Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 171 - 168: Huang Wu Advances to Red Seal, Is the Xue Family a Flood Snake?

Chapter 171: Chapter 168: Huang Wu Advances to Red Seal, Is the Xue Family a Flood Snake?

A vast white fog split open a crack, revealing the gigantic moon wheel behind it, resembling a jade disk.

In a corner of the Deceit Market, atop the six-story building named "Yinyue Building" by Wang Yuan.

Sixty-four Taiyin Talismans, drawn together by him and Lady Peach Fairy, were arranged in a talisman formation according to the Eight Diagrams.

Huang Wu, dressed in a light white gown untouched by makeup, sat gracefully on the Dharma Altar built of white jade, her left foot resting on her right, in the Ruyi sitting posture.

She formed the Taiyin Corpse Transformation Seal with her hands, looked towards the Heavenly Gate, and chanted:

"Purple decrees and yellow scriptures, named the Great Mystery. Scattering moonlight nurtures the spirit and soul.

In the square, solemn matters arise from the mystical threshold. Hiding the heavens and concealing the moon, lady of the five spirits. Nine paths of flying light, illuminating the Mud Ball Palace. Swift as the decree!"

The Heavenly Gate thunderously opened.

Behind it, the sun and moon palaces, the Cycle Star Mansion... circulating back and forth.

As the girl chanted, a strand of clear water-like Heavenly Spirit Qi suddenly plummeted from the Moon Palace, descending towards the Mud Ball Palace at the top of her head.

A clear phoenix call sounded.

As the vessel for Huang Wu’s Ghost Dao possession, the Green Phoenix Treasure Pearl, leaped from the top of her head.

It spread a ring of green spirit light, continuously inhaling and exhaling the Taiyin Moonlight Qi descending from outside the Heavenly Gate.

Meanwhile, the Earth Gate below her opened, and the rolling Netherworld Yin Qi merged with the Taiyin Moonlight to form a delicious Jade Wine Golden Liquid, which the girl swallowed.

She poured it mouthful by mouthful onto a Dharma Seed nurtured by the Earth Department Taoist’s Taiyin Moonlight Technique.

The Dharma Seed took root and sprouted, growing at a visible speed into a silver Dao Foundation, resembling an abstract moon laurel tree, as well as a full moon.

She was making use of the opportunity when the Power of Taiyin was most abundant during the year, abruptly reaching the threshold of "Receiving Talisman into Enlightenment."

It was not only because Huang Wu held the Green Phoenix Treasure Pearl in her hand—a Ghost Dao treasure nurtured for hundreds of years within the "Vermilion Bird Bureau·Ghost Star."

But also because her life plate was linked with Wang Yuan’s, from then on their fates intertwined, compensating for each other’s deficiencies.

The status of Wang Yuan had reached Red Seal, and the little ghost girl as his Taoist friend, before bridging the gap between their realms, would not face any insurmountable barriers.

This breakthrough did not stop at the Dao Foundation.

Huang Wu silently recalled the Taoist Inheritance True Talisman, her consciousness suddenly elevated dramatically, deeply reaching into the Nine Heavens.

Guiding a thread of the pure qi that blended Yin and Yang between heaven and earth to slowly descend, integrating with the recalled True Talisman into an almost invisible Dharma Seal.

The Dharma Seal emitted a misty silver-white radiance, guided by a pinpoint of Heart Light, thunderously landed between her brows.

Eventually, like a silver moon descending, it landed on that perfect Dao Foundation.

Divine light burst forth within Huang Wu’s body.

The human form that she had solidified after completing her form refining suddenly dissipated, revealing a series of ethereal visions of jade palaces, moon palaces, and moon laurel treasure trees in her place.

A snow-white Jade Rabbit climbed the steps, leaping over palaces until it jumped onto the topmost branch of the Moon Laurel Tree.

Clang—!

The heavenly music sounded.

The boundless ethereal visions rapidly contracted, finally transforming into a radiant Dharma Seal of Taiyin Corpse Transformation!

With this Divine Power Dharma Seal as the core, Huang Wu’s body rapidly regenerated.

A Phoenix Wing mark unfolded ready to fly between her brows; eyes brimming, lips like cherry blossoms, skin as smooth as jade.

Under the light veil of a translucent white silk dress, her entire figure appeared even purer and more transparent.

Barefoot as a lotus, her waist was slim, her whole body graceful and exquisite.

Her appearance remained essentially the same as before.

Yet her aura was missing some of her usual playful charm, gaining instead a clarity and breadth, a noble solemnity, akin to the moon in the Nine Heavens, naturally formed, beyond the mortal realm.

In an instant, the little ghost girl had become the second Red Seal Mage of the "Yin Mountain Taoism."

Although the training in the Earth Department Taoist’s Taiyin Moonlight Technique could only reach the third realm, that of the Green Seal Sage, equivalent to the realm of a Ghost King.

But since they both belong to the Yin Official system, as long as Wang Yuan could ultimately achieve eternal life, he could elevate his Taoist friend through the Dragon Ball Replenishment which was applied at the beginning using the Dragon King’s Pearl Gathering Skill.

Looking at Huang Wu in this state, Wang Yuan on the white jade altar, covered with golden scriptures, sacred yet eerie, also finally let out a sigh of relief.

He backed away, hands behind his back, nodding satisfied:

"Not bad, Little Huang Wu, now that you have received the Talisman and entered the path of my ’Yin Mountain Taoism.’

Today let’s redefine our relationship, from now on I’ll call you sister, and you shall call me teacher..."

Before he could finish speaking, Huang Wu, who had undergone a transformation and regained authority, scooped him up in one swift move and laid him across her knees. She then began to smack his bottom with her slender jade hands.

Smack, smack, smack...

She scolded and hit at the same time:

"Call you Master? I might as well call you father! Look how capable you think you are, would you dare respond if I actually did call you that?

Sister raised you from diapers to adulthood, and to think you would turn out to be such a Wang Xiaoyuan!"

"Hiss!"

At this moment, Wang Yuan, who had enjoyed a carefree life after a reversal of power and had forgotten even his own surname, seemed to be transported back to his reckless youth, running daily to Wangren Town.

He was once again experiencing the fear of being dominated by his sister.

Just then, Wang Yuan’s body suddenly stiffened.

"Wait, I’ve already arrived at Xue Mansion. Something here seems off!"

...

Whooo...

The eerie wind dispersed as Wang Yuan and Qiu Shaobai, among the first batch of Imperial Dragon Guard reinforcements, stepped into Shanyang City.

Under the guidance of house servants who had been awaiting at the city gates, they approached the Xue Mansion, which was even more imposing than King Jing Mansion.

Their group had been on the job for over ten days and had already thoroughly figured out what kind of person Young Master Xue was.

Rushing over anxiously, it was naturally not to save this scum of the mortal world, but to personally see whether he... had truly met a thorough end.

Wang Yuan, being the true mastermind, naturally wanted to verify the results for himself.

And he had another matter more important than the life or death of Xue Donglou.

In addition to assisting Huang Wu in her cultivation, repairing the government office, and moonlighting as the thief "Here I Come," he had been searching for his aunt who had lost her dragon scale.

Even holding a scale that belonged to her, he had never found any leads.

His earlier light-hearted banter with Huang Wu was not just to take advantage of her, but also to prevent her from being consumed by the tragedy of her own family.

But after slightly changing his approach, he realized.

Aside from King Jing, Zhou Jinhuan, who was said to have gone to sea to battle pirates and was temporarily not in Ninghai State, Xue Mansion could be another breakthrough to untangle the deadlock.

Since Prime Minister Xue, Xue Jiexi had once been a subordinated official during Emperor Jianming’s period in hiding and hadn’t been silenced fifteen years ago, might he also know something?

Whether Zhou Wenrui in those years intended to steal the dragon scale or silence those palace attendants, there had to be someone in on it.

Xue Jiexi’s current high position meant he must have been extremely close to Zhou Wenrui’s heart back then, possibly even deeply involved in the plan to steal the dragon scale.

As the group approached the grand entrance of Xue Mansion, Yuan Lang suddenly looked towards the southeastern corner of the estate, his face turning grave.

"Is this the Xue family’s ancestral temple? Such a strong dragon energy, it’s definitely the strongest in the entire Dengzhou Prefecture!"

The faces of the others were similarly gloomy.

You see, even before the "Dragon Qi Prohibition," only nobles and vassals could have an ancestral temple for the rituals of their recent ancestors.

It housed the ancestral tablets no further back than five generations; up to five generations are considered close kin, and beyond that kinship is considered to end.

Which means ancestors beyond five generations won’t enjoy ritual offerings from the family.

Because incense isn’t just a wisp of smoke; fundamentally, it’s a carrier of human willpower, which any one person can only produce in limited amounts.

If offered to the dynasty, it could strengthen the dragon energy and extend the dynasty’s mandate. But if taken by those divine beings, or offered to the ancestral temple, that much dragon energy vanishes from the dynasty.

The more ancestral temples, the less dragon energy for the public authority.

Unfortunately, as the laws of Great Yan gradually deteriorated, almost every major family had their ancestral temple.

Whether inside you only find ancestors being venerated is anyone’s guess.

Whether it’s fostering celestial beings, ghost children, demons, little ghosts, ghost essence private gods... All these abnormal rituals, flattering though they are, bring no blessings!

With the Great Yan Chief Minister leading the corruption, how could the faces of the Imperial Dragon Guards possibly look good?

At that moment.

It seemed that with Huang Wu’s breakthrough, the boost from her title "Princess Yunhe" was strengthened again.

Now in Shanyang City, Wang Yuan could also use the "Dharma Eye" to view the aura above the family temple.

As the Chief Minister of the Cabinet, holder of the titles Young Protector and Protector of the Crown Prince, as well as the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and Great Scholar of the Wuying Hall, Xue Jiexi was essentially the most powerful man in the Great Yan officialdom.

Under normal circumstances, as long as a minister remains a subject, regardless of his dominating influence reaching Super Grade, the official energy manifested can only be a Qilin at most.

But if there is intent to stand apart, manifested externally, it would form either a carp or a flood snake, with the ultimate form being another true dragon!

In Wang Yuan’s eyes, above the Xue family temple at this moment, there was a black flood snake hidden within the belly of a red Qilin, constantly devouring the Great Yan dragon energy.

Seeing this made his pupils suddenly contract.

"The Five Virtues concluding and starting, Black Virtue replacing Red Virtue—this Xue Mansion isn’t seen as a subject? And there’s a master concealing this for them?"

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