Taoist Myth: I am the last true immortal in the world

Chapter 599 Two battles and two victories
Beizhou, inside the city.

Zhu Yanshou led a mighty vanguard army of 50,000 and immediately sent scouts to report into the city.

When Wu Luan, commander-in-chief of Beizhou City, learned that the Khitans were invading, he became furious and hurried to the palace to gather his soldiers.

All the officers and soldiers gathered at the general's mansion and the audience was over.

Wu Luan looked down at Shao Ke and other soldiers and said, "The Khitans are violent and do not abide by their duties. Last year, I defended Yunzhou for seven months but failed. Later, Emperor Gaozu wrote to me and abandoned Yunzhou, and the Khitans retreated. Now that Emperor Gaozu has passed away, the barbarians are invading again. They are too much of a bully. They have raised this nameless army, which is deeply hateful! Moreover, my Jin Dynasty and you Khitans each defend our own territory and have not violated anyone. Now you come to die, how can I forgive you easily? Generals, do you have any good ideas to repel the Khitan army?"

As Wu Luan's confidant, Shao Ke immediately stepped forward and said, "General Wu, the Khitan army is strong and powerful. I am afraid that our Beizhou army and civilians cannot defeat them. In my opinion, we should stay in the city and wait for the court to send reinforcements to defeat them."

Another general, Huang Yuan, clasped his fists and stood up and said, "Although our Beizhou is a strategic location on land and water, there are very few soldiers and horses in the city. If the Khitan army attacks the city at all costs, we will definitely not defend it. If we want to defend it, we have to destroy the Khitan army's siege equipment."

The counselor Chen Ji said: "Attack the city is nothing more than ladders and battering rams. If we can prepare enough firewood and grass, when the Khitan army climbs the city, we can light it and throw it at them, and burn it with fire. We will definitely be able to defeat the Khitan army."

A group of soldiers expressed their opinions and countermeasures respectively.

After a moment, Wu Luan made a decision and said, "You all have a point. Our Beizhou army is too small to fight the Khitan army head-on. Send an order immediately to prepare firewood, grass, and kerosene and pile them on the city wall. If the Khitan army dares to attack us, we will make sure they never return!"

Orders were issued one after another.

The entire Beizhou City was like a clockwork machine, preparing for the battle in an orderly manner.

Bundles of firewood and barrels of kerosene were continuously transported.

Other soldiers rushed to the city and beat drums and gongs, recruited able-bodied civilians, distributed swords, spears, and armor, and jointly defended the city.

In another place in the general's mansion, three immortals and a group of monks who had not yet achieved immortality gathered together.

At a glance, there were dozens of people.

In the guest hall, Kuimulang sat in the seat of honor.

He looked like a white tiger, a vicious wolf, and a celestial pig. He was wearing a yellow robe and looked majestic and solemn.

If anyone knows Kuimulang, they would definitely know that he is one of the incarnations of the White Tiger.

Because in mythology, it belongs to wood and represents wolf, so it appears as a hungry wolf.

In addition, the stars resemble celestial pigs.

Therefore, his appearance is a fusion of three aspects, making people look like a white tiger at first glance, a hungry wolf at a closer look, and a celestial pig at a closer look.

On the right side of Kuimulang sits General Zhao Da, who is one of the sixty Jiazi (Chinese zodiac signs) Wuchen Tai Sui. He looks like a dragon, holding a small green dragon in his hands. He wears a green robe embroidered with gold patterns, and is full of righteousness, making people awe-inspiring.

Sitting on the left side of the two sacred figures is Taoist Gou Teng.

There are also some cultivators who have not yet achieved enlightenment and become immortals, so it is better not to mention them.

General Zhao Da looked outside the city with his wise eyes and said softly, "The Khitan army is invading. I see the light of lotus and relics and black energy rising. There must be talented people in the army. If I am right, the light of lotus is the Third Prince Nezha, and the light of golden relics is the pagoda held by the Heavenly King Vaisravana. As for this terrifying black energy, I can't guess what kind of demon it is."

"This Nezha has great magical powers. He once defeated the demons of the Ninety-Six Caves. Now he is used by the Khitan army. He is really a strong enemy." Kuimu Lang said slowly: "The King of Vaisravana has the exquisite and transparent golden pagoda of relics bestowed by Sakyamuni Buddha. He is not someone to be trifled with. On the contrary, the demon is not to be feared. I see that the black qi is faintly condensed into the shape of a white bull. It must be the demon that has transformed into a spirit of the white bull. It is just right for me to defeat it."

The two divine beings had magical powers that were omnipotent, so they were naturally able to see strange phenomena hovering in the air that were invisible to mortal eyes when the Khitan army attacked, and find out what kind of strange people were in the military camp.

Because Nezha, Li Jing and the nine-headed Bull Demon King had reached such a high level of cultivation, the vision was so earth-shattering that it obscured the visions of Chen Yun, Niu Dali, Jiao Daoren and others, making it difficult for them to see clearly.

General Zhao Da said, "Nezha is extremely powerful. Even if we join forces, we may not be able to win. What should we do?"

Kuimulang said: "It's okay, I have called the other eight stars of Kuixiu to come down to earth. We only need to hold on for three days, and then all the nine stars of Kuixiu will gather together. We will not be afraid of Nezha."

Taoist Gou Teng said: "Star Officer, Tai Sui, how can we hold out for three days? If the Khitan army attacks us, we will be forced to attack, and then we will be defeated."

Kuimulang said with a smile: "This is your first time participating in the Conferred God Battle, so you don't know the principles. We can go out of the city to fight, but if we are defeated and flee back to the city, the gods on the opposite side will not dare to pursue us, otherwise we will disturb the lives of mortals. Even if we gain more military merits, we will not be able to be conferred a good position as a god. Therefore, if we go out to fight and know that we are defeated, we will return to the city immediately. It is not difficult to defend for three days."

"This way, we can rest assured."

"As long as the Khitan army cannot break through the city, we have Beizhou City to defend and remain safe."

"Although the Khitan army is powerful, when they attack the city, we can use a little trick to repel them."

"If it doesn't work, we can delay it by fighting one by one."

Below, a group of cultivators who had not yet attained immortality expressed their opinions.

Finally, Kuimu Lang made a decision and said, "Tomorrow, before the Khitan army attacks the city, we will take the initiative to challenge them and delay them. Who is willing to lead the charge?"

Upon hearing that they were to take the lead, the group of monks who had not yet achieved immortality fell silent.

Everyone knew that the Khitan army had Nezha, Li Jing and the Nine-Headed Bull Demon King, three gods and demons with great magical powers. If they took the lead, the probability of death would be very high, so naturally no one dared to stand up.

Seeing that everyone was afraid to go, Kuimulang explained in a good mood, "Generally speaking, in the Conferred God War, everyone serves their master. If there is no life or death, even if you are unfortunately captured, you will at most be imprisoned until the end of the war, and your life will not be taken away. But if you can gain something, it is a good achievement and will be recorded in the Conferred God Position Chart for future Conferred Gods. Now the Khitan side is sending the vanguard, and the main force has not arrived yet. If you want to gain military merit, now is the best time. If you miss it, it will not be so easy to gain military merit in the future."

The Battle of the Gods is not a life-and-death battle, so naturally there will be few fights of life and death.

Most of the cultivators present were participating in the Battle of the Gods for the first time, so it was normal that they did not know this.

Now that everyone heard what Kuimulang said, they all realized how dangerous the Battle of the Gods was. At the same time, they also realized that now was the best time for them to gain military merit with their limited skills.

"Someone is willing to go!"

"Star Officer, let me go!"

"So what if I'm captured? Zhang is not afraid!"

The group of monks responded one after another.

Taoist Gou Teng was silent for a moment, then said, "If fellow Taoists can hold us back tomorrow, that'll be fine. If not, I am willing to fight."

Kuimulang nodded slightly and said, "That's great. On the first day, you guys will challenge me to a fight. On the second day, General Zhao Da will challenge me to a fight. On the third day, I will go there myself. If we wait until the fourth day... then all the nine stars of Kui will be gathered together, and we won't be afraid of Nezha and Li Jing."

After everyone finished discussing it, they drew lots to decide who would be the first.

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The next day, early in the morning.

The Khitan army was cooking and preparing to take a short rest after breakfast before attacking the city immediately.

Various siege equipment had already been prepared, and they could advance towards Beizhou City as soon as Zhao Yanshou gave the order.

Chen Yun, Nezha, Li Jing, Niu Dali and others looked at Beizhou City and saw the soldiers and civilians surging, knowing that the city was ready.

They were only going with the army to deal with the talented people in the Later Jin army. They would definitely not take the initiative to harm ordinary soldiers and civilians, and naturally it was impossible for them to go into battle.

Time passed by minute by minute, and as daybreak approached, they were preparing to attack the city.

At this time, Chen Yun, Nezha, Li Jing, the Nine-Headed Bull Demon King and others were gathered in the central army, waiting for Zhao Yanshou's orders while acting as "guards" for the commander-in-chief to prevent him from being accidentally killed and causing a crushing defeat.

Suddenly, a young general in silver armor rode a green goat and floated down from Beizhou City. He shouted in a stern voice: "I am Zhang Zhi, a free cultivator from the East Sea. Who among you dares to fight me?"

He was a lone man guarding the pass, with a loud voice that could be heard over a mile without stopping, which showed that he was no ordinary man.

Zhao Yanshou climbed to a high place and saw the mighty general, and knew that ordinary soldiers were no match for him.

He looked at Chen Yun with great respect and asked, "Mr. Chen, a stranger has challenged us to a fight. How should we respond?"

Chen Yun put his hands behind his back and looked around for a while, then said softly, "It's okay, just call my disciples to fight."

At this point, he tilted his head and said, "Lu Yuan."

Lu Yuan, dressed as a Taoist priest, immediately stepped forward and said, "Teacher."

Chen Yun said: "Zhang Zhi is a physical cultivator, with a mid-level magician cultivation level, similar to you. It just so happens that you have never fought before, so go fight him to gain some experience."

Lu Yuan said: "I will follow the teacher's instructions."

After saying this, he held a peach wood sword in his hand and carried a green flying sword on his back, and flew towards the open space in front of him with the wind.

After a moment, Lu Yuan and Zhang Zhi stood face to face.

He bowed and said, "I am Lu Yuan, a disciple of Master Niwan from Da Mian Peak of Qingcheng Mountain. I have come here specially to accept the invitation of fellow Taoist to fight."

Zhang Zhi held up his rifle and laughed, "If you want to fight, then fight. Why bother talking so much?"

As he spoke, he flapped the green goat and instantly disappeared from sight. Lu Yuan was not in a hurry, muttering something, releasing a circle of fire to protect his body, and at the same time, the Qingfeng on his back came out of the sheath with a "swishing" sound, turning into a stream of light and slashing towards the left position.

The next moment, with a clang, Zhang Zhi, who had disappeared, appeared again, holding the flying sword with his steel spear, and praised, "Good Taoist magic!"

Lu Yuan didn't answer at all, and continued to control the flying sword to move and attack as fast as a spirit snake.

Zhang Zhi was not afraid at all. He ordered Qingyang to move quickly, used the gun in his hand to neutralize the attack, and approached Lu Yuan.

The two men fought, swords and spears in hand.

A big war, how could that be enough?

The young general sits on the saddle, and the war clouds penetrate the sky.

The Taoist rode a flying sword, and the cold light pierced thousands of eyes.

This steel gun is like a rain of pear blossoms.

The flying sword spun like a gyroscope.

The young general wanted to kill the Taoist priest with his spear.

That feathered guest took the hero with his sword.

This person has been practicing physical cultivation all his life and has the strength to move mountains and rivers.

The Taoist skills of that rookie were amazing.

Seeing this, the generals and soldiers on both sides clapped and cheered in encouragement.

It is said that Zhang Zhi fought against Lu Yuan for less than thirty rounds.

Zhang Zhi was already within three feet of him, and it seemed that his gun was about to point at the person's face.

Suddenly, Lu Yuan pointed the peach wood sword in his hand and shouted: "If you don't put down the sheep now, when will you?"

The shout was like a sound that struck his soul. Zhang Zhi felt dizzy and his whole body became limp. He fell down involuntarily.

Without hesitation, Lu Yuan pointed his flying sword directly at the opponent's neck. A stream of Dan Qi shot out and pierced through the opponent's scapula, making it impossible for Zhang Zhi to exert any more strength.

Immediately, he grabbed Zhang Zhi's belt, lifted him up, and flew back to the Khitan military camp.

Lu Yuan came to see Chen Yun, threw Zhang Zhi to the ground, clasped his hands and said, "I have fulfilled my mission and captured the enemy general."

Chen Yun nodded slightly, "Very good, you can rest for a while."

Lu Yuan responded and walked aside to rest.

Seeing Lu Yuan so powerful, Zhao Yanshou hurried forward to ask about his well-being.

The people in Beizhou City had already seen Zhang Zhi being captured, and all the cultivators looked very unhappy.

Kuimulang stood on the city wall with an expressionless face, looking to the side, "Wang Cheng, go challenge him to a fight."

Zuo Dao, who looked sinister and holding a torn cloth bag, stepped forward and said, "I obey your orders."

As he spoke, Zuo Dao did not make any move. He appeared outside the city and challenged the enemy loudly, "I am Wang Cheng, the Black Water Qi Refiner. Who dares to fight me?"

Chen Yun took a closer look and found out that although Wang Cheng was only a top-class wizard, the rag bag in his hand seemed to give some clues.

To be on the safe side, he called out, "Senior Brother Zhang Qian."

Zhang Qian stepped forward and said, "Senior Brother Chen."

Chen Yun stretched out his hand, and the ice ring magic weapon appeared in his palm.

He blew a breath of immortal air and said, "Take this to fight. If he uses the cloth bag, you also use the ice ring."

Zhang Qian took the ice ring and said, "I obey your command."

Immediately, Zhang Qian turned into a black mist and appeared on the scene in an instant.

Wang Cheng asked, "Who is coming?"

Zhang Qian said: "I am Zhang Qian from Da Mian Peak of Qingcheng Mountain."

Wang Chengdao said: "Mr. Guan looks very energetic, he is definitely not an ordinary person. If I cannot defeat him in the fight later, please show some mercy..."

He had only said half of his words when he suddenly raised the tattered cloth bag in his hand.

The cloth bag was filled up without any wind, and a strong suction force came from the mouth of the bag, trying to catch Zhang Qian.

Zhang Qian once dared to explore the South China Sea when he and Lin Chen were lower-level mages. He himself was very experienced in combat and now he has the cultivation level of a high-level mage. How could he have been tricked by the other party?

When Wang Cheng made any unusual movement, he immediately raised the ice ring in his hand.

The ice ring flew into the air, and ice crystals gushed out instantly like the tide in the sea.

The horrible cold air instantly spread. Even Zhao Yanshou and other mortals who were a mile away in the military camp were shivering with cold. They felt that they could not resist the invasion of the cold air, as if they would be frozen into ice sculptures if they stayed there for a moment longer.

This is the situation in the military camp.

In fact, the noise and movement at the battle site was even more terrifying and massive.

Everyone heard a sound like the roar of a car engine resounding from the surging ice crystals.

Rumble.

The roar became louder and louder.

Gradually, angry roars seemed to be rippling from heaven to earth.

Immediately afterwards, a loud "click" suddenly exploded between heaven and earth.

Everyone saw a scene of great horror.

Perhaps it was because the cold air from the ice ring magic weapon was too intense, not only was the wilderness instantly frozen, but the sky was also condensed by the cold air into "thick ice and snow" covering half of the sky, like a giant milky white mountain piercing the sky.

However, this huge mountain formed by thick ice and snow did not last long and collapsed instantly!
It's like Mount Buzhou collapsed!
Immediately, the vast white snow and ice in the sky suddenly collapsed, the snow and sand rolled, and the majestic momentum seemed to fly into the sky.

Everyone only saw a "white line" falling vertically from the sky, just like a huge wave rising into the sky during high tide, covering the sky and the earth.

When this "white line" fell, it immediately covered the sky along the way, becoming larger and larger, and finally almost covered the sky, with violent waves rolling in.

The sun in the sky is covered by "white air".

Darkness shrouded the sky thousands of meters high.

The "white air is billowing", giving people the feeling that it may collapse at any time, which makes people feel extremely depressed!

But in fact, anyone who has watched this scene knows that the "white air" has actually collapsed and surged!

Sure enough, in less than an instant, the "white giant wave" in the sky was like the Milky Way breaking apart, and crazy air waves rolled down, like the water of the Yellow River coming up from the sky, instantly covering the entire world, and even the air was It became cold and sticky.

As soon as I took a breath, a cold feeling entered my lungs.

It was dark and dense all around, with no daylight and a raging cold air. Any place on the ground covered by the "white wave", whether it was flowers, trees, or boulders, were all shaken off and involved.

Wang Cheng, who was fighting with Zhang Qian, was so frightened when he saw this that he almost lost his soul. He shouted, "I admit defeat!"

He quickly put away the rag bag, indicating that he would not resist anymore.

Seeing that the opponent voluntarily admitted defeat, Zhang Qian did not kill him and put away the ice ring at the same time.

The next moment, the cold air from the ice crystals disappeared as if they had never appeared again.

Just like before, after winning, Zhang Qian used his magic power to pierce Wang Cheng's scapula and brought him back to the military camp.

Two victories in two battles, all the monks on the city wall of Beizhou were shocked.

They never imagined that Chen Yun's followers were so ferocious!
(End of this chapter)