Above the Great Dao
Chapter 477 - 227 Damn it_2

Chapter 477: Chapter 227 Damn it_2

Granny Sha was on fire with fury, evil growing at the edge of her courage: "Why not go for broke and slay this minor deity of the underworld, after all, it’s not like I haven’t done it before..."

Just as this thought crossed her mind, suddenly the sky cracked open with a snap, and a bright expanse of clear sky invaded the underworld, causing severe temporal and spatial turbulence over the ocean of Nanming!

"Void Great Realm!"

Granny Sha and the boat girl looked up in shock, only to see a giant hand reaching out from that Void Great Realm with overwhelming mana, cloud-bearing, swooping down and in an instant, grasping the Judge Dragon Whisker Pen transformed into a giant dragon!

"Let go!"

Granny Sha and the boat girl attacked the giant hand simultaneously, but with the disappearance of the Void Great Realm, the hand vanished along with the Judge Dragon Whisker Pen!

Both shocked and furious, Granny Sha rushed to the mortal world along the cobblestone path, chasing ferociously, yet saw only a thin mist clinging to the surface of the lake, with no one around.

Her heart turned cold, and her forehead broke into a sweat: "A top master of the Mahayana Realm has been tracking us, seizing the opportunity to steal the treasure!"

The boat girl caught up, seeing the situation, she hurriedly said, "This person is mighty formidable! Granny Sha, can you track this person’s movement? Together with my father, we can surely retrieve the treasure!"

Granny Sha exhausted all methods but could never determine who the treasure thief was and shook her head saying, "This person has planned this for a long time, vanished immediately after success, hiding all traces, even the soul is untraceable. The Judge Dragon Whisker Pen... we can’t find it anymore."

She looked disheartened.

Chen Shi sat in the wooden cart driven by Ah Zhu, with bees leading them into the mortal world, Chen Shi looked back and said, "That person just now was Granny Sha!"

Ah Zhu replied, "I saw her too. But official matters are urgent, lets first deal with Daoist Xue and then look for her. Speaking of which, us Six Great Evil People of Five Lakes, it’s been a long time since we last gathered!"

"Six Great Evil People of Five Lakes?"

Chen Shi blinked and said, "I heard Granny Sha mentioning, it was Five Great Evil People..."

Ah Zhu was surprised and said, "Didn’t she count herself? Originally, it was the Five Great Evil People: your grandfather Chen Laoda, the mixed-blood Heavenly Fox Hu Xiaoliang, the Evil Spirit Green Sheep, the Grave Stone Carver Old Du, the Soul Searching Rakshasa Granny Sha, and me, Ah Zhu. I’m just a filler, not fierce at all."

Chen Shi was dumbfounded, in Granny Sha’s narrative, the beekeeper Ah Zhu, was one of the most ferocious among the Five Great Evil People.

Yet by aliases, Granny Sha seemed to be the most ferocious.

Ah Zhu felt melancholic and said, "Ever since you met an untimely death, Chen Laoda has been trying all means to revive you, and we gradually grew apart. Old Du and I have our duties and couldn’t retire with him. But Heavenly Fox Green Sheep and Granny Sha, they stayed by Chen Laoda’s side."

He sighed, "Perhaps for the rest of our lives, we might never be able to see the gathering of the Six Great Evil People."

Chen Shi smiled and said, "Uncle Ah Zhu, who can be sure about the future? It could surely happen."

Ah Zhu shook his head, stood up, and the cart gradually came to a stop.

He stepped down from the cart, Chen Shi followed suit, and saw their clothes gradually turning simple, becoming the coarse hemp clothes commonly worn by farmers.

Ah Zhu no longer had the image of a hero, with large hands and feet, his face reddened by the sun, his chest and neck also sunburned.

The cart transformed with them, becoming a wooden cart filled with many bee boxes, the swarm of bees behind them getting smaller and smaller, gathering together, burrowing into bee boxes, entering and exiting, bringing forth a wave of honey fragrance.

Chen Shi marveled, these bees, upon closer inspection, looked just like normal bees, who would’ve thought that these bees were actually legions of ghost soldiers from the underworld!

Ahead of the bee cart was a bee official transformed into an old ox, pulling the bee cart forward.

The place they were now was still Nan Lake, yet it was the northern shore of the lake.

Chen Shi and Ah Zhu followed the bee cart and entered a village, where the villagers, young boys and girls seeing the beekeeper coming, ran over joyfully, Ah Zhu cut each a small piece of honeycomb cautioning, "Don’t get too close to the cart, watch out for bee stings!"

The children were thrilled, and soon adults from the village came with bowls to buy honey.

Honey was a rare sweet food, carrying the fragrance of flowers; when the beekeeper passed through, anyone in the village with some spare money would buy some.

"Ah Zhu, you haven’t been here for a long time!" an old man from the village recognized him and smiled.

Ah Zhu raised his hand, wiping the sweat on his forehead with his wrist, and replied with a simple smile, "Yes, I went to the south of D南湖to keep bees, the flowers there are many and fragrant, and it took several months."

"Indeed. To go from here to the south to keep bees, it takes several months back and forth."

Ah Zhu busied himself cutting and weighing honey, Chen Shi collected the money, and the two quickly sold several dozen pounds of flower honey.

At that moment, a sloppy Taoist passed by the cart, smelling the fragrance of the nectar, could not resist the desire to eat, and smiled, "Cut me two pounds of honey."

Hu Xiaoliang opened the beehive to extract honey, and said, "Daoist, do you have something to hold it in?"

The sloppy Taoist was holding a brush in his hand, and Chen Shi, looking at this brush, showed a puzzled expression.

The sloppy Taoist noticed him and smiled, "I have just returned from outside, I have nothing. Just follow me to my house."

Hu Xiaoliang agreed, drove the cart, and followed the sloppy Taoist, asking, "Daoist, the last time I came to your village I did not see you. When did you arrive?"

Someone nearby laughed, "Daoist Xue has lived in our village for over ten years. Didn’t you see him last time?"

"I didn’t see him."

Hu Xiaoliang shook his head.

"Daoist Xue is a good man, he’s been drawing talismans and exorcising demons for our village for these years, and never charges a penny," praised the villagers.

Chen Shi raised his eyebrows. Hu Xiaoliang had been here a few months ago and did not meet this Daoist Xue, yet the villagers claimed he had been living here for over a decade, obviously the villagers’ memories had been tampered with, much easier than manipulating the memory of a Yin Commander.

"That brush just now..."

The sloppy Taoist led them in front of his residence, opened the door, and walked in. Hu Xiaoliang followed him into the courtyard and looked around, puzzled, "Three months ago, the Shi Jingming family of six lived here. Where are they? How has it become the Daoist’s residence?"

Facing away from them, the sloppy Taoist smiled, holding a yellow talisman between his fingers, waved it slightly and the talisman burned. He smiled and said, "Beekeeper, lend me something from the boy beside you."

Hu Xiaoliang smiled and asked, "What do you want to borrow? If we have it, we will surely lend it to you."

Turning to face Chen Shi, the sloppy Daoist smiled and said, "I wish to borrow twenty years of this young brother’s lifespan!"

Hu Xiaoliang fell silent for a moment and then said, "So, Daoist Xue has lived to 143 using these methods? The people from whom you’ve taken lifespan are already dead."

The sloppy Daoist was startled and hurriedly looked at Hu Xiaoliang. Suddenly, the world around them vanished, replaced by the dark and gloomy underworld, with howling winds sweeping across the land!

At that moment, the once ordinary man transformed into a towering figure, radiantly glowing, holding the Commander Seal, looking down sternly at him!

Behind this Yin Commander, tens of thousands of bees transformed into Yin soldiers, some with bee heads and human bodies, others with human heads and bee bodies, suspended in the air, encircling him!

The sloppy Taoist’s face changed slightly, then burst into loud laughter, no longer hiding his aura, which soared as a realm resembling jade materialized behind him, spinning in the air, with sun, moon, and stars orbiting within it, like a world unto itself!

"Imagine me, Daoist Xue, unrivaled in skill throughout my life, never facing a challenger!"

The Primordial Spirit of the sloppy Daoist, immense and residing within the Void Great Realm, looked down from above at Yin Commander Hu Xiaoliang and the Yin soldiers and generals, sneered, "Just because my lifespan was exhausted, you underworld lackeys chased me like a dog! Enough, today I will hide no longer! Because I fear you no more! Let it be known!"

With a flip of his hand, a brush appeared, sneered, "This is the Judge Dragon Whisker Pen from Tongue-pulling Hell, today..."

Under Hu Xiaoliang’s feet, Chen Shi held up some incense and prayed, "Pen, come."

The Judge Dragon Whisker Pen in the sloppy Taoist’s hand vibrated and whooshed out, landing in Chen Shi’s hands.

Chen Shi grabbed the pen, overjoyed, and laughed, "Thank goodness I’ve been refining it these days!"

The sloppy Taoist was startled but saw Yin Commander Hu Xiaoliang initiating the Yin Talisman Commander Seal. He raised his hand to block, and his Primordial Spirit immediately descended from the Void Great Realm, ready to merge with his physical body and transform into a divine demon of Fatian Xiangdi!

Even without the Judge Dragon Whisker Pen, he was among the rare, unparalleled masters in the world, capable of battling even a living Yin Commander, even potentially defeating and slaying the Yin Commander, to roam beyond the law!

However, the moment his Primordial Spirit flew out of the Void Great Realm, whoosh whoosh whoosh, countless venomous spikes embedded themselves in his Primordial Spirit.

The sloppy Taoist froze.

The Primordial Spirit, being ethereal, should not have been hit.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

Countless venomous spikes attacked, filling his entire front body.

"Damn it, if you have the guts, fight me one-on-one..." The sloppy Daoist’s face darkened, his body swayed, and he fell over.

— End of the month, seeking monthly tickets!