Top-Tier Perception Starts From Basic Fist Techniques

"Liu Feng. Do you know anything about the Demon Progenitor? Has it woken or shown itself at all?" Lu Changsheng's face turned grave as he asked.

"The Demon Progenitor?" Liu Feng shook his head. He genuinely knew very little about it, and no news of it had reached him at all.

Lu Changsheng confirmed it once more. "Are there many demon plants inside the Flower Spirit Hall?"

"Yes, a myriad of them," Liu Feng said with certainty. "The hall itself stores a large quantity, and the demon soil under its authority is growing a great many more, though a good number of those are not yet ripe."

Lu Changsheng thought it over for a moment and hesitated no longer. "Let's go to the Flower Spirit Hall."

His decision was made. He was going to take the place by force.

With enough plants seized, one month would push his Flesh and Blood Martial Dao to a hundred percent of Fifth Growth and carry him through into Sixth Growth. Once he stood there, he was very nearly at this world's ceiling and a tier that could match a Demon Progenitor. Nobody could touch him then.

He would be very careful about it regardless. If a Demon Progenitor appeared, he would run at once and hide himself completely. Useful or not, caution never did any harm.

𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Liu Feng was in a state of some excitement himself. The progenitor taking action himself was definitely nothing ordinary, and guiding him there was an honor. He understood that the progenitor was setting out to do something enormous, and that he might come to blows with the ancient demon Taozun. On any ordinary day, Liu Feng would not have dared to even think about such a thing.

However, the progenitor needed him, so he led the way with particular care, setting out in detail everything he understood about the Flower Spirit Hall. Before long, the two of them had quietly arrived.

Merely coming near it was enough for Lu Changsheng to smell the fragrance of flowers of every kind. The scent set his flesh stirring restlessly. His flesh wanted those plants badly. Most of what grew in the Flower Spirit Hall were demon flowers of some kind, which was how the place had come by its name.

However, the hall was very heavily guarded. Looking across from a distance, Lu Changsheng could see demons in dense ranks guarding the Flower Spirit Hall in the middle of them. Getting inside without a sound was a pipe dream.

There was only one way in for an outsider, which was to force it. Nothing else would get a man through the door. Forcing it meant he couldn't drag out the fight, though. If anything went wrong from there, there would be trouble.

"Let's go for a quick fight and a quick finish then. Liu Feng, go now and put a good distance between yourself and this place. I am forcing my way into the Flower Spirit Hall. Once I do, you may find it hard to get clear even if you want to," Lu Changsheng said.

"Yes, Progenitor." Liu Feng turned and went without hesitation, but he did not go far. He stopped some ten li off, which was reasonably safe and still close enough to watch the battle between the progenitor and the ancient demon Taozun. A battle of that order was no small matter, and he was not going to miss it.

Lu Changsheng watched him go and waited an hour. Then, he moved.

Whoosh!

He took one stride and stood in the air. The terrible aura of Fifth Growth rolled off him and swept across everything. An enormous palm that shut out the sky reached for the Flower Spirit Hall in the same moment and came rolling down on it. The faces of every true demon in the hall changed at the suddenness of it.

"What... what is that?"

"Attack! We are under attack!"

"There is no demon aura! Is this one of those blood descendants?"

"The nerve of them! How dare those blood descendants attack the Flower Spirit Hall!"

"This is a blow enough to match an ancient demon!"

The demons looked up at the huge palm hanging in the air and made guesses. Their guesses were right. It was not a demon but a blood descendant. The only thing wrong was that it was the source of a blood descendant, the Flesh and Blood Progenitor.

Boom!

The palm flattened the Flower Spirit Hall in an instant. In the same moment, mass after mass of Lu Changsheng's flesh was wrapping itself around one demon plant after another inside the ruins and streaming fast back into his body.

However, it was still not enough. It was nowhere near enough. Lu Changsheng could see a great many more plants in the demon soil further off, and almost without thinking he put out a second enormous palm and reached for that soil.

Roar!

An enormous roar echoed through the sky, and a huge ancient demon appeared. It was the ancient demon, Taozun. The noise Lu Changsheng had made had finally roused him.

Taozun opened his mouth wide and sucked in hard at the large palm. Legends said that Taozun swallowed anything there was, and that his belly was the most terrifying technique he had. Anything he ate died without question.

As it turned out, it was true. That huge palm of Lu Changsheng's was drawn straight into Taozun's mouth. It broke apart and was gone without a trace in a blink.

"Oh?" Lu Changsheng was mildly surprised. That palm of his had flattened Li Zong, the demon god, and this ancient demon was plainly stronger than Li Zong had been. A creature fit to take hold of the Flower Spirit Hall was no ordinary existence, which was only to be expected. But so what?

"You want to swallow me? Then you shall have your wish. Let us see how much of me you can swallow." Lu Changsheng might be short of other techniques, but flesh he had in any quantity that was asked for. He had stored flesh away whenever he had nothing else to do, and after several years of it, how much had he put by? Even Lu Changsheng himself might not be able to answer.

"Go." He swept a hand, and great hands of flesh and blood condensed one after another and rolled toward Taozun.

One, two, three, four, five...

Taozun's belly was a bottomless pit. However much flesh Lu Changsheng let loose, the creature swallowed all of it down in single mouthfuls, and nothing had gone wrong for him yet. After the tenth palm went down, though, he began to feel that something was not quite right.

That belly could devour and digest anything. If another ancient demon was sucked into it, it was on a road that led nowhere but death, which was why no ancient demon would go into Taozun's belly, and all of them took caution to avoid being swallowed.

However, Lu Changsheng was a different case. What had been swallowed were masses of his flesh, and his flesh was nothing like ordinary flesh. Lu Changsheng's flesh devoured other flesh in its own right, demon flesh included.

One or two palms' worth were not enough to devour Taozun's flesh, but eight or ten of them were a different story. Inside that belly, boundless flesh was squirming around. A closer look would show a great mass of flesh devouring Taozun's own flesh like a mad dog.

Taozun's own flesh had a terrible devouring power of its own down there. It was enough to hold Lu Changsheng's flesh down, and it was devouring just as hard. As such, the two kinds of flesh devoured one another, which meant destroying one another at the same time.

However, Lu Changsheng did not stop there.

Eleven, twelve, thirteen, and fourteen... fourteen hands of flesh went down into Taozun's belly until Taozun began to feel the weight of it at last.

He could feel himself at his limit and genuinely could not swallow any more. If he swallowed another mouthful, he could probably not digest it.

However, whether he could swallow was no longer the question. He had to swallow. Not swallowing meant being flattened to death under one of those enormous palms. Taozun was on a tiger's back with no way to climb down.

Never in his dreams could he have worked out how Lu Changsheng came to have this much flesh. The thing was beyond anything he knew. Not even the strongest ancient demon alive could hold flesh in such quantity.

As Lu Changsheng's flesh piled up in Taozun's belly, the situation turned. Taozun's flesh began to be devoured, and there was less of it every moment, while Lu Changsheng's grew. One side shrank as the other swelled until finally, at a certain moment, it broke.

"Agh!" Taozun yelled as his belly split open and a great deal of flesh entirely unlike his own came growing out of it all at once, spreading fast across him.

Taozun was no longer devouring Lu Changsheng. He was getting devoured by Lu Changsheng!