Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 260 - 257 Fierce Old Lady, Turning the Pages of the Yellow Calendar

Chapter 260: Chapter 257 Fierce Old Lady, Turning the Pages of the Yellow Calendar

Two pieces of a dream, each bearing the exclusive Daoist skills of two mages, collided with a thunderous crash.

Boom—!

Before her transformation into a dragon, Qingyan was a locust tree demon who had lived for a thousand years, accumulating power through numerous dynasties, and she was clearly beyond the Inverted Taoist’s reach.

Even though her Taoist ability had greatly diminished due to the loss of the dragon scale armor, in a head-on confrontation, she effortlessly sent the latter flying backward.

He spun through the air, smashing through bushes, large trees, rocks... and other obstacles before becoming deeply embedded in a rock wall.

Only now did Qingyan, who seemed to have just awakened, step down slowly from the White Jade Yao Bed with her shapely and slender legs.

Although she was not particularly tall, she exuded an innate regal and dignified aura, graceful and luxurious.

Years of imprisonment had done nothing to erase the domineering presence she had developed from her countless battles against the Water Clan, transforming into a dragon.

Even Su Guyun, who was highly regarded by Wang Yuan, would likely pale in comparison if he stood before her.

As she took a step, water followed, spreading from her feet and legs, transforming into water-green scales that formed fitted boots, a battle skirt, and armor...

After three steps, Qingyan entered the Public Dream realm.

This was the first time Wang Yuan and Huang Wu truly saw her visage.

On her fair forehead, she bore two branch-like, crystal-clear horns, and her seaweed-like dark green hair seemed to dance lightly behind her with the ripples of water.

Her slender limbs were enveloped in fine scales, the layered scale armor rose to support her full curves on the chest and expanded into glorious shoulder guards and a skirt armor on her shoulders and outside of her thighs.

She was nothing like the kind elderly mother she presented as in private before Wang Yuan and Huang Wu.

At the moment of conflict, the majestic aura of a True Dragon, as lofty as the blue sky, spread from her without any restraint.

If her golden vertical pupils looked upon someone, a slightly less courageous mortal might instantly die of downright terror on the spot.

She didn’t waste words.

Boom!

With a light stomp of her foot, the ground shattered, and she shot forward like a streak of blue light, swiftly reaching Inverted Taoist’s side.

She pressed down on his head effortlessly, like wielding a hammer, crushing the rock wall behind him into rubble.

It was the very "reality" Inverted Taoist had wished for—direct, brutal, a hammer to the point.

The Azure Dragon is also the Eastern Azure Dragon.

The Daoist skill Qingyan practiced was the "Earth Department Taoism· Sky One Blue Method."

It is said in the "Astronomical Training":

"Among heavenly gods, none is more noble than the Azure Dragon; some say Sky One, others Taiyin. The place of the Azure Dragon should be embraced, never turned away from, and the Beidou attacks should never be countered!"

Seated in East Heaven, with Water and Wood elements fostering each other, combining magic and martial arts, is indeed the most fitting combat style for the "Azure Dragon Dharma Body."

The Daoist skill Qingyan obtained at the source of the Dragon Energy on Beimang Mountain back in the day was a treasure among the "Earth Department Taoism," and the prime choice for those among the Water and Wood elements who aspired to transform into dragons.

A demon of the Water attribute would begin their cultivation with the "Black Water Mysterious Light Technique," while a demon of the Wood attribute with the "Yimu Revitalization Technique."

If two True Dragons, one of Water and the other of Wood, were to become Taoist friends and practice "Dual Cultivation" (in the proper sense),

even at the threshold of Yellow Seal and Green Seal realm, they could progress at a speed far surpassing their peers.

It can be seen from the "Black Water Mysterious Light Technique" practiced by Mrs. Long Shao, the Little Concubine, that this Flood Dragon of the Water Virtue with exceptional aptitude was precisely the Taoist friend chosen by Wood Element True Dragon Qingyan back then.

Their enmity with the No-Life Dao was too numerous to count, and a meeting of enemies was exceptionally fiery.

Qingyan’s punches and kicks held nothing back.

"Are you... the Wood Element Azure Dragon whose dragon scale armor was stolen by Emperor Jianming? Weren’t you sealed by Zhou Wenrui? How could you still possess such power after being sealed for over a decade? Have you already freed yourself?!"

Inverted Taoist was pummeled until he was dizzy and his bones were broken.

Nevertheless, amid the roaring wind, he finally saw who was beating him and was utterly shocked.

"No-Life Dao" had long locked down the imprisonment range of Qingyan within Dengzhou Prefecture.

Previously, when Xue Donglou was sent back, the first goal was to seize the Water Virtue Dragon Scale Armor, and the second was to find Qingyan’s place of imprisonment, ready to use it to coerce Zhou Wenrui.

Inverted Taoist couldn’t have imagined

that in this operation to seek revenge against Xue Donglou, he would accidentally encounter the Wood Element True Dragon who should have been imprisoned somewhere and managed to collude with an inexplicable enemy.

Because he was so surprised, his surge of thoughts even leaked out involuntarily.

"No, if Zhou Wenrui’s Dragon Scale Armor is still intact on him, you would have taken it away by now if you were unharmed. You are most likely unable to permeate much power, only able to temporarily show your form in the dream realm, right?"

Although Inverted Taoist did not participate in the action back then, he roughly guessed the current situation of Qingyan.

Qingyan had no interest in answering his questions.

Further angered by the mention of that period of heartbreaking history, she vented her even more ferocious punches and kicks onto him like a flood.

Boom, boom, boom...

In almost an instant, Inverted Taoist was pummeled by heavy fists to the point of being barely human, like a pitiful blood gourd.

He realized this was not the time to solve mysteries and quickly activated the "Inverted Chaos Heaven Technique," employing a verbal lifesaver:

"Deceit! Dupe! Defy!

The heavier the attack I receive, the faster my wounds heal, the stronger my power becomes!"

As Qingyan’s next punch came down, its force indeed became distorted, and the Inverted Chaos Dharma Body quickly recovered a great deal.

Seeing this, Qingyan’s delicate eyebrows raised, and she finally spoke for the first time, chanting rapidly:

"Eastern Azure Dragon, supremely benevolent and spiritual, between horn and tail, resplendently illuminating the court, banners of green and jade pure, dignified worship and solemn rites, winding and meandering, come descend with auspicious fortune! Decree!"

In an instant.

Behind her, the seven stars of the Eastern constellation—horn, neck, root, room, heart, tail, and winnowing basket—shone brightly, forming a clawing and gnashing Azure Dragon that firmly occupied the Eastern Heaven.

With a cold snort:

"You dare defy Heaven, and I shall cover the sky with one hand!"

Just like how the Inverted Taoist had covered the rules of the Dream Realm with his mana moments ago, Qingyan also covered the effects of the Inverted Chaos Dharma Body with her own mana.

The Eastern Palace’s Azure Emperor, its essence the Azure Dragon, commanding spring, commanding wood, commanding the Eastern peak, commanding the East, commanding 360 scale insects, its presence is transformation by the Dao!

"Meet your end!"

Although Qingyan was forcefully revived by a Life Creation Pill capable of saving Yellow Seal Mage’s life, regaining her Primordial Qi, the loss of Taoist ability from having her Dragon Scale Armor stripped off could not be replenished.

Her opportunities to strike were limited, so she chose a swift battle for a swift decision.

Behind her, a tail carrying starlight suddenly lashed out, and for a moment her combat strength seemed to have returned to before the loss of her Dragon Scale Armor.

Dragon Tail Belittling Chen!

A bright light shone from her head horns, and every move she made carried the might to split mountains and break through barriers.

Horn Gate Heavenly Barrier!

White clouds appeared around her, and her speed increased by another fifty percent.

Cloud Dragon Heavenly Four!

Finally, her body turned into an afterimage, and with the force of a single dragon, she swung her elbow like a spear, viciously smashing into the chest of the Inverted Taoist who was already struggling to defend himself.

"Kanglong Power! Explode!"

Within Qingyan’s slender body, it seemed as if a million pounds of gunpowder erupted violently, a vast and powerful force, fierce and unstoppable.

Boom!

With a thunderous explosion that shook the heavens.

The Inverted Taoist’s Inverted Chaos Dharma Body, perfectly restrained by the Azure Dragon Dharma Body, was blown apart by her elbow strike!

A Dharma Body is but a clear mirror that reflects the essential nature of a mage’s Taoist skill, it serves as the basis for a mage’s practice of various techniques, and furthermore, it is the true form of a mage.

This was not like when one was in the state of the Yin God and could casually take over another body and discard it; losing the Dharma Body meant that the mage’s level of Taoist ability immediately dropped by at least half.

However, when the Inverted Chaos Dharma Body exploded, it finally gave the Inverted Taoist a glimpse of a chance to escape death.

As a blood light surged up with it.

The Inverted Taoist actually used his own Dharma Body as a one-time use Inverted Chaos Talisman, forcefully breaking the binding, and successfully allowing his Yin God to escape from the Dream Realm.

"I’ll go after him! We must take this opportunity to keep him in Dengzhou Prefecture!"

After signaling to the Little Concubine, whose aura was faintly unstable,

Wang Yuan slipped back into the mantle of Five Organs Temple: Song Bingyi, and grabbed hold of a wisp of the Inverted Taoist’ blood qi.

He then released the Biting Stone God, letting it overturn the Dream Realm and bring him back to reality in an instant.

In his haste, however, he failed to notice.

In the Small Book of Life and Death, of the one hundred and ten thousand Yin Morality harvested after the recent eradication of a host of evils and the Yellow-robed Boy, six thousand suddenly vanished without a trace.

In theory, no one can steal from the Small Book of Life and Death.

But this time, as if time flowed backward, those sixty thousand Yin Morality were as if they had never been recorded at all.

Extremely odd.

Meanwhile, in the real world.

The phantom of an old almanac suddenly materialized in an abandoned mansion resembling a haunted house in Xue Mansion.

Then it started flipping pages forward with a "whoosh", flipping over a dozen pages, until it returned to the day marked "Age Star Transits the Sky".

Bang!

The phantom Old Almanac suddenly became substantial, reverting back to the appearance of the Yellow-robed Boy.

The whole process was as if he had plucked himself out of the river of history.

Innate Divine Ability: Old Almanac!

To Wang Yuan, the term old almanac was nothing unusual, as he associated it with older calendars compared to modern ones in his past life.

But in this world, where almanacs and annual prognostications had been in use for thousands of years, why add the word "old"?

Because that’s precisely the source.

After death, the Yellow-robed Boy could adjust his own time back to a certain point in the past and resurrect himself!

The price for this was rewinding time, along with memory, Taoist ability... etc., all returning to how they were more than a dozen days ago.

The resurrected being was already an outdated "Old Almanac" in the face of the sudden changes coming in a fortnight.

For example:

"The Yellow-robed Boy? The Giant Gate Star Lord under the command of Nine Soldiers, has been waiting for you for a long time!"

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