Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 298 - 295: Local Specialty, Great Nourishing Pill

Chapter 298: Chapter 295: Local Specialty, Great Nourishing Pill

North Sea Coast.

Of the five Naiman tribes, apart from the "Wulan Tribe," the other four—"Wuhuan Tribe," "Bayegu Ancient Clan," "Tuwa Tribe," and "Jiegu Tribe"—all arrived in full force.

The total number of people easily exceeded thirty thousand, and in no time, a small city was erected right here.

Tent after tent of pure white felt strung along like clouds, stretching for dozens of miles, without any edge in sight.

Whoosh—!

Upon the North Sea, a strong wind swept up, bringing with it a vast mist that hit the face.

"No wonder they call it the North Sea, if one were to come here suddenly, they might really believe they had arrived at the seaside."

Standing here, Wang Yuan couldn’t help but wonder whether there was a water eye underneath this great lake connected to some vast expanse of the East Sea, thus allowing the water to flow endlessly.

In fact, several hundred rivers, large and small, feed into this area, and only then is the largest inland lake in the Desert North formed.

The crescent-shaped North Sea was a whopping twelve hundred miles long, with the widest point being a hundred and sixty miles.

If Wang Yuan had to find the precise location of Luofeng Mountain by himself, he wouldn’t know until the year of the monkey when he would succeed.

But since the Dual Body God ["Earth Mother Black Sky"] Aoxin takes the North Sea as his Daoist practice ground,

he naturally wouldn’t overlook the official entrance to the Underworld below—"Earth Gate."

Following this line of thought, after Wang Yuan arrived at the Spring Festival venue, he used the "Heavenly Department Dao Skill・Earthly Que Golden Book" to sense briefly and easily determined the precise location of the Earth Gate.

But in his spiritual sense, he could faintly detect an indescribable, massive dark shadow also lurking deep underwater at the location of the "Earth Gate."

With just a slight thought, it seemed as if an endless coldness traveled up its source,

penetrating all Daoist skill barriers, freezing his thoughts into an ice blade that continuously stirred in his brain.

Without a doubt, ["Earth Mother Black Sky"] was much stronger than the ["One-Eyed Stone Man"]! At least a ["Dharma Image"] realm level Green Seal Strange Immortal, making Wang Yuan retract as soon as he touched it, daring not to delve any deeper.

He planned to wait until the evening’s "Orilana Spring Festival" began, when ["Earth Mother Black Sky"] came ashore, to find an opportunity to slip into the internal organs and explore.

At the same time, he did feel somewhat secretly relieved.

If it had not been for taking over the identity of Bone Bundle, it would have been nearly impossible for him to blend into an area so close to the North Sea.

Even if he could activate the ["Abyssal Dharma Body"] and use the San Tu River to directly make his way here, he couldn’t forever hide in the crack between the Underworld and the Yang World without ever coming out.

The necessary six-day "Earth Gate" Gatekeeper "Promotion Ceremony" would also have been impossible to complete.

Now, in order to break through the insurmountable barrier of ["Earth Mother Black Sky"], Wang Yuan was making final preparations.

Transformed into a Grey Deer Spirit that was half human, half deer, he walked through the bustling camp where humans and monsters roamed.

Clang!

As he brushed past a demon with a rat’s head and human body, something golden suddenly fell from him.

"Huh?"

This shifty-eyed, sneaky-walking demon immediately noticed the object.

Instead of alerting the owner, he quickly hopped a step forward and stepped on it.

Only after Wang Yuan had walked away did he move his foot to inspect it.

He saw that the object was square, shiny gold, with a mouth and eyes—the very Earth Essence Treasure, "Ten Thousand Years Old Brass Essence," that he had been desperately seeking to refine his "Lifebound Magic Treasure."

The Rat Demon was instantly overjoyed.

He kept exclaiming, "Blessed by Cang God! Truly blessed by Cang God!"

He then turned and dove into the dense cluster of tents nearby.

The area where they were now located was actually a temporary market.

Using a piece of cowhide spread on the ground, each stall displayed various bottles and jars, stones, herbs, and all sorts of bloody limbs.

Each large gathering was always a prime opportunity for the various Demons and Ghosts on the plains to trade, and this Spring Festival was no exception.

"Gods" from all over were seizing the time to sell their land’s special products.

Especially those Demons and Ghosts who led a tight life and awakened the ability of Limb Regeneration sold the most down-to-earth special products.

Hearts, livers, lungs, gall... everything was included.

There were even really tough pigs, selling the freshest stir-fried pig kidneys made on the spot, and someone even set up a stall with dozens of identical... deer penises in front of the tent.

Looking at the store owner’s haggard appearance, you knew these things were definitely replenishing!

Boss Wang, while marveling, naturally also joined in the festivities.

However, what this ["Star Lord Taibai"] and ["King Yanluo"] was selling as "local specialties" was not any rare treasure but calamity and death!

The Deceit Objects he had harvested recently were not few, and most of them were of no low level.

As a result, he accrued a pile of Rashamon Bone.

As he had not used them for a long time, except for those he had expended on Penglai Island, the Rashamon Bones he had on hand had reached seven pieces.

The longer Wang Yuan mixed in, the more profoundly he realized:

No matter how varied the Daoist Skill, there is one... Great Luck Aura that breaks all.

Great Fate protects me!

And Qi Fortune does not come for free; even Gold Star Taibai is hard-pressed to save himself, so he can only... take what is his!

To ensure this operation went smoothly, Wang Yuan went to great lengths.

All the tributes he collected on the plains recently were devoured by these Rashamon Bones.

Meanwhile, leveraging a thirty-seventy split, the seventy percent "funds" he reclaimed were fed to them in a second and third wave...

Then, among them, three Rashamon Bones that originally came from Yellow Seal Level Deceit Monsters.

While expressing gratitude to Boss Wang for the layered profits, they diligently elevated the ability of Deceitful Heart to the extent that they could bewilder Mages.

Especially the one drawn from the [Talisman of King Jialouluo], had reached a level capable of confounding even the peak [Divine Transformation] stage of Yellow Seal practitioners.

Furthermore, Wang Yuan had already conducted tests.

If the [Rashamon Bone] were planted in a deity worshipped by a tribe,

it would not only suck that deity dry but, through the connection of faith, also drain the Qi Fortune, blessings, and qi-blood of all the believers, submitting seventy percent of it as an offering!

It wasn’t until he arrived at the Naiman’s Five Tribes, where the land was overrun with "deities", that Wang Yuan for the first time found the correct way to utilize the [Rashamon Bone].

After discovering this secret, the heartbroken Wang Yuan hadn’t slept well for the past few days.

Every time he woke from a midnight dream, he felt as if he had missed out on a small goal.

And this greedy rat-headed demon was one of the "deities" he had carefully selected.

There are mainly three sources of [Yin Morality].

One is accumulating good deeds; another is exorcising demons and ghosts;

the third is following the Calamity: the bigger the affair, the more generous the reward.

Originally cautious in his own territory to avoid collateral damage, but once in the Naiman territory, where blood feuds spanned generations, he was free to unleash his full power!

"Here comes another one."

Just as Wang Yuan spotted another Yellow Decree Earth Deity with a snake head and human body, preparing to move stealthily like a Boot-Hanging Ghost and repeat his old tricks,

a sudden immense apprehension rose from the bottom of his heart.

"Huh...!"

Accompanied by heavy breathing close to his ears, a suddenly emerging massive shadow enveloped both the snake-headed Earth Deity and Wang Yuan.

Whoosh—!

The next moment, a roaring gust of wind blew away the surrounding tents and stalls.

And a pressure, as though marked by a natural predator, pinned Wang Yuan’s feet to the ground, rendering him completely immovable.

A droplet of cold sweat silently slid down his forehead.

The next instant, the Yellow Decree realm snake-headed Earth Deity had already reverted to its original form, effortlessly torn into several pieces by a pair of hands that resembled eagle claws.

Crimson blood "drip-dropped" onto Wang Yuan’s already rigid face.

Danger! Danger! Danger!

Only at this moment did he finally get a clear view of the creature, a monstrous mix that forced the traits of various animals—horse, cow, sheep, eagle, pig, dog... even flies and mosquitoes—into one being.

No words could adequately describe its species.

Its mere existence seemed to be a defilement of all aesthetic principles, with just one glance causing severe mental contamination.

It was seen casually gesturing with the snake corpse on its body until, finally, it inserted the half with the snake’s head into its own rear end and gave it a light shake, transforming it into a tail.

Then Wang Yuan saw the creature’s seventeen or eighteen pairs of large and small eyes fixate on him—or more precisely, the antlers on his head.

At that moment, the voice of the[Heart Communication Conch]resounded in his ear:

[Weird · Totem God]

Pursuing a "perfect" form that unifies all things, it naturally suppresses all worshipped [Deities].

With each tribe it conquers, it merges their "deities" into its own body, gaining their symbolism and faith, eventually becoming an extremely grotesque Deceit Monster!

This is a beloved affiliate of [Earth Mother, the Black Sky]: Even deities must pay tribute!

To escape, first ensure you are not one of the "deities" under the Heaven Righteous Dharma Dao; second, your species must conflict with the traits already possessed by the Totem God.

Just as Bone Bundle once said, the plains operate under an ecosystem of "survival of the fittest, where the strong prey on the weak".

The so-called "deities" are but a middle link in this food chain.

Their lives are just as precarious; when the higher Deceit Gods and [Heavenly Officials] hunger, they have no ability to resist.

They can only offer the flesh and blood they have wrung from the Naiman People to sustain the higher levels of the food chain.

Ironically, at this moment, Wang Yuan’s disguise as Clerk Ding was such a tragic character.

Watching the [Weird · Totem God]’s two eagle-claw-like hands stretch towards him once again,

just as he tensed up, contemplating whether to pay a heavy price to abandon this identity and find another way to sneak back,

Whirlpool sounds...

Suddenly, a massive whirlpool appeared in the midst of the North Sea.

The Shaman who worshipped [Earth Mother, the Black Sky] struck their Dharma Drums and shouted towards the encampment:

"Earth Mother descends, believers kneel!"

Including the [Weird · Totem God], the entire camp knelt down at once.

Not till then did Wang Yuan’s heart start beating again.

He came back to life once more.

He could be both humble and flexible, also prostrating on the ground, as he watched the [Totem God] close at hand with cold, icy golden light flashing in his eyes.

"You couldn’t devour me, so now it’s my turn to eat you!

A hodgepodge [Totem God] associating with more than a dozen tribes, Old Master Wang rewards you with the finest local specialty!"

Unintentionally,

the [Rashamon Bone] from the [Talisman of King Jialouluo] rolled behind the creature, instinctively swallowed by the tail in the form of a snake’s head.

And it was this very instinctive reaction that turned it into the most nourishing pill in Wang Yuan’s possession!

The next moment, a vast shadow slowly emerged from the vortex.

Everyone’s breath hitched at once.