The headless monk stopped singing, turned around, and seemed to be looking at Zhong Yuan. After a while, he smiled and said, “Naturally, it’s because of the Yellow Wind Demon.”
“Because that small country went against the grain, worshipping rats, so it led to all the people becoming rats overnight.”
Zhong Yuan was even more surprised: “These rat demons in front of me, are they all transformed from humans?”
This was a bit too much, wasn't it?
Although the headless monk said it was because of the Yellow Wind Demon, because these people went against the grain and worshipped rats, but just because they did this, they would all become rats?
Did they get infected with some kind of strange plague?
He had just listened to the headless monk’s song, and he thought that the rat demons had directly wiped out the original people, so they became what they are now.
However, the headless monk did not continue after hearing this. He plucked the three-stringed zither in his hand and sang: “Blood turns to wind, sand turns to rain, ownerless cats and rats run wild.”
“Success or failure, life or death, don’t reason with it. Only those who don’t forcefully walk the righteous path have a chance.”
The headless monk sang and swayed away.
Zhong Yuan didn’t ask further. It seemed that this monk who came from somewhere was giving him a reminder.
Previously, it was the Black Wind Mountain Earth God at Black Wind Mountain. He came here to Yellow Wind Ridge, and he didn’t see the Earth God here.
But this headless monk was probably a similar existence.
He was a guide…
He would give some help when he had the chance, helping him obtain the Great Sage’s Six Roots… Right.
“But I wonder who in Buddhism is behind him?”
Earth Gods are most likely still under the command of the Heavenly Court. Since this one was a monk, it probably had something to do with Buddhism.
But he had no head.
It was truly strange.
Zhong Yuan suppressed his thoughts and stopped thinking about it.
Ownerless cats and rats run wild, clearly referring to these current rat demons, and the mentioned Tiger Vanguard.
But what did “Success or failure, life or death, don’t reason with it. Only those who don’t forcefully walk the righteous path have a chance” mean?
It was telling him not to reason with them?
This wasn’t something a good person would say, but many people who called themselves righteous did say things like this to those who belonged to the Evil Path.
There’s no need to reason with those from the Demon Cult.
Then the warning was telling him not to reason with the Yellow Wind Demon, just go straight to fighting.
Hey, the Yellow Wind Demon was a demon, there was no need to reason with him.
But he was also a demon!
His current identity couldn’t be changed. Even if he could transform, he could become human, but this wouldn’t make people think he was human.
Even like the Monkey God he encountered before, even after ascending to heaven as a deity, some people still considered him a demon.
He still wanted to talk to the Yellow Wind Demon properly before doing anything.
Zhong Yuan found Ma Tian Ba’s position again. At this time, Ma Tian Ba was alone again, having captured the Rat Guard that was there before.
Several rat demons were also lying around him.
Zhong Yuan didn’t care. They were all asking for it.
Although it seemed like these rat demons were once humans, it felt more pitiful.
But pitiful did not mean they were not responsible for their actions.
Zhong Yuan jumped to Ma Tian Ba’s side in a few steps. The Rat Guard had a deathly pale face and repeatedly kowtowed in fear, saying, “Spare me, good fellow, spare me.”
“I’ll take you to find Tiger Vanguard.”
Zhong Yuan said calmly, “No need. We can find him ourselves.”
The Yellow Wind Demon was completely ignoring things now, so the words of the Rat Guard were clearly useless.
They still had to rely on themselves to see Tiger Vanguard.
Anyone could be captured to simply show the way.
They would find him themselves, fight him themselves, it wouldn’t take much more time.
Someone who had changed their mind twice and tried to attack them was not worth keeping alive.
Ma Tian Ba understood Zhong Yuan’s words. He flicked the horsewhip, decisively killing the rat demon.
Only a corpse remained beside him.
Zhong Yuan took the lead and walked forward, but stopped after a few steps and turned back.
The corpse…
“The demon Ma Tian Ba killed has a corpse?”
All the way here, he had encountered monsters and he had been collecting spiritual essence along the way. He was also the one who dealt the final blow to the targets.
All the monsters he had killed, without exception, would turn to ashes, leaving only the spiritual essence that was absorbed by the Spirit-Storing Gourd.
He originally thought this was because the current world had a special rule, and that after cultivating, demons would turn to ashes when they died, turning into power and spiritual essence.
He never expected that it was only when he killed them that this would happen!
Was it because of the Great Sage’s Six Roots? Because he was a Heavenly Mandate person?
He seemed to remember that this happened when he killed the first little demon he had encountered after leaving the Flower-Fruit Mountain.
Zhong Yuan’s thoughts were racing, but he couldn’t figure out what this meant, so he put it aside for now.
He didn’t ask Ma Tian Ba either, he just continued walking forward with him.
Along the way, the other rat demons probably heard the news. Besides the occasional few who were foolish enough to shoot arrows from afar, basically no other rat demons dared to act.
They seemed to be a little smarter than the monsters at Black Wind Mountain.
Zhong Yuan didn’t force himself to capture a demon to guide him. He followed their path forward.
After walking for half a day, he discovered a huge yellow-skinned green frog demon by a pool.
It seemed to have a good amount of strength.
Zhong Yuan didn’t bother him, but when he walked a little further, he unexpectedly saw a dog demon again, sniffing here and there, not knowing what he was looking for.
But he didn’t have any demon aura. Instead, his aura felt somewhat familiar to Zhong Yuan.
Zhong Yuan simply walked over.
Before Zhong Yuan could speak, the dog demon turned around, his eyes lit up, and he took the initiative to say, “You came just in time. My pill recipe was swallowed by the little frog in the water. Don’t rush off, help this little deity.”
“Don’t worry, you won’t be losing anything.”
Zhong Yuan thought for a moment and asked, “May I know your name, sir?”
The dog demon chuckled and said, “You’re asking this, then call me Xu Gou.”
“But I’m not in heaven now, so don’t mind this, don’t mind this.”
“…” As expected.
Zhong Yuan had felt a little familiar before.
Another one of the Twelve Zodiac Deities, and it seemed like he wasn’t the only one who was demoted.
He had only seen the Monkey God before, and it could have been that the Monkey God was a monkey and was implicated in the Flower-Fruit Mountain incident.
Now it was basically certain that the Heavenly Court was carrying out a purge, deliberately suppressing and exiling them.
“It turns out to be Xu Gou Senior.”
“Senior, don’t worry, just a little demon. I’ll get your pill recipe back for you.”
“This little matter is a piece of cake.”
He had originally planned not to act without a reason against that frog, but now that he had a reason, there was no need to hold back.
He could also observe and learn another kind of transformation.
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