Tumor Sword Immortal

Chapter 326 Ru Tao
It's going to be difficult to put it back together; the bones in several joints are broken, and even steel nails can't be inserted.

Pei Xia could only wander around the empty, dark underground with Pei Lan's head in her arms.

At first, he held it with both hands, but later he felt that it would be dangerous if there was an emergency, so he started holding it with one hand.

Later, she felt that this was too unstable, so in the end, Pei Xia simply grabbed what little hair she had left and used her head to find her way.

Judging from the echoes of the previous conversation, the sealed-off area should be extremely vast and empty, but unfortunately Pei Xia's spiritual power was exhausted at this time, and the spiritual light in his hand was also very weak, so he could not see the full picture of this underground cavity at all.

He could only see the strange black ground within a foot of his body.

These black things resembled cooled lava, but instead of forming a flowing lava shape, they carved winding and twisting grooves into the seemingly flat ground.

These dents resemble intertwined snakes, densely covering the entire underground.

"Wasn't it said that the cursed pig was sealed away?" Pei Lan was being held and swayed back and forth, but fortunately, since only half of her head was left, she didn't feel too uncomfortable.

In her other hand, Pei Xia was holding a demon beast's inner core, rapidly absorbing its spiritual power.

Although it's a mixed bag, it's better than nothing.

The massive inner cauldron certainly wouldn't be able to be fully filled in a short time, but it could at least make his spiritual light shine brighter.

Unfortunately, even when the light shone ten feet away, all that could be seen was a black stone surface that was hard, dark, and covered with winding grooves.

He tried looking up.

Perhaps because it was too deep, he couldn't even find the hole where he had fallen, nor could he see any burning lava.

Pei Xia could only sigh: "If it weren't for the existence of the Zhen Gu, I would probably also doubt whether there is a Calamity Pig here."

His tone rarely revealed a sense of dejection and bewilderment.

With his current Profound Realm strength, he always felt that this trip to Liancheng Fire Vein would not go smoothly.

But the reality was the opposite of what he thought.

Before entering the illusion, Pei Lan was unable to discover his identity.

Ye Baicha didn't need him to take action; Zong Heng, whom he thought would be a formidable enemy, was simply eliminated.

And then there's Xing Ye. Even if we don't recognize him and don't need to consider what happened back then, just considering the recent schemes of the Changjing Sect against the Martial Arts Platform, he has enough reason and strength to take action against Pei Xia.

But no, no one ever bothered him.

Moreover, Rutao's fiefdom is located at the core of Liancheng Fire Vein, which is the ancestor of the Nine Provinces Earth Vein.

Pei Xia and Fu Hongshuang didn't dare to enter this place back then. He thought that with his profound cultivation, it would be very difficult to resist the heat wave, but it turned out to be calm and peaceful.

Even with the "suppressing bone," without the chance to find a bone fragment, it would be difficult to discover the secrets of the ancient people's sealing and suppressing.

It felt like I'd prepared for eighty-one tribulations, only to be told upon leaving that there was a direct flight available.

Should we be happy?

No, Pei Xia was very nervous, especially now that she thought back on how all the difficulties had been resolved, how the right time, place, and people had come together as needed... Rather than it being a matter of good fortune and concerted efforts, it seemed more like some kind of preordained arrangement.

Why didn't I realize it earlier?
Pei Xia pursed her lips: "Your current condition is probably also an effect of the 'Curse Pig'..."

Pei Xia looked at the head in her hand, hesitated for a moment, and then cautiously guessed, "I even suspect that you might be a hallucination of mine."

He himself has a monstrous mind, and although he has never been fully freed, judging from his behavior, he should not be able to integrate Pei Lan's consciousness into a dead head.

Pei Lan did not forcefully try to prove her actual existence.

The Taoist priest pondered for a moment: "When the illusion opened, I checked it together with the other celestial beings. The illusion's barrier was intact and without any flaws. So how did it affect me?"

Pei Xia heard that the Liancheng Fire Vein had been experiencing frequent anomalies in recent years, so the various sects of Dongzhou, together with the elite masters of the twelve kingdoms, jointly set up a huge barrier array to block the leakage of the fire vein's power, thus forming the so-called Illusionary Trial Ground.

Pei Lan added, "However, I do think your explanation of hallucination is quite possible, since there are precedents for this kind of thing."

The illusions of the Liancheng Illusionary Realm have misled people, and this has happened more than once in previous trials.

And it wasn't just the cultivators who were confused at the time; some people suffered a complete mental breakdown, went insane, or even underwent a drastic change in temperament, becoming cruel and bloodthirsty.

This is why cultivators above the Transformation Realm are not allowed to enter the Illusionary Realm. While a madman in the Opening Mansion Realm can be subdued, once a Transformation Realm cultivator loses their mind, the destructive power brought by their superior cultivation can easily cause disaster.

Pei Xia could only smile wryly: "The so-called Eastern Continent Grand Formation can only block the fire elemental beasts in the fire vein. If the Calamity Pig can break free from the Suppressing Bone, how can the barrier stop it?"

At this point, Pei Xia suddenly paused in surprise.

Yes, if my smooth journey was due to the calamity of fate, then wouldn't it have already broken free of the seal on my bones? Yet, before I jumped into the abyss, the four embankments were clearly intact.

Pei Xia slowly stopped walking.

What if it wasn't Ru Tao?

He began to recall everything that had happened since he arrived at the Liancheng Fire Vein.

Behind that long-lost, complete tranquility lies everything he saw, heard, did, and gained.

Where does the term "Flame Eyebrow Tail" come from?
When did he put on the gray robe?

How could there be fragments of bone-suppressing material on a corpse that was originally empty?
Who is secretly helping me?
"You forgot?" Pei Lan looked up at him, her eyes rolling back as she held his hand.

"You used the Fire Virtue technique to kill Cheng Huoxiao and seize the Flame Eyebrow Tail."

"It was you who found the fragments of the Bone-Suppressing Stone while wearing a gray robe."

"It was you who used the brain worm to control Ye Baicha's corpse and led you all the way to Fengzhen."

"Have you forgotten?"

Pei Lan's voice echoed in the empty darkness.

The scene before Pei Xia's eyes began to change constantly.

The Fire Deity devoured Cheng Huoxiao's magical artifact, swallowing it whole with its enormous maw of blood and fire, leaving not even ashes behind.

The hand, burned to the bone by the ancestral fire, found that pale bone fragment on the charred remains left from countless years ago.

The brain worm, wagging its chubby little tail, burrowed into Ye Baicha's brain through her nostrils and escorted her as she fell into the massive sealed void.

……No!

Pei Xia said sternly, "I only used the brain worm to control Ye Baicha!"

Pei Lan laughed, half her head dangling in his hand: "You? Which one is you?"

The moment the words left his mouth, the scene before Pei Xia's eyes suddenly changed.

The light seemed to be coming from above. He looked into the distance, where the rocky ground, with its winding, dark grooves, stretched into the endless darkness. His vision was very low, which was very strange.

He tried to turn his body, but he could only feel as if someone was grabbing his hair.

Pei Xia's voice came from above: "Didn't you want to know where you are?"

The hand gripping her hair trembled, and Pei Xia felt herself being tossed high into the air.

Half of his head was thrown high into the air, spinning rapidly.

From an overhead view, it was originally pitch black.

Suddenly, however, the winding indentations in those black rock surfaces began to seep out blood-red flames, one by one.

Blood and fire illuminated all the darkness.

The so-called ground was actually a huge sphere with an imperceptible curvature!
The scene shifted again, and Pei Xia's consciousness returned to her body.

He watched as the dark rock beneath his feet slowly melted, its cooled outer shell shedding to reveal a soft, sticky fleshy color.

Blood streaks and thick, creamy liquid flowed beneath their feet, and chunks of flesh undulated, pulsating gently as if breathing.

It is the human brain.

Countless human brains gathered together to form this enormous tumor, cooled at the bottom of the sealed town!
Ye Baicha's head, which had been tossed high into the air, slammed to the ground with a "thud."

His face was shattered, only his lips remained parted: "Aren't you happy?"

Are you unhappy?

Isn't what you're looking for Ru Tao?

He is right in front of you now.

That enormous tumor, seemingly transcending the concept of "life," emanated a captivating aura from the primordial era with each tremor.

(End of this chapter)