Unparalleled Evildoer

Chapter 186 The Purpose of Entering Xiandaoyuan

Wuzhan looked at the space a hundred feet high, where some palaces were already under construction, and asked calmly, "Why did the Imperial Master spend so much manpower to dig out the rocks underground? Wouldn't it be better to build the Immortal Palace on the ground?"

Xu Shi said: "It is underground now, but when it rises it will be on the ground. Your Majesty is on the top floor of this fairy palace. This floor will be the palace where all the ministers will live and handle state affairs."

"Rise?"

"Not only will it rise, but it will also rise into the air and fly at will. It can fly wherever it wants to go. It is convenient for ruling, just like the palace in the sky, only a little smaller!"

"How can such a huge underground palace be raised?"

"Your Excellency, do you know the legend of this place?"

"The goddess Nuwa once refined the Heaven-Repairing Stone here."

"If the legend is true, then what kind of spiritual power does the rock below ground have?"

Wuzhan said: "The rocks below here have the spiritual power of the source of the five elements?"

Xu Shi said: "I didn't expect that you also knew the source of the five elements. Although this rock does not have as much spiritual power as the source of the five elements, it is enough to support the fairy palace to fly!"

"If you fly to the sky, you will be immortal. Is this what the Imperial Master meant by ascension?"

Xu Shi laughed and said, "This is not an ascension, but the spiritual energy here is rich, no less than the Heavenly Palace. If you practice here and take the elixir refined by this poor Taoist, you can indeed achieve immortality."

The hanging room was slowly descending and the temperature was gradually rising. The next two floors were roughly the same as the first. When it reached the fourth floor, Wuzhan's face was covered with sweat. The hanging room stopped in mid-air. This floor was still a hundred feet high and there was still endless corvée, but there was a huge furnace in the center. The furnace was red hot and from time to time, golden viscous liquid balls floated out of the furnace, like strings of water droplets falling to the top, which was wonderful. The golden liquid attached to the top of the cave to form an inverted golden lake, as smooth as a mirror. Although it was hundreds of feet away, one could still feel the rolling heat waves and the pressure that made it difficult to breathe.

Wuzhan asked: "Can this golden liquid refine the Heaven-Repairing Stone?"

"We also need mercury from Ba County, blue crystal from the South China Sea, black stone from the sacred tree, and Xirang!"

"Xirang?"

"Xirang was originally a divine object left over from the beginning of the world. It can grow freely and is as hard as iron after solidification. When the Milky Way collapsed, stars fell like rain, and floods were raging, it was found by the goddess Nuwa, who refined it into stones to patch up the breach. The remaining Xirang was sealed in the Hunjin Bagong Box and obtained by the God Emperor. Unexpectedly, it was stolen by Gun. When he went to the lower world to control the flood, Yan Rong was ordered to capture it. Gun buried the Xirang and would rather die than hand it over. It has not been found yet. If Xirang is found, I will definitely make this fairy palace fly!"

Wuzhan's eyes flickered with a trace of fluctuation, and he said calmly: "In other words, if we can't get Xirang, everything the Imperial Master said will be in vain?"

Xu Shi smiled and said, "Indeed!"

"The Imperial Master is sure that he will get Xirang. Don't those people in the Heavenly Palace want to get it?"

"Of course they wanted to retrieve it, but it seems that they encountered an accident and it was not taken away. Moreover, the Xirang is likely in the hands of one person."

"Whose hands does the Imperial Master suspect?"

Xu Shi stared at Wuzhe with scorching eyes and said, "In your hand!"

Wuzhan was not surprised: "Why would the Imperial Master suspect me?"

"Because you blew up the Jiuyuan Riverbank, Bixia Yuanjun took you away. So many soldiers saw it. Later, Jiang Yuan and Daoxuan saw Bixia in Yuyuan and tried to stop them from reviving Gun's soul. Although Jiang Yuan and Daoxuan subdued her, they were deceived by Gun's soul and got only a box of luminous bead powder. When they came back after waking up, there was only a stone statue that could not be chopped off. Bixia was nowhere to be found. Although I don't know what happened, the breach in Jiuyuan was blocked. Huo Biao was also missing. I guess he turned into a feather. I was still suspicious of Bixia before, but when I heard that Bixia actually sent a disciple to protect you, I guessed it. Although you didn't show up in Yuyuan, with your talent, you must have helped Bixia get the Xirang. After she blocked the breach, she sent a disciple to hand it over to you for safekeeping. My lord, am I right?"

“So when the Imperial Master saw that Fen Yuan was about to kill me, he saved my life without hesitation!”

"Not bad!"

"But when Yu Sisi was trying to kill me, why didn't the Imperial Master take action?"

"Because the master was just running and not nervous, it means that the master is not afraid of the poisonous insect, and the facts have proved this!"

"This is another reason why the Imperial Master asked me to join the Xiandao Academy, and it is also the purpose of getting familiar with it."

"Since the adults are clear about this, can you hand over the Xirang?"

Wuzhan asked, "What if I don't want to hand it over?"

"You are now serving His Majesty. What will happen if His Majesty learns that you are unwilling to hand over the Xirang? Didn't you say that power and nobility are in His Majesty's heart? And if you don't admit it, then I will have no choice but to take people to Mount Tai to ask!"

Wuzhan asked, "Does the Imperial Master think this threat will work on a person who is about to die?"

"Everyone wants to live forever. Even those who are about to die don't want to live a day less. I think you are no exception!"

Wuzhan smiled and said, "You are right. My mother has taught me this, and I have lived for eighteen years." He continued, "What good will it do me if I hand over the Xirang?"

"I will do my best to keep you alive, even to let you live forever!"

"Master, do you think I can be immortal?" "Maybe you can!"

Wuzhan smiled and said, "Thanks to the Imperial Master's good words, I will hand over the Xirang when the Imperial Master needs it!"

"Why don't you give it to me now?"

"Because the Imperial Master is not needed right now, and I still want to live!"

Xu Shi smiled and said, "Your Excellency is really eloquent. I knew you would answer like this. Since you didn't refuse and didn't have to hand it over, Your Majesty wouldn't suspect you of being disloyal. On the contrary, you would think you were supervising me. I guess that's why you were so happy to join the Xiandao Academy."

Wuzhan said: "Don't worry, Imperial Master. It is useless for me to have this Xirang. When you build this Immortal Palace, I will offer it to you with both hands."

Xu Shi knew that this was the only way, so he said, "Okay, it's a deal!"

Wuzhan asked, "There is one thing I don't understand. Why did Huo Biao get together with Xiandaoyuan?"

Xu Shi thought for a moment and said, "He has been in the lower world for decades, and his purpose is to find Xirang. Xiandao Academy is also looking for it, so they came together. The body inside the stone statue must be his. Did you kill him with Xirang when he was not prepared?"

Wuzhanzhi had no need to hide anything, and answered, "It's not him, it's another god named Zhuoqing. Does the Imperial Master know his origins?"

Xu Shi recalled carefully, "He should be a subordinate of Fire Saint Yan Rong, belonging to the Fire Department of Heaven. I guess he is investigating secretly. You are really brave, sir, to dare to kill the gods in heaven. Aren't you afraid that I will tell Heaven about this?"

Wuzhan said: "If the State Master wanted to sue, I would not be here. I am curious, why was the State Master sealed, why did he not dare to look up when he saw the Queen Mother of the Nine Heavens?"

Xu Shi smiled and said, "It seems that you are really brave. You actually paid attention to me at that time. You must think that I was sealed because I made a big mistake?"

"Is not it?"

"The sealed person may not have made a mistake. No matter what you think, I will not tell you my origins unless you go to ask the Queen Mother of the Nine Heavens."

"Why did she come to the lower world? Is she here to look for Xirang again?"

"They will be able to sense such a powerful formation in the Heavenly Palace. They are coming to the lower world to patrol, but I didn't expect her to be able to come down to the lower world."

"So that's how it is. Now I know why the Imperial Master hesitated to act. It turns out he was afraid of being discovered by them." Seeing that Xu Shi didn't say anything, he continued to ask, "Which saint in the heaven is the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady? Why is the Imperial Master afraid of her?"

Xu Shi said in a deep voice: "She is a cold and ruthless god. In the long war between gods and demons in ancient times, she went into the tiger's den alone, killed the Demon Emperor Jiemie, reversed the situation, and saved all the gods and immortals. She has long been in the realm of Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian and possesses the magic power of the Nine Heavens. She is not among the four religions. She is the third holy god under the seat of the God Emperor. Her power is above that of the Five Virtues Saints. She is in charge of the punishment and war in the heavens. Killing me is like stepping on an ant. If she goes down to the world to inspect, maybe the holy war will begin soon!"

"The Imperial Master said that they are about to start a war, but now that China is unified, how can there be any war?"

"This is just my guess. Maybe the war is not in China."

“I have a question. The Immortal Lord and the God Emperor should be stronger than her. Why did she go alone to kill Jiemie?”

"The God Emperor was no match for Jiemie, and he asked the three immortals for help. However, they were unable to kill him, and instead he fled with serious injuries. Jiemie was already invincible at that time, and almost the entire continent was swallowed up by the demons. Countless immortals, both big and small, were killed or injured, and they were almost exterminated. They hid in caves and dared not come out all day. That catastrophe was the 'immortal calamity' that the immortals feared, and it would occur every ten thousand years. It is said that Jiemie has only one weakness, which is his heart. Only the person he loves can kill him. This is the only explanation that can explain why Xuannv was able to kill Jiemie."

Wuzhan smiled and said, "As the Imperial Master said, this Jiemie is really unfortunate. He fell in love with someone who wanted to kill him."

"Everyone has weaknesses, but some people hide them so deeply that they are not easy to detect. Love is a calamity. Only by destroying one's heart can one achieve the great way. If one cannot achieve nirvana, then death is inevitable."

Wuzhan sighed, "No one can escape death. What's the point of living with a broken heart? The sad thing is not Jimie, but Xuannv."

Xu Shi looked at Wuzhan and smiled, "I didn't expect that you are also a man of temperament!"

Wuzhan said: "I have admired the masterpiece of the National Master and listened to his narration of unknown history. It is really an eye-opener and I have benefited a lot. However, I am almost exhausted. Should I go back to rest? As for the matter of Changping, how about I obey your orders at any time?"

Xu Shi said: "Your Excellency has indeed worked hard. How about you rest in this fairy palace for a day?" As he spoke, he moved the mechanism of the hanging room, and the hanging room began to rise slowly.

"I will not bother you, Master. I will just take a short rest on the way!"

"Then I will not force you to stay. Once things here are settled, I will send someone to inform you."

"Bring more people. The Imperial Master knows what's going on there. Even the five-colored stones may not be able to subdue the evil demon."

"Don't worry, sir. Daoxuan and Jiang Yuan will go with you!"

"Why doesn't the Imperial Master go?"

"I still have to hunt down those remnants. Otherwise, how can Your Majesty be at ease? However, I believe that Your Majesty will be able to subdue the evil demon."

Wuzhan bowed and said, "I have something to ask you. Does the State Master have any ten-thousand-year-old snow ginseng?"

(End of this chapter)