Chapter 166 - 165: [Move Aside, Laozi Is Stacking Buffs!]

Chapter 166: Chapter 165: [Move Aside, Laozi Is Stacking Buffs!]

Outside the meditation room’s courtyard, four Golden Boys and Jade Maidens, dressed in red and green and carrying a sedan chair, began to move.

They leaped directly over the two-meter-high courtyard wall, floating in from above.

The moment they entered, the temperature in the courtyard dropped dramatically.

Frost even began to form in some places.

The swordsman and Feng Yu felt it most keenly. The blood on their faces had turned to ice crystals.

’What kind of rotten luck is this!’

’How did we both end up in this mess?’

The old Daoist, peeking out from a crack in the door, shivered.

"A Paperman? Why is it this bunch of malevolent things!"

He Xiaotian was completely baffled. ’What’s a Paperman?’

He only knew of the paper effigies sold at funeral supply stores, the kind people burned as offerings at graves.

"How about we just wait and see?" Shouyangzi suggested, swallowing dryly. He clearly didn’t want to provoke the paper figures in the courtyard. "These guys do business with the living by day and the dead by night.

Even before the energy tides began to surge, nobody wanted to deal with them. Our Daoist Alliance always gave them a wide berth, terrified of getting entangled. Besides, the Paperman craft is hereditary; they don’t just pass down their skills, but their client lists as well.

And that’s not to mention how the world has changed. Who knows if they’ve become even more sinister?"

"Yang, just because you’re scared doesn’t mean I am," He Xiaotian said in a low, indisputable tone. "Besides, they’re a major threat. I can’t have a few paper figures popping up and ruining everything right when I’m about to undergo my spiritual initiation."

His deal with Shouyangzi wasn’t just about Spiritual Energy Crystals.

The old Daoist was also supposed to perform his spiritual initiation, helping He Xiaotian embark on the path of Daoist cultivation.

’I won’t give up the martial path.’

’And I absolutely have to learn these mystical Daoist arts!’

Besides, he had the system for his martial arts. As long as he had enough Experience Points, it wouldn’t take up any of his time.

Unfortunately, some of the Daoist scriptures couldn’t be scanned, or else he wouldn’t have needed Shouyangzi to perform the initiation for him.

Therefore, He Xiaotian had to ensure that absolutely nothing went wrong.

If his path to learning Daoist arts was severed, it would be too late for regrets.

’As for this so-called hereditary legacy, it’s all bullshit!’

’Several Bosses have already fallen to my iron hammers. You think you can scare me off with the mere title of Paperman?’

’Impossible! Not even the Celestial King himself could make me back down. And that’s final!’

"To those inside the room, I’ll be taking the energy tide from the Snake Mountain Nether-Realm Fissure. Don’t worry, I won’t take it for nothing. I will bestow upon you five hundred Spiritual Energy Crystals as a reward. How does that sound?" a crisp female voice called out. Her tone held no trace of gloominess; it was completely at odds with anything considered eerie.

Her tone, however, was infuriating. To actually use the word "bestow"...

Inside the meditation room, the old Daoist was so angry his beard bristled and his eyes went wide.

But in the next second, his anger turned to intense envy. ’Damn, these Papermen are loaded!’

’Casually throwing around five hundred Spiritual Energy Crystals like that.’

’Sigh...’

’Too bad this Paperman business requires real skill and special techniques.’

’Otherwise, any old paper figure or house you burn would be useless to the spirits.’

"Ma Dan, I, X, have never been so underestimated. ’Reward’ me?"

The words had barely left his mouth when He Xiaotian pulled two man-sized iron hammers out of his storage space.

Then, like a cannonball, he shot forward, shattering the door with a BOOM and charging straight for the paper sedan chair.

He raised the wicked, giant hammer, covered in blood-colored patterns, high into the air.

One could only imagine the earth-shattering force it would unleash upon impact.

Seeing this, the four Golden Boys and Jade Maidens in red and green immediately moved, floating lightly to the right to evade the attack.

"BOOM!!"

The bluestone floor shattered, sending shards of rock flying in every direction.

The swordsman and Feng Yu both looked completely exasperated.

’Boss, we’re still buried in the courtyard here!’

’Could you please go a little easier? If one of those hits us in the head, we’re goners!’

Then, as if they had jinxed themselves, dozens of rock fragments shot toward them.

"..."

’We’re screwed.’

"CLANG!" "CLANG!" "CLANG!"

Just as the stones were about to hit them, a golden light flashed from both their heads.

Their heads, now like forged steel, rang out with metallic clangs.

The two suddenly remembered something. Just before nightfall...

He Xiaotian had stuck a Daoist talisman on the back of each of their heads.

However, the cross-dressing Boss on the other side wasn’t so lucky.

One of his ears was blown clean off.

But the bastard’s luck was surprisingly good.

Not a single piece of shrapnel hit his face.

Otherwise, the swordsman and Feng Yu would have gotten to watch a head explode like a free watermelon show.

And get a complimentary shower of blood, bone fragments, and brain matter.

"Such a temperamental man."

The woman’s voice drifted from the paper sedan chair, showing no fear of He Xiaotian whatsoever.

On the contrary, her tone suggested she held all the cards and had the situation completely under control.

He Xiaotian frowned. He hated that tone.

’The last one who talked like that, Mr. Men, was hammered into a bloody pulp by me!’

’This one, I imagine, will be no different.’

"If this is the extent of your strength, I suggest you accept my reward. Otherwise, wouldn’t it be a pity for every last Daoist in this temple to be exterminated?"

’How infuriating!’

Shouyangzi’s anger flared.

’I may not want to provoke the sinister Paperman families, but our Daoist Alliance is no pushover!’

’Besides, I swiped a whole case of talismans from my senior brother. If we really go all out, it’s not yet certain who will be the victor!’

"The extent of my strength?"

He Xiaotian glanced down at his body and chuckled.

’I just used the Bone Shrinking Skill to look like a regular person, and they’re already looking down on me?’

"CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!!"

With that thought, he stopped holding back.

His body swelled like an inflating balloon.

He quickly shot past two meters in height, the bulging muscles on his arms jaw-droppingly huge.

At this height, armed with his two massive hammers, his presence was truly unparalleled.

He looked like a peerless general of old, his entire body radiating a savage aura.

"Golden Body Uncovered!"

"Copper Body Armor!"

"Devourer’s Gaze!"

"Heaven-Scorching Sun!"

A golden substance seeped from his pores, covering his entire body until he resembled an Arhat descended from the heavens.

A copper-colored tunic materialized out of thin air, draping itself over his body.

Its metallic sheen was a testament to its incredible durability.

A gray light burst from his eyes, and his aura surged dramatically.

Everyone present felt as if they were watching a ferocious tiger charging down a mountain.

No one dared to face its ferocious charge.

Finally, a Fireball resembling a miniature sun rose from behind He Xiaotian’s head.

The chilling, sinister qi within the courtyard was instantly purged.

The Golden Boys and Jade Maidens, whose faces had been perpetually blank, now showed a flicker of pain.

They retreated continuously until they were outside the range of the Heaven-Scorching Sun, and only then did they seem to feel some relief.

At this moment, never mind the woman in the paper sedan chair, who was completely stunned.

Shouyangzi, who had been preparing to act inside the meditation room, froze with a Daoist talisman hovering in his hand.

The human-faced sunflower beside Daoxuan burrowed into his embrace, refusing to come out no matter what.

’They had known from the start that He Xiaotian was not someone to be provoked, but they had never imagined he could be this ferocious.’

As for the swordsman and Feng Yu, they were having an existential crisis.

The former was thinking, ’Back when he was pulverizing those Deceitful People, he wasn’t even using his full power.’

The latter was thinking, ’I must have had a brain fart last night.’

’Otherwise, why would I have ever picked a fight with this monster?’

’Looking at him now, he could probably crush all of us with a single hand!!’