Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 400 - 397: Chaotic Red Flower Scroll, Inviting You to Hongmen!

Chapter 400: Chapter 397: Chaotic Red Flower Scroll, Inviting You to Hongmen!

Du Sanbei extended his hand and removed the talisman seal from the jade bottle.

A rich fragrance of alcohol immediately wafted into the air.

The mere scent was enough to make Wang Yuan, the Ghost Baby, feel somewhat light-headed, even causing his vision to blur slightly.

He quickly shut off his sense of smell to feel somewhat better.

The Wine Star Lord had already introduced it to him.

The true form of this Deceit Object, the Thousand-Day Drunk, was actually an extremely ancient wine jar, transformed from a "alcoholic" among the Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest after his failure at "Corpse Dissection."

It was said that this man was known not only for his love of drinking but also for his unkempt attire, unrestrained behavior, and a demeanor of negative resignation...

This is precisely the origin of the "ghost" in "alcoholic."

The wine jar itself was nothing remarkable.

But if you were to fill this wine jar with fine mortal wines that had never been drunk before and seal it for a thousand days, you would get half a jar of "Thousand-Day Drunk"!

This is the highest quality spiritual wine in the world. Ordinary Daoist Soldiers would die of drunkenness just by smelling it, and lower-ranking Red Seals would fall into a coma.

Even if the Corpse Dissection Immortals are immune to ordinary wines, if they were to drink this, taking even just a shallow bowl would leave them inebriated for a full three days!

It’s truly an essential fine drink, whether at home or traveling, and a tool for plotting wealth and murder.

Basking in the aroma, Du Sanbei sighed in an intoxicated manner:

"When you first drink this wine, it possesses only the fragrant, mellow, and refreshing taste of good wine, with an aftertaste that lingers. The effect is enduring, and one can quickly become drunk if not careful.

More importantly, this wine is not a poison; on the contrary, it greatly benefits one’s Taoist ability and Yin spirit without causing the body’s natural rejection.

I’ve secretly used it a few times before, and how should I put it, it’s very effective!

Unfortunately, it’s been one thousand five hundred years, and there are fewer and fewer fine wines left that the broken jar has not tasted. I’m afraid this ’Thousand-Day Drunk’ will become a thing of the past."

As he spoke, he performed hand seals and chanted in a low voice:

"Dharma Domain, Banquet of Hongmen, open!"

Bang!

The sound of a wine bottle stopper being opened rang out, and a giant translucent gourd silhouette suddenly rose around them.

Then, a different fragrance mixed with the scent of hundreds of flowers suffused the air.

When Wang Yuan collected his thoughts, he found that the two of them were now standing on a small island in the middle of a lake.

On the island, streams babbled and fragrant grasses covered the ground. Instead of water, the streams were filled with savory wines.

The fruits of the flowers and trees were mostly chicken, duck, fish, meat, all delicacies prepared in various delicious ways.

The small lake by their side was the same, with rich alcoholic fragrances lingering in the air and a mix of hot and cold currents alternating, all filled with unique fine wines.

Wang Yuan could recognize at least several types of wine, including Jade Ice Burning Wine, Fen Wine, Five-Leafed Vine, Grain, Dukang Wine, and so on, at least a dozen kinds.

And there were countless others he could not identify.

"Giggle, giggle..."

In the streams and lakes flitted many ethereally beautiful women in light veils with fish tails, playing and splashing around before merging back into the wine.

A remarkable and indulgent scene of inebriated bliss unfolded before them.

"What ’Banquet of Hongmen’ — this is clearly an upgraded version of the Wine Pool and Meat Forest.

All this talk of morality while harboring thieves and prostitutes in your belly, it’s students of the classics like you after all, isn’t it!"

Even Old Master Wang, a wealthy man of considerable means, couldn’t help feeling genuine envy upon seeing such a scene.

Ordinary personal magic domains lack a foundation, merely manifesting through Daoist skill and Primordial Qi, appearing and disappearing at will.

Only after advancing to the Green Seal Sage and achieving the Dharma Body, Heaven and Earth, does it turn from illusion to reality, making the fictitious into tangible.

However, Wang Yuan could at least be sure that all the fine drinks and foods here were real and most likely related to Du Sanbei’s personal lifebound magic treasure that resembled a wine gourd.

Of course, the level of enjoyment is secondary; the most potent feature of a personal magic domain is the rules endowed by its master.

"Dharma Domain, Banquet of Hongmen":

Wine Pool and Meat Forest, no feast is a good feast!

The more an outsider takes from this domain, the more they will become muddled and confused, completely at the mercy of their environment.

Eventually, they would lose all volition to the delicious wine and meat until their bodies collapsed, and their True Spirits became mere servants at the Banquet of Hongmen.

Besides its intrinsic Daoist abilities, it also integrated the powers of the Wine Star Lord.

The drunker Du Sanbei is, the stronger the effects of the domain’s rules and the Immortal Official’s powers.

Hence, he spends a considerable part of the year drunk.

As for getting rowdily drunk and hence incurring the resentment of the Great Fate, that’s an unforeseeable side effect.

Now, combined with the harmonious Thousand-Day Drunk, the power of this Dharma Domain would increase a hundredfold!

Du Sanbei, holding the jade bottle, stood there and bowed distantly to the full moon under the "August 15th" timeline.

He cried out:

"Chaotic Red Flower Scroll, I invite you to the Banquet of Hongmen! Imperial Decree!"

He drank from the bottle and then, with a spray into the air, the Thousand-Day Drunk mixed with the indescribable remnants in his mouth instantly turned into a sky full of crimson petals.

They formed a long formation, breaking out of the domain.

Wang Yuan quickly opened the "backdoor" between two timelines, and the "Chaotic Red" rushed into the bodies of a dozen Flame Essence Children.

They followed rainbows connected to the moon, ultimately falling into the mouth of the slowly descending consciousness of the No-Life Buddha.

At the same time, the surging Tribulation Energy, stirred up by the "Comet Assaulting the Moon," "Ying Huo Heart Guarding," and "Changgeng Accompanying the Moon," also followed the paths and surged upwards sharply.

This was clearly a backlash from the Human Dao!

"Everything is linked.

Letting the Court coerce noble families, gather Dragon Energy, and create bait; indifferent to the buffoonery of the No-Life Dao;

On the day I set out for the ’Immortal Peach Orchard,’ I deliberately laid a trap to severely injure the No-Life Buddha...

We, the ’Disaster Stars,’ were sent out as the vanguard, yet every step of the plan was shrouded in secrecy, so much so that even our own people could hardly grasp the full picture.

It wasn’t until Old Du offered the guests the "Thousand-Day Drunk" that the true intentions were finally revealed.

"All the actions of the ’Nine Soldiers’ were ultimately for the purpose of hunting down that powerful ’Heavenly Official,’ who stands at the pinnacle of the cultivation system!"

"Moreover, the tragic omens in the astronomical phenomena, such as the emperor’s untimely death, chaos, traitors, and military disasters... were not only targeting those ’No-Life Dao’ demons.

It was also aiming at the No-Life Buddha, who resides beyond the ’Heavenly Gate.’

No matter whether he fed on mortals or sect members at the ’Killing Banquet,’ the more he consumed, the more intense the backlash at this moment!"

Such is the headquarters of the most sinister, never facing the enemy head-on when absolutely outmatched, but instead, they specialize in attacking from below, insidiously and ruthlessly!

Wang Yuan’s thoughts flickered, probably because the efficiency of the ’Rabbit’ in slaughtering was indeed high.

Clang——!

A grand bell chime sounded.

The red light in the blood moon overhead flashed as if a huge and peerless eye suddenly opened.

It exposed the sundial, which had a brass pointer shaped like a great halberd and a surface engraved with the twelve two-hour periods, fully unveiling it to all living beings.

"The Buddha is not far from the Spiritual Mountain within the spirit, and the Spiritual Mountain lies within one’s own mind. Everyone has a Spiritual Mountain Pagoda; it is good to cultivate beneath the pagoda..."

The scriptures from "The True Faith Exorcising Doubts Treasure Scroll of Unpracticed Ease" resounded once more, echoing like the reverberating sound of a grand bell.

At this moment, all mortals in Yunjing City were as if sealed within the amber of time, unable to move in the slightest.

Water flow, lanterns, rising decorative balloons, the expressions of joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness on people’s faces... all came to a standstill.

Even their thoughts were frozen solid.

Wang Yuan, however, was thoroughly captivated by the knowledge related to "time" carried within.

He realized that this knowledge might be far more beneficial to the "Three Caverns Dharma Body" than those lifebound lotus seeds of No-Life Daoist practitioners.

’I wonder what it would taste like to take a bite of the No-Life Buddha’s flesh?’ he thought.

He stared intently at the gradually slanting shadow on the sundial, watching it inch toward the current time of 5 p.m to 7 p.m.

He felt everything around him starting to slow down.

Suddenly, the surface of the sundial jutted forward, gradually transforming into the face of a middle-aged man.

It was the Red Sun Avatar of the No-Life Buddha, one of his three avatars representing the "present"!

This very avatar, which had been severely damaged and needed replenishing after being blown up by the Taiyin Xuanbing Dao’s "Taoist Inheritance Artifact: Five Thunders Car," found itself as a starving wolf finally making its way into a sheepfold.

A pair of bloodshot eyes revealing scarce humanity greedily gazed towards the Mortal World, their malevolent gaze seeming almost tangible.

A terror a million times more frightening than any ’Deceit Object’ in the world!

Under this gaze, all living beings felt as if they were suddenly pushed to the edge of a cliff, and a massive surge of panic struck every Daoist Soldier, every Magician.

At this moment, Wang Yuan was abruptly yanked by Du Sanbei.

"Keep your head down!"

As Wang Yuan bowed his head, the ’Tribulation Energy’ above reached its peak.

"The ’Calamity · All Living Beings Tribulation’: the beginning and the end of the Five Virtues, and the transformation of the Human Dao," the opening act of the grand play finally reached its climax amidst a burst of shrill, rapid wooden fish sounds.

Suddenly, a dazzling array of red light illuminated the sky.

A vast expanse of red light streams, resembling writhing taenia, erupted from the edges of the sundial and shot outwards.

Transforming into billions of "sun rays," scattering over the Mortal World.

Instantaneously, the tips of each ray of light became crimson claws, ferociously grabbing from all directions at the Qi Fortune Golden Dragon with dozens of heads representing the Great Yan Dynasty.

Yin——!

Facing grave danger, the Qi Fortune Golden Dragon instinctively let out a tragic wail.

Because the ruler had already held the Imperial Jade Seal, officially recognizing the No-Life Buddha and welcoming the thief into the household.

Even though the dragon energy had powerful restraining effects against deceitful beings, against such disunity, it was utterly powerless against this ’Heavenly Official.’

With no resistance, it was firmly caught.

Slowly lifted and brought to the mouth of the No-Life Buddha.

"Ga-ga-ga..."

This Red Sun Avatar, having braved the risks to infiltrate from beyond the ’Heavenly Gate,’ had its mouth wide open, revealing a terrifying, saw-like throat.

Ready to gorge, before the ’Corpse Dissection Immortal’ guarding the Heavenly Gate could react, it aimed to devour the last of the Great Yan Dynasty’s dragon energy in record time.

It was about to inherit its Heavenly Destiny!

Countless devotees of the ’No-Life Dao’ were already prostrating, shouting feverishly:

"The Buddha descends, the Ming King is born. To change Heaven and Earth, to create Qiankun!"

Just then.

The main head of the Qi Fortune Golden Dragon suddenly rolled its eyes, revealing a pair of charming human irises.

To the No-Life Buddha’s startled surprise.

A cold gleam sparkled within the dragon’s eyes, and suddenly, its claws grew tremendously, lightning-fast gripping the massive head of the Red Sun Avatar.

With a low shout, it said:

"What a good guest in the human world, welcome! Come down, you!"