Cursed Mountains and Seas

Chapter 258 The Six-Day Old Qi of the Ba Hui Bad Medicine Ghost!

Last time, Wang Cheng used the "Debt Collector" to skin the Child Rejuvenator and obtain the "Golden Chamber Bedtime Techniques," without triggering a counterattack from the Six Heavens' Old Qi behind him.

This time, Wang Cheng had already been promoted to the fifth-rank Water Balance Commandant and had ventured deep into the inland. He was in an impenetrable formation, with a layer of mountain and sea curses separating him from the outside, which made him even bolder.

They stopped pretending and demanded the money from the other party while he was seriously injured!

In any case, the "gratitude for raising and nurturing" inherited from Mao Haifeng is something that can never be repaid.

It will probably take until the Rejuvenating Immortal returns to the state before he descended into this body, and his divided soul comes naked and leaves naked, before he can be said to have repaid all the kindness of Master Wang.

All the gains made during this period must be left behind.

creak!

The Rejuvenating Immortal felt an invisible, immense force descend upon his Blood Pagoda. This natal magic weapon, which was identical to his essence, seemed about to fly away, causing his expression to change drastically.

"Robber! Stop right there!"

This self-proclaimed immortal scoundrel from the celestial realm outside the wall, while ruthless and without any bottom line, cannot be denied that he is extremely inexperienced in dealing with the dangers of society such as imperial power, gentry, and armed maritime merchants.

Immortals dwell in the mountains. Having lived there for so long, they are oblivious to the changing seasons in the human world and lack the harsh realities of life.

Wang Cheng was wrestling with him on this side.

Yan Yunxiao, who was beside her, flipped her hand and took out three treasures: the Heavenly Talisman, the Earthly Seal, and the Human Technique.

The Heavenly Talisman is a golden talisman engraved with mysterious runes, with clouds and mist seemingly flowing between them; the Earthly Seal is a bronze seal engraved with mountains and rivers.

Finally, the Human Formula:

"Human secrets are invisible, but reside in the heart. Heaven changes, earth follows its own laws, and humans have seven emotions and six desires. By understanding the human heart, one can connect with heaven and earth and control the battle."

These three techniques combined form the secret military manual, "Yin Fu Jing: Nine Heavens Striking Nine Earths," bestowed by the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden and used by the Yellow Emperor to achieve unparalleled victories!
Above Yunxiao's head, a surge of military energy, as turbulent as boiling oil, appeared. A thousand temple soldiers, the ghosts of Gaoli, emerged from the clouds, forming ranks that surrounded the Rejuvenating Immortal and the Blood Pagoda in the center, chanting in unison:
"The way to fight is to strike from the highest heavens to the deepest earth."

The Nine Heavens are represented by the Azure Dragon in spring, the Vermilion Bird in summer, the White Tiger in autumn, and the Black Tortoise in winter. These four deities constitute the Nine Heavens, and their counterpart is the Nine Earths!

It is now late July, the end of summer, and the location of the Nine Heavens is naturally the Vermilion Bird of the Four Symbols!

"Wow—!"

The incense smoke in the mountains was strong, and the golden-red divine light surged. Suddenly, a crimson Vermilion Bird swooped down from the heavens.

It stretched out its claws and fiercely struck the blood-red pagoda.

The Rejuvenating Immortal was attacked from both above and below, and half of his lower leg was smashed into the ground, rendering him unable to move.

Unwilling to sit idly by and await his death, he unleashed his inner light and guided a streak of blood-red light on the Floating Pagoda to form a symbol—the Yin-Yang Embryo.

"go with!"

A streak of blood suddenly shot towards Wang Cheng.

With the Immortal of Rejuvenation's mastery of magic, even men cannot escape its power. The talisman will instantly form a tumor-like false embryo based on the yin and yang energies, which will then completely drain the person.

Once he enters the two-way protective phase, he has a chance to re-establish balance and turn the tide.

The streak of light was as fast as lightning, and it struck Wang Cheng suddenly.

It was about to take root and sprout inside him.

Snapped!
Having witnessed this move before, Wang Cheng clasped his hands together and activated his innate extraordinary ability, the Yin-Yang Hand, causing the Yin and Yang energies to flow rapidly around his body.

It benefits from its own yin-yang incarnation, which contains yin within yang and yang within yin, and can transform into each other.

On a [Yin-Yang Transformation Talisman] exclusively belonging to the Water Balance Commandant, the eyes of the Yang fish rapidly expanded while the eyes of the Yin fish collapsed, instantly reversing Yin and Yang.

The tiny Yin-Yang embryo instantly disappeared under the overwhelming Yin-Yang Qi within Wang Cheng's body, and was digested into part of the Yin-Yang Transformation Talisman.

He then transformed back into his original form as the Prince Jinghai, who had once "delivered" the child-returning immortal, and switched to an evil spirit body, with his eyes becoming square coin-shaped.

"Send the royal ship, set sail!"

The shadow beneath their feet rapidly expanded to the feet of the Rejuvenating Immortal as the milky white mirage spread.

A chilling wind howled, and countless pale, malevolent hands reached out from the shadows beneath their feet, gripping the young immortal's calves, thighs, arms, and head, forcefully pulling at his soul.

They wanted to forcibly capture this only fragment of his soul that he had projected into the world inside the wall and bring it onto the king's ship.

Once this fragment of his soul is gone, no matter how many backup plans he has prepared elsewhere, they will all be meaningless.

"Ahhh, I remember now, it's you!"
You are Mao Haifeng's sworn brother and Wang Cuiqiao's brother-in-law. And you're even a sentient evil spirit!

The Immortal of Rejuvenation naturally remembered the first person he saw when he opened his eyes, but that was all; it was of no use in resolving his dangerous situation.

If placed outside, Wang Cheng's evil spirit body, the "King of Pacification on Behalf of Heaven," would certainly be considered a "great evil spirit," and it would be no joke for him to wreak havoc on the land.

Its core power was to transport various evil spirits to the royal ship, a skill perfectly suited to its role. With the assistance of the beggar-version Mirage Cloud Dragon Ship, it forcibly extracted half of his soul from his body in the blink of an eye. The royal ship immediately began forcibly extracting the Rejuvenating Immortal's memories; information about immortal techniques, the path of dual cultivation of body and spirit, the world outside the walls, and so on, began to leak out.

Having reached this dead end, the Child Rejuvenator calmed down and stared intently at Wang Cheng, saying each word slowly and deliberately:

"You just wait, I will be back sooner or later!"

An extremely complex scarlet talisman immediately lit up on the forehead of this split soul.

The strange runes and seal characters that twisted and turned in the middle formed a supreme name that, once seen, would cause one to hear countless conch shells, wooden fish, chanting, and other hallucinations—[Ba Hui Bad Medicine Ghost]!
"Hiss! This is..."

Wang Cheng and Yan Yunxiao suddenly felt dizzy and lost their balance. All the water around them was quickly turned black by an indescribable, mysterious substance.

It seemed as if some enormous creature, beyond description, was crawling, wandering, and moving through the darkness.

It was unclear whether the vocal organ was a mouth or something else, but it emitted a sticky, low roar that seemed to permeate the very bones with the smells of medicine, incense, and a terrifying stench!

In the instant that the two of them were stunned,

The fragmented soul and body of the Rejuvenating Immortal were the first to succumb to the terrifying pressure brought by this title, and immediately disintegrated, returning to their original state and transforming into a wisp of Six Heavens Old Qi that he had cultivated for many years—Ba Hui Bad Medicine Qi.

First, it obliterated all the information carried in the soul, and then it rushed into the blood-jade-like pagoda.

Om-!
Having briefly regained ownership of this "external debt," it broke free from the Vermilion Bird and the Sending-Off-King Ship, and crashed into the Treasure Pearl Pool, a node of the water vein.

Instead of splashing water, it smashed straight through the boundary between Yin and Yang.

The black vapor mixed with strange light and shadow surged and sprayed like a flood breaking through a dam, sweeping across a radius of about a mile and engulfing Wang Cheng and Yan Yunxiao, who were still in a daze.

When the two landed, they opened their eyes and found themselves in a deep lotus pond, with only a dim light of day far above them.

The mud beneath their feet was slowly climbing up their toes, and it wouldn't take a day to completely engulf them.

The Blood Pagoda, which had merged with the entire flesh, blood, and soul of the Rejuvenating Immortal, returned to calm and landed beside them, having already been successfully seized by Wang Cheng.

This proves that the Child Rejuvenator is indeed dead.

"This place seems to be the historical dregs of Tianbao Mountain [the Snail Girl]."

Both of them had experienced a reversal of fortune, a resurgence of historical dregs, and they recognized the situation at a glance.

Sludge is essentially a terrifying regional "human phenomenon," born from the thoughts of sentient beings and rooted in the earth's veins at the intersection of yin and yang.

Some are dormant, some are active; when dormant they are almost harmless, but when active they are extremely dangerous.

Yuegang has historical dregs [Shigu Diaolong], and Tianbaobei in Tianbaoshan also has historical dregs [Tianluo Girl].

Compared to the perilous former, the latter is a beautiful and simple love story that has remained harmless for a long time, requiring no suppression or sealing.

This time, triggered by the newly refined Blood Pagoda by the Rejuvenating Immortal, it clearly underwent some unexpected changes.

The love story was twisted and grafted by the scum of the immortals, turning it into a deadly place of murder.

Wang Cheng's "rare commodity" strategy immediately grasped the rules of history:
"I. He Baomei, the Snail Girl, was a snail in the lotus pond of Heaven. Because she was playing, she crawled out of the lotus pond, but was struck by lightning and fell into the mud of the human world.

Only by finding someone you truly love can you climb out of the mud and return to the heavens.

Second, the male protagonist, Zhang Tianmiao, secretly pledged his life to her. After three years of loving companionship, he sent her back to Tianbao Weir to return to the celestial realm, and then drowned himself in the water to send his beloved on her final journey.

If one doesn't want to be swallowed up by the mire of negative emotions formed by lovesick men and women, one of the lovers can use their own life to send the other away (suicide is not restricted; mutual killing is also acceptable).

If two people want to go out together, they must have the consent of their parents and the words of a matchmaker.

Mencius, Teng Wen Gong II: "If people do not wait for the command of their parents or the words of a matchmaker, but instead peep at each other through holes and crevices, or climb over walls to meet, then their parents and the people of their country will all despise them."

If someone were to secretly meet with someone they liked without waiting for their parents' permission or a matchmaker's introduction, they would be ridiculed by their parents and society and considered to be disobedient to social norms.

This was clearly a paradox of rules that the Immortal of Rejuvenation had created specifically for them to test their humanity:

To escape together, one needs the consent of one's parents and the words of a matchmaker; but only by escaping can one find parents and matchmakers.

It seems promising, but it's actually impossible to accomplish.

So they only had a second option: if they wanted to get out, one of them had to die!
Given the Immortal's understanding of human nature, in this situation, it's highly likely that both of them would die.

This is also the work of the scum of the immortals who control marriage and childbirth, killing people and destroying their spirit.

After Wang Cheng explained it to A Xiao, he didn't pay any attention to this seemingly unsolvable soul-searching question.

Instead, his gaze was intense, fixed intently on the Dragon Girl:

"Sister A-Xiao, I suddenly remembered something. Why did you choose Tianbao Mountain as the assassination location?"

(End of this chapter)