I Slay Gods and Demons in the Deceit Night
Chapter 87 - 81: Liu Venerate’s Initial Awakening, Jiazi Great Year [Subscribe! Monthly Votes Wanted!]

Chapter 87: Chapter 81: Liu Venerate’s Initial Awakening, Jiazi Great Year [Subscribe! Monthly Votes Wanted!]

Within the inner city of High Willow City, the Liu Zun Temple.

The Great Temple Priest had already begun the preliminary awakening of Liu Venerate.

Other temple priests were also gathering, readying themselves for the commencement of the ritual.

However, Mr. Lu personally arrived and stopped the proceeding.

"Does Mr. Lu believe that awakening Liu Venerate today will lead to future troubles?" the temple priest Mr. Liu Qi asked pensively.

"Every time Liu Venerate falls into slumber, it is a period of recuperation for Him, during which He can heal Himself and reduce the dangers of ancient injuries from bygone eras!"

Mr. Lu said in a deep voice, "While sleeping, Liu Venerate possesses His own protective divine light! As long as the temple does not awaken Him, no one can affect Liu Venerate..."

"But waking Him prematurely will cause the divine light He laid out before His slumber to dissipate on its own!"

"When Liu Venerate awakens from His slumber, it is at the cost of a vast amount of incense burned for His recovery. If awakened too soon, He will be in an extremely weakened state!"

Mr. Lu continued solemnly, "The divine intention particles captured earlier must have some that slipped through the net! Someone has already mastered the divine intention particles and can disguise them as a part of Liu Venerate..."

"If Liu Venerate has not healed His injuries, then at the moment He awakens, the protective divine light will vanish, and He will be weaker than before He fell asleep."

"The ancient injuries from a previous time will have an even more intense effect at that moment."

"If there is an ominous entity that, by using the divine intention particles, disguises itself as part of Liu Venerate’s branches, then at that very moment, it might plant the same ’deadly poison’ that appeared in the past, right at the spot of Liu Venerate’s ’way of injury’!"

"Then we would have to relive the tragedy from sixty years ago that nearly overturned High Willow City."

With Mr. Lu’s words, everyone’s expressions became extremely grave.

Recently, far too many events have unfolded throughout the outer city!

Linjiang Square, in the southern district of the outer city, is only a small part of it.

Looking over the entire outer city, there’s an array of extremely troublesome issues.

But if Liu Venerate is awakened, all these difficult matters could be easily resolved.

After hearing Mr. Lu’s words, everyone began to ponder deeply.

"So all these incidents that happened recently were aimed at guiding our temple to awaken Liu Venerate prematurely?"

The second temple priest said somberly, "Once Liu Venerate awakens and the protective divine light disappears, He might be too weak to immediately recognize the threat of those bearing the ’divine intention particles’?"

The divine intention particles originated from Liu Venerate Himself.

Those who possess the divine intention particles are practically equivalent to the branches extended by Liu Venerate.

"I don’t understand." At this moment, the dark-faced and burly Lv Tang shook his head: "The way you all talk is profound and enigmatic."

"It’s as if I, already extremely fatigued and suffering from an old wound, took medicine and fell asleep."

Mr. Lu said gravely, "I was only halfway asleep when you roused me, and subconsciously, I reached out to rub my eyes! But this hand has turned into a knife!"

"That definitely won’t happen!"

Lv Tang slapped his chest and said, "With me here, even if you try to stab your eyes out with a knife in your own hand, I’m going to stop you, aren’t I?"

"That’s why we must now prevent Liu Venerate from awakening!"

Mr. Lu spoke slowly, "We must continue to let Liu Venerate maintain His sleep."

Upon hearing this, the temple priests looked at each other with uncertainty.

After a long silence, Mr. Liu Qi finally spoke, "The method to awaken Liu Venerate is solely in the hands of the Great Temple Priest, and it cannot be interrupted..."

Mr. Liu Er’s expression was serious as he said, "The magic method to forcibly plunge Liu Venerate back into slumber probably does not exist in this world; at least... we do not possess it, and we dare not possess it!"

"That’s why I made the effort to come here to the Liu Zun Temple in person."

Mr. Lu said slowly, "While I have no way to keep Liu Venerate in slumber, I can try to make Him more lucid at the very moment of His imminent awakening..."

As long as Liu Venerate becomes lucid in that instant, then even the inauspicious entities with the "divine intention particles" will be eradicated by Liu Venerate in the blink of an eye.

"How confident are you, Mr. Lu?"

"I’ll do my best."

——

In Linjiang Square, the slaughterhouse’s cellar.

Lin Yan looked up at the blood dripping down, sinking into the depths of despair.

At the same time, out of the nine Sacrificial Towers, except for the central one where Old Craftsman Lu was, the remaining eight collapsed mightily in eight different directions!

Boom!!!

Dirt and broken stones, dust billowing everywhere!

What’s more, the tips of four of the Sacrificial Towers happened to block the four roads leading out!

"Master, we can’t escape now."

Old Craftsman Lu sighed and said, "We are both sacrifices, but unlike the others, you and I will die understanding a bit more."

"They only think that by killing Master tonight, they can stabilize their human forms and continue to hide in various trades within the district."

"But from the very beginning, these members of Tribulation Ash were also part of the sacrifices."

"In contrast, it’s you and I, outsiders, who will die last, understanding the purpose."

"What on earth is all this?"

Lin Yan looked around and couldn’t help speaking with a heavy tone.

At the same time, he silently added seventy-nine strands of the Evil Qi he had accumulated after slaying the remaining strange beasts to his cultivation.

Cultivation: Refining Essence Realm (849/3650)+

He, with his own power, had bravely slain nine great beasts and thirty-three wandering spirits, and not only had he expended a great deal, but his injuries also needed to recover.

With the vitality of the Refining Essence Realm, especially after he had greatly advanced his cultivation by using a large amount of Evil Qi, his wounds began to heal as he breathed.

Only when he was fully healed, could he once again unleash the Vajra Strong Soul Divine Skill to its extreme, forcefully move the Sacrificial Tower and escape from this place.

"In the world, there is a kind of strange object that strictly speaking, does not seem to count as a living creature."

Old Craftsman Lu stood atop the Sacrificial Tower, sighing as he said, "But by nurturing it with a special magic method, it can be made to possess flesh and blood."

He pointed to the flesh that was constantly writhing above his head and said, "This thing was only the size of a fingernail at first. Over forty years ago, it was buried in the middle of the Spirit Suppressing Talisman, and after so many years, it has finally grown to this extent."

Lin Yan’s eyes were as cold as ice, the plans of Tribulation Ash for over forty years, hundreds of lives buried here.

Was it all to cultivate this massive piece of flesh above their heads?

Taking a deep breath, his own injuries had now recovered more than eighty percent by this moment.

"You’re trying to delay for a moment, to let yourself recover to your most splendid state, trying with the physical body at the Refining Essence Realm, to pry open the passage of the Sacrificial Tower behind you?"

Old Craftsman Lu evidently saw through his intentions, but made no move to stop him, only sighing and saying, "I am not a person of Tribulation Ash. Even to this day, I cannot understand why these people of Tribulation Ash are so crazily intent on destroying High Willow City, some even to the point of not sparing their own lives!"

"But helplessly, my father was once a member of Tribulation Ash."

"Back then, he participated in the expansion of Linjiang Square, and the construction of the slaughterhouse was built by him."

"This underground chamber, four passages, nine Sacrificial Towers, all were the proud works of my father. They were secretly dug and constructed from the day they broke ground, over a span of twenty years."

"If you look carefully, you can clearly see that the patterns here are extremely similar to the traces of Spirit Talisman drawings, aren’t they?"

Following Old Craftsman Lu’s voice, Lin Yan looked up and truly discovered extremely complicated patterns amidst the large amount of writhing flesh.

"This is from the Temple of Liu Venerate, a changed version of something called a ’Spirit Suppressing Talisman’. The patterns have been set from there."

"For so many years, all the blood of the domestic fowl and livestock slaughtered in the abattoir, seeping into the ground below, has been used to nourish It."

"These patterns not only organized the fresh blood that seeped in from above but also gathered various strange airs like ’Evil Qi’, ’Resentment Qi’, ’Death Qi’, and so on."

"Besides that, these patterns can hide any Qi Mechanism beneath the ground, hence even if significant figures from inside the city came here, they would not detect the anomalies below."

Old Craftsman Lu said, "Actually, the people of Tribulation Ash practiced the Demon Transformation Technique here simply because it was the most secretive... But the real reason for constructing this place was not for the practice of the ’Demon Transformation Technique", it’s for that piece of flesh above your head!"

"The young children they killed could weaken the drawbacks of their Demon Transformation Technique, barely maintaining their sanity as ’humans’ under the instinctual influence of Demon Blood."

"But those children’s corpses became the nourishment for Its shell."

"Just now, you and Great Commander Zhao Zhou came together, but they let Zhao Zhou leave."

"Guess why?"

Without waiting for this Master’s response, Old Craftsman Lu did not keep him in suspense and slowly said, "At this moment, Zhao Zhou has already arrived with reinforcements and is engaged in a bloody battle with the Martial Artists of Tribulation Ash in the slaughterhouse. Both sides are bound to suffer heavy casualties."

"The dead, their unwilling regrets, the fear of life and death, all kinds of resentment, will all merge with their ’human blood’ and flow into here!"

"What has been planned for the past forty years, today, the final step, by using a large amount of human blood, gathers enough ’human spirituality’, allowing It to transform and become ’a creature of this world’!"

"The people of Tribulation Ash call It ’Jiazi Taisui’!"

At this moment, having recovered to his prime, Lin Yan was about to take action, but paused suddenly at these words.

"Such a powerful being appearing in High Willow City would surely awaken Liu Venerate."

Lin Yan frowned and said, "Can It withstand Liu Venerate?"

Old Craftsman Lu shook his head slightly, saying, "It has already refined Liu Venerate’s divine intent seedlings and can almost be regarded as a branch of Liu Venerate..."

If Liu Venerate were awake, even after fusing the divine intent seedlings, It would still be perceived and thus destroyed by Liu Venerate.

But as Liu Venerate was still slumbering, after merging the divine intent seedlings, It would not awaken Liu Venerate!

"I, on behalf of them, perfected the final arrangements of the nine Sacrificial Towers, and am deeply sin-laden, but for the sake of my family far away in Li City, I had no other choice."

"Master, you are lucky. You will witness the most spectacular sight in High Willow City in sixty years."

Old Craftsman Lu suddenly laughed, bending down to pick up a blade on the Sacrificial Tower, placing it across his neck, and said, "Tonight, here, all are offerings, without exception... including myself!"

Whoosh, a sound echoed!

Lin Yan swiftly raised the small crossbow in his hand.

A crossbow arrow, covering hundreds of steps, lodged in the forehead of the old man prepared to take his own life.

Evil Qi added two!

Afterwards, Lin Yan took a deep breath, slightly closing his eyes.

Evil Qi accumulated one hundred and two.

After killing the remaining beasts just now, it was one hundred and seventy-nine strands of Evil Qi.

While listening to Old Craftsman Lu speak, he added seventy-nine strands to his cultivation, keeping one hundred, silently pushing the Blood Refining Divine Blade to its limit.

Blood Refining Divine Blade (100/100)

Then, Lin Yan took a deep breath.

He had restored himself to his prime, and at this moment, he suddenly bit his tongue tip, mobilizing the essence, Qi and heart’s blood within his body.

Opening his mouth, he exhaled a mist of blood that dispersed into the air.

With a swing of his long blade, the blood mist converged on the edge of the blade.

Then, as directed by his blade’s edge, the Blood Refining Divine Blade, reached the pinnacle of its artistry, accompanying the Demon Suppression Divine Power, pushed to the extreme!

The blood-light condensed into an edge, slashing fiercely towards Jiazi Taisui above his head!