novelraw Chapter 153: Kill Them All
Chapter 153: Kill Them All
"How could the Great King be a human? This is definitely disguised by a damn human."
"Everyone, we are evil spirits; we don't need to reason with humans. Let's attack him together!"
The evil spirits wouldn't listen.
However, Chen Huangpi didn't care. He summoned these evil spirits not to have them deal with the evil gods, but targeted the black smoke inside some of these evil spirits.
There were many evil spirits, clustered together.
But with a single glance, Chen Huangpi still found the figures of those evil spirits who traded stones and leaves with him for black smoke.
Even if these evil spirits turned to ashes, he would never forget them.
"Black smoke! Come back to me!"
Chen Huangpi let out a long howl.
The Kidney Temple inside his body vibrated unceasingly.As if a mountain torrent had erupted, the endless black smoke within his Kidney Temple frantically boiled over.
The black smoke was locked inside the Kidney Temple.
Before the Five Viscera Temple was completely forged, it was impossible for it to come out from within again.
But that didn't matter.
Because there was still black smoke outside!
Following Chen Huangpi's single command.
The black smoke hiding inside the bodies of the numerous evil spirits all heard Chen Huangpi's summons.
They originally belonged as Chen Huangpi's power.
At this moment, how could they possibly remain dormant any longer?
With a boom!
A streak of black smoke flew out from the body of an evil spirit filled with stones, charging towards Chen Huangpi like a madman.
Following closely was the second streak.
That was an evil spirit carrying branches on its back, and there were tree leaves on the branches.
Then came the third streak, and the fourth streak.
"Collect!"
Chen Huangpi clapped his hands together.
All the black smoke simultaneously drilled into his body.
Then, the Liver Temple—which had not yet fully formed but already possessed a sense of solidity—vibrated unceasingly as if stimulated.
Amidst his flesh and blood, beneath his skin, Calamity Eyes quietly opened one by one.
Those Calamity Eyes were purplish-black.
The Calamity Eyes were unadulterated and crystalline, as pure and flawless as a newborn baby, pure to the point of holding only unconcealed malice.
Seeing this, those evil spirits who were about to attack him together...
One after another revealed incomparably shocked gazes.
"Great King! It really is you!"
"The Great King is so formidable, actually being able to disguise himself as a human!"
"Why did eyes grow on the Great King's body? He looks so majestic, so impressive!"
The foolish evil spirits were still in shock.
But the clever evil spirits had already prepared their stones and branches.
Great King Yellow Skin was a good evil spirit.
Since stones and branches could be traded for black smoke, surely they could also be traded for Calamity Eyes.
However, this time they didn't need to trade.
Chen Huangpi would hand it to them himself.
Not only would he give it, but he would also give it along with the black smoke.
Chen Huangpi turned his head to look at that gray fog.
From within the gray fog, even more evil gods charged over.
"Huang Er, A Gui, move aside!"
The brass oil lamp and the Life-reaping Ghost hurriedly retreated to the side.
Then, setting his fingers in a sword gesture, Chen Huangpi slashed down a streak of pitch-black sword qi towards those evil gods.
With a boom.
Those evil gods were instantly cleaved into fragments on the spot by this sword qi.
Moreover, Chen Huangpi's sword qi was mixed with black smoke, and the black smoke instantaneously swallowed those evil gods.
The black smoke, which was originally just thin and sparse, immediately received replenishment.
"Go!"
Chen Huangpi merely moved his mind.
That billowing black smoke split into countless wisps, all submerging into the bodies of the evil spirits.
Furthermore, Calamity Eyes were mixed within the black smoke one by one.
On all the bodies of the evil spirits, a Calamity Eye simultaneously grew out.
"My Calamity Eyes can see through falsehoods."
Chen Huangpi said, "My black smoke is even more capable of devouring anything."
"Now, I lend each of you a portion of the Calamity Eye and the black smoke. I only have one demand for you."
"Kill them all!"
Whether it was the black smoke or the Calamity Eyes.
Neither was something these evil spirits possessed the capacity to wield.
Rather than saying Chen Huangpi lent them, it was more accurate to say he placed them on these evil spirits' bodies, simply adding two portions of assistance for them.
The evil gods killed by the evil spirits would be swallowed by the black smoke.
Meanwhile, the Calamity Eyes could help these evil spirits locate the whereabouts of the evil gods.
It wasn't that Chen Huangpi didn't want to control those evil gods.
It was because these evil gods were all a part of the City God, and also a part of this Xuzhou City.
Chen Huangpi couldn't do it.
He had no choice but to kill the evil gods.
Doing it this way might perhaps delay the speed of that City God metamorphosing into a Misfortune.
"Kill! Kill!"
"There can only be one voice in Xuzhou City, and that is Great King Yellow Skin's voice."
"We follow Great King Yellow Skin! Whoever Great King Yellow Skin tells us to kill, we kill!"
"Kill all these outlander evil gods completely clean!"
"Take down Xuzhou City! Following the Great King means we'll have humans to eat!"
"Yi, shadow evil spirit, why is there human qi on your body?"
"I just ate a human, no time to talk, kill!"
These evil spirits were all locally born and bred evil spirits from the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
With straight minds, lacking schemes.
Moreover, after going through the incident in the God-Burying Mound, they were already somewhat different from other evil spirits.
They genuinely regarded Chen Huangpi as their boss.
And they even gained a vague concept of territory.
The shadow evil spirit's mind was incomparably shocked at this moment. 'So he was actually an evil spirit; no wonder I felt his thought process was different from normal people.'
Wang Mingdao, who was hiding within the shadow evil spirit, spoke with a pale face, "Uncle Yang, look at these evil spirits, have these evil spirits gone mad? They actually united together, forming factions and cliques; this is clearly something only humans would do."
"Heretics, heretics!"
"If we give these heretics enough time, perhaps they truly will establish a dynasty, who knows."
Evil spirits were different from humans.
If no external force was applied, evil spirits would not die.
If a human didn't cultivate or transform into a deity, they only had decades to live.
In the past, although cultivators dreaded and attached importance to evil spirits.
What they dreaded and attached importance to was the evil spirits' power.
Who didn't know that although evil spirits had thought processes, they didn't form an organized system.
Furthermore, it wasn't that the more terrifying the evil spirit was, the more wisdom it possessed. The collective group of evil spirits was like uncivilized monkeys, yet suddenly, out of nowhere, these monkeys seemed like they were about to turn into humans.
Anyone with an ounce of humanity would be terrified.
As Wang Mingdao thought about how an evil spirit—one stronger than himself and arguably immortal—was wearing his clothes and taking a bite out of saying 'You cultivators are all heretics, punishable by execution according to your crimes,' he felt as if the sky was about to collapse.
"Evil spirits are still evil spirits."
The shadow evil spirit spoke with a profound tone, "Mingdao, your worries are superfluous. There are only hundreds of these evil spirits. And evil spirits cannot possibly mate with each other to birth new evil spirits. They won't be able to amount to anything significant."
Wang Mingdao smiled bitterly and said, "Uncle Yang, these evil spirits all have this kind of change right now. How can you be so certain they won't be able to reproduce in the future?"
"If they can even manage reproduction, then the main protagonists of this heaven and earth will be these evil spirits."
"Alright, Mingdao."
The shadow evil spirit pacified, "I know what you said makes sense, but this is Xuzhou City, and you know how terrifying this place is. If we don't lay down our lives for this Great King Yellow Skin, I'm afraid our uncle-and-nephew pair will never be able to leave again."
"Uncle Yang, let me act as your eyes and ears."
Wang Mingdao touched the Calamity Eye between his brows. This Great King Yellow Skin's Calamity Eye indeed possessed some sort of power he couldn't comprehend.
That power could see through the surrounding falsehoods.
Everything in his eyes seemed to have been slowed down countless times.
"Watch out!"
Wang Mingdao saw an evil god charge out from the gray fog. Just as the shadow evil spirit engaged in battle with that evil god, suddenly, from behind that evil god, another one popped out. One laid covering fire while the other mounted a sneak attack.
The shadow evil spirit's expression drastically changed.
But its reaction was too slow.
The power of these evil gods wasn't weak; if it was just one against it, it naturally wouldn't be afraid.
But with an extra one, it became somewhat inadequate for its abilities.
Fortunately, it wasn't fighting a lone battle.
That evil spirit whose entire body was filled with stones let out a hiss and roar, instantly appearing before the shadow evil spirit. With one hand, it choked that evil god, while its other hand viciously slapped onto the evil god's head.
With a boom.
That evil god's head was smashed to pieces on the spot.
Then it was swallowed by a streak of black smoke.
The shadow evil spirit similarly killed an evil god as well.
It looked at the ferociously vicious stone evil spirit before it, suddenly having an indescribably complex feeling.
The other party was an evil spirit, yet it saved its life once.
"Don't... be afraid."
The stone evil spirit tilted its head and said, "You and me... fellow hometown evil spirits."
Saying so, it pointed at those evil gods again and said, "Despicable, out... out..."
The stone evil spirit was inarticulate.
No matter what, it couldn't say that sentence.
The shadow evil spirit couldn't help but say, "Despicable outlander evil gods?"
"Right!"
The stone evil spirit said with ferocious cruelty, "Die, die!!! The Great King wants them to die!"
While speaking, this stone evil spirit once again charged into the fray.
The shadow evil spirit felt uneasy, so it followed right after, fighting alongside it shoulder to shoulder.
"I'm truly going crazy."
The shadow evil spirit blocked a sneak attack from an evil god on behalf of the stone evil spirit, drilled into that evil god's shadow, and dragged the latter inside the shadow.
And what responded to it...
Were the admiring gazes of the surrounding evil spirits.
The thought process of the evil spirits was simply: since Great King Yellow Skin told them to kill evil gods, the one who killed the most evil gods would definitely receive the Great King's praise.
As those admiring gazes grew more and more numerous...
The shadow evil spirit progressively felt that it was going crazy.
Within its mind, two thoughts were clashing.
One said: 'I was inherently an evil spirit to begin with, these evil spirits are my true kind.'
The other said: 'I am only wearing the skin of an evil spirit, I am still a human. How can I associate myself with evil spirits? I must report this matter to the higher-ups; we absolutely cannot allow these heretics to amount to anything.'
That first thought added a sentence: 'But that stone evil spirit saved me. If I do this, how am I any different from those cultivators, those established families, those Imperial Envoys?'
The second thought fell silent.
The shadow evil spirit then roared loudly, "Fellow hometowners, there are too many of these despicable outlander evil gods. When I was alive, I was a scholar and have read many military tractates, and I am also a cultivator. Bring thirty obedient ones here, follow me to lay down a battle formation!"
Immediately, thirty evil spirits roared and arrived by the shadow evil spirit's side.
"My shadow will construct a formation diagram. You guys will each stand at a specific position, which will mutually empower you, making you braver as you fight."
The shadow evil spirit was so agitated that its entire body was trembling.
Before becoming an evil spirit, it endured bitter struggles in the Hanlin Academy of Jingcheng, learning a body full of skills, yet looking across the entire imperial court, there was no place to utilize them.
Because there were too many disciples of established families.
No matter how haughtily exceptional it was, or how capable it was, it would never be its turn.
And after becoming an evil spirit, it was impossible to even show its face in public.
Naturally, that ball of fire in its heart extinguished.
Now, this ball of fire had ignited once again.
"After finishing this job, I will draw a clear line with these evil spirits and treat this matter as if it never happened."
The shadow evil spirit made a decision in its heart, and then transformed its own shadow into a colossal formation. It yelled with incomparable excitement, "Kill, kill all these evil gods, expand our frontier, and take down Xuzhou City!"
"Merit, fame, wealth, and rank are right before our eyes. Kill!!"
The evil spirits unceasingly slaughtered the evil gods.
Fighting their way all the way towards the restaurant where the Fox Mountain God was located.
Chen Huangpi floated above the evil spirits, speaking somewhat perplexed, "A Gui, Huang Er, why is that shadow evil spirit so agitated? Is it really in cahoots with that Imperial Envoy?"
"By common sense, it should be..."
The brass oil lamp said inconceivably, "But out of all the evil spirits, it is the one risking its life the most. It actually organized the evil spirits to set up battle formations, advancing and retreating orderly, without a single casualty appearing. Is this shadow evil spirit the same one from before?"
The Life-reaping Ghost spoke faintly, "Whether it is or not doesn't matter. What matters is that a bit too many evil gods have died, and the City God above in the sky has been provoked."
Chen Huangpi looked up.
He saw that within the painting scroll with a black background and gray face covering Xuzhou City's sky, the City God who was currently metamorphosing into a Misfortune, had his eyes trembling slightly, as if about to open his eyes.