744: Mountains of corpses and seas of blood, Flower-Fruit Mountain

“This place is a bit creepy.”

“Are you sure it’s Mount Huaguo?”

Nezha plunged his Fire-tipped Spear into the dark red soil, then slightly lifted the spear tip, pulling out several crimson threads mixed with decaying leaves.

Under the scorching of the Samadhi True Fire, pus and blood rose in green smoke, emitting a pungent stench.

A fishy wind swept through the withered branches; those boughs once laden with fruit were now twisted into bone-claw shapes.

The mountain stream had long become a Sauce purple mud pit, bubbling with pus.

On the bare, desolate mountaintop, tattered banners could still be seen in the distance.

The remaining “Great Sage” on the flag fluttered silently under the dim sky.

“From the layout, it is indeed Mount Huaguo without a doubt.”

“It seems those monkey descendants, and all the creatures in the mountain, have turned into blood.”

Yang Jian guessed.

His fingertips traced the scorched mountain rock, and in his mind, illusions of the mountain teeming with spiritual monkeys, offering peaches, appeared.

Those furry monkey descendants were docile, adorable, and highly spiritual.

Now, they had turned into dust in the fishy wind and blood in the mud.

“What a sin!”

Yang Jian’s throat moved, revealing a sorrowful expression that shouldn’t have been there.

He had once saved Mount Huaguo from the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.

It was that act of kindness, “setting the mountain on fire,” that forged his friendship with the monkeys.

But he never expected that the creatures of Mount Huaguo would still not escape this ordeal of life and death.

“Damn bald donkeys!”

“Don’t they refrain from killing?”

“I consider myself a demon, but compared to those people from Spirit Mountain, I’m still a bit kinder.”

“I wonder how furious Great Sage Equal to Heaven will be when he wakes up and sees this scene!”

Nezha gritted his teeth and said hatefully.

Blood could be trampled from the soil; how many lives had been killed?

Qin Yang, on the other hand, was very calm.

There was blood, there were departed Souls.

Doesn’t that mean they aren’t dead?

Qin Yang, who possessed the Hell Path, had an exceptionally keen perception of departed Souls.

The moment he stepped onto Mount Huaguo, strong Soul fluctuations surged into his Divine Sense like a tide.

He immediately realized that a vast number of Souls existed here.

These Souls varied in form: there were birds and beasts, and insects and snakes.

But more often, they were monkeys with hairy faces and thunder god mouths.

They either floated in the air or roamed among the bare rocks, and most of them wore armor and carried weapons, as if ready for battle at any moment.

These monkeys still maintained a state of readiness for battle.

They must have foreseen trouble at Mount Huaguo and were preparing to deal with it.

But for the gods and Buddhas to destroy Mount Huaguo, there was no need to engage these monkeys in direct combat.

Without Great Sage Equal to Heaven, the monkey descendants were nothing more than mayflies and ants to the gods and Buddhas.

But that was good too.

No engagement, no losses.

The flesh and departed Souls were all intact.

“After resurrecting these monkey descendants, Sun Wukong will also owe me a favor.”

Qin Yang thought to himself.

As long as the Souls and flesh had not been lost, he could resurrect these monkey descendants just as he had resurrected six hundred million citizens.

And the golden cymbal only transformed living beings into blood, it did not digest them.

The “Materials” for resurrecting these monkey descendants should be intact.

Thinking of this, Qin Yang summoned the human emperor banner.

“Brother Qin, what are you doing…?”

As soon as Yang Jian saw Qin Yang take out the human emperor banner, he immediately realized something.

Qin Yang said nothing, only waved the human emperor banner.

Instantly, the dark clouds in the sky were stirred by an invisible force.

In the cool breeze carrying a fishy smell, bursts of mournful wails echoed.

At the same time, wisps of eerie blue departed Souls appeared everywhere on the mountain, densely packed.

There were birds and beasts, snakes and insects, and also those monkey descendants who had died defending the Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s “tomb.”

They all received an irresistible summons, soaring into the air like a school of fish, flying towards the human emperor banner in Qin Yang’s hand.

“How could I bear to make Great Sage Equal to Heaven sad?”

“The creatures of Mount Huaguo, like Great Sage Equal to Heaven, will all come back to life.”

Qin Yang said with a smile, while collecting the Souls into the banner.

Hearing these words, both Yang Jian and Nezha were filled with admiration.

Nezha sighed, “Standing with the Human Emperor is our most correct decision.”

Yang Jian glanced at Nezha and said, “It was clearly my decision. You weren’t planning to join me back then. If it weren’t for Qin Yang, you’d still be cowering by Li Jing’s side.”

“Tsk…”

“Was I cowering?”

Nezha clicked his tongue, and said proudly, “I was being filial! Li Jing has my father in his hands! You can lay hands on your uncle and nephew, but can I lay hands on my father?”

“Lotus root spirit! Don’t keep picking on Chen Xiang for no reason!” Yang Jian said angrily, his face showing that his heart had been pierced.

Nezha grinned, “Heh! You have one rare flaw, and you won’t let me pick on it? I will! When Great Sage Equal to Heaven wakes up later, I’ll pick on it with him!”

Just as Yang Jian and Nezha were bickering, they heard Qin Yang say, “Stop arguing, there’s something happening.”

Yang Jian and Nezha were both startled at the same time, then quickly came to their senses and also discovered the problem.

They saw the dark red ground beneath their feet churning like a mud pit.

In the spring of blood plasma, something seemed to be struggling to crawl out.

Seeing that something was wrong, the three immediately soared into the air.

Only after looking down from above did they see the full picture.

Those creatures that should have turned into blood had, under the influence of some evil power, re-formed into flesh and blood, becoming blood corpses, struggling to crawl out of the mud.

The faces of these blood corpses were hideous and terrifying,

As if they were evil spirits that had walked out of Hell.

Their forms were even more bizarre, making one’s SAN (sanity value) drop just by looking at them.

Some blood corpses had two monkey heads, but their bodies were incomplete, even lacking arms and legs.

Others had no heads at all, but bizarrely grew three arms.

All blood corpses either had missing limbs or overgrown organs.

It was like different severed body parts were haphazardly pieced together.

Qin Yang was not surprised by this.

The creatures of Mount Huaguo had turned into blood and had undergone Fusion.

The blood corpses they transformed into naturally no longer distinguished between you and me.

“Peh! How disgusting!”

Nezha cursed, and the lotus ornament on his shoulder immediately transformed into Samadhi True Fire, wanting to incinerate these blood corpses.

But he quickly realized that these blood corpses were the Materials Qin Yang needed to resurrect the monkey descendants, and immediately stopped.

He bowed to the ground from the air, “Esteemed monkey lords, we are here to save Great Sage Equal to Heaven, we are on your side, so please be accommodating.”

At this moment, Qin Yang said, “No need to talk to them, they won’t listen.”

Yang Jian also nodded and said, “These blood corpses should be controlled. I can sense their killing intent.”

“Controlled?”

“This golden cymbal is Maitreya Buddha’s Magic Treasure.”

“If these blood corpses are being manipulated, it can only be Maitreya Buddha.”

Nezha asked in confusion, a flash of anger in his eyes, “Could this be a trap?”

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