Chapter 576 The Wild God is also a God
"Let's have a meeting. We must find a way to break the impasse."
In the woods.
A bonfire was roasting the prey. Upon hearing these words, the three priests headed by Zhong Pan put down the barbecue in their hands at the same time and looked at Zhao Duan.
Meeting? This word wasn't popular in Yu State, but several people found it to be very descriptive.
Zhao Duan sat cross-legged on the ground, looking at the three faces seriously:
"According to our previous calculations, even if we use up our remaining teleportation opportunity, we might only have eight hours left...
Well, that's still an overestimation. If we don't find a way to break this situation during this period, then simply running away won't make much sense."
Yes, there is no point in running away!
This is why Zhao Duan chose to sit down and eat and rest in such a tense situation:
If we can't find the right way to get rid of Xu Jingtang, then racing against time will be pointless.
Therefore, the most urgent task is not to escape immediately.
Instead, calm down, replenish your physical energy, use your brain, and focus your energy on thinking.
The three priests were stunned for a moment, then quickly understood what he meant and fell into deep thought.
How to escape from a god's pursuit?
This was undoubtedly an extremely difficult question. Zhong Pan frowned and racked his brains. As for the golden tablet...
The girl was very sleepy. She closed her eyes, held the barbecue in her tender white hands, and stuffed it into her mouth. Her neat teeth grunted like a panda eating bamboo, and she completely gave up thinking.
Anyway, she felt that she was not good at this, so she decided not to waste her brain cells.
"Perhaps we can start with the gods," Zhao Duan said, breaking the silence when he saw that no one was saying anything. "I was just wondering how Xu Jingtang was tracking us."
After saying this, he stared at Zhong Pan and Yu Xiu.
Zhao Duan is good at thinking, but he lacks understanding of the sorcerer system, especially when it comes to gods, so he needs two righteous priests to give answers and work together.
Zhong Pan sat cross-legged on the ground, his body wrapped in a large black robe. He pondered for a moment and said:
"In my opinion, it's due to the curse on us. Gods aren't omnipotent. Each god has a specific area of authority. For example, the water god cannot use fire magic.
Furthermore, the Death God Xu Jingtang summoned was barely at the level of a celestial being. The Death God's techniques were mostly curse-related, lacking the power to locate, track, or divine.
The white cuffs of her jade sleeves were stained from her running around last night. Now the graceful and elegant female Taoist priest put down the barbecue, nodded and said seriously:
"Brother, you're right. The most likely reason the Death God is trying to track us is by sensing the remaining curse on us. Of course, there's another possibility..."
Zhao Duan asked doubtfully, "What's possible?"
"Luck," Yuxiu said with a serious expression, "The Sad God School can reverse a person's fortune. You should be well aware of this.
If Xu Jingtang causes our luck to worsen, then even if he loses us and chooses a random direction to pursue us, we will still encounter him due to luck... After all, as long as our luck is bad, our escape will not be smooth."
Ah this... Zhao Duan was stunned with a strange expression.
He really understands it.
Back in Jianning Prefecture, his fortune was cursed.
Yuxiu analyzed carefully:
"Also, did you notice? When Xu Jingtang caught up with us just now, he didn't catch up with us, but intercepted us from the front."
Zhao Duan thought for a moment and said:
"What the priest is saying is... if he was simply following the curse, he should have been chasing us from behind, but he appeared in front. Perhaps it's more the influence of luck?"
Yuxiu nodded.
Zhong Pan added:
"It's certainly possible. However, we can't rule out the possibility of a tracking curse. It also makes sense that Xu Jingtang took a shortcut and blocked the way ahead.
Furthermore, the effect of the curse should be related to distance. Every time we teleported away, the distance increased, and his perception became blurred. This also explains why it took him so long to catch up last night."
Zhao Duan nodded, thinking that both guesses were possible, or even both. He concluded:
"In short, no matter which one it is, it's directly related to the curse on us. And Xu Jingtang's judgment of our location may not be particularly accurate. It's just a rough range. The closer we get, the clearer the location may be."
Both priests nodded, expressing their agreement from a professional perspective.
"Hunk, hunk..." Jin Jian ate the roe deer leg in his hand like a hamster, and nodded pretentiously:
"Senior brothers and sisters are right!"
Then she stretched out her little hand, grabbed a piece of barbecue that her sleeve had placed on the ground, and continued to eat it stealthily.
Zhao Duan held a branch in his hand to stir the bonfire, scratching it casually on the ground, and said calmly:
"So, theoretically, as long as we remove the curse from us, we can get rid of him?"
Zhong Pan sighed and shook his head.
“The problem is, we can’t!
How can it be easy to dispel the curse of God?
That night, I tried to weaken the curse through cultivation, but with little success. I estimated that even if I practiced non-stop, gradually weakening it, it would take at least half a month to completely erase it."
Even Zhong Pan would need half a month, let alone the others... Zhao Duan frowned and said, "Will the curse disappear on its own?"
This was his experience when he was cursed by the sorcerer of the White Robe Sect when he was in Jianning Prefecture.
Zhong Pan nodded, "Yes. But if a god-level curse is left untreated, it might not naturally dissipate in half a year. During this period, even if Xu Jingtang dies, it will still be the same, because as long as the god is alive, the curse will still exist."
It’s so difficult... Zhao Duan also felt a headache.
Yuxiu suddenly said angrily, "If Fourth Junior Brother were here, he might be able to use his dice to cancel the curse."
Fourth Junior Brother? The Heavenly Master's fourth disciple? Zhao Duan was taken aback when he heard this name unexpectedly.
Seeing Zhao Duan's curious look, Zhong Pan sighed and explained:
"Master's fourth disciple has a talisman of considerable importance, a dice. The dice has different sides, which can bring different fortunes when thrown, and has many other uses.
It is a magical weapon with a status no lower than that of a celestial curse.
If we can cast a good fortune, we will have great luck for a certain period of time, and this good luck will naturally offset the many malicious curses on us."
What kind of weird thing is this... Is there such a strange talisman?
Zhao Duan's eyes lit up. "Can you summon him? Lend me the dice?"
Zhong Pan shook his head and said:
"His whereabouts are erratic, and no one knows where he is. Last year, he cast a spell of 49 days of bad luck. To avoid this fate and a violent death, he sought refuge in a remote place... I haven't seen him since, but I know he's still alive."
He glanced at Yu Xiu again and said calmly:
"Don't count on him. Not to mention the randomness of the dice, even if he could be summoned, given the cursed state we're in right now, finding him would only make things worse.
You don't want to have another layer of misfortune piled on top of yours, do you? By then, I'm afraid the curse will erupt and you'll die on the spot."
Yuxiu snorted and said in annoyance, "I was just saying it casually."
Shit… Zhao Duan immediately gave up the idea of asking for help and decided to stay away from this priest whom he had never met.
However, Zhao Duan caught a useful piece of information:
"You just said that the dice was of a very high rank and could cover up the curse of the Lost God?"
Zhong Pan nodded and said, "It is said that the talisman is an ancient artifact corresponding to the 'God of Luck'.
Fourth Junior Brother also attempted to cultivate this 'God of Luck', but this deity is very mysterious, elusive, and ethereal. Throughout the dynasties, only a very few sorcerers could resonate with this deity... and only gods can fight against gods."
I learned something new... Zhao Duan is not surprised by the strange gods in this world, and his attention is not focused on them.
On the contrary, when he heard the last sentence, a flash of inspiration flashed through his mind. The branch in his hand suddenly stopped, and he murmured softly:
"Only gods can fight against gods?"
Yuxiu nodded as a matter of course: "Of course. Even if we try to weaken the curse, we will still be using the power of the deity we cultivate to dilute the power of the Lost God."
Grunt, grunt… Jin Jian wiped his mouth after finishing his second piece of barbecue and casually agreed, “Senior Brother and Sister are right.”
Then, he sneakily stole the barbecue that Zhong Pan had placed next to him.
Zhao Duan seemed to have thought of something, and he suddenly asked, "Is the Wild God considered a god?"
ah?
At this moment, the three priests were all stunned at the same time.
Is the Wild God considered a god?
Yuxiu subconsciously said, "Although wild gods are much weaker than orthodox gods and evil gods, they are also gods born between heaven and earth. They are undoubtedly gods."
Zhao Duan's heart began to pound. He stared at Yu Xiu intently and suddenly asked a key question:
"If we die, I mean if, if we die, will the curse still exist?"
Yuxiu was confused and shook her head:
"As the saying goes, when a person dies, their spirit disappears. Once a person dies, the curse they carry will naturally disappear... Well, but we have to distinguish carefully. We have to see whether the curse falls on the person's body or soul.
If the curse is on the body, even if the person's soul dissipates and he dies completely, leaving only a body, the curse will still remain.
However, curses as powerful as the Death God curse usually affect the soul, but we probably have both curses on us."
The truly powerful curses often target the soul directly, and this is also the most difficult type to remove.
Curses that affect the body, such as "skin ulcers", are much easier to remove.
Last night, Zhang Yanyi's Dharma body blocked this kind of shallow curse, so no one suffered any visible injuries.
However, their internal cultivation was locked, which meant that there was also a curse on their bodies. Zhong Pan and Yu Xiu had already confirmed the existence of both curses through meditation.
"What do you want to say? Or what have you thought of?" Zhong Pan noticed that something was wrong with Zhao Duan and asked tentatively.
Jin Jian held the stolen barbecue in his hands, resisting the urge to sleep, and tilted his head to look at him.
Zhao Duan met the three people's gazes, pondered for a moment, and then said something earth-shattering: "Do you think the Dragon Girl can cover up the curse of the Lost God?"
Dragon Girl?
At this moment, the three of them suddenly remembered that in the fight last night, Zhao Duan had subdued the Wild Dragon Girl.
Not only the dragon girl, but also a tiger is sealed in Zhong Pan's body.
"You want to..." Zhong Pan was surprised.
Zhao Duan didn't hide or evade, staring at the three of them and telling them a plan:
"If I control the Dragon Girl and trap the four of us, including you and myself, in a dream she weaves, can I use her power to cover, hide, and shield the curse on our souls?
If we lose our soul, does that mean our body is dead?"
Zhong Pan was shocked.
Yuxiu looked stunned.
The elbow in Jin Jian's hand fell off...
Use the Dragon Girl to imprison them all?! To avoid Xu Jingtang's pursuit?
What a bizarre idea! A strange train of thought! A normal person wouldn't even have time to hide from the Dragon Girl, so who would even think of actively hiding in her dreams?
This is completely in the blind spot of the priests' thinking!
Can……
After the initial confusion, Zhong Pan and Yu Xiu fell into deep thought as they considered the possibilities!
Is it okay?
It seems... it might actually be useful!
Only gods can suppress gods!
The wild god is also a god!
Of course, the power of wild gods like the Dragon Girl is definitely far inferior to that of the God of Death, and they are simply unable to fight against the God of Death head-on.
The power of the Dragon Girl would have almost no effect against Xu Jingtang.
but……
What they have to deal with is not the real body of the God of Death, but just some curses imposed on them by the God of Death!
Once they enter the Dragon Girl's dream and are enveloped by the power of this wild god, the curse may not be dispelled, but there is a high possibility that they will be isolated.
At the same time, although the curse still exists on their bodies, on the one hand... their souls have been extracted, and their bodies will enter a state of suspended animation like a "vegetative state", and the curse may not be effective.
Secondly, even if the curse on the body still exists, without the power of the curse on the soul, Xu Jingtang's perception of them is likely to weaken!
Moreover, the "bad luck" that Yuxiu had worried about before was actually affecting the soul. Once covered by the wild god, the bad luck would be reduced.
"This... seems..." Yuxiu's eyes sparkled, "It seems that we can give it a try."
Her mind raced:
"The unicorn itself has intelligence. Even without a driver, it can still carry us towards Zhengyang Mountain. At most, we'll need to control the direction and take elixirs when our spirits return to our bodies occasionally...
The unicorn was not in Baishi Garden last night, and it didn’t carry any curse..."
Zhong Pan was also breathing rapidly. He couldn't help but raise his hand to press his arm, and said with some regret: "It's a pity that I didn't tame the tiger, and I can't drive it."
No... a wild tiger god, even if it can be driven, is of no use. We can't let the tiger eat all our bodies and swallow them into its stomach... Zhao Duan complained madly.
The three of them thought about it carefully and discussed it for a long time, and they all felt that this method was worth a try.
Anyway, they still have one chance to teleport and they have the capital to try and error!
At that moment, the three of them did not delay any longer. They quickly extinguished the campfire and dragged Jin Jian, who was even more sleepy after eating, into the carriage together.
Zhong Pan lay beside the unicorn's ear, whispering to it and telling it the direction to go.
As for the safety of the souls of several people after entering the Dream Tower, there is no need to worry too much.
First of all, a running carriage is invisible, and it is impossible to get on it under the worldly realm.
Secondly, even if Zhao Duan drives the Dragon Girl, he will not completely lose his sensitivity to the outside world.
Inside the car.
Zhao Duan glanced at Jin Jian, who was hugging his knees and almost falling asleep, and then looked at Yu Xiu, who was sitting cross-legged in meditation. He waited for Zhong Pan to get into the carriage and lower the curtain.
"Get ready." He took a deep breath, spread out his right hand and grabbed it. Buddha's light appeared in his palm and a green lotus swayed.
In the center of the lotus, a thumb-sized, transparent dragon girl with visible blood vessels and internal organs slowly emerged. At Zhao Duan's call, she raised her little face and looked at the four pairs of eyes surrounding the lotus with her cold eyes.
Their eyes met.
“Pah.”
The four of them closed their eyelids at the same time, as if they were dead.
At the same time, the unicorn, which had rested, shook its tail, neighed, and pulled the carriage into the illusory state again, galloping towards Zhengyang Mountain at lightning speed.
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Far away.
In a mountain forest, Xu Jingtang was in a furious state with a gloomy face, flying with the magic power of the God of Death.
Relying on the connection between the God of Death and the curse, he could vaguely sense the location of Zhao Duan and others.
In addition, "fortune" will also make the skills of both parties meet by coincidence.
"You can't escape." Xu Jingtang's eyes were red and murderous intent was boiling.
Although he was puzzled, he roughly guessed that the other party was fleeing towards Yunfu.
"Do you want to do the opposite and think it will be safer to go towards my base camp?" Xu Jingtang sneered.
If this group of people ran to the north, he would still hesitate, but there is a road to heaven but they chose to go back to their own nest. Isn't that extremely stupid?
Suddenly, Xu Jingtang let out a light exclamation, and felt that his sense of the curse suddenly disappeared for the most part, and he almost lost the sense of Zhao Duan and his group!
Only a vague remnant remained, but it made his pursuit even more difficult.
"What's going on? Has the curse been lifted? Impossible..." Xu Jingtang didn't understand.
If there really was a way to lift the curse, why was there still a little bit left, allowing him to barely determine the approximate direction?
Don't understand.
But he had already chased so far that it was impossible for him to turn back to Jingchuan Town, so he could only continue chasing.
"Zhao Duan, I will chop off your head with my own hands!"
Xu Jingtang's eyes were fierce, and he no longer hesitated as he continued to chase towards Yunfu.
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ps: This is a bit watery, Xu Jingtang will die in the next chapter.
(End of this chapter)
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