Mythology

Chapter 448 The one in the Eight Trigrams Furnace is not Sun Wukong!

The head Yang He was holding emitted a series of muffled thuds, like ripe fruit bursting open. Instantly, grayish-white bone powder scattered everywhere.

The child, who was originally seven or eight years old, grew taller and taller, and in the blink of an eye, he had become an adult.

He clenched his fist, feeling the surging Yin energy within his body. Unlike the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir, which required slow refining, the cultivation increase brought about by cannibalism was simply a natural progression.

The newly added yin energy showed no rejection whatsoever, as if they were born from the same origin.

"Well."

The flesh on Yang He's forehead writhed violently, and a second pair of fiery golden eyes burst forth from his body. Four dark golden pupils simultaneously shimmered with firelight.

He clearly felt that he had mastered the Six Ding Divine Fire as if it were his own arm.

However, the rapid advancement in his supernatural powers was likely temporary for the Yellow-Eyebrowed King; he would disappear if he were to resume the role.

Yang He couldn't help but frown, his gaze fixed on his left index finger.

The joints of his fingers were twisted at bizarre angles, and bone spurs were faintly visible under his skin. When he tried to correct them, the bones made a sickeningly loud clicking sound.

It seemed to be resisting Yang He's will.

"So this is the price of cannibalistic cultivation. Thinking about it carefully, it's not that bad."

Yang He sneered. The side effects did not originate from the Corpse Daoist's head, but from ordinary mortals. This proved that eating oneself would not cause physical mutations.

"As for the Food Immortal."

He looked up at the corpses of the Seven Fairies, and a strong feeling of nausea welled up in his heart.

I have a feeling that eating immortals will cause the demon's body to collapse.

"Alienation? It should be no big deal for demons who don't care about their appearance. Even if they knew the pros and cons, they would still find it hard to resist their instincts."

Yang He knew that he had to seize the five hundred years after the havoc in the Heavenly Palace. Now, the mortal world was full of demons and evil spirits, and it was probably in a mess.

He stopped wasting his brains and took out the only Nine-Turn Golden Elixir he had with him.

With his body surrounded by surging Yin energy, even with the help of miraculous elixirs, traditional cultivation methods still couldn't compare to the pleasure of cannibalism.

It's hard to go from extravagance to frugality; in my memory, the demons in Journey to the West who ate people are nothing compared to this.

As he absorbs the medicinal power of the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir, he gets closer and closer to achieving the Perfection of True Immortal.

Yang He also dared not be negligent and kept an eye on the outside world. As a result, several days passed without any movement from the Peach Garden.

He sent a telepathic message to Yunxiao, but unfortunately received no response.

Dou Bu has been in the mortal realm for a long time and is likely still dealing with the troubles at Flower Fruit Mountain.

As time went on, Yang He almost forgot that he was in the central area of ​​the Peach Garden.

Seven corpses were hanging overhead.

After an unknown amount of time, a faint sound interrupted Yang He's cultivation.

"Help...help me."

A faint murmur came, and a bone-chilling cold rushed straight to Yang Hetian's head.

Yang He suddenly opened his eyes and noticed that the Seventh Fairy's body was still hanging quietly, but instead of closing her eyes, it was now open and unseeing.

The fluctuations in spiritual vision are not strong, but they should not be underestimated.

Yang He looked away, and his murmur returned, this time choked with sobs, "Queen Mother... Queen Mother, why are you doing this to us?"

He discovered that as long as he looked at the seven fairies, the corpse would return to calm.

"Could it be caused by innate corpse energy? Or something else?"

"Is someone coming to collect organs?"

Yang Helian took a few steps back, trying not to look directly at the Seven Fairies, and listened carefully to his surroundings. He soon discovered something unusual.

pat pat pat.

The sticky footsteps were particularly jarring in the silence, yet their exact location remained unclear.

Yang He opened his two fiery eyes, and a dark golden light swept across the stage. Then he noticed a string of bloody handprints on the ground.

Each palm print has six fingers, with translucent webbed fingers connecting the fingers.

Even more horrifying, the handprints moved in alternating directions, as if... as if something was crawling towards them on four arms!
pat.

A bloody handprint suddenly appeared at the edge of the stage.

Yang He's pupils contracted sharply, and the corpses of the Seven Fairies suddenly trembled, as if in fear, their murmurs turning into wails.

The stage groaned under the strain.

Yang He's current Fiery Eyes of Truth are comparable to those of a Profound Immortal, and with the added blessing of millions of spiritual visions, he never imagined that they might fail.

However, they were unable to clearly identify the owner of the bloody handprint.

All that is known is that the newcomer's limbs are extremely long, causing his stride to exceed two meters.

呲la.

Yang He tried to stay as far away from the stage as possible, and then he saw the green-clad fairy's abdomen being torn open, her stomach being completely removed, and then swallowed and preserved by that invisible monster.

"It must be the Long-Armed Ape. Sure enough, all the monkeys and their offspring from Flower Fruit Mountain are in Heaven."

The gibbon licked its lips, paused, and then swept its arms across the stage.

Yang Hesheng issued a warning and restrained his aura the instant the long-armed ape charged at him. The bloody handprint stopped abruptly half a meter in front of him.

The gibbon-like monkeys seem to exist on another plane, making it impossible for them to observe each other.

It continued to harvest organs, then let out a satisfied hum, and soon the seven fairies' corpses had lost some of their organs.

Yang He breathed a sigh of relief; all Monkey King had to do next was fill in the filth.

It's only a matter of time before they come back to life.

"Speaking of which, won't Venus stop it?"

Just as Yang Hegang had the idea, a chilling wind swept through the central area of ​​the Peach Garden, his spiritual vision surged, and he felt as if something was moving through the depths of the earth.

Rumble.

He wanted to slap himself, for Venus had appeared out of nowhere.

"Brother Monkey, I have done all I could. Whether you can be resurrected depends on your monkey descendants. I'll take my leave now!"

Yang He summoned the Treasure Bone Tomb, and a huge corpse-like head emerged, accompanied by a large number of other heads.

Without hesitation, he leaped up and, surrounded by a throng of heads, prepared to leave the central area of ​​the Peach Garden. He vaguely noticed that the Thunder God was also heading towards the location of the stage.

boom! !

Yang He arrived in mid-air, where the foundation of the stage had already crumbled into pieces.

Thick oil seeped from the dense cracks, while hundreds of heavenly soldiers and generals were decapitated, with only a single spine exposed at the neck, from which faint flames rose and ignited.

At first glance, the area around the stage was filled with human-shaped candles.

Yang He couldn't help but gag, vomiting up nothing but wax oil, which also covered his skin in a thick layer, leaving his two bright eyes half-blinded.

"Damn it, the havoc in Heaven is none of my business."

"With the Queen Mother of the West behind me, I, a mere True Immortal, should be in seclusion, cultivating my inner power!!!"

boom!
Yang He covered his mouth and nose and saw an endless swarm of maggots bursting out of the ground in the distance.

Its body was covered with ring-shaped folds, and dozens of distorted human faces were embedded between each fold, which could be vaguely identified as Venus.

Their faces were contorted at unbelievable angles, some with mouths split to their ears, others with eyeballs bulging out of their sockets, yet all were repeating the same pattern.

"The Queen Mother has decreed that anyone who disrupts the Peach Banquet shall die!!"

The entire area of ​​the stage, spanning a kilometer, was swallowed up in one gulp by Venus.

Unaware of the situation of the gibbon, Yang He took the opportunity to go to the front area of ​​the Peach Garden. Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced back and saw that Venus's chrysanthemum-shaped mouth opened, from which a fleshy peach tree extended.

Peach blossoms are in full bloom!

The erosion brought by Venus was almost indiscriminate; the flesh and bones of all living beings in the Peach Garden were dissolved into wax.

It also brought a scene that suffocated Yang He.

The peach tree truly lived up to its innate spiritual root status, resembling the Heavenly Dao Tree in three aspects. Yang He even felt a sense of awe, as if he were facing the Heavenly Dao for the first time.

"So... Venus and the peach tree have become one?"

“The source must be the Queen Mother of the West.” Yang He barely recovered after leaving the central area of ​​the Peach Garden while his consciousness was fading. The Thunder Gods were also scrambling to escape from the Peach Garden.

cough cough cough.

He vomited the wax from his stomach, and the yin energy was regained under control.

The demon's body is more resilient than expected, but unfortunately, all we know so far is that eating people can amplify the changes in his supernatural powers, and Yang He can't possibly prepare a bunch of human heads every time he plays the role.

"kindness?"

As Yang He approached the entrance to the Peach Garden, he saw an old acquaintance.

Kong Xuan transformed into a five-colored divine light and hurriedly flew through the air. The Corpse Celestial Venerable was faintly sealed within his body, and his slightly disheveled appearance could be seen from the damage to his body and soul.

Yang He gently stroked his chin. "Logically speaking, Kong Xuan's death in his previous life is not related to me."

"Hehe, I guess it's probably Yin Jiao who's behind this. It doesn't matter, anyway, you ungrateful bunch will all be dead sooner or later."

"Don't you even realize that without me, Yang He, how would you have achieved such high honors in the imperial examinations?"

Yang He's gaze fell on Kong Xuan's shoulder, and he secretly marveled at how cunning the monkeys of Flower Fruit Mountain were. Then he focused on walking.

Kong Xuan was completely unaware that his body was covered with skinned apes.

A red-bottomed macaque was crawling on its shoulder.

Once the Corpse Heavenly Venerable reconstructs his physical body, the monkey troop will undoubtedly attack Kong Xuan immediately.

You have to shed your skin even if you don't die.

Kong Xuan noticed Yang He's spying. He merely scanned the latter with his divine sense and found that this person's aura was extremely mixed. His supernatural powers were mainly based on his eyes. He should be serving at the South Heavenly Gate like the two generals, Heng and Ha.

"He looks unfamiliar; perhaps he was temporarily assigned to guard the Peach Garden."

"Now the trouble in the Peach Garden is getting bigger and bigger, and the entire Eight Departments will be alarmed. The Fighting Department may have to return to the Heavenly Court ahead of schedule."

Kong Xuan's expression turned solemn; he knew he had to be careful in dealing with the Corpse Celestial.

To avoid being targeted by that crazy woman, Yunxiao.

"wrong!!!"

Kong Xuan realized why that True Immortal had the aura of the Six Ding Divine Fire. Only the Tushita Palace in the entire Heavenly Court possessed this immortal fire.

Yang He!

Another incarnation?
That's impossible. The One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones means that one can only have three incarnations.

Kong Xuan searched for Yang He's whereabouts, only to find that the other party had already disappeared into the Heavenly Ladder. Through the escape light, he could discern that the destination was the Tushita Palace.

His face was extremely pale; the plan seemed to be slowly deviating from expectations.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion.

Kong Xuan faintly heard the cries of monkeys, but looked around and saw nothing unusual.

The red-bottomed macaque's mouth stretched to its ears, its blood-soaked face pressed against the back of Kong Xuan's head, its long, narrow tongue licking his neck every now and then.

.........

Yang He returned to the Tushita Palace without incident, and the number of immortals refining elixirs had clearly decreased by more than half.

Perhaps they still don't care about the chaos caused by the monkeys, but the trouble in the Peach Garden is imminent. As long as they are one of the Eight Righteous Gods, they will inevitably receive an invitation to participate in the Peach Banquet.

The Peach Banquet was held in Yaochi, and the Peach Garden was just a part of Yaochi.

It is said that Yaochi has not been open to the public for nearly five hundred years.

Yang He sat cross-legged in front of the Eight Trigrams Furnace, using the Six Ding Divine Fire to suppress his injuries. The remaining medicinal power of the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir caused the bottleneck to loosen.

Even though Master Qingfeng and the others were separated by the Baogu Mausoleum, they were still affected, so they were simply sent to the side hall.

Just then, a giant face appeared from the direction of the Peach Garden.

Hundreds of Venus's mouths opened and closed simultaneously, their voices layered upon each other, "By the decree of the Queen Mother of the West, a grand Peach Banquet is held today, inviting all immortals of the Three Realms to a feast of immortality!!!"

Yang He stood up and looked directly at Venus, his voice echoing through the thirtieth heaven.

"The Upper Eight Caves: Doumu Yuanjun, Caibu Tianzun, Leibu Tianzun..."

"At the Central Eight Caves, Patriarch Bodhi, along with the followers of the Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave, and the Thunder Gods Deng Zhong, Xin Huan, and Zhang Jie..."

Taibai Jinxian read out dozens of names; every righteous god in Heaven whose name was recognizable was on the list of invitees to the Peach Banquet.

"There are also the Celestial Venerable of the Corpse Patrol of the Void and the True Lord of the Ghost Origin of the Netherworld Patrol of the Sea."

"Everyone must be on time for the banquet!!"

Yang He felt a surge of yin energy throughout his body, and in doing so, he reached the perfection of the True Immortal Realm. However, he felt no joy in his heart, only a chill running down his spine.

I thought the opening of Journey to the West would give me a chance to catch my breath.

I didn't expect it to be so intense right from the start.

Yang He turned around, and familiar footsteps approached from afar.

pat pat pat.

Dense bloody handprints appeared on the outskirts of the Tushita Palace at some unknown time, heading towards the Bagua Furnace. The Long-Armed Ape was still alive.

Not only gibbon monkeys, but also a troop of monkeys, numbering two to three hundred, gathered around the Bagua Furnace.

The red-bottomed macaques clung to the backs of the Taoist boys entering and leaving the Tushita Palace.

Its hair was stained with blood, and it was biting the corpse of the Corpse Celestial Venerable in its mouth. At the same time, fragments of Kong Xuan's flesh could be seen between its fingernails.

roar~~

The monkeys formed a circle in front of the Bagua Furnace, their movements so synchronized and uniform as to be chilling.

The red-bottomed macaque lifted the remains of the Corpse Celestial Venerable high and threw them into the Six Ding Divine Fire. The organs of the Seven Fairy Maidens were then arranged as offerings.

The internal organs glowed with an eerie light under the glow of the furnace fire.

The monkeys pounded their chests and roared.

"Is Monkey King coming back to life? Hopefully he can make it to the Peach Banquet, so we can witness his havoc in Heaven firsthand."

Yang He retreated to Guantian Pavilion, where the furnace fire burned ever brighter.

Even the Fiery Eyes could no longer penetrate the Six Ding Divine Fire.

suddenly.

The mudra in the Niwan Palace began to throb.

The telepathic message from the clouds left Yang He stunned.

"My lord, you must stay far away from those things on Flower Fruit Mountain. They have already been affected by the Void and will become increasingly dangerous."

"Dou Bu recently went to the underworld, and Huang Quan has already... turned into black water."

Yang He's breathing became heavy. The underworld? Flower Fruit Mountain? A troop of monkeys?

He seemed to have guessed where the problem lay.

"Yunxiao, have you seen the Monkey King of Flower Fruit Mountain?"

'The Monkey King? Sun Wukong, perhaps. He once studied under a master at the Cave of the Slanting Moon and Three Stars, and may have mistakenly entered the underworld, where he was trapped and died in the Ruins of Return deep within the Yellow Springs.'

In the original story, Sun Wukong returned to Flower Fruit Mountain after becoming a disciple of the Cave of the Slanting Moon and Three Stars, but he was still subject to the limitations of his lifespan, and his monkey followers also died one after another from old age.

Enraged, Sun Wukong went to the underworld and crossed the monkeys of Flower Fruit Mountain off the Book of Life and Death.

in case……

Sun Wukong went to Guixu, which explains why the monkey troop became so strange and inexplicable.

"Yunxiao, is it possible for Sun Wukong to be resurrected with the help of the monkey troop?"

"The Ruins of Return can be entered but not exited. If the monkey troop used the method of summoning souls, I am certain that what came back to life was not Sun Wukong."

Yang He stared in astonishment at the Eight Trigrams Furnace, where flesh and blood had grown back on the remains inside.

He heard it.

There was a hoarse, low-pitched smugness in it.

"whee!!"

(End of this chapter)