Netherworld Painted Skin Scroll

Chapter 58 Suppression
The surroundings suddenly became quiet, as if she had suddenly been immersed in deep water. She could still hear voices, but they were vague and very far away, as if they came from the sky.

Xue Baoping found herself in darkness. She took two steps in panic and waved her hands, but she felt nothing. Her heart was pounding, so she stopped and tried to open her eyes. After a while, she found that the place she was in was not completely dark - there seemed to be a ray of light on the wall in front of her, as if it was cast in from a vertical but winding gap.

An idea came to her mind, but she still took a deep breath, slowly walked to the wall, and looked out through the half-person-wide gap -

She was in the stove.

She saw eight huge, crazy faces, breathing in the ashes of the stove. Their breath was like gusts of wind, and the smoke and dust they raised seemed like gusts of snow falling from the sky!

This... is where Li Wuxiang used to stay!
……

When Zeng Jianqiu ran to the door of Xue's house, he felt his legs trembling... How many years ago was the last time he felt this way?

He staggered, pushed open the door, and rushed into the courtyard, where he saw eight skinny and shrunken people like him in the kitchen. They were surrounding the stove, digging in the ashes and sucking greedily like hungry beasts. The hazy aura on their bodies and the unclear "Kitchen God" in their mouths gathered in the direction of the Chen family compound.

He gave a bitter smile, looked around, found a piece of rag, bit his finger, squeezed hard and squeezed out a few drops of blood, and wrote a talisman on the rag. After trying again and again, he managed to ignite the fire on the talisman cloth with difficulty, then threw it into the kitchen and shouted, "Hey!"

The sound was not strong enough, but at least it suppressed the buzzing sound in the courtyard for a moment. As soon as the talisman fell in front of the eight people, it immediately burned more vigorously. At this time, the eight people in the room were suddenly stunned, looked at each other, and then screamed in fear.

Zeng Jianqiu rushed to Chen Xin in a few steps. His hair was already gray, his face was full of wrinkles, and the clothes that once fit him now seemed to be hanging empty on the hanger. "Where is the little girl in this family?!"

Chen Xin's eyes trembled, as if he had just woken up from a dream: "...Master, you..."

"Hmm?" Zeng Jianqiu frowned, "What master? Let me ask you, where is the little girl in this family?!"

……

The face in the stove suddenly disappeared, and then Xue Baoping heard a human voice, faintly, like thunder rolling down from the sky. She couldn't hear it clearly, and could only vaguely distinguish a few words -

"...Li Wuxiang...if they start fighting...I'll take her with me...you won't be able to go far...you guys...can't save so many..."

She felt that it was Zeng Jianqiu's voice, but she didn't know if Zeng Jianqiu had become the same as them. But if Zeng Jianqiu was here, what about Li Wuxiang? A fight? He and Zhao Qi? How is he now?

She wanted to go out and ask. It sounded like Li Wuxiang asked Zeng Jianqiu to take him away! What happened to him?
Go out!
She didn't know how to leave here, but she remembered what Li Wuxiang had told her, so she moved closer to the crack, turned sideways, and tried her best to squeeze herself out.

With a bang, the stove collapsed in half, and Xue Baoping rolled out wrapped in soot. After a few people in the room were stunned for a moment, Zeng Jianqiu grabbed her arm and said, "Where did you come from!?"

……

Bang! ! With a thrust of the spear tip, a wooden chair that flew out of the main hall of the Chen family shattered into a cloud of flying sawdust, which covered Zhao Kui's newly grown skin! But he didn't even blink, as the tiny wounds healed in an instant with the reverberating humming sound. He rushed forward and stabbed Li Wuxiang behind the wooden chair.

A bunch of tentacles shot out from Li Wuxiang's palm and immediately pulled him up to the beam, but he felt his right leg being hit by the tip of the gun. With a slight glance, another palm-sized piece of skin was peeled off, revealing the golden silk underneath!
This was the fifth wound on his body, and from the time Zhao Kui took action until now, less than ten breaths had passed... Zhao Kui was too fast!
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Zhao Kui, who was at the door just now, had disappeared. Li Wuxiang heard a sharp buzzing sound in his ear, and immediately stretched out his left hand towards the wall. Bai Xu immediately pulled him to the east wall, and at the same time loosened and swung the fingertips of his right hand, and four pieces of broken porcelain shot towards the source of the buzzing sound - it was not known whether they hit Zhao Kui, but behind him there was a bang and a ball of sawdust exploded, and the cold and shining tip of the gun pecked and poked at his palm like a poisonous snake, and another piece of human skin was cut open on the palm!

Zeng Jianqiu was right. Zhao Kui's sixty years of hard work were not in vain. He was not only good at swordsmanship, but he was proficient in everything!

When they just started, Li Wuxiang still felt that he had absorbed enough of Zhao Qi's blood and essence, enough to fight with Zhao Kui for a while, so that Zeng Jianqiu could take Xue Baoping away first, and he could find an opportunity to try to die with him, or fake his death - anyway, the evil spirit had made a promise to him.

But when Zhao Kui rushed into the Chen family's warehouse and touched a big gun, he realized that this thing was really ridiculously strong! Perhaps because of the absorption of the incense and the power of the wish, Zhao Kui's speed of attack was so fast that he couldn't see clearly. He exchanged several moves with him in the yard, and a large piece of skin on his chest, lower abdomen, left shoulder, and back was immediately picked off, revealing the golden coil underneath. When he was illuminated by the sunlight above his head, he immediately felt dizzy and panicked, as if he had become something that could not be seen in the light. It was because the sunlight directly shone on the soul living in the golden coil!

His previous plan was actually the same as Zhao Kui's, which was to damage the opponent's skin as much as possible during the fight, preferably to make him lose his ability to move. He did use various things at hand to inflict a lot of wounds on Zhao Kui, but with the blessing of his will, Zhao Kui's wounds healed very quickly. Although he now looked like a human-shaped pocket with countless small holes and filled with black smoke, his condition was much better than his own!

So he rushed into the house, intending to jump into the golden water from the back window - Zhao Kui wanted the golden entanglement on him, and he must chase him. But he had just entered the house and had not even touched the edge behind the window when Zhao Kui forced him to the wall again!

This is a dead end, three steps away from the rear window on the left and the door on the right. Because of Zhao Qi's blood, his speed is also amazingly fast, but he is sure that this speed is not as fast as Zhao Kui - as long as he moves, the spear will immediately nail him to the wall! It's just that Zhao Kui attached himself to Zhao Xi and deceived him for a long time when he was in the stove. His personality must not be like Zeng Jianqiu's, so...

As the thought flashed through his mind, a cold light appeared before his eyes!
Li Wuxiang didn't move, but shouted briefly: "Wait!"

The tip of the gun stopped in front of his nose with a snap. The gun barrel trembled and hummed. The strong wind almost caused ripples on his face. But Zhao Kui really stopped and stared at him with a pair of dark eyes: "Little beast, you are not going to run away?"

Li Wuxiang tilted his head back slightly and said, "You can't escape. But I have a problem. I won't be happy if I die in an unclear way. What on earth were you doing in the Xue family's stove before?"

Zhao Kui's shoulders trembled slightly, and he was about to exert force again, but Li Wuxiang immediately shouted: "Aren't you curious about who I am?!"

Zhao Kui sneered: "In short, you are not an external evil. As for who you are, humph, it's just a lonely ghost. Do you think there are few things like you in the world? You are just a lonely soul of a cultivator who wanted to learn my method but failed, and you came to my Taoist temple by chance!" "I am not a lonely soul of a cultivator. Listen, in the White Jade Capital in the sky, with twelve floors and five cities, the immortals touch my head, and I will receive eternal life after I get married--"

Zhao Kui's black eyes narrowed slightly, and he seemed a little surprised, but then turned into impatience. But when he heard Li Wuxiang's next few words, his impatience turned into surprise again -

"Mistakenly pursuing worldly pleasures, I have exhausted all reason and emotions. The ninety-six holy kings are just empty names hanging in the clouds. Heaven and earth are gambling on a single throw..."

"How did you know that?" Zhao Kui pulled the tip of his gun back slightly, but he moved closer. "What about the ones behind?!"

Li Wuxiang felt relieved. "This poem was passed down by the founder of the Ranshan School, right? Oh, you don't know the rest? I'm telling you that this is not the most important thing. What I'm saying is that I'm not from this world. Do you want to find out who I am? If you don't find out, can you be sure that if I come, there won't be another one?"

Zhao Kui was silent for a moment, then suddenly put away his gun: "So, you have some connection with the founder of our sect. Okay, I want to rebuild Ranshan. If you give up the golden entanglement, I will refine a good body for you, and you will be my first disciple."

"Master, that's great! But first tell me what you were doing in there. Even if you regret it, I won't be a fool!"

Zhao Kui's black eyeballs rolled quickly in his sockets, and he glanced at himself again - under the blessing of the buzzing power of wishes, the small wounds caused by Li Wuxiang were almost healed, and the black smoke in his body no longer dispersed.

He rolled his eyes again and said proudly: "Humph, that's fine. At least one person in the world should know what kind of magical tricks I have accomplished!"

"I used the secret knowledge passed down by the Ranshan School and the 'Taiyin Refining Technique' of the world's ghost immortals to create my own 'Taiyi Refining Technique'! This method requires one to become a ghost immortal first, but not really become one, and then refine a skin with Taiyi luck. If you don't have courage, you will never dare to refine yourself first. If you don't have perseverance, you will never be able to endure more than ten years in a small space. If you don't have an extremely smart mind and knowledge, and don't have natural luck, you will never think of this method-"

"You succeeded, but I messed it up?"

Zhao Kui suddenly stopped talking and stared at Li Wuxiang grimly for a while: "Humph, becoming an immortal and living forever is not something you can ask for, it depends on whether you have the destiny! Do you really think you have messed up my business? Before, you just made me become a ghost immortal and a lonely soul with no magic power. But I am destined to become an immortal! The stupid disciple I taught came here and used the Taiyi Refining Technique to set up a formation! On the contrary, I have become a god by mistake. Although I am not Taiyi, I am also an immortal!"

He suddenly stopped talking again, as if he felt he had said too much: "What about you?"

"You want the golden coil, right? Well, watch." Li Wuxiang raised his hands, tore open his clothes, and then thrust his hands into his chest, tearing it open bit by bit. When he had torn open a wound with countless light pink whiskers wriggling, he inserted his forearm completely inside, stopped, and seemed to let out a long sigh: "Ah, it really looks like it."

"what?"

"I said Zhao Qi is just like you, you look just like them, you get carried away when you are happy - Zhao Kui, don't you find it's very peaceful and wonderful right now?!"

Zhao Kui was stunned - he didn't know when the buzzing sound in the yard stopped!
what? !

A cold light like a crescent moon flashed by!

Li Wuxiang pulled out the two daggers he had hidden from his chest.

The black smoke from Zhao Kui’s head and body rose into the sky!

Before his head fell, Li Wuxiang's double daggers drew an arc in front of his body, and Zhao Kui's chest was immediately torn into two large holes, and his arms dropped down!
Li Wuxiang didn't know why the prayers suddenly disappeared, but this was definitely beyond Zhao Kui's expectations. Perhaps Zeng Jianqiu had used some tricks. But he would never say another word like Zhao Kui did - Zhao Kui, who had lost his head, was obviously not dead, and immediately black eyeballs popped out from several wounds on his body that had not yet healed, and countless wisps of smoke came out from the two large wounds on his chest, like tentacles on his body, trying to pull his arms back!
The dagger in Li Wuxiang's hand immediately burst into a dazzling snow light! Zhao Qi's blood, Taiyi's skin, and his former skills! Black smoke gushed out from countless holes, and the sharp whistling seemed like Zhao Kui's shrill howling. The black smoke merged into a billowing turbid air, first rushing to the roof in panic, but being stopped, it went out the door again -

But as soon as it touched the sunlight outside the door, it felt like it was stung, and it suddenly turned back and rushed into Li Wuxiang's open chest!
He was slammed into the wall with a bang, his white beard withered instantly, the golden net vibrated under his skin, and countless tiny cracks instantly covered his body! This was almost exactly the same feeling as when he was about to be possessed by the golden entanglement in the stove, except that this time Li Wuxiang felt a terrifyingly strong force in the black smoke! It was like a huge monster that took over his entire body and mind in an instant and began to compete with him for the golden entanglement under his skin!
Zhao Kui didn't do this at first, probably because this method would hurt the treasure - Li Wuxiang could feel that thing began to become loose under Zhao Kui's strong and brutal pull, as if it was about to break, and he himself felt that "himself" began to become trance and drift away with the changes of the golden entanglement. Zhao Kui's crazy, resentful, and jealous emotions hit his consciousness like a storm!

His chest and throat were violently stirred by the black smoke in his body, and he let out a strange scream: "You don't know how to live or die, you have to ruin my practice!!"

With another sudden shake, Li Wuxiang's entire body was like a piece of porcelain that had been eroded by wind and sand for many years. Pieces of his body shattered, revealing a golden entanglement.

But the next moment——

A terrifying and violent aura suddenly descended! !
External evil!!
The golden tangle instantly became submissive, and Zhao Kui's consciousness was like a small animal that suddenly encountered a tiger. Terror, fear, and despair suddenly burst out, but were suppressed in an instant and driven to the deepest corner of his consciousness - black smoke violently erupted from the cracks on Li Wuxiang's body, diffused, and disappeared into thin air!

　Or two chapters combined into one.

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