Chapter 1076: Awakening

His hand was completely red and his neck felt sticky, as if the blood was still flowing incessantly.

The big man's heart was alarmed and his gallbladder felt cold. Then, his eyebrows and eyes filled with anger. He urged the talismans all over his body, and light flashed around him. His double fists carried the power of divine talismans and swept outwards in all directions.

"Evil beast, I'll kill you!"

But where his fists swept, there was nothing, it was empty.

He had no idea what evil thing had 'kissed' him.

And as the big man's anger rose, his heart became agitated, his Dao heart developed a flaw, accelerating the pollution by evil thoughts.

The red lip print on his neck became even more vivid and was spreading inch by inch towards his chest.

True Person Si Tu was shocked and immediately urged the Liuyang Red Gold Cup (六阳赤金杯), shining the Liuyang light (六阳光) towards the big man.

Under the reddish-gold light of the Liuyang Qi (六阳气), the big man's neck, as if scalded by boiling water, quickly withered and wrinkled, and even emitted white smoke.

However, the vibrant red lip print was also suppressed.

"Cut off the flesh!" True Person Si Tu immediately said.

The Daoist's peach wood sword (桃木剑) thrust out, cutting towards the big man's neck. With a thought, the skin and flesh, along with the lip print, were all peeled off.

His Yuan Shen (元神) was damaged. The big man roared in pain, but he also knew the urgency of the situation. He endured the severe pain and manifested fire talismans (火符) at the wound, burning it with fierce fire to extract the evil Qi (邪气), charring the skin and flesh to stop the bleeding and heal the wound.

The others also urged their Shennian (神念) techniques or magic treasures, protecting the big man while remaining vigilant.

The monk also urged his prayer beads (念珠), chanting Sanskrit (梵文) texts to protect the crowd.

But a glimpse from the corner of his eye alerted him. He suddenly saw a seductive evil shadow (邪影) standing beside him at some unknown point.

A blood-red mark was approaching him. His heart was immediately shocked. Without daring to hesitate, he urged his Sanskrit text prayer beads to the extreme.

The golden Sanskrit text repelled the red mark and also shocked the evil shadow away.

The monk felt a little relieved, but the next moment, he felt his back neck was wet and sticky.

A chill surged through his body.

"Impossible! The Prajna Temple's (般若寺) Revealed Sanskrit (显化梵文) cannot fail to defend against this evil thing!"

"Is my heart towards Buddha not firm?"

"Did I move evil thoughts?"

"No, impossible—"

The monk gritted his teeth and pursed his lips, but his face couldn't help but tremble.

He knew that his Buddha heart should be fine, but he couldn't help but doubt himself and his cultivation, wondering if it was right or wrong, if his heart of upholding precepts (持戒) had relaxed.

But the more he tried to affirm his Buddha heart, the heavier his doubt about himself became.

With more doubt, a trace of fear also arose.

It seemed all the cultivation he had done in his life was wrong.

It was precisely because his cultivation was wrong that he was unable to resist the evil thing's bewitchment.

Having traveled more than half the journey from darkness, constantly slaying demons and eliminating evil, the tightly strung emotions instantly surged back like a tide, making the monk gasp for breath.

Amidst his confused state of mind, he saw a human shadow walking over from a distance.

This was an extremely enchanting and charming shadow.

With ice skin and jade bones, covered by sheer gauze, the seductive parts were sometimes hidden, sometimes revealed, stirring up an irresistible desire. And her appearance was delicate and beautiful.

Her gaze was like water, hazy and迷离 (mílí). Her fair jade feet, with every step, seemed to step on the monk's heart.

The monk strongly suppressed his desire, his gaze firm. He chanted:

"Evil beast, do not think of disrupting my Buddha heart!"

"Red dust is just skin and flesh, red powder is all bones."

The monk operated his mental cultivation method, silently chanting 'red dust skin and flesh, red powder bones'. Then, the charming shadow in front of his eyes truly began to change.

The face of a flower and the appearance of the moon rotted into a muddy mess.

The ice skin and jade bones also gradually withered and rotted, revealing dense white bones.

The monk's desire faded, his heart calm as water.

But before he could truly relax, it seemed as if time was rewinding.

The face that had rotted into mud became fair again, recovering its delicate appearance.

Flesh grew on the dense white bones, beautiful skin wrapped around it, and it became that charming shadow again.

And she was not wearing a single piece of cloth, making her even more alluring.

The monk's desire rose again like a seedling of fire, little by little.

"Red powder bones———"

The monk guarded his heart and chanted the formula.

The female shadow, in front of his eyes, again turned into muddy flesh and white bones.

The monk's desire faded again, but in an instant, the rotting flesh and white bones in front of his eyes turned into a tempting body again.

Moreover, no matter how the monk chanted curses to guard his heart, the face of a flower and the appearance of the moon remained alluring, and the ice skin and jade bones constantly stirred his heart.

His mental defense was on the verge of collapse, and panic arose in the monk's heart.

But he could only watch with wide eyes as this beautiful jade-like charming figure walked towards him step by step.

In front of his eyes, the snowy white color became clearer, and his nose could smell the bloody luxurious body fragrance.

The monk knew in his heart that the red powder beauty in front of him was just rotten flesh, just white bones.

But no matter how he abstained from thoughts, how he forced himself to change his perception, beauty was still beauty.

Even at that instant, a thought emerged in his heart:

Even if it was rotten flesh and white bones, what did it matter? If he could be intimately close with this beauty, what three-life luck (三生有幸) was there to speak of, and what did he need to care about?

As this thought emerged, the monk's heart burned with fire, but a chill ran down his spine.

He knew that he was a person who kept precepts to the end, and his desire was faint.

But once he broke the precepts, his desire would surge back like a flood, reaching the heavens.

Indeed, as if sensing his desire, the beautiful female revealed a seductive smile, and her eyes flowed with charm, spreading horizontally.

And her lips were fresh red like blood, beautiful and inviting.

The female embraced the monk, and a red lip print was placed on his face and neck.

A soul-stirring desire eroded the monk.

The monk's heart was joyful, but it was also mixed with regret and fear, his expression struggling and painful.

Not long after, a path of Liuyang red gold light shone over, burning off the skin of the beautiful female and turning her into a dried human.

True Person Si Tu made his move.

He had just detected the abnormality and immediately made his move. It only took a few breaths of time before and after, his reaction was already extremely fast.

It was just a pity that a person's heart 'fell' in the matter of a millimeter.

By the time he made his move, the monk, like the scholar, had already become a slave to desire. Not only was half of his face gnawed by lip prints like worms, dripping with blood, but even his neck and chest were bloody and blurry.

True Person Si Tu could only temporarily suppress the evil thoughts in his body with the Liuyang Red Gold Cup and then said:

"Chant the formula, quick, leave!"

The injury was too severe to be saved. Leaving here was undoubtedly death, and moreover, he would certainly become a 'puppet' of the evil god, killing each other.

As for the outcome after leaving, he could only seek his own blessings.

The monk's face was filled with shame and regret. He clasped his palms together and said:

"This humble monk is ashamed of the Buddha gate."

"Leave!" True Person Si Tu urged.

The monk gritted his teeth, chanted the formula that True Person Si Tu had passed to him, and then following the flash of the seven-star light, his Yuan Shen began to twist.

But the next moment, space began to shake, and the evil thoughts deepened.

It seemed that some powerful will was obstructing the monk from leaving.

However, this power was not yet fully awakened and could not truly obstruct the great power of the Xuantiandu Beidou Seven Star Array (玄天都北斗七星阵). The two sides were only in a stalemate for a moment. The evil power retreated, the starlight was brilliant, the monk's Yuan Shen twisted into a vortex, and he was forcefully pulled out of the dream demon (梦魔).

As the monk left, True Person Si Tu's face was extremely heavy.

He couldn't understand in his heart:

"This Buddhist Master Dry Silence (枯寂) of Prajna Temple, when exactly was he marked?"

Unless the evil god's true fetus was reborn, otherwise, the Prajna Temple's Revealed Sanskrit, once sacrificed, would absolutely not be so easily broken through the heart defense by a fetus-born demon and eroded by desire.

Why?

True Person Si Tu frowned and thought, then his pupils suddenly shrank, and he understood.

Not now, but before.

All the way before, constantly fighting against evil, the Revealed Sanskrit could not be urged all the way. There would certainly be times when it exposed flaws.

It must have been during the time when it exposed flaws that this strange fetus-born demon, unknowingly, planted the seed of evil desire.

This seed slowly nurtured and is only now attacking.

Master Dry Silence's Buddhism could indeed defend against evil desire.

But before he urged his Buddhism, he had already been 'polluted'.

This made him doubt his own Buddhism, thus causing inner turmoil and successively causing cracks in his Dao heart.

This is a big taboo when confronting evil demons!

Therefore, in just a few breaths, evil desire eroded his heart defense.

And once the heart defense was broken, all was too late to regret.

True Person Si Tu gritted his teeth and secretly hated.

These evil spirits and evil beasts, when eroding people's hearts, are truly traceless and omnipresent.

What exactly is this mere fetus-born demon?

True Person Si Tu looked around and said in a deep voice: "Be careful, everyone, find the trace of this evil thing."

His words had not fallen, when a lingering sound was transmitted in the air, hooking people's hearts and souls. Even True Person Si Tu's heart and mind swung, and then his face immediately changed, "When heart!"

Almost at the same time, a pitch-black charming shadow appeared beside the white-clothed female True Person (女真).

A path of fresh red lip prints kissed towards her.

The white-clothed female True Person's face turned cold.

She was born with superior Shennian, cultivating the secret methods of the Great Sect's Shen Dao (神道). Her magic treasure, the Three Pure Bells (三清铃), had a great origin.

Furthermore, as a female, she had stronger innate resistance to this kind of charm.

Therefore, she woke up a breath earlier. Seeing the blood-colored lip prints approaching, she immediately urged the Three Pure Bells, and with a 'demon-breaking' sound (破魔之音), it boomed out.

The evil shadow twisted and let out a series of piercing screams.

Old Ji, not far away, immediately urged the remaining half of the Six Ding Six Jia (六丁六甲) to entangle the evil shadow.

The Six Ding Six Jia were Shen Dao puppets, without heart or thought, and would not be bewitched.

True Person Si Tu also immediately urged a path of Liuyang red gold light to shine over, covering the evil shadow.

Under the joint efforts of several people, the light dispelled the darkness and burned off the evil Qi. This evil shadow also revealed its original appearance.

This was a female-shaped demon.

Its body shape was tall and charming, full of endless temptation, but the skin on its limbs was all purplish-pink rotten flesh.

Its face was a demonic pattern formed by muscles, its features twisted, not in human form. Only its lips were fresh red and inviting, emitting a tempting fragrance.

"Red powder fetus demon (红粉胎魔)."

True Person Si Tu frowned, feeling very tricky. Then, sensing the realm of this fetus-born demon, he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

Peak of the third grade.

This was a fetus-born demon accompanying a third-grade peak evil fetus.

According to the records of some old ancestors of Xuanshu Valley (玄术谷), the fetus-born demon accompanying the evil god's true fetus would be one grade higher than the evil fetus, but it would not be higher by a large grade.

This meant that this evil god's true fetus was only a third grade.

And these people, besides the Featherization (羽化) realm, also had the Cave Virtual (洞虚) realm. With the suppression of a large realm, dealing with the evil god would be easier to some extent.

If it were a fourth-grade evil god's true fetus, as long as it was born, then all these people would undoubtedly die.

Right now, at least there was still a chance to fight.

"Fight quickly and decide quickly, kill this fetus demon!"

True Person Si Tu's gaze was icy cold, his voice decisive. With a flick of his finger, a path of red gold light shone over.

The Daoist sacrificed his peach wood sword, Old Ji summoned the Six Ding Six Jia, and several Cave Virtual realm old ancestors no longer held back. Sword Qi (剑气), magic techniques, and Shennian power were all sharp.

But the next instant, the red powder fetus demon smiled sinisterly and actually disappeared directly in front of the crowd.

The crowd's Yuan Shen actually couldn't detect it.

"Fetus-born demons share the fetus with the evil god and inherit the evil god's legacy. They are indeed insidious and strange beyond compare—."

True Person Si Tu said in a deep voice: "Find this evil thing!"

This red powder fetus demon would hide its form and traces, leading people's desires in the invisible. If not removed early, it would certainly be a great disaster.

After the crowd urged their Shennian techniques or Shennian treasures, they attacked in all directions, but they couldn't find the figure of the red powder fetus demon.

True Person Si Tu frowned, then a thought moved in his heart. He immediately flicked his finger, containing a path of red gold light, and attacked Yu Er on the altar, which was the evil god's true fetus.

Indeed, the red gold light floated in mid-air, and the red powder fetus demon appeared on its own, spitting out pink evil Qi to block the light.

It was the fetus-born demon accompanying the evil god's true fetus, and its existence meant protecting the evil fetus.

The others also quickly understood and all displayed their Shennian techniques, killing towards the evil fetus.

Attack its god master, and the demon will have to save it.

As expected, the red powder fetus demon roared angrily, but had to receive True Person Si Tu's attack for its 'master'.

Although it was a fetus-born demon with powerful strength, its strength lay in being elusive and strange, leading people's desires, and polluting Yuan Shen.

Apart from this, its own strength was only the peak of the third grade. In a frontal battle, it was naturally no match for True Person Si Tu and the others.

Not long after, the red powder fetus demon was hit by the peach wood sword, successively burned and injured by the Liuyang Red Gold Lamp Cup (六阳赤金灯杯), and then suppressed by the Town Evil Talisman (镇邪符) of the Spirit Talisman Gate (灵符门) old ancestor.

The red powder fetus demon was thoroughly subdued.

True Person Si Tu breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he thought 'evil must be eradicated', the scene of the fetus-born demon egg cracking earlier emerged in his mind again.

True Person Si Tu thought for a moment, and immediately his heart was shocked. He said:

"Not right!"

The accompanying demon egg would not hatch before the evil god awoke.

This red powder fetus demon was no exception. If it hatched early, it must have been deliberately released.

And there were indeed 'scratches' on that demon egg.

This meant that before them, some 'thing' had come to the altar beforehand and released a fetus-born demon egg in advance to 'intercept' them.

"There are other things!"

As this thought emerged, a chill ran down True Person Si Tu's spine.

Almost at the same time, in the void, a black shadow emerged. A pitch-black large hand, carrying powerful Shennian power, suddenly attacked True Person Si Tu, intending to kill him.

True Person Si Tu's heart suddenly alerted him. He immediately summoned the Liuyang Red Gold Cup to protect himself and quickly retreated.

The three brothers who cultivated the Xuangate Escape Armor (玄门遁甲) immediately blocked in front of True Person Si Tu.

But this black shadow's Shennian power was extremely strong. With just one palm, he struck the three brothers back, and the Yin-evil (阴邪) Shennian entered their bodies, causing the three brothers to spit blood.

The black shadow continued to kill towards True Person Si Tu.

The big man with the talisman went up to block, but was still heavily injured by one palm strike.

In his eyes, the black shadow's hands were like demon claws, and it was about to approach True Person Si Tu's body.

The Daluo Gate (大罗门) old ancestor turned out a heavy sword in his hand. With a horizontal sword momentum, relying on his deep and profound Shennian in the Cave Virtual realm, he blocked the black shadow.

One palm and one sword fiercely collided, and powerful Shennian power shook.

The Daluo Gate old ancestor retreated three steps.

But the black shadow only retreated one step.

It was visible that the black shadow's Shennian was stronger than that of the Daluo Gate old ancestor.

But what was strange was that the black shadow's entire body was interwoven with black Qi, and its evil Shennian was deep and heavy. However, looking at the outline of its body shape, it was not a demon, but more like a person.

The Daluo Gate old ancestor frowned and asked:

"You— are human?"

The black shadow was completely covered in evil fog, emanating an eerie Yin Qi (阴气). It did not answer.

"Petty person, hiding your head and showing your tail! This old man hates this kind of Yin-evil petty person the most in his life!"

The Daluo Gate old ancestor angrily rebuked, then raised his heavy sword and urged the Daluo Guiyi Sword Art (大罗归一剑诀), chopping heavily towards the black shadow.

His Daluo Guiyi Shennian Sword Art was something he had blindly pondered over, envying the Taixu Gate's (太虚门) Shennian Zhuanjian True Art (神念转剑真诀). It could barely be considered a Shennian sword art, but it was very rough and not exquisite.

But he was in the Cave Virtual realm and still cultivated swords. As long as his Shennian could chop people, its power was not weak.

The Daluo Gate old ancestor then relied on this rough Daluo Guiyi Shennian sword method to entangle with the black shadow.

The other three Cave Virtual realm experts also all made a move to help.

The black shadow's Shennian was thick and seemed to be proficient in Shennian methods. Moreover, its Shennian was mixed with evil and strange Qi, more powerful than any one person's Yuan Shen in the field.

Even if it was strong, it could not defeat the joint efforts of four Cave Virtual realm experts at the same time, so it was at a disadvantage after dozens of rounds.

After fighting for a moment, the Daluo Gate old ancestor felt that the black shadow's aura was strange and somewhat familiar. His gaze immediately condensed. He tried to urge his Shennian, and his sword Qi rose violently. With faster speed, he chopped a sword towards the black shadow's head.

The black shadow could only dodge.

Taking this gap, the Daluo Gate old ancestor suddenly threw the sword in his hand and rushed up instead, his large fist, as big and heavy as a sand pot, carrying Shennian power, boomed onto the black shadow's face.

The black shadow's head was deformed by this heavy blow.

A moment later, the evil Qi condensed again, forming a head, but the black Qi covering its face had already been scattered by this fist.

The Daluo Gate old ancestor had already seen the black shadow's face. He gritted his teeth and said fiercely:

"Xiao Zhengming!"

Xiao Zhengming was the name of the Xiao family's old ancestor.

The Xiao family and the Daluo Gate had quite a few intersections, so the Xiao family old ancestor and the Daluo Gate old ancestor also had a private friendship.

But it was precisely because of this that the Daluo Gate old ancestor was even more angry.

Xiao Zhengming, however, was full of evil Qi and didn't think so.

The Daluo Gate old ancestor suppressed his anger and asked in a cold voice: "When exactly did you become a running dog of evil demons?"

This sentence seemed to also anger the Xiao family old ancestor. His face was twisted, bringing some piety:

"From beginning to end, I am just the god master's servant."

The Daluo Gate old ancestor cursed darkly, knowing that the Xiao family old ancestor was completely beyond saving.

"We know each other, I'll send you on your way." After saying that, he shouldered his heavy sword and chopped towards the Xiao family old ancestor again.

The Little Spirit Gate (小灵门) old ancestor, the Spirit Talisman Gate old ancestor, and the Cave Virtual realm expert from Kunzhou (昆州) surrounded and killed the Xiao family old ancestor together.

The Town Evil Talisman suppressed the Xiao family old ancestor's evil Qi.

The Daluo Guiyi Sword entangled with the Xiao family old ancestor in a frontal battle.

The Little Spirit Gate old ancestor's Shennian magic techniques coordinated from the side.

And on the Thunderwood Sword (雷木剑), faint demon-exorcising thunder light flowed, also gradually reducing the Xiao family old ancestor's strength.

The Xiao family old ancestor's Yuan Shen was suppressed, and the black Qi all over his body was also peeled off little by little. The crowd also saw the state of his Yuan Shen.

His Yuan Shen had already rotted away!

There were tooth marks everywhere, gnawed into a non-human shape, and his chest was even hollowed out, forming a large hole.

Clearly, his Yuan Shen's foundation was damaged, but the Xiao family old ancestor's expression was excited and mad. Borrowing evil power, his strength was also stronger, like a 'dying light' (回光返照).

The Cave Virtual battle was tragic, and Shennian waves overflowed in all directions.

True Person Si Tu could not intervene, and he also didn't think of intervening. In this kind of battle situation, his participation didn't mean much.

He did not forget his own purpose: to solve the evil god fetus and resolve the great danger to the Qianxue State (千雪州) boundary, and even the entire Qianzhou (乾州).

This was the most important matter.

Taking this gap, True Person Si Tu's Shennian flowed at extreme speed. In his mind, he quickly sorted out all the causes and effects of this matter.

Their purpose for this trip was to 'assassinate the god'.

The evil demon side would certainly try to obstruct them.

It must have been Mr. Tu (屠先生) who, using some ceremony, brought this polluted Xiao family old ancestor into the evil god's dream.

The Xiao family old ancestor then broke open a fetus-born demon egg in advance and used this fetus-born demon egg to delay these people.

The key point was why was it a delay? Why didn't they directly slaughter these people?

Because— the evil god couldn't kill us?

True Person Si Tu's heart had always been covered with fear of the evil god, but he overlooked one point: although they feared the evil god, the evil god actually feared them.

This group of people, four Cave Virtual realm experts and ten Featherization realm experts, was indeed an extremely powerful force.

Although the evil god was strong, it was not strong now.

The demon eggs had not all hatched.

This group of people was enough to make Mr. Tu, the Xiao family old ancestor, and even the evil god fearful.

Therefore, Mr. Tu, the Xiao family old ancestor, and other minions of the evil god could only delay time.

Once the evil god woke up, these people would all die.

But if the evil god didn't wake up, it meant that these people were actually stronger.

In other words, now, at this moment, was the time when the evil god and a crowd of demons were the 'weakest'.

Understanding this point, True Person Si Tu's heart instantly cleared, and at the same time, his mood became more urgent.

He had to seize every second and kill the evil god as early as possible!

Now they were the 'strong' side, but once the evil god woke up, the situation of strong and weak would instantly reverse!

The situation would also thoroughly worsen to a point beyond redemption.

Killing intent surged in True Person Si Tu's gaze.

In his original plan, if possible, he wanted to save Yu Er.

Save Yu Er and then kill the evil god fetus.

But now, he fundamentally didn't know what to do to save Yu Er. He lacked understanding of the evil god and didn't know if saving Yu Er was truly saving Yu Er.

And the current situation also fundamentally didn't give him time to think.

He could only...

Kill the evil fetus together with Yu Er, together—

True Person Si Tu's heart could not bear it. In his gaze, painful killing intent surged.

It seemed like mother and child were connected, and her heart sensed it. Wen Ren Wan (闻人婉) was the first to sense Yu Er's danger and also slowly sensed True Person Si Tu's plan.

True Person Si Tu...

Wanted to kill Yu Er.

The person who had originally planned to save her child now wanted to kill her child.

Wen Ren Wan was instantly heartbroken.

Her voice was hoarse. She wanted to beg True Person Si Tu not to kill her Yu Er, but she fundamentally didn't know how to speak.

This was a great disaster for the Qianxue State boundary.

True Person Si Tu himself put his life and death aside.

Did she truly want to disregard the common people of Qianzhou for her own child? What's more, this also concerned his Wen Ren family, and the Shangguan family (上官家), including her father, her husband— so many people's lives.

"But— Yu Er—"

Wen Ren Wan didn't know how to choose. Her eyes were full of tears, and her chest ached, almost suffocating her.

True Person Si Tu fundamentally didn't dare to look at Wen Ren Wan. He could only endure the blame and pain in his conscience, walking towards Yu Er step by step.

As if sensing his killing intent, the suppressed red powder fetus demon began to cry sharply.

The Xiao family old ancestor's expression also became mad. Like a madman, he wanted to protect his god master, but was desperately blocked by the four Cave Virtual realm experts.

In just a few breaths of time, True Person Si Tu walked to Yu Er's front.

He took out a sword. On the sword was engraved the Beidou Seven Stars, and the starlight was brilliant.

This was the core of the Xuantiandu Beidou Seven Star Array. Stabbing this sword into the evil fetus would lead the powerful Beidou star power, piercing the evil god's body, and using the heaven and earth starlight to wipe out the evil god fetus. Even if it could not be killed, it could heavily injure the yet-to-be-born evil god.

The Qi transport (气运) of Qianxue State, the life and death of the common people, was in an instant.

True Person Si Tu no longer hesitated. His gaze was icy cold. He raised the seven-star sword, just about to stab it into the evil god's true fetus, but when he raised his head, he saw a pair of innocent and pure, yet slightly strange evil eyes, looking at him intently.

It was... Yu Er.

Yu Er was silently looking at him.

True Person Si Tu's pupils suddenly enlarged, and his body turned icy cold.

The evil god— has already awakened?!