Tumor Sword Immortal

Chapter 198 This time it's truly in his brain.

Pei Xia couldn't bear to break up their An Sheng Long Chang duo, so she turned around and chose Sai Jiu.

Sai Jiu leaned against the door, glancing sideways and reluctantly clicking her tongue.

“Senior Chen, there’s something else,” Pei Xia said, since she had taken the golden needles, she had to mention it to Cao Heng. “That kid from the Cao family, oh, the one who’s hanging there.”

Chen Fengcai's eyes lit up: "You're willing to take it with you?"

Pei Xia smiled awkwardly: "No, he asked me to pass on a message that he knows he was wrong and is willing to kneel and kowtow to beg the villagers to spare his life."

Chen Fengcai never intended for him to die.

Going with the flow meant that he could be let go, as long as he didn't cause any more trouble.

Pei Xia had delivered his message and wasn't particularly concerned about the fate of this young master of the Cao family. He clasped his hands in a fist salute and took his leave of Chen Fengcai.

Although Sai Jiu was unwilling, since the elder had assigned him to be the guide, he had no choice but to take Pei Xia to the village to prepare supplies.

It mainly consisted of food and crossbow bolts.

Pei Xia looked around and saw that besides salted fish, there was a special kind of "dried grass".

The most abundant fungus in the gut is the yellowish-green fungus, which is actually dried mushroom.

However, the texture was acceptable. Pei Xia tried chewing it. It was quite hard at first, but it softened quickly as it was soaked in saliva. It was bouncy and chewy, and you could taste a slight saltiness, which was probably due to seasoning during the drying process.

It's normal for villagers to go out fishing and hunting, but judging from Sai Jiu's preparations along the way and his conversations with others, it seems that the journey to Naoshan is long and arduous, and even if the villagers know the direction, not many have actually been there.

Only after following Sai Jiu back to the surface did Pei Xia ask about the matter.

Sai Jiu was rather sullen and didn't have much affection for Pei Xia, so he answered dryly, "Naoshan is a sacred mountain, very steep, and there's nothing to do there, so very few people go there."

Pei Xia asked, "Does 'Naoshan' refer to the brain of the sea god?"

Sai Jiu shook her head: "I don't know."

These fish-men are aware that they live inside the belly of a giant creature, but due to the passing of generations, their understanding of the sea god has become very vague, and the image circulating in the villages has gradually become a religiously deified concept.

Chen Fengcai's village is somewhat better; with him as a local figure, at least deep-seated blind faith is avoided.

But according to Sai Jiu, in many other villages, the worship of the sea god has given rise to all sorts of strange doctrines, some of which are fanatical and perverse.

"Especially the three villages at the foot of the sacred mountain, which control the main road up the mountain, make things difficult for those who come to pay homage..."

Sai Jiu said, glancing at Pei Xia, "I'm just a guide. When it really comes down to it, I won't help you."

Making things difficult isn't necessarily a bad thing; it's best to hold Han Youzhi back and make him wait for me to arrive.

He didn't mean to sabotage Han's childish plans; it's just that his experiences over the years have made him subconsciously wary of words like "brain mountain," always feeling that something bad might happen.

Especially inside the body of the sea god.

Many years ago, when he was in the East China Sea, he heard fishermen talk about it and guessed that this guy might be a great demon beast in the Dao Proving Realm hiding in the endless deep sea.

But now that he has actually seen her, especially after entering her womb and feeling the boundless spiritual energy within, he is slowly beginning to realize that he may have underestimated her back then.

When one reaches the twelfth realm and attains Heavenly Consciousness, possessing divine sense that allows one to observe the heavens and the earth, one's understanding of the world deepens, leading to greater reverence. This iron wall of reverence is the wall of enlightenment.

To seize the creation of heaven and earth and achieve one's own destiny, one must fearlessly move forward and complete the path to enlightenment.

When one attains the ultimate enlightenment, one becomes fully aware of oneself, no longer above the earth or below the sky, but returning to the emptiness within one's own heart. One's every move can shake the heavens and the earth, which is called "returning to emptiness".

Consider that wherever the Sea Goddess passes, even clear skies are filled with storms, and the spiritual energy within her belly is boundless and surging. Doesn't this prove that she has reached the realm of returning to emptiness?
Would a powerful demon beast in the Void Returning Realm, knowing that it contains a small world within its belly, allow someone to enter its brain without any precautions? Old Han, you'd better slow down. I didn't come all this way just to collect your corpse.

……

What is Han Youzhi doing?
She's playing hide-and-seek.

In a dark, empty valley, she was carefully making her way up a maze of stone pillars that resembled a spider web.

From the darkness below, heavy footsteps and noisy voices could be heard intermittently.

Hearing a sound approaching, she quickly lay down and hugged the dark brown stone pillar beneath her without moving.

Several clusters of firelight shone in this direction, but because of another horizontal stone pillar, no one noticed Han Youzhi.

A moment later, these people waved their torches and ran off to another location.

Han Youzhi breathed a sigh of relief, got up again, and cautiously moved slowly toward the other stone pillar above her head.

She looked up, and through layers of darkness, she seemed to be able to see that huge object moving gently.

That's the brain of the sea god.

Han Youzhi couldn't see through the shadows, but he could feel the incredibly powerful spiritual energy emanating from above.

She clutched her jade pendant in her hand, which contained her Immortal Guidance Pill. She believed that as long as she could ascend to the mind of the Sea Patrol God, take the pill there, and regulate her breathing and internal energy, she would surely be able to return to the Heavenly Consciousness Realm.

However, after using both hands and feet for only a short while, a noisy sound came from behind again.

"Tsk, these people are really skilled."

Han Youzhi looked down and saw several flames nimbly leaping between the stone pillars.

These tall, thin people guarding the foot of the mountain, though ignorant of cultivation, are bathed in rich spiritual energy year-round, making them almost like wild beasts with spiritual abilities. Not only are they physically strong, comparable to spirits, but some of them have even mastered the ability to manipulate spiritual energy without a teacher, displaying special skills akin to magic.

When Han Youzhi arrived earlier, she had clashed with them. Three or five people were no match for her, but they had three whole villages. She, a dignified cultivator at the Transformation Realm, was beaten and forced to flee in terror.

So what can we do? We can't just start a massacre for our own little bit of luck, can we?

So Han Youzhi camped out in the wilderness for two days, eating mushrooms, and then decided that if open methods didn't work, he'd have to resort to covert ones.

That's how she sneaked into the mountain.

But to her utter surprise, this so-called sacred mountain was just an entrance. Once you reached the summit and looked up, you would only see a huge, suspended cavern filled with a dense network of dark brown stone pillars.

The mind of the sea god is at the very top of this hollow.

Han Youzhi let out a long breath and, before the people below noticed him, continued to climb upwards.

Just like Pei Xia thought, Han Youzhi also felt that the Sea Patrol God wouldn't leave her mind completely unprotected, so she had to conserve her spiritual energy along the way in order to deal with unexpected situations.

Fortunately, Lao Han was in good physical condition, and these fishmen couldn't catch up at all, not even at the very beginning.

As Han Youzhi climbed higher and higher, she gradually felt that the dark brown color on these stone pillars began to fade, revealing a bright blood red color, and the texture was no longer hard, but began to become soft and resilient.

Until, in the darkness, Han Youzhi felt that she was very close to the rhythmic source of spiritual energy.

Two points of light suddenly appeared on that soft brain.

The point of light stared intently at her like an eye.

(End of this chapter)