classifiedscript Chapter 136 The Death of the Blood Demon, the Gluttonous Jade Pendant, and the Grandmaster's Hu
Chapter 136 The Death of the Blood Demon, the Gluttonous Jade Pendant, and the Grandmaster's Hu
Chapter 136 The Death of the Blood Demon, the Gluttonous Jade Pendant, and the Grandmaster's Human Skin
Oh no, they're coming for me!
At the back of the group, Xia Yunyi noticed something was wrong and immediately reacted by instinctively retreating to the side.
But no matter how fast he reacted, he couldn't outrun that blood-red shadow.
The blood-red figure spewed blood energy in the air, then suddenly veered to the left, still lunging towards Xia Yunyi.
The moment the blood shadow made contact with him, it stretched out and enveloped his entire body.
"Although it's only at the Bone Refining level, it's better than nothing. Every little bit helps." The Blood Demon grinned, gradually turning into a blood cocoon, his features moving erratically within it.
No matter how the four people from Cangjian Peak slashed at it, it was to no avail. The blood cocoon only dented for a moment, and then it wriggled back to its original shape.
Modi intended to help, but the half-body hanging from the spear tip began to writhe, lengthen, stretch, and transform into countless tiny blood vessels that spread downwards from the spear tip.
"Who gave you the audacity to play with blood in front of me?"
The blood vessels were almost within reach, but Mo Di showed no fear on his face and reached out to grasp them from afar.
The deathly aura of the Styx pulsed with the blood imprint, swirling up the countless blood threads formed from the half-body, dissolving and melting them.
The Styx River flowed into Modi's hand, which he casually flicked, striking the blood cocoon.
The sound of the waves was incessant. The four people from Cangjian Peak turned around and were shocked to see a blackish-red river lashing down, like the Milky Way pouring down from the sky and sweeping across the world.
They could even clearly see the skeletons floating in the river, and the blurry figures walking on the waves.
Swelling.
After a deafening roar, the Styx River, like a knife, precisely struck the blood cocoon, and the surging death energy of the Styx River completely engulfed it.
Under the constant erosion of the Styx's deathly aura, the blood cocoon rapidly dissolved, revealing a look of terror on the face of the blood demon on the cocoon.
"What is this thing? How can it so effectively control me?!"
Seeing that the blood cocoon was about to dissipate, he had no choice but to threaten, "Stop right now, or I'll completely digest that kid inside!"
"Oh, then you can digest it. Anyway, he and I are not related." Mo Di pretended to be indifferent, using the Styx Death Qi to shut his mouth, not even giving him a chance to beg for mercy.
In a short while, the blood cocoon vanished, revealing Xia Yunyi, who had been completely enveloped by it.
"Huh? This kid is completely unharmed?"
According to his speculation, even if Xia Yunyi didn't die, it's impossible for him to be completely unharmed; more likely, he would be covered in blood and gore.
But the reality was the opposite of his prediction.
The deathly aura of the Styx flowed past the boy without harming a hair on his head, but it did come into contact with the only item he still possessed.
It was a jade pendant, shaped like a glutton, and seemed to emit a faint blood-red light because it had come into contact with the Blood Demon.
Modi tried to probe into it with his spiritual sense, but encountered an obstacle. With his weakened spiritual sense, he couldn't detect what was inside at all.
Just as he temporarily abandoned the idea and was about to withdraw his spiritual consciousness, the jade pendant suddenly unleashed a powerful suction force, tearing apart and devouring his wisp of spiritual consciousness.
Along with it, the surrounding Styx death energy was also swallowed up.
"This thing is interesting, a mysterious jade pendant... Could it be some kind of protagonist's standard accessory?"
Modi ordered the Styx's death energy to move slightly away from the unconscious boy, lest it be swallowed by the jade pendant.
Once the jade pendant had calmed down, he used his spiritual sense to scan Xia Yunyi's body inch by inch.
This scan actually revealed something quite remarkable.
"His bone-refining progress has undoubtedly improved somewhat. Could it be that the function of that jade pendant is to devour and nourish?"
Modi tried to remove the jade pendant, but whenever he got close or tried to remove it by other means, the jade pendant would activate on its own, hindering his actions.
He suspected that the jade pendant possessed a spirit, and only those it approved of, such as Xia Yunyi, could use it safely.
"Could it be a cheat code for a weak protagonist to rise to power? With such a bizarre ability, this jade pendant must be at least a divine weapon."
After staring at the jade pendant for a while, Mo Di gave up the idea of keeping it and instead set his sights on Xia Yunyi.
Regardless, being recognized by the divine weapon suggests that this young man's luck isn't too bad.
Perhaps he might encounter the legendary celestial book.
It is essential to conduct covert surveillance on him and record any valuable information he encounters.
Modi snapped his fingers, rubbing his thumb and forefinger together to create a spark of karmic fire.
Although the Crimson Lotus Mark has been weakened, the Flame can still be used to locate and store information.
Once the jade pendant calmed down once more, the seed of karmic fire fell into Xia Yunyi's body, hiding deep within his soul.
"All done." Modi withdrew the Styx River and released Xia Yunyi into the outside world.
Inside the dilapidated temple, Zhang Lingjun saw the black and red river, curled up in a ball, disappear. He rushed forward and caught Xia Yunyi, who had fallen from the River Styx.
Xia Yunyi was currently covered by a black robe, which concealed his jade pendant to prevent it from being seen by outsiders.
After carefully checking Xia Yunyi's breathing and pulse, Zhang Lingjun breathed a sigh of relief and said gratefully:
"Thank you so much, Taoist priest, for saving our lives. If it weren't for you, the five of us would probably have died in this temple."
Modi gave a nonchalant reply, ignoring the five survivors, and walked straight toward the Buddha statue.
There were still some loose ends left inside the Buddha statue for him to clean up.
The dragon's flames continued to scorch the Buddha statue, leaving only the very core part unmelted.
Ignoring the scorching dragon flames, Modi reached into the hole the Blood Demon had created, pulled it out sharply, and retrieved a pool of blood-red gel from the hole.
On the gel, a blurry face slowly flowed, its features constantly shifting, emitting low, hoarse groans:
"Spare me, spare my life, and I'll give you the complete 'Treatise on the Abundance of Qi, Blood, and Nutrition'."
"Do you think I can't get it if you don't ask?" Modi remained unmoved, and four-colored flames suddenly rose from his hand, burning the blood-red gel to ashes.
"Ah-yi"
The Blood Demon's screams abruptly ceased, the gel completely vanished, revealing what it had enveloped beneath.
Modi extinguished the four-colored flames, looked at the leather with a texture similar to human skin, and raised an eyebrow.
Even though it had just been burned by four-colored flames, the leather was still intact and felt cool to the touch, like the smooth and tender skin of a young woman.
It is obvious that the original owner of this skin must have been a highly skilled cultivator, probably a grandmaster standing at the pinnacle of the martial arts world.
After scanning the leather with his spiritual sense and analyzing it for a moment, Modi deduced roughly how long it had existed.
"This piece of skin, although it feels almost like it was just picked, is probably over a hundred years old. It has not rotted or decayed even after a hundred years, truly worthy of being called the skin of a master."
Modi spread the leather out in his hand and glanced at it from right to left, discovering that it was covered with a bunch of tadpole-like characters, densely packed, almost completely covering one side of the leather.
He spent a few seconds memorizing all the tadpole-like characters, then flipped to the back to make sure there were no other characters on it before referring to the Blood Demon page in the Bloodstained Book to translate the tadpole-like characters.
With the knowledge of the Blood Demon recorded in the book as a reference, he didn't spend much time translating the tadpole-like script on the leather.
As he expected, the text on this piece of leather contained the "Treatise on the Abundance of Qi, Blood, and Nutrition".
Besides this technique, it also records some of the creator's... well, let's just call it his ramblings.
"Does anyone recognize the reign title 'Yongning'?"
Modi turned around and asked the five people from Hidden Sword Peak.
Apart from Xia Yunyi, who was still unconscious, the other four were initially stunned, and then showed thoughtful expressions.
Zhang Lingjun pondered for a moment, then suddenly slammed his fist down. "Yongning... I remember now, it was a reign title used by the Great Qian Dynasty."
The first year of the Yongning era was more than two hundred years ago.
"So that's how it is, over two hundred years ago."
Having confirmed the date of composition of "On the Prosperity of Qi, Blood and Nutrition", Mo Di continued to study the contents on the human skin.
Behind him, the four members of Cangjian Peak, having nothing to do, began to whisper among themselves.
Ma Hong looked at Zhang Lingjun with surprise and said, "Senior Brother Zhang, I didn't expect you to know this too."
"There are many biographies and miscellaneous books in the library. I just read a lot of books in my spare time. Reading more books is always beneficial." Zhang Lingjun scratched the back of his head and smiled sheepishly.
After recovering, Tian Qingyi regained her lively spirit and said with a smile:
"Senior Brother Zhang, the sect competition is just around the corner. It is said that the other four sects will be invited to co-host this time. How can you still have the mind to read miscellaneous books?"
"Hehe, with my skill level, even if I went on stage, I wouldn't get any rankings, so why bother with all that hard work preparing?"
Zhang Lingjun wasn't embarrassed at all; instead, he chuckled and didn't care what others thought.
"Senior Brother Zhang, you've already entered the inner sect and become a disciple of Zhushan, so naturally you don't need to worry about these trivial matters."
The horse-faced youth, his face contorted in a grimace, his already small eyes almost reduced to slits, continued:
"But we are still outer disciples. I heard that as long as we rank among the top in the competition, we can not only enter the inner sect, but also choose which lineage to join."
"If we cannot achieve a ranking in the competition, even if we enter the inner sect, we will be at the mercy of the various branches."
Tian Qingyi echoed, "I want to join the Qingming Palace, but there are too many people who share the same idea. I can only try and see if I can get a high ranking in the competition."
"The Azure Nether Palace, huh? That ranks fourth among all the sects." Zhang Lingjun nodded, then looked at the icy girl beside him, "Junior Sister Su, what about you? Which sect do you want to join?"
Su Miao'an uttered only two words: "Bitter Mountain".
"Bitter Mountain?" He raised an eyebrow, seemingly quite surprised by the answer.
The others reacted similarly, all looking at her with surprise.
Looking at the entire Hidden Sword Peak, Bitter Mountain is a very special lineage.
Although it has consistently ranked third in Cangjian Peak, it only has one person in the entire lineage, which led several elders of Cangjian Peak to propose eliminating the Kushan lineage.
However, the previous sect leader of Kushan had made great contributions, so the sect leader rejected these proposals several times.
There is another possibility: according to rumors, the remaining disciples of Kushan once drew their swords and stormed to the door of the elders, forcing them to stay inside, and the matter was thus dropped.
The entire Bitter Mountain was supported by that disciple, who is said to have already reached the Divine Gang Realm and is about to be promoted to an elder.
Tian Qingyi suddenly spoke up: "Speaking of which, that senior sister from Bitter Mountain seems to also have the surname Su. Could it be that you know Senior Sister Su?"
Under everyone's gaze, a hint of reminiscence flashed in Su Miao'an's eyes, and she nodded, "I suppose so."
As the group from Hidden Sword Peak were talking, Mo Di gently put down the human skin, raised his head, and had already grasped the essence of the "Treatise on the Flourishing of Qi and Blood".