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Chapter 581 Escape
The Buddha's body broke apart, and evil spirits howled.

The thousand-foot-tall body landed on the ground, letting out an indescribable scream.

The Buddha's blood scattered across the ground, giving rise to countless black lotus flowers. At that moment, a strange and beautiful scene unfolded on the grass.

The golden body of the deity dissipated, and the thunder ceased. Jiang Wen landed within the Four Symbols Sword Formation, looking up at the fallen, decaying Buddha.

The endless black mist rising from the Buddha's body enveloped this world.

Evil spirits roamed within, devouring countless strange creatures.

"We must leave here." Jiang Wen took a deep breath, looking at the gradually recovering Buddha body. He knew he had to leave as soon as possible, otherwise it would be difficult to deal with if the Buddha were to revive again.

His current merits are less than 200,000, so it would be difficult for him to recreate this magnificent divine form.

Moreover, even Faxiang couldn't do anything about this Buddha; he couldn't figure out how to deal with this giant Buddha.

Judging from the Buddha statue, Jiang Wen was certain that this was no ordinary Buddha. Perhaps only a few great Buddhas in the Buddhist order could possess such abilities.

"Could it be the legendary Thousand-Hand Guanyin? If it really is the Thousand-Hand Guanyin, how could she have perished here?" Jiang Wenxin wondered. For him, Buddha represented an ultimate state.

A Buddha cannot fall, but a Buddha can decay. If a Buddha decays, he becomes an Asura.

The decaying Buddha before you is a demon.

"Even gods can be corrupted, so it's normal for Buddhas to decay as well. But what exactly happened to cause these mythical gods and Buddhas to become like this?"

Jiang Wen kept all of this in mind, believing that he would eventually understand everything. But before that, he had to leave this place with Lü Shiming.

Holding Lü Shiming in his arms, Jiang Wen disregarded the restrictions within Black Mountain. Using the Five Elements Grand Array as a medium, he unleashed the Five Elements Escape Technique.

When the giant spirit arrived, the two of them fled swiftly for a hundred miles.

After fleeing for over a thousand miles, Jiang Wen finally dispelled his escape technique. Most of his magical power was depleted, and recovery was now quite slow.

Black Mountain is definitely not a good place for cultivators.

It is truly astonishing that the Great Qian imperial family would use such a place as a testing ground.

As he was being carried, Lü Shiming slowly opened his eyes, and his six senses began to return. He hadn't realized the magnitude of the battle just now because Jiang Wen had sealed his six senses to prevent them from being corrupted again.

Lu Shiming raised his head blankly, looking at the unfamiliar scenery around him: "Where are we?"

"We've already left that grassland," Jiang Wen said, sitting cross-legged within the magic array. He took out a jade bottle and poured the spiritual spring water into his mouth. Swallowing this treasure, coveted by countless cultivators, he slowly restored his magical power.

There are definitely more dangers in Montenegro than just this one place; he needs to be fully prepared.

Just as I was thinking this, a sudden gust of wind blew in.

Before the two could react, the endless floodwaters swallowed them up.

The floodwaters were so immense, enough to submerge mountains. But while they surged and swept across the land, their receding was also extremely rapid.

Once the floodwaters receded completely, there was no trace of Jiang and Wen on the Black Mountain grassland.

Jiang Wen felt as if he were being tumbled in a washing machine, surrounded by an endless flood. The water was extraordinary—extremely cold, extremely hot, and incredibly heavy.

If it weren't for the True Water Spirit Orb in the Five Elements Grand Formation, he and Lü Shiming would probably have been crushed by the flood in no time. He was extremely grateful that he had brought the Five Elements Spirit Orb with him, otherwise this trip to Black Mountain would have been a real disaster.

As the floodwaters rolled on, the two lost track of time.

I just felt that the flood was endless, like a bottomless abyss.

Jiang Wen withdrew the Four Symbols Sword Formation and relied on the Five Elements Grand Formation to maintain his safety.

Drifting with the current in the flood, waiting for their final destination.

While he was drinking from the spiritual spring water to restore his magical power, he was also giving Lü Shiming pointers on his cultivation.

He still knew the secret techniques of the Tai Shen Palace, after all, the founder of the Tai Shen Palace had once been his disciple. In terms of seniority, the disciples and even the sect leader of the Tai Shen Palace should address him as "Master".

In addition, since Lü Shiming was also a member of the Ming royal family, Jiang Wen was naturally willing to give him some pointers.

"You are a descendant of the Mingwang clan of Nanqi, so why don't you know the Mingwang clan's swordsmanship?" Jiang Wen asked, looking at Lü Shiming.

The swordsmanship of the Mingwang clan is extraordinary. Ming Ji was once a renowned swordsmanship prodigy in Taicang, known as the Snow-Reflecting Sword Immortal.

At the age of twenty-three, he had already reached the late stage of the Life Fire realm, and his Immovable King Sword Technique was enough to rival a Dao Palace True Person. Now, fallen into such a state, he has even forced his descendants to learn thunder magic.

"The Immovable King Sword Technique?" Lu Shiming was slightly taken aback upon hearing this, clearly unaware that the King clan possessed such a sword technique.

"Do you know anything about the Mingwang clan?" Jiang Wen asked, changing the subject.

“Brother Jiang, of course I know that.” Lü Shiming nodded and explained the situation of the Mingwang clan. “Our Mingwang clan has long been divided into five surnames over the long years. Although we still have contact, the relationship is no longer as close as it used to be. Every fifty years, the five surnames hold a clan ceremony to select a respected person from among them to serve as the patriarch of the Mingwang clan.”

“My grandfather has been the patriarch of the Mingwang clan for many years, so I often go back to my ancestral home. But I have never heard of the Immovable Mingwang Sword Technique that Brother Jiang mentioned.”

"Five surnames? Which five surnames are associated with the Ming King's clan?" Jiang Wen asked again.

"The five surnames of the Ming royal family are Wen, Cheng, Lü, Ming, and Xuan. Our family belongs to the Lü lineage. As for the other surnames, the Cheng clan is now scattered in the south, engaged in commerce. The Ming clan lives in seclusion in the Great Qian Dynasty, their comings and goings are quite mysterious, and I don't know where they are usually. As for the Xuan and Wen surnames, the Xuan clan has many scholars and officials, and they can be considered to complement our Lü clan. The Wen clan can be considered the main branch of the clan, but they rarely set foot in the mortal world. If it is not for a major event in the clan, the Wen clan may not even appear."

"Hearing of Wen Cheng and Lü Mingxuan, has the Ming royal family really split to this extent?" Jiang Wen sighed, having gained some understanding of the Ming royal family. He never expected that the Lü family, which was originally a collateral branch, would now be able to serve as the patriarch of the Ming royal family.

He remembered that back then, apart from the Ming and Wen families, the rest of the Ming royal family were just collateral relatives and servants.

“I don’t know what the Mingwang clan was like in the past, but now the Mingwang clan can’t compare to the Hundred Immortal Sects,” Lu Shiming said regretfully. “I have also heard from the elders of the clan that a long time ago the Mingwang clan was no worse than the Immortal Sects, and was even above them. It’s just that after the destruction of Taicang, the clan’s cultivation methods and books were severely lost, and now all that remains are fragments and incomplete chapters.”

"If you could learn the Mingwang clan's techniques again, would you be willing to give up your status as a disciple of the Taishen Palace?" Jiang Wen asked with a smile, seeing the regret in Lü Shiming's expression.

“If the Mingwang clan can be restored, I am naturally willing to give up my status as a disciple of the Taishen Palace,” Lü Shiming affirmed. “I was able to enter the Taishen Palace because my elders mentioned that the Taishen Palace would have the Mingwang clan’s cultivation techniques. However, so many years have passed, and I have not been able to find those things.”

"Don't be so fixated on this. Perhaps one day you'll be able to find the Ming royal family's cultivation techniques," Jiang Wen comforted him, then looked outside the Five Elements Formation.

The floodwaters gradually receded, and they seemed to be nearing their end.

(End of this chapter)