Above the Great Dao
Chapter 98 - 59 Monta Survivor_2

Chapter 98: Chapter 59 Monta Survivor_2

Chen Shi ground cinnabar and painted talismans right at the entrance of the village. He painted the Peach Talisman, the Evil Exorcism Talisman, and the Five Mountains House Charm. It took him nearly half an hour to use up the cinnabar, and he painted dozens of talismans in total.

He pasted these talismans at the village entrance and on the doors of every household. He also gave a talisman to the village foster mother.

Li Tianqing came up to help, and the two worked together and quickly finished pasting them.

"Even if we leave for a while, the evil spirits dare not enter the village and disturb our homes," Chen Shi sighed in relief.

He feared evil spirits would enter the village and shatter the villagers who had turned into porcelain, which would mean they could no longer be brought back to life.

Jin Hongying laughed, "You’re quite sentimental. Let’s hurry and leave."

Chen Shi asked, "Sister Jin, you’ve seen and known a lot. Do you think they can be resurrected after we eliminate the Evil Bodhisattva?"

Jin Hongying, limping, walked into the mountains and said, "Perhaps they can. I have only experienced one Demon Transformation event, so I don’t know much about it."

Chen Shi’s spirits lifted, and he followed her, asking, "Sister Jin, what was the Demon Transformation event you experienced?"

Jin Hongying said, "I was young then, and only heard people mention that the ancient tower underwent a Demon Transformation which persisted for a long time. I don’t remember the specifics."

She seemed a bit melancholic and did not wish to talk more about it.

Li Tianqing, moved slightly, said, "The ancient tower’s Demon Transformation? I’ve read about this event in books. It said that twenty-three years ago an earthquake in Mengta City caused an ancient tower to emerge from underground. Several cultivators seeking treasure entered it, only to find it was a Demon Suppressing Tower. When they tampered with the tower, a Demon Transformation occurred. The event was catastrophic; nearly all the residents of Mengta City perished. Later, a few strange people entered the Demon Domain and resolved the situation. It is said, however, that only one person from Mengta City survived..." ƒreewebɳovel.com

His voice grew lower as he spoke.

The book noted that only one person survived.

Jin Hongying said she had experienced it.

So, the survivor was...

Jin Hongying smiled broadly, "If I could survive the ancient tower’s Demon Transformation, naturally I can survive this Demon Transformation caused by the Evil Bodhisattva! I am inherently blessed by fate!"

Chen Shi laughed, "If Sister Jin is lucky, we can share in her good fortune."

The three of them chatted and laughed.

Black Pot observed coldly, realizing that Jin Hongying was forcing a smile, while Chen Shi and Li Tianqing were just trying to shift her focus and draw her out of her thoughts of home devastation and loss.

Chen Shi changed the subject and asked, "Sister Jin, what did Xiao Wangsun take away from your Divine Mechanism Camp?"

"Take?"

Jin Hongying ground her teeth in anger and exclaimed, "He stole it, he robbed us! It’s not a secret that the bastard stole the West King Jade Seal, a crime punishable by the execution of nine kin! If I can’t retrieve it, I’ll be led to the execution ground to be decapitated, and the soldiers of the Divine Mechanism Camp would all have to be replaced and die once!"

Li Tianqing, having heard this, pondered internally, "The West King Jade Seal? Could it be the one used to imprint the Mountain and River Map of the fifty provinces?"

Jin Hongying glanced at him, "Little brother Tianqing seems to know quite a bit. The Jade Seal has always been kept in my Divine Mechanism Camp. Xiao Wangsun was originally one of us, a senior I respected. For some inexplicable reason, he went mad recently and took the West King Jade Seal. If the Jade Seal hadn’t been of such importance, I wouldn’t have mobilized the Divine Mechanism Camp to ambush him on Thunderstruck Mountain."

Her ambush involved luring Xiao Wangsun to Thunderstruck Mountain and unleashing nearly a hundred Hongyi cannons to bombard the mountain, nearly killing him.

Had Jin Hongying not been startled by Xiao Wangsun’s final strike, she might have already perished by his hand.

However, the Divine Mechanism Camp also suffered heavy casualties.

Li Tianqing speculated, "Could Xiao Wangsun have taken the West King Jade Seal to use it to open the True King’s Tomb? No! His purpose in taking the Jade Seal wasn’t for the True King’s Tomb but for the Mountain and River Map of the fifty provinces! The Mountain and River Map, drawn by the True King, detailed the geography of the West Bull New Continent, consecrated its major mountains and rivers, and coordinated the various local gods, village deities, as well as the divine forces of rivers, lakes, mountains, and peaks!"

The Mountain and River Map bore the imprint of the West King Jade Seal. Hence, possessing the Jade Seal enabled one to claim the map.

Although the famous peaks and rivers no longer had their respective gods, the Mountain and River Map still possessed immense power.

Chen Shi knew nothing of this and listened with keen interest.

"Xiao Wangsun could either be hiding at Mirror Lake Villa healing his wounds, or hiding in Wuwang City."

Every time Jin Hongying mentioned Xiao Wangsun, she gritted her teeth in hatred, "Let’s head to Mirror Lake Villa first. If we don’t find him there, then we’ll go to Wuwang City. We’ll force him to hand over the West King Jade Seal, kill the old thief, you guys can eat the meat, and I’ll drink his blood, easily devouring him! Then we’ll use this treasure to open the True King’s Tomb, retrieve the Mountain and River Map, and easily annihilate the Evil Bodhisattva, won’t we?"

Chen Shi asked, "What if opening the True King’s Tomb releases something even stronger than the Evil Bodhisattva?"

Jin Hongying was caught off guard and hesitated a bit, "That’s unlikely, right?"

Li Tianqing said, "The kiln factory was only a place for firing porcelain for the True King’s Tomb and there was an Evil Bodhisattva. The Tomb itself must be even more exaggerated. If the kiln factory had a Demon Level, then the True King’s Tomb is at least a disaster level."

Jin Hongying, disheartened, muttered, "What should we do? Am I really going to die in this godforsaken place? I’m still at the flower of my age, do I have to die here in the Demon Domain with these two little brats by my side?"

Li Tianqing said, "Aunt Hongying..."

Jin Hongying’s expression changed abruptly, and she grabbed his neck, her previously sickly demeanor replaced by a murderous aura, she coldly said, "What did you say? Li Tianqing, if you dare, say it again!"

With death looming, Li Tianqing suddenly had an epiphany and said, "Sister Hongying."

Jin Hongying let him go, grimacing from her injuries, trembling in pain, "I call you brother, so you should call me sister. Get it wrong, and I’ll kill you! Anyway, let’s go to Mirror Lake Villa first. There are old monsters in Mirror Lake Villa. I was injured there last time, and even the Evil Bodhisattva probably wouldn’t dare to go there. Let’s hide there for a couple of days, avoid the Evil Bodhisattva’s search."

The three of them entered the mountain, with Jin Hongying heavily injured, limping and walking slowly.

From the sky came giggling, several floating skulls with long, crimson tongues hanging down, with people dangling from them, dancing in mid-air.

Seeing them, the floating skulls laughed again, retracted their tongues, pulled the people into their mouths, and ate them, then dropped their long tongues down toward them.

Jin Hongying could walk no more and stopped to rest, while Chen Shi and Li Tianqing, seeing the floating skulls approaching, were extremely nervous.

Suddenly, several paper figures climbed up along the tongues of the floating skulls, the figures had noses and eyes, and held swords and daggers in their mouths, moving agilely and quickly. Soon, they reached the faces of the floating skulls, raised their weapons, and hacked away fiercely.

The floating skulls deflated like burst balloons and crashed into the forest.

The paper figures sheathed their swords and jumped off the giant heads of the floating skulls, quickly walked up to Chen Shi and his company, and slipped into Jin Hongying’s sleeves.

Chen Shi and Li Tianqing exchanged looks; a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Although Jin Hongying was severely injured, even walking was difficult, her skills were still superb, and the evils they could not handle were effortless for her.

They proceeded again. The mountain road was rugged and difficult, Chen Shi saw Jin Hongying breaking out in a sweat, possibly from the pain of her wounds.

Despite her pain, this woman didn’t utter a sound, enduring strongly, making him greatly admire her.

They trudged on for two hours, Jin Hongying glanced around and said, "There’s a village ahead, let’s stop there to rest our feet and grab something to eat before we continue."

They moved forward. The village was built on a hillside overlooking a small river, but considering the layout of the riverbed, landslides would probably occur during heavy rain, so the village was not built in the valley but on the slope.

The village had many people, but as they got closer, they realized they were all porcelain figures.

Still, the village likely had pots and could be used to cook some food.

These porcelain figures stood sporadically on the streets. The three of them, and a dog, walked past the figures, which remained immobile.

They were careful to avoid touching the porcelain figures, fearing that if they knocked them over, they would shatter.

"Wait a second!"

Li Tianqing said skeptically, "Did you notice? There seem to be excessively many porcelain figures here!"

He looked around, "There must be thousands of porcelain figures in this village! Does a small village have that many people?"

Chen Shi suddenly realized, "Someone moved them here! But who brought them?"

A thought flashed through his mind like lightning, his face paled, he quickly said, "Let’s get out of here!"

Just then, the ground trembled slightly, and they saw the immense figure of the Evil Bodhisattva.

"No, Don’t, Move!"

Chen Shi, speaking softly, enunciated each word.

His body rigid, he stood among the porcelain figures, even his breathing was incredibly soft.

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