Chapter 521: Heavenly Dao Aberration, the Price of the Path 2
Chapter 521 Chapter 520: Heavenly Dao Aberration, the Price of the Path 2 (1/3)
Dream Dao Attainment, Opening Scheme Against Cultivators
Dream-Making Expert
He had not yet reached the Void Cavern.
Lin Qi fought down his nausea and carefully examined the filth on Daoist Juntian’s body.
He found that Daoist Juntian’s current condition closely resembled what the Buddhist order called the Five Signs of Decay.
The so-called Five Signs of Decay referred to the five strange phenomena that appeared when a heavenly being’s lifespan was about to end.
They were: clothing soiled and filthy, flowers upon the head withered, sweat beneath the arms, the body reeking and foul, and no longer taking joy in one’s seat.
It sounded complicated.
But imagine it.
An immortal dressed sloppily, sporting a comb-over, and more or less suffering from dementia.
Not only did his armpits stink of fox odor, but every day he had to fall into a latrine pit, and he wouldn’t even wash!
And on top of that, he’d contracted depression, sitting restless and uneasy all day long.
Living like that — forget immortals, even most mortals would probably feel death was better.
And the current Daoist Juntian looked exactly like someone afflicted with the Five Signs of Decay.
“The Five Signs of Decay?!”
Faced with Lin Qi’s question, Daoist Juntian did not answer.
That Lump Face believer opened his mouth in shock. After carefully sizing up Daoist Juntian, whom Lin Qi held in his hand, he grew excited.
“As expected, only a great divine ability user can pay this price: the Five Signs of Decay!”
“Lord Divine Envoy is truly wise and divine, his dharma eye like a torch.”
“To think he captured a former great divine ability user so quickly.”
The Lump Face believer gazed at Lin Qi with utter worship. The pustules on his lump began to burst again.
Lin Qi didn’t dare look at him, and hurriedly turned his head.
Then he saw another believer beside him staring at him with feverish excitement.
“Lord Divine Envoy has captured a great divine ability user.”
“Lord Divine Envoy, your spiritual power is boundless, your divine abilities vast, may you enjoy immortal fortune forever…”
Pop.
The poor child got too excited and burst.
Now Lin Qi was about to crack too. He didn’t dare continue interrogating Daoist Juntian in front of these believers.
He feared that if he was too wise and divine by accident, he’d burst another batch of them.
So he quickly picked up his pace, and finally arrived before the so-called Void Cavern.
It was really just a stronghold of these believers in the mountains.
From the outside, it looked decent enough.
There were many traces of artificial carving, and though only broken walls and ruins remained.
One could still tell that long ago, this must have been a Blessed Land grotto-heaven wreathed in immortal qi and rolling auspicious vapor, a Daoist sanctuary.
But now the immortals had gone off to who-knew-where, leaving only ruins in the cave.
Walking further in, a rotten, pungent stench suddenly drifted over. Looking closely.
He could see that within the shadows of the broken walls, a great number of grotesque insects rustled and crawled about.
And deeper within the cave, he could even see the white bones and corpses of many rotting beasts.