"Haha!! Wonderful, wonderful..."
The Holy Fire Master floating in the night sky brushed his sleeves, and the surrounding flames became brighter. He swept his eyes over the City God with faint incense and the scholar who was only in the Golden Core Realm. He formed a claw with one hand, and a vortex of fire gathered.
"Buddha has mercy on me—"
Outside the city, Buddhist chants were heard, coming like a tide.
The condensed flames suddenly dispersed, and Holy Fire Master glanced at the darkness outside the city. He shook his sleeves, snorted, turned around, cast a flying spell, and quickly sank into the darkness.
Below, Lu Liangsheng's face was covered in sweat, his arms hung down, and the tip of his sword slammed on the messy ground. The demon body left behind by Pu Du Ci Hang lost the control of his soul and turned into spots of fire and dissipated, leaving only a few ashes remaining.
In front of the stone steps over there, Chen Shubao was still lying there, ignored. Lu Liangsheng looked towards the main hall, at the window lattice through which he could see the child on the opposite side. He didn't know what to say at this moment. He sheathed Yuelong and walked in one direction, gradually becoming blurred in the wind.
call…
The square of the hall fell silent. When someone breathed a sigh of relief, the guards and soldiers who had been hiding nearby came out one after another, and then they remembered the emperor who stayed outside.
An eunuch ran over and saw Chen Shubao's pale face. He subconsciously checked his breathing.
The eunuch's expression suddenly changed and he screamed at the top of his lungs.
"His Majesty has passed away—"
Chaos spread throughout the palace.
…
In the eastern suburbs, the huge monster standing in the darkness disappeared from the soldiers' sight at some point.
The bright moon appeared round from among the floating clouds, spreading a layer of silver frost.
"Old Toad!!"
From a distance, the Taoist priest was jogging over with a big man. When he got close, he threw the man aside and laughed, "Was that your Dharma image just now? It was so fucking satisfying. I just beat the centipede hard."
"Heh..."
On that side, the Toad Taoist, who had returned to his original appearance, was holding his flippers, chuckled twice, and seemed to be looking at the old monk not far away with some difficulty.
"I finally got rid of the anger in my heart... Thank you."
The old monk Zhenkong bowed his head and silently chanted the Buddha's name.
The Toad Taoist didn't care and didn't pay any attention to the Taoist. He just raised his eyes and looked forward, and the full moon appeared again.
The clear light shone on his face and he couldn't help but sigh.
“How beautiful…”
A trace of blood flowed out from the corner of his mouth. He raised the frog webs on his back as if to grab the bright moon in the night sky. He closed his eyes slightly, and his short body swayed and fell backwards.
"Old Toad! What's wrong with you?!" the Taoist shouted and rushed over.
The figure fell backwards, but was suddenly lifted up by a magical power. With the sound of footsteps, Lu Liangsheng jumped down from the city wall and rushed to the front in a flash. He stretched out his hand to catch the toad, and his voice could not help but tremble.
"Master."
Hearing the call, Toad Taoist weakly opened his eyelids, looked at the disciple in front of him, and grinned.
"What's that expression on your face? I'm not dead yet. I just want to look at the moon in a different way."
The frog's webbed feet gently patted the scholar's hand, and the toad turned its face away, revealing the bright moon in his eyes.
"It's been a long time since I've watched the moon so quietly. I really miss that little pond. Liangsheng, you don't know that the little pond where I practiced was actually dirty and smelly. But I still miss it. Don't you think it's strange?"
"And... and that girl. I miss her so much, but after so many years, I almost forgot what she looked like... I don't know if she has been reincarnated as a human... If I can see her again..."
"That day, she looked so beautiful in her wedding gown... But she didn't know that there was a toad hiding in a corner of the forest, watching her from afar..."
The Taoist tilted his head, his eyes reddened, he saw the old monk next to him and knew that the old monk had great skills, so he rushed over, grabbed the monk's robe and pulled him towards the toad.
"Don't you Buddhists believe in saving the world and being compassionate? Now is the time for you to save people! What are you still standing there for?!"
Still being pulled by the Taoist, Zhenkong stood there like a mountain, motionless, with his eyes closed, and bowed to the Buddha.
"This is the last thing he wanted to do. Everything has its own destiny. His demon pill has been broken. There is no hope."
"you!"
“That’s enough!”
The weak Toad Taoist waved his flippers, still looking at the moonlight. Then, his eyes gradually became cloudy. He looked at Lu Liangsheng, and the corners of his blood-stained mouth opened and he laughed hard.
"Don't be sad, Liangsheng. Just as your teacher said, people have to choose a path to follow. I have chosen it once, and this time it is another path... I am better than others, I can choose one more path..."
The weak voice paused, and he coughed a few times, with a lot of blood flowing from the corners of his mouth.
"... ahem... I have done a lot of bad things in my life. During this period of time, I feel... that they are not worth mentioning. There is only one thing... one thing..."
The Toad Taoist stretched out his webbed hands and pressed them on the back of his disciple's hand.
"… That is, I have accepted a good disciple, his name is Lu Liangsheng."
The scholar bit his lips, felt the coolness on the back of his hand, and closed his eyes.
…
Tap tap tap!
Step on...
The wilderness was quiet, and in the distance there were the sounds of horse hooves and human footsteps running towards this side. The leading general was Xiao Moke, and beside him were Min Changwen and Min Yuerou.
"They are there!" "I think it's the young Taoist priest!"
"And Mr. Lu!"
The scholar kneeling on the ground opened his eyes, his eyes were red and wet. He raised one hand suddenly with his sword finger, and the Yuelong Sword was unsheathed with a clang. It flew in the air across the night sky and rushed to the front of the oncoming cavalry.
The sword pierced into the ground with a bang, and sword energy surged, stirring up a cloud of dust that rose up like a wall to block the direction of the cavalry's advance.
Xilulu-
The war horses sensed the danger and stopped in their tracks, not daring to move forward.
"Liangsheng... what are you doing?" Toad Taoist opened his eyes weakly.
“Master, don’t talk…” Lu Liangsheng’s voice was hoarse, and his throat was slightly sore. The sword-like finger of that hand did not withdraw, but moved over and suddenly cut his wrist.
"Master, do you remember the first time we met? At that time... you gave Liangsheng two books, one of which was "Qing Huai Bu Meng" and there was an article about saving lives..."
When blood flowed out of the wound, Lu Liangsheng's eyes were red and wet. He used his magic power to draw the blood line to connect with the Toad Taoist. His face turned pale and his vision became blurred. He suppressed the dizziness and used the magic power of Qiankun Zhengdao to merge with the blood and the wisps of white gas coming out of the scholar's body and mixed them into the Toad's body.
The Toad Taoist felt a trace of warm soul connected to himself, and water stains slid out of his toad eyes.
"Liang Sheng... why is this necessary?"
"because… "
At the side, a smile appeared on Lu Liangsheng's pale face, just like the smile he had when he was young and standing in the firelight.
"You are my master."
The night wind was howling, firelight was shining down from the top of the city, weakness and fatigue were like a tide sweeping over the scholar, and he fell down in a daze.