Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 278 The Moth Queen Yan Qiubai? Raising the Heavenly God Again (5000 chapters)
The floating clouds in the void have gone far away
Li Wushou rode his Blood Bone Dharma Form into the outskirts of Wangxian City.

The Dharma image is majestic, stretching across the heavens and earth.

Li Wushou activated the power of Xuan Yang's divine soul to explore his surroundings, encompassing a radius of thirty miles.

Elder Yun, who was close to the Nascent Soul stage, could only perceive a distance of about one mile with his divine soul, while Li Wushou himself could only perceive a distance of about ten miles.

The range of perception of a half-step deity is so far?
What about Nascent Soul cultivators, or even Great Venerables?
The Grand Venerable doesn't have a chance for now, but once the Nascent Soul stage is restored, he can fully stimulate the opponent's soul perception to experience it.

In comparison, his own soul was indeed comparable to that of an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator, but it was still far behind that of a top-tier Nascent Soul cultivator.

However, now that he has a mutated dragon body, he should be able to transform his soul and spiritual power again by slowly devouring it.

After I finish dealing with things in Huazhou, I'll start thinking about forming my Nascent Soul!

Without a Nascent Soul, it's like not having a Golden Core before. Even if you can rival cultivators of that realm, without your own limit to transformation, you'll always lack the exhilarating feeling of crushing others!

With his mind focused, the Blood Bone Dharma Form took a step forward and appeared outside a farm.

At this moment, a swarm of moths was hovering outside the farm, and bone meal scattered all over the ground was gently swirling around the farm with the buzzing of the insects' wings.

Clearly, a massacre has taken place on the farm!
Inside a secluded courtyard on the farm, a magic array was activated, and cries and screams filled the air, indicating that there were still living people inside.

However, their situation was equally bad; those who had previously touched the moth powder had their bodies transformed into nests for the moth queen insects.

Inside the magic circle, the moth queen's moth eggs, having consumed the body shell, hatched and transformed into new moth queen flying insects that flew out of the human body and then parasitized others through moth pollen.

Those inside the magic circle were filled with unease, terrified by the sudden turn of events.

Although everyone was panicked after the sudden insect infestation at the farm, they were all of high quality, being from the Seven Noble Twenty-Four Clans.

Under the leadership of the farm's head, a defense line was quickly organized to combat the insect plague. At first, the group did not panic too much thanks to the magic array.

But ever since a flying insect suddenly flew out of the head of the household's body, the whole situation took a sharp turn for the worse and went out of control.

Even though later, other collateral branches of the clan burned the head of the family alive, after the Moth Queen flew out, they never knew whose body the insect would emerge from next.

Chaos erupted within the magic circle!
At this moment, there were only a dozen or so people left in the villa, and even the collateral branch of the clan who had burned down the head of the family was dead.

They were scattered in different directions, each doing their best to resist the moth-like flying insects.

Suspicion, fear, and collapse have long since caused people to distrust everyone.

But when another flying insect crawled out of a person's body, some people broke down and began to wail.

Just when everyone was in despair, someone suddenly noticed that the flying insects that were rushing towards them suddenly flew backward into the air.

Subconsciously looking up, I saw a huge blood-bone Dharma image standing between heaven and earth, with the continuous farms prostrate at its feet, appearing extremely small.

The flying insects hovering in the farm were all sucked into nothingness.

Is this a god?
They had just sensed the movement of the Heavenly God, and originally they all supported the Dragon King.

But they were quite frightened by the Dragon King's dragon form.

This figure is clearly not the Dragon King. Could it be a new celestial being? Or is it an immortal from the Suspended Mountain descending to earth to save people from suffering?

But in any case, they seem to be saved!
The crowd, realizing what had happened, wept with joy and excitement.

Li Wushou stood atop the Blood Bone Dharma Image, overlooking the farm. An invisible golden core floated above the farm, swallowing swarms of flying insects and replenishing the integrity of the dragon seed.

These flying insects, though small, are numerous and have devoured a great deal of flesh and blood, thus slowly advancing the integrity of the dragon species.

This was an unexpected joy for Li Wushou.

The power of the Dharma Realm enveloped the entire farm, and even the moths and insects, along with the moth eggs laid inside the human body, had nowhere to hide.

The golden elixir, formless, hovered in mid-air and spun once, its suction power intensifying, devouring all the moths and flying insects in the farm.

He then left the void and landed in the magic array in the courtyard. Under the control of his divine soul, the flesh and blood of the dozen or so surviving people flew everywhere, and they instantly became thinner.

In the blink of an eye, Jin Dan sucked out all the insect eggs from their bodies. Because it was rather rough, some flesh and blood inevitably came out with it, but Li Wushou didn't care about that for the sake of efficiency.

If he hadn't come, these people, no matter how vigilant they were, would have been struggling in vain, as their bodies had already been parasitized by moth pollen to varying degrees.

The golden elixir was completely consumed in one go, then returned to its original form of blood and bone, and disappeared into the sky above the farm.

Inside the farm, a Qi Refining manager who was still alive glanced up and seemed to vaguely see a tall, slender figure with a bare upper body above the Blood Bone Dharma Image's head.

Was that the immortal who saved them?

The remaining dozen or so people, despite being severely depleted of their vital energy, still celebrated joyfully as they looked at the empty courtyard.

He's finally alive!

But then they were plunged into grief, because it was very likely that they were the only ones who survived!

Li Wushou had no time to spare; he used his Blood Bone Dharma Form to gradually eliminate the Moth King flying insects from the outside.

During his journey, he passed by the farm where An An Chengping lived, which had long been devoured by the Moth Queen.

Some Golden Elixir Protectors of the Suspended Mountain were also discovered, scattered in some densely populated towns and farms, either on guard or eliminating the Moth King flying insects.

Li Wushou didn't bother to greet them. He would simply descend and devour any Moth King flying insects he encountered before moving on to the next location. A quarter of an hour later, he arrived outside Weixian Town.

Inside Weixian Town, Elders Lü and Yuwen were personally overseeing the area, along with Li Wushou's incarnation as the Bamboo Gentleman and Gongsun Huoyao, who was possessed by the Abdominal God.

As a place where the painter Yan Qiubai spent a lot of time, Weixian Town was undoubtedly the hardest hit area.

The group of people were stationed in different areas, and although they managed to curb the spread of the moth-like flying insects for a time, they were somewhat helpless in dealing with the parasitic eggs in the bodies of the people.

They can only passively and continuously eliminate the moth queen flying insects that fly out of the body of the parasite.

When Li Wushou stood above Weixian Town in his Blood Bone Dharma Image, several people sensed something and looked up at the sky. The surviving residents of Weixian Town, as well as the numerous cultivators from the Five Clans, Seven Noble Families, and Twenty-Four Clans stationed there to guard against a counterattack from the Misfortune Land, also saw this terrifying Dharma Image figure one after another.

The crimson, ferocious blood-bone dharma image instantly struck the minds of everyone present.

Then everyone was shocked!

With a thought, Li Wushou silently unleashed his power upon Weixian Town, causing a large number of moth-like flying insects to fly backwards into the invisible golden core.

Under the cover of Xuan Yang's half-step into the Divine Transformation realm, the parasitized people flew into the air and were collectively stored in the central square of Weixian Town.

The Blood Bone Dharma Form shifted and moved, clearing out the Moth Queen flying insects and moving all the parasitized people to the square.

Looking down at the crowd, Li Wushou hesitated. The parasitic insect eggs in Weixian Town had obviously been present for a longer period of time than in the previous farms and other places.

If the insect eggs were removed directly, most of the people here would die instantly.

But if they waited any longer, even more people might die. Li Wushou was not a stubborn person, and he was about to make a quick decision when he suddenly stopped.

At that moment, on one side of the Moth King Valley in the Land of Misfortune.

The old snail, in its incarnation, finally discovered the remains of the Moth Emperor mural at the bottom of a cliff.

The cliff face is entirely grayish-brown, smooth as a jade plate.

The old snail had passed by here earlier but hadn't noticed anything unusual until it checked two more locations and was alerted by Li Wushou.

The dozens of locations provided by Li Wushou were all places that the shadowy figure had identified as having something strange. How could there be no anomalies there?
Li Wushou was busy fighting with the Puppet Daoist and didn't have time to receive the information from the old snail.

While dealing with the moth-like flying insects, Li Wushou also began receiving messages from the old snail. After comparing them, Li Wushou noticed something was wrong and quickly notified the old snail to return to the cliff.

Sure enough, after the old snail took out a stick of incense from the Three Immortals Pavilion, lit it, and stuck it into a stone wall at the top of the cliff, the scene before the old snail changed drastically.

The sea of ​​clouds and mist shrouded the area, their eerie fluctuations causing even a rocky outcrop on the cliff edge to ripple before quietly dissipating.

This is actually a painting left behind by an artist!

It cleverly blends with the eerie mist, clouds, and cliffs, deceiving the old snail's spiritual senses and eyes.

Seeing this, the old snail blushed; he, who considered himself mature, felt a little embarrassed.

Li Wushou didn't have time to argue with him about these things; it was normal for an old snail not to understand a painter's work.

Before his own soul underwent transformation, his vision was also hazy. Through the old snail's gaze, hovering before the cliff face, Li Wushou was also astonished by the scene before him.

The cliff face is entirely grayish-brown, smooth as jade, like a mirror or a flat painting.

At this moment, a ghostly light shimmered on the cliff face, and moths flew one after another, forming lines.

These flying insects have dark bodies, and the eerie light comes from their collective shimmering.

From a distance, the lines formed by these moths and flying insects create a bizarre and eerie picture.

This is a mural depicting a sacrifice to the Moth Queen!
The entire scene of the Moth Emperor mural is similar to the scene when Liu Qingmei and the painter were here last time.

There are only two differences:
Firstly, the person being worshipped in the painting has changed from the original moth-headed, human-bodied moth queen to a figure in black robes carrying a basket of books.

Secondly, the sacrificial offerings in the painting have changed from the original nine people lying on the offering table to two cities! Judging from the shape of the cities, they resemble Wangxian City and Weixian Town.

The old snail's pupils contracted the instant it saw the figure!
Isn't that the painter Yan Qiubai that Li Wushou has been keeping a close eye on?

At this moment, the figure of the painter Yan Qiubai stands on the altar in the painting, with a black cloud floating above his head.

The dark cloud was extremely oppressive, but its eerie light was extremely bright. Upon closer inspection, the dark cloud continuously shed fine moth powder, like black rain.

These black, rain-like moth dust particles clung to the figure of the painter Yan Qiubai, making his silhouette even clearer.

After observing for a while, Li Wushou, through comparison with the external situation, keenly discovered that the quantity of these fine moth powders was closely related to the killing of moths and flying insects in the outside world.

It seems that the painter's relationship with Liu Qingmei was not very good.

Liu Qingmei, this saintess, is probably not in a very stable position within the Porcelain Venerable lineage.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. Among the Venerables that Li Wushou knows of in the Immortal Mountain alone, there are two Venerables: the Porcelain Venerable and the Food Venerable. In Li Wushou's understanding, these Venerables should be comparable to Great Venerables. Such power is far more complex than that of the Suspended Mountain.

It would be one thing if Liu Qingmei had grown up in the Immortal Mountain, but it's normal that she would be somewhat unstable if she were parachuted there.

This painter was clearly not, as Liu Qingmei had said, merely trying to use the Moth Emperor flying insect to coerce the ancestor of the Floating Character Clan and the five surnames, seven clans, and twenty-four families into compromising and surrendering as soon as possible. Instead, he had long harbored the intention of emptying out Weixian Town and Wangxian City!
Otherwise, it would have been impossible to paint one's own image on the mural so early on, and to paint Wangxian and Weixian as offerings!

The artist may have been drawn to the terrifying ability of the Moth Queen to constantly parasitize and plunder living beings, so he planned to create a Moth Queen body.

Or perhaps they wanted to devour the Moth Queen directly in this way and gain her power?
Or perhaps the other party anticipated the crisis and used this method to revive itself?

Li Wushou didn't know the specifics, but judging from the current situation, it was probably nothing more than that!

Fortunately, Li Wushou had just killed the painter Yan Qiubai; otherwise, the moth-like flying insects organized by the painter would probably be several times more terrifying than they are now.

Perhaps because the painter is dead, the entire Moth Emperor mural is in a state of self-sacrifice.

But as the dark clouds continued to drop moth pollen, the old snail keenly sensed an aura of the resurgence of Yin spirits.

Could it be that the painter Yan Qiubai could actually transform into a moth queen and step out of the painting?

I just don't know whether it's the Moth Queen or Yan Qiubai who walked out?
Although Li Wushou was somewhat curious, he would not risk so many lives to satisfy his curiosity. In addition to Weixian Town, Wangxian City was also facing the predicament of being unable to eliminate the insect eggs.

Therefore, upon seeing this, the old snail immediately pulled out a fleshy ball from its bosom and threw it towards the wall.

This fleshy ball is the seed that the Blood and Flesh Sacred Tree, which Li Wushou asked him to pull out from the He family in Daishan City when the old snail came to Moth Emperor Valley, was transformed into.

Because of this, He Zhen and his group of children almost fought the old snail to the death. It was only after Li Wushou took over the old snail's body and released his aura that they were able to cooperate.

Li Wushou's original intention was to give the old snail a backup plan, so that it could protect Mutong in times of crisis or help the Dragon King.

I never expected that the effort I put into making incense earlier would be used here!
As the flesh-and-blood tree approached the mural, a large amount of moth powder transformed into flying insects that swarmed onto the tree. The insects were directly swallowed up as the flesh and blood writhed.

"Snapped!"

The flesh-and-blood tree species clung to the dark clouds on the painted wall. In the blink of an eye, its roots spread, and its flesh and blood devoured all the moths and flying insects along the way.

The portrait of the painter Yan Qiubai inside the mural shows a look of terror in his eyes, which keep turning as if trying to step out of the mural.

But it was too slow!
Or perhaps because not enough people died in Wangxian City and Weixian Town, he is currently unable to leave at all!

The roots of the flesh and blood tree directly enveloped it and swallowed it whole.

The roots spread relentlessly until they completely devoured the guardian immortals of the Wangxian Domain in the painting. Then, they suddenly took root inside the painting. A terrified "chirp" was heard as the roots, enveloping a huge black moth, were pulled out of the painting and swallowed.

Then the root retracted and transformed back into a fleshy ball, falling back into the old snail's hand.

"Crack...crack...boom..."

As the flesh-and-blood tree species flew back, cracks suddenly appeared on the smooth wall of the Moth King painting, and then it collapsed completely.

The old snail stared in astonishment, suddenly realizing that the fleshy ball seemed a bit too hot to handle. He hadn't been told that this thing was so ferocious before he picked it up!
Li Wushou seemed to be deep in thought. Judging from what had just happened, Yan Qiubai was eyeing the Moth Queen, but it seemed that the Moth Queen was also eyeing him.

These supernatural beings are as unsettling as ever; you can never be too careful when dealing with them.

Just as the flesh-and-blood tree species devoured the entire Moth Emperor's Diagram Wall, the anxious people he had gathered in the square of Weixian Town suddenly felt their bodies tremble, and then large swaths of black mist emerged from their pores.

Li Wushou knew that this was because the insect eggs that had been parasitizing everyone's bodies had completely died and had turned back into moth powder, floating out of their bodies.

With a thought, he manipulated the power of the boundary and gently inhaled, drawing out all the black mist from everyone's bodies.

Although the people felt listless, they also had a strange sense of relief, as if they had survived a disaster.

After Li Wushou swallowed the black mist into his golden core, he stood atop the Blood Bone Dharma Image and addressed the two elders, Yuwen and others, in Weixian Town, giving them instructions:

"The root cause of the Moth Queen's calamity has been eliminated, and the crises in Suspended Mountain and Huazhou have also been resolved. We must quickly appease the people near Weixian. Later today, we will once again ascend to the position of Heavenly God!"

Without waiting for their reaction, the Blood Bone Dharma Form took a step and disappeared from Weixian Town.

Li Wushou first rode his Dharma form back outside the water curtain, and then, with Chen Gou'er's help, quickly retracted his blood and bones into his body.

Master Xuan Yang was also sent back to the Taiji Dojo and placed back into his divine aperture.

Li Wushou donned the Yin-Yang Daoist robe previously worn by Master Xuanyang and entered the Suspended Mountain through the floating cloud passage left by the founder of the Floating Character Clan.

Standing before the ravine where the Dragon King had sunk, several boys riding cranes hovered above the ravine, sizing up the Dragon King below.

When Li Wushou suddenly appeared, the boys were startled. One of them was about to reprimand Li Wushou because he was unfamiliar with him, but was quickly pulled back by another boy. Then, they knelt down and bowed to Li Wushou in mid-air.

"This humble servant greets the High Priest!"

He was the one who led the way when Li Wushou first came to the Hanging Mountain, so even though Li Wushou had changed his clothes, he remembered what Li Wushou looked like.

Especially after experiencing such a terrifying event, he remembered Li Wushou's appearance even more clearly. Not to mention, the Dragon King in the ravine was thrown in by him.

Upon seeing this, the others turned pale instantly and hurriedly knelt down. The boy who was about to reprimand Li Wushou lost his composure and fell directly from mid-air.

Li Wushou waved his hand, blowing the boys aside.

Next, he had to wake up the Dragon King and continue to raise the heavenly gods for him; he didn't have time to play with these children.

With a thought, the Celestial Star Array, carrying the star core, floated up from the ravine.

Li Wushou's brow cracked vertically as he returned the star core to the Three Immortals Pavilion.

The Heavenly Star Array was then transformed back into a necklace and worn around the neck.

Suddenly, a dragon's roar echoed from the ravine, and the Dragon King, with a black dot on his forehead, slowly raised his head from the ravine.

At this moment, the Dragon King's eyes were complicated and he looked quite disheveled. The golden dragon scales on his body had changed from being entirely golden to being patchy with black and gold, which were the traces of the nine ink spots on his body dissolving earlier.

Only the ink spot between Liu Qingmei's eyebrows, where she had secretly left her mark, remained undissolved.

Just then, the patriarch of the Fu lineage returned to the Suspended Mountain with Elders Yun and Shen, as well as several Dharma protectors.

Li Wushou ignored everyone and simply smiled at the Dragon King.

Then he waved to the void beside him, and the floating Destiny Star and the star that the Heavenly God Token had transformed into floated to the front of the Dragon King's dragon head.

Li Wushou suddenly turned around and looked at the patriarch of the Fu Zi lineage.

"The conspiracy of the Immortal Mountain has been thwarted. I propose that the Dragon King once again invoke the Heavenly Gods. What does the Ancestor think?"

(End of this chapter)