IW: Chapter 272 Dragon Vein! Liu Bowen's Qimen Dunjia!
"I was far too naive—truly, hopelessly naive. I spent weeks preparing for this confrontation, but watching you work makes me feel as though my entire arsenal is completely obsolete!"
The scorching heatwave generated by the thunderous explosion continued to ripple through the clearing, carrying a faint, nauseating scent of charred flesh beyond the outer barrier.
The old priest stood frozen, his fingers clutching the ink-soaked cord in his hands. Rain had completely saturated the fibers, washing away every last trace of his carefully empowered cinnabar.
For the first time in his life, he was struck by a cold, jarring realization: traditional Taoist exorcism techniques felt utterly powerless in the face of modern destruction.
What era were they living in, still relying on wooden swords and paper talismans?
This youth had summoned a single strike of heavenly lightning and reduced an entire horde to fine ash, rendering every classic ritual completely laughable by comparison.
He had braced himself for a grueling, life-or-death struggle today, yet the battle had ended the precise second the young master raised his hand.
"Daoist Brother, you shouldn't belittle your own achievements," Bai Ye said smoothly, offering a polite smile. "Our lineages emphasize entirely different core disciplines, so the visual impact of our techniques will naturally vary."
You really have the audacity to say that with a straight face, the old priest grumbled inwardly, his lips twitching as he swallowed his exasperation.
The young man's humble comforting only made him feel infinitely more awkward. He certainly didn't want to wallow in self-pity, but when praised so grandly by an absolute monster, the words felt like a gentle slap to his pride.
"Master, will we ever be able to reach a level like that?!"
Ren Tingting's eyes practically sparkled with unbridled excitement. She envisioned herself wielding that same world-ending lightning, soaring above the clouds like an immortal standard.
Up until this moment, she had honestly believed that subduing malevolent entities was a slow, terrifying struggle for survival.
"Yes."
Bai Ye couldn't bear to dampen Ren Tingting's spirits.
Looking at the hopeful eyes of his three disciples, it was clear that they also wanted to be like him.
They all cultivated the Shenxiao Sect's cultivation methods, just with a different auxiliary cultivation.
Lightning techniques were indispensable to the Shenxiao Sect.
However, not being able to do it now didn't mean they couldn't do it in the future.
Bai Ye thought for a moment. If spiritual energy truly recovered, and their strength could make a huge leap, then it wasn't impossible for them to use Thunderclap, or even something stronger than Thunderclap.
"That's great!"
Ren Tingting and the others had already begun to imagine themselves summoning wind and rain in the future.
"So strong, Master, what secret techniques does our Maoshan have?!"
Awei's heart skipped a beat; this feeling wasn't right.
Could it be that Maoshan couldn't compare to the Shenxiao Sect?
"Many, but they just can't be used. What's powerful isn't the secret technique, but the user."
Nine Uncle was a bit awkward. In fact, this was also a tacit admission that Bai Ye was more powerful than him.
Actually, in Nine Uncle's opinion, there was no need for them to keep asking here. Without strength, it was completely impossible to perform like Bai Ye.
"That's right, improving your cultivation is what you need to do now, not considering this matter. Daoist Brother, let's go in. I don't know if there are still any zombies alive inside."
Under the Thunderclap, it was not certain that all of them would be killed; perhaps some zombies were still alive.
Moreover, they still needed to go inside and search for the location of the Dragon Vein.
Therefore, going in was inevitable.
It was just that Bai Ye was a bit emotional that these zombies really couldn't compare to those from the great zombie era and that Shaolin zombie.
"Yes, Daoist Brother, let's go in quickly."
Nine Uncle's heart stirred. He was quite pleased with Bai Ye's suggestion.
The pressure of going in at this time was much less. After this Thunderclap, it would be really difficult for any zombies to survive, right?
But it was still necessary to be careful.
The Zombie King might not have died under this lightning ball. Most other zombies probably couldn't withstand it. Of course, if they faced it head-on, the Zombie King probably couldn't take it either. Nine Uncle was just mentally prepared to face the Zombie King.
"Why does this place look so different?!"
When the Feng Shui Master brought A Hao to Teng Teng Town and saw the scene before him, his eyelids couldn't help but twitch.
He had originally thought he had just caught Bai Ye and the others dealing with the Zombie King, or that the other party hadn't arrived yet.
But what he hadn't expected was that this place seemed to have undergone a destruction.
Electric snakes were still lingering on the ground. This ability was exactly the same as what he had seen in Ren Family Town and with the Royal Zombie.
Bai Ye had arrived!
Everything here was caused by Bai Ye.
This also made the Feng Shui Master feel a hint of disbelief.
He was now even more powerful than before.
Looking at A Hao, the Feng Shui Master muttered to himself.
A Hao was someone he had brought back. He had seen that A Hao seemed quite suitable for refining.
Now, A Hao was also under his control.
This guy was refined using many good treasures. Originally, he saw A Hao almost didn't make it through, but he finally endured and became an extremely Yin evil creature.
Neither human nor ghost, neither demon nor fiend, he was even more detested by heaven and earth than a zombie.
When he first appeared, even heavenly tribulations had appeared.
If they hadn't blocked it, it would have been impossible for him to survive.
On his path of growth, they had been feeding him various things like virgin blood, corpse poison, the menses of pure maidens, and souls of extreme good and extreme evil.
They were essentially experimenting on A Hao.
Now, this guy was gradually becoming uncontrollable.
"It looks like you've met your match!"
The Feng Shui Master felt that it was just right to use A Hao to kill Bai Ye, and then A Hao would be useless.
Wasn't the very reason he created A Hao, this super evil creature, because he wanted to kill Bai Ye?
Bai Ye had once ruined one of his good deeds.
Ren Old Master from Ren Family Town was created by him.
He had originally planned to die a natural death.
But Ren Old Master directly snatched his geomantic treasure land.
His chance to defy fate was gone.
He had originally intended to change his luck, to change the luck of his family, but because of Ren Old Master's actions, his family's luck did not change. Instead, his son eventually died because their luck was not changed.
This directly caused him to have no descendants.
So he had originally thought of making Ren Old Master have no descendants, and even thought of turning Ren Old Master into a zombie, making him personally act, and then he would turn him into a zombie, to be driven for eternity!
And the Feng Shui Master who did these things also knew that he would no longer have a good end in the future.
So he simply chose to fall into the demonic path.
It was just that the Feng Shui Master had not expected the emergence of Bai Ye, this unexpected factor.
All his plans for twenty years were gone.
Ren Old Master was killed, but his whole family did not die.
His plan was also ruined.
He had originally wanted to act the moment the plan failed.
But later, he thought about it and gave up.
He felt that he couldn't be Bai Ye's opponent.
So at that time, he had the idea of creating a demonic creature.
If he could create the legendary demonic creature.
He believed that he would definitely be able to deal with Bai Ye.
And today, he brought A Hao here, actually wanting to kill Bai Ye, this person who obstructed his plan, and also Ren Master's daughter, Ren Tingting.
It just so happened that he could also deal with them here.
When Ren Fa found out his daughter was dead, he believed that killing him then would make him suffer even more.
Thinking of this, he directly brought A Hao into Teng Teng Town.
Although the scene before him gave the Feng Shui Master a shocking feeling.
Teng Teng Town was known as Zombie Town, and now all these zombies were gone. One could imagine what this place had experienced before.
Having used such a powerful move, he didn't believe that Bai Ye was still unharmed.
Even if he wasn't injured, the consumption must have been huge.
So he decided to fish in troubled waters.
Inside Teng Teng Town.
Bai Ye turned around and looked behind him thoughtfully.
"Daoist, what's wrong?"
Snowflake followed Bai Ye's gaze and also looked behind him.
All along, her gaze had been on Bai Ye, so she had naturally been paying attention to him.
"I found two small bugs coming from behind."
These two auras were very familiar; one he had sensed before with the Royal Zombie, and the other was a bit familiar yet somewhat strange.
Bai Ye wanted to investigate, but the other party seemed to have shielded themselves with magic.
The most troublesome thing in the cultivation world was that the Rumble-Rumble Fruit combined with Observation Haki couldn't necessarily completely detect a person's information clearly.
There were many more methods here than in the Pirate World.
Even though it was already the Age of Dharma Decline, the things passed down were not as simple as they seemed.
"Are there still zombies?!"
Nine Uncle thought they had missed some zombies on their way.
But they had searched very carefully before, and there were none at all.
The compass also indicated that there were no other zombies.
"Not zombies. Never mind, let's ignore them for now."
Bai Ye had no interest in what was behind them, because they had already reached the back.
The location of the Dragon Vein had been found.
It was right under the Zombie King's coffin.
There was a secret cave beneath the Zombie King's coffin.
As the coffin was lifted, Nine Uncle's compass began to spin wildly.
"That zombie is down there!"
Nine Uncle looked at the frantically spinning compass, which then stopped at the entrance of the cave.
That Zombie King seemed not to have died from the previous explosion.
"That's normal, the coffin wasn't even blown apart!"
Bai Ye pouted. Everything in Teng Teng Town was destroyed by his Thunderclap, and a huge deep pit appeared on the ground.
If it were an ordinary deep pit, even if it hid underneath, the Zombie King couldn't have escaped.
So, looking at it this way, there was only one possible explanation.
Was it the power of the Dead Dragon Vein? Or the Zombie King's?
In the new Mr. Zombie, the Zombie King actually never made a move.
What Qiusheng and Wencai encountered in Teng Teng Town couldn't even be considered the Zombie King.
How could there be such a weak Zombie King?
Moreover, there was a Dead Dragon Vein below.
"It stinks, Master!"
Awei covered his nose, looking at the bottomless pit below, which was emitting a strong foul odor.
He almost couldn't help but vomit everything he had eaten at noon today.
"Daoist Brother, I'll go first…" Nine Uncle hadn't finished speaking when Bai Ye raised his hand and interrupted Nine Uncle: "Don't go in. Only one person can enter there. I have a way to make the Zombie King come out!"
Going in was ultimately a bit dangerous.
Bai Ye's perception was completely ineffective inside, which should be due to the Dragon Vein. He didn't believe that the Zombie King could still make his perception ineffective.
So, combining this ability, was it actually the Dragon Vein that blocked his attack earlier?
It was already dead and yet still able to block it, and it was also divided into nine parts. How strong would a living Dragon Vein be? And did Liu Bowen, who severed the Dragon Vein, really do it alone?
"Daoist Brother, are you planning to use Three True Samadhi Fire?!"
Nine Uncle suddenly realized that Bai Ye could use Three True Samadhi Fire.
This was an excellent place to use it.
"That's right, I don't believe this zombie won't come out!"
If he used Three True Samadhi Fire, Bai Ye didn't believe the Zombie King wouldn't appear.
Three True Samadhi Fire might not burn Sun Wukong to death, but burning a Zombie King was more than enough.
Flames accompanied by thick smoke poured into the underground entrance.
Accompanying it were howls. The Zombie King was indeed somewhat unbearable.
"Get out of the way!"
The ground continuously swelled. Following Bai Ye's shout, the Zombie King burst out from the ground, and at this moment, he was burning with raging flames and struggling constantly.
The Zombie King was originally hiding at the entrance of the cave, preparing to ambush.
But how could he have known that this cunning guy wouldn't come in and just unleashed a Three True Samadhi Fire into it?
How could he bear it?
He wasn't very afraid of ordinary flames; at least he could use his corpse qi to shake them off. But Three True Samadhi Fire was different; once it clung to him, there was no way to shake it off. In fact, his corpse qi became fuel for the Three True Samadhi Fire, making it burn even more fiercely.
Watching the Zombie King slowly burn to ashes, Bai Ye finally heard a voice in his ear.
[Ding! Changed Zhegu's fate, rewarded with one lottery chance.]
Ah, this?!
Zhegu's fate was changed by him?
Nine Uncle's original official partner was broken up by him?
Their fate was established in the new Mr. Zombie. Looking at it this way, because of his participation, Nine Uncle didn't even go to Zhegu for help.
But then again, this kind of fate shouldn't be broken up so easily, right?
"I've already obtained the lottery chance. Even if they get together later, it doesn't seem to affect me anymore, right?"
Bai Ye suddenly realized a bug.
This indeed counted as changing Zhegu's fate now, but it didn't mean that Zhegu couldn't be with Nine Uncle in the future.
Well, he already had this lottery chance anyway…
"What strong fire!"
Nine Uncle opened his mouth, always feeling that soon, several of his disciples would 'rebel'.
"To the Dragon Vein?"
It was Bai Ye's first time seeing a Dragon Vein. The zombies had been completely eliminated.
Upon reaching the underground, as soon as he descended, Bai Ye felt a surge of resentment.
This was the Dragon Vein's unwilling hatred. After being severed by Liu Bowen, its resentment affected everything around it. No wonder it could affect the entire Teng Teng Town.
Based on this, it seemed that it had to be recovered, otherwise, more places would experience the same thing later.
"Master, is this the Dragon Vein?"
Looking at the small tripod, a hint of doubt flashed in Ren Tingting's eyes.
"The Nine Cauldrons suppress the Dragon Vein. This is not the Dragon Vein. The Dragon Vein is suppressed within the cauldron."
Bai Ye explained.
This cauldron in front of them wasn't it, but what was inside was. It was sealed in the Nine Cauldrons by Liu Bowen.
And it was also trapped by a formation. It seemed that the Zombie King had also used the formation here to block one of his Thunderclaps. The formation left by Liu Bowen… Qimen Dunjia?