Do not engage in underworld operations in the human world!

This was beyond Yuanshi Tianzun's expectations.

If the black hole was really so vulnerable, then Jiang Lu wouldn't have to go through so much trouble to deal with the threat it posed. The Queen Mother of the West alone could find a way to resolve it.

Although it is not invincible, it is definitely not something that can be solved by brute force alone.

According to Yuanshi Tianzun's prediction, they would need to spend a lot of effort to figure out the operating logic, and then try to come up with a way to crack it based on the principle.

In this process, he was able to use the black hole to figure out the various mechanisms after their fusion.

The battle between masters is like this, testing each other little by little, because none of them is sure of crushing the opponent, and the slightest mistake may lead to a complete loss.

At times like this, information becomes extremely important. Only with information can you have the capital for bargaining.

In order to obtain as much information as possible, the game is to use back and forth and counter each other's moves, using existing means to trick or force the opponent to use more means. When one side has revealed all its cards and has no new means left, the other side will be able to take advantage and use the prepared against the unprepared. Among masters, such an advantage is enough to determine the outcome.

It can be said that everything is just to pave the way for the final decisive blow. Therefore, every card is particularly important. Yuanshi Tianzun’s black hole, even if it is not a joker, can be regarded as a two of spades.

The result was that this card not only failed to deceive anything, but was also easily resolved. This naturally made Yuanshi Tianzun very angry.

Of course, it's not that he cheated nothing out of it. If making a mess of things and making Jiang Lu and Queen Mother of the West more united and more perfectly integrated can be considered a gain, then he did it.

Seeing this, he clapped his hands in amazement: "I never thought that my sister, who has never used physical skills or weapons in her life, could make such beautiful gun flowers in your hands."

Jiang Lu sneered: "Humph, there are still many things you don't know. She can even hang upside down!"

This is undoubtedly a blatant provocation to Yuanshi Tianzun.

Sure enough, Yuanshi Tianzun's face suddenly turned gloomy: "You are looking for death!"

Before he finished speaking, Yuanshi Tianzun had a sword in his hand.

But he did not use the sword to attack Jiang Lu, instead he threw it into the air.

Just as this sword left Yuanshi Tianzun's hand, another sword appeared out of thin air in his hand. Then he did the same thing, throwing one sword after another, a total of four swords into the air.

After being thrown into the air, they did not fall down, but just floated quietly beside Yuanshi Tianzun, with the hilt facing up, the tip facing down, and the blade facing Jiang Lu.

The four swords have different appearances and magic, and they exude similar yet subtly different auras.

Lingbao Tianzun was shocked when he saw this: "The Four Swords of Zhuxian! They were actually refined by Yuanshi into his own magic weapon?!"

“Not only that.” Sensing the aura coming from the Four Swords of Immortal Execution, Heavenly Lord of Morality broke out in a cold sweat. “They are even stronger than before. Even I feel a great pressure when I see them from afar. If they were the Four Swords of Immortal Execution before, they should be called the Four Swords of God Execution now!”

Yuanshi Tianzun stretched out his fingers and fiddled with the hilts of the four swords in turn, chanting with some nostalgia and emotion:

“It is neither copper nor iron nor steel, it was once hidden under Mount Sumeru.

If there is no need to reverse yin and yang to refine it, how can there be no water and fire to temper the sword?

Killing the immortal is powerful, killing the immortal is dead, and trapping the immortal glows red everywhere.

The changes of the immortals are endless and wonderful, and the clothes of the great gods are stained with blood. "

Jiang Lu, who was closest to the Four Swords of Zhu Xian, also felt the pressure that the Lord of Morality mentioned, and it was more intuitive and real.

It feels like cleaning a cat litter box that hasn't been shoveled for a long time. When the shovel digs up the clumped cat litter, the ammonia produced by fermentation and decomposition hits you in the face. Your mouth, nose, and even your eyes feel as if they were burned by smoke and fire. It's an indescribable discomfort.

This is an understatement. If this feeling is magnified ten thousand times, it would probably be what Jiang Lu felt when facing the Four Swords of Zhu Xian.

But no matter how uncomfortable he felt, he still remained stubborn.

"You're still reciting poetry? Don't give me this nonsense."

Jiang Lu wiped his face, trying to dispel the feeling that his facial features were strengthened, and then sneered:
"Is all this useful? When I'm old, I can tell my children that I'm the Lord of the Underworld. What about you? You said you can recite poetry?"

Facing Jiang Lu's ridicule, Yuanshi Tianzun ignored him and just said to himself: "This was in the past, when there were no gods in the Three Pure Ones Realm. Some people wrote poems to praise the Four Swords of Zhuxian. At that time, they were truly divine weapons, and even immortals could not survive under their sharp edge.

Once the Zhu Xian Sword Formation appeared, even I had to avoid its edge. They could be said to be the biggest obstacle when I conquered Jiejiao.

But now, times have changed. The reputation of the Four Swords of Zhu Xian has long been forgotten, and the diagram of the Zhu Xian Sword Formation has long been lost. People have long forgotten the bloodiness they represented in the past, and also forgotten how many Golden Immortals were reduced to ashes at the first encounter with the Zhu Xian Sword Formation.

Haha, it would be such a pity if such a treasure was lost, so of course we should make good use of it.

However, their original power is not enough nowadays, so after I got them, I not only refined and strengthened them in my spare time, but also specially created a more perfect sword formation.

Daode is right. They should not be called the Four Swords of Zhuxian now, because they can threaten even gods, or in other words, killing gods is like killing chickens!"

Hearing the pride that could not be concealed in his words, Jiang Lu cursed in his heart: Are you pretending to be your mother?
Although the alarm bells had already rung in his heart, he still didn't care on the surface: "I just wanted to ask, what is Tongtian Sect Master, what is Jiejiao, how come I have never heard of it? Are you also a filial son in the prehistoric world who is obsessed with reading novels?"

Although the original intention was to change the subject, take back some of the right to speak from Yuanshi Tianzun, and dampen his current momentum, this question did make Jiang Lu curious.

Since his debut, he had heard of the Investiture of the Gods, but had never heard of the Jiejiao.

And to put it simply, the Investiture of the Gods is about Yuanshi Tianzun who wanted to gain hegemony, so he pulled together two other equally invincible thugs to start a company. The so-called Investiture of the Gods is the club's personnel file for recruiting new members, and the series of struggles it triggered are partly a test of the newcomers' strength, and partly to subdue some unruly troublemakers. It is a fairy-tale version of Water Margin.

As for the Jiejiao, it does exist in the novel, but the leader of the Jiejiao is called Shangqing Lingbao Tongtian Jiaozhu. So, isn't he a character created based on Lingbao Tianzun?
Moreover, the novel also says that Laozi transformed into the Three Pure Ones in one breath, namely Yuanshi Tianzun, Daode Tianzun and Lingbao Tianzun. If this is true, wouldn’t the seniority be messed up?
Especially since he, who was the Lord of the Underworld, had never heard of these contents in the official history, Jiang Lu had always regarded them as secondary creations and never took them seriously. But now Yuanshi Tianzun mentioned Tongtian Jiaozhu more than twice, and now he simply took out the Four Swords of Zhuxian, which inevitably made him doubt his judgment.

Is there really such a saying?
Or maybe, Yuanshi Tianzun is really a crazy person who was so obsessed with reading novels that he couldn't tell the truth from the false, and just treated the novels as reality?

Hearing Jiang Lu's doubt, Yuanshi Tianzun smiled but said nothing, but glanced at Lingbao Tianzun in the distance, and then said meaningfully: "You know Tongtian Jiaozhu, but they are not the same person."

"Here I go again, here I go again, being the Riddler again."

Jiang Lu shook his head:
"You don't want to tell me that Lingbao Tianzun is Tongtian Jiaozhu, who has multiple personalities, and then the evil personality incarnated as Tongtian Jiaozhu to play the real and fake Lingbao Tianzun, and then the great Yuanshi Tianzun cured Lingbao Tianzun's schizophrenia, and in order to let the recovered Lingbao Tianzun secure the position of the third in command of the group, he erased the memories of everyone in the Sanqing Realm. In fact, Tathagata's identification of the real and fake Sun Wukong was copied by Yuanshi's killing of the fake Lingbao?"

As soon as these words came out, Yuanshi Tianzun, who was about to open his mouth to explain Jiang Lu's doubts and then show his ability to steal the world, suddenly fell silent, his smile faded, and his expression became extremely serious.

"How did you know that?"

Jiang Lu was stunned for a moment: "No. Really?"

At this moment, as luck would have it, Lingbao Tianzun in the distance suddenly felt a strange emotion.

"Why do I feel like there's some inexplicable connection between me and the Four Swords of Zhu Xian?"

The face of the Lord of Morality standing aside changed, and he realized it belatedly.

He thought of the dusty past again.

Lingbao Tianzun did not used to be as stubborn as he is now. He acted a little slow and stupid most of the time. At that time, he was full of vigor and vitality. In the days when Yuanshi Tianzun had not yet achieved the class leap and quietly left the two of them far behind, Lingbao Tianzun relied on his Zhuxian Sword Formation and Wanxian Formation to suppress Yuanshi Tianzun and Daode Tianzun so much that they could not raise their heads.

It's a pity that his frontal lobe was later removed by Yuanshi Tianzun. Although this eliminated the evil personality of Tongtian Jiaozhu, he also became much more depressed and no longer had his former charm.

In Lingbao Tianzun's memory, there are also memories about Tongtian Jiaozhu, but that is a completely different person from him. He stood on the side of Yuanshi Tianzun and Daode Tianzun. The three of them worked together to break the Zhuxian Sword Formation and then exiled Tongtian Jiaozhu. Therefore, he recognized the Four Swords of Zhuxian and had a deep impression of it, but he never saw the Four Swords of Zhuxian again after that.

This is because although Yuanshi Tianzun and Daode Tianzun could erase the memories of everyone else at that time, they did not have the ability to erase the memory of Lingbao Tianzun, who was at the same level. They could only take advantage of his serious injuries to change and distort his memory.

This resulted in Lingbao Tianzun not showing any unusual reaction when he did not see the things in his memory, but when he actually saw them, the familiarity engraved in his bones would give him an inexplicable sense of intimacy.

In addition, perhaps it was because the skills of Yuanshi Tianzun and Daode Tianzun were not yet good enough at that time, and when they erased the memories of the deceased, they might not have been able to erase them thoroughly, leaving the memory of the Investiture of the Gods lingering in the minds of some people in the form of dreams.

Someone with a vivid memory woke up and found that the story of the Investiture of the Gods in the dream seemed more legendary than the real Investiture of the Gods. So he wrote this fantastic story in the dream into "The Investiture of the Gods" and circulated it widely. However, most people regarded it as a second creation, and absolutely no one thought it could be true.

Thinking of this, Daode Tianzun could only sigh, patted Lingbao Tianzun on the shoulder, and comforted him: "That thing has a very high technical content. You usually like to tinker with these things. It's normal to be interested in them. Okay, don't think too much."

"But I just feel like they seem to be connected to me," Lingbao Tianzun said a little aggrievedly. He looked like a child who had lost his favorite toy and then looked at his parents after seeing his toy appear in the hands of other children.

But what can the Lord of Morality do?

Do I really have to tell him that it was your toy, but I sold it to someone else?
"No, no, it's an illusion. Maybe you just saw the things that reminded you of the people. You suddenly remembered those difficult years and those old friends."

He couldn't do it, so he could only comfort her like this.

But Lingbao Tianzun was still muttering, and he always stubbornly felt that what he felt was definitely not what Daode Tianzun said.

The Lord of Dao and Morality looked at Yuanshi Tianzun in the distance, and suddenly a lot more wrinkles appeared on his face.

"What a sin."

Meanwhile, on the other side.

"As expected of you, you are well-informed. I thought I hid it well, but you still found out. Don't pretend. Tell me, when did you find out?"

Yuanshi Tianzun's fear of Jiang Lu also deepened.

I didn't expect that he was just a reckless man, but he turned out to be so meticulous. I don't know when he discovered it. If he had discovered this shocking secret a long time ago, he would have pretended to be stupid until now. Fortunately, I didn't break up with him before, otherwise, if he had revealed it, there would have been a lot of trouble.

As for now, it doesn't matter.

But I was clearly planning to say it myself, and I was expecting your surprised expression. Humph, it's really annoying.

Jiang Lu thought for a moment and said, "I just discovered it."

"But no matter when you discovered it, now that you know about it, I can't let you stay."

The next moment, the sword energy around him rushed up into the sky, raging like a violent storm, making people feel frightened.

All around the sword formation, there was a strong wind and flying dust. The Zhu Xian Sword was hanging high in the air, and the sword body emitted a dazzling light, like a scorching sun that made it impossible to look directly at it.

The three swords, the Immortal-Slaying Sword, the Immortal-Trapping Sword and the Immortal-Exterminating Sword, revolve around the Immortal-Slaying Sword. The runes on the swords flash continuously, emitting dazzling light.

The four swords responded to each other, sometimes merging into one, and sometimes splitting into four sword energies, making it hard to predict. The sword energy surged, forming gusts of wind that made people feel suffocated. There was a dead silence around the sword formation, as if even the air was solidified by the sword energy.

"Since you like to use weapons, then try my God-Slaying Sword Formation!"

Faced with the pressure that was a hundred times more intense than the pain brought by the sword energy just now, Jiang Lu got goose bumps all over his body.

He clenched the big black halberd, took a deep breath, and pointed the halberd tip at Yuanshi Tianzun angrily: "What do you mean now that I know, you can't let me go? Didn't you intend to tell me in the first place? You are a fucking trap!!" (End of this chapter)