Ape Corpse

Ye Wen cautiously walked in and pushed open the door to the first room. It was empty, with nothing inside! Only then did his taut nerves relax, and he let out a deep breath.

The second and third rooms were also empty. It wasn't until the fourth room that he found a desiccated corpse, one still covered in fur.

Ye Wen slowly walked over, genuinely afraid the corpse would suddenly jump up. But it was clear he was overthinking. A corpse was just a corpse, lying there motionlessly.

It was a humanoid desiccated corpse. Unlike other Giant Beasts, it wasn't enormous; it was only slightly larger than a normal adult human.

Ye Wen walked around the room first, looking for anything useful. Suddenly, he realized something seemed off!

Why were the doors to these rooms so easy for me to push open? Looking at the rooms, spaced one after another, it was clearly the setup of prison cells. Could it be that the Demons and Devils imprisoned here would obediently stay in their own cells?

Or perhaps these doors could only be opened from the outside, and once closed, they couldn't be opened from within. Ye Wen didn't dare to test it. What if that were the case? Wouldn't he lock himself in a cell?

So, he carefully checked if the door might close on its own. To be safe, he found a large rock and used it to prop the door open. Only then did he feel somewhat relieved.

Ye Wen then began to carefully examine the desiccated corpse. After a close look, he realized it was an ape, somewhat similar to the one he had fought before. Ye Wen suddenly became very excited. Could it have a Devil Core inside it too?

Since it was already dead, Ye Wen wasn't afraid. To dispel the eerie atmosphere, he even started talking to himself.

"I am Ye Wen, an attending physician in surgery. I am now taking out my Surgical Dagger. I am preparing to perform the first autopsy on the desiccated ape. The purpose of this autopsy is to check if this dead ape has grown any large stones. If there are large stones inside, surgeon Ye Wen is willing to perform surgery to remove them."

As Ye Wen spoke, he began to cut. The sharpness of the dagger had already been proven on the stone walls of the previous level. However, cutting this desiccated ape felt harder than cutting the stones outside! It took all his might to cut open the ape's belly.

He began searching inside the ape's stomach and, as expected, found a Devil Core the size of an egg. This discovery made Ye Wen extremely excited; his guess had come true.

But when he took it out, he noticed this Devil Core was different from the one he had extracted from the previous Giant Beast ape. This one was fiery red, indicating it was a fire-attribute Demon Beast.

Were they different species, or the same species, with the attribute difference arising from different Spiritual Qi absorption?

Ye Wen pondered for a while and suddenly felt a bit foolish. Back in school, because he loved to understand and figure everything out, he had always gotten good grades.

But now, he didn't need to understand it so clearly. What use was it to distinguish between them? This habit needed to change; he shouldn't waste energy pondering useless things.

This was the innate ability of a good student: the capacity for self-reflection, identifying their weaknesses and strengths. Correcting weaknesses and leveraging strengths.

Ye Wen planned to let his Pre-cancerous Cells absorb the energy from the Devil Core. So, he decided to leave this room and exit the first level of the Demon Suppressing Tower. He figured it was better to absorb it elsewhere, to avoid the tragedy of the cell door accidentally closing.

Everything was ready. Ye Wen returned to the spot where he had slid down and began circulating his Cultivation Method. The Endless Sacred Dao Scripture truly lived up to its reputation as the supreme scripture of the Hongmeng Human Race. Ye Wen's meridians were all sealed, yet the Cultivation Method still ran as usual, completely disregarding Mo Chengkong's Ancient Law Sealing.

However, this time, Ye Wen hadn't absorbed for long before the Devil Core turned to ash and ceased to exist.

He felt that the absorbed energy wasn't much, not as much as he had absorbed in previous times. But the purity of the absorbed energy was very high. The Pre-cancerous Cells seemed even more satisfied with the energy absorbed from this Devil Core.

It was as if the energy he had absorbed before was like beer; he drank three bottles in one go. But this time, he absorbed 62% proof liquor. Although it was only a small amount, it provided more to the Pre-cancerous Cells.

Therefore, what the Pre-cancerous Cells absorbed wasn't just pure energy. It must have been a certain substance contained within the energy.

This substance was like the alcohol in different types of liquor. All liquors are different, but it's the alcohol that makes you drunk.

So, which substance within the energy was the Pre-cancerous Cells absorbing? If they could determine which substance provided the energy, wouldn't it be enough to specifically seek out that substance for the Pre-cancerous Cells to absorb?