Apocalypse: My Tattoos are Ten Yama Kings

Chapter 276: Chapter 270: Battle Against Iron-Back Daoist

The Iron-Back Daoist was drinking atop the Taoist temple roof, with dozens of jars of alcohol placed in front of the temple.

Upon hearing the suggestion from Liuyu Heaven, Lin Yuan slapped the jar with a backhanded palm.

A massive energy fluctuation erupted, and the next moment, the sounds of ”bang” ”bang” ”bang” rang out continuously in succession.

The dozens of alcohol jars in front of the Taoist temple exploded one after another, spilling the liquor all over the ground.

The alcohol that the Iron-Back Daoist drank was different from what ordinary people drank.

What he drank was greenish, seemingly brewed from the poisonous water on Iron Back Mountain.

For someone who loved alcohol as much as life itself, toppling his jars of alcohol was equivalent to defecating on his head and then asking him for toilet paper.

You have to admit, Liuyu Heaven’s suggestion was indeed very effective.

After Lin Yuan toppled the jars of alcohol in front of the temple, the Iron-Back Daoist on the roof was furious on the spot.

”Where did this wild boy come from, daring to cause trouble for me, the Daoist!” The Iron-Back Daoist roared, leaping down from the rooftop, and slapped toward Lin Yuan with his palm.

As the Iron-Back Daoist’s palm struck, the surroundings filled with toxic mist, and the palm power transformed into a gigantic phantom of an iron-backed centipede, lunging towards Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan did not retreat but advanced instead, his entire body surging with demonic flames, which transformed into a fiery dragon, rushing to meet the Iron-Back Daoist.

”Sizzle.”

”Sizzle, sizzle!”

The demonic flames burned through the toxic mist with an ear-piercing sound.

In this probing move, Lin Yuan gained the upper hand.

The Iron-Back Daoist was forced back by the demonic flames, retreating more than a dozen steps to barely avoid them.

After evading the flames, the Iron-Back Daoist looked at Lin Yuan with hesitant eyes and a puzzled expression, asking, ”Are you Liuyu Heaven?”

”Are you one of the World Honored’s people?”

”I don’t know you at all, nor have I ever had enmity with the World Honored. Why do you come here to insult me?”

Clearly, this Iron-Back Daoist wasn’t very bright.

Perhaps it was because he drank the poisonous liquor all day, making himself foolish.

Lin Yuan had just reported Liuyu Heaven’s name, splashing dirty water on the World Honored, and unexpectedly, the Iron-Back Daoist actually believed it.

”He’s not....” Inside the fish tank, Liuyu Heaven was about to explain.

But before he could finish his words, Lin Yuan directly sealed Liuyu Heaven’s mouth, not giving him any chance to speak.

Then, Lin Yuan raised his head arrogantly, looking at the Iron-Back Daoist through his nostrils, and said, ”The World Honored wants to refine a pill that just happens to need a centipede as a medicinal guide. Coincidentally, the World Honored fancies you, and sent me to take your life for the World Honored’s pill refining.”

Speaking of this, Lin Yuan let out a cold snort, ”Hm!”

”In this world, the World Honored kills whoever he wishes. Not to mention a mere iron-backed little demon like you, even that Grand Elder of Qingqiu Mountain, the World Honored kills if he wishes to!”

Lin Yuan’s attitude was extremely arrogant and overbearing, looking down on people through his nostrils!

Even a clay figure has some fire.

Moreover, the Iron-Back Daoist was at least a Tier Four powerhouse.

”Bullshit!”

”Even if he is the World Honored, he can’t humiliate us loose cultivators like this. How can we, the loose cultivators, allow the World Honored to slaughter us?” The Iron-Back Daoist said through gritted teeth.

Clearly, he was furious to the extreme.

Inside the fish tank, Liuyu Heaven was crying without tears, unable to speak or explain himself.

Liuyu Heaven thought to himself, Lin Yuan, this bastard, was truly dirty.

Suddenly, Liuyu Heaven regretted leading the way for Lin Yuan.

One must know, these Tier Four evil spirits have lived for countless years.

Even an unaffiliated cultivator like the Iron-Back Daoist with no influence would have many friends and relatives.

If Lin Yuan continued like this, unwittingly, the World Honored would have many enemies.

At this point, seeing that the Iron-Back Daoist already believed him to be sent by the World Honored, Lin Yuan knew the time was about ripe.

Immediately, he summoned the Zhong Kui’s Ghost-Slaying Sword into his hand, pointing it at the Iron-Back Daoist, saying, ”Iron-backed little demon, time is almost up, I have to take your life to refine pills for the World Honored.”

”Your worthless life, delaying the World Honored’s pill refining, now that would be a significant issue.”

Hearing Lin Yuan’s words, the Iron-Back Daoist was frustrated to the extreme, his body filled with fury!

”Ah!”

”Ah! Ah!” The Iron-Back Daoist cried out strangely, roaring, ”The World Honored bullies me too much, the World Honored bullies me too much.”

With the roars, waves of poisonous creatures emerged from the Iron-Back Daoist’s body.

Among the blue-green toxins, the Iron-Back Daoist, dressed in his thin and dry Daoist robe, was rapidly expanding.

”Creak.”

”Creak, creak.”

As the Iron-Back Daoist’s body rapidly expanded, it produced creaking sounds.

Moments later, the scrawny Daoist appearance of the Iron-Back Daoist vanished, replaced by a massive iron-backed centipede nearly a hundred meters long and over ten meters high in the toxic mist.

This iron-backed centipede had thousands of pairs of legs like iron hooks on its abdomen. Its mouthparts were terrifyingly grotesque, seemingly capable of swallowing a mountain.

The Iron-Back Daoist’s transformation into the iron-backed centipede was truly excessively large.

Lin Yuan’s demonized Zhong Kui form also stood several meters tall.

However, beside this gigantic iron-backed centipede, he was completely dwarfed.

This iron-backed centipede was akin to a prehistoric exotic beast from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the sheer size alone giving off an immense sense of oppression.

From a distance, this didn’t look like an iron-backed centipede, but rather a train!

”Eat him!”

”Poison him to death!”

”Eat him, poison him to death!” Inside the fish tank, Liuyu Heaven shouted inwardly.

Now he only hoped Lin Yuan would die at the hands of the Iron-Back Daoist.

Wait, suddenly, Liuyu Heaven realized something seemed off.

Just now, Lin Yuan had impersonated his name, claiming to kill the Iron-Back Daoist to refine pills on the command of the World Honored.

The most crucial point was that the Iron-Back Daoist seemed to have believed it.

Now, the Iron-Back Daoist hated the World Honored to the core.

If Lin Yuan got killed by the Iron-Back Daoist, and then the Iron-Back Daoist reported to the World Honored, not only would it not guarantee his life, he’d die even quicker.

For a moment, Liuyu Heaven was very conflicted.

It seemed that regardless of who won, Lin Yuan or the Iron-Back Daoist, it was not a good thing for him!

In the instant Liuyu Heaven was absorbed in his chaotic thoughts, the battle between Lin Yuan and the Iron-Back Daoist had already commenced.

Lin Yuan exerted force and tossed out the fish tank containing Liuyu Heaven, which landed steadily on the branch of a withered old pagoda tree in front of the Taoist temple.

Subsequently, Lin Yuan’s body also expanded massively, only stopping when he reached a height of twenty to thirty meters.

Meanwhile, the Zhong Kui’s Ghost-Slaying Sword in his hand also grew larger with his body.

Above Zhong Kui’s Ghost-Slaying Sword, blood-red scorching demonic flames burst forth several meters.

Where the demonic flames passed, the toxins of the Iron-Back Daoist were burned, melted, and turned to nothingness.

At this moment, Lin Yuan was engaged in battle with the gigantic iron-backed centipede.

The iron-backed centipede was so immense that with every move, it stirred raging winds, with toxic mist swirling in the gusts.

Liuyu Heaven had plotted well, knowing this Iron-Back Daoist excelled at using poison.

He thought the Iron-Back Daoist, unexpectedly using poison, might directly poison Lin Yuan.

However, he underestimated Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan’s Zhong Kui’s transformation had innate demonic flames that naturally suppressed any poison.

The poisons didn’t have a chance to get close and were already being evaporated and melted by the demonic flames.

The Zhong Kui’s Ghost-Slaying Sword in Lin Yuan’s hand was extremely sharp. With one slash, it could create a significant gash in the hardened carapace on the back of the iron-backed centipede.

Poison was the Iron-Back Daoist’s greatest reliance, and at the start of the battle, it was restrained by the demonic flames.

Thus, Lin Yuan effortlessly gained the upper hand.