Above the Great Dao
Chapter 282 - 147: Where the Sword’s Edge Passes, Life and Death Know No Bounds

Chapter 282: Chapter 147: Where the Sword’s Edge Passes, Life and Death Know No Bounds

Chen Shi’s words had hardly faded when his body slightly crouched, and the next moment, the formidable Qi-Blood from his Golden Core surged into his legs. The violent Qi-Blood smashed into his sinews and swelled up his muscles. His thighs immediately expanded outward, becoming immensely thick.

"Bang!"

The bluestone slab beneath his feet suddenly shattered, displaying a spiderweb of cracks. A violent wind rushed towards his face in an instant, and he, like lightning, charged at Han Mingyu lurking in the shadow of the street corner!

In his fury, he surged forward like thunder, reaching Han Mingyu in an instant. He threw a punch, the fierce wind stirred by his fist made doors and windows along the street rattle noisily, blowing open thirty or forty of them!

His fist even produced a sound like thunder!

However, a smile suddenly appeared on Han Mingyu’s face. Suddenly, Han Mingyu disappeared, and in his place was a Rebirth Doll flying through the air.

The vase of the Rebirth Doll was painted with talisman patterns, with the character "solid" at the center, surrounded by tortoise shell patterns and the Kun Trigram of the Eight Diagrams, suggesting strength like a tortoise shell and the heft of the earth.

The head of the Rebirth Doll suddenly swelled to the size of a small mountain. Initially, the vase was bigger and the head smaller, but now it was the head that was massive and the vase small, filled with grim and sharp teeth arranged in rows, gaping wide to bite down at Chen Shi.

That mouth could probably swallow Chen Shi whole!

To cultivate a Rebirth Doll to this stage where its teeth are involved, one needed to feed it iron nails daily, allowing the Rebirth Doll to absorb them. The original teeth would fall out, and new teeth, tough as steel, would grow in their place.

At first, you could only feed it one iron nail per day. Gradually, once the Rebirth Doll’s teeth fell out, you could feed it two iron nails. Once the second row of teeth grew in, you could incrementally increase the number of nails until rows of sharp, steel-like teeth emerged. Only then would you gradually decrease the nails.

Yet, once the mouth full of steel teeth was cultivated, the process was not complete. The practitioner needed to lift up the doll and transform it into a large-headed state.

The practitioner had to climb into the doll’s mouth, use steel sand to polish these teeth into serrations, and then use vermilion black dog blood to draw runes on the teeth to strengthen them.

This step was particularly dangerous, often requiring two or three companions to assist, lest the Rebirth Doll turn vicious and consume the practitioner.

Once this step was reached, the Rebirth Doll, controlled by will, could change its size at will, move as fast as lightning, and break anything with a single bite. When confronting an enemy, once the Rebirth Doll was activated, it was unbeatable and invincible.

But cultivating a Rebirth Doll required a massive amount of money. To cultivate one doll, the amount of Silver Coins spent, if converted to Gold, could fill a vase!

Han Mingyu had cultivated twelve Rebirth Dolls as his external alchemical dolls, truly sparing no expense.

Chen Shi ignored the Rebirth Doll whose head was several times larger than his own and still punched forward. The force of his punch intensified, the thunderous sound louder, shattering countless serrated teeth of the thousand-fold refined Rebirth Doll!

The doll, initially looking ferocious, now in pain, began to wail loudly.

Chen Shi’s left leg swept out, kicking the vase beneath the huge head of the doll.

To cultivate a Rebirth Doll, talismans needed to be drawn daily to solidify the vase as the physical body of the Rebirth Doll. After over ten years of drawing talismans, the vase had become extremely hard, not more fragile than the Rebirth Doll itself, but even harder!

However, when Chen Shi’s leg swept the vase, there was a loud crash, and the incredibly hard vase shattered!

"No!"

Han Mingyu’s scream echoed; the vase served as the external alchemical body, the external Pill Furnace, enabling the Rebirth Doll to survive. Now that the vase was shattered, this Rebirth Doll was terminally doomed.

He had spent over a dozen years cultivating twelve Rebirth Dolls, and in the blink of an eye, Chen Shi had shattered one; how could he not grieve?

"Chen Shi, you’ve ruined my Magical Treasure, I’ll fight you to the end!"

Han Mingyu roared, and the remaining eleven Rebirth Dolls swooped towards Chen Shi!

The Rebirth Doll with the shattered vase suddenly began struggling for breath, fought fiercely, but still fell from the air to the ground, gasping for air in great gulps.

Beneath its massive head was a shriveled body without limbs, a tiny ribcage, with the legs that connected to the ribcage neatly cleaved off.

From the severed parts, some flesh sprouted, still connected to the body of the vase.

Chen Shi softly said, "Little brother, stop struggling in this sea of suffering; I’ll send you to rebirth."

He stood before it, ignoring the Rebirth Dolls swooping in from all sides, his fingers shaped like a sword, held before his nostrils, channeling Qi-Blood, rapidly forming a Rebirth Talisman at his fingertips.

Once the Rebirth Talisman was complete, it shone with golden light, illuminating the street.

Chen Shi’s demeanor was solemn, like an old monk, pointing the sword-finger, the Rebirth Talisman whistled and landed on the giant-headed doll, drilling into its body.

A streak of golden light erupted from its body and whistled backward, transforming into a path connecting the Yin Yang Two Realms.

A child around seven or eight appeared confused on the street, looking around.

"Dad, Mom! Where are you?" he shouted loudly, completely unaware that he had been dead for eighteen years.

"Go there!" Chen Shi pointed towards the end of the road.

The child, following the direction pointed by his finger, ran along the bright path towards the underworld, shouting, "Dad, Mom! Are you ahead? I’m so scared! Where are you?"

These eighteen years, like a long dream; now awoken, he was no longer human.