Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 225 The Last Golden Core

A clear voice echoed in the quiet square.
The evil spirit that had been so ferocious just moments before quietly collapsed to the ground, like a puddle of mud.

A thick, inky black shadow had appeared over the head of that evil creature, and a series of whimpering swallowing sounds followed.

The evil spirit is dead? Or is it being devoured by something?
escape!
Recalling Li Wushou's words, Wu Junzheng felt a chill run down his spine. Without the slightest hesitation, he withdrew and drifted out of the city like a human skin kite!

As he drifted, the black runes around him continued to penetrate into the void, connecting with the magic array runes he had carved throughout Wushi Town.

On the top of the human skin's head, black inscriptions converged from all directions, slowly forming a large black seal!

This large seal was forged by him in imitation of the divine seal of the City God of the Land of Delicacies. It can instantly unleash a power twice that of his own strength within his Dharma Land, Wushi Town.

However, gaining power will also mean abandoning the defenses of Wushi Town.

He didn't dare use it when facing that madly parasitic evil spirit.

He needed to keep these inscriptions to seal off Wushi Town; otherwise, if he let this evil spirit escape, he wouldn't be able to escape once Haiyuan City held him accountable!

But at this moment, he couldn't care less whether the evil spirit was dead or alive.

The ferocious evil spirit forced him to skin it alive to escape. But the moment it appeared, he didn't even see it clearly before the evil spirit died mysteriously, even being devoured by something.

He had only been pierced through the body by the evil spirit's abdominal limbs, leaving three severed limbs inside his body, which were already infested with countless insect eggs. Yet the evil spirit turned around and devoured him.
Wouldn't that be even more ruthless?

Wu Junzheng did not seek to kill the enemy, but only hoped to use the immense power of this seal to gain a chance to escape.

As long as one creates distance from the opponent, one's human skin and golden core can use the power of the inscriptions to blend into the environment and escape. Then, with the remaining flesh and blood in the body, there is a chance to replenish one's blood and energy and survive.

Li Wushou looked at Wu Junzheng, who decisively withdrew, and shook his head speechlessly.

With a thought, a blood seed flew out of his body and burrowed into Wu Junzheng's bloodied and mangled flesh.

The area was filled with insect eggs planted by that evil spirit. The death of the main body did not affect the activity of these insect eggs. On the contrary, it stimulated them to be reborn, so they were frantically devouring Wu Junzheng's flesh and blood.

After Li Wushou's blood seed entered Wu Junzheng's body, the insect eggs sensed the sweetness of Li Wushou's blood energy and swarmed towards it, wanting to swallow the blood seed and be the first to complete their rebirth.

However, Li Wushou's bloodline was extremely powerful, devouring both insect eggs and Wu Junzheng's flesh and blood indiscriminately, like a plow sweeping through a cave.

Li Wushou glanced at it, then looked away, slightly turning his head to speak to the shadowy figure beside him:

"You can only eat two compound eyes!"

Without waiting for the shadowy figure's reaction, he strode away and disappeared into the square.

The black shadow that had just swallowed a compound eye was slightly taken aback, then suddenly conjured a large hand and slapped itself.

I seem to have gotten so engrossed in eating that I completely forgot myself!
Staring at the remaining compound eye, he swallowed it and chewed it a few times. Whether it was his imagination or not, the shadowy figure felt that the sweet taste of the living soul was not as good as the previous one.

It spoiled so quickly?
The shadowy figure was on the verge of tears!

Li Wushou was unaware of the shadowy figure's intentions; he simply wanted to study the strange, malevolent body.

But before that, let's take down Wu Junzheng's human skin golden core first. It's the first time he's seen a golden core that can escape on its own after being stripped of its flesh and blood.

I wonder what it tastes like?

By harnessing the forces of Yin and Yang, with oneself as the core of Yang, one's mind constantly anchors to the core of Yin in the void, and then, according to the principles of Tai Chi Dao Jing, one moves and exchanges between oneself and the core of Yin.

To outsiders, Li Wushou's figure appeared and disappeared repeatedly in the void, as if he were traversing the void.

Wu Junzheng had been keeping a close eye on what was happening behind him, and he was horrified to see Li Wushou suddenly appear like a ghost!
He had seen similar tactics before; Yunxu Sanren, who ruled Haiyuan City, had acted in the same way when traveling.

Teleportation?!
The other party is a Nascent Soul True Monarch?!

No wonder that ferocious evil spirit died in an instant!
Good news! The Nascent Soul True Lord I've been waiting for all night has finally arrived.

The bad news is that it wasn't the person he was waiting for, and the other party even wanted to kill him!

Wu Junzheng felt despair and wanted to cry, but his chances of survival were slim. But who among those who had cultivated to the Golden Core realm would easily give up their life?
"I control my own life!"

Wu Junzheng shouted loudly, and the black inscribed seal above his head soared into the air and smashed down on Li Wushou's head.

This massive black seal was incredibly powerful and heavy, even more so than the golden mountain that had fallen from the sky earlier by the Lingshan Master.

It also carries a sense of sealing off all directions, as if forcing people to take this blow head-on.

Li Wushou stood still, first glancing at Wu Junzheng, who was inexplicably fired up with enthusiasm, shouted a slogan, and then turned and ran away.

Then, without haste, he withdrew his gaze. Just as the black seal was about to smash down on his head, Li Wushou lowered his waist and punched the black seal!
His punches are like dragons, as light as clouds and as gentle as the wind!
"Boom!"

The reversal of Yin and Yang instantly disrupted the arrangement of the black inscriptions, and the black seal shattered without requiring much force.

To some extent, this black seal was not even as powerful as the Golden Mountain of Master Lingshan to Li Wushou, since it was a real mountain that had crushed Li Wushou's flesh and blood!
Once the core of this large seal composed of magic array inscriptions is destroyed, it becomes insignificant.

Of course, this only applies to Li Wushou!

Li Wushou withdrew his fist and stepped out of the sealed void, appearing behind Wu Junzheng in the next instant.

Wu Jun was sprinting at full speed when he heard a loud noise behind him and couldn't help but turn his head to look back.

As soon as he turned his head, his empty eye sockets met Li Wushou's eyes, which seemed to be smiling but not smiling.

Wu Jun was so frightened that his skin tightened and goosebumps instantly rose on his skin.

Terrified, Wu Junzheng could only beg for mercy, crying out, "True Lord, spare my life!"

Li Wushou stretched out his hand, his palm covering Yin and Yang, and with the flow of Tai Chi, he instantly tore open a gap in the opponent's domain.

Under Wu Junzheng's horrified gaze, Li Wushou's hand squeezed in and gently grabbed his neck, instantly bringing Wu Junzheng's skin to Li Wushou's front.

After waiting for a moment, Li Wushou asked:
"Aren't you going to shout anything else?"

Wu Junzheng was stunned. He had thought he was going to die, but was there still a glimmer of hope?
With a sudden thought, he quickly organized his thoughts. As long as he could save his life, he was willing to acknowledge the other party as his master. There was nothing shameful about acknowledging a true lord as one's master.

I must first have a life before I can control my own destiny, not the heavens!

"I!"

Wu Junzheng had just uttered a single word when he felt a tightness around his neck. Then, a surge of yin and yang energy, like a raging torrent, rushed straight to the center of his human skin, erasing the initial inscription he had carved on the membrane!

His consciousness slowly sank into the abyss of darkness, and in his dying moments, he vaguely heard a murmur.

"It's fine if you don't want to talk about it. I don't like hearing last words, and I don't like hearing pleas."

Wu Junzheng: "."

Li Wushou held the human skin in his hand. Without Wu Junzheng's control, the skin had deflated and drooped in Li Wushou's hand.

The black inscriptions covering the entire human skin began to contract violently, like the fascia of a severed human hand or foot.

When Li Wushou returned to the square, the skin had already turned into a black sphere as the black inscription shrank.

Li Wushou casually retrieved the blood seed that was floating in mid-air and looked up at the fallen evil spirit.

The dark figure crouched beside the evil spirit and only ate two compound eyes.

Seeing Li Wushou looking over, he gestured to Li Wushou as if presenting a treasure.

Li Wushou walked to the corpse of the evil spirit, examined it, and ignored the shadowy figure.

Despite its poor overall appearance, this evil spirit actually contains an extremely rich blood energy.

The gray powder on the opponent's abdomen, limbs, and even wings, which could hatch insect eggs, was all filled with the scent of flesh and blood.

After all, it swallowed up an entire town. Judging from the size of Wushi Town, there must have been at least nearly a thousand people, including many Qi Refiners, whose flesh and blood aura was even stronger.

With so much vital energy and blood, it's not surprising that it could nurture such an evil spirit.

Reaching out, he tore off half of the other's severed abdominal limb, and Li Wushou savored it like a crab leg.

The outer shell is crispy, while the inside is tender and has a slightly sweet aftertaste.

Nice legs!

Li Wushou tore off another limb and dipped it into the other's wing. The limb was covered with a lot of gray-black powder. Li Wushou took a bite.

The powder is quite fine, which, combined with the hard carapace of the abdominal limbs, creates a richer texture.

But Li Wushou didn't like it; he always felt it smelled like ink.

After taking a couple of bites, Li Wushou stopped eating, put the evil spirit's corpse into the Yin-Yang Diagram, and sent it back to the Three Immortals Hall.

If Chen Gou'er keeps eating, he'll jump through the roof of the Three Immortals Restaurant!
From the very beginning, Chen Gou'er also smelled the powerful blood aura emanating from this evil spirit. Although the evil spirit looked terrifying, he didn't mind.

Li Wushou wasn't deliberately trying to tempt Chen Gou'er by breaking off a couple of abdominal limbs to taste them.

He ate those two abdominal limbs not only to check the taste, but also to determine whether they were evil spirits raised by someone else.

The answer is obvious; they were indeed raised by humans.

The reason is simple: evil spirits that have naturally mutated to this level of strength have flesh and blood that are somewhat mixed with other things.

But this evil spirit is different; its tastes are very pure.

Having confirmed this, Li Wushou decided not to stay any longer.

Since it was artificially raised, now that the evil spirit is dead, it's very likely that the other party will come looking for it. The person who could raise such an evil spirit must be no ordinary person either.

Moreover, this whole thing is rather strange from beginning to end. Judging from the traces of involvement of Wushi Town, this parasitism and devouring must have been going on for a long time.

The fact that Wu Junzheng hasn't left for so long suggests only one possibility: he's waiting for someone.

It goes without saying who they are waiting for; it must be the True Lord Yunxu Sanren, who is capable of dealing with evil spirits in Haiyuan City.

But the other party hasn't shown up yet, which makes the matter rather intriguing.

The other party tacitly agreed to this, and Wushi Town was simply a victim?
Or perhaps the person who keeps the evil spirit doesn't want to offend the other party?

After pondering for a moment, Li Wushou quietly disappeared from Wushi Town and flew towards Ehuang Valley.

Who cares what the reason is, does it have anything to do with me?
I have more important things to do now!

Glancing at the black human skin golden pill in his hand, even Li Wushou, with his temperament, became somewhat excited.

This is the last golden elixir he will use to replenish his dantian!

(End of this chapter)