Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 516 - 94: I See You Are All Very Loyal
Most of the heretical paths in this world mainly study how to scare people.
As everyone knows, killing someone doesn’t require much skill, all you need is a bullet, and there’s no need for any heretical tricks.
Wang Yunxiao still clearly remembered that night when he located the Demon God Statue and confronted the Human Skin Painter, who tried to remain calm in a laughably pathetic manner.
"Hehehe, heaven has a path which you do not take, hell has no gate yet you insist on breaking in!"
Wang Yunxiao looked at him as if he were an idiot, casually crushing a piece of human skin that had stealthily attacked him from behind.
He even put it in his mouth and took a bite, giving the comment, "It’s rather old."
The atmosphere at the scene was extremely awkward at the time.
He hadn’t been particularly knowledgeable about the heretical cultivation system of the Twelve Laws before, but after beating up the Human Skin Painter that night, he managed to develop some personal insights.
Though the Twelve Laws sound diverse, at their core, there’s only one principle, which is called cognition.
This was basic knowledge Nurse Liu had taught in the classroom.
The Twelve Laws represent twelve different perceptions of the world.
Take, for example, the three primary Dharma Gates Wang Yunxiao was more familiar with: Chess Herald, Advisor, and Garrison Soldiers. Chess Herald can see the "true" side of the world, while Advisor chooses to guard the so-called secret of "truth."
As for Garrison Soldiers, their ideology is that there are no taboos in warfare; forget all that messy stuff. If you’re not convinced, just fight!
The Righteous Path and Heretical Path advancements of Chess Herald, Advisor, and Garrison Soldiers, which in the words of a certain Dragon Egg are the Evolutionary Form and Mutation Form, are respectively—
Astrologer, School Official, Rampaging Colonel.
Human Skin Painter, Flower Amidst Guests, Iron Sparrowhawk.
Here is where human cognition starts to deviate.
Even in the same classroom, under the same teacher, studying the exact same material, the students’ performances will still vary widely.
To put it simply, in the process of strengthening cognition through the cultivation method, it’s inevitable that an excess of self-awareness will arise.
The emergence of the Human Skin Painter is the manifestation of transferring one’s cognition of the "world" onto oneself.
When you cannot discern the true from the false in this world, you come to realize that only yourself is the most real, the most important.
The pie drawn by leaders can’t fill one’s stomach. When you realize the overtime pay you earn from working hard can’t even cover the ICU bills, many people will choose to lie down and slack off.
The situation was similar with the Garrison Soldiers Dharma Gate Wang Yunxiao practiced.
When his personal combat power started to surpass the team’s average, and sometimes he could solve problems by his efforts alone without needing his brothers’ help, his cognition naturally began to change.
It shifted from the cooperative Righteous Path to the solitary Heretical Path.
That’s why Nurse Liu said, the Righteous Path and Heretical Path do not have clear distinctions of good and bad, or right and wrong.
The Human Skin Painter could very well use his understanding of human anatomy to be a surgeon, but instead, they cultivated it into something so sinister.
Wang Yunxiao silently watched the huge monster sewn together from corpse pieces before him.
Those dressed in black watched him nervously.
The fear that this thing induced was far greater than its actual lethality.
"That’s it?"
A look of scorn appeared on Wang Yunxiao’s face.
The three main tricks of the Human Skin Painter: skinning, stitching flesh, and tempering bones.
These were all experiences he had already gone through in Cangzhou County City, and those in front of him hadn’t brought him many surprises.
When they were cultivating these evil techniques, they probably never considered confronting an opponent of equal strength.
It’s so much more fun to bully ordinary people. Even street loafers know the logic of picking on the weak.
"Friend, we have no past grudges and no recent hatreds, why persist in this unpleasant entanglement?"
The leading black-clad person spoke coldly, "If we really fight, you might not get the better of it. Why don’t we both take a step back?"
Cowardice.
These people actually got scared.
Of course, they had to be scared, because just now, everyone had seen Ito Hidemi turn into a shooting star, soaring through the sky.
"No, no, no, I came here just to find you, I haven’t got the wrong people."
Wang Yunxiao said with a smile, "The Imperial Jade Seal is in your possession, right? How could you not admit it after taking something from the Swallow Sect?"
Encountering these men tonight was purely an unexpected delight. Wang Yunxiao had thought he was about to be inexplicably dragged into that cesspit of the Fusang Salvation Warrior Association, but as it turned out, after some twists and turns, he ran into the real deal again.
"The Imperial Jade Seal?"
The men exchanged glances, knowing in their hearts that today’s affairs would probably not end well, and immediately began forming hand seals and chanting incantations.
In an instant, several pieces of fresh human skin flew out from the shadow behind Wang Yunxiao, enveloping him layer by layer. The sewn-together monster let out a roar of fury, raising its arms and bringing its fists crashing down towards Wang Yunxiao’s head.
However, in the next moment, the air suddenly froze.
The men who were intently chanting spat out blood simultaneously, collapsing to the ground involuntarily.
The stitched-together monster issued a pitiful howl, crashing to its knees with a heavy thud, its robust thighs shattering under its own weight.
The layers of human skin fell from Wang Yunxiao’s body, landing at his feet.
And he had merely taken a single step forward.
Tyrant of the Prison!
Each punch and kick possessed the suppressing force of Mount Tai!
Ever since he had grasped what the Martial Path of this world was all about, Wang Yunxiao’s martial arts had been advancing at breakneck speed, and even he wasn’t quite clear on the extent of terrifying power he would wield at full strength.
The essence of the Twelve Laws’ cultivation lies in cognition.
And after confronting the true forms of the Ranger from across the river of time not once but twice, and the unspeakable Overlord Tingdaros, Wang Yunxiao’s cognition had developed a chasm-like gap compared to ordinary people of this world.
With this stomp, he displayed not just mere physical strength.
But also gravity!
"Heavier than Mount Tai" is but a metaphor.
We can be more objective!
He kicked up a leg and sent the useless, bloated monster’s head flying, then flashed to the side of the black-clothed man closest to him.
"Spare me, hero..."
The black-clothed man managed to blurt out just four words before Wang Yunxiao’s hand was already pressed against his chest.
A noise like the crunching of dry noodles rang out, and his chest suddenly caved in, the shattered ribs in front pressing tightly against his back.
"Being a Human Skin Painter, how could you not have the resolve to turn into human skin yourself?"
Wang Yunxiao was very angry today.
Not just because of the girl who suddenly exploded in the emergency room, causing major casualties inside the hospital.
But also because of Li Mumu. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞
She cried.
And you just had to choose this time to court death!
Wang Yunxiao removed his palm from the chest of the black-clothed man, holding a mass of flesh mixed with rib fragments in his hand, and brutally stuffed it into the mouth of the second black-clothed man. Then, targeting his jaw, he punched.
He blended the man’s jawbone with the mass of flesh in his mouth, then yanked it back out.
Witnessing such a gruesome scene, the rest of the men broke down on the spot.
"I’ll talk! I’ll talk!"
"No, seeing how loyal you are, you certainly won’t tell the truth."
Wang Yunxiao grabbed the head of the third man, prying his mouth open bit by bit, "It’s okay, keep eating, I just need to hear one thing, one person’s confession is enough."
"Shen Qingxi! The mastermind behind all this is Shen Qingxi!"
