86. The Yellow Peril Betrayed Me

Danger, danger, danger!

The Ruyi Bodhisattva soared through the air, narrowly evading a streak of pitch-black sword energy.

But when it glanced back,

it saw Chen Huangpi stepping on billowing black smoke, wielding a sword-shaped withered tree branch, charging once more.

“I want you dead!”

Chen Huangpi’s voice was chilling to the bone, his murderous intent soaring to the heavens.

With a wave of his hand, terrifying sword energies sliced through the air.

The black smoke boiled and surged,

more violently than ever before.

Chen Huangpi could even feel that the endless black smoke trapped within his Kidney Sanctuary was trying to break free, responding to his summons.

However, until the Five Organs Refining Spirit technique was fully completed,

the gates of the Kidney Sanctuary remained firmly shut.

Thus, the black smoke could not escape.

Still, Chen Huangpi’s body swelled wildly.

And in this state, he felt incredibly at ease; with a mere thought, countless wondrous methods flooded his mind.

Eyes opening only to kill, mouth parting only to devour.

“There’s a way to talk this out, there’s a way to talk this out!”

“Kill!”

Chen Huangpi roared.

Before he finished, eight sword energies slashed toward the Ruyi Bodhisattva’s head.

“Ah! My hand!”

The Bodhisattva screamed in agony. Already suffering backlash, it took a sword slash head-on. Though it narrowly dodged with its head, one arm was ruthlessly severed.

Dust burst forth from the severed stump.

The black smoke clinging to its body, sensing the scent of blood like a shark, immediately surged forward.

Chen Huangpi’s sword energy carried black smoke.

Together, they relentlessly devoured the Ruyi Bodhisattva’s form.

Sizzling—

the sound of corrosion by black smoke.

“What kind of cursed thing is this black smoke?”

The Ruyi Bodhisattva felt its scalp tingle.

Though it was an extraordinary deity transformed by enlightenment, far surpassing the inferior yellow plague—an unsuccessful transformation—especially after the heavenly calamity’s changes, the Ruyi Bodhisattva’s body was truly divine.

Yet, before this black smoke, its golden body was no better than paper, certainly no stronger than tofu.

What terrified the Bodhisattva even more was that after its arm was severed, the black smoke immediately swallowed the severed limb, and attempts to regenerate it met with no response.

It was as if its true form had lost that arm.

“Chen Huangpi, you have gone too far!”

The Ruyi Bodhisattva howled to the heavens, slamming its remaining hand against its chest.

It expelled a burst of dust.

Within the dust, golden light flickered.

“Ruyi, Ruyi, according to my will! Open the gate swiftly!!”

Desperately igniting its power, the dust coalesced into a door, which it dashed through without hesitation.

Immediately after,

the Bodhisattva chanted: “Close! Close! Close!”

The door slammed shut instantly!

“Escape Light!”

Chen Huangpi summoned with a wave of his hand a brass oil lamp.

Thanks to the Dog Taming Scripture’s effect,

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