The accident of the three tribulation-transcending masters of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect shocked the entire world of cultivation. For a moment, people in every city and every place were in a panic. No one expected that the demon army could actually cause the tribulation-transcending masters who possessed near-godlike powers to die quietly.
You have to know that these great masters in seclusion are the last trump cards of the cultivation world. For example, Master Zhengchu, who came out of seclusion in Kunlun some time ago, could kill demons with his voice without even using a sword, and his imposing manner shocked all the demon armies in Linquan City.
The reason why these powerful people have to go into seclusion is that if they stay outside for a long time, there may be a thunder of tribulation. If they fail to pass the tribulation, they will die.
If they are not absolutely sure, they will not easily attempt to ascend.
"It is said that the new Buddhist disciple secretly reversed his master's formation in order to surrender to the Demon Lord, which led to the death of the three great men."
"Is this true? How come three successive generations of the Ten Thousand Buddhas have had problems?"
"Of course it's true, because the formation was reversed, and the power of the three great men was sucked dry by the Demon Lord of the Demon Realm!"
"Alas, our cultivation world has lost the protection of three great powers again."
"The Wanfo Sect still has disciples alive, thanks to Ning Qianyao and Jian Hu."
"Who are these two people? Their names sound familiar."
"Ning Qianyao is in the top ten in the sect competition, and Jian Hu... I heard he is the demon king."
"Look! The leader of the Ten Thousand Buddha Sect has issued a wanted order. Anyone who provides clues will receive 100,000 high-quality spirit stones!"
Wherever he went, he could hear the monks gathered together to discuss this matter. Gu Liangtian pulled down the hood of his cloak to cover his face and quietly withdrew from the crowd.
Before he left the Wanfo Sect, he destroyed his life lamp and everything on his body that could connect him to the Wanfo Sect, and then he escaped.
Now that the wanted warrant has been issued, he has neither illusion skills nor talismans. If he takes out his staff and rosary, he will probably be discovered immediately.
Gu Liangtian stood in the alley, looking up at the sky. In the past few days, he had been wondering why things turned out like this.
"It's you, after all."
Gu Liangtian was startled and looked back, seeing a person standing at the entrance of the alley. It was Lu Chenhan.
"I didn't surrender to the Demon Lord." Gu Liangtian said the first sentence, "Ning Qianyao is wrong, take me to see Taoist Feng Chen, I have something important to say."
Lu Chenhan was holding the sword, and his sword spirit was standing beside him. At first glance, the two of them looked like a perfect match.
"Master Le said you would defend yourself." Lu Chenhan spread his hands and revealed the Shuohui Jade Plate. "Unfortunately, the evidence is irrefutable."
The Shuohui Jade Plate was only slightly unstable at first. It could vaguely see Gu Liangtian's back in front of it, and Ning Qianyao's voice: "Why did he go to the forbidden area?"
But Ning Qianyao did not follow immediately. She was entangled by the demon. The Shuohui Jade Plate hanging on her waist was shaking abnormally. Ning Qianyao and Jian Hu could be seen resisting the demon army.
Jian Hu blocked the pursuing demon for Ning Qianyao, so she was able to catch up. Only then did the Shuohui Jade Plate become slightly more stable.
Ning Qianyao wandered around in the forbidden area for a long time before she finally found the cave where the three great men who were transcending tribulation were in seclusion. The formation had already become ineffective. As soon as she entered, she saw Gu Liangtian pulling out a dagger from the chest of a strange woman who was in meditation.
"What are you doing?" Ning Qianyao asked in surprise.
Gu Liangtian in the Shuohui Jade Plate was pale, with cold sweat on his forehead. He looked back at the withered woman, then turned to look at Ning Qianyao, and scolded her, "How did you get in?"
Ning Qianyao took a few steps back with the Shuohui Jade Plate: "You killed her? Sect Master Le will be back soon, you..."
Before she could finish her words, a demonic energy rushed towards Ning Qianyao and knocked her unconscious.
In the picture, Gu Liangtian turned around and looked at the disappearing evil spirit, but did not take any measures. Instead, he walked past Ning Qianyao with a grim expression and ran away alone.
In the alley, Gu Liangtian's face was still not looking good. He did not expect that Ning Qianyao actually carried the Shuohui Jade Plate with her.
Lu Chenhan clenched his hand and put away the Shuohui Jade Plate. The wind blew in the alley and the sword intent was sharp. Seeing that the two were about to fight, Gu Liangtian took the lead to step back, took out the lotus platform staff to block Lu Chenhan's sword intent, jumped over the alley wall, and fled out of the city.
"It's Gu Liangtian!"
As soon as he took out the lotus staff, the monks on the street recognized him.
Money can tempt people, and some monks have already tried to stop him from leaving the city.
When Lu Chenhan came out, everyone was shocked again. Even Kunlun Lu Chenhan had caught up with them.
"I'll give you a chance to surrender." Lu Chenhan said as he stood behind Gu Liangtian.
"Take me directly to Kunlun." Gu Liangtian turned around and raised a magic circle to sweep away the surrounding cultivators.
Lu Chenhan said expressionlessly: "I forgot to say one thing. I have received an order to kill the traitors in the cultivation world on the spot. The Shuohui Jade Plate just now was just a kind answer."
Gu Liangtian held the staff, his chest heaving several times. It seemed that the sect leader had already discussed with all the major sects. The only way to escape now was to go to one place.
—Penglai.
Gu Liangtian looked at the cultivators around him who were eyeing him covetously and were ready to take advantage of the opportunity at any time, plus Lu Chenhan opposite him, and he knew in his heart that it would be difficult for him to escape today.
"I told you it wasn't me!"
Gu Liangtian held the lotus staff and slammed it heavily on the ground. The spiritual power passed through the staff and exploded with the place where the staff was struck as the center, forcing the surrounding monks to avoid it.
He seized this opportunity and quickly fled out of the city.
However, this trick is useful against ordinary cultivators, but it cannot hurt or hinder Lu Chenhan.
He drew out the Seven Deadly Swords, quickly followed Gu Liangtian, leaped into the air, and with one sword, he slashed the defeated general on the back.
Gu Liangtian was hit by the sword and staggered suddenly, spitting out large mouthfuls of blood, but he quickly stood up and continued to walk into the forest.
Lu Chenhan followed behind slowly, like a cat playing with a mouse, swinging his sword from time to time. Occasionally, the sword intent would lift up a piece of broken forest and hit Gu Liangtian's path.
There was originally a gap in strength between the two. Lu Chenhan had a magic weapon in his hand and the help of Qi Jue, but Gu Liangtian was already covered in wounds after only escaping for a few dozen miles.
Gu Liangtian suddenly stopped and turned to look at Lu Chenhan: "... You are not the only one who has made progress over such a long time."
Lu Chen held the cold sword in his hand and slashed at him: "You want to make progress by surrendering to the Demon Lord?"
Gu Liangtian stomped his feet and the huge formation started to operate. For a moment, the sword intent seemed to be wrapped in cotton and its speed slowed down. Lu Chenhan watched him disappear in the formation, leaving only a sentence.
"The formation Ye Su created is indeed useful."
Before he left, he tried to attract some hatred, which successfully turned Lu Chenhan's face cold.
While Lu Chenhan was torturing Gu Liangtian leisurely, he had already set up formations everywhere, waiting for the right time to teleport to another place.
In the desolate and deserted wild mountain, Gu Liangtian knelt on one knee with his staff in hand. He raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth and looked up at the thorn bush in front of him, wondering if he could hold on until the end of the world.
Perhaps if he had not gone to the forbidden area that day, he would still be a good Buddhist in the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect.
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Since the invasion of the demon army, all the major sects withdrew from the Rotating Tower in advance. In the following half a year, the disciples of each sect roamed around Fangwei City to eliminate demons.
There are two major sects in the west, Kunlun and Wanfo Sect, which have not been attacked by many demon armies. Only the north is the weakest, so the demon army has invaded seriously.
As the largest sect in the world of cultivation, Kunlun naturally had to send elders and disciples to lend a helping hand and also investigate the location of the blood pool.
These had nothing to do with Gu Liangtian. Apart from going out to clear out the demons outside the Wanfo Sect and occasionally looking for clues about the blood pool, he spent the rest of his time in the sect practicing the secret formation book he found in the rotating tower.
Gu Liangtian is not like Lu Chenhan, who has regained his reputation in half a year. He doesn't care about this.
Each major sect has a trump card, the invasion of the demon army will not last for a few years at most, there is really no need to focus on it, as for the life and death of those cultivators outside... it is none of his business.
Anyway, the Wujian Sect, Kunlun Sect and other sects will not sit idly by.
With this mentality, Gu Liangtian just rang the bell every day as a Buddhist. After doing it casually, he would return to the sect to practice, and occasionally think of Ye Su and You Fushi.
He was very curious about who You Fushi was and wanted to tell the sect leader about it, but unfortunately Ye Su was too sinister and cunning. He made him swear an oath, and the contract plugged all the loopholes in every aspect.
As long as he says it out loud, it will affect his advancement in cultivation.
Gu Liangtian values himself the most, so he can only keep silent.
In comparison, Ning Qianyao, who was still staying in the Wanfo Sect, had a brain like a decoration. Not only did she get a wooden fish for nothing, but she was also cheated by him.
Sometimes when Gu Liangtian met Ning Qianyao in the sect, he would feel sympathy for her. What a stupid person she was.
If Ye Su had a Xuanyin body, Gu Liangtian felt that the entire cultivation world could be overturned by Ye Su. Ning Qianyao only had a Xuanyin body, and even Lu Chenhan had not completely gotten rid of it.
With more memories, Gu Liangtian thought of the formations that Ye Su used in the sect competition. He was itching to learn them, so he began to learn them secretly by himself. He even secretly bought all the Shuohui Jade Plates that Ye Su used in the sect competition and studied all the formations she had used.
As the saying goes, only when you know yourself and your enemy can you win every battle.
However, before he finished learning the formation, Gu Liangtian suddenly heard several shocking news in succession: the spiritual vein of Qianji Sect was restored, and Ye Su moved Linquan City to Kunlun.
When the following message first came, he understood every word, but he couldn't understand them together.
It was not until the sect leader explained it clearly that Gu Liangtian knew that Ye Su had definitely made progress.
"I'm going to help Kunlun and teleport Linquan City back. It will take two or three days. You stay in the sect and take care of the affairs." Le Ji, the leader of the Wanfo Sect, instructed Gu Liangtian before leaving.
Gu Liangtian nodded his head and agreed, and he really wanted to go and see how Linquan City was teleported here.
However, since the sect leader had spoken, he had no choice but to stay.
He originally thought that everything would be peaceful until the demon army suddenly appeared in the Wanfo Sect.
There was no movement in the formation, which could only mean that the demon army did not pass through the formation and appeared directly in the sect, which meant that there was a blood pool in the Wanfo Sect.
This is impossible. He has checked the entire archive several times and has never found anything unusual.
Gu Liangtian stood in the sect, looking at the demon army that kept appearing and slaughtering disciples. He was a little dazed for a moment. Even Jian Hu and Ning Qianyao ran out to fight against the demon army.
He was the only one standing still.
Gu Liangtian just didn’t understand why these demon soldiers could come in so easily and how they dared to come in.
There are three great masters in the Wanfo Sect who are in seclusion to overcome tribulations. This is the sect’s trump card and their confidence.
But until now, the demon army has broken into the Ten Thousand Buddha Sect, but Master and the others have not reacted at all.
Are these demon armies too easy to eliminate, so there is no need for them to take action
Gu Liangtian stood there for a long time and finally moved, but he did not go to fight against the demon army. Instead, he turned around and went to the forbidden area. A voice in his head urged him to go over and take a look.
Something is wrong.
Gu Liangtian had been to the forbidden area once, on the night he became a Buddhist.
The leader of the Wanfo Sect, Le Ji, brought the new Buddhist disciples to stand at the entrance of the caves of the three masters, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing as a sign of courtesy.
Gu Liangtian opened the forbidden area's formation, ran into the cave, took a deep breath, and walked into the first cave on the left.
Unlike the pressure he had imagined, Gu Liangtian did not encounter any obstruction when he entered. He walked in very easily, and then... he saw the dried corpse.
The legendary powerful man who had been in seclusion for thousands of years was actually just a dried corpse.
Gu Liangtian stumbled to the second and third caves, and without exception, they were all filled with mummies.
After reaching the third cave, he finally regained some consciousness and squatted down to check the body of his master.
The first two mummies were still in a meditative state, only the third one was not. Judging from his gestures, he seemed to be struggling.
Gu Liangtian looked down and saw a dagger on the other person's chest. He felt it was very familiar. It was... the dagger in the sect master's room.
A guess suddenly emerged in his mind, making his face pale.
What happened next was just as Ning Qianyao had seen, except that Gu Liangtian did not flee out of fear of punishment. Instead, he heard that the clan leader was coming back and was afraid that he would be silenced, so he fled in a hurry.