Chapter 118: [Danger Level: ★★★★★★★★☆]

Boom rumble rumble rumble—!!!

The earth roared, the earth dragon turned over!

A condensed, earth-yellow light beam as thick as a child's arm shot violently from Lu Yuan's fingertip!

Where the light beam passed, the earth was torn open into a deep ravine!

On both sides, rocks and soil churned and rolled over, as if plowed by a giant plow!

The porcelain evils along the path, whether low-level earthenware or "semi-finished" beauty porcelain,

any touched by this demon-suppressing light beam containing the dragon energy of the Five Sacred Mountains, all instantly disintegrated, turning into dust!

The light beam, with an unstoppable momentum, crossed over thirty zhang, precisely blasting into the cave entrance surrounded by the five withered locust trees!

"Thud—!!!"

At the cave entrance, the dark red molten glow suddenly extinguished!

Immediately after, a column of black smoke shot up from the cave entrance, mixed with the stench of scorched earth, fishy glue, and burning resentment, nauseatingly pungent!

Within the black smoke, countless women's extremely shrill collective wails flashed briefly, then completely dissipated between heaven and earth.

As this strike hit, the entire Luo Yan Slope violently trembled!

Suc... succeeded?!

Everyone held their breath, staring intently at Lu Yuan, their eyes filled with shock.

The power of this method...

It was almost like something only a great master could perform!!

The deafening roar of the "kiln heart" being struck still echoed through the mountain valley.

The column of pitch-black smoke had not yet fully dissipated, the air filled with the pungent smell of scorched earth, porcelain dust, and burning resentment.

The vast army of porcelain evils covering the mountains and fields, like snakes with their backbones removed, instantly lost their fearless ferocity.

The various porcelain glows flowing on their bodies rapidly dimmed, turning into a bleak grayish-white.

Their movements became extremely slow and stiff.

Many low-level earthenware porcelain evils even stopped in place directly, the faint residual red light in their eye sockets flickering blankly, becoming a pile of broken puppets.

That cloying "painted skin fragrance" miasma also receded like the tide, revealing the desolate, dilapidated true appearance of the hillside.

Everywhere were porcelain shards, broken bones, scorched earth, and those porcelain evils that had fallen into stagnation.

"Don't relax! They're not dispersed yet!"

Lu Yuan, barely enduring the emptiness transmitted from his dantian and the dizziness in his head, shouted sharply.

He knew clearly in his heart that the "Five Sacred Mountains Demon-Suppressing Seal" had only cut off the "power supply."

These already formed porcelain evils still retained resentment within them, like unextinguished embers.

If not thoroughly cleaned up, once the "kiln heart" recovered, or was activated by a stronger presence, they could reignite at any moment.

"Take advantage now, their power is greatly reduced, press on in one go, clear out the remnants!"

Lu Yuan's voice was hoarse, yet carried an unquestionable resolve.

The exhausted four, hearing this, perked up, immediately responding loudly.

Shen Shulan suppressed her churning qi and blood, her hands no longer gathering violent thunder orbs.

Her right hand formed a sword finger, the fingertip dancing with fine, hair-thin yet exceptionally condensed silver electric sparks.

With a sweeping glance, she locked onto a "semi-finished" beauty porcelain evil that, though moving slowly, still had unextinguished glaze light on its body, trying to pull nearby low-level porcelain evils.

"Jade Pivot Divine Thunder, break evil and manifest righteousness—strike!"

She lightly shouted, pointing through the air!

"Zap—!"

A chopstick-thick silver thunderbolt shot through the air, precisely piercing the beauty porcelain evil's brow.

The thunderbolt exploded inside its body, the porcelain evil emitting a short, mournful cry, the residual glaze light on its body completely extinguished.

With a "crash," it scattered into a pile of ordinary, spiritless broken porcelain shards.

Shen Shulan didn't pause, her figure moving lightly, fingers pointing continuously.

"Zap zap" sounds of piercing air never ceased.

Every time a slender thunderbolt flashed, a "semi-finished" porcelain evil's core was pierced and disintegrated.

Extremely efficient, her true qi consumption far less than before.

On the other side, Tan Jiji's footwork changed, his figure becoming elusive and agile.

Each step he took left behind a faintly glowing ice-blue footprint emitting a faint chill.

The chill spread along the ground, making the surrounding low-level porcelain evils' movements even more sluggish.

At some point, he held four slender, transparent "Ice Soul Needles" glowing with ice-blue chill between the fingers of his left hand.

These needles were refined from hundred-year cold jade marrow mixed with profound ice, specifically breaking through yin evil defenses.

His figure weaved through the remaining porcelain evils in the north, spotting a monster whose gelatinous substance hadn't fully solidified, left hand flicking!

"Whoosh!"

An Ice Soul Needle silently shot out, precisely nailing into the monster's back where the gelatin was thickest!

"Crackle... crack crack..."

Ice-blue frost patterns instantly spread from the needle point, freezing the monster into a cracked ice lump in the blink of an eye!

Tan Jiji's steps didn't stop, his wrist flicking, three more needles shot consecutively, hitting three nearby targets, similarly instantly frozen.

Xu Erxiao gasped heavily, gripping the Mountain-Breaking Hammer again, like a tired but still fierce big bear.

Whenever Tan Jiji froze one, he stepped forward, swinging his hammer to smash one!

Wang Cheng'an's right arm was seriously injured, ordered by Lu Yuan to retreat into the formation for bandaging.

Lu Yuan himself wasn't idle either.

He forced his nearly emptied body, not participating in the cleanup, but biting his already scarred fingertip again, using blood as ink,

quickly drawing a complexly structured talisman array on a relatively flat stone surface.

Earth Energy Purification Array!

This array had no offensive power, but could channel earth vein yang energy, slowly purifying the residual malevolent energy and resentment in this area, eliminating future trouble.

With each stroke he drew, his face paled a bit more, cold sweat dripping from his forehead, yet his gaze remained focused.

When the last talisman pattern was completed, Lu Yuan channeled the last trace of true qi in his body into the array's eye.

"Hum..."

The talisman array on the stone surface glowed faintly, then vanished into the stone.

An extremely weak yet continuous warm current slowly spread from the stone surface, like spring sunshine melting snow.

The malevolent energy and resentment emitted by the porcelain evil remnants on the ground dissipated strand by strand within this warm current.

The yin coldness and sweet fishy smell in the air were further dispelled.

This continued for about a quarter of an hour.

When Xu Erxiao smashed the last "ice lump," dropped the Mountain-Breaking Hammer, so tired he couldn't even straighten his back.

When Shen Shulan's fingertip thunder dimmed, her face pale as she withdrew her hand, finding no more moving porcelain evils.

When Tan Jiji put away the Ice Soul Needles, breathing slightly rapidly as he walked back into the formation, the north side now only littered with ice shards and broken porcelain...

The entire periphery of Luo Yan Slope finally fell completely silent.

That terrifying sea of porcelain evils had disappeared.

In its place was a scarred hillside, covered with a thick layer of mixed porcelain shards, earthenware, broken bones, ice shards, and scorch marks.

Under the night moonlit sky, everything seemed exceptionally desolate.

Just as everyone's minds relaxed slightly.

A sudden cry of shock rang out from the hillside not far behind them, carrying a strong accent and extreme regret.

"Hey!!!"

"What's goin' on here!!!"

"Where'd them big beauties go!!!"

On the deathly silent hillside, this voice seemed extremely jarring.

Having just experienced a life-and-death battle, physically and mentally exhausted, everyone stiffened, turning sharply.

???

!!!

What... what's going on?!

There are still people?!

Lu Yuan and the other four felt their scalps tingle, bodies turning cold.

At this moment, they were completely drained of true qi, spirits wilted, lacking even the strength to stand.

Forget a Daoist practitioner, even if a wild boar charged out from the mountains, it would be enough to completely tear apart this team that had just undergone a bloody battle.

Lu Yuan forced himself to turn, looking toward the source of the sound.

When he saw the newcomer clearly, his pupils slightly contracted.

That person... looks so familiar!

Memory surged, a name surfaced in his mind.

Beidou Temple, Shi Xiangyang! Taoist name Xiao Yi!

That guy at the Fengtian City tea stall who, failing to forcibly demand the Nurturing Malevolence Site, flew into a rage and called Lu Yuan selfish.

Why is he here?

Lu Yuan stared blankly at Shi Xiangyang, about fifty or sixty meters away.

Not just Shi Xiangyang, but five other people.

Among these six, Lu Yuan had seen a few at the tea stall back then.

Now he saw Shi Xiangyang and his group looking around with regretful confusion.

As if they'd had a spring dream, just about to reach the critical moment, then suddenly woke up.

After a moment of confusion, Shi Xiangyang's gaze finally landed on Lu Yuan.

Seeing Lu Yuan's exhausted, miserable state, Shi Xiangyang's lips curled, oozing a cat-and-mouse-like mockery.

"Well, well～"

"If it isn't the famously 'Little Taoist in White Robes' Lu Yuan of Fengtian～～"

He led his people, strolling over leisurely, each step like stepping on Lu Yuan and the others' hearts.

"What's wrong, lying down here?"

"Don't you know sleeping isn't allowed here?"

Shi Xiangyang looked down at Lu Yuan from above, the mockery in his tone almost tangible.

"Exhausted?"

"Out of strength?"

"Can't move?"

"What a pity～"

"The main entity of this Nurturing Malevolence Site has been broken by you, but now you have no strength to perform the transcendence ritual."

At this moment, Shi Xiangyang's total of six people arrived before Lu Yuan, looking down at him from above, grinning with a cheap smile:

"Me, I'm magnanimous, I won't hold against you that you scolded me a few days ago!"

"Not only that, I'll return good for evil!"

"Junior brother is so tired, just rest well, the remaining transcendence will be handled by me, Shi Xiangyang, representing Beidou Temple～"

In an instant, Lu Yuan understood everything.

This bastard had been secretly following him since Fengtian City!

Just now, the moment Lu Yuan entered the beauty porcelain illusion formation, Shi Xiangyang and his group followed right in.

However, these six guys were completely enchanted by the illusion formation.

Lu Yuan could even see a few bright lipstick marks on their faces.

Presumably, these six went to the main room to eat with those "women."

If his group hadn't desperately broken the formation's eye, these six guys' fate would have been to become part of the broken porcelain covering the mountains!

As for why Shi Xiangyang and his group followed Lu Yuan...

Looking at this stupid pig's cheap expression and the things he said, it's obvious enough.

Lu Yuan didn't share the Nurturing Malevolence Site with Beidou Temple, so Shi Xiangyang and his group secretly followed along.

Their plan was to forcibly intervene while Lu Yuan's group vanquished demons and exorcised evil.

Of course, they didn't calculate that Lu Yuan's five would end up exhausted and immobile.

They just needed to follow Lu Yuan's three into the Nurturing Malevolence Site, then emerge midway,

they didn't need to do anything else, just casually wave their ritual swords a few times, that would mean they also participated in clearing the Nurturing Malevolence Site.

Then when they returned to Fengtian City, they could also write in Beidou Temple's "Merit Record" that they destroyed a Nurturing Malevolence Site today.

And now that Lu Yuan's five were directly exhausted and immobile, that was even better for them!!

They could directly perform the concluding transcendence ritual.

Then in that "Merit Record," they could write even more grandly!

This is really disgusting to the extreme, despicable to the extreme, and cheap to the extreme!

It can be said to be utterly shameless!!

"You dare!"

A sharp female rebuke suddenly rang out from behind.

Shen Shulan, currently slumped on the ground, glared angrily at Shi Xiangyang,

How could there be such shameless, such despicable people in the Daoist community!!

Shi Xiangyang was as annoying and cheap as possible toward Lu Yuan,

but toward Shen Shulan, even if given a hundred guts, Shi Xiangyang wouldn't dare show disrespect to Shen Shulan.

Shi Xiangyang looked toward Shen Shulan slumped on the ground, quickly bowing, face serious:

"Beidou Temple, Shi..."

Before Shi Xiangyang could finish his self-introduction, Shen Shulan directly coldly gritted her teeth:

"Get lost now!"

Getting lost was impossible.

This matter was for the entire Beidou Temple.

Shi Xiangyang believed that even if he offended Shen Shulan for this, his master's sect would protect him.

Immediately, Shi Xiangyang, face serious, bowed toward Shen Shulan and said:

"Please understand, Daoist Shulan...

"Our Beidou Temple has stood for a hundred years, only now getting this chance at the Celestial Master Grand Ceremony."

"If we cannot write about the Nurturing Malevolence Site in the 'Merit Record,' my master's Celestial Master title will be unstable."

"Others will also think our Beidou Temple doesn't live up to its name."

"I admit this matter is despicable and shameless, but... I, Shi Xiangyang, have a clear conscience."

"Right and wrong will be judged by later generations, Daoist Shulan, I offend you this time..."

As his words fell, he no longer looked at Shen Shulan's expression, suddenly waving his hand.

"Set up the altar! Perform the ritual!"

The two behind immediately responded, taking ritual tools, incense, and candles from a wooden box, about to set up the altar on the spot.

"Fuck your mother's stinking whore!"

"Your mother was on the roster at Milk Mansion, I ordered her three times a day!"

Xu Erxiao and Wang Cheng'an had already started cursing.

As everyone knows...

These two kids are the best at cursing.

Not only do they curse dirty, they curse loudly!!

Xu Erxiao on the left: Shi Xiangyang, your mother's a stinking whore, gave birth to you, this shameless thing, this shamelessness inherited from your whore mother!

Wang Cheng'an on the right: Shi Xiangyang's mother works as a whore at Milk Mansion, he, Wang Cheng'an, goes in three times a day to have fun with Shi Xiangyang's birth mother.

These two really had no strength now.

But while their bodies had no strength, their mouths had plenty.

After Xu Erxiao finished cursing again, Wang Cheng'an immediately followed up, loudly shouting:

"Your mother called me daddy on the kang bed the other day!!"

"You dog bastard, hurry up and call me grandpa!!"

"Hurry up, dog bastard, call me grandpa, and I'll give you this Nurturing Malevolence Site!!"

"Otherwise, I'll put effort into your mother later, you unfilial thing, have some pity for your mother's cunt!!"

Shi Xiangyang: "..."

Everyone: "..."

This really is way too dirty...

Foul language, unbearable to hear.

Not just Shi Xiangyang, even Lu Yuan and the others couldn't stand it.

Shi Xiangyang's face instantly flushed purplish-red.

"Go! Slap those two bastards' mouths until they're rotten!"

The two junior brothers behind him had long been unable to hold back, hearing this, they immediately smiled and walked toward Xu Erxiao and Wang Cheng'an.

Xu Erxiao and Wang Cheng'an weren't scared either.

Opening their mouths to curse!

And they cursed faster and faster, afraid that later when their mouths got slapped rotten they couldn't curse anymore, that would be a loss.

Just as Shi Xiangyang's two junior brothers were about to reach Wang Cheng'an and Xu Erxiao,

their walking style suddenly became a bit awkward, a bit stiff.

Their footsteps... also changed.

No longer the dull thud of stepping on soil, but...

"Click-clack."

"Crack-clack."

Like two stiff porcelain objects walking, each step emitting a crisp yet eerie sound.

This scene made Shi Xiangyang somewhat confused.

Shi Xiangyang just frowned, about to speak, but the next second, his face suddenly showed bewilderment.

He abruptly lowered his head, looking at his hand.

He saw the skin on the back of his hand losing color at a visible rate, showing patches of fine, ice-crack patterned glaze-like luster.

Porcelain spots!

Not just him, the other Beidou Temple members, whether preparing to act or setting up the altar, all showed the same mutation!

Their bodies were being "porcelain-ized"!

Huh??!

Seeing this, Lu Yuan didn't feel happy, thinking this was some heaven helping them,

The Nurturing Malevolence Site's core had clearly been shattered by the "Five Sacred Mountains Demon-Suppressing Seal."

All porcelain evils had turned into dead objects, the source of malevolent energy here should have been cut off!

Why... why was this porcelain-ization phenomenon still occurring?

The main entity wasn't dead?!

Lu Yuan suddenly looked around, the night heavy, the barren mountain silent, besides them, no living things.

His system's danger warning showed no reaction!

Wait...

Lu Yuan's heart suddenly stopped!

No!!!

The "Vanquish Demons and Exorcise Evil" danger warning, because too many evil entities appeared earlier, blocking vision, had been temporarily turned off by Lu Yuan!

So... so...

Lu Yuan abruptly turned on the "Vanquish Demons and Exorcise Evil" danger warning, his gaze locking onto the northeast direction, the "kiln heart" he had blasted flat with one strike!

A line of blood-red data fiercely burned his eyeballs!

【Name: Liu Ruyan】

【Type: Malevolent Deity】

【Cultivation: Seventy-eight years】

【Weakness: Thunder, lightning, fire...】

【Danger Level: ★★★★★★★★☆】

Lu Yuan: "？？？？"

Holy shit!!

Mal... Malevolent Deity??!!

How could Liu Ruyan be a Malevolent Deity??!!

And this star level...

Sev... seven stars?!!