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Chapter 631 Chen Jie: Zhu Chongba's Xuanyuan Technique is More Powerful Than Mine
With a bang, the Khampa's head exploded like a watermelon. Zhu Chongba wiped his hands, his face calm and composed. Killing one Khampa was no longer enough to shake his resolve.

At this moment, he turned his head and saw his fourth brother Chang Yuchun and second brother Xu Da annihilating these cavalrymen. His face was calm and expressionless, and he did not say a word, but you could see the unease in his eyes. This trip to Mount Taibai did not seem safe. So many things had happened before he even left the pass.

Zhu Chongba pondered, looking into the distance, wondering if Chen Jiu Si would come to participate in this opportunity to seize the chance at Mount Taibai.

They'll probably come.

He's someone who's never absent from these kinds of events.

Zhu Chongba thought that if he came, this trip would not be easy, after all, there were many checkpoints along the way, and it would take some effort to get through them.

In particular, he killed Boluo, who was a pillar of the Great Qian Dynasty, making him an enemy of the entire Great Qian Dynasty. Even the Living Buddha had his eye on him. Chen Jiu Si couldn't avoid such a person even if he wanted to.

If the Living Buddha finds out he's heading north, he'll probably intercept him and kill him along the way, and he won't have a chance to survive.

So he was still very interested in how Chen Jiu Si was going to come to Taibai Mountain.

Zhu Chongba pondered for a moment and slowly walked back. By this time, the hundred-man cavalry battalion had been almost completely wiped out. After Chang Yuchun killed the last cavalryman, Zhu Chongba returned to the caravan.

At this moment, the still-shaken镖人 (bodyguards/escorts), Chen Jie and the others walked over shakily, while the chief镖头 (head镖头) and the others also returned. The镖师 (bodyguards/escorts) all looked at Zhu Chongba and his group in shock, because after this battle, they knew that these three must be someone important, and definitely not their chief镖头 Zhao Dapeng's nephew-in-law.

If Zhao Dapeng really had such an amazing nephew-in-law, could he have achieved what he has today?

So there's something fishy going on, definitely something fishy going on. These three people really have some unknown background.

Zhao Dapeng looked at the bodyguards and then at Zhu Chongba, thinking to himself, "How do you explain this? You guys are too fierce."

Zhu Chongba was quite straightforward. He clasped his hands in a fist and said, "I apologize to everyone. We have concealed our identities along the way. I am not Qianli. My surname is Zhu and my given name is Chongba."

"City Lord Zhu!"

Upon hearing Zhu Chongba announce his name, the bodyguards exclaimed in surprise, their eyes widening in astonishment. Several of them were even Zhu Chongba's biggest admirers, and they wished they could kneel down immediately and shout, "Having wandered for half my life without meeting a wise ruler, I have now met the city lord. If you do not abandon me, I am willing to become your lord!"

Chen Jie mingled in the crowd and feigned surprise, his performance flawless and incredibly lifelike. Even Zhu Chongba, who had been observing everyone's expressions, didn't notice anything amiss.

The crowd was stunned for a long time and dared not speak. At this moment, Qingzhu slowly stepped forward, clasped his hands and said, "Lord Zhu, I apologize for not recognizing your true face along the way."

Zhu Chongba waved his hand and said, "It's alright. Are you satisfied with the protection you provided for me along the way?"

Qingzhu said, "How could we dare to be dissatisfied? It is truly a blessing for us that City Lord Zhu personally protects us. However, we do not know..."

"Please speak freely, young master."

Zhu Chongba looked at Qingzhu and said, "Then I won't hide it anymore. Lord Zhu is a great man and shouldn't make such a request, but I have my own reasons. So I hope that Lord Zhu can keep my promise to the escort agency and let them escort me to Erdaohuzi to complete my purpose."

Zhu Chongba laughed and said, "Young master, you are overthinking it. I am not a man of my word. If I say I will guarantee you will get to Erdaohuzi, I will guarantee you will get to Erdaohuzi. I will never break my promise."

Upon hearing this, Qingzhu said, "Then thank you very much, City Lord Zhu."

Zhu Chongba waved his hand and said, "However, I can't protect you on the return trip. We have other important matters to attend to."

Qingzhu said, "There's no need for City Lord Zhu to worry about that. Our Huangzhou Prefecture has its own sea routes that can take us back to Huangzhou Prefecture."

"So, very good."

Zhu Chongba nodded in agreement, then turned to leave. However, after taking two steps, he turned back to look at the group and said, "By the way, many members of the escort team are injured. Since you come from a family of herbalists, you must know how to treat them. Please help us with the treatment."

Upon hearing this, Qingzhu immediately smiled and said, "Of course, I will do my best."

After that, things were simple. Needless to say, Chen Jie mingled among the crowd treating people's injuries.

Simple bandaging, followed by applying some wound medicine. The only rare cases were arrow wounds that required cleaning, but these were all easy for Chen Jie to handle. He was the apprentice of Bai Wenjing, one of the two famous doctors in Mianshui, so how could he not know how to do these simple bandaging techniques?

And so Chen Jie began to skillfully clean the wound. Zhu Chongba, watching Chen Jie's practiced technique, stood behind him and said, "Your technique is quite good. Did you work as a doctor before?"

Chen Jie hurriedly turned around, perfectly portraying the fear and trepidation of a nobody. Anyone who didn't know better would think he was a graduate of a performing arts academy. Then, Chen Jie turned to Zhu Chongba and said, "Lord Zhu, I did study medicine before, but once when I was treating a nobleman, I said a few unpleasant things and was beaten up and thrown into a ravine. Later, I was picked up by bandits and worked as a bandit doctor for several years. When I got old and useless, I found an opportunity to run down the mountain and became the head of medicine for the Li family."

Zhu Chongba didn't detect any flaws in his explanation. In those days, there were indeed many bandits, with one or two gangs every ten miles or so. And for someone who had served as a doctor for bandits, it wasn't hard to understand why he could treat knife and gun wounds so clearly.

After Chen Jie finished doing this, he saw Zhu Chongba turn and leave.

After Zhu Chongba left, Chen Jie lowered his head and continued working. There were still five days left. In five days, he would be able to recover his strength, and then he wouldn't have to be so careful.

After treating their wounds, the group didn't linger. After all, they were not far from Yuguan (Shanhaiguan), and it was best to leave the pass as soon as possible, otherwise the news of the Khampa's death in battle would surely spread.

The group quickly arrived at Yuguan Pass, which was heavily guarded. Zhu Chongba, seeing this, didn't hold back and knew he couldn't hide any longer. He directly shouted at the city wall, "Who is the commander guarding this pass?"

As soon as he said this, a person came out from the closed door. Zhu Chongba recognized him as a familiar face; it was the Living Buddha's chief disciple, Damoba.

Damoba stood atop the gate, looking down at the people below with a slight frown, and asked, "Who are you?"

Zhu Chongba glanced at him and said, "So it's an old friend, Damoba. Don't you recognize me?"

Damoba frowned slightly as he looked at him and asked, "Who are you?" Zhu Chongba continued his pretense and replied, "Zhu Chongba, the Chief Minister of Anhui Circuit."

Damoba was also taken aback when he saw Zhu Chongba. He then recalled the events of Dadu a few years ago, when Zhu Chongba and Chen Jiusi fought a fierce battle with him. Although he had the upper hand in the end, he had not caused any real damage to the two of them.

Moreover, he lost that battle, and the Prime Minister Tuotuo, whom he wanted to protect, was directly removed from the prime minister's seat, while the Prince of Ruyang returned safely to his fiefdom in Jiangnan.

Thinking about it now, it still feels incredibly shameful.

However, things are different now. His strength has made a qualitative leap. Under the infusion of his master's Great Dao, his strength has also advanced by leaps and bounds. He has now entered the third stage of the Fusion God realm. He will also go on this trip to Mount Taibai to see if he has a chance to seize a sliver of opportunity and enter the fourth stage of the Fusion God realm. If he can successfully enter the fourth stage of the Fusion God realm, then he can fill the hole left behind by Boluo. This is his greatest value.

Having figured this out, Damoba looked at Zhu Chongba below the gate and said, "Zhu Chongba, why are you alone? Where is your partner Chen Jiu Si? Didn't he go north to seize this opportunity?"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Chongba frowned and said, "Chen Jiu Si is a rebel, while I am a Pingzhang Zhengshi appointed by the court. How can we get involved together? Please allow the gate to be opened, as I am going to the border on official business."

"Hahaha, going to the border for official business? Zhu Chongba, do you want to kill me? What is there in the border for you to do on official business? Alright, if you want to go to Mount Taibai, just say you want to go to Mount Taibai. Why be so hesitant and indecisive?"

Zhu Chongba looked at Damoba and said, "What the master says is true. Please make way, master."

"I cannot allow it. I am here to stop you delusional fools. Mount Taibai is a treasure mountain within the territory of my Mulan tribe. How can I allow you Han people to lay a finger on it? You should retreat immediately and perish."

Damoba looked at Zhu Chongba and said, "It seems that things will not end well today. In that case, Master, please draw a line."

Damoba looked at Zhu Chongba and said, "Hehe, Zhu Chongba, I know you've improved a lot over the years, but don't be smug, I've improved quite a bit too!"

With that, Damoba leaped down from the pass and landed on the ground, saying, "Zhu Chongba, let's finish the battle we didn't finish back then today."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Chongba frowned and said, "Does it really have to be this way, with swords and spears drawn?"

Damopa said, "What else can I do? Take this palm strike!"

With a shout, Damoba immediately struck out with his palm in mid-air. Upon seeing this palm strike, Zhu Chongba's eyes widened in shock, and his brows furrowed in horror. Such powerful qi, and it mobilized a great deal of natural power. This is not the power that a second-stage Fusion God could unleash; this power is that of a third-stage Fusion God!
Thinking of this, Zhu Chongba immediately focused his mind completely. He suddenly raised his hand, and in the next moment, Buddhist teachings flowed, and a Buddha image appeared behind him. The Buddha stood in the void, looking at Damoba.

"Now that you have seen the Buddha, why do you not kneel?"

At this moment, Damoba looked up and saw the Buddha himself. His gaze sharpened, and he said, "Evil heretics dare to call themselves Buddha!"

As he spoke, Damoba suddenly released powerful Buddhist energy, golden swastikas flying everywhere, and then he struck Zhu Chongba with a powerful palm strike.

In an instant, a huge golden palm print was directly struck Zhu Chongba.

Seeing this, Zhu Chongba quickly retaliated with the Tathagata Palm. His palm was also a huge Buddha's palm, but it was a little smaller than Damoba's palm. Seeing this, Zhu Chongba frowned slightly, while Damoba said, "One cycle turns into a world, how can you, who has only turned into two, see the scenery of the third cycle? Break!"

boom!
With a loud bang, Damoba's Buddha palm print instantly shattered Zhu Chongba's Tathagata palm print and then blasted towards Zhu Chongba.

Zhu Chongba was shocked to see this, but he was not at a loss. At this moment, Zhu Chongba suddenly rose up, his eyes widened, and he looked like an emperor. At this moment, a golden light of imperial nobility appeared on his body.

Immediately following, Zhu Chongba shouted, "Activate the Xuanyuan Technique!"

Boom! In an instant, the martial arts phantom behind him changed. Then, the Buddhist phantom disappeared instantly, and what appeared in front of him was an incomparably majestic emperor. This emperor was wearing a crown robe, holding a jade tablet, and behind him were the words "Cultivate virtue to quell chaos, and unite all nations". There was also a long sword hanging there, with the words "Xuanyuan" written on it!

[An illusory image of the Yellow Emperor!]

Even Damoba was shocked to see this. Was this Zhu Chongba's trump card, the Xuanyuan Technique?
The image of the Yellow Emperor is the ancestor of humanity incarnate!

At this moment, Zhu Chongba reached out his hand, pointed his finger, and shouted, "All laws of heaven and all races of earth shall be supreme over me, the common ruler of the world!"

After saying this, he pointed his finger, and then the Yellow Emperor suddenly raised the jade tablet in his hand. The next moment, he gently smashed it, and with a loud bang, he directly knocked away the Buddha's hand, which had little strength left.

Seeing this scene, everyone was shocked and quickly dodged.

To avoid being injured by the incoming force, Chen Jie's face was also grim, and his eyes were filled with worry. Although Damoba's palm strike was at the third level of the Fusion God Realm, if he were to combine the three gods into one, he could also unleash an attack like Zhu Chongba's.

However, Chen Jie discovered a problem: Zhu Chongba had a hidden trick up his sleeve. Clearly, the attack power of the jade tablet was far inferior to that of the Xuanyuan Sword.

If the Xuanyuan Sword were unsheathed, its power would definitely be even greater. This made Chen Jie think of a terrifying possibility: the difference between himself and Zhu Chongba was that Zhu Chongba's Xuanyuan Technique was complete. Given the right opportunity, he might be able to unsheath the Xuanyuan Sword, and its power would be astonishing.

However, his weakness is that his Four Seasons Celestial Phenomena Technique is not complete. He is still missing one season's worth of the Technique, namely the Autumn God Technique and the Earth God after Autumn.

Thinking of this, Chen Jie felt anxious. If he didn't solve this problem, he would definitely not be a match for Zhu Chongba. The more he thought about it, the more anxious he became, but there was no way to change the situation.

At this moment, Chen Jie could only clench his fist. Although he had achieved a lot, he was still far from the final victory. He needed to work harder. After the battle of Mount Taibai, he should go and search for the traces of the Autumn God Technique.

Chen Jie had a feeling that the Autumn God Technique had definitely not been lost, he just didn't know where it was.

Thinking this, Chen Jie fell silent. At this moment, he watched as Zhu Chongba smashed Damoba's Buddha palm with a jade tablet, but the powerful aura of the third level of the Fusion God still shocked him, causing his whole body to tremble and a mouthful of blood to flow out from the corner of his mouth.

But Damoba's gaze sharpened, and he took a step forward, clearly showing no intention of stopping, his killing intent even stronger.

(End of this chapter)