Recruit demons to become heroes, hunt demons to become gods

Chapter 174: Surviving the Peach Blossom Tribulation

Dou Eqing did not completely believe Kuang Meiluo's words. She first asked Hua Bubai to tie her up tightly with vine tentacles, and then she quickly cleaned up the battlefield and collected the spoils.

Then he found a secret place and sat cross-legged, trying to use his skills to refine the poison of Ju Yan.

However, the more he refined the poison, the deeper he became. The blood in his body was boiling with desire, as if his whole body was burning in flames. His lower body was swollen and unbearable, and it seemed like it was about to explode at any time.

In desperation, Dou Eqing directly asked for Kuang Meiluo.

Originally, he was going to spare Kuang Meiluo's life out of the bond between husband and wife, but he didn't expect that Ju Yan's poison had another hidden trick, and he was almost killed by her because her essence was exhausted.

Although Dou Eqing used force at the beginning, he became gentler as the situation improved.

His actions gave Kuang Meiluo the illusion that she could fight back.

She first tried to please him and cooperated with Dou Eqing to detoxify him through dual cultivation.

In the world of desire, even monks with strong willpower can easily lose themselves and sink to the peak of bliss.

At this moment, Kuang Meiluo activated the hidden power of the Juyan poison, causing Dou Eqing to fly thousands of miles away without knowing it, and he couldn't stop himself no matter what.

When Dou Eqing woke up from his abyss, he found that he had no strength to lift his body, and he couldn't even concentrate his consciousness to fight back.

Because the poison of Ju Yan had a profound impact on his mental strength.

Fortunately, Hua Bubai was asked to guard outside, and Kuang Meiluo was so proud of himself that he ignored Hua Bubai's existence.

Dou E quietly informed Hua Bubai.

Hua Bubai used his devouring talent skill and transformed himself into a giant carnivorous plant, swallowing Dou Eqing and the other man who were still in love into the flower.

Kuang Meiluo came to Hua Bubai's home court without any preparation, and was immediately possessed by Hua Bubai, and his body was completely controlled by Hua Bubai.

Although Dou Eqing was rescued, his cultivation level plummeted due to the energy being taken away.

Fortunately, in the previous battle, he used the White Tiger Demon-Slaying Sword to swallow the cultivation of several Jindan cultivators and stored them in his body, and he was not an ordinary Yuanying cultivator.

Otherwise, if he had been taken advantage of by a powerful cultivator at the peak of the Spirit Transformation Realm, even if he had not died, his cultivation would have fallen back to the Golden Core Realm.

In the end, it was his spiritual body that stepped forward to block the disaster, causing his Nascent Soul cultivation to stop at the early stage of the Nascent Soul.

This caused his spiritual body to become weak and sluggish, requiring him to rebuild his spiritual body or find Essence Pills to repair his spiritual body.

When Dou Eqing discovered this result, he felt like crying but had no tears.

"Master, do you want more?"

Hua Bubai controlled Kuang Meiluo's body and asked Dou Eqing.

"no no no!"

Dou Eqing said "no" three times in a row and hurriedly withdrew from Kuang Meiluo.

At this time, his originally powerful body at the peak of the fourth level was weakened and looked a little skinny.

However, although his physical strength is no longer at the peak of the fourth level, it is still a fourth-level physical body.

He realized that his body was in such a poor condition, and the first thing he thought of was the Yangyuan Spring in the Ziwei Immortal Mansion.

So he hurried back to Ziwei Fairy Mansion, hoping to use the effects of Yangyuan Spring to nourish his body.

He had just come in, but he didn't expect to run into the Zhong sisters bathing and practicing here.

Xu Ci refined the Zhong sisters into clones and was about to complete them. The two could be separated through the melt.

In fact, it is a reverse method of letting Zhong Li occupy Xu Ci's body, and Xu Ci herself hides in the body obtained by the fusion of the Zhong sisters.

"Master... Junior Brother, is that you?"

Zhong Li asked Dou Eqing uncertainly.

"I had a minor health accident. I need to recuperate in Yangyuanquan for a while."

After Dou Eqing finished speaking, he began to meditate and practice in the spring water.

"He has encountered the peach blossom evil, also known as the peach blossom calamity."

Xu Ci controlled the body of her clone and said with a bit of gloating.

When she took control of her body, Zhong Liu's appearance and even her entire body immediately turned into Xu Ci.

"Sister Xu, didn't you say you wanted to sleep?"

Zhong Li's attention was distracted by Xu Ci's sudden appearance.

"Dou Lang's ghostly appearance has awakened me. Okay, I will continue to sleep. You two sisters continue to practice combining and separating the two bodies according to the method I taught you."

After Xu Ci finished speaking, her body turned into Zhong Liu again.

"Sister, are you okay?"

Zhong Li asked with concern.

"I'm fine. I didn't expect that Junior Brother, despite having so much luck in love, would also have a peach blossom disaster."

Zhong Liu said slowly.

"He deserves it!"

"Sister, have you fallen in love with me?"

"Sister is still the same."

"This is fate beyond our control. What can we do if we like it?"

"Don't worry, sister. We were the first to encounter Junior Brother Dou, and Sister Xu has become his demon slave. As long as Junior Brother Dou improves his cultivation, he will definitely be able to save us from suffering."

Zhong Li comforted.

His words were meant to comfort Zhong Liu as well as himself.

The two sisters were transformed by Xu Ci using her magic power, and somehow sensed their fate and became Xu Ci's vassals.

This made me feel like I was dead even though I was alive, and I had lost hope in life and the future.

In the outside world, after Dou Eqing left, Kuang Meiluo was completely desperate.

Originally, she still had a chance to redeem herself. The consequences brought about by Ju Yan's poison were not irreversible, but Dou Eqing just didn't know about it.

Moreover, once bitten by a snake, one will be afraid of ropes for ten years. Dou Eqing no longer dared to believe what Kuang Meiluo said.

If Dou Eqing signed a co-existence contract with Kuang Meiluo, and then refined Kuang Meiluo into a clone, he could restore his body and cultivation in a very short time by fusing the original body and the clone.

Kuang Meiluo explained this method to Hua Bubai and then begged for mercy.

"Saving me would be of great use to him. I'm at the peak of the Spiritual Transformation Realm, halfway into the Void Refinement Realm. Once I break through to the Void Refinement Realm, even as his slave, I'd be of immense value."

"No need. Master, I am enough for you."

After Hua Bubai finished speaking, she activated her devouring and fusion technique.

Although Kuang Meiluo was besieged and seriously injured, her cultivation was still there. After Hua Bubai swallowed her and merged with her, her cultivation could be greatly improved.

However, when Hua Bubai was about to merge with Kuang Meiluo at a critical moment, disaster struck because of Dou Eqing's misfortune.

Legend has it that any monk who encounters Tao Hong'e will be unlucky for a long period of time, and Dou Eqing's story is half-true.

This is mainly because he has the Ziwei Immortal Mansion. If he didn’t have the Ziwei Immortal Mansion, the disaster would have fallen directly on his head.

It turned out that Qian Tu came to rob Dou Eqing and before leaving, he specifically instructed his servants to find Jie Shancai half a day later and sell him the information that Dou Eqing was carrying a treasure.

Jie Shancai is a group of independent cultivators who make a living by robbery. They have been entrenched in Cailang Village, 300 miles northwest of the independent cultivator market.

In fact, Qian Yu was just being cautious, fearing that Dou Eqing had a powerful backer. He wanted to divert the blame and let Jie Shancai kill Dou Eqing to silence him.

Although Jie Shancai's name contains the word "Shan", he is extremely cruel and vicious, and never leaves anyone alive when robbing.

Moreover, Jie Shancai is a group composed entirely of powerful people in the God Transformation Stage, with a total of hundreds of cultivators, and at least eight people traveling each time.

Few monks who were robbed by the Shancai group escaped with their lives.

Although it was said that Dou Eqing was only at the Nascent Soul stage, due to the precious treasures, the eight people who came included two at the late stage of the Spirit Transformation stage, one at the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation stage, and five at the early stage of the Spirit Transformation stage.

If there weren't two people in the late stage of the Divine Transformation Realm, Hua Bubai could have held out for a while even if he was beaten.

Fortunately, these eight people did not know that Hua Bubai was Dou Eqing's man. When they met Hua Bubai while looking for Dou Eqing, the leading monk did not attack her immediately, but wanted to subdue her, the man-eating plant.

After all, Hua Bubai now looks like a late-stage cultivator. With her, there will be an additional late-stage Spirit Transformation combat power. Subduing her is equivalent to directly doubling the combat power.

In this way, Hua Bubai has room to maneuver.

"Friend Hua, I see that your cultivation is not easy. How about eating delicious food and drinking spicy drinks with me in the future?"

"I think that guy is more compatible with me. How would I like to date him?"

Hua Bubai pointed her jade finger at the cultivator in the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm and said in a delicate voice.

This cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul Realm had the most outstanding appearance among the eight people. After being fooled by her, the cultivator in the late stage of the Nascent Soul Realm thought Hua Bubai was serious.

The cultivator in the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm was even more ecstatic. He looked at the pretty human-shaped Hua Bubai standing in the center of the man-eating plant and felt his heart moved.

"Bian Lang, what do I do with this man-eating plant?"

The leader of the late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator spoke to the mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator named Bian Lang in a tough tone.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, look."

Bian Lang looked at the other late-stage Jindan cultivator with an embarrassed expression, hoping that the other party would speak a fair word to him.

This cultivator named Zhou who was in the late stage of the Jindan stage was a female cultivator. They had had an intimate relationship in secret. Bian Lang was pinning his hopes on their fleeting romance to resolve the problem.

What a pity. If it was an ordinary treasure, Monk Zhou Xing might have said something for Bian Lang.

But Hua Bubai transformed into a fairy who was more beautiful and charming than the monk surnamed Zhou. Even if it was a fleeting relationship, the monk surnamed Zhou felt uncomfortable and did not intend to support Bian Lang.

What's more, Bian Lang's action was equivalent to exposing the fact that the two had a secret relationship.

The female cultivator surnamed Zhou pretended not to know Bian Lang and said nothing.

However, the team leader Gu Mang found out about their secret relationship, which was not meant to be known to others. As he had once pursued a female cultivator named Zhou, he felt very unhappy.

"You son of a bitch, she's just backing you up, and this carnivorous plant is mine too! I'm blind, how could I fall for such a withered flower."

Gu Mang said angrily.

His words affected the female cultivator named Zhou. "Watch your mouth. You need to be self-aware and look in the mirror more often."

The female cultivator surnamed Zhou said this in a sarcastic tone.

Her words made Gu Mang even more angry, and he responded sharply:

"I'm flattering you by calling you a shrew. Don't hang around in front of me anymore, you're polluting my eyes."

……

Then we started arguing with each other.

During this process, Hua Bubai lured Bian Lang to come and sign a spirit pet contract with him.

"Brother, now that we have done what we preach, he can't take it away from us, right?"

"it is good!"

Bian Lang came to Hua Bubai as if possessed by a ghost and made some hand gestures.

However, just as Bian Lang was about to complete the contract hand gesture, his action was discovered by Gu Mang.

"I told you, she already belongs to me. If you dare to take what's mine, you'll know how to write death!"

Gu Mang said this while interrupting the hand gestures that Bian Lang was performing.

However, he was so angry that he forgot how to control the strength of his attack, and Bian Lang was fully immersed in the hand gestures and had no time to resist.

So, Gu Mang's move knocked Bian Lang away, and where he fell, a vine of Hua Bubai was standing there like a sharp sword.

If nothing unexpected happened, an accident would happen, and Bian Lang would be pierced through the chest by the vines as if he was committing suicide.

Then, Hua Bubai used his mental power to quickly control Bian Lang.

"I'm not afraid of you, go to hell!"

Bian Lang rushed towards Gu Mang frantically.

"I want to die to help you!"

Seeing this, Gu Mang drew his sword and slashed at Bian Lang without hesitation.

After the two fought for a while, the female cultivator named Zhou gradually realized that something was wrong. She inferred that Bian Lang might be controlled by Hua Bubai because the tentacles of Hua Bubai's vines were always connected to Bian Lang.

She calmly tried to cut the vine, but it was too late.

Seeing that she had discovered the secret, Hua Bubai directly controlled Bian Lang to attack Gu Mang by self-destructing.

Gu Mang would never believe that Bian Lang wanted to die.

When he attacked Bian Lang, at most he would teach him a lesson and he didn't care about taking his life.

And Bian Lang actually wanted to die with him by self-destructing.

Therefore, Bian Lang's self-explosion caught Gu Mang off guard, and half of his body was blown away.

If it weren't for the sixth-level healing pill, Gu Mang's body would have been completely destroyed.

Gu Mang was so cruel that he almost went crazy.

His anger led him to make a hasty decision.

His soul escaped from his body and teleported into the center of the eyebrows of an early stage Jindan cultivator, taking over his body on the spot.

This cultivator is the one he has been cultivating as his substitute, to be used as a vehicle to take over another body when he loses his physical body.

Therefore, he had already made a hidden move on this monk and succeeded in taking over his body with ease.

"Kill! Kill this witch for me!"

After Gu Mang took over the body, he gradually woke up and realized that it was Hua Bubai's ghost.

However, Hua Bubai knew that he was exposed, so he immediately shrank back and sank two meters into the ground, and the attacks of the crowd fell into the air.

However, because she is now at the critical moment of merging with Kuang Meiluo, moving her body this distance is already the limit.

Although the attacks of the crowd fell into the air, they also exposed her true form.

So, the five Jindan monks launched a fierce attack on Hua Bubai, who had shrunk like a big rock.

Only the female cultivator named Zhou ignored Gu Mang's order, did not launch an attack, and became a bystander.

She believes that she is the strongest team now and should be the one leading it.

However, she endured it for a while and did not take the initiative to seize power. Instead, she waited until they were frustrated before standing up.

As he expected, the five early stage Jindan cultivators were helpless against Hua Bubai.

After all, the body of her carnivorous plant is the physical body of a peak-level incarnation, and with the subsequent continuous fusion, its defense is extremely powerful.

Gu Mang barely managed to activate a fifth-grade, top-grade talisman, but was unable to break through Hua Hua Invincible's defense.

After the final bombardment, the five of them gradually felt powerless.

"Fairy Zhou, we are all working hard to kill the enemy, and you are just standing there watching. How can this be justified?"

Gu Mang had no choice but to vent his anger on the female cultivator named Zhou.

However, the female cultivator surnamed Zhou was just waiting for them to turn their attention to herself, and Gu Mang gave her a topic to target him.

"I just want to see what kind of ditch you, a foolish leader, will eventually lead the team into. Then I can rescue you."

The female cultivator surnamed Zhou sneered.

"court death!"

Gu Mang was already angry, and the words of the female cultivator surnamed Zhou made him unable to suppress his anger any longer. He even wanted to teach the female cultivator surnamed Zhou a lesson, but he didn't expect that the female cultivator surnamed Zhou would get what she wanted.

Gu Mang was so angry that he forgot that he had taken over another body, which led to a decline in his cultivation level. He was no longer able to reach the late stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm.

The two fought for less than two hundred rounds before Gu Mang became defenseless. After another hundred rounds, Gu Mang was completely defeated.

"Gu, are you convinced?"

The female cultivator named Zhou stepped on Gu Mang's chest and crushed his chest with her foot while speaking.

"Mr. Zhou, from now on, I will never be reconciled with you. If you have the guts, kill me now, or I will strip you naked and conquer you sooner or later!"

Gu Mang roared with a red face.

"is it?"

The female cultivator named Zhou sneered, shook her feet vigorously, and Gu Mang became naked first.

Her feet continued to swim downwards.

"It's so humiliating, do you still have the dignity to be a man? Or why not just give up this thing?"

His threat made Gu Mang tremble in his heart.

"Fairy Zhou, please treat me like a piece of shit. I know I was wrong."

Gu Mang had to suppress his anger and plead humbly.

"late!"

"what!"

The two spoke almost at the same time, but Gu Mang's scream of pain drowned out the soft voice of the female cultivator named Zhou.

Moreover, the female cultivator surnamed Zhou did not stop after crippling Gu Mang, and kicked him into a two-meter-deep pit that Hua Bubai had dug.

The female cultivator named Zhou used Gu Mang as bait to test Hua Bubai's reaction.

Hua Bubai was unmoved and didn't respond at all.

She remembered what Dou Eqing said, that she would only merge with beautiful female cultivators and not male cultivators.

Besides, she has not yet refined Kuang Meiluo and cannot devour other Divine Transformation cultivators.

However, the female cultivator named Zhou has a higher IQ than Hua Bubai. Hua Bubai's failure to respond is also a response for the female cultivator named Zhou.

She half-clenched her right hand, and a huge spiritual hand appeared out of thin air.

The size of this spiritual power is several times larger than the big pit where Hua Bubai is.

She then controlled her spiritual power hand and scooped up the big pit, and Hua Bubai was caught in the palm of her spiritual power hand.

Hua Bubai, who had shrunk into a big stubborn stone, rolled on the big spiritual hand for a while and then stopped. Hua Bubai was really unable to move now.

Just when the female cultivator named Zhou Zhou was feeling proud of herself, someone attacked her from behind.

Gu Mang's confidant Gu Chen took the fifth-grade top-grade disturbing talisman given by Gu Mang and first attacked the female cultivator named Zhou from behind.

The disturbing talisman is different from other attacking talismans. It is silent when activated and successfully avoids the perception of the female cultivator named Zhou.

The moment the female cultivator surnamed Zhou lost consciousness due to the attack of the disturbing talisman, the other three cultivators also attacked her with talismans.

The most ruthless one is Gu Mang.

When the female cultivator surnamed Zhou was enduring the damage from the disturbing talisman and turned around to deal with the three attacks of the spiritual talismans behind her, the newly possessed body rushed to the back of the female cultivator surnamed Zhou and then attacked her by self-destructing.

Zhou Xinuxiu was originally affected by the disturbing talisman, which caused her combat power to be abnormal. Now she was attacked by the self-detonation of the incarnation cultivator.

The result was the same as what happened to Gu Mang, half of his body was blown away.

However, the female cultivator surnamed Zhou made a different choice from Gu Mang, and did not give up her physical body.

With her cultivation level at the late stage of the incarnation, even if half of her body was destroyed by the self-explosion and her combat power was greatly reduced, she still had the combat power of the peak of the middle stage of the spirit transformation.

Therefore, she took care of her own injuries first and launched a crazy revenge.

At this time, some of the merits for Hua Bubai's previous killing of Bian Lang with his mental power, as well as the killing of the early stage of the Divine Transformation cultivator Gu Mang who took over Bian Lang's body due to his self-explosion, were attributed to Dou Eqing.

These merits are combined to give Dou Eqing one fifth-level merit.

The sudden increase in fifth-level merit made Dou Eqing look outside the Ziwei Immortal Mansion, and he saw Hua Bubai being used as a weapon by the female cultivator named Zhou and being smashed towards Gu Mang, as well as the miserable appearance of the female cultivator named Zhou being besieged.

Dou Eqing hesitated whether to go out and "pick up" the fifth-level merit. This opportunity was too rare.

Judging from the attitude of the female cultivator surnamed Zhou, she will kill her opponent if she catches him. If he doesn't go out now, it may be too late to kill the Jindan cultivator from the female cultivator surnamed Zhou.

(End of this chapter)