Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 412
Seeing that Ren Yuan was determined, the old monsters stopped trying to persuade him.

"We'll take that thing; you're not going to come out alive anyway," the old hunchback waved his hand.

"Farewell." The old monsters watched Ren Yuan go upstairs one floor at a time, as if he were a dead man.

"Old hunchback, are you really going to open all nine orifices on him?" Poison Granny asked.

"Open it," the old hunchback said in a deep voice. "If he is truly the one destined for this, he certainly won't die. If he dies, he is definitely not the one destined for this."

"Nonsense..." The old woman rolled her blue eyelids and glared at him.

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Ren Yuan climbed up the Xuanji Tower floor by floor to the top floor, hung the oil lamp on the door as usual, took a deep breath, and pushed open the only door.

Stepping into the room, everything instantly brightened. Above and below, in all directions, twinkled with starlight, as if I had returned to the universe.

Ren Yuan was already used to this strange sight. He took out the jade bottle he had obtained long ago, pulled out the stopper, and a wisp of green spiritual energy drifted out—that was the 'Taiyi Hunyuan Qi' used to open the eight orifices!
He took a deep breath, inhaling all of the 'Taiyi Hunyuan Qi' into his body, and then observed the changes.

As the stars drew closer, strange beasts and demons surrounded him, their roars deafening.

Ren Yuan had seen this scene many times, but as he learned more and more, he was finally able to discern some deeper meaning from it... These chaotic demons seemed to be the ancient demon gods who had been banished by the Human Emperor.

The process of being possessed by a demon seems to be their way of returning to the human world.

Moreover, this Xuanji Tower can enable people to establish a connection with demons and gods, help people digest external elixirs, and endow people with innate supernatural powers... All these incredible and magical features indicate that it is not just a simulator for the return of demons and gods.

Ren Yuan boldly speculated that the Xuanji Tower seemed to be a passage connecting the inner universe of a person with the Land of Exile... The Xuanji Tower attracted the demon god into the inner universe of a person, and cleverly helped the Three Corpse Gods defeat the demon god by taking advantage of their home ground, thus making its supernatural powers work for the person...

The thought had barely formed in his mind when the fully-formed Yinglong roared in.

Its length was unknown, its body like a continuous mountain range, its scales like the cold jade of Kunlun. Its azure wings stretched for hundreds of miles, spreading out to cover the sky and earth. When it flapped its wings, thunder arose and a great storm raged!
In the blink of an eye, Yinglong flew to Ren Yuan's side. Its reverse scales under its chin were as red as lava, its eyes were like the sun, radiating golden light, and its dragon horns were divided into nine branches, hanging like a waterfall from the Milky Way as a necklace!

With a dragon's roar that shattered the heavens, Yinglong swallowed Ren Yuan, who was the size of a grain of rice, in one gulp...

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The scene before Ren Yuan's eyes changed, shifting to the inner universe within his body.

The invasion of Yinglong naturally caused a tremor in the three realms of this world, and soon alarmed the three Corpse Gods in the upper, middle and lower realms.

But the Three Corpse Gods, having been stopped so many times by the Shangqing Jade Talisman, were no longer agitated this time. They simply watched the Yinglong descend into the world together with the Nine-Headed Giant Insect.

Sure enough, as soon as Yinglong appeared, the Shangqing Jade Talisman also appeared on time, emitting strands of azure energy to form a blue barrier that firmly sealed off the Three Corpse Realms.

"Sigh..." The three corpse gods sighed in unison, knowing that this death was coming again.

This time, however, they didn't go straight back to the palace to sleep. Instead, they continued to watch the show with cold indifference... In the last great battle, all those Taoist priests living in the jade talisman were already dead. How could those cowardly Twenty-Four True Ones possibly defeat a fully-formed Yinglong?
"If you don't let us out, those twenty-four idiots will be eaten like candy by Yinglong!" The Upper Corpse God, Peng Ju, was entirely indigo blue, shaped like a towering centipede, with a fleshy crown on its head resembling a Taoist lotus crown, and its hundred legs tipped with barbs. He shouted at the green plaque in the air. "Shatter this world, and we'll all be finished!" the Middle Corpse God, Peng Zan, also shouted. It was a gigantic, pale worm, with human faces at its head and tail. Its abdomen was transparent, revealing hundreds of tiny worms inside, all manifestations of human jealousy and resentment.

"Die, it would be better if they all died! It would end it all!" The Corpse God Peng Yao was formed from anger and desire. His body was in the shape of a crimson scorpion with a nine-segmented barb on his tail. Blood beads seeped from his pores all over his body. The blood beads turned into demons as soon as they hit the ground, attracting evil spirits into his body.

As expected, just as the Three Corpse Gods had said, Yinglong had begun to display his divine power and wantonly destroy this world, while the Twenty-Four True Ones were still reluctant to show themselves.

Seeing the mountains crumbling, the seas evaporating, and the heavens and earth shrinking, the Three Corpses and Nine Worms laughed excitedly: "I knew Twenty-Four Cowards wouldn't dare to make a move without help! Now we'll all just wait to die!"

Before he finished speaking, eight figures flew up from Jade Capital Mountain. They were the Eight Scenic Gods of the Upper Realm, led by Jueyuanzi.

"Fool. Heaven and earth are about to collapse, what is there to be afraid of dying for?" Jueyuanzi coldly glanced at the three trapped corpse gods.

“That’s right,” said the Eight Central Scenery Gods, led by the Throat God Bai Liufang, who flew out from the Crimson Emperor Palace. “With the leaders of the Shangqing Sect sacrificing themselves before us, how could we, the Body Gods, be afraid of death?”

"Fellow Daoists, today it is our turn to die!" The Stomach God, along with Wei Yu and his eight subordinate scenic gods, flew out from the Yellow Court Sea and shouted, "Attack together!"

"Go!" The twenty-four immortals transformed into twenty-four streams of light of different colors and flew towards the overwhelming Yinglong!
The two sides were locked in combat in the blink of an eye.

The sword in the hand of the God of Brains Jueyuanzi shot out thousands of golden rays, each ray of light capable of piercing through mountains, but was slapped horizontally by the dragon's wings, and the golden light shattered into a rain of stars.

The God of Hair, Xuanfu Hua, transformed his three thousand strands of black hair into star chains, which bound the dragon's horns, but were burned off by the Reverse Scale Crimson Flame.

Mu Shenling Jiansheng widened his 'Yin-Yang Pupils', which could freeze time, attempting to immobilize Yinglong. However, Yinglong only hesitated for a moment before roaring and shattering its shackles. At the same time, lightning shot from its dragon eyes, causing Mu Shenling's pupils to shatter like glass!
The spirit of Li Yili possessed unparalleled strength in both arms, capable of uprooting mountains and overturning seas. In a flash, his body swelled to the size of Yinglong, and taking advantage of the moment when Yinglong was trapped by Xuanfu Hua and Ling Jiansheng, he suddenly grabbed the dragon's body around the waist and slammed it to the ground.

Yinglong never expected that a mere Body God would possess such immense power. Caught off guard, his body was sent flying, crashing into Jade Capital Mountain and then slamming heavily onto the ground, piercing through the Yellow Court Earth Vein. Ten thousand feet of earth fire surged forth, instantly engulfing Yinglong's massive body.

"It's done?!" The other two Eight Views were deeply shocked. It seems that the Eight Views of the upper part have been practicing their combined attack technique diligently lately, and they actually defeated the evil dragon without the other party having to lift a finger.

"How is that possible?" Jueyuanzi gave a bitter smile and said, "Didn't you feel the dragon's breath growing stronger? This time, not only did it not harm him, it has completely enraged him. Everyone, be careful..."

Before the words were finished, a dragon's roar was heard. Yinglong roared to the sky, flapped its wings, and flew up from the lava.

In an instant, wind and thunder surged between heaven and earth, and the mountains and rivers within his body, spanning thirty million miles, trembled!

"Fellow Daoists, let's stop hiding our secrets!" Throat God Bai Liufang roared, his voice no less imposing than Yinglong's.

"Let's all unleash our ultimate techniques and fight Yinglong to the death!!"

(End of this chapter)