Cultivation Simulator of Eldritch Terrors

[Main story completed]

[One-sentence synopsis: An unwitting female lead of Eldritch horrors vs. Chinese horror folklore, auspicious signs, and xianxia.]

[Not a "big female lead"...

Chapter 39: Shanhai Pavilion "I want to build a Shanhai Pavilion, please borrow Shanjun...

Chapter 39: Shanhai Pavilion "I want to build a Shanhai Pavilion, please borrow Shanjun...

Shi Yishan was counting the number of patterns on the cloud-patterned talisman on the bear monster's chest.

One, two, three...six, there are six paths.

Liudao Yunwen, like him at least, had killed five hundred monsters and was ranked A-level among the monster hunters, one step away from being a judge in charge of a county's affairs.

I don't know how many life and death experiences I went through before I finally earned a piece of fame, but in the blink of an eye, dust returns to dust.

Shi Yishan recalled what his senior had said when he first joined the Monster Hunting Division: "For people like us, the best ending is to leave our bodies intact."

Did the owner of this cloud-patterned talisman leave his body intact?

Looking at the blood on the talisman and the bear monster's bulging belly, Shi Yishan suddenly didn't want to explore the answer to this question.

The bear demon, who was being stared at by a group of demon hunters, followed their gaze and saw the spoils he had obtained not long ago.

It touched its belly, recalled, and said with sudden enlightenment: "That woman who talked a lot of nonsense two days ago, was she in the same group with you? She is already old, but she is so ungrateful. I, the old bear, was ready to let her go, but she insisted on yelling for a few irrelevant people, 'If you want to fill your stomach, eating her alone is enough, don't hurt other people's lives'... Hahahaha, don't you think it's ridiculous?"

The demon hunter remained silent and no one responded.

The bear demon felt that he had lost face and his expression turned gloomy.

The bull demon at the side sneered, "Captain Xiong, you don't know, these people are just hypocritical. I, Old Bull, also met a monk who kept muttering something like 'If I don't go to hell, who will?' He wanted to use his own flesh to exchange for the old woman's life..."

It shook the old tree-root-like human hand in its palm and said nonchalantly, "... I promised him first, I'll chop him in half with a knife, and then catch the old woman in front of him. Hehe, the monk eats vegetarian food all day long, so thin that he has only two taels of meat, and he is very dry... This old woman is a little older, and her skin and flesh are more delicate than his..."

The two monsters nodded in understanding, and the bear monster said, "These people are full of benevolence and morality, and they want us to kill but not abuse. Don't they know that we have cultivated ourselves to become great monsters just for this kind of freedom and recklessness?"

The bull demon laughed loudly, looked at the demon hunters who were getting more and more angry, shook his head and said, "You humans, you usually kill pigs and sheep, and you all enjoy your meals. When have you ever complained for those pigs and sheep? Now it's my turn, why can't I figure it out?"

It raised its human hand and pointed at the mica car: "While we brothers are in a good mood today, you can go away on your own, leaving the young lady in the car behind... Well, she is the noble person you want to protect, right? If you are worried that you will not be able to report back, tell her family that the man-eater is Niu Fantian!"

The bull demon finished speaking proudly, only to find that the people on the opposite side had no intention of retreating. Instead, their eyes became colder and colder, and they looked at them as if they were dead demons.

It was stunned for a moment, the smile on its face faded, and just as it was about to curse, "A bunch of idiots looking for death," it heard a voice from the ornately decorated carriage: "Any other last words?"

The bull demon paused and looked at the mica carriage in surprise, but the nobleman in the carriage had already lowered the curtains, so he could not see the person's expression.

It couldn't help but ask suspiciously: "Who are you?"

"The one who killed you."

What a bluff!

The bull demon made up his mind instantly, and the bear demon next to him, who had an even hotter temper, roared, transformed into his true form that was three meters tall, and strode towards the carriage.

"If you don't accept my toast, you'll be punished—"

The word "wine" was stuck in the bear monster's throat. The slight chill from its neck made it feel a little confused.

It reacted slowly, lowering its head little by little, and saw the blood lines slowly opening up in its black fur, followed by the hot blood spurting out.

This is…what…is…going on…

The bear monster tried hard to look in the direction of his good brother the bull monster, but he saw that the object on the bull monster's neck had disappeared before he could transform into his true form.

It used its last bit of strength to move its eyes and saw the bull's horned head rolling in front of the horse's hooves. The horse snorted impatiently and was not afraid at all.

The purple-robed man on horseback shook off the blood on his sword expressionlessly and said towards the carriage, "It's such a small matter, there's no need to dirty the Sect Master's hands."

Sect leader...what sect leader...who are they...?

The bear demon's head gurgled and rolled off the neck, and its eyes fell into pure darkness.

Fortunately, it has cultivated a secret method, and its soul will not die even if it dies. After this group of people leave, it will find a safe Feng Shui treasure land, disguise itself as a land god, deceive some incense and wishes, and then eat twenty or thirty people, so that it can condense its body again...

By then, it won't be too late to seek revenge on these people...

"ah--"

A scream of extreme pain made the bear demon's thoughts stagnate, and the next moment, it felt that its soul hidden in the Shenzangxue was unreasonably pulled out by a huge force. The secret method it practiced had set up layers of restrictions, but in front of this power, it was as fragile as a layer of window paper and broke with a single poke.

The next moment, the bear demon who was stuffed into a banner saw the bull demon whose hands and feet were nailed by soul nails, and understood why the miserable cry he heard was so familiar.

"No--"

Seeing the same soul nail heading towards the center of its forehead, the bear demon couldn't help but make a cowardly cry for mercy like the people it had eaten before.

When the cold nails pierced into its soul and made it feel heart-wrenching pain, it understood for the first time why those ordinary people it caught and ate, knowing that there was a huge gap in strength between them, were too lazy to pay attention to them no matter how much they begged for mercy, and still held on to a glimmer of hope, showing such a pitiful expression, and begging with tears.

If its hands and feet had not been nailed to the banners, it would have become as weak as a shrimp in such severe pain, and would have kowtowed to the torturer continuously.

It was unknown how long this torture lasted; the bull demon and the bear demon almost thought they had been in this agony for hundreds or thousands of years. When all the sharp soul nails were finally driven in, their eyes became so dazed that they could no longer focus.

A hand holding a scimitar picked up the bodies of the two monsters in their blurred vision, and in front of them, skinned and removed the tendons of their flesh like a butcher cutting up an ox.

Every time this strange scimitar fell, it cut through their flesh and tendons, but it also seemed to cut into their souls.

When the two round demon pills were picked out, the two monsters screamed again. However, this time they didn't scream for long before the man in purple cast a silencing spell on them, and they could no longer make any sound.

"Make a fire." The scimitar owner didn't even look at them. He put away the knife, his white teeth and scarlet tongue tip faintly visible, "Eat meat."

A group of green-robed men and women who had dismounted from their horses gathered around her, silently looking at the skinny hand and the blood-stained talisman that one of them was holding up.

"Only when you are full can you have the strength to kill monsters."

This woman, who was obviously the leader of this group and was respectfully called the Sect Master by the man in purple, spoke in a calm tone.

The demon hunters followed Li Zhou to survey the Feng Shui site. They had originally planned to get by with dry food, but they didn't expect that they would have to make a fire and cook.

Fortunately, there was someone who was proficient in refining magic and made two pots on the spot, one for stewing beef and the other for stewing bear paws.

The bear monster's body could not eat any more, so it and the two monster heads were sent back to Sizhou City by two monster hunters.

This mountain-like demon corpse and the terrified bull-head and bear-head can boost the morale of the people of Sizhou and deter the evil spirits lurking in the dark.

The aroma of cooked beef and bear paws penetrated into the nostrils of the bull monster and the bear monster, making the two monsters feel a kind of suffering that was different from pain.

A feeling of nausea swept over them, and they thought of those people who were forced to watch them eat humans. It turned out that the smell of their own kind was so disgusting.

What's even more terrifying is that the source of this fragrance is also my own body...

The two monsters wanted to vomit, but their souls were unable to vomit anything. They could only endure the nausea rising up their throats and watch themselves being eaten by everyone.

The bull demon couldn't stand it anymore and roared silently, "Why? Why can pigs and sheep eat it, but you humans can't?"

What is the difference between you now and us monsters?

It was under a silencing spell and could not make any sound, but the leading woman raised her head and looked at its hideous face.

Unlike the green-clad men around her who had solemn expressions, tears in their eyes while eating, and who bit the bear paw as if they were venting their anger, this woman was holding the bear paw with an expression of complete enjoyment of the food on her face.

She looked at it, opened her mouth, slowly bit off a piece of meat, chewed it carefully, and then swallowed it into her stomach.

The bull demon's entire body began to tremble under such a gaze. If being inferior to others in skills and being eaten by others was still a horror within its comprehension, then now, this gaze was simply incomprehensible madness, a calmness distorted to the extreme.

Being stared at by this gaze, it actually felt that death was the best relief, and even being nailed to this flag was not a big deal.

Could there be anything more terrifying than this? The bull demon stared at the woman with a blank mind, his eyes falling on the empty space between her scarlet lips. His soul was shaken, and his eyes immediately lost all their luster, falling into an inescapable delirium.

The bear demon next to it was staring at the bear's paw, having long lost the ability to think normally.

Li Zhou looked up at the Soul Banner, and seeing that the two monsters were nailed firmly, he withdrew his gaze.

She didn't notice that the looks that Ma Yong, Shi Yishan and the others gave the Soul Banner showed, in addition to the initial fear, a hint of relief.

Fortunately, Sect Leader Xue considers himself a human being.

Fortunately, she had such cruel means, which could finally comfort the soul of her colleague in heaven.

Li Zhou was just thinking, feeling that his previous eating method was too rough, just like Zhu Bajie eating ginseng fruit, he swallowed it into his stomach without even tasting the flavor.

Look at how good the skills of the demon hunter are. The demon meat is tender and crispy, and the aroma of the seasoning blends perfectly with the taste of the meat itself. When you take a bite, the fat splashes and the mouth is filled with fragrance.

Once she has built the sect, she will hire a few good cooks, so as to attract others to sign up.

Having made up his mind secretly, after eating the monster meat, Li Zhou was just about to ask the two monster souls where the tiger lion they were talking about was, but Ma Yong had already taken the initiative to step forward and cast the soul-searching technique to find out the location of the tiger lion from their memories.

"Xili Mountain." Ma Yong raised his head and looked forward. "It's only about ten miles away, not far."

The bull demon and bear demon whose souls were being searched looked dazed. Suddenly they shuddered and collapsed.

Ma Yong paused, glanced at his subordinates who were building a tomb for the skinny hands and the bloodstained talisman, and whispered, "Your spirits in heaven can rest in peace now."

When these two monsters despised the people they ate for their kindness and morality, they certainly didn't think that there would be beings in the world who were even less kind and immoral than them.

Li Zhou thought that the two monsters were scattered because of the soul-searching technique. He looked at Ma Daolu with admiration and said to him, "In that case, let's go to Xili Mountain."

Ma Yong nodded and bowed deeply: "I am willing to be the leader's vanguard."

Li Zhou nodded and thought to himself, he didn't know how big the mountain monster cave in Xili Mountain was, and whether it could be directly transformed for their Duotian Sect to use.

This would save a lot of money, the frugal Li Zhou praised himself in his heart.

While he was thinking, Xili Mountain had already appeared before his eyes, and the carriage with the magic talisman attached was moving very fast.

I saw this mountain, with green pines piled up, auspicious clouds flying, and halfway up the mountain, a glazed palace was looming, with ethereal fairy music and lingering flute sounds.

It actually has an air of a fairyland.

Ma Yong's heart tightened, knowing that this was a powerful demon. Under normal circumstances, to find such a demon, at least three states would have to join forces, mobilize thousands of soldiers, and send out a supervisor and three Taoist recorders to take it down.

But now…

Ma Yong glanced at Li Zhou, whose expression remained unchanged, and swallowed the suggestions of "surround first and then attack" and "disguise as a bull monster and a bear monster and sneak into the cave to investigate."

He waved his whip, led the way in front, and led the team unobstructedly along the repaired mountain path, and galloped to the front of the Glazed Palace.

On the door of the palace, there was a plaque with two powerful characters written on it:

【Yinyuan】

Could it be a tiger monster?

Ma Yong turned around and was about to report to the leader of Duotian Sect, but he saw her sizing up the size of the palace and said:

"I want to build a mountain and sea pavilion..."

This palace is a bit small, and it certainly can't accommodate an entire sect. But Li Zhou suddenly had an inspiration.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a building in the sect to house specimens of demons and ghosts for people to visit and study?

"...Please borrow the mountain king's cave for a while."

Her voice was not loud, but it was filled with the power of "faith-taking". When she spoke, it took away the rest of the voices in the place.

In Yin Garden, the music stopped abruptly. Every monster that was eating meat and drinking wine with a happy look on its face, and every person who was tied to the table with blood and tears, heard these words clearly.