In this regard, Gao Chuan did not have the slightest bit of fear.
This was a meaningless thing. Whether it was the counterattack before death or the matter of wrapping him up, it was a meaningless failure.
After the demon suffered such a heavy blow, it was just food for him and the core.
He didn't know if it was because he really wanted to do this, or because he was affected by the core, but under a sudden sense of hunger, he suddenly opened his mouth at a tentacle wrapped around his head, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, and then, fiercely bit down!
After a large piece of body tissue was torn off, the tentacle immediately retreated, and the other tentacles did not dare to wrap around Gao Chuan's head.
Chewing on the demon's tough muscles and hard carapace, the small limbs were crushed in his mouth, and part of them splashed out. Gao Chuan could even feel that the flesh seemed to be squirming.
But under the protection of spiritual power, these remnants of the body could do nothing, and could only be bitten into meat paste.
The taste was actually not bad, a bit like lobster meat with soy sauce, and eating it together with the shell, but this fresh feeling was like eating a live octopus.
He recalled with some emotion. This was a taste that he had not tasted for a long time, and it made him … slightly moved.
As Gao Chuan chewed, from under his skin, countless small tentacles like plant roots gushed out, and fiercely inserted into the demon's body.
After a few seconds, the tentacles retracted back under the skin, and Gao Chuan easily broke free from the demon's shackles, which seemed to have been petrified, and walked to the side.
The demon, who was on the verge of death and counterattacking, seemed to have been hit by a fixed body technique. All the muscles in its body were motionless, and it could only stay in place, unable to move. Only the slightly trembling gem core proved that it was not dead.
Type C muscle relaxant, generally used in situations where seriously injured demons could quietly cooperate with experiments, but he did not expect that it would also have a miraculous effect in this situation.
Repeating the information feedback from the core in his mind and swallowing the meat paste in his mouth, Gao Chuan could not help but sigh — the measures that the cultivators in the Desolate Era used to deal with demons were too perfect and rich, and there was really no blind spot.
Then, he approached the demon's body again, and reached out towards the black-red core.
This time, there was no resistance.
With a slight smile, he pulled hard, and the sound of cloth tearing was heard. Then, the entire gem was separated, and there was not even the slightest bit of flesh or body fluid stuck on it.
However, as the core left, the demon's battered body immediately collapsed to the ground as if it had been deflated. It quickly turned into a puddle of black mud.
"What's going on?"
Gao Chuan, who was admiring the demonic core in his hand, couldn't help but shudder. This situation was far beyond his expectations.
One had to know that the core combat template consumed an extremely large amount of energy. It needed to absorb a large amount of life force. Generally speaking, it used the flesh and blood of evil demons as a source of energy.
It wasn't that ordinary creatures couldn't do it, but with that level of life force, even if they died, they wouldn't be able to absorb even 1% of the required amount.
In order to restrict the core, if it wanted to obtain energy, it could only be supplied by the owner himself. If it was in the normal stealth mode, the consumption was close to zero. The aura that Gao Chuan normally dissipated during cultivation was enough, but once he started fighting, the consumption would increase thousands of times faster.
The bite that he ate before temporarily alleviated this situation, but just one bite was absolutely not enough. He had to eat at least a palm-sized piece to break even. And if he wanted to store energy for backup or for growth and evolution, he had to eat more.
Originally, after discovering that the demon's flesh and blood was actually not bad to eat, and even tasted good, Gao Chuan had already made mental preparations for "air-dried demon meat" and "smoked demon meat" for the sake of his limited dry rations. But he never expected that this guy would not play by the rules. Its whole body actually turned into a puddle of mud-like things. Although it did not emit a foul smell, its appearance was still unbearable to look at.
He didn't know if it could still be eaten.
Holding the demonic core in his right hand, Gao Chuan squatted down, frowned, and used his remaining left hand to touch the black meat paste.
"Hiss ~"
A burst of pain came. He hurriedly took his finger away, shook off the black mud, and then wiped it on the mud fiercely. But even so, a layer of skin and flesh had been removed from his finger, and the wound was bleeding non-stop.
Looking at the exposed red muscle tissue on his finger, he couldn't help but shake his head. This meat paste was so corrosive that it definitely couldn't be eaten.
It was a bit of a pity. The taste was really good. He originally thought that he could have a big meal, but he didn't expect that the cooked duck would fly away … Even the clothes on his body were gone.
It wasn't until now that Gao Chuan realized that all the clothes on his body had been completely corroded by the explosion and the liquid of the demonic body during the battle. Although there were still some rags left, it was no different from being naked.
But clothes were just a small matter.
If there was no large amount of vitality to make up for the core's deficit, it wouldn't be long before his meridians withered, his flesh and blood collapsed, and he would immediately die on the spot …
Very distressed, Gao Chuan played with the demonic crystal in his hand and couldn't help but feel that it was a bit difficult.
There were no demon beasts nearby for him to hunt, otherwise, he could rely on the flesh and blood of demon beasts to survive for a while … The most important thing was that even the core database didn't mention this situation! His whole body turned into black mud, leaving only the core alone there.
The demonic crystal was grayish-black, surrounded by black fog, and there were red lightning-like rays of light shuttling back and forth.
The ordinary demonic crystal was at most the size of a finger, but this one was the size of a fist.
This was not a normal phenomenon.
And the normal demonic hunting method was to directly destroy its core in order to kill it, but this time was different. Gao Chuan directly pulled out the core crystal while it was still alive.
According to the information, the reason why it was so difficult for the demonic clone to parasitize a creature was because it had to split a part of the core. This was enough to prove that the core was the demonic body, and the outer layer of flesh and blood was just a derivative.
It couldn't be said to be a groundless speculation. Gao Chuan seemed to have seen a similar report in the large amount of information that flashed by the core, but after all, it was just a flash, so he couldn't be sure.
The essence of the demonic body was in the crystal in his hand. Usually, when he broke its core and killed it, the essence of the crystal would be scattered into the flesh and blood, and with enough nutrients, the flesh and blood would not quickly decay into mud. Presumably, this was a more reasonable explanation.
But this time, when he took out the core alone, the derivative flesh and blood lost its support and quickly decayed, turning into a pool of poisonous and corrosive mud.
There was no doubt that the vitality of the demonic body was naturally stored in the core, which was why it was still able to fight back even though it was seriously injured when it landed, and then after Gao Chuan's attack turned more than half of its body into ashes.
Because even if the outside was broken, the essence of the core was still intact.
The general situation was clear, and there was also a way to solve this problem. However, there was still a problem that needed to be solved.
And that was how to eat this thing.
Staring at the crystal in his hand, which was still flowing with a grayish-black luster and flashing with a strange red light, Gao Chuan felt a headache.
The fist-sized crystal felt very hard to the touch, but it shouldn't be said to be indestructible. However, it was definitely not the kind of thing that could be flattened and rounded. It was a real crystal — this kind of thing, let alone swallowing it, even stuffing it into the mouth would be very difficult.
He just didn't know if it would still be useful after he broke it … It should be, otherwise, there was no way to explain his previous conjecture.
Thinking so, Gao Chuan didn't dare to really break it. What's more, the demonic core was not so easy to break. Otherwise, wouldn't it be easy to just casually use a large-scale vibration technique to kill all the demonic bodies? How could it be so simple!
Moreover, until the last moment, he was unwilling to use such a crude method to destroy such a precious spoil of war.
Suddenly, a sense of weakness came from his chest.
Looking down, the core was flashing with a red light that was very different from before. It was much more conspicuous than before.
First, it used the stored energy, and then replenished it by absorbing the vitality of the demonic body. If it wasn't enough, then it would slowly draw it from the user's body. This was how the core operated. If there was no demonic body or demonic body, and if the user's own vitality was insufficient, then the only outcome would be to be sucked dry, and the user and the core would die together.
The light flickered, giving off a sense of warning.
This was a sign of insufficient energy.
It was also a countdown to death.