Chapter 96: Cat Demon
One hundred thousand martial arts, with the current talent level, don’t seem that troublesome, because most are medium and ordinary grade, especially ordinary grade accounting for 80%.
For martial arts of this level, Li Ye can learn them just by circulating energy, and although the quantity is large, they are all ‘true transmission in one sentence’, without so many twists and turns.
At an average of one thousand words per book, one hundred thousand books amount to one hundred million words. Li Ye reads them like novels, practicing while reading, and in one day he can go through several hundred to a thousand books, which is about a million words.
Especially after batches of ten thousand tons of aquatic products came in, they were quickly absorbed by Li Ye, allowing him to practice even faster.
This time it wasn’t just simply eating; he just opened his mouth and sucked, and those mutated fish, shrimp, and crabs were sucked in like a storm, all pouring into his mouth at once, turning into qi and blood, talent, and spirituality.
After Li Ye reached the Second Realm, the efficacy of the Five Flavors Chopsticks had diminished a lot, after all, qi and blood was stable, and improvements were limited.
This was indeed just a magic treasure that was quite useful for boosting qi and blood when needed in the Dragon Gate Realm. After reaching the Second Realm, although the Five Flavors Chopsticks still had the effect of boosting qi and blood, the speed was too slow, not as efficient as Li Ye opening his mouth and sucking.
Fifty tons of alienated high-quality food was roughly equivalent to Li Ye devouring one polluted demonic creature.
Four thousand tons of aquatic products pushed Li Ye’s talent to one hundred, reaching the level where he could master even top-tier martial arts instantly.
The remaining aquatic products weren’t wasted either; as soon as a batch came in, Li Ye devoured a batch. Although not as good as polluted demonic creatures, it was still better than nothing.
With enough talent, the rest was to borrow the ‘spirituality’ ability from Devour Ghosts devouring demonic creatures, deducing while reading.
This part was the major one. Combined with one hundred thousand martial arts, based on Li Ye’s Twelve Golden Palace Dragon Tiger Gate, the required spirituality was not small.
Alienated demonic creatures provided limited spirituality; only those polluted demonic creatures could provide more spirituality.
But there was one thing Li Ye didn’t want to think too much about. Devour Ghosts was the name from the authority he fused, but in fact, he could devour anything.
If he really needed spirituality, actually certain creatures fit his requirements even better. As long as they were weaker than him, he could devour them skin and bones together, digest their qi and blood, and convert the foundation of the martial arts they practiced into spirituality.
The evidence was that mass of blood mist.
At the time, he didn’t feel much, after all, it was just a mass of blood mist. Plus, Pan Zhengyang said the other party was already like a demonic creature, detached from the skin bag, turning flesh and blood into blood mist, which made Li Ye suppress his discomfort.
Some things, Li Ye couldn’t do, and didn’t want to do.
He was human, not a beast without a bottom line for the sake of strength.
In this regard, he’d rather go slower than cross the bottom line.
However, the Disinfection Bureau’s daily duties,
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The weather gradually turned cold, and in the blink of an eye, it was November.
That evening, Yan Menglu got off work, drove home, and as soon as she parked in the garage, a rustling sound rang in her ears. In the quiet and dim garage at that moment, it sounded exceptionally clear, making her heart skip a beat.
Ningjiang City hadn’t been so peaceful lately. The principal said at the meeting to be careful when getting off work and call the police if there was a situation.
But soon, she breathed a sigh of relief.
The sound came from a half-person-high plastic trash can in the garage. On the rim of the can, a black cat was pawing at things. Its pure black fur almost blended into the darkness, only its eyes glowing faintly green in the dim light and its massively deformed belly stood out.
It was a pregnant stray black cat, and from its pawing motions, it had left some black fur on the rim of the can.
Yan Menglu glanced at it, then took out the vegetables she bought from the back seat, pulled out a ham sausage, peeled it, broke it into several pieces, threw them on the edge of the trash can, smiled slightly, and took the elevator up.
After returning home, she skillfully chopped vegetables and cooked. Not long after, her husband came back bouncing with their daughter.
Although Yan Menglu was a martial artist, like most preparatory students, she had spent a lot of money and effort in her youth to somehow break through one Dragon Gate, with no further progress afterward. When her qi and blood was no longer at its peak, breakthroughs became even harder, so she could only linger at one Dragon Gate, no different from ordinary people.
Her husband was also at one Dragon Gate, now working as an employee at a company. Their income was decent, making them small middle class in Ningjiang City.
Their daughter was now in fourth grade of elementary school, and her guiding method practice was average. She would probably end up as a preparatory student who breaks through Dragon Gate by paying money.
What?
Become famous like Li Ye?
Breaking through Dragon Gate as a preparatory student, even achieving results in the martial arts competition, and it’s said to be the legendary Three Passes route Li Ye, who became famous at No. 14 Middle School.
But the problem is, he could walk the Three Passes to practice top-tier martial arts, which means he was a genius to begin with. Ordinary people don’t have the talent to practice it.
Completely different.
“You’re back?”
Yan Menglu looked toward the door with a smile, then froze.
Her daughter was holding the stray black cat she had just fed in her arms.
Seeing Yan Menglu look over, the daughter hugged the cat tighter and said cautiously, “Mom, she’s so pitiful. Let’s help her.”
She looked at her husband, who smiled wryly and shook his head. “No way, she just stood there and wouldn’t leave. I thought a little cat was indeed pitiful, so I allowed it.”
Yan Menglu sighed, “Pregnant female cats are very troublesome. This isn’t just one; this might mean raising five or six.”
Even if her daughter was determined, they shouldn’t keep it, but as soon as she met the mother cat’s eyes, she couldn’t bring herself to refuse.
The pitiful, emaciated black cat with only a big belly, and the daughter looking pitiful yet stubborn, finally made her nod helplessly.
“Put it down first, get a soft cushion for it to make do. After dinner, I’ll take it to the pet hospital to check if there’s any problem. If not, you can keep it.”
“Yay! Great, thank you Mom!” The daughter cheered.
Her husband on the side also sighed in relief for some reason, smiling, “If you refused, I would’ve been reluctant too. This cat is too pitiful.”
Yan Menglu rolled her eyes, “I’m not that heartless. Besides, the cat is indeed pitiful. Since we brought it, saving a life is a good thing. Otherwise, when the weather gets colder, this cat might freeze to death.”
“Meow~”
As they spoke, the black cat meowed, as if agreeing.
This made them smile knowingly. This cat seemed quite clever, not a dumb one.
“Yeah, we should take good care of it.”
Yan Menglu glanced at the black cat’s eerie green eyes again, “We have some raw pork ribs at home. I’ll chop some for it to eat.”
“Best if it’s with blood.” Her husband said.
“Blood! Blood! Blood!” The daughter hugged the black cat, her face excited.
Knock knock knock.
But at that moment, a knock at the door interrupted Yan Menglu’s actions.
She paused, feeling something off.
What cat needs to eat raw meat with blood?
But this thought was quickly dismissed, because her husband had already opened the door, and a person in a black uniform with a cap strode right in, making him instinctively step aside to let them pass.
“Is there a female cat here? That’s mine… Teacher Yan?”
“Li Ye?!”
Yan Menglu was stunned, looked carefully at the face under the cap, and exclaimed, “You…”
“Oh, doing some part-time work.”
Li Ye spotted the cat in the little girl’s arms at a glance, reached out, and despite the little girl’s instinctive block, grabbed the cat by the scruff of the neck and lifted it up.
“Mine!”
The little girl widened her eyes, her pitiful little face turning ferocious instantly, but the next moment, Li Ye just inhaled slightly, and the little girl immediately looked bewildered again.
Yan Menglu’s husband looked at the cat full of doubt.
Why did he think of letting his daughter touch a stray cat? A pregnant one at that, so dirty and dangerous.
“Won’t disturb you.”
Li Ye looked at the little girl and smiled, “Your homework must be too little, otherwise how would you have time to pick up stray animals outside.”
He ruffled the little girl’s head, nodded to Yan Menglu and her husband, “It’s pretty dangerous lately, better to be careful with everything.”
With that, without waiting for their reaction, he turned and left.
“Who was that?” Her husband asked puzzled.
“A student from the preparatory class before.”
Yan Menglu was also puzzled, “That uniform… Became a police officer? No, he hasn’t graduated yet?”
Then, she thought of something, her expression changed, she squatted down nervously looking at her daughter, “Xixi, what was your reaction just now? Why would you shout for blood?!”
The daughter shook her head blankly, “I don’t know, I just felt like I should shout that. So weird.”
Yan Menglu thought of the scene just now where she wanted to chop raw meat, her husband asking for it with blood, and the daughter cheering, and couldn’t help feeling a chill. Especially then, they didn’t find it strange, only thought it was natural.
A pregnant female cat demanding raw flesh and blood, and it could unknowingly pollute both of them at one Dragon Gate.
As a general studies teacher, her knowledge wasn’t lacking. Although her reaction wasn’t timely, thinking carefully, she could roughly determine what demonic creature it was.
“It’s polluted, a Cat Demon! To the hospital!”
Yan Menglu pulled her husband and daughter, flung open the door, and rushed to the underground garage.
At this time, Li Ye carried the cat by the scruff all the way to the first floor hall of the building. No matter how the black cat struggled, how it clawed and bit his hand with teeth, it only bit through the gloves, unable to penetrate his skin.
“Not bad strength, no wonder it could escape multiple times.”
Li Ye looked at the bitten-through steel plate on the back of the glove, a smirk on his lips, “But this time it’s the main body, right? Can you still run?”
“Rawr!!”
The black cat let out a shrill cry, its drum-like big belly suddenly burst open, flipping inward from inside to wrap the black cat, forming a monster.
Its cat head had no skin or flesh, a withered black skull covered in sparse rotten fur, half the face cat, half a collection of other cubs concretized.
The abdomen taut like a drum covered in skin, large navel protruding like a cat claw flesh tumor, vertebrae jutting out section by section emitting black gas, tailbone forked into double black tendons, tip curled like an induction hook.
Its four limbs were even more twisted, front three toes cat claws, back two toes like toddler hands.
When it opened its mouth, it emitted a cat cry mixed with infant wails, its body grew larger, and it lunged straight at Li Ye’s abdomen.
“Has the Ghost Mother Livestock Phase developed to this extent? But still far too weak against me. Ha!”
Li Ye didn’t even glance at it properly, just shouted from his mouth, and the monster disintegrated into black gas, wholly sucked into his mouth, refined in his abdomen, turning into nutrients.
The more he tested the authority, the more surprises. Even though he knew beforehand, actual use still brought different effects.
For demonic creatures far weaker than Li Ye like this, he didn’t even need to use hands; just open mouth and use authority to devour them.
“About enough.”
After devouring this one, Li Ye felt it over and smiled, “Can officially start practicing now.”
