Yellow Skinned Taoist Master

Chapter 161: My Clones! Point the Way for Me!

Heaven knows how immensely satisfying it was for Chen Huangpi to curse out that 'old dog' just now.

The offensive words he had spoken in his entire life from childhood to adulthood wouldn't even add up to ten sentences.

Therefore, it was evident enough just how displeased Song Yuzhang's actions had made Chen Huangpi.

"Chen Huangpi, you truly deserve death!"

Song Yuzhang looked coldly at Chen Huangpi, saying sternly: "You ruined Our karmic opportunity, and ruined Our county seals, as well as that gold seal. That belonged to Our nephew, Song Tiangang. You killed him, didn't you?"

"Old dog, you actually guessed correctly."

Chen Huangpi said, "I am precisely the one who killed Song Tiangang. I gave him a whack on the head with a pickaxe and beat him to death right on the spot. After he died, I even scattered his ashes to the wind and threw them into the fields as fertilizer."

"You did very well."

Song Yuzhang said faintly: "We are an evil spirit. If you hadn't killed him, We would have killed him as well and snatched away his gold seal."

"Give that gold seal to Us, and We can spare your life.""You old dog, you're barking again!"

Chen Huangpi stepped on the black sun, sneering: "I have already come out of your Xuzhou City now. I can leave whenever I want; what can you do to me? As for this gold seal..."

Speaking up to here, Chen Huangpi tossed the gold seal in his hand a few times.

Then, only then did he say ferociously: "This gold seal is useless to me. But since it is mine, I would rather throw it to feed the dogs than give it to you, because you, old dog, are too disgusting."

"Also, your Song family owes me two mountains worth of copper coins."

"It's one thing if I don't ask you for them, yet you actually dare to ask me for something?"

"Huang Er, slay this old dog for me!"

Having vented his curses satisfactorily, Chen Huangpi once again spurred the Nine Nether God Lantern to smash toward that Song Yuzhang.

Right now, the Nine Nether God Lantern truly was a black sun.

Song Yuzhang's expression was indifferent, allowing that black sun to crash into him.

With a boom.

That gigantic body of Song Yuzhang was instantly smashed to pieces.

Countless streaks of gray fog surged out, blotting out the sky and covering the earth.

But it was useless.

With a mere stir of Chen Huangpi's mind.

The Nine Nether God Lantern issued a ferocious roar: "Nine Nether! Kill!!!"

The black sun was expanding.

The radiance it emitted instantly melted away those gray fogs.

However, after the gray fog scattered and exhausted itself.

Chen Huangpi astoundingly discovered that the surroundings were not outside Xuzhou City, but instead a stretch of darkness, with an enormous city situated right within this darkness.

Or rather, within this dark night.

Song Yuzhang's figure surfaced within that city, saying mockingly: "Chen Huangpi, you can leap out of Our Xuzhou City, but can you leap out of this dark night?"

"The entirety of Xuzhou City has been concealed into the dark night by Us."

"And dawn is about to break in the outside world, yet you no longer exist within the human realm."

"If you wish to return, then you can only beg Us."

As long as Xuzhou City wasn't extinguished, Song Yuzhang wouldn't die.

Because the two had already integrated as one. Back when Song Yuzhang realized he couldn't suppress that black sun, he had already concealed the entire Xuzhou City into the dark night.

Chen Huangpi had leaped out of Xuzhou City.

But he was also consequently concealed into the dark night together with it.

Once day broke, the dark night would vanish.

If Chen Huangpi couldn't hurry back to the human realm before daybreak, then he could only wait until the next time Song Yuzhang manifested Xuzhou City in the human realm to seize the opportunity to return alongside it.

Merely, as long as Chen Huangpi was not dead, how could Song Yuzhang possibly do so.

He had plenty of time to drain Chen Huangpi to death.

"Give the gold seal to Us."

Song Yuzhang said coldly: "This is your final chance."

Chen Huangpi remained silent.

And within this black sun, the evil spirits didn't treat it as a big deal.

Without external forces, evil spirits were immortal and undying.

If Song Yuzhang could drag it out, they could drag it out too.

But the Life-reaping Ghost and the Fox Mountain God knew that Chen Huangpi couldn't possibly waste his time dragging things out with Song Yuzhang in this place.

If Song Yuzhang hadn't said it like this.

Chen Huangpi might genuinely have gritted his teeth and endured a battle of attrition with him.

But with him phrasing it in such a manner, given Chen Huangpi's personality, how could he possibly let it go exactly as Song Yuzhang wished.

Furthermore, there was also a Nine Nether God Lantern that had already turned into an evil spirit here.

With this assistance, why would Chen Huangpi have to rely on Song Yuzhang's mood?

"Huang Er, can your Escape-One Divine Light take me out?"

Chen Huangpi rubbed the pitch-black Nine Nether God Lantern.

Some of the countless Calamity Eyes on the lamp body closed. If he wanted to communicate with Huang Er—who had transformed into an evil spirit—he couldn't fully use the Calamity Eyes to control it.

Gaining autonomous will, the Nine Nether God Lantern opened its bloody maw toward Chen Huangpi without a second thought, screaming frantically: "Boss, delicious!! Eat you, eat you!!!"

"The Guanzhu is delicious too!"

"Nine Nether, Kill Kill Kill!"

Huang Er's consciousness was frenzied, even more frenzied than the previous time it transformed into an evil spirit.

At the very least, last time, it hadn't dared to spout such utterly treasonous and unfilial words like 'the Guanzhu is delicious too'.

Consequently, Chen Huangpi thought for a moment, and then took out the Daoist robe from the Soul-Hooking Manual.

This Daoist robe was entirely blackish-green, embroidered with specks of red plum blossoms.

It was Master's Daoist robe.

The Third Master had let him take this Daoist robe, seemingly intending to use it to kill the sun.

But up until now, Chen Huangpi essentially still didn't know how this Daoist robe could kill the sun. At the very least, when he came to the outside world, he had once taken the Daoist robe out under the sun, yet the Daoist robe displayed no reaction whatsoever.

Therefore, he had just left it tossed inside the Soul-Hooking Manual the entire time.

Taking out the Daoist robe now, Chen Huangpi's intention was purely to make Huang Er clear its head a bit.

Sure enough, upon seeing this Daoist robe.

The Nine Nether God Lantern's aura stagnated instantly.

Then, it spoke with incomparable terror: "Guanzhu, it's not me! I didn't want to eat your venerable self! It was Chen Huangpi who forced me! He harbored treasonous intentions long ago! He even said you should apologize to him!"

"He's completely lost his mind, insisting on being the Emperor of Evil Spirits."

"He even said that when you see him, you must call him Your Majesty."

Even if the Nine Nether God Lantern had transformed into an evil spirit, it was impossible for it to forget the Guanzhu's Daoist robe. Because that was worn by the Guanzhu who created it; not the First Guanzhu, nor the Second Guanzhu, and certainly not the Third Guanzhu, but rather the original, lucid Guanzhu.

"Huang Er, you're filing a minor report against me?"

Chen Huangpi looked at the Nine Nether God Lantern before his eyes in disbelief, angrily rebuking: "I originally even thought about waiting until we returned to the temple to plead for leniency on your behalf, asking Master to change you back! But I misjudged you."

"So you are the real treacherous official!"

"File a report! That's right, file a report!"

The Nine Nether God Lantern said malevolently: "Chen Huangpi, this Lantern has tolerated you for a long time! This Lantern is going to report you to the higher-ups, report you all the way to the Guanzhu! Even if this Lantern transforms into an evil spirit, I am going to fiercely file a minor report against you!"

"ENOUGH!!!"

Song Yuzhang's voice was even more furious than the Nine Nether God Lantern's: "Chen Huangpi, and this broken lamp! Have you two made enough of a racket!? There's only the time it takes to drink a cup of tea left before dawn breaks! If you don't hand over the gold seal now, then We will..."

"You shut up!"

Chen Huangpi cursed loudly: "Old dog! It is not your turn to speak here! Let out one more bark, and I will crush that gold seal right on the spot."

The Nine Nether God Lantern wasted even fewer words.

Having become an evil spirit now, it was thoroughly mad.

For Song Yuzhang to dare interrupt it filing its minor report, in its eyes, was already a capital offense.

"Fire Come!!!!"

The Nine Nether God Lantern opened its bloody maw and violently spewed a streak of pitch-black flame towards that Song Yuzhang.

The black sun instantly radiated streaks of brilliance.

Those black flames were mingled with the power of the Escape-One Divine Light.

In a mere instant, it crashed fiercely into that Xuzhou City.

This black evil fire didn't harm mundane objects.

It exclusively targeted Song Yuzhang to burn.

The latter's true form was immediately ignited by this black evil fire.

Although Xuzhou City would not be extinguished and Song Yuzhang would not die.

This black evil fire used its true form as firewood; once ignited, it was fundamentally impossible to extinguish.

"Ahhhhhh!!!"

Song Yuzhang couldn't stop himself from issuing agonizing wails of pain.

The Nine Nether God Lantern let out a delighted, ferocious laugh: "Deities deserve to die! Evil Gods deserve to die too! Chen Huangpi, you also deserve to die!"

"Huang Er, say that one more time?"

Chen Huangpi pointed at Master's Daoist robe and said: "Right in front of the Daoist robe, you say I deserve to die?"

"Guanzhu, I..."

The Nine Nether God Lantern said in terror: "I didn't do it on purpose, it's all Chen Huangpi forcing me! Once he reached the outside world, his eyes were blinded by this dazzling mundane world! He picked up a whole body of stinking bad habits! You must fiercely teach him a lesson."

"Right, teach Chen Huangpi a lesson."

The Nine Nether God Lantern's eyes grew more and more crazed, and its voice more and more obstinate: "Return to the Hundred Thousand Mountains! Return to file a minor report against Chen Huangpi."

"Escape-One Divine Light!!!"

The Nine Nether God Lantern frantically spurred the Escape-One Divine Light.

This gigantic black sun frantically erupted with radiance within this dark night, its speed reaching the absolute limits.

Yet no matter what, it couldn't leap out of this dark night and return to the human realm.

And this also made the Nine Nether God Lantern increasingly crazed.

Seeing this, Chen Huangpi couldn't help but murmur in his heart: "Even the Escape-One Divine Light cannot get out. Could it be that I can only stall things out with that Song Yuzhang?"

He had promised Master.

That he would return home before dark.

He wouldn't spend the night outside, yet now day was about to break and he still hadn't returned.

Master would definitely be very angry.

And right at this moment, the Life-reaping Ghost suddenly spoke: "Contract Master, if it truly doesn't work out, then take out that sword shadow."

The Life-reaping Ghost had seen with its own eyes just how terrifying that sword shadow was.

One must know, from the beginning to the end, whether it was the Calamity Eye or Chen Huangpi, they were merely spurring sword light.

And sword light was fundamentally just the sharp edge exposed by the sword shadow.

If Chen Huangpi completely erupted the power of that Void-Piercing Sword and spurred that sword shadow, although after this single use the Void-Piercing Sword would be destroyed by the sword shadow's power, carving out a path back to the human realm would be extremely effortless.

Chen Huangpi naturally knew that doing this would work.

But the Void-Piercing Sword held a different meaning to him; it was a gift Yi Qingzhou gave him.

Moreover, he had also established an agreement with him.

If there came a day when Chen Huangpi's cultivation was heaven-shaking, he must go and kill Yi Qingzhou, and return his corpse back to the Great Qian Immortal Dynasty.

Chen Huangpi remembered very clearly.

Yi Qingzhou's home was located in the Southern Dao Province of the Great Qian Immortal Dynasty, at the Myriad Sword Pavilion.

As if sensing the predicament Chen Huangpi was in at this moment.

That Void-Piercing Sword suddenly began to vibrate incessantly, the sound of sword cries ringing in the ears endlessly.

This sword was not a sword of slaughter.

Slaughter was merely for the sake of survival.

Therefore, the sword Yi Qingzhou gifted to Chen Huangpi was meant to protect him.

The divine sword possessed a spirit, so naturally it desired to protect its master.

Chen Huangpi shook his head, comforting the Void-Piercing Sword, saying, "Void-Piercing, oh Void-Piercing. I won't let you be destroyed. Not only that, wait until my Spleen Temple is forged; I will put you inside. The spleen aligns with earth, and earth generates metal. You will become even stronger together with me."

And right at this moment.

That Nine Nether God Lantern, which had fallen into madness, suddenly did something Chen Huangpi didn't expect.

"My Clones! Point the Way for Me!!"

The Nine Nether God Lantern was truly mad, even madder than the last time.

Now trapped in this dark night, it was actually calling upon the power of those clones.

Chen Huangpi said in great shock: "Huang Er, stop immediately! Master said your clones absolutely cannot be moved! Otherwise, huge problems will occur."

However, the Nine Nether God Lantern disregarded everything.

"Nine Nether, Kill Kill Kill!"

...

Hundred Thousand Mountains, Mount Yuqiong.

There was less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea before daybreak.

And on this Mount Yuqiong, inside the Pure Immortal Temple, those several thousand Nine Nether God Lantern clones hanging everywhere, their positions unchanged since ancient times, were all flickering at this moment.

The dim yellow lamplight instantly turned into black flames.

These thousands of oil lamps also gradually turned black.

They were Huang Er's clones.

Within every single lamp body resided a portion of Huang Er's power.

At this moment, these clones responded to Huang Er's call.

They erupted with terrifying radiance.

The entirety of the sky above Mount Yuqiong surfaced with black suns one after another. The radiance of those black suns interwove together, forming a screen of light. Within that screen of light, a world faintly existed.

Inside that world, there were stalwart figures akin to gods or demons.

If Chen Huangpi were here, he would immediately recognize that those stalwart figures were all very familiar to him. Because those figures were precisely the deities who had run out from the Pure Immortal Temple, the ones Master had brought from the Great Qian Immortal Dynasty to the Hundred Thousand Mountains.