Chapter 291 - Moonlit Garden
Han Wu sliced the snake’s flesh into thick pieces and laid them over the crackling fire. While the meat sizzled, he examined the three enhanceable body parts dropped by the Demon Lord.
Two of these were of Purple quality, enhanced to Stage 7, and formed a matching set known as the Bull King Horns. They served both as a shield for the head and as a deadly weapon capable of goring enemies. At Stage 7, they possessed two special traits: Charge Horns and Horn Cannon.
Charge Horns boosted the user’s movement speed tenfold for three seconds. The python Demon Lord had used it during its sudden attack on him. Horn Cannon was a long-range ability that gathered energy at the horn tips and unleashed it in a devastating blast, capable of inflicting tremendous damage.
Han Wu valued the Bull King Horns for their high compatibility rating of 85%. After grafting them, he could wield 130% of their original power. He refused to let this opportunity slip away, so he attached the horns firmly to his head. Now his skull was both tougher and capable of delivering powerful damage. Xun, the Demon Lord who had ambushed him before, would never dare strike his head again.
Besides the Bull King Horns, there was the Stage 7 Blue Snake Skin, which granted one the ability to resist certain attacks. At Stage 7, it gained two special traits: Rigid and Elasticity. Unfortunately, its compatibility with Han Wu was only 30%, making grafting impossible. He decided to boil it into soup instead.
The python Demon Lord was too massive to fit into a single pot. Han Wu had to stew the meat, consume the cooked portions, and digest everything simultaneously. It took an entire day to finish the meal. In return, all his body parts received enhancements. His Dark Locust Stomach even advanced to Stage 3, unlocking three upgrade options:
[Option 1: Complete Digestion – Boosts digestion speed by 200%. Increases with each stage.]
[Option 2: Dimensional Stomach – Expands stomach capacity by 1,000%. Increases with each stage.]
[Option 3: Void Jaw – Summons a secondary mouth that consumes food independently. Increases with each stage.]
Han Wu eyed the options greedily. After a full day of continuous eating and digesting, he had experienced the drawbacks of his Dark Locust Stomach firsthand.
First, he still had to use his own mouth to eat. While he could manage better cuts of meat, he found the offal, intestines, hearts, and other organs unbearable.
Second, although the Dark Locust Stomach digested food thousands of times faster than normal, its speed still slowed when he ate large quantities at once. Its limited capacity forced him to spend an entire day consuming the meat. Increasing capacity would save him valuable time.
All three upgrades offered essential benefits, but Han Wu ultimately chose the Void Jaw. This option would allow him to consume more food without using his own mouth.
After confirming his choice, he checked the data on his interface.
[Demon Lord: Han Wu
Demonic Origin: 4,890
Slain Demon Lords: 1
Enhance List:
Dragon Scales, Dragon Claws, Dragon Wings (Red, Stage 1: 40%)
Swordwind Arms (Purple, Stage 2: 10%)
Tigerman Legs (Purple, Stage 2: 70%)
Dark Locust Stomach (Orange, Stage 3: 40%; Special Trait: Void Jaw)
Crystal Lich Skull (Orange, Stage 2: 80%)
Epistian Brain (Purple, Stage 2: 22%)
Cockroach Cells (Blue, Stage 3: 80%; Special Trait: Vigorous Cells)]
In addition to the body parts listed in the interface, he possessed the Stage 6 Purple Hollow Spine and Stage 7 Purple Bull King Horns. His strength had multiplied several times since he first arrived.
“I will kill that bastard the next time I meet him. I won’t let him escape,” Han Wu vowed. He then spent the rest of the day eating and digesting.
Unbeknownst to him, the situation outside was chaotic. According to the interface, three more Demon Lords had fallen today, leaving ninety-eight remaining.
The other Demon Lords were also growing stronger, just as Han Wu was. This pushed him to increase his pace. He stepped out of the cave, flapped his wings, and took to the air, searching for more demon packs or perhaps another Demon Lord.
Soon, he spotted a strange area where plants grew wildly. It looked like a garden, but the plants were enormous, mostly resembling sunflowers with flowers nearly two meters wide.
Han Wu sensed something was off. The soil here lacked nutrients, so it was nearly impossible for plants to reach such a size. He landed and approached the garden cautiously, ensuring each step was safe. He reached the edge without encountering any threats.
Perplexed, he muttered, “Is this really just a normal garden?”
Han Wu wasn’t certain, so he summoned his Soul Reaper and swung at the sunflower-like plants. The scythe’s sharp edge sliced through them effortlessly and sent them crashing to the ground.
That was when he saw a horrifying sight. The flowers had hidden the ground beneath them, and by cutting them down, he finally revealed a field of white bones. The plants had absorbed the nutrients from the flesh and blood of demons to grow to such a scale!
Cold sweat ran down Han Wu’s back. This training ground in the Hell Civilization was far deadlier than he had imagined.
He was about to use Void Jaw to consume one of the flowers when an angry howl echoed from deep within the garden. “Who dares to destroy my Moonlit Flowers?”
Han Wu determined that the voice belonged to a female.
Soon, a tall woman emerged from among the towering blooms. She wore a dark green dress and a hat adorned with flowers. She had a 2.5-meters-tall humanoid form and a strikingly beautiful face.
The flowers parted ways for her as she moved, as if she were their queen and they her subjects. Her eyes locked onto Han Wu, noticing the scythe in his hand and the fallen flowers scattered at his feet.
A gut-wrenching pain contorted the green-clad woman’s face. She had painstakingly nurtured this garden as her dominion. Now, Han Wu had desecrated it by cutting down her flowers. She could not forgive his transgression and refused to negotiate. Her only choice was to kill him to avenge the death of her beloved blooms.
As if responding to her rage, the remaining flowers grew rapidly, stretching to three meters tall. At the same time, thorn-covered limbs and twisting vines sprouted from their stems. They uprooted themselves and advanced toward Han Wu menacingly.