Above the Great Dao

He was caught by one of the Shen's long tongues, desperately flapping his wings in an attempt to break free, but was still being pulled toward the gaping mouth of the Shen!

The Shen's mouth was filled with sharp teeth, opening and closing.

Peng Ju used both hands and feet to brace against the Shen's upper and lower jaws, struggling to keep the creature from biting down. But the Shen exerted force with its tongue, wrapping around his waist, pulling hard, almost snapping him in two!

Another Shen swung its forelimb, reaching into the first Shen's mouth to extract Peng Ju, intending to devour him itself.

"Peng Ju, Blood Lake Scripture!"

Chen Shi rushed over, gesturing with a sword finger, sending a streak of blood-colored Sword Qi to sever the raised forelimb of the other Shen, shouting loudly, "Channel the blood energy into your wings! Slash!"

Peng Ju struggled within the Shen's mouth, upon hearing the command, recklessly activating the Blood Lake Scripture, trying to guide the blood light from the blood pool at the back of his head to his wings.

The blood pool at the back of his head was small, with little blood light, barely covering the tips of his wing feathers.

Peng Ju spread his wings, a wingspan of three to four zhang, and with a whoosh, the streaks of blood light sliced through the Shen's tough scales, sharp teeth, resilient long tongue, and heavy skull!

The giant Shen was cleaved into three parts by his wings, its two halves collapsing sideways with two loud thuds, while the middle section remained standing before tumbling down moments later.

All the blood energy from the Shen flowed into his wings, quickly dyeing them blood red.

Chen Shi, being in a skeleton body, felt sensations, but not intensely. However, Peng Ju, in flesh and blood, felt warmth coursing through his body, refining his physique, and within a short time, his strength increased significantly!

He even felt his raw force had grown four to five times greater than before!

Excess blood energy flowed toward the blood pool at the back of his head, enlarging it considerably.

Meanwhile, Chen Shi slew another Shen, absorbing its blood energy, feeling his body strengthen further, his blood pool behind his head also growing, gradually approaching the size of a Blood Pool.

"Such an evil Cultivation Technique!"

Chen Shi's heart trembled slightly, "This technique is definitely a Demon Technique! However, it can enhance the power of the soul!"

He used the Blood Lake Scripture to kill these two Shen, absorbing blood energy, even his soul was greatly enhanced.

Chen Shi had consumed many Resurrection Lotuses, refining his soul to be almost solid, but since then, no amount of Resurrection Lotus had any effect. Now, his soul actually improved again!

At this moment, the fog gradually thinned, and the sound of wheels rolling grew closer.

Forty to fifty Shens, as large as small mountains, came into their view. These ghost-headed, multi-limbed monsters walked on the ground, interlocking their sharp teeth, viciously staring at them, slowly approaching.

A Ghost God, made of flesh and blood growing on wheels, rolled toward them, about five to six zhang tall, holding a long whip in one hand, herding the Shens.

Suddenly, the Ghost God stopped, looked at Chen Shi and Peng Ju, then at the Shen corpses on the ground, and said coldly, "Did you two do this?"

In the locust trees nearby, the village's Rocs poked their heads out to watch the commotion, leaping to the edges of houses, stretching their necks to get a better view upon seeing this scene.

Peng Ju came to Chen Shi's side and whispered, "That's a shepherd ghost, one that herds the Ghost God's creatures, a different race. Though few in number, they're naturally much stronger than us Rocs, and we are often bullied by them. Look at his chest, there's a basket there."

Chen Shi's gaze fell on the shepherd ghost's chest, where several bones grew outward, resembling a bone basket with a small Yaksha sitting inside, holding three incense sticks in both hands.

The incense smoke drifted upwards, being inhaled into the shepherd ghost's nostrils.

"That little Yaksha, it specifically offers incense for him."

Peng Ju whispered, "A shepherd ghost without a small ghost offering incense in the chest basket has no rank. With incense, it has a rank. Behind this shepherd ghost must be a Heavenly Pond Country's Ghost God! We've killed the Shens he herds, this could spell big trouble for us..."

"Then let's kill him too!"

Chen Shi formed a sword technique with his hand, thrusting a sword, the Sword Qi transformed into a streak of blood light, whizzing through the air.

One of the Shens couldn't dodge in time, having its head pierced by the Sword Qi!

Chen Shi charged forward, activating the Second New Talisman, a flash of electricity beneath his feet, his figure almost blinking to appear atop the Shen's head, landing and flipping.

As his body flipped in the air, a Sword Qi nearly a zhang long flew from the Shen's back of the head, taking the Shen's entire blood energy, casting this blood-colored Sword Light.

Chen Shi flipped down, the falling Sword Light split open the head of a Shen behind.

At the moment Chen Shi landed, a light flick of the sword finger divided the blood-colored Sword Qi into two, piercing into the bodies of the Shens on either side.

He charged forward, the skeleton's left and right hands forming sword techniques, two streaks of blood-colored Sword Qi burst forth, dancing with the sword technique.

The blood-colored Sword Light extended over a zhang long, the sword light whirring back and forth, limbs and arms flying in an instant.

The blood-colored Sword Qi split into two, then four, then eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and by the time Chen Shi charged out from the Shen pack, it had multiplied into sixty-four, crisscrossing blood-red Sword Light, complex sword moves, dazzling to the eyes, heading straight for that shepherd ghost!

From the moment Chen Shi rushed into the Shen pack to when all Shens were slain, it only took an instant to multiply a single Sword Qi into sixty-four!

The shepherd ghost brandished his long whip, the whip rapidly elongated, suddenly twisting, clanging and clattering, blocking and deflecting each coming Sword Light!