The Buddha is actually me

Chapter 97: Shuize Pearl, Headless but Not Dead

The dragon girl moved lightly with lotus steps, her snow-white skirt swaying slightly in the wind, her jewelry rings jingling, her black hair like a waterfall, leaving only a beautiful back.

"Dragon girl, Dragon girl!"

The Second Master suddenly shouted, "Third Miss, please help me again because I showed you the way that year!"

The call of "Third Miss" made the Dragon Girl stop in her tracks. She turned around slowly, and her pair of glass-colored pupils were like the clear blue sky, without a trace of other colors.

"Haven't you already repaid me for all the help you gave me back then?"

After a pause, she glanced sideways, with a hint of doubt in her eyes.

"How come you become so old and ugly after sleeping for a few hours? You even have no hair. I don't really want to talk to you."

Second Master: "..."

Zhang Jiuyang was amazed. This dragon girl's personality was really... pure. She did not hide her likes and dislikes at all.

It's that kind of sincerity that makes it impossible to refute.

Even if you want to refute, your mouth will be sealed.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jiuyang suddenly found it not funny anymore. He tried to open his mouth, but couldn't open it no matter what. He got anxious and couldn't help but use the Jade Pivot Sky Fire.

As a ray of red-gold flame emerged, something seemed to be melting in his mouth, and after a brief stalemate, he actually broke through it.

The dragon girl seemed to have discovered something interesting, and her glass-colored eyes looked at him again.

"Your flames are powerful."

After a pause, she continued, "It seems that I can't shut you up. In that case..."

Zhang Jiuyang was shocked. She wasn't going to kill me to silence me, was she?

After all, no one wants to be controlled by a mortal, let alone a white dragon with unfathomable powers!

However, to his surprise, the next moment, the dragon girl took out something from her arms, a crystal clear bead.

The bead was surrounded by a faint mist and emitted a faint white light. It was very dazzling in the dark night and it was obviously a treasure at first glance.

"I'm giving this to you. Can you please stop burning incense for me?"

Zhang Jiuyang finally breathed a sigh of relief, feeling completely relieved.

It's not about silencing someone, but about offering treasures.

If magic can't seal the mouth, use treasure to seal it.

He once again experienced the strangeness of the dragon girl. If it were any other strong man, they would often become angry and embarrassed after their spells were broken, but she was not angry at all. Instead, she naturally took out a gem to negotiate.

"Okay, I promise you."

Zhang Jiuyang looked at the crystal bead in the jade hand. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he even felt that the skin on the dragon girl's palm was more crystal clear than the bead.

Does it mean that the higher the level of cultivation, the better the skin?

When the Dragon Girl heard this, she seemed to smile, and raised her palm slightly, and the bead automatically flew into Zhang Jiuyang's hand.

It feels warm to the touch, a little cool, but very comfortable.

"He's gone."

As soon as she finished speaking, flawless fairy light burst out from her body, and then she turned into a slender white dragon and flew away.

Zhang Jiuyang looked up and saw a white dragon flying into the sky, as if it was chasing the moon. In a moment, only a small dot remained.

If it weren't for the crystal bead in the palm of his hand and the charred ground in the temple, everything that happened before would have seemed like a dream.

"You are really lucky, kid!"

There was indescribable envy in Erye's eyes, and his eyes kept scanning the crystal bead.

"This thing is called Water Jade. It is the condensation of the essence of water. It takes at least several decades to accumulate a small piece."

Ah Li's mouth watered as she heard this. "Can I eat it?"

"Yes, if you eat it, you will be poisoned and die."

"Only creatures transformed from water spirits can swallow this pearl. There is a chance that their bloodline will be purified and they can become water spirits of a higher level. For example, if a water monkey eats it, it may become a patrolling sea yaksha. If there are enough water treasures, maybe it can even become the legendary Wuzhiqi."

After a pause, the Second Master sneered and said, "Boy, even if you have this treasure, it is useless to keep it if there are no water creatures to recognize it as their master."

Zhang Jiuyang thought of the little Qingji in the pond at home.

Isn't it the essence of water and marshes?

I used to think he could only deliver letters, but now it seems that in addition to delivering letters, we can also consider letting him be a thug.

I guess Xiao Qingji, who loves working the most, will like this gift very much.

Seeing Zhang Jiuyang's expression, the Second Master was suspicious and asked, "You have a water creature that recognizes you as its master?"

Zhang Jiuyang nodded silently.

He gasped and a few more strands of hair fell out.

Where does this kid come from? He has seen a lot of people and is knowledgeable, so why is it that he is becoming more and more confused?
Just as the two men, the ghost and the head were looking at each other, a rooster crowed suddenly outside the door.

When the rooster sings, the world becomes white.

Zhang Jiuyang heaved a sigh of relief. Looking at the white light in the sky, he suddenly felt that dawn was so beautiful.

Isn’t it a happy thing to be able to see the rising sun?
He finally passed the test, and then he could enter Huangquan and take over the position of the ninth heavenly stem. Thinking of this, Zhang Jiuyang's eyes showed a hint of cruelty.

Sooner or later, all the danger he encountered this time will be paid back to them bit by bit, with interest!
Especially the eighth heavenly stem 'Xin', the dead old eunuch, he didn't even think about keeping himself alive, he wanted to use the ghost soldiers' knife to kill himself.

At this moment, the second master's voice sounded faintly, as if he was lacking in strength.

"Boy, you don't think everything will be alright when the day breaks."

He sneered and said, "As long as you kill the ghost soldiers, we will fight to the death. They have memorized your soul and cannot send troops during the day. They will continue to attack at night until they kill you and your soul is scattered!"

Ah Li retorted: "Sister Dragon Girl also killed the Yin soldiers, will she die too?"

"The Dragon Girl has great magical powers, so the Yin soldiers dare not provoke her for now, but you are different."

After a pause, the Second Master continued, "Unless you rush back to Kyoto during the day and let the Supervisor protect you for the rest of your life, one night you will die under the sword of the ghost soldiers!"

"Boy, why else do you think I would say that the person who asked you to snatch my head wanted you to die?"

This is the most terrifying thing about the Yin soldiers. Not only are they endless, but they also chase you every night and won’t stop until you die!
In this situation, even a great cultivator of the fifth or sixth realm might not be able to survive unless there is a corresponding way to break through.

Otherwise, there will always be a day when people will run out of strength, or they will be like the Dragon Girl, with magical powers as vast as the sea. As a true dragon, she is favored by the destiny of heaven and earth, and even the underworld has to be wary of her.

At this moment, Zhang Jiuyang realized how powerful Zhuge Qixing was six hundred years ago. He actually fought his way into the underworld alone, causing no ghost soldiers to dare to cross the border for hundreds of years.

Zhang Jiuyang wanted to continue asking questions, as he still had many questions in his mind that had not been answered, such as why the Second Master, who was a ghost walker, was beheaded by the ghost soldiers, and why the eighth heavenly stem 'Xin' knew about this and took the opportunity to send him to die.

He always felt that there must be some grudge between the Second Master and Xin, whose voice sounded like that of an old eunuch.

But before he could ask, Er Ye's expression quickly became weak, his face turned pale, and his voice became weak.

"My beheading technique is about to expire. If you want to completely resolve the Yin Bing curse, you should go to the mud at the bottom of the river to dig up some fresh shrimps, crabs, earthworms, etc., mash them up for me to eat, and prolong my life..."

"Hurry... before noon..."

He became more and more tired as he spoke, and finally he slowly closed his eyes, without a trace of life left.

Within a few breaths, the head, which had just looked normal, immediately lost all its blood color, and even grew corpse spots, emitting a foul odor.

A few flies in the distance flew over, smelling the scent as if they had encountered a delicacy.

This feeling was extremely strange. The head that was just talking to you turned into a rotten corpse in the blink of an eye. If he was not the only one around, Zhang Jiuyang would even suspect that he had a mental problem.

"Let's go back to the inn first. I also need to report today's events. I believe that Yue Jianhou must be waiting anxiously."

Li Yan is also a battle-hardened Lingtailang who has handled hundreds of cases, big and small, but this is the first time he has encountered such a thrilling experience as tonight.

With his strength, he almost died here.

Zhang Jiuyang nodded and said, "I'll go prepare the shrimps, crabs, and earthworms."

In his previous life, when he was reading strange books such as "Soushen Ji" and "Shiyi Ji", he had seen a strange story.

The story goes that there was once a magical tribe in the land of Baiyue, called the Luotou tribe, whose members were born with a kind of magical power, called the Flying Head Liao.

In the residence of Zhu Huan, a general of the Eastern Wu Dynasty, there was a maid who was a member of the Luotou tribe. When she slept at night, her head would fly away automatically. It didn't harm people, but just flew to the river to look for shrimps, crabs and earthworms to eat. It would return at dawn and fly back to its body.

Once, the quilt covered her neck and her head could not be reattached to her body, so she shouted for help, which alarmed Zhu Huan, who discovered the matter.

Later, when Zhu Huan and other ministers of the Eastern Wu talked about this matter, they discovered that there were similar strange people in the homes of many ministers. They were all slaves brought back from the southern expedition to the Baiyue.

The New Book of Tang, an official history of the Northern Song Dynasty, also recorded in detail the habitat of the Luotou tribe in the Tang Dynasty, which was roughly in the area of ​​Chongqing today. At that time, it was called Nanping Liao.

Unfortunately, in the end, the Luotou tribe gradually disappeared, and the magical powers of the Feitou Liao were no longer recorded. Instead, the so-called Feitou Jiang emerged in Southeast Asia.

Zhang Jiuyang was deeply impressed by this story, so when Erye said that he needed to eat shrimps, crabs and earthworms to prolong his life, he thought of this story first.

It seems that although he traveled to this world, this world has many similarities with China.

……

An hour later, Zhang Jiuyang prepared shrimps, crabs and earthworms, crushed them and placed them in front of the skull.

Strangely enough, the head that looked like a rotting corpse just now moved its nose as if it smelled delicious food, and then opened its mouth and started to eat voraciously.

He clearly only had a head left, without even a stomach, but after swallowing the food, it did not leak out, but disappeared.

This made Zhang Jiuyang marvel.

Then, the color slowly returned to Er Ye's face, the corpse spots gradually faded, and the disgusting stench also disappeared.

He slowly opened his eyes and grinned. His mouth was filled with remaining flesh and blood, which looked extremely creepy.

"Haha, kid, are you scared? I'm back again!"

However, Zhang Jiuyang almost couldn't hold back his laughter. Even the usually indifferent Li Yan turned away with a strange look in his eyes.

"Hey, little girl, what are you doing?"

"Don't move, do you hear me? I'm ordering you!"

"My hair!!!"

Ah Li hummed a ballad as she braided his few strands of hair into a small braid, pinned a wild chrysanthemum on it, and finally secured it with a bow using a red ribbon.

She hushed to the Second Master and said seriously, "Ninth Brother said that girls shouldn't always wield swords and guns. I'm practicing putting on makeup."

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(End of this chapter)