Young master, why not become a corpse immortal?

Chapter 142 The Stone Buddha
Gong Xuan stared intently at the steamed bun in his hand that had turned to stone. Suddenly, his teeth cracked, and a line of bright red blood shot out from between his teeth.

He just ate a steamed bun with these teeth!
He clutched his cramping stomach, a dull ache spreading through him.

not good!

Not only the food in his hands, but also the food in his stomach was transformed!

If this isn't dealt with soon, Gongxuan's stomach will be filled with stones.

He took out the talisman from his pocket and sealed his navel, which finally stopped his gradually writhing stomach.

After finishing this task, he seemed to suddenly remember something, and abruptly pulled out another identical talisman from his pocket and threw it towards Jiang Jinyue in the distance.

Just as Gong Xuan had predicted, Jiang Jinyue's stomach changed at a visible speed, and the undigested buns were slowly turning into hard stones.

However, the talisman seemed to be affected by something in the air, and it began to gradually turn into jerky made of meat.

Lin Jiang directly took out the token and the bead:

"Hey guys! Can you do me a favor?"

These two magical artifacts emitted light, protecting the group of people within them.

As the light swept across, the talisman slowly returned to its original shape.

Lin Jiang intercepted her with his hand and pressed her against Jiang Jinyue's swollen, rock-like abdomen, which stopped the swelling and hardening of her stomach.

"Brother, this evil force is too fierce! The two of us can't hold out for long."

The bead called out.

Immediately afterwards, he cried out in surprise:

"Oh shit!"

Lin Jiang looked at the beads.

It was discovered that its lower body was gradually turning into skin!

The lower half of the bead has solidified into a glutinous rice ball!

The tokens weren't much better.

He turned into beef jerky.

At this rate of change, in no more than half an incense stick's time, these two treasures will turn into food devoid of any spirituality.

"Damn it! I've been following Master Zhao for so long, and this is the first time I've ever encountered something like this!"

"Master Zhao? Which Master Zhao are you talking about?"

"It's none of your business!"

The two children were still bickering, but they were putting all their effort into cultivating their Dao.

They both risked their lives.

Lin Jiang raised his head and looked at the stone Buddha in front of him.

That indifferent, downcast gaze of compassion remained frozen in time.

It was as if everything in front of him had nothing to do with him.

However, Lin Jiang could clearly sense that the stone Buddha was looking at him.

Without sorrow or joy, without desire or want, simply looking at oneself.

Lin Jiang untied the rope that was binding him and gently placed Jiang Jinyue on the ground.

"Young Master Lin, what are you trying to do?"

Gong Xuan was about to take the altar out of his robes when he suddenly saw this scene.

He asked the question hastily, and Lin Jiang smiled at Gong Xuan after hearing it:

"I want to smash that stone Buddha."

"what?"

Before Gong Xuan could stop him, Lin Jiang had already smashed through the light barrier and rushed out directly from the protection of the two magical treasures!

The moment he was freed from protection, hunger surged through Lin Jiang's chest like a tidal wave, and the food around him suddenly seemed incredibly fresh.

But it doesn't matter.

Seeing Lin Jiang rapidly approaching him, a ripple of sorrow appeared on the stone Buddha's compassionate, downcast face.

It's not mockery, not sarcasm, but the compassionate gaze of a ferryman across the sea of ​​suffering towards a drowning person, imbued with the scent of incense.

Several streams of food floated above the fragrant pool, swirling in the air several times before drifting towards the Linjiang River.

Like a compassionate act of feeding.

But this "food" is incredibly attractive to Lin Jiang right now.

He didn't even have time to think before he opened his mouth and bit down.

The first dish was sizzling roasted meat on a stone plate. The meat used was granite with layered patterns inside and out, and it was a piece of excellent pork belly.

Lin Jiang opened his mouth and, in just a few bites, crushed the granite piece and the stone slab below, swallowing them whole.

The granite also contains some harder iron ore.

But it doesn't matter.

Anyway, we've already eaten up a lot of sand and gravel while digging the hole, so one or two more won't make a difference.

The second dish is a stone bowl filled with fragrant white porridge, with fresh mushrooms and seafood hidden underneath, making one's appetite whetted.

Lin Jiang rushed along the riverbank, swallowing the food whole, even gnawing on the rim of the bowl.

This wasn't some kind of rock. Although it was very delicious, Lin Jiang felt the texture was somewhat familiar.

After careful tasting, it seems somewhat similar to the germs I ate before.

It could also be poison?
Lin Jiang didn't know.

But it doesn't matter.

He's eaten the same kind of food before, even though it's not like he hasn't had the lesions before.

The moment I swallowed, a very faint sound brushed past my ear.

Seems to be……

Someone let out a soft, puzzled hum.

Immediately afterwards, even more food appeared directly in front of Lin Jiang.

Lin Jiang opened his mouth and took a big bite off the scorching hot iron plate. He then rolled the rest into a ball and threw it into his mouth, where he crunched it into pieces.

Hundreds of steel needles were placed in a bowl. Lin Jiang first put the needles into his mouth, and then bit the bowl off piece by piece along the edge.

The liquid, made of gold, even made a sizzling sound when it flowed onto the ground. Lin Jiang tilted his head back and drank it all down.

As he ate and drank along the way, Lin Jiang began to accumulate true qi from his throat down. As he continued to accumulate, his mental state was much better than before!
He finally stood still in front of the Buddha statue.

The Buddha, who had been completely still, finally changed, his narrowed eyes lowering to look at Lin Jiang on the ground.

Lin Jiang seemed to sense a trace of emotion emanating from the Buddha.

Puzzled.

It seems that the Buddha encountered something he could not understand.

He couldn't understand why humans would be so lively and energetic after eating these things.

Can people eat stones?

No.

Can people eat steel? No, they can't.

What about aqua regia, which can melt gold?
How can it be?

Maybe,

Normal humans would have died long ago after eating these things.

How could a mortal swallow arsenic as if it were honey, or drink molten iron as if it were nectar?

Lin Jiang slowly raised his head and looked at the stone Buddha in front of him.

He raised his fist high.

Slam it down hard!
Without fancy tricks or clever schemes, only force can overcome all methods!

The skills Chen Dajiang taught him were proving very useful at this moment.

The fist whistled through the air, forcefully ramming the stone Buddha half an inch into the ground.

When he retracted his fist, a bluish-gray dust rose from the dent, clearly bearing the imprint of his fist.

“It’s pretty solid.”

Seeing his punch broken, Lin Jiang thought for a moment and then swung his arms wide.

He embraced the stone Buddha.

Then he took a big bite.

When Lin Jiang took his first bite, a bizarre array of flavors exploded in his mouth. Lin Jiang wasn't sure what they were; they could be sour, poison, or something too hot.

But it didn't matter; these things turned into vital energy as they entered his mouth and he swallowed them.

When Lin Jiang took his second bite, his tongue almost lost all taste, or rather, the second bite itself was tasteless. Lin Jiang could feel a hostile aura beginning to surge into his body.

This energy seemed to wantonly destroy Lin Jiang's meridians, but it could not penetrate them at all. It had no choice but to follow the meridians and enter Lin Jiang's dantian.

They arrived at the palace inside Lin Jiang's abdomen.

then……

This energy then collided head-on with the small golden figures lined up in formation.

The little golden figures took brooms and gave the energy a good beating, forcefully pressing it down.

Lin Jiang opened his mouth,
I want to take a third bite.

click!
His upper teeth touched his lower teeth.

Nothing at all.

When he came to his senses, the surrounding caves had disappeared.

The group found themselves in an unfamiliar mine.

His companions were still deathly pale. Gongxuan had only set up half of his altar when he noticed this change in his surroundings.

Lin Jiang looked around, his brows furrowed.

"Ran?"

"……I have no idea."

Gong Xuan couldn't help but glance at Lin Jiang a few more times.

Gong Xuan still vividly remembered the scene of Lin Jiang fighting with that stone Buddha.

How scary!

What is Lin Jiang eating?!

Gong Xuan himself also cultivated eating and drinking, and his cultivation was relatively profound, so his digestive ability was much stronger than that of normal humans.

When Gong Xuan was attacked by the Stone Buddha's Dharma, several stones appeared in his stomach, but he was still able to move normally.

With some effort, Gongxuan could still digest the stones remaining in his six spleens and transform them into a wisp of qi.

But a stone is still a stone, and even though a cultivator's stomach is different from that of an ordinary person, it still takes some effort to digest a stone.

Like Lin Jiang, who could dig and eat at the same time, even managing to gnaw and grab things while rushing to attack the stone Buddha...

Moreover, if Gongxuan wasn't mistaken, Lin Jiang hadn't just eaten stones back then...

Gong Xuan didn't understand.

Is this still the method I taught him?
However, now was clearly not the time to think about that. Seeing that there were no more strange occurrences here, and that alluring eerie aura was gone, they took the opportunity to pull the people upstairs.

They continued upwards, and before long, they arrived at a familiar place.

The mining tools placed around the pot were broken in two by Lin Jiang.

This is clearly the entrance to Mine Pit No. 3.

As the group hurried up the path, a mountain breeze carrying the twilight rushed into the passage.

The setting sun poured its golden rays upon them.

Gong Xuan let out a long sigh of relief, feeling as if he had survived a calamity.

Lin Jiang patted his belly.

He felt like he had returned to a past life and eaten at a buffet.

The constables outside the door were startled to see the two men come out, and were even more shocked when they discovered that they were holding someone behind them.

Can a person survive with their stomach bloated like this?

Without further ado, he hurriedly went to the town to find the registrar.

Gong Xuan removed Jiang Jinyue from Lin Jiang's body, and Jiang Jinyue's eyes slowly returned to their senses.

Her eyes gradually cleared, and just as she was about to smile when she saw the light of day, a metallic taste filled her mouth.

Several of his lower teeth had broken off, and blood was flowing directly from the corners of his mouth.

A sharp pain exploded in her abdomen, and she curled up like a shrimp and collapsed to the ground, all the color draining from her lips.

"It hurts...it hurts so much."

"Don't move around. You have stones in your stomach. Moving around could rupture your stomach."

As he spoke, Gong Xuan gave Jiang Jinyue two new talismans, and Jiang Jinyue's expression finally calmed down.

With her temples soaked in cold sweat, Jiang Jinyue lay on the ground, looking up at the sky.

Her gown and lining were covered in dirt, and the mixture of wine and blood was sticky and uncomfortable.

Even her hair, which had been tied into two buns, broke apart and scattered all over the ground.

Jiang Jinyue, who had survived the ordeal, sighed from the outside:
"You two have saved my life."

"When we return to the capital, please treat us to plenty of food and drinks."

“That’s no problem,” Jiang Jinyue said, lying on her back with her eyes closed. “But let’s forget about it for now. I… plan to control my weight recently.”

"Martial arts practitioners need to control their weight?"

"Sigh, don't say anymore, I'm afraid I really can't eat anything lately..."

However, Jiang Jinyue paused at this point.

She seemed to remember something, and a slight smile appeared on her face.

"But... I still feel like I can eat more meat buns."

(End of this chapter)