The Path to Immortality Begins with the Life-Extending Lamp

Chapter 66 The Evil Puppet Lord's Killing Intent

The uprising at Lin Yuan Immortal Peak, with the most intimate area of ​​the entire sect being invaded, truly caused the entire sect to lose face.

The once-powerful Master Yin, who slew dragons, killed ghosts, and annihilated demons with his palm, was naturally filled with rage and personally went to Wuxi. The Dragon Lord was indeed used to mingling in the various prefectures and cities, and his ability to read people's expressions was superb.

Although he didn't know what Master Yin meant, the old dragon immediately fled to Jinping Prefecture to hide upon seeing the menacing appearance...

Unable to find the old mudfish, Yin Zu had no choice but to personally go to the White Bone Path in Lingnan. With the power to control the universe, he raised his hand and smashed half of the White Bone Path's mountain gate.

The Venerable Ancestor of the White Bone Dao was naturally enraged. Enraged, he unleashed his magic and fiercely attacked True Man Yin, waving the Venerable Soul Banner to suppress the hundred-mile-long domain. However, before the myriad souls and dark clouds could even get close, they were scattered by a palm strike that twisted the void.

After only fifty rounds of fighting, the Soul-Honored Banner was snapped in two by Yin Zu with a single palm strike and then taken away. The Soul-Honored Ancestor had only taken the blow head-on from the Heavenly Pot Divine Power, and immediately staggered repeatedly. He was struck down by Yin Zu's palm and tumbled down from the clouds to the mountain gate.

Lady White Bone manifests as a ghostly and divine form—the White Bone Beauty, a hundred-foot-tall white bone beauty, discussing the changes of Yin and Yang, strange and mysterious.

But who is Yin Zu? He holds the heavens and the moon in his palm, and wreaks havoc on yin and yang, turning the world upside down.

With a single palm strike, the white bone avatar shattered, directly breaking through the white bone mountain. Using the technique of the Pot Heaven, it forcibly swept away the three acres of white bone Yin Mansion, leaving the White Bone Lady without Yin Soil, and she once again transformed into a wandering ghost with no one to rely on!
In a single exchange, the difference in skill was immediately apparent. Lady White Bone stood gracefully to the side, too terrified to utter another word.

This is the Immortal Yin, who can pluck the sky with one hand!
With the tacit approval of the Southern Kingdom, the entire Tiannan region was granted to Master Yin.

The old ancestor of the soul crawled up from the ruins of the collapsed mountain gate. Although his arms were broken, it was only a minor injury for a yin spirit like him.

But Master Yin's methods were truly terrifying. He had no idea what Master Yin wanted to do or why he was doing it.

He spoke with bitterness, his tone softening to the core.

"Brother Yin, why... is this?"

"Didn't we already discuss everything before? My White Bone Sect has already paid over a hundred million Dao coins in compensation and handled the aftermath!"

If you had any complaints, you could have said so earlier. At worst, we could have backed down a bit more, or even made the White Bone Dao Lord pay with his life for your sake...

Such a retroactive settlement is truly appalling.

However, Yin Zu's face was full of frost. Step by step, he stepped into the sky and looked down at the two Yin Gods below. The terrifying aura made Lady White Bone almost want to abandon the White Bone Path and go far away!

“They’ve all become quite capable these days…”

Fortunately, this unexpected turn of events occurred on the White Bone Road in Lingnan.

Two patriarchs of the Lingnan Ghost-Hunting Clan emerged from the mountain, and the Brocade-Lin Immortal from the Six Spirits Mountain arrived riding on clouds;

The Dan Shu Yin family, the Purple Mansion Peak Yin Biejia, the Lingnan Pass Governor, and others all made an appearance.

Upon closer inspection, one could see Chen Jin, the abbot of the Southern Temple, standing atop a cloud, protecting the True Man Yin.

"Another half-formed Yin God!"

Is this some kind of tactic to wipe out the entire family?

Many Taoist masters and immortals from Lingnan hurriedly gathered in front of White Bone Mountain, hoping to dissuade this great immortal, otherwise he might really dare to kill a Yin god just to vent his anger.

"Elder Yin, you mustn't kill indiscriminately!"

"Brother Yin, please calm down and let's discuss the cause of the matter."

"Grand Uncle, what's wrong...?"

Jinlin Ancestor arrived riding a five-colored Qilin on auspicious clouds, and was the first to call upon True Man Yin. Then, the Ghost Judge Zhong and the Prefect of the Yin Family also climbed onto the clouds, hoping to first make Ancestor Yin stop.

After all, the various sects in Tiannan are of the same lineage, and the descendants of Tiannan Temple still need to make a living!
After a long interrogation and reprimand, the truth of the matter was finally revealed. It was the skeleton that exposed the unscrupulous Second Elder, which triggered a series of unforeseen events...

It was this anger of Master Yin of Linyuan that caused the destruction of the century-old foundation of the Lingnan White Bone Sect, leaving the two Yin God Ancestors helpless and alone.

Ultimately, this farce was stopped by intervention from all sides!

The White Bone Path was unable to prove its innocence and had to pay a heavy price to compensate the Tiannan Temple. This was a domineering treaty that would prevent the White Bone Path from ever raising its head again for the next two or three hundred years.

The White Bone Underworld was rebuilt in Lin Yuan Mountain, and was to be bestowed upon the newly risen top Purple Mansion Daoist - Ding Shan Daoist.

This Purple Mansion, which rose to power in the Western Wilderness with its army of corpses, is worthy of an investment from a Yin Mansion.

Even Lady White Bone was helpless. With her foundation completely destroyed, she angrily took away the White Bone Sect's magic treasure - the Rebirth Sedan Chair - and fled to the neighboring Dongchuan Prefecture with her ghost servants.

The Five Streams Dragon Lord personally offered six Purple Mansion-level dragon heads, willingly serving the Upper Temple...

Having gone this far, Tiannan Temple had no choice but to stop.

It's possible that Tiannan Temple has only one seed.

Master Chen Jin of Tiannan Temple is a Dao seed that has already transformed into a towering tree; Daoist Dingshan is another Dao seed that is beginning to gain momentum; and below him, there are two more...

A lineage has many potential successors, so losing one won't actually have a significant impact.

What Tiannan Temple has lost can be made up for by doubling down on other things, and that will be enough!
However, the expression on the face of the Prefect Yin, the one in charge of the Dan Shu, was rather unpleasant.

I sent a promising young man, with the potential to become a powerful figure, to your Tiannan Temple, and now he's vanished without a trace?
For Nan Guan that day, it was perhaps just a promising seed of Taoism, something he could take and let go of.

Back then, Prefect Yin took a liking to the Li family, who had a promising future, and married one of his eldest daughters to them, while also promoting the eldest son of the Li family.

Now, Prefect Yin is also starting to feel resentful.
If only I had taken that young man under my wing back then! My great-uncle is nearing the end, and Lin Yuan is becoming increasingly useless...

This upheaval continues to reverberate in several prefectures in southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

of course.

Li Qing himself was unaware of the changes that affected several prefectures in the south.

At this moment, Li Qing stood on a reef, gazing at the vast and undulating deep sea, his face cold and stern, confronting the young man Zi Fu in front of him.

He held the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls in his hand, forming a hand seal with one hand, subtly connecting with the energy in the Book of the Underworld, and calling upon the Ghost Mother.

"Hmph! You yourself called it the Beast Taming Sect."

"Isn't this the overseas Beast Taming Immortal Sect that once gifted the Southern Kingdom with Beast Taming Immortal Techniques? Is there a problem?"

The boy spread his hands and sneered.

"Stop looking so gloomy. Not a single one of the thirty thousand Dao Zhu is to be short. If you're short even a single coin, I'll throw you into the sea to feed the sea monsters..."

The puppet boy finally revealed his true intentions, his narrow smile revealing his malice.

That brat from the south, radiating an aura of gloom, whom he had always looked down upon, actually dared to bare his teeth at him?
In that instant, the young puppeteer unleashed an uncontrollable killing intent.

Killing that guy and seizing this decent Soul Banner might even break even?
With a wave of Li Qing's Soul Banner, the Heavenly Mansion Profound Origin Qi transformed into a protective shield, and three hundred strands of myriad soul threads were bound together to form three soul arrows that shot out into the air.

At the same time, the Ghost Mother was invited and finally reappeared in the mortal world.

A stunningly beautiful figure in red appeared behind Li Qing, her empty and chilling gaze fixed on the young man, Zi Fu. "Sister Cui, please help me slay this fiend, will you?"

Li Qing's killing intent was even greater than that of the evil path, and she locked onto the young puppeteer's aura.

Today, I will make sure he dies on the spot!
The puppeteer raised his hand to stop them, his fingertips transforming into threads of magic that easily tore the three soul arrows apart.

Looking at the female ghost behind Li Qing, he sneered:

"So you were keeping a big demon behind you? I was wondering what gave you, a mere Qi cultivator, such courage."

"But if that's all, you should die!"

As soon as the puppeteer finished speaking, the Thousand Machine Puppet Dragon Boat rose from the sea, like a blue dragon exploring the sea. It raised its head and spewed out a dragon flame, intending to destroy the entire reef where Li Qing stood.

Li Qing's face was cold, but he took two steps back and leaned against the Ghost Mother. The Ghost Mother raised her eyes, and the deep Netherworld instantly covered an area of ​​several miles. The layers of dark energy manifested and were aimed at the Puppet Master.

The Thousand Machine Puppet Dragon Boat was indeed magnificent, but the Ghost Mother simply raised her right hand and clenched it in the air, and the twenty-zhang-long dragon boat was instantly twisted into a pile of broken copper and scrap iron!
"You bastard, what kind of magic is this?"

The puppeteer boy's eyes widened as he leaped dozens of feet into the air to dodge the Ghost Mother's attack, exclaiming in shock and anger.

What immense power!
But that was a large dragon boat that he had just finished forging, after spending a great deal of resources.

He hadn't even had a chance to properly tour the overseas regions using this Thousand Machine Puppet Dragon Boat before this bastard...

The young puppeteer's murderous intent grew stronger, while the Ghost King remained relentlessly resentful.

The Netherworld hung in the void. Li Qing and the Ghost Mother stood together in the center of the Netherworld. Immediately, the Ghost Mother's Dharma form manifested, half-alive and half-dead, with a jade-like face and celestial skin.

The ghost resembled the Bodhisattva of Killing Heart, who raised a flower and held his left hand to his chest, lifting up Li Qing and the Ghost Mother's true forms.

The lower half of the entire Dharma image, seemingly both real and ethereal, merged with the Netherworld, as if it could freely move to any part of that realm. Its Dharma intent distorted the sea, and curses spread out: hanged ghosts, drowned ghosts, headless ghosts…

Extremely scary!
Then the puppeteer flicked his sleeve, and puppets flew all over the sky, flying kites and scattering poison needles like a fine drizzle.

The Hundred-Section Steel Centipede, resembling a sharp-toothed steel saw, crashed down towards Li Qing.

The jellyfish, all cast from silver sheets, floated densely in the sky, spreading miasma and spitting out poisonous flames...

This puppeteer was extremely ruthless, and he immediately saw through the relationship between Li Qing and the Ghost Mother. Many of his hidden attacks bypassed the Ghost Mother and shot towards Li Qing.

That kind of acupuncture device, with its purple and blue purplish-blue poison, would surely lead to Li Qing's demise if he came into contact with it!
But how could the Ghost Mother allow him to get hurt?

With a wave of her hand, the white-boned jade-faced demon mother raised her hand and swept away all the puppets, whether they were flying kites, steel centipedes, or jellyfish, within the eerie ghost realm. They were all twisted and turned into scrap metal and fell to the ground.

But the Ghost Mother's murderous intent only grew stronger. What she wanted to do was not to fight these little things, but to accept her husband's invitation and kill that puppeteer.

This was the first time that Ghostly Gentleman had ever asked her to kill someone!
Covered in a ghostly aura, eerie and twisted magical intent flowed through every deep and dark place, and the young puppeteer's expression finally began to turn serious.

"drink!"

The puppeteer unleashed the dozens of times improved Heavenly Thunder Spear, but the explosion came from the seabed behind him.

"What a despicable thing this Southern Ghost Path is!"

The youth's arrogance gradually faded as he looked around at the dark and deep surroundings. The sea, stretching for over ten miles, seemed to have fallen into another side of reality—cold, dark, desolate, and exuding a chilling aura of despair.

This is a ghost realm!

It is extremely difficult to kill the master of this ghost realm.

His Thousand Machine Puppet seemed to have encountered a maze, with all its attacks twisting at incredible angles and scattering into the sea.

The loss of these dozens of puppets was already extremely painful for him.

The boy slowly placed his right hand on his waist, gazing at the image of the Ghost Mother that was gradually merging with the entire dark expanse, his eyes flashing with an unusual light.

crunch...

The twisted curse attack came down again!
Fortunately, a shield of azure divine light had already been erected around him, which was holding off the Ghost Mother's twisted curse.

"Don't you really want to go back to Tiannan?"

"This place is far from the East Sea. Without me here, by the time you return, the Yin family patriarch will be long gone. In an ancient and powerful sect like Tiannan Temple, no one can control the vengeful ghost behind you, so naturally they wouldn't even look at you, this half-human, half-ghost, uncontrollable anomaly!"

"Oh, you don't know yet, do you?"

"Is your ancestor Yin only five or six years left to live? Hehehe."

The young man from the Purple Mansion spread his hands, his words sharp and sarcastic, and suddenly began to mock Li Qing.

At the same time, six puppet-like skeletal arms suddenly sprouted from his back. The arms seemed to be made entirely of white bone, with exquisite craftsmanship at every joint, long and strange, like a work of art.

The moment the six bone puppet hands appeared, six terrifying sharp rays emerged from the palms of the puppet arms, their divine light seemingly capable of tearing this Netherworld apart completely.

"Even if I kill you, I can still go wherever I want!"

Li Qing remained expressionless, falling a step behind the Ghost Mother, but the murderous intent in her heart intensified.

But then the ghostly realm became even more solid, and in its depths, shadowy figures gradually appeared, and from time to time, old hanging ropes hung down from the darkness.

The entire Netherworld opened wide, as if a portion of the true Netherworld had been summoned forth!
The ghost silently shifted its position within the ghost realm, and in an instant it was close to the puppeteer.

With a grab of the twelve-zhang-long ghostly hand, the entire sea surface twisted and contorted, seemingly changing shape out of thin air, transforming into an unstoppable dark vortex.

Click...

The light screens supporting the six puppet arms of the young puppeteer were so compressed that they could barely bear the weight. With this palm strike, the ghost realm was sealed off, and the ghostly apparition attacked, leaving him with no way to avoid it.

With a loud bang, the ruthless puppeteer who had just seemed like a refined young man was instantly torn to pieces, with countless wooden mechanisms scattering from his twisted and shattered body.

This is also a puppet?
The ghostly figure suddenly landed on the reef. Li Qing and his companion stood before the thirty-three-foot-tall ghost mother statue, gazing at the puppet half-body that had fallen onto the reef.

The puppet's body had broken into three pieces, its head falling to the ground and its body severed in half, and it was now completely silent.

As the image of the Ghost Mother dissipated, the young man in the robe, accompanied by the red-clad ghost, landed on the reef, and the ghostly aura of the dark sky slowly dissipated as well.

Li Qing gazed at the puppet's corpse with an uncertain expression, wary of whether there were any hidden mechanisms or concealed weapons hidden within the puppet.

Suddenly, a chilling laugh rang out again.

"Die!"

From the puppet's remains on the ground, countless poison needles and talismans exploded with intense divine light, instantly engulfing the entire Dao Reef in a terrifying blast...

After a long while, the smoke cleared, and there was no trace of islands or reefs left on the sea; only churning waves remained.

(End of this chapter)