Recap
During the last five hundred years, she allied with other great yaos and killed more than a thousand monks and Taoists.
She has been killing more and more people lately, eating human souls almost every day.
A few days ago, there was a cult called the Dataiyang society, which practiced mass suicide.
Trendy monkey didn’t know what she was going to do, but she said the deity asked her to do it.
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After listening to what trendy monkey said, Chu Shici felt that all this is all the work of the garbage deities.
He observed the trendy monkey’s expression to make sure he wasn’t lying.
Unlike the scheming King of Hell, there is only a pure monetary transaction between the monkey and the stone carving spirit.
It was obvious that the stone carving spirit knew his temperament and hid many things from him. The nine-tailed fox spirit knows much more than the monkey.
It’s just that the nine-tailed fox is in cahoots with the stone carving spirit, and it’s impossible to catch it at all.
The monkey finished telling everything he knew, and Chu Shici also handed over the last piece of jewelry.
He touched his shriveled wallet and asked him the last question, “What does it mean to enter the carving?”
Trendy monkey bit the gold ring and said, “She turns into a white marble stone sculpture. If I touch the stone slab, I will be sucked in by her and turn into a mural on the stone sculpture. Isn’t the body of the stone carving spirit damaged? She said that this particularly affects her cultivation. Every week, she’ll ask me to stay in her body for two days while she concentrates on cultivation.”
“Were you conscious after entering the carving?”
“No, I don’t know anything as soon as my eyesight goes dark. It was the same when I lent my body to her, it felt like I fell into a deep sleep instantly.”
Chu Shici was stunned, “You dare to let her borrow your body, aren’t you afraid that she will really devour you?”
Trendy monkey grinned, “Why do you think I’m not afraid? But people will die for money. Only when you have money and status can you be respected by others, and living without money is meaningless. I will give my life if she gives me money. I believe so long as the money earned can make my children and grandchildren live a good life together, then this deal is worth it.”
Because the trendy monkey was very cooperative, the snake yao who fought all the way here did not overturn its lair.
Chu Shici asked where they find the stone carving spirit, and Trendy monkey said that she divided herself into eighteen small stones and hid the stones inside the golden statue.
The main body is in hiding and never shows up, and usually shuttles back and forth between her various fragments. In order to facilitate contact, a golden statue was also left for it.
Maybe she thought it will sell anything for money, so she came over last night and took the statue away.
After speaking, trendy monkey stretched out his hand, “But I know where some of the other stones are.”
Chu Shici rummaged through all his pockets and shook his head regretfully.
Trendy monkey didn’t get angry, he just skipped the topic and started to play pretend.
There is a lot of gold and silver jewelry in the snake yao’s lair however it’s too late to rush back through the rabbit hole to get them.
Chu Shici raised his head to discuss with Zhe-ge, but when he looked up, he saw Xunzhe’s gloomy face.
At the moment when his patience ran out, Xunzhe suddenly leaned forward, grabbed the monkey yao’s neck, and choked him until he screamed.
When it was put down again, the trendy monkey told them all he knew honestly.
Xunzhe had no intention of staying here for a long time. Chu Shici originally wanted to go with him, but before leaving, he looked at the dishes on the table and felt a little unable to move forward for a while.
Xunzhe slithered to the entrance of the cave and felt that his head was light and something was missing.
He turned around and saw Monk Pu Xin flying out with a helpless smile on his face, holding abalone, lobster, and king crab.
The small palm-sized wooden sculpture was struggling to drag a bottle of red wine, and his legs were shaking hard.
Xunzhe leaned over to pick up the red wine and reached out to pull off the small wooden sculpture hanging on it, “What are you doing with these?”
The small wooden sculpture dangled back and forth, pointing to the lobster in Monk Pu Xin’s arms, “These things are quite expensive, and they are not that easy to buy in this era. Zhe-ge, if you haven’t eaten them yet, pack them up and go back to try them.”
Xunzhe glanced at the lobster and king crab, and said with a hint of disgust in his tone, “It’s really ugly. I don’t eat ugly things.”
Chu Shici: …
As soon as the days get better, the tail rises. It’s past the time when he used to gnaw on rotten fruits as treasures in the cave.
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According to the clues given by the trendy monkey, there is a golden statue placed in the Dataiyang society.
The followers of that cult, mostly from poor families, believe that they can live a good life in the underworld after committing suicide.
Dayangtian not only coaxes believers to commit suicide, but also asks them to drag others with them to die together. It is said that the more people die, the happier everyone will be after death.
After those people died after being tricked by her, she would pass through the stone hidden in the golden statue and eat their souls.
This is an evil method for yaoguais to cultivate, similar to absorbing essence.
The distance from the northeast to the headquarters of the cult is very far, and there is a river in the middle.
After the rabbit spirit sent them to the nearest rabbit hole, he told Xunzhe that they could go by boat or car.
It’s evening now, the sunset is shining on the river, and the scenery looks beautiful.
Xunzhe’s money was all taken away by the monkeys. He used the Invisibility Technique to sneak into the cruise ship with the small wood carving spirit and find a quiet corner to sit down.
The cruise ship started slowly and floated on the river.
Xunzhe held his cheeks and looked out the window quietly with lowered eyes.
The humid wind blew through, caressing his silver hair. The warm red sunlight shone on him, giving his slender eyelashes a bright light.
He could feel several passengers not far away peeking at him, both men and women, their gazes always falling on his face.
Xunzhe frowned slightly and turned to look over coldly.
Most of the passengers stopped talking, except for a few men who stared at him.
The undisguised lust in their eyes made him irritated.
The two sides looked at each other for a long time, and then a man in a suit and leather shoes came over and said, “Alone? Can I sit across from you?”
He had asked a question, but before Xunzhe could answer, he sat down directly.
Chu Shici was lying on Zhe-ge’s lap to catch up on his sleep when he was kicked awake by the system.
[Ah Ci, don’t sleep, someone wants to flirt with your husband!]
Hearing the movement outside, Chu Shici woke up suddenly.
He grabbed Zhe-ge’s clothes and climbed up. When he finally reached the top, he was pressed down by Xunzhe’s finger before he could see who was on the other side.
Chu Shici fell back onto Xunzhe’s lap, and Monk Puxin, who had been quiet all this time, floated over and raised his hand to signal him to calm down.
“We are just discussing art, Benefactor Chu, don’t worry. There are too many people now, and it is not convenient for Benefactor to show his face.”
Chu Shici didn’t insist anymore, and listened with the system’s ears.
The man who approached Xunzhe sounded like he was in his twenties. He claimed to be a talent scout. Xunzhe had great potential and asked him if he was interested in becoming a star.
Xunzhe remained silent and looked at the sky expressionlessly.
What is a star?
The man handed over a business card and said, “If you are interested, please contact me. You look good and God will chase you for a chance to treat you to a meal.”
Xunzhe pursed his lips and stroked the small wooden sculpture’s head with his fingers.
The world has changed so much in the past five hundred years that he can’t recognize all the words today.
The man was still chatting, but Xunzhe couldn’t understand a word he said. He gradually lost interest and turned his head to signal the man to go away.
Not only did the man not leave, he also called two companions over and directly surrounded Xunzhe.
Seeing an unopened bottle of red wine on the table, the man ordered some steaks, “You have red wine and I have steaks, why don’t we have dinner together.”
Chu Shici was thinking about what they were going to do, but Xunzhe’s patience had completely run out, so he stood up, picked up the red wine and smashed it on the table.
He wiped away the wine that splashed on his hands, without even looking at the man. He pushed the two of them away and was about to leave, when something suddenly poked him in the back.
A strong electric current coursed through his body. Xunzhe pursed his lips and paused.
He touched his lower back doubtfully, turned his head and looked at them suspiciously.
The man was holding a strange object in his hand, with electricity crackling on it.
Chu Shici also saw it. It was a taser. They wanted to take Xunzhe away by force.
They are so brave, he quickly looked around and saw that all the other passengers had left at some point.
Monk Pu Xin came over and said, “It’s dinner time. They all went to the restaurant on the third floor to eat.”
Not able to knock him out in that instant, the man raised his head and stared at Xunzhe’s face for two seconds, “I advise you to be more aware of the current situation and come back with us honestly. This is our territory. Even if we want to kill you, no one will know what happened.”
Chu Shici looked up, Zhe-ge’s face was as calm as ever. Only when he saw the electric shock device did his eyes show a little curiosity.
They must be local heads around here, and they like Xunzhe and want to take him back to play with him.
Fortunately, Zhe-ge hadn’t realized what they were going to do yet, so he still had time to study the taser.
Chu Shici winked at Monk Pu Xin, and the ghost monk Pu Xin floated over, “Benefactor Chu said to leave quickly, he is in a hurry.”
Xunzhe withdrew his gaze and was about to knock them unconscious when he heard one of the men laugh evilly, “Damn, I have never played with such a beautiful man. I want to take him back and have fun with my brothers.”
Chu Shici sighed.
The man’s words seemed to bring back bad memories for Xunzhe, and his eyes became extremely sharp.
Xunzhe showed no mercy and punched the leading man through the chest, pulled out his heart and threw him into the river.
Things happened too fast, and the scene was too bloody. When the other two men saw this, they turned around and wanted to run away. Xunzhe stepped over and wanted to kill them.
At this moment, the originally closed door suddenly opened, and several people who looked like Taoist priests walked in.
They saw Xunzhe with blood on his hands and a mutilated corpse. The Taoist priest’s face turned cold, he drew his peach wood sword and shouted coldly: “Where did this snake yao come from! How dare you cause trouble here!”
The man rolled and crawled behind the Taoist priest.
Chu Shici was about to explain to Xunzhe when he heard the Taoist priest whisper softly, “I told you to be careful, how did you lose a life!”
The man gasped, “No, he is too powerful, the talisman and the taser will not work.”
Talisman? Chu Shici looked around suspiciously.
Monk Pu Xin wandered back and forth, and finally saw three yellow talismans for suppressing yaoguais where the three men had stood.
As soon as he got closer, the yellow talisman emitted a faint halo and knocked him away.
Seeing this, Chu Shici figured it out. Most likely, Zhe-ge was targeted from the moment he boarded the ship.
Now that their identity has been exposed, Chu Shici no longer conceals it.
He poked his head out from Xunzhe’s collar and shouted to the Taoist priests, “When did the Taoist priests become the lackeys of the stone carving spirit!”
The Taoist priest was about to step forward but he was stunned when he heard this, “What stone carving spirit?”
“You have nothing to do with her? Then why are you ambushing us here?”
The Taoist priests looked at each other and suddenly laughed.
The leading Taoist priest spun a sword flower* and said, “Today I just wanted to go to the other side of the river to buy some cinnabar, but I didn’t expect to encounter two yaos and a ghostly monk. I advise you to stop resisting, it is unnecessary to struggle.”
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, idk if this gif works but they spin their swords around like how you’d do a pen. Gif source: https://www.sohu.com/a/535093768_120112175 )
Chu Shici was still hesitating on whether to explain, then he heard Xunzhe’s cold voice.
“Five hundred years later, I thought the world was different, but I didn’t expect that humans are still doing these shameful things.”
“What do you mean shameless? You are yaos. Our duty is to catch yoas.”
After the Taoist priest finished speaking, his eyes fell on Xunzhe’s waist.
“Don’t you like to suck men’s semen in bed? I have more than a hundred people here, and I will let you suck them all one by one.”
Chu Shici didn’t expect the Taoist priest to say such things, yet his Zhe-ge seemed to have expected it for a long time.
Xunzhe was so enraged that he turned into his half snake form and rushed over to beat the Taoist priest.
He put Chu Shici on the small table beside and threw the glass shards from the red wine bottle at the Taoist priest’s face.
Seeing Zhe-ge beating those people up hard, he turned to look at the Ghost Monk, “Master Pu Xin, you have also lived for more than five hundred years. Do you know what Zhe-ge was referring to just now?”
Pu Xin’s face turned blue and white. He clasped his hands and recited “Amitabha” in a low voice.
Chu Shici realized that he knew the inside story, but it was difficult to tell him.
Under Chu Shici’s questioning, Pu Xin turned his rosary and shook his head and sighed, “When I was at Dayangtian Ming Temple, this humble monk once heard some things mentioned by the brothers who often went traveling. Speaking of it, it was really something that can’t be helped.”
“Many people cultivate for a lifetime, yet they can only be mortals and only have a life span of more than a hundred years. Exorcizing ghosts and subduing demons can accumulate merit. Even if they cannot become deities, they can still find an official position in the underworld after death, or reincarnate into a good family.”
“But there are only so many yaoguais and ghosts who want to cause harm to the world, and they are not easy to encounter. Every mortal men gets old with time, how can they subdue demons when they are eighty or ninety years old? So the time left for them to accumulate merit is only around 40 years.”
Chu Shici nodded and motioned for him to continue.
Monk Pu Xin let out a long sigh, “In order to accumulate merit quickly, some people come up with some sinister tricks. They stimulate lonely ghosts, turn them into evil ghosts, and then come out to kill them. Galvanize the yaoguais and force them to hurt people, then take advantage of the situation to subdue the demon. In this way, you can quickly accumulate a lot of merit in a short amount of time.”
He pointed at the Taoist priest who was beaten to death not far away.
“Senior brother said that this kind of people have special organizations, there are monks, Taoist priests, goddesses, and even deities or at least that’s what people call them. They specialize in picking out single or ignorant yaoguais who have just come into the world. They estimated that Benefactor Xun is alone, especially since he has suppressed his yao aura and was mistaken for a lone little yaoguai, so he was targeted by them.”
Chu Shici was stunned for two seconds, and the scattered clues in his mind were connected in an instant.
After listening to Monk Pu Xin’s words and combining it with the information he knew before, he finally knew how terrible the darkness hidden under the calm water of this punishment world is.
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The reason why the stone carving spirit was able to trap the snake yao five hundred years ago was that he had lived in the mountains for a long time and lacked experience. The second is that he wants to transform into a dragon, which is also the main reason.
He thought he was doing a good deed, and in order to gain merit, he took the risk and got out to help, but he was trapped.
And those eminent monks who were deceived by the stone carving spirit to capture him may not really be ignorant.
No matter what the cause was, the snake yao killing more than 800 villagers has become a fact. Just sealing him or getting rid of him would be a great merit.
The nine-tailed fox yao originally practiced diligently and built a temple to become a fox yao, earning merit by doing good deeds. But her meager merit was not enough for other foxes. She could not find another way and could only watch her disciples die of old age one by one.
The Monkey King of Lingshan cultivated for more than a thousand years. Because he could not see the hope of becoming a deity, he simply gave up on cultivation and enjoyed a life of luxury.
It couldn’t make the monkeys live forever, so it cooperated with the stone carving spirit to make money by any means so that the monkeys could live a luxurious and comfortable life.
Including these Taoist priests in front of them, all cultivators in this world, whether human or yaoguais, are looking forward to becoming deities.
According to Chu Shici’s understanding, becoming a deity or a Buddha requires both profound magical power and perfect merit.
Humans have a lifespan of more than a hundred years, while monkeys have a lifespan of more than 20 years, and foxes have a lifespan of more than ten years.
Ordinary practitioners who cultivate according to the books till death will not be able to become a deity, and most of them will not even have time to transform from animals without a consciousness into animal spirits with consciousness.
In the original text, the male protagonist can suddenly become a dragon, largely due to his innate advantages.
There is no such thing as lifespan when inanimate things gain consciousness, and Xunzhe was extremely talented.
But even so, he cultivated for more than a thousand years, yet in the end he just became an earth immortal.
The bar is set too high and there is no hope at all.
Anyone who has a good nature and is free from worries, can let go of their obsessions and become an ordinary practitioner or little yaoguai.
However, those like the Nine-tailed Fox and the Monkey King who have to support their families have no choice but to find another source.
The rest of the people went onto the unorthodox paths in order to benefit themselves.
Either they become an immortal, be reborn, or go to the underworld to become an immortal ghost.
These are the things that everyone covets; the meat dangling before their eyes.
However, it is difficult for most people to eat this piece of meat through formal channels.
This merit system stimulates humans to kill yaoguais and requires yaoguais to do good deeds. It is driving the yaoguais to death.
Chu Shici would not be surprised if he was forced to commit crimes one day.
At the same time, it also makes humans think that killing yaoguais is the natural order of the world. If they don’t regard yaoguais as equals, they will humiliate them wantonly, and the bottom line will only get lower and lower.
People who come up with bad things are either deliberately stirring up trouble, or they think about things too simply. They think that they can not only protect mankind, but also allow everyone to do good deeds and accumulate merits together.
He asked Pu Xin, “Who first proposed the link between merit and godhood?”
Pu Xin didn’t answer, just turned his head slightly and looked at the sky.
Chu Shici knew that this was the rule set by the people residing above.
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The cruise ship sailed to the riverside, and the guests disembarked one by one.
It was calm along the way, except for a few more corpses in the river.
Xunzhe wiped the blood off his hands and walked out with a dark face.
There were too many people around, and it was inconvenient for Chu Shici to speak out. He raised his head and looked around.
Several black vans were parked nearby, with a bunch of burly men sitting in them. Most of them were in the same group as those in the ship. They got the news in advance and came here specifically to help pull the goods back.
It seems they want to play for a few days before killing the yaoguai.
If Zhe-ge hadn’t been strong enough, he would have been dragged by this group of people in a van to some basement, imprisoned with his powers sealed, and humiliated by this bunch of people.
The snake yao drew an invisible spell in the air, even if they couldn’t see him, they still stared intently at the tourists getting off the ship.
The more Chu Shici thought about it, the angrier he became. He touched Xunzhe’s soft hair and said, “Zhe-ge, are you still angry? There are some rotten people over there. Kill them to relieve your anger.”
Xunzhe paused, turned around, walked towards the black van, and broke the necks of several people.
Chu Shici was about to ask him if he felt happier when the system poked its head and said, [Fuck, he’s crying!]
He jumped down quickly and was caught firmly by the snake yao’s pale hands.
Without saying a word, Xunzhe quickly walked to a nearby alley and hid in a deserted corner.
Chu Shici looked up. Zhe-ge’s expression was still lackluster and he didn’t make any sound. Only the tears fell one after another.
The two people’s eyes met, Xunzhe pursed his lips tightly, looked away and at the trash can aside.
His eyes were extremely red, and filled with moisture.
The system hissed several times and found that the male protagonist was crying really sadly. It felt that this was not very appropriate, so it silently put down the camera.
The tears that fell hit Chu Shici’s head, waking him up from his stupor.
He stroked Xunzhe’s fingers gently and said, “Zhe-ge, did anyone bully you like this before you were sealed?”
Xunzhe didn’t react at all, as if he didn’t hear what he said.
“You are obviously trying to do good things, but there are a bunch of people shouting to kill you. These people are afraid of you, countless Taoist priests and monks want to hurt you. Some people are even more disgusting. Not only do they want to kill you, but they also force you.”
After Chu Shici finished speaking, the deserted alley fell into deathly silence.
After a long time, Xunzhe nodded slightly, “Yes, I often encounter these things after I first transformed, so I rarely go down the mountain after. The people outside hate me.”
“Zhe-ge, do you feel wronged?”
Xunzhe was silent for a while, took a deep breath and turned away again.
Chu Shici heard him hum softly.
There were still some slight hints of vulnerability in his voice.
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