Bizarre Cultivation: Starting from Being Beaten Up by Reality

Chapter 149 "Clone"

It was just past midnight when Lin Fan got up in the simple room that Master Shen had prepared for them.

Chen Ergou was snoring beside him, the sound of his snoring masking the sound of him getting up.

Swish.

The black knife easily severed his other little finger. Lin Fan pursed his lips and endured the pain. It hurt so much! He hadn't felt it before when he was focused during a battle, but cutting his finger like this was really too painful.

Lin Fan's forehead was covered in fine sweat when he remembered the Soul-Suppressing Pearl. A cool sensation finally made him suppress the urge to shout.

Reach out and form a hand seal.

The fingers moved and gradually took on a human shape.

Lin Fan, the clone, pursed his lips and pressed his fingers. It hurt like hell, just like the last time…

No, I'm not wearing any clothes. And my little finger is perfectly fine; it wasn't cut off at all.

Looking at himself dressed in front of him, it took Lin Fan, the clone, a while to come to his senses.

He casually picked up the Taoist robe and put it on. The robe was large enough that once the belt was tied, it was impossible to tell that he wasn't wearing any clothes underneath unless he moved around a lot.

Lin Fan handed him the "Death Furnace," which contained the blood of two children. As long as he silently recited "Seeking Truth in the Nine Netherworlds," the blood would burn and emit a fragrant smoke that would search for the missing children.

Lin Fan, the clone, took the incense burner, his hands trembling slightly. His physique was much stronger than the previous clone, although weaker than the original body, it was already about the same as an ordinary person.

So it certainly wasn't because of the weight of holding the incense burner.

Lin Fan, the clone, couldn't help but say, "You summoned me out just to die in your place?"

Lin Fan was taken aback, took the incense burner back, and then stuffed the Soul-Suppressing Pearl, the Mighty Pill, and the black knife into his hands. "It's okay, I don't believe in this stuff. I'll use the incense burner to find people. You hide and focus on the attack."

Lin Fan, the clone, smiled and switched the items back. "No, no, no, let me do it. It's better to believe it exists than not. Besides, I can only exist for a short time anyway. When the time is up, I will naturally dissipate."

Lin Fan nodded. "You understand the plan?"

Lin Fan, the clone, nodded, "Of course, I have all your memories."

The two suddenly ran out of things to say; after all, they were the same kind of people, so what could they possibly have to talk about?

Looking at his original self, Lin Fan, the clone, could never know what the clone felt like. Life is fleeting, and no one can feel good about it.

Of course, Lin Fan, the clone, would not refuse his fate. He was only a short-lived being who existed for the sake of victory. Even if he had the same memories and emotions as the original body, it was only temporary and false.

"Lend me the Soul-Suppressing Pearl."

Lin Fan was a little puzzled, but he didn't ask any more questions and handed it over.

Lin Fan, the clone, felt a cool sensation in his mind, which made him feel much more comfortable. He cherished time more than his original self and cared more about this victory.

'For me, this is just a small incident on the road, but for me, it is the only and most important battle of my life.'

……

Lin Fan, the clone, was pulled into the house by Miss Shen, Shen Meng.

There's not much to say about what happened inside the house.

The gentle and reserved Miss Shen suddenly changed her demeanor. She first said that she was very hot, and then let her outer garment slide down her shoulders, leaving her only wearing a bodice, revealing the smooth, white curves of her back.

Shen Meng straddled Lin Fan's clone, reached out to undo his Taoist robe, and slowly brought her head closer, her full, cherry-red lips about to touch Lin Fan's lips.

How could Lin Fan let her succeed? This girl is so proactive, she might have poisoned her lips!

Swish! The scythe slashed out from behind.

Shen Meng was as soft and light as if she had no bones. With just a push on Lin Fan's chest, she leaned back and flipped far away, laughing and saying, "Taoist brother, why are you so heartless..."

Before he could finish speaking, his pupils suddenly contracted, "Ah, ahhh!"

Yes, she did dodge the scythe, almost.

It was just a slight scratch from the edge, leaving a white line on her pink skin, which quickly turned red, becoming a red mark about the thickness of a finger.

Several small eyeballs emerged from Shen Meng's eyes, and black hair grew on her snow-white skin.

boom!

His clone, Lin Fan, was sent flying. The situation was completely beyond his expectations. As long as the other party was human, even a third-tier martial artist would be affected by the red-clothed scythe's curse for a few seconds, giving him enough time to kill her. But this thing went berserk.

Lin Fan's clone was slowly swallowed into the giant spider's body, sticky saliva dripping from the corners of its mouth, and a satisfied expression appearing in its several eyes.

But suddenly her expression changed, and despite having something stuffed in her mouth, she made a sound from somewhere, "No, this isn't right, why does it taste so bland!"

Before Shen Meng could finish speaking, she suddenly felt a pain under her neck. All three eyes looked down at her. Huh, there's another one.

Lin Fan, standing below, wore a Taoist robe as an inner garment, his hair tied up at the back of his head, and the black knife in his hand had already pierced into the spider's body.

The hard chitinous shell was easily pierced, and blue blood flowed out.

The giant spider lashed out with its forelegs, sending Lin Fan flying.

Shen Meng raised her foreleg and saw that it was already dangling down. Just now, Lin Fan had blocked her with the black knife, almost severing her foreleg.

Chen Ergou jumped out of the bushes, shouting, "You monster, you dare to harm people!"

Shen Meng narrowed her eight eyes slightly. "Demons? The law of the jungle prevails. When has there ever been a reason not to eat them!"

"Oh, then why bother pretending to be human! Feigning weakness! Taking advantage of other people's love for their daughters." Lin Fan struggled to his feet, a long line of blood drawn from his chest.

Shen Meng's voice sounded like that of an old woman, hoarse and eerie. "Heh heh, those days won't last long. The Great Qian Dynasty has been established for a hundred years, and its national fortune is declining. Now that the Mandate of Heaven has been born, the time has come. You little Taoist priests think you can stop the chariot with your bare hands!"

"This is inexplicable!" Lin Fan got up and ran outside.

What does the fate of the Great Qian Dynasty have to do with me? I'm just an unemployed bum; what right do I have to care about this?

With her eight long legs, Shen Meng was naturally much faster than Lin Fan, and she was about to catch up.

Swish swish!

Several bamboo spears shot out from all directions, aiming at the joints of the giant spider's body.

"Go quickly and kill this evil spirit that has harmed my daughter!" Master Shen commanded from behind, directing his martial arts-trained servants to step forward.

Lin Fan hadn't notified them beforehand, but with such a commotion in their yard, they would definitely come immediately.

Seeing this, Lin Fan also turned around and used his black knife to cut two bloody gashes on the giant spider, from which blue slime spurted out.

This advantage of the surprise attack lasted only a moment.

With a swift turn of her long, dagger-like legs, Shen Meng separated several servants, sending them sprawling.

Even the spider's leg, which had just been cut in half, was frozen by the blue blood and temporarily regained its mobility.

"Go! Don't be afraid of her! Whoever kills her will be rewarded with a hundred taels of gold. Anyone who participates will be rewarded with ten taels of gold, regardless of whether they live or die!"

As expected, money can move people's hearts. The thought that even if they died, they could still get ten taels of gold made these servants rush forward fearlessly.

Unfortunately, "Shen Meng" was not a monster that could not understand human speech. It charged towards Master Shen despite the servants' thrusting "spears".

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Lin Fan brushed past it and cleanly severed a spider leg. Blue blood splattered, and Chen Ergou shouted loudly from the grass, "Good!"

The blue blood only sprayed for a short while before it immediately congealed at the wound.

These people's attempts to stop her had little effect on "Shen Meng," who had already rushed up to Master Shen. With a whoosh, her two front paws plunged into his chest.

Before Mr. Shen could cry for help, his head was bitten off by the huge mandibles.

Shen Meng's mouthparts twitched, and with a "plop," she spat out Old Master Shen's head, which was covered in saliva. "Father, you taste absolutely awful!"

Old Master Shen's eyes widened, and he rolled several times on the ground, dying with his eyes still open.

"The one who was going to give you gold is dead. Do you still want to keep throwing your lives away?"

The giant spider's hoarse voice was like fingernails scratching a blackboard, directly scraping into the hearts of everyone present.

The servants slowed their movements, seemingly showing hesitation.

Looking calmly at the enormous nine-foot-tall monster before them, these people couldn't help but feel a sense of dread.

Lin Fan was completely unaffected. In the meantime, he had already removed four of the spider's legs. The spider, now with only four legs, seemed poised to lose its balance if it lost even one more leg.

By the time "Shen Meng" turned to deal with Lin Fan, he had already raised his knife to cut off the last leg.

swipe-

Shen Meng leaped out of Lin Fan's attack range, dodging the attack. Without the servants' restraint, the giant spider's speed and strength advantages were fully utilized.

"Junior Brother Er Gou, what are you standing there for? Come out and help!" Lin Fan shouted at Chen Er Gou, who had actually been slacking off the whole time. "Do you think you can get away unscathed after I die?"

Chen Ergou clicked his tongue. Who has a Taoist name like Ergou? This sounds like a fake Taoist.

Chen Ergou charged out with a wooden sword, shouting, "Yaaaaah, you monster, take this!"

Shen Meng dared not be negligent. She had already witnessed the methods of the older of the two Taoist priests; while not as skilled as herself, he was not easy to deal with. Judging by their equal strength, this younger Taoist priest couldn't be completely without tricks up his sleeve.

Shen Meng turned around, trying to dodge Chen Ergou's sword, but they were too close and it was too late.

Snapped!

Shen Meng was startled. Although the wooden sword hadn't broken through her armor, it might have some special effects, just like that strange scythe.

Startled for a moment and finding nothing had happened, Shen Meng felt utterly bewildered. She had been captivated by an ordinary person for so long!

Although she really wanted to kill Chen Ergou, she didn't think it was worth wasting time on him. With a swipe of her long leg, "Shen Meng" slashed Chen Ergou's chest and sent him flying backward, his fate unknown.

Turning around to look for Lin Fan, he found him already standing near his other hind leg.

Swish—the black blade flashed, and another spider leg of "Shen Meng" was severed, blue blood spurting out!

The giant spider, with only three legs left, did not collapse under its own weight as Lin Fan had expected. It twisted its huge, fat rear end, and its two front legs faced Lin Fan directly.

Lin Fan tried to create distance, but it was too late. Two sharp, knife-like forelegs pierced into Lin Fan's calves, pinning him to the spot, and then pierced through his chest with two black fangs.

This time, "Shen Meng" no longer pursued swallowing its prey whole. With a rip, Lin Fan was torn in two, his intestines spilling out from the cut.

"Hehehe, if I had known this would happen, why did I have to play the hero and make Meng'er unable to stay here any longer? Oh well, it's a good time to go and see that Three Rivers Heroes Banquet."

"Shen Meng" was chewing while speaking, seemingly using neither mouth nor mouth.

Seeing that Lin Fan had been killed, Chen Ergou was furtively trying to slip away when he tripped over something and fell to the ground with a thud.

"Little Taoist priest, this courtyard is full of my spider webs, you'd better be careful."

Shen Meng wasn't in a hurry to finish Lin Fan's food. She took two steps and walked up to Chen Ergou. "Go find your senior brother and reunite!"

Its foul-smelling mouth, filled with large clumps of blood and flesh, suddenly opened wide, as if about to devour Chen Ergou in one gulp.

"what!"

Shen Meng screamed in pain, her three-legged body losing its balance and crawling wildly on the ground.

Chen Ergou breathed a sigh of relief, because he saw a figure holding a wooden sword suddenly descend from the sky and land on the spider's head.

The wooden sword fell, embedding itself deep into the spider's head, splashing crimson liquid.

Roar! Roar!

The giant spider let out an instinctive roar that shook the surrounding area. The red veins all over her body lit up, as if some kind of blood was surging, and then red blood gushed out from the wound, and the five legs she had just lost instantly pierced out of the wound.

But no matter how frantically she ran and jumped on the ground, she couldn't shake Lin Fan off her head. Lin Fan was wearing his own cloth clothes, his body was swollen like a ball, and his skin was purplish.

After consuming three Power Pills at once, his physique has already surpassed that of a third-tier martial artist.

After struggling intensely, Shen Meng gradually slowed down until she finally stopped moving completely.

Lin Fan maintained the posture of holding the wooden sword with both hands, not daring to relax even for a moment.

The wooden sword was inserted into a pink fleshy lip on the spider's head.

Chen Ergou cheered twice, "Brother Fan, I knew you'd be alright."

After saying that, he jumped onto the spider's head and immediately saw the fleshy hole from which blood was flowing after being penetrated. "This looks so much like..."

"You mean oysters, right?" Lin Fan asked first.

"No, what are oysters?" Chen Ergou had never heard of them before. "Brother Fan, this really scared me to death. I really thought you were dead! If you had shown up any later, I would have been dead."

Lin Fan looked at Chen Ergou and laughed, "Lin Fugui's family had so many mechanical puppets, but they couldn't do anything to you. This spider probably can't hurt you either."

Chen Ergou's expression froze. "How could that be? Didn't it almost eat me in one bite just now?"

Lin Fan had now consumed the Soul-Suppressing Pearl, and after several attempts, he finally realized that something was amiss.

When not using the Soul-Suppressing Pearl, he would never have suspected anything amiss with Chen Ergou, and even agreed to let such a suspicious person follow him.

He could only sense something was wrong when he used the Soul-Suppressing Pearl. But every time he used the Soul-Suppressing Pearl, it was in a critical moment, and he felt something was amiss, but he didn't have time to think about it in detail.

This was all thanks to his first clone, who remembered this after taking the Soul-Suppressing Pearl.

"Ergou, what exactly is your purpose?"

Chen Ergou said somewhat aggrievedly, "Brother Fan, you know me. I just want to follow you guys and enjoy wealth and luxury."

Lin Fan frowned slightly; his expression didn't seem to indicate lying or malice. It was truly strange.