Chapter 333

"The poor monk, Victory Fighting Buddha, Tang Xuanzang." Tang Luo crushed the chain he had grabbed, clasped his hands together, and answered the skin bear's question.

"Eight Heavenly Dragon Horses, Ao Yu Lie." Ao Yu Lie said from the side.

The skin bear retreated a few steps, lowered his head, and glanced twice at the Register of Life and Death. The names on the pages were only the crowd that Zheng Chi You had previously written down.

The "Tang Xuanzang" he had written, including those bloodstains, had all ceased to exist.

"Pa!" The Register of Life and Death snapped shut on its own. The skin bear froze for a moment, then tried to reopen it.

But this time, even as its master, he could no longer open this Register of Life and Death, although the connection and perception between them still remained.

Yet the skin bear clearly felt the resistance of the Register of Life and Death in his hands.

If this resistance were translated into linguistic textual information, it would probably be: "Please, spare this broken book of mine!"

In a daze, Tang Luo had already arrived before the skin bear.

"Amitabha, the poor monk will now deliver the benefactor, guaranteeing no further worries from now on." Tang Luo said.

The skin bear gave a bitter smile, his essence, energy, and spirit completely gone, he directly sat down on the ground, even the last strength to resist gone.

After being grabbed by Tang Luo and then kicked away by Ao Yu Lie, he was already a severely wounded spent crossbow bolt, relying solely on the mental energy of "I have the Register of Life and Death" to sustain himself.

Now the Register of Life and Death had directly shut itself, unable to be opened.

Consequently, the skin bear also abandoned hope, unable even to stand steadily.

The ferocious expression on his face vanished, replaced by fear, dread, and trembling.

The inner personality returned, the timid, cowardly outer personality reappeared.

He shrank his body, trying to curl himself into a ball as much as possible.

Tang Luo extended his hand, pressing it onto the skin bear's head, about to deliver him.

Suddenly, the skin bear, who had completely abandoned resistance, shuddered, his hands reaching up to grab Tang Luo's wrist.

Black and white qi once again emerged from behind him, surging toward Tang Luo.

Like waves crashing against a reef, Tang Luo remained unmoving; the black and white qi struck him and spontaneously collapsed and dissipated.

But the skin bear also rose again, retreating a few steps.

His face was similarly shrouded in a layer of black and white qi, hazy and indistinct, like a veil of mist.

If one looked closely, one would discover that within the surging black and white qi, a strange face vaguely formed.

This face did not belong to a single person, but was constantly changing.

It looked like two faces continuously alternating, and moreover, both faces were incomplete, giving the impression they might vanish at any moment.

Only through constant alternation, or rather mixing, did they gain a semblance of "solidity," allowing one to discern that these were two human faces.

It seemed as if two dying people were leaning on each other, barely sustaining life through mutual reliance.

"This is……" Tang Luo withdrew his hand, gazing at the two faces on the skin bear's face, "Little White Dragon, are these the Black and White Impermanences?"

"I also think they are very similar." Ao Yu Lie said, "Xie Bie An, Fan Wu Gui!"

Although lacking Xie Bie An's signature long tongue and Fan Wu Gui's needle-like beard, Tang Luo and Ao Yu Lie still recognized these two faces.

At this moment, the face formed on the skin bear's face, shrouded by the black and white qi, was precisely the Black and White Impermanences!

Ao Yu Lie said: "It looks miserable, worse off than the dog."

The Heavenly Howling Dog was made a "mission target" in the mission world, a wisp of remnant soul reincarnated, then transformed into an evil ghost, captured by Tang Luo.

And the Black and White Impermanences before him seemed to have become fate fragments?

"So speaking, the claim that fate fragments are toxic might not be mere idle talk." Tang Luo said.

The skin bear just stood there, a wisp of remnant soul, dominated by the "mixed" Black and White Impermanences, controlling his body.

It should be the same situation as the Heavenly Howling Dog, or perhaps even worse.

The remnant souls of the Black and White Impermanences gathered together, barely maintaining existence without annihilation—then, if no accident occurred, they would be obtained by the skin bear in the form of fate fragments.

Thus forming the current situation.

It feels somewhat like possessing an old grandfather's golden finger?

However, this "old grandfather" has basically lost self-awareness, is on his deathbed, possessing only the instinct to survive.

When the skin bear encountered a life-or-death crisis, on the verge of death, the survival instinct emerged, taking over the body of the skin bear who had abandoned resistance.

Because they share a relationship of mutual honor and mutual loss.

"Master, could it be that he was made into that kind of fate fragment?" Ao Yu Lie thought of a possibility.

The current situation can be explained by two interpretations.

The Black and White Impermanences are near death, with only a wisp of remnant soul lingering, incarnated as a fate fragment entering the god-demon walking body, slowly recovering, belonging to the active type.

The second is that the Black and White Impermanences were "made into" fate fragments!

But during the manufacturing process, a small mishap may have occurred, leaving behind a wisp of remnant soul.

This would be the passive case.

The remnant soul of the Black and White Impermanences possesses only the survival instinct, desperately clinging to the last lifeline—the Register of Life and Death.

He can fully feel the strength and terror of the "person" before him, dare not act rashly, stands in place, seeking an opportunity to escape.

"Let me think." Tang Luo said, "I have eaten quite a few fate fragments before."

He recalled, the fate fragments he had consumed to heal his wounds.

There was an unknown monkey demon fate fragment, a Nero fate fragment, a Fu Hongxue fate fragment, an A Fei fate fragment, etc.

Among them, one fate fragment was relatively special.

That is the first unknown monkey demon fate fragment.

From the unfortunate soul in "Approaching Science," who sacrificed his life to become Tang Luo's "living advertisement," Yao Jingwu.

That guy claimed to be the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Tang Luo inadvertently failed to restrain himself and directly shot him dead.

Obtaining the earth fate fragment from him, after consumption, it was not pure power inside.

Rather, it contained a wisp of a monkey demon's consciousness!

That wisp of consciousness was suppressed and crushed by Tang Luo with a backhand strike, truly "soul scattered and spirit dispersed" — even a Da Luo Golden Immortal arriving could not save it.

The other Fate Fragments did not exhibit such a situation at all.

There was no extraneous consciousness whatsoever; there was only pure power.

"It seems some Fate Fragments are toxic, while some have no issues?" Tang Luo said, looking at the Black and White Impermanence before him.

"Master, then what do we do about this?" Ao Yulie looked at the motionless Black-and-White-Impermanence-version bear.

What to do now?

Kill the bear before us and see if Black and White Impermanence can survive?

Judging by the current state, after the bear host dies, Black and White Impermanence might not be able to survive...

Wait!

Ao Yulie took a step back, acting as if nothing had happened.

His master was consistently reckless to the heavens; he had nearly forgotten there was still the Merit Jade Lotus that could be used to save someone — at least preserving Black and White Impermanence's last wisp of remnant soul from dissipating would be no problem.

"Transmigrate them first." Sure enough, Tang Luo's choice did not deviate from expectations; he made a move again.

Soul Transmigration!

Black and White Impermanence's face let out a silent roar; the Book of Life and Death in their hands flipped open again, flipping frantically.

But in the next breath, the Book of Life and Death closed again.

Even with Black and White Impermanence in the lead, they could not re-activate the Book of Life and Death to deal with Tang Luo.

Nowhere to dodge, unable to resist.

The bear was seized by the head by Tang Luo once more.

Its soul was directly pulled out.

Unlike ordinary souls, on the semi-transparent soul there were two constantly shifting faces — one despairing, fearful; the other barely putting on a brave front yet not daring to bare its fangs at Tang Luo.

On the soul, a thread of black-and-white dual qi also lingered, similarly forming constantly alternating faces, like a guardian spirit behind it.

The Merit Jade Lotus emerged; gentle power enveloped Black and White Impermanence's remnant soul and the bear.

Tang Luo grasped the "Four Souls" and tore them apart to both sides.

The bear's soul let out a shrill, silent scream, instantly becoming utterly listless.

More dangerous was Black and White Impermanence's remnant soul — about to dissipate in the next second; the Merit Jade Lotus's consecration healing forcibly held it back at the cliff's edge.

With a casual wave, Tang Luo dispersed the bear's soul.

The corpse lay on the ground, twitched twice, and then — a Fate Fragment actually floated up.

"Hm?" Tang Luo smiled. "A bit interesting."

This newly formed Fate Fragment, like those without consciousness, was just pure power.

Similar to a seed — a seed hides something inside; after it sprouts and grows into a great tree, that thing remains hidden in the tree.

Tang Luo took out the thing inside the great tree; the great tree still remains.

"Seems like another line of business can be added?" Tang Luo thought to himself.

Besides swapping Fate Fragments, he can now also help people clear hidden dangers concealed within Fate Fragments.

Simply a "peerless divine physician."

Having consumed a fair amount of merit power to stabilize Black and White Impermanence's remnant soul, Tang Luo pondered a moment, then reached out and made a grasping gesture in the air.

The auxiliary volume of the Book of Life and Death flew into his hand; he stuffed the remnant soul of Black and White Impermanence into the Book of Life and Death.

The Book of Life and Death was originally the magic treasure of Black and White Impermanence; whether this auxiliary volume was used by Xie Bian'an or Fan Wujiu made no difference.

It was enough to serve as a place for the remnant soul to stabilize and recuperate.

But whether it can ultimately recover, what it will become — that is up to fate; Tang Luo did not dare guarantee it either.

"Hope these two guys, when they wake up, might know something." Tang Luo said.

With the Book of Life and Death in hand, the 72-hour countdown began timing anew.

Actually, when the bear got the Book of Life and Death, it was already the case that Tang Luo's side's camp had obtained the "Book of Life and Death."

Regardless of whether the bear intended to kill his own camp's people, this point would not change.

And with the bear's death, it no longer counted as his own camp holding the Book of Life and Death; only now that Tang Luo truly held it did the time start being recalculated.

At this point, this camp mission can be said to be perfectly completed.

Enemy camp: 10 people, all dead.

Own camp: one bear dead, cause of death: for fun.

If he hadn't attacked Tang Luo and instead took the Book of Life and Death and ran, Tang Luo wouldn't have chased him — at most he'd study the Book of Life and Death a bit.

Whether he would eventually be possessed or what — also an unknown.

Truthfully, given Black and White Impermanence's remnant soul state, Tang Luo really didn't think there was much chance of a successful possession.

Far too weak; it would take a very long time to gradually recover.