Chapter 127: Target, Sakura Capital! (Combined chapter, please subscribe)

Sakura Country.

The Red Snake Sect's covert operations at a temple near Sakura Capital.

Had fallen into the eyes of certain interested parties from the very beginning.

If it were in the past, perhaps they would only care about whether the Red Snake Sect would conjure up a few or even dozens of schizophrenic patients this time.

And ponder what kind of wording to use to make the Red Snake Sect remember their favor when the time came.

But now...

The secretaries serving the Cabinet Ministers of Sakura Country had secretly issued a death order: monitor every move of the Red Snake Sect without fail!

Moreover, it was rumored that the figures of Flower Flag Country military personnel had appeared among the personnel participating in the monitoring.

Even those drones, which had never been delivered to Sakura Country for use but for which it was required to bear the maintenance costs, had rarely flown to the nearby airspace fully armed.

There was no help for it.

Even if everyone disbelieved in the tales of gods, demons, and monsters.

What happened in reality was reality.

The facts were there, and the scientific reports were there too.

No matter how much the big shots felt something was wrong, they had to nod and admit that some incredible events had indeed occurred in Bangzi Country.

And following the outbreak of this extraordinary event.

The other party involved, the Red Snake Sect in Sakura Country, had also begun some abnormal movements at the same time.

It was hard not to suspect whether the Red Snake Sect also possessed some extraordinary abilities and was performing some mysterious ritual to engage in a battle of techniques with the other side.

"Sigh!"

On a small hill opposite the Red Snake Sect temple, in a temporary camp set up by the authorities.

As an off-road vehicle came to a stop.

A decrepit Shinto Sect priest, supported by his granddaughter, gasped for air as he got out of the car and looked at the temple shrouded in the night.

The temple was brightly lit, and one could faintly hear the rhythmic chanting of scriptures coming from within.

The eerie thing was that these scriptures were not any known scripture.

It sounded like Sanskrit, and the content, after being analyzed, was found to be mostly about devotion, sacrifice, Samsara, and the like.

The old priest had been arranged to go to a more comfortable tent, but he had refused.

After trembling as he straightened his priest's hat, he stood on the hill blowing in the night wind, staring at the temple ahead with complicated feelings.

On one hand, he hoped that some divine miracle would truly appear before his eyes, proving that the extraordinary was real and had always been living on this land.

On the other hand, he hoped that this was all a scam, and that the matters in Bangzi Country and the Red Snake Sect were just special effects films made to fool believers.

After all, as the big boss of the Shinto Sect in Sakura Country, he himself had never learned any real magic, nor had he seen any priest or Yin-Yang Master who could truly summon a Shikigami.

They, with their long history, no longer had any heritage of saints manifesting in the human world.

How could extraordinary heritage appear in the hands of these charlatans who had only popped up in the last few decades, were clearly laymen, and were grandstanding?

He could not understand, and even less could he accept it!

Suddenly!

Dark clouds appeared above the temple.

A violent wind also suddenly began to blow.

As the mountain forest began to rustle.

Someone saw a red light rush out from the temple.

The red light shot into the sky, turning into a blurred and twisted face under the dark clouds.

It seemed to want to roar something.

Su Ping hid to the side, quietly waiting for the Red Snake Sect's efforts; seeing this scene, he was slightly startled and then understood.

This red light should be a wisp of Divine Sense left in a Storage Spirit Tool by that Foundation Establishment female cultivator.

It was some kind of signal that erupted after being stimulated.

It was just that Water Blue Star was a land without Spirit Qi; the red light could still take shape within the range covered by the Array, but once it flew out, it was immediately like water without duckweed, unable to even transmit sound.

That would not do.

Su Ping smiled faintly, and without a sound, he cast an Amplification Talisman into the sky along with the red light.

The next second.

A female scream filled with hatred rang out over the entire temple!

Along with the shriek, the dark clouds dropped lightning, striking the Main Hall of the temple, causing the thunder to dance and spread across the roof in the dark night.

Red light, shrieking, lightning.

The scene, full of mysterious implications, made the priest's granddaughter cry out in shock.

Several intelligence agents from different factions also widened their eyes, their faces full of: incredulity.

At the same time.

At the foot of the temple mountain.

He Mao Chun Yi Lang, who had been invited with heavy rewards and was active on major television and radio programs, claiming to be the strongest Yin-Yang Master of the younger generation, had just driven his car to the mountain gate with his assistant.

He noticed the strange phenomena all around and heard the female shriek that pierced through the glass and into his eardrums.

This Great Onmyoji, who had just turned thirty, suddenly felt his heart skip a beat.

The programs he had done before all had special effects added after the fact.

He could not help but feel the urge to retreat.

Only... thinking of his assistant's reminder that this time those big shots had specifically named him and required him to come.

This Yin-Yang Master could not help but regret that he had pretended to be mysterious too much just to make money.

They were actually taken for someone with mysterious powers, sent to observe and handle the anomaly before them.

If he were to take a step back, it wouldn't just be a matter of his work being in vain; He Mao Chun Yi Lang suspected his own life would be ruined too!

Thus, encouraged by his feigned posture that there was no big problem and everything was fine.

This Yin-Yang Master took his assistant, who was holding live-streaming equipment, and walked into the mountain gate.

"What are those people doing?"

The movements of these people caught the attention of the intelligence personnel on the mountaintop.

An adjutant from Sakura Country hurriedly leaned in and said:

"That Yin-Yang Master is the most outstanding disciple of the Kamo Family in this generation."

"Someone on the Prime Minister's side suggested he go scout the path, and the Prime Minister agreed."

"Scout the path?"

Hearing the adjutant's words, the old shrine official barely managed to recall the appearance and background of that He Mao Chun Yi Lang.

He sneered inwardly, knowing that this fellow was usually too arrogant, and now he had been deliberately pushed forward to be cannon fodder.

He had seen this young man before.

He had a bit of petty cleverness and was bold, but his talent for cultivation was not as impressive as his granddaughter's.

Not to mention the true descendants of the Kamo Jia who were hidden away as Yin-Yang Masters.

This person had only mastered a few small tricks similar to magic and was already impatient to debut and swindle people.

Inside the temple.

Because of the thunder strikes and shrill screams.

A commotion had also broken out within the Red Snake Sect.

The Sect Leader and Vice Sect Leader were not alarmed but delighted, standing up together to angrily rebuke those who were wavering.

Relying on decades of established prestige, they quickly quelled the wavering.

The sound of chanting continued to ring out in the temple.

At the same time, the Divine Sense on the Storage Spirit Tool and Spirit Bead continued to be worn away, beginning to emit waves of Dharma Power that were difficult for the naked eye to detect.

These ripples were similar to the red light from just before, all being a type of Restriction placed to alert the original owner.

It was just that this was no longer the Cultivation World.

Spirit Tools were not so formidable as to be able to traverse planes.

It was destined to be a futile effort, only able to watch helplessly as the Divine Sense belonging to the original owner on them was washed away bit by bit...

"That fox-masked Shrine Maiden did not lie to us, Sect Leader; I can feel that these two Spirit Tools seem to have come alive."

In the inner chamber of the Main Hall.

The Vice Sect Leader stared at the Spirit Bead, eyes unblinking.

The Sect Leader of the Red Snake Sect also nodded slightly; as a practitioner, he too felt the Dharma Power ripples that made his heart palpitate.

Both he and the Vice Sect Leader took this as a sign that the ritual was going smoothly and realized they had indeed come into contact with true mysterious power.

Only, would this not be too coincidental?

The Sect Leader of the Red Snake Sect had had such misgivings ever since he saw the Vice Sect Leader return.

But... the temptation brought by the other party was simply too great!

A truly transcendent temptation!

Even if it were a pit of fire, this Sect Leader of the Red Snake Sect would still choose to jump in without hesitation.

Having deceived his followers for decades, to be honest, this old Sect Leader had long since entered a state where he believed it himself.

Many times, he truly felt he was one of the Avatars of the savior, and that creating the Red Snake Sect was not just to gather wealth, but also to save the suffering in the future and allow himself to become a real Buddha in reality.

This Sect Leader opened the silk scroll and looked at the various Secret Techniques in the lower half.

He had tried these Secret Techniques once when he first got his hands on them.

The result was naturally useless.

They didn't even have the sense of mystery that the esoteric rituals he had learned possessed.

Now, as the Spirit Tools seemed to have come alive, they were also in a realm of uncontrollable trembling.

This Sect Leader felt a flash of inspiration that he could now learn those Secret Techniques.

The materials had all been prepared in advance.

Following a bout of chanting, this Sect Leader successfully guided the surrounding Spirit Qi into his body.

Then, a brilliant light burst from his eyes.

Crack! Crack!

The Vice Sect Leader suddenly heard the sound of cracking coming from beside him.

He was slightly startled, and when he turned his head to look, he was immediately shocked.

He discovered that the body of his beloved Sect Leader had suddenly expanded into a giant.

And then, accompanied by the skin falling off.

A white bone giant without flesh or blood appeared right here in the inner chamber!

"Being human is too troublesome; it is better to change into a body of white bone, carefree from now on."

"Do you think... that is correct?"

This white bone giant draped on a Kasaya that did not fit his body and turned to look at the Vice Sect Leader, whose teeth were beginning to chatter.

"Correct... correct, the Sect Leader has transformed into the Bone Buddha and will surely realize our sect's Saving World Great Vow!"

The Vice Sect Leader's body went limp, and he knelt on the ground.

"Well said, so join my Bone Path as well."

Eerie blue fire emerged from the eye sockets of the white bone giant.

And so, in just a few seconds.

The Vice Sect Leader shuddered all over and also transformed into a slightly smaller white bone giant.

After becoming a white bone person, he was even more respectful to the Sect Leader, and then sat cross-legged on a prayer mat and began to chant scriptures incessantly.

Even more diligently and devoutly than before.

"Good!"

The white bone giant that the Sect Leader had transformed into turned to look at the silk scroll.

Having transformed into a white bone giant, he seemed to have gained an astonishing improvement in his understanding of these Side-Door Path arts.

The circulation of his Dharma Power was also completely unobstructed.

As for Dharma Power... aside from what the Array provided.

As the last trace of Divine Sense in the Spirit Bead was also worn away.

Accompanied by Su Ping, who had been waiting for a long time, his Divine Sense violently rushed in and occupied the primary position.

After confirming that he had temporarily gained control of this Calamity Heart Spirit Bead, Su Ping's heart stirred!

The Calamity Heart Spirit Bead erupted with strange brilliance.

Within the range of the rosy light.

The entire mountain peak where the temple was located.

Suddenly appeared on the surface to have transformed into a place of the Underworld, filled with ghostly aura.

Mist emerged, and Ghost Fire appeared.

Large swaths of jungle vegetation withered and mutated in an instant.

It was as if the Burial Ground had directly appeared and replaced it.

However, this was merely Su Ping detonating in one breath the power originally stored within this Spirit Tool, the Calamity Heart Spirit Bead, which came from that masked Foundation Establishment female cultivator.

After all, this power came from that Foundation Establishment female cultivator and involved the other party's supernatural powers.

Even though he had obtained control of the Spirit Bead, Su Ping still did not feel entirely at ease, so he simply released it all cleanly here in the Sakura Country.

The supernatural power of the Foundation Establishment female cultivator clearly leaned toward Evil Art.

This made this mountain forest resemble a demonic realm.

It was extremely suitable for the execution of various Evil arts.

It just so happened that the Sect Leader of the Red Snake Sect appeared to be someone who possessed a Spirit Root and had an affinity for the Bone Evil Technique.

He had actually mastered this Bone Evil Technique as if he had received a heavenly endowment.

Then he would just go along with it and cooperate, hoping the other party could come up with a surprise.

As the Spirit Bead erupted, causing a drastic change in the surrounding environment.

The group of Yin-Yang Masters on the mountain road immediately began their journey of screaming and fleeing for their lives.

At first, it was just the trees on both sides of the steps that seemed to come alive at this moment, constantly swaying and shaking.

Then, out of a craving for flesh and blood, branches swished out, scaring these people into stopping their advance and gathering in the center of the steps.

And then, it seemed as if a pair of slender, white hands grabbed the ankle of an assistant.

In the next instant, they swished that assistant back into the dense forest.

Leaving only the assistant's desperate screams in the air and the silence that followed abruptly.

"This... how is this possible!"

"Monsters, there really are monsters in this mountain!"

The silence at this moment was more terrifying than the screaming.

Regardless of whether the rest of their lives would be ruined.

The Yin-Yang Master He Mao Chun Yi Lang was the first to turn and flee down the mountain.

And on the mountain.

The strange transformation had already erupted completely!

The monks in the front hall encountered the attack of the Blood-Sucking Vines.

After a bout of futile resistance, these monks abandoned their companions who were being bound and drained, and ran toward the Main Hall.

Boom!

They pushed open the heavy doors.

The monks who were about to open their mouths to report the anomaly outside suddenly stopped, their mouths agape, not daring to make a sound.

It was because they saw that their companions and teachers chanting scriptures inside the Main Hall had all transformed into white bone monsters wearing monk robes.

After the doors were opened, these white bone monsters stopped chanting, and then one after another looked at these monks, looked at their tempting flesh and blood.

"Do not be afraid."

Inside the Main Hall, the voice of the Sect Leader of the Red Snake Sect came.

The next second, a white bone giant emitting a faint blue light slowly walked out from the inner chamber, stooping.

"Those who believe in me shall find liberation together as white bones..."

The eerie voice floated into the ears of these monks.

The die-hard believers immediately knelt on the ground, and before long, they shed their skin and transformed into white bones.

The believers who had been faking their loyalty were immediately exposed at this moment, and they hurriedly tried to flee.

The Sect Leader did not make things difficult for them.

It was just that they could not escape the temple before being captured by the Blood-Sucking Vines, becoming fertilizer for this strange plant.

Buzz, buzz, buzz!

In the Underground Basement beneath the Main Hall, a large quantity of meat was also being continuously devoured by the mouths split from these vines.

Relying on a large amount of food and the sacrifice of a portion of the monks.

The other Secret Technique mastered by the Bone Giant, the Blood Vine Secret Technique, was also able to grow rapidly.

At the same time, within this Yuanling formed by the power of the Spirit Bead, they became increasingly like fish in water, except that their consciousness was becoming more and more insane and inhuman due to the influence of the Evil Art.

It looked... quite formidable, after all.

"This guy, if he had encountered a Side Sect master in the Cultivation World and learned and used it slowly, he might have really been able to become a Bone Giant with an Undying consciousness!"

"It's just that I don't have the time to cultivate such a Side-Door Path!"

Su Ping hid to one side and quietly took away the Storage Spirit Tool necklace, only leaving the Spirit Bead to continue maintaining the Yuanling before him.

Then, not long after, he saw this Sect Leader of the Red Snake Sect, after discovering that the Blood Vine Secret Technique had also reached its limit.

No longer human, it followed its instincts to prepare to choose a new place of blood-food for its blood vines and bone army.

The target... was naturally the brightly lit Sakura Capital not far away, which had a large population!

"Roar roar!"

The Bone Giant was the first to walk out of the Main Hall, and after facing the dark clouds and letting out a howl.

Bone monsters ran out from the Main Hall and the left and right side halls.

As the Bone Evil Technique interacted with the power of the Spirit Bead.

These bone monsters, which initially still had a human shape, gradually mutated into various bizarre-looking bone demons.

Several bone monsters even stuck together, transforming into bone demons that were even taller than the Sect Leader.

Ghost Fire erupted from their bodies, and there even appeared semi-transparent evil spirits visible to the naked eye, entwined around their heads and shoulders.

Even if one only looked through binoculars.

One would feel that these monsters could not be things of the human world, but monsters from the Underworld Realm.

"God... Lord Priest, what is going on!"

"Could it be that the Sect Leader of the Red Snake Sect caused this scene just to open the gate to the Underworld Realm?"

"Are they going to start a war in our Sakura Country?"

The adjutant from the Sakura Country officialdom was terrified by the scene before him, his entire body trembling uncontrollably.

The old priest was likewise in a state of shock.

It took a long while for him to come to his senses; he looked at the adjutant and gave a cold, feignedly mysterious laugh:

"Notify the Cabinet quickly; this is no longer something we can handle."

At the same time, he gave a bitter laugh in his heart; as a High Priest, he also wanted to know what was going on!

The problem was, who could tell him what these extraordinary events were all about!

Why did he, this High Priest, know nothing at all!

Could it be that he was merely a puppet on the surface?

In fact, whether it was Sakura Country, Bangzi Country, or the Eastern Ancient Kingdom, there existed another mysterious circle of the extraordinary... it was just that they didn't bring mortals like him along to play?

"Let's do it; notify the special operations team that they can begin their action."

Beside the adjutant, two men in Flower Flag Country military uniforms smiled, their eyes gleaming as they watched the bone demons on the Drone monitor, various greeds flashing through their hearts.

They intended to send out a team for live combat, on one hand to block these monsters from coming down the mountain.

On the other hand, it was also to see what the opponent's actual combat power was; if the combat power was low, they could apply for research funding.

If the combat power was high, that would be even better; besides applying for more research funding, they could also apply for more military funding for the garrison!

Only with more military funding could they, these Flower Flag Country officers, follow the generals to make money!

At the mountain gate.

The Yin-Yang Master He Mao Chun Yi Lang, who had gone up the mountain with five people but was one of only two to run out, finally saw the mountain gate; just as he thought he was about to escape, he suddenly discovered several Armored Vehicles stopped ahead.

And the drone machine guns on the roofs of the vehicles were turning their muzzles to aim at his side?

He Mao Chun Yi Lang threw himself onto the ground at the first moment.

Then, he saw out of the corner of his eye as bullets tore through the body of his assistant, who had been a beat slower.

Only then did he hear the *bang bang bang* sound of bullets piercing the air.

"I, I must surren...!"

He Mao Chun Yi Lang was trembling all over with fear; just as he was about to say something, he noticed inhuman roars coming from behind him.

Panic made him unable to care about cursing, and he hurriedly moved his body to roll to one side.

With his body leaning against a large tree trunk, the Yin-Yang Master was finally able to see clearly that a large number of bone monsters were rapidly moving along the mountain path behind him.

These bone monsters seemed to come from the Underworld Realm, and just by looking at them, they could bring a strong sense of fear to people.

It was no wonder the soldiers in the Armored Vehicles chose to open fire without hesitation.

"Open fire! All vehicle-mounted drone machine gun platform permissions unlocked, open fire!"

The Flower Flag Country special operations soldiers at the mountain gate coordinated with the vehicle-mounted weapons to unleash a barrage of fire.

Even though there were only twenty or thirty of them, their firepower was still enough to blockade the entire mountain gate.

While plowing through the grass and soil, they also instantly shattered the bone demons into a pile of bone mountains.

Just this?

Discovering that these seemingly terrifying monsters seemed unable to withstand bullets after all, the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief one after another.

Then, they discovered the ground suddenly bulging continuously.

And then, accompanied by a warning sound coming through their headsets.

Boom!

The road where the Armored Vehicles were located was actually overturned onto the ground by huge, black, thorn-covered vines bursting out from the earth.

As the tip of this black vine opened, it sprayed a large amount of acidic liquid that fell like Rain Technique.

"Damn it!"

"My communication equipment is sounding an alarm; they are being damaged!"

The soldiers all around scrambled to dodge.

An Armored Vehicle that was still intact began to start up, and at the same time, the vehicle-mounted machine gun began to continuously spew flames, striking the vine.

This time, the bullets that should have been indestructible only broke the skin and sprayed green acidic liquid; instead, it stimulated the vine, causing it to *swish* and retract back into the ground.

The next second, with a *boom*, it emerged again from the direction the Armored Vehicle had retreated to.

Bang!

After the Armored Vehicle crashed into the giant body of the vine, the driver inside cursed, just about to shift gears and step on the gas.

But he suddenly discovered that he and the vehicle were suspended in the air!

Strikingly, another black vine had burst out of the ground, wrapped around the Armored Vehicle, and lifted it up.

Accompanied by *crack, crack* sounds, the Armored Vehicle was forcibly crushed into an iron pancake from the middle!

The driver inside left only a massive amount of static and cries for help on the communication channel.

*Swish! *

The large Drone in the sky opened fire.

Two streaks of fire accurately hit the vine on the ground.

The resulting flash and flames showed the vine being hit and shaking in pain.

However, before the Drone could observe the battle results and take the next step.

The Bone Giant standing on top of the Main Hall temple had a flicker of ghostly light flash through its blue-fire pupils.

Suddenly, the mountain of bones on the mountain path shook.

And then, more than a dozen translucent white evil spirits emerged.

These evil spirits were blessed by Evil Art, and in the blink of an eye, they flew onto the Drone.

Before long, problems appeared in the Drone's engine and control system.

Then, amidst a series of confused noises from the remote pilot, they watched helplessly as the Drone crashed.

Not only that.

The Flower Flag Country pilot wearing headphones still wanted to save it, but suddenly discovered strange whispers coming from the headphones.

At the same time, on the screen that was black to others, an evil spirit with multiple arms and an evil grin appeared in the eyes of this pilot.

The pilot's facial features suddenly began to bleed, and he started to continuously slam his head against the screen.

By the time others pulled him out of the cockpit.

This person's head was already a bloody mess...

Realizing that the other side of the mountain was also not safe.

The Flower Flag Country officer chose to retreat immediately.

As for the annihilated special operations team, they could no longer care about them.

At this time, the adjutant was still on the side, continuously contacting the cabinet to report the situation.

Suddenly, the adjutant was tapped on the shoulder by the Old High Priest, who pointed to the surveillance footage of the mountain gate.

The adjutant hurriedly looked over.

He immediately saw the previously shattered bone mountain continuously reforming, once again turning into all kinds of white bone monsters.

And then, accompanied by the evil spirits dancing above their heads.

More black vine monsters emerged from the ground.

These white bone monsters began to move down the mountain in groups, passing the burning Armored Vehicles, heading in a direction.

Strikingly, it was... Sakura Capital!