The Buddha is actually me

Chapter 198: Immortal Tomb, Painted Skin Falls

The body of a pregnant woman did not decay after her death, and her belly was getting bigger and bigger?
Even Zhang Jiuyang couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart when he heard these words. If he guessed correctly, the child in the belly should be the Painted Skin Master.

"Our whole family was very scared, but my father had always wanted a son, so he kept it a secret. As time went by, many strange things started to happen in our family."

"I always hear children's voices at home, and I always dream of a boy whose face I can't see clearly, playing with me and calling me sister."

"In the coffin, the mother's belly grew bigger and bigger, until one day, her body struggled violently in the coffin, as if she was having a difficult birth."

"We were all terrified and didn't dare to hire a midwife. Fortunately, my grandmother knew a little bit about the birth and delivered the baby herself. Finally, the baby was born."

"I was watching right next to her. As soon as the child was born, the mother immediately turned into a rotting corpse, and the child was even more..."

Her voice trembled slightly as she said, "He's like a monster. At first, he was a skeleton, and then he slowly grew flesh and skin. He looked extremely ugly, and there was even a skull-shaped birthmark on his back!"

"He didn't cry or make a fuss. He just looked at my grandmother and smiled. It was a very gloomy and scary smile. My grandmother was already old, but she was frightened to death."

"My father said he was a monster and wanted to drown him in the river, but strangely, he couldn't sink and started crying. As he cried, it started to rain heavily."

"My father was so scared that he threw him into the cowshed, hoping to starve him to death. The next day, his mouth was full of blood, and the cow was dead..."

Zhang Jiuyang's expression became more serious as he listened to her story.

It sounds like there is an unknown secret about the origin of the Painted Skin Master. He is definitely not the son of a commoner. Even if his mother died, it could not prevent his birth, and there were all kinds of strange things about him since he was born.

This seems to be more than just evil.

"My grandfather and father were afraid of him and hated him. They didn't give him food every day or put rat poison in his food, trying to poison him to death. Unfortunately, I was bewildered and had good intentions..."

Perhaps it was because she hadn't confided in anyone for many years, so in front of Zhang Jiuyang, she told him everything about her past without reservation, without hiding anything.

It turned out that she had seen her younger brother crying with hunger in the cowshed and could not bear it, so she often secretly gave him half of her food.

Sometimes when the weather was cold, she would secretly take her younger brother to her room while her father was asleep and sleep in her arms with him in bed.

The only thing that bothered her was that sometimes her brother looked at her in a way that made her very uncomfortable. He didn't act like a child at all, but rather like an adult.

Time passed little by little, and nothing strange happened in the house until the news that they had a monster in their house was accidentally spread.

Some people began to talk about them, but soon, these people died mysteriously and their bodies were skinned.

And she found the human skins in her brother's cowshed.

My younger brother became more and more mysterious and gloomy. He would always disappear suddenly and reappear a few days later. Once, he disappeared for more than three months.

During that time, her father betrothed her to a family in the neighboring village.

When her younger brother came back and heard about this, he was furious. He skinned her father and grandfather, and then skinned her husband's family as well. Finally, he brought her to this place and imprisoned her.

He even put on human skin and became her husband, tricking her into having sex with him and getting her pregnant.

Although the child was his own flesh and blood, he despised him for being a freak, just like his father despised him.

After Shen Tu Xiong was forcibly sent away, she decided to resist and tried to escape many times but failed. In the end, her limbs were chopped off and she was imprisoned in a jar.

She had also thought about committing suicide, but the Painted Skin Master had cast a secret spell on her, so whenever she was about to die, he would sense it and come to save her in time.

"When did your mother get pregnant? Did anything unusual happen during the pregnancy?"

Zhang Jiuyang suddenly asked.

An ordinary family would never give birth to a son like the Painted Skin Master, and from her story, the Painted Skin Master seemed to be born with innate wisdom and had some kind of supernatural powers since he was born.

This is so unusual.

The woman in the jar frowned and thought hard for a long time. She seemed to have thought of something and said, "I can't remember anything else, but I remember that after my mother became pregnant, she and my father went on a long journey. It seemed to be... some mountain."

Zhang Jiuyang blurted out, "Shenju Mountain?"

She nodded immediately and said, "Yes, it was Shenju Mountain. Not long after he came back, he suddenly died!"

It’s Shenju Mountain again!
"Oh, by the way, sometimes he would go crazy and say all sorts of nonsense. One of his sentences left a deep impression on me. He said he was... a corpse-reincarnated immortal, and someone had stolen his immortal skin to suppress the tomb..."

Boom!

This sentence made Zhang Jiuyang feel like he was struck by lightning, and a flash of lightning flashed in his mind.

His heart trembled, as if he woke up from a dream.

So that's it. He finally understood what the Painted Skin Master was guarding!

It’s not the big tomb in Shenju Mountain, but... the immortal’s tomb, which is said to be the tomb of the corpse-reincarnating immortal!

The four veins of dragon, immortal, Buddha and ghost gathered together, not to maintain the tomb, but to guard the tomb!
Many things were connected in his mind and formed a clear context.

There was originally a corpse-reincarnated immortal buried in Shenju Mountain, but the person was not completely dead. Instead, he used a secret method to preserve his true spirit and attached it to the immortal skin.

He should have had some purpose, but he didn't expect that Shenju Mountain was coveted by another person.

That man became even more powerful, and built a stunning tomb in the mountain. He forcibly moved the immortal's tomb into a sub-tomb, and suppressed the tomb together with the dragon vein, Yin Yang Lake, and pagoda.

His plan failed and he lost his freedom.

Until one day, a pregnant woman came to the mountain accompanied by her husband and accidentally touched the immortal's tomb.

So he gave up the immortal skin he had worked so hard to cultivate, possessed the belly of a pregnant woman, and wanted to be reborn.

This method would certainly not be tolerated by heaven, so the pregnant woman died unexpectedly not long after. However, he was so powerful that he was able to forcibly change her fate and let the dead body continue to give birth.

However, the foundation he gained from his previous life could only support him to cultivate to the sixth level. If he wanted to go further, he could only set his sights on the immortal skin left over from his previous life.

However, Shenju Mountain is no longer what it used to be. The four leaders, dragon, immortal, Buddha and ghost, have gathered here, like four iron walls.

Even if he had a secret method to take away the fairy skin, he couldn't get past the dragon vein.

That's why he has been rooted in Yangzhou for decades, using the method of group burials to cut off dragon energy. His real purpose has never been the things in the big tomb, but the second barrier after the dragon vein - the immortal tomb!

"Oops!"

Zhang Jiuyang was suddenly startled and felt a chill in his heart.

Now that the dragon energy has been removed, the Painted Skin Master will certainly be trapped in the formation, but can he summon back the immortal skin from his previous life?
If he gets hold of...the formation set up by Senior Zhuge, can he still be killed?

In an instant, he clenched his fists and his eyes flickered.

...Shinjuku Mountain.

The Painted Skin Master was already at the end of his strength. There was not an inch of good flesh on his body, and blood kept seeping onto the ground beneath his feet.

If there was someone with the third eye in the field at this moment, he would see that the blood he shed was quietly seeping into the immortal's tomb in the distance.

Soon, soon...

His only remaining eye stared into the distance, trying to sense something.

The mountain-suppressing magic had been worn to pieces by the formation, and the mountain god's painted skin was completely shattered. He used the immobilization technique and escape technique to dodge left and right until there was no way to avoid it and hide anywhere.

The power of the formation turned into invisible chains, locking his seriously injured body. Yue Ling's knife had already come like thunder, and Bai Long's sharp claws were also grabbing towards his head. Li Yan and other Lingtai Lang followed closely behind, killing the Painted Skin Master's many vital points.

This will be the final blow!

There is no way out and death is inevitable!

However, facing such a desperate situation, the Painted Skin Master suddenly revealed a smile, his sinister eyes filled with excitement.

For some reason, Yue Ling suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart, which was an amazing intuition honed through countless battles.

But she was still fearless and swung her sword with great momentum, like a tiger descending from the mountain or a dragon rising from the abyss. Behind her, there even condensed a phantom of a Mingwang, with three faces and eight arms, flames on his back, thunder around his waist, and Mahadeva under his feet!
Conquer the demon!

Even if everything is destroyed and the sky and the earth fall apart, we must defeat the demon!
But as long as I am alive, I will not put down the butcher knife.

This is the Ming King.

This knife was so powerful that before the knife arrived, the whistling wind had already shattered the mask on the face of the Painted Skin Master, revealing a hideous and ugly face.

The head was severely deformed, the face was extremely thin, as if all the fat had been sucked out, the cheekbones were protruding, the nose was collapsed, and from a distance, it looked like a demon crawling out of hell, making one's soul tremble.

This was also the price he paid for using secret methods to change his fate and come to this world.

Yue Ling's knife was about to chop off his head. The blade had already cut through the skin on his neck and was about to chop off the sinful head.

However, something strange happened.

The space around him suddenly froze, as if even time had stopped.

The bright moon and clouds in the sky were motionless, and even the wind seemed to have stopped. With Shenju Mountain as the center, the area within hundreds of feet around it seemed like a still painting.

The thunder and the flames stopped beating.

Immobilization method!
But it did not come from the Painted Skin Master, but from the immortal tomb in the distance.

The tomb shook, and a figure with fairy light flew out from it. It turned out to be a complete human skin, emitting amazing aura.

There was some kind of mysterious scripture written on the human skin, which was extremely sinister and evil. Ordinary people would be possessed by evil thoughts and die of madness if they just glanced at it.

The most bizarre and terrifying thing is that this human skin seemed to have life. Its fingers were slightly bent, and it performed the same immobilization method as the Painted Skin Master.

But the power is many times stronger.

Yue Ling's knife pierced an inch below the Painted Skin Master's neck, but could no longer move forward. Even the power of life and death of the Seven Deadly Formation was temporarily restrained.

The Painted Skin Master was still able to move, feeling the murderous intent and anger in Yue Ling's pupils, as well as the severe pain in his neck. A vicious look flashed in his eyes.

He stepped back to avoid the blade, his fingers were pitch black, and he cast a spell to dig at Yue Ling's eyes.

Not only do they want to dig out her eyes, but they also want to let the power of the spell invade her brain, so that it can take effect as quickly as possible and turn this famous Ming King into a pool of poisonous blood!

The golden flames and thunder in Yue Ling's pupils continued to burn, trying to break through the confinement of the immobilization technique.

Her hand holding the knife trembled slightly, and her eyelids began to twitch. Relying on the power of a dragon and an elephant, she actually managed to shake the immobilization spell cast by the fairy skin.

But it was just a shake, and it didn't really break free.

The Painted Skin Master became even more fearful upon seeing this. This girl's talent was too high, even better than that of him, the reincarnation of a corpse-reincarnated immortal. If he gave her more time, she would become a real threat in the future.

Fortunately, he can kill this proud girl here today!

His fingertips were less than an inch away from Yue Ling's eyeballs, but at this moment, Yue Ling's figure suddenly disappeared, and was replaced by the director of the Imperial Observatory, Zhuge Yunhu.

Seven stars shift!

In the formation, the Tianxuan position represented by Yue Ling and the Tianshu position represented by Zhuge Yunhu were instantly swapped, so the person who bore the blow naturally became Zhuge Yunhu.

Blood splatters!

But it's not the eyes, it's the shoulders.

Zhuge Yunhu's cultivation is better than Yue Ling's, and with the added power of the formation, he can still move while being immobilized.

He missed the vital part and was only injured in the shoulder.

The power of the spell invaded his body, but he didn't care. He used his great magic power to move the formation plate in his hand while chanting mysterious words.

"The wonders of yin and yang are inexhaustible, and the two solstices return to the 19th palace. If you can understand the principles of yin and yang, the heaven and earth will be in your palm."

Boom!

As soon as he finished speaking, the hills around Shenju Mountain actually started to rotate along with the formation disk, the mountains and forests shifted, and the rivers changed their courses. If one looked down from the sky, one would find that a Bagua terrain had appeared on the earth.

There are nine palaces in the sky plate, eight gates in the middle plate, and eight palaces in the ground plate. Each palace is assigned specific three wonders and six instruments, which is amazing.

"Recognize the Nine Palaces as the Nine Stars, and the Eight Gates follow the Nine Palaces. The Nine Palaces meet the Jia symbol, and the Eight Gates are clearly distinguished."

As Zhuge Yunhu fiddled with the array plate again, the eight gates of Open, Rest, Life, Injury, Stop, Scenery, Shock and Death slowly turned, temporarily trapping the immortal skin inside.

In an instant, the immobilization spell was lifted and everyone resumed their actions.

The Dragon Girl waved her jade hand lightly, and countless bolts of lightning fell in the blink of an eye, striking the Painted Skin Master. Yue Ling's Dragon Sparrow Knife followed closely behind, and this time, she finally cut off his neck.

A good head flew up, was burned by heavenly fire, struck by thunder, and turned into powder in an instant.

At the same time, the iron spear in Li Yan's hand pierced the heart of the Painted Skin Master, and the other two Lingtai Langs, one beheaded him and the other cut out his liver.

The power of the Seven Deadly Killing Formation even sealed his seven orifices to prevent his spirit from escaping or his soul from leaving his body.

Lore!

(End of this chapter)