Mutated Tao

“Thunder?”

The five giant Buddhas all looked up, and then they noticed that the moon in the sky had disappeared at some point.

The entire sky was shrouded in dark clouds, and within the clouds, there were rolling sounds. They sounded like thunder, but it was definitely not the sound of thunder.

Li Huowang felt his breath becoming difficult and started coughing, then stumbling and falling to the ground.

As Li Huowang lay on the ground and looked up at the sky, he finally saw his Master Dan Yang Tzu again in the dark clouds. 

He was as ugly as before, with black feathers covering his skin. He had three heads on his shoulders, each with a different age.

In addition to the organs he already had, there were also some non-human organs bulging on his body.

A terrifying black shiny appearance, pus-like vertical pupils, dirty protruding internal organs, and entangled creepy tentacles… All of these messy things were surrounded by a white “ribbon” floating in the air.

Moreover, these disgusting things were not fixed. They were constantly changing into even more creepy things.

After watching for a while, Li Huowang’s eyes began to redden, the veins on his forehead bulged, and his entire head began to swell.

“No, I can’t watch this anymore…” Li Huowang quickly looked away, feeling better after doing so.

He reached out with his trembling hands, pulled out several Nourishing Blood Pills from his waist, and swallowed them.

The flow of blood in his body began to slow down, and the bleeding gradually decreased.

But that wasn’t enough. Li Huowang took out some other pills he had refined at Qingfeng Temple and put them into his mouth.

Suddenly, the sound of flesh being torn made Li Huowang look up. He saw that his Master had started to move. Dan Yang Tzu was like a lizard crawling on top of a Buddha’s head. He opened his three big mouths and easily tore off one of the Buddha’s ears.

After a roar, the palms behind the Buddha’s body quickly bent into claws and grabbed towards Dan Yang Tzu. But all the strange and bizarre organs on Dan Yang Tzu’s body suddenly grew larger and tore off all of the Buddha’s hands.

Then, Dan Yang Tzu’s three big mouths pulled hard at the edge of the wound on the Buddha’s body, creating a large and continuously bleeding wound. Dan Yang Tzu’s three heads then extended into the wound and forcefully drilled into the giant Buddha’s body.

（There is no real Buddha in the mortal world. The monks in Zhengde Temple become Buddhas, but only incarnate Buddhas or fake Buddhas with flesh and blood.）

“Ah!!!” The Buddha screamed in despair. His huge hands frantically tore at his own skin, trying to pull Dan Yang Tzu out from inside him. But it was all in vain. His fat body began to shrivel and collapse.

Before long, the bleeding Buddha fell heavily to the ground. Then, like a blooming flower, his round belly burst open, with blood spattering everywhere. Dan Yang Tzu had intestines in his mouth as he emerged from inside the Buddha, then he charging towards Jian Dun like a wild beast.

Faced with such a powerful Dan Yang Tzu, Jian Dun’s expression became very serious. He immediately took out a sutra made of human skin.

“Aum Mani Padme Hum~” Jian Dun, who was sitting cross-legged, began to recite the sutra. The blood-red scriptures on the sutra quickly disappeared and appeared on Dan Yang Tzu’s body instead.

The organs on Dan Yang Tzu’s body covered with the scriptures started trembling involuntarily and began to grow. However, they soon began to shrink rapidly, becoming smaller and smaller until Dan Yang Tzu completely disappeared from the spot.

Jian Dun breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this scene and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. Then, he continued to recite the sutra while holding the human skin sutra in his hand, which once again revealed the scriptures.

After a while, Jian Dun was about to close the sutra, but suddenly, the whole book exploded, and the scriptures on it flew everywhere. Dan Yang Tzu emerged from inside the sutra!

While Jian Dun’s mouth was open subconsciously, Dan Yang Tzu’s three heads drilled directly into his throat. A sound of tearing came out as Jian Dun’s neck instantly became very thick. But this was just the beginning.

Feeling an unbearable pain, Jian Dun started to hear chewing sounds coming from inside his body. Dan Yang Tzu was eating him from the inside! 

“No!!!” accompanied by Jian Dun’s unwilling roar, Dan Yang Tzu broke through his chest and emerged from inside him. His three big mouths fiercely tore apart Jian Dun’s heart.

The remaining three Buddhas wanted to struggle, but it was all in vain. They soon had broken bones and torn flesh. All seven Buddhas were all dead, and the ground was covered with steaming internal organs and flesh.

As Li Huowang looked towards his blood-soaked Master, Dan Yang Tzu suddenly turned around. His three faces showed a terrifying smile, “My son…”

With a light sound, Dan Yang Tzu’s body dissipated like smoke.

Time slowly passed, and the moon reappeared in the sky. It was all over.

Li Huowang held his neck and struggled to sit up. He looked at the others who were surrounded by trees. At this point, they had all been terrified and huddled together.

Li Huowang knew what they were thinking and quickly explained weakly, “Don’t be afraid. Dan Yang Tzu is really dead, he won’t use you as medicinal herbs anymore.”

However, his words did not reduce the fear on their faces by even a little bit. The Taoist children had already cried out of fear.

In the end, Bai Lingmiao was the first to speak. Her face was even paler now. “Senior Brother Li, what…what Dan Yang Tzu? We didn’t see…”

“Don’t you see Dan Yang Tzu who just killed those Buddhas? Is he transparent in your eyes?” For a moment, Li Huowang’s mind was full of other speculations.

At that moment, Doggie, who was hiding behind Plonker, trembled violently. He dared not look at Li Huowang and could only close his eyes as he cried out with a sobbing voice, “Senior Brother Li!! It was clearly you who drilled into the Buddhas’ bellies to drink their blood and eat their flesh!!”

“What?” Li Huowang endured the pain and touched his face with his hand. He realized that his face was covered in blood. As he continued to feel around, he also discovered two long tears on both sides of his mouth, as if he had just opened his mouth wide by force.

But those were not the main points now. The most important thing was that he felt very full, extremely full.