Chapter 130: The White Bone Saintess and the Evil Rakshasa

This shamaness narrowed her eyes; the surrounding Five Elements Sha had transformed into Five Elements Flag Generals, no longer bearing the miserable appearance of their initial deaths, each now possessing armor and weapons.

"It seems there is an expert here at Shanju Guan. Even Cilian, the secret spy of the Dizang Hall, was killed. Hehe, that old nun released false information, causing me to make a wasted trip to Shu to search for the hidden treasure, only to find absolutely nothing."

"I never expected that, besides Shanju Guan, there would be another expert on Yushan who could actually kill that old nun and ruin Shilin Huzhu's plan to form a Ghost Domain and ascend to Ghost King..."

This was none other than the "White Bone Hall Saintess" of the Longevity Sect. Among the many Saintesses of the Longevity Sect, she was quite formidable, with hopes of ascending to become a Protector or even an Elder of the White Bone Hall.

In the hall, she was known as the "Evil Rakshasa," simply because she was a pure "evil woman." From the moment she was selected as a candidate Saintess for the Longevity Sect, she began climbing the ranks by any means necessary.

Even before she had fully matured, she was abducted by wild men, yet she willingly engaged in intercourse with them to trade for her life, and even exchanged knowledge of wild man Evil Art with them.

The wild man was the previous evil Daoist. He was a "hybrid wild man" born from the union of a sorcerer who practiced evil arts by consuming poisonous insects and raw meat—during a moment of intense lust—and a wild man in the mountains, specifically a Gan Land gorilla.

This evil Daoist perfectly inherited a human brain, and his physique was closer to that of a human, but having been raised by a mother gorilla since childhood, his habits remained beast-like. At first, he learned the ways of monsters, but later, as he came into contact with more people, he learned human speech.

After abducting the Evil Rakshasa, she satisfied him wholeheartedly and taught him the Longevity Sect's evil arts, helping him "change skin" to infiltrate Shanju Guan, plotting to obtain the Primordial Spirit of the centipede spirit suppressed a thousand years ago.

It was just that the evil Daoist, in his practice of evil arts, had cultivated his way onto Xu Jia.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak!" A cat-sized rat crawled out of a hole, and then its form shifted, actually becoming identical to Xu Jia.

This was exactly the person the Sparrow Spirit Zhan Ying had seen who looked exactly like Xu Jia.

It turned out the evil Daoist had controlled the original body's Soul. He was originally only practicing the Yin Earth Sha, but when Xu Jia suddenly returned to his soul, it shocked him greatly: "The Soul is in my hands, how did you return to your soul?"

That evil Daoist was also somewhat cautious, because the evil art manuals contained many spells that required summoning demons. He suspected that the last time he refined the Yin Earth Sha, the ritual had gone wrong, summoning some evil god or demon.

Later, when Xu Jia said "Return to Soul," it let the evil Daoist guess the truth: it was "borrowing a corpse" to live. The evil arts also contained such spells, specifically targeting someone who was on the verge of death. Once they died and were struck from the Death Registry, the Soul would transfer over; this is called "Possession."

The success rate is very low, but once successful, one can replace another's identity and live a new life. If one hides well and the Underworld does not notice, one can even plot to do it a second, third, or fourth time...

This is somewhat similar to "Living Buddha Reincarnation," but different from "Ghost Possession," and also different from devouring the original Soul. It requires driving the original body's Soul out so that one's own Soul can occupy the "master position."

That evil Daoist then grew greedy, wanting to dig out the secret of Xu Jia's "resurrection." In fact, among the heterodox paths, there is basically no method for true "Longevity," and many even lead to early death.

He thought he was in the shadows, not realizing that Xu Jia had subdued a Sparrow Spirit and was quite proficient in heavenly calculation, and could even borrow the Dharma Power of his past life. As a result, before he could even officially appear, he was killed by Xu Jia performing a ritual from afar.

This rat spirit was raised by the evil Daoist, intended to "replace Xu Jia" so that Xu Jia's parents would know which one was "real" and which was fake. The evil Daoist thought that with the original Soul and a rat spirit, he could have a plan to isolate Xu Jia and finally have him "subdue the demons" obediently, but his own fortune was low... Since the evil Daoist was killed, this rat spirit had been very terrified. He was actually the "rat demon" Hu Jinhua spoke of—five rats whose tails were tangled together, and the most vicious one bit the other four to death, thus becoming a demon.

The evil Daoist found him and fed him Xu Jia's Eight Characters wrapped around a fingernail, and he began to "transform into human form."

This is the different ritual for different monsters to transform into humans. Foxes wear a skull on their heads, weasels must ask people for a "Tao Fen." This rat is the most intimate with humans, so it only needs to eat a human's fingernail to become that person's appearance, and even gradually replace them.

Therefore, the ancients would collect their fingernails rather than throwing them away randomly; this included teeth and even hair, all of which were specifically collected to be burned.

Of course, in Traditional Chinese Medicine, human fingernails and human hair are both very expensive medicinal materials; hair is called "Blood Remnant" and fingernails are called "Tendon Retreat."

This rat demon, wearing Xu Jia's face, could not produce any righteous aura, instead having an extra air of shifty-eyed sneakiness. With eyes darting around, he revealed an expression that was both terrified and fawning: "Lord Saint Envoy! This lowly one, Kan Yinwu, has been waiting for you for a long time."

"Tell me what has happened during this time! If there is half a lie, I will peel your skin and strip your bones, refining you into Chang Skin!"

Kan Yinwu said cautiously: "It is strange. The Daoist never failed at anything he did, but when he met that brat, it was like meeting a nemesis. In a few quick moves, he lost his life in a muddled way."

He recounted what he knew, adding a little embellishment: "That demon, I don't know what magic he used, but he supported a nest of foxes, established a Fox Immortal Hall, killed the Reverse-Feather Chicken at Qingfeng Pavilion, and later collected a nest of weasels. These beasts are very restraining to this lowly one. As for what happened later, this lowly one is not very clear. After arriving at Yushan, many Yin soldiers and generals were deployed around Yushan. These troops possess birds and moths during the day and reveal their forms at night, so this lowly one dared not go up."

"You are also a piece of trash," the Evil Rakshasa said with disgust. "However, my Saintess seat is still missing a little attendant to run errands and deliver messages, so I will spare your life!"

At this time, one of the scouts from the Five Elements Sha returned to report: "My Lady, a Reversed Five Elements Array has been set up ahead. Our movements and transport have been affected in direction."

The Evil Rakshasa sneered: "And you call yourselves Five Elements Sha demons? You can't even handle this little thing. Since the Five Elements are reversed, just reverse them back to break it; do you still need me to do it myself!"

She opened her mouth and spat out a puff of pink Qi. Inside was a Peach Blossom-faced hag-ghost. The hag-ghost does not care about the Five Elements, only Yin and Yang. Its essence is refined from the souls of young girls and is most sensitive to Yang energy.

"Men! I smell the scent of men!" The hag-ghost became excited.

"Follow her!"

The ghost sedan carriers followed the hag-ghost.

On the Five Elements Altar, the host of any altar, although not a pure Yang man, had been carefully cultivating for some time and was full of Yang energy, naturally sensed by the hag-ghost.

(End of chapter)