Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 514 - 504: Alliances and Maneuvers, Elephant Head Ming King

Chapter 514: Chapter 504: Alliances and Maneuvers, Elephant Head Ming King

Qiongzhou, the governor’s office in the hands of the Wave Flipping Army.

City God Temple.

This was the highest-ranking City God Temple among the three levels: County City God, Prefecture City God, and City Lord.

It not only had the responsibility of guarding the city, but also the power to command all the City Gods in the state.

The City God venerated in such temples was at least equivalent to a Yellow Decree Mage of the "Earth Essence" realm, and some were even at the level of a "Divine Transformation" Mage.

Unfortunately, Yu State was the smallest among the nine states of Red County, comprising only eight prefectures.

It was far smaller than Huai State, which had more than forty prefectures, Qiongzhou with more than thirty prefectures, etc., so its population, wealth, and dragon energy were far inferior.

Therefore, the peak capability of this City Lord was only equivalent to an "Earth Essence" Mage.

Even within its own temple’s Incense Fire Magical Domain, it had only the peak strength of a Yellow Decree, and with the "Dragon Qi Prohibition" collapsing and the city being breached, its power weakened even further.

When Ink Qilin Song Xingyun, who had occupied this place, gathered his Wave Flipping Army to break down the temple’s gates.

The mechanically acting City God Yin Officials could hardly organize any substantial resistance.

"Act, seal!"

With the command from this rebel leader born from the "No-Life Dao."

The Daoist Soldiers by his side immediately threw the women’s sky kudzu and black dog blood in their hands, and then, holding seals stamped with the mark of their Great General, affixed them to each deity statue.

"No-Life Dao" was the sect that dealt most frequently with Wang Yuan among all sects.

With the continual presence of the unkillable "One-Eyed Stone Man" and the reborn No-Life Old Buddha as Ming King, their understanding of Wang Yuan was naturally far above that of other sects.

The first thing to be eradicated by the forces under "No-Life Dao," wherever they passed, was the City God System that could serve as Yama’s eyes and ears.

Those Black Law Judges under Wang Yuan’s command, who sensed danger, could escape early on.

But those already eroded by incense into clay and wooden sculptures knew nothing of escape and were easily taken down by the Wave Flipping Army.

Shortly after.

A trembling soldier emerged from the crowd, holding a black shrine thick with incense.

The shrine door was covered with a dirty, blood-stained yellow cloth embroidered with various fierce and evil ghosts.

This turned out to be a "Yin God Shrine" that should have been completely reclaimed and destroyed by Wang Yuan!

It enshrined the Divine Box of the "Underground Master."

As for its effects...

The soldier raised the shrine high above his head.

As the yellow cloth slightly swayed, a divine light suddenly shot out, enveloping all the deity statues in the City God Temple.

Wuu wuu wuu...

Instantly, chilly winds gusted and ghost fires burned dim, as all the incense spirit bodies of the City Lord Temple’s "Yin Officials" were forcibly hooked out of their bodies.

And without any power to resist, they were abruptly sucked into the "Yin God Shrine."

Unlike when it was in the hands of the Demon Mage, producing "Ghost Medicine" that could turn decay into magic.

Instead, chilling sounds of chewing and swallowing emanated.

It seemed as though a monster was hiding inside the shrine, crunching them up bit by bit until nothing was left.

Finally, only a content sigh, composed of seven or eight tones, remained:

"Ah, carrying the wishes of Yu State’s ten thousand people, bearing the function of the dragon energy core for three hundred years, this top-grade item, one of only nine in the entire world, is truly extraordinary.

Yama, you can take my ghost people, but can I not eat the City Gods under your command?

Although the ’Small Book of Life and Death’ can protect the true spirits of those Heavenly Immortal Officials, it can’t protect these clay and wooden sculptures abandoned by history.

Just right for my waste recycling, creating Ghost Medicine.

This Ghost Medicine produced by the City Lord is enough for me to complete the next step of my Daoist Skill. You wait for me, ha ha ha..."

Immediately, the "Yin God Shrine" fell completely silent.

This Yu State City Lord thus became the first City Lord among the nine states to be slain since the chaos began.

Although by the time he was completely eroded by the power of incense vows, he was as dead as one could possibly be, utterly irreversible.

But this fate of having one’s "True Spirit" completely destroyed and being eaten alive was still overly cruel.

Unfortunately, only those ghosts with remaining intelligence could enter the "Earth Que Golden Book" system and become "Black Law Judges."

For those spiritless clay and wooden sculptures, even if Wang Yuan wanted to help, there was nothing he could do; the power of the ’Small Book of Life and Death’ was also not high enough to save them.

After the City God Temple was cleaned out.

A chess-playing scholar in white robes, carrying a chessboard on his back and striding leisurely, walked up to Song Xingyun, glanced at the "Yin God Shrine," and spoke indifferently:

"A lord should not wage war in anger, a general should not fight in frustration, move when it benefits, stop when it does not.

Anger can be replaced by joy, irritation by delight, but a destroyed country cannot be revived, nor the dead brought back to life."

"Brother Song, I originally thought your ’No-Life Old Buddha’ and the Ming King were eager for revenge after suffering a loss.

Now it seems not so.

You have even allied with this half-Demi Immortal ’Underground Master’ from the ’Manxiang Temple.’

"This was indeed a stab in the back to the Dragon and Tiger Temple, the leader of the righteous path. It almost annihilated them, and his name resounded throughout the entire cultivation world overnight—a ruthless figure indeed."

"Now I believe there must be something that aligned the interests of several powers."

"Otherwise, our Taoist Master wouldn’t have so readily agreed to White Sun Bodhisattva’s request to lend you troops."

Song Xingyun did not pick up on Qi Buyu’s conversational hint, daring not to speculate wildly about his own Heavenly Official.

"Brother Qi’s timing is perfect."

"We have known each other for many years, and this time our mission is to join hands in slaying the dragon, cutting off the last trace of bloodline from the Great Yan Imperial Family through Zhou Jinhuan."

"Perhaps it might even help you, the Yellow Seal Strange Immortal, to advance further on the path of ’surpassing the demigod.’

"As for the ’No-Life Dao’’s Buddha from my sect, your ’Heavenly Eye Dao’’s Hundred-Eyed Spirit Official, and ’Manxiang Temple’’s Demi Immortal, the Underground Master—there is no conflict in their paths."

"What deep considerations they have in the shadows is beyond our ability to guess."

...

Several days later.

In the darkest depths of the Zhou Absolute Heavenly Palace in the Rashamon Ghost Country.

Faintly visible, an object resembling a vajra stake sometimes expanded and contracted, continuously flashing, emitting golden light.

The sounds of elephant trumpeting, horse neighing, chanting, and thunder grew increasingly loud.

"Ahhhh... come out now!"

In the end, there were also screams like those of a woman in difficult labor, which made the Asuras stationed in the palace unable to help but flee for their lives in panic.

Those who ran a bit slower, who lingered in this eerie atmosphere for moments too long, would become like a horrible meat flower exploding, waving umbilical cords and internal organs... endlessly squirming.

Everyone knew this was a Daoist Skill from their own supreme leader and dared not investigate it.

In reality,

Though the Underground Master held the "Spirit and Body Unification" technique and possessed a "Spirit" surpassing all other Green Seal Sages, she lacked a matching "Body."

Originally, the "Taoist Inheritance Artifact of Dragon Elephant Tao, the Yellow Dragon Mace," was her most perfect, and only choice."

"If only she could use the ’Enlightenment Technique’ to turn it into a demon and merge with herself, she could perfect herself into a Purple Seal, or even surpass ordinary Corpse Dissection Immortals."

Unfortunately, the heavens did not accommodate her desires, and the last plan she had brewed for over a decade was ultimately ruined by a person she regarded as insignificant."

Ultimately, it only managed a bare division of the Dragon Elephant Tao, simultaneously spinning off Manxiang Temple and taking away the Elephant Head Vajra Stake with it.

The original plan was completely ruined.

The Underground Master, during her lifetime, believed in "I control my own fate, not the heavens."

She was also a meticulous practitioner of the most powerful "Manxiang Saint Suppressing Skill," only believing in her own Daoist Skills and never willing to accumulate external abilities like other Corpse Dissection Immortal predecessors.

Ultimately, this caused her rejection by the native Heavenly Dao, Corpse Dissection failure, resulting in an incomplete transformation, and becoming like an Earth-bound Spirit, the Underground Master"

However, after a thousand years,

she had gotten fed up with such a confined, prisoner-like existence.

Even if reluctantly ’cutting her feet to fit the shoes,’ she couldn’t care much about it anymore."

The sullied darkness continuously squirmed.

The voice of a girl identical to the one formed by the Great Fate, "Lady Xiang," suddenly became piercing.

"Ah—! Ghost Medicine is replenished, Sparrow Yin, come out!"

Human beings have three souls: Fetal Light, Shuangling, and Netherworld Essence; and seven spirits: Corpse Dog, Fu Shih, Sparrow Yin, Swallowing Thief, Non-Poison, Filth Cleaning, and Stinky Lung."

The spirit "Sparrow Yin" controls one’s own reproduction and desires."

craack!

Accompanied by the sound of ripping silk, the thoroughly nourished spirit, Sparrow Yin, completely detached from the soul-body of the Underground Master."

It suddenly rushed into the Elephant Head Vajra Stake, which pulsed like a living creature emitting golden light."

Immediately, amidst a burst of brilliant light,"

A Buddha’s Ming King form with an elephant head and three eyes, wearing a horse head, having four arms, emerged."

It wore a necklace of skulls, was girded with a tiger skin skirt, and its knees, hands, wrists, and neck were entwined with poisonous snakes each hand holding differently, a skull bowl, rope, poisonous snake, and skull staff."

It also took with it a Deceit God divine position from the Killing Tree—the Elephant Head Ming King, the Beast Daoist Master!"

Looking at his new body, one of the previously seven or eight voices muttered to itself:

"Has about half-step Dharma Image realm, enough for now. Yama, hmph!"

Clearly, the original seven to eight tones were his three souls and seven spirits being transformed."

This technique, which she created by absorbing knowledge from the Killing Tree and merging souls and spirits with Deceit Objects, could allow her to split her soul and spirit at most seven times."

With the emergence of the Sparrow Yin avatar, the Underground Master’s original body also suffered a permanent loss, reducing her Taoist Ability."

But all this was worth it."

For with the help of the Elephant Head Vajra Stake, she had finally gained her freedom!