Above the Great Dao
Chapter 226 - 122: Never Repay the Debt Even Until Death

Chapter 226: Chapter 122: Never Repay the Debt Even Until Death

The Green-robed Scholar immediately went on guard.

He was very wary of Chen Shi asking his name. The last time Chen Shi had asked, he was about to answer when Chen Shi’s leg chopped at his neck.

That battle hadn’t gone as he’d envisioned, with Talisman Masters from the north and south dueling—it had ended with him escaping in a panic, both legs severed.

He had been healing ever since and had barely recovered, but his body had transformed into a Traction Worm, and he couldn’t return to human form.

To return to human form meant losing both legs, becoming disabled.

Becoming disabled meant death.

Half of his body was now an Evil Spirit; the other half, human—not quite human, not quite demonic—all because Chen Shi asked his name!

Now that Chen Shi was asking his name again, repeating the same trick, how could he fall for it?

When Chen Shi saw him not answering, he asked again.

The Green-robed Scholar still didn’t answer, but looking down from his vantage point, he laughed coldly, "Chen Shi, today is not about a conflict between northern and southern Talisman Masters but about revenge! Today, I have healed and come to avenge the loss of my legs!"

He carried a giant vermilion gourd on his back, over one meter tall, with plasma spraying upwards from the mouth of the gourd, forming a complicated array of Blood Runes about an acre in size above his head.

Chen Shi had never seen this talisman structure before, but it was clear from the content what was going on.

The initial stroke of the runes was not from the usual talismans using the script of The Three Pure Ones but the script symbolizing the Ten Halls of Yama.

Below the Yama script was a ghostly face, under which was a simple sketch of the River of Oblivion, and below that, the Beiming Sea, with footnotes on either side of the Taishan True Form Map and Fengdu True Form Map.

Had it been a normal talisman structure, it would end there. However, in this Blood Talisman, drawn with fresh blood, top, middle, and bottom, were many patterns that Chen Shi also could not understand, resembling tadpole scripts, twisting and turning as though myriad tadpole-like creatures were swimming within the talisman.

Their positions were not fixed, those at the top could move to the bottom, and those at the bottom could travel up, their shapes also morphing, incredibly enigmatic, seemingly containing some esoteric truth.

Chen Shi’s heart chilled, "The Southern Taoist Talismans that my grandfather developed are indeed a great improvement over the northern school, to the extent that they are no longer the same thing!"

He had not been taught this talisman structure by his grandfather.

However, the eastern wing of the Chen family house contained many books that Chen Shi occasionally browsed, mostly his grandfather’s collection, which might contain information on this topic.

Many people in the town also noticed the anomaly in the sky and began to look up.

More people, as if affected by the others, also stopped their work and looked towards the sky.

The place where they were situated was called Zaojiao Town, famous for its eight ancient soapnut trees.

Each soapnut tree was so wide that it would take ten adults with outstretched arms to encircle it. Each tree had its own spirit and had condensed into divine forms, which were eight Taoists of different shapes, clad in gray, lean and healthy, sitting motionless atop the tree canopies.

Normally, these eight Taoists would protect Zaojiao Town, covering the surrounding region with their power, warding off any Evil Spirit.

However, at this moment, even the eight Taoists had solemn expressions and looked up at the sky, rising from their seats.

Above the Green-robed Scholar’s head, from that acre-sized Blood Rune, a huge figure gradually emerged.

It was a head with a green face and fierce fangs, with a cranium approximately ten meters wide, revealing its head from the runes, terrifying with faces on all four sides, with billowing black smoke coming from its eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.

Chen Shi realized that as it grew from the Blood Rune, it was more like the transition from a flat plane to a three-dimensional shape!

It was as if the flat runes were extruded into three dimensions, forming into ghostly faces.

From inside the vermilion gourd, plasma continued to flow out, feeding into the Blood Talisman. After that first giant head with faces on all sides emerged, new heads began to grow, followed by the second, third, fourth, fifth!

One by one, these ten-meter-wide heads with faces on all sides kept emerging from the Blood Talisman, descending towards Zaojiao Town, creating a densely packed scene.

The divine forms of the eight soapnut trees wore grave expressions, with branches flailing; a twitch of a branch sent a huge bubble soaring, reflecting a rainbow of colors in the sunlight as it met those many-faced heads.

The bubbles, also about ten meters in diameter, enveloped the heads and then carried them high into the sky.

The numerous heads spat fire from their mouths, bursting the bubbles in flames, only for new bubbles to fly out and once again envelop the heads.

"The Daoist guardians of Zaojiao Town are quite formidable!"

Chen Shi’s eyes lit up. He had intended to lure the Green-robed Scholar out of Zaojiao Town, but the Scholar didn’t give him the chance and took action directly in the town.

However, by the looks of it, the eight Taoists should be strong enough to hold off the Green-robed Scholar.

Suddenly, ghostly heads flying in the sky spewed fire from all sides, blasting all the bubbles to smithereens.

"They can’t hold them back!"

Chen Shi no longer hesitated, leaping up at once and leapt onto the roof of a nearby building, running out of town.

"Whooosh—"

A large ghostly head shrouded in smoke descended from the sky, opened its mouth wide, and spat out dense smoke and poison fire at him!

Chen Shi leapt to avoid it; the poisonous smoke and fire sprayed onto the building, instantly causing the green tiles to crack and burst.

In midair, Chen Shi summoned the small temple, and a flash of Sword Qi sliced through, flipping off the giant ghostly head!

Seeing this, the Green-robed Scholar’s heart skipped, "Such quick Sword Qi, no wonder it could sever my legs!"

This was no ordinary talisman, but the Third Grade talisman recorded in the Talisman Creation Treasure, named Ghost Chariot. Creation Talismans are divided into nine grades, corresponding to the Nine Grade Divine Embryos, and the Traction Worm is merely the Sixth Grade creation within the Creation Talisman.

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