Chapter 851: Chapter 549: Corpse of the Ice Mountain Goddess, Blood Infant Summons the Yinfeng
As Yellow Bat True Immortal’s voice fell, Tao Qian immediately realized where that eerie sense of familiarity had come from.
New Moon Province Zulong Society... Ying Qingdi... Outland Yellow Robe, a disaster that nearly claimed Tao Qian’s life.
In hindsight, it was one of the most powerful Gods and Demons Tao Qian had ever encountered indirectly.
Afterwards, Tao Qian sought answers, consulting Yuan Gong and secretly learning from Aunt Pan Si, roughly understanding the status of the ’Outland Yellow Robe’.
Innate God and Demon!
Moreover, it was a particularly powerful one among them. Various Great Abyss secrets indicate: The Yellow Robe lineage, if a war truly breaks out, may not necessarily be a match for the Spirit Treasure Sect, but it certainly wouldn’t be afraid.
Back then, Tao Qian used all kinds of means, even going as far as to smash his own skull to seek help from the Toad God. Only by this did he barely survive that deadly calamity, and in turn, eliminate the Outland Yellow Robe’s offspring Ying Qingdi, who was born in the Longevity Realm to a Human Clan woman.
Originally, he thought that any further interaction with this God and Demon would be when he sought the Dao in the Outland someday.
Unexpectedly, the encounter came sooner than anticipated.
"So-called Yellow Bat True Immortal, it’s just an Outland bat demon that gained essence and achieved Dao."
"The so-called Heavenly Kui Bat Clan, I reckon is the clan of the ’Great Abyss Yellow Robe’."
"This True Immortal seems to be at the Perfect Ultimate Happiness level, possibly even half-step Daoist Transformation, and is evidently favored by the Yellow Robe. The yellow gourd hanging at his waist, who knows where it came from, can remain unscathed from the burning of the Outer Heaven Flame Essence."
"Being a True Immortal in the Yellow Robed Clan, he must have cultivated several powerful divine skills, and in combat, he might not be any weaker than me."
With this thought, Tao Qian suddenly felt it daunting.
Coincidentally, at that moment, the "Records of Strange Compilations" ceased turning and settled on a page with illustrations and characters, revealing the background secrets of the Heavenly Kui Bat and this True Immortal:
"The Heavenly Kui Bat Clan, this clan is a species from the Origin Sea, fond of consuming flesh and blood, extremely skilled in escape techniques, able to freely leap across various dangerous terrains in the Origin Sea."
"This clan possesses high spiritual wisdom, often extremely ferocious, but if one can please them, they may even allow Human Clan cultivators to ride them and roam the Origin Sea."
"This clan, along with the Hidden Dragon Clan, Yellow Llama Clan, Wind Witch Clan, and others, are all clans of the innate God and Demon ’Great Abyss Yellow Robe’."
"Among the Yellow Robed God’s numerous clans, this clan is not particularly prominent, ranking towards the end. However, it is rumored that in recent years, a talented bloodline emerged in this clan, self-claimed as ’Yellow Bat True Immortal’. After enduring for five hundred years, successfully cultivated the ’Yellow Heaven Secret Scroll’, causing his bloodline to transform, corresponding to the Ultimate Happiness Realm among Human Clan cultivators."
"Judging by age, this Immortal is likely to transform again and may grow to become a ’Subordinate God’ under the Yellow Robe."
"Due to this, the Yellow Robe was overjoyed, and successively bestowed three great treasures: ’Divine Wood Gourd’, ’Blood-sucking Divine Needle’, ’Heavenly Kui Slaughter Immortal Banner’... After receiving numerous rewards, this person deliberately led a group of Heavenly Kui Bats to wander the Origin Sea, making a show, thus known to all."
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"Turns out to be a big bat immortal fond of showing off."
After reading the annotation, Tao Qian immediately remarked.
Without paying more attention to the dry and skinny old bat, he looked towards another group of demonic creatures.
Five figures that greatly unnerved Tao Qian, two being God Demon Species from the Evil God’s Clan, while the other three all exhibited traits of divinity, exuding extreme arrogance, undoubtedly belonging to the category of ’Evil God’s Offspring’.
At the moment, Tao Qian was observing the second clan.
When the Heavenly Kui Bat Clan was agitated, they could obscure more than half of the sky, a truly majestic sight.
However, the Evil God’s Clan from another direction, was equally formidable.
In that region, it was filled with thousands of snow-white ice worms of various sizes, some as large as mountains, others as large as cities. As they squirmed and writhed, a surge of cold and chilly Yin Attribute Source Qi continuously erupted from their bodies, resembling a frost and snow world slowly moving.
Even more astonishing, these ice worms seemed to have different bloodline divine powers. Some could summon blizzards, others released Primordial Magnetic Divine Light, and one or two could unleash the Life-breaking Divine Light that once left a profound impression on Tao Qian.
In those days during the Absolute Immortal Assembly, he witnessed with his own eyes the ’Golden Silkworm Master’ with this divine skill venturing into the Outland for an ultimate struggle.
The head of this clan, that foremost ice worm, was even larger than the Master of those years.
And more terrifying, the place where its eyes should be were only dark eye sockets, with scarlet pus flowing continuously, freezing halfway to become sharp ice spikes, plummeting like torrential rain.
When Tao Qian looked over, the clan leader’s body erupted with radiant light, instantly transforming into human form.
Unexpectedly, it was a female fairy with an entire head of white hair, blind in both eyes, with a bulky figure covered in rot marks, or perhaps a female demon?
Given that Tao Qian preemptively had the notion, this time the "Records of Strange Compilations" also sought the answer first.
But as soon as the book page settled, Tao Qian glanced over, and his mouth immediately tugged, revealing a look of bemused frustration.
"Ice Maggot Clan!"
"This is a Great Abyss Species, residing year-round in a secret realm called ’Green Girl Mountain’ in the Origin Sea."
"This secret realm was born due to an Acquired God Demon ’Green Girl’, who perished due to an accidental calamity, her corpse happened to fall into an Innate Yin Qi Spring in the Origin Sea. After ten thousand years, it gave rise to a towering ice mountain, called Green Girl Mountain due to the presence of the Green Girl’s corpse within the mountain."
"The Goddess’s corpse is wrapped in Innate Yin Qi, thus it is preserved from decay. Yet, as the world nurtures life, within the corpse, a group of maggots gradually emerged."
"These maggots, each possessing divine power, consider themselves as the Goddess’s Clan..."
Originally thought to be ice worms, it turned out to be a misunderstanding. This clan was indeed ice maggots.
Regardless, Tao Qian did not forget his purpose of ’buying time’, feigning interest as he addressed the ice maggot female fairy:
"The Yellow Bat True Immortal, due to my offense against their God Demon and the plotting against the God offspring, comes specifically to seek retribution from me."
"But I’m unaware of the reason you lead your kin here to cause difficulties?"
Tao Qian just asked and the next moment felt pain all over his body, as if he were suddenly thrown into a place of extreme cold, about to be frozen into a human stick.
It was the female fairy staring at Tao Qian with hollow eye sockets.
The invisible and intangible icy Divine Light seemed to want to destroy Tao Qian on the spot.
At this time, a bizarre sound like the trickling of an icy spring mixed with the tearing of an iceberg rang out, and the female fairy spoke:
"My name is ’Qingyao,’ part of the Ice Worm Clan."
"I am not here for you, True Master, but for your daughter."
"She is the reincarnation body of my lord, hence we have come to guide my lord back."
This female demon called Qingyao casually uttered such incredible words.
Initially, Tao Qian was just shocked.
Then came the confusion: How could my daughter be connected to a deceased Acquired Demon God, and how dare anyone claim that the god demon named ’Green Girl,’ who clearly controls the divinity of frost and snow, is the reincarnation body without any relation to Tao Qian or Yunrong?
This confusion did not last long, and he glanced at the "Records of Strange Compilations" again.
Sure enough, there was still a long annotation:
"The Ice Worm Clan has guarded the corpse of the goddess for years, and one day suddenly went mad, claiming to search for the goddess’s reincarnation body to return."
"Since there was no clue, this clan believed that any female with a high talent and related to ’Innate Yin Qi’ could be the goddess’s reincarnation body."
"Since that day, they wandered the Great Abyss Origin Sea and all heavens, wantonly capturing any female life that met the requirements."
"If that goddess indeed had a reincarnation body, there would be corresponding Secret Techniques to regain the divine nature left from the previous life."
"But the Ice Worm Clan disregarded these; once they captured anyone, they immediately sent them back to the mountain, forcibly inserting them into the goddess’s corpse... Know that it is an Acquired Demon God who rules frost and snow. A cultivator in the Daoist Transformation Realm forced inside will be polluted and mutated into a Frost Corpse within a few days, much less any life below the Daoist Transformation Realm."
"Because of this, the Ice Worm Clan has committed countless murders over the years."
"Yet, despite this, the clan remains unrepentant, continuing their hunt."
After reading this, a killing intent erupted once more in Tao Qian’s heart.
A group of maggots born from rotten icy flesh, who luckily gained spiritual wisdom and divine blessings, had gone mad like this?
Forcibly seizing high-talent female lives only to stuff them into the goddess’s corpse, what sort of guiding method is this?
Tao Qian tried to understand but could not comprehend it no matter how.
Just thinking that if his own daughter was captured by this group of ’maggots’ and forcibly stuffed into a corpse to freeze to death, the killing intent in Tao Qian’s heart grew even more violent, far surpassing his feelings toward the Yellow Bat True Immortal.
Determined, when the fight breaks out, he must act decisively and wipe out these maggots at the first opportunity.
With this thought, to buy time, Tao Qian forcibly suppressed his disgust and killing intent.
Then, he prepared to deal with the remaining three parties.
But it was at this moment that Tao Qian suddenly heard, from behind, a sharp kitten’s cry within the Ascending Immortal Star Acupoint.
Pale rainbow light, a vast demonic aura, and an almost imperceptible divine aura... all were sensed by Tao Qian, causing his expression to change dramatically.
"The Palace Acupoint is open!"
"Now is the most critical moment; there can be no mistakes. These five ghastly things are dirty and foul-smelling. If they were to invade the Star Acupoint and contaminate the Yin Qi, the consequences would be endless."
Upon hearing Grandma Taizhen’s words.
In front of Tao Qian, three terrifying shadows, with a mass of filthy smaller shadows behind them, relentlessly rushed in.
Clearly, the remaining three ’Evil God’s Offspring’ had long since seen through Tao Qian’s attempt to buy time and, upon noticing the commotion within the Secret Acupoint, attacked without any intention of speaking to Tao Qian.
In the process, they all revealed their true forms.
Tao Qian only glanced for a moment and immediately felt his scalp tingle.
No, it wasn’t just him.
Elsewhere, all the Spirit Treasure Ten Thousand Immortals focusing on this scene were equally shocked.
First, they saw a storm coming from the depths of the tide. In that storm, there were no raindrops, hail, or snowflakes; there were chunks of thick blood, shattered bones, dense yellow brain matter, and numerous white teeth... The source was a tree, a forest filled with scarlet.
Each tree within was made of Human Clan bones.
The sharpened ribs were inserted throughout, serving as thorns.
Countless small flesh masses were hung on them, wrapped in rusty iron wires, dripping with blood.
But listen carefully, all the flesh masses were crying and howling.
Look closely, they weren’t flesh masses; they were clearly individual formed or unformed female infants.
Their piercing wails were the source of the storm.
Tao Qian, despite his level of cultivation, couldn’t help but shiver, the cold seeping into his bones at the touch of the blood wind.