The more you believe me, the more true I am. Chapter 098

In a flash, a gust of cold wind rose!

Countless resentful souls shrieked and danced out of the basin, truly filled with an overwhelming sense of grievance.

The surrounding common folk were so terrified that they no longer dared to look, clutching their heads and scattering like rats.

This sight made Lone Peak True Man laugh even more uncontrollably.

However, before his laughter faded, it abruptly stopped—like a gander whose throat had been tightly squeezed.

He was horrified to discover that there was no trace of fear on Du Yuan’s face as he stopped and turned back!

On that face, there was only a deep, somber gloom, his gaze fixed on his Fengdu Restraint Basin?

No… this gaze…

Lone Peak True Man suddenly realized that Du Yuan was looking at the resentful souls floating and wailing around them!

“How dare you not let them rest in peace even after death?!”

A cold question, like a clap of thunder, pierced his ears, and Lone Peak True Man felt as if he had nearly wet his pants.

The feeling was as if he wasn’t facing some ordinary cultivator, but an enraged ancient fierce beast, its dragon might like a prison, choosing people to devour!

Seeing Du Yuan turn and walk towards him.

He finally remembered who this person was.

It was the one who was neither monk nor Taoist whom he had met at the city gate that day!

‘You and I are of the same path? Isn’t that like the bright moon in the sky and the light of a firefly? Truly inviting humiliation!’

What he had said with his own mouth that day, now every word clearly pierced his ears and cut into his heart.

Inviting humiliation???!!!

His throat bobbed frantically, and his lips twitched continuously.

Lone Peak True Man, instead, erupted with a courage he had not previously shown.

“You’re just a wild Taoist!”

In his fury, countless resentful souls were driven by him to attack Du Yuan.

To strengthen them, he even bit his tongue and spat a large mouthful of blood into the water basin, following the True Monarch’s teachings.

Under such stimulation, those resentful souls almost solidified as they wailed and charged forward.

Yes, yes, just charge over like that, tear him apart, tear him apart!!!

As long as this guy died, he wouldn’t be inviting humiliation, a arrogant fool!

But the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment.

Or rather, the greater the terror.

Because he clearly saw that those resentful souls not only did not rush up to tear apart that neither monk nor Taoist.

They even knelt down at Du Yuan’s feet.

Continuously begging Du Yuan to help them transcend!

“What is this—!”

Lone Peak True Man directly lost his voice, but a moment later, he punched himself in the chest.

He coughed up a mouthful of heart blood onto the water basin.

A complex talisman appeared strikingly.

Immediately, he shouted sternly:

“Heed my command, quickly subdue the demons!”

But the resentful souls remained unmoved.

Instead, enduring the tearing pain of their souls from the magical artifact, they cried out even more, begging Du Yuan to save them from their sea of suffering.

In response, Du Yuan directly raised his hand towards him from a distance and said:

“Shatter!”

With a snap, Lone Peak True Man’s proud magical artifact directly exploded.

Fragments splattered all over his face, his entire body covered in them.

But he felt no pain from this intense agony.

Instead, he looked at the stopped Du Yuan with a face full of despair.

What the hell is this!

Shouldn’t I be the chosen one, invincible in the human world?

Why did I encounter such a fierce Taoist as soon as I came out?!

Seeing Du Yuan continue to stride forward, this time, he had no arrogance or spirit left.

He simply fell to the ground, his legs turning to jelly.

And a pungent, foul smell emanated from his crotch.

This time, he was truly scared to the point of peeing himself.

Lone Peak True Man was paralyzed, and King Anqing was no better.

If he hadn’t leaned against the carriage, he probably would have fallen directly.

It’s over, this damn Lone Peak True Man is completely unreliable!

Du Yuan had now walked in front of Lone Peak True Man, looking down at him and questioning:

“Why do you not let them rest in peace even after death?!”

Lone Peak True Man immediately shivered and knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly, while continuously pointing at King Anqing behind him and saying:

“True Man, please understand, True Man, please understand, I only restrained their souls, but he was the one who killed them!”

To save his life, Lone Peak True Man cast all arrogance, dignity, and morality aside.

Anyway, he was originally a shameless charlatan, and now he was just returning to his old ways.

As he spoke, he even shouted:

“And I learned from the True Monarch of the Grotto-heaven, I have a sect, I have a sect, True Man, please consider this!”

King Anqing listened, his face completely drained of color.

This shameless fellow actually dared to expose him!

He was about to reprimand, but then he looked up and saw Du Yuan’s grim face.

So he hurriedly changed his words:

“It was a matter of expediency, this King had no choice! This King, this King treated their parents and relatives well!”

Seeing that Du Yuan did not respond.

King Anqing hurriedly shouted to the surroundings:

“Who will save this King, who will save this King!”

“This King offers a heavy reward, high office and generous salary, choose whatever you like!”

But who would dare to agree?

So King Anqing grew more and more desperate, would he die here today?

Fortunately, at this moment, a Buddhist chant came out:

“Amitabha! Benefactor, do not commit wanton slaughter! Even if a person has faults, they can still correct them!”

King Anqing immediately looked towards the newcomer as if grasping at a life-saving straw.

He saw a benevolent-looking monk, hands pressed together, approaching.

So King Anqing quickly shouted:

“Yes, yes, yes, Master save me, Master save me!”

The newcomer was precisely that old monk.

But he no longer had much mind to bother with King Anqing.

He was now fully focused on Du Yuan.

He had misjudged, this was truly that Taoist from Qing County.

It seems he saw through my test that day, and thus fooled me!

Unexpectedly, encountering him again today, he was so formidable.

Looking at Lone Peak True Man, whom he felt he hadn’t surpassed by much, and the fragments of his shattered magical artifact all over his face.

The old monk felt cold sweat on both his palms.

But he could not retreat.

The Venerable One had clearly invested a great deal, if he retreated today, he would probably die without a burial place immediately!

So after taking a deep breath.

The old monk spoke again:

“As the saying goes, ‘Put down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha on the spot.’ You have already shown him your power today, and he will surely repent in the future!”

Saying this, the old monk even pointed to the Mi River outside the city and said:

“Moreover, this old monk can tell you truthfully, only the King can resolve the changes in the Mi River now. Even if you don’t consider the Buddha’s face, please show mercy for the sake of the countless common folk on both banks of the Mi River, and spare the King this once, so that he can make amends for his mistakes!”

Hearing the words “Mi River,” Du Yuan couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.

Because he saw that ever since the old monk spoke that term, King Anqing and he, as well as that Taoist, had turned deathly pale, almost indistinguishable from the resentful souls behind them.

He then looked at the common folk still hiding around.

He saw that they, however, no longer had that subtle entanglement with the chaotic Qi of Qingzhou that he had observed earlier.

Seeing this, Du Yuan shook his head, then turned to the resentful souls and said:

“Come, this humble Taoist will first take you to rebirth and transcendence, and then go to resolve the changes in the Mi River.”