I Can Devour Spirits

Chapter 695: Chapter 428: Chaste as Jade (Part 2)

Duan Rong naturally wanted to take this opportunity to sneak away; he had no real intention of fetching wine.

However, at this moment, Fan Hongjiao was already burning with desire, her body softening, unwilling to let Duan Rong go.

“Does it still need wine? Little Junior Brother, have you ever heard that even without wine, one can still be intoxicated! Senior Sister is already drunk, what are you still waiting for?!”

“Ah…” Cold sweat broke out on Duan Rong’s forehead from fright. “Wait for what…”

Just then, Fan Hongjiao had already collapsed weakly into Duan Rong’s arms, and Duan Rong was instantly terrified, as he reached to push, his hands came into contact with a large mass of softness, which made him panic and lift his hands high in the air.

Fan Hongjiao let out a slight whimper.

At this point, she suddenly sniffed, her delicate nose twitching a few times, and with her brows slightly furrowed, she said somewhat displeased, “What… is that smell?”

Then she followed the scent and gently sniffed near Duan Rong’s raised armpit, her face turning ashen.

She immediately retreated a few steps, looking at Duan Rong, accusingly saying, “Little Junior Brother, how long has it been since you last bathed?”

Duan Rong had been immersed in hard cultivation for the past month and had not bathed at all. At this moment, his armpit was akin to a stink bomb.

Duan Rong also inclined his head to sniff under his own armpit, and the scent was truly overwhelming.

Unexpectedly, at this critical moment, it was the body’s own armpit odor that saved him. This body, truly a treasure trove boy!

Duan Rong smiled at Fan Hongjiao, saying, “Sorry! Senior Sister, I get so involved in cultivation that I forget to bathe, my apologies, my apologies!”

As he spoke, his eyes glanced towards the divine statue beside the stone table and suddenly turned his head, pretending to be surprised, saying, “Eh! Senior Sister, why is there still a divine statue in your cultivation chamber?”

Duan Rong already took a few steps forward, walking to the statue, placing his hand on it, pretending to curiously examine it, while secretly thinking, “Read Artifact Spirit!”

Immediately, a set of data appeared in front of his eyes.

Artifact: Walking Vajra King Bright Statue

Artifact Spirit Tier: Tier Ten

Devouring Requirements: Host’s Spiritual Power Level 10 (Satisfied)

Devouring Effect: Thirteen Layers of Fetal Concealment (Incomplete), Fourteenth Layer of Fetal Concealment (Incomplete), Fifteenth Layer of Fetal Concealment (Incomplete)

“Devour!”

As the thought flickered through his mind, the data panel before his eyes shimmered and dispersed.

By now, Fan Hongjiao had come over, pushing Duan Rong. “Little Junior Brother, don’t stay at Senior Sister’s place. You better go wash; your smell is getting to me…”

The desire rising in Fan Hongjiao’s body was already dispersed by Duan Rong’s overpowering armpit odor of over a month unwashed.

Duan Rong watched as the data panel in front of him thoroughly vanished, and the last divine statue’s Artifact Spirit had also been devoured by him, so he chuckled, “Alright, Senior Sister Fan, then I’ll take my leave, not to disturb your meal, Senior Sister.”

Saying this, Duan Rong slightly cupped his fists, striding to the stone gate, activated the mechanism, opened it, and walked out.

“Meal?!”

Fan Hongjiao stood by the stone table, looking at the food in front of her, recalling that odor just now, and immediately felt a wave of nausea.

Duan Rong left Fan Hongjiao’s cultivation chamber, then exited that stone chamber space, back to his own room in the pavilion.

He called for some hearty dishes and a pot of yellow wine, and had a good feast.

The problems of cultivation and the Fetal Concealment Scripture Technique were all solved this time, and he was in a great mood.

Having eaten to his heart’s content, he rested a bit and proceeded to the bathing room on Yunfu Peak to wash himself thoroughly. To be honest, even he found the smell under his armpits unbearable earlier. It was indeed quite pungent.

On Yunfu Peak, the bathing rooms had attendants specifically to serve.

A big bathtub and hot water already prepared, Duan Rong thoroughly enjoyed his bath…

After bathing, he instructed the attendants to wash his clothes, and he came out simply wrapped in a towel, humming a tune, walking barefoot on wooden clogs through the corridor back to his room.

Lu Geng and Wang Yue were playing chess in the room, hearing Duan Rong’s humming, they opened the door. They were originally going to call Duan Rong, but seeing Duan Rong’s bare upper body, only wrapped with a cotton towel around his waist, walking so nonchalantly, both were at a loss for words.

Wang Yue stood at the doorway, watching Duan Rong’s figure disappear around the corner, he murmured, “Little Junior Brother’s style, truly bold!”

Lu Geng said, “Little Junior Brother’s methods have always been surprising; I’ve grown used to it.”

Hearing this, Wang Yue turned his head to look at Lu Geng with curiosity.

Lu Geng recounted the two times Duan Rong picked cultivation techniques like a joke, to Wang Yue. After hearing it, Wang Yue was also quite astonished.

Duan Rong returned to his room and collapsed onto the bed.

He slept extremely comfortably, waking only when it was already dusk.

A glint flickered in Duan Rong’s eyes; the Artifact Spirit of the Walking Vajra King Bright Statue had been completely assimilated.

At this moment, the detailed content of the thirteenth to fifteenth layer of Fetal Concealment Scripture was in his mind, as if he had practiced it for years, utterly familiar.

This time’s success not only solved the immediate problem of the three-layer cultivation technique but more importantly, he found a path to obtain the Fetal Concealment Scripture Technique.

Based on this path, he believed he might even acquire the entire secret manual of the Fetal Concealment Scripture.

After all, during the Divine Soul Test in the Deep Valley, the four divine statues there were carved with the entire mountain as the embryo.

The statue of these two people tall was the fifteenth layer technique. Then, those four statues carved with the entire mountain as the base, what tier could the cultivation techniques contained in their Artifact Spirits be?

This question was evidently beyond conjecture.

Duan Rong stopped his thoughts, stretched lazily, jumped off the bed, and without paying attention to his bath towel slipping, he grabbed new clothes to wear.

Opening the door, he saw a chair placed outside the corridor. That chair held the clothes he had asked the attendants to wash earlier.

Now, those clothes had been washed and dried, folded neatly, placed on that chair.

Duan Rong picked up the clothes, lightly sniffed them, smelling a faint fragrance. He put the clothes down, then casually hooked the towel on the ground, tossing it on the chair outside the door.

Duan Rong then descended from the pavilion to his cultivation chamber.

He carried the Black Jade Box, stepping out from the narrow stone door, and at this moment, the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi within him was far more abundant than a month ago.

With a layer of Primordial Qi wrapped around his palm, he no longer felt the chilling cold of the Black Jade Box.

Duan Rong slowly walked to the prayer mat, placing the Black Jade Box beside him.

He sat cross-legged, regulated his Qi, and then opened the Black Jade Box, pulling out an “ice sugar-coated hawthorn.”

Underneath the ice layer of this “ice sugar-coated hawthorn” was actually a huge eyeball full of blood veins.

With a swift motion, Duan Rong swallowed the large eyeball. The instant he swallowed it, his mind immediately calmed, and he started to focus on refining.

Once inside the cultivation chamber, Duan Rong started his intense cultivation again until the entire Tail-eyed Lion’s corpse had been refined into his Dantian’s original Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi.

Only then did Duan Rong leave the cultivation chamber, and after a brief rest in the pavilion room, he took another trip to the Dark Forest.

Fan Hongjiao and Wu Shidao noticed that although Duan Rong cultivated intensely day by day, he would rest a few days every month, clearly maintaining his own rhythm, hence they left him to his own devices.

And so, in the blink of an eye, five or six months passed.

During these nearly six months, Fan Hongjiao and company did not take Duan Rong into the Dark Forest even once, but Duan Rong himself went down there once every month.

Because when allocating resources, it was considered that Duan Rong’s portion would last him for six months. Wang Yue and Lu Geng were the same. They allocated resources evenly based on cultivation time, though the amounts varied, they were divided into six months’ worth.

Of course, Duan Rong’s frenetic cultivation naturally led him to consume faster, but since Duan Rong himself didn’t mention it, nobody brought up another trip to the Dark Forest, since their resources hadn’t been completely used up yet.

Over the past six months, affairs on Yunfu Peak were also quite peaceful; Zhu He was often absent from the peak, almost never seeking them out, but they had become accustomed to this.

Fan Hongjiao and the others did have tasks that took them outside, but since Duan Rong had just arrived at Yunfu Peak and hadn’t progressed in realm, Zhu He hadn’t assigned him a single task in the entire six months.