One Qi Chaoyang

Chapter 17: Xun Lanyin
Zhuang Xinyan, who was standing on the cloud, felt that the speed was very fast, but she knew that even if it was faster now, it would not be of much use.

Because the most dangerous time passed when I was rushing to Feilong Mountain.

She didn't know whether Zhao Fuyun had been in trouble or not, and couldn't help but think that if he couldn't escape, she could just help him get revenge in the future.

She took another look at the female Taoist priest beside her who made her feel scared and angry, and thought to herself, she is a disciple of Tiandu Mountain, it is not my turn to take revenge!
Riding the clouds like the wind, she saw a bird being overtaken. The bird seemed to have discovered the person in the clouds, and was so scared that it quickly flew into the forest below.

Then, Zhuang Xinyan saw Wuze County.

Looking at Wuze County from the sky, it is located in a large valley. There are no city walls like the one in my hometown, nor are there streets crisscrossing in a grid.

Here everyone has their own piece of land, and people and livestock live together. She also knew very well that many people here raised ghosts, poisonous insects, and corpses, and there was not a single upright cultivator.

It was this kind of place that ruined her brother who wanted to revive the family reputation. She was sure that someone must have done something to get her brother assigned here.

With my brother's proud personality, he actively responded to the 'Douzi New Policy'. After being assigned here, he would not ask for reallocation at all.

The clouds were descending rapidly, bringing her back to her senses.

She was just about to point out the direction and tell the nun Zhao Fuyun from Tiandu Mountain where she was, but she found that the clouds descended directly into the courtyard where Zhao Fuyun was.

She soon realized that this nun from Tiandu Mountain must have seen the fire in Zhao Fuyun's house.

She stood in the yard and looked around, and found the ground was full of corpses, some human, but more of them were poisonous insects such as snakes, insects, rats, scorpions, etc.

The yard was fine, but in the house, there were snakes, insects, rats, scorpions and centipedes everywhere, red, white, green, black, and colorful, all kinds of them covered the floor.

One of them was sitting on a half-reclining rattan chair, sleeping soundly.

This shows how fierce the battle was last night.

She thought that perhaps all the poisonous insects in the county had come here.

A burnt smell filled the room.

There was a hole in the roof, and a ray of sunlight shone in, intertwining with the lights and dyeing them golden.

She wanted to call for help, but the nun reached out to stop her.

The nun walked in, walked around inside and outside, looked around, and said, "It's a wild place, but I almost lost my life here. If you die, what's the point of burying the entire Wuze County with you?"

"Didn't the Taoist master say that these unorthodox ways are nothing but chickens and dogs, not worth mentioning?"

At some point, Zhao Fuyun woke up.

He stood up, still feeling a little weak, his legs a little limp, and his head aching a little. He bowed and saluted the nun.

"Disciple Zhao Fuyun, I pay my respects to Master Xun."

The person in front of him was one of the Taoist masters in the Taoist temple, named Xun Lanyin, a rare female foundation-building cultivator in Tiandu Mountain.

However, before leaving the mountain, he had not seen Master Xun for more than a year.

When we met again at this time, I felt that her power was even greater.

Especially the red Taoist crown on her head, which gave rise to a sense of stunningness in her originally simple and elegant aura.

"Hmph!" Xun Lanyin snorted, seeming extremely dissatisfied with his answer.

"I can ignore these insects and ghosts, but what magic do you have to dare to think so?" Xun Lanyin turned around and looked at the statue of the Red Flame God, and said, "Just relying on this statue? Just relying on this crude seven-star lamp array?"

The Taoist subject that Xun Lanyin taught in the Taoist temple was formation. He knew that in front of Taoist Master Xun, his Seven Star Lamp Formation must be crude.

But he still felt somewhat dissatisfied. Perhaps the Seven Star Lamp Formation was not well enough. He also knew that it was not that he did not have the ability, but that he simply did not have the tools to set up the formation.

"I know you are not convinced, but letting such a stupid woman come to Feilong Mountain to deliver a letter is equivalent to handing over half of your life." Xun Lanyin's words made Zhuang Xinyan a little angry. She felt that she had been strongly insulted.

She wanted to speak immediately, but Xun Lanyin glanced at her. She immediately lost her temper and changed her voice to a low voice: "I ran all the way there without stopping. It's not my fault that I couldn't find the cave..."

No one paid attention to her words.

Xun Lanyin continued, "After you saw the suspected cave here, you should have sent a message back to the mountain immediately instead of waiting here. The mountain will issue an exploration mission."

Zhao Fuyun just wanted to confirm it again, but now after hearing her say that, he felt that it made sense. He immediately realized that he had not yet considered himself and Tiandu Mountain as a whole.

Every disciple who comes down from Tiandu Mountain is the eyes, ears, hands, and nose of Tiandu Mountain. Everything they see and hear can be transmitted back to Tiandu Mountain. The Tiandu Mountain Sect in the mountain is like the brain. It will analyze it again and then assign people to do things.

Before Zhao Fuyun could say anything, Xun Lanyin spoke again: "What a stinky place!" As she spoke, she waved her sleeves, and waves seemed to arise in the void. Invisible waves rolled back and forth in the room, and the corpses on the ground were all swept into the invisible waves.

She stretched out her hand again, and the invisible waves moved towards where she gathered. In the water, there were countless corpses of poisonous insects, and the whole house was washed clean.

Zhao Fuyun looked at this scene with deep envy in his eyes. Xun Lanyin's methods made him feel like he was looking at flowers in the fog and couldn't see clearly at all.

He felt that this was the real mysterious magic, and his own magic was just a superficial application of magic power.

There are so many corpses, but they are all squeezed into such a small water ball.

Then she threw the water ball into the air. It went straight up into the sky from the broken roof, flew towards the distant sky, and landed in the Nine-Bend Fog River outside the county town.

It exploded with a loud bang, and countless corpses of snakes, insects, rats, scorpions and centipedes were scattered on the water surface, as well as several human corpses.

In the distance, a black cloud was rolling in.

Those black clouds seemed alive, dancing in the wind.

There were two people standing in the black cloud. One was a monk in a black robe, with a scholarly air, a middle-aged handsomeness, but also a gloomy look. His name was Wuzhou. When he was young, he admired Taoism and traveled with others to visit famous mountains.

However, the person who traveled with him entered the mountain gate, but he himself did not. Feeling depressed, he ventured into a place covered by poisonous barriers, but by chance he entered a cave and obtained a copy of "The Magical Method of Subduing Yin". With this Magical Method of Subduing Yin, he began to embark on the path of cultivation, and his journey was smooth.

So he fell in love with finding caves, because he gained a lot of benefits in the process. This time, he heard the Wu Ze Snake Grandma next to him say that a cave of unknown age appeared in Wu Ze County, so he came.

But he did not come immediately. Instead, he came slowly after finding out the situation.

Because he didn't want to come too early. The disciple from Tiandu Mountain had not died yet, or was about to die. If he were there, it would be hard to say what would happen. Tiandu Mountain might think that he had killed their disciple and might be angered by him.

So he hoped that by the time he arrived, this disciple from Tiandu Mountain would have been dead.

However, after he arrived in Wuze County, he quickly understood the situation.

"That is to say, last night, there was a big fire that burned through Wuze County."

Wu Zhou was surprised as he listened to Li Yong's story that this disciple from Tiandu Mountain had such ability.

"Are there people coming from Tiandu Mountain?" Wu Zhou asked again.

"Yes, here comes a...female priest!" Li Yong translated this adjective in his heart.

"They came quickly." Wu Zhou said, "Let's go and see which high-ranking cultivator from Tiandu Mountain has arrived."

Wu Zhou soon arrived at the courtyard where Zhao Fuyun was. Li Yong went forward and pushed the door, then stepped aside. Wu Zhou went in first, followed by Grandma Snake, and then Li Yong.

Wuzhou saw a female nun standing on the steps at a glance. The female nun was wearing a dark black robe, with her hands hanging naturally, hidden in the sleeves of her robe.

A pair of fierce eyes, a straight and delicate nose, and pale pink lips, thin.

The hair on her forehead and temples was tied up on top of her head, wearing a red crown, and the soft black hair on the back of her head was draped over her shoulders.

She stood there like a black, noble crane.

Wu Zhou found that he didn't know this person and had never seen him before. If he had seen him before, he would definitely remember him.

"I am Wuzhou from Nanling Prefecture, nice to meet you, fellow Taoist." Wuzhou spoke first.

"Tiandu Mountain, Xun Lanyin meets fellow Taoist." Xun Lanyin also replied, and after that she looked at the three people as before, without any concealment, just so direct.

Zhuang Xinyan, who was standing next to her, was watching this scene. For some reason, the feeling of being despised and insulted by the other party suddenly faded away.

Because she found that Xun Lanyin was not only targeting herself, but also others.

Li Yong, who was following at the end, felt a little scared because the aura of this nun from Tiandu Mountain was too strong. Just standing there, she made him feel that Lord Wu was overshadowed.

Wu Zhou's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said, "I've heard that there is a crane standing on a branch, looking down on everything, thinking that it is the same as a fairy, but it doesn't know that in the eyes of some people, it is just a bird with prettier feathers! Fellow Daoist Xun, what do you think?"

"The insects on the ground will always be insects. Even if they break out of their cocoons and become butterflies, they can only search for flower juice among the low flowers on the ground. They can never fly to the clouds, see the vast ocean, and cannot withstand real wind and rain. Their lives are short, so they can't even stand a glance from others." Xun Lanyin said lightly.

Zhao Fuyun, who was standing behind him, sighed in his heart that Master Xun's mouth was still as sharp as a knife.

In the past, she was only like that to the disciples in the lower house, but now he realized that she was the same to others.

(End of this chapter)