Immortal Dao Fruits, Cards to Help Me

Chapter 96 The City God Holds His Breath
Cao Liao, the Heart-Slaying Demon, is thirty-four years old. He has a large, fat face, small eyes, a stubble beard, a fierce appearance, and is somewhat unkempt.

Living in Dayushu Town, he made a living by slaughtering animals. With the help of force and the secret protection of Youyuandao, he monopolized the slaughtering business in the surrounding area.

It can be said that within a radius of twenty or thirty miles, if any family wants to slaughter a pig or a sheep, they have to pay him a fee.

He had about twenty or thirty butchers and meat sellers working under him for a living.

This person is addicted to alcohol and is also domineering and tyrannical. Whenever he drinks too much, he likes to pick fights and beat people up.

Not to mention his neighbors, even his henchmen would shrink back and stay far away when they saw him drinking.

Basically, everyone has been beaten by him!
He married three wives, but he drove them all away.

He drank too much again that day, completely drunk, snoring loudly enough to be heard through the window.

Because the Measuring Heart Blade possessed a murderous aura and was an evil weapon, Ma Si'er dared not approach the courtyard. Otherwise, he might provoke the Measuring Heart Blade to unleash its power, and even if he was hit, he would be severely injured. Moreover, it would awaken Cao Liao.

So Chen Xiuxian still personally took action—he hadn't even taken off his night clothes.

He carefully approached the window, licked his fingers in the cold weather, and silently poked open two layers of window paper.

—That glass is really expensive, a single piece costs more than one or two taels of silver, and a single window costs several taels of silver. Ordinary people can't afford it.

Chen Xiuxian peered into the house through the hole.

It was already past midnight, but Cao Liao didn't seem like a frugal person; the oil lamp was still lit and hadn't been blown out.

There was a fat man lying messily on the kang (a heated brick bed), his big belly rising and falling, with only half of the quilt covering him.

Cao Liao was, after all, a person with spiritual cultivation, so he didn't care about the cold or heat.

Chen Xiuxian looked around and saw a leather bag hanging on the wall above the kang (heated brick bed).

Slightly longer than a palm, it's elongated. However, the texture of the leather is a bit strange...

Just a few seconds after Chen Xiuxian saw the skin, the skin actually trembled.

Chen Xiuxian immediately turned his gaze away and stopped staring.

If this magical artifact is advanced enough, it will develop sentience and a certain degree of autonomy. It can kill enemies or protect its master on its own.

This measuring knife is certainly not high-grade, but it has killed quite a few people—hundreds of them. It has also given rise to some mystical phenomena!

Chen Xiuxian's fate is special, [the one that escapes (metal)], belonging to a person who is not on the predetermined path, so even though he had already reached the window, the measuring knife did not move.

But after staring at it for a few seconds, it touched me!

Fortunately, once I looked away, the skin behaved itself again.

Looks like this is it!
The problem is, how do we steal it now?
If it were an ordinary thief, he would probably have been pierced through the chest by a beam of blood as soon as he reached the door, his heart and lungs torn apart!

This thing was forged and refined from the blood and sweat of hundreds of heinous criminals and wronged individuals; it's truly difficult to handle.

However, if he could capture it, given Cao Liao's abilities according to the information, Chen Xiuxian could easily defeat him with his Changhong Sword.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Xiuxian suddenly remembered the staff left behind by the Laughing Arhat, who had already lost his head.

Ever since Laughing Arhat died, this thing has become like stubborn iron, completely motionless, and no amount of magic power can be poured into it.

It might require specialized ritual techniques or Buddhist magic.

However, this thing is a Buddhist treasure after all, and it is naturally incompatible with this evil weapon that kills people and takes their hearts!

……

"Ding~ You have killed a level 24 boss unit, Cao Liao, the Heart-Slaying Ghost of the Fated Path, and gained 1122 experience points..."

[Heart-Slaying Killer Blade (Blue)]

Tier 3 Cultivation Card - Unorthodox Cultivation Method
Evil practices that involve killing to cultivate one's skills have great destructive power, but they are against the natural order and diminish one's merit.

……

The Butcher's Bloodstained Leather Apron (Green)

Tier 2 Equipment Card
+5 Slaughter Skill

……

It's an item that adds to life skills! This thing isn't very useful in combat, but it might be useful for practicing life skills.

In the game "Da Qian Hong Meng", many players do not like, or are not suited to, fighting and killing, so they play the game as if it were just a normal life.

Some large guilds also train dedicated players to slaughtering monsters. As their levels increase, they can "cut" more materials from many monsters, including rare materials.

This equipment that can boost skills might fetch a good price!
In addition, there were two white cards and more than two hundred taels of silver.

However, the measuring knife is extremely difficult to control.

Chen Xiuxian used the staff left behind by the Laughing Arhat to strike the Measuring Heart Knife on the wall, causing the two magical treasures to clash head-on.

At the same time, he and Lao Niu and a few others launched a sneak attack on Cao Liao, the Heart-Slaying Ghost, who was lying on the kang (a heated brick bed).

Over there, the Zen staff and the crimson light and shadow of the Measuring Heart Blade clashed loudly, while over here, Cao Liao had already been killed!
He was already very drunk, and then he was surrounded by several people.

The moment he opened his eyes, axes and swords were aimed at his chest, mouth, and face. In the blink of an eye, he was seriously injured, and after a few more breaths, his head was gone!
There was practically no resistance at all~
Compared to the Laughing Arhat's vigilance, he was far too lax.

It was already late afternoon, and even in the depths of winter, the sky was beginning to brighten.

Moreover, the fight just now was quite loud; the kang (a heated brick bed) collapsed and the wall fell down.

Chen Xiuxian quickly packed his things, stuck a [Green Evil-Repelling Talisman] to the Measuring Heart Knife in the leather bag, and pressed it down with his Zen staff, barely managing to temporarily subdue the constantly trembling leather bag. Then he quickly led his team away.

After a busy night and two consecutive battles, everyone was exhausted.

Chen Xiuxian took out the wine and dishes he had prepared beforehand, and the group ate and drank their fill before going to bed.

The young man, Li, was so excited about doing something like this for the first time that he couldn't sleep and kept tossing and turning in bed.

He didn't feel any guilt or remorse for killing someone for the first time. In that kind of living environment, having grown up eating food from many families, people don't tend to be so sentimental.

Or rather, the law of the jungle is ingrained in the bones of every Liaodong person.

……

While Chen Xiuxian slept soundly, City God Li Chengliang couldn't sleep.

He knew about Yuanjue Temple the earliest, right after Chen Xiuxian and the others killed Cao Liao.

He couldn't get to the scene himself; it was the underworld messengers who found out and told him.

In this situation, all forty-eight monks in a Buddhist temple died, and even the "highly respected" monk Tuyuan lost his head.

More than a third of the entire temple building was destroyed, and the fire was still burning by dawn!

His first reaction was to have his men erase the blood-written words!
Whether you've done it or not, you know it yourself!

He's only just started his job and he's already too busy to handle things in Shencheng. How could he possibly go to a temple outside the city to kill someone for no reason?

I only ate one bowl of noodles!
However, there are still the remains of many innocent people at the scene!

The locks and bloodstains in the dungeon, and the shriveled, almost inhuman corpse of the woman, couldn't be faked!
Those bald thieves deserve to die!
As the City God, it was only natural for him to kill them.

Besides, it's too late now that he's had the blood-written words erased. It would only make things look like he's trying to hide something obvious.

The best option now is to take responsibility for this myself!
After all, it can be considered as eliminating a scourge for the people, and it also allows one to publicize their power.

As for the rest, we can only take it one step at a time.

But... Damn, I'm feeling a bit stifled!

Li Chengliang had dominated Liaodong for decades, but unexpectedly, after his death, he became the City God and was tricked by someone.

Blanch!
The main problem is that the influence of local deities and spirits on the human world is too small; the separation between the living and the dead is no joke.

However, as the game progresses, the distance between Yin and Yang is getting closer and closer.

Chen Xiuxian had seen related posts on the game forum a couple of days ago, predicting that in the second phase of the Great Calamity, after the rampaging monsters and demons in various places were largely brought under control, the influence of underworld ghosts and gods and earth deities would appear in the human world.

People like Li Chengliang, who were originally just ghosts in the game and weren't appointed as city gods, have now become city gods.

Although he was only recently appointed, he still had a large number of former generals and soldiers from his time as the General of Liaodong, and his strength would soon increase dramatically.

(End of this chapter)