Wandering Gods of Day and Night-Chapter 339 - 207 Liu Temple_2

"This church hasn’t been secured yet, but encountering an obsession first—good sign."

The act of "Wash Away Injustice" represents the number of times one can "return to the hall." Zhou Xuan currently has one remaining instance of "Wash Away Injustice." If the Suffering Scholar dies, he will be able to complete Lin Xia’s instance of "Wash Away Injustice" and accumulate another one.

And now, he’s encountered a new obsession. If he performs "Wash Away Injustice," he’ll gain at least one more instance.

"That makes three instances of returning to the hall."

Zhou Xuan nodded toward the obsession, signaling his willingness to perform "Wash Away Injustice."

With one hand, he pulled out the Wash Away Injustice Talisman. On the talismanic script, four characters had already been inscribed: Human Food, Wash Away Injustice.

The code name for this obsession is "Human Food."

Following the "Wash Away Injustice" process, the obsession leads Zhou Xuan to the location of the injustice.

"Human Food" headed southward,

and Zhou Xuan followed behind, walking for about two or three hundred meters, arriving at the entrance of a small stone temple.

This stone temple is constructed like a crude dry toilet, with three simple walls, a stone statue erected, a small table placed nearby, and a verdigris-covered incense burner on the table containing three burnt incense ends.

"This statue is rather refined."

Zhou Xuan examined the statue. It depicted a scholar holding a book, dressed in a scholar’s robe.

At this moment,

"Human Food" had already walked behind the statue and gestured.

Zhou Xuan squeezed into the narrow temple, turned his head, and saw that the obsession was pointing at a copper ring behind the statue.

He grasped the copper ring and pulled it backward, and immediately the sound of mechanical gears turning echoed through the stone temple.

The scholar’s statue slid forward, exposing a one-meter-square iron cover on the floor.

Without hesitation, Zhou Xuan bent over and lifted the iron cover, revealing a pit beneath. Flickering firelight from below reflected upward, illuminating his face in a crimson glow.

Underneath the temple, there was a pit. After jumping down, Zhou Xuan saw that the underground space was, in fact, a stone room. frёeωebɳovel.com

The pungent scent of blood overwhelmed him, causing him to stagger.

"This stench is overpowering."

Covering his mouth and nose with one hand, Zhou Xuan used the other to retrieve the Wash Away Injustice Talisman.

The talisman floated in mid-air as Zhou Xuan activated it with his perception. Then, he pulled out a pen and, alongside "Human Food," scribbled a line onto the talismanic script—

——Mingjiang Prefecture, Liu Temple, Cellar, September 2.

"This temple is called Liu Temple?"

A flash of bright white light suddenly appeared, and through the Wash Away Injustice Talisman, Zhou Xuan bore witness to the horrifying tragedy that unfolded in the cellar of Liu Temple on September 2.

Inside the cellar,

a comatose beggar was thrown onto the ground. Shortly after, another person jumped down into the cellar, clutching a firewood cleaver in his hand.

Zhou Xuan recognized the man clearly—it was none other than Yu Zhongguang, the breakfast stall owner.

Yu Zhongguang approached the beggar, squatted down, and lifted the beggar’s left hand before viciously chopping it off with the cleaver.

Blood sprayed out, while the beggar let out a muffled groan, remaining unconscious.

Yu Zhongguang then took the beggar’s severed hand as his "brush" and used the blood flowing from the stump as "ink" to paint an elaborate blood pattern across the beggar’s body.

The pattern depicted a scholar, whose robe had a snake coiled around it.

After completing the blood map, Yu Zhongguang discarded the severed hand, lit an incense stick, and started chanting incantations:

"Bai Liu Xian, boundless power, devour human flesh, savor the organs..."

As the incantations were recited, the snake coiled around the scholar’s robe began to bulge. Its previously thick belly grew grotesquely larger, the walls becoming thin, like a semi-transparent membrane. Through this membrane, Zhou Xuan could see hundreds of tiny snakes writhing inside.

The bulging continued, straining the belly’s capacity until it could bear no more—eventually bursting open, releasing hundreds of serpents.

The scholar, the snake—merely a drawn blood pattern conjured by Yu Zhongguang—

yet, these serpents that emerged from the snake’s belly had now become tangible entities, wriggling their way into the beggar’s body...

Hundreds of snakes consumed the beggar’s flesh, leaving his body riddled with wounds. The holes grew larger with each bite, and eventually, the beggar was reduced to nothing but a skeleton.

The serpents, now engorged with human flesh, grew in size, coiling around the beggar’s skeleton one after another.

By this point, Yu Zhongguang’s chanting had grown feverishly ecstatic:

"Bai Liu Xian, boundless power, devour human flesh, savor the organs..."

Following the incantations, the serpents, having fed on human flesh, transformed into wisps of white smoke one by one, disappearing into the stone room.

"Devout disciple Yu Zhongguang humbly bids farewell to the White Snake Immortal."

Yu Zhongguang knelt toward the direction of the beggar’s skeleton and bowed deeply.

...

Zhou Xuan shattered the temporal rift and returned to reality.

"I suspected Yu Zhongguang was hiding something, but I didn’t expect it to be something this catastrophic."

"This so-called Bai Liu Xian is the entity that saved the Hunger ’snake tumor’ from the Weird Creature Research Institute."

By now, Zhou Xuan could formulate the chain of events clearly.

The entity "Hunger" first appeared in Mingjiang Prefecture in the form of "Human Stomach."

At the time, Li Chengfeng had visited Zhou Xuan’s shop and taken "Hunger" back to the Weird Creature Research Institute for study using the Blood Well Human Brain.

During the research, an enigmatic woman with a snake tumor protruding from her back entered the institute in an uncanny manner—through a pool of water—and murdered researcher Wang Yiweng.

The snake tumor woman then attempted to destroy the Blood Well Human Brain, but the brain defended violently, emitting piercing screams that drove the woman insane.

The woman was the "foot" of "snake tumor." When the "foot" went mad, the snake tumor lost control and detached from her body, then attached itself to Wang Yiweng. The tumor proceeded to dismember the insane woman into pieces, before escaping with "Hunger."

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