Purgatory Artist
Chapter 522: Eating

Chapter 522: Eating

The forest.

The monster continued to walk forward.

「 Strange, I’ve never seen such a creature before, how could it deceive even me? Where did such a degree of Occultism come from? 」

It was deep in thought as it walked past one tree after another.

Suddenly.

A deer seemed to have been disturbed by something, jumped out from the bushes and hurriedly ran to the other side of the forest.

The monster ignored it completely.

The female voice asked: 「 Master, a delicious soul just passed by, aren’t you going to eat it? 」

「 Its soul is too young, it needs to go through a few more reincarnations before it can truly grow into a soul with abundant spirituality, only then will it be able to provide us with power 」 the monster spoke with a teaching tone.

A black bear a few meters tall suddenly jumped out and chased after the deer.

The monster still didn’t care and continued to walk forward.

A few moments later.

It suddenly stopped and spoke: 「 Remember well, a soul with abundant spirituality already has a very high level of spirituality, you can smell the scent they give off from far away. Only a soul with such a scent can provide us with power 」

「 Yes, master 」 the male and female voices answered at the same time.

As soon as it said that, a few dozen fully armed dark elves suddenly appeared from the forest in front of it.

These elves were armed with bows, swords, daggers, staffs, quickly surrounding the monster in the middle.

The monster calmly spoke: 「 We teach living beings knowledge, helping them survive, grow, mature, increasing their spirituality through the process of life, allowing their souls to sublimate and become truly delicious 」

The female voice spoke again: 「 Souls! Your master has descended, you have reached the end of your life, why do you still refuse to submit? 」

The dark elves couldn’t move at all.

Faint shadows came out from the dark elves’ bodies and went into the monster’s body.

The monster stood still.

The male and female voices both moaned in pleasure, as if they were absorbing something.

All the faint shadows disappeared.

The elves all fell to the ground, no longer breathing.

Only a young elf stood in place, trembling all over. His eyes were dazed, and his expression was dull.

It was now that the monster reached its hand out.

A small, translucent shadow was circling around its hand.

The male voice doubtfully asked: 「 Master, why won’t you let us eat this soul? Although it’s still young, the spirituality it contains is the highest. 」

The monster’s voice resounded again:

「 You only saw the strength of her soul in this life, but you did not see her future.」

It walked in front of the young Dark Elf and slowly lowered its huge body. It quietly looked into the female Dark Elf’s eyes.

「What an excellent seed. After a few more lifetimes, her soul will become more abundant and powerful, becoming an existence that far surpasses ordinary souls. When that time comes, if any Nightmare Breed wants to evolve, they can eat her and obtain a decent amount of energy storage.」

The monster caressed the female elf’s head and put the translucent soul into her body.

After that, the monster said: 「 I’ve left a mark on her body, when her sentience truly matures, I will devour her 」

「Yes, master,」 the male and female voices replied at the same time.

「 Now that you’ve learned how to determine whether a soul can be eaten, you’ve also absorbed quite a few souls. Now, unleash your power and eat all the souls in this world that are worth eating 」 the monster said.

「Yes, master.」 The male and female voices spoke at the same time.

It leapt up and flew high into the sky. Taking a deep breath, the male and female voices both spoke at the same time:

「 Living beings, your ordinary lives have come to an end. Now, it is time for you to manifest your remaining spirituality and provide enough power for your Sower. This is the true meaning of your existence. Come. 」

A monstrous aura erupted from its body and spread throughout the entire world.

「 AAAAH! 」

The male and female voices both screamed.

More and more souls rushed into the sky from all directions, fighting to be the first to enter its body.

The monster’s presence grew stronger and stronger, gradually becoming different from when it was just born, to the point where it was completely unrecognizable.

Fwoom!!!

A burst of mist was released from its body, turning into a thick layer of clouds that covered the entire world.

A few dozen breaths later.

The monster raised its hand.

A few souls were circling around its hand.

「 These are all excellent souls, they haven’t stopped improving, nor have they been drowned by a life of mediocrity 」 the male voice said.

「 They are worthy of living, until they truly mature and provide power to their master 」 the female voice replied.

The monster waved its hand, and those souls immediately flew out and flew back to their original body.

「 Go, let’s hunt down that soul that obtained the power of Occultism! 」

「 Sir, are we not going to eat a few more worlds? 」

「 There’s no time, that guy has already escaped from my sensing range, let’s catch up first! 」

It spoke with an excited tone.

「 Master, I have a question 」 the female voice respectfully said.

「 Speak 」

「 Why are some souls able to obtain the power of Occultism? Is this something that we allow? Or is this a kind of loss of control? 」

「 It is allowed, there are specialized nightmares that are responsible for looking after these souls, because they are the most powerful fruits, they will be able to replenish the power of the most esteemed entities of nightmares 」

A gate opened from the void of space. The monster walked in and disappeared without a trace.

...

This was an underground passage.

A long flight of stairs extended down the passage, rows of Professionists stood on both sides with weapons in hand, their expressions serious.

Liu Ping quickly followed the passage and quickly reached the end.

「 Sir, this is the place, this is the gate from Purgatory to Eternal Night 」

The leader of the army respectfully said.

Liu Ping stood on top of the stairs and looked down.

Only to see that all the stairs disappeared here, leaving only a deep hole that led straight down.

"If a living being wants to go down, they can only go through this hole?" Liu Ping asked.

" You must have a suitable spell that allows you to remain in a dead state while going through this hole, only then will the Law of Purgatory allow you to pass " the leader replied.

Liu Ping’s figure became blurred.

At the very next moment.

He said, "Alright, I got it. You guys should hurry up and escape."

" Escape? " the leader didn’t understand.

"That’s right, three minutes ago, as the owner of the Hellfire Bank, I sent an urgent reminder to the Myriad Races’ monitoring committee. An undefeatable monster has appeared, you don’t need to stand guard here, heed my orders and immediately escape" Liu Ping said.

A document appeared in his hand.

The leader took a serious look at it, then waved his hand and shouted: "Everyone, evacuate from the emergency passage!"

One of the walls of the passage opened to reveal a narrow tunnel.

The Professionists of the Myriad Races quickly rushed into the tunnel, entered it in an orderly manner, then disappeared at the end of the passage.

"There are multiple warp tunnels, there are hundreds of worlds that can be warped to, so even if we run into an enemy, they won’t know which world to enter, and won’t be able to kill all of us" the leader explained.

"Hurry" Liu Ping said.

Suddenly, a voice resounded from the void of space:

「 It’s too late, these pitiful souls 」

The void of space opened.

A gigantic monster walked out from inside, revealing an eerie half-male, half-female face.

Its head slowly turned until the back of its head was facing Liu Ping.

As the hair was pushed aside, an even more terrifying face was revealed.

Its eyes were closed, but its mouth was constantly stretching out as if it was smiling.

Liu Ping pushed the leader of the Professionists forward.

The leader immediately understood and rushed towards the tunnel.

The monster didn’t try to stop them and only slowly walked towards the tunnel, speaking:

「 Living beings always believe that they can escape from danger, but they don’t know that everything they do is actually a script that we have already prepared for them 」

「 To make it more convenient to eat 」

Long strands of light emanated from its body, drifting in the air.

Seeing this, Liu Ping’s body suddenly gave off some sort of invisible fluctuation.

Lines of burning words jumped out and floated in front of his eyes:

[You’ve activated ’Heaven’s Peek’]

[You will be able to see what is about to happen to the other party]

The scenery around him flashed and disappeared.

Liu Ping watched as the monster walked to the entrance of the tunnel, thrusting the strands of light behind it into the depths of the tunnel.

Warp tunnels opened one after another, the strands of light entered them and began to absorb the souls of the numerous worlds.

It absorbed the souls of hundreds of worlds at once!

An overwhelming presence radiated from its body, causing the entire tunnel to be filled with an intense wind capable of destroying everything.

A flash of light.

The scenery in front of Liu Ping’s eyes disappeared.

He found that he was still standing in place, while the monster was already standing at the entrance of the tunnel, all the strands of light behind it were raised.

No!

I can’t let it become any stronger!

A large vertical pupil suddenly appeared behind Liu Ping.

[Demonic Mask Thought Blade]!

Just as the strands of light behind the monster were about to fly out, it suddenly trembled.

It couldn’t help but take a few steps back, then turned around to smile at Liu Ping: 「 Don’t be hasty, this is such a good chance, I’ll kill you after I finish eating 」

Before it finished, a blinding Blade phantom shot out, slashing the monster’s body and sending it flying.

Liu Ping stood straight with his Blade, blocking the entrance of the tunnel and shouted: "Zhangxue!"

"I’ll do it!"

Li Zhangxue’s voice came.

A blinding sword phantom shot through the void of space, slashing deep into the tunnel.

The entire underground world began to tremble and shake.

The tunnel was destroyed by a single slash!

The numerous world warp tunnels inside were naturally destroyed as well.

At this point, the monster had just done a somersault in the air, landed on the ground, then took a few steps back before regaining its balance.

It glanced at the destroyed tunnel.

「 What a strange guy, do you really want to die that badly? 」 the monster spoke with a dark expression.

Liu Ping wielded his Baina Blade and spoke in a low voice: "Some food isn’t that easy to consume, it might even take your life"

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