The sword, detached from the hands of the second elder, fell to the ground.
I was drenched in sweat, my whole body soaked, and that locked-in sensation finally vanished!
If the second elder really summoned that bolt of lightning, my current fate would likely be the same as Zheng Ren's, becoming a heap of charcoal.
However, his strength was still not enough.
No, perhaps it's not due to his strength?
Heaven's thunder is pure, while the three worms are impurities. They destroyed the Daoist's heart.
If the thunder strikes a good person, can it still be called heaven's thunder?
Of course, this is just my speculation and conjecture. It may not be reliable.
I didn't retreat; I kept my legs in a crouching position, held the High Heaven Rod in my hands, and prepared for the confrontation!
It was still a manifestation of a Dharma form!
The second elder did not pick up the sword on the ground; he cursed randomly, saying that such a person and his sword were not worthy. He became a mad Daoist in reality.
At the same time, he rushed to my face and used both hands to make a hand seal, directly striking at my chest.
I gathered my strength and struck back, our palms collided!
I thought the High Heaven Rod would give the second elder a good hit, but to my surprise, his double arms were incredibly tough and his strength was so powerful that I didn't push him back at all. On the contrary, the rebound force made me retreat two steps.
Visible to the naked eye, the second elder's palms had cracked and were oozing blood, yet he seemed unaffected and raised his hands to strike me again!
His fingers made a hand seal, and his murmuring grew faster.
BOOM!
A bright red light exploded in the area of my chest.
Heaven's thunder cannot strike the ground, but the heart of a thunder palm is unrestricted.
Severe pain and heat struck, coupled with immense force, directly sending me flying.
Before I could get up, the thunderous booms pounded on my chest again, causing me to roll backward and almost reach the edge of the deep pool.
The armor on the surface of the water was stirring restlessly, but they didn't dare to come up and attack me.
In addition to the pain, I also smelled a hint of charred meat. My hands and feet were numb.
"It's like this, originally."
"Whatever one desires, free from constraints!"
"Luo Xian Shen, you are weak as straw and ants!"
The second elder threw back his head and laughed wildly.
Only then did I understand the malevolence of the three lifeless beings!
From what I've heard from others about the experiences of Daoists controlled by infested blood in the Mountain of Juqv, I never could truly grasp how terrifying the Corpse Beasts are.
The advancement in cultivation brings about a meteoric rise in the power of the Daoist!
However, the insufficient cultivation level caused by the lack of heart causes the Corpse Beasts to emerge.
People are not yet walking dead, but the enlargement of desire and heart demons has turned them into beings who are not bound by any moral concepts or rules!
When greed is endlessly released, and malevolence is endlessly released, the ferocity a person can show is absolutely no weaker than that of a ghost!
I once again summon the Jade Inscription of Yin!
This artifact has the effect of suppressing the toxins of the three lifeless beings!
"Tan Zhu Zheng Lun Qing Jing She, Ling Bao Tian Jun Qu Mi She, Tai Guang Shuang Ling You Jing She. Peng Ju, Peng Qiao, Peng Zhi bù de li wú shén zi she. Tai Shang San Tian Wu Xiu Zi Ran She."
"I cleanse my body with the sun, refine my form with the moon. The true person guards me, the jade woman assists my shape. The twenty-eight stars follow me in serving order, and thousands of evil and impurities are dispelled by my qi. Let it be done quickly like a law command."
Previously, the Jade Inscription of Yin acted on the second elder, affecting his conscience!
To question one's heart means that it is up to the Daoist to resist the demon within.
At this moment, its effect is to purify the heart, body, and spirit!
Visibly, the upper-body green in the second elder's eyes seemed to be forced back into his eyeballs!
The second elder, who was about to charge at me, stopped again, his hands cupping his head, looking extremely distressed as if he were trying to regain a bit of clarity!
"Master... what are you doing? Don't help him!"
Lao Gong suddenly appeared on the surface of the deep pool. His hand, as thin as a cane, was holding something.
It was a string of fish, appearing to be dried fish carcasses, but actually with intricate patterns that gave a sense of vitality, as if they were still alive. They glowed with a pale gold and red color, looking very attractive.
However, a significant portion of them had been eaten to the point where half of them were gone.
I recalled earlier, when Ding Rui Pu took this item out, she had controlled Luan Hou. Lao Gong had also scolded her for wasting heaven's resources.
So, Lao Gong must have gone to fetch this item!
"But don't help him regain his sanity, once his strength improves and his heart is controlled, he won't remember your kindness, but will kill you instead, keeping the Jade Inscription of Yin for himself. It can't be used in this way!"
Lao Gong reminded me again.
That's when I finally reached back to sheath the Jade Inscription of Yin.
Before I could ask Lao Gong what he intended to do,
Lao Gong's hand shot up, and he hurled the string of dried fish carcasses violently at the second elder.
The second elder reached out to catch it and squeezed it fiercely!
The dried fish carcasses were immediately crushed!
In fact, when Lao Gong came out, the Luans below the trees had been twitching restlessly. Now they scattered widely and swarmed towards the second elder like bats or birds, forming groups of ghostly creatures.
"Hmph!"
"Humph! You again, what kind of demonic thing are you? Lu Xian Shen, your foreign evil, has indeed caused trouble again. I, the True Person of the Fourth Rule Mountain, cannot allow you!"
The second elder was indeed completely mad, he didn't even consider dodging. Instead, his body spun around and a massive amount of copper swords were unleashed.
"The Tao is not numerous, the Southern Celestial Pole irrigates the Northern River, each character a word, subdue all demons in the world!"
"Copper swords, how can they kill ghosts?"
Lao Gong couldn't stop laughing malevolently and roared, "Stinky Second Brother, you can't even kill a ghost, what kind of True Person are you?"
Clearly, the second elder had lost his basic emotional control and his thoughts were all chaotic. He couldn't withstand Lao Gong's provocation.
"Ruining! Noisy! So-called ghosts are nothing to me!?"
"I will extinguish them first, and then exterminate the foreign evil!"
With that said, the second elder stepped on the part of the fish carcass he had previously crushed, and his body spun again. The fish carcasses were then deeply pressed into the soil by him.
He was making a hand seal, but the ghostly creatures resembling bats or birds became even more furious and angry.
I finally realized that this kind of fish carcass was the food of the Luans. So-called control methods were just that Ding Rui Pu knew what they needed.
There was also a fragrance earlier that controlled the corpse armor!
For ghosts, gluttony is the only emotion, just like the Gou I've encountered before, who doesn't fear heaven's thunder for eating human brains.
"I swear to the heavens..."
The second elder was still reciting spells and performing incantations, with wind and lightning flashing around him, not exaggerating at all.
The Tai Ling Wan and the unnamed pill have raised his strength to the level of a True Person, seemingly giving him a lot of energy. The number of Luans is too many, sixty-four Luans under the sixty-four trees, and who knows how many ghostly creatures.
They don't seem to be the Luans from the tombs, which retreat when injured. It's because of the vast number, as well as the second elder stepping on them and their desperate desire to attack, that they are attacking more fiercely.
Moreover, Lao Gong had previously said that in such a place, ghosts cannot be killed.
This has become a war of attrition.
The second elder was angry and roared, using increasingly fierce Taoist magic. The ghosts also became more fierce, tearing his clothes and biting through his skin.
The second elder no longer used lightning magic but wielded swords, slicing through ghostly creatures resembling bats or birds!
After being beheaded, they indeed could not recover...
I don't know how long it's been, but the ground is covered with scattered corpses, and the blood smell is very unpleasant.
The second elder stood with his hands hanging loosely, tremblingly on the ground, his grin relentless: "Is that all? Huh? Luo Xian Shen, should you be at a loss now?"
