Immortality Path: From the Blind Man at the Pharmacy
Chapter 236 - 139, 140. Stealing the Coffin, Crossing the Ferry, Returning Home, Dungeon (Major Chapter - Seeking Subscriptions)_3

Chapter 236: 139, 140. Stealing the Coffin, Crossing the Ferry, Returning Home, Dungeon (Major Chapter - Seeking Subscriptions)_3

The young man revealed a smile, turned his head towards the elder behind him, and said, "We’ve arrived!"

The old man excitedly lifted the curtain and stepped out, looking at the man on the bank, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It really wasn’t easy, coming here took a lot of effort. Only after finding an acquaintance to vouch for me could I come here."

After speaking, the old man added, "Hurry, hurry! Get us to shore!"

The young man exerted himself even more, and when they were near the shore, he pushed with the bamboo pole, and the boat entered the shallow waters.

The old man couldn’t wait to step onto the mud and then revealed a smile, looking towards the mustachioed man and said, "I heard that here one can enjoy the delights of Extreme Joy World."

The mustachioed man elegantly pinched his whiskers and smiled, "Esteemed guest, please wait a bit longer, many other guests are on their way. Good things come to those who wait. For the sake of that moment of supreme bliss, waiting a little longer is also a kind of exquisite pleasure."

The old man started to laugh.

On the other side, the young man had secured the boat and hurriedly followed, his eyes filled with desire.

Sure enough, in a while, many people came pouring in from all directions.

The old man and the young man, along with the crowd, gathered around a small hill piled with black cloth-covered cages, their eyes filled with craving, indulgence, curiosity, among other emotions...

The mustachioed man laughed as he lifted a piece of the black cloth, revealing a sheepskin girl.

The sheepskin girl was crouching on the ground, her hands slightly lifted, looking outside with a timid gaze...

Whoosh!

Another black cloth was lifted, this time it was the sheepskin girl.

Following the lifting,

The Leopard Woman also appeared before everyone’s eyes.

Black hair cascading over her shoulders, skin like pristine jade, wild yet perfect, her eyes filled with a ’selective intimacy’ allure...

No one could look away anymore.

A flame of burning desire rose from within them.

They couldn’t help but walk forward.

However, a strange shackle seemed to block their way.

They struggled forward with all their might.

Yet, the truth was that the only living people there were the old man and the young man.

Eventually, the old man’s fleshly body wriggled free from its skin, yet he felt no pain, only joy as he squirmed on the ground like a large worm of flesh...

His discarded skin stood up, naturally filling out and taking on the old man’s appearance.

The young man seemed to struggle as his whole body trembled violently as if trying to break free from this reenactment.

But in the next moment, his body stiffened suddenly, and his eyes experienced a sharp pain... as if someone had sliced across them with a sharp blade.

"Ah!!"

One moment the young man was struggling to escape the pleasures of Extreme Joy World, the next he was plunged into the agony of blindness.

Immediately after, he felt his body lose its balance, being tossed and turned by the current.

His struggling consciousness slowly weakened, until eventually, it faded away.

After an unknown period of time, he woke up again.

Upon opening his eyes, he found it had all been a dream.

He had not gone blind.

The mustachioed, finely-dressed man was looking at him with a chuckle, extending his hand, and said to those around, "Look, look, our brave guest tried first but has failed."

The young man glanced not far away and saw the blood-pumping sight of the Leopard Woman licking her lips, approaching him like flames.

He desperately said, "I’ll do it! I’ll do it!"

He struggled frantically.

Slowly...crazing cracks appeared on his skin.

His flesh wriggled free.

The human skin dried up but then quickly regained its fullness, the numbers maintained between 215-315.

...

All illusions faded away.

Song Cheng, observing the two squirming living corpses on the river beach, finally understood how the Human Skin Ghost killed, as well as why those living corpses he previously saw outside Shanghe County couldn’t stop wriggling...

They were in the midst of ’extreme joy.’

If possible, he did not wish to kill this way.

It was too cruel, too demonic.

But that’s the only way the Human Skin Ghost knew how to kill, and if he wanted to arrest souls, he had to let the Human Skin Ghost take action.

Song Cheng, feeling helpless, glanced at the Leopard Woman climbing back from the eighth layer to the seventh layer of the Nether Pagoda, and said, "Next time we kill, can we not be so bloody?"

The Leopard Woman didn’t speak and dully crawled back into the cage, locking the cage behind her.

Song Cheng waved his hand covered in the Grey Membrane, stirring the surrounding air currents with precision to shift the lid of the golden coffin inside the cabin just slightly.

Thus... should anyone come to investigate, they would conclude that the tragedy was triggered by the Human Skin Ghost escaping from the coffin.

He swept his gaze over the two listless souls added to the seventh layer of the Ninefold Ghostly Tower, as well as the two sets of human skin, and quickly left.

...

...

When the Divine Soul is confined by an evil spirit,

all secrets have nowhere to hide.

Song Cheng questioned the young man and the elder, quickly learning some news.

The elder believed in a Buddha named Saint Heavenly Buddha.

He could visualize the Saint Heavenly Buddha, causing a wide range of targets to fall into confusion.

The young man, on the other hand, could swiftly kill targets within the area.

This method was clearly that of a Noble Family.

But the title ’Saint Heavenly Buddha’ was new to Song Cheng... he couldn’t help but inwardly remark: ’The waters of the south are indeed deep.’

As for the man from the north who handed over the coffin to them, he was an Arhat, but beyond that... the two knew nothing.

Although Song Cheng’s knowledge of the Dashang Dynasty wasn’t vast, he at least had exchanged with the Su sisters and his own reliable Miss An, so he knew a little bit.

The Buddhist faith existed during the times of the Dashang Dynasty, said to be a foreign religion, and is currently being worshipped by the Feng Family of the Divine Arms Hall, a clan of the Imperial Family.

No,

Not only the Imperial Family’s Feng Family but also the Yan Family of Star-Viewing Tower, and many other families were all followers of Buddhism.

Saying that Buddhism is the primary religion of the Imperial Capital wouldn’t be an exaggeration.

Linking this to the canal, Song Cheng instinctively speculated: The canal, Buddhism, Saint Heavenly Buddha, Arhat wearing a ghostly mask, Imperial Family, unknown purposes... these might all be interconnected.