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155: A servant descended from the White Bone Mountain, and the remaining soul in the jade slip? (Subscribe)
The mountain, shaped like a fox's head, was strewn with bones.
On a rugged path in the mountain, two skeletal fox monsters, each over eight feet tall with blue flames flickering in their eye sockets, stood one behind the other, carrying a thick bamboo pole on their shoulders.
Tied to the pole was a Demon Cultivator, only its large pig head visible, swaying up and down with each step.
"Bad luck!"
"Two Fox Demon big brothers, can you not eat me!"
"I reek! I've lived in the stinking marsh for years, soaked for so long. All the surrounding Demon Cultivators know that I, Old Pig, am completely inedible!"
"You..."
The Wild Boar Demon, hanging from the bamboo pole, struggled and howled incessantly.
He didn't want to die!
He had been perfectly fine in the stinking ditch, his flesh rotten and his Demonic Qi mixed with many Impurities, chaotic and messy.
Previously, several Demon Cultivators of higher Realm had passed by, intending to take a bite, but all had been driven away by the stench.
But now, what the Wild Boar Demon hadn't expected was that these skeletal fox monsters weren't afraid of the stench at all; they dived directly into the stinking ditch, neatly bound him with a Magical Artifact rope, and then carried him all the way to White Bone Mountain.
These skeletal monsters had no Physical Body; their Cultivation and evolution could only come from devouring the Yin Evil Qi of the wilderness, slowly advancing.
Why they had come to capture small demons like them was something the Wild Boar Demon couldn't comprehend.
The rugged mountain path continued for a moment, then converged onto a wider bluestone slab road. In the forests on both sides of the mountain path, clusters of green scaled ghost fires could be clearly seen burning, and bursts of eerie, strange laughter drifted on the wind from the air, echoing all around.
"Eh?"
"Why were you, this pig, also captured?"
The Wild Boar Demon, resting from his cries of exhaustion, heard a commotion to one side and quickly turned his head to look. What met his eyes were two other burly skeletal fox demons, also carrying a pole, on which was tied a black-haired Lao Yang (Old Goat) with his head exposed.
At this moment, Lao Yang (Old Goat) said with a bitter smile.
"It seems that the Lady on White Bone Mountain is going to make a move against us small demons."
"It's just a pity about that Spiritual Peach tree in my cave. I waited for over ten years, and it was going to bear fruit next year. I won't even get to taste a single one before I die."
Lao Yang (Old Goat) was in low spirits.
Just then, the skeletal fox demons carrying them halfway up the mountain suddenly froze in place as if petrified, unable to move an inch.
Immediately after,
Bang! Bang!
Bang!!
After four muffled thuds, the four skeletal fox monsters then collapsed like unbalanced building blocks, scattering across the ground.
The bones on the ground also shattered.
The poles crashed to the ground, and the two small demons, wrapped like large silkworm cocoons, began to wriggle desperately.
"Stinky Pig, wriggle with all your might! We might not have to die. These skeletal fox monsters suddenly exploded; there must be some change on the mountain. Stick close to me."
"I'll treat you to spiritual peaches next year!"
Lao Yang (Old Goat), still bound, wriggled forward on the ground with all his might. Although he was quite old, his movements were extremely fast when his life was at stake.
The Wild Boar Demon, who was noticeably much larger, simply rolled his body, tumbling down the rugged mountain path towards the foot of the mountain. His speed was many times faster than that of the slender-bodied Lao Yang (Old Goat).
"Damn it."
Lao Yang (Old Goat) watched the Stinky Pig disappear into a cloud of dust in an instant, and couldn't help but show a look of envy. Being fat actually had such benefits.
"It seems all the Yin Evil Qi here has been sucked up by the mountain?"
Lao Yang (Old Goat), wriggling on the ground, saw with his own eyes the clearly visible gray mists rising from the dense forests all around, and even more appeared among the vast white bones on the mountain.
"Such a predatory scavenging of Yin Evil Qi will surely affect the Cultivation environment of this Daoist temple."
"It certainly wouldn't be the work of the Lady of White Bone Mountain."
"Presumably..."
The black-haired Lao Yang (Old Goat) had already guessed something, and his heart was startled. He stopped thinking too much and continued to wriggle down the rugged path to the mountain.
To be so lucky as to survive at this time was incredibly fortunate. He would definitely stay by the Spiritual Peach tree when he returned and never leave his cave again.
...
White Bone Mountain hinterland.
A young woman in a white dress, with a pale face and waist-length white hair, stood respectfully beside Shi Chuan, occasionally glancing at the young man in yellow jade armor next to him.
The wisps of prestige emanating from the Wizard Emperor caused the Lady of White Bone Mountain, Hu Mei, an Early Core Formation stage Cultivator, to feel an uncontrollable sense of fear in her heart.
"Master."
"Hu Mei's Natal Evil Qi is almost overdrawn. If I don't stop, I will vanish into thin air..."
Hu Mei looked at her Human Race master, who was like a bottomless pit, almost draining her Origin Evil Qi. At the same time, the Yin Evil Qi from all over White Bone Mountain continuously gathered.
Such a vast amount of Evil Qi, even if her true form appeared, she would not be able to reach the level of this Human Race master.
After several breaths.
"Foundation Establishment Late Stage Perfection!"
"Good!"
"This trip was not in vain!"
"You, this Evil Demon skeletal fox monster, saved me a lot of Cultivation effort. Most of the Evil Qi has been consumed this time. You will remain here afterward and refine all the Evil Qi into Evil Pearls."
"Just go to Five Elements Immortal City once a month and deliver the Evil Pearls."
Shi Chuan, sensing the several-fold increase in Spiritual Qi within his body, instructed Hu Mei at his side.
Having her continue to refine Evil Pearls here was how she could exert her greatest value.
The Demonic Fiend Vine within his body had also grown slightly, though not by much. He had already reached the threshold of Foundation Establishment advancing to Core Formation, and any improvement at this point was not easy.
"Let's go!"
"To find the Nine Heavens Sword Qi Art!"
Shi Chuan said.
The most important reason for coming to White Bone Mountain this time was, of course, the Nine Heavens Sword Qi Art, which was the key to the Nine Heavens Secret Realm.
...
...
White Bone Mountain, in the southeast, near the outer area.
There was a small mound, over ten zhang high, with numerous potholes and various strange-shaped rocks on its surface.
Crack, crack!
At this moment, a sharp-toothed, bloody mouth several zhang wide appeared beneath the mound, and within the bloody mouth was the body of a Wild Boar Demon, with more than half of its body mangled.
"How strange, these days even small demons can tie themselves up and roll over to their deaths."
"Although there's a lot of meat, it's really a bit stinky."
The mountain-like monkey demon skull chewed the pig demon in its mouth over ten times. The snakes and insects that coexisted with it in its mouth flew onto the shredded meat and devoured it all.
Just as the monkey demon skull finished eating the pig demon, a massive force of heaven and earth instantly compressed from all directions, crushing its mountain-like body into a small ball no bigger than an egg in an instant.
The monkey demon skull shattered into dust, and not a single wisp of the monkey demon's residual Divine Soul managed to escape.
After the mountain-like skull shattered, the Wizard Emperor unleashed his Divine Soul power, which was considerably stronger than that of a Core Formation Great Cultivator, and easily pulled up a section of an unknown broken beast bone from a hundred zhang underground.
Within the beast bone was a green Jade Slip.
"Master, this Jade Slip contains not only a wisp of light and sharp Sword Qi but also a residual Divine Soul."
Dozens of zhang above, the Wizard Emperor's black beast bone shattered inch by inch into dust, revealing the deeply hidden green Jade Slip within the beast bone.