Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 41 - 39: Rapid Progress

Chapter 41: Chapter 39: Rapid Progress

In Wangren Town among the mountains.

White Mountain Lord, still unconscious with talisman paper pasted on his head, had been transferred from the beast cage to a completely sealed quiet room.

He lay quietly on a blue stone platform, his abdomen sliced open with a huge gash, yet not a single drop of blood flowed out.

The candlelight in the quiet room flickered eerily, casting a shadow on the ground that twisted and writhed like a demon.

Wang Yuan held a gold heart covered in runes, chanting:

"Respectively command the diseased body, the five viscera and six bowels, the nine palaces and seven policies, the twelve divine chambers, the limbs and bones. The skin and blood vessels, the nine orifices and their defenses, one hundred eighty spiritual gates, three hundred sixty bone joints, eighty-four thousand pores.

Let the diseased body, the heart not be overtaken by evil, the liver unafflicted by disease, the lungs untouched by deceit, the spleen unafraid, the kidneys unsoiled. The body pure and clean, all demons do not interfere..."

He then placed the gold heart where White Mountain Lord’s original heart had been.

The unconscious tiger’s body suddenly shook violently, then swiftly calmed down, as if it lacked no part at all internally.

"Although it seems not dead, it has actually never awoken again."

The materials used for practicing were needed to be processed in advance.

The Magician chose the tiger’s five viscera: the heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, lungs. The six bowels: stomach, gallbladder, triple burner, bladder, large intestine, small intestine, to be sacrificed to the Western "Gastros".

Ultimately, during the practice of the Transformation into Tiger Technique, the power of the White Tiger from the west could be utilized to suppress the remaining beastly rage within the tiger skin.

For the tiger to survive this process, one needed to mimic the Buddhas by storing substitutes, using artificially made organs to replace the original functions of the viscera inside the tiger’s abdominal cavity.

Because the White Tiger is associated with metal, Wang Yuan specially collected gold, silver, copper, iron, and tin from Daling Village to cast the five viscera for White Mountain Lord.

However, this was the orthodox method of cultivation written in the Taoist Book.

When Wang Yuan discovered that "mutual consumption between man and tiger" was also a path of great cultivation,

he did not choose to sacrifice White Mountain Lord’s viscera to "Gastros," but instead, leveraging his own Life Chart of White Tiger Holding Position, offered them to his own... Five Organs Temple.

It was now the fifth day after the feast for the Junzhou Bandits at Daling Village.

Twenty-two days remained until the death anniversary of the Yili King, and there were six days until the next Yin Day and 3 a.m. to 5 a.m. period that could be used to practice the Transformation into Tiger Technique.

Since the day he planned and assigned tasks with Lady Peach Fairy, she had taken people and rushed to Luoyang City.

"Pangolin" Fan Zhang and the Ma Brothers were traversing mountains and scoping out terrain in Beimang Mountain to pinpoint the exact locations of those nine accompanying tombs.

After Wang Yuan had finished two jars of Tiger Yang Medicine Wine,

besides occasionally showing himself in Daling Village to make his presence known, all his other time was spent back in Wangren Town, consuming directly the tiger blood and marrow of White Mountain Lord.

In five days, Wang Yuan had successively devoured White Mountain Lord’s lungs, liver, spleen, kidneys, and heart.

Unsurprisingly, his own path of Refining Marrow and Changing Blood transformation accelerated dramatically.

During this time, Wang Yuan felt that his daily progress could only be described as a transformation.

The qualitative change to becoming Non-Human might be lengthy and agonizing for others, but he only felt exhilarating enjoyment.

It was as if he was inherently a mighty tiger laughing in the forests, merely confined in a human form.

Under the blessing of the Life Chart of White Tiger Holding Position, he was not mutating his body into some bizarre variant but gradually reverting to his true self.

Even as the Taoist Military Skill continued to advance, his body began to interact with the fairly proficient Transformation into Tiger Technique.

No longer confined to the 108 tiger hairs formed by prayer behind his head.

Now, plucking any single hair could serve as a "Dharma Guide" to transform into a Fake Tiger!

The Gathering Beasts Magic Skill also rose with the tide; he no longer needed to take the Human Face Beast Heart Pill and could almost instinctively understand beast language.

Even though the process was somewhat bloody.

A little ghost girl who had wanted to watch Wang Yuan practicing up close had long run away, unable to stand the sight.

Wang Yuan, however, was quite calm.

Considering his own Yin Morality, which had risen from 583 points after releasing numerous Painting Spirits and slaying mountain bandits to 785 points after killing White Mountain Lord, it was evident that its death was utterly justified.

According to the standards of the Small Book of Life and Death,

if a common tiger ate humans because of hunger, it would not bear any debt, for although humans are the highest of all creatures, they are no more noble than other lives when it comes to being food.

However, once spirit monsters awaken their spiritual wisdom, they might actively commit evil deeds out of venting, cruelty, malice, or for fun, engaging in unnecessary killings, which will then entangle them with debts of karma.

When they kill, the "Yin Morality" credits their account.

As his strength rapidly progressed, Wang Yuan’s mindset also quietly changed.

The forces involved in the great vortex of Beimang Mountain have now grown to three factions:

The man-eating "Owl God Tomb"; Master Ge-Wang Yunhu-Junzhou Bandits; the Luoyang Royal Mansion that has troubled Luoyang for many years.

Basically, none of them are good, and mutual destruction would be the ideal outcome.

But among them, only the "Owl God Tomb" can pose a direct threat to his life, and the threat grows heavier with each passing day.

If he doesn’t find a way to save himself this month, he’s unlikely to have a future.

No matter how fast the progress, time waits for no one.

Having confirmed they could not find him, Master Ge and his group were already preparing to find another scapegoat, and for now, there’s no direct conflict with the Luoyang Royal Mansion.

And compared to the "Owl God Tomb," which consumed countless people near Beimang Mountain, Master Ge and Wang Yunhu, no matter how evil, were still at a disadvantage.

Since Master Ge and his group were going to "tomb raid," severely damaging the "Owl God Tomb," it means that everyone’s interests align until the final moment arrives.

’It’s just that Lady Peach Fairy, who is ruthless and skilled in deception, went to Luoyang City and hasn’t been heard from for several days.

These five days consuming the organs of White Mountain Lord have mostly completed my transformation.

A delay of one or two more days, and I might not need to consume all the organs to force a breakthrough to the second realm, daring to withstand a confrontation with a "Daoist Soldier" from the Luoyang Royal Mansion.’

Having tidied up his quiet room, Wang Yuan bade farewell to Huang Wu and returned to Daling Village.

The next day he had just woken up.

Suddenly, rapid footsteps came from outside the door, and someone outside hastily said:

"Mr. Cui, the Peach Fairy has just sent a message, the plan is progressing smoothly, you can set off now."

...

Leaving Luoyang City through the West City Gate and traveling one hundred and thirty miles to the foot of Beimang Mountain, there stands a unique and tranquil garden.

— Peony Garden.

This place is a detached compound belonging to the current Yi King’s illegitimate third son, Zhou Jingyao.

It is said that the garden originally belonged to a prominent florist in Luoyang who one day succumbed to a dreadful disease along with his entire family, all dying suddenly.

Only the young prince, unbothered by the bad omen, spent a full ten taels of patterned silver to buy it from the county government of Xin’an where Peony Garden is located.

As a matter of fact.

Among the hundreds of miles of mountain ranges, only the segment to the north of Luoyang City is truly called Beimang, where various tombs are concentrated.

This stretch of mountains is vast, not only famous for its dynastic tombs but also known for the renowned Luoyang peonies originating from Beimang Mountain.

As the ancient capital of thirteen dynasties, Luoyang has always been hailed as "the best place for flowers, especially the peonies which are a wonder of the world."

In this Peony Garden.

Yaohuang, Weizi, Pink Flower, Doulv, Second Qiao, Luoyang Red, White Snow Tower, Imperial Robe Yellow, Drunken Noble Consort, and Azure Dragon from Mo Pond—these ten famous species are all present, forming a remarkable sight.

"Lady Yan Fei arrived a bit late, and now that the peony bloom season has passed, it’s a pity you can’t witness the spectacle of all the flowers in full bloom.

However, in my view, as long as the lady is here, even a display of all the flowers would merely serve as a backdrop to a beautiful woman."

In the ingeniously designed Peony Garden, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man dressed in luxurious clothing was guiding a graceful beauty on a stroll through the garden.

But for ninety percent of the time, his fervent gaze was fixed on the beauty.

Under the golden sunset.

The Peach Fairy, known here as Gu Yanfei, had eyes like peach blossoms, shimmering with moisture.

Her white muslin dress made her creamy skin appear even whiter, her waist was slender, and her whole body exuded an enchanting charm.

She seemed like a pure camellia, grown up drinking dew and spring water, untouched by even a speck of worldly dust.

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