Chapter 1337: Easy As Turning My Palm

Ye Qing and Papersmith continued forward as if they couldn’t feel the pressure though. Every time Ye Qing took a step, the roaring white tiger in the sky would back a step, and the powerful wind that swept heaven and earth would fall back a tad.

By the time Ye Qing reached the entrance of White Tiger Monastery, he white tiger had been forced all the way back into the dark clouds, afraid to show its face. As for the powerful wind, it had been pushed back into the monastery itself and toppled over walls.

It was at this moment a man wearing a Taoist robe stepped out from inside the monastery. He had a human body but a tiger’s head.

The wind that was pushed back abruptly grew stronger in power and shot high into the sky. Then, it did a loop and fell straight toward Ye Qing and Papersmith.

As the wind descended, it changed from colorless to pale white; intangible to tangible. Everything it touched turned pale white in color.

“It’s the Bone Cutting Wind!”

Everyone on the street turned as pale as a sheet and panicked when they recognized the wind.

The Bone Cutting Wind stripped one of their flesh and turned them into skeletons instantly. Hence the name. It was also how White Tiger Temple collected enough skeletons to make a whole monastery out of it.

Several years ago, White Tiger Monastery was just a small monastery. It wasn’t built from bones either. But after Taoist Tiger arrived, anyone who tried to invade the monastery by force would be stripped into bones by the Bone Cutting Wind. Taoist Tiger would then mix their bones into the monastery’s walls.

Over time, White Tiger Monastery kept becoming bigger, and Taoist Tiger became more and more famous as well. Eventually, it became a forbidden zone like the city entrance of the Void Stomach City.

Everyone in Void Stomach City feared White Bone Monastery and Taoist Tiger as much as they feared the Rain of Aging, Bloody Wind, the yin fire of the city entrance and all other disasters and Anomalies.

In the past, these people would have run off as soon as they caught sight the Bone Cutting Wind and Taoist Tiger. But today, despite being so afraid that they were as pale as a sheet, they did not run away.

It was because of the young man standing in front of them.

It was because they believed him to be a god.

Everything would be fine so long as god was guiding them.

As expected, their god raised his foot half an inch and stomped as the Bone Cutting Wind descended from above.

“His foot as his mallet, and the earth as his drum, he kicks over the southern heaven’s gate.”

Thump!

There was a muffled echo and a shockwave of force. The cascading Bone Cutting Wind abruptly dissipated just like that.

Taoist Tiger did not try anything after witnessing Ye Qing stomping the Bone Cutting Wind into nothing. Staring at Ye Qing, he asked, “Who are you? Why have you come to my White Bone Monastery?”

Taoist Tiger might be massive and tiger-headed, but his voice was surprisingly warm and peaceful. Not a hint of barbarism and violence could be found.

“Greetings, Reverend. I am Ye Qing.” Ye Qing paid him a salute. “I have come to discuss a matter with you.”

Taoist Tiger asked, “What is it?”

Ye Qing did not keep him in suspense. “Would you like to leave Void Stomach City?”

Taoist Tiger narrowed his eyes slightly. “You know a way?”

“I do!” Ye Qing declared with absolute confidence. “I found my way in. Naturally, I can find my way out.”

“In fact, this offer extends not just to you. I can save everyone from this place.”

When Ye Qing said this, everyone’s eyes lit up at once. The light in their eyes was so bright that it seemed capable of illuminating everything; fierce enough to burn everything.

It was madness, zealotry, and hope.

No one was yelling or cheering or talking though. No one was even making a peep.

After all, their god was talking.

Taoist Tiger’s eyes were no less bright than the others, but they were also full of danger. “Why should I believe you?”

“Because I can ignore the yin fire restriction at the city entrance. Because I can block the Rain of Aging.”

Ye Qing answered as a pair of swimming yin and yang fishes leaped into existence. “And because it takes but the turn of a palm for me to kill you.”

“Is that so?”

Taoist Tiger narrowed his eyes slowly as his pupils contracted into pins. The next moment, the White Tiger Monastery rumbled loudly, and the walls and mountains of bones collapsed. They mixed and mingled like an avalanche until they formed a gigantic, mountain-sized bone tiger behind Taoist Tiger.

The bones of the giant bone tiger clashed and rubbed against each other. The individual noise created by two bones might be soft and dull, but thousands, no, millions of them making noises at the same time? It became a shrill, deafening, horrifying roar that resembled a tiger or a ghost’s.

The entire Void stomach City seemed to be shaking from the tsunami of noises. Moreover, everyone who heard the tiger’s roar slowly felt a growing sense of restlessness and bloodthirst. Even the reverent crowd behind Ye Qing were slowly looking at the young man with restless irritation and the desire to harm instead.

“I don’t believe you!”

“Heh.”

In response, Ye Qing chuckled and lowered his palm. The yin yang fishes spanning dozens of kilometers in the sky began to descend slowly.

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It was like the sky itself was falling. Every time the yin yang fishes descended an inch, space would tremble, and Taoist Tiger’s complexion would grow a tad paler.

When the yin yang fishes had descended three inches, the deafening tiger roar weakened until it was completely silent.

When the yin yang fishes had descended six inches, the giant bone tiger abruptly exploded into smithereens.

And when the yin yang fishes had descended nine inches, Taoist Tiger was shaking all over with bloodshot eyes and bulging veins. The ground beneath his feet was shattering inch by inch.

Ye Qing did not push further. Instead, he asked, “Do you believe me now, Reverend?”

A moment of silence later, Taoist Tiger sighed. “I believe you.”

Satisfied with Taoist Tiger’s reaction, Ye Qing said, “I’ll ask you again. Do you want to leave Void Stomach City, Reverend?”

Taoist Tiger replied, “I do. What price do I have to pay?”

“Nothing.”

Ye Qing smiled. “All I ask is that you help me with a small matter.”

Taoist Tiger replied affirmatively, “Please enlighten me, warrior.”

Taoist Tiger did not reject Ye Qing even though he did not believe that the “small matter” was really an insignificant matter.

He wouldn’t have caused all this commotion otherwise.

Even if that wasn’t the case, this matter was important enough to convince a Half-Sage to come to this heaven forsaken place in person. With that in mind, how could it be insignificant?

“I need your help to find my friends.”

Ye Qing revealed his objective immediately. “They were kidnapped to this place by the Yin Horse Carriage several days ago. I would like to recruit your help in finding them.”

“If you can help me find them, I promise to take you away from Void Stomach City.”

Before Taoist Tiger could speak, Ye Qing turned around and faced the others, “The offer extends to all of you. If you help me find them, I will take all of you from this purgatory on earth.”

This time, the crowd did not hold back. They cheered and yelled and whooped like no tomorrow.