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Chapter 376 Seekers of the Way, Immortals (asking for monthly tickets)
Yu Lingzi watched this scene in horror and almost fled, but Chen Shi stood there without moving, so he did not dare to flee, secretly complaining in his heart: "I'm afraid that my Taihua Qing Palace will be destroyed."

The Four Elders of Taihua are his great-uncle masters and Changying’s uncles.

There are not many people of this generation still alive, and Patriarch Qiongyang is one of them.

The four elders of Taihua are older than the Qiongyang Patriarch, and are also in the Mahayana realm. Their cultivation is powerful and unfathomable. The four of them have been in seclusion for many years, keeping themselves in a state of tortoise breathing, using the tortoise breathing method to prolong their lives. This method can extend life by decades and retain the peak combat power for Taihua Qing Palace.

In normal times, even if they encounter a demonic transformation, the four elders of Taihua will not come out of seclusion. Only when Taihua Qing Palace is in a critical moment of life and death will they be awakened to turn the tide.

However, this time, the four elders were unable to turn the tide and they didn't even have a chance to take action before they fell!
This is also the reason why Yu Lingzi's spiritual heart collapsed.

The status of the Four Elders of Taihua is too high, even higher than that of the Patriarch of Qiongyang. Even they have fallen, and the Taihua Qing Palace has no power to resist.

The four elders stood outside Qingyang Palace, the muscles in their bodies vibrating constantly, as if they were accelerating their separation from their skins!
They used their skins as containers to restrain themselves. Now it is time for them to shed their skins and ascend into the sky.

Their upper bodies were pulled out of the skins, and expressions of joy appeared on their faces, as if they had gained great freedom!

This scene made Taoist Changying feel his scalp tingling and the back of his head itchy, as if there was another self inside his body that was trying to burst him and break out.

But his expression remained normal, and it could even be said that he was calm. With a firm belief, he ignored all the abnormalities in himself and walked straight into Qingyang Palace to face his teacher.

"Master."

He saluted Jinghong, and then saluted Qingyang, "Master Qingyang."

Jing Hong laughed and said, "The two kids outside, come in too."

Taoist Changying frowned slightly and looked outside the hall.

Chen Shi brought Yu Lingzi and walked into Qingyang Palace.

Yu Lingzi followed closely, not daring to leave his side.

The sun and the moon revolved around the two people, constantly refining them. One coming and going was one swing, and the interweaving of yin and yang was one refining. During the swing and refining, the invading evil spirits disappeared instantly.

When the two men passed by the Four Elders of Taihua, the four old men stood stiffly in their own skins, their eyeballs rolling and falling on them, which scared Yu Lingzi.

The Yin-Yang Refining also interfered with the evil transformation of the four elders. One of the old Taoists shouted, "Brothers, wake up, we have been tricked!"

The other three old Taoists also woke up and were about to strengthen their cultivation to fight against the evil, but then the effect of the Yin-Yang refining disappeared. The four top masters were controlled by the evil again and continued their transformation with smiles on their faces.

Chen Shi's heart sank and he immediately saw the crux of the problem.

The four elders of Taihua are all Mahayana beings, and the source of their evil transformation is in the void realm. The void realm of the four elders is thousands of miles wide, with the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, lakes and oceans.

Chen Shi's Yin-Yang refining could only illuminate a small part of their void realm, and at most allow them to regain consciousness a little, but then they would lose their minds.

However, Chen Shi and Yu Lingzi did not open up the void realm. Although their Taoist temples were also eroded by Jinghong's evil spirit, the scope of the Taoist temples was not large, and the Yin-Yang refining could eliminate and refine the evil spirits.

"The Taoist Tianzhen is on the edge of evil. Good and evil are fighting each other in his body, and the boundary is clear. Although the sun and moon in his void realm are big, they are too small compared to the void realm, so he cannot refine away the evil spirit." He said to himself.

Chen Shi walked into Qingyang Palace and took a quick look. He saw the former headmaster Jinghong sitting on the ground. He was an old Taoist priest who looked very old, with white hair, wrinkles, short stature, and skinny, but with very long hair.

His hair was completely white and long, mopping the ground, and his eyebrows were very long, hanging down to his knees.

A martial art emerged in Chen Shi’s mind, the Danhemingxiaojue.

This kind of body posture is often caused by practicing the Danhe Mingxiao Jue of Taihua Qing Palace.

People who practice this technique tend to be very thin and can live a long life.

At the top, on the altar, sat a green sheep, cross-legged, about ten feet tall, with a coat of green wool, extremely smooth. The green sheep looked at his nose and his heart, not looking at him.

Behind Qingyang, there was a smoke of incense burning. There were many burning incense sticks in the furnace, and on top of it was offered the Zhenwu Zhuxie Sword.

This magical sword is absorbing the energy of incense.

Chen Shi shifted his gaze and looked at Taoist Changying.

Changying was sitting opposite Jinghong, and when she saw that the two of them could make it this far without any transformation, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes.

Chen Shi bowed and said, "Greetings, Senior Jinghong."

Jing Hong's eyes fell on the sun and moon orbiting around his body. He was also quite surprised and said, "You are not a Taoist priest? Wait a minute, your appearance reminds me of an old friend."

Taoist Changying looked at Chen Shi and shook his head slightly, signaling him not to reveal his true origins.

Chen Shi ignored him and said, "My grandfather once studied Taoism in Taihua Qing Palace. His name was Chen Yindu. Does Senior Jinghong have any impression of him?"

Taoist Changying's face changed slightly, and his eyes fell on the Zhenwu Zhuxie Sword behind Qingyang. As long as Jinghong made any unusual movements, he would sacrifice the sword!
At the same time, the back muscles of Qingyang, who was sitting on the altar, bulged quietly, and his target was also the Zhenwu Zhuxie Sword!
This magical sword is extremely powerful. If Jinghong attacks Chen Shi, he will grab the sword and kill Jinghong immediately!

Jing Hong did not get angry as they expected. Instead, he looked at Chen Shi with interest and said, "Are you Chen Yindu's grandson? No wonder you look so similar. I thought Chen Yindu had become younger and came back to find me."

He recalled the past and said, "When Chen Yindu went up the mountain, I was the pride of Taihua Qing Palace. I was a first-grade divine fetus with profound and powerful cultivation. I could learn any Taoist method at once. All the masters in the sect respected me very much. Many junior sisters also favored me and schemed against each other to become my Taoist partner. The Four Elders of Taihua were all defeated by me. Qiongyang, Qionghua, and Qiongyu were all in love with me. Even my master told me that you would be the next headmaster. At that time, I was in the limelight." Outside the hall, the Four Elders of Taihua made hoarse sounds. They had completed their transformation and were drying their bodies.

The skins of the four elders stood there, lifelike.

Some of the four old Taoists actually grew cicada wings, which were very thin. They flapped their wings and flew up to a big tree on the left side of the main hall door, and then lay on the tree and chirped like cicadas.

There was also an old Taoist who flapped his wings like a cicada, flew to the opposite hall, and hung upside down under the eaves.

The other two old Taoists showed envy and said one after another: "The two senior brothers have achieved enlightenment!"

But the strange thing was that they quickly grew skin and then froze there, continuing to transform.

Apart from them, other Taoists from Taihua Qing Palace crawled on all fours like cicadas and came towards Qingyang Palace. They stopped while crawling and shed their shells to transform!

Many Taoists transformed themselves into three-foot-tall children, but they looked extremely old, as if they were octogenarians.

Yu Lingzi's Uncle Mei was also among them. He was a sika deer who had achieved some success and was also shedding his skin. A bloody deer head poked out from the skin and shouted, "Yo-yo! Metamorphosis and ascension are just around the corner! Yo--"

Jing Hong changed the subject and said, "But since Chen Yindu came, everything has changed. I have never seen such a smart and unrestrained person, so talented that even I am jealous. After Chen Yindu came to Qingyang Palace, I felt that I received less attention and less admiration. Many junior sisters and senior sisters quickly fell in love with this new Taoist. Chen Yindu obviously has the worst divine fetus, his realm is obviously not as good as mine, and his talent is very poor. But he is just likable. He is too smart and handsome."

"Snapped!"

There was a sound of skins cracking outside. One of the old Taoists pulled his head out from behind his skin and shouted happily, "Ah, this is the secret of immortality and ascension! I have attained enlightenment!"

Chen Shi smiled and said, "Senior Jinghong, why do people who practice Taoism care about this? Shouldn't they be quiet and do nothing?"

Jing Hong sighed, "I wanted to, but I was young and hot-tempered at that time and couldn't let it go. Now my mindset is much higher. At that time, Qiong Yang also liked him and was very close to him. He learned almost all the skills and spells of Taihua Qing Palace in a short time, and he drew inferences from them and created many new spells. He even changed the original skills beyond recognition, but the effect was better than the original skills. He also said that the inheritance of our Taihua Qing Palace is nothing more than this, and it is just a false name."

Qing Yang said coldly: "Chen Yin has gone too far, right?"

Jing Hong nodded and said, "He really went too far. He took away the glory that originally belonged to me. I was very angry, so I challenged him. I told him that if I lost, the position of the next headmaster would be given to you. If you lose, you get out of Taihua Mountain. He had a bad temper and didn't agree. I forced him to fight, and then I lost and almost died under his magic."

Qing Yang said: "He almost did it to you, you hate him so much."

Jing Hong said: "I really hated him. I hated him for taking away everything from me. After I was defeated, I lost all hope and spent several years in a daze. This hatred became stronger and stronger. But he did not become the headmaster. Instead, he robbed the ancestors' tombs and was expelled from Taihua Qing Palace. After being expelled from Qing Palace, he also abducted the Qingyang Patriarch. I hated him so much. Master was already old at that time, but he didn't want to be the headmaster and ran away. I hated him for trampling on my dignity, hated him for digging the ancestors' tombs for immortality, and hated him for abandoning Qiongyang and the others. I inherited the position of headmaster, but I still couldn't help hating him. Until one day, I found that I was old."

He whispered, "I found that I had white hair, that my internal organs were aging uncontrollably, that my soul was getting stronger, but my body was getting older, and that it was becoming increasingly difficult to accommodate such a powerful soul. Then I understood Chen Yindu. Suddenly, I didn't hate your grandfather anymore."

He looked at Chen Shi with admiration and said, "On the contrary, I admire him very much and even respect him. He was too ahead of his time. He was still young at that time, but he was already pursuing immortality. I didn't understand his actions until I was old, and then I started to pursue immortality. I am far inferior to him."

Chen Shi shook his head and said, "My grandfather didn't pursue immortality, he pursued the mystery of Tao. Master Jinghong, you misunderstood."

Jing Hong laughed loudly and shook his head, saying, "You don't understand Chen Yindu, but I do. Compared to immortality, what are women? What is love? What is the headmaster? He can abandon all these things. He is a true seeker of truth!"

Qingyang sneered and said, "Jinghong, you misunderstood Chen Yindu. Chen Yindu is a seeker of the Tao, not a seeker of immortality. He is focused on developing the Tao, recreating the civilization of the True King era, and even surpassing his predecessors and ancients. He is so obsessed with the Tao that he fascinated Qiongyang and made me give up my position to follow him."

Jing Hong thought for a moment and smiled, "Perhaps you are right. But later, Chen Yindu disappointed me. He actually gave up the path to immortality and the path to ascension for his grandson and went to fight with Xijing. He gave up everything just to beg for his grandson, and would rather give up immortality and the great way. He is a waste."

He sneered, "I despise such a Chen Yindu! I want to personally verify the path to immortality and ascend to heaven myself! Not only do I want to ascend, I also want to take all the Taoists of Taihua Qing Palace with me to ascend together! Back then, I was defeated by him, but after all these years, I will not be defeated this time!"

He was full of pride and laughed loudly, "I found a handwritten copy left by Chen Yindu, which recorded the picture of the immortal being escaping from his shell. He dug it out from the tomb of his ancestor. He compiled this lost skill and annotated it. He left an eight-character comment: This skill is unorthodox and will help you become a fake immortal. He was wrong, extremely wrong."

"Yo-yo! I am one step closer to my immortality and ascension!" Uncle Mei's voice came from outside.

It has already transformed into a deer. If it continues to transform, it might even disappear from the human world.

Taoist Changying looked outside, while his soul looked towards the underworld.

Not only are the physical bodies of these Taoists transforming, their souls are also transforming. With every transformation, their souls become smaller!
If you continue to transform like this, it won’t be long before you transform yourself into nothingness and cease to exist!
However, what was strange was that after the four Taihua elders transformed five or six times, they all grew cicada-wing-like wings, and the speed of transformation also slowed down greatly, as if they had really transformed away the impurities and were getting closer to immortal bodies!
When Taoist Changying saw this scene, even though his heart was firm, he couldn't help but waver. He thought to himself, "Could it be that Master's path is really the right one? Can he really help us ascend to heaven with our entire sect?"

Jing Hong smiled and said, "The cultivators transform again and again, shedding the impurities of their physical bodies and spirits, gradually evolving into immortal bodies. The immortal spirits can then merge with the Dao! This is what Chen Yindu didn't see back then, but I have seen the secret to becoming an immortal. Changying, your master has done something even more amazing than Chen Yindu! Your master will lead all of you to merge with the Dao of heaven and earth and ascend to the immortal world!"

Taoist Changying frowned and looked outside, only to see a Taoist with weaker cultivation transforming himself into the size of a baby, and was still in the process of transforming!

Suddenly, Chen Shi laughed and said, "Then, since Senior Jinghong has realized the way to ascend to heaven, why did you go to find the Taoist Tianzhen? Could it be that you also saw the flaws in the Golden Cicada Escape from the Shell Celestial Immortal Diagram, so you went to find the Taoist Tianzhen to refine the yin and yang, so as to prevent yourself from becoming evil?"

Jing Hong was stunned: "Tian Zhen Taoist? Who is Tian Zhen Taoist?"

Chen Shi was shocked and said in a lost voice: "The person who used the fairy fire to burn away the Golden Bell Sealing Technique was not you."

Jing Hong asked in confusion: "What fairy fire?"

Chen Shi asked, "Tian Zhen Daoist was the fire-burning Daoist boy of the True Yang Patriarch. He had already cultivated to the great perfection of the Ascension Realm. He used Yin Yang to refine the evil spirit and was about to merge with the Dao and ascend to the Ascension Realm when he was beheaded. Don't you know about this?"

Jing Hong was confused and asked, "Is there such a powerful person in my Taihua Qing Palace?"

The moment he was distracted, Qing Yang turned around without thinking, grabbed the Zhenwu Zhuxie Sword, swung the sword and slashed it down, shouting: "Changying, Qiongyang, help me kill the evil!"

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(End of this chapter)