Compared to Du Qiniang from "Taoyao Cave", whose weakness was all too obvious and could easily lead to her downfall in an instant,
this other protector, the "Yin God" Xiao Shuiyuan, was clearly much stronger.
At the ti of the sudden and catastrophic change,
this somber Taoist with a cold and stern face was refining a disciple who had the misfortune of being chosen, inside his quiet chamber.
He was feeding his own warm blood to the five little ghosts in his "Five Organs Temple".
He often used the phrase "The cultivation world is not about fighting and killing, but about understanding human relationships and worldly wisdom" to instruct his disciples.
Once soone failed to show "worldly wisdom" and respect for their elders, he would imdiately respond with "fighting and killing" to teach them how to be human again, and today’s unlucky one was such a case.
"Hungry, hungry, hungry..."
"Daddy, your child is so hungry..."
Surprisingly, the five ghost children, who were whirling around in the quiet chamber, all bore a striking resemblance to Xiao Shuiyuan.
Crying "Daddy" pitifully and incessantly, they evoked a creepy sensation, making one wonder if this man could indeed be a fearless warrior who disregarded life and death?
That was not the case.
In the "Five Organs Temple", the most prized ghosts were the "Five Ghost Children", hence the thod was also known as the "Five Ghost Children thod".
Top-grade ghost children not only required harsh selection criteria but also needed to be tornted in various ways, to provoke their viciousness, resentnt, and obsession in order to raise the most terrifying fierce ghosts!
This directly led to the practice of Ghost Taoism being extrely dangerous.
If they violated any precepts and made an error, most of the Ghost Taoists wouldn’t even have the opportunity to mutate into "Weird" creatures.
Instead, they would be devoured by rampaging fierce ghosts, who would consu all of their flesh, bones, and spirit, leaving nothing but a dry, shriveled piece of human skin.
Compared to Wang Yuan’s "Yin Officials" who revered him as a god, these Five Ghost Children were more like "masters" that the Taoists had to serve cautiously.
Thus, the "Five Organs Temple" ca up with various thods to control the increasingly vicious "Five Ghost Children".
For example, this protector, the "Yin God" Xiao Shuiyuan, had taken many wives and concubines outside the island at the ti of his foundation establishnt, working diligently day and night at the right tis.
With the aid of the "dicine Immortal Sect’s" secret dicines, in just a few short years, he brought forth a hundred children who carried on his bloodline.
He hand-picked five exceptionally malevolent children with "Official Five Taboo Formations".
The first was Execution Clash; the second, Injury Killing; the third, Excess of the Food God; the fourth, Excess of the Seal; and the fifth, Death Attributed to Ti.
Thus, he put together this unique set of "Five Ghost Children", propelling him all the way up to the "Yin God" level.
And by leveraging the suppression of their bloodline, he placed an extra shackle on them, greatly enhancing their safety.
"Alright, alright, Daddy will feed you now," he said.
Brandishing a sharp knife, Xiao Shuiyuan plunged it into the disciple who lay on the stone platform.
However, unlike the countless "butchering" sessions before,
as the knife ca down, a blood-colored "Immortal Sand Soul Returning Seal" on the chest of the disciple suddenly shone bright.
Imdiately, his internal organs, flesh and bones, and ridians and brain marrow all turned into blood, which drained until not a drop was left.
Leaving behind nothing but a wizened skin, which suddenly trembled in place, becoming as thin as a sheet of paper, and then abruptly opened its eyes.
With knife-edge sharpness, the limbs slashed fiercely at Xiao Shuiyuan.
"Do not harm Daddy!"
Before Xiao Shuiyuan could give any commands, the five ghost children imdiately pounced and grabbed one limb each of the paper figure, then pulled with force.
Rip——!
They easily tore it into six pieces.
At that sa ti, more paper-thin figures kept squeezing through the door of the quiet chamber, holding paper knives and paper swords, lunging wildly at Xiao Shuiyuan.
This was because the Ghost Taoists practicing the "Five Organs Temple Ghost Raising thod" had a serious lack of resistance against Wang Yuan, the "Yin Mountain Taoist Master" practicing the authentic "Heavenly Departnt Dao Skill - Earthly Que Golden Book".
Under his spell’s influence, most had turned into "Weird - Papern".
They had begun a frenzied hunt for internal organs, muscles, and skeletons...
Each one taking an organ, a bone, a piece of muscle... slowly reassembling themselves into a "flesh person".
Once their "Killing Banquet" was accomplished, a new Red Seal "Weird Immortal" would be created.
These "Weird" creatures also chose their targets discriminately, mostly attacking those with robust physiques.
And within the entire Penglai Immortal Mountain, the most delectable internal organs belonged to none other than the "Yin God" Xiao Shuiyuan.
Even if it was a moth flinging itself into the fla, they continued to press forward relentlessly.
Moreover, with the "Papern" spanning from "Dao Foundation" to "Red Seal" levels, and in great numbers, it wasn’t entirely impossible for them to completely drown a "Yin God".
At this mont, Xiao Shuiyuan, who had realized that sothing big seed to have happened in the mountain, was startled but unflustered and sneered:
"Who are these insignificant creatures daring to cause trouble in my ’Peach God Tao’? Most protectors left assured because I, Xiao, am in charge here. Now I will make sure you never return!"
With that, he ignored his "Five Ghost Children" who were already engaged in combat with those paper figures.
With a mantra gesture in his hand, he bowed deeply toward the main temple of the "Five Organs Temple" that enshrined his ancestor, Emperor Mu, and chanted in a low voice:
"Summoning... the ’Taoist Inheritance Artifact – Fengdu Iron Enclosure’ to the altar!"
Whoosh——!
The next mont, a streak of black and red radiance pierced through the air, soaring high above his head.
It was a battle flag, its color akin to that of cast iron, embroidered with the image of a fierce, blood-colored Ghost King.
Effortlessly piercing through the roof, it flapped wildly in the wind above the Five Organs Temple.
"Capture!"
A turbulent divine light, resembling a river of blood, suddenly poured down from the flag, transforming into a vicious ghostly claw that swooped down on the attacking papern.
These papern, having been activated by their "Daoist Skill" and turned into Weird objects, stood no chance against the Fengdu Iron Enclosure, which was on par with a Taoist Lineage artifact.
In the blink of an eye, they were swept into the river of blood, vanishing upon the surface of the battle flag.
They were all annihilated in an instant!
The Five Organs Temple, with a lineage tracing back to the era of Emperor Mu, boasted a long and storied history and had naturally created its own Taoist Inheritance Artifact.
The heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys are collectively known as the "Five Organs."
As storage organs, their main functions include transforming and nurturing the essence, qi, blood, divine soul, and body fluids, hence they are also referred to as the Five Senses Organs.
Therefore, the Five Organs Temple was split into five parts, with nurous disciples stationed at the sect’s various dojos across the lands.
This Five Organs Temple, belonging to Penglai Dojo, was the one associated with the water attribute—"Kidney Temple," inheriting one of the five battle flags known as the "Abyssal Ghost King Banner" of the Fengdu Iron Enclosure!
Xiao Shuiyuan, who had wiped out the entire temple with a single move, took hold of the battle flag and bit his finger, saring blood across the flag embroidered with the image of the water-attribute "Abyssal Ghost King."
"Imperial Decree! Yin spirits heed my call, with heavenly vision and earthly hearing!"
As a wave of blood-colored ripples swept across the entire island.
"Found you!"
Xiao Shuiyuan, holding the battle flag, stepped out and vanished from the quiet room.
When he reappeared, he was standing in front of a young man. Recognizing the other’s identity, his face imdiately changed, and he shouted sternly:
"It’s you! Lu Renjia? You dare to betray the sect? Aren’t you afraid of West Queen Holy Mother’s heavenly punishnt?!"
Wang Yuan, who had been disguising himself with the "Mountain Shifting and Scenery Changing Talisman," couldn’t help but look at the Fengdu Iron Enclosure in Xiao Shuiyuan’s hand with slight surprise.
"To be discovered? This Taoist Inheritance Artifact, known as the embodint of our sect’s Daoist Skill, truly is extraordinary.
Whether it’s the incomplete ’Thousand-Handed Buddha’ or just one-fifth of the ’Fengdu Iron Enclosure,’ both are far superior to any ordinary Deceit Objects or magical treasures."
After studying the Daoist Skills of the Five Organs Temple, Wang Yuan had long discovered that the temple’s "Ghost Raising thod" was a re imitation of his own Five Senses Altar City.
It was likely a deteriorated version of the Dharma Sect developed by Emperor Mu upon realizing that he wasn’t a "Heaven and Earth Anomaly" and didn’t qualify to cultivate the Earthly Que Golden Book.
Of course, the Taoist Inheritance Artifacts would follow the sa lineage.
The Five Organs Temple possessed a set of five iron-blooded military banners collectively called the "Fengdu Iron Enclosure," symbolizing the first line of defense protecting the Yin Departnt and also the prison incarcerating wronged souls!
Assembled as a set, they could unleash their greatest power.
Even if they were just a group of "Internal Organs" keeping each other warm, thanks to the long accumulation over two thousand years, the complete Fengdu Iron Enclosure could likely dominate unchallenged within the Yellow Seal.
’Tsk tsk, if I can collect all five banners, even if I don’t use them for conflict, as the Yin Mountain Taoist Master, it would certainly add to my prestige.’
Seeing that Wang Yuan’s gaze wasn’t fixed on him but kept looking at the Fengdu Iron Enclosure in his hand.
It was as if the Taoist Inheritance Artifact had already beco his possession, and he had even considered how to use it.
Xiao Shuiyuan imdiately roared in anger:
"Imperial command: Iron locks fall from the Ghost Gate, and the bones of immortals grow cold within the Chenyuan Pond! Descend!"
Boom...
The black and red flag abruptly rolled furiously, and a multitude of runes and inscriptions piled up, materializing into an ethereal fort, city gate, and iron wall in the sky...
Among them, countless Yin soldiers and Yin generals shouted and whinnied, with battle cries shaking the heavens.
Cold scriptures continuously drilled into Wang Yuan’s ears:
"Fengdu Iron Enclosure, terribly secure and hard to breach, solely guarded by guilty souls... Never seeing daylight, the eternal night of the Nine Nether Prison..."
With the aid of this Taoist Inheritance Artifact, Xiao Shuiyuan was arguably the undisputed strongest among the nine protectors, the "Yin Gods," which explains his confidence.
But alas...
Watching as the iron city above was about to collapse onto him.
"What I sent you was the ’Rashamon Bone’ cast by the ’Yin Yang Heart Bell’, a quality product from ’Deceit Immortal,’ using it directly today seems quite wasteful indeed."
Subsequently, Wang Yuan, unflustered, extended three fingers to Xiao Shuiyuan who was within the seemingly impenetrable fort and guard towers, and started counting down:
"Three, two, one!"
"What?"
A sudden sense of bone-deep fatal danger inexplicably surged in Xiao Shuiyuan’s heart, yet he couldn’t discern its source.
The very next mont, his chest blazed with golden light.
Then.
Boom——!!!
The brilliant flas instantaneously lit up half of Penglai Immortal Mountain.
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