Swish!
A crisp sound like silk tearing rang out in front of the completely silent ruins of the Buddhist temple.
A sweet and fishy smell suddenly rose from the ruins of the Buddhist temple, and the skin of the old monk Qiuzhu peeled off like a snake's skin.
Liu Xiong's expression changed slightly. He looked up and saw that there was a crack on the back of the old monk Qiuzhu, and an arm as white as jade stretched out from the old monk's body.
The jade-carved arm glowed bluish-gray in the moonlight, its five fingers were so slender that they were almost deformed, and there were translucent webbed membranes between the knuckles.
As the sound of skin tearing became more frequent, a new head broke through the top of the head. It was not a human skull at all. It looked more like a Buddha statue that had been run over by a heavy object. The squirming pink and white brain matter was exposed in the depression on the left forehead, but the right half of the face retained the compassionate look of a Bodhisattva with lowered brows.
The complete body covered with blood finally emerged from the cocoon. Under the moonlight, one could clearly see its spine twisted in a strange spiral shape.
The left shoulder blade was deformed and bulged, forming a tumor that looked like half a dead tree, while the right arm was half a foot shorter than that of an ordinary person, with the fingertips just reaching to the waist.
The most horrifying thing is the dense bulges between the chest and abdomen. Under the twisted and tangled muscles, if you look closely, it looks like the outlines of countless tiny hands wriggling under the skin.
His feet were like lotuses that had been forcibly pieced together, with his ten toes fused into three short, thick pillars of flesh. His soles were cracked into five scarlet cracks, and pus and blood mixed with gold and red would seep out every time he landed.
There were two symmetrical rows of flesh holes on the back of his neck, which emitted a blood mist with a sandalwood scent with his breathing, staining the tattered monk's robe into a mottled crimson purple.
Liu Xiong, with a look of horror, noticed that the new body's eyes had never opened, and the eyelids were like a film covering the two moving eyeballs under the skin.
When the deformed body stood fully upright, the only sounds left among the ruins were the sizzling sound of scriptures burning flesh and an eerie crisp sound like wet wood breaking.
"No, no!"
The deformed body suddenly let out a mixed scream of male and female voices.
Its bloodshot eyeballs bulged out from under the skin. It staggered and crushed the blue bricks with its three-toed flesh, causing pus and blood to spread between the cracks in the bricks.
The dead wood-like tumor on his left shoulder trembled violently, and countless muscles under his abdomen kept wriggling like a coiled snake.
"How could my body-borrowing rebirth technique become like this? How could it be?!"
It turned its head suddenly, and scratched its eyelids with its pointed fingers, revealing two bloodshot eyeballs. It looked at the ruins of the Buddhist temple and saw the statue of Lijue Bodhisattva with half of its head broken, and roared.
"Li Jue! You lied to me, you lied to me!!"
Liu Xiong was shocked and finally understood that the old monk was keeping a wild evil god in captivity, intending to use the evil god's power to shed his aging body and be reborn.
Seeing the monster waving the gilded mace crazily, the moment its energy exploded, the statue of Li Jue Bodhisattva turned into dust, mixed with blood mist, and emitted a strange rainbow color under the moonlight.
The entire Buddha statue was shattered into pieces and turned into debris on the ground.
"There is still a way, there is still a way..."
The monster roamed around the courtyard, muttering, and wherever its three toes stepped, the blue bricks turned into spider webs.
Suddenly, the monster old monk looked at the swordsman who was lying not far away. He walked over and saw that the other party was already dead.
"no!"
It rushed into the ruins again, dug up the debris, and dragged out the man in black holding the chain blade. His body was broken and his bones were fractured, and he was breathing out more than in.
'This one won't work either.'
It turned the corpse over and over with the skill of a butcher picking meat, and finally, the monster old monk walked in front of Liu Xiong.
The slender fingers covered with brain matter suddenly grabbed Liu Xiong's throat.
Liu Xiong was shocked and frightened. Just as he was about to move, he was held down by the slender arm of the monster old monk.
"Don't move."
A strange force was transmitted into his body, making him unable to lift his strength.
The monster old monk was touching her all over while muttering to himself.
"The sternum is broken, the internal organs are displaced and damaged, and the vitality is not strong. The aptitude is extremely poor. No, no... That's right."
Liu Xiong's face turned pale. He wanted to fight desperately, but was gently held down by the slender and pointed arm of the monster old monk. His body completely lost the ability to move. He used to be able to use his muscles at will, but now he couldn't move them at all. He could only let the monster old monk move like picking goods.
"That's right."
The monster old monk suddenly stood up, with a look of slight surprise on his face.
"That young man, barely twenty-one, is already nearing the peak of his Third Refinement. If I were to be reborn using his body, perhaps I would obtain a perfect physique."
Suddenly, he turned his head, and the three pillars of flesh in his lower body suddenly contracted, and then straightened in the next second.
The monster old monk rushed like an arrow, drawing a trajectory in the air and quickly disappeared from Liu Xiong's sight.
Xu Yunfan tapped his toes lightly, and his body moved like an arrow from a bow, moving between the flying eaves and brackets outside the Thousand Buddha Temple.
With every leap, the muscle fibers tightened and stretched like a bowstring, and the distance of ten or twenty meters between the eaves became just one step.
His breathing was long and steady, and his heart beat as powerfully as a war drum, pumping hot blood to his limbs and bones, providing him with a constant supply of strength.
The sounds of fighting in the temple gradually faded, and the sounds of monks swinging their copper sticks breaking through the air rose and fell, and were being quickly suppressed.
Most people have seen the golden light behind the Thousand Buddha Temple, and many of them have rushed towards the back frantically.
He glanced at it and stopped paying attention. All he could think about was the strange appearance of the old monk, which was totally beyond his three views.
Although he knew that this world not only had martial arts, but also had true blood beings who could transform from heaven to man, the appearance of the Wild Evil God now was so strange that it made his scalp tingle.
If you don't understand these things, it's best to stay away from them.
Suddenly, Xu Yunfan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he turned his head to look at Su Shiyu and the woman in black who were being chased by several strong monks holding copper sticks in the corner of the wall not far away and were fleeing in a panic.
Immediately, his gaze quickly passed by, and his speed became even faster.
This is not a place to stay for long. Let's go to Changyi, the capital of Qingzhou first, and then find the nearest and most famous sect to take a look.
He has already mastered the art of calligraphy and has achieved his goal.
As for the divine weapon, the gilded mace, four or five flesh-refining realm masters were beaten without any chance to fight back. Logically speaking, it was not something he could get his hands on at the moment.
Xu Yunfan sped all the way, crossing mountains and ridges, and only after he reached the official road did he slow down a bit.
They galloped all the way without slowing down for two hours and were already at least sixty miles away from the Thousand Buddha Temple. It was very likely that they had already left the Jiyun Mountain area.
Although the moon was high and the stars were sparse, there were still a few travelers walking silently on the official road.
Xu Yunfan looked at it for a few seconds and then stopped paying attention to it. He put the golden hammer on his back again, took off the water bag, drank some water, washed his hands, and then took out the dry food he had prepared in advance and chewed it slowly.
When they had walked not far away, Xu Yunfan suddenly stopped, stuffed the last piece of dry food in his hand into his mouth, and swallowed it whole.
In front of him, there was a woman in white clothes and light gauze, standing with her back to him on a huge rock beside the official road. She had a distant temperament and a coldness from the bottom of her heart, which made her incompatible with the world, like a banished immortal.