I, the transmigrated villain, please wait, gentle master.

Chapter 216 Resentful Encounter: Jade Lock and Golden Shackles (5)

Mei Shiyu leaned on his sword and stood up, about to descend the mountain without saying a word.

The Bodhi precepts are like a house isolated from the world. This house has only one door and one "lock," which can only be opened by the owner with a "key." Otherwise, the person inside can never get out!

In this desolate wilderness, there is no road to walk on. The only option is to jump down from a high place. If you are lucky, you will land on a slightly gentler slope. If you are unlucky, you will fall from the top of the mountain to the middle of the mountain, and then to the bottom of the mountain, rolling all the way down. That's how it is.

Seeing that he really wanted to jump, Yuan Che spread his arms to block him, "What are you doing?!"

“I’ll get the ring back,” Mei Shiyu said calmly. “You also have something to do: find Yue’er’s soul and rebuild her body… Remember, you only have seven days. Don’t miss the chance to bring her back to life.”

"This sword seems to have a real problem. Don't use it for now. Go back and give it to your second master uncle, then we'll decide what to do next." Mei Shiyu glanced at the Fenjing Sword, trying to be as thorough as possible in his instructions.

"The Sword of Relief will not break; it has simply returned to your heart meridian. You should try to summon it back to help you."

“I know Li Tingyun is not a good person, but I must make it clear that Yue’er’s death should not be entirely his responsibility. It was my misjudgment that led to this. After returning to the human world, I will find a way to apologize to you.”

That's all I have to say. Take care.

"Can you please stop defending that person?!" Yuan Che gave him a deep look. "What good can come of a fence-sitter?"

"Everything I said is true."

Mei Shiyu seemed determined and said, "I do not seek a peaceful end."

Yuan Che had no reason to stop him. For someone who was jumping into the fire without hesitation, it would be superfluous to pull him back.

He truly couldn't understand what kind of bewitching potion Li Tingyun had given Mei Shiyu, how he could have deceived him so completely! It was as if if Li Tingyun went to hell, he would jump down with him! Could a righteous immortal master really do such a thing? It was utterly inconceivable!

Yuan Che, indignant, stepped aside from Mei Shiyu, watching as he dared to jump off the cliff even without spiritual power...

Living in misery.

He sat down on the ground and gradually entered a meditative state. Just as Mei Shiyu had said, the Dividing Scene Sword had a problem and could no longer be used. His most urgent task was to summon the Release of Calamity. A sword cultivator cannot be without a sword, otherwise he would be unable to move an inch.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes, looked down at the bloodstains on his body, and suddenly remembered that when he first met Mei Shiyu on the road to the underworld, he was covered in dog blood that he could not get rid of no matter how hard he rubbed!

There was something he forgot to tell Mei Shiyu.

Li Tingyun wasn't the only one he took into the Bodhi Ring!

And his dog...

His dog, Wangcai?!

How did that bastard end up in the Bodhi Precepts too?!

Returning to this familiar place, Li Tingyun found that the drought demon had been hidden here by Mei Shiyu for over a hundred years. The memories of those years, when he stayed at home like a lonely old man, hoping to see Mei Shiyu every day, were also clearly etched in his mind.

Of course, the clearest memory is of Mei Shiyu lifting his collar, letting him embrace him, lower his head, and bite the snow-white flesh of his neck, his teeth gently grinding, leaving unspeakable marks...

Before Li Tingyun could fully savor the feeling of revisiting this familiar place, he saw a large yellow dog lying on the ground, wagging its tail idly.

This dog has delicate features...it looks familiar...

The dog raised its head, twitched its ears, and seemed to be thinking:

The scent on this person... it smells kind of familiar...

"Stupid dog!"

"Owner!"

They finally hit it off.

Wangcai quickly got up and limped towards him. Li Tingyun grabbed his two front paws, lifted him up, and asked, "What happened to you? Did you get bullied again?! Don't tell anyone I'm your owner when we get out of here, it's embarrassing!"

Wangcai immediately complained to him, "It was that brat surnamed Yuan! He was blind and stabbed me in the butt with his sword! Ouch, it hurt so much! He didn't poke my butt, he stabbed your face, Master!"

Li Tingyun: That sounds so strange!

"Whose ass are you talking about? Whose face? I'll smash your dog's head in!"

Li Tingyun raised his hand high, then gently lowered it, patting Wangcai on the head. Wangcai squinted his eyes and barked loudly.

"Master, what happened to your face? How did someone really poke it open? Were you bullied too...?"

The dog secretly thought to itself: Don't tell anyone I'm your dog when we go out, it's embarrassing!

"Master, we were bullied three hundred years ago, and we are still being bullied three hundred years later. Have we wasted these three hundred years?"

Wangcai hung his head, his tone very miserable.

Li Tingyun: "..."

He looked around and suddenly frowned: "This place has changed. It's completely different from before."

Wangcai the dog barked twice: "Master, don't you think this place looks a bit like...like..."

He hesitated.

Li Tingyun: "What does it look like? Tell me."

"Like Lingxi Village..."

indeed.

Look at this hill, look at this stream, look at this little bridge, look at this person and this dog... it's as if time has turned back.

Li Tingyun was not surprised by this.

Mei Shiyu gave the Bodhi Ring to Yuan Che, and Yuan Che rebuilt a "home" in this space. What unexpected things happened next?

The houses were either collapsed or crumbled, the mountain behind them had its edges flattened, and the water in front of them was murky and muddy, as if an earthquake had just occurred and there hadn't been time to fix it.

Li Tingyun was in a great mood and praised his dog: "You did this? You've really gotten good at it, that's how it should be!"

They are a big bad guy and a little bad guy, and they love to cause trouble.

But Wangcai said, "No...no...I don't have that kind of ability..."

"Master, I have good news and bad news to tell you."

"Which one do you want to hear first?" Gouzi asked with a fawning smile.

Li Tingyun: "..." He had a bad feeling.

"What have you been hiding from me? Tell me everything right now!"

Just as the dog was about to speak, the ground suddenly trembled. This tremor was unlike any other; it seemed to spread from deep within the earth. At first glance, one might think it was another earthquake. But Li Tingyun's keen senses were extraordinary. This was definitely not the earth shaking, but something crawling beneath the ground!

"It's here again! It's here again!" Wangcai howled, clinging tightly to Li Tingyun's leg. "Master, save me!"

The thing was enormous, but it moved faster than a rat. In just a few breaths, it circled around several times, reluctant to show itself, as if it were looking for the right time and place to launch an unexpected attack on the people on the ground!

Right now!

The thing was quiet for a moment, then suddenly exerted its strength and broke through the earth's layers!

Wonderful.

Li Tingyun: A surprise attack? Me?

The earth collapsed with a rumble, and he grabbed Wangcai by the scruff of its neck, pulling it up from the ground to see what it was.

Is it...uh, is it...? ? ?

Li Tingyun was amazed. What hadn't he seen before? Hey, he'd never seen anything like this before!

It looks like a big, indescribable lump, quite common in places where grains are recycled, covered with wriggling... well, it's best left unsaid. Anyway, it's a unique little thing that looks real!

"Tai Sui! It's Tai Sui!" Wangcai screamed. "Master, this is the bad news I have to tell you!"

Li Tingyun seemed to have heard someone mention the "Tai Sui" before. Upon closer inspection, he discovered that the large mass was a jumble of severed limbs piled together, seemingly wriggling from pushing and shoving each other. It was disgusting, but even more suspicious.

"What exactly is Tai Sui?" Li Tingyun gripped Wangcai tightly. He seemed to have a clue, but the more he thought about it, the colder his heart became. "If you can't give me a straight answer, I'll throw you down here!"

Wangcai had no doubt that Li Tingyun meant what he said, and hurriedly explained, "Master, I only found out recently... I swear!"

"It turns out that before the 'Tai Sui' took shape, it was a 'mountain of corpses'—it was terrifying!"

"Moreover, without exception, all of these corpses were cultivators!"

"And it's the kind of cultivator with exceptionally high 'heavenly spiritual root' aptitude..."

"It's because they were too talented that they were ruined like this."

"First their spiritual roots were dug out, then they were chopped into eight pieces..."

At this point, there's no suspense—the Spirit Root Hunters!

The piles of corpses that Li Tingyun had seen in Sizhitang were the prototypes of "Tai Sui".

"Then how did it get here?" Li Tingyun asked calmly, pressing for the answer.

“Xuan Yu has been watching over this thing. It was doing well in the underground realm, but these past few days it's become increasingly restless. A few hours ago, it started running around uncontrollably. Xuan Yu wanted to suppress it back underground, so he followed it around. I was worried about Xuan Yu's safety, so I ran around with them too. That's how we all came here together…”

Li Tingyun punched his head hard, "Get to the point!"

"Waaaaah... Then, then we ran into that brat surnamed Yuan. He wasn't capable enough, but he tried to help us exorcise the evil spirits, and almost got Xuan Yu hurt too. I jumped over and bit his hand, and he stabbed me in the butt with his sword. He also used that damned ring to take me in. Later, somehow, he also took in Tai Sui... That's all, waaaaah..."

Hearing him keep mentioning "Xuan Yu," Li Tingyun wondered who Xuan Yu was. The name sounded familiar. Oh, right, the Ten Kings of Hell had mentioned him before. It seemed to be... that bastard's lover!

"A black cat? Suppressing the Grand Duke Jupiter? How did he do that?"

"I don't know either. Anyway, Si Wuxie told him to do it, so he did it."

Pull out the radish and bring out the mud.

From the demonic path, to the Si Wuxie siblings, and then to Xuan Yu.

No matter how complicated their relationship was, in Li Tingyun's view, it boiled down to just two words:

Damn!

All deserve to die!

He raised his hand and swung it at the monster. Instantly, the weather changed drastically. Wangcai cried out "Master" pitifully, but his master had no time to pay attention to him. He could only curl up his limbs and hug his body into a ball, silently praying that his master would not suddenly let go and throw him down!

Li Tingyun did not destroy the "Tai Sui". Instead, he used several streams of demonic energy to surround the thing. The encirclement shrank smaller and smaller, and was squeezed again and again until it was compressed into thick blood plasma with a foul stench... but countless torn souls escaped from it and grew wildly!

How could the Grand Duke Jupiter be so easily "dealt with"?!

Otherwise, the evil Taoist wouldn't have needed to hide back then, using an array to control that mountain of corpses in the Four Knowledges Hall, and then ultimately leaving it to Si Wuxie to deal with!

The hardest part is not destroying bones and dismembering the body.

Instead, it helps to dispel resentment.

You should know that these people who died unjustly were all the chosen ones of heaven and geniuses in their cultivation of immortality!

It is not generated by one person or one resentment, but by a group of people and countless resentments.

There is no way to resolve this.

"I hate it so much..."

"Who am I...it hurts so much..."

"I'm okay, I'm not in pain, but I'm hungry, I want to eat people..."

"Where is my body? Where are my hands and feet?!"