Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 186 The Mysterious Donkey Skin, Harvesting and Sowing

Freshly torn donkey hide

Without the nourishment of donkey blood, the spells recorded on it gradually faded away.

After the spell text was incorporated into the donkey skin, the entire skin seemed to come alive, constantly wriggling and twisting.

Li Wushou's mind stirred; he keenly sensed that the donkey skin originally intended to burrow into his body.

But after several attempts, the donkey skin gave up and began to struggle violently to escape.

So, was the previous donkey-walker also parasitized by this donkey skin?
That's really a bit weird!
A little bit between the eyebrows

The phantom of the Three Immortals Pavilion slowly emerged, and the old beggar stepped out from it.

The moment he stopped, the old beggar glanced at the donkey skin in Li Wushou's hand.

He picked at his ear, flicked his finger, and a speck of incense ash landed on the donkey skin.

The donkey's writhing, twisting body instantly fell silent.

Li Wushou, holding the donkey hide, shook it in front of the old beggar and asked:
"What is this?"

The old beggar curled his lip and replied nonchalantly, "Just bait! Those who use this method to feed livestock will surely become livestock themselves, eaten by others!"

Li Wushou nodded. No wonder!

"Can I use this method?"

The old beggar's lazy expression vanished, replaced by a nervous question:

"What do you want to do? The forms of 'human' and 'animal' may seem to have been reversed, but the core essence is still that human is human and animal is animal! That hasn't changed."

This is why the old beggar didn't want to stay in the Land of Misery; there were too many temptations!

The way things are done here is far too unrestrained!

Just now, while Chen Gou'er was asleep, he placed a speck of incense ash between Chen Gou'er's eyebrows. Otherwise, with Chen Gou'er's nose, the smell of blood and flesh all over the ground would have already made him jump up.

Now that Li Wushou has started asking this question again, he is really tired of it.

Upon hearing the old beggar's words, Li Wushou immediately realized that the old beggar had misunderstood again, and explained with a somewhat helpless tone:
"It didn't mention eating. If I wanted to eat, would I need to go through all this trouble? I'm asking about the methods and talismans involved. If I use them, will the Food Venerable of Immortal Mountain discover it?"

The old beggar breathed a sigh of relief, and upon reflection, realized that this was indeed the case.

"He found nothing! What 'animal-eating' and 'god of food'? All that fancy stuff! How could they possibly have any say in the Three Immortals Pavilion?"

The old beggar was somewhat disdainful, and then stopped paying attention to the donkey hide.

I glanced at the hall; it was a complete mess after the chaotic fight.

Blood, broken bones, minced meat, and spilled food.
He swallowed hard. Actually, he hadn't dared to tell Li Wushou that the food Huang A-sao cooked with human bones was quite to his liking.

But he always told Li Wushou that he couldn't eat people, so it wouldn't be right for him to say that he liked it now, would it?
What's more, all the food has been spilled on the ground.

With a sigh of regret, the old beggar walked to Li Wushou's side and shook out several red talismans from the donkey Taoist's clothes.

After glancing at them, he pulled one out and handed it to Li Wushou, putting the rest of the talismans back into his pocket.

"This talisman captures the newly born Corpse Willow God Yin Spirit."

Li Wushou just picked up the spine that the donkey Taoist had been holding, which he said belonged to the village chief's grandson.

Seeing the old beggar hand over the talisman, he took it, examined it for a moment, and asked:

"Can this spirit of the underworld refine incense?"

The old beggar turned and walked over to Village Chief Huang, picked up the copper bell, and replied to Li Wushou:
"You can refine it, but there's no need. You might as well eat it yourself!"
The dead infant enshrined within Huang Ping's body is the seed formed from the remaining essence of the original Corpse Willow God after his death!

Normally, offerings were made to Huangmao Village. As the tree neared maturity, Huang Ping watered it with his own body and blood, helping it to take root and sprout. The new willow tree that grew was meant to be his body, hence the even greater amount of incense offerings gathered within it.

Li Wushou nodded, put the talisman and the spine of Huang Village Elder's grandson back into the Yin-Yang diagram, and asked with some doubt:
"Did the Taoist priest's actions just now affect the incense offerings?"

The old beggar swayed a few times, then replied without raising his head:

"A little, but the original incense smelled too strong and the stench of corpses was too strong, so I didn't like to eat it. Although the donkey blood made the incense less, the smell of corpses was less, and the taste was much better. I'm happy to refine it now."

Li Wushou was taken aback upon hearing this, and then fell silent.

Life at the Three Immortals Restaurant has indeed improved. He thought he was the only one who had become picky about food recently, but he didn't expect that the old beggar had also become picky about food.

He didn't care about this; with the current incense offerings, he should be able to pay the annual tribute to Wufang City without much problem.

Let the old beggar be happy!
The old beggar shook the copper bell twice more, pursed his lips, and tossed the bell to Li Wushou.

"By extracting a trace of the corpse's aura, one can manipulate the corpse or refine it. Let it stay."

After saying that, he walked towards the backyard without waiting for Li Wushou's reply.

Li Wushou held it in his hand. He wasn't really interested in the thing, but he knew the old beggar's hobby.

A beggar likes to pick up even useless things from here and there.

What's more, it seems to have some use?
After thinking for a moment, Li Wushou channeled a wisp of Yin energy into the corpses, then shook it with interest at the three bodies in the hall.

The headless donkey carcass of Village Chief Huang, Sister-in-law Huang, and the Taoist priest emitted a wisp of corpse energy, which fell into the copper bell.

Then the two men and the donkey suddenly stood up in the hall and faced Li Wushou.

A smile appeared on Li Wushou's lips. He shook the copper bell and followed the old beggar into the backyard.

The two men and the donkey set off together and arrived at the backyard, but they were quite dirty, leaving behind a lot of bloodstains.

The old beggar and Li Wushou ignored them.

The two stood before Huang Ping's decaying corpse, the newly grown remnants of the Corpse Willow Spirit collapsed and covered it.

The old beggar took a step forward and sat cross-legged in the void.

He then took out three sticks of incense from his robes, ran his hand over the tips, and the incense spontaneously combusted, emitting a fragrant mist. Inhaling the mist, the old beggar, facing the withered branches of the corpse willow beneath him, suddenly uttered a soft shout:
"Refining!"

A baby's cry suddenly rang out from Huang Ping's rotting body, followed by the silent trembling of the fallen tree trunk.

Li Wushou stood still, gazing at the old beggar in the void.

It seems that not only has he improved during this period, but the old beggar has also become more composed in handling matters after consuming enough incense offerings.

Moreover, the more incense offerings the old beggar consumed, the more domineering Li Wushou felt about his methods.

What was initially a plea has now been transformed into direct command in the face of the remnant branch of the Corpse Willow God.

Of course, this could also be because the Yin spirit of the Corpse Willow God was captured and lost the ability to resist.

"laugh!"

The trembling twigs made a soft sound, then suddenly turned into black ash, which scattered and covered Huang Ping's rotting corpse.

"Wow~!"

Another baby's cry rang out from beneath the black ash, followed by an infant with eyes covered by willow leaves crawling out of Huang Ping's rotting corpse.

The baby was covered in mucus, no longer the bluish-gray color it had been in Huang Ping's belly, and its skin was slightly rosy, though it had been covered in black ash again as it crawled out of the rotting corpse.

The baby stood on the black ash, looked around, and suddenly fixed its gaze on Li Wushou.

The willow leaves that had been obscuring his eyes fell to the ground, and two bloodthirsty green vines shot out from his eyes.

The Corpse Willow God, who originally craved corpses, now seems to be more interested in flesh and blood.
Li Wushou stood calmly in place, while the old beggar, sitting cross-legged in the void, let out another soft shout:
"Come!"

The ferocious infant stood frozen in place, then the green vines withdrew from its eyes.

Then the infant's entire body seemed to melt away, suddenly shrinking and transforming into a tree seed.

The old beggar slightly opened his mouth, and the tree seed slowly rose and fell into it. With a gulp, the old beggar swallowed it.

He then began to rub his body, and in no time he had gathered strips of fragrant mud in his hands.

Seeing Li Wushou staring intently at him, the old beggar suddenly seemed to remember something and explained to Li Wushou:

"That wasn't a child!"

Looking at the old beggar who seemed inexplicably nervous, Li Wushou withdrew his gaze.

He was somewhat speechless. He wasn't hungry at the moment, so why would he want to eat the child?

And of course he knew that it wasn't a child. Ever since he buried the Tree Goddess's head in the Three Immortals Hall of the Divine Palace, he had developed a natural and keen sense of smell for these kinds of trees.

When he first saw it inside Huang Ping's belly, he noticed countless intertwined, fine roots inside the infant.

In addition, the dense corpse aura surrounding the infant led Li Wushou to immediately conclude that the infant was a tree seed of the Corpse Willow God.

It's just that because of its newborn state, it presents itself like an infant.

He had been looking at the old beggar simply out of curiosity about the old beggar's method of burning incense.

Although this kind of mud strip incense contains a rich incense power and is highly sought after by most ghost gods, Li Wushou always felt it was somewhat disgusting.

Li Wushou didn't know if this contained some of the old beggar's perverse sense of humor.

Therefore, I wanted to glean some clues from the old beggar's behavior.

Unfortunately, this could not be confirmed until now.

He also had another question: would the old beggar's method of burning incense result in some of the incense being withheld?
After carefully observing the old beggar for a while, and noticing that the man unconsciously shifted his buttocks three times, Li Wushou concluded: the old beggar would definitely skimp on the money!
The reason is simple: this old man has too many wrinkles on his body!
Who can tell how much is consumed and how much is produced?

Li Wushou kept this discovery in mind. Seeing that the harvest was almost finished, he shook the copper bell in his hand.

Holding the corpses of Village Chief Huang and Sister-in-law Huang, they picked up two shovels from the base of the kitchen wall and dug a large pit at the site of Huang Ping's decaying body.

The moment the pit was dug, the two first filled it with Huang Ping's body and the black ash scattered all over the ground, then jumped in, along with the headless corpse of the donkey Taoist standing behind Li Wushou.

From the Yin-Yang diagram, take out the red talisman that binds the Corpse Willow God.

Li Wushou opened his mouth and instantly bit off nine-tenths of it, then chewed a few times and swallowed it.

After a restless night, Li Wushou's stomach and spleen finally felt better. This was the first time Li Wushou had used his own stomach and spleen to devour the evil god.

how to say?

It's neither good nor bad!
It seems there's not much difference between eating several bowls of rice and eating a few bowls of rice?
Because after the other party entered his stomach, it seemed that it was completely digested in less than two breaths, and then, according to Li Wushou's will, it transformed into pure Yin energy and entered his dantian.

Overall, it's alright.

He gathered the remaining one-tenth into a ball, threw it into the pit, and then planted a tree by making hand seals with both hands.

Lately, I've not only developed a strong addiction to paper cutting, but also to planting trees.

Seeing that this tree was not growing as well as the new sacred tree of the Luotou clan, Li Wushou had a thought and dropped a blood seed into it.

The tree seed took root and sprouted, growing into a towering tree in the blink of an eye.

The old beggar, who was bowing and pleading to those around him, was so angry at the sight that he almost ground his teeth to powder!
No longer carrying people on your back?

Didn't you say you'd finished eating the blood seed?
Li Wushou looked at the newly grown trees and nodded.

Planting trees is great! The more trees you plant today, the more you'll harvest in the future.

As for the old beggar?
He naturally noticed the other man's expression, but if the old beggar asked him about the bloodline, he decided to ask the old beggar about the mud strip incense instead.

Therefore, Li Wushou was not flustered at all!
What he didn't know was that besides the old beggar, there was another person in the courtyard whose body had been gently broken!

That is the dark shadow that still stands tall behind Li Wushou!

What did it just see?
Did Li Wushou eat the Ghost God himself?
I'm unemployed?

(End of this chapter)