Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 175 A wandering sorcerer? Fellow Daoist!
Three Immortals Pavilion

The atmosphere was somewhat somber.
On the square table sat a head covered in grease and grime.

Chen Gou'er pouted, wondering why he felt itchy on his head.

Do you need to grow a brain?
Or was it because he had his eyes closed and had been inside that lizard several times, and had overexerted himself?

"Bang~!"

Seeing Chen Gou'er's nonchalant and carefree attitude, the old beggar slammed his hand on the square table.

"Chen Gouer, do you have any conscience? That long lizard, you ate it all by yourself? Give me a perfect explanation!"

Chen Gou'er was startled by the muffled thud, then shouted at the old beggar:

"I didn't finish it. The little paper doll let me have a bite. I was helping her. You can ask the little paper doll if you don't believe me."

The old beggar was amused by the situation and kept pointing at Chen Gou'er with his finger.

"Fine, fine, this is the explanation you came up with after all that thinking? I thought you'd grown a brain, but it turns out you've grown a cerebellum all over, huh?"

Chen Gou'er's eyes darted around, as if trying to analyze the meaning behind the old beggar's words.

The next moment, his face turned serious, and he gave up.

"What brain? Cerebellum? I don't have a brain, and I didn't finish eating!"

The old beggar gave up on communication, angrily rolled up his sleeves, pointed at Chen Gou'er, and cursed:
"Today I'll give you a complete childhood!"

Before he could finish speaking, the old beggar had already rushed to the square table. Chen Gou'er suddenly leaped up, and the two of them instantly clashed.

Li Wushou watched this scene and slowly withdrew his attention from the Three Immortals Pavilion.

He sat cross-legged in the cave, feeling a bit of a headache.

At the same time, he also understood one thing: people do laugh when they are speechless!

Recalling the scene he had just witnessed outside the cave, a smile crept onto his lips.

Chen Gou'er wasn't lying; he really didn't finish it! And it was indeed the Paper Goddess who let him taste a bite.

Just moments ago, Li Wushou and the old beggar realized what had happened inside the Three Immortals Pavilion and arrived outside the cave.

The Paper Goddess was being pressed to the ground by a large rock, and a piece of white paper was tied to her mouth, which was also struggling.

Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the white paper was actually two paper figures cut out by the Paper Goddesses, which Chen Gou'er had folded together and used as a face mask to tie to the faces of the Paper Goddesses.

Two small feet sprouted from Chen Gou'er's head and neck, while his mouth was wide open, running and charging wildly inside the lizard's body.

The paper lizard, roasted to a golden brown and crispy perfection by the paper goddess, was devoured by Chen Gou'er in the blink of an eye.

Why didn't you finish it?
Because Chen Gou'er ate too quickly, one of the lizard's legs fell into the fire. By the time the old beggar rescued it, it was already charred black.

At first glance, Li Wushou couldn't tell whether it was charcoal or the legs of a lizard.

The old beggar tried several times but couldn't bring himself to bite it. Holding up the scorched leg of the lizard, he chased after Chen Gou'er.

When Li Wushou rescued the Paper Goddess from under the big rock, he discovered that Chen Gou'er had left a piece of flesh pressing on the Paper Goddess's chest, and it looked like the Paper Goddess was about to suffocate.

After removing Chen Gou'er's piece of meat, the Paper Goddess gasped for breath and said intermittently:

"Waaah... Second Master, I only let Third Master have a taste, I never expected..."

Li Wushou waved his hand and sent the Paper Goddess back to the White Paper Taoist Temple.

No wonder Chen Gou'er was rushing around with his mouth open the whole time, and his mouth never closed.

Even if your mouth is closed, does that count as a bite?
So it seems Chen Gou'er is actually starting to get a brain? He's even learned to find loopholes in the Paper Goddess's words.

However, it's hard to say for sure, since Chen Gou'er sometimes goes above and beyond when it comes to money and food.

However, judging from Chen Gou'er's increasingly skillful flesh and blood evolution, his control over flesh and blood must have greatly improved.

That's good!

The eerie fog gradually thinned
Li Wushou opened his eyes from his meditation.

The seal on the Three Immortals Pavilion was lifted immediately. The old beggar and Chen Gou'er fought inside the pavilion all night, making so much noise that Li Wushou had a headache.

My mind entered the Three Immortals Pavilion, where the old beggar was lying on the bed, his head covered, asleep.

Chen Gou'er was at the White Paper Taoist Temple next door, where the Paper Goddess was cutting out a paper body for him.

Chen Gou'er also carried away the pile of dismembered body parts and casually threw them on the ground.

Li Wushou calmly examined the old beggar, whose exposed skin was covered with teeth marks that had not yet faded.

Tsk tsk, looks like the battle last night was quite intense.

Li Wushou didn't call the old beggar because he knew the old beggar wasn't asleep.

Why would someone who isn't asleep cover their face with their hands covered?
It must have been bitten pretty badly!
Li Wushou was somewhat speechless, and casually picked up three sticks of incense and stuck them into the incense burner.

He then composed himself, stood up from the cave, and walked outside.

The Land of Bewilderment, where there is neither sun nor moon.

Li Wushou had been working in there for several years, so he naturally had his own methods for determining direction.

They entered the Land of Misery from the western part of Wufang City and traveled westward for quite some time before encountering the Losang family.

After that, we traveled northeast, passing through Luotou Mountain.

At this moment, as long as you continue in the northeast direction, you should reach White Bone Mountain after traveling about eighty li.

Li Wushou found a meadow outside the cave.

The grass all bent over in one direction, which was due east in the Land of Misfortune.

It points in roughly the same direction as the eastern city of Wufang City, ending at an endless sea.

When the fog thickens, the grass will all bend to the west. This is how the people of the Misty Land determine their direction.

There is also a legend about this.

The people of the Land of Misfortune believe that at the easternmost end, deep within the eerie mist, lives a celestial being.

These eerie mists were merely the gas exhaled by that immortal during his breath.

With a single breath, the eerie mist receded, the vegetation tilted eastward, the mist in the Land of Calamity thinned, and the entire world entered daylight.

With a single exhale, the immortal unleashed a cloud of eerie mist, causing the vegetation to bend westward. The mist thickened in the Land of Calamity, plunging the entire world into darkness.

Such an imaginative legend astonished Li Wushou, who was hearing it for the first time, and Chen Gou'er blew on it into the weeds for days. Only the old beggar, picking his ears, paid little attention.

There are too many such legends in the Land of Misfortune, and many of them cannot be verified.

However, Li Wushou and Chen Gou'er have been preparing to visit the end of that endless sea if they have the opportunity in the future.

After all, the two were completely engrossed in Wu Zhuangyuan's cultivation novels.

After carefully determining the direction, Li Wushou slowly made his way towards White Bone Mountain.

After a night of adjustment, I finally regained some control over my physical strength.

Unlike yesterday when I left Luotou Mountain, when I was in a mess and stumbling along the way, I still lacked the subtle control I had before.

Therefore, Li Wushou did not rush directly to White Bone Mountain today, but instead walked around experiencing the various changes in his body after his internal organs were fully restored.

At the same time, Li Wushou also harbored an idea: to see if he could encounter any local specialties from the Misty Lands along the way, and have a good snack. If he could even encounter one or two evil spirits, that would be even better.

Last night he pondered it carefully for a while. If he ate three or four more of the kind of thing called "Deity in the Belly," it should be enough for him to form his core.

Unfortunately, Li Wushou wandered around for most of the hour without encountering anything.

Gradually, the path began to take shape underfoot.

Although it was still overgrown with weeds, one could vaguely tell that there must have been people and vehicles passing through this place.

If you look closely at the grass roots, you can still make out the old tire tracks, but they have now been covered by weeds again, probably because no cars have driven over them for a long time.

Looking up ahead, not far to the left of the path, there is a grove of trees. The grove is not large, but the tree rings at the front and back are somewhat different.

The trees on the side closer to the path were noticeably younger. Li Wushou guessed that they must have been pruned before, and now that they had been abandoned, new trees had grown back.

All of this points to one thing: there must be a settlement nearby.

In the Land of Deception, encountering people is not necessarily a good thing.

Those who can survive in the Land of Misfortune and form settlements all possess considerable abilities.

To avoid unnecessary trouble, it's better to appropriately demonstrate your abilities; this can actually lead to more harmonious relationships. Otherwise, what will you do if others are always plotting to take advantage of you?
Are you also thinking of eating him?

He and Chen Gou'er have already promised the old beggar they won't eat people indiscriminately!

After experiencing the control he had over his physical body, Li Wushou pondered for a moment, then formed a hand seal in front of his chest and planted a tree beside the path.

Then the printing method changed, and the tree was transformed into a long sheet of white paper.

He planned to cut out a white paper horse to ride, to match his identity as a wandering Taoist priest.

Li Wushou sat solemnly by the roadside and began folding paper with great care. He was determined to avenge his previous humiliation!
half an hour later

Li Wushou hummed a little tune
Riding on a folded white paper horse, I swayed along the desolate path, heading forward.

I planted three trees just now, and that's how I collected enough white paper to fold the folding paper for the horse.

Although breaking the horse took a lot of effort, he was still somewhat satisfied with it.

After several attempts at origami, Li Wushou was actually quite perplexed by one question.

That is, with his keen eye, why are the legs and feet he cut out always different lengths after being folded?

He even asked the Paper Goddess about this, but she clearly couldn't empathize and couldn't give Li Wushou an answer.

This time, the difficulty of breaking the horse was even more incredible, because the horse had four legs!

With a meticulous attitude, Li Wushou made several adjustments to the horse's legs after the product was finished, and finally delivered a satisfactory result.

After riding the paper horse for a while, Li Wushou praised, "It's smooth and stable, without any bumps or limps!"

Feeling even better, Li Wushou was filled with anticipation for the reactions of the people he would meet next.

However, Li Wushou, who originally thought he would soon encounter someone, rode his horse for nearly half an hour without seeing a single person. Instead, the woods on both sides of the road became increasingly dense.

While he was still puzzled, Li Wushou suddenly had a thought and raised his gaze to look at the woods on his left.

In the woods, a short, stout Taoist priest was leading a stubborn donkey, and the two were locked in a struggle.

Like Li Wushou, this short, stout Taoist priest was dressed in a Taoist robe, but unlike Li Wushou, he wore a Taoist bun on his head, which made him look much more formal.

Li Wushou observed the other party's kung fu through his perspective; the short, fat Taoist had already led his stubborn donkey out of the woods.

Upon seeing Li Wushou, the man was initially startled, but then his expression turned to one of delight.

He patted the donkey's belly, then bowed to Li Wushou and called out:

"A wandering sorcerer? We're in the same line of work!"

Li Wushou was about to greet him and exchange a few pleasantries.

The short, stout Taoist priest stared in astonishment at the white paper horse beneath Li Wushou, exclaiming in amazement:

"This paper donkey is folded so realistically! I never expected to meet a fellow Daoist who shares my passion for riding donkeys. We shall be friends!"

The smile that Li Wushou had just put on disappeared!

(End of this chapter)