Looking closely, that seed to be the stone tablet that had originally stood atop the church, emblazoned with the emblems of the sun and moon.
Inside the church, there seed to be so unnad and terrifying creature, opening its gaping maw, ready to choose its next victim to devour...
Outside the village, Fang Xing touched his forehead with a wry smile, "This place is hopeless... The corruption of the Evil God is everywhere; it’s indeed tough to survive without turning into a half-Clan mber..."
As he entered the village, he imdiately felt a series of scrutinizing or hostile gazes.
"Outsider!"
A sharp voice rose, followed by a woman clutching her child as she quickly rushed into her house and slamd the door shut.
"I... can’t be that frightening, can I?"
Fang Xing took one step after another, walking towards the church.
Just as he reached halfway, a burly white man with a nose reddened from drinking blocked his path; he had wine-red curly hair, his chest partially exposed, and was covered with thick chest hair, looking sowhat like a giant gorilla.
"Stranger... where do you co from?" He sized up Fang Xing with a malicious grin.
"From where I should co!"
Fang Xing replied with a smile.
Clearly, his enigmatic response did not pique the interest of this thug or enforcer; instead, it seed to be taken as a provocation.
The burly white man spat a thick wad of phlegm forcefully onto the ground; his voice turned ferocious, "Stranger... you have stepped onto Ba Yi’s land, you should pay the ’Blood Tax’ to Lord Ba Yi!"
"A tax?"
Fang Xing nodded, "How much?"
Having been accustod to the shakedown of having to pay Spirit Stones just to enter Immortal City, Fang Xing was sowhat unfazed by this.
"Blood Tax doesn’t require your money, only your blood... and flesh!"
The burly man’s expression grew maniacal, "One eye, one ear, and a bowl full of blood..."
He clearly wasn’t bluffing, but rather, he drew out a dark-red dagger, ready to actually begin the ’collection’ process.
Moreover, judging by the residue in the groove of the dagger, it was obvious he wasn’t new to this sort of thing.
"Sorry, I lied to you just now; even if I wanted to pay, I have no money..."
Fang Xing suddenly revealed a sly smile.
Then, with a light flick of his finger, the dagger snapped in half, and he quickly delivered a kick to the burly man’s chest.
Crack!
Amidst the piercing sound of breaking bones, the burly man was hurled backwards, crashing into a mud wall.
Had Fang Xing not held back, he would have imdiately beco a corpse.
"What good does your collection of Blood Tax do for you?"
Fang Xing approached the severely injured man, knowing his organs had been pierced by his ribs and that he was slowly dying.
His Spiritual Power directly suppressed the man’s resistance, creating an effect similar to psychogenic sleep.
"The Sado Sect wizard..."
The burly white man, eyes blank and a trace of fear on his face, muttered, "The Sado Sect wizard killed the church’s Divine Servant, suspended him from a tree, offered him to the Natural Spirit—the Deer Head Spirit! It quelled the wrath of the Deer Head Spirit... Lord Ba Yi thus chose to convert to the Sado Sect... The Sado Sect wizard needs ten ears, ten eyes, and a pot of fresh blood to sacrifice to their worshipped ’spirit’..."
"The church’s Divine Servant?"
Fang Xing nodded in understanding, knowing that referred to the unlucky soul who was hanged from a tree with limbs pierced.
He paid no further attention to the enforcer, turning instead to head towards the church.
According to the information he had gathered, the Sado Sect’s wizard should be residing inside the church.
Amidst the wails and screams of the enforcer, the village plunged into a sinister stillness; not a single household ca out to investigate.
Fang Xing stood before the shattered stone tablet, his gaze shifting to the figure inside the church.
It was a strange humanoid figure with slightly dark skin covered in tattoos and piercings of silver rings on the lips and nose.
"The Sado Sect’s wizard?!"
Fang Xing spoke out.
"How dare you be so insolent?"
The slightly dark-skinned Sado Sect wizard was tending a large boiling pot.
The pot contained a bubbling dark red liquid, constantly roiling and emanating bubbles.
Accompanying the boiling blood-red soup were eyeballs, ears, and other human organs...
He stopped his movents and stood up.
His posture was eerie and stiff, as though he was no longer a living person but a rigid corpse.
Even a stench of decay emanated from his body.
In Fang Xing’s perception, it was as if he were a ’walking dead’!
Not only that, under Fang Xing’s spiritual power sensing, it seed there was a semi-transparent human shape behind this Sado Sect wizard, akin to so sort of spirit entity.
’Is this... so kind of special lower servant? A spiritual body that coexists with humans?’
An assumption erged in Fang Xing’s mind.
"Mortal... you dare gaze upon a great Sado Sect wizard?"
The Sado Sect wizard was furious and suddenly drew out a handful of pitch-black sand from his bosom, throwing it at Fang Xing.
At the sa ti, he murmured to himself as if reciting ancient spells,
"I curse you! I curse your wrists to be bitten by venomous snakes, your eyes to be stung by mad bees, your corpse to be devoured by beetles..."
In Fang Xing’s eyes, that handful of sand suddenly transford into venomous snakes and poison bees...
Moreover, it carried a strange oppression, one that even a Third Realm Rough Jade martial artist could hardly resist, would be bound by venomous snakes and blinded by bees, as the spell dictated!
"Is this...witchcraft?"
"No... This is my first ti seeing a human contaminated by an Evil God used like this!"
Fang Xing touched his brow, and a Martial Arts Will as fierce as the sun burst forth.
Those venomous snakes and bees instantly turned into smoke and vanished...
"What other moves... Show what you’ve got."
Fang Xing gestured to the Sado Sect wizard with a hook of his finger.
"Impossible!!"
The Sado Sect wizard’s face was filled with disbelief, "I sacrificed my own children to beco a wizard carrying the ’Natural Spirit’... How could I possibly lose to an ordinary person?!"
He tore open his robe to reveal his gaunt body and the intricate and eerie tattoos covering it.
At that mont, those tattoos wriggled like insects, making the transparent and illusory ’spirit entity’ behind him almost rge with the wizard:
"Wind! I call upon the fierce wind! Blow away my enemies! Scatter the flesh and blood of my foes! Extinguish the souls of my adversaries!"
A gale erged within the church; no, in Fang Xing’s sense, that black wind was not airflow, but a dreadful contamination by an Evil God!
Even within the contamination, a human face erged, gnashing its way toward him!
"We martial artists fear not these!"
Fang Xing sighed with slight disappointnt and clenched his five fingers into a fist.
His Martial Arts Will attached to it, allowing him to effortlessly punch through the black wind, his fist power undiminished even after ten steps, landing on the forehead of the Shaman Witch, knocking him unconscious.
"Whimper!"
Sothing happened that made Fang Xing’s brows twitch.
The ’wind’ he dissipated with his Martial Arts Will regrouped in the next mont, forming into an illusory and transparent human shape.
’It’ climbed out from the back of the Sado Sect wizard like an animal on all fours, suddenly leaped to the edge of the large cauldron, and seed to suckle on the ’offering.’
The large cauldron quickly decayed, rust ford, the fire went out, and the pot emitted a stench of rot and foulness...
"Even a lower-ranking Clan mber hit by my fist would die... This spirit entity at most a lower servant, yet possesses ’Undying’ traits? This world is truly fascinating..."
Fang Xing watched the unconscious Sado Sect wizard.
He noticed that after the spirit entity finished consuming the offering, it returned to his back without upheaval.
’Previously, this spirit entity intended to attack the Sado Sect wizard... But was it bound by the tattoos?’
’My spiritual observation indicates... An ordinary villager would probably only hear the wind and see the pot suddenly rust away... then die of fright, thinking it to be so malevolent spirit – and technically, they wouldn’t be wrong.’
Fang Xing nodded, his Purple Pattern Golden Pill rotated, changing his aura as strands of mana manifested.
He reached out and grabbed the Sado Sect wizard’s skull, channeling the ’Destroying God Soul Searching Technique’!
Before, his Martial Arts Will could only briefly soul search an average person, an inspiration and technique gained from that spell.
But to confront a real ’Transcendent,’ he must convert mana and employ the Soul Searching Skill from the Cultivation World!
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