Netherworld Painted Skin Scroll

Chapter 371 Big Brother, you finally understand!

"Arrested? Who arrested him?"

“A great demon, a really great demon, named Xu Zhen. I dare not say any more, for fear of being discovered by him. His supernatural powers are too strong…” Li Wuxiang stammered. “He also said he was going to find you. He said he was the reincarnation of the Ninth Prince! Oops, I let it slip…”

Zhao Qi has changed. He is no longer simply Zhao Qi, but seems to have truly become the Blood God. Li Wuxiang is unsure whether he can still coax him as before.

Zhao Qi listened to his words and said "Oh," his tone remaining calm: "I know who you're talking about. We just had a brief encounter with him. He's nothing but a lowly beast from the Eastern Continent."

Huh? It still looks a bit like him, still has that arrogant attitude of Zhao Qi!

He said "we"? Then is he still considered "Zhao Qi"? Has he not completely merged with the remnants of the Ninth Prince and the True Lord of Fate? But something must have changed, because he is no longer as crazy as he was last time we met, and seems to have become more rational.

But it's hard to say; someone who's gone completely insane might appear normal!

that……

"Master, you can't just stand by and watch someone die! Xu Zhen might really be the reincarnation of the Ninth Prince. Didn't you find that strange before? The Ninth Prince was so powerful, yet he hid in Mount Ling and wouldn't come out. Maybe what Xu Zhen said is true, and the Ninth Prince reincarnated a part of him... By the way, Master, what are you doing over there? Sigh, you're really amazing. Back when I became your disciple in Jinshui, you were already much more powerful than me. Now you're even more powerful. I can't understand it anymore. Master is Master. Even if you're down on your luck for a while, you're still superior to me in the end!"

The eyeballs inside the cocoon rolled around again, and it remained silent for a long time. Li Wuxiang's heart was in his throat, worried that the cocoon would suddenly let out a cold laugh, wanting to shout for a fight again, or grab him.

But finally, Zhao Qi spoke: "Hmph, it's good that you know."

Alright! Alright! Master is still the same master! A leopard can't change its spots! Hahahaha!
"Master, I really understand, then please save me!"

What kind of supernatural powers does he possess?

"He...he's turned this whole area into a demon kingdom, and turned everyone into beasts! I think he used something like...what was it again, some kind of great magic—"

Li Wuxiang's eyes widened, and he noticed a further shift in Zhao Qi's tone. He asked urgently, "Is it the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique?"

"Yes, yes, yes! Xu Zhen mentioned it when he was bragging, I remember now!"

"Where are you now? Tell your master, and your master will come to rescue you."

I'm telling you a lie!

"I don't know either. After he captured me, I was brought here in a daze. He said this is the Eastern Continent!"

Li Wuxiang's eyes narrowed, and he felt as if someone leaned back slightly and sneered, "Oh, you don't know where you are, and you don't know what kind of supernatural powers he has, yet you still want me to save you?"

Zhao Qi is no longer easy to fool; we need to use some strong medicine on him!
“Master, I’m sincere! Xu Zhen is already quite troublesome here. He said he’s going to invite the Western Emperor Gouchen! If that Gouchen comes, I’ll be even more trapped! Xu Zhen said that if the Blood God Sect can create a Blood God, he can create one too! He said you have the Ninth Prince’s dragon body, but he himself is the reincarnation of the Ninth Prince. He said you have you, and we have me. Although we’re a little worse than you, we’re not that much worse.”

"He said you also have the Lord of Fate—we have one too!" Li Wuxiang said, staring at the face of the Lord of Fate in the right eye of the dragon skeleton—

Zhao Qi, this Blood God, was a title I had bestowed upon him in the past. Even though Li Ye had used Donghuang Taiyi's authority to actually create him, this Blood God should be like myself, the Great Calamity True Lord—a figurehead, lacking both cultivation and willpower.

The current "Blood God" is a fusion of Zhao Qi, the remnant body of the Ninth Prince, and the True Lord of Fate. By all accounts, those two should be in charge, but it is Zhao Qi who is speaking...

The Ninth Prince might be dead, but what about the True Lord of Fate? He should be the leader! Yet he's now stuck in his right eye socket like a dead True Lord, which must mean something serious has happened to him.

What Li Wuxiang couldn't understand before, he could now make some guesses about—

"The one he's talking about, 'ours,' is actually still me! When Mei Qiulu and I were fighting the incarnate spirit of the True Lord of Fate on Mount Dajie, I was hit by his supernatural power, and my flesh kept oozing out. So I refined another soul to cut off that flesh... and the thing I refined actually came to life! He calls himself Li Guichen! He seems to have some of the authority of the True Lord of Fate... Xu Zhen said he wanted to use him as the real True Lord of Fate to refine the Blood God!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the eyes of the previously lifeless Death Lord suddenly opened, and two beams of red light shot out from his eyes, striking towards Li Wuxiang.

Even with the illusion of delusions blocking his way, Li Wuxiang still felt a loud boom in his mind, almost blasting his consciousness away!

He suddenly realized that he had stumbled upon the perfect answer! It seemed that he had actually been right! It seemed that the True Lord of Fate in the Crimson Heaven had become like this because Li Guichen had intercepted a portion of his power in the mortal world!

But the Lord of Fate's eyes opened and then closed again. Zhao Qi immediately asked, "Is that Li Guichen with you too?"

"Yes, I'm here, but Xu Zhen has captured me too. Master, you have to save me so I can save Li Guichen and give him to you!"

Zhao Qi was silent for a moment: "You unworthy disciple, you never speak the truth. I already know what kind of person you are. If you really want to become an immortal, then use this Li Guichen as a pledge of allegiance first, and we can talk about the rest later. Otherwise—humph, do you think I'll fall for your tricks?"

You've already been fooled, you fool—that one glance from the God of Fate was enough to send shockwaves through you!
Hearing that he didn't want to talk anymore, Li Wuxiang quickly spoke up, taking the opportunity to squeeze out any remaining value: "It's fine, it's fine, Master. You'll see that I'm sincere in time. I'm just too tired. I don't want to fight anymore. I've fought so much that Bao Ping'er thinks I've gone crazy and doesn't want to talk to me anymore! But Master, there's something else you need to tell me, so I can be at ease."

As he spoke, the crimson light in his mind began to recede, but now it stopped: "What is it?"

"What is Tai Zhuo?" That night, on Mount Da Jie, the first time she saw a corpse demon after waking up, Mei Qiulu fought her way into the belly of Mount Da Jie.

At that time, Li Wuxiang saw Tang Qilang on the verge of death, Tang Qilang was just a head left. Tang Qilang said that he saw something very magnificent in Ling Mountain, neither the True Lord of Destiny nor the dragon remains of the Ninth Prince, but something else very incredible and grand. [Note 1]

Tang Qilang was half-human and half-ghost at that time, and his mind might not have been clear. Moreover, he had not seen much of the world, so Li Wuxiang did not take it to heart.

But when he arrived here and met Tong Xu, Tong Xu said that he had also seen something similar when the Great Calamity Mountain Fire destroyed the world. His description was different from Tang Qilang's, but it was also very similar—big, grand, huge, vast, hard to describe!

It's possible that these two people saw the same thing!
Tang Qilang said that thing was "Tai Zhuo" and that "one Qi transforms into three turbidities: Shang Zhuo, Yu Zhuo, and Tai Zhuo". He also said that the Tai Zhuo Grand Lord had come to take me away.

If he wasn't talking nonsense at the time, then the words "I'm here to be taken" were a bit frightening, meaning that Tai Zhuo might also have the power of reincarnation, or like the former Donghuang Taiyi, he might have created a world similar to Mount Ling, perhaps the Crimson Heaven, specifically to house these dead corpses.

That Tai Zhuo should be a Golden Immortal on the same level as Donghuang Taiyi and Xuanjiao Dadi.

Furthermore, when he first mistakenly entered the Crimson Heaven, Zhao Qi was originally going to capture him, and almost did. But Zhao Qi pulled back those red, thread-like things holding him, stopping him and allowing him to escape. [Note 2]

The Blood God Cult worships the Blood God, and the authority of those puppeteers is even above that of the Blood God. They might just be the "Tai Zhuo" that Tang Qilang mentioned!
"Eh? You know about the Great Lord of Tai Zhuo? Oh, that's not surprising, after all, you used to have the True Spirit of Taiyi within you. But even the Eastern Emperor Taiyi is nothing but an ant before the Great Lord of Tai Zhuo. As for what the Great Lord of Tai Zhuo is—Heaven and Earth are originally one Qi, and one Qi transforms into three turbidities. The Great Lord of Tai Zhuo is one of the three turbidities, the root of all things in the world, the root of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and the root of the laws of the Dao of Heaven."

This nonsense is as good as saying nothing at all. I, Li Wuxiang, the Great Calamity True Lord, can still call myself the final chapter of the calamity of all things!
The only thing of value is that since he speaks so boldly and can truly restrain the Blood God, then that Great Lord Tai Zhuo might really exist, and he might truly be at the level of a Golden Immortal.

"Master, don't go! There's still something else—"

But the barrier of illusion that separated him from the Crimson Heaven suddenly tightened, and the red light in his divine sense was instantly driven away.

A figure soared into the sky from the Myriad Transformations Formation, almost dispersing the thick clouds overhead, and stood in mid-air shouting, "Xu Chen! Xu Chen! Little brother! Little brother!"

Li Wuxiang quickly stood up and, upon seeing Xu Zhen's appearance from afar, was greatly surprised—

He had only been there for less than a quarter of an hour, stirring up trouble for Zhao Qi. A quarter of an hour ago, Xu Zhen was perfectly fine. But now half of Xu Zhen's face was stained red—his eyes were bloodshot holes, the scabs of blood had turned dark brown, and he was now frantically running around in the clouds like a headless fly, shouting Li Wuxiang's name.

Seeing his reaction, Li Wuxiang was truly astonished! Truly delighted!

Xu Zhen just wouldn't invite the Great Emperor Gouchen, wouldn't believe that he was the reincarnation of Gouchen, and wouldn't be able to keep this deluded illusion from collapsing. So he stirred things up just now, wanting to get the Crimson Heaven to create some threats for him and force him to submit—this is called the plan of using one tiger to devour another!
But he truly hadn't expected that a single glance from the Fate Master in their direction would cause such a commotion—

He hurriedly rode his sword into the sky, grabbed Xu Zhen's shoulder as he reached him, and cried out, "Brother, I'm here! What happened to you?!"

"I was glanced at! A despicable tactic! They really did capture my true form!" Xu Zhen shouted. "There really is a Lord of Fate inside! He glanced at me!"

"He glanced at you?! Dude, did he blind you just by looking at you?!"

Xu Zhen roared, "What do you know?! My true form is with them. He wasn't looking at me here, but at me there! Seeing me there, my form here naturally suffered damage! What do you know?!"

Li Wuxiang understood immediately—across the Crimson Heaven, the Illusory Realm of the Deluded Mind, and the Myriad Transformations, even the mighty Siming Zhenjun couldn't blind Xu Zhen with a single glance. Xu Zhen meant that they had injured his true form, and thus the damage was reflected in his physical body in this world…

Hahaha! He truly believes it! He truly believes he is the reincarnation of the Ninth Prince! In the end, it wasn't that the Lord of Fate blinded him, but rather that he felt the Lord of Fate had damaged his eyes, and thus he was truly blind!
Hahahahaha!
Li Wuxiang, feeling the same way and filled with rage, exclaimed, "Damn it! I knew the Six Departments of the Mysterious Sect had ill intentions! Brother, you see, I was absolutely right! The Blood God Sect is indeed no good; they've come to deal with you first. What are we going to do?!"

Xu Zhen's bloodshot eyes churned with flesh, and slowly, a pair of eyeballs reappeared. He was furious: "You're right, I'm going to invite the Great Emperor Gouchen! I'm going to invite the Great Emperor to descend to the mortal realm! I'm going to cultivate all my supernatural powers—you can leave that thing with me for the next few days, I'm going to cultivate my own blessed land! Here, take this! It's your Myriad Transformation Formula!"

He raised his hand and slapped Li Wuxiang's chest. A golden light solidified in his palm and then fell down.

Li Wuxiang quickly reached out and grabbed it, only to find that what he was holding was something as light as a thin thread, as if it were made of light. He glanced at it and saw that the runes on it flowed and changed constantly, and then, because of his staring gaze, they settled into six words—Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique!
"These days you've been using this technique to train my troops! And when will you finally master the Great Vehicle Supreme Body?!"

"Well... Brother, it will take a few more days. It's really hard to find someone with good aptitude..."

"Once you've mastered the Dharma Body, none of that damned Blood God will be a match for me! And you're still dawdling!"

Li Wuxiang didn't know what logic led him to say this. Anyway, that wasn't how he had lied to him in the first place. But this was a good thing; Xu Zhen's mind was now completely organized!

As soon as Xu Zhen said this, his blood-stained eyes fixed on him, startling Li Wuxiang, who feared he might suddenly become violent. But then he heard Xu Zhen say, "In the Central Continent, did you obtain some kind of method from the Taiyi Sect that only refines the physical body?"

"Ah... her name is Guang Chanzi."

"That makes things easier! I'll use this method to hold on for a while. As for this mortal body, I won't care about it anymore once I return to my true form—" Xu Zhen raised his hand and grabbed his neck, shouting, "Here you go! Use this to refine! Refine it quickly!"

He pulled his entire spine out and threw it into Li Wuxiang's arms!
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Note 1: See Chapter 303 for details.

Note 2: See Chapter 297 for details.
(End of this chapter)