Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 349 - 346: Owl God Snatching Food, Fisherman Wang Yuan

Chapter 349: Chapter 346: Owl God Snatching Food, Fisherman Wang Yuan

The sun set in the west, the dying day sinking heavily.

Between heaven and earth, yang energy retreated, and yin energy surged mightily.

Atop the vast Beimang Mountain, already not a sound from insects was heard, nor a cry from birds and beasts—just a bone-chilling spirit of slaughter that grew denser by the moment.

In this realm, irrespective of which sect it was, their history of inheritance was always counted in hundreds of years.

And because they were inherently natured as the "Heavenly Official’s" henchmen and reserve food, the disciples of the sects were almost constantly fighting, their combat experience exceedingly rich.

The equally matched "Plague Dao" and "Nine Likenesses Corpse God Dao" were now putting on a battle-level course of magical duel for Wang Yuan and his party.

Boom, boom, boom...

With Bird Beak Slope at the center, two vast Dharma Altar cities rose from the ground in the blink of an eye, one on each side.

Above the altar cities flew banners, yellow curtains tumbling, and the monstrous miasma of demon smoke shrouded half of Beimang Mountain in a murky yellow gloom.

The two distinctly shaped altar cities, each able to accommodate nearly a thousand magicians comprising of Yellow Seal, Red Seal, and low-tier disciples.

Their presence was fierce and the demonic aura was formidable.

It had almost cleared out all the disciples within the Jurisdiction of Junzhou who could respond to the Mountain Taoist’s decree in short notice.

Among the two parties, the power of the "Heavenly Official" from Plague Dao known as the "Mud Saint" encompassed diseases, poisons, decay, disasters...

The materials they used to build their altar city were Five-Colored Soil, the foundation deep and staggered to form terraces, also called "Luodi Yin Altar."

In the very center were the Plague Treasures: the Plague Umbrella, Plague Seal, Plague Slashing Sword, and Plague Stabilization Banner, along with Sun Fenghan, Feng Zhang, Zhuo Wen, and Geng Tianhua—four formidable mages at the "Earth Essence" level.

Surrounding them were the Five Poisons Pools, each cultivated by different departments of the "Five Immortals Sect": Snake Immortal Department, Charming Immortal Department, Yanlong Sect, Heavenly Dragon Sect, and Scorpion Tail Department.

Now, as the source of the epidemic, the "Yellow-Skinned Dharma King" had only recently been assassinated by Wang Yuan, the threat of Rat Plague was still at its peak.

Thus, those Plague Demons, resembling the size of seven or eight-year-old children, were all killed in one go by the Plague Dao as a sacrificial offering for the array.

Using them as conduits, the air of disease and disaster accumulated in the world by the Rat Plague was channeled and enhanced atop the "Plague Formation."

Bone beads, bone beads, bone beads...

Beads of poisonous air joined to form skull clouds of yellow, black, red, and green, piling within the "Plague Formation" like a high mountain of toxic clouds.

In fact, the place where the array stood had gradually formed an independent Deceit Realm.

Because of the rich gathering of Daoist knowledge, it also attracted some oddities that even they themselves could not clearly identify or explain.

Opposite.

The power attributed to "Fangzhang Corpse King," the "Heavenly Official" of the Nine Likenesses Corpse God Dao, lay in corpses, solitude, burial grounds, channeling the ethereal...

Beimang Mountain, strewn with corpses and tombs, offered them unrivaled geographical advantage.

Apart from the "White Bone Altar City" formed layer by layer from bones, and the surrounding "Corpse Forest,"

Their other arrangements appeared even more wicked compared to the opposing side.

Arrays work with the yang, while formations fall with the yin!

When magicians laid out an array, it was typically on the ground, adhering to the harmony of heaven, earth, and humanity, with either flags fluttering, fire blazing, or prophecy by copper coins and Eight Diagrams...

But for an Evil Formation that falls with the yin, especially an evil one, it must connect with the earth’s yin energy.

Despite falling behind on the "timely" aspect due to the Rat Plague, the Nine Likenesses Corpse God Dao also found a way to regain it through "geographical" advantage.

On the west side of Bird Beak Slope, they used Geomancy Technique to identify nine extremely malevolent spots.

They exhumed the original owners from their graves and deeply interred nine fierce Golden Armored Corpses with military leadership qualities within them.

The first malice: White Tiger Chest Thumping Point, an angry qi ends in sudden death; second malice: Azure Dragon Embracing Point, destined to draw children of different surnames; third malice: Neck-Snaring Point, not executed by law means sure strangulation;

Fourth malice: Dragon and Tiger Formation Point, one’s successors fail and the household perishes; fifth malice: Living and Dying Hole, the foolish who are buried here endure cold and hunger; sixth malice: Blowing Fetus and Breaking Head Acupoint, paralysis of limbs makes a person short-lived...

Each one was an extremely yin and evil node of bad energy on Beimang Mountain, yet to them, these evildoers, they were treasures.

In the mouths of the nine Golden Armored Corpses, each held a Ghost Face Bodhi Seed.

They had just been buried.

Those Bodhi Seeds, with the earth’s Qi and the corpses’ Qi from the ominous points and Golden Armored Corpses, quickly grew into large Ghost Face Bodhi Trees with bark as smooth and pale as human skin.

Then they continuously spread and interconnected to form vast stretches.

At the moment, as the sun dipped below the horizon, the last glow cast long shadows of everything on the ground.

Only then did bystanders realize with astonishment that the entire western side of Bird Beak Slope had turned into a vast "Corpse Forest" composed of Ghost Face Bodhis!

Beneath the immense cover of the Deceit Realm, the woods swayed, twisted tree shadows, myriad Ghost Face Bodhi Trees stretching like countless terrible claws reaching up from the ground.

At that very moment.

"Senior Brother! Look quick!"

A cry of alarm spread between the two horrifying altar cities at the same time.

Those from both sides raised their heads only to discover.

With the last traces of twilight fading, a familiar star began to brighten in the western sky.

Known to all but children under three, unmistakable to any.

When it emerged at dusk, it was known as "Changgeng," and at dawn, "Qiming," but collectively called "Gold Star Taibai!"

The raging winds above Beimang Mountain dimmed the light of Gold Star Taibai, making it flicker like a blinking eye, casting contemptuous glances down upon the two battling formations.

Thinking back to the "unexpected" arrival in Luoyang City, which then vanished without a trace, a sense of urgency rose within the hearts of both parties.

"We must settle the grand situation once and for all before the Nine Soldiers catch on and capture Beimang Mountain Blessed Land!

Then, we can advance or defend as we please, and even if the Nine Soldiers rally troops from all over to attack, they’ll be powerless against us!"

With their minds made up, the leaders of both sides hesitated no longer.

Clang, clang, clang...

The grating sound of bells from Bird Beak Slope immediately pierced through the heavens.

It was the "Nine Aspects Corpse Taoism" that made the first move.

"At that time, the Corpse Forest Master was here among us, joyously casting the great light to illuminate both the Corpse Forest and this grand assembly...

Should any beings hunger and feast on my flesh, thirst and drink my blood, after having their fill, may they cultivate the Bodhi Heart and be free from the suffering of hunger and thirst..."

Amidst the chaotic chants, countless ghost face Bodhi in the Corpse Forest mutated into pale giant hands wrapped with pitch-black bells, reeking of a strong stench of decay.

They violently reached for the opposing Plague Formation.

"Please benefactor, give alms of your flesh and blood! Please benefactor, give alms of your flesh and blood!..."

The Plague Dao faction was just as uncompromising, as hissing snake cries burst from the opposite hill.

From a mountainous sea of poison clouds, countless four-colored venomous snakes wearing skulls suddenly sprang out, striking like lightning at those pale giant hands.

The mountain quaked, and the air thundered.

As the deceit realms and arrays of both parties collided, every moment saw severed giant hands and ripped-off snake heads continually falling from the sky.

Occasionally, parts of the Altar City’s main structure would be crushed by the opposition, with the Sect’s disciples inside meeting with no good fortune.

Once exposed within the array space.

They didn’t even have time to scream before they were struck by bizarre poisons, their intestines shredded, their Qi-blood exhausted, and their flesh agitated, dying a horrific death.

In the blink of an eye, they would be directly devoured by the opposing array, turned into human dregs.

Consumed and absorbed by the opposing array’s Daoist Skills, they were transformed into another’s strength.

The brutality was beyond description.

However.

In this battlefield centered around Bird Beak Slope.

With the power of the arrays waxing and waning, the frenzied Devil Path practitioners and Demon Monks from both sides failed to notice.

This "strength," in the process of being transferred between the two arrays, inexplicably diminished by a third!

As if it had been mysteriously consumed by someone "passing by."

...

At the same time, beneath their feet in the Beimang Mountain Blessed Land.

Wang Yuan, his true body, was indifferent to the outside world.

With a mantra in hand, he joined Yama’s Avatar, Qingyan, Long Shao, and Grandma in suppressing a Dharma Altar each, forming the third array atop Beimang Mountain—a formidable Owl God Snatching Food Array!

Although they didn’t have the nine accompanying tombs that composed wings to aid the array as they had at the Owl God Tomb,

they were accompanied by a number of Yellow Seal Mages, and Grandma, as the Mountain God of Beimang, could channel the flow of Earth Qi.

Moreover, there was the Daoist charm of the Three Vultures Power Technique deeply engraved in this Blessed Land over two hundred years.

Wang Yuan, the Taoist Master of Yin Mountain Taoism, found it a piece of cake to replicate or even significantly enhance this Owl God Snatching Food Array.

After all.

Who would have thought that the Plague Dao and the Nine Aspects Corpse Taoism would each occupy one wing of the "Giant Vulture," and had even chosen the "Bird Beak," where the arrays were most powerful, as their battlefield?

If a delicious dish and good meat were delivered right to one’s mouth,

who in the world could resist such a temptation?

Certainly not the Old Master Wang, who had grown well tired of hardships!

The Plague Dao and the Nine Aspects Corpse Taoism, fighting fiercely outside, were clueless.

They didn’t know that a ruthless "fisherman" had set a trap from the beginning, luring these two big fish to plunge headlong into it.

No, to be more precise, they were actually brawling in a steaming pot with the firewood already laid by Old Master Wang.

As Old Master Wang siphoned off their strength little by little like boiling a frog in lukewarm water, the power within both of their formations was gradually stolen.

By the time they finally realized what was happening, it would likely be too late.

Because...

At this moment, the Owners from the Thunder Department and the Dou Department had already entered the Beimang Mountain Blessed Land, led by the avatar of Taibai!

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