Chapter 842: Chapter 541: Tao Qian Slaughters at the Pass, Moon God’s Clan Offers Slavery
Source Qi Tide, along with the extradimensional secret Great Books among them...
If some inexperienced cultivators were to encounter these, they would inevitably be overjoyed, thinking they’d stumbled upon a great opportunity.
Unfortunately, standing on that Miraculous Tree Treasure Boat was Daoist Peach Blossom, Master Tao Da.
What kind of bait and trap has he not seen before? Compared to the methods of Immortal Fish Daoist Li Wanshou and the others, the scene before him was truly clumsy.
He suddenly showed a look of exasperation and said to the floating book "Void Refining Ghost Scripture":
"You ugly thing!"
"If you want to tempt me into making a mistake, to incorporate you into my body and seize my Dharma Body while mixing into this realm, why not be more generous and send some good items?"
"Just a mere booklet, it’s so shabby."
After saying this, there was no need for Tao Qian to act personally.
The Shocking God Bell transformed by the Wandering God’s son sensed its master’s intention and automatically rang out.
The book was attacked, and with a "boom," it exploded into fine light mist, revealing a peculiar evil inside the mist.
It looked like a Mountain Ghost spirit, with pale skin. The excessive and fatty baggy skin hung around its body like large tumors. Its head was like a large sun melon, devoid of a mouth, nose, or ears, with only a single eye in the center. Threads of icy ghostly aura spilled forth, causing anyone who looked into it to quickly feel intense discomfort.
Because of the bell sound, this evil great ghost’s Dharma Body trembled, like a cloud of mist that might disperse at any moment.
Forced to reveal its true form, it was extremely terrified, its Dharma Body turning translucent, clearly planning to flee.
At that moment, Tao Qian suddenly had a thick book in his hand.
On the cover were three large characters, which boldly read "Records of Strange Compilations."
This book was given to him by Aunt Pan Si, knowing Tao Qian’s intention to practice and seek the Tao outside, she specially gathered it from the Scripture Hall.
Its author was an elder of the Spirit Treasure Sect named "Li Mei," known as Master Wenhua. This uncle had no interest in cultivating immortality and the Art of Longevity, preferring to collect and record strange entities and events from all over the world. Unsatisfied with seeing everything in the Longevity Realm, he practiced peculiar Divine Skills, borrowed specialized Magical Treasures, and ventured multiple times into the Outer Realm. He secretly observed and studied the myriad abnormal phenomena in the Great Abyss Origin Sea, writing this book in the process.
Unfortunately, this uncle paid the price before he could write much. After a certain expedition, he disappeared in the Outer Realm.
Even so, his fragmented books still recorded many extradimensional entities and events.
Tao Qian glanced at the great ghost before him, swiftly turning to a page, and the corresponding record emerged:
"Void Big Ghost, Origin Sea anomaly, spawned within various Yin Qi, possessing the extraordinary power of ’traveling through all heavens.’ However, its Dharma Body is weak, without other slaughter Divine Powers, usually using deception to seize other life forms for blood food."
"Sometimes sighted by Outer Realm Evil Gods, spells are cast to create cages, capturing it as pets, raised for a hundred years, later fed to a Ghost King and ordered to steal items."
"Once encountered by immortals and True Gods, it’s captured through spells, placed in a Pill Furnace, and refined into Void Breaking Realm Elixirs. The Taishang Dao and Secret Demon Sect Daoists particularly favor this ghost for making such elixirs."
"I didn’t expect you, ugly thing, to be a useful spiritual material after all."
"Without a True Monarch’s Elixir Furnace, please try my newly refined ’True Fire of Suppressing Evil’ instead."
As he read this final line of the entry aloud.
Tao Qian suddenly opened his mouth, breathing a wisp of red smoke filled with sparks at the great ghost unable to escape the sound of the Shocking God Bell.
This red smoke seemed ordinary at first.
But a second glance would cause disorientation, letting one see numerous tiny light balls in their mind, converging, jumping, and chattering, bursting forth with a power capable of destroying and burning everything.
The Void Big Ghost couldn’t even struggle, evaporated in an instant by the red smoke.
Its Dharma Body’s filth and anomalies vanished, leaving a bean-sized pale elixir, swept back into Tao Qian’s hand by the red smoke.
"Breaking Realm Elixir, top-grade."
"Mm, everything in cultivation has a price. The ghost’s attempt to seize was the cause, being refined by my True Fire of Suppressing Evil into a Spirit Pill is the effect; it’s quite reasonable."
Tao Qian’s words were of little concern to the uncles and aunts who were closely observing the battle.
What truly surprised them was the new Divine Power Tao Qian used.
"New," yet not so new, for the terrifying light balls within the red smoke were clearly the Outer Heaven Flame Essence he had previously summoned and controlled.
Compared to three years ago, these spirits with terrifying destructive power had been instructed by Tao Qian into a new Divine Power.
"What a powerful True Fire of Suppressing Evil. I wonder how it compares to the Taishang Dao’s Samadhi True Fire?"
"It must be stronger, knowing that it contains the Outer Heaven Flame Essence. Within or outside the realm, nothing can’t be burned."
"We also don’t know the price of refining this Divine Power, though if one can bear it, venturing into the Outer Realm to seek the Tao, or participating in the unfortunate Absolute Immortal Competition, survival chances will greatly increase."
"I fear it is difficult, Nephew Tao is an anomaly, we cannot rashly compare ourselves to him."
While the elders and disciples were all in shock and awe.
Tao Qian, seemingly addicted, began a long spree of slaughter that lasted several hours.
His temperament remained lazy, sitting cross-legged inside the Treasure Boat, facing countless evil spirit demons coming openly or hidden, following the billions of Source Qi Tides. He used no other Divine Skills.
Just one mouthful of True Fire of Suppressing Evil, refining countless demons to death.
All the while holding the "Records of Strange Compilations," flipping pages, identifying the backgrounds and origins of various extradimensional demons.
The other hand rang the Shocking God Bell, sending the bell toll to these invading evil spirits.
As for the price?
He paid with mana, and in return, he collected numerous elixirs with various effects.
This scene truly makes one envious beyond measure.
However, gradually, as time passed, Tao Qian’s expression began to turn grave.
He could clearly sense the treasure boat beneath him beginning to float upwards, the force and might of the oncoming tide becoming increasingly violent.
The various evil spirit demons that accompanied it inside were also becoming stronger and stronger.
A foreboding of crisis surged forth.
"The Star Aperture Secret Realm absorbs Source Qi, initially in trickles, small rivers, and streams, and the ’fish, shrimp, and crabs’ that grow within are indeed frail and weak."
"This first wave, I can handle easily."
"But as the breach grows larger, the absorption power becomes more overwhelming, and the incoming Source Qi becomes enormously vast."
"The real danger is coming."
It was almost at the moment this thought rose in Tao Qian’s heart.
Before him, on the other end of the tide, suddenly came the unusual sound of rushing water, followed by the shadows of some evil spirit demons that were lurking, cowering and screaming as they avoided it.
Tao Qian immediately sensed it, and with his Spiritual Resonance Eye open, he peered over.
The next moment, a scene that stunned him and many elders and disciples was birthed.
Rabbits!
Within the incomparably magnificent tide of Source Qi converged by countless stellar fragments, at this moment, countless rabbits were leaping forward.
Tao Qian immediately recalled the Offspring of the Evil God "Rabbit Immortal" who came from outside the realm, sniffing for him when he had mutated and fallen into demonic paths.
Evidently, these were of the same kindred as the Rabbit Immortal before him.
What differed was the level of their evolution, thus their forms varied.
Most were "Rabbit-men", covered in fur, wholly snow-white, with red eyes and ivory-like teeth.
A few were "Rabbit Immortals" or "Rabbit Demons", each having cultivated into a dharma body strange form, either clad in armor, draped in silk clothes and Daoist robes, or even holding Magical Treasures like Herbal Crushing Pestles, horsetail whisks, and Spiritual Knives.
Without exception, they were all female, so when they came running, clusters of soft flesh or uncovered female parts could be seen.
Some might consider this a marvelous sight.
However, at this moment, Tao Qian only felt horrified, greatly uncomfortable.
Tens of thousands of Rabbit-men, along with several hundred Rabbit Immortals and Rabbit Demons, were staring intently at Tao Qian with their malicious, eerie scarlet eyeballs.
Being watched by them, Tao Qian felt a strange sensation in his trance.
At first, he felt himself being dragged by these Rabbit Immortals, pulled into a cold, ancient palace, taken by them in turns for their Absorb technique, and subsequently placed into a stone jar, pounded by enormously thick Herbal Crushing Pestles, ground into a fine, sticky paste, used as a medicinal lead, and fed to a huge Evil God whose outline was unseen.
At this moment, he didn’t need to consult the "Records of Strange Compilations", as detailed records naturally erupted in his mind:
"Currently suffering an assault from the ’Xuan Yin Inversion Confusion Technique,’ this technique originates from the Outer Realm Moon God lineage, a deity both righteous and evil, born from Innate Yin Qi, residing in the Guanghan Palace deep within the Source Sea, accompanied by a parasitic evil god [Rabbit God], who breeds once every ten thousand years, gradually proliferating into a clan of Rabbit-men kindred."
"The Moon God holds some enmity with the Doumu lineage, hence whenever its kindred senses the Doumu aura, malice arises inevitably, coming to disturb."
"Rabbit-men can choose their gender upon birth, but since the whole tribe worships the Moon God, they invariably choose to be female."
"Every Rabbit-man born can inherit two Basic Methods from their bloodline, one is the ’Herbal Crushing Technique’, the other is the ’Supplementing Moon Technique.’"
"If they cultivate the Herbal Crushing Technique, they may advance to Rabbit Immortal in the future."
"If they practice the Supplementing Moon Technique, they will turn into Rabbit Demons in the future."
"This clan of Rabbit-men, numbering ten thousand and five hundred, was near the Source Sea collecting Innate Yin Qi, aiming to refine Immortal Pills as Tribute to the Moon God. Sensing the Doumu lineage aura, they came specifically to seek revenge."
When Tao Qian read the last secret and was greatly enlightened.
He also conjured a thought to break free from the ’Enchanting God Technique’, awakening from that terrifying illusion.
And in front of him, a group of eerie Rabbit-men clan also realized this Daoist sitting on the treasure boat was no easy target.
The terrifying True Fire, that Shocking God Bell, made them frown and hesitate.
Nevertheless, none of them left due to the deep-seated enmity.
Then two completely different Rabbit-men came forward in unison.
One, with a rabbit head and human body, wielding a snow-white horsetail whisk, celestial aura flowing, dressed in a knee-length skirt, prominently displaying two clusters of white soft flesh, truly eye-catching.
The other was entirely a rabbit body, holding a Herbal Crushing Pestle, almost naked, with only a red silk ribbon covering a few key areas, but hardly anyone seeing it would feel lust, as this "Rabbit Immortal’s" dharma body truly wasn’t enchanting, only visible were knots of muscles and bulging veins, like a reincarnated strongman.
Judging by appearance alone, an ordinary person would probably assume the former to be a Rabbit Immortal and the latter a Rabbit Demon.
Yet the reality was quite the opposite.
This pair of Rabbit Immortal and Demon came forward, offering Tao Qian a salute, then the Rabbit Demon spoke:
"Human Clan Cultivator from the Longevity Realm, we are the kindred of the great Moon God and initially didn’t wish to trouble you."
"But we sensed the enemy’s aura behind you, so we ask you to step aside, let us go in and drag the enemy out to devour."
"I know you Human Clan Cultivators crave our Rabbit-men clan’s service the most."
"If you agree, then in return, or as a cost."
"We are willing to offer a hundred clansmen, let them be your servants, for you to Absorb from, or have them help with Alchemy... If you treat them well, the Moon God might be willing to meet you, bestowing you gifts."