Attaining Immortality, Starting From Slaying Demons

"Ah!!!"

The River God clutched her greasy face, attempting to shield it from the many puzzled gazes of the fishermen.

She was a god! The River God who had come treading upon the river waves to bless this land!

She let out a shrill scream, countless droplets condensed, shooting forward like arrows, the roaring sound shaking the heavens!

Shen Yi moved with agile steps, staying close within a foot of the River God.

His slender fingers continuously struck out in mysterious patterns, wherever they touched, the meridians were intercepted, and the demonic power completely dispersed.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The River God's graceful figure became increasingly bloated, almost bursting her blue robe, as bulky as an ox.

Having already had most of her Essence Yuan sucked away by a Jiaolong, and then using her own strength to defeat two Demon Suppression Colonels at the Jade Liquid Boundary, Li Mujin was running on empty, and she too had expended a great deal.

Now, she had all the major meridians in her body sealed by the advanced martial art of Intercepting Veins and Capturing Dragons.

At last, even the myriad rain arrows could no longer be sustained, quietly dissipating into the air.

Shen Yi kicked out fiercely, sending her huge body flying straight away, like a burst sandbag, breaking the gilded Golden Eagle statue. The temple shook violently, the roof beams collapsing with a thunderous crash, dense dust spreading.

He shifted slightly to the side and caught the Black Blade that was falling through the air.

Immediately stepping into the River God Temple, he grabbed the neck of the River Demon and slammed her viciously onto the altar.

The River Demon trembled all over, her palms gripping the edge of the collapsing altar, trying to prop herself up with her arms, which had lost most of their sensation.

Shen Yi stepped on her shoulder, pressing her back down onto the table.

Feeling the chilling presence behind her, the River Demon was nearly torn apart with fear and desperation,

"You can't kill me! I have the dragon's progeny within me!"

"I will be the Yangchun River Dragon's consort!"

"I am the Shuiyun Village River God!!! Save me!!"

Hearing the dreadful screams, Li Mujin, who was already in a daze, nearly fainted.

Countless fishermen stood outside the River God Temple, torches in hand, incredulously watching the large figure on the altar.

That was the deity they had worshipped for hundreds of years.

The master to whom they had offered three hundred of their children to serve in the river.

At that moment, she lay helpless on the altar, voicing cries of terror, saying... save me.

"Save the River God, kill the Demon-suppression Bureau's lackeys!"

The village chief, holding the body of his son, wept bitterly, his eyes filled with hatred.

He had only this one son!

The old man rasped with his hoarse voice, "Kill!!"

The words of resentment tore through the silence of the deep night.

Immediately, more than a dozen young men discarded their torches, clenched their harpoons tightly, and charged forward in a frenzy.

In the past, it was with such determination that they had driven away the enforcers from the Demon-suppression Bureau time and again.

That was the fury of the seventy thousand people of Shuiyun Township.

In its face, even the Demon Suppression Marshals at the Jade Liquid Boundary would have to halt.

"..."

Shen Yi, as if deaf to their cries, picked up a sharp wooden stake and without hesitation drove it through the River Demon's back, nailing her to the altar.

Accompanied by the River Demon's agonized screams.

He glanced back slightly, extending his left hand, slowly opening his five fingers, a pitch-black waist badge shimmering in his palm, the cold silver-hooked iron characters "Demon Suppression" very chilling.

His voice indifferent, "The Demon-suppression Bureau is here to slay the demon. All others must leave immediately." Discover stories at empire

The young fishermen, their eyes bloodshot, paid no heed to this. They believed that if they charged in, the enemy would have no choice but to retreat.

With this in mind, their rough palms gripping the harpoons grew even tighter, "Kill the lackeys! Save the River God!"

But whether it was an illusion or not, beneath the dim light of the torches, they could not find on the face of that youth in black any hint of the hesitation that had been in the eyes of those previous Colonels.

Seeing the crowd continue to rush forward.

Shen Yi said nothing, just clenched his fingers tightly again.

A red glow quietly emerged and silently swept across the sky, piercing through the first head at a speed invisible to the naked eye, followed by the second...

The village chief watched in astonishment as more than a dozen people fell in succession, feeling an inexplicable terror in his heart.

This time, the colonel seemed a bit different from before.

Before he could finish his thought, the scorching crimson on his forehead had already tainted his vision, and his body inexplicably started to float up.

"..."

Watching the village chief die a violent death, the remaining fishermen who had not taken action felt their faces go numb and unconsciously stepped back half a step.

Those fishermen who had been controlling the Demon Suppression Marshals also trembled and tossed away their spears.

Thump, thump—

Outside the temple, figures gradually knelt down en masse. They banged their heads against the ground until they were bloodied, wailing incessantly: "Please, sir, spare the River Goddess!"

Shen Yi turned around again, focusing on the river demon at his feet.

The black blade cleaved down in an instant.

Accompanied by a dull thud, the head tumbled to the ground, transforming into a whiskerless catfish that was a meter wide.

His blue robe torn, the slick and plump blue fish body took up half the space in the River God Temple, its tail faintly twitching.

Under the astonished gaze of the onlookers.

The youth, drenched in blood, stood on the altar with an expression not fierce, but it made him terrible to behold.

Even more dreadful than the previous statue.

He stabbed the fish belly with his knife, focusing on slicing it open as the white, tender, and luscious flesh unfurled like pages of a book.

He casually took away the Beast Origin.

Shen Yi used the blade to cut off a slice of fish meat, stood with lowered eyes, and chewed it slowly in his mouth.

"..."

The fishermen and villagers no longer kowtowed. Their eyes grew dull and their expressions gradually turned numb; they no longer knew which expression to face the scene before them with.

The towering figure of the fierce evil, akin to a world-wandering demon, was tasting their River God.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

A moment later, Shen Yi casually tore off a large chunk of fish meat and strode out of the temple.

He grabbed a dazed man.

Before the shocked gaze of the man, he stuffed the fish meat into his mouth.

"Bleah!"

The man instinctively vomited but was forcefully silenced by Shen Yi's slender fingers clamping over his mouth.

"Chew it thoroughly and swallow it," his indifferent voice sent a chill down everyone's spine.

"Then answer me."

Shen Yi yanked the man to his feet with a calm expression, "How does your River God taste?"

Tears welled up in the man's eyes as he trembled all over.

But the tenderness that burst between his teeth and lips was a delicacy he had never tasted in over thirty years by the river.

He swallowed it subconsciously, then immediately felt guilt.

Yet he couldn't help swallowing another mouthful.

"Well-raised, don't raise it again next time."

Shen Yi patted the man's face and, putting away his Black Blade, walked towards a few people not far off.

The lunatic who had awakened from his faint was now covered in mud, scrambling toward this place.

He saw the frightening sight of his fellow villagers everywhere, the collapsed temple, and his gaze swept over the single upright figure.

Then it landed on the fat fish in the temple, its belly slashed open.

Immediately after, the madman erupted with unprecedented strength, fiercely pushed through the crowd, and threw himself onto the fish's belly, ripping and biting fiercely.

The fish meat, mixed with snot and tears, was crazily swallowed into his stomach as if to purge a decade of resentment completely.

Seeing this, the others kneeling on the ground could only stare blankly at him.

The man who was initially forced to eat the fish meat was now thumping his chest and stamping his feet, yet couldn't help but quietly swallow his saliva.

Under the glare of the firelight, the shattered statue's golden coating peeled off, revealing its original clay body.