Yellow Skinned Taoist Master

Chapter 155: Is This 'Huang' the 'Huang' of Huang Er?

Dingxiang Restaurant.

This was the name of that restaurant.

And within this restaurant, there were dozens of commoners, including that shopkeeper and the waiter, tightly surrounding the Fox Mountain God in front of them, looking with faces full of terror at the bizarre-looking figures sweeping past outside the window.

Just now, who knows who discovered it first, gray fog suddenly surfaced on the streets outside.

The gray fog seemed as if it were alive.

Once it appeared, it unceasingly spread within Xuzhou City.

It was like a chessboard with horizontal and vertical lines crossing over each other.

At first, there was only gray fog surfacing outside every street.

Following closely, centering around the streets, those gray fogs permeated towards the houses on both the left and right sides.

From time to time, fleeing lights swept past.Someone recognized that those fleeing lights were the cultivators in the city.

These high and mighty cultivators were currently being pursued and killed by the bizarre figures within the gray fog.

One by one, they looked extremely wretched.

Just like refugees fleeing from a disaster.

Someone murmured, "Even the lord cultivators are fleeing for their lives. It seems this Xuzhou City is truly finished."

"That evil god that just passed by in the fog, I went to offer it tribute every month, to think that..."

Although those deities had already transformed into evil spirits.

However, the commoners of Xuzhou City had been worshipping them for who knows how many generations since their ancestors; naturally, they could recognize them at a single glance.

"Lord Mountain God, you are a deity, are you really just going to watch helplessly like this?"

Someone kneeled on the ground, saying anxiously, "I still have a young child and lawful wife at home. Now I am苟且偷生 (stealing a temporarily prolonged life) in this Dingxiang Restaurant, yet I don't know whether they are alive or dead. Lord Mountain God, I beg you to show some mercy."

Hearing these words.

Sitting cross-legged on the ground with its eyes tightly shut, the Fox Mountain God opened its eyes. Within its jade-green beast pupils was full of helplessness.

"Wang Tiezhu, if this god had a way, how could I possibly be waiting for death here?"

"With your mortal bodies and fleshly eyes, you cannot understand this shocking mutation within the city."

Saying so, the Fox Mountain God pointed at the bizarre figures sweeping past outside the window and said, "In today's Xuzhou City, I'm afraid this god is the only deity that hasn't transformed into an evil spirit yet."

"These evil gods feed on human qi."

"Once the cultivators are slaughtered clean, next it will be the turn of ordinary commoners."

"There is no path to life inside this Xuzhou City."

The Fox Mountain God said bitterly, "Presumably, it won't be long before your family members reunite with you inside the bellies of the evil gods."

The moment these words came out.

Those mortals one after another revealed expressions of not knowing whether to cry or laugh.

It was clearly something that made people despair upon hearing it.

Yet coming from this Fox Mountain God's mouth, there was an inexplicable sense of humor to it.

It was just that no one could laugh.

Because they truly had family members.

The person who spoke earlier asking for rescue couldn't help but say, "Lord Mountain God, you have your difficulties, and this lowly one doesn't dare to make things difficult for you. I just wonder if you could open the main door and let this lowly one go out."

This Dingxiang Restaurant had Lord Mountain God presiding over it.

At the very least, it was still safe for now. Even though there were evil gods sweeping past from time to time, there was ultimately still a chance to temporarily prolong their lives.

His own home wasn't far from Dingxiang Restaurant. Perhaps he could take the opportunity to flee home and bring his family members over.

However, the Fox Mountain God sighed.

"This god knows your thoughts."

The Fox Mountain God looked at the faces full of expectation surrounding it and, unable to bear it in its heart, said, "It's just that this god cannot agree to your request. The reason why this Dingxiang Restaurant is still considered safe right now is entirely because this god is concealing your human qi for you all."

"If this door is opened, that human qi will leak out."

"By then, we won't even have the chance to dynamically prolong our lives anymore."

Saying so, the Fox Mountain God silently replenished the divine power attached to the doors and windows once again.

Its divine power wasn't much.

Because ever since being sucked by the Great Guanzhu until it experienced the heights of ecstasy, the Fox Mountain God had never absorbed human qi again.

Now it was entirely relying on those things—which who knows if they were spiritual qi or immortal qi—that Chen Huangpi had produced while boiling the Guanzhu back then to hold on.

Using a bit meant losing a bit.

Moreover, if it hadn't quit human qi.

Looking just like a somewhat strange-looking dog, I'm afraid the Fox Mountain God would have long been discovered by the evil gods inside Xuzhou City at this moment.

Therefore, what the Fox Mountain God said wasn't wrong either.

Now it indeed was the final deity within Xuzhou City.

Suddenly...

Dong dong dong...

A burst of knocking sounds rang out.

Everyone looked toward the doorway.

There were windows on this door, and the windows were pasted with paper. Therefore, one could vaguely see an extremely tall figure standing outside.

That figure hunched its body and knocked on the door again.

Dong dong dong...

"Open the door, open the door!"

"The God of Opening Intelligence, Awakening Spirits, and conferring Great Wisdom has arrived. You mortals, why haven't you quickly opened your doors to welcome this god?"

That figure held a set of scrolls in its hand and dressed in the attire of a Confucian scholar.

It was precisely the evil god that had previously knocked open the main gates of the Cao residence.

Now that it had set its sights on this Dingxiang Restaurant, it also meant that the nearby cultivators had all been slaughtered clean, and next it was the mortals' turn.

The room was pitch-black.

Everyone couldn't help but tremble; they couldn't help but retreat.

Fortunately, the Fox Mountain God's voice timely sounded in everyone's hearts.

"Do not make a sound; it cannot see us."

The Fox Mountain God had experienced great winds and huge waves after all. At this moment, it could still maintain its calm, pacifying everyone's emotions.

There weren't many mortals in Dingxiang Restaurant.

Added up, there were only twenty to thirty people.

With it concealing their human qi for them, before its power was exhausted, in the eyes of the evil gods, there simply wasn't a single mortal existing within this Dingxiang Restaurant.

If they panicked and messed up their own formation, then it would truly be completely over.

However.

The Fox Mountain God actually understood very clearly in its heart.

Although this evil god couldn't see everyone inside Dingxiang Restaurant, since it came over to knock on the door, it must definitely have doubts in its heart.

Dingxiang Restaurant was merely built by mortals. It would be effortless for the evil god to enter. As long as it entered, it would definitely be able to see the group of mortals.

If it couldn't knock the door open.

That evil god would naturally also realize that there was something wrong with this Dingxiang Restaurant.

It was a flaw either way.

"There is only one evil god outside."

The Fox Mountain God pondered inwardly: "Once it truly reaches a life-or-death moment, this god will risk it all and fight it to the death."

But just as this thought popped up.

The knocking on the door outside abruptly halted.

That evil god also vanished without a trace in an instant.

The Fox Mountain God's heart stirred. Although it didn't dare to project its mind outwards for fear of alerting those evil gods, it still pressed close against the doors and windows. Its two jade-green beast eyes vigilantly observed everything happening outside.

Currently, the outside of Dingxiang Restaurant was already covered everywhere in gray fog.

Within the gray fog, there were who knows how many figures of evil gods existing.

But right now, those evil gods and gray fogs were all charging towards a certain direction within the city.

It was as if there was something over there attracting them.

"It's probably another unlucky cultivator who ran over there."

The Fox Mountain God gloated over their misfortune, "Cultivators eat humans, evil gods eat cultivators. Eating them is good, eating them is wonderful, they should eat all these cultivators completely clean."

As its voice fell.

The Fox Mountain God said somewhat disappointed, "If only that broken oil lamp were here. It is even better at being sarcastic than this god. Without it adding to the conversation, this god always feels like something is missing."

Right at this moment.

Suddenly, from the direction where those evil gods and gray fogs left, a strange burst of battle cries sounded.

"Kill all these evil gods completely clean!"

"Carve out a bloody path for His Majesty!"

"Kill! No need to talk morality with these outlander evil gods! Brothers, let's attack together side by side!"

Listening to these strange battle cries, the Fox Mountain God's expression was incomparably blank.

"What the hell is that?"

"Has the Da Kang Emperor arrived in Xuzhou City?"

"But this god didn't sense the auras of deities or cultivators..."

The auras of deities were vast and mighty, while the auras of cultivators varied from person to person. But regardless of whether it was the former or the latter, their fundamental might was brought about by human qi. Human qi in the darkness was like a torch.

The stronger it was, the more eye-catching it was.

Yet the Fox Mountain God didn't see the slightest bit of human qi.

It only saw figures with ferocious and terrifying faces—looking totally unrelated to humans no matter how it deciphered them—charging over while killing.

Some evil spirits were just a human skin.

Some evil spirits weren't even human shapes, resembling things pieced together by various strange heads.

"Damn it, has this god gone mad?"

The Fox Mountain God rubbed its eyes and said with incomparable shock, "Although this god—like Chen Huangpi and that broken lamp—is venturing out of the mountains into the outside world for the first time, since when do the evil spirits of the outside world play these kinds of tricks?"

Although all evil spirits were of the same kind.

They would also communicate with each other in the mountain markets.

But they had always been solitary and operated independently. Very rarely were there instances where they gathered together to act.

Otherwise, even if mortals were protected by deities, if a group of evil spirits charged over unreasonably without talking sense, no matter how many deities there were, they could only stretch out their necks to await slaughter.

The key was, these evil gods inside Xuzhou City were also evil spirits...

"They said these evil gods are outlanders."

The Fox Mountain God couldn't help but say, "Could it be that evil spirits nowadays also have regional discrimination, where locals look down on outsiders? But these Xuzhou City evil gods should be the locals, right?"

Very quickly, those evil gods were slaughtered completely clean.

A shadow evil spirit hoisting a banner appeared within the Fox Mountain God's line of sight.

On that banner, a large 'Huang' character was embroidered.

"Ah?"

The Fox Mountain God's mouth opened to an exaggerated arc, and an extremely absurd thought violently surfaced in its mind.

This 'Huang (Yellow)'... couldn't be the 'Huang' of Huang Er (Yellow Two), could it?

Evidently, it was not.

Because very quickly, a figure surrounded completely by black smoke and with a hundred Calamity Eyes open all over its body, carrying a brass oil lamp, flew over.

"Chen Huangpi!"

The Fox Mountain God said agitatedly, "I thought you had forgotten about me."

"I wouldn't!"

Chen Huangpi said loudly, "Follow Our (Zhen). Xuzhou City can no longer be stayed in. We'll leave first and talk later."

"Alright!"

How could the Fox Mountain God be willing to stay in this ghost place for another second?

Although it didn't know where Chen Huangpi got a bunch of evil spirits from and even became the little Emperor among the evil spirits, right now wasn't the time to fuss over these details.

With a stir of its mind, the doors and windows of Dingxiang Restaurant all opened.

The Fox Mountain God instantly appeared in front of Chen Huangpi.

"A Gui! You're awake too?"

"The Contract Master killed many cultivators, so naturally I woke up."

The relationship between the Life-reaping Ghost and the Fox Mountain God was still considered relatively decent, so it asked curiously, "Brother Fox, your strength is so feeble, why didn't you stay in the Hundred Thousand Mountains? Why did you insist on running to the outside world to suffer?"

The Fox Mountain God smiled bitterly and said, "No other reason except having a cheap life."

At this time, those evil spirits suddenly looked toward Dingxiang Restaurant.

The Fox Mountain God had opened the doors.

The human qi within that building naturally leaked out.

Evil spirits and humans were incompatible like fire and water.

Upon seeing humans, they inherently wanted to eat them.

A sharp-eyed evil spirit had already discreetly slipped into Dingxiang Restaurant, opening its bloody maw and ruthlessly biting down towards the completely oblivious shopkeeper in one bite.

However, right after this bite landed.

That evil spirit actually felt as if its teeth were about to shatter completely.

It felt as if it had bitten down onto a rock.

This caused the evil spirit's eyes to instantly become incomparably furious.

When it came back to its senses, it saw Chen Huangpi's figure appearing in front of it. One of his hands was stuffed inside its mouth, while his other hand formed a fist and viciously smashed onto its head.

With a boom.

That evil spirit's furious eyes instantly cleared up.

Chen Huangpi said earnestly, "You are not allowed to eat humans!"