Eating Meat with Big Mouthfuls

The moment Sun Yu stepped out from the massive beast skull, his body suddenly staggered.

A thunderous rumble erupted from within his five viscera.

It wasn't the sound of Internal Breath circulating—it was the roar of an utterly ravenous hunger.

Marrow replacement was an extremely violent process of reshaping.

Although the system's point allocation had spared him decades of bitter cultivation, the Sword Qi that materialized out of thin air had shredded his old Bone Marrow and forcibly condensed new Sword Marrow, directly draining nearly eighty percent of his blood and qi reserves.

The inside of his bones was now like a parched abyss.

The newborn Sword Marrow, like a starving savage beast, was frantically sending signals to his brain demanding food.

Sun Yu's eyes were shot through with a terrifying web of bloodshot veins.

The few scraps of Iron Armor Ox meat left in his pack had long been wolfed down in two bites, vanishing into his stomach without even a ripple.

He needed an enormous replenishment of blood and qi.

He needed the flesh and blood of high-tier demonic beasts.

Sun Yu strode boldly into the crimson poisonous miasma.

The Dark Gold membrane on his skin let out faint sizzling sounds under the miasma's corrosion, but it couldn't harm him in the slightest.

He didn't bother deliberately seeking a direction; he simply followed the scent of blood drifting through the air in a straight line.

He hadn't gone ten li.

The black mud ahead suddenly churned violently.

A massive dark shadow burst up from the sludge at the bottom of the swamp.

Mud splattered everywhere.

Sun Yu stopped in his tracks.

Blocking his path was a giant lizard the size of a full-grown wild ox.

The beast was covered in an extremely thick layer of dark red scales, their edges lined with barbs, and a metallic sheen of indestructible hardness rippled across their surface.

A Blood Scale Lizard.

A unique mutant demonic beast native to the Blood Sea Devil Abyss.

This creature had spent years devouring the blood Baleful Intent and poisonous miasma of the Devil Abyss, and the hardness of its scale armor rivaled the Protective Gang Qi of a Blood Washing Realm martial artist.

The Blood Scale Lizard's cold Vertical Pupils locked onto Sun Yu in an instant.

It opened its blood-soaked maw lined with fangs.

A wave of intensely foul, rotting stench washed over him.

Several drops of black venom dripped from the corners of its mouth onto the mud below, instantly corroding the soil into several steaming pits of white smoke.

Sun Yu stared at this giant beast brimming with blood and qi, his Adam's apple bobbing violently.

He didn't draw the broken sword hilt at his waist.

Nor did he activate the Perfection Realm Swimming Dragon Steps to circle and fight.

The hunger was madly devouring his reason. There was only one thought left in his mind now.

Eat meat.

"Hiss!"

The Blood Scale Lizard let out an ear-piercing shriek, its four thick, clawed legs slamming hard against the ground.

Its massive body, like a heavy war chariot charging at full speed, hurtled straight toward Sun Yu with a suffocating pressure of wind.

Sun Yu stood his ground, his feet planted firmly in the mire.

Instead of retreating, he advanced.

Meeting the Blood Scale Lizard's charge head-on, Sun Yu's right leg tendon snapped taut in an instant, and his body blasted forward like a cannonball.

Man and Beast collided in mid-path with a thunderous impact.

"Boom!"

A deeply muffled, heavy explosion rang out.

Sun Yu's arms locked firmly against the enormous head of the Blood Scale Lizard as it rammed into him.

The sheer force of the impact blasted the mud beneath Sun Yu's feet apart, driving his legs straight down into the swamp's depths up to his knees.

But his upper body stood like a mountain cast from raw iron, forcibly halting the beast's charge.

The Blood Scale Lizard had no pain receptors.

Seeing its ram had failed, it opened its blood-drenched maw to an impossibly wide angle and snapped viciously at Sun Yu's face.

At the same time, a torrent of black corrosive venom spewed from its mouth, splashing directly onto Sun Yu's chest and shoulders.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!"

Thick clouds of white toxic smoke instantly rose from Sun Yu's body.

The venom was fiercely corrosive—even refined steel would turn to molten iron in an instant.

But when those droplets landed on Sun Yu, they could only seethe wildly across the surface of his Dark Gold membrane, utterly unable to breach the absolute defense of the Extreme Devil Body.

Not even the faintest white mark was left behind.

Sun Yu ignored the venom and toxic smoke clinging to him.

His left hand shot upward, fingers like steel claws, and clamped down hard on the Blood Scale Lizard's upper jaw.

The Blood Scale Lizard thrashed desperately, its thick tail whipping against Sun Yu's back with a howling, vicious wind.

Clang!

That blow—strong enough to snap a tree trunk as thick as two men could embrace—landed on Sun Yu's back with a metallic clang like hammer striking iron.

Sun Yu didn't even furrow his brow.

The muscles in his right arm swelled in an instant, Dark Gold veins writhing wildly beneath his Skin and Flesh.

Extreme Yang Blood Qi, mixed with the terrifying power of the Blood Washing Realm, all converged into his right fist.

Sun Yu swung that fist, aimed at the Blood Scale Lizard's lower jaw, and smashed it upward with brutal ferocity.

Boom!

The dull impact was laced with a sickening crack of breaking bone.

The Blood Scale Lizard's rock-hard mandible shattered under Sun Yu's punch, crushed to fragments.

Countless shards of bone, mixed with venom and blood, sprayed from its mouth in a torrent.

But the Blood Scale Lizard felt no pain. It kept writhing madly, its sharp claws raking frantically at Sun Yu's waist and abdomen.

Sun Yu's gaze turned ice-cold.

He turned his right hand from a fist into a claw, plunging it straight into the mangled flesh of the lizard's shattered jaw, his fingers locking onto the root of its mandible.

Left hand gripping the upper jaw.

Right hand gripping the lower jaw.

The muscles in Sun Yu's arms stretched to their limit.

He took a deep breath, his blood—heavy as molten lead—roaring wildly inside him.

"Open up."

A low growl tore from Sun Yu's throat.

His arms exploded outward with force.

Brutal. Pure. Violence.

Kacha!

The Blood Scale Lizard's neck muscles were yanked to their breaking point, then snapped one by one.

Its upper and lower jaws were pried apart by Sun Yu into a horrifying angle that defied all anatomy.

Sun Yu didn't stop.

His left hand pinned the lizard's head down, while his right foot shot up and stomped hard onto its chest.

The moment his right hand was free, his fingers drove straight down the torn throat, plunging brutally into the depths of its cervical spine.

Sun Yu's ten fingers dug deep into that thick spinal column.

Then, with a twist of his waist and a snap of his spine—like a drawn bow suddenly released—his arms wrenched upward.

Riiip!!!

A piercing sound of tearing flesh and muscle echoed across the swamp.

Countless thick sinews were ripped apart.

With a spray of dark, stinking blood, a spine several feet long, still dangling with chunks of entrails and dripping gore, was yanked clean out of the Blood Scale Lizard's body by Sun Yu!

The lizard's massive frame instantly lost all support.

It collapsed like a heap of mud into the swamp, its limbs twitching only faintly from nerve reflexes.

Dead. Completely.

Sun Yu casually tossed the bloody spine aside.

He pulled his legs free from the mire.

The hunger had become unbearable—he couldn't take another step.

Sun Yu bent down, grabbed the torn, thick scales at the edge of the Blood Scale Lizard's corpse, and pulled with both arms.

Rip! A large sheet of hard scales, flesh still attached, was torn away, revealing the dark-red beast meat beneath—rich with abundant Blood Qi.

Sun Yu made do with what was at hand.

He walked over to a withered tree stump not far away, its upper half eaten away by the poisonous miasma, and kicked it to pieces with one blow.

He picked up a few pieces of wood that were still relatively dry and tossed them beside the Blood Scale Lizard's corpse.

With a casual snap of his fingers.

Extreme Yang Blood Qi shot out from his fingertips, instantly igniting the wood.

A campfire blazed to life amidst the crimson toxic haze.

Sun Yu couldn't care less about the harsh environment.

He tore large chunks of flesh from the Blood Scale Lizard's carcass with his bare hands.

Each piece weighed a good dozen or so catties.

He threw the meat directly into the fire.

The flames licked at the Demon Beast's flesh, hissing and crackling as fat dripped down, sending up a thick mix of burnt and savory aromas.

Sun Yu didn't even wait for the meat to be fully cooked.

As soon as the surface changed color, he reached straight into the fire and grabbed the scalding chunks.

Charred on the outside, still warm with fresh blood inside.

Sun Yu opened his mouth and tore into the half-raw Demon Beast Meat with huge, savage bites.

He had no need for slow, careful chewing.

His formidable bite force crushed the meat, along with some cartilage, in an instant, and he swallowed it straight down.

The Blood Scale Lizard's flesh was extremely tough and coarse, but the qi and blood it contained was astonishingly vast.

The moment the meat hit his stomach.

The Five Viscera Furnace inside Sun Yu's body went into a frenzy.

Its ferocious digestive power instantly broke down and refined the flesh.

Torrents of rich, scalding qi and blood essence exploded in his stomach like a burst dam, then rapidly merged into his blood, which was already as heavy as lead or mercury.

With the influx of such massive qi and blood.

The ravenous, desperate hunger inside Sun Yu finally began to ease.

The blood, carrying immense energy, surged endlessly through his bones, scouring them clean.

Deep within his skeleton, the Sword Marrow that had just begun to condense greedily devoured these nourishing qi and blood like a dry sponge soaking up rain after a long drought.

"Crack, crack, crack."

Faint sword hums once again echoed from within Sun Yu's body.

The progress of marrow refinement, sustained by these high-grade flesh and blood, continued to advance steadily.

Sun Yu sat by the campfire, his hands never stopping.

An entire Blood Scale Lizard, the size of an ox.

Apart from its hard scales and organs, the remaining several hundred catties of flesh were devoured clean by Sun Yu in less than half an hour.

He tossed the last bone into the mud.

Sun Yu let out a burp.

He stood up, feeling the qi and blood now surging full again inside him, along with the ever-sharper edge deep in his bones.

He clenched his fists slightly, and the joints grinding together no longer produced a dull thud, but a crisp, metallic clang.

The qi and blood from one Blood Scale Lizard barely filled the deficit left by this round of stat allocation.

But he knew well that the [Heavenly Sword Marrow Cleansing Scripture] was only at the initial stage.

If he wanted to continue allocating points, pushing it to Proficient, Mastered, or even Major Accomplishment, the qi and blood he would need was a terrifying, astronomical number.

The Blood Sea Devil Abyss had no shortage of such qi-and-blood-charged aberrations.

Sun Yu lifted his head and looked deeper into the swamp.

The crimson toxic miasma churned before his eyes.

He licked the bloodstains from the corner of his mouth and strode forward with long steps.