Entering the Bone Resonance Realm

Chapter 31: Entering Bone Resonance Realm

The sky had completely darkened.

The sun had fully sunk below the horizon, leaving only a smear of purple-red at the edge of the sky.

Jiang Yuechu gazed at the massive corpse beneath her feet, her heart growing more and more excited.

This was the corpse of a Bone-Resonating great demon!

Those two useless Pig Demons earlier had already benefited her greatly just by relying on her own digestive ability.

Now, bearing the Blood-Eating Technique, what kind of scene would this be?

Seeing that the Demon Suppression Bureau runners around her had all retreated to a distance, she didn't go so far as to leave nothing behind.

After all, she was currently serving under the Demon Suppression Bureau; leaving not a single scrap would be hard to justify.

After a moment of thought, she turned the Horizontal Blade in her hand, the edge slicing across the demon's corpse, easily cutting through the tough hide and flesh.

Enduring the stench, she removed some organs and cut off several of the thickest demon tendons, placing them all on a clean stone beside her.

Only after doing all this did she slowly close her eyes.

Blood-Eating Technique, activate!

The next moment.

From the pores all over her body, countless streams of blood-colored mist burst forth.

The blood mist coalesced in midair, forming dozens of thick tentacles that, like starving vipers, instantly coiled around the massive demon corpse.

"Hiss..."

Seeing this, Jiang Yuechu sucked in a sharp breath.

No way?

She felt more and more like a demon herself.

She silently complained in her heart, but her movements didn't pause for a moment.

Soon, the Catfish Spirit's enormous corpse visibly shriveled.

Stream after stream of pure, refined blood and qi flowed through the blood-colored tentacles, pouring endlessly into her body.

The blood and qi within her surged once more.

"Burp..."

Jiang Yuechu couldn't help but let out a belch.

A surge of unprecedented, vast blood and qi—so immense it nearly burst her apart—coursed and rampaged wildly through her limbs and bones!

Suddenly, within her body, it was as if a barrier stood firm, blocking the torrent of blood and qi.

Jiang Yuechu's heart tightened.

This was likely the chasm between the String-Hearing Realm and the Bone Resonance Realm!

For ordinary martial artists to break through this realm, they needed years of tempering their blood and qi, dripping water wearing through stone, slowly grinding away at this barrier.

Those with good talent might take three to five years; those with poor talent might never succeed in a lifetime.

But Jiang Yuechu was different.

A vast amount of pure demonic blood and qi began to transform into her own.

What she needed to do wasn't dripping water wearing through stone.

It was... a dam bursting!

"Open... for me!"

She roared in her heart, no longer suppressing the violent power within her.

Boom—

A soundless, massive explosion detonated in her mind!

Agony!

Indescribable agony!

Jiang Yuechu grunted, dropping to one knee, sweat rolling from her brow, her pretty face instantly pale as paper.

Yet in her eyes, there was not a trace of pain—only a hint of madness.

Not enough!

Still not enough!

She could sense that under the violent impact, a crack had appeared in that barrier!

Again!

Gritting her teeth, she mobilized all the blood and qi in her body, launching a second, third, and fourth impact.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Each impact was accompanied by heart-rending pain.

But that seemingly indestructible barrier, under repeated impacts, was now covered in cracks, teetering on the verge of collapse!

Finally.

After who knows how many dozens of impacts.

Crack—

A clear sound, like shattering glass, rang out from within her body.

Hum—

In that instant, it was as if all restraints had been cast off.

Her bones, tempered by this power, began to emit a series of strange sounds.

Dong...

Like the melodious tolling of a temple bell.

Clang...

Like the crisp ring of a blade being drawn from its sheath.

Metal and stone intertwined, clear and piercing to the ear.

Sinews and bones resonating in unison!

This was the Bone Resonance Realm!

[Host: Jiang Yuechu]
[Realm: Bone-Resonating Initial Realm]

Bone Resonance Realm, achieved!

Jiang Yuechu slowly stood up, clenching her fists.

Not only had her strength multiplied several times over, but the total amount of blood energy within her body had also increased massively compared to before.

If before it was a pool of water, now it was a vast lake.

If she were to face that Catfish Spirit again now, she was confident that, without even using Demonization, she could cut it down with just the Fierce Tiger Quickblade and her Bone Resonance Realm cultivation!

She looked around.

Aside from the demon tendons and a few pieces of internal organs she had set aside earlier, the originally mountain-like corpse of the demon beast was now completely gone.

"Well, I'll be damned..."

Jiang Yuechu couldn't help muttering to herself.

This Blood-Eating Technique was so overbearing.

Devouring flesh and blood, refining it into blood energy, and even dissolving the bones completely in the process.

A technique like this was practically a must-have divine ability for destroying evidence and killing for plunder.

I wonder... could this technique be used on people?

No sooner had this thought arisen.

Jiang Yuechu jolted with a start, instinctively raising her hand and giving herself a hard slap.

Jiang Yuechu, Jiang Yuechu, are you even human?

She took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing those mad thoughts in her mind.

She sat there for a while longer, until the deep of the night, when the surging blood energy within her had completely settled. Only then did she stand up and call out into the distance.

"It's clear."

Hearing the commotion, Liu Chen and the others cautiously approached.

When they saw the empty mud pit before them, undisguised shock and doubt filled every face.

"This... where's the demon's corpse?"

Zhao Hu's eyes went wide. He rushed forward a few steps and stomped around in the mud with his foot. Aside from a huge depression, there was nothing.

Liu Chen's gaze fell on the pile of bloody demon organs at Jiang Yuechu's feet, then back to her.

He didn't ask further.

Everyone had a side they didn't want others to know about.

Even a question born of curiosity might already be seen as an offense by the one being asked.

"Pack these things up."

He instructed a man beside him, then turned to face the group.

"Check if there's anything we missed. And... for the brothers of Yellow Battalion... gather as many as you can find."

"Chief!"

Zhao Hu couldn't help but speak up. "But... what about Black Water Village..."

Liu Chen shook his head. "The demon is eliminated. This matter can be considered concluded for now."

He paused, then continued, "As for the Black Water Village villagers resorting to private punishment, I will report it truthfully. The county officials will handle it."

"If the Demon Suppression Bureau has to personally handle every single matter, then what need is there for the government offices?"

Several days later.

When the group returned to Liangzhou Prefecture, dragging their exhausted bodies, it was already dusk.

Eight people, eight horses.

They had set out at full strength, and returned at full strength.

For an expedition to hunt a Bone Resonance Realm great demon, this was undoubtedly somewhat unbelievable.

Several of the men remained silent.

Their gazes, intentionally or not, would always drift toward the young woman at the very back of the group.

Everyone's mind was still echoing with that earth-shattering slash.

If not for her, whether any of them would still be alive was unknown.

Thinking of this, the looks the crowd gave Jiang Yuechu grew increasingly respectful.