Bizarre Cultivation: Starting from Being Beaten Up by Reality

Chapter 23 Transcendence

"Have you heard the stories of the Buddha feeding a tiger with his own body and cutting off his own flesh to feed an eagle?"

The dog-skinned Taoist priest asked casually while tapping the ground.

"Speak plainly, don't beat around the bush." ​​Lin Fan didn't care about the background story of this 'flesh relic' at all.

"Alright, alright, I'll keep it simple. The flesh relic is also called Sariputra. Some say it's the poisonous snake that bit the Buddha, while others say it's the Buddha's flesh. But how can mortals eat such things? The contents inside will completely pollute a person's soul, and the consequences are unimaginable."

"The plague of seeking the Dao is the curse of the Heavenly Venerable, and the flesh relics are the curse of the Buddha. Nephew, you will understand the Heavenly Venerable's compassion in the future."

Lin Fan frowned. "No need for later, I understand now. It means that your Heavenly Venerable lost the 'Most Rotten' contest, so he received the Mercy Award."

"Oh, why are you like this! If I don't say it, you'll understand in time. Fortunately, this place is just an illusion of the past, and the flesh relic is just a phantom."

"The plague of seeking the Dao grows directly on the face, so can't we just not eat the flesh relic?" Lin Fan asked.

Soon, when Lin Fan and his group caught up with Xiao Cui, Lin Fan knew the answer.

The girl's petite body writhed in agony on the ground, a lump of pink flesh desperately trying to burrow into her mouth.

This thing, which looked like a human organ, waved its tentacle-like blood vessels, firmly gripped Xiao Cui's face, and desperately tried to shove itself into Xiao Cui's mouth.

Xiao Cui struggled with all her might, but the lump of flesh was clearly much stronger. It was about to succeed; only a small part remained outside the girl's mouth.

The girl's eyes were wide open, her expression contorted in agony. Her body, constantly dragging itself across the ground, spoke volumes of her pain.

With a thud, the girl's head was easily severed by the iron sword.

Lin Fan watched as Xu Yunxiao ruthlessly chopped off Xiao Cui's head. Although Lin Fan had previously said he would have Xiao Cui catch her in the act of adultery and then kill her while she was in pain, seeing Xu Yunxiao kill Xiao Cui without hesitation still left Lin Fan with mixed feelings.

Without Xiao Cui's intervention, the flesh relic quickly crawled into the mouth, but its vascular tentacles soon emerged from the severed neck.

It seems like they're confused about how they've reached the end so quickly.

Without hesitation, the dog-skinned Taoist kicked the head far away.

"It's over?" Lin Fan didn't expect things to be so simple.

"It can't be that simple, but I don't know what will happen next." The dog-skinned Taoist priest held two swords and looked warily at the corpse on the ground.

The girl's youthful body underwent changes, seemingly growing up at an extremely rapid pace.

The body begins to grow taller, the chest develops, and other parts of the body begin to become fuller.

The obviously small clothes were stretched out like a tight-fitting garment, and with a tearing sound, snow-white, jade-like skin was revealed from under the clothes.

In the blink of an eye, Xiao Cui's slender, girlish figure transformed into the tall, voluptuous, mature body of Hong Yi Zhou.

It stood up unsteadily, the fabric on its chest bearing the brunt of the change and thus the most severe tearing, revealing two snow-white hemispheres of its headless body.

This terrifying, eerie, and bizarre thing just stood there; any ordinary person would surely run away upon seeing it. Fortunately, Lin Fan, empowered by the Soul-Suppressing Pearl, remained remarkably calm.

He and the dog-skinned Taoist priest drew their swords at the red-clothed sorcerer almost simultaneously.

The expected battle did not begin. The Red-Clothed Curse's clothes were ripped in two places, but it completely ignored the two bloody marks of varying depths on its body and instead turned and ran away.

"Damn it, hurry and chase after them!" the dog-skinned Taoist priest shouted, then tapped his wooden sword and slowly gave chase.

Unfortunately, speed is their biggest weakness.

The dog-skinned Taoist priest immediately understood and gave Lin Fan a long explanation.

"So the Red-Clothed Curse controlled the body, and the Flesh Relic controlled the head. The original Red-Clothed Curse was just her physical condition in life, so she wouldn't be difficult to kill. But if she obtained the Flesh Relic, the situation would be different." Lin Fan summarized the dog-skinned Taoist's explanation while panting.

“That’s right, nephew. Do you know that in the original script, a homeless man found a meat relic, ate it, and almost slaughtered the entire county? Several martial arts school owners like Ge Wudan and the constables from the yamen couldn’t stop him even if they all went out together. In the end, a fourth-level master fought him for several days, but he was also killed…”

As they were talking, a dark shadow suddenly darted out of the bushes. The dog-skinned Taoist priest was startled and swung his wooden sword to block it.

"Where did this wolf come from, getting in the way at this time?" Lin Fan stepped forward, holding his iron sword.

Both men were armed with swords, and the wolf was at a disadvantage against them, but this also meant that they would be delayed.

Just as the two were about to quickly deal with the wolf in front of them, it suddenly let out a mournful howl, its body went limp, and it collapsed.

Lin Fan looked at the wolf on the ground in surprise. There was a round, bloody hole in its belly, obviously from being hit by something.

"Hehe, hehe, hehehe, hehe hehehe..."

Lin Fan turned his head and saw that the ugly catfish head of the Red-Clothed Curse was grinning at him from the roadside bushes.

This is the head that was used as a projectile and pierced right through the wolf in front of it.

Its face, covered in wounds and oozing blood, was extremely ferocious. Its neck thickened, and suddenly several thick, vascular tentacles emerged.

These tentacles were clearly different from those Lin Fan had seen before; they had been strengthened by the power of the flesh relic.

"The Buddha is compassionate, all beings suffer, only humans can save themselves, the will of Heaven is impermanent, life and death are preordained."

"Yunlang, how could you be so heartless? I have been devoted to you, and you actually want to use me to exchange for wealth and glory."

"Chengcheng, eat up! If you don't eat now, breakfast will get cold! Eat up, eat up, eat up!"

Three different sounds alternated and emanated chaotically from its mouth, even mixing together to create more confusion, sometimes accompanied by meaningless maniacal laughter.

These sounds alone could cause mental problems for ordinary people, but fortunately, Lin Fan and the dog-skinned Taoist both had their own methods and were not affected by them.

“Kid, you’ve been to the Cursed Realm before, so you should know how to get out. It’s impossible to remove the curse now, so let’s each get out of the realm first.” The dog-skinned Taoist said to Lin Fan in the boy’s voice.

Lin Fan was at a loss. It was obvious that the Soul-Suppressing Pearl had worked its magic to free him from the illusion. But he had no idea what to do next.

A graceful woman in red emerged from the darkness.

Xiao Cui's embroidered shoes were too big for her to wear, so she had to throw them away and walk barefoot in the mud.

Her clothes were even more tattered, hanging in shreds, and her astonishing figure could be seen through the gaps.

Blood kept oozing from the severed neck, staining her clothes red all the way down to her chest, with thin red lines running down her snow-white skin.

Seeing that Lin Fan wasn't leaving and was even walking towards the Red-Clothed Curse with his sword, the dog-skinned Taoist priest didn't know what Lin Fan was going to do. He could only remind him, "The way to remove the curse is to destroy the Red-Clothed Curse's physical body. Here she has a physical form and can still be injured. However, her body, which has been strengthened by the flesh relic, is extremely powerful and difficult to harm."

The red-clad woman activated her spell; her body was not as inept as it seemed, and she vanished from Lin Fan's sight in an instant, like a cheetah.

In an instant, she had her head in her hands.

A strong, full thigh was raised high above his head, and with an exaggerated, large-scale throwing motion, the catfish head became a line that swept across Lin Fan's body.

Lin Fan stared blankly at the large hole in his stomach, the severed intestines clearly visible inside.