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Chapter 180 Devouring Soil and Minerals, A Different Kind of Two-Headed Boa

When the demon god entered his stomach, Yu Que suddenly felt as if a wild bull was charging inside him.

His blood and qi surged, and his consciousness was shaken.

Fortunately, although he wasn't entirely prepared for this training, he had anticipated various possible scenarios.

Immediately, Yu Que took out a bull's nose ring from his sleeve.

He had borrowed this ring from a family that had raised cattle for generations. They had used it to bind and send away no fewer than a hundred cattle. He would have to return it after the remaining refining was completed.

With a flick of his sleeve, he took a bowl of strong liquor from the side, first holding it in his mouth, and then spitting it out violently toward the bull's nose ring.

With a whoosh, the crowfire ignited as he spat out the wine, turning the entire bull's nose ring into a ring of fire.

Yu Que took the object and immediately hung it into his nostrils.

This step was his way of using the ring's suppressive power to help him subdue the demon within his body.

According to the elder, the safest way to do this step is to simply put a nose ring on the nasal bone of the cow. In this way, the spirits of the cow will definitely not be able to escape.

Furthermore, the longer one wears it, the easier it is for the deities to tame the bovine spirit within one's body.

Simply inserting a cow nose ring directly into the nasal bone would be quite painful, and in Yu Que's view, it was as if he were being treated like an animal.

Therefore, he merely borrowed its shape and hung it on his own nose.

Furthermore, his ancestral temple has a guardian deity called Crowfire, and he has his own methods for training the household gods, so he no longer needs to wear this item.

Moo!
Sure enough, as soon as he put on the bull nose ring, the bull demon that had been bound inside his body immediately let out a submissive sound.

Yu Que immediately pressed on, continuously channeling his divine sense into his abdomen, desperately trying to erode the consciousness of that bull demon.

As time went by, the bull demon's resistance became weaker and weaker.

And eventually, without realizing it, it was nourished by the excess blood and qi, moistened by the true qi, and eroded by the spirit.

Until one bang, the thing's own consciousness completely collapsed, and was then taken over by the remaining divine sense, which planted its thoughts within it.

At this point, this eighth-rank ghost was completely bound by Yu Que.

Moo.

In the quiet room, Yu Que suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes revealing joy.

When he opened his mouth, a cow-like mooing sound involuntarily escaped his throat.

The mooing of the cow now lacked any fierceness; instead, it made him seem like a kind and honest man.

Yu Que didn't care about his current appearance, but instead touched his stomach.

"Indeed, the Ox Demon has been refined, and my stomach has also received the blessing of a family deity!"

His eyes lit up with excitement, and he felt that he was a few steps closer to becoming a seventh-rank immortal and a true disciple of the Huangshan Taoist Palace.

After repeatedly checking the internal condition of the body, Yu Que did not take the bull demon into the ancestral temple, but continued to bless it in the stomach.

As he pondered this, he took out some "food" from his pouch, considering whether or not to eat it.

These foods include both meat and vegetables, soft and hard ingredients, but the vegetables are tree bark, the meat is bones, the soft ingredients are tin and aluminum, and there are also grains of minerals that gleam with a metallic luster.

"Now that we've successfully bound it, why not test its power?"

Yu Que gritted his teeth, first putting the dry tree bark into his mouth, using his magic to crush it, and then swallowing it.

He closed his eyes slightly, feeling the changes in the tree bark inside his stomach, and a look of joy gradually rose on his face.

Then, Yu Que chopped up all the bones and other things and swallowed them.

With the blessing of the ox-demon household gods, even dried bones can be squeezed to extract a few drops of oil.

Because the bones Yu Que used were tiger bones, he extracted nutrients from them, and his face was radiant with vitality and glow.

Once he was certain that he could digest tree bark and bones without any effort, Yu Que turned his gaze to the ore in his hand.

He exhaled a few breaths, then without further hesitation, he crushed the ore into powder and swallowed it.

Gurgling!

As the ore entered his stomach, Yu Que's stomach churned rapidly, kneading it relentlessly.

Even if the ore entered his stomach, it was still broken down and digested, quickly turning into various nutrients and metals, which were separated and precipitated one by one in his stomach.

However, Yu Que cannot refine the metals inside for the time being, so he can only choose to expel or spit them out.

So Yu Que coughed lightly a few times, opened his mouth, and spat out a few silver and gold beans into his hand.

Looking at the gold and silver in his hands, he couldn't help but sigh, "What he ate was ore, and what he vomited out was gold and silver. What a hungry ox demon!"

It's such a pity they were killed for no reason.

In fact, ordinary demons are already quite good if they can be bound and allowed to eat tree bark and gnaw on soil. Those that can swallow and spit out gold and silver like Yu Que is now are few and far between.

When this bull demon was alive, it was a ferocious beast called the "Golden and Silver Bull." Its unique feature was that it could not only farm, but also slowly produce a precious mineral called "Bull Gold" in its body by absorbing gold and iron.

It was precisely because of this that Yu Que was able to restrain this bull demon and thus gain the blessing of its innate ability, allowing it to eat not only soil but also minerals.

Furthermore, because cattle have four stomach sacs, the digestive capacity of Yu Que's stomach is greatly increased. In the future, whenever he eats or takes pills, it will be done in four stages, one after another, in his stomach sacs.

This not only allows for more thorough digestion of food and elixirs, but also locks any poisonous substances in the first few stomach sacs, preventing them from being directly refined into the body.

Yu Que pondered this point, and immediately took out a non-lethal poison from the five-piece bag, sealed it with a wax pill, and then swallowed it directly into his stomach.

As expected, the poison's effects were quickly blocked in the first layer of the stomach, not even reaching the second layer.

He only needed to gently move his stomach to wrap it with his true energy and vomit it all out of his body.

Yu Que examined each of the abilities he had acquired, his joy growing even stronger.

"Compared to the Five Visceral Gods, the Six Bowel Gods seem to be even more magical after being bound."

He pondered, "Moreover, I have only bound the household gods myself, and I don't have the Six Organs Household God Diagram to copy. If I were to obtain an eighth-grade Dharma lineage inheritance and acquire the Six Organs Diagram, the abilities I could develop would be even more profound!" Last time, Yu Que was on Mount Huang, and because of his cultivation level, he only obtained a ninth-grade Dharma lineage inheritance.

If he wants to obtain the next grade of the Yama's Dharma Lineage and the Tai Sui Dharma Lineage, he will have to climb Mount Huang again and refine his mind.

This is also one of the reasons why Yu Que previously rejected Jun Baifeng's recommendation from the Imperial Academy.

He has already entered the lineages of two schools on Mount Huangshan. The next time he goes there, he can directly receive the corresponding inheritance.

However, if he were to switch to a different Dao Palace, he might not be able to obtain the same lineage inheritance.

Even if he were to acquire other inheritances from Yama and Tai Sui, he would still have to start from scratch to comprehend them, which would waste a lot of time for nothing.

For a time, Yu Que's desire to pass the imperial examination and enter the Dao Palace became even stronger.

In the blink of an eye, his gaze suddenly sharpened, and he turned to look at the two more ghost jars in the quiet room.

These two ghost altars are placed close together, and what they restrain are the other two eighth-rank ghost gods that he arranged for himself.

After being nourished for these past few days, the ghosts of these two spirits have aged considerably and are now of the seventh rank.

In order to raise them, Yu Que fed the other three extra eighth-rank ghosts to them, and also added a lot of lonely ghosts.

Without further hesitation, Yu Que suddenly stood up and jumped off the altar. He then carefully picked up the two ghost jars and placed them together above the white jade altar.

"Now that I can swallow gold and iron, it's time to put in more effort and try to digest it and refine it into my body."

Although he had just bound a new household god into his body, Yu Que did not intend to rest. Instead, he wanted to refine the other two household gods in one go.

As for why these two household gods were to be refined together, it wasn't because Yu Que was arrogant.

Rather, they are not only a pair of "twins," but also because the organs they correspond to are the large and small intestines that are missing.

The stomach is responsible for melting and refining, while these two organs are responsible for absorption and ingestion.

Only when the large and small intestines also receive the blessing of the household gods can Yuque be able to both melt and refine metals and absorb them like rice and flour.

Yu Que was quite looking forward to it.

Once he acquires this ability, he can try drinking mercury when thirsty, eating cinnabar when hungry, and consuming small amounts of grains and meat, thus gradually reaching the state of fasting.

For a moment, he was lost in thought: "It is said that the scions of noble families among the eighth rank take Five-Stone Powder every day. It is made from a mixture of stalactites, amethyst, white quartz, sulfur, red ochre, and other minerals, and is considered a secret medicine."

Those who consume it will not only experience physical benefits, but their Yin spirit will also become increasingly refined, making their cultivation efficiency unparalleled by ordinary immortals.

Because of its amazing medicinal effects and great reputation, "Five Stone Powder" was quite popular among the Eighth-Rank Immortals. It even became a necessity for them to entertain guests. As a result, it spread to the Ninth-Rank Immortals and even mortals.

However, if the person taking the Five Stone Powder has not reached the level of digesting metals and iron, they must 'disperse' the powder after taking it, which means that the powder must generate heat on the outside and not stagnate in the body. Therefore, the person taking the powder must be naked, drink ice water, and eat cold food.

However, this not only wastes the efficacy of the medicine, but also damages the body's natural resources.

When Yu Que was young, he had seen the Fu family ask someone to take the powder and administer it.

Because the Fu family was a small and insignificant household, and the price of Five Stone Powder was high, the Fu family members at the time did not know how to use it and made a huge joke of themselves. Those who took the powder all ran wildly through the Fu family's territory for more than a few hours.

But they were not ashamed; on the contrary, they thought it was a refined thing, which made Yu Que look at them with disdain.

In the quiet room, Yu Que arranged the appropriate amount of food for refining his skills, while silently thinking to himself:

"After subduing all three household gods, I'll also try some of the so-called Five-Stone Powder to see if it's really as miraculous as rumored."

Before long, he had prepared all the necessary rituals and stopped having any distracting thoughts. Instead, he sat cross-legged in front of the two ghost altars and began to recite the sutras for their salvation.

"By imperial decree, your lonely souls, all ghosts and demons, and all living beings shall be blessed. Those with heads shall be transcended, those without heads shall be promoted, and those who are killed by spears or swords shall be executed by jumping into water or hanging by ropes shall be punished."

Yu Que recited the mantra forty-nine times, his voice echoing like rolling thunder across the altar.

Suddenly he opened his eyes wide, his gaze sharp, and shouted, "Imperial decree! Exit the altar!"

With a snap, both ghost jars shattered simultaneously, and two ghostly creatures emerged from them.

These two ghostly creatures were enormous and quite long. They emerged from the ghost altar and within a few breaths, they had completely enveloped and filled the white jade altar.

Because of its many layers, the image of the human abdomen, with its tangled layers, immediately came to mind when one stared intently at the missing parts of the altar.

These two ghostly creatures were actually two thick, long pythons, or more accurately, two human-faced, monstrous ghosts.

Hiss!

A strange hissing sound also rang out in the quiet room, but it was not made by the two pythons. Instead, it was the sound produced by the white jade altar being rubbed by their ghostly bodies.

Like the hungry ox demon from before, these two python demons were also starving.

However, they were trapped on the white jade altar, with no other food to eat but each other.

So the two python demons both set their sights on their twin brother.

They both wanted to quietly start from the other's tail and swallow the other whole.

This is the most common hunting method used by the human-faced python, allowing its prey to enter its belly without its knowledge. Even if the prey eventually wakes up, it is already beyond saving.

However, they rolled and searched for each other on the altar for a long time, but could not find each other's tails.

Yu Que stood in front of the altar, observing it, and a slight smile appeared on his face.

These two pythons are not simply born from the same nest; they hatched from the same egg, and after hatching, their tails were joined together and their intestines were connected, making them a different species of python that always stayed together.

Even though Yu Que had previously divided them into two jars, he still had to insert a reed in the middle of the ghost jar to ensure that the two ghosts could be connected by a trace of ghostly energy.

Otherwise, they would either suffer severe injuries or become possessed by evil spirits.

Such innately connected spirits are the most suitable materials for refining the household gods of the large and small intestines.

Yu Que paced back and forth on either side of the white jade altar, holding the white spine sword, his steps unpredictable, as he began his second round of refinement.

This time, the level of refinement.

He secluded himself for more than a month before emerging from seclusion.

(End of this chapter)