Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 9 The City God is also pregnant.

Li Wushou also craned his neck to look down.

The gray-brown vines, bearing the distinctive facial features of the Blood Buddha Temple, descended along the way.

"Help me, help me!"

The flesh and blood, with its facial features, struggled incessantly on the lotus platform, its only remaining ability to speak being its mouth, which cried out for help.

The fact that he lacked a tongue made his speech sound strange, which only made the current situation even more bizarre.

The flesh and blood on the vines wriggled even more violently, each one seemingly excited.

Li Wushou subconsciously focused his gaze, but what was wriggling was not flesh and blood at all.
They were clearly a group of strangely shaped, emaciated, starving ghosts.

The features of the Blood Buddha Temple were laid out before them like delicacies, making them yearn to rush forward and devour them whole. Yet, they were firmly bound, presumably the soul of the City God.

But it was clear that the City God was also struggling to restrain them, and large swaths of flesh and blood that crossed the line were crushed into ashes.

Seeing this, Li Wushou gradually grew bolder.

It seems the City God has no energy left to pay attention to me!
So he began to observe more carefully. As things stand, Li Wushou was not optimistic about the results of the golden statue. He wanted to see what exactly was wrong with the City God.

To avoid following in the footsteps of those who came before.

Finally, the facial features of the Blood Buddha Temple were pulled to the positions corresponding to the facial features of the golden body by the gray-brown vines.

Two large eyes were filled with terror, the mouth kept calling for help, and the nose was breathing heavily.
Everyone was terrified of the impending doom.

"Hiss!"

The facial features were pulled into the golden body.

"Om~"

A buzzing sound like swarms of bees flapping their wings came from the bottom of the pit, and then grayish-brown flesh and blood surged upwards.

Countless flesh-and-blood hungry ghosts crawled on the face, the pain of being devoured by thousands of ants made the mouth scream shrilly. After a moment, the face completely lost its voice and lay quietly on the golden body's face.

A rich essence of flesh and blood spread across the golden face.

This City God Temple is truly beautiful!
Li Wushou felt a wetness in his lower body. Looking down, he saw that Chen Gou'er had somehow peeled off his skin and poked half of his head out, drool dripping from his mouth.

"These flesh and features smell so good! So good! I really want to eat them, Li Wushou!"

At the same time, I wondered if the loan the old beggar offered was really that good.
He couldn't stop drooling, and Li Wushou found it extremely disgusting.

He casually stuffed the box containing the facial features into Chen Gou'er's mouth.

"Crunch, crunch~"

Chen Gou'er gazed at the golden statue below, and subconsciously began to bite into the wooden box, surprisingly enjoying the food.

"The stench has been masked somewhat, but it still stinks!"

Watching the features of the Blood Buddha Temple being pulled into the golden statue's face, Chen Gou'er regretfully withdrew his gaze, sniffed his nose, and said.

Can you smell exactly where the stench is coming from?

"It stinks everywhere, it feels like the whole underground stinks!"

"Huh~?"

Li Wushou frowned and didn't ask any more questions. He knew Chen Gou'er wouldn't make a mistake, so where exactly did things go wrong?
Before they could come up with an answer, the golden statue at the bottom of the pit changed again.

The powerful blood energy in his features spread across the golden body's face, filling the emaciated ghost with a torrent of blood and flesh.

One by one, they stopped wriggling with pleasant expressions, feeling the scent of flesh and blood as they swayed, as refreshing as a spring breeze.

As the golden body's withered features gradually regained their original flesh and blood color.

The junior priest was overjoyed. Was it going to work? That's wonderful!

The High Priest wasn't lying to me; this time, the flesh and facial features really cost a fortune.

Look how vibrant his blood is!

Look how quickly the golden statue was restored!
Look at this
Um? wrong!

His expression hardened, and he stared intently at the chest of the City God's golden statue, where the peaks and valleys were deep and secluded!
The junior priest had no interest in appreciating it; let alone facing life and death, he wouldn't dare to have any other thoughts even under normal circumstances.

The reason the young priest was so focused was that he discovered that beneath the towering mound on the left, there was a mass of grayish-brown flesh, just like the golden face he had just seen.

"What's going on?"

The young priest was shocked. Feng Sishui and the other two wiped their mouths, their infatuation interrupted by the young priest's exclamation.

The golden statue of the City God is so beautiful?

What else happened?

Li Wushou squinted. The little priest had seen it, and so had he. Moreover, he saw more: on the left chest of the golden body, a continuous stream of grayish-brown flesh was growing.

Moreover, this grayish-brown flesh and blood was clearly not under the control of the City God's soul, and it continued to devour the surging blood energy!

One by one, the emaciated ghosts, after devouring the blood essence, were not satisfied, but instead multiplied and rushed towards the blood essence.

If this continues, the golden body will inevitably revert to its original state, or even worse due to the replenishment of its facial features and flesh!
Is this the reason why the gilding of the statue failed?

"Let me see what's wrong here?"

Li Wushou's expression turned serious, a dark light flashing in his eyes, which his azure robe could not conceal for a moment.

Passing through it in a flash, the scene changes.

The wails of countless souls echoed in his ears. Li Wushou guarded his mind and his vision entered the body of the City God.

There is no reincarnation in this world; the birth and death of ordinary people all become provisions for the gods and immortals.

The City God sits in charge of the Yin and Yang of a place, protecting the area and feeding on the souls of the dead. His body is naturally like a hellish place.

As my gaze swept across mountains of corpses and seas of blood, severed limbs and broken arms, a massive crimson furnace came into view.

This must be the other person's heart!
The abundant vital energy of the soul flowed through the body with the slight tremor of the heart, nourishing the golden body.

But there's clearly something wrong with his heart!

In the very center of the heart, in an extremely small area, a large number of feather-like debris had accumulated, resembling a bird's nest.

A gray sparrow flapped its wings in the nest, swallowing a large amount of blood and then exhaling a thick black mist that overflowed from its chest.

"Is the City Goddess pregnant too? And pregnant with a bird?"

"Pah! Why did you say 'also'?"

Li Wushou was taken aback and was about to take a closer look when a clear, cold murmur suddenly reached his ears.

"Not enough!"

Then a stomachache hit, and my vision returned.

Wiping his mouth, Li Wushou's mouth watered at the sight of so many dismembered souls.

Looking down, Chen Gou'er bit down on his own skin membrane, which was originally neatly aligned, but now had a hole in it.

Without a doubt, it's already in Chen Gou'er's stomach.

"Uh... Li Wushou, you're awake."

Chen Gou'er awkwardly scratched his head, then guiltily tried to hide the gap in his hair. Seeing that Li Wushou was about to hit him, he quickly shouted.

"That City Goddess is going to eat people!"

Li Wushou suppressed his urge to go berserk and looked toward the golden statue of the City God.

Sure enough, the large patches of grayish-brown flesh that had just recovered began to spread back into the normal flesh, and flesh vines grew again from the neck of the golden body, reaching towards the five people on the pit wall!

The City God instinctively needed more flesh and blood to resist!

The junior priest looked distressed. Facing the City God, he was powerless to use even his usual priestly arts. He finally realized that the City God had a heart problem.

But the news couldn't get out!

"Hiss! Ugh!"

Flesh vines arrived in an instant, wrapping around the five people in the pit.

The moment it entangled the five people, it burrowed into their bodies, unleashing a terrifying suction force that instantly took away large chunks of flesh and blood.

If even the minor priests were like this, let alone Feng Sishui and the others, who instantly lost consciousness and fainted.

Only Li Wushou, with the vines clinging to him, felt a sense of bewilderment as he looked around, sword in hand.

Where is the flesh and blood? Where is the life?

They charged forward in a mighty force, but it was as if they had encountered a clod of earth. They tried to bind it, but they didn't even have the interest to suck up a drop of flesh and blood!
Instead, Chen Gou'er ripped off a few fleshy vines and stuffed them into his mouth.

They chewed it with a "crunch, crunch" sound!

Tiny hungry ghosts wailed in Chen Gou'er's mouth.

"It's delicious, Li Wushou. What do we do now? Is the golden statue finished yet?"

"Screw your work! This City God is pregnant with a bird!"

"Uh, Li Wushou, why are you swearing?"

(End of this chapter)