Chapter 89: Devour All The Ghosts In The Human World, Then The Lights Will Shine Bright
Swallow Filth, as the name suggests, devours pollution.
Li Ye’s first reaction upon obtaining the Authority was that he had finally transitioned from theoretically eating garbage to theoretically eating history, and it had to be wild history.
His second reaction was to devour pollution.
Demonic Creatures naturally carry pollution, basically all of them have successfully transformed into disasters, achieving Disaster status.
For example, right now, if this bone pit once polluted into a Demonic Creature, Li Ye could think of several disasters with vast pollution ranges just with his toes.
It could become a ‘Glamour Bone Field’, where once it emerges, white bones turn into handsome men and beautiful women, immediately forming a bone brothel of skeletal prostitutes on the spot, specifically tempting passersby to enter, enjoy a night of pleasure, then turn into dry bones, forever trapped there.
It’s equivalent to the Otherworld Lanruo Temple, but without the tree demoness.
Or it could become a ‘Grave Bone Centipede’, forming a centipede pieced together from remains and broken bones, and once it appears in the passing land or graveyard, everywhere it crawls turns into unmarked stele graveyards, where living people get polluted just by looking, carve their names on the steles, then await death.
After death, they also turn into centipede limbs, moving along with it.
This thing is recorded in history; during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of this world, the Yin Kingdom saw such a Demonic Creature appear.
It caused quite a stir, spanning three prefectures and involving five counties, with everywhere it occupied turning into graveyards.
Others, such as the ‘Drowning Bone Abyss’ type of Demonic Creature that turns into a deep pit abyss, the ‘Skull Mortar Hole’ type that’s just skulls but with sacrificial nature, the ‘Bone Ginseng Stone Forest’ type where white bones turn into a normal forest, but the pollution heteromorphizes everything in the area into Demonic Creatures.
None of them are easy to deal with.
Any Demonic Creature related to large quantities of white bones is tough to handle.
Normally, if Li Ye encountered this situation, he would definitely choose to withdraw; this isn’t something the Disinfection Bureau can handle alone, afterward he’d contact the Military, deploy heavy firepower or more Martial Artists to resolve it.
Resolving Demonic Creatures is hard, resolving Demonic Creature disasters is even harder.
Either bomb it to oblivion, or after eliminating all Demonic Creatures, ensure no more emerge and leave it empty for a few years, otherwise the place is unusable.
But now it’s different.
Li Ye can devour the pollution of Demonic Creatures, whether it’s their own or the remnants left after death, all can be devoured clean.
And this time, it’s not enhancing Qi and Blood.
His Food Qi Method is better described as truly tasting the mortal world’s fireworks, with enhancing Qi and Blood being incidental.
Swallow Filth, on the other hand, swallows pollution, which is Turbid Qi; once it passes through his lungs, it becomes the best Purification, turning into Pure Qi.
This Authority inhales pollution through the nose and exhales Pure Qi through the mouth.
Lightly, it inhales disease and plague, exhales health and vigor.
Heavily, it inhales anomalies in mountains and rivers, exhales dead trees sprouting anew.
Applied to himself in simple terms, he can enhance his own Talent.
A person’s Talent has an upper limit, it’s innate; no matter how much the Food Qi Method eats, it’s still forcibly piling on through accumulation many times greater than ordinary people.
But Swallow Filth is more direct; it feeds back to himself, directly enhancing his Talent.
Not only that, after obtaining the Authority, he discovered a new use.
The two Authorities, whether because they’re both eating-related or for other reasons, have a synergistic effect greater than the sum of their parts, making them stronger when used in combination.
Pan Zhengyang finally chopped open the ground and rushed over, “You okay?”
Li Ye smiled, “Not eating preserved plums.”
“Huh?”
Pan Zhengyang was stunned, looked Li Ye up and down, and breathed a sigh of relief, “As long as you’re fine. Where’s Ren Changtian? I saw it burrow underground, did it escape?”
“Who?”
“That blob of blood mist, see it?”
Li Ye: “…”
His expression turned odd, then he nodded, “Perished together with the Demonic Creature.”
Earlier, purely eating the Demonic Creature’s arm didn’t increase his Qi and Blood; it just went into his stomach without polluting him.
This type of Demonic Creature couldn’t enhance his Qi and Blood.
Later, while absorbing pollution, it wasn’t boosting Qi and Blood either, but that blob of blood mist from who-knows-where gave him a huge surge, enough to practice Dragon Gate Realm once more.
Confirming Li Ye was really fine and seeing no pollution traces around, Pan Zhengyang finally asked:
“What Demonic Creature?”
“Yaksa.”
“Huh?”
“Bone-Peeling Yaksa, that is Bishapovacha, from Buddhism,” Li Ye said.
Now it was Pan Zhengyang’s turn to be stunned, “No way, Skin-Peeling Demon combined with Taishan Prefecture Lord’s Sacrificial Wine, how does a Buddhist thing pop out?”
Li Ye was also baffled, “It originally had Buddhist elements, right?”
Famous Deities have all sorts of origins, who can figure them out.
Compared to these mythical things who-knows-where, Li Ye cared more about the meaning in Pan Zhengyang’s words, “You said Taishan Prefecture Lord’s Sacrificial Wine, what’s that?”
“Come out and talk.”
Pan Zhengyang leaped up, out of the pit, and walked toward the door.
Along the way, he saw the ground full of mangled corpses and clicked his tongue in wonder, then called Sun Shun, and arrived at the smashed-open Ren Family Main Entrance, handing Li Ye a cigarette.
“You kid, you outdid me in ruthlessness. I was joking about killing whole families; in my life, I’ve only killed a few, and those are still talked about fondly.”
“You, on the other hand, when Old Sun reported to me, I doubted my life. You treated people like Demonic Creatures and slaughtered them.”
“Not smoking, it’s off-putting.”
Li Ye waved it off, smiling, “Better to be killed by me treating them as Demonic Creatures than letting them spawn Demonic Creatures and kill even more.”
“Good, good, good! I like that about you. A real man acts decisively, no hesitation. If the sky falls, the tall ones hold it up. As long as you don’t die, there’s nothing to fear!”
Pan Zhengyang took a deep drag, exhaled smoke, laughed a few times, then gritted his teeth:
“It’s done! Damn, what a Local Tiger! The Disinfection Bureau folks got eaten clean! I’ve been transferred here for Three Years, sweet-talked and coerced, but it wasn’t as effective as a swift cut through the mess!”
Li Ye smiled upon hearing this, “The nature’s different; without you tearing the face off, I couldn’t have done it either.”
“But without your level of intensity, it wouldn’t work either. Martial Artists go back and forth with reason, but in the end, it’s the Fist that speaks.”
Pan Zhengyang took another drag, looked outside by moonlight, and said:
“The World wasn’t always this big.”
Li Ye frowned.
Pan Zhengyang said, “Formed for unknown reasons, unclear specific Laws, even different eras. These existences descend into reality, simultaneously expanding the real World’s area, like forcibly adding a landmass to the map.”
“We call this place the Demon Realm.”
“Lots of stuff inside: Magic Treasures, Weapons, Materials, Resources. If you’re lucky, you can dig up a massive oil field. Of course, the most abundant are Demonic Creatures.”
“That Taishan Prefecture Lord’s Sacrificial Wine was something Ren Changtian got from some Demon Realm, maybe a Magic Treasure, maybe a jug of wine, I don’t know. Anyway, it’s gone now; I’ll report it up and let the higher-ups figure it out.”
He looked at Li Ye, “You’re qualified to go to this place, but you access it through the University; the ones downgraded to Universities are relatively safe Demon Realms.”
“Like a game dungeon?” Li Ye smiled.
“Way more dangerous than that crap.”
Pan Zhengyang tsked, “Know Yancheng?”
“Jiangnan Province’s?”
“Not that one, the Western one, in Gaul, Salt City Sodom.”
Pan Zhengyang still felt some lingering fear talking about it, “The thing from the Bible suddenly descended one day, covering two cities; the instant it descended, everyone in those two cities, Martial Artists or civilians, all turned into salt pillars.”
“That’s also a Demon Realm, one we still can’t resolve to this day.”
Pan Zhengyang said gravely, “These things have good and bad; good Demon Realms have resources that can make a nation soar, bad ones might wipe it out.”
Li Ye thought of something, “Extremely heavy pollution?”
“It’s not even about heavy pollution; if Demon Realm Demonic Creatures could come out, the world would be in chaos already. There’d be no Disinfection Bureau; not counting the Ren Family as having a conscience,” Pan Zhengyang said.
Heavy pollution is good, heavy pollution is good!
Li Ye pulled out his Cigarette Pack, lit one, and looked outside too.
“Wasn’t it off-putting?” Pan Zhengyang said, stunned.
“Cravings are strong.”
Li Ye exhaled smoke, gazed at the ember on his cigarette, then swept his eyes to the distance; not far ahead was the national highway, where he could see street Lights, and beyond the Lights, the scattered Lights of suburban buildings clustered by the highway.
“Only after removing pollution do we have these Lights.”
Li Ye sighed, “Devour all mortal ghosts, then Lights shine bright.”
Let’s call it Devour Ghosts.
Food Qi Method eats the mortal world, Swallow Filth eats filth.
Combined, it best represents devouring all mortal filth, which of course is Demonic Creatures.
This new combinable Authority lets Li Ye properly eat demons and devour ghosts!
Not like his previous idea of slicing natural Demonic Creatures and swallowing live, but truly skin and bones, carrying the Demonic Creature’s own pollution, all swallowed into his Strength.
Combined, it’s not just enhancing his Talent and Qi and Blood; after Li Ye devoured Ren Changtian and the soon-to-pollute bone Demonic Creature, under Devour Ghosts’ effect, he obtained ‘Spirituality’.
Ghosts are also spirits.
He can use this to accelerate cultivation beyond Talent, forcibly deduce Martial Arts!
This Authority is very useful!
Not only does it solve his limitation from Talent preventing top-tier Martial Arts practice, it can also push out Chen Xin.
From now on, all Martial Arts in the world open their gates to him!
Totaling over nine thousand words, exceeding the guaranteed eight thousand; the listing was too rushed, the site’s short notice was wrong, my fault. I’ll keep the updates steady, adjust for a few days, and stabilize gradually. Yu Tou thanks everyone!
