Versatile Mage: Soul and Demon Dual Cultivation

Entering Jinlin City, abandoned cars were everywhere, along with collapsed houses and all sorts of demonic beast droppings. The original cement roads had turned into dirt paths, the trees lining the streets had become towering giants, and even the lawns had grown to be a meter high.

“I can’t imagine what happened here. How could such a nice city become like this…,” Bai Tingting sighed sentimentally.

Lin Chen followed the sound and looked over, a beautiful figure emerging in his mind. After seeing her true face last night, Bai Tingting gave him a different feeling today. But this flight of fancy only lasted for a moment, and Lin Chen put away these inappropriate thoughts. The current environment was truly oppressive, and the surrounding atmosphere was indeed somewhat unsettling.

This desolate scene was unsettling, Jinlin City resembling a city of the apocalypse, with not a single living soul to be seen on the streets or in the alleys.

This city-wide emptiness made everyone feel a chill. Normally, they would never have seen such a sight. Desolate, barren, and empty—these words were all too fitting to describe this city.

“Let’s find a safe place to settle down first,” Shen Ming said with a smile.

“We’ve essentially entered a desolate city where demonic beasts roam freely, constantly facing danger. Therefore, the place we settle must be safe enough, so that when we encounter danger, we can quickly evacuate and defend ourselves well…,” Lu Zhenghe said.

“Then where should we settle down?” Song Xia asked.

Mo Fan pointed to a distant building and said, “I think that building is good!”

Everyone looked in the direction Mo Fan was pointing.

“You sure know how to pick a place…” Song Xia smiled, compared it with the map, and then said, “That should be the Municipal Building.”

Seeing that no one had any objections, the group set off towards the Municipal Building.

Before long, they passed through several residential areas and finally arrived at the Municipal Building.

“This is also an area to be surveyed, but I always feel like this building looks strange. Have you noticed those plants? They’re not growing towards the sunlight, but instead, they’re all burrowing into the hall. It’s unbelievable!” Jingjing said.

Hearing Jingjing’s words, Lin Chen frowned slightly, and some scenes kept flashing in his mind.

Some memories were too distant, and Lin Chen occasionally missed some unimportant things, but when he saw some peculiar scenes, he could still recall those trivial memories.

Without saying a word, Lin Chen’s Ice Constellation was lit up. Instantly, a thick layer of ice appeared on the Municipal Building in front of him.

Just then, the vines of the entire building suddenly wriggled. They completely came to life, looking ferocious like living things were snatching newly found food.

This scene made everyone gasp. Almost all mages habitually thought of plants as inanimate objects. Even if vines grew everywhere, they only needed to pay attention to the creatures living among them. Who would have thought that these sinister plants were actually demonic beasts, their branches, tendrils, and trunks being the murder weapons.

“Look up there!” Luo Song pointed to the second level of the Municipal Building, the square building, and said in surprise.

Everyone looked up and saw a ferocious, large head on the second level of the building.

The head was not an animal skull; it was something similar to a tree stump. If it weren’t for a dark, gaping mouth opening and smacking its lips incessantly, no one would have thought that thing was alive.

The wooden stump head almost occupied the entire second-level building, countless tendrils like tubes transporting nutrients, piercing into its throat. From afar, it looked like a devil covered in bark was devouring something!

“False Horror Demon!”

“Is this thing a plant or a demonic beast?” Mo Fan couldn’t help but take a step back.

“It belongs to a higher bloodline, and it’s extremely difficult to deal with when it’s an adult because it’s afraid of light, mostly found in dark places… I didn’t expect this building to become a natural habitat for this monster. Relying on this building to grow, it can block the sunlight, and fresh living things come to die…” Jingjing explained to Mo Fan.

Everyone broke out in a cold sweat, and at the same time, they were a little scared. Fortunately, they didn’t go in directly.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh…”

Just then, a black gale like a surging wave swept over, blowing the trees on the street askew.

Everyone’s breathing became difficult, and cold sweat inexplicably seeped from their pores. Just as everyone was at a loss, they saw huge fleshy wings slowly expanding closer under a dark cloud!

Beneath the fleshy wings was a body resembling a giant lizard, thick skin full of bumps covering from the head to the tip of the tail. The long tail hung halfway down, the very end being completely sharp, shimmering with a chilling light under the sunlight!

Bai Tingting exclaimed, “Not good, it’s a Commander-level demonic beast, the Lizard Skull Giant Demon!”

As soon as Bai Tingting finished speaking, her face was pale and she couldn’t even move her feet.

Not only Bai Tingting, but the incredibly powerful aura also pressed down on people to the point of suffocation. Those with slightly weaker mental strength might even faint directly.

Several people in a row fainted, and everyone discovered that even the Star Orbits in the Mental World were difficult to connect.

“Run, run!” Someone shouted, and the originally tense mood became even more tense.

Unfortunately, under the Lizard Skull Giant Demon’s powerful pressure, several of them were unable to move.

The giant lizard with huge fleshy wings had already flown to the terrace on the third level of the building. Like an eagle, it circled there once.

Immediately, the flesh-eating giant lizard swooped down, falling straight into the second-level building, its cavernous mouth suddenly opening, revealing rows of astonishing fangs like stalactites.

“Crack!!”

The False Horror Demon, which had been so arrogant, had its head bitten off. Its vines frantically began to wriggle, and the violent vibrations destroyed the entire hall.

Taking advantage of the gap between the two terrifying demonic beasts fighting, everyone finally fled the scene and hid in a pile of bushes not far away.

The False Horror Demon was still struggling desperately, controlling all its branches to bind the flesh-winged giant lizard.

Countless vines were densely packed, all rushing out of the building’s windows, trapping the flesh-eating giant lizard like tentacles, trying to drag this ferocious monster down.

Unfortunately, these small branches were like spider webs in front of the flesh-winged giant lizard, easily brushed away, and the fangs biting the False Horror Demon’s head were even tighter, the False Horror Demon’s struggle becoming increasingly weak.

“Kabong!!!”

The terrifying False Horror Demon finally couldn’t withstand this super-strong bite force. Its entire head was shattered between the fangs, along with some collapsing square stairs.