Chapter 288 Entering Evil

Chapter 288 Entering Evil

Chapter 288 Entering Evil
Lou He felt that he was about to fall asleep, but was awakened by hunger. It was as if every inch of his body was silently crying out, stretching out invisible hands, eager to grab something.

However, his skin bag was empty, and he knew very well that he had received a small peach from Senior Sister Mei the day before yesterday. He was a Green Bag Immortal, so he shouldn't feel hungry. Eating and drinking water were only to maintain and repair his skin bag. His real food should be the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and his own innate Qi.

But now this feeling of hunger did not come from the stomach, but from the body, as if he had regained flesh and blood and the instincts of being a human being.

The next moment he was fully awake, he knew something was wrong.

At the same time, an even stronger feeling of hunger emerged, gnawing at his heart and making him feel that he could do anything and pay any price to satisfy his appetite.

His body trembled slightly, and he saw Li Wuxiang and Mei Qiulu sitting and talking not far away, their expressions changed from solemn and sad at first, to relieved. He wanted to call them, but he felt that his throat was completely stretched, like an abyss that wanted to swallow everything, and he couldn't make a sound.

Normally, Senior Sister Mei would have noticed it at this time, but she didn't know what Li Wuxiang said to her that made her unable to distract herself at this moment.

Then Lou He began to hear voices—coming from the void, fragmented, lingering in his ears. He slowly climbed up, slightly bent his body, and felt that he was about to turn into a beast, wanting... wanting...

He roared in his heart, raised his hand suddenly, and thrust it into his neck.

His skin was punctured, and he grabbed the wound on his neck with his hand and pulled it hard - half of his neck was torn, and his head suddenly drooped and tilted to the side.

The hunger and the whispers suddenly disappeared.

So Xiao Suo was also awakened from his sleep by this feeling of hunger.

He followed Mei Qiulu all the way from the west to Dajie Mountain, sleeping in the open air, covered with wounds, and he didn't know how many days he had been hungry.

These days, they were hungrier than before - all they could eat were fruits and vegetables found in the mountains. Ordinary people could fill their stomachs with these things, but they had consumed a lot of energy in the battles with the masters of the thirty-six sects, and the little they ate was as hard to consume as drinking water.

So when this feeling of hunger appeared, he knew that something was wrong.

The thought "It's broken" flashed through his mind in an instant, the last flicker of clarity.

Then, his whole body and mind were occupied and controlled by this feeling of hunger. He slowly opened his eyes and bent up like a wild animal.

The cave was quiet, with whispers in the depths. Outside, dusk fell, and the last ray of sunset light disappeared. Lying beside him were his fellow disciples. They had originally closed their eyes and lay quietly in the darkness to avoid exhaustion, but now, Xiao Suo saw that their eyes opened one by one, shining brightly in the darkness.

He saw extreme hunger and desire in their eyes, and imagined that they saw him in the same way.

So a dozen swordsmen bent their bodies, panting, staring, and breathing increasingly heavily in the gradually approaching darkness.

The last tiny bit of instinct left in their bodies still restrained them, making them move gently like a group of animals, touching each other and tapping their teeth.

Until one of them's wounds burst open due to this movement, and blood flowed out -

So everyone started to move. They opened their mouths and bit the nearest fellow disciple. Xiao Suo felt that he had bitten his shoulder. He didn't know if the man next to him was Li Ke, but the moment the teeth tore the skin and the blood flowed into his mouth, all unnecessary thoughts disappeared.

His mind was filled with only eating, eating, and eating. He focused on eating, swallowing everything his teeth could tear into his stomach.

He was so focused that he didn't notice or care that he was being bitten by the other two people beside him. The only sounds in the cave were chewing, panting, and the increasingly strong smell of blood, until -

A flash of sword light suddenly appeared in the cave, illuminating everything like a tiny sun.

Then Mei Qiulu shouted, "Back off!"

The thing in the darkness disappeared along with its whispers, and the cave, which was already illuminated by the sword light, seemed to become a little brighter - Li Wuxiang saw the swordsmen who were gnawing and chewing each other suddenly woke up from a dream, straightened up at once, and looked at each other.

But he also saw that they didn't seem surprised, as if this was not the first time they had experienced this.

Everyone still had flesh and blood in their mouths, so they spat it out and handed it back to their original owners, as if they were returning something insignificant that they had just accidentally taken away.

The swordsmen saw him and looked over. Li Ke's shoulder was bitten to the point where the bone was almost exposed, but he pressed the flesh from Xiao Suo's hand onto the wound and shouted with his eyes wide open: "Brother Li!? You're alive!?"

"I..." Li Wuxiang looked at his clear eyes, then at the rest of his fellow disciples, and could only nod and force a smile, "Yeah. Thank you."

Mei Qiulu sighed softly, retracted her sword, and clapped her hands: "Let's all sit down and rest. Now we know what's going on - Li Wuxiang, bring Lou He out as well."

Lou He broke half of his neck, but Qing Nangxian recovered faster - from the time Li Wuxiang and Mei Qiulu discovered that something was wrong with him to the time he came outside, he was able to hold his neck, drag his head, and walk out by himself.

Mei Qiulu walked to the cave entrance and sat down facing the outside. She waved her hand again and said, "Everyone, sit down. Li Wuxiang told me something that is related to our recent days. I can't tell you everything. I'll just pick out the most important things."

She sighed, looked at the dozen swordsmen who had sat down again and bandaged each other's wounds, and said to Li Wuxiang, "They were just fascinated. I didn't have time to tell you before, but now you see it with your own eyes."

"It's not just us. The situation is similar over at the Thirty-Six Sects these days."

"It was after the underground fire on the Great Tribulation Mountain that people sometimes felt hungry. At first we thought it was just ordinary hunger, but later some people were so hungry that they became obsessed and confused, eating whatever they saw around them - like what happened just now." "This kind of thing, once one person becomes obsessed, slowly everyone around will become obsessed. If no one is still awake, the whole group will be eaten to death - this kind of thing happened once in the Thirty-Six Sects. At that time, we were looking for you separately, and Xiao Suo and Li Ke were trapped in a cave by six people for a night. When they were about to go out the next day, they saw only six corpses left outside -"

When she said this, she turned her gaze to Xiao Suo.

Xiao Suo let out a breath and looked at Li Wuxiang: "They can't be considered corpses. There are almost only skeletons left, with some flesh on the joints. The internal organs of the six people were all chewed into pieces."

He paused when he said this. Li Wuxiang reacted slightly and immediately understood what he meant.

If a few of them eat the others, there will always be a few people whose organs are intact. But if they are all chewed up... then that is -

Seeing his eyes, Xiao Suo nodded and said, "Yes, the six of them ate each other up, but they didn't die. They waited until they couldn't move at all and their bones were about to fall apart before they couldn't eat anymore and died."

"That was probably the first time we saw it. Because after that, when the people from the Thirty-Six Sects fought with us, they said that we ate their people. Their words were very angry, and they must have been lying. Before that, they chased us very closely, but after that, they didn't chase us very closely. We think that this kind of thing has started to happen on their side as well - and it has happened on our side since then."

"Just like before." Mei Qiulu said, "Xiao Suo, tell him how you felt at that time."

Xiao Suo sighed, "I feel hungry, and I wake up suddenly. I know something is wrong, like I've been possessed by evil. Then I hear something talking in my ear, but I can't make out what it's saying. We all think it must be some evil god that has appeared in Lingshan."

Mei Qiulu looked at Li Wuxiang: "Including this time, there have been five times in the past ten days. When the incident happened, I went to Lingshan to check, but I didn't see anything. I thought that the evil god might not be on the level of the Blood Sea, but on a higher level or even in the Heaven Beyond Heaven. You just told me this-"

She paused, then turned to the swordsmen: "This is what I want to tell you. We can't talk about this kind of thing any more, so listen carefully. After this one time tonight, you are not allowed to talk about this with each other anymore—"

"The one that Li Wuxiang invited down from the Great Tribulation Mountain that day was an evil god named Dutian Siming. Everyone on the mountain that day was fascinated by the evil god's coming. So the things we remembered before, the destruction of the world by fire and death, were all true."

"Then it was Emperor Donghuang Taiyi who took action and saved the world again. But Emperor Donghuang Taiyi is also an evil god."

Mei Qiulu paused when she said this. More than a dozen swordsmen were all stunned, even Li Wuxiang was stunned - he knew that Mei Qiulu would explain the matter clearly, but he didn't expect her to say this... He didn't even dare to directly accuse "Donghuang Taiyi" of being an evil god!

Xiao Suo couldn't help but ask: "Master, what do you mean by this?"

Lou He held up his head, his eyes widened, looked at Li Wuxiang, then at Mei Qiulu, and slowly moved a step to the side.

Mei Qiulu had a solemn expression. She shook her body slightly and her yang spirit came out, transforming into another form.

"This is the origin of the Yang God that I have verified. If I had been invaded by an external evil and talked nonsense, my Yang God would not be what it is now. Lou He -" She turned her head, "You are the Qing Nang Immortal, go to Lingshan now and see if there is anything attached to me?"

Lou He's body was in a trance for a moment, and when it solidified again, he was stunned for a moment: "...No."

Mei Qiulu nodded: "Okay, listen to me."

"Li Wuxiang witnessed this personally. I think you won't believe me when I say that Donghuang Taiyi is an evil god, and this is the best. As I continue to talk, you can listen and think at the same time - is there something wrong, are some of my words false? Fellow disciples of our sect are as close as brothers and sisters, so apart from those things that are inconvenient to discuss, you should also know what I know. The future direction of our sect should also be decided by all of us together."

When she first started talking, even Li Ke had doubts in his eyes when he looked at Li Wuxiang. Gradually, the doubts in everyone's eyes turned into surprise, then confusion, and then turned into an incredible solemnity.

"... I think that the situation we and the thirty-six sects are experiencing with external evil entering our bodies, now it seems that it is time for the True Lord Siming to descend. Li Wuxiang told me that when the True Immortal Ye Emperor was still able to borrow authority from Donghuang Taiyi, he could still suppress the thirty-six True Lords. But now that Ye Emperor is gone, True Lord Siming has obtained the authority of the incarnation of Dutian Siming, so it is time for him to descend."

"There is a great famine in the world right now, so it is a good time for him to come into the world. Li Wuxiang, what did the Emperor Ye say in the Wanhua Fang?"

Li Wuxiang sat next to Mei Qiulu and looked at the swordsmen in front of him: "As Senior Sister Mei said just now, Siming Zhenjun is alive... He was killed by Xuanjiao in the past, but now he has come back to life by borrowing the incarnation of Dutian Siming."

"After he comes back to life, he won't want to stay in the sacred mountain, because the Six Departments of the Xuan Cult want to destroy him again. So his best option is to come to the world - find a physical body and become a Yang God like Senior Sister Mei. In this way, even if the Xuan Cult's sacred mountain is brought to the world, it will not be a match for him, the Yang God."

"When he was in the Wanhua Fang, he wanted to possess the body of Jiang Jiaozhu, but Jiang Jiaozhu broke free, and then he possessed Zhao Kui's body, but Zhao Kui was later killed by me. So I think he should have possessed another person's body and has come to the world."

"What happened to you these days may be his magical power. He uses this magical power to collect the power of vows and help him practice."

Xiao Suo's face was solemn, and he said nothing. When he heard this, he looked at Li Wuxiang and said, "We feel that it is more like an external evil entering the body - but when something happened a few times before, Senior Sister Mei went to Lingshan to check, and there was nothing in the sea of ​​blood, and she guessed that he might be in a higher level."

"He is at a higher level, so everything these days makes sense - he manipulated his magical powers in the sacred mountain, taking advantage of the fact that everyone was thirsty these days to make us obsessed. But you said he should have come to the world now - I am afraid that practitioners at the Nascent Soul Yang God realm will not be possessed by him, they must be at a lower level. And those who are not at that level, even if they are possessed by him... I am a golden elixir, what means does he have that can make me, a golden elixir, defenseless and unable to resist?"

Li Wuxiang nodded: "Brother Xiao, I am also puzzled by this. But what Sister Mei and I said is indeed -"

Xiao Suo waved his hand: "It's not that I don't believe what you say, at least not in this matter. I mean, maybe the person possessed by Siming Zhenjun is not far from us, on the Great Tribulation Mountain, so he can use this magical power to manipulate us?"

Li Ke was stunned: "No, Senior Brother Xiao, Senior Sister Mei is looking after us, none of us would do that. The Thirty-Six Sects... those chasing us are the Yang Gods and Yuanyings, and their Jindans are also looked after by someone, so they wouldn't do that either-"

Xiao Suo looked at Li Wuxiang: "Si Ming Zhenjun is the Kitchen God, the founder of Ranshan Sect. Senior Brother Li, I remember you accepted a disciple, who was also from Ranshan Sect. She stayed at the foot of the mountain when we reached the Great Tribulation Mountain in the sky, and after that, no one of us saw her again."

(End of this chapter)