Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 505 - 499 Nightmare

Chapter 505: Chapter 499 Nightmare

Cold, heavy, powerless, unable to move.

When Wang Yuan, who had indulged in drinking at Long Bo’s enthusiastic reception, slowly opened his eyes again in a daze, it seemed as if a milky white fog was gradually dissipating before him.

He then realized he had become a creature with a serpent’s body and a human face, yet he felt as if he were paralyzed, completely unable to control this body.

He watched helplessly as another of his kind, also with the body of a serpent and the face of a human, bound him tightly with a copper chain that had been cursed with witchcraft.

In horror, he roared:

"Erfu! You treasonous subject dare to kill me?!"

But no matter how fiercely he struggled and cursed with red eyes, it was all to no avail.

The subordinate he had called Erfu, with a hideous smile on his face, picked up a golden spear glittering with precious light and thrust it fiercely into his heart.

Wang Yuan immediately felt a chill at his chest and felt all his strength drain away through the wound that ran through him from front to back.

In his heart, however, there was a message that seemed to have echoed through the ages for who knows how long:

"Yayu, with the body of a serpent and the face of a human, was killed by his subordinate Erfu."

This made Wang Yuan startle and realize that he had become the [Corpse of Yayu] from his past life and that it was the [Erfu Corpse] from his past life who had killed him.

As his soul was about to leave his body at the brink of life and death, six figures dressed as wizards suddenly appeared before him.

They gathered a large group of slaves and held a blood-soaked Killing Banquet that Wang Yuan was all too familiar with...

They stole a heart for Yayu that looked like an undying heart, beating continuously with a hint of green amidst the red.

This allowed him to be resurrected as a Corpse Ghost.

"In Kaiming East, there were Wu Peng, Wudi, Wuyang, Wu Lv, Wufan, and Wuxiang, all surrounding the corpse of Yayu, each wielding the Undying Elixir to resist it."

Pieces of historical fragments flowed unceasingly in Wang Yuan’s heart.

They allowed him to confirm that this murder, which had already been submerged in history, should have occurred around 3700 years ago, at the beginning of the Xia Dynasty.

At that time, there seemed to be no tales of the Killing Dao Fruit harming people.

Those nobles and wizards who could access "witchcraft" all regarded the Killing Tree as a gift from the skies—the Undying Tree.

"In the north of Kaiming, there is an Undying Tree. Its branches reach thousands of miles, the trunk ascends to the clouds, and it casts shade to the four corners of the world, covering the land of Yuyuan below. Eating its fruit will grant youthfulness!"

For these ancient forebearers, the fruit borne by the Undying Tree was naturally the natural "Undying Elixir."

To kill one’s kind for a chance at Immortality had no psychological burden for the nobles and wizards of this slave-civilization era.

It didn’t seem inappropriate to them.

Even up to five or six hundred years later, during the early and middle periods of the Shang Dynasty, achieving Immortality through the Killing Banquet was still considered the proper path for cultivation.

At this time, even the "Precept Taboo," which later cultivators had to abide by, was barely taking shape.

The straightforward and effective doctrine of "Killing as an expedient Dharma Sect, the great path of cultivation" was already widely followed.

Wang Yuan, who had perused the books on the lower levels of the Guanlan Pavilion, had even seen a historical record clearly inscribed on oracle bones: "On the day of Yimao, Meizi Yin entered tribute, and the Shang King, delighted, killed ten Qiang people to host him."

It meant: Meizi Yin brought tribute, and the Shang King was so pleased that he killed ten Qiang people to entertain him.

In that era, it was common for the ruling dynasties to practice cannibalism and anthropophagy was deemed ordinary.

Blood Sacrifices of various scales were entirely commonplace.

Even several hundred years later, during Emperor Mu’s time, when the Zhou Rituals were established and civilization was advancing, the rulers were not very vigilant against the Heavenly Officials or the Killing Tree and even committed the folly of opening the doors to the enemy.

Fortunately, the power of the Killing Tree grew gradually with the advancement of human civilization and the accumulation of knowledge.

Both the Heavenly Officials and the Corpse Dissection Immortals arose one by one throughout the long history, providing an opportunity for the native Heavenly Dao to confront and resist the Killing Tree.

Otherwise, Red County Shenzhou and this world would have fallen long ago, thousands of years earlier.

Yayu, having eaten the Undying Elixir, lived for a very long time.

But as time passed, due to his ignorance of the Precept Taboo and the Dharma Sects that control the Earth Spirit Qi, his humanity was inevitably replaced little by little by deceit.

Until he turned into a monster with the body of an ox, the head of a dragon, and the legs of a horse, feeding on humans.

"On the mountain of Shaoyan there is no vegetation, only plenty of jadeite. There is an animal that looks like an ox with a red body, dragon’s head, and horse’s legs, called Yayu. Its cry is like that of an infant, and it preys on humans."

At that time, it had actually been devoured by one of the Heavenly Officials.

Until one day, when ten suns appeared in the sky together, and it leaped onto the shore of the Black Water River to feast on humans recklessly, it was shot dead by a divine arrow that flew out of nowhere.

He then completely became one of the twelve Ancient Corpses, the [Corpse of Yayu].

Immediately after experiencing the taste of death once more, Wang Yuan’s vision changed again.

He became a witch in green robes, standing on the peak of a mountain, alone against the ten suns in the sky.

It felt as if every drop of water and life essence in his body was evaporating rapidly.

But the water-attribute witchcraft within her offered no help whatsoever, until she turned into a mummy.

"The Corpse of the Ugly Woman, burned to death by the scorching of the ten suns while alive. In the lands north of her husband’s realm, she used her right hand to cover her face. While the ten suns stayed above, the Ugly Woman remained atop the mountain."

The Ugly Woman attempted to block the ten suns as a witch, but in the end, she was scorched to death.

She died on the north side of her husband’s land, covering her face with her right hand as she died, while the ten suns continued to sear the sky.

When she fell from the cliff, she was swallowed by the giant crab she had kept, slowly becoming the current [Corpse of the Ugly Woman].

The next moment.

"Huff... Huff..."

Wang Yuan abruptly woke up, sitting up from the bed, gasping for air.

"It was a dream!"

The banquet in the land of Long Bo continued until late at night, and he stayed over on Daiyu Island with Huang Wu, also wanting to observe the changes in the Returning Ruins.

Little did I expect that the twelve ancient corpses went berserk during the day due to the influence of my King Yanluo’s Divine Position, and come evening, it was I who was affected by the twelve corpses.

Just now, Wang Yuan obviously entered into a dream, assuming the perspectives of several of the twelve ancient corpses.

He relived once more the experiences they had at the time of their deaths.

"As the pollution leaked from the Inner Scene Heaven and Earth, the accompanying information and secret knowledge also spread out.

Because of a special compatibility, those wandering pieces of knowledge found their way to me.

It’s just that because of the dream, the events that happened were somewhat distorted. However..."

Wang Yuan’s eyes twinkled as he felt a distinct and familiar aura from those ten suns, confirming the identity of an old acquaintance.

The ten suns spanning the sky couldn’t possibly mean there were literally ten suns.

Any cultivator who flies high into the sky would know that this is undoubtedly a planet, and there is, and only is, one sun nearby.

However, the ten suns are very likely a projection of power from a Heavenly Official.

And Wang Yuan just happened to know—that Heavenly Official who represents the sun and the time order is the "No-Life Buddha"!

Back when the ten suns spanned the sky, it’s highly probable that this Heavenly Official was born from the Killing Tree and influenced the celestial phenomena of this world for a brief time.

Rather than saying the Ugly Woman was sunburned to death, it might be more accurate to say she was eaten alive by the No-Life Buddha.

Clearly, the Ugly Woman made a significant contribution to the Good Water White Lotus Skill, as propagated by the No-Life Dao.

Thus Wang Yuan ascertained that the deaths of the three Green Seal Strange Immortals, Yayu’s Corpse, Corpse of the Ugly Woman, and Erfu Corpse are more or less related to the No-Life Buddha.

In fact, it is their deaths that facilitated the birth of a new Heavenly Official.

Although this secret isn’t fundamentally helpful in solving the impending "natural disaster."

But having unearthed the shadow of the No-Life Buddha from the collective dream of the ancient twelve corpses today, I will definitely find more clues in the future.

"Next time, I’ll have my sister activate the Moon in the Water and Flower in the Mirror, and we’ll enter the dream of the twelve ancient corpses together.

Perhaps we can uncover more historical clues.

Shifting the focus, start from the Heavenly Officials who devoured the twelve ancient corpses, and completely solve this big problem."

Thinking this, an invigorated Wang Yuan looked up.

It was still dark outside while a graceful figure was already dressing up at the vanity table.

Dressed in bright red Chimaexia Clothes that lazily draped over her body, revealing only her smooth, snowy shoulders, the long hem filled half the room.

Even just the silhouette from behind bespoke a woman of devastating beauty.

However, just as Wang Yuan silently got out of bed and embraced her, lowering his head to kiss the nape of her neck...

He was horrified to find that the reflection in the glazed mirror wasn’t Huang Wu’s lovely and charming face, but the cold, frosty visage of Sage Qingxia!

Wang Yuan shuddered violently in shock.

My sister’s figure? Sage Qingxia’s face?

What is she doing in my room? And the most important thing is...

At that moment, the door was flung open, and a furious roar filled his ears:

"Taibai! You dare to violate your own brother’s wife, this is unforgivable—take Old Six’s staff!"

A palpable sense of oppression weighed down on his heart; against the attack of the Corpse Dissection Immortal, Sage Qingxia of the Inner Scene realm’s Taoist ability was utterly meaningless.

The heavy scent of death was so suffocating that Wang Yuan could barely take a deep breath.

And it was at this moment, he suddenly realized:

"Wait! If Yama’s avatar went back to preside over the Yin Department, and the original body returned to prepare for the Heavenly Department Divine Position upgrade in the Pengxuan Grotto-Heaven, then the one that stayed here was... my Taibai avatar!"

Beneath his head, embracing Sage Qingxia, were indeed two slender female arms.

With this thought, the iron staff turned into an illusion and disappeared, along with the Qingxia in the arms of the Taibai avatar.

"Phew—"

When Wang Yuan woke up in bed once more, he saw two sisters lying on either side of him and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He confirmed that he had indeed completely woken up.

"Damn it, that was freaking terrifying.

That dream within a dream about stealing my sister-in-law was a million times scarier than all those times I died before!

The sense of embodiment is completely incomparable; I almost thought I was done for."

He repeatedly touched his skull top, ensuring that it hadn’t been cracked open by that Old Six.

Still, he couldn’t help but shudder in fright.

His chest concealed a Martial Saint’s heart that was more robust than any demon’s and pounded like a drum.

His complexion also fluctuated continuously:

"I should have realized earlier, from the moment we entered that ambiguous realm that connected the Mirage with the Dream Realm, there were signs.

The main focus of the ancient twelve corpses’ contamination was not just the sea but also the realm of dreams!"

As Sage Qingxia had said, even if the ancient twelve corpses are confined within the boundaries of the Returning Ruins, the pollution has gradually reached a certain threshold.

They might block these corpses, but they can’t stop the "Daoism Transformation Disaster" that’s about to sweep over the whole world.

Wang Yuan seriously suspected that just as his promotion had once affected the balance within the ancient twelve corpses, causing them to go berserk, it’s now highly possible that a seemingly insignificant trigger could lead to a sudden outbreak of the "Daoism Transformation Disaster."

Moreover, this disaster, which could be on par with the Little Ice Age, is likely related to the Dream Realm!

The eternal deep sea invites you to dream?