Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 206 - 203: Reverse Immobilization, Opening One by One

Chapter 206: Chapter 203: Reverse Immobilization, Opening One by One

Swoosh—!

A magnificent red light shot up from Wang Yuan’s forehead into the sky, transforming into a beautiful girl clad in a splendid Luan Robe, with golden-red phoenix wings stretching across her brows.

Her demeanor was noble and her aura, regal and commanding.

With a graceful turn in mid-air, her fiery-red skirt twirling, she had already transformed into a silver-eyed phoenix with wings nearly ten meters across.

[Hundred Birds Battle Formation·Phoenix Transformation]

She opened her beak, forged from pure gold, and spat a mouthful of sparkling phoenix saliva that carried a rush of exotic fragrance towards the wound on Wang Yuan’s chest.

As the phoenix saliva fell, the wound on Wang Yuan’s chest, pierced earlier by the [Jade Maiden Sword], began to heal rapidly.

Immediately afterward.

Thump thump thump...

The fully healed heart began to beat again, strong and vigorous.

In the next moment, the already "reborn" Wang Yuan abruptly opened his eyes.

With a slam of his palm against the ground, he sprang up swiftly, dodging the [Golden Boy] and [Jade Maiden], two flying swords that flew towards him like specters.

In fact, the timing chosen by Huang Wu was far from the best.

As far as Wang Yuan was concerned, since the effects of the [Luban Ruler] were reversible within a day, there was no rush at this moment as long as they ultimately managed to seize the [Deceit Object].

The ideal moment.

Should have been when Shen Jiantong and Father Zhong thought everything was settled and started to greedily search for the various treasures aboard the Great Yan Treasure Ship.

At that moment, acting would have saved them the most effort.

The trio was unaware of the hidden rules of the Treasure Ship, and it was not impossible that their greed would lead them to their own demise.

However, facing the brazen talk of the Devil Path of the "No-Life Dao," where did Wang Yuan and the others have the mentality to weigh the pros and cons any longer?

After successfully faking his death and eliminating the threat of the [Deceit Object], Shen Jiantong and Father Zhong were merely two individuals in the True Qi realm.

Therefore.

When Shen Jiantong launched that flying sword strike and charged forward to try the same old technique.

He would never again have to worry about problems arising from an imbalance of Golden Qi causing mutations.

Ding ding ding...

After transforming into the form of a Netherworld Phoenix, the [Yin Yang Heart Bell] was still hanging from Huang Wu’s ankle.

Accompanied by a burst of blue spirit light from the bell, the urgent "Soul Stabilizing Bell Sound" instantly broke through the air and enveloped the charging Shen Jiantong completely.

"Imperial Decree!"

He pinched the [Sealing] seal with his hands ferociously.

His qi, heavy as lead and mercury, and golden-silver in color, surged as beams of gold and silver light faintly shot out from his eyes, trying his utmost to resist the [Yin Yang Heart Bell].

As a Magician at the True Qi stage, he had undergone a substantive change and his resistance to Daoist Skills and strangeness was far greater than those at the Dharma Seal stage.

Yet, a fierce light flashed through Huang Wu’s beautiful silver phoenix eyes.

"Die! Ah!"

The bell sound sharply turned into a piercing, needle-like noise; a moment later, it fiercely broke through Shen Jiantong’s barrier of True Qi.

Shen Jiantong’s eyes immediately dimmed in expression, just as everyone had been controlled by the [Luban Ruler] a moment before, and his body was firmly immobilized on the spot.

This deceitful beggar, with the foulest mouth, had infuriated Huang Wu the most, naturally becoming Wang Yuan’s top target.

In a daze, Shen Jiantong.

Saw that miraculously revived "wealthy man" pull out a thick, black, and hard club from the [Wanxiang Bag], inscribed with "Convince with Virtue" on it.

With a cold smile, he lifted it high above his head, then fiercely smashed it down on his own forehead.

Bang!

As expected, his skull exploded in a splash of golden and silver brain pulp.

Although far from Yunhe County, Wang Yuan’s ability to check others’ moral debt through the [Dharma Eye] was also ineffective, but the killing rules of "Convince with Virtue" wouldn’t fail.

Trigger condition: Only harm beings whose [Debt] exceeds [Yin Morality]. The heavier the [Debt] on their body, the greater the killing power, while it cannot harm a good person at all.

Before Shen Jiantong’s body fell down.

He had already used a Dharma Seal cultivated with the [Golden Jade Twin Swords] to instantly suck out all the Golden Jade Qi within Shen Jiantong’s body, transforming it into a two-headed golden and silver centipede.

Twisting its body, it tried to escape into the air.

But it was securely trapped by a ring of blue spirit light released by the [Yin Yang Heart Bell].

As the bell rang again, the two-headed centipede was helplessly devoured bite after bite by two globular bells growing fierce teeth.

Upon the scaled bell body, two green and red talisman seals also became significantly more complex.

At this moment, after the [Money Box], the [Yin Yang Heart Bell] had finally also started on its path of growth.

Though a mere existence in the True Qi realm was not enough to induce a substantive change, it was nonetheless a good beginning.

Meanwhile, the two flying swords [Golden Boy] and [Jade Maiden], having lost their master, wailed sadly as their spirit greatly diminished, and were easily collected by Wang Yuan into his sleeve.

It was only then that Father Zhong, slightly dizzy from the impact of the [Yin Yang Heart Bell]’s sound wave, came back to his senses.

Father Zhong was indeed an old Jianghu practitioner. When his face drastically changed, he didn’t hesitate to kick over the box beside him immediately.

The next moment, he was frozen by the resounding urgent bell sound of the "Yin Yang Heart Bell."

Perhaps Huang Wu, relying solely on the "Yin Yang Heart Bell," might not be able to equal a "Yin God" in combat, but it was no problem to manage one or two "True Qi" realm opponents.

Only Xiao Zhong, due to being integrated with the "Luban Ruler" and having his soul half puppetized, had an extraordinary resistance to the bell sound and was minimally affected.

Ka-ching ka-ching...

With a series of sounds of joints colliding, a large group of distorted wooden puppets suddenly surged out of the box like a tide.

Some of them had iron claws instead of hands, some had mechanical springs instead of legs, some had iron cannons in their mouths, and some grew eight legs like spiders and scuttled across the ground rapidly...

After the Zhong family father and son defected from the "Colorful Play Tower," they traveled far and wide. Under the guise of puppet shows, they killed countless living people in secret.

Many people got too absorbed in watching the puppet shows without realizing they even held their breath, not to mention moving their feet.

Possibly, they went to the show as a lively family of three.

And by the time they returned home after the show, it was no longer clear whether the ones who entered the door with them were humans or some other kind of creature with a human-like appearance.

They even once used the "Luban Ruler" to kill thousands in a town in one fell swoop, then hid behind puppet strings to impersonate their identities and continue living.

And no one could spot anything odd.

The contents of the Zhong family father and son’s box were none other than those numerous "Living Puppets" who could not die nor live properly and were the "Yan Armor Soldiers" who, after their second modification, completely did not fear pain or death!

During battle, they could crazily explode soldiers into action. With the "Luban Ruler’s" terrifying control over these "Yan Armor Soldiers," they could completely inundate a small city.

However, these which had already become puppets, the "Living Puppets," had no ability to help Xiao Zhong undo his puppetized state before the fifteen-minute deadline was up.

As Father Zhong was immobilized by the "Yin Yang Heart Bell."

His only chance now was to resist desperately!

As long as he could hold out until the exchange was over, he would naturally be sent back to his original ship by the treasure ship.

In the chaos.

The chants from the puppet’s mouth, "One, two, three, wooden puppet," inevitably became sharper and thinner, trying to regain control over Wang Yuan, this resurrected "monster."

But to their horror, they found that the "Luban Ruler" could no longer affect Wang Yuan and Huang Wu.

Its effect was entirely extreme.

If inactive, it caused no harm; but once active, it was lethal.

After learning the details of the "Luban Ruler," this terrifying "Deceit Object" seemed nothing more than a toy in the eyes of Wang Yuan and Huang Wu.

As long as they ensured they were constantly outside a radius of three yards from the opponent and never stopped moving, they could completely ignore its effect.

Facing the only somewhat troublesome "Yan Armor Soldiers."

Huang Wu, dancing gracefully above Wang Yuan’s head, wanted to summon her 108 "Feather Forest Guards" and initiate the "Ten Thousand Enemies Skill • Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Formation" to destroy these "Yan Armor Soldiers."

But she hesitated somewhat.

Worried that once the chaotic fight caused damage to the treasures and the structure of the ship, she might immediately be made to pay debts by the Great Yan Treasure Ship.

"Sister, leave it to me!"

Wang Yuan reached out to stop Huang Wu’s actions and stepped forward to face the tide-like surging "Yan Armor Soldiers", raising his dark Wolf Fang Club above his head, and grinned:

"How could ’Morality’ be such a cumbersome thing? Watch me... grow and shrink as I please!"

No sooner had his words ended than the "Deceit Object • Morality" in his hands suddenly inflated like it was being pumped full of air.

In the blink of an eye, it became even thicker and longer than the mast on the ship, and even the fierce spikes on it seemed like short spears.

Then, with a sweep of the huge club, he struck at the tide-like "Yan Armor Soldiers."

Clatter...

They, standing before Wang Yuan who was at a height advantage of "Morality," had absolutely no power to resist. Limbs, gears, springs... were instantly shattered to pieces everywhere.

And the Wolf Fang Club, it treated the goods on the shelves and their own people as if they were mere illusions, not hurting them in the slightest.

But for these "Yan Armor Soldiers" who had been turned into "Deceit Object" henchmen, it truly dealt death with a twist and doom with a tap, scraping skin would break it, nicking tendon would injure it.

A force like a bamboo splitter! Irresistible!

Seeing the situation turn dire, Xiao Zhong immediately commanded the remaining "Yan Armor Soldiers" to carry him away, preparing to escape to other areas of the ship for guerrilla warfare.

And even, he casually left his much-despised... old father behind.

Just to attract Wang Yuan’s firepower, to create an opportunity for his own escape.

As for the deadly fifteen-minute limit of the "Luban Ruler," he had completely given up on it, figuring slow death was far better than immediate death.

Behind him, Wang Yuan, however, appeared indifferent as he transformed the club into a claw, using a move from the "White Tiger Military Art" called the "Five Ghosts Peek."

His dark Wolf Fang Club, wrapped in boundless thunderous noise, struck like lightning at the heads of the Zhong father and son.

Bang! Bang!

The two who just had the power of life and death over others instantly turned into two miserable headless corpses and fell dead on the spot.

Then, all the "Yan Armor Soldiers" who had miraculously survived under Wang Yuan’s club collapsed instantly.

Whether it was Zheng Bangjie’s intricate scheming or the grand ambitions of the "No-Life Dao," all were extinguished under this strike!