Chapter 108: Danyangzi

Chapter 108: Danyangzi

This sudden turn of events caught everyone completely off guard.

The tentacles bursting from Li Huowang's mouth instantly stiffened, lashing out toward the nuns ahead.

Once rigid, the tentacles became as hard as iron, instantly piercing the belly of a plump nun; the wound bled not a drop, but instead oozed pale, white fat.

Yet regardless of what seeped from within, the nun's agonizing shrieks introduced a jarring dissonance into the solemn chanting.

As the chanting waned, the fly-formed Bodhisattva lost its solid form, beginning to sag and loosen.

This was merely the beginning; black tentacles, writhing and clinging to Danyangzi's organs, continued to slither from Li Huowang's mouth, frenziedly attacking the other nuns.

The black tentacles hoisted Li Huowang upside down, moving him about like an octopus using its limbs to scuttle across the ground.

The entire arena descended into chaos; just as a plump nun was about to intervene, the flies forming the Bodhisattva in mid-air collapsed.

With the aid of the Danyangzi on the ground, the trapped Danyangzi broke free from his restraints, and the tide of battle instantly reversed.

Jingxin and the others sought to contend with Danyangzi, but found it utterly impossible; without the link of the Pure Mind, they no longer saw Danyangzi at all, only a red-robed Daoist with a dozen writhing tentacles protruding from his mouth.

"We must find a way to make this boy rejoin our Pure Mind, otherwise we cannot affect Danyangzi in the slightest."

"It's no use, Danyangzi is right inside his belly, causing havoc every single moment. Junior Sister, invite the Bodhisattva to possess you; if we delay any longer, disaster will strike the nunnery."

Gazing at Li Huowang hanging upside down in the distance, Jingxin sighed helplessly in her heart; they had come so far, only to fail at the very last step.

Regardless of how others perceived the scene, in Li Huowang's own eyes, there were no tentacles in his mouth and he himself hadn't moved an inch; it was the terrifying Danyangzi, frenziedly attacking those plump nuns.

Jingxin's words from just moments ago had also reached his ears.

"Danyangzi isn't dead? He actually isn't dead? He's been living inside my belly alongside the Black Tai Sui?" A chill instantly coursed through Li Huowang's entire body.

The Danyangzi, who had slaughtered countless people and refined humans into pills, was actually still alive!

Li Huowang had always assumed Danyangzi was merely eroding him spiritually, never imagining that he hadn't spared his physical body either!

Staring at Danyangzi in the distance, Li Huowang's eyes revealed an extreme, burning hatred.

"No! I must do something, I absolutely must do something! I cannot just sit here and wait for death! If I want to finish him off, it will be today!"

Li Huowang's right hand reached for the Record of the Myriad Realms at his waist, while his left hand opened the torture kit at his hem.

Pulling a sharp triangular awl from the kit, Li Huowang gritted his teeth and drove it straight into his palm, pressing down relentlessly; the excruciating pain nearly made him pass out completely, and with his pain sensation doubled, the agony was simply beyond mortal endurance.

Perhaps heightened pain was a blessing when using the Record of the Myriad Realms, but this time, Li Huowang had no intention of using it.

Just as he was about to open the Record, a celestial, ethereal silk ribbon flew over, wrapping around the tome at his waist and flinging it far away.

"My boy, you are to assist your master in achieving immortality, you must not cause trouble for outsiders!" the bald, elderly head on Danyangzi's left side suddenly spoke.

"Assisting one's master in achieving immortality is a great merit! When you eventually step onto the path of cultivation, you will understand!" the middle-aged head in the center said.

"You cannot possibly imagine what I have seen at the edge of the Immortal Realm! I want to go in, I must go in! I am just one step away! Help me!!" the child's head of Danyangzi spoke last.

"Go to hell! I'd rather die than help you again!!" Li Huowang gritted his teeth and forcefully yanked the triangular awl out of his wound.

Danyangzi's interlocking mouths sneered at Li Huowang, "My boy, when it comes to severing the three corpses, you must help whether you want to or not; don't you ever forget who the master is."

"What bullshit about severing the three corpses, do you think I'd still believe your ghostly lies?! If you want my body, just say so! I might have fooled you, but that doesn't mean you can fool me!"

"Let me tell you something! Your flesh and blood, thoroughly twisted by the evil spirits in the elixir ingredients, has been completely warped into a monster! The cultivation method for immortality was all made up by me!!"

Upon hearing this truth, Danyangzi not only failed to show anger, but all six of his eyes simultaneously revealed intense yearning.

"No, I have indeed achieved immortality now; though only a half-immortal, I have truly seen the Southern Heavenly Gate, and I saw gods like myself inside, and even the fairy maidens!"

Li Huowang sneered, "Heh, the Immortal Realm? After chatting with me for so long, haven't you looked at what's right behind you?"

The three heads turned simultaneously, and there before them stood a colossal Guanyin with three heads and six arms, formed entirely from bloated, rotting fat.

"Bang!" The bloated, decaying flesh crashed down, pinning Danyangzi firmly in place.

Half-buried in the fat, Danyangzi turned his head, glaring at Li Huowang with his utterly terrifying eyes.

"Relax, it's just a minor issue; as long as these nuns don't share a telepathic link with you, they can't see me, they're just a bunch of blind fools. What good is all that power?"

"As for you, don't blame your master for speaking harshly; if you obey, you're still my disciple, but if you disobey, you're nothing but a stray dog by the road, and I can kick you to death at any moment! In these matters, there is absolutely nothing you can do."

Hearing this, a rush of blood surged to Li Huowang's brain; gripping the hilt, he instantly raised it and plunged it viciously into his own abdomen, trembling as he slashed to the left, then raised his right hand, missing three fingernails, and plunged it into his own belly to rummage around.

"What are you doing? Stop!" Danyangzi's expression turned exceptionally horrific.

He wanted to intervene and stop him, only to find himself trapped by those nuns.

"Didn't you say there was nothing I could do?" Li Huowang roared at Danyangzi, his eyes bloodshot.

When his fingers brushed against something constantly writhing, resembling a hot water bottle, Li Huowang forcefully tore through the adhering tissues and shakily pulled it out from the wound.

"How about this!" Suppressing the tremors caused by excruciating pain, Li Huowang raised his blade and viciously stabbed it into the stomach in his hand; a massive splash of ink-like black fluid erupted from the wound.

Witnessing this scene, Danyangzi's face instantly turned exceedingly grim.

"You wicked disciple, you have no idea what you're doing! You think you can outmatch me? Don't dream it! Your fate was sealed long ago!"

Gritting his teeth, Li Huowang stabbed down fiercely once more, this time piercing completely through the entire stomach.

"Sealed? I refuse to believe in such nonsense!! Baldy!! This isn't over!!"

(End of Chapter)