Longevity Chronicles

Chapter 909 - 583: Mysterious Corpse Clan, Pretending to Be a Divine Envoy

Search God Realm, Liang Country, Wilderness Mountain Village.

Late at night, thanks to contributions from beautiful village women like Bone Lady, Jusheng Village had a bountiful harvest tonight.

Robust men lit torches and carried Tao Qian along with seven other exam students, surrounded by villagers young and old, toward the sacrificial altar at the village center.

The altar was built with piled stones, adorned with wooden stakes and colorful rags, a thick patina covering everything. This was not formed by grease, but rather by the years-long permeation of blood and flesh.

The strange thing was, the smell was not foul, but there was a special exotic fragrance.

All the villagers, despite their human clan appearance, were internally no longer human, mutated fallen demons. They now showed signs of madness, encircling the seven sacrifices, eyes filled with greedy longing, while muttering words.

If one were to listen closely, they would hear chaotic and bizarre "wishes."

The ritual sacrifice quickly began.

A bonfire was lit, incense sticks burned, the altar set, and immediately the village elder, clearly the village chief, walked out. Who knows how long this elder had lived; he was covered with age spots, his face wrinkled, and his eyes were more cloudy than ever, flashing green light.

He stepped forward, stared at Tao Qian and the others, laughed with satisfaction, and nodded.

Then, with the help of several mature women, he donned colorful clothes and applied corpse makeup, holding a bell which seemed to be an exotic treasure to Tao Qian, but for some reason lost its spirituality. He ascended the altar and began a peculiar dance.

While dancing, with an extremely bizarre and nauseating chant, he proclaimed:

"Corpse God above, Jusheng Village Chief Huang Yangsheng and all villagers here offer meat ganoderma to Lord Corpse God, seeking Corpse God's generosity, mercy, and to once again show saintly miracles to Jusheng Village."

"Ma mi ma mi..."

The sacrificial scriptures were quite odd, sounding like the ramblings of madmen.

But as it reached Tao Qian's ears, it directly triggered the Record, and the first piece of secret information made him marvel at the wonder of karma.

[Listening to the "Meat Ganoderma Life Extension Talisman"... This is the legacy of the Acquired God Demon "Mysterious Corpse" to this realm, spread throughout the countries inside the realm... Learned.]

[This scripture originally contained cultivation methods, intentionally removed by Mysterious Corpse, leaving only a set of sacrificial rites.]

[Those who learn the rites can offer captured meat ganoderma sacrifices to Mysterious Corpse for many benefits.]

[The inevitable cost is to be tainted by the Mysterious Corpse's mutated source qi, becoming part of its clan, and this process is irreversible.]

[Since the Search God Realm is gradually fragmenting, Mysterious Corpse no longer responds to any calls and sacrifices from this realm, to avoid provoking the Heavenly Dao's retaliatory will... Unaware of this, the clans continue the rites, futilely.]

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"It seems I, Tao Qian, indeed have a connection with that old zombie bangzi. My body once resurrected in Seeking Immortal County, gaining part of the "Seven Secret Chapters of Mysterious Corpse," allowing me to revive and step onto the Dao path."

"Now, I, Tao Buddha's son, am born into Search God Realm, and encounter this nuisance "Meat Ganoderma Life Extension Talisman." If not mistaken, it might just be one page from the Seven Secret Chapters."

Tao Qian's thoughts flashed, his expression growing solemn.

This was understandable. He was now just flesh and blood, not only losing his extraordinary power, but his body could not bear cuts from swords nor disturbances from water and fire.

Facing the imminent crisis before him, he couldn't think of any solution.

Even worse, as soon as that old beast Huang Yangsheng finished chanting, he hurriedly commenced the sacrifice of meat ganoderma.

"The ritual sacrifice begins!"

"Slay the meat ganoderma!"

Huang Yangsheng shouted.

The villagers erupted in collective cheers, mirroring the festive rites of slaughtering livestock during ancestral sacrifices. Several deformed robust villagers first carried the first sacrifice onto the altar, where a towering great man with only a loincloth to cover him dragged over the cleaned "exam student."

His mouth stuffed, he could only whimper and twist, unable to even scream.

Seeing such a pale body, the great man with tumors covering his face grinned broadly, foul saliva spraying forth.

The scene then turned into one akin to chicken slaughter, soon the altar and offering table neatly displaying the sacrifices.

In the past, after the sacrifices were offered, the altar would exhibit divine miracles. There would be a "Corpse God" projection descending from the Outer Realm, granting all villagers of Jusheng Village many benefits.

But now, there was no sign of such occurrences.

However, even this did not greatly disappoint the villagers; instead, they were ecstatic, crowding forward with pots and pans.

The one responsible for luring, a woman called "Chunxiang," naturally had the highest merit, being pushed to the front.

With their twisted postures and crazed expressions, it was hard to believe they were once simple villagers.

Human? No, more like beasts.

Witnessing this scene, Tao Qian's brow furrowed tighter and tighter.

As he searched his memory, he found he didn't know the slain student's name or origin.

In his daze, he vaguely guessed some operational rules of the Hidden Demons Nest:

"If not mistaken, the nest sending me into the realm was actually a transaction with the Search God Heavenly Dao's will."

"The other Secret Demon Child, if meeting conditions, probably have much better treatment, definitely not starting like this."

"But me, entering the realm for free, like an illegal worker."

"In the destined trajectory, these students were doomed to die at Jusheng Village. I was temporarily added as a mortal body, so they didn't bother explaining names, relationships, or any information, hastily giving me a temporary origin. If I were to return to that Liang Country Wuling County now, probably no one would recognize me."

"The Search God Heavenly Dao will assumes: I cannot break this situation, and am destined to die here."

"A freeloader has no human rights?"

When Tao Qian was indignant and complaining, the ritual continued.

Soon, the Meat Ganoderma ahead followed the same path.

Jusheng Village felt more like a festival, the atmosphere reaching its peak.

Bone Lady!

This charming lady of the desolate village, still disheveled, half-revealing her bosom, leaned towards Tao Qian's chest with a coquettish smile, slowly moved up, then leaned to his ear and asked seductively:

"Father of my child!"

"It's almost your turn on the altar, do you have any last words to leave? Bone Lady will remember you forever."

Hearing this, Tao Qian's face turned dark.

In his heart, he couldn't help but think: "Is it truly this miserable to refine demons? Everyone else can become a father so freely, why is it that when it comes to me, Tao Buddha's son, it's so twisted and perverse?"

Just as Tao Qian was complaining internally and frantically thinking of a way to break the situation.

Good news suddenly arrived.

The Little Divination Worm he had released earlier finally responded, establishing a connection with his heart soul.

Tao Qian looked up and indeed saw that above Jusheng Village, a giant worm was lying, endless thin white silk filled every corner of Jusheng Village and began to spread outward into the wider world.

This sight was also the first time Tao Qian had seen.

"Is this how the Little Divination Worm grows?"

"It will start from [Jusheng Village], devouring and spying on all hidden secrets until its insect silk fills every inch of the Search God Realm."

"By then, as the master of the Divination Worm, I too can possess the extraordinary power to know everything ancient and present, just like my Master did back in the day."

Tao Qian quickly woke up from this reverie.

Returning to the harsh reality, he now had no power to bind even a chicken, further tied to the offering table, about to be sacrificed as the last Meat Ganoderma, his flesh divided among the villagers, his heart eaten by Bone Lady, and then give birth to a deformed child with his bloodline...

Normally, Tao Qian indeed had no way to survive.

However, after his heart soul connected with the Divination Worm, it showed him a glimpse of possibility.

Coincidentally, he heard Bone Lady's question again and hurriedly started "muffled whining."

Perhaps because Tao Qian was very good last night, this perverse yet oblivious charming lady treated him differently. Seeing he wanted to speak, she indeed reached out and removed the gag.

But the next moment, what entered her ear was not the tender words of love and separation.

Tao Qian suddenly shouted loudly to all the villagers of Jusheng Village:

"You... you cannot kill me!"

"I am the Corpse God's Envoy."

"I came to Jusheng Village only to test whether your faith remains devout."

"If you can pass the test, the Corpse God will show miracles again and bless you believers."

These words spoken, the villagers of Jusheng Village, who were looting and enjoying the food, all looked over.

The most eager yet most suspicious among them was none other than the perverse village chief named "Huang Yangsheng."

This old man threw the freshly warm thing in his hand back into a dirty porcelain bowl, gave a look, and Tao Qian was instantly dragged onto the altar.

The old man leaned close to Tao Qian, chuckling, powder falling from his face, revealing countless age spots below, grinning, emitting breath like a stink pit not filled for a hundred years.

Then, as if he were a gentle elder, he asked:

"Youthful lad, you say you are the Corpse God's Envoy, can you prove it?"

Tao Qian looked at the extremely ugly, old, and disgusting face, so close that he wished to spit out a stream of True Fire of Suppressing Evil and burn this filth clean.

Unfortunately, he was now truly a flesh-and-blood mortal body.

He could only keep a cold face, then recite a segment of obscure scripture, clearly originating from the same source as the "Meat Ganoderma Life Extension Talisman."

"The dung beetle rolls its ball, when the ball is formed, it contemplates it deeply, and within it appears something white and wriggling. It soon sheds its shell and becomes a cicada. That dung beetle does not think, what does the wriggling white..."

The power of Tao Qian's recitation was naturally far beyond what a perverse village could compare.

Each word seemed to have a magical power.

All village residents couldn't help but turn their ears and listen, immersed within.

Although, none could comprehend anything.

But after all, they had already been mutated and polluted into the "Cannibal Clan" of the [Mysterious Corpse], and hearing the contents of the Seven Secret Chapters of Mysterious Corpse naturally intoxicated them, including Bone Lady and village chief Huang Yangsheng.

Seeing this, Tao Qian knew his life could be preserved.

But this alone, how could it satisfy him, Tao Great Demon?

Even though he was treated like fish and meat, tied onto the offering table.

But at this moment, looking at the several hundred villagers of Jusheng Village, his gaze seemed reversed.

He was instead the butcher and fisherman, while these in front were the lambs to be slaughtered, the slight bit of resource Tao Qian needed to rise when he first entered the Search God Realm.

ps: There is more.