The ninth tail was cut off by a sword, and the pressure felt by the old beggar was immediately reduced by more than a degree. He even felt much more relaxed than when he was fighting against Tu Siyan's eight tails before. This was because Tu Siyan was not only injured in the vitality by this sword, but even his spirit was cut off.
Tu Siyan fell to the ground, curled up and trembling all over. The remaining eight tails also huddled around her. She no longer had the momentum to shake the mountains. She raised her head and looked in despair at the mountain in the sky that had begun to materialize. It was obvious that the old beggar did not stop his mountain-suppressing spell because of Ji Yuan's attack.
Ji Yuan had slowly sheathed the Qingteng Immortal Sword, and the sharp sword intent in the air also dissipated as the sword was sheathed.
After sheathing the Qingteng Sword, Ji Yuan held the sword in his left hand and waved his right sleeve. There was neither the whistling of air nor the pulling of magical spiritual energy. It seemed that Ji Yuan's sleeve had covered a small piece of the sky, and the fox tail in the sky was collected by Ji Yuan with the art of the universe in his sleeve.
When Ji Yuan took the fox tail out of his sleeve again, the white fox tail had turned into a long silver hair.
Even though it was just a strand of hair, Ji Yuan still felt it was slightly heavy when holding it in his hand.
Rumble, rumble, rumble…
The entire Pozi Mountain began to shake again, drawing Ji Yuan's attention away from the hair in his palms. The mountain in the sky had become substantial, and the surrounding energy seemed as heavy as lead.
"Don't... don't suppress me! You, two immortals at the level of True Immortals, teamed up to bully a weak woman like me, don't you feel ashamed?"
"Ji Yuan! Mr. Ji! We are old acquaintances. If not for some reason, we could have been affectionate with each other on the Jiang Yehua boat. Are you really so heartless?"
Tu Siyan's face was pale and blood was oozing from the corners of her mouth. She cried to Ji Yuan in the sky with a sad look. That sad and beautiful feeling was so touching that anyone who saw it would feel pity.
When the old beggar heard these words, even though he knew there was almost no chance that they were true, he still subconsciously looked at Ji Yuan.
Even with Ji Yuan's current Qi-cultivation skills, the old beggar's mouth twitched when he saw it, and he transmitted a message to the other party.
"Absolutely not!"
"Yeah, the old beggar knows."
The old beggar nodded, and with a gesture in his hand, the mountains in the sky gathered into shape.
"The mountain falls to suppress the demon!"
Amid the old beggar’s rumbling thunder, a mountain quickly fell from the sky.
"Woo..." The whistling sound of the torn air indicated that the mountain had become a solid entity.
"Uh--" "Boom..."
Tu Siyan's sharp screams echoed throughout the mountains, and the entire Pozi Mountain shook. The villagers in the mountains could not stand steadily, and many of them sat down on the ground. The monsters deep in the mountains were so frightened that they held their heads tightly and dared not move.
However, despite such a big commotion, there was no landslide at all; at most the sand and rocks in the mountains were shaking.
“Ka-ka-ka-ka-ka…”
Where the mountain fell, the surrounding mountains connected with waves of noise. The originally isolated mountain became one with the surrounding mountains, as if it had originally been in this mountain range.
The demonic energy that was originally rising into the sky in Pozi Mountain seemed to be suppressed under the mountain at this moment and disappeared without a trace in an instant, and the Dharma light in the sky gradually dimmed, leaving only the colorful halo around the old beggar that had not faded.
Ji Yuan and the old beggar slowly fell from two directions. During this process, the old beggar, who originally had a sense of holiness, turned into a ragged beggar again as the halo disappeared.
The dust in the sky also fell at an abnormal speed. Pozi Mountain gradually regained its clarity. The surrounding mountains and forests were deathly quiet, making people feel that it was just an ordinary evening in the mountains.
Ji Yuan and the old beggar were like two mortals wandering in the mountains. They slowly walked together from their respective locations, and then walked together to the mountain where they had fallen before.
At this time, on the mountain wall about ten feet away from Ji Yuan and the old beggar, there was a narrow crack, each as wide as a finger. With Ji Yuan and the old beggar's eyesight and Dharma eyesight, they could see dozens of feet away through the crack.
In the dim interior of the mountain, there was a space several feet square. A woman was lying unconscious in it. It was Tu Siyan who was suppressed under the mountain. Even in the space inside the mountain, her entire body was not outside.
Apart from the neck and head, only half of Tu Siyan's shoulders and arms with tattered clothes were exposed, and the rest of her body was covered under the rocks.
"How cruel..."
Ji Yuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and at the same time he imagined and compared it with the situation of Monkey King in Journey to the West. Sun Wukong was pressed under the Five Finger Mountain, but at least half of his body was exposed outside the mountain. Well, outside the real mountain. Although he could not avoid being exposed to wind and sun, at least he could breathe fresh air and even communicate with the passing cowherd boy.
As for Tu Siyan, her entire body had been completely suppressed under the mountain. Not to mention communicating with others, ordinary people could not even know of her existence. The tiny, cramped space inside the mountain was just enough for her to catch her breath. It made little difference whether she had it or not.
Thinking about it this way, the Buddha is really compassionate...
The old beggar withdrew his gaze and smiled at Ji Yuan who was still looking inside.
"Finally, I have subdued this vixen! But Mr. Ji is so ruthless and has no mercy on women. His sword is so fast and accurate!"
Ji Yuan felt as if there was something else behind the old beggar's words and couldn't help but turn his gaze away.
"Mr. Lu, please stop making fun of me. Tu Siyuan dares to say anything. He can even make a dead person alive. I was investigating a strange case involving a great virgin when I happened to meet this evil woman. I was not careful enough and she ran away."
"Well, old beggar, I just said it casually. Sir, there is no need to explain it so clearly."
It was a rare opportunity to tease Ji Yuan, but the old beggar pretended to be ignorant even though he knew the truth, and added another sentence.
"It was just a coincidence this time, I understand!"
This was really a coincidence. Seeing the old beggar like this, Ji Yuan was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
Then their expressions gradually straightened up, and Ji Yuan thought for a while and said.
"Mr. Lu is just planning to suppress her for a hundred years?"
The old beggar spread his hands.
"Otherwise, as the saying goes, don't judge a monk by his appearance, but by his appearance. The eight-tailed fox of Jade Fox Cave Heaven didn't see enough to kill her. Didn't Mr. Ji only cut off one of her tails, and didn't kill her?"
Ji Yuan nodded.
"Indeed, but we have to ask her some questions when she wakes up. This witch is running around everywhere and I don't know what trouble she is getting into. Now that we have met her, there is no reason not to ask her some questions."
Feeling Tu Siyan's weak breath, Ji Yuan asked again.
"Mr. Lu, when will she wake up?"
"Well, that depends on her. Although Mr. Ji's sword cut off a fake tail, she was indeed the aura of the nine demon foxes at that time. She was seriously injured by this sword. The injury caused is much more serious than my mountain-suppressing technique. That's why I, an old beggar, said that you, sir, are ruthless and destroy flowers."
The old beggar stopped making fun of Ji Yuan. He thought carefully and calculated with his fingers.
"It may take at least a year or two for him to wake up."
…
Outside Pozi Mountain, the soldiers who had previously escaped on foot only paused for a moment when the ground shook, and then quickened their pace and fled at the urging of the military officers. Even a fool would know that it must have been caused by the battle between the immortal master and the demons.
At this moment, everything became quiet, and the soldiers who had fled several miles away subconsciously slowed down their pace. In addition to curiosity, they were also very tired.
He had to carry a full set of armor and weapons, some dead foxes, and even carry a water bottle, dry food and other necessary supplies from the back of the saddle of the dead horse. He had been running for such a long time in order to escape. Even though he had learned martial arts on the battlefield, he was injured by Tu Siyan's heartstrings and was almost unable to hold on.
"Huh... Huh... Huh..."
The military officer used his spear to poke the ground, supporting his body and breathing heavily. The weather had been a little hot and humid in the past few days, and the fright and the intense exercise had made the sweat on his face pour down like rain, and his clothes had long been soaked. Now that he stopped, the fatigue and discomfort of the body surged over him, and the brothers around him had already fallen down and were gasping for breath.
The military officer held his spear and turned to look towards Pozi Mountain. The terrifying noise over there had subsided.
"General, heh... heh... General, everything should be alright... right?"
"No, I'm not sure. Just now, the white light and the sound of the sword should be the immortal swordsmanship... But, I hope the immortal won... Huh..."
Unlike these soldiers who were frightened and exhausted, many villagers in the mountain village in Pozi Mountain began to become slightly excited.
From the villagers' perspective, they could see the shadow of the mountain in front of the old beggar. When the huge mountain in the sky fell, the earth did shake, but everything calmed down afterwards.
The panic-stricken feeling also disappeared at this moment, and after the mountain fell, the auspicious light in the sky lasted for a long time before gradually dissipating. In the simple understanding of the villagers, it should be that the "mountain god" successfully suppressed the evil spirits.
Some brave villagers have already planned to go deeper into Pozi Mountain before it gets dark, even if it's just a glimpse from a distance.
Even though the older generation of villagers tried their best to persuade the young hunters in the village, they were still unable to do so.
A total of seven young and strong hunters, carrying hunting spears, bows and arrows, ropes, and even torches and tinder, headed towards the direction where the mountain had fallen.
About half an hour later, the hunters, who were familiar with the route, arrived at a hill deep in the mountains. As soon as they arrived, every hunter stood there motionless.
The familiar mountain road in the distance disappeared, and the wide valley also disappeared...
"I, am I not dazzled?" "Quick, pinch me!"
"That... there's an extra mountain!"
The hunters could not help but think of the mountain shadows they had seen in the sky before. It turned out that there really was a mountain falling down. The peaks of this mountain were connected to the surrounding mountains and were much taller than the peaks of the original Pozi Mountain. They became the most magnificent peaks of Pozi Mountain...