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Although Shirley Yang is a successor of both the Tomb Raiders and the Mountain Moving Masters, she doesn't have many superpowers. Perhaps we can leave the Snow Mastiff Armor to her!
Shirley Yang and Snow Mastiff Armor both have the surname "Xue" (meaning snow), they are a perfect match!
Ouyang Mofei gave a strange, winking smile. "Sister Meizhen, if you want to improve the strength of the Wind Eagle Armor, you can have more in-depth exchanges with Li Yang. It's been personally tested and proven effective!"
Mei Zhen lightly tapped Ouyang Mofei's forehead with her finger, annoyed, and said, "You're a grown woman, how can you speak so shamelessly!"
While she was clearly criticizing Ouyang Mofei, her eyes involuntarily glanced at Li Yang beside her. Her watery gaze seemed to hold a thousand words, but in the end, it all boiled down to one sentence.
"I hope Mr. Li Yang will continue to guide me in the future!"
Li Yang enjoyed a lavish employee meal at the Wan Shou Group and then planned to browse around the No. 444 convenience store.
Before even reaching the convenience store, I saw that the grilled fish restaurant at the T-junction had changed its sign.
The sign only has two words: Fifth Floor!
4.3
The antique-style building had workers constantly going in and out, seemingly doing renovations.
Li Yang was stunned for a moment.
The Fifth Prince has appeared!
The Dragon King's fifth son, the murderer... Taotie!
"General Yang!"
The convenience store's glass doors were opened from the inside out, and Wang Xiaoya came out excitedly.
"I heard Zhao Li and Dong Qing say that you have an incredibly cool set of armor. Can I take a look?"
"Dongqing said there are five more sets of that Light and Shadow Armor, which can be summoned by obtaining the approval of the Light and Shadow Stone. What do you think of me?"
Wang Xiaoya looked at Li Yang expectantly.
As the reincarnation of the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden, she might actually gain the approval of the Light and Shadow Stone!
"Unfortunately, the armor most suitable for you has already been successfully summoned by someone else!"
Wang Xiaoya asked curiously, "Do you know which armor suits me?"
"Among the Light and Shadow Armor sets, there is a Wind Eagle Armor set, which should be the most suitable armor for you!"
"why?"
Because the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden's true form is a black bird, and a black bird paired with a wind eagle is a perfect match!
Li Yang smiled but didn't answer. He turned to Xia Dongqing and asked, "Where did Zhao Li run off to?"
Xia Dongqing was eating instant noodles, not even bothering to add a sausage, and looked miserable.
"Zhao Li said that the tourist attraction he was supervising opened today, and he took several days off citing a work injury to recuperate at the attraction!"
"He also said that the scenic area is full of spiritual energy, which is very suitable for patients like him to recuperate."
Li Yang understood.
Zhao Li's words were indeed true. Acha used the imaginary space ability obtained from the Chaos Serpent God to perfectly replicate his personal blessed land.
The blessed land was naturally rich in spiritual energy. Zhao Li's own spiritual energy had been somewhat eroded by the corpse oil. Staying in a place with abundant spiritual energy for a few days would indeed allow him to recover quickly.
However, the enemy has already reached our doorstep!
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Chapter 81 The Gluttonous Treasure Trove! Zhao Li transforms into the Money-Grubbing Hermit!
"Hey, Brother Li, where are you?"
Li Yang called Zhao Li.
All I could hear from the phone was a cacophony of noise and women's laughter.
"Li Yang, what's the matter? I'm currently recuperating!"
The phone was ringing with Zhao Li's cheeky voice; Li Yang could almost picture him grinning like an idiot.
"Sigh, I was really messed up by that vengeful ghost that crawled out of the Frozen Hell. The corpse oil made me lose 30% of my spiritual energy. The King of the Underworld specially granted me three days off to recuperate properly!"
"By the way, you should really come and see the Underworld when you have time. The Underworld King got this blessed land from somewhere, it's amazing! Not only is it full of spiritual energy, but there are also all kinds of spiritual peaches and fruits to eat!"
"I also met an old monkey who once served the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, Sun Wukong. He said that this blessed land has eighty percent of the splendor of the Water Curtain Cave of Flower and Fruit Mountain back then!"
Li Yang chuckled, "You're having so much fun you've forgotten all about home. Well then, I'll make sure your joy turns to sorrow and give you some bad news!"
Zhao Li was taken aback. "What do you mean? Don't get me into trouble, okay? You're not going to go to Hades again and whisper in her ear to get her to mess with me, are you?"
"Brother Yang, Uncle Yang, this is a real work injury. It's an injury I got while working for you two. You can't expect me to come to work while I'm sick, can you?"
"Soul ferrymen also have human rights!"
Li Yang said irritably, "What does that have to do with me? Something's got its eyes on Dong Qing!"
Ouch~
Zhao Li's pained cry came through the phone, as if he had fallen from somewhere.
"Holy crap, my back is killing me!"
Zhao Li, disregarding any pretense, hurriedly asked, "What's going on? Which damned bastard has his eye on Xia Dongqing?"
"Damn it, I'm going back right now. You protect that kid for me!"
Li Yang waited for about half an hour before seeing Zhao Li stumble and crawl into the convenience store, holding the Soul-Destroying Gun in his hand.
"Where's the enemy? Where's the enemy? I'll fucking kill him!"
Li Yang shrugged. "Why are you so nervous? I didn't say the enemy was attacking!"
"Damn it!" Zhao Li glared fiercely at Li Yang. "Didn't you tell me that someone was targeting Dong Qing..."
Seeing Xia Dongqing looking at him curiously, he didn't continue.
Xia Dongqing himself had no idea that the soul of Chi You was in his eyes, and Zhao Li didn't want him to know this either.
Li Yang walked to the entrance of the convenience store, and through the clean glass door, looked to the right at the T-junction, at the quaint-looking building number 03.
"Did you see the words on that sign?"
Following the direction Li Yang pointed, Zhao Li leaned closer to look through the glass.
"Fifth floor? What the heck? I remember there used to be a grilled fish restaurant there?"
"Judging from the decor, it's probably a club or something. I wonder if there are any pretty girls inside, hehe~"
Li Yang rolled his eyes. "Don't you know the name 'Fifth Floor'? Especially the character 'five'?"
五？
Zhao Li blinked, his mind not quite grasping the idea.
Li Yang reminded him again, "The fifth son of the dragon!"
"Holy crap, it's the Fifth Young Master's Gluttonous Beast!"
Zhao Li was shocked. "You mean that bastard who's eyeing Dongqing is a Taotie?"
Before Li Yang could answer, he had already figured it out himself.
"That's it, it must be him!"
"The ferocious beast Taotie has always been lawless. I have seen it before. During the Five Barbarian Invasions, this guy ate many people and even created a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!"
"What's even more terrifying is that it will also tempt other creatures to eat people... At that time, this place will also be in a dark and turbulent era!"
"In the end, the Dragon King personally captured this guy and threw him into the eye of the East Sea to suppress him. Unexpectedly, he escaped more than a thousand years later!"
"There must have been a problem on the Japanese side, which affected the seal that the East Sea Eye Dragon King had set up, allowing this guy to escape!"
"I'll report this to the Underworld right away and have the Dragon King descend to the mortal realm to capture him and bring him back!"
Before Zhao Li could even take out his phone, Li Yang stopped him.
"Why are you in such a hurry? I've never seen a legendary ferocious beast before. Let me see what Taotie looks like before we figure out how to deal with it!"
Zhao Li slapped Li Yang's hand away and said irritably, "Are we going to deal with the Taotie?"
"Are you kidding me? Have you lost your mind?"
"Even if a hundred of me were tied together, I still wouldn't be a match for him!"
"See this Soul-Destroying Spear of mine? It's the strongest single-soldier weapon in the Underworld. Compared to it, it's like a fire poker!"
Li Yang smiled slightly, "Isn't that what I'm here for!"
Zhao Li paused for a moment, his expression hesitant.
He had witnessed Li Yang's endless stream of bizarre methods!
Especially that move where you can catch a blade barehanded 100% of the time, it's practically unsolvable!
Even the Chaos Serpent God has fallen victim to this!
Logically speaking, the ferocious beast Taotie should be even more powerful than the Chaos Serpent God!
The Chaos Serpent God is powerful because it comes from chaos and is not bound by the rules of heaven. In addition, its various values are high enough!
But it will still be killed!
But the Taotie is different; it is an immortal being!
I wonder if Li Yang's move of catching a blade barehanded will be able to suppress Taotie!
Have you heard of the seven deadly sins of Western religions?
Instead of explicitly stating whether Li Yang could handle Taotie, Zhao Li brought up another matter.
"Pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust!"
This problem was a piece of cake for Li Yang.
Zhao Li nodded. "Do you know that although Taotie is the ninth son of the Dragon King and a ferocious beast, from another perspective, it is also one of the gods, a fierce god who wields some kind of divine power!"
The *Shenyi Jing* (Classic of Strange Things) records in the section on the Southwest Wilderness: "In the southwest there is a creature with a lot of hair on its body and a pig's head. It is as greedy and vicious as a wolf, loves to accumulate wealth, but does not eat human grain. The strong prey on the old and weak, and fear the strong while attacking the weak. It is called Taotie!"
The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Northern Mountains Classic, records: "Mount Gouwu is rich in jade on its upper part and copper at its lower part. There is a beast there, which looks like a sheep with a human face, its eyes are under its armpits, it has tiger teeth and human claws, and its cry is like that of an infant. It is called Paoxiao, and it eats people!"
"The roe owl is a gluttonous beast!"
The commentary on the Zuo Zhuan states: "Greed for wealth is called 'tao,' and greed for food is called 'tie.'"
"Therefore, Taotie is a ferocious god who embodies the two original sins of greed and gluttony!"
"There was once a legend in the Three Realms that the birth of Taotie was the manifestation of the two dark sides of the world—greed and gluttony—through the essence of the Dragon King!"
"Therefore, as long as greed exists in the world, and as long as there are people who overeat, Taotie will never die!"
"Even if we kill one of its physical bodies, it will be reborn before long!"
"This is why, back then, after the Dragon King captured Taotie, he threw it into the East Sea Eye to seal it away!"
"To have gone without food and water for over a thousand years is far more painful than killing him!"
Zhao Li's words clearly meant that he was advising Li Yang not to think about killing Taotie, because it was simply impossible to kill!
As for the seal?
That would be a complete waste of time!
After all, they don't have the same strength as the Dragon King, so it's hard to say who will seal whom in the end!
"So, just to be on the safe side, let's report this to Hades and have her negotiate with the Dragon King. The Dragon King will surely send troops to capture Taotie!"
Li Yang sighed, "I was thinking of seeing what the Taotie's true form looks like, but since this guy is so troublesome, I guess I'll just give up!"
Zhao Li rolled his eyes. "I know you too well... Tell me, are you eyeing the Taotie Treasure Vault?"
A treasure trove of gluttonous delicacies?
Li Yang was stunned for a moment, "What is that thing?"
"Pretending! Trying to fool me, huh?" Zhao Li sneered. "You think you don't know what the Taotie Treasure Vault is?"
"Dragons are naturally fond of collecting all kinds of treasures, and the Dragon King is especially wealthy, possessing countless treasures in his Dragon Palace treasury!"