My enemies became my companions

Chapter 485: A Sword Comes (Two in One)

Surrounded by monsters.

Gazes came from all directions, merging into one like a tide and pressing towards Yin Tingxue.

Taoist priest…

To people, wandering Taoist priests often have mixed reputations. One type is a fortune-telling swindler or a thief, while the other type is a rare hermit who is unfathomable. It is hard to say which type he is without seeing his true abilities.

But for monsters, it is much simpler.

For a Taoist priest, he must either kill the demon or be eaten by the demon. There is almost no room for maneuver between the two options.

Because of the relationship between Taoists and monsters, the situation is almost a fight to the death. Taoists become famous and rich by slaying monsters, and rely on the hearts, livers, spleens and lungs of monsters to make elixirs for medicine. There is a blood feud between them. This is unlike monks. Monsters prefer to deal with monks who do not kill. Even if they have eaten a few people and destroyed a few fields before, as long as they put down their butcher knives and convert to Buddhism, they can often find a way to survive. Sometimes when a high monk passes by, the monsters will even splash clean water on the streets and pave the road with yellow earth.

The big Taoist priest makes the monsters tremble with fear, while the small Taoist priest makes the monsters salivate.

The girl standing there telling everyone not to eat people is undoubtedly a little Taoist priest.

"Look! The fox's tail is revealed!"

The half-dragon, half-fish monster suddenly stood up. It had been rebuked and reprimanded by its other brothers and sisters, and even its aunt the Guhuo bird, several times before, which had made it very angry. Now that the truth was revealed, it was time to vent its anger.

"What a wandering soul, with a golden rope tied around its wrist. It looks like it wants to beat up the younger one and attack the older one, bullying our demon clan because there are no demons."

The pair of fish eyes emitted a strange red light, and these words made the monsters on the scene feel both afraid and angry.

Catching the fear of the monsters in the hall, the fish monster shouted: "Don't you know that all the big monsters in the surrounding area are at this banquet? No matter how many people come, it will only cause trouble!"

All of a sudden, all the fears of the monsters at the banquet were completely dispelled, and their eyes were filled with only anger, and they wished they could cut the little Taoist priest into pieces and eat him.

There is no brother in any mountain who has not been killed by the Taoist priests, and there is no sister in any river who has not been destroyed by the Taoist priests.

Yin Tingxue looked at the monsters on the field with a nervous face. Many voices suddenly attacked her ears, making it chaotic and noisy, like the capital city with no curfew during the Lantern Festival. It was difficult to hear clearly even if one wanted to. Among the hundreds of voices, she only heard endless malice.

She glanced at the table and saw that the relatively friendly spider demon and tiger demon were also silent, while the Guhuo Bird sitting at the top had a normal expression, neither shouting to stop the quarrel nor adding fuel to the fire, as if it had other intentions.

Yin Tingxue didn't understand why these monsters were so hostile for no reason. All the monsters she and Chen Yi had encountered along the way were easy to get along with. The mountain banquet not long ago was still vivid in her mind. It was so nice that everyone was happily gathered together.

She suddenly remembered what the book said about the distinction between clear air and turbid air. It was said that clear air meant monsters with good nature, while turbid air meant monsters with evil nature. Vegetables, fruits and melons mostly had clear air, while blood, flesh, skin and bones mostly had turbid air. Seeing that everyone in the room was a meat eater, and those monsters wanted to share human flesh, the hall must have been turbid for a long time.

What should we do?
Yin Tingxue hoped that Chen Yi would come sooner, but he didn't show up. Her hands were shaking, and it seemed that she could only rely on herself now...

But she didn't practice many Taoist magics. At most, she only knew three, and the only one she could use was the Golden Light Mantra.

"What a pure soul, untainted by the six dusts."

The fish demon who had just instigated the other demons whispered something, red light flashed in his eyes, and the fish scales all over his body rose and fell, dark black like iron, and snow-white horns faintly appeared on his head.

When it crossed the river and turned into a dragon, it clearly avoided the Dragon-Slaying Sword and was only one step away from turning into a dragon. However, it was hooked by a Taoist with bait halfway through, which cut off its path to turning into a half dragon and half fish, causing countless monsters to laugh at it openly and secretly.

Even though he became the adopted son of the Guhuo Bird and used his demonic power to eat the Taoist alive to avenge his hatred, this ultimately became a scar that was deeply engraved in his heart.

I thought it was impossible to cross the river and turn into a dragon, but I didn't expect to encounter such a great opportunity.

"Just let me eat it!"

The fish demon stood up with a sinister grin, and the entire fish head suddenly enlarged more than ten times. The demons on the table hurriedly stepped away with their chairs to avoid being implicated. The fish's lips seemed to split open like an abyss, and its bloody mouth wanted to swallow Yin Tingxue whole.

Yin Tingxue's face was pale. She crossed her middle and ring fingers on both hands and chanted the Golden Light Mantra almost as if grasping at a life-saving straw.

“…Gold, golden light appears quickly, covering my body.”

At the moment, the Guhuo Bird was undecided and kept silent. Although the fish monster didn't know why, it only knew that it had to eat Yin Tingxue as soon as possible to prevent its stepmother from changing her mind. Without even thinking, it swallowed the circle of golden light and the trembling girl into its stomach.

But the next second, the fish's mouth was wide open and stuck in mid-air.

"Ah, ah, ah..."

The fish monster's face was ferocious, and its mouth full of fangs was fixed outside the golden light. It kept trembling, but could not move forward an inch.

Circles of golden light enveloped Yin Tingxue. She closed her eyes and huddled together, as if she had been eaten.

The scene was silent and extremely awkward.

There was a sound of the fish's mouth being stuck. Yin Tingxue looked up quickly, stunned for a moment, and asked in a daze: "Didn't you use any force?"

The fish demon's face was red with anger, its gills opened violently, its bloody mouth expanded even wider, and it swallowed hard with unstoppable force, roaring, "Die!"

"Die!" It swallowed fiercely.

"Die!" It swallowed in anger again.

"You, you'd better die!" It swallowed again in anger.

……

Not moving at all.

The golden shield was rippling with light, like a clearly defined grating when the fog was broken. Yin Tingxue was covered in it, and was not hurt at all, looking up with curiosity.

On the contrary, it was the fish monster, with its sharp fangs stuck in mid-air, unable to swallow her even though it was shaking so painfully.

Yin Tingxue looked down at the golden seal on her hand. She never expected that she could withstand the fangs of the fish monster. Her face was full of shock and surprise. While she was amazed, she looked at the big mouth of the fish monster. She usually didn't eat fish heads, and at most she would eat the crescent meat. This was the first time she saw a fish mouth with such a structure.

All the monsters in the hall were watching, and several brothers and sisters were watching. They couldn't even take down a small female Taoist priest. The fish monster's cheeks trembled violently, causing the wind to stir violently, and the dishes on the table flew all over the sky.

The fish demon closed its mouth and gathered strength. Its scales turned red as it was raging, as if it was burned by fire. It roared, "I don't believe it. I can swallow Taoists in the Jindan realm, but you can't!"

Yin Tingxue suddenly shrank his neck, closed his eyes as if waiting to die, and held high the golden seal in his hand.

boom!
There was a loud sound like the collapse of a roof beam. The moment the mouth full of fangs hit the golden light heavily, it shattered in all directions.

The fish demon flew backwards and embedded itself deeply into the wall. Its face turned pale, and its red scales turned from red to green.
"Fuck, this guy knows some magic!"

A moment after it finished speaking, it fell to the ground and fainted.

The whole room was silent.

The monsters had different expressions. Some were surprised and afraid that Yin Tingxue had severely injured the fish monster with the Golden Light Curse, and some looked down on the eldest son of the Guhuo Bird. After all, he was half fish and half dragon, a creature that relied on the power of others. If they were the adopted sons of the Guhuo Bird and had eaten countless treasures, the result would be unknown.

The adopted son and daughter of the Guhuo bird were shocked when they saw this scene. Monsters like the Guhuo bird are extraordinary, and are often great monsters. Aunt Yu is even a great monster among great monsters. Not just any monster can be adopted as a son. Before being adopted, these monsters were already the dominant ones. Although the fish monster, as the eldest brother, failed to transform into a dragon, his skills were definitely not inferior to any great monster on the field except for his adopted mother.

This so-called sixth sister...who is she?
Yin Tingxue came back to her senses in a daze, half a beat slower than the others. She looked at the golden seal on her hand in disbelief. She thought her life was over, but she didn't expect... it turned out that she was... not weak either.

The little fox moved her ears slightly. Although the sounds were chaotic, she could clearly hear the monsters' doubt and fear. She thought of a plan and turned around and said, "I... I am the third disciple of the Sword Armor of Yinjian Mountain, Yin Tingxue."

Yin Tingxue was unsure. She had been practicing on Yinjian Mountain, and had progressed all the way to the Golden Elixir stage. However, she had not learned many techniques to slay demons and monsters. The only three techniques she knew, besides the Golden Light Curse, were the Wind Control Technique and the Water Diversion Technique. She was terrified, but she could hear that the monsters were even more afraid of her.

As soon as Yin Jianshan uttered those words, the monsters became even more panicked and fearful.

"I have been ordered by my master to travel the world and help all living beings. No matter if it is a demon or a monster, you must listen carefully. If you disobey, you will see the end of it...

Her voice was neither high nor low, and it was a little trembling at first, but as she spoke further on, her body straightened up, and she gained some momentum.

When Quan Yin said this, she thought of Sister Weiying's appearance.

Female nuns have always been the best at dealing with such situations. If they were here, they would have raised their fingers to stroke the sword and casually recited poems.

However, even though Yin Tingxue was a little out of breath when she said this, the fate of the fish monster was right in front of her eyes, and it still had a certain degree of deterrent effect.

"Mother, what should I do?"

The spider demon turned its head and asked the Guhuo Bird in a low voice.

Guhuo Bird's eyes were fixed elsewhere, but she saw the mist rising and spreading throughout the hall in an instant, enveloping it like a cage. Her expression showed no sign of emotion.

Yang Can, the Holy Son of the White Lotus Sect, had a past relationship with her and had told her about the six magical instruments of the White Lotus Sect.

The Cauldron of No Birth is one of them. It is said that this cauldron connects to the Mother of No Birth. If the soul is taken into it, it can go to the hometown of True Emptiness where "people live for 120 years without premature death, disease, muteness, deafness or lameness", and return to the Mother of No Birth, which is like the Pure Land of Bliss.

However, the Wusheng Ding, which was revered as a sacred object by the followers of the sect, was lost for more than half a century. It was not until the White Lotus Rebellion some time ago that the sacred object was recovered. So it is hard to imagine whether the Wusheng Ding is still a true sacred object.

But in the presence of the Holy Mother of White Lotus, who dares to speak nonsense?

Yang Can didn't dare to do so. As the son of God, he was always skeptical. However, by chance, he finally discovered the truth. This so-called holy object was just a magic tool for refining souls, not the holy object passed down from the White Lotus Sect. So he took advantage of the time when he was injured in the battle and went north with the Wusheng Ding to seek refuge with Guhuo Bird.

The Guhuo bird looked around and finally landed on Yin Tingxue, saying slowly:

"Whoever can kill this Taoist priest can become my new adopted son in addition to the natural treasures."

She knew that none of these monsters could kill the girl.

And if we can really kill this girl and adopt her as our adopted son or daughter, that would not be a bad idea.

"Kill this stinky bull nose!"

"She is just a wandering soul!"

"Be careful she uses magic. The big fish said she has some magic!"

"What are you afraid of? We are the monsters!"

The monsters in the hall were ready to fight, and no one paid any attention to the kneeling dancer. A large number of monsters pressed towards Yin Tingxue and surrounded her in circles.

Looking at the circles of golden light, they shouted and yelled, but no monster took the lead for the time being. Their breathing was rapid, and they shouted and yelled with greedy eyes.

Yin Tingxue shrank back in fear, with the golden seal still in her hand.

In the end, a pig demon couldn't help it anymore. He squatted down to gather strength, and with heavy steps, he rushed forward to kill.

"Go together!"

"Kill this bull nose!"

Afterwards, the rest of the monsters rushed forward, scrambling to pounce on the golden light, their voices shaking the earth.

Amid the smoke and dust, Guhuo Bird was still sitting upright on the table. Many of her adopted sons and daughters wanted to come forward to help, but she raised her hand to stop them.

.........

The ground was splattered with blood, some yellow, some green, some red, some white. Several colors of demon blood mixed on the ground, reflecting a hazy golden light.

The dirty hair, broken limbs, and even being trampled to death by the monsters rushing up from behind, no matter how hard the monsters at the banquet tried, the circles of golden light still remained.

Yin Tingxue was very scared, so she closed her eyes and dared not look.

The monsters' faces showed even more fear and anger. It was obvious that the Taoist priest didn't use any other magic, but no monster could do anything to her.

Weird, too weird!
A monster covered in blood raised a knife and roared: "I don't believe it!"

He hasn't finished speaking yet.

The monster's whole body suddenly stiffened and collapsed to the ground.

The monster behind him was about to step over its corpse, but the world in front of him seemed like melting ink, blurry and shrouded in thick white mist.

A thick fog was blowing in.

It penetrated into the body from all seven orifices, and the brain and consciousness suddenly cut off.

The noise in the banquet hall gradually died down.

The noise was gone. Yin Tingxue, who was curled up, looked up suspiciously.
The huge figure of the Guhuo Bird was outlined in the thick white fog. Yin Tingxue listened carefully and heard endless wailing coming from the small tripod in its hand.

The remaining monsters on the field hadn't noticed it yet. They just looked at Yin Tingxue tremblingly, muttering involuntarily: "What kind of magic is this?!"

The next moment, fog swept in and took away their souls.

The souls continued to dissolve in the cauldron; some could not even make a sound and simply dissolved in the cauldron.

Yin Tingxue looked at the increasingly frightening Guhuo bird in the fog.
"what is that?"

Guhuo Bird did not answer, but just smiled slightly, then raised the Wusheng Ding high,
He drank down hundreds of demon souls like water.

at the same time,

A sword came from afar.

(End of this chapter)