Master of Ten Thousand Foxes-Chapter 281 - 174: Ancient Immortal Dying in One’s Place! (Part 2)
"I'll die in your place!"
...
The sky was overcast with dense clouds.
The ground was swept by a howling gloomy wind.
Zhang Shan and Lu Yang lifted a stone slab and came to the riverbank, splashing water to clean the mud off the slab.
"Sigh, in the real world, I've become a team leader, a leader.
"Here in the dream realm, I still have to do this kind of laborious work."
Lu Yang grinned.
"Who the hell isn't experiencing this!
"The disparity in status is quite big, haha."
As the two chatted and joked, they suddenly saw the door of a nearby thatched hut opening.
Their master, Round Stone Ancient Immortal, was tightly wrapped in a dirty, greasy robe, stumbling towards them.
They dared not speak, only exchanged glances.
What was happening?
They had never seen Ancient Immortal in such a state!
As Ancient Immortal approached, they were shocked to see that one of his eyeballs had fallen out of its socket, hanging by a thin black tube, dangling on his face.
His other eyeball was spinning wildly, like a machine that had lost control!
The skin and flesh on Ancient Immortal's head had split into gaps, revealing the bone underneath.
Zhang Shan keenly noticed that, how come there was no blood inside the flesh? And the color of the bones seemed off?
The Ancient Immortal staggered to the riverbank, his entire massive body collapsing like a crumbling mountain, falling into the river.
Splash!
The sound of water, with splashes rising.
Ancient Immortal's body in the water became a dark shadow, quickly sinking to the bottom, disappearing from view.
Zhang Shan and Lu Yang stared at each other, their mouths agape in shock... What was this situation?
Has Ancient Immortal been messed with?
How could Ancient Immortal end up looking like this?
They silently retreated, moving further from the river.
They secretly peeked over, looking at the river, wanting to see more.
"Is he really dead?"
Behind them, suddenly came a greasy voice of a fatty.
Just about to subconsciously turn back to look, each of their heads was pressed down by a hand of the fatty.
"Don't turn around.
"If you see my face, you'll have to die."
With a slight movement of his fingers, the fatty locked Zhang Shan and Lu Yang's blood qi inside their bodies, turning the two of them into rigid sculptures. Even though in front of the mysterious Alchemist, he seemed like an idiot, and served Ancient Immortal Master like a grandson, but handling Zhang Shan and Lu Yang was still a breeze for him.
He craned his neck, looking towards the river.
"Died in my place?
"Dead?
"Truly dead?"
A smile appeared on his face.
"Hehehe.
"With him dead, wouldn't I be the biggest in this dream realm?
"I..."
Fatty looked at the stone slab Zhang Shan and Lu Yang hadn't finished cleaning, looked at the river, looked at the ruins in the distance, and his smile grew brighter.
Suddenly, he saw bubbles forming in the river, noticing a slight ripple in the water... his smile instantly disappeared, his eyes drooping, mouth sagging, his face instantly turning into one of mourning.
Then he saw a shadow in the river slowly getting bigger, slowly floating up.
And saw the bald, robed fat Ancient Immortal, climbing out of the river once more.
The King of Darkness quickly changed his face, instantly beaming with joy, his voice full of surprise and excitement.
"Master, you're alright after all!"
Round Stone Ancient Immortal looked completely indifferent, glancing at Zhang Shan and Lu Yang, and then at the King of Darkness, his eyes carrying a sense of unfamiliarity, and he spoke coldly.
"What could possibly happen to me?"
He strode away, beckoning to the King of Darkness to follow him to the thatched hut.
Zhang Shan and Lu Yang, their bodies stiff, but their eyes anxiously darting around.
Everything that had just happened was too bizarre and eerie for them to comprehend!
But both of them realized that the Round Stone Ancient Immortal who fell into the water, and the one climbing out, seemed somehow different?
The King of Darkness following behind Round Stone Ancient Immortal couldn't help but shudder.
His eyesight was keener! He could see that this new Round Stone Ancient Immortal looked the same as the previous one... but in fact, his skull was half a centimeter lower, and his scalp half a centimeter higher! His thigh was a centimeter longer, and his hip bone a centimeter higher!
What on Earth was going on?
Is this still the original Round Stone Ancient Immortal?
Just as he was suspicious and dazed, he saw the Round Stone Ancient Immortal in front turning back with a sly smile.
"I died once in your place.
"This debt, you must remember.
"Someone is probing me.
"This is between me and him.
"Also, disciple, let me tell you...
"Ancient Immortal, cannot be killed!"
...
In a bright and clean office.
Poison Master Wang E sat behind the desk, opened a bottle of red wine, poured it into a crystal glass with a "shush" sound, swirled it for a moment, watched the wine flowers, and lightly sipped a taste.
"King of Darkness, can I grow stronger once more?
"The weight on our side has increased just a little bit.
"So, what should I do?
"What benefits should I reap?"
He put down the wine glass, looked at his hand, looked at his fingers.
On this hand, there were scars from burns, knife wounds, chemical corrosion, and a bullet hole scar with round, irregularly wrinkled edges that looked like a chrysanthemum.
"Hey, it really hasn't been easy for me these years."
Suddenly, his gaze froze.
"Huh?"
His gaze stopped at his right pinky finger.
Underneath his fingernail, there was a green seed!
The rough fingernail could not cover the vibrant green of the seed.
When did this seed get in there?
He hadn't noticed at all!
"This..."
He reached out to touch the fingernail, feeling the seed through the nail... Suddenly his finger tingled numbingly.
The seed was actually taking root, sprouting inside his fingernail!
The tender green sprout grew rapidly, emerging from the nail and continuing to grow larger, blooming into twin flowers!
One flower bloomed, with a swirling eyeball inside watching him.
One flower bloomed, with a mouth inside that began to speak.
"Good will be repaid with good, evil with evil!
"It's not that there's no retribution, only that the time hasn't come yet!
"My boss said!
"You are so sinful that you cannot live!
"But if you bring a document from a dream every day, you can extend your life!
"With documentation and sincerity, you live!
"Without documentation or sincerity, you die!
"From now on, don't do bad things!
"When will today's document be ready?"
Poison Master Wang E trembled, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
When did this happen?
Had he been discovered?
No doubt, he had been too bold!
He shouldn't have gone to the West State!
"That King of Darkness... he..."
Poison Master Wang E gave a wry smile.
"He can love living or dying, whatever.
"I'll figure out a few more days first!"
He took a notebook out of his office drawer.
Opened it, showing a page to the flower.
The page contained an article on Sequence Seven... he didn't recognize it, but with his terrifying memory, he memorized it by heart.
The eyeball within the flower scanned it thoroughly.
The mouth within the flower opened.
"If you survive until this time tomorrow, it means my boss acknowledges your sincerity."
As soon as the words fell, the eye and mouth of the twin flowers reversed their growth, retracting back into the bud, back into the green sprout, back between the nails, back under the fingernail, transforming once more into a verdant seed.
Poison Master Wang E wiped his forehead again, looked at his finger, looked at the seed, then picked up the wine glass on the table and drained it in one gulp.
He sighed, exhaling a mouthful of wine fragrance.
"Sigh, I wonder how many more days I can drink this wine?
"Damn it, one day at a time."
…
Fox Mountain, dormitory hall.
The disciples were still bouncing and dancing merrily around the hall.
"Ying ying ying!"
"Ow ow ow!"
"Ying ying ying!"
Bai Mo sat on the bed, continuing to study the problem of automated mass production of pesticides and fertilizers.
A swirl of white mist floated before him, within the mist lay a note provided by Wang E.
"This... such ugly handwriting."
The documents excavated from the ruins were already damaged and blurred.
The Sequence Seven text rewritten from memory by Wang E was even more distorted and unrecognizable.
Double distortion, making it particularly hard to decipher.
Bai Mo frowned, trying hard to identify it.
Staring for a long time, he gradually made sense of it.
"His dreamlike Immortal Sect is truly different from Fox Mountain.
"This text, astonishingly, describes human alchemy?
"Using humans as an alchemy furnace, feeding them various herbs and waiting for the body to automatically produce the pill?
"Really quite effortless."
