Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 146 - 143 Bodhisattva Save Me!

Chapter 146: Chapter 143 Bodhisattva Save Me!

Boom!

Upon recognizing the newcomer, the Catfish Spirit didn’t say a word, turned its head, and burst through the green brick wall beside it, rushing out of the Dragon King Temple.

Moreover, in just the few short steps it took, the arm that had been severed had already regrown.

It was indeed Divine Skill "Limb Regeneration."

However.

After the "Dragon Lord" burst out of the temple, it looked up only to see the Yin Soldiers who were just behind it, already waiting in front of it.

Each one looked as if they were cast from the same mold, eight feet tall like iron towers, wearing dark battle armor with turbid wave patterns, and faces masked with fierce ghost masks.

Under the leadership of a female Ghost General, they stood with long spears and great halberds, as dense as a forest.

Besides these Yin Soldiers, the leader was a valiant young man wearing an official robe with the Qiu Tiger pattern, a golden Tiger Head Saber at his waist.

One hundred Netherworld Ghost Soldiers surrounded his side as if a Netherworld Monarch was on a journey, with a grand entourage.

"You are... the Forbidden Curse Colonel from the Imperial Dragon Guard!

Have you not already given up on these mountain villages and rural forts?"

The "Dragon Lord" felt a surge of bitterness, having just felt that the Great Yan Dynasty’s influence was waning.

In a place as remote as Chen Family Village, where the emperor’s reach was weak, those hyena-like fellows could no longer threaten it.

It did not expect the retribution of its actions to come so swiftly.

But just as it had disregarded the villagers as mere food, Wang Yuan also directly ignored it.

He was very interested in the words just spoken by this "Dragon Lord."

Both the "Holy Infant Pill" and the "Dragon Gate" coincided with the information provided by Nie Hongying, suggesting a significant connection.

Perhaps he could use it as a starting point to unravel some of the secrets behind this divination.

Otherwise, rushing headlong into Yunhe County was far too dangerous by any measure.

However, Wang Yuan did not plan to inquire from its mouth but intended to kill it and interrogate its spirit!

Apart from high-level individuals in the Yin God Realm, no newly deceased ghost could lie in front of him.

He simply waved his hand and ordered indifferently,

"Kill it!"

"At your command, Dharma Master!"

The Yin Soldiers responded in unison, their voices clanging like metal.

Woo—!

Under the feet of the hundred iron tower-like Netherworld Ghost Soldiers, a burst of eerie blue Ghost Fire exploded.

A bone-chilling gale swept up in an instant, with ghastly ghost faces rising and falling in the wind, rushing fiercely towards the Catfish Spirit.

"Hundred Ghosts Yin Wind Formation."

A surge of ghosts!

Since they had just transformed into ghosts and had yet to slay any demons or earn Yin Morality or incense blessings, their combat power had dropped by at least one level compared to their former living selves.

However, their military formation skills, unfortunately but fortunately, had reached an exquisitely united and divine realm, as if they were one entity.

Yin Soldiers, this special kind of Daoist Soldiers, never compete with others in quality.

You have ten people, we have a hundred ghosts; you have a hundred, we have ten thousand ghosts...

When the numbers reach a certain magnitude, it completely compensates for the lack of quality.

Moreover.

If you have one, we stand shoulder to shoulder; if you have a group, we still stand shoulder to shoulder—it could be said they greatly value martial virtue.

"Get out of the way!"

The Catfish Spirit took down the two eight-petal copper hammers hanging from its waist, eyes shining with malice.

A heart belonging to a demon throbbed violently, and all over its body, muscles, bones, and tendons quivered at high speed.

All the essence, qi, and spirit converged into its dantian, as if creating the primordial world, the origin of the Great Thousand World.

The next moment, that Qi Blood Elixir exploded with a roar.

The body inflated like a balloon, almost doubling in size.

The copper hammers it wielded spun like wheels, with fire burning atop its head and shoulders as if they were blazing suns.

Rolling heat waves rampaged through the open space beside the Dragon King Temple, suddenly turning it into a blazing furnace.

The advanced version of "One Drumming Spirit," "Heaven and Earth Furnace!"

Then it lowered its head and charged towards the Luoshui River.

Spirit creatures naturally possessed immense Qi-Blood, and the strength of the three fires on their bodies far exceeded that of ordinary humans of the same level.

In fact, after consuming many living humans, it had long possessed enough "Human Qi" to complete the "Refining Form" process like those ghostly beings.

It could fully transform into a human shape, perform mantras, chanting, and cultivate various Daoist skills (Chapter 81).

Its physical strength had also gradually increased to the level equivalent to the third realm "Dao General" of human cultivators, "Spirit Communication Transformation."

It simply disliked the frailty of the human form.

It was this prejudice that made it sluggish on land, and it was hit head-on by the "Hundred Ghosts Yin Wind Formation" composed of Netherworld Ghost Soldiers.

Sizzle!

With a sound like hot oil meeting cold water, the Catfish Spirit running towards the water suddenly shuddered.

It was as if it had instantly fallen into an ice pit.

Obviously, the only "Innate Divine Ability" it had awakened was the earlier one, "Limb Regeneration," and it had not formally learned any other Daoist Skill passed down by humans.

Its resistance against ghosts was truly limited.

This was also the main reason it immediately turned to flee when it first discovered the "Yin Soldiers Crossing."

Not just it, but most wild demons that had transformed by consuming humans were like this.

Their abilities were far inferior to those of their kind who had transformed from humans.

Taking advantage of its momentary pause,

a long saber formed from Netherworld Yin Qi suddenly extended from the passing "Hundred Ghosts Yin Wind Formation" and fiercely chopped down on its shoulder.

Netherworld Yin Qi is a type of Earth Spirit Qi, and for ghosts, it is an indispensable cultivation resource, but for the living, it is an outright deadly poison!

After the severe pain in its shoulder, came an extreme numbing cold, and the hit area instantly turned a dusky purple.

Even because of the invading Yin Qi in the body and brain, the catfish spirit’s vision gradually turned into a vast expanse of white, no longer able to distinguish directions.

This was the most commonly used ability in ghost combat— "Ghost Covering Eyes."

At this point, the catfish spirit impersonating the "Dragon Lord" seemed to have reached the end of its road.

The villagers who were shriveled on the ground earlier, thinking that they would inevitably fall prey to the demon sooner or later, did not expect such a dramatic turn of events in the blink of an eye.

Even if they could not distinguish the differences in official robes, they knew that these were people from the Great Yan Court, which immediately revived their spirits.

"Wuu wuu, Sir, quickly kill this demon!"

"Demons that eat humans all deserve to die!"

"This demon strong-armed us into making offerings every year; it has ravaged every household, oh my poor child!"

"..."

At this moment, however, they did not mention the dark deal they had made with the demon, exchanging their children for thirty years of favorable weather.

Little did they know that Wang Yuan’s "Ghost Ear Listening" had already heard everything happening in the Dragon King Temple very clearly.

Wang Yuan became increasingly aware that people are actually half-human, half-ghost, and no one could stand scrutiny on close inspection.

Moreover,

in his previous life, he had seen delicate girls cheat outside, and hearty girls who smoked and drank uphold love; he had seen well-dressed successful men curse their parents, and tattooed drifters tenderly take care of their elders.

Whether one appears strong, weak, civilized, or barbaric, none of it represents anything.

And it’s not always true that the weak are in the right.

To those sixty children eaten over thirty years, every one of these villagers was a murderer and a beneficiary.

"Alas! The saddest part is, there must be thousands of places like this throughout the Great Yan Realm.

Even the supreme Emperor in Yunjing City is powerless to change the situation."

At that moment,

the cornered catfish spirit, instead of quietly accepting its fate, suddenly spat out a white jade talisman.

On the front of the talisman was an image of a one-eyed figure wearing a Treasure Crown and seated on a white lotus platform, with "Killing Great Master" engraved on the left and "White Sun Bodhisattva" on the right.

The back was inscribed with the four characters "Performing Clouds and Rain."

It was not hard to guess that it was this talisman that had ensured Chen Family Village thirty years of favorable weather, even though the catfish spirit itself had no relevant divine skills.

However, it did not spit out the talisman to perform rainmaking at the last moment, but instead crushed it in its hand and shouted:

"Bodhisattva save me!"

"Bodhisattva?"

After a slight start, Wang Yuan immediately felt a very familiar aura rising in his heart.

"This feeling... is it that... One-Eyed Stone Man?

In the Turbid River, that suspected ’Deceit Immortal’ One-Eyed Stone Man, was there such a revered title in the No-Life Dao?

And could it be that this catfish spirit is a livestock kept by the ’No-Life Dao’?"

The next moment, a vague figure, like a puff of smoke, rapidly condensed above the "Dragon Lord’s" head, using it as a medium.

Those "Netherworld Ghost Soldiers" who were poised to deliver the final blow suddenly whimpered and rushed back with force.

This remote transmission technique was much clearer than the figure Wang Yuan had once vaguely seen with the aid of an artifact extended from his own body’s power.

A Stone Man with a Treasure Crown and a single eye was seated upright on the lotus platform.

A bright, hopeful Dharma Light began to illuminate around him.

The voices of countless devout praises echoed through the void: "Killing Great Master," "White Sun Bodhisattva"!

Only,

back then, it was because he had an artifact extended from his body’s power, the "Deceit Object·One-Eyed Stone Man," that he could directly bind Wang Yuan’s Divine Soul by fate.

Forcing Wang Yuan to "reincarnate" to save his life.

This time, without such convenience and power through the indirect arrival via the "Dragon Lord,"

Before the "One-Eyed Stone Man" could manifest properly,

Wang Yuan, startled, flicked his hand and forcefully threw out... a "Mixed Element Thunderbolt" crafted from the "Rashamon Bone"!

"Demons, disperse!"

Boom——!!!

As if heaven and earth were splitting apart, flames soared skyward.

When the smoke and dust cleared, all that was left was a deep, charred pit; "Dragon Lord," "White Sun Bodhisattva," all vestiges of such apparitions had vanished without a trace!

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