352: Chapter 150: The Perfect Form of a Mythical Creature 352: Chapter 150: The Perfect Form of a Mythical Creature “Shit!
Let me out!
I’ll talk!
I’ll tell you everything!”
Perhaps he could no longer bear the swallowing and chewing sounds next door, or perhaps he had been driven mad by the bloody scene, but another person who had been captured suddenly began to scream hysterically.
But it was no use, this place was isolated from inside out; there wasn’t even a prison guard…
sorry, the input method was wrong, there was no one at all.
“I don’t want to die!
Don’t eat me!
Let me out!
I know a lot of secrets!
I know about the Longevity Sect, the Red Lantern Society, the Iron Blood Society!
I confess!
I surrender!
Save meee!”
Xia Yubing sighed and said, “He has broken another taboo.”
“What taboo?” Li Mumu asked, not understanding.
“Like I told you before, don’t mess with the strings.”
“Huh?”
Xia Yubing didn’t need to explain further, as a familiar sense of oppression quietly emerged in her heart.
The big fellow was coming out!
Once again, screams came from deep within the corridor, but they didn’t sound like they could be made by a human.
The swallowing and chewing noises abruptly stopped, replaced by the sound of something clumsily scrambling away with many limbs.
“You said…
the Red Lantern Society?”
Li Mumu heard a strange woman’s voice.
The voice, as if bewitched, became like little insects crawling around on her eardrums, raising goosebumps all over Li Mumu’s body.
Then, she heard another person’s scream.
“Don’t!
Don’t kill me!
I’ll tell you everything!
The Red Lantern Society…
of course, I know, I know who is the mastermind behind framing the Red Lantern Society!”
“Framing?”
“Ahh!
My hand!
I’ll speak!
I’ll speak!
Don’t hurt me, I’ll tell you everything!”
Li Mumu pricked up her ears and edged closer to the gap in the coffin lid, listening intently.
She heard the person continue intermittently, “The Longevity Sect and the Iron Blood Society are collaborating…
I’m not lying…
The explosives were obtained from the military, other than the Iron Blood Society, who else could get so much explosive?
The Iron Blood Society’s Yang Yanping…
after all, the Red Lantern Society supports that person, without getting rid of him, the People of the Yang Family will never have a chance in the navy…”
“Now?
I don’t know, even if they don’t die, it’s unlikely to let them return, performing the ritual for The Sutra of Guiding the Deceased to the Afterlife is a great merit indeed…”
With a soft pfft, the person’s voice suddenly disappeared.
Xia Yubing closed the coffin lid, and the next moment, the whole ground began to tremble.
“What’s happening outside?”
Li Mumu asked curiously, having deduced some information from the person’s testimony, “Could it be that a Red-Robed Elder from the Red Lantern Society is imprisoned here?”
Outsiders do not understand the organizational structure of the Red Lantern Society, but Li Mumu was very clear about it.
The Red Lantern Society is a very young society and does not possess millennia-old attendants or ancient ancestors.
Under the Holy Mother of Red Lotus, there are only the Red-Robed Elders and the Lamp Holding Rakshasa as the two management levels.
Almost all of the Red-Robed Elders from Tianmen City, including Sister Zuo Yan, had gone to mend the Netherworld Springs.
Who would have thought that the Special Service Bureau’s Containment Department would still hold such a person?
If it wasn’t for a Red-Robed Elder, why would she care so much about the affairs of the Red Lantern Society?
“She used to be a Red-Robed Elder.”
Xia Yubing said meaningfully, “As for what she is now, it’s hard to say.”
???
Li Mumu had a face full of question marks.
Seeing her bewildered look, Xia Yubing raised an eyebrow and said, “I see you have some connection with the Holy Mother of Red Lotus, so you should know that the cultivation methods of the Red Lantern Society also have divisions between the Righteous Path and the Heretical Path, right?”
“I don’t know that!”
Li Mumu thought to herself, I’m just a Little Karami, what could I possibly know?
Isn’t it you who taught me all this knowledge about the cultivation system?
“The Dharma Gate of the Red Lantern Society is close to that of a ‘Priest’, but it has its differences due to the incorporation of Western esoteric teachings,” Xia Yubing explained softly.
“The Red Lantern Society openly worships only one official deity, which is the Holy Mother of Red Lotus, the Guiding Bodhisattva.”
What do you mean ‘only one official deity’?
Having one official deity is already freaking impressive, okay?
Just mentioning it made Li Mumu irresistibly sad— the Guiding Lady had been better to me than my own mother.
Without her care, I wouldn’t have survived in this world full of demons and lost souls.
“Besides her, there is another deity unknown to outsiders, an Evil God or an Outer God, also called ‘Moth’.”
The Moth God, huh?
Li Mumu was not unfamiliar with this either because Sister Zuo Yan had mentioned it to her and even showed her original form in front of her.
Those Red-Robed Elders, besides practicing the Causal Red String Spell taught by the Holy Mother of Red Lotus, were also cultivating the Art of Feathered Ascension passed down from the Moth God.
Actually, this is very normal.
This is the era of rapid human civilization development, where every year, even every day, new ideas and new things emerge.
Under the surging waves of the era, many traditional and backward things have been quickly eliminated, and even the feudal dynasties that lasted for thousands of years couldn’t escape their fate, let alone the mountain spirits and deities of remote areas, some ancestor’s martial arts secrets, mysterious spells…
Old gods fall, New Gods are born.
The old mystical systems crumbled, while the new theories and Dharma Gates might not last long before being replaced.
In this era, it’s normal to learn multiple skills to provide for the family or, in other words, to understand and grasp new knowledge while sticking to old traditions—if you don’t even have that kind of awareness, you don’t need others to beat you, you’ll be buried in the rubbish heap of history soon enough.
Li Mumu herself had been cultivating three Dharma Gates, aside from the Witch String School taught by her birth mother and the Sutra of Guiding the Deceased to the Afterlife passed down by the Guiding Lady, she also obtained the Demon Dharma Gate’s Secret Technique, the Beiming Heart Method, from the Special Service Bureau.
There was no conflict between them.
What?
You’re asking me why I ended up in today’s humanly inhuman and ghostly unghostly state?
Of course, it’s the world’s fault.
Could it be my fault?
As Li Mumu was lost in her chaotic thoughts, the coffin she was in suddenly flew up from its spot.
She fell out from inside the coffin, crashing hard onto the ground, only to find that the iron doors outside had been torn into shreds.
An unimaginably huge insect limb stretched inside, pushing over the offering table, knocking over the coffin, and accurately hooking her and Xia Yubing out from the cave with its barbed end.
So much for protection!
The harsh reality left no time for Li Mumu to think or respond as countless fine red strings, like cilia, hung down and wrapped her into a cocoon suspended beneath an abdomen.
Then the colossal creature spread its wings, which shimmered with a brilliant iridescence, and let out a screech so penetrating it could break through the barriers of space-time.
The dimensional barrier was effortlessly torn apart, and that vast, beautiful creature took flight, soaring towards the sky.
That was not some Mythical Creature Form, but a true Mythical Creature, or perhaps the myth itself.
Li Mumu realized it was what Sister Zuo Yan had described to her, the perfectly transformed form of the Moth God—the Feathered Immortal!