The Great Wei Music Bureau

Chapter 398: Emei Buddha Shadow

Last time, we talked about how Li Yi used the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to draw out Lan Ze's inner demon and successfully suppressed it. So how will the story develop next? Let's read on.

When everyone saw that the warrior was stung by the wasp and his head was turned into a pig, they naturally believed what Li Yi said and revered him as a god. But the scholar frowned and said, "Wei Ru, the moth demon can actually control these flying insects, which proves that it still has the ability to harm people. Can we really not kill it?"

"Don't worry about this matter. I will take this moth monster back and deal with it. Hey, may I ask who owns the main peak of Mount Emei now?"

"The main peak of Emei now belongs to the Wu Gu Cult, but they haven't closed the mountain. There is only one place that we are not allowed to go to. They say that they cultivate Gu worms there."

"Belong to the Wu Gu Cult? That's great! It saves a lot of trouble. I wonder where the Wu Gu Cult's branch is? Wei wants to pay a visit."

Lan Ze said, "Why bother asking them about this? I know."

When everyone heard Lan Ze's words, they were all stunned. Lan Ze was about to curse, but Li Yi interrupted him and said, "Thank you all. I will take my leave first. We will meet again if we are lucky!" After saying that, Li Yi picked up Lan Ze and jumped off the cliff!

During the free fall, Lan Ze closed his eyes and tightly grasped his clothes in Li Yi's arms. Li Yi smiled and said, "What are you doing? It's not your first time falling, so you shouldn't be so scared."

"It's because you didn't slow down at all this time! How long are you going to fall like this?"

"Why, you don't believe me?"

"I believe you ghost!"

Li Yi chuckled and accelerated his descent.

"You're making me addicted! Stop it now! My heart is about to jump out of my chest!"

"Then if you promise to keep this secret for me and do what I tell you to do, I'll stop."

"Okay, okay, I'll agree to anything you ask! Stop now!"

Just as the two were about to hit the mountain, the measuring ruler flew out of the sack, inserted into the cliff, and turned into a springboard. Li Yi stepped on the measuring ruler, used the elastic force to jump into the air, and turned the measuring ruler into a broadsword under his feet.

"Hey, open your eyes and look, this is the scenery I want to show you."

Lan Ze opened her eyes and saw the golden wheel shining brightly above the blue clouds, and the colorful halo around the golden wheel was even more beautiful. Li Yi put Lan Ze on the sword and stretched out his hand to signal her to salute and thank him.

Lan Ze felt the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, then bowed and said, "Disciple Lan Ze thanks the heavens. From now on, I will concentrate on cultivation and sever ties with the Wu Gu Cult."

Li Yi smiled and said, "Master Tiandao likes to act deep, so there's no need to wait for a response."

Lan Ze turned and glared at Li Yi. Who dared him to play such a joke on heaven, especially in such a close place to heaven? Lan Ze's sharp eyes and her ferocious face frightened Li Yi so much that he took a step back.

Li Yi scratched his head and smiled awkwardly: "Don't be so nervous, in fact, Master Tiandao is not that unkind."

Seeing this, Lan Ze reached out from the sleeve pocket of his clothes and took out his Tongyu cocoon, then took out a hat from it and put it on his head, then said: "Aren't you going to the Wu Gu Cult branch in Mount Emei? I'll take you there."

"Okay, not only do we have to go to the branch, we also have to go to the place where they raise poisonous insects. If there are too many poisonous creatures, I will clean them all up."

"Alright, this place is not far from the place where the Gu are raised, let's go directly there."

In this way, Lan Ze guided Li Yi to the lake behind the mountain. After walking a few steps, Li Yi suddenly asked, "There is a place where witches and Gu are trained in this mountain. Why didn't you summon the Gu insects there when you turned into a ghost-faced moth just now?"

Lan Ze replied: "I don't use witchcraft to control those flying insects, I use my mind, and the most I can communicate with are snakes, birds, rats and frogs, I can't communicate with more advanced ones."

"These Gu insects are nothing more than these. At most, they are mutated King Gu, but they definitely can't raise King Gu. So what could they raise? We made such a big fuss before, but the people from the Wu Gu Cult didn't show up. This is also a suspicious point."

Lan Ze looked at Li Yi and asked in confusion: "What are you afraid of that makes you so hesitant?"

"I'm afraid the Gu God will attack you again."

"I've been hurt by him like this, but I'm not afraid of you. Why should you be afraid? Let's go!"

Soon, the two came to a cave entrance, and Lan Ze asked casually, "This barrier is not difficult for you to break, right?"

Li Yi nodded, took out the Panlong pen, gathered the righteousness and spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and wrote the word "kai" at the entrance of the cave. When the word "kai" was integrated into the barrier, Li Yi made a gesture of invitation.

"Can the great scholar of heaven and earth be like this? Confucianism is really powerful."

"I just don't want to alert the Gu Master inside. I want to see what they are doing."

The two of them walked into the cave, and Li Yi walked deeper while illuminating the cave with his talent, and at the same time used bat sound to explore the situation. But just as they reached a stone staircase, Li Yi suddenly left Lan Ze alone and directly came to a wide cave with lotus steps.

Li Yi's sudden appearance startled the four Gu Masters present. One of them shouted, "Who are you?"

"The person who wants your life!"

Before the four Gu Masters could react, four Spirit Feather Arrows had already pierced their chests, and the four of them fell directly to the ground.

When Lan Ze arrived, he looked at the more than 30 large vats around him and opened the lids of the vats. A foul smell came out. Lan Ze waved his hands vigorously to dispel the stench, and then looked into the vats. Unexpectedly, there was a little boy of five or six years old inside, his hands and feet were tied and he was forced into the vat.

Several centipedes crawled into the boy's stomach the moment Lan Ze opened the lid. Seeing no movement, they poked their heads out of the boy's stomach again, covered in blood. The boy did not move, but just closed his eyes and opened his mouth, and was still breathing. Because the scene is easy to cause discomfort, I will not describe it again.

Lan Ze was so frightened that he stepped back several steps, covering his mouth and said, "They actually used children to make Gu?"

Li Yi's fists clenched so tightly that they made a creaking sound. He said in an extremely cold tone, "Senior Xiang Xiong told me that Wu Gu Cult is very good for the people. Is that the case?"

"These children are still alive. Is there any way to save them?"

"Save them? Their souls are already gone. They are now the living dead. Allowing the poisonous insects to eat their flesh and blood and rob them of their vitality is a life worse than death."

"Then what are you going to do?"

Li Yi sighed and said, "With their souls incomplete, they can't even enter the reincarnation cycle. We can only use the law of fate to turn them into plants and trees first, and then send them into the reincarnation cycle."

Half an hour later, Li Yi and Lan Ze walked out of the cave with gloomy faces. They could not forget the scene just now:

When Li Yi used the Fate Method to kill the children and the poisonous insects in their bodies and transformed them into plants, a girl smashed a jar with her head. Lan Ze thought the child was still conscious and yelled for Li Yi to stop, but a centipede as thick as an arm crawled out of the child's mouth, driving the girl's body.

Lan Ze took a deep breath and said, "Brother You had clearly issued an order prohibiting the use of living people to make Gu, but they dared to do this! Come on, I will take you to the Nan'an branch to avenge those innocent children!"

Li Yi nodded, reached out to take out the measuring ruler from the sack, turned it into a broadsword, and flew quickly with Lan Ze.

With a bang, Li Yi, holding Lan Ze, crashed directly into an attic in Nan'an County, and razed the three-story building to the ground the moment he landed! When the smoke and dust cleared, more than a dozen Gu Masters surrounded Li Yi.

The leading Heavenly Gu Master was named Yao Si. He pointed at Li Yi and shouted, "Who are you? How dare you come to my Wu Gu Sect to cause trouble!"

Li Yi was about to raise his hand, but was held down by Lan Ze, who asked, "Yao Si, how dare you violate the rules of the sect and use a child to make Gu?"

Yao Si asked back, "You used the child to make Gu, and you two went to the Gu Immortal Cave? What did you do with the Gu worms there?"

"It's all burned!"

"I want you to pay with your lives!" Yao Si formed seals with his hands and shouted, "King Gu Tianhu!"

A gigantic spider broke out of the ground and stood behind Yao Si. However, before the spider could finish its shape, it was pierced through the body by a spiritual feather arrow. Its huge abdomen exploded, and countless small spiders the size of a palm jumped out.

"Humph! My King Gu Tianhu is not that easy to kill!"

However, at the moment when those little spiders jumped towards Li Yi and Lan Ze, Li Yi gathered his righteous spirit and said, "The sky is filled with murderous intent, and the spiritual arrows turn into rain!"

Li Yi casually controlled the spirit feather arrows to fly into the clouds and disappeared. Countless spirit feather arrows fell like rain, and each one hit the little spiders accurately, destroying them all in an instant.

Yao Si looked around and saw that the other Gu Masters had turned into hedgehogs, but they were dead hedgehogs, lying motionless on the ground. In panic, Yao Si ran away, but after only one step, a "ding" appeared under his feet, and his whole body became stiff and unable to move.

"Who are you? What kind of magic is this?"

Li Yi walked up to him and said in a cold voice: "You must answer every question I ask you truthfully. Otherwise, I will make death a luxury for you."

"My dear hero, just ask me, I will tell you everything I know!"

Li Yi gave Lan Ze a look, and the latter asked, "What kind of Gu is raised in that cave? Why do they use children to refine Gu?"

"That's the new imperial Gu that the Great Elder refined. It's the Gu used to control warriors. This kind of Gu is extremely difficult to refine. It can only be nurtured by the full vitality of a child. It's already the limit to be able to refine one or two out of the thirty or so jars."

"Kan Jin? Why is he refining Gu here with you?"

"Didn't the high priest forbid the use of living people to make Gu? That's why the great elder came here."

"Are you not afraid of being discovered by coming here?"

"The high priest cannot leave Miao territory, so he can't find out."

"Where did all those kids come from?"

“Some were bought, some were kidnapped, and some were given by villagers.”

"Sent?"

"Some brothel girls have children. Some people can't afford to raise them, or their children are too weak to be raised. They will send their children to us, and we will use them to make Gu after they have been nursed back to health."

Li Yi interrupted, "Since you are the Great Elder's confidant, let me ask you, how come you use poisonous insects to treat illnesses?"

"Of course we really treat their minor illnesses, but for those that cannot be cured, we implant poisonous insects and use the power of the insects to stimulate their essence, allowing them to restore normal functions at the cost of consuming their lifespan."

"What's the price?"

"The price? Ah, the price is that the poisonous insects will devour their souls, and they won't live long. Actually, this is not a price. Instead of living in pain, it's better to live happily for a few days and then die happily."

"Why don't you say that they can't enter reincarnation after death, and can only become wandering souls and spirits wandering between heaven and earth?"

"This... the person is dead, why do you still care so much?"

"People will inevitably have regrets in their lives. They can place their hopes on the afterlife. Are you, the Witchcraft Cult, trying to take away their last hope?"

"This……"

"Did you hear this, fellow villagers? This is the true face of the Wu Gu Cult! They are not helping you, but harming you! The Wu Gu Cult is trying to win over the hearts of the people, gain the power of your faith, and help the Gu God to revive. After the Gu God is resurrected, he will turn this place into a world of Gu!"

While asking questions, Li Yi used his talent to spread their conversation throughout the entire county, which was equivalent to starting a voice live broadcast.

At this moment, Yao Si suddenly fell to the ground in pain, holding his neck, and his flesh and blood began to swell.

Upon seeing this, Li Yi immediately chanted the Six-Character Mantra and set up a barrier to prevent harm to innocent people. He then took out the Panlong Pen to mobilize the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, wrote a word of seal and pushed it to Yao Si. He also summoned the Baizhang Martial Saint Mingwang Dharma Image and activated his full strength to protect Lan Ze. He knew that this was the arrival of the Gu God's will.