Something's wrong with this demon.

Chapter 145 Living Person

"Whoosh!"

Luo Qingchen drew the knife, and the power within her body surged into the blade.

Then, step by step, they walked toward the woodshed.

At that moment, the hand that had emerged from under the wooden door, revealing its white bones, stopped there, still trembling.

"Bang!"

Luo Qingchen kicked open the fragile wooden door.

On the ground behind the door lay a dark-skinned peasant woman, barely alive.

The peasant woman's back and legs revealed stark white bones.

The missing pieces of flesh looked as if they had been torn off by the sharp teeth of something.

"Help...help me..."

After the peasant woman finished speaking weakly, she stopped moving.

Luo Qingchen held the knife and waited in place for a while before dragging her out and placing her in the sunlight.

Her heart had stopped beating.

This is not a monster, but a real person who has just passed away.

There was blood on the ground.

A fresh smell of blood lingered in the dimly lit woodshed.

Luo Qingchen's gaze returned to the woodshed.

He exchanged a glance with the petite figure behind him, then gripped the knife and cautiously entered the woodshed.

There was nothing in the woodshed except for a few bundles of firewood and bloodstains on the ground.

But he still followed the scent of blood to the corner and looked at a bundle of straw on the ground.

"Whoosh!"

He used a knife to pry open the bundle of straw.

The rope tied to the straw was actually tied to a wooden plank below.

"Squeak..."

The wooden planks were lifted, revealing a dark cellar underneath.

At this point, the smell of blood became even stronger.

Luo Qingchen did not rashly walk towards the entrance of the cellar.

He looked around, then went over and smashed the east wall with a "bang".

The sunlight outside immediately streamed in through the hole he had smashed.

He leaped onto the roof with incredible speed and smashed a large hole in it.

When the bright sunlight shone in through the large holes in the ceiling and the side, the entire woodshed instantly became bright.

At the same time, a ray of light shone into the cellar.

The pitch-black cellar was immediately illuminated.

Luo Qingchen gripped the knife and cautiously approached the cave entrance, looking down.

He saw many wide-eyed eyes and many dirty faces.

A group of people huddled together, cowering in the dark cellar, staring at him with wide, terrified eyes.

He saw old people, women, and children.

There were even babies wrapped in swaddling clothes.

However, the baby had stopped crying and seemed to have stopped moving.

He looked at them, and they looked at him.

The air was silent for a moment.

He said, "Come on up, we are human."

A ladder stood at the entrance of the cellar.

But at this moment, not a single one of the villagers hiding in the darkness of the cellar got up.

Not a single person made a sound.

They huddled in the corner, eyes wide open, watching him silently in terror, motionless.

Luo Qingchen's gaze returned to them.

There was only a small patch of light in the cellar, and all around it was still pitch black; you couldn't see anything from above.

"Is no one coming up?"

He asked.

The people in the cellar remained motionless, and no one responded.

Luo Qingchen gripped the knife in her hand tightly and stared at them without moving.

The air seemed to freeze.

They stared at each other in silence, the atmosphere very strange.

"Since no one is coming up, we'll be leaving now."

He got up, preparing to close the floorboards.

He could clearly see that someone below seemed to be trembling.

Clearly, something else seemed to be hidden in the darkness of the cellar.

The villagers dared not speak or make any move.

If he were to go down now, he would be playing right into their hands.

No one knows how many dangers are lurking below, or how great those dangers are.

He slowly closed the wooden board.

When the wooden planks closed, the sunlight disappeared, and darkness once again enveloped the entire cellar, the eyes of the villagers inside revealed a deep sadness. Many trembled and silently shed tears.

The footsteps sounded overhead and quickly moved away.

Suddenly, a pair of scarlet eyes lit up in the dark corner.

Outside the woodshed, in the sunlight.

Luo Qingchen stopped in the courtyard, basking in the bright and warm sunlight.

Ye Fu stopped in the shadows beside her and asked, "Shall we go?"

Luo Qingchen closed her eyes, seemingly enjoying the long-awaited sunshine. After a moment of silence, she said, "You go first."

Ye Fu stood there without moving, her dark eyes fixed on him like the night.

Luo Qingchen stood in the sunlight for a while longer, then suddenly turned around and went back to the woodshed, lifting the wooden plank in the corner. The vanished sunlight once again fell into the dark cellar.

In the cellar, those pairs of desperate eyes suddenly turned into surprise.

"Would you like something to eat?"

Luo Qingchen asked.

But no one answered.

They still dared not make a sound.

Luo Qingchen took out a lot of dried meat from her storage bag and threw it down.

Along with the jerky, some powder was thrown in—a powder that could incite the berserk and demonic nature of magical beasts—as well as some sleeping potions.

After throwing it away, he waited quietly at the cellar entrance.

The drug in the air quickly took effect in the confined space.

The villagers below closed their eyes one after another and fell into a deep sleep.

However, the powder that was supposed to incite the berserk and demonic nature of monsters seemed to have no effect.

There was no movement below.

After waiting for a long time, he gripped the knife, ready to go down.

Suddenly, a hand reached out from behind and grabbed his wrist.

He turned around and saw her standing behind him, her dark eyes looking at him. She shook her head.

"Wait for me here."

He pried her hands off and jumped down.

"Whoosh!"

The blade flashed, drawing circles all around him.

He landed steadily on the ground, his body hunched over, tense, looking into the surrounding darkness.

"Whoosh!"

At that moment, she jumped down and landed behind him, leaning against him.

"Why did you come down here?"

"We are friends."

She remained in the shadows, avoiding the ray of sunlight overhead.

Luo Qingchen gripped the knife tightly with both hands, her gaze falling on a dark figure in the right corner.

"careful."

He gave a warning and charged straight at the dark figure.

She rushed toward another dark figure.

"Aww!"

Two angry roars rang out simultaneously.

Amidst the clash of blades and the glint of cold light, sparks flew as the sharp blades cleaved against the hard claws.

The black shadow in front of Luo Qingchen sprouted two ape heads, and four sharp claws attacked him at once with lightning speed. A deep and violent roar came from its two blood-red mouths.

Luo Qingchen stepped on some corpses, bones.

The monster's roar seemed to carry a terrifying sonic attack, causing his heart to race and his movements to slow down.

After several moves, a deep, bone-revealing claw mark was left on his right shoulder.

If he hadn't reacted quickly, his entire right arm would have been torn off.

The opponent was incredibly fast and powerful; its claws were even harder than the knife in his hand, creating a series of sparks as it gripped the blade. Moreover, its fur was thick, as if it were wearing a sturdy suit of armor.

This monster is clearly much stronger than the previous ones; it's probably at least a mid-level monster.

The strength of a mid-level demon is equivalent to the late stage of the Strength Realm in human cultivators. However, because demons have more resilient bodies and possess ferocious power, their overall strength is generally greater than that of a late-stage Strength Realm cultivator.

After fighting for a while, he still couldn't leave any wounds on his opponent.

Fortunately, he possesses the power of a strong wind, which grants him great speed, and the wind that surrounds him allows him to anticipate danger and react in time.

"Bang!"

After a long struggle, the monster on the other side swiped its claw into the cave wall behind him.

The entire cave wall was almost cracked.

Suddenly, he caught the scent of blood that he had been longing for.

The blood-sucking ability within is stirring!

However, it wasn't the monster in front of him that was injured, but another one.

He immediately retreated to the wall, fiercely slashing with his knife with one hand to block the opponent's attack, while extending his other hand to activate his life-steal skill!

The demon that was fighting Ye Fu suddenly gushed out a stream of green blood from its abdomen.

It paused for a moment, then stopped in its tracks.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ye Fu flashed her hands with a cold light, slashing one blade at its neck and the other at its arm.

One of its arms flew off.

"Aww!"

It roared and pounced on Ye Fu.

Ye Fu, however, was extremely agile. With a flash, she disappeared from the spot like a ghost.

As Luo Qingchen was absorbing blood, the two-headed monster in front of him, after being repelled by his sword, roared and pounced on him again.

This time, Luo Qingchen did not take the attack head-on. Instead, she immediately flipped over and dodged its fierce pounce.

Meanwhile, his left hand was still rapidly absorbing the blood of another monster.

The monster glared with its bloodthirsty, scarlet eyes, roared, and turned its head to pounce on him. However, due to the loss of too much blood, its legs suddenly went weak, and its movements became sluggish.

"Whoosh!"

With a flash of light, its dog head flew off.

Then, with another knife in her hand, Ye Fu cleaved it in two right through its chest.

At this point, its body had shrunk to almost half its original size.

Its heart was shattered, and it died instantly.

But Luo Qingchen's left hand continued to rapidly absorb its blood until it was reduced to a dried-up corpse.

At this moment, Ye Fu flashed over and joined him in attacking the remaining monster.

Seeing its companion instantly drained into a dried-up corpse, the monster seemed frightened. Its ferocious aura vanished instantly, and it immediately leaped towards the cave entrance.

"Splash!"

Just then, a swarm of vampire bats suddenly appeared from the cave entrance and pounced on it!

The monster was startled and hesitated for a moment before Luo Qingchen cleaved it in the leg with a single strike, while Ye Fu's twin swords pierced its back. "Bang!"

It fell from mid-air and crashed heavily to the ground.

With a roar, it pounced on Ye Fu, who was closest to it. Its berserk power seemed to have reached its limit, and its speed suddenly became extremely fast, directly knocking Ye Fu away.

Luo Qingchen immediately stretched out her palm to suck blood!

"Whoosh!"

Green blood immediately spurted from the wounds on the monster's back and thighs.

The monster stopped chasing Ye Fu and instead twisted its body, lunging at him with a ferocious expression.

Luo Qingchen retreated while slashing with his sword.

The monster neither dodged nor parried, but continued its frenzied attack on him, as if determined to take him down with it. Luo Qingchen slashed at one of its heads, cleaving it in two.

But it also crashed into him violently.

Luo Qingchen was thrown away by a tremendous force, crashing heavily into the cave wall behind her.

A muffled thud shook the entire cellar.

His life-stealing ability was also interrupted.

As the monster roared and swung its claws at him again, preparing to tear him apart, a flash of light appeared behind him, and its raised claws suddenly flew out.

Green blood spurted out.

Despite the excruciating pain, Luo Qingchen stretched out her palm again and activated her blood-sucking skill!

The monster let out a miserable howl, and with its other claw, it swung out and sent the petite figure behind it flying with a "bang".

And it, too, fell awkwardly to the ground.

As it roared in alarm and pain, preparing to leap from the ground again, its body began to shrink rapidly.

Its strength began to rapidly dissipate.

In the blink of an eye, it was sucked into a dried-up corpse, then turned into a cloud of black mist and disappeared.

"call……"

"call……"

The entire cellar fell silent again, with only Luo Qingchen's heavy breathing audible.

He sat on the ground for a while before picking up the knife and, enduring the sharp pain in his chest, struggling to stand up.

He looked at the petite figure on the ground ahead, walked over step by step, stopped in front of her, and sat down again. "Junior Sister Ye..."

He called out softly.

But the other person lay on the ground, motionless and unresponsive.

He reached out an arm, picked up her petite body, placed her in his arms, and looked down at her.

Only then did they discover that her ribs were broken and there was a deep claw mark on her abdomen.

"Junior Sister Ye..."

He called out softly again, hesitated for a moment, and reached out to remove the black veil from her face.

Just as they were about to touch, she suddenly opened her dark eyes and looked at him with icy eyes.

Luo Qingchen withdrew her hand and said, "I want to see if you're still breathing."

Beneath the black veil, her face appeared somewhat pale.

"Let's go upstairs first, I'll apply the medicine for you."

Despite the pain in her chest, Luo Qingchen picked her up and carried her step by step to the ladder, climbing upwards.

As for the people in the cellar, they shouldn't be unconscious for long.

I climbed out of the cellar; the sun was shining brightly outside.

Luo Qingchen noticed that when the sunlight shone on her, her brows furrowed slightly, then she turned her face away, burying her cheeks in his chest and hiding in the darkness.

Luo Qingchen placed her in the shadows of the woodshed corner, took out medicine from her storage bag, and prepared to tear off her clothes.

"I'll do it myself."

She opened her eyes, took out her medicine, and then looked at him, saying, "Get away from me."

Luo Qingchen turned and walked away, her back to her, and sat down against the wall. She tore open the front of her clothes and found a dark bruise on it.

If he hadn't possessed a stronger, more resilient gilded body, he probably would have had his ribs broken by that demon just now.

He applied medicine, bandaged up, and changed his outer clothes.

At that moment, he looked at the data inside his body.

The gilded blood has increased from 230/1000 to 480/1000!

And the cultivation progress has increased from 1000/5000 to 1300/5000!

It seems that killing those two demons just now had a very good effect.

Upgrading to the Xuanjin Bloodline seems to be not too far off. Killing a few more demons should be enough.

They rested for another half an hour.

He got up, walked to the cellar entrance, and looked down.

The villagers in the cellar seemed to have woken up, their faces filled with confusion and fear as they peeked around furtively, as if searching for the two monsters.

When Luo Qingchen's face reappeared at the cellar entrance, they immediately looked up at him, but remained silent, not daring to make any other movements. "The monster has been killed by us, come on up."

Luo Qingchen spoke up.

The villagers' eyes widened in surprise, but they glanced at each other and still dared not get up.

Luo Qingchen had no choice but to grip the knife, climb down the ladder, and stand beside it, saying, "Hurry up!"

Only then did the villagers dare to believe it, and they burst into tears of joy. They hurriedly got up and climbed up the ladder.

"Don't steal it!"

An elderly man had just climbed the ladder when a woman pushed him off.

Luo Qingchen slapped the woman away, sending her flying, and said coldly, "One by one!"

Seeing how ruthless he was, the crowd immediately stopped fighting and let the elderly and children go up first.

The woman who had been flung away lay on the ground, dizzy and unable to stand up.

After more than a dozen villagers had gone up, Luo Qingchen went over, picked her up, and put her on the ladder.

She then climbed up, trembling.

Luo Qingchen searched the cellar again and found a mangled corpse trembling slightly in a corner.

He immediately went over and used his knife to cut open the corpse.

Hiding beneath the corpse was a little boy of about seven or eight years old. Upon seeing him, he cried out in panic and terror, "Don't...don't eat me..." Luo Qingchen stared at him carefully for a moment before going over, picking him up, and carrying him to the ladder. He placed the boy on the ladder and said, "The monster has been killed by us. Go up quickly."

The little boy trembled and cried, "My mother...she was eaten by them..."

Luo Qingchen glanced at the bones scattered all over the cellar, said nothing, and followed behind him, preparing to go up together.

Suddenly, he asked, "How many monsters are there in the cellar?"

The little boy wiped away his tears and said, "Three."

Luo Qingchen's body suddenly stiffened.