Chapter 377: Five-Headed Ghost-Faced Maitreya, Five-Viscera Five-Elements Method to Break Ghosts

"Ah..."

Mo'ao Era 132, May 2nd

It was already fully dawn.

The cold light cast by the cold sun illuminated the entire Basha Town.

But unlike the shouts of killing that filled the air before dawn, at this moment, except for the cold wind whistling past, not a single sound could be heard inside or outside the town. The whole city had fallen into a deathly silence.

The entire Basha City seemed to have completely turned into a dead city.

A scream suddenly resounded through the world, breaking this strange silence.

The cyan spiritual light filling the sky above the town had already condensed into a yellow-robed child's body. It was just that the child was three hundred zhang long, completely a ghost giant child magnified nearly a thousand times in equal proportions.

It wasn't just the huge body that was strange.

The giant child was covered in cyan light, not in a state of having a physical body, and its neck actually grew five heads.

The five heads basically had the same face—all were infants with skin as delicate as a newborn. Two snow-white long eyebrows hung down with huge earlobes, and their expressions were surprisingly consistent: all were staring with eyes wide open, mouths grinning, maintaining a posture of laughing, incomparably strange.

But strangely, the five faces were clearly the same expression, but the feeling they gave was completely different.

The face in the middle had a pair of fluorescent green pupils, the smile carried a trace of madness, giving the feeling of being unusually angry;

The face on its left had golden pupils. Clearly it was laughing, but the smile carried thick grief, giving a feeling of incomparable sadness;

Moving to the third face on the left, the pupils were bright yellow, the lips were shiny black, the smile carried worry, as if it was worried or thinking about something;

The fourth face had water-blue pupils, the smile carried fear;

The fifth face had red pupils. Compared to the other four faces, it seemed to be joy from the heart, but combined with that strange face, the truer it laughed, the more creepy it was.

The giant child stood in the north city area of Basha Town. The head in the middle with fluorescent green pupils was looking down at the entire Basha Town, opening its big mouth and sucking violently at the town. Every time it sucked, it could suck tens of thousands of cyan spiritual lights from the city.

But after that scream just now, the giant child's sucking action stopped abruptly. It seemed to feel some intense pain, its pupils filled with fear and anger.

"Bold!"

"How come there are still Manifestation-level experts coming?"

"It's you! You are not a Manifestation-level expert of the Jiuzhen!"

………………

Above the other four heads of the giant child, the four great masters—Jin Gang, Heiming, Juyuan, and Yan Long—were all staring above the head in the middle, their pupils shaking, exclaiming repeatedly.

On top of the head in the middle, a bright silver thin long knife was inserted into the lower right side of Master Wusheng's chest. The tip of the knife had pierced out half a meter from his back, and rolling black smoke emerged from both ends of the wound. Master Wusheng's expression was already painful to the extreme, clearly having been attacked in a vital spot.

"You..."

Master Wusheng withdrew his consciousness from the demon dragon and looked down at the black-clad man holding the long knife in front of him, and the thousand-zhang bone-phase phantom behind the black-clad man. His pupils were filled with suspicion and confusion, but he reacted quickly, realizing that now was not the time for confusion. His fluorescent green pupils condensed suddenly, and he met the black-clad man's gaze.

The black-clad man was naturally Xia Hong. The moment his eyes met Master Wusheng's, sensing that something was stirring in his lower abdomen, he didn't dare to hesitate at all. The pupil of his left eye condensed suddenly, and he immediately shot a violent strong light, hitting Master Wusheng's left eye directly.

Ding...

How strong the Shattering God Light was, Xia Hong didn't know, but so far, as long as he took it out to fight, he basically hadn't missed.

This time, he thought it shouldn't disappoint him either.

However, he clearly thought too much.

Master Wusheng's left eye was hit by the Shattering God Light, and it did indeed enter a state of temporary stagnation, and the reaction in Xia Hong's liver area also disappeared.

However, that was just it.

"The Yin-Yang Mirror of the Qishan Demon Lord in the Dark World! It has also descended to the Frozen Abyss!"

Master Wusheng's pupils quickly returned to a clear state. Staring at Xia Hong's left eye, his expression suddenly became wary.

Recognized wherever he goes.

It seems the origin of the Yin-Yang Mirror is really not small...

Hearing Master Wusheng's words and seeing the other party's eyes, Xia Hong couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

But sighing was sighing. Sensing that the giant child's hands at his feet had been raised and were grabbing toward him, and the other four great masters on top of the giant child's head were also rushing toward him at the same time, he didn't dare to hesitate at all, simply holding the Long Que Dao, exerting force forward to eject, and colliding with Master Wusheng's body.

Bang...

The three vertical blood-colored holy patterns on Xia Hong's forehead had already emerged. To be precise, from the moment he violently attacked Master Wusheng just now, he had already sacrificed all the means he could use.

Forehead holy patterns, bone-phase phantom, Condensing Fire Oil, the ten-thousand-forged silver Long Que Dao re-forged for him by Mu Dong, the Yangxu Tripod currently burning fiercely in his body, including the posture of his knife when he attacked from mid-air, he also used long-fist routines, plus his self-created Rapid Electric Spear Technique.

All five great masters were present, and they had also created such a terrifying Five-Headed Ghost-Faced Maitreya. Since he chose to take action, he naturally couldn't have any reservations.

The reason for choosing to take action was also because of this Five-Headed Ghost-Faced Maitreya.

At the last moment before dawn, Xia Hong had already infiltrated Basha City. When he found that all five great masters were there, he actually already had the intention to retreat.

He did have some confidence in his own strength, but he wasn't arrogant enough to think he could fight one against five, let alone he had no reason to do so.

What really prompted him to take action was Great Awakening Temple's subsequent actions.

He saw Yan Xin give an order, and all the soldiers of Great Awakening Temple took out a cyan pill and swallowed it, then began to recite a scripture called the Rebirth Mantra.

Seeing this scene, Xia Hong was already muttering in his heart.

Basha City had already been breached, and there was basically no resistance inside.

Even if they really wanted to kill them all, what they should have taken out was the Melting Fire Pill, allowing the soldiers to have the ability to fight during the day, not this cyan pill.

The things that happened next were completely beyond Xia Hong's expectations.

The scripture recitation ended, and everyone on Great Awakening Temple's side had cyan spiritual light continuously flying out of their pupils, as if something was being stripped from their bodies. After the spiritual light was extracted, everyone actually died on the spot, including the Zen monks, all died, and no one survived!

Not only these people in Basha City, but there was also a continuous stream of cyan spiritual light gathering toward Basha Town from all over the north.

Seeing this strange scene, Xia Hong reacted instantly.

He had seen this kind of large-scale harvesting of human lives in Mirror Valley once before, so he was not unfamiliar with it.

In the first half of the year, Great Awakening Temple repeatedly showed the power of taking pills and reciting scriptures in the process of attacking the two towns. Not to mention the people controlled by them, even the other seven towns had many people bewitched. Under such circumstances, who would suspect that the cyan pill was actually a life-taking thing?

So, unsurprisingly, those cyan spiritual lights flying from the north were all the people in the 60-plus village-level camps controlled by Great Awakening Temple, also under their arrangement, taking the cyan pill synchronously with the Basha City army, and then reciting the Rebirth Mantra.

That was more than a million people!

Xia Hong's inner horror was beyond words. The suicide caused by the Mirror Immortal in the first year of Does Does Da Xia was only more than 10,000 people, and this time it was more than 100 times that.

While horrified, Xia Hong naturally realized that these five great masters of Great Awakening Temple were feinting to the east and attacking to the west, luring all the Manifestation-level experts of the eight towns to Qinghepu, running to Basha City themselves, and sacrificing all the population they had controlled for more than eight years at once, absolutely to do something earth-shattering.

At the moment the cold sun completely appeared on the horizon and the Frozen Abyss broke dawn, the cyan spiritual light filling the sky gradually gathered. Xia Hong saw with his own eyes that the cold sun in the sky suddenly shot down a cyan light, leaving a cyan spiritual body in Basha City.

The cyan spiritual body was only the size of a fist at first, and its appearance could not be seen clearly. As the cyan spiritual light filling the sky was sucked into its body, it began to grow larger and larger, and finally became this three-hundred-zhang-high Five-Headed Ghost-Faced Maitreya in front of him.

Five-Headed Ghost-Faced Maitreya was not a name Xia Hong gave it; it was what the five great masters shouted in unison when it was formed.

Xia Hong remembered very clearly that the five people's expressions were incomparably fanatical at the time, and what they shouted was: Welcome the Five-Headed Ghost-Faced Maitreya Buddha Venerable, descending to the Frozen Abyss.

Buddha Venerable was clearly an honorific, and Five-Headed Ghost-Faced Maitreya was the true identity of this spiritual body.

From the moment he heard the news of Great Awakening Temple the year before last, Xia Hong could basically conclude that Buddhism existed in the Ancient Abyss Era, but judging from Great Awakening Temple's subsequent series of actions, even if they were Buddhist disciples, they had undergone extremely strange changes like all other ghosts and monsters originating from the Ancient Abyss Era, and had nothing to do with the Buddhism he knew in his previous life that was dedicated to guiding people to goodness.

Just one spiritual body descending required sacrificing more than a million lives. Could this Five-Headed Ghost-Faced Maitreya be anything good?

Moreover, it was far more than a million.

Great Awakening Temple only started the sacrifice after breaking into Basha City, which meant that the 1.5 million-plus people in Basha City were also their target.

Subsequent developments, as Xia Hong expected, as the Five-Headed Ghost-Faced Maitreya spiritual body grew to three hundred zhang, it seemed to have gained partial consciousness and began to suck air at the city. Every time it sucked, it could suck tens of thousands of cyan spiritual lights from the city.

Cyan spiritual light is the soul body!

The moment Xia Hong saw the spiritual light, he had already guessed it, and he could basically conclude that Xu Ning became like that because when he spied on the Great Awakening Hall half a year ago, his soul body was extracted by Master Wusheng.

So the Ghost-Faced Maitreya's action was sucking the soul bodies of the 1.5 million-plus people in Basha City. At this point, Xia Hong basically figured out Great Awakening Temple's entire plan, and why they had to break Basha City.

Six-year-old boys were likely the prerequisite for the revival of the Five-Headed Ghost-Faced Maitreya. Through the seven years of searching in Qinghepu, the five great masters should have initially met this condition.

But the appearance of the Jiuzhen spies in September last year made the five great masters see the crisis. They realized they had been discovered by the Jiuzhen, so they had to revive the Ghost-Faced Maitreya in advance, which led to the move of actively attacking the two towns in the past six months.

The revival was likely at a critical moment, only missing the step of a large amount of soul bodies.

The entire population of the 60-plus village-level camps was not enough to make the Five-Headed Ghost-Faced Maitreya completely revive, so they deliberately slowed down the pace of the attack, let Basha gather all the population in the territory into the city, arranged the 60-plus village-level camps with cyan pills in advance, and then fought a decisive battle, starting the plan as soon as Basha City was broken.

So at this moment, the revival of the Five-Headed Ghost-Faced Maitreya was only one step away.

As long as the 1.5 million-plus soul bodies in Basha City were sucked away, it would be completely revived!

Thinking of this, Xia Hong didn't hesitate anymore and immediately realized that no matter what, he had to take action.

Just the hand of sucking soul bodies was enough to prove that this Five-Headed Ghost-Faced Maitreya was definitely not an existence he could touch at the current stage. So once the other party revived, not only the Jiuzhen, but Does Does Da Xia would also follow and be unlucky.

"Unlucky" was putting it lightly; the consequences would only be more serious.

Having decided to take action, the next step was to find the right time!

He could see at a glance that the one in the dominant position among the five great masters was Master Wusheng with fluorescent green pupils, so he hid in the dark and kept observing Master Wusheng's state.

The coincidence happened at this moment!

Master Wusheng had been cooperating with the Ghost-Faced Maitreya's spiritual body to absorb the souls in the city, but just now, he seemed to have been impacted by something, his pupils flashed with golden light, and his expression suddenly began to trance.

Xia Hong, who had been staring at Master Wusheng, how could he let go of this opportunity!

Having spied in the city for a long time, at this moment, he sacrificed all his means, attacked violently, and stabbed a knife into the lower right side of Master Wusheng's chest.

The rolling thick smoke from the two wounds on Master Wusheng's body completely confirmed many of Xia Hong's speculations, so at this moment, he was not as worried as he was just now.

Even if he was chased by the Ghost-Faced Maitreya's soul body and the four great masters at the same time, he didn't let go of Master Wusheng, simply holding the knife and colliding with Master Wusheng's body, flying away from the head of the Ghost-Faced Maitreya's soul body together.

"Monster, don't let go yet!"

Among the remaining four great masters, Master Yan Long, who was the fastest, was the first to catch up with Xia Hong. He looked cold, raised the long spear in his hand, condensed a giant flame dragon, and stabbed directly at Xia Hong's back.

Whoosh...

The red long spear instantly emptied the surrounding airflow, condensed a fan-shaped spear edge with a radius of two or three li, and the spear tip arrived in an instant, pressing against Xia Hong's back, piercing the skin membrane and stabbing into the flesh, instantly pressing against his bones.

That was as far as it went—to the bones.

Master Yan Long found that his long spear couldn't advance even half a point, and his expression didn't change much. He had fought Xia Hong once last year and was the first to realize and say that Xia Hong was not from the Jiuzhen.

Knowing Xia Hong's strength, he didn't continue to try to pierce the bones, but swept horizontally to the left violently, trying to drive Xia Hong away and rescue Master Wusheng.

His spear strength was astonishing. Although he couldn't break Xia Hong's bones, breaking the flesh and skin membrane was no problem at all. Normally, a person being swept like this would inevitably retreat to the side to dodge.

But Xia Hong didn't!

Xia Hong gritted his teeth, used his back to forcefully withstand Master Yan Long's blow, let a large piece of flesh on his back be cut open, and then his left hand suddenly took out a silver short dagger from his waist, turned his body half-sideways, aimed at Master Yan Long's heart, and stabbed down fiercely.

Pfft...

Xia Hong's basic strength was close to eleven jun. He was the ancestor of the holy pattern bloodline, with a 50% increase in strength, plus the 30% increase of the long fist. Even if he was using a dagger at this moment, without the bonus of martial arts, his strength reached an astonishing 19 jun or more.

With this dagger, not to mention the heart area, even all the areas around the heart were directly blasted through by him.

The dagger, connected to his fist, pierced directly out from Master Yan Long's back.

A normal person's heart being pierced like this, no matter how you think about it, would be direct death.

But Master Yan Long didn't die at this moment. Instead, he looked down at his heart area, then looked up at Xia Hong, his pupils filled with horror and vibration:

"You... how... could you... know..."

His heart was currently being held in Xia Hong's hand.

Unlike a normal human's blood-colored heart, Master Yan Long's heart was pure black, and there was a strange face attached to it, exactly the same as the face of the Five-Headed Ghost-Faced Maitreya.

Sss...

Xia Hong's silver dagger was still inserted in it. Like Master Wusheng's lower right chest being pierced just now, it was also emitting rolling black smoke at this moment, clearly having a violent reaction with the white silver.

Master Yan Long was like a deflated ball, instantly falling into a withered state, exactly the same as Master Wusheng just now, and could only be held in Xia Hong's hand, seemingly without even the strength to move.

Master Wusheng was sneak-attacked by Xia Hong, and the other four great masters all chased up directly. At this moment, seeing Master Yan Long also severely injured by a single blow and clearly not far from death, the remaining three great masters—Jin Gang, Heiming, and Juyuan—stopped in mid-air instantly, looking at Xia Hong, their pupils filled with wariness and suspicion.

"I discovered it when he didn't dare to take that sword on his chest last year!"

Xia Hong answered Master Yan Long's question directly, glanced at Master Jin Gang lightly, a flash of essence in his eyes, and continued: "The lungs store the soul, belong to metal in the five elements, and govern the nose. The Six Paths Vajra Mantra is precisely the means of using the nose to inhale Zen Gold Powder into the lungs to strengthen the physique;

The heart stores the spirit, belongs to fire in the five elements, and governs the tongue. The Shurangama Mantra is to let people hold the Melting Fire Pill under the tongue to condense the fire of the heart to resist cold light;

The liver stores the spirit, belongs to wood in the five elements, and governs the eyes. Although the effect of your Rebirth Mantra is different from the former two, many situations can basically correspond. So your dead spot is naturally the liver area!"

The liver area is on the lower right side of the chest, which is the area he just pierced with the Long Que Dao.

Hearing Xia Hong's words, the remaining three great masters trembled, their pupils filled with horror and wariness.

"Hehe, hehe, hehe... Unexpectedly, a mere person of the Frozen Abyss also knows my Lingyin Mountain's Five-Viscera Secret Technique. It's a pity you are still a bit late. The soul body descent of the Ghost-Faced Maitreya Buddha Venerable is already irreversible. Even if you..."

Pfft!

Xia Hong naturally wouldn't waste time listening to Master Wusheng's nonsense. He pulled out the Long Que Dao directly. The tip of the knife was still inserted with a mass of pitch-black liver, the same color as the heart of Master Yan Long pierced by the dagger.

Both masses of viscera were emitting thick smoke, clearly the ghost energy on them had not completely disappeared. Xia Hong wrapped them up with cloth, then turned to look at the three great masters, his expression changing slightly.

The three great masters rushed toward the spiritual body of the Ghost-Faced Maitreya at the same time.

From the moment Master Wusheng died, the spiritual body of the Ghost-Faced Maitreya clearly became much more sluggish. Originally, only the head in the middle could move, and it was also the one absorbing the soul bodies in the city. The other four heads were in a drooping and motionless state.

And after Master Wusheng died, the head in the middle also drooped, and the soul body began to become thin, gradually swaying, clearly because it couldn't get enough soul body replenishment and couldn't continue to maintain it.

The three great masters didn't run away aimlessly. Each of them went to the top of the head corresponding to them, pulled out a section of something, and then turned and ran toward the north. 【377-13

The spiritual body of the Ghost-Faced Maitreya began to disintegrate rapidly the moment the three of them pulled the object away; that object was clearly the key to its descent into the Frozen Abyss.

"Trying to run!"