Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 196 Traitor? Breaking News! (Vote Requested)
Looking around the mountain chamber, corpses lay strewn everywhere.

But it wasn't as messy as I had imagined. Apart from Chen Gou'er being covered in blood, the white jade floor was quite clean.

The spilled blood was absorbed cleanly by the white jade floor, and with the black shadow sweeping it up, it had an eerily orderly feel to it.

Suddenly, Li Wushou's expression changed, and he stomped on the white jade floor, causing the entire mountain chamber to shake even more violently.

"Didn't I say you're not allowed to eat corpses?"

The mountain chamber hummed, as if in denial.

Li Wushou's expression was puzzling. Just now, when he looked around, he noticed that piles of flying ash had inexplicably appeared on the white jade ground.

After counting the corpses, he discovered that not only were the corpses of flesh and blood evil spirits gone, but also many of the corpses of the people he had just killed and the mountain spirits had disappeared.

This made him a little angry; no wonder the bone seemed to have eaten its fill.

It's not that cooked bones are bad, but he made an agreement with Chen Gou'er that he could choose whichever mountain spirit he killed to roast.

How is he supposed to explain this to Chen Gou'er now?

And has this guy really turned into a traitor? How dare he outwardly comply while inwardly defying him? How dare he ignore what he says?
Who would dare put such bones back into a body?
With a slight redness in his eyes, Li Wushou's gaze held ill intent as his Dharma Domain emanated from his body, lifting up the corpses scattered on the ground.

"Huh? Li Wushou, what are you doing?"

Chen Gou'er was still stepping on the last remaining fleshy remnant of the evil spirit when he suddenly noticed that the evil spirit's limb was floating up.

Before they could even react to what was happening, they saw all the corpses in the mountain chamber slowly suspending in mid-air.

Chen Gou'er was stunned. He couldn't count, but he could tell that there were fewer corpses!

Because the upright rabbit he had spotted early on was now only half its body remaining; the other half, which was close to the white jade ground, had turned to ashes.

Chen Gou'er first looked at Li Wushou in disbelief, but when he saw that Li Wushou's expression was also unpleasant, he immediately realized what was going on.

He immediately lay down on the ground and started pounding his fist on the white jade floor.

"Dong Dong. Dong."

After three blows, a large crater appeared in the ground. Chen Gou'er, enraged, cursed:
"You dare steal my food?"

"Even Li Wushou doesn't steal my food, how dare you steal mine? I'll beat you to death!"

Li Wushou did not step forward to interrupt. He knew that Chen Gou'er had held back his strength, and besides, he also felt that the bone needed to be taught a lesson. He was already thinking about whether to break it.

We can always replant!

Seemingly sensing Li Wushou's thoughts, the mountain chamber kept buzzing, constantly denying it.

Li Wushou frowned. "Not it?"
But that blood and energy clearly flowed into these bones, so who else could it be but them?

Does it mean someone else is helping it eat?

Li Wushou's expression shifted, as if he had thought of something, and he was about to call Chen Gou'er to stop.

Just then, a sudden change occurred.

On the smooth white jade ground, fine white hairs suddenly grew out. These white hairs blended into the white jade ground and had the same aura. Not to mention Li Wushou, even his own bones seemed not to notice.
These white whiskers are extremely sharp and hollow inside, and are very similar to the white hair of the bamboo gentleman that we saw on the ground earlier.

Recalling that even his own bones hadn't noticed the white beard earlier, a glint flashed in Li Wushou's eyes. Was this the method the other party intended to use to control his bones?

Li Wushou's mind was in turmoil, but the moment the white beard grew out, it pierced directly into Li Wushou's domain and rushed towards the corpse floating in mid-air.

"presumptuous!"

Li Wushou's expression turned cold. The Tai Chi symbol circulated within his dantian, and the Yin-Yang power rapidly circulated, making his Yin-Yang domain even more profound.

These white-bearded figures were like those trapped in quagmire, finding it difficult to move an inch within the realm of Dharma.

But these white whiskers seemed to possess intelligence. After struggling several times and realizing that they could not break through Li Wushou's domain, they directly withdrew and shrank back into the white jade ground.

It then burst out of the ground again, but this time it did not scatter, but instead gathered into a single bundle.

As for where it rushed out? It was right where Chen Gou'er was lying down.

A fierce glint flashed in Chen Gou'er's eyes. He had just realized that it was these ghostly things that dared to steal his food.
He reached out with both hands to grab the tuft of white beard.

The sharp white beard sliced ​​Chen Gou'er's hands, leaving them bloody and mangled.

Chen Gou'er's eyes reddened, and he suddenly shouted:
"Stop it, you dog!"

The blood and flesh, shredded by the white beard, clung to it, pulling wildly until the white beard was forcibly stopped in mid-air.

At this moment, the white beard was only a fist's distance from Chen Gou'er's face.

Without a second thought, Chen Gou'er opened his mouth and bit down on the white whiskers. He inhaled sharply, drawing a large amount of blood energy into his body. Chen Gou'er's eyes lit up, and he was about to inhale again when the chamber began to tremble violently.

Li Wushou had also figured it out: if Chen Gou'er continued to inhale, all the bones he had accumulated over the years would be wasted.

However, before Li Wushou could call a halt, the white beard on the other side withered on its own, and Chen Gou'er inhaled a mouthful of hair when he took a deep breath.

"Ptooey, ptooey."

After vomiting for a while, Chen Gou'er was still angry and asked Li Wushou:
"What is this?"

With a thought, Li Wushou released the Yin-Yang Diagram from his bosom, which then slowly unfolded in the stone chamber, taking in all the corpses suspended in mid-air.

Taking advantage of the situation, the shadowy figure presented various items imbued with incense offerings to the Yin-Yang diagram one by one, observing Li Wushou's expression as he did so. Seeing Li Wushou's expression shift from initial satisfaction to growing impatience, the shadowy figure quickly dumped all the items into the Yin-Yang diagram and then obediently retreated behind Li Wushou.

Li Wushou then looked at Chen Gou'er and replied:
"It must be the work of that Zhu Junzi. You should go back to the Three Immortals Pavilion first. I'll deal with Zhu Junzi and then we'll have a big meal."

Chen Gou'er wanted to join Li Wushou in killing that Zhu Junzi, but the other party's skeletal body would definitely be disgusting. After thinking about it, Chen Gou'er nodded and returned to the Three Immortals Pavilion.

That Zhu Junzi stole his food, and he also got a taste of his blood, so he didn't lose out!

Li Wushou touched his brow and returned to the Three Immortals Pavilion.

Chen Gou'er didn't lose out, but he did lose out a bit. The breath Chen Gou'er inhaled was the marrow from his very bones.

Although the marrow energy was also fed by Zhu Junzi, once it entered his bones, it should belong to him.

He couldn't hold Chen Gou'er accountable for this, so he could only pin it on Zhu Junzi.

Standing in front of the sealed door of the stone chamber, Li Wushou waited for a moment. Before the door opened, a red light flashed beneath his feet, and he couldn't help but stomp his foot again.

The bone I planted is a fool too, eating and eating, putting everything into its belly. Now it's fattened up and is about to be slaughtered without even realizing it!
After the cave shook, bone tissue emerged at the entrance, and the closed passage reopened.

Li Wushou remained silent and strode towards the entrance of the cave.

Only the empty mountain room remained, trembling slightly, leaving one somewhat bewildered.

Mountain top
Bamboo Gentleman, sitting cross-legged on the white bamboo cage, frowned.

He glanced at the white bamboo cage beneath him; dozens of bamboo stalks had inexplicably withered.

Just now, he was overjoyed to discover that the guests who had entered the cave inside the mountain chamber were finally suffering large-scale casualties.

He had already planted seeds in the minds of these people, and through the ever-flowing celestial milk, he would inevitably amplify their greed, causing them to kill each other to the point of exhaustion.

I just didn't expect these people to be so psychologically fragile. They've only been gone a short while, not even half an incense stick's time, and they're almost all dead.

The guests went out of control and went berserk, and the speed at which they fought each other was beyond his expectations, but to him it was a good thing.

So he began to coax the sacred relic he had been longing for into eating the flesh and blood he had carefully prepared.

Somewhat to his surprise, the Holy Bone, which was usually very eager for flesh and blood, seemed to have a poor appetite today.
Or perhaps they are just picky eaters, choosing what they don't eat.

How can this be done?
It was one thing for the first-time guests not to eat, but some of the regulars were the ones he had carefully pickled with celestial dew.

During these hundred birthday celebrations, while collecting spine bones, he was also pickling them, preparing them as bait that would allow him to capture sacred bones.

Now that the bait is ready and everything is prepared and served to you, why don't you eat it?
Then I'll feed them myself!
Zhu Junzi snorted coldly, his mind sinking into the white bamboo forest, manipulating the roots of the white bamboo to penetrate deep into the mountain.

The roots of the white bamboo are the bridge connecting the white bamboo forest and the sacred bone. Over the years, through these roots formed from his own hair, he has extracted the marrow of the sacred bone to nourish the white bamboo forest, and also used the roots to feed back the blood and marrow of other spine bones refined by the white bamboo forest to the sacred bone.

Therefore, the essence of these roots, after years of being nourished by marrow energy, is already not much different from that of sacred bones.

Over the past decade, through subtle influence, the sacred bone has become accustomed to these roots protruding into his body, as he gains considerable benefits each time they do so.

Therefore, Zhu Junzi easily controlled the roots of the white bamboo and entered the body of the sacred bone, thus breaking through into the stone chamber formed by the skull of the sacred bone.

To avoid any complications, the bamboo lord directly controlled the roots, first devouring the few that were extremely well-marinated, and then forcibly feeding them to the sacred bone through the roots.

He felt somewhat relieved, because the battle inside the stone chamber was still ongoing.

To avoid attracting attention, he began to absorb other flesh and blood one by one, constantly nourishing the sacred bones.

But just now, the situation in the stone chamber suddenly changed. The roots of his white bamboo suddenly stopped drawing blood. When he tried to draw blood again, he was trapped in a quagmire and could not break through.

The roots were not his eyes and ears; he could not clearly judge the situation inside the stone chamber, but could only perceive it roughly.

Realizing that his defenses were difficult to break through, he had no choice but to turn his attention to another source of blood energy, but this attempt backfired.

Instead of absorbing the other party's blood essence, his own white bamboo roots withered dozens of them, and even a portion of the sacred bone's blood essence was absorbed.

This was simply unbelievable to him!

Fortunately, his bait was unaffected and had already been distributed within the body of the sacred bone. But what could possibly absorb the blood essence from his white bamboo roots?
Seeing that the other party was about to absorb more, and that his own white bamboo roots were unable to break free, in order not to affect the maturation of the sacred bone, the Bamboo Gentleman had no choice but to extinguish the life force of these dozens of white bamboos himself.

Only then could they break free from the other party's addiction.

Before extinguishing the life force, he clearly sensed through his roots that all the people, spirits, or evil spirits in the stone chamber who smelled of bait were already dead.

So who are the remaining two that don't smell like bait?

Suddenly, Zhu Junzi thought of the wandering Taoist priest who had been causing him so much trouble. It was the priest's first time visiting, and he had spilled the elixir without drinking it. There was no smell of bait on him, so one of them must be him.

But what about the other one?

Zhu Junzi was filled with many thoughts, but he quickly calmed down.

Whoever he is, he's dead! Just like that annoying wandering sorcerer, he's dead!
With murderous intent emanating from his eyes, Zhu Junzi formed a hand seal and suddenly mobilized more white bamboo to seal the cave entrance.

He then slowly stood up from the white bamboo cage, his heart surging with emotion. It was time to merge with the sacred bone!

Just then, a clear voice suddenly echoed from the cave:

"Master Zhu, things have calmed down down in the cave. It's time to celebrate your birthday!"

(End of this chapter)