Yellow Skinned Taoist Master

Chapter 8: Invite the Mountain God into the Temple

Who among those present was not a shrewd person?

Before Chen Huangpi's voice had even faded, Twelfth Madam and Granny Tang, as if by mutual agreement, simultaneously struck at the flesh-and-blood mud on the ground that was trying to converge.

One had profound cultivation, the other was a shamaness who served a mountain god.

Acting at the same time, in just an instant, the flesh-and-blood mud, which had not yet formed a human shape, was lifted into the air by an invisible force.

Chen Huangpi looked up.

A furry face with green beastly pupils emerged from the flesh-and-blood mud. Its true form was unclear, because in the blink of an eye, it transformed into the face of the little girl.

"Grandma, why did you abandon me?"

Granny Tang's expression stiffened.

But Twelfth Madam gave it no chance at all, and a ten-foot-long streak of crimson silk shot directly at it.

With a bang, the flesh-and-blood mud exploded."Not good..." Twelfth Madam exclaimed.

"Contain!!"

It was Granny Tang's voice. She held her staff in one hand and formed a strange hand seal with the other.

In a daze, Chen Huangpi seemed to see the outline of a human-shaped fox appear behind Granny Tang, its two beastly claws clasped together.

The exploded flesh-and-blood mud was instantly gathered back.

Then, it was thrown directly outside the range of the deities' protection.

"It has been polluted by the yellow mud. It's already extraordinary. Even its avatar cannot be killed," Granny Tang explained to Twelfth Madam.

The latter, with a cold face, said to the few cultivators, "Everywhere this thing has touched, dig three feet down and throw it out."

"Yes."

The few cultivators immediately started to work.

"Wait."

The few cultivators were puzzled.

Twelfth Madam frowned, and the pointer of the Geomantic Divine Compass in her hand pointed to one of the cultivators.

That cultivator's face turned extremely ugly.

"Madam, I..."

"Shut up."

Twelfth Madam gave the man no chance to speak. With just a wave of her hand, a terrifying force slammed into him. The latter was instantly sent flying backward, directly into the darkness.

"Ah..."

A scream rang out, but only for a moment.

"Continue cleaning the surroundings," Twelfth Madam barked at the other cultivators without any courtesy.

The few men immediately nodded in agreement.

Only then did Twelfth Madam turn her gaze to Granny Tang and say coldly, "Since killing it is useless, then we'll drive it out. It's better for it to die outside than to die in front of us, saving us from the bad luck of seeing it."

She said it, and she did it.

This left Granny Tang with nothing more to say.

"Madam is fair."

Watching this scene, Chen Huangpi was instantly speechless.

He called out to the brass oil lamp in his mind.

"Huang Er, this madam's style is so tough."

"Nascent Soul Monarchs are like that. But even so, it won't be enough to guard against that evil god."

Chen Huangpi said, "Should I warn them then?"

The brass oil lamp said, "No need. I heard that foxy thing send a message to the old woman."

Chen Huangpi looked over.

He indeed noticed that Granny Tang's expression suddenly paused, and then she bowed to Twelfth Madam.

"What, is there something else?"

Granny Tang said, "Madam, the mountain god has informed me that the four deities cannot block the influence of that evil god. Even if we kill everyone and drive them out, it will be of no use. It will only make it more evil. It has been polluted by the yellow mud, and it will not die before the earth dragon turning ends."

"It was also a deity in its past life and has tasted the incense of the human world. If its believers are still here, they will be influenced by it."

Twelfth Madam did not answer, only frowning in thought.

Seeing this, Granny Tang knew that the other party had listened. She continued, "Moreover, my mountain god previously warned me that there is an even more terrifying evil entity in the dark. I suspect it is not the same one as this evil god."

"Another evil entity?"

Twelfth Madam's tightly furrowed brows had not yet relaxed, and she already felt that every step was difficult.

An evil god polluted by yellow mud was already terrifying enough.

And there was an even more terrifying evil entity.

And it had never shown itself. How could these Hundred Thousand Mountains be so terrifying?

For a moment, Twelfth Madam was also at a loss for what to do.

Granny Tang stepped forward and pointed to the wooden house.

"If this eye of mine isn't blind, that should be a temple, right?"

"Allow this madam to consider it."

The words didn't need to be so explicit. As soon as Twelfth Madam heard them, she knew what Granny Tang meant.

At her level of cultivation, she naturally understood deities.

After all, the path after the Nascent Soul stage was blocked, so one could only seek to become a god on the spot.

Deities only hide in temples.

The temple is both a place of shelter and a place to consume incense.

Granny Tang wanted to invite the fox mountain god into the temple. With the addition of the other three deities, it might be possible to sever the connection between all the remnants and that evil god.

But...

How could a deity be so easy to talk to?

Besides, that mountain god was a fox that had become a god, while the other three deities were cultivators who had become gods.

The principle that a dragon does not dwell with snakes, and a tiger does not accompany dogs, also applied to deities.

At this moment, Chen Huangpi was staring at the wooden house, the temple Granny Tang spoke of, in a daze.

"Big, it's really big."

The brass oil lamp said proudly in his mind, "Family, does it feel good to have your heavenly eye open?"

"It's useful, too useful."

Just when Granny Tang revealed the secret of the wooden house, the brass oil lamp had secretly told Chen Huangpi that its oil could open the heavenly eye, allowing one to see things that the human eye could not.

It was even more powerful than a Nascent Soul Monarch's dharma eye.

Chen Huangpi secretly wiped some lamp oil on his eyes.

He felt that the scene before him had completely changed.

It wasn't that he could see more clearly, but that he could see more.

He saw that wisps of white qi were floating from the heads of the others, including Twelfth Madam and Granny Tang, into the void.

He saw that a huge temple was hidden inside the wooden house.

Three majestic deities stood within.

He also saw that the fox deity statue carried by Granny Tang and the other remnants had its eyes tightly closed, sniffing around like a wild beast, as if searching for something.

"Huang Er, it won't smell the lamp oil and find you, will it?"

"I've smeared dog poop on myself, it can't smell it. Maybe it's looking for the other evil entity that hasn't shown itself?"

The brass oil lamp was also a little confused.

Although it had been divided into thousands of pieces by Chen Huangpi's master and had long lost its former power, its foundation was still there.

Even a deity couldn't hide under its nose.

Although evil entities were more troublesome, with careful searching, one could always smell them or sense them.

But the brass oil lamp had not sensed the evil entity Granny Tang spoke of at all.

"I've been under that foxy thing's nose for so long, and it hasn't discovered me. Can its eyes be brighter than mine? Can its nose be more sensitive than mine?"

The brass oil lamp said disdainfully, "Family, it must be bluffing!"

Chen Huangpi agreed, "That's right, I haven't seen any evil entity either... Huh... Huang Er, am I seeing things? Why have those pits become shallower?"

Previously, the few cultivators had dug several feet deep in the area where the flesh-and-blood mud had been, throwing all the soil and grass into the darkness, leaving only a few deep pits.

"They really have become shallower..."

"What's become shallower?"

Twelfth Madam and the others immediately looked at Chen Huangpi.

Chen Huangpi pointed to the deep pits and said, "Look, the pits have become shallower. There seems to be something inside."

"What?"

Twelfth Madam frowned and instantly appeared at the edge of a deep pit.

Before she could look down, with a splat, a stream of mud shot out.

"It's over!"

Chen Huangpi cried out. Twelfth Madam had no time to dodge at all and was sprayed all over with yellow mud.

This scene made everyone's face change drastically.

"Madam!"

The few cultivators looked terrified.

Twelfth Madam was the concubine of the Governor of Xu Province and was usually the most trusted.

This time, she had come to the Hundred Thousand Mountains to continue the mission of Lin Ye and the others, to find the source of corruption and lure an evil entity to the border of Xu Province to create chaos.

Although they didn't know why the Governor of Xu Province would be willing to let Twelfth Madam come for a task that could be done by just sending a few subordinates, if something happened to Twelfth Madam, they, as house slaves, would surely face death.

"I'm fine."

The next second, Twelfth Madam's somewhat panicked voice came from the wooden house.

And the Twelfth Madam who had been tainted by the yellow mud suddenly turned into a peach wood doll.

The brass oil lamp's voice timely sounded in Chen Huangpi's mind: "This woman has a significant background. To have such a life-saving substitute, tsk tsk. Family, get ready to run. Maybe in the next second, I'll have to take you and flee."

Chen Huangpi: "It's quite safe here, why run?"

The brass oil lamp did not explain.

Because there was no need to.

The next second, the few deep pits suddenly rumbled.

Yellow mud spewed out.

No, not just that, even the earth was shaking and trembling.

The earth dragon was turning over!

A crack instantly split open from under everyone's feet.

A few remnants who couldn't dodge in time instantly fell in and were swallowed by the yellow mud in the blink of an eye. At the same time, the four deities, as if enraged, sent down four obscure, grand auras, suppressing the crack on the ground.

The earth instantly closed up.

In that instant, Chen Huangpi saw a ferocious, blurry beast face flash by.

It was that evil god.

It was unclear whether it had triggered the earth dragon's turning, or if it had taken the opportunity of the earth dragon's turning to break into the deities' protection range.

Therefore, it had angered the four deities into action.

However, Chen Huangpi felt that whether it was a coincidence or the evil god could really trigger the earth dragon's turning, even if the four deities had heavenly power, they couldn't possibly suppress it.

He had seen the earth dragon turn over many times.

He had also seen evil entities more terrifying than deities.

But those things, in the face of the earth dragon turning over and the mud from the Yellow Springs, could only flee in the wind.

Sure enough, the next second, the earth that had just closed up suddenly split open again with a boom, and cracks spread out like a spider web.

This time, the cracks were even bigger than before.

"Get ready, Chen Huangpi, we're about to run!"

The brass oil lamp's voice was a little uneasy.

Chen Huangpi didn't speak. Would it really be fine if they ran out of the deities' protection range?

He didn't know.

He just silently pondered the method of the Dog Rearing Scripture in his mind.

He remembered that the Dog Rearing Scripture said: Be it a dog or a beast, they are nothing more than wild and untamable. They can be subdued either with great perseverance or with fists and feet.

Just then, a sharp voice rang out.

"Mountain God, help me!"

Granny Tang was burning with anxiety and shouted at the fox deity statue.

A strange fluctuation instantly emerged from everyone's hearts.

Chen Huangpi suddenly felt his feet sway.

His entire person, along with the remnants, was moved to the entrance of the wooden house temple.

Seeing this, the few cultivators seemed to realize something and also rushed up.

Granny Tang shouted at Twelfth Madam inside the wooden house temple, "Madam, how long are you going to wait? If my mountain god is dragged down by that evil god, that's one thing, but if it gets tainted by the yellow mud, with two evil gods, even if you have more substitutes, how long can you last?"

"Madam, quickly let us in!"

The few cultivators, seeing the earth dragon turning over and the cracks filled with yellow mud spreading towards their feet, became even more anxious.

In the cracks, the mud churned.

Figures emerged from within. Those people were wearing coarse linen clothes, and yellow mud was pouring out of their eyes, ears, noses, and mouths.

The leader was a little girl.

The little girl's voice was crisp and pleasant, like a mountain lark.

"Invite the mountain god into the temple!"

Hearing this, the "people" covered in yellow mud all bent down, buried their hands in the mud, and with a strong pull, a sedan chair with a base was lifted up. On the base stood a statue covered in yellow mud.

The yellow mud fell away, revealing a standing weasel statue.

"Invite the mountain god into the temple!"

The mud people shouted in unison, "Invite the mountain god into the temple!!!"

(End of Chapter)