Killing Dao Fruit

Day Twenty-Three, Boundless Sky of Oaths.

In this celestial realm, indescribable in the eyes of immortals and dazzlingly exquisite in the eyes of mortals, incense smoke wafts everywhere, heavy with the scent of sandalwood.

Looking around, you can hardly see a single ordinary mundane building.

Instead, there are as many as 129,600 grandiose divine temples, all dedicated to the "Heavenly Elder".

In the center of the celestial realm stands a towering mountain, topped with a vast complex of sprawling palaces.

A single straight plume of smoke rises from there like a cloud path shooting straight into the sky.

The remaining Burning Incense Taoist followers in the mortal world use this cloud path to perform the [Burning Incense Invocation] to summon the affiliates of the Burning Incense Heavenly Elder, or to transport polluted souls here.

But whether coming or going, it has become much more sparse than a year ago.

An exquisitely beautiful woman, though naked, exudes an aura of solemn majesty, sitting cross-legged on a nine-layered jade altar, her fingers forming a sealing technique.

Wearing a gold filigree comb adorned with birds of paradise on her head, a red flame-shaped ornament marks her forehead, and her skin emits a soft glow like snow.

From behind her head spreads circle after circle of supremely sacred immortal light.

Though unclothed, in the eyes of the many believers, she inspires not a single sacrilegious thought but rather seems to cleanse their very souls.

In their hearts, they believe that in this tainted world, she is the only purity!

Their sole purpose is to guard this pure land.

Seeing their fanatical eyes, the "Burning Incense Dao" truly lives up to its reputation for divine invocation and captivating the hearts of people.

At this moment.

From the foot of the mountain to its summit, devout believers form one circle after another—there are people, beasts, swimming fish, and all manner of strange Demons and Ghosts.

"A thousand gods, myriad spirits, bowing heads and foreheads. Zewei holds the lamp, burning incense for me. Everywhere we pass, all gods welcome..."

They fall to the ground one by one, their chanting buzzing like a swarm of insects, filling the entire Boundless Sky of Oaths.

Outsiders may find it irritating, even nauseating, but insiders hear a celestial melody, becoming enchanted and entranced.

Yet none of these mortals can discern that the real [Burning Incense Heavenly Elder] on the jade altar is no sacred goddess.

But a ghastly white giant moth!

Its head remains that of a woman, but where the mouth should be, it has countless insect-like monstrous mouthparts.

They drip and dribble with saliva.

On its back are two pairs of scaled wings, each with two lifelike blood-red eyes that blink and mesmerize every believer within sight.

They would give anything, even life itself, in devotion.

The Burning Incense Heavenly Elder slightly raises its eyelids.

A multitude of deformed appendages on its chest, along with the hideous mouthparts, shoot out like lightning, piercing into the heads of over a thousand fervent believers.

Sluuurp~ Sluuurp~

Whether it was brain pulp or something else, it immediately flowed along translucent tubes, constantly falling into the belly of the Burning Incense Heavenly Elder.

As the mouthparts fed upon them, the followers of the Burning Incense Dao seemed to simultaneously experience extreme pleasure.

Faces flushed, bodies trembling, each hoped desperately for the great Heavenly Elder to continue feeding.

Even if, in just a brief moment, they were reduced to skin and bones, it mattered not.

Even collapsed on the ground, their faces would still bear expressions of utter satisfaction.

Not a trace of resentment for the Burning Incense Heavenly Elder, only regretting why they hadn't amassed more Wishing Power to transform into the brain pulp the Heavenly Elder most loved!

"Heavenly Elder, little one has failed you, truly deserving of death!"

Those who weren't consumed couldn't help but call out in their hearts:

"Heavenly Elder, eat me! Eat me!"

"I'm the tastiest!"

"Heavenly Elder, this devotee has read so many romances that even my brain pulp is sweet!"

"..."

Yet these already insane believers did not know.

Their all-powerful and omnipotent Burning Incense Heavenly Elder.

Since the fall of the [Swallowing Star Heavenly Dog] and the [Fangzhang Corpse King] of the Heaven God System, has been living in constant dread.

"Will I be next? Has the Killing Tree abandoned the Heaven God System? How is the Cang God now; if attacked, can it still protect me?..."

Wild thoughts spiraled, and the more they thought, the more afraid they became.

Only by turning fear into appetite, by endlessly gorging, could they barely suppress their chaotic emotions.

While like always selecting the appealing believers to consume one by one, they suddenly found the brain pulp of a monk believer extraordinarily delicious.

Not to mention how much incense had been burned in its past life, but the Incense Fire Vow Power was overwhelmingly abundant, taking quite a while to finish.

The Burning Incense Heavenly Elder itself, involuntarily drawn in, gradually became inebriated as if the brain pulp was intoxicating.

If an observer had been on the side, they would notice that its expression was identical to those of the believers being fed upon.

As if experiencing some worldly ecstasy.

The only difference being it was, after all, a Purple Seal Heavenly Official, and not long into its stupor did it realize something was amiss, alarm bells going off internally.

"There's something wrong with this brain pulp!"

Instinctively, it was about to retract the mouthparts from the monk's head, when suddenly the monk lifted their head, revealing a cold grin at it.

Grasping the mouthparts embedded in their own head, not allowing the Burning Incense Heavenly Elder to pull back.

Inside the body, the "brain pulp" surged through tubes like a pump, actively feeding it.

"Eat, eat more, Lord Buddha brought this 'special' brain pulp all the way here just for you, how could just two bites be enough? Hahaha..."