As the giant's massive mouth closed, Xiao Fei's teleportation failed, and his laws were suppressed to within an inch of his body.
He was like a fish pinned to a cutting board, struggling in vain.
He could only wait for the row of yellow teeth to descend!
"Crunch!"
A searing pain shot through Xiao Fei as his body was crushed into pieces, along with several jade bottles.
Instantly, an alluring fragrance permeated the giant's maw.
However, Xiao Fei's corpse had vanished, replaced by several crisp lotus roots, which tasted quite good, though lacking in meatiness.
Xiao Fei had once again escaped death through a substitute puppet.
Yet, as his cultivation and strength increased, the efficacy of the substitute puppet grew weaker.
Even with the Nine-Curved Golden Lotus reaching tens of thousands of years, its effect could no longer keep pace.
Once his cultivation advanced further, it would likely become unusable.
After being resurrected by the substitute puppet, Xiao Fei still found himself inside the giant's mouth. However, his face was pale, his limbs trembled, and his entire body felt weak and frail.
The giant's mouth was sealed shut during feeding, creating a space completely enclosed by laws, leaving him no chance to escape.
The giant, having thrown Xiao Fei into its mouth, found it to be fragrant and sweet.
In its entire life, it had never encountered a creature with such a texture and taste.
Especially the peculiar aroma, which made it feel utterly comfortable, as if bathing in a warm ocean, spreading from the outside in, soothing its very bones.
At that moment, it longed to lie down and enjoy a good sleep.
However, it thought that since this creature was so delicious, and seeing that there were many more in the distance, three of which had escaped earlier, it must capture them all and devour them.
Immediately, the giant strode forward, grabbing any creature it saw along the way, not bothering to skin or wash them before stuffing them into its mouth.
Although Xiao Fei had escaped death within the giant's mouth, every turn of the giant's tongue, every bite of its teeth, and every chew posed a life-or-death crisis for him.
If he were to be caught beneath the teeth, he would be crushed to pieces and die again.
Despite his full efforts to dodge, he did not forget to take out "Crimson Jade White Bone" from his storage space and pour it into the giant's mouth.
Thus, every time the giant caught other creatures to eat, it would savor that intoxicating aroma that made it feel so comfortable.
"Delicious!"
"The creatures of this world are truly tasty!"
Xiao Fei, hidden within the giant's mouth, attempted to escape several times but was blocked by a powerful law.
Even more unfortunately, he was repeatedly caught beneath the teeth and crushed, dying twice more.
Having died three times in succession, Xiao Fei's physical body and soul were now in an extremely weakened state.
He likely couldn't withstand a fourth death; the next time might be his actual demise.
But if he continued like this, he would inevitably be bitten to death.
What should he do?
Facing death, Xiao Fei's mind became even clearer and calmer. Thousands of ideas arose in his heart, but he rejected them all.
"Unfeasible!"
Having already entered the giant's mouth, conventional methods were surely useless.
Suddenly, a desperate, malicious idea struck him, one that might just work.
With this thought, he drew his saber and slashed at his own shoulder, severing half of his shoulder and arm.
With a thought, the severed arm was retracted into his space.
He willed his consciousness into the space and tried it out; indeed, he could possess this arm.
It was his own flesh and blood, still so familiar.
After confirming it worked,
Because the space was within him, his physical body had previously been unable to enter the space no matter how hard he tried.
Now, by dismembering his body and retracting his limbs into the space as if storing items, it finally worked.
Next, Xiao Fei inflicted further grievous wounds upon himself, first severing his lower body at the waist and retracting it into the space, then cutting off his other arm, and finally his head.
As a Nascent Soul cultivator, even severing his head wouldn't kill him easily.
Before he died, he retracted his head into the space, leaving only his chest cavity.
"Boom!"
With a soft sound, his last remaining body part, under his own control, completely self-destructed into a cloud of bloody mist.
Within the mist, a jade tablet covered in cracks flashed and vanished.
Simultaneously, Xiao Fei's soul was pulled by a powerful suction force into the jade tablet.
He, along with the jade tablet, disappeared from the giant's mouth.
Thus, a colossal giant rampaged across the Southern Wilderness Continent, continuously devouring all sorts of strange creatures.
It pursued the mixed-blood people of the Southern Wilderness, causing widespread devastation.
In the beginning, with Xiao Fei adding his "Crimson Jade White Bone" as a condiment, everything the giant ate, even a pile of dog feces, tasted exceptionally delicious.
Gradually, the "Crimson Jade White Bone" remaining in its mouth dwindled, and subsequent meals became somewhat bland.
It assumed that the food it caught was not fresh enough, leading to the decline in taste.
Furthermore, due to the poison of the "Crimson Jade White Bone," its soul was already covered in wounds.
However, the poison of the "Crimson Jade White Bone" had a numbing effect, so it couldn't detect it for a while.
It only felt hunger and a strong desire to find that original taste again.
Thus, it continued its rampage across the Southern Wilderness Continent with dissatisfaction, biting any living creature it encountered to test its flavor.
"Ptooey!"
The giant bit off the head of a minotaur, chewed it twice, found it tasteless, and casually threw it on the ground.
"Demon! Perish!"
At this moment, five Void Refining realm powerhouses from the Southern Wilderness arrived together, surrounding the giant from five directions.
Seeing the five Void Refining cultivators, the giant not only didn't panic but was overjoyed.
These five individuals appeared full of vitality, brimming with spiritual energy, and lively. They should be quite tasty.
The giant's saliva dripped for dozens of feet. Facing the five powerhouses, it revealed a simple, honest smile.
These five mixed-blood powerhouses from the Southern Wilderness formed a Five Elements formation, capable of both offense and defense. Whether attacking or defending, the enemy would effectively face the combined strength of all five.
Just then, a wolf-headed man extended a giant wolf claw, its sharp talons sharper than flying swords.
After thousands of years of cultivation, his wolf claws were harder and more powerful than cultivators' magical treasures. Countless magical treasures had been destroyed by his claws.
Seeing the wolf claw lunging at it, the giant wore a simple smile.
"Is this for me to eat?"
It seemed to smell an enticing aroma beckoning it.
The giant extended a palm, grabbed the wolf claw, and without regard for whether it was an attack, directly put it into its mouth.
"Snap!"
With a crisp sound, the wolf claw was bitten off at the wrist by the giant.
"Crunch, crunch!"
The giant chewed, as if eating peanuts, crushing the wolf claw, which was as hard as a magical treasure.
However, this was not the taste it desired. If not for the rich spiritual energy, it would have spat it out long ago.
For the sake of health and longevity, it could only frown and swallow it, bones and all.
The wolf-headed mixed-blood man let out a scream, trying to pull his arm back, but the giant held it tightly.
Even with the combined strength of the five of them, they couldn't retrieve it.
What was most humiliating was the giant's expression – one of clear disdain. Was the taste of its claw really that bad?
Just as the wolf-headed man was about to sever his arm to save himself, the giant grabbed him by the waist, brought him to its mouth, and bit off his head in one gulp.
Then, in front of the remaining four, it chewed with great gusto, crushing and swallowing the wolf-headed man's entire body in just a few bites.
"The taste was a bit off, but it was passable."
Seeing this, the remaining four powerhouses dared not fight any longer. They turned and fled.