Chapter 19: Day 19

“Sigh-.”

Taking a deep breath and calming her boiling anger, the girl picked up the Thousand Spirit Corpse Poison Pill rolling on the ground.

Yes.

“It’s not like there’s no way.”

The reason she couldn’t use the Thousand Spirit Corpse Poison Pill was simply that if anyone other than that bastard ate it.

The corpse poison used to make the Thousand Spirit Corpse Poison Pill would go out of control.

If she could control that rampaging corpse poison, she could use the Thousand Spirit Corpse Poison Pill.

And the way to control the rampaging corpse poison was surprisingly simple.

“A stronger power.”

A stronger power that overwhelms the corpse poison, to control the rampaging corpse poison.

To do that.

“I need hearts.”

The girl muttered.

More hearts.

She had to eat more hearts than she had ever eaten before, to increase her power.

She would push the power into her body to the very limit of its limits to control the corpse poison and break through the Foundation Establishment stage.

Of course, even the girl herself couldn’t estimate how many hearts she had to eat to do that.

If she was lucky enough to get the hearts of wandering vagrants or cultivators at the Qi Condensation stage, that time would be greatly shortened.

But if she had to build up her power only with the hearts of ordinary people, it was highly likely that it would take at least a dozen years.

So.

“Let’s look for wandering vagrants.”

Leave the Central Mountain Range and go out to the continent.

And look for wandering vagrants on the continent.

In the process, as a substitute, although the efficiency would be lower, she would eat the hearts of ordinary people and increase her power even a little.

Having made that decision, the girl left the cave without hesitation.

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The Central Mountain Range was a huge and vast mountain range that ran through the center of the continent.

Perhaps because of that, both inside and outside the Central Mountain Range.

There were many villages and cities adjacent to each other, and among them, located in the west, at the entrance of the Central Mountain Range, a girl appeared at the entrance of a city.

Originally, it must have been quite luxurious, but now she was wearing black clothes that were nothing more than rags.

With messy hair and dull, dead eyes, the girl.

At first glance, she looked like a simple vagrant or beggar, but…

“Stop!”

A guard standing at the entrance of the city pointed his spear at the girl and shouted.

Sometimes, bandits in the Central Mountain Range intentionally used pitiful-looking girls as bait to rob villages or cities.

Of course, the guard didn’t think that the city he belonged to was so weak that it would be robbed by mere bandits.

But still, it wasn’t bad to be careful.

So, when the guard pointed his spear and shouted, the girl, who was walking with weak steps, stopped.

No, could that be called stopping?

The moment the guard met the girl’s dull, dead eyes, he unknowingly trembled and took a step back.

It was only a second. No, it was less than a second that he met the girl’s eyes…

‘Wh, what kind of eyes does this kid have?’

The girl’s eyes, which showed no emotion, evoked a sense of instinctive fear in the viewer.

The guard, who gripped his spear even tighter, was about to shout something again.

Thud-.

The girl, who had been staring blankly at him, collapsed weakly.

The collapsed girl still had her eyes open, but those eyes did not show even the slightest tremor.

It was as if.

Yes, as if they were the eyes of a dead corpse.

“I, is it really a corpse?”

The guard, who barely calmed his surprised heart at the suddenly collapsing girl, carefully approached and poked the collapsed girl with his spear.

But no matter how much he poked her body with the sharp spearhead, the collapsed girl didn’t even budge.

Not only did she not budge, but not even a faint breath could be heard from the girl, she was a corpse in that state.

“F*ck, talk about bad luck.”

Only then did the guard withdraw his spear, let out a sigh of relief, and muttered a curse.

Of all the bad luck, why did she have to die in front of him?

If she was going to die, she should have just died somewhere in the vast Central Mountain Range.

The guard was grumbling like that.

“Hey, is something wrong?”

“Oh, it’s nothing.”

At his colleague’s question from behind, the guard answered casually with a wave of his hand.

Then he lifted the dead girl’s body.

“Why did you have to appear and die while I was on duty?”

The guard spat on the ground and walked away.

He didn’t know why she walked to this city and died, but at least he couldn’t leave her like this.

So the guard, carrying the girl’s body, headed to the cemetery located in the corner of the city, where corpses without any relatives were disposed of.

A pit where numerous corpses were piled up in a jumble.

On top of that pile of corpses, the most recently discarded corpse. The corpse of the girl who died without even closing her eyes, as if she had some kind of grudge, suddenly stirred…

“F*ck, this is not a job for humans.”

The girl, who slowly raised her body, grumbled.

When she left the Central Mountain Range and found the city, she was happy.

She hadn’t eaten properly, except for hearts or Bigu Pills.

Even those, except for a few hearts, she hadn’t eaten anything recently.

So when she found the city, she was happy that she could finally eat proper food.

But as she was happily heading to the city, she soon faced a serious problem.

That was.

‘I, I don’t have an identity?’

A proper city like that wouldn’t let in someone without a proper ID.

To them, she would look like a simple vagrant. Or a beggar.

Even though she had the appearance of a girl.

But to give up on the city she had just found and go back…

‘There must be a lot of humans in a city.’

In a city of that size, there must be at least several thousand people.

Among them, wouldn’t there be one or two wandering vagrants?

No, even if there were no vagrants, it wouldn’t be a big problem.

The hearts of several thousand ordinary people would be enough to accumulate at least as much Demonic Qi as eating the hearts of two or three wandering vagrants.

So, after thinking for a long time while looking at the city, the girl decided to enter the city.

And the method she chose for that was none other than ‘pretending to be a corpse’.

She could have just been discarded near the city, but there was also a possibility that she would be discarded inside the city if she was lucky.

So the girl walked to the front of the gate on purpose. And in front of the guard who was wary of her, she acted out ‘becoming a corpse’.

The result was as you can see.

“With this, I’ve entered the city.”

With a grin, the girl crawled out of the pit of corpses.

If she had learned stealth or infiltration techniques, she wouldn’t have had to do such a cumbersome thing.

But what was done was done. She had entered the city, so the girl decided not to worry about it anymore.

Right now, she just.

“I’m hungry.”

Wanted to eat proper food.

Not hearts or Bigu Pills. She wanted to eat proper food made with proper ingredients and proper methods.

So, a girl melted into the darkness of the city located at the western entrance of the Central Mountain Range.

An alley located on the outskirts of the city.

A back alley where all kinds of garbage and filth were scattered, so even the guards in charge of the city’s security rarely entered.

In that back alley, the girl was constantly moving her mouth and eating something.

Munch, munch.

“This is delicious.”

It was just a simple and ordinary meat bun.

Nevertheless, the girl who was eating that meat bun had a constant smile of satisfaction on her face.

Near the girl, there were dozens of meat buns piled up, and the absurd amount of meat buns for a small girl was rapidly decreasing.

How long had she been focused on eating the meat buns?

The girl, who had eaten all the remaining buns without leaving a single one, patted her swollen belly with a satisfied expression and said.

“Thank you for bringing me food.”

“Oh, no. I’m glad you were satisfied.”

At the girl’s thanks, a young man nearby smiled and answered.

But the smile on the young man’s face was somewhat distorted. And his eyes looking at the girl were filled with irresistible fear.

And for good reason.

‘M, monster!’

The young man shouted inwardly.

That girl was a monster.

The girl who ate dozens of meat buns was a monster.

Not a human like himself, but a monster in the guise of a girl.

The evidence to prove that fact was scattered around the girl.

The evidence of the corpses of his former colleagues, who died with their faces contorted in pain, their bodies below their necks, and their arms and legs attached to those bodies, torn to pieces.

When he first saw that monster, he had a light heart.

Although she was a bit dirty, she had a pretty beautiful appearance if you looked closely.

So the young man and his now-dead colleagues thought of kidnapping the girl, enjoying her first, and then offering her, a high-quality product, to escape this damn back alley.

But they shouldn’t have.

They shouldn’t have done that.

That girl.

No, they shouldn’t have touched the monster in the guise of a girl.

The young man recalled the time when he attacked that monster.

When one of his most impatient colleagues rushed at the monster, the monster took out a black fan from somewhere and swung it.

The colleague flinched at the suddenly appearing black fan, but then he saw that it was just an ordinary-looking fan, and furthermore, what she did was not run away but ‘swing the fan’, so he sneered and rushed in again.

And then, he melted.

His whole body decayed, rotted, and the colleague who rushed in first died with his whole body melting.

Even now, the terrible scream of his colleague melting could be heard vividly…

“By the way, when is it coming?”

“Yes? W, what do you mean…?”

“Well, I ate the meal. But I haven’t had dessert yet.”

Dessert?

What the hell is that?

Did she order someone else to bring dessert besides himself?

But why was she asking him that?

The young man, who didn’t understand the meaning of her words, was looking at the girl with eyes stained with fear.

“Ah, it’s here. My dessert.”

Muttering that, the girl got up and turned around, and there was a group of people.

A group of people wearing black martial arts uniforms and swords at their waists.

The young man’s eyes widened when he saw them, all wearing the same uniform.

‘Th, those are the Black Mountain Sect!’

The Black Mountain Sect.

One of the dark sects in the underworld of this city, the city called Zuhang.

Although most of the members of the Black Mountain Sect were nothing more than trash who had learned third-rate martial arts, they were still martial artists.

They were incomparable to real trash like himself.

At the appearance of the Black Mountain Sect, a glimmer of hope appeared in the young man’s eyes, which had been filled with fear.

No matter how monstrous that girl was, the martial artists of the Black Mountain Sect, who numbered over a dozen, could surely defeat her!

Whether she knew the young man’s thoughts or not, the girl just.

“The number is a bit disappointing for dessert, though.”

Muttered that, looking at the Black Mountain Sect gang with eyes containing a faint madness.