Terrifying Heavens: I Slay Demons by Painting Faces

Chapter 86 Three Flowers Gather at the Top

On the barren mountain, tombstones stand in rows, the mountain wind howls, and dust of withered yellow leaves rises.

By this time, the funeral ceremony was nearing its end, and the attendees were leaving.

Chen Hengyi did not immediately step forward. He saw that the monk was still counting on his fingers and frowning, with a dark cloud hanging between his brows.

Suddenly, a thin old man wearing a hat stumbled and fell in front of him.

The monk's pupils dilated in surprise. He helped the old man up, gave him some instructions, and watched him leave.

Chen Hengyi knew that the old man was the security captain of the Central Building, whose name was Uncle Han.

Soon, most of the people on the mountain had left, and the monk waited until the very end. Chen Hengyi saw him walk to Mr. Hong Kong's grave again and begin to perform some divination, his expression still solemn.

Only then did he appear and walk over. The moment he appeared, the monk noticed him.

Seeing this, Chen Hengyi spoke first: "Friend, you should think carefully. If you get involved in other people's karma, you may bring bloodshed upon yourself."

Upon hearing this, the monk immediately stopped what he was doing and asked warily, "Interfering with cause and effect? ​​Who are you?"

Chen Hengyi stood at a safe distance: "My name is Chen Hengyi, a member of the Peking Opera world. I travel the world to uphold justice and vanquish evil!"

Upon hearing this, a look of doubt flashed across the monk's face: "Why would people from the Peking Opera world need to exorcise demons? I recognize each word individually, but when put together, it's completely incomprehensible."

However, after looking at the man's appearance and demeanor, he realized that he was indeed no ordinary person, especially his pair of phoenix eyes, which were full of spirit.

He quickly considered the matter in his mind, then thought about the other person's name.

Heng means constant. Yi means change.

The monk's tightly furrowed brows subtly relaxed: "You say I'm facing a bloody calamity? Why can't I sense it? Or are you planning to enter this game, using your own destiny to disrupt cause and effect, trying to change the constant?"

Chen Hengyi lowered his hand and said softly, "Of course, they were in the mountains and unaware of the dangers of the fog. I was merely offering a hint to help them break through the fog... May I ask how the Master is addressed?"

He had just asked when a beige business card flew over.

Chen Hengyi took a look and saw that the profession was Feng Shui master and Taoist priest, and the name was Danyang.

The gold lettering stands out against the off-white background, and... it looks so cool to flick a business card like that!

"I should probably make some business cards when I have time..." Chen Hengyi thought to himself.

Danyang, we didn't find the other person's name in the story, but it turns out that his name is Danyang.

Just those two words sound very righteous and upright.

Just as Chen Hengyi was looking at the business card, Master Danyang spoke up and asked, "It seems you also understand the art of fortune telling? My friend surnamed Chen, you didn't come here just to say these two sentences, did you? Why don't you get straight to the point?"

Without a second thought, Chen Hengyi held up two fingers and said calmly, "First, I know you are destined for a calamity, a death calamity, which is related to that group of people just now. Coincidentally, I also know which evil spirit is behind it, and I have come here to eliminate it."

Upon hearing this, Danyang resumed his hand-calculation, but less than half a minute later, his face suddenly flushed red, and then his body shuddered violently. With a muffled groan, bright red blood suddenly oozed from his mouth and nose.

Chen Hengyi was a little confused. Why did he suddenly start self-harming?

At this moment, Danyang coughed up blood, and his gaze toward Chen Hengyi became less wary.

It was only after Chen Hengyi finished speaking that he calculated his own fate and discovered that he was destined to suffer a calamity and perish.

The appearance of this person blurred the fate of death, as if a benefactor had suddenly appeared in a cage.

Unfortunately, by the time he foresaw his impending death, that outcome was already gone. The future, whether good or bad, remained completely unpredictable, a state of utter chaos...

Danyang wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth: "So what's the second thing?"

"I would like to ask you to be my protector."

"You trust me that much? I predicted you would be my benefactor, but we've only just met."

"Now that you know I'm your benefactor, would you really harm me?"

"I am just like you, I only know how to exorcise demons and monsters, I would never do anything to harm people."

"That's good!"

At his home in Danyang, Chen Hengyi was sitting cross-legged on a futon, with a Bagua diagram drawn on the ground.

Danyang peered out the door, her brows slightly furrowed, and quietly watched Chen Hengyi.

At this moment, flames suddenly flashed from Chen Hengyi's body, who was sitting cross-legged.

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As soon as the fire appeared, Danyang suddenly heard the operatic singing of lines of lyrics.

This surprised him: this was a cultivation method he had never seen before. He listened carefully to the opera singing, but it was a pity that the opera singing was indistinct, as if it were separated by a layer of water.

He could only hear the pitch fluctuations, but couldn't make out the specific content.

But Danyang could still sense the emotions contained in the opera singing, which were gradually building to a climax.

Just then, the flames on Chen Hengyi's body suddenly condensed into three balls, swirling around his body before finally transforming into three small flame flowers that merged into the Baihui acupoint on the top of his head.

Upon seeing this, Master Danyang's eyes widened and his hands clenched tightly, for he recognized what it was—the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top!

He could sense from Chen Hengyi's aura that the other party's cultivation level was not very high, but this was only a single cultivation session, yet he directly manifested the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top. What kind of powerful talent was this?

He himself believes that he has extraordinary talent, but he has not yet passed this stage.

Danyang took a deep breath: "Only in this way can he be considered my benefactor and change my original calamity."

At this moment, Chen Hengyi sensed that he was undergoing a transformation, with the flames multiplying and merging into his limbs and bones.

Between contraction and expansion, it continuously expands and stretches, and then automatically operates the microcosmic orbit.

With each cycle of the Small Heavenly Circuit, Chen Hengyi discovered that a small portion of some kind of obstruction within his body was burned away, though he couldn't quite explain it.

After nine cycles of circulation, he suddenly opened his eyes, and an invisible cracking sound rang out within his body, spreading throughout his limbs and bones.

A faint aura surged from his body, while the flames subsided.

"I did it!"

At this moment, Chen Hengyi broke through the stage of refining essence into qi.

During the breakthrough, he did not feel any difficulty; it just happened naturally, as if water had flowed into a channel.

He stood up, cupped his hands in thanks to Danyang, and said, "Thank you for protecting me, Master Danyang."

Danyang shook his head: "I was just using this place as an observer; I didn't do anything."

Chen Hengyi didn't dwell on it. He said, "Since my cultivation has improved, it's time to tell you about that monster who put you in such a deadly situation."

Chen Hengyi sensed that his body was in good condition and he didn't need to go into seclusion to stabilize it, so he recounted the story about the man in red.

Of course, he also selectively omitted some things that hadn't happened yet. Although he knew Danyang was a good person, Chen Hengyi couldn't reveal everything.

After listening to Chen Hengyi's words, Danyang narrowed his eyes: "So, according to you, that guy in red wanted to be reincarnated and had been planning this for years? And his target was among the people on the mountain earlier?"

"Exactly."

"So what do you plan to do?"

"Of course we'll take him down!" Chen Hengyi smiled mysteriously, then added, "Let's test him out first and see just how strong he really is!"