Chapter 1711: The Tie of Gluttony

“Roar!”

The queen of Old Jingjue roared as she swung her boulder-sized palm at Ye Qing.

While doing so, shockwaves stacked on top of each other until it formed what looked like a world-ending tsunami. At the same time, her energies encompassed everything within several hundred meters—the buildings, the plants, the ground etc—and destroyed it all.

The queen of Old Jingjue was, in fact, a Sage. In fact, nearly every queen of Old Jingjue was a Sage. Otherwise, the country could not have lasted for tens of thousand years.

Naturally, the strength of her palm strike could not be underestimated.

Yin Yang Qi circulating at the center of his palm, Ye Qing lifted his hand in front of him and blocked the shockwave. The terrible energies all dissolved into nothing as the black fish and the white fish swam round and round.

Then, Ye Qing slowly clenched his hand and caused the Yin Yang Qi to merge into primal chaos.

Yin and yang birthed all things, and all things returned to boundlessness.

“The Deep Sea of Fist Art: Unbounded Impetus”

What was unbounded was unparalleled, and nothing was unbounded except him.

The queen’s palm was tough as stone, but Ye Qing’s fist easily punched through it like tofu.

“Argh!”

The queen of Old Jingjue let out a painful cry as her fat rippled like waves, and her oily sweat poured down her flesh like streams. Then, it formed a giant maw.

A crescent moon seemed to be hanging inside the maw. The moon was emitting a filthy, distorted light that contaminated and warped everything around it. Even an inanimate, mindless object like the oil was being warped into a horrifying monster.

Ye Qing did not withdraw his punch. Instead, he swung his arm downward like an axe with enough force to split a mountain in half, and sever a river into two.

And so his punch shattered the filthy crescent moon and split the sea of oil into two.

Not done yet, Ye Qing’s fist continued to grow in momentum and intent as it slammed heavily against the queen of Old Jingjue’s fat body.

THUMP!

There was a noise that sounded like the reverberation of a morning gong, and the shadow clinging to the queen of Old Jingjue flew back violently. However, the queen herself was completely unmoved.

After it was pushed off the queen of Old Jingjue’s body, the seemingly shaken and worried shadow pounced forward and tried to repossess the queen.

Of course, Ye Qing did not allow it to do so. Profound light burning in his palm like the deadliest flame, he made a grabbing motion for the shadow.

The profound light was so hot that the shadow let out a bloodcurdling scream even before Ye Qing grabbed it. The profound light continuously shaved away at the massive shadow until it finally dissolved into a pile of ash and landed on Ye Qing’s palm.

Ye Qing held his palm to his mouth and blew softly. The pile of ash slowly scattered to the surroundings and landed on everyone.

Slowly, the twisted snarls etched on everyone’s face slowly faded away, the red glow in their eyes gradually disappeared, and the tainted aura possessing their bodies steadily waned.

The next moment, everyone fell asleep at the same time.

The shadow was called the Tie of Gluttony. It was a Disaster-class Stranger.

Legend had it that there existed a Stranger in the olden days called the Taotie. It was insatiably greedy and gluttonous. Legend had it that the Tie of Gluttony was born from the Taotie’s gluttonous soul after the Tie died. Like a hungry ghost, it was forever hungry and would consume anything and everything that was edible without end.

The Tie of Gluttony’s true body was extremely feeble. However, it was invisible and illusory. Anyone who could feel hunger could potentially become possessed by the Tie of Gluttony, and it could possess someone who was multiple times stronger than it. That was why it was incredibly difficult to guard against.

Anyone possessed or contaminated by the Tie of Gluttony would become possessed by mindless hunger. They would lose all sense of rationality or thought and just eat, eat, and eat some more. When there was nothing left to eat, they would eat even themselves.

Earlier, the queen of Old Jingjue was possessed by the Tie of Gluttony.

The queen of Old Jingjue was a Sage, so the Tie of Gluttony gained incredible power after successfully possessing her. In fact, it became so powerful that it was able to influence everyone in the nation and twist them into monsters.

Thankfully, the way to deal with the effects and pollution of the Tie of Gluttony was very simple: simply kill it and use the ashes it left behind to cure everyone.

Of course, just because the method was simple did not mean it was easy.

First, the Tie of Gluttony was weak, but it could possess creatures far stronger than it such as the queen of Old Jingjue and made itself incredibly difficult to kill.

Second, it was incredibly difficult to remove the Tie of Gluttony from its host after it successfully possessed them. Most of the time, the only way to slay the Tie of Gluttony was to kill them together with the host.

However, doing so would make it impossible to acquire the ashes left behind after the death of the Tie of Gluttony, and without the ashes, it was difficult to remove the effects and pollution completely.

In summary, the Tie of Gluttony was an annoying and terrifying Stranger.

Luckily, he was strong enough to deal with the Tie of Gluttony. Otherwise, he could kill the Stranger, but he might not be able to save the citizens of Old Jingjue.

𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

“Thank... Thank you... for saving our lives, senior!”

His work done, Ye Qing was just about to leave when suddenly, he heard a weak voice behind him.

“Oh? You’re awake?” A surprised Ye Qing turned around and looked at the queen of Old Jingjue.

That’s right. The speaker was none other than the queen of Old Jingjue.

He thought that she had fallen asleep just like the others, but he was wrong.

“I... am a Sage after all.”

As the queen spoke, faint moonlight rose from her body and shrank her at a visible rate. The fat she had grown were dissolving rapidly like snow under the sun as well.

In just a few breaths, the fat and ugly queen of Old Jingjue had turned into a woman sporting one of, if not the most beautiful face and figure in the entire world.

This was the queen of Old Jingjue’s true form.

Even Ye Qing could not help but stare a little when he saw the queen of Old Jingjue’s true appearance.

There was no doubt she was incredibly gorgeous. She was cool-looking, but also vibrant and lively. She looked graceful and noble. She was definitely a beauty that could topple countries.

Of course, if this was all, then Ye Qing wouldn’t have stared. He was a Sage after all.

Besides, Feng Qingyou was no less beautiful than her. He had long since become immune to feminine beauty after spending all day everyday with her.

The reason he was staring was because the queen of Old Jingjue was an ugly and fat monster just a moment ago, and now she was the complete opposite. The contrast was just too much so to speak.

Pride flickered in the queen of Old Jingjue’s eyes when she spotted Ye Qing staring, but it was quickly replaced by respect when Ye Qing regained his composure in the next second.

Ye Qing asked calmly, “Why did you call out to me, Your Majesty?”

The queen of Old Jingjue bowed to him respectfully. “It was one, to convey my gratitude to you; and two, to inform you of the Black Water Divine Sect’s conspiracy.”

Ye Qing replied, “I already know about their conspiracy.”

The queen of Old Jingjue looked taken aback. “You already know that they dispatched a large number of elites to capture you?”