Yellow Skinned Taoist Master

Chapter 195: Seeing the Insects Again

Tai Yizi's memories of that Daoist were very few.

Because he happened to be rushing towards the Hundred Thousand Mountains exactly when the Heaven and Earth Mutation occurred, resulting in him unintentionally bumping into that Daoist poisoning the Dantian Grotto-Heaven. That Daoist only took one glance at him, and there was no 'afterwards'.

If this Dantian world didn't possess spiritual energy.

Tai Yizi estimated he would have died long ago.

Chen Huangpi took a deep look at Tai Yizi.

He felt that the Daoist wearing the golden mask should be the final Immortal.

But there was also an array within the Old Temple.

Three thousand Immortals acting as formation cores, drawing in Azure Heaven's dead qi.

Logically speaking, that Daoist should still be inside the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

Thinking to this point.Chen Huangpi stopped continuously pondering over this matter.

Wait until after getting out, and then think of a method to find out exactly what was going on with that Immortal.

The most crucial point was.

Chen Huangpi didn't know exactly who that Daoist was.

Because since he could remember, there was no one else in the Pure Immortal Temple besides Master and the Brass Oil Lamp.

The Brass Oil Lamp's memories didn't contain that person's name.

If he knew his name, he could actually use the Soul-Hooking Register to check it out.

It was just that he had to return to the temple first.

Otherwise, Chen Huangpi always felt a lack of security.

Suppressing all these thoughts entirely.

Chen Huangpi raised his head to look towards the second floor of the ancestral hall.

In Tai Yizi's eyes, individual bronze oil lamps were placed on the left and right of the stairs leading to the second floor.

The gloomy lamplight illuminated the stairs.

Yet in his own eyes, upstairs was entirely pitch-black.

No matter how he looked, he couldn't see the end.

"That ghost thing is inside."

Tai Yizi's expression was extremely solemn: "Yellow Skinned kid, if we want to leave, there's still a chance now. If you insist on going in, I'm afraid unless we kill that thing, we can forget about getting out."

Chen Huangpi said: "This time I'm walking ahead of you."

"No matter how bizarre that ghost thing is, I'm not afraid of it either."

"Good! Then this old man will cover the rear for you."

Tai Yizi felt somewhat complex in his heart.

As an elder of the Grand Sui Cult, as an ancient cultivator from before the Heaven and Earth Mutation.

Tai Yizi had always been the one protecting the juniors within the Cult.

Now to be protected by Chen Huangpi, this junior, truly made him feel extremely embarrassed.

As Chen Huangpi took a step towards the stairs.

Whoosh.

Two streaks of gloomy light abruptly lit up on the left and right of the stairs beneath Chen Huangpi's feet.

Those were two bronze oil lamps.

And in Tai Yizi's eyes, Chen Huangpi, who looked like a mud-sculpted evil anomaly, merely took one step, and those two bronze oil lamps suddenly extinguished.

Furthermore, the higher Chen Huangpi walked.

The faster such changes occurred.

This scene was exceptionally treacherous.

Tai Yizi followed behind Chen Huangpi, inexplicably feeling somewhat uneasy in his heart.

As if he had forgotten something.

But no matter how Tai Yizi tried to recall.

He couldn't think of exactly what it was he had forgotten.

"After this old man entered this ancestral hall, I obtained an oil lamp and then teleported it back into the formation. Afterwards, I hid inside the body of that divine statue. And then, this old man decided to Slay Demons and Execute Evil. Following that, Yellow Skinned kid came in."

Tai Yizi carefully pondered over his memories, musing secretly in his heart: "This old man even remembers that kid Yi Qingzhou, what else could this old man have forgotten?"

The closer he walked towards the location of the second floor.

The unease in Tai Yizi's heart became increasingly intense.

"You can go back first."

Chen Huangpi said in a low voice: "By myself, I can also deal with that ghost thing."

"Go back?"

Tai Yizi's expression slightly changed: "Right, why didn't this old man go back?"

He had obtained that bronze oil lamp.

Logically speaking, since he could teleport it back into the formation.

Although his right arm had been bitten off from halfway across the forearm by that divine statue.

But he wasn't dead.

Why didn't he go back, but instead chose to mutually perish with that ghost thing.

"Yellow Skinned kid, this old man's time seems to have been devoured again."

Tai Yizi's complexion was exceedingly ugly.

"Previously in this old man's mind, there was solely a single thought, which was to give you the path of survival, while myself desperately fighting that ghost thing."

"But logically speaking, we both should have had the opportunity to get out."

"Which is to say, during the period after entering the ancestral hall and before this thought arose, this old man must have encountered some events, which was why this old man made such a decision."

"Now that you mention it, it actually reminds me."

Chen Huangpi stopped his steps, frowning: "Earlier, that formation dial first lit up with a green light, then it was a yellow light, immediately followed by a red light."

"Red light? What red light?"

Tai Yizi's face was deathly pale, his beard and hair slightly trembling.

He seemed to have understood something.

And without hesitation said to Chen Huangpi: "You leave quickly, leave quickly!!"

"This old man is already unable to get out."

"Do not waste time on these old bones of this old man."

"Tai Yizi..."

"Leave!! Leave!!!"

Tai Yizi flew into a furious rage, grabbing Chen Huangpi's hand and pushing him outward.

"If we leave, we leave together!"

Chen Huangpi gritted his teeth saying: "I won't go look for trouble with that ghost thing anymore, you come with me."

Saying so, he said to the Brass Oil Lamp in his heart: "Huang Er, quickly open the formation!"

However, right at this moment.

A voice that sounded like many people speaking simultaneously, drifted out from the darkness within the second floor of this ancestral hall.

"You cannot take him away."

"Even you cannot leave."

That voice sounded simply like a demonic tune in Tai Yizi's ears.

Above his aged face, not a single trace of blood color could be seen anymore.

Because that gloomy and cold voice.

Precisely belonged to Tai Yizi.

Or rather, a Tai Yizi whose time had been devoured.

Tai Yizi had his time devoured many times.

So much so that he himself had even slashed away his own time, laying down a formation to prevent that ghost thing from coming to devour him after nightfall.

But regardless, every time Tai Yizi entered the ancestral hall.

A portion of time would be devoured.

Those periods of time were some long and some short.

Every period of time equated to one Tai Yizi.

Entering the ancestral hall this time.

Tai Yizi's time was devoured once again.

Previously he again sprouted the thought of having his desires fulfilled and mutually perishing to Slay Demons and Execute Evil. This showed that his time was genuinely scarce, reaching the extent of becoming a part of that ghost thing.

"Playing the devil and acting like ghosts!"

Chen Huangpi fundamentally wasn't afraid of that ghost thing.

Presently, with the opponent hiding its head and showing its tail, putting on such a grand spectacle, it ignited a nameless fire within his heart all the more.

"Void-Piercing, heed my command!"

Chen Huangpi's eyes contained killing intent. Grabbing the Void-Piercing Sword with one hand, the Five Viscera Spirit Refining Art crazily circulated within his body. The power of the Magic Tree within the Kidney Temple, and the essence qi within the Liver Temple, were entirely infused into the sword.

"Grand Sui Demon-Slaying!"

A sharp streak of sword qi slashed straightforwardly into that darkness.

Furthermore, it didn't end there.

"One transforms to two, two transforms to three!"

The Void-Piercing Sword in Chen Huangpi's hand suddenly flew out, hovering above his head.

Following closely, the situation genuinely followed Chen Huangpi's words, one transformed into two, two transformed into three.

The three Void-Piercing Swords were situated in three different directions around Chen Huangpi.

"Slaying Demons, Executing Evil, Breaking Malice!"

This was the Grand Sui Three Absolutes Sword Array.

And in Tai Yizi's eyes.

That mud-sculpted figure merely let out a loud roar.

That Tribulation Eye atop its head let out a pained wail, then slowly closed. The instant that Tribulation Eye closed its eye, three crevices tore open within the void.

Three Tribulation Eyes fiercely opened.

The first eye shot out a sharp pale-white sword qi.

That sword qi possessed the power to shave away a person's lifespan.

The second eye spewed out an ominous gray sword qi.

With just one glance at that sword qi, heart demons would proliferate within a person.

Yet the sword qi from the third eye was lightning.

The tyrannical lightning carried an aura capable of destroying everything.

To any existence in the False Realm.

Chen Huangpi was an evil anomaly.

The sword qi slashed out by him, this evil anomaly, was naturally also boundlessly insidious.

"Kill!!"

Chen Huangpi's voice was icy cold and merciless.

His heart lacked any distracting thoughts, possessing solely pure killing intent.

Boom!!!

Those three streaks of sword qi slashed into the darkness, erupting with an ear-splittingly deafening explosion sound.

"This sword qi... is Heaven's Punishment."

"But among the Three Calamities, Nine Disasters, and Ten Tribulations, since when were there these three types of Heaven's Punishments?"

"And why is the power of this Heaven's Punishment so feeble?"

Tai Yizi's expression became exceptionally spectacular.

Previously, when Chen Huangpi slashed out Grand Sui Demon-Slaying, he was still in the False Realm.

Therefore, Tai Yizi didn't know what exactly was the deal with the sword qi slashed out by Chen Huangpi after he transformed into an evil anomaly.

Now having seen it with his own eyes, it was as if a pot had boiled over in his mind.

One must know, the power of Heaven's Punishment was not merely the so-called being struck by lightning from heaven.

But rather the Three Calamities, Nine Disasters, and Ten Tribulations.

The three difficulties of Fire, Water, and Wind, additionally alongside the rest of the calamities and tribulations.

And the power displayed by Chen Huangpi gave Tai Yizi the sensation of the power of Heaven's Punishment, and furthermore, a power of Heaven's Punishment that didn't belong amidst the Three Calamities, Nine Disasters, and Ten Tribulations.

One must know, the power of Heaven's Punishment could only be urged by the Heaven Dao, which is to say the will of Azure Heaven.

Next would be a Dao Lord who had achieved Union with the Dao with their body.

Although Tai Yizi was an Immortal, and also an elder of the Grand Sui Cult.

And the Grand Sui Cult was even one of the Three Cults and Nine Sects of the Great Qian Immortal Dynasty. But placed in the eyes of those almighty existences, Tai Yizi was merely an Immortal. There were many matters he was still unable to come into contact with using his cultivation.

At the very least, Tai Yizi didn't know about the matter of the Dao Lord achieving Union with the Dao and becoming the Yellow Heaven after eighteen thousand years, spoken from the mouth of that Yama.

Presently, Tai Yizi looked at Chen Huangpi before him.

He abruptly recalled those words Chen Huangpi said at the very beginning.

I am not from your Grand Sui Cult.

Emperor Chen is my Eldest Uncle.

Dao Lord is my Master.

Your dharma methods, I learn them with just one glance, and achieving great mastery with one use.

"Yellow Skinned kid, is your Master really that Dao Lord?"

"This power of Heaven's Punishment, was it bestowed upon you by his elderly self?"

Hearing these words from Tai Yizi.

Chen Huangpi pondered for a moment, saying: "I don't know what this power of Heaven's Punishment you speak of is, but my Master is indeed a Dao Lord. You can just consider it as such."

"Sorry Tai Yizi, I don't possess the Blood of Grand Sui within my body, I am not a descendant of your Grand Sui Cult."

"No, you are exactly a person of the Grand Sui Cult!"

Tai Yizi's entire person trembled with excitement.

Even the dharma sword within his body clanged and clamored, forcefully drilling out from his head, letting out a restless sword hum.

"Really?"

Chen Huangpi hesitated: "But didn't you say the Blood of Grand Sui is the most core inheritance of the Grand Sui Cult. Can I, without the Blood of Grand Sui, also be considered a descendant of the Grand Sui Cult?"

"Not an inheritor, you are the Cult Master."

Tai Yizi said excitedly: "From now on you are the Cult Master of the Grand Sui Cult. Even if you switch out for anyone else, they wouldn't utter a single word of refusal."

Back then when the Dao Lord snatched away the Grand Sui Killing Sword.

This matter alone had already allowed the Grand Sui Cult to profit massively.

Now that the Dao Lord's disciple had unexpectedly established a connection with the Grand Sui Cult, this was simply Azure Heaven shedding its grace.

Among experts at the Near-Dao level, there was still a distinction of high and low.

Let alone the gap between them and a Dao Lord.

That was genuinely an existence not even in the same conceptual realm.

The disciple of a Dao Lord, that guaranteed at the absolute minimum reaching the Near-Dao level. Furthermore, a Dao Lord wouldn't show their face in public all day.

The disciple of a Dao Lord was equivalent to the Dao Lord himself.

With a Dao Lord overseeing the Grand Sui Cult.

Passing down the inheritance for another cosmic era wouldn't be a major issue.

But at this time, Tai Yizi suddenly seemed to sense something.

"Audacious demonic evil! How dare you injure my Sect Master!"

Tai Yizi unsheathed his dharma sword without hesitation, his body merging with the sword, blocking in front of Chen Huangpi.

At this moment.

Only then did Chen Huangpi see from Tai Yizi's perspective.

Within the darkness of that ancestral hall, individual cultivators, some with tattered clothing and some wearing brand-new clothes, escorting a little girl wearing a colorful padded jacket, holding a grocery basket and a red lantern, walked out.

Among those cultivators, were the villagers Chen Huangpi had seen.

There was also Tai Yizi.

But from Chen Huangpi's own perspective.

What he saw inside the second floor of the ancestral hall was a pool.

On the eight directions of that pool, eight talisman papers were pasted respectively.

Within the pool, there was a substance flowing like mercury. And within that substance, existed an insect.

That insect, was shaped like a caterpillar...

With just one glance.

Goosebumps popped up all over Chen Huangpi's body.

He recognized this insect...

It was exactly that type of insect that wanted to swallow and eat him back then.