Chapter 88: Swallow Filth
A little earlier.
Li Ye searched the large mansion occupying half a street, confirmed there were no living people or Skin-Peeling Demons, and couldn’t find that Yaksa either. He stomped his foot, dispersing a Qi circle, and broke through the roof, reaching high altitude.
“None around, none above either.”
He even saw the place of battle with flashing blade and sword lights, but still didn’t discover the Yaksa’s true body.
“It’s right below!”
Thud!
Li Ye took a deep breath, turned his body, stepped out a Qi circle, and shot straight down like a cannonball.
Boom!!!
With a loud bang, the ground was blasted open by him into a big hole. After pushing away a large amount of gravel, Li Ye felt his fist go empty ahead, and his whole body lost the sense of obstruction, arriving in a space.
The surroundings were pitch black, only the hole broken open above still showed faint light under the illumination of some lights.
He twitched his nose, faintly able to smell a light stench.
Bang!
Li Ye sprang up, high-kicked with one foot to kick another hole in the slanted upper ground, making the light brighter.
With light available, why grope forward in the dark? Who knows what things are inside.
“Swimming Dragon!”
Li Ye swam his body with the momentum, along the edge of the hole, waving fists and feet, claw strikes, kicks, shoulder bumps, knee tops. Only sounds of gravel crumbling were heard as the thick ground was pushed forward by him from the breach.
Speed much faster than an excavator, each attack under special Qi Force blasting away a large area, bombing a big hole in the floor, advancing toward the smell his nose detected.
Whoosh!
Ding ding ding!
While Li Ye kept advancing, a sharp breaking-air sound suddenly rose from below, followed by his body parts being hit several times by something.
Pa.
Li Ye casually grabbed the thing, stopped his movement, hooked one hand into the thick ground edge, and let his whole body hang down.
“Bone?”
He glanced at the Bone Spur in his hand, then from the hanging perspective, using the outside light, looked inside.
The stench grew heavier, and many strange outlines protruded ahead, with a strange figure seeming among the outlines.
“Here it is!”
Li Ye crushed the Bone Spur with one hand, followed by a high kick, booming and shattering all the ground ahead.
Thud thud thud!
Several Qi circles dispersed in succession. Li Ye kicked left and right with Swimming Dragon momentum, broke through the roof above, letting the stars in the sky appear.
He glanced at the sky, lips curling, then dove down again.
Boom!
Li Ye landed on the ground. Before he could stand, something touched his body and smashed hard on his head.
His head tilted, he grabbed the thing, and as he rose, his fingers quickly twisted. With a shrill twisting sound like a hemp flower, the dust from his landing dispersed.
Light shone in, revealing the surroundings. The walls were full of eerie white bones, some fused into the ground, skulls, ribs, hand bones, exposed partially like decorations.
Appearing before his eyes was a pitch-black monster, same as the figure revealed when Li Ye previously beat through the Skin-Peeling Demon, six-armed, with a Buddhist topknot, but now even taller and more robust.
A pair of eyes emitted red-green interlaced light, now glaring at Li Ye, fangs open with drool flowing.
One of its arms was grabbed by Li Ye, twisted into a hemp flower.
It was the Yaksa Li Ye was seeking!
Sizzle!
Li Ye grinned ferociously, yanked outward, tearing off that arm, and smoothly went to grab its other arms.
Buzz!
But at that moment, the arm twisted into a hemp flower by Li Ye suddenly straightened. Li Ye’s eyes were suddenly covered by a layer of color. In the colorful vision, that pitch-black six-armed monster now looked kind and benevolent, inexplicably giving a sense of closeness.
As if it had some hidden story for being here, it actually didn’t want to harm anyone at all, only imprisoned in the cave with its true body bound by endless white bones.
Yes, originally a Deity, how could it.
“Fuck off!”
Li Ye surged his Qi and Blood, roared out Thunder Sound from his mouth, making the colorful mist before his eyes disappear. His hands pressed its arms, nostrils spraying dragon whisker white Qi.
“Open the gate!”
“Split for me!!”
Rip!!
The burly and supposedly tough Yaksa was torn in half by Li Ye. But the next instant, his ears filled with licentious sounds like moaning, yet also mad cries like countless aggrieved souls wailing and cursing.
Li Ye frowned, retreated, surged his Qi and Blood to forcibly suppress the strange sounds in his ears.
Pollution
“Hiss!”
The originally torn Yaksa now reintegrated, issuing meaningless roars at Li Ye.
“Without the Skin Bag, you can’t even speak?”
Li Ye sneered, swam forward again, five fingers probing to crush the Yaksa’s head.
Golden Dragon Grasp!
This time, the Yaksa’s left middle arm moved, and Li Ye felt the smell in his nose change. The originally stinky cave turned into cloying sweetness; one breath made him dizzy, as if enjoying boundless bliss.
Thud!
Li Ye slammed the ground hard, yanked down the hand crushing the head, tearing off all its left arms. His other hand extended simultaneously, rubbed and grasped to birth Qi Force, shredding the three left arms into fragments.
“Ha!!”
His mouth erupted massive Thunder Sound, shocking the fragments to powder and forcing the Yaksa’s true body to retreat straight back.
But at that moment, the taste in Li Ye’s mouth changed. Originally colorless and tasteless, but upon opening mouth contacting stench and fragments, it was sweet; normal air contact was like rust. Mixed together, equally unbearable.
Besides, he always felt his clothes uncomfortable, body surface seeming oily, only wanting to strip naked and enter the filthy place.
His mind and body were restless, essence Qi leaking without intercourse.
This made Li Ye realize: Food Qi Method emphasizes Qi and Blood changes, essence Qi is also Qi and Blood. Sudden leak let him know he was polluted again.
“Hey!”
Clang clang clang!
He shouted, temporarily suppressing the Pollution. The Yaksa appeared intact again, the powdered hand regenerating.
Li Ye could only retreat, away from this Pollution.
The Yaksa showed him a smile; though speechless, the smile clearly carried pride and mockery.
Li Ye couldn’t deal with it.
He didn’t know the Yaksa’s strength level, but currently, this Demonic Creature’s strength was lacking, but Pollution was powerful. He, in Second Realm without breaking Soul Settling Pass, could hardly resist.
Moreover, that body somehow could regenerate.
Li Ye didn’t know if it was infinite regeneration, but he seemed unable to withstand this Pollution.
Withdraw? Go back to help Pan Zhengyang, then come after he finishes?
Impossible, this was a Deity!
And though no Pollution on Pan Zhengyang’s side, strength was much higher, not something Li Ye could interfere in.
“Not sure if the flesh body is the Yaksa, but the Pollution is real.” Li Ye narrowed his eyes slightly.
Now the Pollution prevented him from easily approaching; previously suppressible, but with six Pollutions together, he couldn’t suppress.
The Surangama Sutra states: six roots become delusion, six dusts all filth.
Bishapovacha’s six arms are the six dusts, filth of form, sound, scent, taste, touch, desire, encompassing all filth.
Li Ye had never seen this Demonic Creature nor killing cases, only some ancient records.
Worth a try.
He looked up at the sky; previously deliberately destroyed by him, the hole aligned perfectly with above, seeing heavenly stars nearly at zenith.
Li Ye watched the smug Yaksa pacing back and forth, then flew a kick into the adjacent white bone wall, flipping the whole wall soil into a depression, blocking the rear escape route, leaving only the upper hole.
Then, he took out his mobile phone, searched a bit, and said to the baffled Yaksa:
“Your kind of Demonic Creature indeed never subdued, but since it can appear, some things aren’t fake. Listen to this.”
The mobile phone played Sanskrit sound. Upon sounding, the Yaksa shuddered, instinctively retreated, body hunching, face showing pain.
This was the Great Compassion Mantra.
The Great Compassion Dharani Sutra of Thousand-Handed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva records: to subdue Bishapovacha, recite the Great Compassion Mantra.
Li Ye didn’t know how to recite the Great Compassion Mantra, but it was online; search and find ready-made.
Whether recited by Martial Artist, ordinary person, or machine, little difference to this Demonic Creature.
“Roar—!”
After reciting a while, the Yaksa suffered unbearably. It wanted to advance but eyed Li Ye with clear fear.
Li Ye not approaching its Pollution, it couldn’t do anything to Li Ye.
Helplessly, the Yaksa jumped toward the hole, preparing to escape.
This was what Li Ye wanted!
As it reached the hole center, Li Ye Swimming Dragon over, pressed down the Yaksa, positioning it in the hole center, letting faint starlight sprinkle from the sky roof hole.
“The Garden of Dharma Jewels, Volume Twenty-Three states: Bishapovacha armored with corpse forest shade filth, starlight cracks the armor. Come get illuminated, let me see the extent!”
Just after Li Ye spoke, a ‘crack’ sounded; the Yaksa’s hard black-shell-like body cracked with fissures, faint but effective. Plus the Great Compassion Mantra, Pollution gradually lowered a lot.
Not enough!
This degree couldn’t finish off the Yaksa.
But now Li Ye could withstand Pollution near body longer, doing what he wanted before but lacked time for!
Then
Sizzle!
He tore off one of the Yaksa’s arms, shredding it into meat strips during the tear. This time Li Ye didn’t shout, directly stuffing all torn meat strips into his mouth.
Hand-tearing is also a cooking method.
This place could regenerate, probably due to the cave factor, but he saw: powdered to essence still there, not from nothing.
But what if eaten!
Six arms for six dusts, but without six arms, what Pollution left.
Into his belly, purely digested!
After tearing and stuffing one arm into mouth to chew and swallow, the Yaksa roared wide-mouthed in pain, went mad, opened huge maw to bite Li Ye’s neck.
Clang!
But except a crisp sound, nothing achieved.
This Yaksa not weak; normal one-pass Martial Artist probably no match, but Li Ye realized it could handle other Mysterious Passes, but not Vajra Pass, only relying on Pollution to fight.
Now Pollution also gone.
That arm only regenerated some uneaten residue by Li Ye, but lacking arm support, became deformed.
Sizzle!
He yanked the deformed one, tore and stuffed into mouth, then same for other five arms, shredding to fragments and swallowing.
Fewer arms, weaker resistance; Great Compassion Mantra and starlight effect stronger, until all arms gone, Yaksa could only crawl on ground, head drilling into floor, issuing meaningless pained cries.
“What if dead now?”
Li Ye wiped his mouth, stomped the Yaksa’s head, banging it to burst.
Upon bursting, he saw Yaksa form dissipate to black Qi, issuing unwilling wail, yet like liberation, turning to black smoke and scattering.
Black Qi rapidly spread around, covering surrounding white bone walls. Suddenly, sounds of warbling ghosts and howling wolves rose, whole cave shaking, extending more skulls.
But close look showed those skulls mere phantoms.
This was Pure Pollution.
This place itself Pollution source, previously suppressed by Yaksa true body; now Yaksa gone, Pollution source appeared.
The sounds carried purest lustful filth; unknown what, but once formed, from shaking amplitude, influence area not small.
And central Li Ye now eyes dazed, just staring blankly as these skulls extended outward.
Vaguely, another consciousness descended, becoming sound.
[Emperor says: Yaksa steals nether spring, swallows six filths into belly cauldron. Thus split belly seize cauldron, burn filth open mysterious womb. Mysterious womb receives filth abyss, six paths filth vortex boils, myriad turbid forges yellow court, return truth nourishes common people!]
[Authority—Swallow Filth!]
Seemed divine light struck, making Li Ye’s divine court clear, instantly understanding usage.
His mouth opened wide, sucking all dense skulls in storm into mouth; inexplicably, storm mixed with a mass of blood Qi, also sucked in by Li Ye.
What Pollution skulls, now gone.
He dazed a while, confirmed no harm, then showed smile.
Indeed a Deity
Kill to gain Authority!
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