Netherworld Painted Skin Scroll

Chapter 373 I'm not! You are!
Of course, we can't talk about it now. What a grand scene it was when Li Wuxiang fought Mei Qiulu against the descended spirit of the True Lord of Fate at Dajie Mountain! If the Blood God comes now and makes a move, I'm afraid Li Guichen and Xue Baoping will be affected.

Li Wuxiang had previously sent the two of them to find the true location of the Divine Blade Sect to keep them away from Xu Zhen's sight. He needed to make preparations first, and after he had settled them in and Xu Zhen had truly subdued the true spirit of the Gouchen Emperor, he would then assess the strength of that "Western Emperor."

Ok? !

He was no longer in the magnificent stone fortress formed by the Myriad Transformations Technique, but on another fortress. While speaking to Zhao Qi in his divine sense, he looked down at the large group of beasts below, and was also thinking about how he should immediately take a look at the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique that Xu Zhen had given him, to see if he could learn anything from it, and how to talk to Xu Zhen about refining the demon soldiers—if they were all refined and then these things ran around everywhere, they would become a great scourge.

But just then, he saw Li Guichen and Xue Baoping. To be precise, it was the two people Xu Zhen was holding in his hands—they looked like they were being restrained, like two wooden figurines, being carried back to the Myriad Transformations Cube by him.

How did he find them?! No, how did he know about them?!

Li Wuxiang felt a jolt run through his body... because he wasn't sure if he had misread it—he felt that Xu Zhen had glanced in his direction!
The lethality of that gaze... this long-lost lethality reminded him of another world—you make a small movement in class, look up, and find your homeroom teacher casting a gloomy glance from outside the window, as if an ancient god were watching!

"I... let me think about it. It's hard to say about this place. Let me see if I can think of a way to bring you here—but what should I do then? Ask you to come down to the mortal realm?"

As Li Wuxiang spoke, he flew towards the Myriad Transformations Realm—What's wrong with Xu Zhen? He clearly had everything under control! He had just handed over his own bones and the Heavenly Demon Dissolution Technique; surely he wouldn't suddenly become suspicious?!

He plunged headlong into the stone fortress—crashing straight into it—and then, as if passing through clouds and mist, through the barrier of a small world, appeared in that vast space.

Xu Zhen was talking to two figures who looked like wooden sculptures. He narrowed his eyes slightly and glanced at Li Wuxiang again: "The smell on you two is so familiar. When I smell it, it's greenish, granular, sticky, but also wispy... It's like a mixture of fear and panic."

"Afraid that I'll find out—you two are the cat and deer my little brother was going to use to refine my Great Perfection Supreme Body, right? You ran away again? Oh, my little brother hasn't been thinking very well these days, that's not surprising. But why are you panicking? Hmm? What are you panicking about?"

"Brother, you caught them both?!" Li Wuxiang strode over. "That's great! Sigh, they escaped earlier, I didn't dare tell you, I—"

Xu Zhen gave him a cold look: "Big brother? You're the big brother, I'm your little brother. Otherwise, why would you make this decision on your own? Hmm? You agree, right, big brother?"

A sense of danger suddenly erupted within Li Wuxiang. Upon hearing these words, he felt as if he had acquired Xu Zhen's supernatural powers—the ability to truly sense emotions.

Xu Zhen's current emotions... a faint red, like waves, shimmering in the light. It's hot, scalding hot, with a slightly metallic, sweet smell—can you really smell that? Is it because Xu Zhen's bones are inserted into his body that he's gained a bit of his supernatural power?

The instant he caught that scent, Li Wuxiang felt he understood something more: red, hot, scalding – it was anger, fury. He realized he had let those two people escape… and one of them even looked remarkably like him!
The smell of blood? The smell of blood is... murderous intent, killing intent; he wants to make a move!
But what about sweetness? Li Wuxiang was comprehending this supernatural power for the first time, something he shouldn't have known. But now, as if by instinct, he understood—sweetness was elation, comfort, and anticipation—

What is Xu Zhen so smug about? What is he hoping for?!

He abruptly stopped, quickly recalling everything he had done these past few days… There was nothing that could arouse his suspicion. If he were truly suspicious, why would he have mistaken himself for Lord Weishui, why would he have removed his own bones, and why would he have handed over the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique?!

But Xu Zhen had already taken a step toward him. With that one step, Li Wuxiang no longer needed to think about any doubts—one step shattered a large section of stone slabs, revealing the mud beneath, and the flying pebbles almost turned Li Guichen and Xue Baoping's faces into bloody pockmarks... He really wanted to fight!

"Why aren't you saying anything, big brother?" Xu Zhen sneered. "I said you're my big brother, aren't you right?!"

Xu Zhen has gone mad! He's become a martial arts maniac! Li Wuxiang felt like he remembered something, but he couldn't care less about it now. Saving his own life was the priority, especially the lives of Li Guichen and Xue Baoping!

"Master! I'm in the Central Continent now, I've got it, I'm in the Central Continent, in the territory of the Divine Blade Sect, in Maple Valley! I only realized this after Xu Zhen used his supernatural powers to turn this place into the Eastern Continent. Come here! He's going to kill... he's going to devour Li Guichen!"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Qi became even more anxious: "Ah? Quickly, let me see what's going on down there!"

Li Wuxiang was panicked, but when Zhao Qi spoke, he actually smelled Zhao Qi's scent again. No, it should be the scent of the Blood God—an extremely strong stench of blood and filth, mixed with a cool, fishy, ​​slippery smell... This was the scent of conspiracy and suspicion!

He didn't even need to hear it to know that the Blood God really wanted to come over, but once he did, he wouldn't help him; instead, he would deal with him and the great demon king Xu Zhen together!

His original plan was to wait until Xu Zhen was ready and then let the two strong forces fight each other. But now Xu Zhen has inexplicably gone mad, so he can only invite the Blood God over first. As for what happens next... he will help whoever is weaker when they start fighting. He just wants to make sure they are worn down to death!

"You still don't believe me?! Okay, I'll show you! Hurry up!" Li Wuxiang thought to himself as he took several steps back, silently chanting the Blood God's name and grabbing Zhao Qi's aura, pulling him sharply—

The faint red blush that had been in front of him suddenly became much darker, as if his own eyes were bloodshot! Li Wuxiang felt his vision flicker slightly, as if the Blood God was using his vision to look around.

Xu Zhen must have sensed it, sensed that something had changed within the Wan Hua Fang realm. He abruptly stopped, glaring fiercely at Li Wuxiang: "Well, well, what a big brother you are! Have you been doing something behind my back again? Hmm? Got some help?"

At this moment, Zhao Qi in his mind also spoke: "I saw it. It's really rare that you told the truth this time and didn't lie. However, Li Wuxiang, now that I know where you are and have really seen the flesh and blood of the True Lord of Fate in the mortal world, why should I save you? It would be better to wait until he kills you and you come to Mount Ling, and then I will guide you to become an immortal."

I fuck your grandpa! I knew none of you were any good!

Li Wuxiang thought to himself, "Xu Zhen is really going to invite the Western Emperor Gouchen! Be careful, if I die he'll just devour Li Guichen, and then you might not be able to deal with him!"

Then he said, "Brother, believe me! It wasn't me who called for help, it was them who found me! Didn't they see you before?"

Xu Zhen's expression suddenly turned strange, like a mocking rage, or perhaps a confident manipulator toying with his prey. He mimicked Li Wuxiang's words: "Brother, believe me! It wasn't me who called for help, it was them who found me! Didn't they see you before?!" Whatever he wanted to do, he just wanted to stall for time—Li Wuxiang took a step back: "Yes! That's exactly it!"

He thought to himself, "And there's the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique! Xu Zhen gave it to me! Even if you kill him, he won't give it to you, but I will! Given our friendship, we can discuss anything!"

He took a step back, and Xu Zhen also took a step back, still mimicking his speech perfectly: "Yes! That's exactly it!"

"Very well. I trusted you once, so I'll trust you again—I'm sure you can't escape my grasp. So how will you ask me to come down? I am now the Blood God, not some random troll."

Of course, there was a solution to this a long time ago; in fact, it was Li Ye who taught it!

The myriad transformations form their own world, and now only Xu Zhen, himself, and two other people exist within this world. Back in the furnace, when Jiang Jie had achieved the status of the Heavenly Master of Fate, he told Zhao Kui that he was the "True Lord of Fate," and he truly became the True Lord of Fate. This was because everyone in this world believed that he was the True Lord of Fate, and the incense and prayers were fed back to the Heavenly Master of Fate, causing him to descend from a Golden Immortal to a True Immortal.

The world is still the same as it was back then, but with Xu Zhen's ability to make the deception real, as long as he thinks the Blood God will come here, the Blood God will really come, or at least the true spirit will really come!
This is why Li Wuxiang has been mentioning the name Blood God to him all these days!

He immediately said, "I'm telling the truth, the Blood God is really coming. Didn't you feel it too? He's right here, he has already descended into the world!"

Xu Zhen, whether driven mad by him or because she'd lost all her bones and her brain had gone mad, actually copied that phrase—

"I'm telling the truth, the Blood God is really coming. Didn't you feel it too? He's right here, he's already descended into the world!"

Xu Zhen's words at this time and in this place are truly golden!

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire blue sky suddenly turned crimson!
Then, the crimson sky seemed to be ripped open from behind by a sharp claw, bursting out a long bloody gash in mid-air. Blood gushed out from it, crashing down to the ground and turning into a blood waterfall that occupied half of the sky!
The waterfall of blood flowed for several breaths before turning into a thin line of blood. Then something began to squeeze outwards from behind the crack—at first glance, it was pitch black, which stretched the crack wider and wider, even causing wrinkles to appear in the red sky.

Then the crack in the air expanded into a circle, resembling a black full moon suspended in mid-air… The edges of this full moon began to turn white. Only when it started to turn white could one discover that it was moving… The crack was like an eye, and what was squeezing out from behind it was like the eyeball inside, rolling and greedily peering into everything in this small world—

...That's just one eye!

It was the eye that occupied half of Zhao Qi's face within the blood cocoon that Li Wuxiang had seen before, the one in the Crimson Sky!
It suddenly bulged out from the crack in mid-air, followed by Zhao Qi's other distorted face, then the skull of the Ninth Prince's dragon body, and then his body curled up like an infant—

The enormous thing crashed out of the crack with a loud thud and landed on the ground.

As soon as it appeared, the widened crack in the sky closed back into a thin line, with the blood still flowing from it. But the blood became viscous, no longer resembling blood, and dried up quickly, eventually congealing into a wrinkled, intestine-like thing.

One end of this thing was connected to the crimson sky, while the other end was submerged in a large patch of blood on the ground—the descended Blood God lay there, staring with an enormous eye, his body twisting and writhing, covered in blood and grime, forming a layer of dark brown skin.

Upon seeing this scene, Li Wuxiang's first thought was: the thing connected to the crimson sky is like an umbilical cord... this infant-like Blood God has been born into the Myriad Transformations Realm!

When he saw the Blood God still inside the cocoon, looking like an infant in the Crimson Sky, he thought that appearance was much more pleasing to the eye than when he was entangled in countless pieces of rotten flesh and internal organs.

But now, when he sees this thing, he feels a chill in his heart... This thing is too evil. Just one glance makes him feel like countless voices explode in his head: malice, blood, rot, stench, growth. These concepts seem to have become physical, things that can be seen and smelled. And they are the Blood God itself!
He couldn't help but take a step back and look at Xu Zhen—Xu Zhen also took a step back, his expression one of utter shock.

The next moment, Li Wuxiang realized that Xu Zhen had been imitating his speech before, and now he was imitating his expression... The expression on his face was exactly like Li Wuxiang's!

He was afraid of this Blood God, he was—

"You're finished!" Li Wuxiang suddenly heard Xu Zhen shout as he retreated, "The Blood God is here! My master is here! Xu Zhen, you're finished!"

What utter nonsense!

Li Wuxiang immediately shouted, "This is my master! Xu Zhen, you're finished!"

But Xu Zhen just glared at him: "I'm not Xu Zhen, you're Xu Zhen! I'm Li Wuxiang—Li Wuxiang is just a skin! I'm just a skin! Xu Zhen is a magical beast, a Xie Zhi, and you have the bones of a Xie Zhi. If you're not Xu Zhen, then who is?! You still won't admit it! Master! Kill him!!"

"you--"

Wait a minute… Li Wuxiang had just uttered that one word when he suddenly froze.

He couldn't help but look at himself, then looked up and touched his face. He could feel the fine scales on his cheeks, he could smell the emotions of the person opposite him, he could feel the bones of the mythical beast within his own body…

Huh?! It really is Xu Zhen?!

(End of this chapter)