddenly constricted to the size of a needlepoint.

For the first time, an expression named "fear" appeared within them.