The disaster of the world begins with Dongfang Bubai

Chapter 41 Amitabha, I love helping people realize their dreams. Good luck to you, donor.
The next day.

The city of Yangzhou, where Jiangdu County was established during the Sui Dynasty, stood at the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The riverside pier outside the city was filled with ships of all sizes.

Among them, five warships are the most conspicuous. They are called Wuya warships. They have five floors on the deck and are twelve meters high. Each ship can accommodate eight hundred soldiers.

A man about thirty years old, tall and thin, with long hands and feet and a rugged face, walked onto a five-toothed warship. The moment he looked around, he gave people a soul-stirring and domineering aura.

"Over the years, since I became the chief of the Imperial Guards, I have rarely had the opportunity to fight with others. I wanted to take the opportunity to take the "Eternal Life Secret" to see whether Shi Long, who is known as the best martial artist in Yangzhou City, is worthy of his reputation. Unexpectedly, although I saw him, the "Eternal Life Secret" was taken away by someone else in advance."

A scribe came quickly and said:

"Butler, could it be that Shilong is cheating?"

"The lives of his disciples and students are in my hands. Do you think he dares to cheat?" Yu Wenzhi said calmly:

"The abandoned disciple of the evil king, the last monk of the Tiantai sect, the coveter of the four great books. I haven't seen such an arrogant person in the martial arts world for a long time."

"It seems that the white-robed monk who passed by us yesterday while sailing on a boat was Wuchang."

"Zhang Shihe, send someone out to find out. I want to see how much this monk who is not just eating vegetarian food and chanting in the temple is capable of."

"Yes." The scholar accepted the order respectfully.

Ten days later.

Shu, outside Jinguan City.

Xi Mingzhang's eyes were shining as he walked on the official road, as if he had forgotten himself and the world, and entered a strange state of being neither asleep nor awake.

In the darkness, it seems that there is a lot of essence in the sky flowing down from the Tianling acupoint on the top of the head, and the essence of the earth flows into the body from the Yongquan acupoints on both feet. The two sides meet at the Ren and Du meridians, and then flow through the eight extraordinary meridians and twelve regular meridians.

Immediately afterwards, strange lights of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple flashed throughout the meridians, and finally returned to the upper, middle, and lower dantians respectively.

Xi Mingzhang's eyes were full of brilliance, as if his mind had returned to his body. He couldn't help but think happily:
"The Secret of Immortality has never disappointed me. Although I have reached the state of heaven and man where my body is one with the heaven and earth, when I transformed my body into a medium for absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, the efficiency of absorbing the essence of heaven and earth was not very high."

"And the method in the 'Eternal Life Secret' of absorbing the essence of heaven and earth through the acupoints to replenish oneself is so mysterious that it doubles the efficiency of absorbing the essence of heaven and earth."

"The eight extraordinary meridians are the main ones to cultivate, and the twelve regular meridians are the auxiliary ones. Among the seven pictures, the sixth and seventh are the most complicated, and they are completely opposite, just corresponding to yin and yang. The first five are the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and they generally cover the acupoints of the whole body."

The more he thought about it, the clearer it became, and he kept saying in his heart:
"Therefore, the Secret of Immortality actually has nothing to do with martial arts. Its true meaning is the secret of integrating the mysteries of heaven and earth and nature."

"The idea is that the human body is a small world, and outside the body is another world. So as long as you grasp the natural principles of these two worlds, the two worlds will merge into one, and you will truly achieve the unity of man and nature."

Xi Mingzhang looked relieved and said to himself:
"Before this, I was one with nature and man, and my spirit was one with heaven and earth. I was able to have a sense of forgetfulness of self and other with every life within a few miles of the surrounding land."

“Now, my body is one with the heaven and earth. I feel that no matter the heaven or the earth, a stone or a blade of grass, they are all alive and connected to me. I seem to have become a part of them, and no longer two separate entities.”

He suddenly looked puzzled, stopped and stood under a big tree.

In less than two sticks of incense time, a man with an intimidating demeanor was seen leading several hundred elite cavalrymen to a nearby location. It was Yu Wenzhi leading his troops to attack.

"Are you the evil monk Wuchang? It's worth my while to look for you. You do have a charming and strange aura. Moreover, you look very young. You are indeed the evil monk who massacred the sect and the temple and harmed Master Zhihui."

"Evil monk?" Xi Mingzhang chuckled:

"Since I left the mountain, I have not tried to hide my whereabouts. I thought the Buddhist sect would be the first to find me, but I never thought it was someone from the Yuwen clan." He seemed to have thought of something and immediately acted as if he was suddenly enlightened:

"It's not their style to rush to my door and die. I think if they are not really at their wits' end, they won't take the initiative to come and see me."

"That's exactly what I want to say. When the knife is hanging on the edge, it is the most torturous."

He looked over, sizing up Yu Wenzhi, and said:

"As for you, let me take a good look at you. The head of the Yuwen family, Yuwen Shang, has the greatest reputation, and below him are four great masters. Among them, Yuwen Huaji, who served as the chief of the Sui emperor's guards, is the most well-known among the people in the martial arts world."

"It is said that he is the first person after Yuwen Shang to master the family secret skill "Ice Mysterious Power"."

"There is a chill in your aura, you are most likely Yu Wenzhi."

Xi Mingzhang nodded, as if he had sensed something again, and continued:
"Haha, this is incredible. Although I came here to find the Secret of Immortality under the order of the emperor, I have some rebellious thoughts in my heart."

"If I were to summarize all these little thoughts, if this book wasn't woven with black gold thread and was invulnerable to water and fire, I would have just found someone to forge a copy and concealed it."

"If we get the Secret of Immortality, we will immediately pretend to have successfully deciphered it and give it to the tyrant to practice. In this way, within three months, we can practice him to death."

"That's enough. You are indeed a demon monk."

Yu Wenzhi was sweating profusely and roared with gritted teeth. He didn't know why, but he suddenly felt that he was seen through by this evil monk.

All his martial arts skills, true energy, and brilliant strategies were revealed. He even felt that a powerful spiritual force was enveloping him, like fate, which was irresistible.

At this moment, he was already blaming himself for being too arrogant and taking risks just to show off his martial spirit, and he was thinking about retreating.

"You want to retreat?" Xi Mingzhang asked with a faint smile on his face: "Do you see the first big tree on your left?"

"After three breaths, a breeze will blow, and seven leaves will fall from this tree."

When Yu Wenzhi heard this, not only he, but also the hundreds of elite cavalrymen behind him felt a breeze on their faces. They looked towards the big tree involuntarily, with horror appearing on their faces. They saw that the big tree had really lost seven leaves in the breeze.

"Martial arts? Or did you use some magic?" Yu Wenzhi forced himself to calm down and sneered:
"Don't pretend to be mysterious and say you have understood the mysteries of heaven and earth just because you are a monk."

Xi Mingzhang looked calm:
"This is just the instinct of the realm I am in. If you must give it a name, if you don't like it, you can call it the monk's qi-gazing technique or the beggar's qi-gazing technique. If you like, you can call it the emperor's qi-gazing technique."

"He is so audacious, he has no loyalty to his king or his father. No wonder he was accepted as a disciple by the evil king of the Demon Sect, and he also destroyed the temple where he had stayed for nearly 30 years." Yu Wenzhi said indifferently.

"I'm telling you it can be called the Emperor's Qi-gazing Technique, but I think since you have the ambition to be the only one left, then dying with this technique would be a perfect ending, and your life would not be filled with regrets."

Xi Mingzhang raised his hand slightly, and the leaves around him fell down one after another, shooting towards Yu Wenzhi and others like arrows.

In an instant, hundreds of elite cavalrymen had their throats cut before they could react.

Only Yu Wenzhi did not resist, but instinctively abandoned his horse and fled. However, dozens of flying leaves seemed to have known the direction of his escape. Almost in an instant, he was pierced through the stomach by these flying leaves and fell to the ground from mid-air.

Xi Mingzhang clasped his palm together, gently placed it on his chest, and said calmly:

"Amitabha, I love helping people realize their dreams. Good luck to you, benefactor."

(End of this chapter)