Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 184 Become My Donkey! I'll Beat You to Death! (Early Update)

The village shop was silent.

The Taoist priest held the white paper firmly in his hand, his expression resolute.

Just now, when Sister-in-law Huang offered her sacrifice, the Corpse Willow God failed to retrieve Li Wushou's internal organs, and he immediately became concerned.

“Tattoo.”

Li Wushou strolled leisurely in from the backyard, lifting the curtain as he entered.

He walked past the bodies of Village Chief Huang and Granny Huang and sat down at the square table in the center.

I picked up my bowl, filled it with a bowl of three-delicacy soup, and gulped it down in one go. My restless stomach finally felt relieved.

Although the soup was gone as soon as I finished eating, my stomach wasn't as upset as before, so it was a good balance.

Li Wushou poured himself another bowl, then looked up at the Donkey Taoist and sighed:

"Fellow traveler, this is so fake!"

The Taoist priest's face trembled as he watched this scene.

In his mind, Li Wushou would either flee and be caught, or he would ask in terror how he knew.
But he didn't expect Li Wushou to appear in front of him in this manner.

This shattered his sense of control over the entire situation!

Upon hearing Li Wushou speak, he murmured something in response, seemingly confused:
"What's too fake?"

Li Wushou looked at the astonished Taoist priest. He found it difficult to explain to him the knowledge about the acting skills and cultivation of a beggar.

So I gave them a vague reply:
"Acting skills!"

Although the Donkey Taoist's emotions were intense, they gave Li Wushou a strong sense of disconnect.

From the very beginning, Donkey Taoist has been portraying himself as an Avenger.

The character was undoubtedly well-developed; in the end, even Village Chief Huang and Sister-in-law Huang seemed to believe it.

However, Li Wushou discerned some clues from the conversation and reactions between the two sides.

The first time was when Sister-in-law Huang brewed tea for the two of them. The Donkey Taoist praised Sister-in-law Huang's skills. Afterwards, the two of them lamented the death of the village's ancestral god, which caused the Golden Willow Leaf Tea to no longer be what it used to be.

The regretful expression on the donkey's face at that moment was one of the few genuine expressions he showed throughout the day.

But despite their regret, they just killed Village Chief Huang and Sister-in-law Huang without hesitation.

The other party seemed indifferent to even the methods for refining the Corpse Willow God and frying the Golden Willow Leaves.

He claimed it was a pretext to avenge his wife and children, which sounded appealing, but the whole affair was fraught with contradictions.

Given the Donkey Taoist's control over Huangmao Village, it's impossible that the other party didn't know that Granny Huang had been secretly refining the Corpse Willow God all these years.

If he really wanted revenge, he would have acted directly more than ten years ago, leaving Huang Maocun with no chance to fight back. At that time, he could have fried or cooked Huang's sister-in-law and Huang's family in front of them, which was entirely up to him.

Why have we been swallowing them up one by one over the past decade or so?

Moreover, according to what the others said earlier, the people they ate were ordinary villagers from Huangmao Village, and it was not a sore spot for Village Chief Huang and Sister-in-law Huang at all.

Therefore, the claim of torture is illogical.

Then any talk of revenge is just a joke.

The other party was waiting for Sister Huang to refine a new Corpse Willow God. Judging from the wound on Huang Ping's abdomen, the other party's stomach had been cut open not long ago.

The donkey-walker realized this, so he began to kill Granny Huang and the village chief's grandson, forcing them to take action.

Therefore, revenge may exist, but it is certainly not his primary goal.

This can be seen from the fact that he has been extorting money from Huangmao Village for more than a decade.

Besides, Li Wushou had been thinking about how the previous generation of Corpse Willow God in Huangmao Village had died suddenly without anyone noticing.
After confirming that the Donkey Taoist's primary target was the Golden Willow Leaf Tea of ​​Huangmao Village, and after witnessing the Donkey Taoist exchanging hearts and livers with the donkey, as well as the damage that the donkey's blood, enhanced by his magic, caused to the corpse energy, Li Wushou finally understood.

What if that so-called wife and children were actually heartless and deliberately fed to the Corpse Willow God?
In the rush just now, the newly born Corpse Willow God, after scooping out the donkey's heart from the donkey Taoist, was also preparing to swallow it directly. If it weren't for Village Chief Huang noticing something was wrong from the donkey Taoist's expression, the new Corpse Willow God wouldn't have noticed either.

This suggests that even the old Corpse Willow God likely lacked this ability to discern.

Therefore, if the old Corpse Willow God unknowingly swallowed the donkey's heart that had been enchanted by the Donkey Taoist, then could that explain why the Corpse Willow God died suddenly and inexplicably?
However, after the sudden death of the Corpse Willow God, when the Donkey Taoist originally intended to take over Huangmao Village and force the Golden Willow Leaf Tea to reveal its processing method, he suddenly realized that the raw materials for the Golden Willow Leaf Tea came from the Corpse Willow God.

They then temporarily changed their strategy, keeping Huang Maocun under house arrest and constantly creating the illusion of evil spirits roaming and eating people, in order to force Sister-in-law Huang and Village Chief Huang to create a new Corpse Willow God.

As for the method of stir-frying, Donkey Taoist should have obtained it long ago, which is why he killed Village Chief Huang and Granny Huang directly after capturing the new Corpse Willow God.

Then they would pretend to have gotten their revenge.

As for whether the other party knew he was not dead?

Li Wushou was not surprised. Just now, when he stood on the roof, he used his palm, which was formed from the blood energy of donkey teeth, to kill the new willow tree that grew on Huang Ping's corpse. Then he withdrew the blood light and transformed back into donkey teeth, landing around the village shop.

He initially thought it was quite normal, but as all the donkey teeth fell to the ground, Li Wushou looked down at the entire terrain and discovered that the blood energy of these donkey teeth connected the moment they hit the ground, transforming into a mysterious talisman.

Li Wushou wasn't sure if this was a precaution against him, but when the other party still hadn't used it after killing Village Chief Huang and Sister-in-law Huang, Li Wushou realized that the Donkey Taoist had guessed he wasn't dead.

This further confirms the fact that the Taoist priest was meticulous in his actions, hoping to plan carefully before acting and to have a firm grasp of the overall situation.

Would such a person rashly lead his wife and children through the city and head straight for Huangmao Village's stronghold?
Besides, does it matter to Li Wushou whether it's to avenge his wife and children?
In Li Wushou's mind, killing people, devouring gods, consuming evil spirits, and even eating people were not serious matters.

The old beggar just kept saying, "You are a human being yourself, it's wrong to eat people!"

Li Wushou then slowly changed his mindset.

Therefore, in his mind, cannibalism was listed as the number one thing he absolutely could not do.

But he couldn't do such a big thing, yet this Taoist priest was doing it in all sorts of ways, even turning people into dogs and donkeys to get around it. Wasn't this exploiting loopholes? Undermining his own cause? Li Wushou was almost tempted, but then he dismissed the idea, making the old beggar very nervous.

He already felt that the donkey walker was not a good person, and now he was even more convinced of this fact.

So, is revenge important?
Sitting opposite Li Wushou on the bench, the donkey-riding Taoist
Upon hearing Li Wushou casually utter the word "acting skills," his expression suddenly darkened.

This was no longer a pretense, but a genuine feeling of anger.

But at this point, he was unaware that Li Wushou had already deduced almost everything about him; otherwise, he might have been even more furious.

He always enjoyed the feeling of manipulating others, and many people remained immersed in the lies he wove until their deaths.

At times like these, he always felt a sense of transcendence, as if he were above everyone else.

So he enjoyed doing one thing after another.

He loves donkeys because their appearance is deceptive, but in reality, donkeys are very intelligent.

He felt that the donkey was very similar to himself, so he named himself Donkey Taoist!
When he first met Li Wushou today, he thought Li Wushou was a fellow traveler like him.

After all, no normal person, even if riding a paper donkey, would ride such a short-legged paper donkey.

He suspected that Li Wushou was feigning weakness like him, but the numerous tests that followed made the Donkey Taoist dismiss this idea.

At this moment, he picked up the idea again and elevated Li Wushou's ability to pretend to be a donkey to the same level as his own.

Therefore, the hiker wholeheartedly praised it:
"Fellow Daoist Li, you truly share my passion for donkeys!"

Li Wushou's brow twitched; once again, he couldn't keep up with the other person's train of thought.

From the moment the Taoist priest fed his paper donkey with reeds in the afternoon, he knew that the Taoist priest was not mentally sound.

Now I'm even more convinced of this!
But after the Taoist priest finished speaking, he sighed again.

"Unfortunately, even if you saw through it, so what? You were still one step behind in terms of strategy!"

The Donkey Taoist snorted coldly, and before Li Wushou could reply, he suddenly spat out his scarlet donkey teeth.

He reached out and took it, then wrapped it in a piece of white paper from Li Wushou's short-legged paper donkey.

The white paper scraps, stained with donkey blood, seemed to grow flesh and blood upon contact with the donkey teeth, adhering tightly to them.

The Taoist priest clasped his hands together, wrapped them in white paper and donkey teeth, formed a mudra in front of his chest, and muttered incessantly, chanting obscure and difficult-to-understand incantations.

A faint hum echoed in the hall, and a flash of red light appeared in the Donkey Taoist's eyes.

The donkey teeth scattered around the village shop suddenly burst into a bloody light, merging together and dispelling much of the surrounding mist.

Li Wushou looked down from high above, and a huge talisman enveloped the entire village.

In the very center of this talisman, one can vaguely discern the characters for "human" and "animal".

As the Donkey Taoist murmured and guided by the lingering scent on the white paper of the folded paper donkey by Li Wushou, Li Wushou was unknowingly drawn into and sealed within the "human" character on that huge talisman.

Just then, the Taoist priest with donkey teeth wrapped in his hands pointed at Li Wushou, and a beam of bloody light emanated from the donkey teeth, landing on Li Wushou.

The character "畜" in the giant talisman suddenly and slowly transformed into the shape of a donkey.

Then the character "人" (person) appears, and it is to be reversed and swapped with the character "畜" (livestock).

The Taoist priest's face lit up with joy, but he suddenly let out a cold shout:
"My donkey just happened to die, so let it become my new donkey! Li Wushou!"

Li Wushou, who was already annoyed by the Donkey Taoist's strange thought process, suddenly turned pale.

The blood energy that had been contained within the body was released instantly, like a mountain descending suddenly, causing the "human" character that had just risen within the giant talisman to abruptly fall back down.

Then it exploded with a bang.

The moment the character for "person" in the talisman shattered, the Donkey Taoist's face turned bright red, and then blood began to flow from his seven orifices.

The donkey-walker was horrified and was about to cry out when he found himself suddenly losing all his strength, his whole body becoming hollow and deflated.

Looking down, I realized that my abdominal cavity had slowly shrunk away without me noticing.

"What? Where are my internal organs?"

The Taoist priest murmured something, his voice broken and indistinct.

With a flick of his sleeve, Li Wushou released a fragment of a red talisman, scattering blood and pieces of internal organs across the ground.

Just now, the old beggar drew a new talisman, imitating the donkey Taoist's, and placed a paper entrails cut by the Paper Goddess inside.

Li Wushou summoned a small, palm-sized paper donkey, used the smoke from incense as a cover, and replaced the donkey Taoist's internal organs, which were stored inside the donkey's belly.

Therefore, the internal organs inside the Donkey Taoist's body at this moment are merely paper organs cut by the Paper Goddess.

Such internal organs cannot last long; they have reached their limit by now.

It is now slowly dissolving inside the donkey's body.

In a fit of anger, Li Wushou shattered the talisman containing the donkey Taoist's internal organs.

The donkey-man's internal organs shattered and scattered on the ground.

Originally, we didn't need to pay attention to him; this donkey-walking man wouldn't last long anyway!

But Li Wushou was still not satisfied, so he disappeared from the spot and punched the donkey Taoist in the head.

At that moment, he felt utterly disgusted with the donkey!
(End of this chapter)