Chapter 454: Mere Jiangshi! Vast Life Essence! Celestial Phenomenon! Martial Saint of the Mortal World!?
Inside a mountain cave, a tattered jiangshi roared furiously at Li Yanchu and Cuihua. It was the most ordinary kind of corpse which had just begun to generate its evil aura. It was terrifyingly strong, with nails poisoned by corpse toxins.
It was the kind of poison you see in the old Uncle Nine[1] movies, where just a scratch could drain someone’s color and turn them into a jiangshi. With evolution, it could become an iron jiangshi, copper jiangshi, silver jiangshi, or even a flying jiangshi. Those were truly terrifying evil beings.
This one, however, was the most basic type of malevolent spirit. Li Yanchu and Cuihua exchanged glances.
“Could we really be this unlucky?” he muttered in disbelief. They randomly chose a mountain cave and immediately ran into a jiangshi...
“Don’t you claim to possess divine insight, like Diting[2] who sits beside Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva[3]? Then why didn’t you notice there was a jiangshi here?” Li Yanchu asked.
“Hmph!” Cuihua retorted, displeased. “You also have the Spirit Eyes and Qi Sight, why didn’t you notice it either?”
She was as proud and stubborn as ever; even if she was enjoying being petted, she would never admit it out loud.
Li Yanchu sighed inwardly, thinking, Why did I even bring this cat along? Am I out of my mind? If only I had brought Lady Yun...She’s so obedient... though, she’s a little timid...
“Lady Yun’s nothing special! How dare you regret bringing me along!” Cuihua shot him a glare. “As an almighty mountain god, I wasn’t even willing to come in the first place!”
Li Yanchu froze, his eyes widening in surprise. Amazing... is this Buddhist telepathy?!
Cuihua lifted her chin, tilting it at a forty-to-fifty-five-degree angle toward the sky. “My divine skill is far stronger than telepathy.”
Speechless, Li Yanchu asked in astonishment, “When did you get this ability? Why have you never mentioned it before?”