I can't be a demon.

Chapter 118: The Demonic Occupation of Bibotan
Li Shun stood by the well in the backyard of the yamen, holding a fresh catfish.

"Since someone has already entered and exited Bibotan, it shouldn't be too dangerous."

"I don't ask to be admitted into the cave, I just want to be promoted to the sixth level of Yuandan."

Li Shun hypnotized himself for a long time and forced the catfish into his stomach. Suddenly, he felt a strong nausea and at the same time, he could feel the catfish slowly moving in his esophagus.

"Uh."

Li Shun was horrified and his body and soul were out of control.

Then he dived into the well, and the catfish in his esophagus became more and more active, as if it was driving him through the underground river.

It doesn't feel good.

Because the catfish is digesting and dissolving bit by bit, the flesh, blood and bones seem to have countless fish eggs that are absorbing nutrients.

I don’t know how much time passed, but Li Shun opened his eyes the moment he regained his breath.

The internal energy flowed along the eight extraordinary meridians, but it did not notice the existence of the fish eggs.

"Bibotan..."

Li Shun looked around. The sky in the cave was bright. Compared with Gao Laozhuang, which looked like a town, the area of ​​Bibotan was indeed like a pond.

He was now on a small isolated island with exposed reefs. Outside the island were deep and boundless waves. He could vaguely see huge fish monsters swimming around the island.

There was no grass growing on the island, and no other Jinwu Guards were seen.

Only in the center of the island, there stands a strange and inexplicable [pagoda].

To be precise, it is a strange inverted pagoda with fourteen floors. The area inside the pagoda becomes larger as you go higher.

The carvings on the tower resemble bird feathers, and the decoration on the top looks like nine heads entwined with each other.

"An inverted pagoda. Why is the cave a pagoda?"

Li Shun was incredulous. He had never imagined that the scene in the cave where demons were rampant would be like this.

While he was stunned, the light in Bibotan Lake dimmed without any warning.

Followed by.

There is a brilliant glow scattered on the top of the tower.

The astonishment on Li Shun's expression lasted only half a breath, and then he turned into an intoxicated face. A solemn and majestic shadow of Buddha appeared on the top of the tower.

The Buddha's appearance was blurred, and he made a gesture of holding up his fingers and smiling.

"All living beings belong to me, the Buddha."

Li Shun put his hands together and bowed like a devout monk. Then his hair fell off one by one, revealing his scalp with scars from ordination.

He stared at the Buddha's phantom, and seemed to notice the Buddha's phantom's unspeakable terror, and regained consciousness for a brief moment.

But before long, he became pious again.

The conversion of the relic was not something that ordinary monks could resist at all, and there might even be some drawbacks in it, which prompted King Jisai to take the risk and choose to eliminate the monks.

When the sunset glow faded, Li Shun slowly walked into the open door of the pagoda.

The first floor of the pagoda is narrow and decorated like a temple. On the four walls are Buddha statues carved out of rocks, all of which are various types of arhats with strange postures.

There were a few sandalwood sticks hanging upside down in the center, with a faint smell of smoke in the air.

Click click click.

Li Shunxing's posture became strange, there was a sound of bones colliding at his joints, his reaction became slow, and a lime-gray color spread across his skin.

If nothing unexpected happens, he will soon transform into one of the countless arhat statues.

Li Shun's remaining consciousness moved slightly, and he tried to save himself before his death. However, it was too late, and his body and soul gradually sank.

boom.

The ground shook.

bang bang.

Bang bang bang.

With his sturdy arms, he broke through the bricks and emerged from the ground.

"What the hell? How can one enter a cave and bury oneself deep underground? If it weren't for my amazing lung capacity, I would have nearly suffocated to death."

Shen Lian stretched his limbs and smelled a strong fishy stench in his nostrils.

The Arhat statues on the first floor of the pagoda had blood oozing from their mouths and noses, and some of them had turned black due to the blood stains because they had been there for so long.

It is obvious that the statues of Arhats are all corpses.

"Li Shun?"

Li Shun's condition was in a terrible state, becoming almost the same as the other Arhats, and he maintained a pious kneeling posture.

There were a lot of centipedes all over his body. His body and soul were on the verge of going insane, but his internal energy in Dantian showed no reaction.

Shen Lian took out half a soul-nourishing pill and stuffed it into Li Shun's mouth.

Li Shun shuddered all over, gradually suppressing the influence of conversion, then opened his eyes, and the scene on the first floor of the pagoda no longer had a filter.

All the Arhat statues were petrified corpses.

The sandalwood hanging in the center turned out to be a few long and narrow fish intestines.

"vomit."

Li Shun opened his mouth and spit. There were densely packed fish eggs in the acid water. Some of them had begun to hatch, and the catfish fry were struggling constantly.

"Shen...Shen Lian..."

"Welcome to the stomach of the greatest demon of all time."

Li Shun stood there in a daze, not understanding what Shen Lian meant.

Shen Lian did not explain. He used his wisdom eye as soon as he stepped into the cave.

[The old shell of the nine-headed insect]

[When the Nine-Headed Insect passed away, its old shell became a container for its relics. Remember, climb the pagoda during the day and chant sutras at night! ! ]

"Sitting in meditation and passing away? The life span of an ancient demon is probably infinite. How can they sit in meditation and pass away?"

"The Nine-Headed Insect built a pagoda in the Bi Bo Lake. Could it be that he considers himself as a Buddha?"

Shen Lian recalled the rules of offering sacrifices to the National Treasure Tower in the original Journey to the West.

Monks are not allowed to sweep the pagoda during the day, but only at night with lanterns, and they must sweep from bottom to top, layer by layer. In other words, the monks deliberately stay in the pagoda when the relic is emitting rays of light.

Surprising!

The Jisai Kingdom can be said to be the most bizarre episode in Journey to the West.

Shen Lian glanced at the ground. The bricks seemed to have recovered as if they were flesh and blood. However, he could feel the branches of the banyan tree deep underground. If he dug down a dozen meters, he would be able to return to Yanliang Town.

"Li Shun, you must have entered the pagoda from the outside. Did you witness anything?"

"me……"

Li Shun's breathing became rapid and several fragments flashed through his mind.

"I saw a shadow of Buddha in the glow of the sunset, but I couldn't see clearly what it was, and then my consciousness fell into a state from which I couldn't extricate myself."

Li Shun suddenly covered his head, and blood kept coming out of several pairs of eyes.

After Shen Lian confirmed that Li Shun was not possessed by the demonic aura, he didn't have any better solution.

Even though he had been burdened by the water of the Milky Way, his consciousness was not weak, but his means of dealing with souls were still too insufficient.

Besides, it is really hard to deal with the issue of conversion to Buddhism.
[The profession of "Ascaris Shami" has been triggered, but the necessary conditions are missing and the job cannot be taken.]

[Giant Ram—Ascaris Samanera Compatibility 19.38%]

"No wonder he's called Ascaris-jian Shami, it means Ascaris monk, right?"

The Ascaris Sanmi should be a special profession in Bibotan, and has nothing to do with demons. The degree of fit is already quite high, and it can be considered a good start.

Logically speaking, there are nine-headed insects and several dragons in Bibotan, which trigger many special professions, and there must be one that is suitable for the giant glutton.

“I see it clearly!!!”

Li Shun had more than a dozen pairs of pupils on his forehead, and he muttered to himself, "That shadow looks a little like... you! Indeed, a little..."

"But the phantom has nine heads. No, it has ten. The head on the chest is only left with a neck, and a thousand-foot-long rays of light are emanating from it."

The eyes on Li Shun's forehead exploded and his soul showed signs of losing control again.

Shen Lian knew that what Li Shun described was the true form of the Nine-Headed Insect [Ghost Car Bird], a nine-headed ferocious beast with a human face and a bird body.

According to rumors, the ghost car bird seems to be related to the phoenix, but it represents bad luck.

The ghost car bird originally had ten heads, but one of them was shot off by someone, and its exposed neck continued to bleed and would never heal.

Shen Lian raised his eyebrows.

Following Li Shun's murmur, another hint of a special profession was revealed.

[The "Nine-Headed Ghost Car" occupation has been triggered, but the necessary conditions are missing and the job cannot be taken.]

[Giant Ram—Nine-headed Ghost Car Compatibility 88.73%]

"Although it is not as good as the Nine-Energy Earthly Abomination and the Animal Ghost, it is enough to be used to advance to the fourth level. But how can the Buddha Shadow be related to me?"

Shen Lian felt apprehensive, as the strangeness of Bibotan was beyond his imagination.

"No, no!"

Li Shun slammed his head to the ground and continued, "The original Buddha's phantom had a different appearance. It was after you, Shen Lian, came to Bibotan that the phantom in his memory became you!!"

"Shen Lian, you can't climb to the top of the tower. The relic has noticed you!!!"

[The 〈Reincarnation of Demon Buddha〉 occupation has been triggered, but the necessary conditions are missing and the job cannot be taken.]

[Giant Ram—Reincarnation of Demon Buddha Compatibility 23.44%]

The corner of Shen Lian's mouth twitched.

Perhaps it was because Li Shun had mastered the Multi-Eye Sutra that he could see things in great detail, almost like a humanoid self-propelled special professional trigger.

The young man has great potential and is suitable to be a tool man.

He fed Li Shun half a soul-nourishing pill again, and the latter lay flat on the ground gasping for breath.

Shen Lian glanced at the first floor of the pagoda and noticed a shallow bird claw mark forming a circle on the stairs leading to the upper floors.

The starling had been in and out of the pagoda seven or eight times, and the claw marks proved that the first two floors were not a big problem.

"Li Shun, I don't plan to go to the top floor of the pagoda."

"I'm not interested in alchemists."

If Li Shun had heard it from someone else, he would have thought that the other person was insincere, but... since it was Shen Lian's words, it seemed natural.

"Li Shun, do you want to continue? If you want to leave Bi Bo Tan, just jump into the waves outside the island and avoid the fish monster, and you will be able to escape."

"I...want to go up and take a look."

"Row."

Shen Lian was happy to see this. With Li Shun around, it was like maintaining his sixth consciousness at all times.

Li Shun also wanted to prove his worth, so he quickly said, "Stay a little longer. The Arhat statue transformed from the corpse contains a hidden message."

"Be careful."

"If I'm not mistaken, there are monsters guarding each floor of the pagoda. The real body is a special lungfish, which will secrete mucus to wrap itself into stone during drought."

Li Shun shuddered.

Shen Lian grinned and said, "Don't worry, I've found it. I've only been practicing for two hundred years? Unfortunately, it's not enough to fill the gaps between my teeth."

Click click click.

The bony spine emerged from his back and instantly pierced through a statue of an arhat in the corner.

"Ah..."

The wailing stopped abruptly.

Li Shun took several steps back and watched as the white bone spine wrapped around a corpse that looked like an eel, which Shen Lian nonchalantly put into the fruit core.

"Hurry up, the night in Bibotan is much more troublesome than the monsters."

"well."

Li Shun quickly looked around and said in a deep voice, "There are two, no, three Dragon Palace alchemists in the pagoda at Bibotan."

"The warriors who came with them all practiced martial arts that were all hidden in the Dragon Palace."

"Shen..." Li Shun realized that calling Shen Lian directly was somewhat disrespectful, "Young Master, look, this is a unique martial art of the mermaids thousands of years ago."

(End of this chapter)