Daoist Master of Qing Xuan

Shen Lian continued, “So, you not only killed the monk, you also ‘took’ his Yin Devilry Incantation of Asura.”

“If it wasn’t to break open the Buddhist post of Daoist Cihang, and if this was in the past, I would never lay a glance at this type of demonic technique. It is good that the netherworld was falling this whole while. It went berserk and released a wave of energy source which greatly increased the power of the demonic technique. Then only did I have the opportunity to use this technique to corrupt the Buddhist mantra casted by Daoist Cihang. It was all those villagers to blame for staying nearby. I had to kill them to be able to escape.” The creature had no reservation in that answer.

Shen Lian looked at the child, and said, “You not only killed people. You obviously saw this boy’s natural born Daoist body and wanted to use it as your human body vessel when you escape. Or maybe your nature is cruel like that, and you do whatever you desire, and that is why I will not save you.”

The laws of heaven were just and fair, but Shen Lian was not the law himself. Every significant Daoist had their principles of doing things. If two Daoists had varying principles, there would be friction regardless. As the saying goes, ‘when people have the same principles; they share the same views.’.

The demon creature sighed, “Looking at how heartless you are, seems like you are not the heir of my school. We in the Order of Jie put intra-sect brotherhood at the highest priority. Even if I have committed a great sin, I will be punished by the master, and not be left stranded here, or else we would not be defeated so badly back then.”

Its words were filled with sadness and regrets. Any heartless person could not help but feel sorry for it, anyone except Shen Lian. He knew very well, this creature was using the ultimate art of Dao to shake the clarity of his Primordial Spirit. This sort of art that utilized personal emotions revealed its deep authentic Xuanmen foundation, or else its own heart of Dao would be disrupted before it could affect people’s emotion. It also shared a resemblance with his ‘Mastery of Senses’, so his words might not be entirely untrue.

“I have heard of some rumours about the Order of Jie before. My Art of Spiritual Enhancement is truly related to Lingbao Tianzun as well. However, I have my own orthodoxy which is not connected to you. Even if I owe Lingbao Tianzun a favor, I will not repay him by helping you either.” Shen Lian replied very coldly.

The demon creature smirked, “I can still get out even if you do not release me today. At that time I will not do anything else. I will take back everything that has connections with our Order of Jie from your body.”

Shen Lian said, “Since you could ‘take’ the Asura Devilry Yin Incantation, it is apparent that you have the ability to strip off other people’s cultivated techniques from their body. I will not doubt your words, but I still have to say one thing, give that child to me, and if you are able to come out, you can come and find me.”

“Even Daoist Cihang was not able to kill and could only lock me up here. I remember your vital force now. What is so great about achieving the state of Taiyi, even I have achieved this many years ago. Once I am out of this, my second aim is to come after you.”

Since it could recognize Shen Lian’s current state, he must be quite fearless and may even possibly knew of a way to break the immortality of the state of Taiyi.

Shen Lian smiled, “I do not think that Bodhisattva was not able to do anything to you. It seemed more like she was not bothered to pay attention to you. The state of Taiyi is in fact not something very significant. You could have achieved this state long time ago, but I’m afraid your real soul is no longer in that village. Or else you would be able to escape any restriction if you kill yourself. Or is the legend of Investiture of the Gods real, whereby creatures who achieved Taiyi state will have your souls driven out from the village of nowhere. Could it be in the Investiture of the Gods?”

The demon creature’s expression finally changed, “You even know about this, where are you?”

Shen Lian smiled, “I read it from a novel. I have great memory. Should I narrate it to you in detail?”

The creature replied coldly, “No need, I will read it myself.”

It suddenly looked up and let out a roar. The golden ray immediately made a crack, and it crawled into the body of the monk which was lying by the well. The monk suddenly ‘came back to life’.

At the same time, the monk’s clothing turned into dust. The monk was seen crawling on the ground, with its flesh and blood all concaved into its bones, its veins were clearly visible. The body then started to grow golden colored hair, leaving only its neck to be covered in white hair. ‘Its’ eye sockets were sunken in, showing its eyeballs in blood red.

Apparently, vampires have bodies that do not decay after death, its blood and flesh shrunk into its bones, and a vein started to appear with white hair on it. Five hundred years later, the white hair turned black, and another five hundred years after that, the black hair turned red, and finally, the red hair would turn golden in color after another five hundred years. At the thousandth year, a trial of lightning happened, killing off almost all vampires, all except those with golden hair survived. Those were the Golden Haired Hou, whose body was covered in golden hair; all expect its neck which had a hint of white hair.

Shen Lian finally understood that the demon creature’s real soul was of a Golden Haired Hou, but since it was obviously past the stage of Taiyi, it had already exceeded the limitations of species and gained the ability to turn the body of a monk into ‘Golden Haired Hou’.

However, this fresh ‘Golden Haired Roar’ which was newly born had no strength to fight. The demon creature’s real aim was the baby’s flesh and body. That was the real aim of its plan.

Otherwise, when Shen Lian wanted to take the baby away, it would not make such a fuss.

From the Investiture of the Gods, which he read before, some of its recordings might be true, but not all were believable, and Golden Haired Hou here might have been able to answer some of his questions here.

Shen Lian would have left a long time ago if he wanted to just save himself. Obviously, he was not going to run away. After all, if one avoided dangerous situations when they faced with it, life would be too dull and boring. He was a pursuer of Daoism, not a guard of a dead body.

Ever since he achieved the state of Taiyi, he also never knew how strong he had become. Now a sparring partner had appeared, he was rather delighted.

The Golden Haired Hou seemingly traveled past the barriers of dimensions and appeared in front of him; however, it was still stuck at the side of the well in this dimension.

When his sense of danger started to escalate, a thin and long fish rod appeared in his hand almost the same time. He used it to pierce towards the front and it locked the dimension, immediately locking the void in front.

It looked like the dimension turned into a pile of mud, dragging his killing sword through it, so he never knew if his attack hit its mark.

His spiritual consciousness told him that he missed.

The tip of the fish rod bent like it had caught a big heavy fish, which then managed to escape, causing it to bounce back.

When it was retracted back from the mud of dimension, it sketched out a stunningly beautiful curve, where a crack had formed within, and a patch of golden hair was visible in it.

The Golden Haired Hou from the face of the well had moved to the back of Shen Lian. Though bizarrely, after the tip of Shen Lian’s fishing rod had cut through the dimension, its sharp bit reached into the dimension and it was pointing at the Golden Haired Hou which was standing behind Shen Lian.

At the moment, all directions of the dimension had lost all its meaning. A human and a beast were about to start an unprecedented battle.