I Can Devour Spirits

Therefore, he exiled himself to the mountains, intending to live out his days in the woods, accompanied by wild beasts.

During this time, he accidentally discovered that near the cave he resided in, there was an unsophisticated grave.

The grave was sparsely buried, without even a tombstone. Shang Xiangyu didn’t think much of it, imagining that when he dies in the forest, he might be similarly buried in an unknown, crude grave.

Then, a few days later, Shang Xiangyu heard a clamor at the cave entrance from the direction of the grave.

Shang Xiangyu walked over slowly and saw a person digging up the grave.

Shang Xiangyu had already considered the person buried in that grave as a companion in misfortune.

Seeing someone digging up this person’s grave after their death infuriated him, and without hesitation, he suddenly rushed out and killed the grave robber.

The person’s heart was suddenly shattered, and yet their face remained stiff with a joyful expression.

Shang Xiangyu focused his gaze and saw that person holding a wax-yellow Human Skin Scroll, while inside the opened grave sat a skeleton.

Shang Xiangyu stared at the deceased, who had an eerie smile still lingering on their face.

This person obviously found joy in retrieving the Human Skin Scroll from the grave, but was then suddenly killed by Shang Xiangyu.

Shang Xiangyu bent down and picked up the Human Skin Scroll, noticing it was filled with densely packed small characters.

Shang Xiangyu’s eyes flickered with surprise; it turned out to be a Secret Technique Cultivation Technique.

Nine Nether Great Treasure Technique.

The technique’s strange and wondrous nature lies in its conception of an entirely new method of Sealing.

With this technique’s Sealing, one can break through many of the original barriers of traditional Sealing.

However, this Sealing method also has many drawbacks, such as only allowing cultivation up to the Middle Stage of Knotting Realm, unable to break through to Late Stage Perfection, nor advance to the Dark Grotto Heaven Realm.

Holding the cultivation scroll, Shang Xiangyu’s eyes showed hesitation.

Perhaps inspired by the cultivation scroll, Shang Xiangyu suddenly felt driven. He returned to the sect, preparing to attempt the third Sealing.

As expected, he failed once again!

The night of his third failure, Shang Xiangyu began cultivating the Nine Nether Great Treasure Technique!

Upon cultivating, he transformed into this form of neither human nor ghost.

When Shang Xiangyu realized his lifespan was depleting, and his limbs were akin to withered wood, it dawned on him that the Nine Nether Great Treasure Technique was merely a trap set by the skeleton in the grave.

Perhaps the skeleton himself had died cultivating this technique, thus leaving clues to entrap others to unearth the grave, continuing the harmful trap.

But he happened to stumble upon it!

In the cave, the torchlight reflected on Shang Xiangyu’s face, his gaze suddenly revealed a touch of fierceness.

Sitting cross-legged by the dry spring, Shang Xiangyu formed hand seals, and the Primordial Qi within his Dantian surged instantaneously, coursing through his Meridians like a waterfall!

Shang Xiangyu suddenly opened the bulging burlap sack, and emptied its contents over his head.

Amidst a rustling sound and under the torchlight, it revealed a sack full of venomous snakes, centipedes, scorpions, spiders...

A sack full of poisonous insects nearly submerged Shang Xiangyu’s cross-legged position.

Yet the poisonous insects remained motionless, as if they were dead.

After emptying the poisonous insects, Shang Xiangyu tossed the empty sack aside, picked up the large stone pot nearby, and poured the thick purple-black liquid from the pot over his head slowly.

Shang Xiangyu poured carefully, ensuring that the viscous liquid covered every inch of his skin.

The purple-black liquid flowed over Shang Xiangyu’s body, pooling beneath his crossed legs.

Gradually, the dead poisonous insects became immersed in the purple-black viscous liquid...

The previously dead poisonous insects began to squirm within the purple-black viscous liquid...

Moreover, the poisonous insects’ eyes turned blood-red instantly, frantically crawling around.

Within just a few breaths, the frenzied poisonous insects had already covered Shang Xiangyu’s entire body, squirming and twisting, biting into his flesh...

The immense pain caused Shang Xiangyu to clench his teeth, emitting muffled groans.

This process lasted for the time it takes half an incense stick to burn.

After half an incense stick burned, Shang Xiangyu’s face appeared as black as ink, surrounded by dead poisonous insects...

These insects died violently from poisoning, their toxins fully injected into Shang Xiangyu’s body.

Shang Xiangyu took a deep breath, sat cross-legged, circulated Primordial Qi within, and formed hand seals, the black aura on his face gradually sinking, gathering into his chest like ink clouds.

Then the dense black ink gradually dispersed into his wrinkled limbs and abdomen.

In that moment, the wrinkled skin seemed to recover slightly, particularly the boundary between the wrinkled and normal skin at his chest also retreated by an inch.

However, it lasted only a moment, and a few breaths later, the retreating wrinkled skin once again crumpled, though slightly less severe than before.

Looking at the unchanged boundary on his chest, Shang Xiangyu’s eyes were filled with disappointment.

Half a month ago, the Five Poison Blood Transformation Technique could still remove an inch of the spread of wrinkled skin, but now, after half a month, the boundary no longer recedes, merely easing the degree of wrinkling.

”It seems this Five Poison Blood Transformation Technique is becoming less effective in delaying the spread of bodily decay.”

A hint of desolate despair flashed in Shang Xiangyu’s eyes.