Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 247 - 244: Visible Dragon in the Field

Chapter 247: Chapter 244: Visible Dragon in the Field

Thud! Thud! Thud!...

Like the Immortal of Colossal Spirit, the Red Eyebrow Mountain Demon took step by step toward Wang Yuan. With each step he took, it seemed as though the earth trembled and the mountains quaked, stirring up murky giant waves in the sea.

The High Eunuch obviously had no intentions of leaving any survivors.

Instead, he was planning to kill everyone before heading to Long Water Camp to proclaim the Imperial Decree, thus completing the task set by the No-Life Dao.

If Emperor Jianming’s obsession was to be a Holy Monarch and the lord of a great revival, then his obsession was to truly be the man of the harem!

Of course.

As for the concubines he was involved with, whether she had close ties with some Prince, and whether Inner Official Lv also had other ulterior motives, no one really knew.

He kept his gaze on the Realm Mage of the Yin God level who was suppressed by immense Qi-Blood and couldn’t open the Yin Road to escape.

The face of the Red Eyebrow Mountain Demon already revealed a bloodthirsty smile.

However, just at that moment, he heard the opponent suddenly shout aloud,

"Wait, I’m actually not familiar with Zhou Jinhuan at all!

Since you’ve already done away with him, there’s no point in attacking unrelated people anymore. Why don’t we just stop here and all go our separate ways?"

These words stunned Inner Official Lv.

Uh... Merciless!

Under normal circumstances, shouldn’t it be ’when the lord is insulted, the retainer dies’?

Yet on the face of the Realm Mage of the Yin God level, there wasn’t a hint of sorrow for his lord, Zhou Jinhuan!

Old Xu, who was used to being a servant for the Imperial Family, found it rather difficult to adapt to Wang Yuan’s reaction in an instant.

But what was that earlier talk of "tax reform" and "making big pies" all about?

Never mind, only the dead keep secrets. Blame your own bad luck!

Without any further words, Lv Jingde bowed slightly, gathering his strength, ready to pounce on Wang Yuan with the earth-shattering power of the Red Eyebrow Mountain Demon’s Military Dao Dharma Image.

Cicada... Cicada...

Just at that moment, a sporadic cicada chirping, sometimes long, sometimes short, suddenly rang in his ears without discernible origin.

At first, the sound was annoyingly distracting. But with careful listening, one could sense a jubilant sentiment of spring warmth and rebirth from a cicada molting.

But it was now deep autumn. Where could the cicadas be chirping from?

He then turned his massive and ugly head around to scout the surroundings, gradually focusing his gaze on the corpse that belonged to Zhou Jinhuan.

The ’ready response to a stimulus’ of Inner Official Lv immediately set off alarm bells, as it seemed something bad was about to happen.

Just as he was about to give up on Wang Yuan and return to check on Zhou Jinhuan’s body.

He saw that the merciless Magician who had just talked about ’stopping here, going our own ways,’ waved his hand and summoned a pure black War Banner, raising it high overhead and shouting aloud,

"Imperial Decree: chain Ghost Gate with iron locks, within Chenyuan Pond the bones of immortals feel the chill! Fall!"

The surface of the black War Banner instantly roiled like dark clouds, with layers of Runes stacking upon each other, transforming into a phantasm of camp, city gate, and iron walls...

Finally, they crashed down onto the sea surface, materializing into an imposing Ghost Gate about thirty feet tall.

Two ferocious seated Ghost King sculptures were engraved on the gate, and a string of mottled copper bells hung from the iron corners.

Standing beneath the gate, one could only feel its impenetrable strength, as solid as a copper wall and iron barrier.

Despite the absence of the wailing Yin Soldiers and Yin Generals who had previously been heard, as most of them were innocent victims killed by the Five Organs Temple with heavy grievances, continuously wailing day and night, and had long since been fully cleansed by Wang Yuan.

However, even without them.

After partial refinement by the Earthly Que Golden Book, this half-finished new Abyssal Ghost King Banner had become much stronger than when it had been in the hands of the Five Organs Temple.

Rustle, rustle...

The gate opened wide, and countless ethereal chains, like enormous pythons, swarmed out from the grey void beyond the gate, instantly wrapping around the limbs, waist, and neck of the Red Eyebrow Mountain Demon.

Then, they pulled with all their might.

Amid a chorus of creaking and straining noises, they were actually dragging the once mighty Red Eyebrow Mountain Demon inch by inch into the Ghost Gate.

Seizing the opportunity.

Huang Wu in the sky also directed the Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Formation to shoot blazing red arrow lights onto the Mountain Demon’s body.

Although most of them shattered against the opponent’s steel-like body, they caused his unprotected face to bleed and blacken. This prevented him from concentrating fully on resisting the extreme pull of the Ghost Gate.

The Fengdu Iron Enclosure: The first barrier defending the Yin Department, and a prison for entangling resentful spirits.

Its strength was obviously far greater than Wang Yuan’s Ghost King Tide.

Once dragged through the gate, one would truly fall into the Underworld directly, skipping all the intermediate steps, and die absolutely and completely.

Besides the Yin Officials with assigned duties, there has never been heard of any Ghost returning on the same path after descending to the Underworld.

But Wang Yuan also felt a pang of regret at this moment.

Originally, the Abyssal Ghost King Banner had been seriously damaged in the great explosion on Penglai Immortal Mountain, and the refinement work of the new Daoist Skill had probably only been completed by two-thirds.

Once the struggle with the "Military Dao Dharma Image" lasted too long, he feared that he would have to return to square one and start all over again to repair and refine.

If not handled properly, missing the great change on the second day of the second month next year wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility.

Unless it was absolutely necessary, he really didn’t want to use this treasure prematurely.

As one after another of the illusory iron chains shattered and regenerated, Wang Yuan watched his Big Cousin, who was still lying dead on the ground in the distance, and couldn’t help feeling a bit anxious.

"Why is it so slow? With the ability of that ’White Jade Cicada,’ shouldn’t it only take a few breaths to complete the resurrection?"

The "Deceit Object: White Jade Cicada" left behind after Xue Donglou’s death.

Ability: Cicada Shedding and Rebirth (Scapegoat), wearable close to the body, preferably held in the mouth, can substitute death once during a fatal crisis, can be reused.

Precept Taboo:

[One, solely for the use of princes and dukes.

Historically, jade cicadas were often used as tongue suppressors for the nobility group after burial.

They generally believed that since cicadas emerge from the earth, the departed with a jade cicada in their mouths signifies the rebirth of cicadas and the immortality of the soul.

Therefore, only those with deeply violet Qi Fortune, the people of noble fate, could tame the White Jade Cicada; it would be ineffective for others.]

Among those around Wang Yuan who could meet this standard, and who also had a good relationship with him, only Zhou Jinhuan fit the bill.

Naturally, he gave this heaven-defying treasure to Zhou Jinhuan.

Wang Yuan didn’t feel any regret about accidentally using the first resurrection opportunity here, nor did he care about the long cooldown periods calculated in prime-numbered years afterwards.

Wang Yuan had long since learned from the "Heart Communication Conch," which also had a cooldown period, to reset the cooldown timer by changing the owner of the deceit object.

As long as the account’s "Yin Morality" was sufficient, he dared to let Big Cousin die before your very eyes at any time.

However, the time being consumed for Zhou Jinhuan’s revival far exceeded expectations, causing both Wang Yuan and Huang Wu to harbor worries.

"Could something have gone wrong?"

At this time, even if the recovery speed of the "Ghost Gate" chains was gradually becoming slower than the breaking speed, they could only grit their teeth and persist in the tough battle with that "Military Dao Dharma Image."

Meanwhile, none of the people on the battlefield had noticed that atop a small hill by the shore, a figure was gradually appearing.

He was holding a delicate brass compass in his hand, muttering incantations, with a golden trigram symbol emerging above the compass.

It was the Qian Trigram, composed of six solid yang lines.

The text said: Heaven’s motion is strong, and the gentleman should constantly strive for self-improvement!

Xu Zhenzhi stroked his beard, his eyes full of wonder as he watched Zhou Jinhuan, who was in the process of resurrection:

"What a stroke of Qi Fortune, I never thought that my time would come. I came here looking for my Little Friend Wang, yet unexpectedly encountered a ’Water Virtue Hidden Dragon’ at this place.

And it’s precisely when the Qi Fortune is flourishing and manifesting that the ’Qi Observation Technique’ accidentally catches a glimpse of its truth and falsehood.

These six stages of the Qian Trigram precisely represent the six stages of a true dragon’s growth: Hidden Dragon, Visible Dragon, Alert Dragon, Leaping Dragon, Flying Dragon, and Kanglong.

At this moment, King Jing Zhou Jinhuan is about to leap from ’nine at the beginning: the hidden dragon should not be used,’ to ’nine in the second place: the dragon is seen in the field, favorable to meet a great person.’

A beam of spiritual light shoots straight from the top of his skull into the sky, remarkable indeed."

Xu Zhenzhi’s mystical talk boiled down to the reality that Zhou Jinhuan was not only going to be resurrected but also take this opportunity to start breaking through to the fourth realm, "Military Leader"!

As cultivation methods vary, the number of mages capable of breakthroughs in the midst of battle might be rare, but the number of Daoist Soldiers and Dao Generals who can break through is countless.

It’s known that even a small sprout can crack the heavy rock pressing down upon it at the moment of germination, which shows the formidable power of growth.

Dragons, masters among scaled creatures, can dim and can shine, can show and can hide, can be small and can be enormous, can be short and can be long.

King Jing Zhou Jinhuan, who had achieved the pinnacle of "Coiled Dragon Military Skill" as a Dao General, naturally seized the congenital energy of growth during the moment of "Cicada Shedding and Rebirth," boldly breaking through the barrier of the fourth realm "Military Dao Dharma Image."

No sooner had Xu Zhenzhi finished speaking.

Crash!

The Red Eyebrow Mountain Demon finally broke free of the endless chains of "Ghost Gate," turned around, and charged violently toward Zhou Jinhuan.

At the same time.

The body that lay on the ground, already void of breath, suddenly opened its eyes, revealing a pair of golden vertical pupils, and the broken body also snapped back into place with a "crack."

Roar—!

A sound that was indistinguishable between thunder and a Dragon Roar erupted suddenly within Zhou Jinhuan’s body.

With a leap into the air, accompanied by a resounding thunderclap from above,

His body swelled in an instant, and upon landing, he had transformed into another giant spirit with dragon scales in cyan blue, a dragon head, a human body, and a dragon tail — "Military Dao Dharma Image: Sea-Covering Dragon King"!

On the left side of his waist hung a war drum, and on the right, a drumstick; a casual flick of his tail was like a mountain cry and a tsunami.

Facing the incoming Red Eyebrow Mountain Demon, Zhou Jinhuan’s eyes hardened.

The "Morality" in his hands soared instantly, carrying boundless wind and thunder as he smashed it down fiercely, a booming sound followed, plunging Inner Official Lv back into the sea.

While the old eunuch was still in mid-air, an arm used to block the "Morality" exploded into a mist of blood!