Chapter 481 — The Shaman God Strikes at the Soul
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All around, yellow-robed monks chanted the Buddha's teachings aloud, the sound of the Buddha reverberating—clearly they were preparing to deliver this demon god.
"With you blood-drinking, fur-eating beasts, you think you can refine me?"
That demon god's primordial spirit was none other than Kui the Shaman God. Unharmed amid the sound of the Buddha, he kept trying to break free of the chains of Buddha-light, laughing. "When I break out, I'll turn every one of you into blood-sacrifice!"
Shen Mu's expression changed slightly. He rose hastily and called out loudly, "Tathagata, this demon god is of the Ghost Race! His soul is incomparably powerful—the mightiest of evil gods. You cannot deliver him! He's using your hands to refine the soul-worms within his body, to break free of the seal placed on him by the Great Venerable of the Golden Palace!"
The monks were at a loss. They looked at Little Tathagata and stopped their chanting.
On the altar, Kui the Shaman God suddenly wrenched his head around and looked at Shen Mu, his face hideous and savage. "So it's Hierarch Shen. My scrapped disciple tried to bow you to death several times, yet could never bow you to death. And now you come to ruin my good work again—truly, you overestimate yourself!"
Little Tathagata and the assembled monks' expressions changed drastically. They hurriedly rose, only to see the primordial spirit of Kui the Shaman God in the altar open its mouth and spit out soul-worms one after another. The soul-worms squeaked and shrieked; meeting the Buddha-light, they dissolved on the spot into wisps of blue smoke.
With these soul-worms removed, Kui the Shaman God's savage might surged to the heavens. An appalling authority spread out; in an instant, the plants and trees atop peak after peak withered, all things blighted. On the mountain, many demon monks of lesser cultivation fell flat on their backs without even a grunt, dead where they stood!
Little Tathagata hastily put away the golden bowl and turned the altar upside down to trap Kui the Shaman God.
Little Tathagata said gravely, "Junior Brother Poying, suppress this demon beneath the Heaven-Seal Pagoda!"
A yellow-robed monk stepped forward, about to take the golden bowl, when suddenly from within came the laughter of Kui the Shaman God. "Your name is Poying? Then take a bow!"
The yellow-robed monk fell flat on his back, his soul scattered and gone!
For a time, no one dared step forward.
"Heh heh heh. I sense that my Book of Life and Death is nearby. You must have obtained my Book of Life and Death and hidden it away, haven't you? Truly, heaven aids me!"
Kui the Shaman God laughed loudly from within the golden bowl. Suddenly a pagoda shook and shattered, and a scroll of scripture flew out from the collapsing pagoda, hurtling toward the golden bowl!