"Heavenly Dao? What are you talking about? Your death is imminent!" Huijue’s face was full of excitement.
"To become an immortal or a buddha, one must undergo tribulation... As for how to undergo tribulation, there is always a standard..." Fang Zhiyi said, and with a tap of his toes, he left the spot. The three black souls could no longer hold on and scattered. The Blood Flesh Buddha’s outstretched hand slapped down, but met only air.
This seemed to irritate it. The faces on its body all turned to Fang Zhiyi, including Huijue, muttering incessantly.
Fang Zhiyi felt those annoying voices burrowing into his head, gradually clouding his consciousness.
"Merge with it!" Huijue laughed wildly, watching the Blood Flesh Buddha’s hand suddenly extend, grabbing straight for Fang Zhiyi.
But Fang Zhiyi, who seemed already dazed, suddenly looked up and smiled. "You think this level of mental pollution can take me down? Do you really think I’ve been reincarnating all these times for nothing?"
Huijue was stunned. Fang Zhiyi vanished on the spot, and in the next moment, he leaped high into the air, his long sword stabbing straight down.
"It’s useless! Useless! You’re dead today!" Huijue kept shouting. "Since you want to destroy me, let’s die together! That counts as becoming a buddha too!"
When Fang Zhiyi’s sword pierced in, it slid down the Blood Flesh Buddha’s body as if there were no resistance. As it passed Huijue’s face, Fang Zhiyi even gave him a slap with his other hand.
"With an IQ like that, you couldn’t become a buddha even if you tried!"
Huijue was furious but could do nothing. He couldn’t control "its" body.
"You still want to resist? It’s just waking up now. Once it’s fully awake, you’ll know what kind of being you’ve provoked!"
"Makes sense, but why should I wait for it to wake up?" Fang Zhiyi landed on the ground and suddenly tightened his grip on the black sword’s hilt.
"You..." Huijue’s face was smug, but then he sensed something. "What are you doing?!"
"Feeding it," Fang Zhiyi smiled. "After all, who could bear to let such a big cutie go hungry?" The black sword in his hand was pouring yin energy into the Blood Flesh Buddha’s body.
"You’re trying to appease it now? Useless! Useless! It won’t accept you. I’m the one it recognizes!" Huijue kept shouting.
But as the massive yin energy flowed in, the Blood Flesh Buddha suddenly grew restless. Its patchwork body began to tremble violently.
Huijue, already absorbed by it, received the Blood Flesh Buddha’s emotions.
"Stop! Stop it!"
"Stop what? I didn’t finish my words earlier. Have you ever seen the Heavenly Dao?"
Huijue froze, then his eyes widened in terror. "You... you..."
"Based on my experience, when a certain substance exceeds the limit the Heavenly Dao can detect, what happens?" Fang Zhiyi’s hand was trembling slightly.
"You... how many people have you killed? You sinner! You’ve killed so many! You..."
Fang Zhiyi looked up at him. "Shh. Listen."
Huijue wanted to look up but couldn’t.
A terrifying boom rang out overhead, accompanied by the sound of shattered tiles and broken beams.
The writhing Blood Flesh Buddha stiffened in place.
Then came a second and a third boom.
All the faces on the Blood Flesh Buddha opened their mouths in piercing screams. A bloody glow enveloped its body, resisting the heavenly thunder. But this gesture only seemed to anger the Heavenly Dao further.
The thunder grew louder and louder. Fang Zhiyi had already scrambled away, covering his ears tightly. In the past, he was always the one being struck. Today, watching someone else get hit by lightning was kind of satisfying.
Still, the Heavenly Dao in this world was a bit too exaggerated, wasn’t it?
Without hesitation, he crawled and ran outside. Sure enough, not long after he escaped, the heavenly thunder grew so intense that it directly shattered the entire hall.
Fang Zhiyi turned and shouted at Xiaoxiaohei, "Is the danger level high?"
Xiaoxiaohei looked at him, instinctively wanting to keep its distance from this host. Who goes around provoking the Heavenly Dao?
Seeing it stay silent, Fang Zhiyi nodded. He sat cross-legged on the spot, watching the heavenly thunder pour into the ruins.
Only when the thunder gradually stopped did he step over. As expected, the Blood Flesh Buddha had been charred into a pile of scattered coke.
"What a shame... I didn’t expect that bald bastard to have a monster like this... Damn it, all my recent work has been for nothing." Fang Zhiyi grumbled. But just as he was about to leave, he noticed a broken floor tile beneath which seemed to be hollow.
"I knew it! No gambler loses every day, and no kid cries every night!" Fang Zhiyi dashed over excitedly. But when he looked down into the hole, his face darkened...
"Did you hear that thunder last night? So scary! I thought a big storm was coming."
"What storm? My nephew’s friend’s uncle’s neighbor works for the government. The authorities sent people over early this morning. Do you know who went with them?"
"Who?"
"The Imperial Observatory."
"Shh..."
"Do you know about Wanli Temple?"
"Come to think of it, that direction does have a Wanli Temple. I heard it’s quite efficacious."
"Bah! That temple eats people!"
"Don’t talk nonsense."
The man waved his hand. "Nonsense? My nephew’s friend’s uncle’s neighbor said so! He cleaned up the scene. The Imperial Observatory people were checking the basement. Guess what? It was full of human bones!" He spoke with vivid detail, as if he had been there himself.
"So the guy who’s your nephew’s friend’s uncle’s neighbor is just a laborer in the end?"
"You—!"
The waiter looked toward the door. "Miss, you’re here looking for that little Taoist again? He didn’t come today either."
Xu Xiaoya nodded. She glanced at the men chatting earlier. Could what they were talking about be related to Gousheng? Thinking this, she turned and left.
Today, she had to look for any work she could find. She couldn’t just starve on the money Gousheng had left behind.
Back in the courtyard, someone bumped into her. Xu Xiaoya was startled. Seeing Xu Xiaocao’s panicked face, she asked in confusion, "Xiaocao, where are you going?"
Xu Xiaocao’s eyes darted. "Uh, I... I’m going to buy some rice."
"Oh, okay. Do you have enough money? If not, I can lend you some."
"Enough, enough!" Xu Xiaocao nodded repeatedly, then hurried out.
Xu Xiaoya looked after her with some confusion, remembering the interrupted topic from the other day.
Just as she turned, she saw a child brought back from the beggar’s nest hiding nearby, secretly watching her.
"Xiao Gouzi, what are you looking at?"
This child had lost his tongue and could only make vague sounds.
Xiao Gouzi bit his lip and began gesturing wildly with his hands.
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lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
Cheng's father told him he was getting remarried—to a wealthy woman. Cao Cheng realized his time had finally come: he was about to become a second-generation rich kid. Sure, it might be a watered-down version, but hey, at least he'd have status now, right? The wealthy woman also had four daughters!! Which meant, starting today, Cao Cheng gained four stunning older sisters?? But that wasn't even the whole story... "My name is Cao Cheng—'Cheng' as in 'honest, smooth-talking gentleman'!"
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
