You're awake?

The Void Kun's eyes were turning white—was it because humans were too delicious, and he had overindulged?

Was that steaming, hot belch because he had eaten too much?

Was the scorching, charred heat because the Wine Fox Immortal was a fire-type Beast Immortal?

His nose twitched, and Golden Peng's expression gradually froze.

This... was not the scent of a human.

This was the mellow aroma of thousands-year-old fish bones!

It was the scent he had dreamed of on the eve of his defection from the White Lotus Sect two thousand years ago, the scent of the Void Kun being cooked for the guests of the East Floating Immortal Court by Yun Zhonghe.

It was the scent the East Floating Immortal Court had promoted for a thousand years to justify hunting the Void Kun!

An ominous premonition surfaced in Golden Peng's mind.

The Void Kun's stomach had been burned?

Golden Peng was suddenly stunned.

Impossible!

The Kun's mouth could swallow the heavens and the earth; its stomach was like a void, its gastric acid like a sea of refining fire, digesting everything from steel to stone.

Over the past thousand years, the Void Kun had devoured thousands of immortals, including many powerful Immortal Sect Masters!

Could it be that this person was far beyond an Immortal Sect Master?

Not only had the Kun's belly failed to digest him, but this person had burned away the gastric acid, burned through the stomach wall, and charred the fish bones and meat?

A careful sweep of his divine sense revealed that he could no longer detect the Void Kun's spiritual pressure.

It was almost cooked through...

Preposterous!

Rolling flames churned in Golden Peng's eyes.

What kind of monster was this guy?

Just how much strength had he been hiding?

Humans... were too filthy!

Golden Peng stood frozen in mid-air, unable to believe his eyes.

Through all the years of wind and rain, we killed and burned together, slaughtered cities and destroyed sects, fought against the heavens and contended with immortals—how joyous it was! And yet, you died in the tiny Little Bamboo Spring Mountain?

"I, Golden Peng, swear that if I do not slaughter the Bamboo Spring Sect, I am no Peng!"

Rolling fury, accompanied by a vast sea of energy, erupted in an instant.

"But not today."

Without dwelling too long on the momentary grief, Golden Peng turned and fled without a word.

Suddenly, the giant Kun behind him opened its mouth to swallow, and a terrifying suction force dragged him backward.

Golden Peng sensed disaster, instantly unleashing his beast form to transform into a giant Peng, flapping his wings in a frantic dash, but...

He was actually flying backward toward the Kun's mouth!

He couldn't even escape after using his ultimate?

What kind of hellish power was this?

Golden Peng realized death was approaching, but he still had one trump card left.

Explode Kun!

This was a finishing move he had researched when he was very young; it could detonate the Void Kun's Immortal Platform at a critical moment, severely wounding the enemy while buying himself enough time to escape.

He instantly reverted to human form, his hands moving in a blur to form seals, and he roared:

"Explo—"

Before the word "Kun" could leave his lips, a brilliant sword light flared behind him!

It was a giant sword condensed from three thousand sword shadows, striking at the most perfect moment, from the most perfect position, at the most perfect angle, and with the most perfect force...

It pierced through his Immortal Platform in a single strike!

"You—"

Golden Peng's eyes were frozen in shock. He turned to look, and his fixed bird-like eyes reflected the figure of Liu Xuanye, standing sternly atop Little Bamboo Spring Mountain several miles away.

He had been ambushed!

The Void Kun swallowed a human, only to be roasted in return.

He was in the middle of casting a spell, only to be ambushed by a sword...

Humans, their hearts were too filthy!

Golden Peng's eyes split with rage.

His fingers began to turn to dust. No matter how he reached out to grab, he could grasp nothing; instead, more of his body dissipated. In the end, his entire form crumbled into ash, vanishing into the horizon.

As a Beast Immortal, just like a true immortal, death meant turning to dust.

In his eyes were the wretched look of death and the flames of unwilling fury.

He had never seen such a shameless couple!

"Colleagues of the Immortal Tail, you must exterminate humanity!"

This was his final dying wish...

On the Sword Terrace.

Liu Xuanye felt as calm as still water, turning to walk into the depths of the bamboo forest.

Three thousand sword lights returned to that slender figure, graceful as green bamboo.

On the training grounds, the black clouds dispersed, and the sudden rain ceased.

The sea of clouds in the sky was breathtaking; golden, warm rays pierced through, bathing the earth and seemingly draping the Floating Mountain in a magnificent divinity.

Seeing Golden Peng reduced to ashes, Ning Zhongzi instinctively tossed a jar into the sky.

Golden Peng's bounty was hundreds of times higher than that of Yunzhongzi!

After collecting the ashes, Ning Zhongzi stared at the massive, whitening body of the Void Kun in the clouds and shook her head.

Senior brother is truly... he made her worry for nothing.

With such a massive hunk of Kun meat, plus the bounty on Golden Peng, perhaps Azure Phoenix City could hold out for the two months until the crops matured.

Was all of this within senior brother's plan?

As for the Sect Master killing Golden Peng with a single sword strike, although it involved a sneak attack, it was definitely not easy; at the very least, he had never used this move before.

Was it also an insight gained after dual cultivation with senior brother?

Ning Zhongzi dared not dwell on it further, her bright eyes flickering with soft light as she turned to look at Snake Baby.

On the training grounds.

Watching Golden Peng vanish into flying ash, the Beast Immortals stood dazed, not yet fully reacting.

They had won just like that?

Was the power of the Sect Master's sword strike really that strong?

A Sect Master and a Lord Wine Fox, the peerless twin prodigies of the Eastern Floating Immortal Academy back in the day—even when injured or constrained by their physical constitutions, they could still unleash strength far beyond their cultivation levels...

Is this what talent is?

And also.

Why was the body of the Void Kun turning white?

What was with this heaven-defying fragrance?

Was Elder Lu Ya still alive?

In the corner, the Weasel Immortal trembled.

He finally understood why he had seen such terrifying gluttony in the eyes of Lu Ya, a gluttony that seemed capable of devouring the heavens and the earth, consuming everything.

"It's the City Lord; he's barbecuing the Kun's body from inside its stomach... He was swallowed on purpose, and he even had the seasonings prepared."

The Weasel Immortal explained this to the crowd.

The Beast Immortals were dumbfounded.

But connecting it to the series of actions Lu Ya had taken, it really seemed to be the case!

Shock, absurdity, and lingering fear.

Could such culinary arts exist in this world?

Is Elder Lu Ya a devil!

Muyu Feifei recovered from her terror, her two small faces, pale as death, gradually turning red. She had been so scared that she had wet her pants, and now she felt...

It was a wasted wetting.

"Grilling fish inside a fish's stomach?"

"Eating fish from inside a fish's stomach?"

Envy makes one lose their composure!

They were so envious of Lord Wine Fox.

They also wanted to go into the Kun's stomach to eat fish.

But they were afraid they would be digested before they even reached Lu Ya's location.

They wanted to find someone to accompany them, but unfortunately, no one agreed.

Four chubby little short legs paced back and forth on the training grounds, circling head to tail, hesitant and indecisive.

After a moment of thought, they all flew their swords into the sky, wobbling as they flew toward the clouds.

Hovering beneath the massive body of the Kun, I looked up at its colossal belly, covered in azure fish scales.

It felt like staring at the lid of the firmament.

It was simply too enormous!

And it smelled absolutely divine!

How long would it take to eat all of this?

Why hadn't Lu Ya come out yet?

Was he planning to hog such a massive fish all to himself?

A man and a woman alone inside a belly—was there no shame?

The two of them paced for a long time before the giant, slightly agape mouth of the Kun, staring into that throat like a black hole, but in the end, they didn't dare crawl inside. They could only shout into the maw:

"Little Martial Uncle, come out quickly!"

"Your adorable grand-nephew is here to help!"

"Can you let us in?"

"We won't cause trouble this time, we'll do whatever you say!"

"..."

At this moment, the interior of the giant Kun was a sea of fire.

The faint, smoldering flames drifted like blue ghosts.

The stomach was about thirty feet long and twenty feet at its widest—larger than the apartment Lu Ya had coveted in his past life, back when he couldn't even afford a bathroom.

All the stomach acid had evaporated, and the stomach walls had been burned through.

Inside the Kun's belly, the massive, exotic internal organs were gone; only a bit of liver and the swim bladder remained, while everything else had been tossed into Lu Ya's spatial ring.

The inner walls of the Kun meat had been sliced open with a sword, creating deep fissures.

He had sprinkled on massive amounts of chopped green onions, minced garlic, chili oil, cumin powder, salt, peppercorns, and star anise...

The meat was a glistening, charred gold, spicy and savory, neither greasy nor gamey.

The roasting meat hissed, and a drop of hot oil slid slowly down the plump grain of the flesh, intoxicating to behold.

The aroma permeated the entire belly of the Kun.

In the center of the belly was a flat patch of ground.

This area was shielded from the blue flames and heat currents, and a cool breeze even drifted in from the distant void, making it feel like a secluded paradise.

Lu Ya sat cross-legged.

He had intended to use the force of Golden Peng's explosion to save on fire, but his wife had been worried and slaughtered the source of the flame.

You really are my wonderful wife!

Beside Lu Ya, Wine Fox Immortal lay on her side atop the Kun meat.

She was sleeping soundly.

A wide, green robe covered her petite, blood-stained frame.

Her usually bold features appeared surprisingly round and cute in her sleep, almost like a young girl.

Unfortunately, her long, expressive eyelashes had been singed and curled by the faint blue flames.

Her new wounds had mostly healed, leaving only the old scar from when Liu Xuanye had stabbed her back at the Immortal Academy.

This was a memento Lu Ya had left her... supposedly for her own good.

A long while later.

Her dainty nose twitched, and Wine Fox Immortal rubbed her eyes and woke up.

What greeted her fox-like eyes was a world of blue fire, terrifying and grotesque meat walls, and an air thick with the charred scent of roasting flesh.

"Is this... hell?"

Lu Ya was sitting cross-legged beside her, just like that scene on Ning Zhongzi's bed ten days ago.

"You're awake?"

Wine Fox Immortal scrambled up with a start, pointing at Lu Ya, unable to speak for a long time.

"You, you... you died too?"

Thanks to the brothers for the tips!

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