Xuanjian Xianzu

Chapter 1170: Complete
The weather in the sky was rolling, dispersing the clouds, so that the color of the brilliant light dimmed to the extreme, mixed with the shadow of the banished Qi, and settled into a heavy haze.

The palm that was shattered by Yu Zhen's light was full of broken jade, and the Chu military token was still flashing with brilliance, illuminating a little red.

Yang Ruiyi's black clothes fluttered in the wind, and the sword on his waist was dark and heavy. He opened his lips and said in a cold voice:

"Tian Langzhi..."

The Eighth Maha looked at the broken jade in his palm with lowered brows, a rage brewing in his brows - this rage was not like frustration, nor like regret and remorse, but was soaked with surprise and enlightenment.

It was not until Yang Ruiyi's voice resounded in the air that Maha raised his head from his shock, burst into an uncontrollable smile, and said coldly:
"General Yang, why are you acting so upset? You traveled thousands of miles to cover this place with banished qi. Which sword is it for? ... Don't you and I understand?"

This sentence hit Yang Ruiyi, and the hesitation in his brow turned into helplessness. He took a step forward, drew his sword, and said:

"Get out of Jianghuai."

Tian Langzhi's eyes were cold and vicious. He raised his eyebrows and smiled sarcastically:
"If I don't retreat, what will you do? I will wait for Cheng Xunzhi here. Do you, Song Ting, dare to fight?"

Yang Ruiyi was already in a very bad mood, but after hearing this, he laughed and said with gritted teeth:
"You can take a gamble. If a war breaks out here and now, will my Yang clan protect Cheng Xunzhi? Can you, the Eighth Generation Maha, save your life... and that master? Do you have the ability to bear the wrath of the Netherworld?"

Tian Langzhi's lips trembled, and his eyes were uncertain, as if he was sizing up Yang Ruiyi's true strength. The man in black gradually looked embarrassed, staring straight at Tian Langzhi, and whispered:
"Why is Jin Yu stationed in Baijiang at this time? Baijiang is a boring knife across the mountain, so don't make mistakes."

This sentence was like a bolt of lightning under the rolling dark clouds, which shocked Tian Langzhi. He took a step back, but before he could open his mouth, a slight but extremely loud cracking sound rang out in the sky:

"Crack."

Everyone's gaze changed at the same time, all looking towards one place:
A corner of the dark and heavy exiled Qi on the ceiling had been shattered, and like a ray of light shining into a closed black room, a bright and clear Duijin sword intent appeared above the crack!

A sword with golden pear blossom patterns all over it suddenly appeared!

'So fast! '

Suddenly the heaven and earth shook, Yang Ruiyi's eyes were filled with shock and anger, and rolling black air immediately flowed into his hands. The Taoist in Taixu also became nervous, and suddenly appeared, raised his eyebrows, made a gesture with two fingers, and placed them in front of his lips.

Seeing his figure, Tian Langzhi felt that the matter was serious. The hatred in his eyes quickly disappeared. He stepped on the wind and rose up, took away the two guardians, turned into a bright white light, and hurriedly fell into the earth of heaven and earth!

The pair of sword pupils had already lit up in the dark color.

'Damn Tianlangzhi!'

Watching the figure of the Duijin Sword Immortal emerge, Yang Ruiyi's heart instantly sank into a chill. Fortunately, Shi Guang had already escaped and disappeared into the sky. The great immortal of Jianmen could only stand quietly in the strong wind, his aura as cold as ice.

Yu Zhen's phantom colors were slowly falling from the sky. Yang Ruiyi suppressed the coldness in his heart and said with his eyebrows lowered:

"Senior Cheng..."

Cheng Xun said nothing for a long time before his hoarse voice was heard:

"Liu Bai has fallen."

Yang Ruiyi said bleakly:
"Tian Langzhi borrowed the [Purple Gold Jingyuan Treasure Fiery]... Even this formation can't stop him..."

The swordsman turned around and his eyes lingered on his face for a moment. This short pause made Yang Ruiyi feel heavy-hearted and his face was cut. After a long while, he listened to Cheng Xunzhi's words:

"I was blocked by Jin Yu's Chun Ruo Zhenren halfway, so I was a step slower."

His words seemed to be an explanation of the jade energy in the world, and also like a statement of facts to Yang Ruiyi. He took a step forward, stepping on the exiled energy and brilliant light in the sky, put the jade in the box, and disappeared bit by bit in the southern sky until he turned into a dot of golden light.

It was not until this moment that Yang Ruiyi slowly exhaled, but heard an urgent call:
"General... General... please save me!"

Yang Ruiyi woke up with a start and turned around to see Chengqian Zhenren approaching. The tears in the young man's eyes had not yet disappeared, but he had no time to feel sad. He just said:
"Please, General, save my Master!"

Yang Ruiyi's eyes flashed and he turned to look to the other side. Xian Lu had an embarrassed expression on his face, as if he was wearing a white porcelain mask, shrouded in a layer of hazy black light, barely standing in mid-air. Rolling magical powers were pouring out from his wounds, and circles of colorful halos surrounded his head, making him look like a god.

This scenery is undoubtedly extremely beautiful, but it is extremely terrifying in the eyes of the two real people:
"The six consciousnesses collapse within, and the essence of the Dharma disperses outside..."

This immortal had a short life span, and after joining the Song Dynasty, he took a lot of longevity pills, which is why he has managed to survive until today! An immortal with a dying life span should have taken good care of himself, how could he withstand such a high-intensity fight?
This is already a sign of the lamp running out of oil!

Yang Ruiyi hurriedly pinched the black energy and tapped the old man's face six times, causing the black light to slowly dissipate. He then took out a pill and gave it to him to take. Xianluo spat out a mouthful of black blood, and his face gradually regained its human color. He said:
"Thank you, General!"

Yang Ruiyi stared at him, turned to look at Chengqian reluctantly, and said:
"Hurry back to Lingfeng to recuperate!"

Once these words were spoken, it was equivalent to asking him to prepare for his funeral. Even though Cheng Qian had expected this, it was like a basin of cold water poured from head to toe. He stared blankly at Yang Ruiyi.

Yang Ruiyi was confused at the moment and misunderstood what he meant. He used his supernatural powers to preach:
"After arranging the funeral of the old master... come back here to find me."

Cheng Qian seemed to be awakened all of a sudden. He withdrew his gaze, saluted him, and without saying a word, supported the old immortal all the way to the mountain gate of his own home in the East China Sea.

Yang Ruiyi looked at his receding back, and the air he had just swallowed was blocked in his chest again, like ten thousand years of black ice, pressing him so hard that he couldn't breathe.

But what can he do?

"Whether it's Li Zhouwei, Cheng Xunzhi, Liu Bai, Xian Yao... these things are of course all my fault... who else can I blame?"

His lips turned pale, and he stretched out his hand with a complicated expression, watching the Jade True Light passing through his fingers, and muttered in his heart:
"Why bother... to get rid of the trouble... it would just cost you your life and cut off your path to becoming a purple ginseng... I've already reacted as quickly as possible... I've even arrived..."

Liu Bai's guarding here was a tacit understanding between the Great Desire Dao and the Yang family... The Great Desire Dao coveted him to the extreme, and he was guarding the mountain alone, which was just enough to hold all the forces of the Great Desire Dao in the boring knife and prevent them from interfering with the war between the North and the South - precisely because of this, the Nuzi summoned by Qi Lanyan by force fell easily without attracting interference from the Great Desire Dao!

His father was also wary of this rapidly rising descendant of the Chu State and had long wanted to suppress him... As a person who was responsible for implementing and improving the interests of the Yang family, the contradictions and embarrassment of his position were unimaginable. He certainly thought about saving Liu Bai in time, and even if he couldn't save his path, at least he could save his life...

He traveled thousands of miles in order to get here before Cheng Xunzhi and prevent the situation from escalating, but he also fulfilled his own selfish motives!
But the result was obviously beyond his expectations.

His pupils dilated slightly, and the last ironic smile of the Yuzhen swordsman in the golden palm still lingered in his mind. Yang Ruiyi didn't know what Tian Langzhi said at the end, but he knew deeply in his heart that this last remaining true man of Chu Liu might have realized it long ago.

Yang Ruiyi stood there, feeling cold all over:
'It is better to die in glory than to live in dishonor.'

But the rebellious Qi on the top of the sky kept roiling and boiling, showing a strong anger. Yang Ruiyi hurriedly closed his eyes, feeling pain in his heart:

"Or... yes"

……

"I would rather die on the spot than tear off a corner of their pretentious and whitewashed face!"

"Cheng Qian is watching, Cheng Xunzhi is watching... maybe Li Zhouwei and the King of Song are watching too!"

The lights in the void were brilliant and dazzling, but Wang Ziya's eyes were still filled with shock. He was holding the scroll in a trance, and the depression in his heart had reached its peak. The white mist beside him was soft and took the shape of a leaping beast, and sounds were heard.

"Tian Langzhi was also helping him, pretending to be so, risking his life to delay for just a moment... His hatred for the South is no less than anyone else's..."

“How disrespectful…”

Wang Ziya's tone was complicated, but it didn't sound like a reproach. Wei Xuanyin collected the light and sighed:
"When Chu and Liu fell, the Yang family accepted orders and became the pushers of the world. They also left a group of soldiers in Nanyue. That's how Liu Bai is today. To the adults, he is not worth noting, but to the Yang family, the world is in chaos, so we must take precautions."

"After all, Liu Bai has hatred."

Wang Ziya looked at the scroll in his palm with a lonely look and said:

"No wonder you sent me here."

His heart was heavy:
"Yang Ruiyi may not be better off... This war shook the north and south, and at least four people in the middle stage of the Purple Mansion died... The rest, big and small, are countless... Who won? No one won. I think this blood has been exchanged for that blood, and every family is crying."

"At least I have tears to shed."

Wei Xuanyin was already used to it, or rather, he had seen the essence of this war long ago. He glanced at the scroll and asked:

"Is this the true form of 'Chang Yang Yin Miao Fan Bao Zhen Jun'?"

Wang Ziya nodded silently and said:
"Junior brother is very knowledgeable!"

Wei Xuanyin shook his head:
"I know a thing or two about Master Chilang's [Swearing an Oath]."

This happened a long time ago. At that time, True Lord Chilang had not yet achieved enlightenment. He hid his name and went far away to become a disciple of Xu Xiang. He was famous for his strong character. Xu Xiang was incompatible with Buddhism and Taoism, so he became the pioneer in suppressing Buddhism and Taoism.

At that time, Tongxuan Palace was established, and Xuxiang Zhenjun moved to watch the ceremony, closed his six senses and built the pavilion with his bare hands. Chilang happened to have some free time, and returned home from the mountain for the first time in fifty years. However, he never expected that [Tianwuti Shizun] came into the world to preach and passed by his hometown. His young grandson rushed to the excitement and returned from the temple after paying homage to the Buddha. He was caught by Chilang, who was in disbelief and flew into a rage.

He couldn't bear to see his family suffer the consequences, so he practiced in the mountains under an assumed name for many years. However, he would return home every year with a letter, instructing his children to practice Taoism diligently and not to go astray. However, his family only knew that he had gone to a certain mountain to practice Taoism, but had no idea that he had gained supernatural powers. They never took it seriously and even hired a monk as their home!
Chi Lang was furious and captured the master. He found that he was just a mortal! He had no choice but to expel him. Considering that his grandson was young and ignorant, and that it was his eldest son's fault for not teaching him well, he cut off his eldest son's ears as a punishment and forced him to swear in front of the statue of the ancestor:

"My descendants, if they do not follow their nature, accept instructions, reveal falsehood, or speak the truth, if they violate this oath, they will be punished in front of the precious land."

It was precisely because of this oath that, whether it was the introduction of Buddhism into the Central Plains or the karmic retribution of future generations, no one from the Chu Liu lineage had ever devoted themselves to Buddhism!
Wang Ziya responded to his words and said quietly:
"My master went to [Dongmutian] to pay his respects to the master. He mentioned that my cultivation had not progressed and my Qi had been cut off. He had already sought the empty cultivation path and turned to the purple gold cultivation to enter this world... Then a senior brother spoke up..."

"He said that he had been calculating for a long time, and that a disciple of the Liu family was about to enter the Buddhist land. He had originally made a vow, but was intercepted by Xiuwu. It was just the right time for me to take the statue of the ancestor to Jiangnan, look at him in person, and let him fulfill his vow and die."

Wei Xuanyin hesitated for a moment and asked
"If that's true, I see the great desire of the Taoist master coming fiercely. If it weren't for the Taoist friend coming, there should be a real light of inspiration..."

Wang Ziya said bitterly:
"That's right. I specifically asked him to meet me because I wanted to eliminate his desire to be a monk. To be selfish, my Lingbao sect didn't want to lose face. Personally, I couldn't bear to see him being a monk, so I hoped to save his dignity... but he committed suicide! Ugh!"

Wei Xuanyin showed a trace of admiration in his eyes, and turned to comfort him:

"The current situation is not under your control. You are extremely lucky to have preserved the dignity of Lingbao. Guangchan's behavior is out of line, and the adults must retaliate. The current situation is enough for the Yang family to suffer a loss and swallow the bitter water."

After hearing this, Wang Ziya calmed down, but the image of the Jade True Monk was still in his mind. He looked complicated and said:
"In ancient times, Douxuan was separated, but there was a mortal world to refine the mind, and the gods were in line. It was not favored by the way of heaven... There is no heroic spirit in the cave, this is all!"

Wei Xuanyin had also heard this before, so he was not surprised. He raised his eyebrows and said:

"In this world, seeking for gold and attaining status, whether seeking or attaining, is nothing more than an image or a phenomenon. Once you hide in a cave, it is nothing more than seeking immortality. How many images can there be? I came from the mortal world, and I will attain it in the world."

Wang Ziya was silent for a long time and said:
"That's not appropriate right now."

Wei Xuanyin was also silent. Seeing that the sky was getting steeper and steeper, Wang Ziya was ready to leave and said:

"After this experience in the mortal world, I have gained a lot of enlightenment. Junior Brother Wei... do you have any other plans?"

Wei Xuanyin nodded, paused and said:

"I'm going to Shanji."

Wang Ziya was stunned for a moment and said in horror:
“This is not good!”

The man in white in front of him smiled and said:

"Since she has come to Zhixuanxie and seen the Zhaoyao Mountain lineage, and called me a senior, I can't just ignore this matter. I will wait in the mountains. If she is determined to return to the mountains, I will bring her back even if it means offending the Yang family."

Wang Ziya retracted his foot immediately after taking it forward, feeling a headache. When he came out of the cave, it seemed that every real person he saw was shocking!

"Is it because the world is so treacherous that one cannot stand out from the crowd unless he shocks the world?"

But he has always been a good guy, and in the cave he was just an old Taoist priest in a Taoist temple. Even though he knew that the other person must have more thoughts in his mind than he did, he still advised:

"The Shanji incident has been delayed for too long, and the Yang family holds a deep grudge. This is not the work of one or two evil officials with the surname Yang, like the incidents on the Salty Lake and the Boring Knife. If it involves Yang Xu's temperament, I guess that Yang Pan would have noticed it!"

"Offending the Yang family is a small matter, but offending Judge Yang is a big matter. If you dare to test me on this matter...if you make the adults unhappy..."

Wei Xuanyin withdrew his hand and said:

"I don't think so."

He looked gloomy, thinking:
"I see that Yang Xu has a rather vicious aura, with wings flying and beaks pointed, he is exiled and feels wronged... And although the underworld servants in the south are notoriously ruthless and unrighteous, they are usually very considerate when they are employed, and treat them like worn-out shoes when they are abandoned. It is rare for them to be so reckless..."

"I'm just afraid I won't have him as my king."