Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 104 Farewell to Seppuku, The Rescue Plan

Chen Gou'er was longing for the aroma of Li Wushou's meat.

Li Wushou also coveted Chen Gou'er's ability to generate flesh and blood.

Even the old beggar was envious. Li Wushou had once heard the old beggar say in his sleep, "If I could find a woman's flesh and blood to eat, I could bathe with other girls every day!"

Li Wushou, however, was plotting to find some flesh-and-blood monsters and evil spirits, and one day he would chop them all down, eat their flesh and blood, and finally sit in their temples and eat all their incense offerings!
Over the past two days, Li Wushou had meticulously planned the rescue of the civil official, and finally, with the addition of Chen Gou'er's flesh and blood, he completed the final step.

Just as Li Wushou had thought, no matter how he planned, with Zhu Sihai and the others surrounding him, rescuing the civil official would be no less than turning against him and starting a war!
Li Wushou was unwilling to do such a thankless task!

So how can we divert Zhu Sihai and the others' attention to other places?

The answer is actually right there: there is only one thing in Wufang City that can attract Zhu Sihai's attention, and that is the power of the City God lineage.

Zhu Sihai, having grasped the soul of the City God, believed himself to be invincible. He thought that as long as he kept a close watch on or killed all the other members of the City God Temple lineage, victory would surely be his.

As for the City God's lineage, there are only so many people, and Li Wushou knows this, as do Zhu Sihai.

These personnel transfers could not have been kept secret from Zhu Sihai, especially from Li Wushou himself.

Although Li Wushou did not consider himself to be a member of the City God lineage, he merely held a position at the City God Temple and received a salary.

But if you look at it from Zhu Sihai's perspective, Li Wushou is the absolute main force of the City God Temple at present!
Therefore, figuring out how to extricate himself from this predicament and then allocate some of his existing strength to assist in launching a surprise attack on the White Paper Taoist Temple became the key to rescuing the Wen Shenguan.

The best way Li Wushou could think of to extricate himself from this predicament was to simply stand openly in front of Zhu Sihai.

Li Wushou wasn't worried about Chen Gou'er's flesh and blood being revealed, but Chen Gou'er's words and actions made Li Wushou uneasy.

It took almost half an hour just to learn "invite the Martial God's Dharma Body to accompany you." In the end, Li Wushou still used the power of money, a full ten taels of silver. Chen Gou'er's deposit with Li Wushou had reached a total of eighty taels!
This finally made Chen Gou'er realize the truth, and the subsequent remarkable results left Li Wushou dumbfounded.

As for the rest of the journey, avoid the Burial Soul Forest and try to get some food to buy time. Li Wushou originally thought he would need to spend another huge sum of money.

But when Chen Gou'er heard about food, he seemed to have an innate talent for it, saying things like, "Let's go fishing, let's go hunting, let's have a barbecue?" Li Wushou and the old beggar were stunned.

After Chen Gou'er had already started asking Li Wushou where he could find any spirits or monsters like the Black Carp River God, Li Wushou quickly stopped him and told him to stop.

He felt he no longer needed to teach, and even imposed a restriction on Chen Gou'er: he could only stay near Cuijiazhai.

However, none of these things were what Li Wushou was most worried about. What Li Wushou was most worried about was Chen Gou'er wearing his face and performing a naked run for everyone. That would be a huge joke!
He's a high priest of the Five Directions City, revered by thousands. Does he have no shame?

To emphasize the importance of the issue, Li Wushou did not give Chen Gou'er a chance to argue and directly initiated disciplinary measures. If one hundred taels of silver were deducted, Chen Gou'er's world would collapse!

As it turns out, bounties can motivate people, and so can fines, let alone huge fines!
Chen Gou'er quickly became quite adept at it, and only then did Li Wushou feel relieved!

Having freed himself, Li Wushou wanted to find himself a henchman. The Martial God, the official henchman of the City God Temple, was the first choice. Even if the other party was not very clear-headed, his potential was high!

The old beggar's incense offerings might confuse the spirit bird for a while, but eventually it would naturally notice something was wrong!

So how do we bring out the Martial God without anyone noticing?
The first person Li Wushou thought of was the high priest Xiao Panshan, who had suffered a "difficult birth" while refining Yin.

Using the allure of incense, right under the nose of the Divine Soul Sparrow, they first helped the other party successfully refine their Yin, and then secretly took out his Yin spirit, hid it in a clay sculpture, and placed it in the incense hall!
When Chen Gou'er invited the Martial God to accompany him in front of the incense hall, the Martial God's physical form did indeed step out from the river of Yin energy underground and land in the clay sculpture residing in the incense hall. However, Li Wushou had tampered with the clay sculpture beforehand, sprinkling some incense on it, so the Martial God's physical form's aura was concealed after it landed inside.

At this moment, Xiao Panshan, the high priest who had communicated with Li Wushou, activated the power of the Yin God and rode the clay sculpture out of the incense hall.

Zhu Sihai and the Six-Eyed Monk sensed the Yin Spirit aura that came from the same lineage and naturally assumed that it was the Dharma Body of the Martial God.

If we then compare our accounts with the divine soul bird in the Yin Qi River, it will be a perfect match!

At this point, Chen Gou'er, along with the Yin God Xiao Panshan and twenty-four minor officials, represented Li Wushou, the Martial God, and numerous other officials.

The full power of the City God Temple was completely exposed to Zhu Sihai!
The situation was intuitive and compelling. Even if Zhu Sihai had many questions, he could only look for answers in other areas, which gave Li Wushou a lot of room to maneuver in what followed.

As long as Chen Gou'er and his group don't get close to the Burial Soul Forest, they should be able to manage to hold their own even if Zhu Sihai and the Six-Eyed Monk find out.

According to the plan, Zhu Sihai should have discovered it by the time he had already rescued the civil official.

As long as Zhu Sihai didn't want to completely break off relations at that time, he would have no choice but to compromise.

So after finalizing the plan, Li Wushou has been pushing it forward step by step for the past few days.

This morning, Chen Gou'er, carrying the City God's magic sword and dressed in a priest's robe, swaggered out of the Three Immortals Hall.

Li Wushou opened his abdominal cavity again. Unlike before, this time Li Wushou felt blood about to overflow. He quickly mobilized his pure yang power to control the flow of blood, so that it did not flow everywhere!
Li Wushou was also curious about his current body. He controlled his perspective and looked inside. Two bright red kidneys, together with the heart, were constantly producing essence and blood, enriching Li Wushou's physical foundation!
Li Wushou nodded in satisfaction. "That's really good."

The old beggar rolled his eyes at Li Wushou, who was quite pleased with himself. "Is it so great that a young man has a good set of kidneys?" he thought to himself. He then casually took out three sticks of incense, lit them, and inserted them into Li Wushou's abdomen.
"Unless you deliberately expose yourself, no one will be able to see you before the incense burns out!"

This was different from Li Wushou's shadow concealing his aura; instead, he truly disappeared from the opponent's sight and spiritual probe.

After giving his instructions, the old beggar sat cross-legged again under the incense table in the Three Immortals Pavilion, ignoring Li Wushou.

Two people left the Three Immortals Pavilion today, so the old beggar had even less free time, as he had to look after the incense offerings!

Li Wushou smiled and didn't say anything. It was the old beggar who had urged him to help with the banner, so naturally he couldn't voice any objections.

After re-stitching the abdominal cavity, Li Wushou stared at his stomach for a while. It was alright; the technique was as simple and crude as ever, but the recovery speed was faster.

After thinking for a moment, Li Wushou covered himself with black shadows again, feeling much more at ease with this double protection.

Li Wushou swaggered out of the Three Immortals Pavilion, ignoring the passersby around him.

After retrieving the clay sculpture of the Martial God from the incense hall of the City God Temple, Li Wushou sped towards Guanyin Mountain outside the South City.

Just as he passed the crossroads in the center of the city, Li Wushou caught a glimpse of what seemed to be a familiar figure.

He was dressed in his usual black outfit, with a fish basket at his waist and a fishing rod on his shoulder!

Are they going fishing?
(End of this chapter)