Chapter 188: I’ll Enlighten You!
He originally thought they were just two trash little ghosts. With just a slight move, he could easily deal with them in front of A Miao, leaving a powerful and cold first impression. Good preparation for warming up feelings during the second meeting in Running.
In the end, the carefully equipped 【Holy Light buff】 was crushed by this female brute with her fingers. Two ‘Buddha Cocoon Hosts’ who were chaotically slaughtered by ‘Veterans’ in the projection recording could actually fight him back and forth?
Were my two months of cultivation for nothing?
Yuan Zhu once suspected if he had fallen under an illusion? But under the powerful enlightenment of the rainbow energy consultant, he gradually calmed his mood.
If asked: Suppose a ‘Buddhist Tiger Demon’ with strength up to 30+ times releases a batch of super 【Pollution Crystals (Seeds)】, parasitically polluting a group of Ghost Companions whose strength has broken through 【Seed Level】, and who come with super high quality Polluting Energy. Is this something a 【1 Seal】 Holy Light newbie with less than one Kun month of cultivation can scam?
Both sides (suspected Gods Squad vs Buddhist Expert) started fighting, directly sealing off the entire bank, shifting the murder scene into the 【Spirit Layer】. What a grand move?
“This is not like in your mere Bubble World, scamming Cicada City without ‘Heaven Rank. Qi Refiners’ using 【Shadow Dream Hole】! Didn’t you hear A Miao say these two ‘Buddha Cocoon Hosts’ are already 【Practitioners】? Just like the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals in Journey to the West, no matter how small fry or NPC they are, they are still big shots who ascended to the Immortal Realm. You’re just a beginner ‘Holy Light Foundation Establishment Dao Boy’. So don’t be discouraged, be confident, don’t lose face!”
Little Spicy Stick always speaks nicely, knows how to gauge the lord’s intentions, helps shift blame, and is eager to take the black pot. Especially the last sentence, exceptionally infectious.
So Yuan Zhu cheered up. He really took this advice to heart, but his face still couldn’t hold up. Unwilling, he thought: I, the grand ‘Holy Church Little Genius’, how can I be helpless against two high-rank small fry?
If it were normal circumstances, he’d let it go. But now with A Miao by his side, he thought he must do something different to highlight his excellence, to have the strength to act as a long-term partner.
【Shadow Tiger Demon】 is strong, but not suitable for displaying openly. So how to exert stronger strength with 【Holy Light】?
These messy thoughts flashed quickly in his brain, and in reality, it delayed less than one second.
When he charged again at the nearest ‘Buddha Cocoon Host’. This time, his movements showed brand new changes, no longer the past street fighting (black fist) style. Instead, it carried many more exquisite (fancy) skillful moves.
These new moves were all replicas from 【Cicada City. Qi Refining Martial Arts】.
One is the mass martial arts constantly pruned and optimized by mortal groups, reducing vicious killing moves, enhancing universality, and spreading widely among the people. The other is superhuman martial arts tailored for extraordinary humans (Insectoid Race), stronger bodies and 【Qi】, the gap is immediately apparent.
Yuan Zhu’s whole body amplified and blessed by 【Holy Light】, physical body demon-breaking ignoring Buddhist Dharma erosion, attacks stacking Insect System martial arts, and incorporating 【Holy Cough Particles】 into fist and foot moves, fighting one against two, hands vs eight arms, striking a flurry of afterimages.
Pressing the two enemies continuously, but looking closely, he took quite a few punches too.
Not a real Insect Cultivator, lacking 【Meridian + Qi Threads】 core, only copying empty shell moves, lacking flavor and soul. In the end, hard clashes, how can two arms beat eight hands?
The opponent has too many arms, truly hard to defend against. But fortunately, 【Sanctuary】 is like a set of invisible armor, always locking the 1 cm space on his body surface.
Any attack hits the barrier force field one step before the body vitals, defended, offset, rebounded.
This is a body protection supernatural ability even harder than horizontal tempering, completely ignoring opponent attacks, just focus on swinging double fists, using Holy Light to hammer the opponent, beating them to retreat step by step, yet never breaking defense.
On the other side, the two 【Buddha Cocoon Hosts】 in rounds of ineffective attacks, four hands constantly striking 【Sanctuary】. Yuan Zhu can’t break the blood light, they can’t shatter the Holy Seal either, instead breaking finger bones, tearing skin and flesh, even more miserable.
Yuan Zhu also left a large amount of 【Holy Cough Pollution】 on the two ‘Buddha Cocoon Hosts’, but different from any past time. His polluting Holy Light couldn’t imprint into the body, during the erosion and infiltration process, it was purified and countered clean by the scarlet ‘light’, turning into pungent disgust and dissipating completely.
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Yuan Zhu doesn’t understand the characteristics of the opponent’s ‘scarlet Magic Power’, but always feels this thing is exceptionally similar to his 【Holy Light】. Both showing dual effects of 【Light】 and 【Force Field】, not sure if Buddhism plagiarized Holy Church, or everyone learned from each other?
His ‘light’ is the Holy Church unified 【Holy Light】, force field attribute ‘space confinement’. The opponent’s light reminds him of ‘Buddha Light + Blood Light’, force field effect also strangely indescribable.
Both sides mutually clashing, equally consuming each other’s energy in the body. Yuan Zhu one person, consuming two shares from the opponent, small win, but not presentable.
The only advantage, the two enemies are after all temporary parasitic one-time products, not ‘true Practitioners’ refined in Buddhist Dharma, lacking energy cycle and recovery. Consume a bit more and they can all be beaten to death, this is the most faceless way to win.
At this time, the two Buddha Cocoon Hosts very consciously retreated, bent waist, squatted down, simultaneously spreading four arms, palms cracking open a slit in the center, growing mouths full of sharp teeth, blood-red tongues stretching out, licking the palms.
They wordlessly, nimbly used hand palms to grab and grip corpses and limbs on the ground, especially the 【Buddha Cocoon】 ruptured parts.
Because gripped very tight, the sharp teeth on the palms made chewing sounds like beasts viciously tearing prey with mouths.
Flexible hand palms could constantly change grabbing positions, always staying attached, letting the palm mouths feast on tearing, gnawing chunks of same kind (Buddha Cocoon Host) flesh and blood, eating the beaten rotten and dead 【Buddha Maggots】.
Thus the two hosts’ Buddhist Dharma purity, under Yuan Zhu’s pressure, became even denser.
Meng Xiyue protected by ‘Stealth buff’ on the side watched excitedly, with no intention to help at all.
Instead A Miao reminded: “Not hurrying to act? These two guys’ overall strength is not as good as yours, just relying on 【Buddha Cocoon】’s built-in high quality energy stimulation to stalemate with you. While they haven’t grown up, quickly kill them, otherwise letting them eat will only make them stronger the more they fight. Their current strength is far from 【Buddha Cocoon】’s limit.”
Meng Xiyue joined in: “Yes yes yes, hurry and fight! Fight beautifully, don’t ruin my prestige!”
“You have shit prestige.”
Yuan Zhu rolled his eyes, wanting to complain that these two women watched the monkey show on the side without helping, yet chattered criticizing and commenting. But Miao Miao is right, should quickly resolve these two parasitic bodies.
He already noticed that the 【Buddha Cocoon】 in the opponent’s body is only in the initial fusion stage. Although bringing a bunch of abilities, applied very crudely, very raw.
But with rounds of fighting, he is like an iron hammer, forging and tempering two rough blank irons, forcing the 【Buddha Cocoon】 and physical body to accelerate fusion…
The two hosts have limited aptitude, insufficient internal energy and vitality supply. So they actively ‘evolved’ four mouths to devour other Buddha Maggot corpses, supplementing Buddhist Dharma nutrients, continuing to evolve toward ‘high monk’.
If not for these two women obstructing on the side, he wanted more to act as this forging hammer, continue tempering the two parasitic bodies, wait for them to eat up all 【Buddha Maggot Remains】, cultivate a body of Buddhist Dharma, then swallow into 【Universe Within The Belly】, start two new missions for refinement.
But there are uncertain points. That is 【Buddha Cocoon】 quality too high, in case 【Boss Template】 also can’t hold, leaking the secret, causing his secrets to be targeted by the behind ‘Buddhist Expert’, instead not good.
Messy thoughts in the brain cleared with one click, Yuan Zhu raised hand for a 【Sanctuary. Manifestation】, directly sealing and locking one Buddha Cocoon Host’s four limbs and palms.
Then Holy Light outbreak, forcibly incinerating and refining. Blazing white light illuminated the enclosed space blindingly, corridor plunged into darkness. And that host also screamed miserably, four arms’ bursting blood light inch by inch melted by 【Sanctuary】.
【Soul Crystal】 stored Holy Light rapidly dropped, in an instant, consumed 1.5 ke.
Effect also very powerful, directly purifying and burning off the opponent’s four arms, high quality ‘Soul Ash’ surged into 【Soul Crystal】 interior, forcibly sealed, saved for next round 【Seal Casting】.
Buddha Cocoon Host waving four charred broken arms retreated repeatedly.
Unfortunately, cost-performance too low, no Mouse battery on hand either. This wave of Holy Light consumption was a loss.
“Roar!”
Another little glutton cat that was sneaking bites of Buddha Maggot corpse sensed the threat, quickly dropped the food in its hands, sprang forward, and clawed at Yuan Zhu’s face with both hands formed into claws.
Yuan Zhu clearly saw that the opponent’s five nails were sharp as knives, and the demonic mouths in its palms opened wide with blood basins, with bits of flesh and blood still stuck between its teeth, then wrapped and entwined by scarlet electric light.
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At this time, Meng Xiyue, who was strongly spectating, saw this scene, strongly endured her discomfort, frowned and asked: “Monks eat people too?”
“You read too many novels? Du Ling Buddhism does not forbid alcohol, meat, or women. Vajra Sect body refinement warrior monks have even stronger physiques, with hormone secretion levels far exceeding ordinary people, so they have absolutely no taboos. It is said that top warrior monks will sow hundreds of offspring in their lifetime, both to deliver female believers through the physical body and to gift high-quality children, as well as to cultivate true Buddha’s Children.”
Meng Xiyue: “Tsk tsk, no wonder the ‘Federation’ continuously pushes multiple rounds of anti-Buddhism movements. It’s really too evil!”
While the two chatted idly, Yuan Zhu charged forward to meet it.
[Holy Cough] activate!
[Holy Breath] activate!
This time, [Holy Cough] no longer wasted effort externally, but spread wildly inside the body, turning into countless energy tentacles that simulated [Meridian Structure] in the physical body, achieving [Human Rank. Twelve Main Meridians. Basic Simulation].
The higher ‘Eight Extraordinary Meridians, Hidden Meridian’ had too high consumption and maintenance difficulty, and [Earth Rank. Acupoint System] was even more impossible to simulate. Unless more [Soul Crystals] were obtained to form a parallel matrix to enhance soul computing power, the simulation state could not be maintained.
With the [Holy Cough] constructed meridian system, the [Holy Light Breathing Technique] operated smoothly. The originally 1 Seal small fry newcomer had its momentum explode instantly and explode again.
On the basis of the existing [Holy Seal. Sanctuary +1 Seal hard strength], it additionally stacked the intensity of [Human Rank Peak. Holy Light Qi Refiner], with every move bursting with ‘Holy Light Pseudo True Qi’ effect.
Fully bringing out the originally superficial ‘Cicada Tribe Martial Arts’, especially Cicada City’s most classic ‘Knife Technique. Cicada Wing Slash’. Under the blessing of [Holy Light Force Field], it allowed him to develop a move ‘Holy Light Slash’.
Discarding the knife, using the Holy Light Force Field as the blade, True Qi (Holy Light) infused with knife intent, one slash out, severing all things.
Patta!
The host in front of him was split in two by Yuan Zhu, cracking along the Buddha Cocoon on its chest.
Before the opponent could fall to the ground, it was wrapped by [Holy Light Barrier], refined again, and burst with Holy Light.
Clap clap clap!
Meng Xiyue clapped wildly: “Little Zhu Zi, well done! Good job! You didn’t lose face!”
A Miao frowned, extremely conflicted. Like obsessive-compulsive disorder flaring up, she finally couldn’t hold back and asked: “What was that breathing rhythm you used just now?”
Meng Xiyue answered first, showing off: “Breathing Technique!”
“[Breathing Method]?” A Miao widened her eyes, “What heretical breathing method is this? It’s neither fish nor fowl, with no buff effects at all, and needs to be prepared in advance to maintain the state, burning out in one go.”
With one slash out, the temporarily constructed ‘Holy Cough Meridian’ inside the body instantly collapsed and disintegrated. Yuan Zhu, planning to do another round of ‘Holy Cough Seal Casting Meridian’, suddenly turned back and asked curiously: “You understand this too?”
“Are you using [Holy Light] energy in the manner of [Knight Breathing Technique] to simulate the effect of [Human Immortal Qi Refining Technique], temporarily enhancing strength in exchange for a strike beyond your own level?”
Although not very clear on the relationship between [Human Immortal] and [Feathered Immortal], Yuan Zhu felt the opponent’s description was very accurate, so he nodded: “Yeah, exactly!”
Suddenly, she raised her hand and blasted a shot into the head of the surviving severed-arm host, opening a hole in its forehead.
The bullet pierced the ‘scarlet protective Buddha Light’, but failed to completely kill it, instead making the opponent temporarily play dead, its body convulsing violently, trying to dig out the bullet with its fingers.
But the raised four limbs and arms
After doing all this, A Miao looked at Yuan Zhu with a pained and conflicted expression: “Sigh, I really want to shoot you dead with one shot! This is no longer just a 1+1<2 problem. You're simply trampling on the bottom line of other people's common sense."
Her current feeling was just like that of a Celestial Dynasty person seeing a foreigner eat dumplings filled with ‘strawberry chocolate filling’ dipped in yogurt—any Chinese person would feel uncomfortable all over.
Yuan Zhu paused his movements: “What’s wrong with you? It seems like you have something to say?”
Hearing the other party’s guess, Yuan Zhu felt that A Miao was also knowledgeable and was very willing to exchange ‘cultivation insights’ with her.
After all, the ‘skills’ produced by Seal Casting are random, so he couldn’t change Holy Light Breathing Technique and could only find ways to develop around it. Moreover, he was quite satisfied with the Holy Cough + Holy Breath he had created himself.
Clearly just a garbage brainwashing minor skill of ‘mental interference, disrupting the enemy’s breathing rhythm’, yet developed into a killing move of ‘extra stacking. Qi Refining Martial Arts’, simply a little genius, right?
“Are you very satisfied?”
“Isn’t it strong?”
Meng Xiyue, who also understood the [Qi Refining Martial Arts], awkwardly forced herself to praise: “That’s quite impressive!”
She thought that Yuan Zhu, a Holy Light newbie, could use ‘light’ to achieve the effect of [True Qi Martial Arts], which truly showed great spirituality.
“Sigh!”
A Miao let out a sigh, feeling despair toward these two laymen, while stepping up to Yuan Zhu.
Facing the slim and sexy pretty Miss, he felt both nervous and excited in his heart, anticipating as he said: “What are you going to do?”
“I want to enlighten you!”
