From a Zhengyi Taoist Child to a Master of All Laws

Chapter 56: White Corpse with Toad Teeth
"Of course! And this thing is very beneficial to practice!"

Li Yang opened his eyes and felt refreshed.

Just now, he absorbed the spiritual energy of these spirit stones and improved the proficiency of the Jade Toad Qi Eating Method by 56.

The newly acquired spirit stones were of different sizes, and contained varying amounts of spiritual energy. One spirit stone that was about half the size of a watermelon increased Li Yang’s experience by 16 points at once.

A ripple flashed before my eyes, and the system panel appeared.

【玉蟾食炁法：1阶（635/1000），解锁状态：御物，剑诀（4/9）】

Li Yang now directly hides other skill bars and focuses on the Jade Toad Eating Qi Method.

In comparison, the conditions for practicing the Jade Toad Eating Qi Method are more difficult than those for the Yang Crow Eating Qi Method. After all, the moon waxes and wanes, unlike the sun, which waxes and wanes almost every day.

Li Yang planned to carry out both at the same time, but he would focus more on the Jade Toad Eating Qi Method. After all, the Yin-Yang Root Method was about to be advanced.

It's a pity that there are only fifteen spirit stones, and each recovery takes a month, otherwise the experience can be gained much faster.

Chi Yanhong's eyes were filled with surprise. She couldn't yet sense the existence of spiritual energy. It was obvious that spiritual stones were only useful for cultivation when they reached the innate level.

After all, she was a calm person, so she said no more and closed her eyes to rest.

The high-speed train moved forward and the scenery outside the window whizzed by, but before the high-speed train reached Mei County, it suddenly stopped at Yichuan North Station.

More than ten minutes later, just when all the passengers were talking and about to get into a conflict, an emergency broadcast sounded in the high-speed rail station.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the train has arrived at Yichuan North Station. We are very sorry that due to the disaster relief work at Mayishan Mountain ahead, passengers taking the No. XXX train to Meixian South Station will have to transfer to the No. XXX train at this station in six hours. We are deeply sorry for the inconvenience caused to you."

What followed was a translated English broadcast, and the passengers in the carriage went wild.

"Nimma, this is impossible, the rescue work on Ma Yi Mountain has been going on for so long, why hasn't it been completed yet?!"

"You are sick. Why didn't you tell me earlier that it would affect the schedule? What the hell is this? Why did you notify me of the change of trains midway?"

"Where's the flight attendant? Call your flight attendant over here!!"

……

The passengers were in chaos, cursing and some were so angry that they wanted to complain to the staff at the high-speed railway station.

Li Yang and Chi Yanhong opened their eyes from their breathing exercises and looked at each other in silence after hearing the notification.

After the staff at the high-speed railway station calmed the tourists down, Li Yang had no choice but to carry his bag and go out of the station with Chi Yanhong and wait.

Looking at the crew members coming and going in a hurry, Li Yang frowned.

"It seems that the people at the high-speed railway station have just received the notice. But logically speaking, the Ma Yishan flash flood has passed, and now the main task is reconstruction and rescue. How could it affect other places?"

Li Yang and Chi Yanhong held a pile of stones and found a place to sit down amid the strange looks from the passengers around them.

The passengers around were still talking, and finally the topic inevitably turned to the rescue and relief of the Mayishan flash flood.

At this moment, Li Yang suddenly heard a very small complaint from a man wearing sunglasses next to him.
"Hey, flash floods, what the hell are flash floods? The things on the mountain are much more terrifying than flash floods..."

The eldest brother's voice was secretive, carrying an irrepressible sense of ridicule and fear.

Li Yang and Chi Yanhong looked at each other and walked towards the brother in sunglasses.

Seeing a man and a woman carrying a large bag of stones suddenly walking towards him, the brother with sunglasses frowned and wanted to leave.

Li Yang held him down, then sat down on the chair next to him and asked shyly:

"Brother, you just said there are scary things on Ma Yi Mountain. What's going on?"

"Who are you? I don't even know you. Why should I tell you all this?" The man in sunglasses looked alert and refused outright.

"We are students from the School of Geology at the Polytechnic University. We are very interested in mountains and topography, so we want to know something about the Ma Yi Mountain flash flood."

Chi Yanhong spoke seriously, and she got the root method. Now her skin is fair and tender, and she really looks like a female college student.

"What does it have to do with me whether you are students or not? Don't bother me." The man in sunglasses obviously didn't buy it. He stood up and wanted to leave the place.

Seeing the big brother with sunglasses resisting so much, Li Yang sighed and quietly attached a talisman to the back of the big brother with sunglasses.

It was the talisman for suppressing evil and calming the spirit. Li Yang also told him to throw away the talisman.

As soon as the talisman was affixed, all resistance from the brother with sunglasses disappeared immediately and he sat down softly.

"Hey, big brother, can you tell us what happened on Toad Yi Mountain?"

There was a struggle on the man's face, as if he was trying hard to get rid of this state, but after a few times, he immediately returned to the state of a sage who didn't care about anything.

"...I don't know, but we all call it...the white corpse."

"White corpse?" Li Yang was so shocked that he was thundering. Isn't this something that only appears in Uncle Jiu's movies?
“It hurt a lot of us…”

"You? Who are you?"

The man suddenly shut up, his eyes full of pain, and he refused to speak no matter how Li Yang asked him. Li Yang lightly tapped the man in sunglasses and he fell asleep.

Li Yang turned around and met Chi Yanhong's equally interested eyes.

"Why, you also want to see the so-called white corpse?"

"Of course. I've never seen a real JS before. I didn't expect this kind of thing to appear when the spiritual energy has just revived. At our speed, six hours is enough to see what's going on..."

The two of them smiled knowingly, then found a place to store the spirit stones and climbed over the wall of the high-speed railway station.

Ten minutes later, the man in sunglasses woke up from his chair with a start and pulled the talisman off from behind.

He searched everywhere in the high-speed railway station, but could not find any trace of Li Yang and Chi Yanhong, and was terrified.

Hiding in a toilet, the man in sunglasses nervously dialed a number:
"Boss, these two guys are really evil. I lost them."

"I'm not sure, but they both seem to be heading towards Ma Yi Mountain."

"Okay, got it, I'll come and join you guys right away!"

The man in sunglasses hung up the phone. The patterns on the talisman paper in his hand had become blurred, and his face was half filled with fear and half with yearning.

"Why has this world suddenly changed?"
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On Ma Yi Mountain, after patrolling for a month, the spirits of several groups of soldiers were extremely tense.

Gao Miao and his group were one of them. At this time in the forest, the fat man Li Qing came over and whispered to Gao Miao: "Gao Zi, I heard that you were also there when that thing was discovered. What on earth is this thing we are going to deal with this time?"

Li Qing and Gao Miao are from the same village. Li Qing has a somewhat slick personality and usually has the best relationship with Gao Miao in the team.

"What? Fatty, are you scared? Look at your lack of ambition." Captain Zhang took over the conversation, patted Li Qing's shoulder roughly, and comforted him: "Don't talk about strange things. Don't think too much. Just treat it as a blind bear. When we see it, more than a dozen of us will shoot it."

"Zi Bu Yu means Confucius did not say anything, but it does not mean that he did not say anything. And I am not afraid of him."

Gao Miao glanced at Li Qing and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Hearing this topic, some people who were familiar with Captain Zhang retorted: "Captain Zhang, it's impossible for a blind bear to overturn a loader and escape from the encirclement of a team of armed police. And I heard that several brothers from other teams have been injured."

Looking at the bloodshot eyes of the team members, Zhang Chunlai, as the team leader, felt a little distressed: "Everyone, hold on a little longer. The brothers in other teams are working hard, and we can't fall behind. Let's find that thing as soon as possible and finish the work as soon as possible!"

"We have to have some idea of ​​what the target is. We have been wandering around for a month and we don't even know what the target is..."

While he was complaining, the team member in front suddenly shouted: "Brother Zhang, something is happening!"

"Where?"

Gao Miao and Captain Zhang quickly caught up and found the body of a blind bear on the rocks. The bear's flesh was shriveled, its eyes were cloudy, and various organs were scattered all over the ground.

Beads of sweat appeared on Gao Miao's forehead. You know, when they were chasing this thing just now, they only found the corpses of small wild animals such as pheasants and hares.

After a month of patrolling, the soldiers finally got some results. They were a little excited and checked their weapons.

"Report to the company! Traces of the target have been found in front of the Tianshi Cave on Ma Yi Mountain, 150 meters deep in the forest. Traces of the target have been found!"

"Did you see the target?"

"not yet"

"Okay, you guys do what's best for you and keep following carefully. The other teams will be over soon!"

"Roger that!"

Captain Zhang shook off the uneasiness in his heart and directed his teammates to keep up.

The fog becomes thicker as you go up the mountain, making people feel extremely uncomfortable.

They followed the trail for several hundred meters. They saw footprints on the ground, two by two, pointing far up the mountain, one every ten meters or so.

After tracking for half an hour, the sky became dark, and shadows of trees swayed in the forest ahead. The team members looked at each other in confusion.

The fog was growing thicker. Captain Zhang touched his prickly stubble and felt a chill on the back of his neck just by looking at the forest ahead.

He decided to rest where he was and wait for the brother troops to reunite.

"Li Qing, send a signal immediately to report the situation!"

"Yes!" Li Qing agreed. The signal here was a bit weak, so he had to look for a signal everywhere on the mountain road.

After finally finding a place where he could barely send a signal, he inadvertently raised his head and glanced at the woods nearby. Suddenly, his hair stood on end, and he shouted to the back: "Captain, Gaozi, what do you see in the woods over there?!"

Gao Miao turned his head and his mind suddenly buzzed.

In the dark forest, a figure was staring at them.

The figure in the forest had a pale face and his skin was covered with brown spots. From Gao Miao's perspective, he could just see one of its eyes.

What kind of eye was that… gray, empty, without any spirit, and filled with a kind of horrified dead silence.

(End of this chapter)