Chapter 428: Chapter 392: Coordinated Attack from Inside and Outside
Cheng Ge crawled up from the distant bushes, surrounded by dazzling white light spots, with a continuous buzzing in his ears, unable to see or hear clearly, only feeling the bone-chilling cold wind cutting into his body like knives.
The Snake Gu inside him was restless, with some of the weaker ones already dead, causing him unbearable pain all over his body.
The ground was rumbling, and the trees in the forest were constantly falling. The entire Five Spirits Altar was engulfed by fierce flames, continuously sinking downwards.
Cheng Ge swallowed a few pills, still struggling to recover his vision. He pressed his lips into a line, and as he opened and closed his eyes, his previously black-and-white eyes turned into a pair of golden snake pupils.
Although his ears couldn’t hear clearly, his snake-like vision allowed him to see some images.
He saw two massive black shadows in the direction of the altar. The black shadow of the Five Spirits God was composed of countless Five Poison insects, while the Earth Ghost was a pure black mass with a golden mark on its foot resembling a trigram.
Under the effect of that mark, the power from various parts of the Earth Ghost’s body was continuously turning into black smoke, drifting around, and its figure was getting smaller. The Five Spirits God, which had been trampled down below, fiercely pierced its scorpion tail into the Earth Ghost’s body.
Cheng Ge could clearly see with his snake pupils the dark green venom rapidly spreading inside the Earth Ghost.
However, the Earth Ghost was also unwilling to concede. The injured smaller Earth Ghosts around gathered again, rushing into the Earth Ghost’s body one by one, merging to replenish its consumption.
The Earth Ghost’s hands continuously scratched at the golden mark, but no matter how hard it tried, the mark couldn’t be erased.
Cheng Ge glanced around, intending to find Sang Que’s whereabouts, but found nothing.
As time ticked by, the Earth Ghost was continuously weakened, its size having already shrunk to half of its original state.
Just then, Cheng Ge’s gradually recovering ears caught an unusual wind sound. Using his snake pupils, he saw the air beside the Earth Ghost twisting into a vortex shape, with white mist emerging from within.
It’s the Hidden Realm, the Earth Ghost was preparing to escape!
At the same time, people fleeing to the Holy Lake faced the direction of the altar and knelt in prayer. Led by the High Priests of each village, they chanted in peculiar tones, praying to the Five Spirits God.
Across the Yunzhou Land, the Power of Faith belonging to the Five Spirits God began to boil.
Suddenly, the Five Spirits God at the altar erupted, opening its gaping maw, and its long tongue, like a giant centipede, rolled up the Earth Ghost about to escape into the Hidden Realm, pulling it into its mouth.
The Earth Ghost struggled violently, with one claw hooking the edge of the shen kan’s phantom, unwilling to be swallowed just like that.
The weakening effect of the Thunder Trigram on the Earth Ghost had already reached forty percent. The centipede tongue in the Five Spirits God’s mouth continued to exert force, dragging the Earth Ghost’s entire body into the Five Spirits God’s mouth, yet a hand still clung to the shen kan’s edge.
The stalemate continued, and the Five Spirits God also showed signs of fatigue, as there was still a Yin Child causing chaos inside its body.
If this continued, it was likely they would both suffer losses and neither would be able to kill the other.
Sang Que couldn’t accept such a result; the Earth Ghost must be destroyed, or else her debt with the Earth Ghost could never be settled.
At that moment, as if telepathically connected, Sang Que sensed the will of the Yin Child, and instantly made a decision in her heart.
Sang Que struggled to take a breath, placed the last three Papermen on her body beside a statue, transforming into her likeness. With less than thirty seconds left on her trigram, she extracted two items from the unfolded painting beside her and instantly teleported above the Five Spirits God’s head.
Sang Que fell downward, knowing direct contact with the Five Spirits God’s body would certainly harm her, so she had to accomplish everything before landing.
The strange snake coiled around the Five Spirits God sensed Sang Que’s intent, hissing as its bowed head shot out like lightning toward Sang Que.
Sang Que’s eyes sharpened, paper scraps around her swirled fiercely, a green yin fire like a whirlwind greeted the snake head. The snake head crashed through the paper scraps, blinded by the yin fire, and found itself unexpectedly facing a dark gun barrel.
Bang!
A face-to-face shotgun blast blew a big hole in that massive snake head, which swiftly recovered. The paper scraps, seizing the opportunity, carried the yin fire like a drill, penetrating inside.
Using the recoil, Sang Que changed her body’s direction, narrowly avoiding the snake head. She discarded the shotgun and tore off the red cloth from the Demon-Subduing Pestle.
As the Three-faced Longevity Buddha Statue at the tip of the Demon-Subduing Pestle was revealed, a deep chanting sound suddenly filled the air, with golden light radiating intensely from the Demon-Subduing Pestle.
Sang Que tightly gripped the Demon-Subduing Pestle with both hands, fiercely stabbing it towards the Five Spirits God’s toad-like head.
"Seal!"
A crisp, young voice sounded simultaneously, not from Sang Que, but from within the Five Spirits God.
In an instant, the dual forces from inside and out made the Five Spirits God and the Earth Ghost almost swallowed tremble violently, with a powerful current erupting from the Demon-Subduing Pestle. All trigrams on Sang Que’s body failed, causing her to grit her teeth, activating one substitute after another.
After consuming two substitutes, she finally managed to break away from the range above the Five Spirits God, heavily crashing near the scorpion statue below the altar.
The melodious chanting lingered, with the Five Spirits God’s mouth closing, the Earth Ghost exposing only an arm, both frozen in place.
The Demon-Subduing Pestle continued to emit dazzling golden light, with many rice grain-sized golden insects flying from the mouths of the Three-faced Longevity Buddha, quickly enveloping the whole Five Spirits God.
The power that was supposed to transform into a stone shell in seven days seemed to be catalyzed by the Yin Child’s "seal" word, as it began to convert into a stone-like texture now.
In just thirty seconds, the Earth Ghost’s shen kan disappeared, the fire extinguished, and the massive body of the Five Spirits God completely turned into a stone statue, biting the Earth Ghost’s desperate hand reaching out.
The stone statue was covered with intricate Buddhist Scripture, with spots of golden light.
As the chanting sound gradually faded, the black clouds shrouding the sky above the Five Spirits Altar also slowly dispersed, with the evening glow falling, leaving silence in the world.
Sang Que crawled up from the ground, hurriedly taking another pill to quickly recover the depleted energy and blood of her body.
Sang Que watched the altar intently, attempting to forcibly retrieve the Yin Child, but the connection between her and the Yin Child had broken, leaving her unable to feel the Yin Child’s presence at this moment.
Crack!
The stone statue of the Five Spirits God suddenly cracked, with stone chips falling from the exposed arm of the Earth Ghost.
Sang Que felt her back neck, the cold stiffness left by the Earth Ghost still there, indicating the Earth Ghost and the Five Spirits God were still struggling.
Sang Que furrowed her brows tightly, an Opera House rose from the ground, sealing the entire altar and the stone statue of the Five Spirits God within.
The ghosts inside showed up around the stone statue under Old Tian’s lead. Old Tian slammed the Big Gate Saber into the ground, sealing the Opera House, gazing at the stone statue.
Sang Que glanced at the gleaming Demon-Subduing Pestle on top of the stone statue, feeling an intuition that within seven days, only one among the Five Spirits God, the Earth Ghost, and the Yin Child would emerge from the stone statue.
With the Yin Child’s cleverness and cunning, the one to come out last, surely, would be her!
