Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 423 - 420: Ghost Path Gathering, Demon Hunting Alliance Army!

Chapter 423: Chapter 420: Ghost Path Gathering, Demon Hunting Alliance Army!

"Hmph! Who dares to bark around here?"

A butcher in front of the meat stall, with a face full of scar tissue and greenish eyes, suddenly chopped his butcher knife into the greasy chopping board.

He snorted coldly through his nostrils at Xu Wenkang, who seemed to be going mad.

It was obvious.

Although the "Vegetable People Market" appeared to be a voluntary marketplace on the surface.

Everyone knew that, in any era or world, those who could monopolize the supply of goods in a year of great disaster were never just ordinary commoners.

They were not even typically wealthy people.

On normal days, only they bullied others. How could these "vegetable people" possibly turn the tables?

At that moment, Xu Wenkang had already noticed.

Tied behind the butcher was a beautiful woman, an exquisite little house jade. Was she not his wife, Xiao Fu?!

The famously skilled seamstress had already lost one hand.

A hastily wrapped cowhide rope around the severed wrist barely stopped the severe bleeding.

The pain was so intense that her whole body was drenched in a cold sweat, her face ashen white, nearly fainting.

Because a white cloth gagged her mouth, she could only utter low moans through her nose, despite the excruciating pain.

"Vegetable People Market" was always like this: they wouldn’t kill a person outright to keep the flesh fresh, instead always leaving the person alive.

The "vegetable people" who sold themselves witnessed their own deaths, which were akin to slow slicing, an ordeal even more brutal than slaughtering livestock.

It was probably because it was getting late.

At this time, the only "vegetable person" still alive was Xiao Fu, who had just sold herself.

"My dear—!"

In his heart-wrenching pain, Xu Wenkang couldn’t help but panic.

With a throw, he tossed the untouched three thousand coins onto the meat stall and bolted forward to rescue his wife.

But he was immediately blocked by several burly butchers.

"Roll!"

The lead man even kicked him in the stomach, sending him rolling out of the butcher shop with a heavy tumble.

Xu Wenkang, originally a blacksmith, was also a robust man.

But prolonged hunger had already drained him, leaving him no match for these butchers.

He nearly had his intestines kicked out.

Large beads of sweat dripped continuously from his forehead to the ground; he struggled for a while before he slowly and painfully got up, his face pale.

He then saw the butchers, shoulders locked, coldly sneering at him:

"Buy and sell, buy and sell. Of course, we warmly welcome customers who come here to buy meat.

But it costs three thousand dollars to sell, and the price to buy isn’t the same now.

You have two choices, either obediently hand over twenty taels of silver, or...hehe, just take an arm back!"

As he spoke, he casually picked up the bone-chopping knife from the chopping board, ready to sever another arm from the woman behind him.

And the three thousand coins that were already in his hands, he obviously had no intention of returning to Xu Wenkang.

"Damn it, stop!"

Xu Wenkang, eyes splitting with rage, struggled to fight them, but was forcefully pinned to the ground by several butchers.

No matter how he struggled, he could only watch helplessly as they approached his wife.

Other butchers in the "Vegetable People Market," their eyes emitting a creepy green light, also looked on with schadenfreude.

This "Vegetable People Market" was established through collusion between the "Demon Master Dao" and the local Government Office.

It was present in several counties across the seas from the Moluo Islands.

These butchers had also been taught some trivial Demon Art by Demon Mages and were considered peripheral underlings of a devious side door.

And the most troubling thing about the Little Ghosts was that they always used their slight power to inflict the maximum malice on others.

All to display their sense of superiority as being above others!

However, in a realm they couldn’t see, Wang Yuan and Huang Wu had already seen everything very clearly.

They even discerned the whole story from Xiao Fu’s memory using the "Moon in the Water and Flower in the Mirror."

"Imperial Decree, Exorcism! Calamity!"

The next moment, "Exorcism and Disaster Seal" had already descended on the heads of all the living people in the Vegetable People Market.

The "Calamity Seal" fell on the heads of those debt-ridden butchers, whereas the "Exorcism Seal" fell on the heads of Xu Wenkang and his wife.

Wang Yuan moved his fingers and transferred all the Qi Fortune from the former to the latter.

Then, he began to count down with his fingers:

"Three, two, one!"

The leading butcher, sneering, raised his bone-chopping knife, ready to fiercely chop down on Xiao Fu.

Suddenly, a loud shout resounded above his head:

"Hmph! There is indeed a ’Yin God Shrine’ here, daring to declare war on the entire Ghost Dao along our East Sea coast. All the scum of the Demon Master Dao deserve to die!"

A large yellow banner fluttered in the wind.

In the flag’s design, it seemed as though the murky divine light of the Turbid River suddenly pounced down, transforming into a fierce yellow ghost claw that fiercely smashed down towards the Vegetable People Market.

Boom!

With a loud crash, the entire blood-stained Vegetable People Market was reduced to ruins by the ghost claw.

The butchers who were doomed by the Star Lord Taibai’s decree today didn’t even have a chance to grunt before they were all smashed into mincemeat.

And their souls were promptly devoured by the Yin God Shrine at the doorway, turned into several drops of golden Ghost Medicine with flawless efficiency.

Meanwhile, Xu Wenkang and his wife, who were also within the attack range of the ghost claw, along with the severed hand that was hanging, were all unharmed.

Xu Wenkang recovered from his shock and hurried forward to untie the ropes binding his wife.

The severed hand on the chopping board also flew up and reattached itself to Xiao Fu’s arm, as a drop of crystalline Phoenix Saliva fell and instantly healed it as before.

Even the old wounds on her body were mostly healed.

A few breaths later, the woman who had just visited the doorstep of the Ghost Gate regained consciousness, looking at Xu Wenkang beside her with surprise and joy.

"Husband!"

The couple glanced at each other, immediately realizing that a noble person had saved them, and they were just about to kneel and thank the empty space above.

A sudden push on their shoulders.

They instantly found themselves falling into a misty path of Yin Road.

Ahead, a flame turned into a bright "Soul Summoning Lamp," illuminating three feet around them.

While they were still disoriented, they heard a gentle voice by their ears:

"You two, just follow the Soul Summoning Lamp, don’t run around, and especially don’t look back, just reach the end and you will arrive at Dushuo Immortal Mountain.

There will naturally be someone there to settle you.

I can’t save everyone under heaven for now, but fulfilling your most basic wishes is well within my power, go now."

An invisible force lifted them up, and they seemed to ride the clouds like immortals, instantly disappearing into the Yin Road.

Wang Yuan looked up at the four figures that appeared in the sky, each holding a large flag in their hands.

One yellow, one red, one white, one green, the flags each bore the image of a different sinister Ghost King squatting on them.

At a glance, they were identical to the Abyssal Ghost King Banner held by Wang Yuan himself!

Without a doubt,

These four were from the "Peach God Tao" Five Organs Temple, excluding the water-attribute "Kidney Temple" which had already been annihilated by Wang Yuan, these were the other four temple leaders.

They cultivated the Five Organs Temple Ghost Breeding Technique passed down by Emperor Mu, using it as a foundation to create their own Taoist Inheritance Artifacts — the "Fengdu Iron Enclosure."

Among these five battle flags, apart from the Abyssal Ghost King Banner in Wang Yuan’s hands,

there were those belonging to "Heart Temple," "Spleen Temple," "Lung Temple," "Liver Temple," named "Face Burning Ghost King Flag," "Stone-Carrying Ghost King Flag," "White Tiger Ghost King Flag," "Wood Charm Ghost King Flag" respectively.

Together, these five Ghost King Flags made it possible for them to move unchallenged within Yellow Seal and dared to confront a Divine Transformation Mage head-on.

As for their appearance, Wang Yuan had long anticipated it.

"Ah, you’ve come at just the right time!"

It was already one month after August 16th "Taibai crosses the sky," also half a month after the "City God murder case."

In such a long time, Wang Yuan certainly hadn’t been idle.

As the vanguard, Nie Renxiong and others had already learned,

The disciples of "Demon Master Dao" bearing Yin God Shrines on all four sides had waged indiscriminate attacks on various ghosts and City Gods everywhere.

Although they had committed heavy sins and owed deep debts to heaven,

their ultimate aim seemed to be merely the Ghost Medicine and did not mean to provoke other major forces.

Unfortunately, who let them touch Old Master Wang’s pie?

It’s not that there are no good deeds, just no good people.

While "Demon Master Dao" was not looking, Wang Yuan immediately pushed them harshly from behind.

Aside from the strong support of Emperor Bao Sheng, he also impersonated "Demon Master Dao," wielding a stolen Yin God Shrine to launch a surprise attack on the various major Ghost Dao lineages nearby!

Consequently, "Demon Master Dao’s" original caution and restraint immediately spiraled out of control.

The Five Organs Temple cultivating the Five Organs Temple Ghost Breeding Technique was just one target.

There was also the Ghost King Forest cultivating the Hundred Ghosts Sect Commander Skill, Luopo Mountain practicing the Capturing Spirits and Exorcism Skill...

Even the Netherworld Square, one of the top three cult forums today, which practices the Faceless Ghost King Technique from the "Nine Yin Corpse God Dao" branch, was also an old nemesis.

Dozens of Ghost Dao Sects of varying sizes were all poked into a hornet’s nest by Wang Yuan.

After experiencing the strong suppression ability of the Yin God Shrine on the Ghost Dao and the miraculous effect of the Ghost Medicine,

they quickly united together under the dual influence of threat and benefit,

forming a massive Demon Hunting Alliance Army, vowing to uproot the "Demon Master Dao" from Red County Shenzhou!

"No fish slipped through the net, fellow junior brothers, let us leave,"

Just as the few Daoists from the Five Organs Temple prepared to head to the next stronghold of Demon Master Dao.

Suddenly, a call from behind:

"Fellow seniors, please hold!"

Turning around, they saw a dark Abyssal Ghost King Banner gently unfurling, and a blue-robed Daoist stepping forward, giving them a slight bow.

It was their respected senior brother, bookkeeper Ding—Song Bingyi!