Chen Shi’s gaze was deep, as he glanced at Black Pot.
Black Pot had been worried for him, hanging his head and thinking about how to help his little master when he felt the young master’s gaze. His ears perked up instantly, and he looked at him alertly, ready to bolt at any moment.
"Black Pot, would you like to be my Divine Embryo?"
Chen Shi showed a hopeful expression, gently coaxing, "I’ll take you to the temple, you’ll sit on the shrine, I’ll activate the Cultivation Technique to worship you... Don’t run, Black Pot! Are we brothers or not? Dog bro, wait for me, dog bro! Let me play just once, I won’t trick you!"
One dog in front and one person chasing behind.
After running for who knows how far, suddenly, a cold breeze blew by, and both stopped in their tracks, looking up at the sky.
In front of the two suns, another crescent moon had appeared.
The moonlight emitted by the crescent moon woke up some Evil Spirits in the mountains and woods, and they began to move about.
This cold breeze gave them a very familiar feeling.
Evil, head-twisting herb.
Chen Shi’s face carried a smile as he slowly turned his head.
A pair of invisible hands immediately grabbed his neck, lifting him up and twisting his neck like a twisted dough.
The Evil Spirit was extremely excited.
It recognized this stinky kid; it had grabbed him many times before. Each time it wanted to break his neck, he would always pump up his Qi-Blood, making his neck thicker than his waist, scuppering its attempts!
This time it seized the opportunity brilliantly; the stinky kid didn’t have time to pump up his Qi-Blood and was firmly caught.
This time it was certain it could break his neck!
It was exerting force when suddenly it felt an emptiness in its hand, and the next moment a cold breeze started swirling within the small temple.
The head-twisting herb panicked inexplicably, feeling as if it had fallen into a trap, trying to rush out of this small temple. However, as it just reached outside, it was bounced back.
At this moment, a surge of Righteous Qi marched forward directly, taking control of it. The cold breeze whooshed towards the shrine, and the head-twisting herb was terrified, feeling like it had become someone else’s plaything.
Chen Shi excitedly activated the Three Light Righteous Qi Technique, stepping out the Beidou Seven Stars Step, stretching his hands forward in a reaching motion!
A whistling cold breeze surged from the small temple behind him, and a large tree a hundred yards away seemed to be grasped by a pair of invisible giant hands. It was twisted into several circles and, ultimately unable to withstand the force, the trunk of the tree exploded with a loud crack, scattering wood chips and leaves in all directions!
Chen Shi stopped activating the Cultivation Technique, staring dumbly at the scene before suddenly yelling, leaping into the air, flipping several somersaults before landing with his hands on his hips, and laughing heartily.
"Pot, I don’t need you anymore! I can catch Evil Spirits for cultivation now!"
He swaggered proudly, strutting back and forth in front of Black Pot, "Pot, from now on, I can strut around at Qianyang Mountain!"
Black Pot looked at him with admiration. freewёbnoνel-com
Chen Shi commanded the head-twisting herb to move rocks, and heavy stones levitated into the air.
He had the head-twisting herb squeeze water out of stones.
Then he controlled the head-twisting herb to lift the dog into the air and hold it there while Chen Shi sprinted ahead. The dog stood in mid-air, supported by a cold breeze that pushed him forward, joyous, with its tongue blown crooked to one side.
"Can I use the head-twisting herb to lift myself?" Chen Shi suddenly wondered.
"Why not try and see?"
He excitedly maneuvered the head-twisting herb, and the next moment, he too was floating in the air, just a yard above ground level, but floating, nonetheless.
A dog and a man were carried by the cold wind, rushing excitedly down the mountain.
At the foot of the mountain, a merchant caravan was escorting goods through the mountain pass. Although there were Evil Spirits nowadays, their strength wasn’t high as long as peach talismans were hung on the vehicles for safety.
Moreover, every caravan would hire several Scholars to guard the vehicles.
Though Scholars had their titles, the annual number of Scholars was plentiful like fish crossing a river, so with some money, they were willing to do any work.
And indeed, Scholars were known to be good workers, working harder than oxen and eating less.
On this trading journey, they hired two Scholars to guard the carts all the way, braving the wind and sleeping in the open without a single complaint.
"Everyone be careful, the moon has opened its eyes, beware of evil spirits!"
One Scholar shouted loudly, "Check the Peach Talismans on each cart, make sure they haven’t fallen off or been tampered with. If a Peach Talisman glows, speak up immediately!"
Before he had finished speaking, suddenly from the side of the cliff, a fleshy tentacle descended. It was red on the outside, white on the underside, covered with many suction-cup-like mouthparts containing beak-like teeth. At the tip was a mouth large enough to engulf, and with a whoosh, it enveloped a merchant’s head, dragging him into the tentacle.
The merchant screamed in horror but his mouth and nose were sealed, producing only muffled sounds.
Everyone hastily looked up, only to see numerous fleshy tentacles emerging from a cave on the cliff, dancing in the air. They grabbed the people from the caravan, their mouthparts biting into them, wrapping them up and dragging them toward the cave!
The two Scholars quickly activated their Meridian Evil Slayer Swords, severing tentacle after tentacle.
But immediately, two more tentacles flew toward them, wrapping around both men and dragging them toward the cave!
This was a kind of evil creature that grew in the dark and damp caves, originally a mass of flesh, nourished by evil aura, and after prolonged exposure to moonlight, it transformed into an evil being.
This kind of evil was incredibly elusive; the cave might disappear and then reappear somewhere else, laying traps to catch prey, always catching one off guard.
The cave serpents had just captured these merchants and Scholars and were about to drag them into the cave for consumption when suddenly, a young boy and a dog appeared floating in front of them. The boy looked about eleven or twelve years old, with a small temple floating behind his head.
The next moment, both the cave and the serpents vanished, leaving about a dozen people floating in mid-air before tumbling down with a series of thuds.
The merchants and the Scholars were bewildered. Then another gust of cold wind howled through, bending the trees in the forest chaotically as it passed, fleeing in a shamble.
It looked like another evil creature, but it was not clear why it was fleeing in such a disheveled manner.
Chen Shi saw their peril and summoned the small temple, capturing the cave serpents. However, it seemed as though the small temple could only contain one spirit at a time; if another spirit entered, the original one would be released.
The fleeing gust of wind a moment ago was a decapitated cabbage he had previously caught.
"It seems like the cave serpent is stronger. I wonder if it can aid my cultivation?"
No sooner had Chen Shi thought this than he activated the Three Light Righteous Qi Technique. The cave serpent was rampaging around in the temple, trying to escape the mysterious place, when suddenly an irresistible force struck it, sucking it onto the shrine and making it settle down. Then a surge of Heaven and Earth Righteous Qi flowed into him.
Chen Shi felt the speed of his True Qi’s circulation increasing and couldn’t help but feel joy. Immediately, he pointed his finger and dozens of fleshy tentacles whistled as they flew out from behind his head, each more than ten meters long, churning in the air and biting wildly everywhere with loud snaps.
"Black Pot, this is fun!" Chen Shi exclaimed excitedly.
Black Pot looked at him with terror, barking frantically at him, trying to convey that this really wasn’t fun.
That night, the moon was full, and all was quiet.
Suddenly, under the moonlight, a group of foxes emerged from nowhere. Standing upright like humans, they adorned themselves in red wedding clothes and played trumpets and suonas, making a merry, lively sound.
And behind the procession of foxes, in the midst of a chilling breeze, a large red bridal sedan floated in the air, swaying to the music.
Inside the sedan, a ghost bride set out, searching for solitary individuals in the night to marry.
Just then, they caught sight of a Scholar traveling by night.
The ghost bride was overjoyed, and the ghost foxes played even more vigorously as they approached the Scholar.
When they closed to about two meters away, the chilling wind lifted the sedan curtain, and in the next moment, the Scholar was whisked into the sedan.
The ghost bride was triumphant, ready to proceed, but suddenly the world spun around, and the next instant, she found herself inside a small temple, perched on a shrine.
The ghost bride panicked, wanting to flee, but she couldn’t escape.
Inside the large red sedan, Chen Shi sat, manipulating the ghost bride as he swung back and forth with the sedan. In front of him, the ghost foxes played their instruments, carrying him in a ghostly haze, drifting away.
"Chen Shi, you’ve been tainted by evil spirits, haven’t you?"
From a distance, Granny Sha, the green sheep, and the man with the coiling beard watched the scene. Granny Sha murmured to herself, "Why do I feel like, compared to other evil spirits, Chen Shi is more of an evil spirit himself?"