Deep in the Living
Chapter 325 - 313: The Ancestor’s Last Wish

Chapter 325: Chapter 313: The Ancestor’s Last Wish

"So it turns out... from the beginning, the entire cruise ship had already been engulfed. This ancestral demon is not a small entity; its true form is something that surpasses the size of the cruise ship.

Being devoured by its mouth, you would hear the sound of knocking.

Once you pay attention to the ’knocking’, the impact it has on you deepens. This is why I was able to resist at first, but later on, I couldn’t contain the urge to open the door anymore.

It’s quite strange.

The digestive structure within the ancestor’s body, as well as its method of digestion, is related to doors?

Is it inherently structured this way, or is it deliberate... or could it be that the significant stages of demon evolution ’Gate of Demon Ascension’ are inherited from this ancestor?

What if the ancestor is closely related to the doors?

Is the construction of the ’Gate of Demon Ascension’ and passing through it by demons considered a form of retroactive action?

Or perhaps, the foundational system of True Hell is intricately connected with doors,

Whether for ancient demon ancestors or modern-era demon spawn, do they all require doors as a medium to achieve their ascension?

Regardless,

It is clear that the concept of the[door]is extremely important in True Hell,

Though ancestors’ thoughts are simple, they still conduct related research on doors. This is a great opportunity; I might be inspired about the doors from them."

Luo Di, sitting cross-legged on the ground, opened his eyes and carefully observed the decrepit ruins he was in.

Bits of decaying debris kept falling from above, and once they landed on Luo Di, they would cause deep corrosion. What seemed like weathered dust was, in fact, the digestive fluid from within the ancestor’s body.

However, Luo Di was not concerned about the damage to his body, as long as his core was left unharmed.

"Since arriving in True Hell, I have only seen doors close to the point of Demon Ascension by two Demon-risers; one was constructed from actual corpses, and the other was made through the construction of consciousness.

Everything within the ancestor’s body is related to doors; some are simply ornamental designs, others serve as support pillars, an artistic style, a unit of architecture.

No... I’m still mistaken!

The[door]is my own concept; I don’t need to look at others’ solutions. My ultimate goal is merely to walk from this side to the other side of the door.

Being inside the ancestor’s body, there’s no need to ponder on how to construct doors, but rather to grab the opportunity to pass through more doors, to walk beyond more doors.

By walking through these doors that have tens of thousands, even hundreds of millions, of years of history,

Experiencing this feeling, can I truly gain something useful."

Luo Di made a decision that even he felt was dangerous,

He did not think of how to escape, but instead, he wanted to delve deeper! He wanted to continue opening doors within the ancestor’s body to experience this sensation.

The opportunity to pass through the ancestral doors,

In Luo Di’s eyes, was a one-time chance, and he must seize it rather than waste time standing still. He was not some art connoisseur, but a human who needs to keep moving forward.

There are many doors amid the ruins, but Luo Di chose the one straight ahead that leads deeper.

Without the pull of the knocking sound, he actively turned and opened it.

Luo Di no longer considered the issue of death, not minding his body riddled with holes and in tatters; he solely wished to experience the sensation of passing through a door.

Passing through doors with unknown tens of thousands of years of history, located within the ancestor, containing ancient civilizations.

[Passing through doors]

In Luo Di’s past perspective, was just an ordinary activity; leaving home meant passing through a door, entering a classroom meant passing through a door, dining in a restaurant meant passing through a door, going to the office involved passing through a door.

But now, he suddenly realized a problem.

Passing through a door,

Signifies a complete change of environments before and after and could even cause a person’s mindset and thinking to transform.

Where one ends up and what one intends to do, often the final shift in action is completed in the moment of passing through a door.

"So that’s it... The reason why ancestors revered the[door]so much, even spawning a series of cultures about doors, is all because of one point.

They regard evolution, advancement, and ascension as passing through a door.

The door represents an important juncture,

Even the ancestor’s digestive process has been detailed into the act of passing through doors. In this process, the consciousness entity will be gradually degraded, returning to the most primitive form of life to be absorbed."

So, my door might be..."

Luo Di by now has no idea how many doors he has passed through, and when he looks up again, the blurry outlines deep in his thoughts become clear.

An ancestral blueprint has already formed in his brain.

"I know how to construct my own [Door] now."

Just as he realizes all this, his steps come to a halt.

Or rather, he no longer has legs; his lower body has decayed to nothing in this process, moving forward on tentacles that sprouted from the rotting belly.

Before him lays the deep interior of the ancestral body,

where there are no remnants, no structure of doors, only darkness ahead.

And something seems to be slowly emerging from the depths of the darkness,

"That is..."

Luo Di has a bad feeling about this and guesses what is about to appear.

He doesn’t take a defensive stance as he did when faced with danger before, only silently waiting.

"A door?"

Luo Di first sees a very ancient door moving towards him,

then slowly realizes that it isn’t an actual door, but rather a face with an archway structure.

The body carrying this face is pitch-black, with a swollen abdomen and emaciated limbs.

"Ancestor?"

The being resembling an ancestor comes floating in front of Luo Di,

and from the door-like face comes a sound similar to the sea,

a language that Luo Di cannot understand.

But according to the strange intonation, Luo Di can somewhat grasp part of its meaning.

The other seems to be praising, praising his actions,

or perhaps thanking him for his appreciation and recognition of the door, unlike others who are greedy for life, fear the door, and are terrified of it.

This ancestor seems to have longed for millions of years for someone to admire, discern, and experience the doors within him, to experience all that he has constructed.

Now that the objective has been achieved,

the ancestor will no longer do anything,

after all, It is just a decaying corpse operating on instinct, without consciousness.

Fading away,

and Luo Di’s own consciousness also begins to decline as the danger is relieved; his flesh has long decayed beyond repair, and his spirit has been completely exhausted in the process of opening doors.

Above the sea,

the satisfied ancestor opens its mouth wide,

easily spitting out the merchant association’s cruise liner that had been swallowed inside like a peach pit caught in the throat.

Its almost transparent gigantic body sinks into the sea, vanishing without a trace.

Due to being swallowed for too long, even the golden cruise liner, built with a substantial investment from the merchant association, is full of holes; the golden skull completely collapses, losing its functionality as a ship.

Luckily,

the ancestor also seems to have been moving towards the Dark Side,

now having spit the tattered cruise liner onto the shore.

It’s unknown how many tourists are still alive inside, but most have likely been digested completely.

Such a huge golden skull stranded easily captures the attention of the Dark Side,

faint sounds begin to rise in the dark,

and a multitude of shadows enter into it through the decayed holes atop the skull.