Chapter 114: Supernatural Power is Not as Good as Heavenly Numbers! Laoshan Daoist

Divine breath enters silence and becomes fake death, one sleep and everything is empty.

Divine Breath Pill, for ordinary Daoist priests, taking this pill makes them enter the state of fake death, the soul-aspect is silent, separating and merging life and death, once they cannot wake up, it is fake death becoming true death, which is extremely dangerous.

However, the Divine Demon Saint Embryo is different. Practicing this method is the most fierce in the world. The soul-aspect is powerful to the point of being unimaginable. In one night, it can consume the medicinal effect of the pill. For such an existence, they are just having a big dream.

"The Daoist gate has a beginning, the nine extremes are called kings... those nine inner alchemy methods are the best in the world..."

The casual-dressed young man's eyes revealed a fierce brilliance.

"Master, I heard from Uncle-Master that more than twenty years ago, someone visited our Laoshan Daoist gate, and the person practiced the Divine Demon Saint Embryo," Gu Gu Jingqiu couldn't help but say.

Laoshan, one of the ten great Daoist sects in the world, a 5A-level national scenic spot, with a ticket of 180, located in the east of Dongshan Province, known as the first mountain on the sea.

Therefore, since ancient times, there has been a saying that "Although Mount Tai is high, it is not as good as Laoshan in the East Sea."

Since ancient times, Laoshan has been a holy place for Daoist cultivation. Qin Emperor and Han Wu have both visited here to seek immortal medicine. When the great alchemist Xu Fu went to sea to find the immortal mountain, he started from this place.

As a Laoshan disciple, Gu Gu Jingqiu's knowledge is extraordinary, and he has also heard of the nine great inner alchemy methods, especially the 【Divine Demon Saint Embryo】, which is known as the most fierce in the world. Practicing this method will inevitably enter the calamity of the Great Ye Bu Liang.

This made him greatly shocked when he first heard about it.

For Daoist practitioners, they avoid the Great Ye Bu Liang as if it were a plague. Once they enter the calamity, the soul-aspect enters silence, all cultivation is paid to the east, those who are lucky can save their lives and forget the past, those who are unlucky will die.

If you practice this method, you will really enter the calamity, so what are you practicing, what are you refining? Gu Gu Jingqiu didn't believe that anyone in this world could master this method.

However, he heard his Uncle-Master mention in the sect that more than twenty years ago, a young man visited the mountain gate. This person's Daoist law was mysterious, and the inner alchemy method he practiced was one of the nine legends...

Divine Demon Saint Embryo!

"Great

"Someone actually succeeded in practicing it? Is that still a human?"

Gu Gu Jingqiu's lips moved slightly, but a look of deep astonishment appeared in his bright eyes.

"Master, I heard that to practice the Divine Demon Saint Fetus, one must enter the Great Night of No Light... Once this tribulation is entered, one's cultivation regresses, memories vanish, and one becomes no different from an ordinary mortal..."

"Since that is the case, how do they escape the tribulation!?"

In Gu Gu Jingqiu's view, falling into the tribulation of the Great Night of No Light is equivalent to overturning everything from the past; Daoist practice, power, and even memories are gone. In this way, one is likely worse off than an ordinary mortal, so how could it be possible to break free from the tribulation?

If this were true, the Divine Demon Saint Fetus would be a joke.

"This is one of the greatest secrets of this method..." Hua Hua Yixun said in a deep voice.

"When I was young, I once heard my master mention it... The successors of the Divine Demon Saint Fetus throughout the ages all have their own methods of responding to the tribulation..."

"Before entering the Great Night of No Light, they have long since made preparations."

This is the most terrifying aspect of the 【Divine Demon Saint Fetus】; it is as if you are told in advance that even if you accumulate a vast fortune, you will lose it overnight. What you must do is lay out a plan in advance so that you can regain what was lost.

Such a process is a tremendous challenge and tempering for one's temperament, wisdom, endurance, and so on.

Practicing this method is like life itself: losing and regaining, gaining and losing, cycling back and forth, finding the undying spiritual light between existence and non-existence.

"The Great Lingzong Wang... his method of responding to the tribulation is very special, and also very domineering." Hua Hua Yixun's expression was solemn.

"What method?" Gu Gu Jingqiu asked curiously.

Hua Hua Yixun shook his head and remained silent.

"Master, what is that person... doing coming to our Mount Laoshan?" Gu Gu Jingqiu rolled his eyes and changed the question.

"Borrowing incense!"

"Borrowing incense? Can incense be borrowed too?" Gu Gu Jingqiu showed a strange expression.

"How do you borrow it?"

"Borrow it by strength." Hua Hua Yixun said indifferently.

"This..."

Gu Gu Jingqiu's expression tightened slightly, as he heard the danger in it.

Although he didn't know how incense could be borrowed, wanting to borrow something from 【Mount Laoshan】, one of the ten great Daoist sects in the world, he feared that without the diamond drill, one wouldn't even be able to enter the mountain gate.

"The most ferocious in the world... it truly is the most ferocious in the world." Gu Gu Jingqiu couldn't help but sigh.

"Master, where is that person now?"

Infinite curiosity rose in Gu Gu Jingqiu's heart. Among the nine great inner alchemy methods, it was hard to imagine that there was actually a person alive in the same era who had succeeded in practicing one of them. As a practitioner of the Dao, he naturally felt a yearning.

"Some say he is dead..." Hua Hua Yixun said indifferently.

The last time he heard news of the Great Lingzong Wang was ten years ago.

Since then, the Great Lingzong Wang had disappeared from the Daoist Jiang Hu, and even the group of powerful people around him were like foam hidden in the rolling long river, disappearing from then on.

"Divine Demon Saint Fetus... that is the Divine Demon Saint Fetus, how could he die?" Gu Gu Jingqiu couldn't help but change color.

Such an existence is like a legend; how could life and death be spoken of lightly?

"What of it? Sixty years ago, even the Three-Corpse Daoist, who was known as the world's number one expert, died on the summit of Mount Mount Dongyue..." Hua Hua Yixun muttered softly.

"There has never been anything eternal in this world; remember this..."

"Supernatural powers are no match for the heavenly count!"

"Supernatural powers are no match for the heavenly count!?" Gu Gu Jingqiu chewed on this sentence and nodded subconsciously.

"We are almost at Gusu City; find her before we enter the station."

Just at this moment, Hua Hua Yixun changed the subject, pulling Gu Gu Jingqiu's thoughts back.

"Master, that monster must be on this train."

Gu Gu Jingqiu subconsciously looked around, then said: "Could those people in the next carriage be in cahoots with that monster?"

"No... among those young people, one is a disciple of Maoshan, who once visited my Mount Laoshan with several Daoist brothers from Maoshan when he was young."

Hua Hua Yixun was naturally referring to Jiang Hu; before getting on the train, he had brushed past Jiang Hu and had already recognized him.

Maoshan is a legitimate sect of the Uncle Xuan Sect and one of the ten great famous mountains of the Daoist sect. Since he is a disciple of that sect, he naturally would not wallow in the mire with that monster.

Hearing this, Gu Gu Jingqiu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"As long as there are no accomplices, that monster will have nowhere to fly."

"Don't be careless; that is a monster after all." Hua Hua Yixun lowered his voice. Mentioning that word, a cold look couldn't help but flash in his eyes.

"A snake monster!"

After the founding of the nation, it is difficult for spirits to become monsters, yet the one Gu Gu Jingqiu and his master were pursuing was a genuine monster, and a snake monster at that.

"Nanyang Strange Records" once recorded a story.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was a bachelor in Nanshan County who made a living by picking herbs every day and hadn't married a wife even in his thirties.

One day, caught in the rain in the deep mountains, the bachelor hid in a cave and met a woman inside who was stunningly beautiful.

The bachelor was delighted and brought the woman home, enjoying her company every day. A year later, the beauty gave birth to a white egg. The bachelor was shocked and turned to look for her, but the beauty was nowhere to be found, leaving only a pool of white skin in the house.

Late at night, a great wind blew, and someone in the village saw a giant white python, as thick as a water bucket, flying through the air and snatching away the white egg.

Later, the bachelor lived to be over a hundred years old before dying of old age. When the villagers went to his house, they found that the white skin was being used as a mat on his bed.

Since ancient times, snakes have been considered spiritual objects, with the white snake being the most prominent. The ancients believed that a white snake shedding its skin was a kind of rebirth and reincarnation, containing the power of life and death, which could lead to rebirth.

Therefore, ancient Daoist priests created a method to maintain a youthful appearance—

It was to use the skin shed by a white snake to make a skin cocoon. After a person entered it, they would gradually merge with the skin cocoon, thereby gaining the ability to shed skin. This ability could metabolize all the old cell tissues in the body, thereby maintaining fresh vitality.

The newborn skin would be as delicate as a young girl's, and the hair would also be thick and black...

However, this method had a drawback: after merging with the skin cocoon, the body's functions would change, and the metabolism would be almost dozens of times that of a normal human. Such a body would gradually assimilate itself, eventually turning into a real snake. Even with such drawbacks, to this day, there are still some Daoist priests who raise white snakes in the deep mountains and use alchemy to transform them.

The white snake Gu Gu Jingqiu and his master were pursuing was one raised by a Daoist sect. After this white snake became spiritual, it gradually developed monster arts, not only escaping to freedom but even possessing a soul and transforming into a monster.

"Did you bring the Manifestation Incense?" Hua Hua Yixun said.

A monster is formed by possession; there is a rejection between the soul and the body. Whenever there is a moonlit night or a special environment, it will go into a frenzy, producing uncontrollable alienation.

For example, monsters of the aquatic tribe are prone to frenzied alienation during thunderstorms.

Besides this, many Daoist methods can also make them reveal their original form through alienation, such as 【Manifestation Incense】.

"Master, this is a high-speed train..." Gu Gu Jingqiu couldn't help but say.

As everyone knows, smoking is prohibited on high-speed trains.

"Idiot... can't you use smokeless incense?" Hua Hua Yixun glared at him fiercely.

"Master's lesson is correct." Gu Gu Jingqiu nodded.

Mount Laoshan's 【Manifestation Incense】 also has a smokeless version, intended for use in such special environments and places.

"Does this monster think that mixing into the crowd makes it foolproof?" Hua Hua Yixun said coldly.

A monster, once it undergoes frenzied alienation, is uncontrollable. When that time comes, it will naturally reveal its true form and be unable to escape the net of the law.

"Master, could that monster suppress the frenzied alienation?" Gu Gu Jingqiu said worriedly.

Gusu City is not far ahead. If that snake monster uses monster arts to suppress the body's mutation, it will be even harder to discover once it gets off the train.

"No..." Hua Hua Yixun said coldly.

The Heavenly Dao is impartial; since it gave the monster the opportunity to possess a human, it naturally also buried a drawback.

Frenzied alienation is uncontrollable. Unless it is an old monster with over three hundred years of cultivation, it might be able to suppress it; otherwise, once it begins, it cannot be reversed.

Unless...

"Unless what?"

"There is an extremely special power in the Daoist sect, known as 【Monster Rearing】..." Hua Hua Yixun just started to speak, then shook his head.

Monster Rearing can not only suppress a monster's frenzied alienation but even stimulate their potential, turning a monster into a demon.

However, this power has only ever existed in Daoist scriptures and has been rare since ancient times, let alone today.

"Master, what is Monster Rearing?"

"Nothing, go and prepare; the train is almost at the station." Hua Hua Yixun instructed.

Gu Gu Jingqiu nodded, took a coil of incense from his bag, and twisted it lightly with his fingers. A strange fragrance slowly rose and diffused into the carriage.

"Just wait." Gu Gu Jingqiu's mouth curled up slightly, his eyes closed tightly, and he began to calm his spirit.

Ten minutes later.

Zhang Fan checked the time and glanced at Zhan Xinyue and Brother Sui Chunsheng from the corner of his eye.

Of these two, one was in meditation and cultivation, while the other was reading a book—and it was a book related to ideological and political studies at that.

Looking at Jiang Hu, he was chewing on duck necks with great relish.

"Look at their awareness, and then look at you."

"Nonsense, they are within the system; can it be the same?" Jiang Hu sucked his fingers and turned his head to scan.

"Too eager to progress!"

"What are you doing?"

Just at this moment, Zhang Fan stood up from his seat.

"Going to the bathroom."

As he spoke, Zhang Fan squeezed out from in front of Jiang Hu, arrived at the end of the carriage, and pulled the handle of the bathroom door.

"Occupied!?"

Zhang Fan turned around, intending to go to the bathroom in the next carriage to relieve himself.

Swish...

Just at this moment, the door opened, and a fair, slender arm reached out, actually grabbing Zhang Fan's arm directly and dragging him inside.

The next moment, the bathroom door closed again.

"You..."

In the narrow space, Zhang Fan looked at the young girl before him, showing a strange expression.

The girl looked about eighteen or nineteen, with a slender figure, fair skin, wearing tight shorts, and wearing a ponytail; she looked quite capable and dashing.

At this time, she was pressed tightly against Zhang Fan, her breathing rapid, and the panting sprayed on Zhang Fan's face, actually revealing a hint of coldness.

"Are... are you okay!?"

Zhang Fan looked at the girl's appearance and raised his hand to open the door.

Just at this moment, the girl grabbed Zhang Fan's palm fiercely, actually leaning into his arms and holding him tightly.

"So cold..."

Zhang Fan's expression changed slightly; he only felt that the girl's body temperature was not like a normal person's. In the middle of summer, it was this cold, and her body temperature seemed to be still dropping.

This feeling was very much like a cold-blooded animal.

"I... I feel so uncomfortable..."

The girl was almost limp in Zhang Fan's arms. She lowered her head, her delicate body trembling, but on her lowered face, strange scale patterns appeared.

She hugged Zhang Fan tightly, revealing her fangs, and an extremely painful expression appeared on her face...

It was the pain of suppressing the desire to eat warm-blooded animals.

"Master, I felt a trace of monster Qi."

At the same time, in the carriage, Gu Gu Jingqiu's eyes opened fiercely, and a look of horror surged in his eyes.

"That monster can no longer hide." Hua Hua Yixun said indifferently.

"Ah..."

At this time, in the narrow bathroom, the girl bit her lip tightly, seeping out scarlet blood, but her blood was icy cold.

At this moment, she seemed to have no strength to suppress it anymore, and the scale patterns on her face became increasingly vivid.

"I'll take you out first."

Just at this moment, Zhang Fan raised his hand, grabbed the girl's slender arm, and was about to open the bathroom door.

Hum...

In an instant, a warm feeling passed through Zhang Fan's palm. The girl's delicate body trembled, the frenzied alienation stopped abruptly, and the strange scale patterns on her face actually faded crazily at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Hmm!?"

At the same time, in the carriage, Gu Gu Jingqiu's expression changed suddenly. He looked around, and an incredible luster appeared in his eyes.

"That monster Qi... has disappeared!!?"

(End of chapter)