Chapter 461: Shi Lan (1/2)

Chapter 461: Shi Lan

Feng Feiyun still couldn’t find a seed suitable for cultivation after nightfall.

Finding someone that could cultivate the Undying Devil Art was even harder than finding an ordinary disciple.

Feiyun could smell the stench of blood energy and could see an ocean of blood and corpses in this village. There were still remnant vengeful souls with chilling gales sounding like the wails of beasts.

“A large battle had just occurred here. Where’s there people, there will be killing.” Feiyun stood on top of a mountain with a bonfire. The fire illuminated his emotionless face even in this scene of carnage.

“Whoosh!” Feiyun raised his finger and shot out a sword ray.

“Bang!” A red lentigo fell down next to him.

He tore it apart and cleaned it before grilling it on the bonfire. A while later, the sweet, meaty fragrance permeated far away and made the war-torn atmosphere a bit more acceptable.

“Rustle.” A quiet tremble came from the mountain of corpses.

A tiny figure pushed up a corpse’s arm and slowly crawled out. It was a little girl bathed in blood. She survived because another woman had hidden her beneath her body.

She had been hiding for five days, afraid that the pursuers would come back again.

The smell of meat finally led her out. She was famished from not having a grain of rice after five days.

It wasn’t easy for a seven-year-old girl to hide in a pile of corpses without eating for five days just to stay alive.

Other girls would be crying from starvation but not her.

Other girls would be crying from seeing corpses but not her.

“I… I don’t want to die.” The girl arduously climbed towards Feiyun, begging while being on the verge of death.

Feiyun didn’t bother to turn around, he continued to grill the bird and said: “Go find food if you don’t want to die.”

“Let, let me eat, I don’t want to die…” The girl didn’t even have the strength to speak. Her breath would stop if she were to speak another word.

But Feng Feiyun continued talking: “Why do you not want to die?”

“I want… want revenge, and big sis says that as long as I’m alive… there is hope…” Her cracked lips muttered hoarsely. It felt as if there was a fire burning in her throat.

He leisurely went on: “Sometimes, death is better than living.”

“My sis said that as long as I’m alive… there’s hope…” The girl repeated again.

Feiyun took a deep breath and said: “There is a stream fifty meters from here. Go there and wash away the filth on your body and I’ll let you eat.”

This girl was buried beneath the corpses for too long. She was covered in mud and rotten flesh, even her little dress has been ruined. Her skin looked to be infected in some places and issued a nauseating stench.

At this time, not to mention fifty meters, just crawling another five meters could end in death.

However, she didn’t only make it to the river, she even cleaned herself well before climbing back to Feiyun’s feet. Her infected hands were bloodied and frazzled from the climb but they grabbed his pants tightly.

She stared at him with a pair of eyes, desperate for survival.

Feiyun brought the grilled bird closer to his nose for a sniff before directly throwing it outside.

“Whoosh!” It landed into the river and was flushed away by the current.

Feiyun looked at her and said: “You still think there’s hope now?”

The girl maintained her glare. Alas, her body was trembling as more blood flowed out of her hands: “My sis… said… as long as I’m alive… there is hope…”

Feiyun nodded. Ordinary people, including himself, would be drowning in despair but she still had hope in her heart.

Cultivating the Undying Devil Art required someone who yearned for life and wouldn’t despair in the most perilous situation. There must be a firm confidence and a will to live again.

His eyes became gentler: “Eating meat will only expedite your death, given the state of your body.”

Feiyun spread his palm and gathered the energy of the five elements within before touching her garment.

The power of the five elements originated from the Minor Change Art. They were also the fundamental essences of the body so they were gentle enough.