Immortality Path: From the Blind Man at the Pharmacy
Chapter 291 - 163, 164. Dharma Aspect, Mysterious Turtle Swallows Arhat, Upcoming (Chapter of Ten Thousand Characters - Request for Subscription)_5

Chapter 291: 163, 164. Dharma Aspect, Mysterious Turtle Swallows Arhat, Upcoming (Chapter of Ten Thousand Characters - Request for Subscription)_5

Under the overwhelming attack of the dark gold Dharma Aspect, even a dozen or so Heads of the Xiao Family might be instantly killed, right?

’This power should still not be my strongest power...’

’My strongest power... needs to be used in conjunction with the "Xuanwu Swallowing Moon Jue" Turtle Eating the Moon... and it requires the moon to be present.’

After Song Cheng tested his body, he remembered his Divine Soul.

But the changes in his Divine Soul could not be tested...

Song Cheng pondered carefully over the contents recorded in the "Sun Buddha Sutra."

It said, ’If one obtains the Four Strong, the Divine Soul itself will advance one step further, crossing over Manifestation, surpassing Possession... and be capable of soul takeover. Such takeover can target infants, but one must cultivate again.’

It also said, ’Soul takeover will cause Divine Soul consumption; for those at this Realm, the strong may take over twice, while the ordinary can only do so once.’

The advancement of Realm and the expansion of power suddenly made Song Cheng understand another meaning of the data structures referred to by those "Arhats."

’650 (1300)~1300 (2600)’ might not mean that the other party was seriously injured, but that... the other party was someone reborn through soul takeover.

The data inside the parenthesis represents the "Arhat’s data before soul takeover," while the data outside represents their re-cultivated strength in this life.

Thinking of this, Song Cheng’s expression grew somewhat solemn.

’If the Divine Soul alone can take over, then perhaps many strong individuals have escaped from the destroyed Greenbird Continent... Their bodies might be buried forever on the Greenbird Continent, but their Divine Souls, having crossed over to this place, could also live on through soul takeover.’

’Whether the Arhat has undergone soul takeover or not, I will soon find out.’

To find the Arhat, relying on common Martial Artists of the Yingui Association would be impossible, but these Martial Artists could possibly know where around Hanping Prefecture there were Ghost Servants and where there were none.

Places without Ghost Servants indicated that they had been cleared out.

If not by the Yingui Association, then naturally by someone else.

In this year, Song Cheng had explored quite a few places, and now... he had some guesses about where the Arhat might be hiding.

...

...

The mysterious Yin Residence was bigger than the Su Family and Xiao Family combined.

There, whispers could be heard.

’That unexpected factor is about to break the balance. It’s close to successfully merging the Burnt Ghost and Ghost Hand. Such integration should not be so rapid... We need to advance our plan.’

’But we cannot advance... There isn’t enough time... and we cannot produce an evil spirit as strong as it... This time is too short...’

’Then create even greater turmoil.’

’I will continue searching for evil spirits in the north.’

’Have you found out how the Human Skin Ghost escaped?’

’No.’

’Have you investigated the secret of Song Cheng’s Manifestation?’

’Once he arrives in Jiangnan, we will investigate. We have not yet recovered, and we might not benefit from confronting him directly.’

The whispers continued for a long while...

Suddenly, the voice that had been saying ’I will continue searching for evil spirits in the north’ let out a strange ’yi’ sound.

’Something seems to have found its way to my door. I’ll handle it.’

’Yan Li, when you return, the discovery won’t be simple. Share the information with us.’

’Understood.’

In an extremely cold cave, cold water fell from the cave ceiling, only to freeze, forming icicles of varying lengths.

Below them, there was an almost completely frozen coffin.

Inside the coffin, a man wearing a ferocious mask suddenly opened his eyes, lifted the lid, then carefully closed it again. Then with a movement of his palm, several paper figures slipped out from his sleeves, and the briefly revealed arm showed signs of "paperization."

But it was merely "paperization" and not actual paper, similar to Song Cheng’s pupils composed of evil spirit Yin Qi.

’Trickery Technique’ was not unique to Song Cheng.

Rustle rustle rustle...

Rustle rustle rustle...

Following their emergence from the palm, the paper figures either hopped or spiraled into the air, transforming into sword-wielding women with fluttering sleeves, akin to celestial maidens, lightly darting outward.

The masked man squinted, drawing a sword, ready to act, but then suddenly paused in alarm... Those paper figures that hadn’t gone far, as if struck by an Immobilization Talisman, abruptly froze in place.

Shortly after, the masked man’s pupils slowly dilated, and at that secluded and dark entrance, a bizarre, dark gold giant turtle was squeezing its way in from outside.

A pair of terrifying turtle eyes, dark and profound, stared directly at him.

The masked man looked on in extreme shock at this sight.

Immediately, he turned and fled.

As swift as a bolt of lightning.

However, the dark gold giant turtle suddenly opened its mouth, issuing a strange cry, accompanied by a terrifying pulling force.

The masked man’s mid-air figure lost balance, and like a fisherman caught in a whirlpool, he thrashed about wildly in the air, involuntarily heading towards the giant turtle’s gaping mouth.

In the process, various energies burst forth from his body, creating Phantom Shadows and Grey Membranes, and deploying treasures, but under the turtle’s breath, those forces were instantly born and instantly annihilated...

The masked man seemed to fall into despair, and in the blink of an eye, his struggling body suddenly stiffened. A strange, gigantic monk’s Divine Soul erupted from his body and flew out...

But ’flying out of the body’ did not mean ’escaping the giant turtle’s pull.’

No sooner had the Divine Soul left the body than it felt like it had plunged into a dark, stormy sea of water and fire. He struggled frantically, and something appeared to rapidly shatter the surface of his soul.

’No!’

’No!!!’

’No!!!!!!’

Crack...

Crack crack crack...

The masked man was wholly engulfed by the giant turtle, and the raging energy within the turtle attacked him from all sides. In just two or three breaths’ time, the masked man, like fragile ceramics smashed on the ground, showed countless fine cracks on his Grey Membrane-covered body, and his Divine Soul was stretched thin, much like noodles.