If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 1178 Taming Evil
Wang E wasn't deliberately stalling for time.

Scavenging incense offerings is really time-consuming.

Even without eating or drinking, it took the Dragon King of Dongting Lake more than an hour to condense a "Dragon Pearl of Incense Power without Attributes".

The other "good friends" are probably the same.

While the power of incense offerings can indeed be used universally across the three realms, faith has a master, and the power naturally carries the attributes of the deity itself.

It's very simple to send the power of incense to deities within the same pantheon.

For example, Dongting Lake is connected to the Miluo River, and the Miluo River belongs to the Dongting water system.

The Dragon King of Dongting can directly use the divine power of the Miluo River God, and can also bestow his own divine power upon him.

But Wang E and Dongting Dragon Lord are not from the same pantheon.

The Dragon King of Dongting needs to refine and purify his divine power before he can give it to Wang E.

The process of performing attribute-free purification is the most time-consuming.

"Brother, it's a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding~~" Upon hearing that Wang E was going to smash Grand Tutor Yu's head, the Dragon King of Dongting Lake not only did not show any joy, but instead became anxious and fearful.

"My Dongting River system has no grudge against Grand Tutor Yu. Please don't use the excuse of avenging me to knock Grand Tutor Yu's head!"

—You fought with Grand Tutor Yu for days and nights, making such a great commotion that although we dared not approach, we could sense the outcome from afar. But you don't need to sense it from a distance; everyone knows what kind of person you are.

If it weren't for the crushing defeat, you would be covered in mangled flesh, coming to my Dragon Palace to beg for incense and divine power.
You're an ancient god with a hundred thousand years of history and a very rich fortune, but after a few days of fighting, you've exhausted all your accumulated divine power.

Grand Tutor Yu's power is indeed terrifying!
Moreover, you're now willing to be her disciple, which shows that you suffered an even more crushing defeat in the Second Heavenly War.

I'd rather hope that you smash Yu Fengxian's skull than that she'd be like you, committing countless evils and running out of life, with the wicked suffering at the hands of the wicked.

If you fail to kill her, but she finds out you avenged me, her rage could dry up Dongting Lake.

You're not avenging me, you're taking the lives of my entire family of hundreds!

"In fact, my admiration for Grand Tutor Yu is as vast as the waters of Dongting Lake."

"If you have a conflict with Grand Tutor Yu, you can discuss it face to face." The Dragon King of Dongting's blue face was full of sincerity.

He was very hesitant about the very idea of ​​Wang E knocking Grand Tutor Yu on the head.

Wang E was a scoundrel, but they had been neighbors for 100,000 years and had been brothers for 100,000 years.

Instead of knocking Grand Tutor Yu's head out of him, he was instead enraged and had his head twisted off by the enraged Grand Tutor Yu.
"Aren't you related to the Dragon King of the East Sea?" Wang E asked.

“Apart from the fifth degree of kinship, the relationship is quite distant,” said the Dragon King of Dongting.

"You also intend to arrange a marriage between your daughter and the Dragon King of the Jing River, planning to marry your third daughter to the little dragon of the Jing River," Wang E said.

“Alas, if it weren’t for your refusal, Third Sister would have married you directly. She’s not married yet, and even if she were, it wouldn’t be considered a political marriage. Intermarriage within the Dragon Clan is very common and has no special political significance,” said the Dragon Lord of Dongting.

Wang sighed, "Since killing Yu Fengxian won't make my brother feel at ease, I can only think of other ways to repay his kindness."

“Hey, we’re brothers, talking about repaying is too formal,” said the Dragon King.

After exchanging a few more polite words, Wang E wiped the wine and grease from the corner of his mouth, grabbed the Divine Dragon Ball, and strode away.

Once he was out of sight, the Dragon King of Dongting Lake's pale face suddenly regained its previous radiance. "Finally, I've gotten rid of this plague god."

The Dragon Palace of Dongting was the last stop where Wang E plundered his territory.

After leaving Dongting Lake, he went straight to the barren mountains fifty miles north of Xiangyin City.

Grand Tutor Yu was already there, waiting for him.

Wang cried out, "Yu Fengxian, I—"

"What did you call me? And look at the state you're in!" Grand Tutor Yu shouted.

Wang E looked down and saw that he was still a two-meter-tall evil god.

He understood, and immediately transformed into a dark-faced, square-headed boy. "Master, let's go."

Grand Tutor Yu asked, "How much incense and divine power have you prepared?"

Wang E's eyes flickered slightly as he said, "A lot, a full 100,000 'Eternal Incense Sticks'."

He only told a third of it.

"What is the fragrance of ten thousand years?" Grand Tutor Yu asked again.

"It is the incense offerings and vows contributed by 10,000 ordinary believers who have devoted themselves to serving the faith for a year."

After purification, it often condenses into a stick of incense or a piece of spice.

As Wang E spoke, he pulled out a dark gold sachet the size of a soap bar.

In front of Grand Tutor Yu, he opened his mouth and swallowed the entire sachet.

His divine power had clearly increased.

He ate more than ten pieces in a row, but he was still not full, and the fluctuations of divine power in his body no longer increased.

Continuing to consume will only increase the total amount of divine power and prolong the duration of the burst, but will not improve strength.

"Let's go!" Grand Tutor Yu leaped into the air and sped eastward.

Even after Wang E entered the divine dimension and treated the laws of the divine path as network cables and himself as network data, he still couldn't keep up.

Xiaoyu could only slow down to match his speed.

After flying for half a day, they finally arrived at Kuaiji County on the coast of the East China Sea.

"Master Yu, what are we doing here?"

As soon as Wang E landed, he secretly glanced at the back of Grand Tutor Yu's head.

Grand Tutor Yu seemed oblivious, and explained in detail the principles and specific process of how he, on behalf of the First Emperor, fulfilled his "stepmother's responsibilities."

"You know who the Hidden Dragon is, and you know where the Hidden Dragon's dragon vein is, yet you not only don't kill the Hidden Dragon or sever the dragon vein, but you actually help them nurture it? Are you out of your mind?!" Wang was disgusted and his mind was trembling.

Grand Tutor Yu said calmly, "As the acting 'Earth Mother of the Divine Land,' I must cherish the dragon vein as a mother cherishes her child."

Wang E couldn't understand, "Didn't you want to restore the Qin Dynasty?"

“Is this contradictory? Think carefully about the ‘Ancestral Dragon Stepmother’ theory. Maintaining the benevolence of Mother Earth is the duty of the Great Qin Ancestral Dragon. Only by fulfilling his duties can he receive the Mandate of Heaven!” Xiao Yu said.

Wang E still didn't understand, and he couldn't believe that Yu Fengxian possessed such benevolence.

The brutality of the Qin Dynasty is well-known.

Not to mention taking the dragon vein of the hidden dragon as an adopted son, even the mountains and rivers with the potential to raise dragons have been destroyed by the emperor.

Xiaoyu didn't waste any words with him and led him into the ley lines.

Using the aura of the Qinling Ancestral Dragon, he transformed into a "Little Ancestral Dragon," sorted out the earth's veins, and gradually gained the recognition of the Kuaiji Prefecture.

That is, to gradually accumulate "the authority of Mother Earth".

She has been doing similar things for half a year and is now very familiar with them.

Wang E could not transform into the Little Ancestral Dragon, but he knew the art of earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of magic that allows one to escape into the earth), and thus held "land power" in Xiangyin.

He can keep up with the "Little Ancestral Dragon" and sense changes in the earth's veins and even the entire land.

He was increasingly shocked to discover that Yu Fengxian was indeed, as she had said, working to restore the earth's veins and nourish the land.

A few days later, something even more shocking happened: he followed her, exploring the earth's veins all the way, and actually found a dragon vein in Wu County by Taihu Lake.

A few more days passed, and he became numb.

Because after Grand Master Yu nurtured the dragon veins of Wu County, he found several more, which he called "dragon seeds".

It might become a small, insignificant creature, but it could never become a true dragon. Despite this, she still carefully nurtured the dragon seed.

How many times have you silently recited the Heart Sutra?

On this day, Grand Tutor Yu led him out of the ground and looked at him expressionlessly, asking him a question.

Wang E felt that she had inexplicably gained an air of authority.

He himself did not realize that his demeanor and tone had become more respectful. "As per the master's request, when I get tired of practicing the 'Righteous Qi Technique,' I silently read the 'Heart Sutra.'"

These past few days, the master has been channeling the earth's energy, and I've been following along. It's been the same routine; I don't know how many times I've read the instructions.

"Did you gain any insights?" Xiaoyu asked.

"Probably not," Wang said.

"What about the 'Treatise on Righteousness'?" Xiaoyu asked again.

This time, Wang E hesitated for a long time before saying, "I seem to have a feeling, but I can't quite grasp it."

"Do you still want to eat people?" Xiaoyu asked again.

Without a second thought, Wang E nodded repeatedly, “It’s been very difficult to endure. Master, find a dying man suffering from the plague, and let me send him off peacefully!”

Xiao Yu, with a blank face, said, "Continue reciting the 'Treatise on Righteousness'."

Wang's stubbornness resurfaced.

The aura of majesty that had just enveloped Grand Tutor Yu seemed to have dissipated.

"What's the use of just reciting the 'Treatise on Righteousness'? I need to eat people; I feel uncomfortable all over if I don't."

Xiaoyu said calmly, "The 'Righteousness Technique' has no other miraculous effects. It can only help you find the shining points of humanity that you once possessed but have now slowly disappeared over time."

You want to eat people not because you're hungry, but because your heart is riddled with holes, empty, and wants to be filled.

If you let things go your own way and allow external evils to fill the holes, you will also become an evil, and it will be difficult to find your true nature again.

Once you break free from the web of illusions and delusions woven by time, and rediscover your true self, you will no longer feel hunger.

Wang E mocked, "You make it sound so nice, but if you're so tough, why don't you learn from Buddha and cut off your own flesh to feed the eagle, and then cut off your own flesh to feed me?"

Xiao Yu said calmly, "I practice the Hinayana method, which can only save myself, not all sentient beings."

If you insist that I help you, then I can only help you pass on to the afterlife.

"Try to help me pass on to the afterlife!" Wang E gripped the iron mace again.

Grand Tutor Yu slapped him across the face.

His palms were like mountains, and he stirred up a whirlwind like a dragon.

Wang E transformed from a young Taoist boy into a wicked god, wielding two maces and howling in resistance.

"boom!"

Sparks flew as the mace clashed with the palm.

This is no ordinary palm; it is the "Peng Claw Hand," a divine power of the Heavenly Peng.

It's just that Xiaoyu changed its claws to paws.

This slap was not only as hard as steel and as heavy as a mountain, but it was also impossible to dodge.

Wang E barely managed to raise his double maces, his palm already pressing down on the maces, slapping them onto Wang E's forehead.

"Splat—Boom!" He was like a cannonball, smashing a ten-foot-deep hole in the mountain wall.

"Ahhh, I'll kill you~"

Wang E coughed up blood, his eyes were bloodshot, and he went into a berserk state again.

Grand Tutor Yu stood still and slapped him again, hitting the bullseye every time.

"Boom, boom, boom~~~"

After being bombarded seventy or eighty times, Wang E was reduced to a "rotten man" and lay motionless in the pile of rocks.

"What's going on? What's going on? Where's my Ten Thousand Year Incense?" Wang E stretched out his skeletal hand and groped around the rotting flesh of the god's body. "I clearly brought 300,000 sticks of Ten Thousand Year Incense, how come they're all gone?"

Three hundred thousand sticks of incense can't possibly be "eaten up" in one go.

He chewed over three hundred of them, repairing his injuries and replenishing his divine power, then stored the rest away.

If you fail to knock on Yu Fengxian's head, you can still fight a protracted battle with her.

After being struck by the Heavenly Roc's Great Divine Power more than ten times, his divine body disintegrated and he could no longer withstand it. He prepared to absorb a few sticks of Ten Thousand Year Incense to replenish his energy.

Then he was shocked and bewildered. He didn't know when, but the incense on his body had disappeared.

Well, this guy is really tough. His mere body, made of incense and divine power, has developed an indestructible nature. He withstood the Heavenly Roc's divine power more than ten times before his body began to crack.

Back then, Xiaoyu used the Dragon God Transformation (the body of a young ancient dragon) to deal with the "Eagle Claw Hand" of the "Golden Eagle King of Covering the Sky". He only took one hit and his dragon body was about to shatter.

The Eagle Claw Hand is hundreds or thousands of miles inferior to the Roc Claw Hand.

If it were Wang E facing the Golden Eagle King directly, he would have directly destroyed the Eagle Claw Hand technique with a single iron mace.

"Is this what you're looking for?" Grand Tutor Yu flipped his right hand and grabbed a large handful of incense.

Wang E's eyes widened. "How do you have the Ten Thousand Year Incense? No, this is the Ten Thousand Year Incense from the Xiangshan Divine Palace. When did you steal my Ten Thousand Year Incense?"

Grand Tutor Yu flipped his hand and put the Thousand-Year Incense away again, sighing, "Even you are my beast of burden, so of course the Thousand-Year Incense is mine too."

I'm not afraid of you replenishing your divine power.

Adding more information only makes the target more resilient.

But you're wasting my precious incense!

"I refuse to accept this! I refuse to accept this! You cheated! You used some strange supernatural powers!" Wang shouted.

Xiaoyu gave him a strange look. "When did I say I wanted you to submit? You let me try, so I'll try. As it turns out, I can send you to the afterlife at will."

Wang E was speechless and felt increasingly frustrated.

"Now that you've tried it, change back and continue reciting the 'Treatise on Righteous Qi'."

I can confess to you that the "Treatise on Righteousness" is my fundamental teaching.

"If you want to crack my skull, you must understand me and surpass me," Xiaoyu said.

The last sentence persuaded Wang E.

He struggled to his feet and looked at her expectantly, saying, "You beat me up like this, shouldn't you return the 'Ten Thousand Year Incense' to me?"

Xiao Yu took out a stick of incense, broke off only a finger-length piece, and threw it to him, saying, "You are just a Taoist acolyte now, you don't need too much divine power."

Wang E picked up the piece of the incense stick and stuffed it into his mouth, barely transforming into a square-headed Taoist boy.

The young Taoist acolyte used to be lively and spirited, but now, although he looks the same, he is sickly and lacks energy.

But he was more focused than ever before, reciting the "Treatise on Righteousness" with all his heart.

—Yu Fengxian is an upright and honest person who does not lie. The "Righteousness Manual" must be the foundation of her enlightenment.

Regardless of what she thinks, I want to smash her skull with one blow. To surpass her, I must study her great techniques.

"You rest here first. I have an old friend in Wuzhong. I'll visit him first, then we'll go. Let's go back to Guanzhong first." Xiaoyu left these words and, filled with excitement, used earth magic to enter Xiang Family Village.

　Today's chapter has been posted early; that's all for tonight. It's not that I don't want to post more, but I'm out of drafts. Sorry.

　　
　
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