Becoming an immortal against the will of heaven

Chen Tian watched the purple light sphere for a while, noticing it moved left and right intermittently. After determining a certain direction, it would suddenly dart forward several zhang before resuming its left-right searching.

“Could it be searching for a demon core for itself?” Chen Tian wondered in surprise, observing the peculiar behavior of the purple light sphere.

Snapping out of his thoughts, Chen Tian’s eyes flickered as he glanced behind him. Although he was inside the whale demon beast's corpse and couldn't see Long Yinglie's expression, he could vaguely sense a sinister smile on his face.

Chen Tian's scalp instantly tingled, and he secretly speculated, ‘Could he have really discovered that I was the one in the West Mi Mountains back then?’

Chen Tian couldn't help but overthink things. After all, Long Yinglie had shown him unusual favor several times, and now he even sent this strange light sphere to help him find a demon core.

Chen Tian would never believe there was nothing fishy about it.

However…

Chen Tian paused, interrupting his wild thoughts. He reached up and touched his forehead. The barrier set up by Fairy Fang Qiong was still there, trapping the black flame mark securely. Chen Tian didn't sense anything unusual.

Chen Tian trusted Fairy Fang Qiong. Since she had helped him seal the black flame mark, she would definitely ensure it was foolproof.

And since Chen Tian had value to him, he would definitely not harm Chen Tian easily before achieving his goal.

Conversely, Chen Tian also had value to that Fang Zhu Zhenren. Before fulfilling his purpose, he would also protect Chen Tian well.

This was Chen Tian's most important life-saving charm at the moment. Chen Tian believed that before they squeezed him dry of his value, these people wouldn't easily strike a fatal blow against him.

Thinking of this, Chen Tian felt relieved. He wasn't afraid of trouble. Riches are found in danger, and great risks bring great opportunities.

Chen Tian's eyes narrowed, and when he looked at the purple light sphere again, he found it had drifted far away. Without hesitation, Chen Tian flashed and hurriedly followed.

After a while, Chen Tian became increasingly certain that the purple light sphere was guiding him.

Inside the whale demon beast's corpse, Chen Tian couldn't use his spiritual sense to explore the space, but the purple light sphere seemed to have its own method. After several twists and turns, it brought Chen Tian to a huge blood cave.

This blood cave was different from the other places Chen Tian had passed through. As soon as he entered, an indescribable stench assaulted his nostrils.

Chen Tian's expression changed drastically. Without hesitation, he took out five 'Evil Repelling Pills' again and swallowed them all without a second thought.

Only after the medicinal power had completely dissolved did Chen Tian feel somewhat better, but there was still a strange sense of nausea churning in his chest and abdomen, as if it could erupt at any moment.

Chen Tian frowned and looked around, discovering that the blood cave was very large, about thirty zhang in length, width, and height.

The surroundings of the blood cave were fleshy walls, covered with blue and red blood vessels, but a layer of transparent, red-glowing membrane protected them, preventing them from being exposed.

The blood vessels here were very dense, indicating that this place was one of the whale demon beast's most important organs.

After withdrawing his gaze, Chen Tian looked at the ground of the blood cave, but after only one glance, Chen Tian's expression couldn't help but turn horrified.

He saw that the thirty-zhang square ground was actually piled with layers upon layers of rotten corpses.

Some of these corpses were demon beasts, and some were human cultivators. The number of them stacked together was as many as several hundred! However, they had all rotted to the point where their original appearance was no longer clear.

Obviously, the stench must have come from these rotten corpses.

“Swish, swish…”

At this moment, Chen Tian heard the sound of water, which surprised him. Looking around, he found that a turbid liquid suddenly overflowed from the four corners of the blood cave.

Chen Tian's eyes narrowed, and he immediately floated into the air, quietly looking down.

He saw that when these liquids flowed onto the pile of corpses, a “hissing” sound suddenly rang out, and then a small portion of the corpse's flesh was corroded away. Then, the liquid contentedly shrunk back.

At this time, Chen Tian floated back down again.

This wasn't the whale demon beast's stomach, Chen Tian was very sure, because its stomach wasn't here, but in Song Yi's half.

But the strange scene just now was very much like the stomach absorbing nutrients.

What was going on?

Chen Tian pondered for a while, and finally a bold idea appeared in his mind.

Chen Tian felt that this should also be a 'stomach' of the whale demon beast, but this 'stomach' wasn't used to absorb ordinary nutrients, but to absorb the spiritual power from these demon beasts and human cultivators!

Thinking of this, Chen Tian became somewhat excited, because he knew that after the whale demon beast absorbed these spiritual powers, it would definitely nourish its demon core, and this also meant that its demon core was nearby.

At this time, the purple light sphere, which had been floating motionless, seemed to have discovered something and suddenly floated forward again.

Seeing this, Chen Tian no longer hesitated, and with a flick of his figure, he followed.

He saw that the purple light sphere passed over the mountain of corpses and floated all the way to the back.

And when Chen Tian also came to this place, the scene in front of him suddenly shocked him.

He saw that at the back of the blood cave, a shriveled and emaciated human cultivator's corpse was sitting cross-legged, with countless blood vessels connected to his body. The blood vessels wriggled, transporting pure spiritual power into his body.

“Could it be that I guessed wrong? The liquids don't absorb spiritual power to nourish the demon core, but inject it into this person's body?” Chen Tian thought blankly.

The withered corpse, the dense blood vessels, everything seemed so eerie and terrifying.

Chen Tian originally wanted to go forward and check it out, but unfortunately, this scene was really frightening. For safety's sake, Chen Tian decided it was better not to.

Thinking this, Chen Tian planned to retreat along the original path.

“Buzz…”

At this moment, accompanied by a muffled sound, a round bead shining with seven-colored light suddenly flew out from the corpse's body, hovering above his head and spinning around!