Yellow Skinned Taoist Master

Chapter 38: Huang Yi Lights the Heavenly Lamp

The white fog was endless.

The entire area within a radius of several tens of miles around Mount Yuqiong was covered in fog.

Song Qiuyue and the other cultivators were forced back step by step by the fog.

They had already been driven to the foot of the mountain.

In all directions, only this place was not covered by fog.

Even standing at the foot of the mountain, they could still see the sun above their heads.

It was daytime now. Cultivators could fly in the Hundred Thousand Mountains without worrying about being noticed by evil entities.

A cultivator suggested, "Miss, perhaps we can fly out from the top of the mountain."

Someone else chimed in, "There's no fog blocking the top of the mountain. Can the deities contact Xu Province City?"

Song Qiuyue shook her head, "No."The deities had already tried.

Even though there was no fog near or on top of Mount Yuqiong, they still couldn't make contact with Xu Province City.

As for flying out from the top of the mountain...

Song Qiuyue was a little tempted.

"Evil entities don't like the daytime, and they don't like the sun even more. If we take advantage of the old Daoist's inattention, it might be the only chance to escape."

But just at that moment, the cultivator named Zhao Hai, as if facing a great enemy, quickly said, "Miss, you must not."

Everyone looked at Zhao Hai.

Zhao Hai quickly explained, "That old Daoist is already unusual. Even among evil entities, he can be considered a disaster. Before, he stood in the daylight without any discomfort, and instead had the posture of wanting to eat us."

"Now, this fog has forced us here. It's obviously the old Daoist's handiwork."

"It's fine if we don't act rashly. Once we fly into the air and try to escape, the old Daoist probably won't just sit by and watch."

Hearing this, Song Qiuyue sighed in despair, "Sixty deities, can't they even protect us?"

If they couldn't protect so many people, it would be fine to just protect her...

Zhao Hai said, "Although there are many deities, this white fog naturally restrains deities. If we really force our way out, I'm afraid..."

He didn't finish his sentence.

But Song Qiuyue still understood.

She knew everything, she was clear about everything.

She was just afraid.

The sun did not restrain evil entities.

Because a long, long time ago, some cultivators had done similar research.

But the results showed that the sun had no harm to evil entities, and even forces like qi and blood, and yang qi were the same.

Therefore, the cultivators came to a conclusion.

Evil entities might be like people.

People work at sunrise and rest at sunset, while evil entities are the exact opposite.

Evil entities sleep during the day and come out to eat at night.

Song Qiuyue said, "Zhao Hai, you are a thoughtful person. Feel free to say what you think."

"Let me tell you, miss."

Zhao Hai had already prepared his speech and said directly, "Although that old Daoist is an evil entity, that Huangpi kid and that Golden Core old woman are still alive and well. There must be something we don't know. Perhaps that old Daoist is unwilling to eat people in front of his disciple."

"That Golden Core old woman is a smart person. We can cooperate with her."

Song Qiuyue nodded in agreement and at the same time sorted out her thoughts.

She actually had the thought of returning to the Daoist temple.

But she was afraid of the white-robed old Daoist.

"That Huangpi kid is not an evil entity. This is also a way."

Song Qiuyue instinctively grasped the key point.

Zhao Hai nodded, but then said with some hesitation, "Evil entities have no humanity, but that old Daoist seems to be different towards that Huangpi kid. He seems to have not forgotten the feelings of master and disciple. If we want to start with that kid, I'm afraid we still need you, miss, to come forward."

"I understand."

Song Qiuyue took a deep breath, recalling Chen Huangpi's gaze and the phrase "the killing intent can no longer be suppressed."

Even now, it still made her feel absurd.

She couldn't tell if it was killing intent or desire.

"Let's go, up the mountain!"

...

And on the other side, in Xu Province City, the streets were bustling with people.

The Xu Province Governor, Song Tiangang, was playing chess with his servant.

But he was hesitant to make a move. He was about to place a piece several times but hesitated, and finally threw it into the basket with some impatience.

The servant had served Song Tiangang for many years and naturally saw some signs.

So he said, "Is my lord worried about Miss Qiuyue?"

Song Tiangang was a little surprised and laughed, "Yes, my elder brother only has this one daughter. Before he died, he entrusted her to me. Now that she has run off to the Hundred Thousand Mountains, how can I be at ease?"

He wasn't worried.

After all, she had brought sixty deities with her.

Even if she encountered an evil entity or a disaster, she would be safe.

The deities would not dare to not work hard.

The servant said, "Miss Qiuyue's style is quite similar to Twelfth Madam's. Although she's a bit swift and decisive, ever since she entered the Hundred Thousand Mountains, she has had the deities report their progress every quarter of an hour, never once stopping."

Song Tiangang said, "Where are they now?"

The servant said, "They have arrived at a place called the Pure Immortal Temple, located in the eastern outer perimeter of the Hundred Thousand Mountains. It's just right to be used as a settlement for the immigrants."

Song Tiangang frowned, "It should have been built by some remnants. The name is a bit inappropriate. Tell her to change the name before she comes back."

"Yes, my lord."

Hearing this, the servant got up and put away the chessboard.

Song Tiangang stood with his hands behind his back, feeling a little uneasy and his heart pounding.

A cultivator's spiritual sense was very sharp.

He couldn't help but take it seriously.

But he thought about it carefully and couldn't think of any problems.

His niece would definitely not be in trouble. She would send a message every quarter of an hour without interruption. Now that she had found a settlement, she would be back by this time tomorrow at the latest.

At that time, the immigrants would be in place, and a hundred deities would protect them.

Human qi would be endless. Even if a disaster struck, it could hold on for half a month.

And by then, he would have already gone over and personally captured the mutated deity statue.

So, what exactly was wrong?

"Is there any movement on Wang Taiyu's side?"

Song Tiangang thought about it and felt that it could only be this current Grand Tutor, who had been his classmate in the imperial examination back then.

The servant thought for a moment and said, "I haven't heard anything. But ever since Grand Tutor Wang arrived in Xu Province, he has been in his residence every day and has never taken a step out. It seems he is just waiting for the taxes to arrive and then will immediately return to the capital."

"Send someone to keep a close eye on him!"

Song Tiangang felt that he had done things flawlessly. Even his personal servants and even his seventh granduncle, who had become a deity, did not know.

But sometimes, he had to believe his spiritual sense.

Something was really wrong.

At this time, the servant suddenly said, "My lord, Miss Qiuyue has sent another message. She's asking when we can send the deities over."

Song Tiangang shook his head, "My niece is an arrogant one. She doesn't see the people in her eyes, only the deities. She will definitely walk the path of becoming a god on the spot in the future."

"Have the immigrants been arranged?"

"They have been arranged. We got a batch of tenant farmers from the landlords, and we also selected a batch from the prison. They are all docile and good people."

"Mmm, let's listen to Qiuyue. Send them over now, and the forty deities."

...

At this very moment, in the alchemy room of the Pure Immortal Temple, Chen Huangpi was studying the recipe for the Heavenly Poison Pill.

The recipe was very complex, with many poisonous herbs. But it was very strange. All the poisonous herbs were very common, not rare at all.

Only one main ingredient he had never heard of.

"Yinren grass, ghost face flower, I know where these grow. I still have some in stock."

As Chen Huangpi spoke, he scratched his head and said, "But what is this Hundred Deaths and No Life Person? Is it a person?"

On the Heavenly Poison Pill, this was the only main ingredient he had never heard of or seen.

The brass oil lamp said, "It's definitely not. It's already a hundred deaths and no life. The bones have probably turned to mud. Why don't we just not refine it and change to another one?"

Chen Huangpi said, "No, I'm going to refine it. The other pills require many medicinal herbs that I've never heard of. Only the Heavenly Poison Pill is different. I just need to find the main ingredient."

The brass oil lamp was helpless.

It actually didn't mind the Temple Master waking up.

But it minded that after the Temple Master woke up, he would find out that it was the one who had incited Chen Huangpi to refine the poison pill.

Besides, after the Temple Master went mad, it, Huang Er, had not been idle in its heart.

It didn't believe the Temple Master didn't know.

That was the Temple Master...

In the Hundred Thousand Mountains, the Temple Master was the heavens. He could even decide life and death with a single thought.

The brass oil lamp couldn't help but sigh and say with a bitter face, "If I could just poison him..."

And just at that moment, a voice sounded in the brass oil lamp's ear.

"Poison what?"

"Of course, poison the Tem..."

The brass oil lamp's words changed, and its tone subconsciously became fawning, "Poison Huang Er, who is concerned about you, old man! Who else could I poison? Huang Yi? Is he worthy?"

Looking at the Temple Master, who had at some point changed into a purple Daoist robe, the brass oil lamp almost knelt down.

The Temple Master had become more and more unpredictable recently.

"Huang Yi? Which Huang Yi?"

The purple-robed old Daoist's eyes were bewildered, and he murmured, "That's right, Huang Yi, where is Huang Yi? Is he dead?"

He probably wasn't dead, right?

But if he wasn't dead, why hadn't he come to see him yet?

Huangpi'er had already grown up.

It was time to light the lamp.

"That's right, light the heavenly lamp! We have to light the heavenly lamp for Huangpi'er!"

The purple-robed old Daoist seemed to have remembered something, but he couldn't remember clearly, so he could only reach his hand into his head.

"First Master, don't put your hand in your head. If you mess up your brain, it will be hard for me to put it back for you."

Chen Huangpi stopped the purple-robed old Daoist's action.

Then he asked, "First Master, where did you go just now? I haven't seen you for a long time."

The purple-robed old Daoist smiled smugly, "Your master went to do something bad, but your master won't tell you. You're still young, you can't learn bad things."

Chen Huangpi was extremely curious and pressed, "First Master, I'm already bad enough. Just tell me."

"No, I can't tell you."

The purple-robed old Daoist shook his head, refusing to say.

And just at that moment, he suddenly circled around Chen Huangpi.

"Huangpi'er, your kidney temple is about to be forged."

"Once the kidney temple is forged, the liver temple will be fast. Once the liver temple is forged, the heart temple will be fast. Then there's the spleen temple, the lung temple, the five elements cycle, and the five viscera spirit refining."

"Heh! You're about to succeed!"

The purple-robed old Daoist beamed with joy and couldn't help but clap his hands and cheer, his saliva drooling.

"It's still early."

Chen Huangpi helplessly wiped his saliva and said, "And I still have to invite a god into the temple. I haven't found a suitable deity yet, nor an evil god."

In fact, there was a fox mountain god in the Daoist temple.

But his master had said that its status was too poor.

Besides, Chen Huangpi had seen that memory and knew that it was a failed product of being consecrated by the Golden Top Heavenly Lamp, that is, Huang Yi.

It was only later, after a long time, that it was gradually worshipped as a mountain god.

So Chen Huangpi also disliked it.

The purple-robed old Daoist said in agreement, "We do need to find a suitable one. The kidney belongs to water, so the god we put in should also belong to water. This way, the spirit refining will be powerful. But we can also choose a god that belongs to wood. Water gives birth to wood, but it's easy to be disobedient, so we have to beat it hard."

"Can we do that?"

Chen Huangpi blinked. Although he had obtained the entire Five Viscera Spirit Refining Art, it only mentioned that the five viscera corresponded to the five elements. It didn't say that a god of a generating element could also reside in the temple.

By this calculation, water gives birth to wood, wood gives birth to fire, fire gives birth to earth, earth gives birth to metal, and metal gives birth to water.

If he chose a wood-attributed god, then the following four viscera temples could only be arranged in this order.

But inviting a god was not something to be rushed.

Chen Huangpi's temple had already been forged into a rough framework. At this rate, it would still take a day or two.

A temple was easy to build, but a deity was hard to find.

"That's right, that demon tree."

Chen Huangpi suddenly thought of the towering demon tree. It was so terrifying, even more terrifying than a deity, and it happened to belong to wood.

Thinking of this, Chen Huangpi immediately looked at the purple-robed old Daoist and asked curiously, "First Master, if I want to put the demon tree in my kidney temple, do you think it's possible?"

Hearing this, the purple-robed old Daoist was stunned for a moment.

"Demon tree? What demon tree?"

"It's the demon tree that bullied me, the one that grows human fruits."

"So it's called a demon tree..."

The purple-robed old Daoist scratched his head and said, "It's dead, a very miserable death. Its head was twisted off by your master and eaten."

"Why don't you go in and see? Maybe it hasn't been digested yet."

As he spoke, he opened his bloody mouth.

(End of Chapter)