On the Avenue.

Chapter 374: Jing Hong's Evil Transformation (Part )
Chen Shi, Yu Lingzi and Hei Guo followed Master Qiongyang to the outside of the Demon-Suppressing Cave. Qiongyang looked at the Taihua Mountains under the moonlight and frowned slightly.

She didn't know where Jinghong would go at this moment.

The sky was slightly turbulent, and a vast void appeared silently, like a narrow eyelid slowly opening. Her soul hid in it, observing the movements of the mountains below.

She is already a master of the Mahayana realm. Although her Void realm has not yet been refined to be as smooth as a willow leaf, her cultivation is extremely profound, comparable to the ancestors of the thirteen families.

"Xiao Shi, Yu Lingzi, I will hide in the sky, you go into the mountains to search!"

The figure of the Qiongyang Patriarch disappeared without a trace, and a voice came from nowhere, "You have to be careful, when he transforms, he can change into anyone's appearance!"

Chen Shi and Yu Lingzi looked at each other and shuddered.

The Golden Cicada Shedding its Shell and Becoming a Heavenly Immortal is a method used by the Taihua Qing Palace to cultivate into a ghost immortal. This method focuses on transformation and ejaculation. Chen Shi had seen this method in the tomb of King Zhen, but had never practiced it.

This was originally an authentic Taoist technique, but when it was practiced by a powerful being like Master Jinghong who had already begun to transform into an evil being, the technique might have taken on a sinister and strange quality.

"Yu Lingzi, do you remember who killed Fan Kongliu?" Chen Shi approached Yu Lingzi and asked intentionally or unintentionally.

Yu Lingzi's eyes flickered. "No one killed Fan Kongliu. I held Fan Kongliu's legs upside down and threw him into the Dragon Locking Well in Qixia Temple. True King, do you still remember the name of the path leading to the Moon-Raising Hall in Qixia Temple?"

"White Jade Path." Chen Shi said.

They both breathed a sigh of relief and let down their guard.

Chen Shi grabbed a handful of leaves and blew them out. Many leaves turned into birds and flew away.

"The Xu family's magic?" Yu Lingzi was slightly stunned.

Chen Shi said: "It is actually a simple transformation talisman. You only need to hide a breath of energy in the transformation talisman and use the creation method to transform many small objects into birds. Using their eyes as eyes, you can see many things that you cannot see normally."

Yu Lingzi shook his head and said, "The talisman is too complicated. I don't have the talent for it. I practiced the Shadow Following Technique of Taihua Qing Palace."

He activated this spell, and under the moonlight, his shadow suddenly split into dozens of pieces. These dozens of shadows stood up like people, or stuck to the ground, running fast, jumping around, climbing, and searching in different directions.

Chen Shi was surprised. Many of the Taoist methods collected in the True King's Tomb were to prevent the loss of lost knowledge. Therefore, only the exercises were included, but not many spells. Often there were exercises but no methods of use. He had never seen the shadow-following method used by Yu Lingzi.

As Yu Lingzi ran, he said, "Yin is the shadow of Yang; ghost is the shadow of man; moon is the shadow of sun; emotion is the shadow of nature. Yang, man, sun, nature are all the masters of Yin, ghost, moon and emotion. Once the master is determined, the shadow follows. This is the subtlety of the shadow following method."

Chen Shi took some more leaves and blew on them. The leaves turned into birds and flew towards the mountains.

Hei Guo followed behind them, his eyes penetrating both the Yin and Yang worlds, searching for any movement in the world of the living and the dead at the same time.

Sometimes it disappeared into the underworld, and sometimes it poked its head out from the underworld, looked around, and then retracted back.

The two men and the dog were searching along the mountain range. A giant spirit in the mountains leaned over and looked at them. It turned out to be a girl in red clothes with clear eyes. She whispered to them what they were looking for.

She is the spirit of a demon tree. She has never been deified and calls herself Huan Fei.

Chen Shi's heart was slightly moved, and he said, "Huan Fei, we are looking for Master Jing Hong. Have you seen him today?"

Princess Huan swayed like a willow in the wind, her waist lithe, and said, "I've never seen him. Didn't Master Jinghong pass away?"

Chen Shi asked, "After the death of Master Jinghong, did you find anything unusual in the mountain?"

Princess Huan asked curiously, "What's unusual? Oh, by the way, one night, I found two Tiger brothers. Is that unusual?"

"Two Tiger brothers?"

Yu Lingzi's heart was slightly moved, and he said, "Senior Brother Hu is Hu Ben, a powerful spirit in the mountains. By the way, Hu Ben has disappeared for a long time."

Similar demons often disappear, often moving to other places to become local godmothers, but Taihua Qing Palace turns a blind eye to this.

Princess Huan said, "Since that night, the two Tiger brothers have disappeared. I find it very strange."

"Hu Ben was eaten by Master Jinghong." Chen Shi and Yu Lingzi looked at each other and thought.

At this time, a stream of light flew over, and Chen Shi reached out and grabbed the light. It was the Jade Seal of the King of the West.

His eyes flickered, and he activated the jade seal, smiling, "Princess Huan, what is the name of the mountain you are on?"

Princess Huan said: "Xiuyun Peak is taken from the meaning of Yun Wuxin coming out of Xiu."

Chen Shi raised the Jade Seal of the Western King, which shone brightly, lighting up the Xiuyun Peak of Mount Taihua. He said in a deep voice, "Today, I, Chen Shi, exercise the power of the True King and confer the title of Zhenling Huanfei as the mountain god of Xiuyun Peak. I will mobilize the spirits and ministers of the entire mountain and exercise the power of the land! I decree this!"

As he placed his seal, the light of the Western King's Jade Seal faded and it imprinted onto the exposed skin of Concubine Huan's arm. Concubine Huan tried to dodge but failed and was imprinted on her chest.

She wiped it hastily, crying, "It can't be wiped off."

Chen Shi consoled him, "It will disappear. Try to mobilize the divine power."

Upon hearing this, Concubine Huan looked down at her chest, and the West King's mark on her chest gradually disappeared. She tried to mobilize the mark, and it reappeared. Suddenly, all the mountain spirits and gods in Xiuyun Peak were under her command, and she could even borrow some of the cultivation of these gods and mountain spirits!

Princess Huan was surprised and delighted. She looked at Chen Shi with a charming expression and said with a sweet smile, "Little brother, I have two. Print one here too!"

“It’s no use printing two.”

Chen Shi was unmoved and left quickly, saying, "Taoist, let's go to other hills!"

Yu Lingzi quickly followed him and asked curiously, "True King, what is the effect of your seal?"

Chen Shi quickly approached another mountain peak and said, "This is the Jade Seal of the King of the West, the symbol of the True King, which has the right to divide the land. If I appoint Concubine Huan as the mountain god of Xiuyun Peak, I can light up Xiuyun Peak in the Mountain and River Map, and I can also borrow the power of all the mountain gods, mountain spirits and gods in Xiuyun Peak for my own use."

Yu Lingzi suddenly realized, and thought to himself: "No wonder Master Uncle's code name in the Heavenly Court is True King. He holds the Western King's Jade Seal and the Mountain and River Map, which is a combination of royal power and divine power. Isn't he the True King of Xinzhou, Xiniu?"

The two came to the mountain and found the most powerful mountain spirit in the mountain.

This peak is called Dangmo Peak, and it is named after the fact that it is close to the Eighty-Eight Demon Peaks. The mountain is close to the Demon Peak and is contaminated with demonic energy. The mountain spirit guarding this mountain is an old turtle named Suishou.

Chen Shi offered up the Jade Seal of the King of the West and conferred Sui Shou the title of Mountain God of Dangmo Peak.

The Demon-Dangling Peak was illuminated by Suishou's divine power on the map of mountains, rivers, and the country, and everything on the Demon-Dangling Peak suddenly became vivid.

The two then came to the Juanniao Peak of Taihua Mountain and conferred the mountain spirit Qiangwei as the mountain god. Then they came to the Qingluan Peak and conferred the mountain spirit Qingluan as the mountain god.

There are a total of twenty-four peaks in Mount Taihua. We were busy until midnight. Except for the main peak, we did not visit the other peaks, including Wenxu Peak where the Demon-Suppressing Cave is located, and also named mountain gods.

Chen Shi frowned slightly. Now only the main peak where the Taihua Green Palace was located had not been lit up. Judging from the map of mountains, rivers, and the state, there was nothing unusual about the other twenty-four peaks. He looked towards the main peak with brilliant lights.

"Master Jinghong likes to eat spirits and images, and he secretly eats a lot of them."

Chen Shi suddenly asked, "So, who is the most powerful spirit or figure on Mount Taihua?"

Yu Lingzi suddenly had an idea and asked, "Uncle Master, is the Qingyang Patriarch an evil spirit?"

Chen Shi's face was solemn: "It is an evil spirit, but he uses the aura of incense to keep himself sane."

Yu Lingzi also looked solemn, looking at the main peak, and said: "Then, the Green Sheep Patriarch should be the most powerful spirit on our Taihua Mountain. If I were the head of Jinghong, I would probably want to eat the Green Sheep Patriarch the most right now."

Chen Shi suddenly remembered that when his grandfather was transformed into an evil being, he also liked to eat evil spirits.

Grandpa is a corpse-reincarnating immortal who has undergone evil transformation, and the same is true for Master Jinghong!
Qingyang's soul is a thousand feet high, and its divine light is overflowing, like the brightest torch in a moonlit night. In Jinghong's eyes, it must be extremely delicious!
"Yu Lingzi, let's go to the main peak! Black Pot, you hide in the underworld and prepare for support!"

Two people and a dog sneaked towards the main peak from the Yin and Yang worlds at the same time and headed straight for Qingyang Palace.

Taihua Qing Palace welcomed great joyous events. First, the sword of Zhenwu to slay evil returned to the mountain, and second, the Patriarch Qingyang returned to the mountain. Therefore, Taihua Qing Palace was filled with joy. The Taoists were busy coming and going, hanging up lanterns and decorations. A celebration would be held in a few days. Taoist Changying had already sent people to notify the imperial court, the thirteen families and other holy places, inviting guests to celebrate the event.

After a busy day, the main peak finally became quiet late at night.

When Chen Shi and Yu Lingzi arrived at the mountain, they saw bright lights everywhere, but no one was around. They could only occasionally see one or two Taoists guarding the night. They didn't say anything when they saw them, but just looked at them.

Chen Shi controlled the flock of birds and flew over, patrolling the surroundings and searching the entire mountain.

Yu Lingzi's shadow ran and jumped, looking around.

Suddenly, a flying bird stopped in mid-air, as if entangled in a spider web, and remained motionless. Then, it fell to the ground with a thud.

Chen Shi frowned and came forward, only to see that only the shell of the bird was left, with no flesh or blood inside!
The flesh and blood in the bird's body seemed to have disappeared out of thin air!
"This bird is just a leaf, but the transformation symbol involves the art of creation. Whatever it transforms into, it will have the characteristics of that thing..."

Just as he thought of this, he heard a series of flapping sounds, and birds fell like rain all around. Soon all the birds in the sky fell and scattered everywhere!
Chen Shi squatted down to check, and found that every bird was devoid of flesh and blood!
Chen Shi felt his scalp tingling, his magic was not broken!
The birds transformed from these leaves are still birds, but the flesh and blood they transformed into have been eaten by an invisible entity!
This kind of power is very similar to the ability of the soul to take the brain from a distance!
But the soul cannot be hidden from his eyes, and this power is invisible and unknowable!
Under the light not far away, the Taoist night watchman looked at them, still without saying a word, as if it was not surprising to see flocks of birds falling.

Chen Shi's heart beat violently and he secretly glanced at Yu Lingzi.

Yu Lingzi understood and immediately controlled his shadow to go towards the Taoist who was keeping watch.

After a while, Yu Lingzi looked strange and whispered, "There is no danger."

Chen Shi and he walked forward and came in front of the Taoist who was on night watch. The Taoist was still staring at them. A breeze blew by, and the Taoist's body swayed slightly.

Chen Shi's face changed slightly, and he reached out to grab the Taoist's wrist.

At this time, the wind was howling and Hei Guo appeared beside Chen Shi, scaring the two men so much that their hair stood on end and their faces turned pale.

"Black Pot, you scared me to death!" Chen Shi complained.

He grabbed the Taoist's wrist, but found nothing. Only skin was left on the Taoist's wrist, with no flesh or blood inside!
"Woof, woof." Hei Guo shouted behind the Taoist.

Chen Shi came behind the Taoist priest and saw two lines of bloody footprints on the ground, starting from the Taoist priest's back and extending towards the direction of Qingyang Palace.

His heart skipped a beat, and he saw a big gash on the Taoist night watchman's back, running from the crown of his head along the back of his head, neck, spine, all the way to the buttocks.

The Taoist priest seemed to have transformed from a golden cicada larva into a cicada, threw his human skin here, and used his hands and feet to crawl towards the Qingyang Palace.

"Is this an evil change?" Yu Lingzi murmured.

Chen Shi calmed down and said, "It's an evil transformation. Could this Taoist be the headmaster of Jinghong?"

Yu Lingzi came to the front of the Taoist priest, looked at his face carefully, shook his head and said, "It doesn't look like him. It's Uncle Master Wen..."

The black pot rushed into the underworld with a whoosh. Yu Lingzi was so scared that he almost jumped up and complained, "Black Pot, can you be quieter!"

Chen Shi whispered, "Master Qiongyang is still guarding up there, we won't be in danger. Let's follow his footsteps!"

Yu Lingzi felt relieved and said with a smile: "Master Qiongyang is the most powerful person in Taihua Qing Palace. With her around, nothing will happen."

The two of them bravely walked forward along the footprints of the four legs, only to see that the footprints in front of them were becoming fainter and fainter.

"Has all the blood been drained out?" Chen Shi thought to himself.

At this time, they saw a Taoist walking on all fours standing under a big red lantern hanging on the outer door of a courtyard in front of them, standing there stiffly and motionless.

This Taoist was the Uncle Wen who had shed his skin just now. He had his back to them, and there were rustling sounds and popping noises coming from his body.

He had grown new human skin, so he was no longer bleeding.

"Why hasn't Patriarch Qiongyang taken action yet to eliminate Sect Leader Jinghong?" The two men were secretly anxious.

Uncle Wen didn't move, and the popping sounds became more and more intense.

Chen Shi quietly walked around and slowly came in front of him, only to see Uncle Wen looking up, looking forward with his eyes glaring, his mouth open and his tongue against the roof of his mouth.

His eyes turned pale and had no pupils.

Suddenly, there was another rustling sound, followed by a slapping sound, and Uncle Wen's back suddenly cracked from the top of his head to the crack of his buttocks!

Then his bloody back slowly rose from the cracked skin, like a transforming cicada, slowly pulling its head out of its old skin, and then its upper body.

He pupaed inside his own skin, slowly pulled out his upper body, pulled out his bloody arms, and then slowly pulled out his legs, slowly falling to the ground, crawling forward slowly on all fours.

He seemed not to see Chen Shi and Yu Lingzi, and crawled towards Qingyang Palace on his own.

"call--"

The black pot appeared in a whirlwind, sticking out its dog head, scaring Chen Shi so much that he almost jumped up and glared at it fiercely.

"Uncle Guo, please don't come out and scare people, okay?" Yu Lingzi said in a trembling voice, his heart pounding with fear.

Black Pot looked around the scene, then shrank back into the underworld and disappeared.

Chen Shi was just about to catch up with Uncle Wen when suddenly the door to the courtyard behind him opened with a creaking sound.

(End of this chapter)