Please call me Huanxian

Chapter 414: The first bird to stick its head out gets caught
"I sent a message to the eldest brother, informing him of the major events that had occurred, meaning that he should temporarily interrupt his travels and return to the sect to avoid disaster. The eldest brother is currently in the Cloud Clearing Continent. He said, 'I cannot abandon my spiritual journey halfway because of the possibility of disaster.' I cannot persuade him any further."

Cen Kan sounded somewhat helpless, he still respected Lu Jiuzhen as his eldest senior brother as always.

Cao Wanxin shook his head and said nothing. He could understand Lu Jiuzhen's persistence. After hundreds of years of difficulties, he finally made a breakthrough. Of course, he would push forward to the end and would not be afraid of any dangers or difficulties.

If my state of mind is disturbed because of returning to the sect to avoid disaster, it would be better to just kill myself.

Xu Yuanchang explained: "Liuyun Territory has maintained a high-pressure posture of comprehensive inspection. The thief has not made any movement for ten days or half a month. Perhaps he is playing a trick to attack the west and has already slipped away to other realms. He will not wait for someone to catch him."

"I hope it's as you said."

Cao Wanxin echoed this and asked, "Can your friend stay in the sect for a while longer?"

Ye Changmeng in the Huanxian Ring heard the hidden meaning and sneered, "Xu boy, don't stay in this petty sect anymore. Bring your apprentice and brother back to Jinhe Palace. I will let you be the Palace Master who has the final say."

Xu Yuanchang ignored Old Ye who was obviously trying to sow discord. This fellow could stir up a storm without any wind. He said, "He should stay for another six or seven years. Help me refine a treasure and guide Xiao Meng's practice."

Although he was happy to hang out with Lao Ye, he didn't want to get involved in the cesspool of conflicts behind him.

The truth turned out to be awful and made him a nobody.

Cao Wanxin knew that his words might be used to drive people away, but it was easy for a big guest to bully the host. For the sake of the sect, he had to be the bad guy in advance and said with a smile: "If you need any materials, just tell the sect master."

Cen Kan quickly changed the subject, not wanting the two of them to get into trouble.

Two days later, Xu Yuanchang received another message from Senior Brother Cao, and the three of them gathered in Xiliu Hall again.

Cao Wanxin handed a letter to Xu Yuanchang and said, "The patrol of the Qiaojiao Mountain area is in the charge of Senior Fan of Hufeng Mountain and Senior He of Wuji Temple. They sent someone to deliver an official letter, asking you two to go to Fengluo Mountain Market tomorrow. A total of ten seventh-floor monks will form a new patrol team to be responsible for the safety of the northeast region."

Xu Yuanchang opened the letter and read it with Cen Kan, and they both agreed.

Ye Changmeng in the space made a sarcastic comment: "You are useless. I treat you like cattle and horses. If I don't use you, it will be a waste."

Cao Wanxin was worried and gave his two fellow apprentices detailed instructions.

The next morning, Xu Yuanchang and Cen Kan flew above the Fengluo Mountain Market, joined several other cultivators who had arrived on orders, and accepted instructions from He Duxing of Wuji Temple.

Xu Yuanchang took the position of team leader and led nine monks to patrol day and night.

According to regulations, they only rest for one hour each at noon and midnight every day.

The other Ye Changmeng stayed in Qinglin Mountain and guided Nie Xiaomeng's practice on behalf of Xu Yuanchang. He never left Qinglin Mountain, which made Cao Wanxin feel relieved.

Xu Yuanchang felt a sense of urgency and treated the reconstruction and upgrading of the phantom armor to the seventh level as a top priority. He listened to Lao Ye's explanation of the "killing calamity" that occurs once every two or three thousand years, and had to consider his own situation.

What if you are unlucky enough to meet the Jade Bone Immortal who was chosen by Heaven as the "killer".

He didn't have to expect Yu Gu to show mercy to him.

True Man Yu Gu will only become more and more addicted to killing and will not stop until he is completely destroyed.

He had to rely on the magic of the phantom armor and the protection of the seventh-level treasure clothes, and desperately withstand one or two attacks from Yu Gu Zhenren, before he could have a chance to escape.

Even Old Ye admitted that he was no match for Master Yu Gu, let alone him who was at the Seventh Floor?

After Ye Changmeng refines an eighth-tier treasure and leaves Liuyun Domain, he will spread the news that Yu Gu Zhenren is a killer in the world of cultivation, causing masters from all walks of life to attack him and block him everywhere. The timing is not yet ripe, and he is worried that if it is leaked in advance, he will be "treated differently" by God.

While Xu Yuanchang was flying in the air for patrols every day, he would use his spiritual sense to look through the jade slips and books on formations stored in the space, comparing and calculating the various formation diagrams. He wanted to find a phantom armor formation that suited his own.

Ye Changmeng was very busy in the space. He had to use the furnace to smelt various materials, purify the metal solution, build the base of the pagoda, and use the power of rules to construct a subtle formation, open up the internal space, and so on.

One person has to do the work of several people, so there is not much time to chat with Xu Yuanchang.

Just like a swallow carrying mud to build a nest, it cannot afford to make the slightest mistake.

Three months later, at noon, Xu Yuanchang and his men landed on a hilltop east of Qiaojiao City, chatting and laughing. Suddenly, a message light flew from the sky. He reached out to catch it, checked it, and handed it to the deputy captain, saying, "Senior He has sent a decree, ordering us to disband on the spot. Our patrol mission is over."

He smiled and clasped his fists: "Thank you for your hard work, fellow Taoists. Let's go now."

Without explaining any reason, the subpoena was withdrawn.

Everyone laughed and bowed and left. They could all guess that the crisis was over, and their tense hearts relaxed at once.

The sky is high and the clouds are vast, and the autumn atmosphere is boundless.

The geese flying across the sky still smile at the west wind.

After returning to the sect, Xu Yuanchang and Cen Kan went straight to Xiliu Mountain to drink tea.

Cao Wanxin has a wide range of friends and is well-informed. He told the two with a smile, "We just received accurate information that the Shinto illusionist went to the Great Wilderness Mountain and used almost the same despicable means to sneak attack a master of the Eight-Layered Building, destroying a great power that has been passed down for thousands of years. After Liuyun Sect received the information, it immediately strictly controlled the cross-border teleportation array to prevent that scourge from taking advantage of the loophole and coming in again."

There was a sense of relief and relief in his words.

Cen Kan laughed and said, "Yuan Chang really anticipated this."

Ye Changmeng in the space rolled his eyes and curled his lips: "It's just parroting what others say."

Xu Yuanchang ignored it, said a few humble words to his two senior brothers, drank a pot of tea, and returned to Qinglin Mountain. He called his disciple, who had turned into Qiu Guo and Pang Ya playing hide-and-seek at the foot of the mountain, to the top of the mountain, asked about his daily studies and practice, admonished and encouraged him, and before letting the wild girl go down the mountain, he asked one more question: "Do you still practice playing the violin normally?"

Nie Xiaomeng immediately became very excited, his eyes sparkling, and he shouted, "Master, please take a seat and listen to my disciple play the song 'Ting Qiu'."

She quickly moved a chair over, asked her master to sit down, then she sat down at the bottom, took out a huqin from her storage ring, and started playing melodious music. She was completely immersed in the music, swaying with the rise and fall of the music.

The autumn wind blows and the red leaves fall. The sound of the piano rises several times, filled with the joyful longing for autumn.

After the song was over, Ye Changmeng commented: "'Using the piano to enter fantasy, creating a new path', she can immerse herself in emotions, and can develop in this direction."

Xu Yuanchang once again "picked up other people's ideas" to instruct his apprentice, encouraging him to use the piano to enter a fantasy world.

The Old Ye in the ring space and the young man who was released outside to conceal his whereabouts are of different levels.

After seeing off Nie Xiaomeng, who was overjoyed at the praise, Xu Yuanchang returned to the ancient castle, laid out books, paper and pen, and drew the battle formations that he had been pondering for many days.

Using his powerful calculation ability and array-breaking skills, he constantly analyzes the pros and cons of array diagrams of various attributes.

After spending half a year and discussing with Old Ye many times, Xu Yuanchang found a compound formation that fits his own ability to construct a phantom armor, a "virtual illumination of a hundred illusions" that combines wood and magic arrays, and referred to the essential layout of the "virtual water and phantom illumination compound formation" in the Yunyin Secret Realm passage. After drawing the formation diagram, Xu Yuanchang took off the phantom armor and placed it on the Creation God Platform for refining. He added the seventh-level materials in the treasure house, refined and extracted the essence, and used his spiritual consciousness to draw out the essence energy, penetrated the phantom armor that had turned into a thin layer of liquid, and used the power of the phantom Dao rules as a guide to interweave and entangle to construct the node prototype of the virtual illumination of a hundred illusions array.

This is a very delicate job that tests one's control over one's spiritual consciousness. If there is a mistake at one node, the materials will not be wasted as they will be stacked on the phantom armor anyway. However, the needle will have to be threaded all over again, and there is no room for impatience.

After completing the construction of each node, Xu Yuanchang would stop and rest for a day or two.

Listen to my apprentice playing the violin, or read a book to relax.

In the space, Ye Changmeng has completed the refining of the tower base and continued to smelt materials for the next step. Even though the two are busy in the Fantasy Fairy Ring space, they do not interfere with each other. Occasionally, Old Ye will make a few sarcastic remarks.

Xu Yuanchang used up all the seventh-level materials he had earned, including five thousand year old spiritual wood and millstone-sized fire elemental black stones. There was still a shortfall, so he asked Lao Ye to borrow some. With Lao Ye's wealth as an eighth-level illusion master, he could easily come up with a lot of seventh-level materials.

It took six years, with the help of Old Ye, Xu Yuanchang went through great pains and repeated the work countless times before finally completing the upgrade of the seventh-order phantom armor.

Ye Changmeng also completed the refining of the eight-story pagoda and walked out of the space of the Fantasy Fairy Ring.

He would need to spend at least ten years to maintain the tower, an eighth-level treasure, and would also need to consume a large amount of natural treasures in the later stages.

In the sunlight, the exquisite and delicate pagoda was full of light and appeared and disappeared when held in his left hand. Ye Changmeng was extremely satisfied. He could feel the incomparable spirituality of the treasure refined by the Creation Divine Platform. Looking at Xu Yuanchang getting familiar with the use of the phantom armor, he reminded him:
"This seventh-level phantom armor you refined can not only transform the real into the virtual, but also transform the virtual into the real. You can try it."

"Turning the virtual into the real?"

Xu Yuanchang's heart moved, and the mysterious phantom armor that appeared on his body suddenly became real. As he thought about it, it turned into a set of mighty armor, covering the helmet and visor, but it did not affect his perception of the outside world at all.

“Haha, I feel so powerful!”

Xu Yuanchang laughed loudly towards the sky, and phantoms of trees and forests appeared in front of and behind him.

Ye Changmeng couldn't stand guys who were more arrogant than him, especially his own brothers. The broadsword behind him popped out with a "swoosh". He stretched out his hand to take the sword and shouted strangely: "Boy, let me help you test the power of the phantom armor. Look at the sword!"

"Bang", before he finished speaking, the long rainbow-like sword edge had already split up the endless stream of light and shadows, and actually chopped Xu Yuanchang out ten miles away, smashing the trees on the top of the mountain and plowing out a gap.

"Old Ye, you are launching a sneak attack..."

A dazzling light burst out from Xu Yuanchang's body, and his solid armor returned to virtuality, and he was unable to resolve the huge force.

Ye Changmeng leaned his sword on the ground, grinning with his teeth showing, shining in the sun, and said, "You're not convinced, then I'll greet you first, and then I'll strike you with my sword for fun. Don't worry, I guarantee I won't hurt you."

"Forget it. I am a magnanimous person and will not bother with you. When I advance to the eighth floor, we can have a good chat."

Xu Yuanchang flashed back to the top of the mountain and uttered empty words.

Ye Changmeng threw the broadsword away and put it back into the scabbard behind him. He waved his hand and said, "I don't know when you will be promoted to the eighth floor. You think you can eat and drink water? It's not that easy. I'm leaving now."

The young man who was guiding Nie Xiaomeng in her practice at the foot of the mountain turned into a spot of light and disappeared into the air.

The phantom armor on Xu Yuanchang's body disappeared, and he kept the guest company: "Stay a little longer. I've been here for such a long time, but I haven't accompanied you for a good stroll. I feel guilty."

"You are the kind of person who speaks insincerely and is hypocritical."

Ye Changmeng chuckled and reminded him, "Come to Dongyou Territory as soon as possible. Then I will let you see how an old man treats guests and let you feel what it means to be at home."

Xu Yuanchang agreed, flew down the mountain, and called out, "Xiao Meng, see your uncle off."

The childishness on Nie Xiaomeng's face has completely disappeared, and she now has bright eyes, white teeth, and a slender figure. She has already advanced to the middle stage of the third-level illusionist. Over the years, she has learned many new and strange illusions from her junior master, and has many treasures and talismans given to her by her master.

"Master Junior, didn't you say you would stay for two more years? Why did you go back early?"

"All good things must come to an end. You should practice hard. Then you and your master can come to the East Travel Region and meet again."

Ye Changmeng said with a smile.

He checked the memory of the young clone, took out a blank jade slip, left some things about illusion practice, handed the jade slip to the somewhat sad little girl, and said a few words to comfort her.

The three of them flew out of Qinglin Mountain. Cao Wanxin and Cen Kan rushed over to see them off after hearing the news.

The crowd gathered around and escorted the young man with a sword out of the mountain gate.

Ye Changmeng raised his hand and walked forward, saying: "The guest has left and the host is well, please don't send him off."

After three steps, he disappeared without a trace.

On that day, the sound of the erhu at the foot of Qinglin Mountain was somewhat melancholy.

Nie Xiaomeng experienced a major change at the age of eight and felt for the first time the reluctance and pain of separation from her family. She used the sound of the piano to recall every detail.

Life experience is like this, step by step.

Xu Yuanchang takes care of and maintains the phantom armor every day, instructs his disciples in their practice, and draws talismans, practices magic, and comprehends the power of rules himself.

Another three years passed, and when I was chatting with my senior brother, I heard about the eighth-rank Shinto illusionist who came to Liuyun Domain twice to do evil. He was actually the "Sha Jie" who was hated by all the people in the cultivation world. Currently, the masters of the seven major domains have gathered in the Great Wilderness Mountain Domain, and are besieging the "Sha Jie" illusionist who has not yet become a powerful figure.

Xu Yuanchang knew that it was Old Ye who released the news.

Even if Master Yu Gu doesn't die this time, he will probably be seriously injured.

That day, he suddenly received a message from Senior Brother Cao and rushed to Xiliu Mountain. Cen Kan would also be arriving soon.

Cao Wanxin looked a little unhappy. He handed a letter on the table to Junior Brother Xu and said indignantly, "Liuyun Territory is going to send more cultivators to the Great Wilderness Mountain Territory to participate in the encirclement and suppression of that thief cultivator illusionist. All localities need to send some seventh-floor cultivators to follow. I don't know who recommended you. Liuyun Sect sent someone to deliver an official letter, ordering you to rush to Liuyun City tomorrow."

"what?"

Cen Kan was shocked.

Xu Yuanchang opened the letter and took a quick look at it, feeling helpless.

A tree that stands out in the forest will be destroyed by the wind. Others couldn't bear to see him become famous for discovering the secret realm.

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(End of this chapter)