Yellow Skinned Taoist Master

Chapter 160: Shatter For Me!!!!

"Nine Nether, Slays Evil!"

That was the voice of the Nine Nether God Lantern.

Although it had transformed into an evil spirit, it indeed carried the intent of slaying evil.

It was just that its voice was even more evil than an evil spirit's.

And it was brimming with intense malice.

Within the black evil fire, there were even countless pale, terrifying palms emerging. As if originating from hell, they fiercely grabbed towards the figure within that flame.

And then, Song Yuzhang's will was truly dragged out by those palms.

The black evil fire was combusting its will.

"Chen Huangpi, you played me!!!"

"Make it shut up!"Chen Huangpi was unwilling to bicker pointlessly with Song Yuzhang's will.

The Nine Nether God Lantern sensed his will and issued a frenzied roar: "Nine Nether, Kill Kill Kill!!!"

Under this frenzied roar.

That will of Song Yuzhang was instantly torn to shreds by countless palms.

Seeing this scene, all the surrounding evil spirits revealed expressions of terror.

This Nine Nether God Lantern gave them a very bad feeling.

That black evil fire was absolutely terrifying.

It felt as if it could ignite their very true forms.

Most importantly, the evil spirit this Nine Nether God Lantern had transformed into was not a Disaster, not a Calamity, and not a Misfortune.

It was pure evilness, an evil aura reaching the extreme limits.

"Bring him along!"

With a grand wave of Chen Huangpi's hand, that Wang Mingdao—who had fallen into a coma—flew out from the black evil fire toward the shadow evil spirit. The latter hurriedly absorbed him into its body.

"Chen Huangpi, many thanks."

The shadow evil spirit's tone was grave, casting a profound look at Chen Huangpi.

Previously, it only treated this Chen Huangpi as an extremely powerful evil spirit, in a moment of hot-headedness joining the other evil spirits in repeatedly calling him 'Your Majesty'.

Yet it knew very well that this Chen Huangpi was nothing more than possessing a child's mindset.

But looking at it now, even if he was a child, he was the exceptionally rotten and thoroughly wicked kind.

If one truly treated him as a child.

I'm afraid one wouldn't even know how they died.

"Chen Huangpi, you deserve death!!!"

Up in the sky, that face of Song Yuzhang surfaced once again, roaring with ferocious rage: "You ruined my karmic opportunity, so you shall repay it with your flesh and blood! No, and your divine soul too! I will imprint your divine soul eternally, generation after generation, onto this painting!"

"I will torture you day and night, making you taste every extreme punishment in the world."

While speaking, Song Yuzhang's two hands grasped both sides of this painting scroll, and then, completely identical to how a mortal rolls up a scroll painting, he rolled it up.

Although Xuzhou City wasn't considered the largest city in Da Kang.

At the very least, it still had millions of commoners living in it.

Such a massive city transforming into a painting scroll, and now being rolled up by Song Yuzhang—that truly was turning heaven and earth upside down.

Chen Huangpi looked up and saw extravagant mansions and broad roads being rolled up directly above his head.

The location he was at was the center of Xuzhou City.

Now the entirety of Xuzhou City had entered the painting.

Following Song Yuzhang's rolling, this incomparably bizarre scene was formed.

Everything on this painting scroll was scenery within the painting.

The roofs of houses collided with the earth.

The canopies of trees folded over onto tree roots.

And thus, a painting scroll was rolled up entirely just like this.

Song Yuzhang's gigantic arms were covered in gashes. Countless gray faces crawled out from within those mouths, subsequently climbing onto this rolled-up painting scroll, spewing out streaks of gray fog.

The gray fog acted like a net.

This net was contracting, and in the blink of an eye, it formed streaks of chains, dead-locking this painting scroll tightly.

Yet right at this moment.

That painting scroll suddenly began to tremble.

Furthermore, it radiated an extremely bizarre, extremely scorching bright light.

That light was black-colored light.

Once it appeared, it grew unceasingly fiercer.

Paper cannot wrap fire.

This painting scroll was transformed from Xuzhou City, and Song Yuzhang and Xuzhou City were integrated as one.

Therefore, Song Yuzhang instantly felt a painful sensation across his entire body, as if he were being burned by fire.

Song Yuzhang opened his bloody maw, roaring furiously at that painting scroll: "Heaven and Earth are born together with Us, and the Myriad Things are one with Us. We are the Heavenly Principle; the teeming masses, all are to be used by Us!"

Were there still teeming masses within Xuzhou City?

Naturally there were. Not only were there, but there were also millions of them.

When Song Yuzhang metamorphosed into an evil spirit, the first to bear the brunt were the deities, then the cultivators, and tightly following that were those commoners.

Those commoners were the source of human qi.

They were weak like grass, and those who fed on grass were the deities and cultivators.

Evil spirits eating humans held no benefits whatsoever; it was simply an instinctual desire to eat, a love for eating.

Humans and evil spirits were fundamentally incompatible like water and fire to begin with.

The reason why Song Yuzhang didn't directly kill those millions of commoners was, firstly, because he wanted to keep them for last to eat; secondly, because human qi could catalyze the birth of deities, and deities could once again transform into evil spirits.

Through this method, Song Yuzhang's power would grow stronger and stronger.

Cycling back and forth like this, harvesting a few crops would completely squeeze dry all their value.

These commoners, weak as grass, had been harvested by Song Yuzhang when he was still the City God. Now that he had become an evil spirit, he wanted to harvest them another round.

And Song Yuzhang's method of harvesting these commoners was even more violent and crude.

Three small bronze seals flew out from his body.

Then, in the blink of an eye, they grew incomparably scorching hot, erupting with extremely intense, brilliant halos.

Beneath Xuzhou City's jurisdiction were four counties.

Therefore, there were five seals capable of manipulating human qi.

Among them, the gold seal of Xu Province's Governor Song Tiangang, as well as the bronze seal of Qing'an County carried by that Song Jiu, had both been lost inside the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

The remaining three county seals were the sole items capable of controlling the human qi of the commoners within Xuzhou City.

Aside from this, even Song Yuzhang could not.

Because he was no longer the City God, but an evil spirit.

"Sacrifice to Us!!"

Borrowing these three county seals, Song Yuzhang mobilized the human qi on the bodies of Xuzhou City's commoners.

These seals were created by the Da Kang Dynasty. One could say they were the physical manifestation of the purest, most profound and esoteric methodology researched by cultivators regarding the Dao of Human Qi following the mutation of heaven and earth.

Of course, for cultivators, the more human qi, definitely the better.

But for the Da Kang Dynasty, sustainably draining the pond to catch the fish was the optimal approach. Therefore, it was impossible for any seal to extract all the human qi from any commoner; within a single day, they could extract a maximum of only seventy percent.

However, even when Song Tiangang initially wanted to raise taxes and scrape together enough human qi, he had never done such a thing. He was still thinking of finding some evil spirit to cause havoc, and then slowly collecting one or two tenths of the human qi and calling it a day.

Because for the commoners, having seventy percent of their human qi extracted was no different from dying.

Following the exertion of power from the three county seals.

Some octogenarian elders instantly had ashen faces upon the spot, about to draw their last breath.

Some robust men in their prime immediately grew horizontal wrinkles, their straight spines instantly bending, as if they had aged over a dozen years.

There were young toddlers, there were pregnant women...

From top to bottom, all were completely subjected to this.

Streaks of human qi converged together, crisscrossing and weaving within the bent and folded world of this painting scroll, forming a gigantic net.

That net was dense without any leaks.

Wanting to shroud over that black firelight.

No, it truly did shroud the firelight.

Because that net formed from human qi carried the will of the people! The will of millions of living creatures hijacked by Song Yuzhang, or rather hijacked by those mere three seals, was sufficient to block the Nine Nether God Lantern's firelight.

Because the will of the people was like a mountain; the will of the people was like an ocean.

The will of the people was even more like wild weeds. Its vitality was extremely vigorous; it could sprout in even the most barren places.

A net forged from the will of the people and human qi was naturally the Net of the Human Dao.

Chen Huangpi's Calamity Eyes could see through all falsehoods.

Naturally, he also saw this scene.

Not only him, but all the evil spirits possessing Calamity Eyes also saw it.

Inside the shadow evil spirit's body, Wang Mingdao slowly opened his eyes, speaking with incomparable weakness: "Uncle Yang, Song Yuzhang has gone mad. He wants to extract the human qi from the commoners and use millions of lives to block Chen Huangpi."

Hearing these words.

Thoughts tumbled rapidly inside the shadow evil spirit's mind. Without the slightest hesitation it spoke to Chen Huangpi who was controlling the Nine Nether God Lantern: "Your Majesty, do you possess the Qing'an County seal in your hands?"

Although its memories regarding the God-Burying Mound had been wiped clean.

Combining guessing and deduction, it also knew that Chen Huangpi was definitely inside the God-Burying Mound at that time too.

Therefore, perhaps that Qing'an County seal might just be in Chen Huangpi's hands.

However, Chen Huangpi shook his head and said, "I do not have the Qing'an County seal in my hands."

Song Jiu was killed by him, so by reasoning, that county seal should rightfully be in Chen Huangpi's hands.

But at that time he only thought about hurrying to the Underworld Yellow Spring; how could he care about a dead man's belongings.

"But I have this."

Saying so, Chen Huangpi slapped the Soul-Hooking Manual, and a small golden seal flew out.

"This is Song Tiangang's gold seal?"

The shadow evil spirit said with incomparable joy and surprise: "Your Majesty, with this gold seal, you can mobilize the human qi on the bodies of the commoners within this Xuzhou City."

That Song Yuzhang possessed three county seals in his hands.

But how could county seals possibly compare to a gold seal.

Merely needing Chen Huangpi to manipulate the gold seal, he could turn Song Yuzhang's tactics into nothingness.

Saying so, the shadow evil spirit was about to teach Chen Huangpi the usage method of this gold seal.

However, Chen Huangpi shook his head and said, "There is no need for such trouble. I take one look and I know how to use it."

Song Yuzhang used the county seals right in front of him.

Watching it with his own eyes, Chen Huangpi naturally understood the usage method of this gold seal.

Thus.

Without a second thought, he blew a breath onto that gold seal.

This breath was his essential qi.

The gold seal instantly radiated great brightness, erupting with scorching golden light.

The human qi stored inside this gold seal had long been completely squandered empty by Song Tiangang.

Now that the gold seal was once again controlled by Chen Huangpi, it instinctively wanted to absorb the human qi from the commoners within Xuzhou City.

But Chen Huangpi was unwilling to do this.

Extending a finger to point at the giant net of human qi up in the sky, he said, "Collect it for me!!!"

In a mere instant, carrying Chen Huangpi's will, the gold seal instantly seized the authority to mobilize Xuzhou City's human qi from the hands of those three county seals.

The giant net of human qi immediately collapsed.

It didn't stop there.

With a stir of his mind, Chen Huangpi simultaneously issued another command: "Human qi, oh human qi. I know this situation and scenery go against your desires. From wherever you came, return back there!!!"

"Go! Go! Go!"

Following a single command from Chen Huangpi, that human qi truly returned back to exactly where it came from.

The octogenarian elder—who had seventy percent of his human qi extracted, exhaling more than inhaling, his heart stopping its beats—suddenly let out a long breath, recovering his vitality once again.

The men with horizontal wrinkles growing and hunched bodies stood their waists up straight once again.

And those young toddlers, those pregnant women...

The lost human qi, or perhaps broken lifespans, of all the commoners were re-attached once more by Chen Huangpi just like this.

"And as for you!"

Chen Huangpi looked at the three county seals suspended in front of Song Yuzhang outside that painting scroll.

"Aiding an evildoer to commit atrocities is acting as evil."

"Since you have already become wicked objects, what use is there to keep you!"

Gripping the gold seal, Chen Huangpi commanded toward those three county seals: "Shatter for me!!!!"

The gold seal was glowing, erupting with exceedingly scorching light in Chen Huangpi's hand. Within that light, talismans emerged one by one. This was the inherent power possessed by the Xu Province Governor's gold seal; it could pardon and bestow titles to deities, it could mobilize human qi, and naturally, it could exert jurisdiction over the rest of the county seals.

Bang bang bang...

Those three county seals exploded right on the spot, shattering into fine powder.

Song Yuzhang's expression was furious to the absolute limits.

Without these three county seals, he could no longer mobilize the human qi of the teeming masses within Xuzhou City, nor was it possible to leverage human qi to artificially spawn new deities and subsequently pollute them, turning them into his own power.

Therefore, how could he not be enraged.

Yet what made him even more shocked and furious was...

Without the restraint of that Net of the Human Dao, that black radiance within the painting scroll could no longer be suppressed.

The trait of gray fog being capable of confounding space was indeed terrifying.

Even Chen Huangpi was powerless against it.

But the Nine Nether God Lantern was different. Even if it were divided into several thousand pieces, even if it were weakened to the absolute limits.

It remained the Nine Nether God Lantern.

A round, black sun forcefully breached its way out from within that painting scroll.

Before the brilliance of that black sun, the so-called gray fog, the so-called trait of confounding space, truly became just mere mist. Mist cannot block out light, just as paper cannot wrap fire.

Chen Huangpi stood within that black sun, pointing at that Song Yuzhang and cursing: "Old Dog Song! Didn't you say I couldn't get out? I am out now, so why aren't you continuing to bark, you old dog?"