Chapter 265: Descending into Tongtian Temple Once Again

After emerging from the Water Mansion, Hu Jinhua sighed: "It is we who have burdened Master Xu. If not for the fact that our demonic aura and evil Qi were not completely purged, how could there be so many troubles?"

"These two Daoist Priests speak harshly, yet one cannot point out any other errors in their words. Fortunately, their own sect has a snake spirit mingling outside, so it cannot be said they are entirely without error."

Upon returning, he reported to Xu Jia: "Master Xu, we have already plastered the seven orifices of those two Daoist Priests with mud, severing their connection to the Dharma Realm, so that they may cry to heaven and earth with no response."

Xu Jia nodded and said: "Although this matter was not handled in an upright manner, it is the most optimal solution. I shall write another letter and send it to Lishan to see if these female Immortals of the mountain all intend to oppose me, insisting on slaying demons and labeling my sect as an Outer Path of evil."

"Ah? Why must you write a letter?"

"That is naturally because these two Daoist Priests will surely call for reinforcements from their sect once they wake up. I shall act one step ahead; once they receive the letter, they will have to reflect and deliberate."

"If they let the matter drop, admit their mistakes, take this snake demon back, place these two Daoist Priests in confinement, and offer an apology to this poor Daoist, then this matter is concluded."

"If not, then I shall demote them to beasts as well and sew them into dog skins."

"They curse this one as a demonic Daoist and that one as an evil god, calling everyone a product of sin, yet they know nothing of the suffering of reincarnation, possess no compassion or mercy, and have no capacity to save others. This poor Daoist will demote them to beasts so they may experience the hardships of the Beast Path."

When others slander you as being of an Outer Path, it is best if you truly are of an Outer Path.

The technique of Sewing Dog Skin is a technique of the Beggar Sect's Outer Path, also known as "Animal Transformation."

It is just that the superior Animal Transformation method can turn people into cattle, sheep, donkeys, or pigs, making it impossible to discern their true nature, and they can even live by eating fodder, as their very structure has changed.

Xu Jia has not learned that kind, but Sewing Dog Skin is simple: dog skin on the outside and human on the inside. By applying the Descending Head Technique onto the dog skin and utilizing the power of the Gu insects and the Descending Head, one can subtly transform a person into a half-dog, also known as a dog-man, a disgusting monster.

This is the most vicious and disgusting Descending Head technique in Nanyang, and when combined with the Beggar Sect's Animal Transformation method, it becomes inexplicably eerie.

This type of animal technique turns a person into something neither human nor dog; occasionally they can shed the skin and possess some human behavioral capabilities, yet they are always plagued by the nature of a dog.

Hearing this, Hu Jinhua was also startled, feeling that Xu Jia had inexplicably gained much more baleful Qi, but he dared not speak of it and could only grunt in acknowledgment before withdrawing.

After Hu Jinhua left, Xu Jia sighed a breath of Qi: "Huang Zhenren said I would sooner or later be burdened by them; I did not expect it to be verified so quickly. If they had committed a mistake, so be it, but they committed no error, were here properly receiving education, and suffered this unprovoked disaster, facing death and mutilation—how could I stand by and do nothing?"

Establishing a sect is urgent; if I am not more forceful and do not crush their arrogance, I fear there will be no end to the trouble in the future.

This baleful Qi in Xu Jia is not a Demonic Obstacle, but his true nature—the nature that says rivers and mountains are easy to change, but a person's nature is hard to alter.

Firstly, his past life's Lushan Daoism combined with various Outer Path arts taught him the way of hegemony; secondly, in his past life, he was a sect leader for a time, where his word was law, and he experienced many battles and killings, knowing the dangers involved and that one cannot retreat; thirdly, he is truly angry.

Before obtaining the Lingbao orthodoxy, if you pointed at my nose and called me an Outer Path, I would have accepted it.

Now that I have obtained the Lingbao orthodoxy, if you still say that to me, did I not obtain this orthodoxy in vain?

For a moment, the evil fire was hard to extinguish, and he could not simply kill these two Daoist Priests, nor could he find another outlet for his anger. Since this nameless fire had to be vented, he immediately decided to anchor himself through the Shrine to the Amelika Tongtian Temple of his past life and go play with his old rival from back then, the cannibalistic leader of the Seventy-Three Pillar Demon Gods of Hell, Hannibal the Old Demon.

……

At the Tongtian Temple in San Francisco, Amelika.

In the same community, the Old John Cathedral on the next street welcomed a new priest, a Cardinal Bishop parachuted in from the Vatican to take charge of all exorcism matters in San Francisco.

This Cardinal Bishop was named "Nelson," a mixed-race man who was large, tall, and powerful. Before ascending to the position of Cardinal Bishop, he had lived in China for over a decade, stationed at a religious affairs office, before going to the Vatican for further studies. He had a Chinese name, "Hong Xiuquan." That is correct; he took the second son of God, Hong Xiuquan, as his idol and had studied the doctrines debated by the leader Hong. This experience allowed him to defeat all other competitors during his studies at the Vatican, earning him the reputation that "God is a black man," and he considered himself the reincarnation of Hong Xiuquan. After all, Hong Xiuquan had said that God is a Chinese man.

He was not one of the "chosen people" of Old John, but he brought back from the Vatican the holy relic left behind by Old John, "John's Baptism."

This holy relic is a Holy Grail, which can collect holy water to cleanse all impurities, including demons. Unlike another item that can turn wine into holy blood, this object incorporates the skull of Old John and is somewhat similar to a Kapala Bowl.

Hong Xiuquan was investigating the hanging of Jesus half a year ago and the massacre at Old John Cathedral, sensing that it was the work of a Hell Demon God.

Of course, what was even stranger was why the entire staff of Old John Cathedral had perished, while the dilapidated Daoist temple across the street was perfectly fine, and even had more prosperous Incense Fire recently, along with a powerful spiritual force.

He had visited a few times to inquire and even brought in police investigations, but after the police heard that these Daoists were Eastern black wizards who practiced "voodoo," they dared not mess around. They even strongly requested that Old John Cathedral send them more holy water and Silver Consecrated Crosses. However, their Silver Consecrated Crosses were actually mostly bought by the disciples and followers of Tongtian Temple, melted down into silver bullet heads, and then the gunpowder inside the bullets was refined using the Heavenly Dipper Thunder Fire Method of Xu Jia's new sect, combining East and West to take the best of both, greatly increasing their power.

In just half a year, the disciples of Tongtian Temple who had been scattered outside gathered again, numbering in the hundreds, though many did not have Amelika residency and left after a while.

It was said that the Ancestor's Golden Body had manifested, but later when they burned incense and paper, the Golden Body did not move an inch and showed no signs of efficacy.

Hannibal the Old Demon had tested them a few times, but the Heavenly Dipper Thunder Fire Daoism, paired with pure silver Consecrated Cross bullet heads, possessed such Divine Ability that whether in the physical sense or the spiritual realm, one shot could blow his head off.

If he did not come in his true body, those apostles had no way at all.

……

"Hum!"

Suddenly, John's Baptism vibrated, and a powerful spiritual pressure descended.

Hong Xiuquan opened his eyes wide and looked toward the Dharma Realm; a pillar of light landed on the Tongtian Temple across the way.

He had only seen this kind of light pillar once before, when a venerable senior in the Vatican achieved Feathered Ascension; it was an omen of the "Heavenly Call."

Besides that, there was another omen called "Heavenly Descent," which was the omen of angels descending into the human world.

He could not quite distinguish between these two omens, but why would a Heavenly Descent occur at a Daoist temple? Did the priest from the East know how to chant scriptures? That is right, this was Xu Jia descending into his Golden Body once again.

But this time it was not very smooth, because Xu Jia encountered the "Gate of Heaven" in the Dharma Realm.

The angels in the Gate of Heaven felt that Xu Jia was a "stowaway" and did not wish for Xu Jia to descend, but Xu Jia used his silver tongue to argue that he was also an angel—a yellow-skinned angel—and informed them that many years ago, at the age of eighty, he had dominated the San Francisco exorcism scene, including subduing over thirty demon heads, including Hannibal the Old Demon, and was known as the Eastern Guardian God of San Francisco. He had even visited the Vatican as a representative of Taoism, hoping to build a Daoist temple in the Vatican... though the Pope did not agree, he did help by smoothing over relations in Amelika to build this Tongtian Temple.

The Pope is my buddy, so why are you stopping me? I am here to subdue the Seventy-Three Pillar Demon Gods, the cannibalistic leader Hannibal the Old Demon. I had a green card when I was alive, and I am a leader of free religious belief.

In any case, Xu Jia soon gained the recognition of the Gate of Heaven and was given the prestige of an "Angel Descent."

Xu Jia did not care about anything else; as long as it was useful and worked, that was enough.

After the descent, the Golden Body came to life and immediately transformed; Xu Jia appeared as a youth with a ring above his head and two pairs of wings on his back.

This shocked the disciples guarding the altar: "Ancestor, what is this?"

The one guarding the altar was Li Rentai, who was the oldest and had the highest seniority; since receiving the Register from Xu Jia last time, he had been respectfully cultivating here.

"It is nothing, just that those bird-men on Heavenly Mountain treated me as a stowaway. This foreign land is just inconvenient; my Chinese orthodoxy is not yet a mainstream study here. You all must still work hard and spread the Dao more."

Li Rentai respectfully said: "We disciples have already been working hard to promote it. Over the past half year, several wealthy politicians have invited us to look at Feng Shui. In addition, Chinese shops in the surrounding streets have all set up altars, and the Ghost Immortals on the altars have all gone there to preside, recruiting over a dozen disciples with psychic constitutions to go out."

"That can be considered a small achievement." Xu Jia folded the wings on his back, roasted them with fire into chicken wings, and handed them to Li Rentai: "Come, have a taste; it can be considered a great tonic."

"Ah? This!"

"Rest assured, this is not my original substance; it is a manifestation of Heavenly divine power that wanted to alter the essence of my Golden Body. I was caught this time, but I will be prepared next time, so I have no use for this stuff."

After saying this, he folded the remaining three wings, made them into roasted wings using Samadhi Fire, and gave them to the younger disciples and grand-disciples guarding the altar.

"This is for those who see it; those who didn't see it don't get any. Eat up. With your aptitudes, if this poor Daoist were to teach you lower-grade Daoism, you would not have the ability to bear it. Eating this will at least provide some improvement, so it won't be a waste."

Only then did Li Rentai set his heart at ease and eat the angel roasted wings. They had no taste and melted in the mouth; after all, it was Heavenly divine power, only transformed into these roasted wings after being refined by the Taiping technique and the Refining Falsehood into Truth, which cleansed their bodies, expelled toxins, improved their aptitudes, and nourished their vital Qi.

Xu Jia folded the wings and took off the Heavenly Angel Ring from his head. This was also transformed from Heavenly divine power, but it was of a higher grade, representing "Heavenly Divine Nature and Divine Registry." Xu Jia channeled the Taiping Divine Dao Technique, wishing for it to become reality, and the next moment, it changed into a weapon: a silver-white Heavenly Silver Pistol, a divine weapon, a golden legendary item!

(End of this chapter)