Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 185 The True Donkey Taoist, Eating the Venerable's Method!

The spiritual power in his fist was not apparent.
It was just tinged with a faint scent of blood.

But this was enough to terrify the donkey-walker.

Because his "animal creation" technique never measured such a heavy amount of qi and blood.

Just now, he tried to reverse the roles of "human" and "animal," transforming Li Wushou directly into a donkey.

But Li Wushou felt like a mountain of flesh and blood to him, and even the giant talisman he had created from his donkey teeth over the years could not budge him in the slightest.

That punch was enough to blast him to smithereens!
At this moment, the donkey-man finally realized that there was something wrong with his internal organs.

In his perception, his internal organs were like castles in the air, constantly collapsing.

He didn't know what kind of method this was, but the talisman that Li Wushou had just shattered, as well as the fragments of his internal organs that he had scattered, made him realize that his internal organs would never return.

At the critical moment, the Taoist priest gripped the donkey's teeth tightly with both hands, and the teeth instantly glowed with intense blood.

The character "人" (person) that had been shattered by Li Wushou's blood pressure outside the village shop reappeared.

But this time, the word "human" no longer enveloped Li Wushou; instead, it enveloped the Donkey Taoist himself.

Just as Li Wushou's fist was about to land on the Donkey Taoist's head, the Donkey Taoist weakly shouted, "Create beasts!"

Outside the village shop, a giant talisman displays characters for "human" and "animal" that are suddenly reversed.

Li Wushou's punch missed its mark, shattering the tables and chairs in the hall. The violent force of the punch created a dent in the floor.

"Ang~!"

As they passed each other, a donkey bray reached Li Wushou's ears. He stopped beside the bench where the Donkey Taoist had just been sitting and looked at the pile of clothes left on the ground.

Turning around abruptly, Li Wushou's face showed some surprise.

Just moments ago, right under his nose, the donkey-like Taoist suddenly transformed into a short, fat donkey, scrambling past his fist and narrowly avoiding Li Wushou's angry punch.

"Ang~!"

The donkey-man cried out in terror again, then stretched out his tongue and licked open Huang A-sao's clothes. A red talisman emerged from under the donkey's tongue and stuck to Huang A-sao's abdomen.

In the blink of an eye, it disappeared and reappeared. With a flick of its tongue, Huang A-sao's abdomen was emptied, and her internal organs filled the donkey Taoist's abdomen.

Sister-in-law Huang had only been dead for a short time; her internal organs were still fresh.

The donkey-walker could only borrow it temporarily in an emergency, otherwise he would die!

Li Wushou looked at all this, and suddenly his brow furrowed.

With a single step, he'd deliver another punch.

But the donkey-ridden Taoist, who had just had his internal organs filled, suddenly bent his knees, knelt down, and begged for mercy:

"Fellow Daoist Li, I do not recognize a true immortal in person. I beg you to spare my life. From now on, I will be your donkey!"

Li Wushou squinted, remaining silent.

The donkey-wielding Taoist, thinking he had hit Li Wushou's sore spot, became even more boastful and said:

“I guarantee I’ll be more obedient than your short paper donkey. Aren’t you going to White Bone Mountain to celebrate Bamboo Gentleman’s birthday? You must be here for the treasure land of White Bone Mountain, right?”
"This time, Master Zhu has opened up the treasure land of White Bone Mountain, and many people will go there to search for treasure. I can help you!"

As the conversation progressed, the donkey driver became quite excited, rolled over on the spot, curled up his limbs, and exposed his belly to express his docility.

Li Wushou looked at the donkey-like Taoist priest whose figure was almost the same as his short-legged paper donkey, and for a moment he couldn't tell whether it was a dog or a donkey!
Li Wushou lowered his fist, walked to the donkey Taoist's side, looked down at him, and asked:
"You said before that Bamboo Gentleman has already celebrated his hundredth birthday at White Bone Mountain?"

Li Wushou had wanted to ask this question for a long time, but he refrained from asking it before in order not to arouse the suspicion of the donkey Taoist.

The donkey-man was taken aback by the sudden change in the question, but he quickly recovered, shaking his donkey ears as he replied:
"Indeed, this is exactly the hundredth time!"

Is White Bone Mountain a renamed version of the former Dwarf White Mountain?

The donkey-walker was somewhat puzzled; these questions didn't sound like something someone asking to offer birthday wishes would ask.

Since they came to offer birthday wishes, they must have already learned about the situation at White Bone Mountain!
Was the other party not there to offer birthday greetings?

The donkey Taoist's mind raced, and he immediately told Li Wushou everything: he had to prove his worth in order to survive!
"White Bone Mountain was indeed renamed from the former Dwarf White Mountain. About eight or nine years ago, Bamboo Gentleman suddenly appeared at Dwarf White Mountain, and since then he has celebrated his birthday every month. This time it has been exactly one hundred times!"

"Once a month?"

Li Wushou and the old beggar in the Three Immortals Pavilion muttered the same thing at the same time.

The Donkey Taoist became even more certain that Li Wushou had not gone there to offer birthday greetings, but he remained calm and instead explained in more detail.

"Yes, at first there were few people going to offer birthday wishes, but gradually more and more people came because the Bamboo Gentleman has a kind of 'immortal dew' that is very beneficial to cultivation. So everyone used the excuse of birthday wishes to go and exchange it, and it gradually evolved into the current grand occasion!"

Seeing that the Donkey Taoist was talking more and more, and even asking many questions that were not his own, Li Wushou realized that the Donkey Taoist was starting to ponder his thoughts again.

This time, Li Wushou didn't mind. The two of them, one on the donkey and the other on the donkey, talked for half the night, truly fulfilling the Donkey Taoist's initial invitation to "talk by candlelight through the night"!
However, the topics discussed were quite varied, including the precious land of White Bone Mountain, the Bamboo Gentleman, the grudges and affections between the Donkey Taoist and Huangmao Village, and of course, the donkey.
But this donkey is not that donkey; rather, it is the donkey Taoist's bizarre "method of creating animals."

The Taoist priest, trying to conceal his true intentions, hoped to use this "method of creating animals" to save his own life.

Li Wushou stared at the donkey-riding Taoist, a slight smile appearing on his lips.

The Taoist priest was startled and quickly put on a docile expression. The conversation had been too smooth, which made him lower his guard.

Seeing Li Wushou smiling silently, he realized that his life was still in the other party's hands and he had no right to bargain. Opening his donkey mouth, the Donkey Taoist was about to reveal the "method of creating animals".

But then Li Wushou, who was looking down at him with a smile, suddenly spoke:
"Donkey Taoist, do you know what? Actually, I didn't have any problem with donkeys before, but after today, I really don't like donkeys!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Wushou lifted his foot and suddenly kicked the donkey's head that the Taoist priest had raised.

"Fellow Daoist Li, wait a minute!"

Before the donkey-man could finish speaking, his head was crushed to pieces by Li Wushou's foot. Glancing at the pile of flesh and bones, Li Wushou muttered again.

"Especially donkeys that can't be eaten!"

With a thought, the Tai Chi within his dantian flowed slowly, activating the Yin-Yang Dharma Domain and clearing the blood and mud from his feet.

With the bloodstains gone, Li Wushou's mood improved somewhat.

He finally got rid of the short-legged donkey's entanglement, whether it was the short-legged paper donkey or the short-legged fat donkey that the donkey Taoist had transformed into!

With a tap of his foot, he subdued the corpse of the donkey-man lying on its back and flipped it over.

Li Wushou squatted in front of the headless donkey carcass of the Donkey Taoist, took out an iron wire from his pocket, pierced the donkey's back, and peeled off half of the donkey skin.

Beneath the black donkey hair, the surface of the donkey skin was covered with writing and drawing, detailing the "method of animal creation" that the donkey Taoist had refused to reveal earlier.

Even at the very end, the Taoist priest was still playing mind games with him, lying on his back with his belly exposed. Besides showing off his cleverness, he was also trying to conceal his "method of creating animals".

This might fool others, but how could it fool Li Wushou's eyes?

Before dinner, in the guest room on the second floor, Li Wushou had seen a faint mark on the back of the Donkey Taoist after he took off his clothes, but it was very blurry at the time.

At this moment, after the Taoist Donkey transformed into a donkey, these marks were stimulated by the donkey's blood and all appeared clearly.

Li Wushou glanced at it briefly, then his mind was instantly captivated.

The methods recorded on this donkey skin are indeed very detailed, including not only the creation of the animal, but also the replacement of its heart and liver, the making of its teeth, and the talismans used in conjunction with it.

Li Wushou had anticipated these events and was not particularly surprised.

To his surprise, this was the self-commentary at the beginning of the teaching.

According to this annotation, the creator of this spell was more like creating a recipe than a spell.

The so-called method of creating livestock is nothing more than the other party preparing ingredients to make the food taste better.

What surprised Li Wushou even more was the signature at the end of the annotation—"The Venerable Food Master of Immortal Mountain!"
It's Mount Bulao again!

This was the second time he had heard of this Immortal Mountain, and it remained as mysterious and sinister as ever.

Moreover, this "method of eating animals" is just one of the many recipes of the Venerable Eater, because the annotations also contain ideas about the God of Food and the Immortal of Food.

The Donkey Taoist is clearly not the so-called Venerable Eater, so is the other party a disciple of the Venerable Eater?

But what Li Wushou couldn't understand was why, even if the Donkey Taoist wanted to inscribe the cultivation method on his body, he also inscribed that annotation.

It seemed as if it was deliberately designed to stir people's emotions?
Li Wushou was somewhat confused, but the old beggar in the Three Immortals Pavilion seemed to have a slight change in expression, as if he had gained some insight.

Li Wushou was unaware of these things and lacked information about the Immortal Mountain. Thinking about it further was pointless, but he secretly began to take the Immortal Mountain to heart.

Judging from their approach, they seem to be a formidable rival when it comes to food!

Composing himself, he continued to study the method, which was far more complex than he had imagined.

To create livestock, you must first "refine the livestock teeth"!
The donkey Taoist had just held it in his hand; the scarlet donkey teeth were the teeth of the donkey he had refined.

By soaking the teeth with the blood of hundreds of donkeys, a trace of the donkey's true spirit will gather in the teeth.

At this point, as long as he can absorb the aura of the person being targeted, he can use the Animal Creation Talisman to turn the person into a donkey!

Similarly, by using the heart's blood and teeth of other animals to "refine animal teeth," one can also transform a person into another animal.

So it seems that, in addition to this donkey tooth, the Donkey Taoist should also have a canine tooth.

Li Wushou found a necklace covered in teeth among the pile of clothes left by the Donkey Taoist.

Besides a dozen or so donkey teeth with a faint bloodline, the necklace also has two rather unusual teeth.

One of them is a slightly pinkish canine tooth!
The canine teeth weren't as bright red as the donkey teeth in the Taoist's hand. It must be because he turned people into dogs for a feast once or twice a month, and the excessive use of these techniques had depleted his energy, leaving him somewhat short of blood and qi.

The other one was a human tooth that was extremely bright red!

Li Wushou's mind stirred, and he read through the method of creating animals in his hand once more.

Then it dawned on me that since we can switch the characters for "human" and "animal," then besides turning humans into animals, we should also be able to turn animals into humans.

After all, according to this method of creating animals, humans and animals are essentially the same, only their outward forms are different, so the other party can use magic to transform the two.

No wonder the Donkey Taoist so decisively turned himself into a donkey.

They thought it was to deceive Li Wushou so that they could spare his life.

It now seems that the other party was well prepared and would wait for an opportunity to refine the teeth of the beast and transform back into human form.

After some research, Li Wushou found that the method to transform from "animal" into "human" was the same as before, except that before performing the technique, he only needed to refine a tooth that resembled both human and animal.

This is truly bizarre!

Moreover, judging from the scarlet color of these human and animal teeth, they contain the blood of at least several hundred people.

It seems that over the years, the Donkey Taoist has been entrenched in Huangmao Village, not only indulging in daily feasts and waiting for the Corpse Willow God to amass wealth, but also in using the villagers of Huangmao Village to refine human and animal teeth.

This Taoist priest really made the most of Huangmao Village!
Suddenly, Li Wushou remembered that Sister Huang had refused to believe until her death that the Donkey Taoist was the wandering Taoist who had brought his wife and children back then.

Li Wushou had initially thought that the Donkey Taoist had used some kind of strange disguise, but now it seemed that the Donkey Taoist had simply changed his appearance by using human and animal teeth.
No wonder Sister-in-law Huang didn't recognize her!
The donkeys transformed using this method were so realistic that even Li Wushou couldn't tell the difference, let alone Sister-in-law Huang.

"What a brilliant method of feeding livestock!"

Li Wushou muttered something to himself, just as he was about to put the donkey hide and animal teeth back into the Yin-Yang diagram.

Suddenly, a thought struck him, and he looked at the donkey hide in his hand!
(End of this chapter)