EFB Chapter 2274 The Strange Tang Jingye
Chapter 2274 The Strange Tang Jingye
Chapter 2274 The Strange Tang Jingye
Before He Lingchuan could reply, Dong Rui reached out and took it, asking, "What's this?"
"The foreign object in Xu Wenqin's chest cavity." Liu Qingdao, having been in charge of the Bingyuan Division for so many years, would have made thorough preparations before meeting the Emperor. "After several of his disciples were captured, they confessed that before we arrived, Xu Wenqin had cut open his chest and abdomen with a knife, pulled out these things, and then burned them with real fire. And then—"
"—We've arrived. Xu Wenqin, in his shock and anger, activated his ethereal fighting spirit, but he was overwhelmed, which is why we were able to capture him so easily." He looked at the things on the tray, still feeling lingering fear. "This thing can actually harm immortals so badly, it's really strange. Master Lingguang said that this thing cannot be completely removed, and what remains in Elder Xu's body will grow wildly."
Ling Guang added from the side, "If I hadn't used the medicinal membrane, Elder Xu would have already perished; but after applying the medicinal membrane, I discovered that those ghostly things absorbed the medicinal power even faster than Elder Xu!"
Dong Rui produced a pair of tweezers from somewhere, picked up the jelly-like substance on the tray a couple of times, and said, "It's still alive, just not as active as before, hmm..."
He went out and had someone bring him a live chicken.
A short while later, the lively rooster arrived.
Dong Rui stuffed the sticky mess into the rooster's beak. Immediately, the rooster trembled violently, in great pain.
Just a few breaths later, white mycelium emerged from its mouth and nose.
This is even worse than Xu Wenqin's condition.
"Sure enough, the mycelium dies very quickly after it leaves the flesh." Dong Rui's conjecture was confirmed. "It's really ingeniously designed; it can harm people without causing them to spread."
He Lingchuan asked directly, "What exactly is this thing? Can you figure it out now?"
"Of course not! Do you really think I'm a god who can see through things at a glance?" Dong Rui rolled his eyes. "Doesn't that require time to study?"
That is to say, he took out another sable-like demon puppet from somewhere and stuffed the white mycelium into its mouth.
This demonic puppet held on for longer, but its death was just as painful.
After the white mycelium devoured the two creatures, Dong Rui took out the burrow spider web to trap it. To his surprise, he immediately heard a series of hissing sounds, and the snow-white spider web turned black, corroded into a large hole.
Dong Rui took out a jade bottle, pointed the mouth of the bottle at the white mycelium, and gently tapped the bottom of the bottle: "Collect!"
The jade bottle unleashed a powerful suction force, and in a flash, it sucked the clump of white mycelium inside.
It could kill immortals inside Xu Wenqin's stomach, but after leaving its host, although it could still wriggle around, it was as helpless as rice cake.
The group then examined the web. Although the spider queen's silk comes in various strengths, this was not the most durable, but its corrosive properties were still remarkable.
"This acid is too corrosive to living organisms, no wonder even immortals' lungs and internal organs couldn't withstand it."
At this moment, Ling Guang pointed to the sword wound on Elder Xu's chest and suddenly tapped it twice with his knuckles.
A dull thud.
He Lingchuan's gaze immediately sharpened.
Ling Guang added at the opportune moment, "Also, his body is gradually turning into wood."
Dong Rui immediately used a silver needle to pick out a spider silk thread, examined it carefully, and then said, "Look at this!"
The spider silk hadn't been severed, but its color had changed from white to brown. Dong Rui gently tapped it a few times with a silver needle, and the two of them discovered that the silk had actually hardened!
Dong Rui casually grabbed the demon puppet and immediately dissected it.
Unable to dissect Elder Xu, he had no choice but to dissect the demon puppet.
When the knife cuts into the abdomen, it encounters resistance.
"Did you hear that?" He scraped the blade a few times, his voice dull. "Look at this texture again."
"Wood grain." Liu Qingdao exclaimed in surprise, "So, Xu Wenqin's internal organs, like this demonic puppet's, have also turned into wood?"
“This is the petrification technique.” He Lingchuan and Dong Rui were both familiar with it. “Such demonic arts are rare in the world, especially after the death of the Wood Lord. We do know that the Ferry Ghost Mother once gave birth to a ghost child who had this ability.”
In both the world of Panlong and reality, He Lingchuan had encountered the petrification technique and was deeply impressed by it.
If it were only the petrification technique, it might not be enough to defeat Elder Xu. The immortal body possesses extremely vigorous vitality, which can suppress the rate of petrification.
Once upon a time, Aunt Zhu, wearing her sister's spider fairy shell, fought against True Lord Mu Su and was also struck by the petrification spell. Her strategy was to use her powerful strength to suppress the petrification process, then transfer the damage to the eyeball spider, and finally calmly discard the petrified eyeball spider.
One of the legs couldn't recover, so it simply fell off on its own, since it can grow back later anyway.
Elder Xu, however, did not possess such talent. Furthermore, the area affected by the attack was his internal organs, and no one has spare internal organs.
"This rice cake-like thing can both corrode the lungs and internal organs of immortals and turn flesh and blood into wood?" Liu Qingdao murmured. "Shouldn't these two talents exist in the same monster?"
“It shouldn’t have happened, which is why it seems so twisted,” He Lingchuan agreed. “I’m afraid that he didn’t die quickly enough after plotting against Elder Xu.”
"What are you twisting the words for!" Dong Rui didn't like hearing that. "This is called fusion!"
He Lingchuan understood immediately from his expression: "So this is also a demon puppet?"
"Possibly," Dong Rui said, maintaining a cautious approach. "Further testing is needed."
Liu Qingdao continued his report:
“We interrogated the prisoners, and it seems Elder Xu ate this voluntarily.”
"I see." Otherwise, how could it have grown into Xu Wenqin's lungs? "What was it mixed in with?"
“Agar jelly. Elder Xu has been enjoying it lately,” Liu Qingdao continued. “So Tang Jingye buys two bowls every day to offer to him.”
"Tang Jingye?" He Lingchuan's gaze sharpened. "Is he the contact person Tianwu gave us? Where is he?"
“That’s the strange thing,” Liu Qingdao said solemnly. “Those two prisoners insisted that I personally killed Tang Jingye outside the Rongshan Sect’s territory.”
"By you...?" If it weren't for the seriousness of the matter, He Lingchuan would have almost laughed out loud. Since he started managing the Cangyan Kingdom, nothing this interesting had happened in a long time. Sigh, managing state affairs is the most boring thing in the world, exhausting, day after day, endless. "I thought he had died in the mountains of Tongyue Town a few days ago."
“No body found.” Liu Qingdao continued, “I asked Tang Jingye what he had done recently, and the prisoners confessed that Tang Jingye brought back news of Tianwu’s capture a few days ago. So the news that Qixia Sect was about to emerge from seclusion had been exposed, which is why they decided to strike first. Furthermore, the plan to use the gold core to create mountains and cut off the water supply to Weian City was also Tang Jingye’s suggestion to Sect Leader Yuan.”
"Good question!" He Lingchuan knew that Liu Qingdao had also sensed something was wrong, which was why he pressed for details about Tang Jingye. "So it was his idea to use the gold core."
(End of this chapter)