Chapter 108: Danyangzi

This sudden change caught everyone off guard.

Tentacles emerging from Li Huowang's mouth instantly stiffened and lunged forward.

The Black Grand-Sui's formerly soft tentacles, now rigid, immediately pierced a plump nun's abdomen. Instead of blood, the wound oozed whitish fat.

Regardless of what oozed, the nun's screams added a discordant note to the solemn chanting.

As the chanting faded, the Fly Guanyin statue, no longer solidified, began to loosen.

This was only the beginning. More writhing black tentacles, clinging to Dan Yangzi's organs, emerged from Li Huowang's mouth, savagely attacking the other nuns.

The tentacles inverted Li Huowang, making him move across the ground like an octopus supported by its limbs.

The entire area descended into chaos. Just as a plump nun was about to intervene, the flies forming the Guanyin statue in the air collapsed.

The trapped Dan Yangzi broke free, and the situation instantly reversed.

Jingxin and her companions wanted to confront Dan Yangzi, but they couldn't. Without the connection to their "Pure Heart," they no longer saw Dan Yangzi. Instead, they saw a red-robed Daoist with a dozen writhing tentacles emerging from his mouth.

"We need to find a way for this boy to reconnect with our Pure Heart, otherwise we can't affect Dan Yangzi at all."

"No, it's impossible now. Dan Yangzi is inside his stomach, causing trouble constantly. Junior Sister, please invite Guanyin to possess you. If we delay any longer, something terrible will happen to the abbey."

Jingxin looked at Li Huowang, who hung suspended in the distance, and sighed helplessly. They had come this far, only to fail at the last moment.

Regardless of what others saw, in Li Huowang's eyes, he had no tentacles in his mouth and hadn't moved. It was the terrifying Dan Yangzi who was furiously attacking the plump nuns.

He had just heard Jingxin's words.

"Dan Yangzi isn't dead? He's actually alive? He's been living in my stomach with the Black Grand-Sui all this time?" A chill instantly ran through Li Huowang.

Dan Yangzi, the one who slaughtered people and used them for alchemy, was still alive!

Li Huowang had always thought Dan Yangzi was only spiritually eroding him. He never imagined that he hadn't been spared physically either!

Looking at Dan Yangzi in the distance, Li Huowang's eyes filled with intense hatred.

"No! I have to do something, I must do something! I absolutely cannot sit idly by! If I'm going to get rid of him, it has to be today!"

Li Huowang's right hand reached for *The Grand Scroll* at his waist, while his left opened the toolkit pouch hidden beneath his hem.

From the toolkit, he pulled out a sharp tri-edged awl. After quickly surveying various parts of his body, Li Huowang gritted his teeth and plunged it directly into his palm, pushing it down continuously until it pierced deep into the bone marrow of his forearm.

The intense pain nearly made Li Huowang convulse. With his pain perception doubled, such a sensation was unbearable for an ordinary person.

Perhaps heightened pain was beneficial when using *The Grand Scroll*, but this time Li Huowang had no intention of using it.

Just as he was about to open *The Grand Scroll*, a ribbon of ethereal celestial energy flew over, wrapped around *The Grand Scroll* at Li Huowang's waist, and flung it away.

"Son, you must help your master achieve immortality. You mustn't help outsiders cause trouble!" the balding old man's head on Dan Yangzi's left suddenly spoke.

"Helping someone achieve immortality is a great merit! You'll understand when you embark on the path of cultivation!" the middle-aged head said.

"You can't even imagine what I saw at the edge of the immortal realm! I want to go in, I must go in! I'm just one step away! Help me!!" Finally, Dan Yangzi's childlike head spoke.

"Go to hell! I'd rather die than help you again!!" Li Huowang gritted his teeth and forcefully pulled the tri-edged awl from the wound.

Dan Yangzi, with his nested mouths, sneered at Li Huowang. "Son, when it comes to severing the Three Corpses, you'll help whether you want to or not. Don't forget who your master is."

"What 'severing the Three Corpses' nonsense! Do you think I'll still believe your lies?! If you want my body, just say so! I may have deceived you, but that doesn't mean you can deceive me!"

"Let me tell you something! The evil flesh and blood in your elixirs have completely twisted you into a monster! The cultivation methods for immortality were all made up by me!!"

Hearing this truth, Dan Yangzi showed no anger. Instead, all six of his eyes simultaneously gleamed with intense longing.

"No, I truly have become immortal now. Though only a half-immortal, I did see the South Heavenly Gate! I saw other deities just like me inside, and I saw the celestial maidens!"

Li Huowang sneered, "Heh, immortal realm? You've been talking to me for half a day, haven't you looked at what's behind you?"

The three heads turned simultaneously, only to see a colossal three-headed, six-armed Guanyin statue made of bloated, decaying flesh standing before them.

"Thud!" The swollen, rotting flesh pressed down, directly trapping Dan Yangzi in place.

Half-buried in the fleshy mass, Dan Yangzi twisted his head and looked at Li Huowang with exceptionally terrifying eyes.

"Don't worry, it's just a minor issue. As long as these nuns aren't connected to your heart, they can't see me; they're just a bunch of blind fools. What good is their power then?"

"As for you, don't blame your master for speaking harshly. If you're obedient, you're still my disciple. If not, you're just a stray dog on the roadside, and I can kick you to death anytime! You can't do anything about any of this."

Hearing these words, blood rushed to Li Huowang's head.

Li Huowang instantly gripped a knife hilt, lifted it, and fiercely plunged it into his abdomen. After a trembling leftward slice, Li Huowang raised his right hand, which was missing three fingernails, and inserted it into his stomach, searching.

"What are you doing? Stop!" Dan Yangzi's expression became incredibly horrified.

He tried to intervene but found himself trapped by the nuns.

"Didn't you say I couldn't do anything?" Li Huowang, with bloodshot eyes, yelled at Dan Yangzi.

When he felt something continuously wriggling, like a hot water bottle, Li Huowang forcefully tore through the attached tissue and, trembling, pulled it out of the wound.

"What about this then!" Li Huowang suppressed the tremors caused by the intense pain, raised the knife, and fiercely stabbed the stomach in his hand. A large quantity of ink-like black liquid spurted from the wound.

Witnessing this, Dan Yangzi's face instantly turned extremely grim.

"You rebellious disciple, you have no idea what you're doing! Do you think you can defeat me? Don't dream! Your fate has already been sealed!"

Li Huowang gritted his teeth and stabbed again viciously, this time completely piercing the stomach.

"Sealed? I refuse to believe in such evil!! Balding freak!! This isn't over yet!!"