Chapter 839: Black List Ninety-Nine Worth Seven Taels of Silver
[Seventy-two Transformations] is also a very unique one among Mo Cheng's skills. It has no clear level and no strong lethality.
But in terms of effectiveness, the [Seventy-two Transformations] alone may surpass most [Hero Templates].
After studying [Seventy-two Transformations] for a long time, Mo Cheng has gained a certain degree of understanding of this skill.
First of all, it is certain that the [Seventy-two Transformations] originated from "Journey to the West", and was the magical power taught to Sun Wukong by Patriarch Bodhi to avoid the [Three Disasters] caused by practicing the [Great Heavenly Immortal Art].
The number seventy-two is a figurative term. It does not refer to seventy-two kinds of magic techniques, nor does it mean that only seventy-two things can be transformed.
It is the product of eight, the extreme yin number, and nine, the extreme yang number, and is used to represent the extreme of quantity.
(A negative number is an even number, and a positive number is an odd number.)
The number seventy-two corresponds exactly to the number of Earthly Evils, so it is called [Seventy-two Changes of Earthly Evils]. Seventy-two changes refers to infinite changes, and the types of changes cover all species and objects.
And in the process of changing, one can change at will under the control of one's own will, which is the so-called [change at will].
For Mo Cheng, [Seventy -two Transformations] is an extremely powerful skill, which is several points stronger than many hero templates.
If there is anything that can limit the [Seventy-Two Transformations], it is Mo Cheng's own knowledge reserves and imagination.
The transformation ability of [Seventy-two Transformations] itself is absolutely top-notch in the entire "Journey to the West". One hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals still cannot distinguish the changes of Sun Wukong with [Magic Mirror] and can only track him with the mirror light.
As for Erlang Shen, who was also proficient in the seventy-two transformations, when he competed with Sun Wukong in the art of transformation, it was not the third eye between his eyebrows that saw through his opponent, but his own rich experience in transformation.
At the same time, [Seventy-two Transformations] not only allows oneself to change, but can also cause others to change as well.
Therefore, after Mo Cheng used the [Seventy-two Transformations] to transform Young Master Xihua into a female, Mo Cheng could say with certainty that unless an immortal used his own rank to forcibly break the transformation technique, Young Master Xihua could only pray that there was another person in the world who was proficient in the [Seventy-two Transformations] to remove the transformation for him.
Mr. Xihua kept touching himself with his hands, trying to regain the familiar feeling, but the touch from his hands was so strange that his face slowly changed from suspicion to horror.
He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but Mo Cheng pressed his throat with a finger, completely blocking his ability to speak.
"Okay, stop talking. I don't want to hear it."
At this moment, in the woodshed of some unknown family, a young girl wrapped in sackcloth had a face full of fear, and the man sitting next to her was grinning evilly. If someone who didn't know the inside story saw this scene, they would most likely draw their swords to enforce justice.
"Mr. Xihua, well, now you are a woman, so I will call you Huaxi."
Mo Cheng looked at Hua Xi calmly, his face expressionless, neither sad nor happy, "I have placed a restriction on you. This restriction will reverse your gender, but it is not permanent. The conditions for breaking the restriction are very simple. As long as you have intercourse with 10,000 men, the restriction will be lifted immediately."
"Ten thousand of them. One less will make it impossible to lift the ban. Of course, this is just the option I give you to lift the ban. What happens next is your punishment."
At this time, there was a sound outside the woodshed. Mo Cheng pushed open the woodshed door and saw a middle-aged woman in fancy clothes surrounded by two muscular men. When she saw Mo Cheng, she frowned and said, "Where is she?"
When pushing open the door of the woodshed, Mo Cheng used his [Seventy-Two Transformations] to transform himself into a hunchbacked, shifty-looking man.
He smiled and pointed to the woodshed, "She's in there. Look at her skin and appearance. I guarantee that with a little dressing up, you'll be able to attract customers."
"Oh, she's really pretty." The woman looked left and right, even stripping off the linen cloth on Hua Xi's body and prying her mouth open to take a closer look. Finally, she nodded and said, "She's a good specimen, but she's mute. Five taels of silver, I'll take her."
"This is my daughter, my dearest flesh and blood."
"You're so close to me, and you bought your daughter to a brothel?"
"I mean, you have to pay more, ten taels, not a penny less."
"Ten taels is too much, six taels at most."
"Eight taels."
"Seven taels, not a penny more."
"make a deal!"
When she heard the deal was done, the woman gave her two followers a look, and the two men immediately captured Hua Xi, tied her up with a hemp rope they pulled out from somewhere, and threw her into the carriage.
The Ninety-Nine on the Black List, who was turned into a girl by Mo Cheng, now had all her skills disappeared without a trace, as if she was actually a weak girl.
While being tied up, Hua Xi continued to struggle, her eyes always looking at her father, making people think that she was begging her father not to sell her.
But in fact, no one cared what she thought. The madam of a brothel would not care about the thoughts of her girls. She had no idea how many times she had seen this.
The two strong men are very good at doing this kind of thing in this city.
As for Hua Xi's father?
He just stood there, silently watching the carriage go farther and farther away and gradually disappear from his sight.
"Seven taels of silver. This number ninety-nine on the blacklist is really worthless."
Mo Cheng felt that he was still not very good at bargaining. If he had haggled for a while longer, he might have been able to sell No. 99 on the Black List for ten taels of silver.
Unfortunately, he is not very good at this aspect.
"Is that what you mean by killing him?"
Shen Xueqi, who had been hiding to the side, showed up with a hint of confusion in her eyes. She seemed to not understand why Mo Cheng said he wanted to kill Xihua Gongzi, but in the end he spent so much effort and still didn't kill him.
"Well, firstly, it's a bit too easy to kill him with just one slap, and secondly, God is merciful." Mo Cheng touched his nose and said something that even he himself didn't believe, "I said before that if the restriction conditions are met, he can be transformed back into a man, but I seem to have forgotten to tell him that once the transformation is lifted, his state will return to its original state."
Returning to the original state refers to the state where the person was struck by Mo Cheng's thunder and had little health left, with only half of his breath left.
It can be said that once the changes that Mo Cheng imposed on Hua Xi are lifted, Master Xi Hua will die at that moment.
Shen Xueqi turned her head to look at Mo Cheng, "Is this... cheating?"
Mo Cheng shrugged, "I'm more inclined to believe that he forgot to mention the supplementary terms. Besides, if he has 10,000 customers, even if he holds concerts and symphonies every day, ten times a day, all year round, it will still take three years."
"I still don't quite understand your approach. It would be much simpler to kill him in one blow. So how are we going to tell the innkeeper?"
Without the head of Young Master Xihua, it is estimated that the bounty for No. 99 on the Black List will not be collected, and even the free food and accommodation promised by the innkeeper may be a bit difficult to obtain.
It's impossible to bring the innkeeper to a brothel and tell him that the famous flower-loving gentleman can do whatever he wants with a few taels of silver.
Mo Cheng picked up the package placed aside and said, "I have taken off all the things from Mr. Xihua. I will use this as a talisman to see if the shopkeeper will accept it. At least I can get a few days of free food and lodging in return."
