The Heavens: From the Transcendence of the Coiling Dragon to the Devouring of the Heavens

Chapter 142: The Ruined Temple Demon Exorcist

After the promotion, the hardness of his black skin has become comparable to that of a magic weapon.

Mortals can no longer hurt him.

Correspondingly, his strength increased a lot, and he could smash the huge bluestone into pieces with just a wave of his arm.

In terms of strength, the Black Iron Corpse is actually comparable to those low-level cultivators.

Moreover, because his body became soft and he could move slowly, Lin En could now completely disguise himself as a human. He put on a black robe he had taken from the bandit's den, and as long as no one lifted his robe, he actually looked no different from an ordinary person.

……

The sky was dark and it was raining heavily. There was a lonely temple among the mountains, where several people were taking shelter from the rain.

In a corner of the ruined temple were three men dressed as hunters. They were making a fire and chatting about their gains from this trip.

"This is such horrible weather. I don't know when the rain will stop!" one of the hunters complained.

"Yeah, luckily we have this dilapidated temple to shelter from the rain, otherwise we would be soaked like a drowned rat." Another hunter also complained.

"Who said it wasn't?" The last hunter lowered his voice and said, "These people don't look good. Let's leave as soon as the rain stops!"

As they spoke, the three of them glanced at the other people in the temple, with vigilance in their eyes.

On one side was a scholar wearing a grey gown and carrying a bookcase on his back. Next to the scholar, a knight-errant with a big beard and a broad-backed giant sword on his back sat cross-legged.

In the other corner, there were several traveling merchants, each of them had a machete, a long stick and other weapons beside them, looking like they were not to be trifled with.

"You scholar, you are so ignorant!" The bearded knight suddenly shouted, attracting everyone's attention.

It turned out that he was drinking, but suddenly he stuffed the wine gourd in front of the scholar, inviting the scholar to drink, but the scholar waved his hand to refuse.

Seeing that the bearded knight seemed angry, the scholar showed a fearful look on his face. He stammered and explained: "Thank you...thank you for your kindness, but I am not good at drinking...not good at drinking."

"You don't know the value of the wine. I got this wine from Wanfenglou..." the bearded knight muttered, but he didn't continue to embarrass the scholar, but started drinking by himself.

The temple became quiet again, and at this moment -

"Squeak!"

The door of the dilapidated temple was pushed open again, and then a tall figure covered in a black robe and a straw raincoat slowly walked into the temple and sat down away from the crowd. It was Lin En.

"Huh?" The bearded knight looked at the tall figure in the black robe, a hint of doubt in his eyes.

"Pong!"

The leaky door of the dilapidated temple was closed again, and everyone in the temple came to their senses.

"We shot a wild sheep this time, which is a good harvest..." A hunter turned his head to discuss something with his companion beside him, but when he looked up, he saw that there was no one beside him.

"What's going on?" The hunter's pupils shrank sharply, and he looked at another hunter: "Where is Zhang Da?"

Another hunter shook his head: "I just went to check the door, I didn't notice it!"

The two hunters stood up and looked around the temple, but they didn't see their companions at all. This dilapidated temple was only a few dozen feet in radius. Except for a clay statue of Buddha in the depths of the temple, it was empty and there was no place for Tibetans. Where did their companions go?
The two hunters glanced at the other people in the temple, which also made the others alert.

When the others heard that one of their companions was missing, they all showed expressions of surprise.

"Could it be that he went out to relieve himself?" the scholar guessed secretly.

The bearded swordsman showed a sneer on his face, as if he had discovered something.

The two hunters turned the ruined temple upside down, but they still couldn't find their accomplice. They could only sit back by the campfire. The atmosphere in the temple suddenly became weird.

Another half hour passed, and with a creaky sound, the door of the dilapidated temple was opened again.

This time, a beautiful girl in white palace dress came in. The rain had wet the dress, making it almost translucent, clinging to her body, revealing her graceful figure.

Everyone in the temple, except Lin En, couldn't help but brighten their eyes.

"I went home to visit my relatives, but it was dark and raining heavily, so I got separated from my family. I wanted to take shelter here. Sorry to bother you!" The woman's hair was wet by the rain and stuck to her face, making her look even more pitiful.

Among the group of merchants, a young man smiled and said, "Don't worry, young lady. We are also hiding from the rain here. It's not a question of disturbing you or not!"

"Hmm." The woman lowered her head, said 'hmm' softly, and then sat aside.

The temperature was not high in the summer night, and she was soaked by the rain. As soon as she sat down, she began to shiver.

The scholar couldn't stand such a situation, so he wanted to invite the girl to his place to roast a bonfire. But just as he was about to speak, a big hand held him down. The ferocious look in the hand scared him so much that he swallowed back what he was about to say.

"Where is the third brother?" Someone in the group of traveling merchants noticed something was wrong. One person was missing from their group.

Suddenly, there was another commotion in the ruined temple, but the 'third brother' was not found.

First the hunter, then the merchant, two people disappeared inexplicably. The expressions of the other people in the ruined temple suddenly became nervous, and their eyes looking at Lin En and the woman who came in later also became unusually strange, and they were faintly alert.

"There's something strange about this dilapidated temple!" The remaining three merchants gathered together, each holding a weapon and moving cautiously.

The two hunters did the same, and the bearded knight drank his wine without caring. But the scholar couldn't help it after all: "Girl, I see you are soaked, if you don't mind, why don't you come over here and dry yourself off, don't catch a cold"

The woman glanced at the scholar and saw that there was no evil in his eyes. It seemed that he was really just worried that she would catch a cold. She couldn't help but smile.

"Boy, don't you take me seriously?" The bearded knight stared at the scholar viciously.

The scholar was timid and didn't dare to look him in the eye, but he still said: "A gentleman has things he should do and things he shouldn't do..."

"That's enough, shut up!" The bearded knight interrupted him directly: "I don't have time to talk about my knowledge with a poor guy like you."

Seeing this, the woman naturally didn't dare to go over. She smiled slightly and said, "Thank you for your kindness, sir. I won't go over."

……

Several bonfires in the temple were burning with a crackling sound, casting everyone's shadows on the walls of the dilapidated temple, making it look like many ghosts were crawling on the walls.

In the deepest part of the ruined temple, the clay sculpture sitting on the lotus platform looked weird and gloomy under the illumination of the bonfire, as if it was about to choose someone to die.

Not long after, there was a scream and everyone looked towards the source of the scream.

That was exactly where the three hunters were. Originally, the three hunters had occupied that area completely, but at this moment, there was only one lonely figure left.

Another hunter is missing!
The only hunter left was frightened and terrified, and kept yelling and screaming, as if he was going crazy. The merchants were also nervous, holding their weapons tightly, with beads of sweat on their palms. The scholar didn't understand what was going on, but the bearded knight showed a hint of sarcasm at the corner of his mouth.

Lin En was still sitting cross-legged, totally unmoved by the outside world, while the woman's face turned pale and she was shivering, as if she was very cold.

"Squeak!"

Just when the hunter was about to go crazy, the temple door was pushed open again, and this time a strong man with bare hands and wearing a straw raincoat walked into the temple. He strode into the temple, scanning everyone in the temple, and his sharp eyes went straight to Lin En, who was sitting cross-legged, and the bearded swordsman.

However, he didn't say anything in the end and went to find a place to sit down.

Just as he walked into the ruined temple and everyone's attention was attracted by him, only two of the three merchants were left.

Someone disappeared again!

At this time, even the most slow-witted scholar realized that something was wrong. He glanced at the vicious bearded knight, and finally moved closer to him cautiously.

This bearded knight may be a bit fierce, but he still gives people a full sense of security.

The bearded knight glanced at him but did not stop him.

Not long after, the last hunter disappeared, and the atmosphere in the ruined temple became more and more weird.

The sturdy man with bare hands had been looking at everything in the ruined temple since he entered it. He didn't care about the disappearance of the hunter at all, as if he had expected it.

The bearded knight just drank the wine slowly, as if he was confident about everything.

Lynn sat cross-legged, like a sculpture.

After a while, someone else disappeared, this time it was the woman who was soaked all over.

The scholar became even more frightened. He couldn't help wanting to leave, but he didn't have the courage to leave alone. He looked at the bearded swordsman beside him and stammered, "Brave man... there seems to be something strange here... how about we leave here together..."

The bearded swordsman ignored his thoughts and just drank his wine.

While the scholar was speaking, the remaining two merchants disappeared one after another.

Of the dozen people who originally occupied almost the entire ruined temple, only four people were left: Lin En, the bearded swordsman, the shirtless burly man, and the scholar.

"It's so boring! Have you had enough fun?" The shirtless sturdy man seemed to have discovered something, and suddenly stood up and threw the straw raincoat aside.

He was not speaking to Lin En and the other two, but to the dilapidated temple itself.

Of course the ruined temple would not respond to him, so he could not help but reveal his true colors: "Still pretending, I will beat you up!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he fell to the ground, with his right hand clenched into a claw shape and slightly extended.

"Roar!"

The moment he made this move, a terrifying tiger roar seemed to be heard in the ruined temple.

The 'Tiger Form' of the Five Forms Fist!
Looking at the burly man wrapped in the translucent tiger shadow, Lin En and the bearded swordsman both showed a trace of solemnity.

They all recognized the identity of the visitor, it was the famous exorcist 'Five Shape Fist'!
"Five-Shape Fist, you are not being fair. I came here earlier than you!" The bearded knight stood up.

Not far away, Lin En also stood up. He didn't say anything, but his meaning was the same as the bearded knight.

"Roar!"

There was another tiger roar, and the Five Form Fist strong man stopped his tiger form and stood up. He looked at the two of them and said, "You two are dawdling. It makes me anxious."

"Let's wait until the rain stops!" A hoarse voice came out of Lin En's throat: "If we tear down the temple now, there will be no place to hide from the rain!"

"This exorcist friend, what he said makes sense!" After hearing what Lin En said, the big man with the Five-Shape Fist actually nodded in agreement.

The bearded swordsman sneered, "I just wanted to see how many people this monster killed. Three hunters, four merchants, and that woman! Not only did he kill eight people and eat their flesh and blood, he also imprisoned their souls in this dilapidated temple. This monster deserves to die!"

In fact, except for the scholar, the three of them were exorcists. They received a reward from the government and came here to kill a demon.

As for why Lin En became an exorcist, it all started when he upgraded to a black zombie iron corpse. After becoming an iron corpse, he couldn't wait to slaughter a bandit village, but he found out helplessly.

After becoming an iron corpse, he could no longer obtain origin points by killing ordinary lives. If he wanted to obtain origin points, he could only kill demons or powerful immortal cultivators or exorcists.

But demons and exorcists are not so easy to find, and even if you find them, they are not so easy to kill.

Fortunately, with his soul essence as the master of Hongmeng, he quickly developed a set of zombie cultivation methods that fit this world. While cultivating with the help of the moonlight, he slowly transformed his body.

After spending several years, he finally acquired many human abilities such as speech, vision, and hearing, and was almost the same as ordinary people.

He then came out of the mountains and traveled the world as a human, trying to use human intelligence to hunt down those monsters.

However, in this world, demons are on the rise and demons are everywhere. Most of them are beyond the ability of a small iron corpse like him to deal with.

So until now, he has not dared to carry out even a single exorcist mission.

His first exorcism mission was to destroy the demon in the dilapidated temple, but he unexpectedly encountered two competitors.

Lin En thought about it and looked at the realm column on the translucent panel.

Black Iron Corpse (25/100)

……

The unscrupulous conversation between these people finally angered the demon living in the dilapidated temple.

Deep in the ruined temple, the tall clay sculpture slowly stood up.

"Boom!"

The huge hand of the clay sculpture directly grabbed the scholar next to the bearded swordsman, wanting to kill and devour him.

"Humph! How dare you, monster!"

"Swish!" With an angry shout, the bearded swordsman drew out the sword behind him and, with lightning speed, chopped directly on the palm of the clay sculpture.

However, this sword did not break the clay sculpture into pieces as he expected. Instead, it made a sound of metal hitting metal, and his sword was actually bounced away.

Fortunately, with his sword blocking the attack, the scholar fled to the side in panic and escaped the disaster.

(End of this chapter)