Cultivating Immortality Begins with Acting as a Girl Chapter 145

Song Ling turned his head and saw several green, humanoid (monsters).

Their skin was smooth, their limbs long and powerful, and their fingertips bore sharp, blade-like black nails. Their heads were slightly flattened, and their eyes were large and round, gleaming with greed and excitement.

“Green Lù Beasts?”

Song Ling immediately recognized their origin.

These were (monsters) that frequently appeared and bred in dark caves. Among the third-rate (monsters), their combat power was among the strongest, but their intelligence was not very high.

At this moment, they ran onto the suspension bridge with excited faces, charging towards the group!

The group was terrified and ran forward desperately, wishing their parents had given them two more legs.

Fortunately, they were very close to the opposite bank. After a few breaths, the Zhāomíng Imperial Princess, who was running at the front, got off the suspension bridge and set foot on the ground.

Next was her subordinate, Zhang Yi. Then, Song Ling and the other three also successfully arrived.

The freckled boy and the slightly overweight boy were a step slow when getting on the bridge, and at this point, they were still several meters away from the end.

The Zhāoyáng Imperial Princess looked at the Green Lù Beasts that had already reached the middle of the suspension bridge, a fierce glint flashing in her eyes. She drew the long sword hanging from Zhang Yi’s waist, quickly walked to the left pillar connecting the suspension bridge to the bank, and without hesitation, raised her hand and chopped down forcefully!

“No!!”

The freckled boy and the slightly overweight boy screamed in horror. They had not expected the Zhāomíng Imperial Princess to make such a decisive move.

The next instant, the vines supporting the left side of the suspension bridge snapped. The bridge instantly lost its balance and tilted sharply to the left. The freckled boy and the slightly overweight boy stumbled and fell. The freckled boy, quick-witted, grabbed a vine, while the slightly overweight boy fell, hitting the bottom of the cave with a heavy thud, splattering a bloom of blood.

Immediately after, the Zhāomíng Imperial Princess quickly went to the right pillar and did the same, chopping down with her sword!

The vines connecting the right side of the suspension bridge also snapped in response. The suspension bridge completely lost its support and, like a kite with a broken string, began to fall rapidly and violently until it crashed heavily onto the other side of the cliff.

The freckled boy naturally did not survive. As for the few Green Lù Beasts in the middle of the suspension bridge, due to their strong physiques, all but one particularly unlucky one, whose head was directly blown open by hitting the cliff, survived with some injuries, but they were not dead.

“Despicable!”

“Sly food!”

“When I climb up, I’ll eat you bite by bite!”

The Green Lù Beasts let out sharp, angry roars. They struggled to crawl out of the remains of the suspension bridge, trying to find a foothold on the cliff face to climb up. But the cliff was too steep and covered with slippery moss, preventing them from coming up.

“Let’s keep going. There’s no danger for now.”

The Zhāomíng Imperial Princess stood on the edge of the cliff, glanced indifferently below, then turned and left.

The other three remained silent and followed.

Although they understood that the Zhāomíng Imperial Princess’s method was the optimal solution, they were still shocked by her cold decisiveness and her attitude of regarding human lives as mere weeds.

What kind of experiences could cultivate such a personality?

Song Ling walked at the very back, recalling the Green Lù Beasts from earlier. A plan gradually emerged in his mind.

A slight smile played on his lips.

…

Under the leadership of the Zhāomíng Imperial Princess, the rest of the journey was relatively smooth. Apart from encountering a few crossroads that caused some delays, they did not encounter any major dangers.

Just as the group faced another choice of one out of four cave entrances, chaotic noises came from the direction they had come from and from two of the cave entrances.

At the same time, sharp, strange voices were faintly heard:

“I smell it, it seems to be the scent of food!”

“Quick, they’re outside!”

The group was startled. The round-faced girl said in despair, “It’s over, it’s the Green Lù Beasts again! This time there’s no suspension bridge or cliff to block them, we definitely can’t escape!”

“Not necessarily.”

The Zhāomíng Imperial Princess’s expression was calm. She looked at the other two cave entrances and said in a deep voice, “As long as we have enough time to create distance and prevent the Green Lù Beasts from seeing our exact location, it’s still possible to escape.”

Need enough time…

The other three’s expressions changed. Was someone going to be chosen to sacrifice themselves again to buy time?

Before they could think of how to avoid becoming sacrifices, they heard Song Ling sigh faintly, a hint of weariness flashing across his face. He said, “I’ll do it. I’ll stay to attract their attention, you all leave quickly. Even if they eat me, it will take some time, enough for you to escape.”

Upon hearing this, everyone, including the Zhāomíng Imperial Princess, looked at Song Ling in shock.

“Are you serious?” The Zhāomíng Imperial Princess raised an eyebrow.

Song Ling nodded, his expression dim. “I’m tired, not physically tired, but tired of living as a human who needs to step on others’ lives to survive. This way of living makes me feel very tired, so it’s better to stop here and use my life to buy you a glimmer of hope. It’s also a form of release.”

“You—”

The three others had complex expressions and were about to say something, but they were interrupted by the Zhāomíng Imperial Princess, “Alright, then we’ll grant your wish. Let’s go.”

With that, she turned and left without any hesitation.

“Thank you!”

The other three bowed deeply to Song Ling.

Song Ling nodded, watching all five of them leave.

A moment later, apart from the gradually approaching Green Lù Beasts, Song Ling’s location was empty.

Song Ling looked at the cave entrance where the Green Lù Beasts were about to arrive, exhaled softly, took off all his clothes and hid them, then his entire body began to rapidly twist and change!

His head became wide and flat, his skin turned green and became smooth… A few breaths later, Song Ling had transformed into the appearance of a Green Lù Beast!

He just stood there, waiting for his “kind” to arrive.

Not long after, seven or eight Green Lù Beasts rushed out of the cave entrance and appeared before Song Ling.

They saw Song Ling and paused slightly.

One of them, the leader, stepped forward and poked Song Ling’s head with a sharp nail, asking in confusion, “Who are you? I’ve never seen you before?”

“I am Yù.” Song Ling acted even more confused than the other party. “Do you know where this is? I was perfectly fine eating humans, and then I was suddenly brought here.”

The Green Lù Beasts had low intelligence, so it shouldn’t be difficult to fool them.

Sure enough, the other party showed a human-like expression of realization, then enthusiastically patted Song Ling’s shoulder: “Brother, don’t think so much about it. Isn’t it good as long as there’s food? By the way, did you see where the food went just now?”

“That cave entrance.”

Song Ling raised his hand, pointing in the direction the Zhāomíng Imperial Princess and the others had just left.

“Great, great! Food, food, food!” The leading Green Lù Beast’s eyes lit up, and it quickly led the other Green Lù Beasts to chase in the direction Song Ling had pointed.

Song Ling smiled faintly as he watched their retreating figures.

Now, he could safely go search for an exit.

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