Is this cartoonist mentally ill?.

Chapter 403: Baqi Daqianlu and Master Jingxin (original)

After Li Huowang thought he had dealt with all the bandits in the village, Bai Lingmiao suddenly "came back to life" and told him that not all of his companions were killed.

There were originally seven adults and five Taoist children, but one adult and two children died.

Now there are only six adults and three Taoist children left, and not all of the remaining people are able to move.

In this crazy and terrifying world, these companions who came out from Qingfeng Temple are Li Huowang's last lifeline.

Once he loses these companions, Li Huowang will fall into complete madness, just like what happened just now.

Although he was still in pain because of the death of his three companions, he managed to cheer himself up and took his companions who were still able to move to collect money from the water fort to use as travel expenses for the next journey.

But Li Huowang didn’t expect that... the captain Yuan Er was not dead yet.

Instead, he held a roll of strange red bamboo slips and used a strange method of attack - constantly torturing himself, and then launching a weird and powerful attack!

What is it that tooth extraction can make the teeth be wrapped in red light, flashing and flying towards Li Huowang and the others like a meteor?

And even if you crush his eyeballs, you can imprison evil spirits like Master You in the same place...

The comic scenes are extremely bloody and full of impact, making fans like Fan Siwei, who thought they were used to Lin Qingshan’s extremely abnormal mental state, exclaim... The old thief Qingshan is really crazy!

Comic fans couldn't believe their eyes. After watching this bloody plot, they were completely stunned.

“Ah? This… is this something that can be drawn?”

"As expected of you, old thief Qingshan, your backstage is made of titanium alloy!"

"It's hard to imagine... what kind of mental state did the old thief Qingshan have when he painted these pictures... It hurts me just looking at them, doesn't the old thief Qingshan feel any pain?"

"Have you all forgotten about Edgewalker and Flame Fist? What are you thinking? In the early days, Qingshan Laozei drew these extremely perverted and bloody pictures. What can this count as?"

"It's true... It seems that Qingshan Laozei's painting style has never changed. It has always been the same. It's just that people generally pay attention to the plot of Qingshan Laozei's works and rarely pay attention to these things."

"However, there are "Edgewalker", "Flame Fist", "Chainsaw Man" and "Parasyte". It's not like this "Tao Weird Immortal" where such scenes appear almost every few episodes. It's outrageous..."

"It's hard not to suspect that Qingshan the old thief's mental illness has worsened."

"What should we do? He won't go to the mental hospital!"

"No! He's in a mental hospital, and you're drawing comics for me?!"

……

The storyline of the comics continues.

Just when Yuan Er was planning to pull out his tongue and cut his throat to recite the weird "Fahua Cave" as if he wanted to cause a big wave, Li Huowang was also struggling whether to summon the immortal master again...

Yuan Er's final move was like a skill being interrupted in a game...

Li Huowang then killed Yuan Er easily, and at the same time he obtained the strange bamboo scroll.

He looked at the contents on the red bamboo slips just like he had done before with the heavenly book left by Danyangzi.

The black characters engraved on the red bamboo slips were very small and very strange.

This font is even stranger because when Lin Qingshan drew these fonts in the comics, he used oracle bone script.

Of course comic fans don’t know it, and Li Huowang, a genius high school student who is considered a mental patient even in the modern world, could not possibly know the oracle bone script.

If that were true, he wouldn't be a high school student.

But Li Huowang in the comic still read out the content above -

"White pills...precious dew...swallow it...pluck its bones..."

After reading several chapters, Li Huowang somehow recognized the explanation of the text on it, and comic fans also knew what was written on the bamboo slips.

The above contents all record how to use one's own greatest pain and flesh and blood to exchange things with a certain existence!
"A piece of bamboo...pierce his finger...raise it up...take his armor..."

This is the lightest of the three methods, which involves inserting a bamboo stick horizontally into one's fingernail, pushing it upwards, and prying the entire fingernail out.

A more serious one is how to chew a large bag of rusty iron filings and swallow it down.

"Cut the pig iron...rust the scraps...eat them alive..."

At the end, it even teaches readers how to sacrifice their own flesh and blood to make a deal with something...

This method became more and more bloody and terrifying as time went on, and it was almost beyond Li Huowang's tolerance.

Finally, after reading half of the content, Li Huowang couldn't help but vomit.

Not to mention Li Huowang, even the comic fans found it a bit unbearable to hear Li Huowang say these things.

However, Li Huowang still endured the discomfort and found the method that Yuan Er was planning to use as a last resort.

What Yuan Er was planning to summon just now was... something more evil than He Bo - "Baqi".

This is the name of that thing, and it is also the source of all the suffering on these bamboo slips.

Yuan Er failed because he could not afford the price of summoning it.

According to the requirements on the bamboo slips, although his body was in extreme pain, his heart was not painful enough. Even though his entire family had just died, it was still far from enough.

Only then did comic fans understand why Li Huowang and others escaped.

But... no matter what, this is really weird!

Exchanging pain and suffering for powerful strength, damn... Isn't this the Ai Si Shadow Priest that everyone usually talks about?

And is this "Baqi" shaking Ai Si or shaking Shadow Priest?

Do you like watching others abuse themselves, or does this thing like to abuse itself?

Anyway, looking at the contents of the bamboo slips in the comics, everyone felt that neither the bamboo slips nor the so-called "Baqi" were any good stuff.

According to other comics, if the protagonist accidentally obtains such a weird thing while playing a dungeon, there is no need to think too much, he will definitely destroy it.

but……

The comic "Tao Weird Immortal" is different. Not to mention that the protagonist Li Huowang himself is evil enough, just based on the current situation of Li Huowang and his companions, they have no fighting power at all.

The only one with extraordinary combat power is Li Huowang.

Li Huowang would either use Changming's holy relic sword to kill everyone, or summon Master You to attack, or... summon his "half-immortal" master Dan Yangzi in a "suicide" way.

Now he also realized that Dan Yangzi could not be summoned casually.

As for his other two fighting methods, it can only be said that after the two battles with Jian Dun of Zhengde Temple and Yuan Er of Shuizhai this time, it is obvious that they are not good enough. In this weird world, who knows what more weird things he will encounter next, he can't just sit there and wait for death.

So... Li Huowang kept this strange bamboo slip and carried it with him.

After all, fighting by "self-harm" is better than summoning by "suicide".

Most importantly, he really didn't want to see Dan Yangzi again.

Suddenly, Li Huowang and his group set out on their journey again. After using the only remaining boy in the water fort to cross the lake and then killing him by destroying the bridge after crossing the river, they finally arrived at the nunnery where the nuns in black clothes that Li Zhi mentioned were - Anci Temple.

However, not only had they learned from the only young man left in the water fort that the nuns in Anci Temple were fat, lazy and dirty, but they also heard about it on the road and later saw with their own eyes that the nuns in Anci Temple were really like that!
When Li Huowang went up the mountain alone to see the nun from Anci Temple, the comics really showed a fat, ugly nun in black. According to passers-by, their original clothes were actually blue, but because they never took a bath or changed their clothes, the clothes turned from blue to black...

You can also rub a big mud ball out of your body.

Even the Bodhisattva statues that the nuns were supposed to worship were covered in dust and looked like they hadn't been cleaned for a long time...

A lazy, fat, dirty and ugly nun, this is completely different from the stereotype of quiet, beautiful and Zen nuns in comic fans' minds.

Even if Anci Temple is a group of evil villains like the monks in Zhengde Temple, they shouldn't be so despicable...

However...it seems that this group of dirty nuns are not as bad as the happy monks in Zhengde Temple. Although they are a little lazy and dirty, they are indeed trustworthy as Li Zhi said.

Even through their interesting interactions with Li Huowang in the comics, they seem a little... cute?
Next, Li Huowang used his "money power" and finally got the nuns to help him - taking him to see the abbess of Anci Temple.

But at this moment, his "illusion" of the real world almost came out again to disturb what he was about to do.

Li Huowang managed to suppress his anger with great difficulty, and finally, under the guidance of the nun, he arrived at the place where "Master Jingxin" lived.

However, the room where this "Master Jingxin" lives also has a strange feeling similar to Danyangzi's room...

Just when comic fans thought there would be another twist, Li Huowang finally met Master Jingxin, the most "critical" person in the previous plot.

only……

This Master Jingxin presents an undisguised weird image in the comics——

In the picture that occupies four-fifths of the comic screen, there is a very fat and old "woman" wearing a nun's hat. Well, from the identity of "Nun" mentioned by the nun who led the way before, we can barely know that the mountain of flesh in front of us is a woman.

Master Jingxin's eyes were empty with only two black holes, and the loose skin on her face was pulled down by the fat on her neck, as if it was about to be torn off.

When this appearance appears in a dim room, it is undoubtedly very terrifying.

The face is not the most important thing, the most important thing is the body.

Her whole fat body almost filled the whole room. The dirty fat was covered with bloody "acne"... No!

The acne was still twisting, and the next picture of the comic showed a close-up, allowing fans to see clearly that it was a maggot!

The white maggot babies swim freely among the rotten flesh and pus like schools of fish in the sea!
And such a grotesque obese human is holding a large bowl, digging out the yellow sticky food inside with both hands?
That yellow sticky food looks a bit like India’s traditional cuisine. Anyway… it makes people feel disgusted just by looking at it.

Comic fans really can't stand Lin Qingshan's "realistic" painting skills, but the ancient Chinese painting style slightly weakens this feeling.

But the fans are really hard to bear...

"Wow... Old thief Qingshan, do you want to eat oil cakes?"

"Oh no, I don't know why, I feel that "The Taoist Immortal" is a bit scary and a bit curious, but I just want to continue watching it."

"I was just eating, don't say anything... I'll have a lifelong obsession with mushy food."

"This world... are you sure it's a world of cultivating immortals? You've got it all wrong. I haven't seen a single immortal-looking character in cultivation yet. Is this really a comic about cultivation?"

"I'm now wondering... has something happened to this world to cause it to become so evil? Is it really like the world ruled by evil cultivators after the villains in "Purple Air Coming from the East" defeated the Taoist ancestors?"

"I am more and more curious about what will happen next."

……

Although Li Huowang felt that Master Jingxin was very strange, he still forced himself to walk into the room despite his discomfort.

But before he could open his mouth, the strange Nun Jingxin actually spoke first, saying, "Haha, it's rare, it's rare that Xinsu comes to see me."

Li Huowang was almost frightened. He was now very clear about his identity and physique as a "heart element", which was definitely something that people would envy.

Otherwise, the monks in Zhengde Temple and Li Zhi’s immortals would not be so obsessed with him.

But in the comics, he just took a step back, and Nun Jingxin continued to say, "Why are you panicking? You're just a little kid who knows nothing. When did our Anci Temple need other materials? We're too lazy to make any. Actually, my son is also a vegetarian."

Master Jingxin’s son… is also Xinsu?
This made Li Huowang calm down a little, and he suppressed his fear and continued to inquire about the whereabouts of Master Jingxin's son, who was also a Xinsu.

But Master Jingxin's reply was, "He's crazy. People with madness usually have a miserable end, and going crazy is a relatively good ending."

Li Huowang continued to inquire about Xinsu, and then he learned that Master Jingxin’s son was also... a "time traveler"?
However, Master Jingxin always believed that this was the "hysteria" of the Xinsu people. There has never been another world, and everything is an illusion.

But Li Huowang didn't want to admit that he belonged to this absurd and strange world. He was alone and had never had parents or Yang Na and the others.

He even tried to provoke Master Jingxin to prove that she was just like the monks from Zhengde Temple and Li Zhi before her, all evil people who intended to deceive him.

But Master Jingxin remained calm throughout the whole process, because... what she said was the "fact" that she was sure of.

But Li Huowang really didn't want to deny everything he had in the real world, so he had to change the subject and ask directly what Xinsu was and why she was so coveted.

"Xinsu is you, including the confusion in your heart, the karma in your heart, and the cause and effect in your body."

"From the smell of those things on your back, you must have killed quite a few people, right? Then you are not an outsider, and you should know something about practicing invisible arts. In addition to external objects, the most important thing for any sect is one's own state of mind."

"The confusion and other karma of the Heart Essence are much purer and more stable than those of ordinary people. Some sects need the confusion of the Heart Essence to stabilize their own state of mind. Even if they don't need it, they can make a lot of money by selling the Heart Essence to those who need it."

"Some people arrest you for other things, but most people arrest you for your confusion, because only Xinsu will have confusion in their hearts all the time, which ordinary people can't do at all."

After Master Jingxin explained everything, Li Huowang understood a little bit. His confused emotions seemed to be able to help the practitioners in this world to practice.

After that, he asked Master Jingxin to help expel the Danyangzi that had already become an immortal in his body.

This time, Master Jingxin asked him for a reward. Li Huowang thought that a cultivator like Master Jingxin would not care about worldly things at all, so he took out the spoils he had obtained along the way.

He took out the heavenly book, the gourd containing the longevity of life, and the red bamboo slips that he had just obtained.

But I didn't expect that Master Jingxin was not interested in these things that Danyangzi, Li Zhi and Yuan Er regarded as "treasures" at all, and even extremely disliked them!

"What kind of junk is this? Take it away! Especially the Great Thousand Records. Take it as far away as possible to avoid polluting our Anci Temple!"

At the same time, Master Jingxin also told Li Huowang that the name of the red bamboo slips was... "Da Qian Lu"!
Finally, Master Jingxin, who had discarded the Heavenly Book and the Great Thousand Records, actually set her eyes on the gold on Li Huowang.

Li Huowang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he didn't care much about the gold, so he agreed easily.

(End of this chapter)