Receiving no response, the Halfman Taoist's eyes were filled with endless shock and incredulity. He scolded sternly, "How dare you!"
Long Qing still did not respond.
A newborn beast's individual strength was naturally extremely weak. However, its desire for lust and the vitality it released was precisely at its most powerful and boundless moment.
Long Qing was the cub. He closed his eyes and sucked in everything he could, calmly, greedily, hungrily, and innocently.
The black peach blossom in his lapel became darker and darker. His chest seemed to become a bottomless abyss, sucking air from the old Taoist's palm.
The old Taoist's face suddenly became even more haggard, and his body became thinner and smaller, even faintly looking like a hunchback. He had placed all his hopes on Long Qing, who was kneeling in front of him, and was even willing to pour half of his cultivation into Long Qing's body. However, at this moment, he found that something was wrong, and he even faintly felt great fear.
He was the Halfman Taoist. Even if he lost half of his cultivation, he could still survive. However, with Long Qing's greedy and terrifying appearance, how could he give up? If this situation continued, even if he was a powerhouse in the Tianqi State who had surpassed the Five States, he would not be able to hold on for long. He would die.
Living like a rat in a dark cave after being cut in half at the waist was a terrible mental torture. But it was still living. In the shadow of death, no one would really believe that it was better to be dead than alive. It was the same for the Halfman Taoist. After being cut in half by Ke Haoran's sword, he had survived with great difficulty. Decades later, he naturally would not be willing to die like this.
"You're too greedy!"
The Halfman Taoist felt the Psyche Power surging out of his body like a tide. His eyes were filled with uncontrollable anger. A strong aura was released from his body. The scrawny palm that had fallen on Long Qing's left chest like a blue lake suddenly became a mountain, pressing forward!
There were several crisp cracking sounds. Five ribs on Long Qing's left chest broke. He spat out a mouthful of blood, wetting the black peach blossom on his chest. Then, he woke up.
Long Qing slowly raised his head and looked at the old Taoist who was close at hand. He said indifferently, "Since it has already begun, why should it end like this? Since you have already absorbed so much, why don't you absorb more?"
The Halfman Taoist knew that he had already awoken from his almost instinctive state of madness. He did not expect him to speak in such a manner, and could not help but become angrier.
However, before his anger could turn into violent flames, it was already replaced by fear and confusion.
Earlier, his palm had fallen like a mountain and broken several of Long Qing's ribs, but it did not leave Long Qing's chest. Instead, it was stained with blood and sank deep into Long Qing's chest.
There was a hole in Long Qing's chest.
The Halfman Daoist's palm reached into the hole through the Daoist robe and sank halfway into his forearm.
There was a black peach blossom stained with blood.
The Halfman Taoist wanted to pull his hand out, but he could not.
He could clearly feel that his palm and half of his forearm had come into contact with the slippery and sticky internal organs. The faintly wriggling flesh and blood seemed to be coming to life, making him feel extremely disgusted and cold.
The hole in Long Qing's body was like a quagmire. The quagmire was filled with mud that was countless feet deep. The mud was extremely sticky, and at the bottom of the quagmire was a dark and endless abyss.
The Halfman Taoist felt that he was struggling in this quagmire. Countless poisonous miasma continuously seeped into his pores, and the cold and filthy black mud was gradually covering his facial features.
After a moment, his body was about to be swallowed by this black quagmire. Although his light and intangible soul could pass through the mud, it would eventually enter the endless abyss and endure hundreds of millions of years of loneliness.
That was death.
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The Halfman Taoist became more and more stooped. It was obvious to the naked eye that his body had shrunk. He could not help but tremble violently. He looked at Long Qing, his eyes filled with fear, anger, and confusion. He did not know what had happened and why he could not stop this trash in front of him from taking everything from him.
Then he saw Long Qing's eyes.
It was a very calm pair of eyes. There was no greed or thirst, not even any emotion. It was like the branches of trees swaying gently in the wind, or the lake water rippling gently in the wind. Because it was natural, it was calm, and it was this calmness that made people easily feel fear.
This pair of eyes was no longer black and white, but it was also not as perfectly balanced and perfect gray as before. The black pupils were still darker in color, becoming darker and smaller. Mixed with calm emotions, it looked like a demon from the underworld peeking out from the abyss, quietly watching the world.
At this moment, the Halfman Taoist suddenly thought of what he had previously described to Long Qing about the true face of Haotian he had seen during the Tianqi. He vaguely understood something, and suddenly felt infinite fear.
After Long Qing had used the Gray Eye to absorb too much of his aura, the old Taoist's body had shrunk. His face was the same, but the distance between his eyes was much wider. He looked like a mentally disabled person who was in a daze under a tree.
He looked at Long Qing's emotionless, calm, and terrifying eyes, and murmured with a trembling voice, "Why is this happening? How could Haotian allow you to go beyond the limit? "
Long Qing looked at him calmly and said, "You said that to erase Haotian's will, one needs no faith, no rules, so how can there be a limit? But in fact, you are still wrong. No one in this world can really ignore the rules because the rules belong to Haotian's divine realm. That was why Ke Haoran was killed by the heavens. So to really ignore the rules, one should not erase Haotian's will, but use one's own mind to understand Haotian's will, or even completely transform into Haotian's will. "
The Halfman Taoist's body kept trembling, and blood kept gushing out from his waist. His voice was shrill and terrified as he roared, "Even so, how could Haotian choose a useless person like you!"
"How can mortals like us guess Haotian's will?"
Long Qing looked at him and said emotionlessly, "We only need to accept and praise it. Just a moment ago, I wanted more of you, even all of you. And Haotian felt my wish, so you must give all of yourself to me."
The Halfman Taoist said mournfully, "I don't want to."
Long Qing said, "You can't stop me, because I have received Haotian's decree."
"But I will die."
The Halfman Taoist roared, cried, and begged.
Long Qing said, "For decades, your life has been worse than death. Today, you can die in my hands, and you can be free. Give yourself to me before you die, and you will die a worthy death."
The Halfman Taoist's body had shrunk a lot, and he looked like a child of a few years old. But this was not rejuvenation, and the wrinkles on his face were deeper than before.
He knew that he was going to die soon.
He knew that he could not escape from this swamp.
He even vaguely guessed that this was really Haotian's decree.
But he was still unwilling to die.
He screamed in pain and stretched out his moving hand, wanting to tear Long Qing's mouth and dig out his eyes. But strangely, his hand on Long Qing's chest was still the same, and his moving hand had shrunk a lot. It could not reach Long Qing at all, and could only tremble and wave in the air in vain. He looked like a child whose candy had been taken away, extremely miserable and desperate.
"This is really Haotian's decree."
Long Qing looked at him and comforted him. "Otherwise, why would you be so stupid to be willing to pass half of your power to me, knowing that I am a cruel and cold person, knowing that I want to plot against you and take all your power? So you can die in peace. "
The Halfman Taoist's arm, which was waving in the air, became stiff. After a moment, he retracted his hand tiredly. He lowered his head in pain and panted heavily. He said, "Yes … I know … you are a bad fellow … Why did I give you a chance to plot against me … Perhaps … I really don't want to live anymore … I just want to find an heir to help me fulfill my wish."
He raised his head. His head had shrunk a lot, and his eyes were much bigger, and they were about to move to the cheeks on both sides of his face. He looked particularly strange and terrifying. But at this time, the expression in his eyes was no longer resentful, angry, or fearful. There was only a bright light left, which was the relief after understanding.
He looked at Long Qing and panted excitedly. He said, "Kill everyone in the Academy for me, and then let the billions of Haotian believers in the world remember my name. My surname is He, and my name is …"
"I will kill everyone in the Academy, and I will destroy the Tang Empire."
Without waiting for him to finish, Long Qing said calmly, "But who you are has little to do with me. You have given me too much humiliation and pain these days, so this is your punishment."
The Halfman Taoist was slightly startled, and then he laughed out loud. However, his cultivation base was about to dissipate, and his laughter sounded particularly hoarse and powerless. "You are indeed a ruthless and heartless fellow. Forget it, no matter where you go in the future, it is still my cultivation base that will allow you to be reborn. Whether my name is left behind or not, when you roam the world, you will spread my glory."
Long Qing smiled and said, "Exactly."
The Halfman Taoist did not speak anymore, and calmly waited for death. But the next moment, he suddenly narrowed his horrifying, deformed eyes and looked at Long Qing. He said, "Death is coming soon. I don't know if I will fall into the Underworld or return to the Divine Light of Haotian. But I want to tell you that I am still afraid of death, because the end is every life's irrepressible sorrow."
Long Qing listened quietly, knowing that the old Taoist's last words must have a deep meaning.
"I will be afraid of death. They are the same as me." The Halfman Taoist said.
Long Qing knew that he was referring to the other old Taoist priests in the mountain cave.
The Halfman Taoist raised his head with difficulty and looked at everything in the deep cave. He looked at the dozens of strong breaths and said mockingly, "They are watching you suck me dry, and they are feeling my fear of death. So they will definitely not be like me and pass on all their cultivation to you. But just as I cannot resist the temptation of you, they cannot resist the temptation of you. So if they want to live, they cannot allow you to continue living. Unless you leave, they will definitely kill you."
Long Qing said after a moment of silence, "Although it is a little regretful, I understand."
The Halfman Taoist looked at him quietly and said lovingly, "Then run."
After saying this, he closed his eyes and fell on the snow-white bed. He died.
The dozens of strong breaths in the cave suddenly surged and seemed extremely terrifying. In an instant, they crushed all the luminous pearls on the stone wall and attacked Long Qing's body.
Long Qing screamed and his face became snow-white. His knees bounced off the ground and his body was like a leaf. He passed through the only passage among the dozens of breaths and floated out of the cave.
He escaped the cave. Without thinking, he directly jumped off the cliff and ran towards the Zhishou Abbey in the distance.
The dozens of strong breaths, with fear of the unknown, with violent breaths, with angry flames, and with unimaginably powerful states, spewed out from the countless holes in the cliff.
The green vines covering the surface of the mountain suddenly shattered and shot towards the sky and the earth like sharp arrows.
The earth trembled uneasily, and the whole world seemed to be destroyed.
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