In the alchemy room of Dihuo Gate, Wei Changsong and his party were talking with Master Dihuo. en8.
"I have explained the situation to the Taoist Priest, please think twice." Although Wei Changsong's cultivation far surpassed that of Master Dihuo, there was no contempt on his face.
Naturally, Master Dihuo could not afford to offend a prestigious holy place such as the Temple of Heaven. He nodded in agreement and said indignantly: "I didn't expect that the seemingly well-behaved girl was actually the enemy of the holy place, and I was almost bullied by her. ah!"
"Does the Taoist know where that person has gone now?" Wei Changsong didn't want to talk useless things with the Earth Fire Master. He knew that the target of this pursuit had escaped from the hands of the national master. This alone showed that the target was definitely not easy to mess with. It's hard to find traces of her now. If she escapes again, it will definitely be more difficult to kill her in the future.
"I know, I know, this child is so greedy that she actually tried to steal the treasures of heaven and earth in my medicine garden. She must have been stopped by the monsters protecting the law at this time!" Master Dihuo laughed so hard that he couldn't tell. Proud, he originally just wanted to use Yun Qing and others to get rid of the monsters so that he could take away these medicinal materials. Who would have thought that Lu Tiantan would pop up halfway and say that that person was the target of their hunt? Now he was doing Lu Tiantan a big favor. Maybe Lu Tiantan could give him a guest, Dangdang, and he could be considered as embracing Lu Tiantan's lap.
Wei Changsong refused to comment. He felt that judging from the girl's destruction of the altar, the other party was indeed unscrupulous in doing things and would not have any mental barriers because of this behavior. However, there is really no need for her to live in trouble on the way to escape. In addition, the Earth Fire Master has a very bad temper at first glance. It is impossible to say that she was tricked by the Earth Fire Master, but Lu Tiantan took an advantage.
Although Wei Changsong wanted to complete the task as soon as possible, he was still not happy about taking advantage of it.
"Let's go to the back yam garden and have a look."
The group of people followed him in silence and turned around to leave the alchemy room, and the pressure they formed dissipated instantly.
There were a few drops of sweat on Mr. Dihuo's forehead, but his face became increasingly happy.
"Master, Master!" Qingchen had been suppressed speechless by these ten cultivators of the Temple of Heaven who had entered Taoism. At this time, he waited for those people to leave before he spoke with a pale face.
"What's the matter?" Master Dihuo has always been very patient with his only obedient and intelligent disciple.
Qingchen plucked up the courage and said, "Master, it's not for you to ask those seniors to go to the medicine garden to help you..."
"Qingchen, you are still young and don't know how to recognize people. Master has long seen that those people are not good people, so he deceived them to go to the thousand-year-old tree spirit in the back mountain... Wait, Qingchen, where are you going! ?”
Qingchen couldn't listen anymore. He felt that the master's tall figure in his heart suddenly collapsed.
"Seniors! Seniors!" Qingchen shouted while chasing, "Seniors, please wait!"
Wei Changsong and others had already heard his shouts, but they did not want to stop. They were afraid that the girl would escape after such a short delay.
Qingchen felt a sense of despair as he watched their figures gradually disappearing into the mountain-protecting formation.
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The tree spirit in the back mountain was once the companion monster of a certain ancestor, and was later raised as a guardian spirit beast by the ancestors of the Earth Fire Sect. en8. Unfortunately, although tree spirits have a long lifespan, they are not naturally intelligent and are not as easy to tame as other monsters. The Earth Fire Sect has been in decline for many years, relying on a few new disciples every year to support it. However, when walking on the Temple of Heaven and passing the Thirteen Barriers a hundred years ago, the seniors of the Earth Fire Sect had to seal the mountain in order to protect the inheritance. As a result, the Earth Fire Sect could not even accept the descendants. It can be said that each generation is inferior to the last. The monsters that could originally be suppressed by the strength of the disciples are now gradually out of control.
That ancestor has been in Taoism for five hundred years. Even if his companion monster dies due to the death of its original owner, its cultivation will never be any worse.
As soon as Wei Changsong and others rushed out of the mountain-protecting formation, what they saw was the green vines that blocked the sky and the sun.
Once beings like monsters enter the Dao stage, they will have a certain assimilation effect on the surrounding creatures. This tree demon is in a medicine garden with dense plants and mixed spiritual energy, so this kind of demonization is even more obvious. The vines are tangled into twisted shapes and covered with thick sap slime. There were so many vines that they even covered the tree demon itself. They couldn't tell which part was its body and which ones were ordinary trees demonized by it. This thing has tenacious vitality. Its root system covers almost half of the back mountain. It is not easy to get through here.
Of course, this "not easy" is for ordinary practitioners who have entered Taoism.
"Formation!" Wei Changsong felt the huge demonic energy and did not dare to neglect it.
He raised the bronze sword in his hand high, and the cold light from the sword's edge flashed away. He plunged the sword into the ground, and there was a faint light of blood under the soil. A silent wail came from the ground. It was obvious that Wei Changsong had just hit the main root of the tree demon in one fell swoop.
The remaining nine people were centered on Wei Changsong, and the sacrificial vessels in their hands glowed with warm white light. These white lights trembled and rippled violently, as if they were thrown into the water of a boulder.
Wei Changsong drew his sword. The tip of the sword was already stained with the essence and blood of monsters. The white light instantly gathered on the tip of his sword like a pack of wolves attracted by the smell of blood.
"Stand up in vain to eliminate disasters and misfortunes! A gentleman's holy virtue can save all evil!"
The white light spread out from the tip of the sword, forming circles like rippling ripples. All monsters touched by the white light were melted and destroyed. In just a few breaths, the surrounding area was cleared into a land barren of grass.
In the corner of the medicine garden, the body of the monster was also revealed. It is a big banyan tree with an old face.
Wei Changsong only glanced at it and did not rush to kill it. There must be a fine line in everything. Since this monster has attained enlightenment, it can be regarded as the spirit of heaven and earth.
Respect the life of any living being, because as long as there is a living being, no one else can decide its own life or death for it. Those who kill indiscriminately will eventually be punished by heaven's reincarnation, so most orthodox practitioners are unwilling to commit more killings. Most of those who rely on their strength to kill innocent people indiscriminately and bully the weak are from casual cultivators. What is the difference between this kind of life of killing for the sake of killing and those beasts without intelligence? At least the beasts still kill to survive.
Respect life, this is the first lesson of humane practice.
However, Yun Qing's involvement in the Hundred Flowers Festival and contamination of the altar has risen to the level of threatening the orthodoxy, and the two cannot be considered the same. For these law enforcement disciples in the Temple of Heaven, they would rather commit crimes than leave any trace of a threat to the orthodoxy.
"Chase!" Wei Changsong thought that the girl they were chasing before alerted the monster when she passed by. Presumably, the girl had already fled along this road, so they could only search the mountains one by one.
Not long after their group left, the light around the old-faced banyan tree suddenly became distorted, and the illusion slowly dissipated like a mirage.
There was a big hole in the trunk of the banyan tree. Aman was holding Zheng Zhenzhen in one hand and Yun Qing in the other, standing blankly in the tree hole.
Yun Qing got off Amang and said to the nervous Zheng Zhenzhen: "Come on, they have left, and we have to follow them."
"This, this, this, this... they actually don't kill us?" Zheng Zhenzhen still didn't realize what was going on.
She remembered that Yun Qing led her into the pile of green vines, and Amang used brute force to open a path, rushed to the old banyan tree and directly tore a big hole in the tree. When Yun Qing and she both stood in the cave, the law enforcement disciples from the Temple of Heaven happened to arrive. The tree demon was writhing in pain due to its body injury. As a result, it was defeated by the disciples of Lu Tiantan in the blink of an eye, and the demonized herbs and other things around it also suffered.
The surrounding trees were cleared, and Zheng Zhenzhen thought that they would definitely be caught by the Temple of Heaven. Unexpectedly, the leader just glanced at the big hole and took them away!
"They didn't see it." Yun Qing's face looked a little ugly. The mirage technique she used just now cost too much.
The inheritance mirage floating dream book that I got in the ruined temple before came in handy this time. The lower-level spells here may not necessarily be hidden from more than a dozen advanced Taoist cultivators, so Yun Qing tried his best to use the more complex illusions in the mirage book, which is the mirage usurping technique.
This illusion technique originally required at least Taoist cultivation to be used, but Yun Qing was able to barely achieve the effect of this technique by using some tricks from the heavenly book. It's just that this is not comparable to the real mirage usurping technique. If Wei Changsong had been more ruthless and struck their hiding place with a sword, Yun Qing would most likely not be able to escape.
"Are you okay?" Zheng Zhenzhen asked worriedly. She stretched out her hand and put it on Yun Qing's wrist, giving her some energy.
Yun Qing felt the strange force entering her body and almost fought back, but this almost instinctive and excessive defense was quickly suppressed by her. Zheng Zhenzhen's brain is really weak. If both parties didn't absolutely trust each other, they would never dare to lose their true energy directly.
"Okay, let's go." Yun Qing looked better and retracted his hand, "Now we can't follow them too close or too far... When we reach the northwest grassland, we will bypass them and go straight to the Snowy Mountains."
Zheng Zhenzhen nodded vigorously.
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Jiu Ming City, for some reason, it is extremely dark today, as if something has blocked the warm autumn sun.
Xie Yao was the only one in the tea shop. Everyone else was having lunch. Xie Yao felt less afraid of being hungry since the marrow cleaning and bone removal, and he didn't want to fight for food with a group of vicious men.
Xie Yao stared lazily at the Tiandi Pot while recalling the various adventures he had with Yun Qing, feeling that it was like a dream.
"Brother Xie, why do you want to practice Taoism?" Uncle Cha poured him a bowl of coarse tea, his hands trembling slightly.
Xie Yao came out of his thoughts and said without thinking: "In order to be worthy of a fairy I admire."
Uncle Cha smiled, his hoarse laughter was like a broken bellows, very unpleasant to hear: "Hahaha, idiot, idiot, do you know that what you are practicing is the way of forgetting love?"
"What?" Xie Yao didn't know why, "I don't practice Taoism?"
"Have you ever seen that stone tablet on Shinto? Do you know what is written on it?" Uncle Cha asked.
Xie Yao was attracted by him and suddenly remembered what Yun Qing said, it seemed like something...
"That is the fragment of "Tai Shang Induction Record", which is the introductory mental method of Tai Shang Dao, the direct descendant of the Shenyin Sect." Uncle Cha laughed even harder when he saw him immersed in thought.
"Ah!! So it turns out that I have obtained the inheritance of the Immortal Family!!?" Xie Yao jumped up in surprise and accidentally knocked over the tea that Uncle Cha had just poured.
Xie Yao realized that he had been rude. He quickly apologized and rolled up his sleeves to help Uncle Cha clean up.
As a result, Uncle Cha waved his hand and motioned for him to look at the tea cup.
Time seemed to have turned upside down on the teacup. The teacup stood up again along the path it had just fallen down, and the water flowed back into the cup. The tabletop was as dry as ever, and it was as if Xie Yao accidentally knocked over the cup just now, as if it had never happened.
"This, this is an immortal magic!?" Xie Yao was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
Uncle Cha shook his head and said with a smile: "It's not illegal, it's the Tao."
Xie Yao didn't understand. He grabbed Uncle Cha's thin arm and said, "Please teach me the art of cultivating Taoism!"
"I don't know anything about immortality, so don't call me an immortal master." Uncle Cha's smile was a bit eerie.
"Daoyuan has never regretted his life in seeking the Tao. He is willing to give up the world of mortals and only seek to know the Qingyun!" Xie Yao said firmly. He already understood that this old man was an expert with great supernatural powers.
"Hahaha, another idiot who means Qingyun!" Uncle Cha kept laughing, "Since you are a disciple of the Immortal Sect, how about I teach you the inheritance of the Immortal Way?"
"I'd like to hear the details!" Xie Yao said excitedly. He didn't expect that he could meet such an expert even if he was exiled in such a remote ancient city on the border.
"The name of this method is the Five Thunder Method, which is designed to destroy evil spirits and heretics." Uncle Cha pointed at his forehead.
A green lightning mark appeared on Xie Yao's forehead, and then quickly faded away. He felt that there were many more things in his mind.
Just when he seemed to realize something, the sky suddenly darkened, as if darkness had fallen in an instant, and there was no longer any light.
"Hu Hanmei from Shiwandashan is here to visit. Why don't you come out and see me, Lord Saint?"
The soft and desolate voice echoed throughout the southern hills.
Outside the city, a brass chariot pulled by four ancient giant beasts was respectfully surrounded by mountains and seas of monsters. A beautiful and alluring woman sat in the chariot and gave orders with a smile.
"Kill the city, leaving no one behind."