Lingyuan Immortal

Chapter 753: Feng Jin Yuanjun, the evil cultivator and hidden agent?

Jiang Qianrui did not respond, letting him vent his anger. However, not long after, he suddenly frowned and said in a deep voice:

"Brother, our ancestor sent us a message last time saying that if we couldn't wait for that scoundrel from Beiyuan, we should return to our clan first. Do you remember?"

Jiang Rongzang snorted upon hearing this and said, "Of course I remember. Otherwise, why do you think I'm so upset? The thought of waiting for nearly ten years in vain makes me furious!"

Jiang Qianrui remained calm and continued, "Brother, do you know why the ancestor made such a request?"

"Aren't you talking nonsense?"

Jiang Rongzang frowned in rebuttal, seemingly unsure why Jiang Qianrui was asking. However, seeing the other party's solemn expression, he replied, "In the past five years, demonic cultivators have frequently appeared in various parts of Zhongzhou, causing chaos, and my Jiang clan's Runan region has also been involved."

"It can be seen that this demonic calamity is coming with great force. The demonic cultivators who usually hide in the dark in various places have jumped out one after another."

"According to rumors from our ancestors, a great demon sect has even emerged in the northern region of Central Continent, called the 'Demon Heaven Alliance', with the intention of overthrowing Dao Heaven and re-establishing the Demon Heaven!"

"The number of Nascent Soul cultivators within them is no less than any of the twenty-seven clans in Zhongzhou, and behind them there are even faint traces of the Demonic Path Master."

Speaking of this, Jiang Rongzang's face showed a bit of fear.

"The ancestor was also worried that the demon cultivators in Runan Territory would raise their banners, so he asked us to return quickly so that we can gather our strength to wipe them out first, to avoid future troubles..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Qianrui's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he said in a deep voice: "Brother, I'm afraid that the Demonic Heaven Alliance has already spread to this place."

"Uh-huh?"

Jiang Rongzang nodded subconsciously at first, but then he suddenly reacted.

"What did you say?"

Jiang Qianrui put his fingers together and the snake-shaped sword came out of its sheath with a "clang" sound.

"My spirit sword tells me that a great demon has appeared thirty thousand miles from here..."

"Big Demon?"

Jiang Rongzang looked at the snake-shaped sword, and indeed saw the sword light inside it flickering, as if brewing sword energy.

His face suddenly darkened. Jiang Qianrui's realm was higher than his, and he was calm and composed, never speaking nonsense without reason. Therefore, he had no doubt about his judgment of him.

It’s just a big demon...how big is it?
"You can sense it clearly? What realm is the great demon in?"

Huoqiu Mountain is the border between two continents, so no powerful demon should come here.

Jiang Qianrui frowned and said nothing. He closed his eyes and raised the snake-shaped sword, using the power of the magic treasure to carefully explore the energy in the distance.

"It's hazy and empty, like the underworld... eerie, yet wild, and filled with an overwhelming demonic aura..."

He murmured about what he had seen. After sensing the demonic aura, he seemed to see a pair of eyes filled with demonic intent...

"The demon is comparable to a demon at the level of a perfect Nascent Soul!"

He cried out in frustration, and Jiang Rongzang beside him suddenly changed color...

At the same time, tens of thousands of miles away.

A water-colored light suddenly stopped, and the Taoist figure inside it, who else could it be but Chen Mu?
"Fellow Daoist Taixuan, has something happened?"

It was the old demon Taixuan who made the two Jiang brothers scream in shock. At this time, he was driving the inheritance soul flag to circle around Chen Mu.

"It's not a big deal. I was just spied on by a human cultivator from far away."

Taixuan waved his hand indifferently.

Chen Mu's heart moved. Under his divine sense, there was no trace of the Nascent Soul cultivator. It was obvious that the person Taixuan was talking about was at least 20,000 miles away.

Being able to sense Taixuan's existence at such a distance, his realm must be at least the late Nascent Soul stage, or even the Perfection stage.

There is no powerful Taoist sect here, so how come there are such people?

Perhaps seeing Chen Mu's surprise, Tai Xuan laughed and said, "I have a feeling that the person who spied on me is actually not much different from you in terms of spiritual awareness. The reason he was able to spy on me is actually because he relied on the power of the spiritual treasure."

Hearing this, Chen Mu nodded. Although special spiritual treasures like this are extremely rare, they do exist.

In this case, there is nothing particularly surprising...

"Please continue what you just said, fellow Daoist."

He put away his distracting thoughts and nodded to Taixuan to continue what he had just stopped talking about.

Taixuan also nodded and whispered, "The little girl you imprisoned eighteen years ago has already revealed her full story under my influence."

"Oh?"

Chen Mu raised one eyebrow, and the image of Qiu Lan, the master of the Palace of Eternal Life, appeared in his mind.

"how?"

Tai Xuan smacked his lips and replied, "You guessed it right. This little girl carries the ancient evil inheritance. She said it was created by a master named Feng Jin Yuanjun. It can make those who have attained the Tao split into thousands of false bodies. As long as the body is not destroyed, the life will not be lost."

"Even if someone removes their true body, as long as there's a fake body still alive, they can immediately be reborn. Everything about their true body will be reset to zero, and they can start the path to immortality all over again..."

Chen Mu was stunned and asked in surprise, "If it's really as you said, is there any method in the world that can rival it?"

He paused, then continued, "I suppose this method has some major flaws, right?"

Taixuan nodded with a smile: "If this method has no flaws, I would like to switch to practicing it!"

"I heard from that girl that this method not only requires extremely demanding qualifications from the practitioner, but also requires a soul that is stronger than an ordinary person. Only then can one endure the pain of splitting the soul to separate the fake body."

"Furthermore, clones don't appear out of thin air; they need to be carried by mortals who match their destiny. Therefore, once this method is used, it often stirs up a bloody storm, truly worthy of the name of an evil technique."

"Besides, successfully splitting your body isn't the end of the story. You need to keep an eye on it at all times. The fake body is so weak that even a child can fight it. One careless mistake will lead to wasted energy."

"What I find even more unacceptable is the difficulty of advancing this method. It is the most difficult of all the techniques I know!"

"Take that little girl for example. Although her talent can't be called excellent, she is at the level of a Taoist disciple. If she had practiced with ordinary techniques, she might have advanced to the Nascent Soul stage a hundred years ago."

"But at this moment, she is still stuck in the Golden Core Realm due to the limitations of her cultivation technique. Even though she is powerful enough to fight against Nascent Soul cultivators, she still ended up in the hands of fellow Daoist, didn't she?"

"It can be seen that realm is the kingly way. Seeking the great way with this method is actually asking for trouble..."

The old demon Taixuan spoke eloquently, and in his heart he admired Feng Jin Yuanjun who created this technique, but also had a bit of contempt for him.

I don't know how such a flawed and evil skill with so many restrictions could be passed down to this day...

Chen Mu remained silent. After thinking for a moment, he nodded: "In this case, let's save Qiu Lan's life first and give her some hope, so that she won't make up her mind to end her life."

Taixuan was puzzled: "Why did you spare his life?"

Chen Mu smiled faintly and looked into the distance: "When the devil calamity comes, people like this may be useful..."

……

At Huoqiu Mountain, the two Jiang brothers had gloomy expressions on their faces, but they finally calmed down.

"A demon of this level has come here. Could it be that the Demon Heaven Alliance wants to encroach on the territory of the Shangjing Qin family?"

The hundreds of thousands of miles within Huoqiu Mountain are all under the command of the Shangjing Qin family, one of the twenty-seven strongest clans in Central Continent.

Jiang Rongzang pondered for a moment, then asked, "Are you confident you can defeat that demon?"

Jiang Qianrui gripped his sword tightly and said in a deep voice, "If my brother has made an arrangement, I will try my best!"

The demons were terrifying, and even he, who had reached the Perfect Nascent Soul stage, could not guarantee anything.

Jiang Rongzang's face darkened, but he smiled in the blink of an eye and said, "Arrangements? Arrangements for what? This demon's appearance here is obviously to cause trouble for the Qin family in Shangjing. What does it have to do with us?" "The ancestor has long intended to recall us. With the demons and demons roiling the world, it's just the right time for the two of us to return to our clan today!"

If his guess was correct, this demon must be the Demonic Alliance's preliminary test, and it is possible that it will be followed by other demon cultivators.

He is not stupid, so why would he risk his life to stop the demon for the Qin family in Shangjing?
At most, I could inform the Qin family before leaving, which would be considered as a "favor" on behalf of the Runan Jiang family...

Jiang Qianrui nodded, holding the sword in his backhand, and said, "In that case, let's get going quickly. The spirit sword is alerting us, and the demon is getting closer."

Hearing this, Jiang Rongzang's heart trembled, and he quickly jumped up and was about to escape with him.

But he rushed out ten miles away in an instant, but suddenly found that Jiang Qianrui paused again, frowning, as if he was exploring something.

"What's wrong? Why don't you leave?!"

"I seem to... sense the aura of that Beiyuan villain..." Jiang Qianrui closed his eyes and explored, speaking intermittently.

Upon seeing this, Jiang Rongzang quickly reached back and looked at the jade slip given by the ancestor.

Sure enough, a green light flickered faintly on it, and it was obvious that the Beiyuan thief was nearby!
Instantly, a surge of ecstasy surged in his heart, and he grinned grimly, "You thief, you've been hiding for eight years, and now you've finally shown up!"

The resentment he had accumulated over eight years of waiting suddenly erupted, and he was able to temporarily suppress his fear of the demon.

"That Beiyuan villain is only in the early Nascent Soul stage. How could we possibly fail in our sudden attack?"

"As long as we fight quickly and decisively, even if the demons notice, they won't be able to catch up!"

He was excited and immediately wanted to pull Jiang Qianrui forward to set up defenses.

But what he didn't expect was that Jiang Qianrui looked surprised and incredulous.

Suffering from a weak spiritual power, Jiang Rongzang felt as if ants were crawling all over his body and asked anxiously, "What's wrong?!"

"That thief from Beiyuan... is right next to that demon..."

"what?!"

Jiang Rongzang's eyes widened in shock, "How is this possible?"

The champion of the sword fight, the Palace Master of the Shangzhen Palace of the First Immortal Sect...

Although he came here to kill Chen Mu, he had to admit that Chen Mu was an unrivaled talent among the human race of this generation.

How could such a talented immortal with great potential be involved with a demon cultivator?
"Could it be... that he is a hidden agent of the demon cultivator?"

In an instant, Jiang Rongzang felt his mind become clear and he suddenly understood what he had doubted before.

"No wonder a small cultivator from Beiyuan was able to take the top spot in Zhongzhou. It turns out he was a hidden pawn planted by the demon cultivator Yingjie!"

"What a trick! He actually fooled everyone!"

He suddenly became excited and thought to himself, "If his identity can be exposed, the reputation of the Black and White Dao Palace will definitely be damaged. By then, my Jiang family will be able to..."

"Qian Rui, don't go any further. Don't alarm them!"

His mood changed very quickly, and at this moment he no longer planned to kill Chen Mu.

Jiang Qianrui regained his composure, his face darkening as he sneered, "What a joke! My Central Continent has been deprived of its top spot by such a person. Brother, what do you think?"

Jiang Rongzang sneered without saying a word, but with a wave of his left hand, a ray of light flew out, and it turned out to be a small stone wall that was as white as gauze.

"Leaving a Shadow..."

Jiang Qianrui smiled and understood what his brother meant.

The two of them hid their whereabouts in perfect tacit understanding, and even used the clan's secret technique to conceal their aura. Then they held their breath and waited quietly for Chen Mu and the demon to show up.

……

Tens of thousands of miles away, just a moment.

In the dark sky, a water-colored light came from afar, surrounded by a gray aura, full of demonic intent.

Sitting on an inconspicuous pile of rocks on Huoqiu Mountain, Jiang Rongzang gazed obscurely upwards, chuckling silently as he pondered, "How incredibly arrogant and unscrupulous! He's so brazenly accompanying the demon. Does he really think there aren't any cultivators here?"

He paused, then answered himself, "But to be honest, if we hadn't planned to kill him, we wouldn't have ended up in this desolate place..."

"This is destiny. You deserve to be encountered by me!"

As he sneered, the shadow-shaped jade in his hand flickered faintly, and it was obvious that he was ready.

Everything is ready, just waiting for the heavenly being to fly by...

Unlike his mumbling to himself, Jiang Qianrui frowned slightly, his eyes flashed coldly, and he looked at the trembling spirit sword in his hand, feeling a sense of foreboding.

He always felt that the gray aura beside Chen Mu lacked the Netherworld aura he had initially detected...

Soon, the heavenly being was getting closer and closer. Jiang Rongzang's eyes moved, and he immediately mobilized his magic power to flow into the shadow jade in his hand.

Jiang Qianrui also followed the arrangement just now and used all his strength to conceal the secret technique, trying not to leak any of his energy.

With the two of them working together, the Liuyingbi suddenly turned, with its flawless face facing Chen Mu in the sky, recording the scene at that moment without any error.

Jiang Rongzang was overjoyed upon seeing this. If he hadn't been worried about being noticed by the demon, he would have laughed out loud to the sky!
Jiang Qianrui also breathed a sigh of relief. When he was about to remind his brother, his expression suddenly changed. He immediately raised the sword in his hand, slashed out a dazzling sword light, and rushed towards the sky.

Jiang Rongzang was stunned, wondering why he suddenly attacked with all his strength.

But the next moment, the sword energy was seen melting out of thin air like snow, producing a black gas, and a pair of eyes appeared inside it.

"You're pushing your luck. It's not enough to spy on me. Do you really have to leave your presence behind and pay homage to me?"

The devilish sound rolled, and the two of them suddenly changed color!
"Brother, retreat quickly!"

Jiang Qianrui reacted extremely quickly. He roared and attacked with a sword, but he wanted to distract his brother so that he could escape.

The sword intent is surging, and this move is even more fierce!
He stabbed in front of his body, turned around and hung the sword. The sword light whizzed past, trying to cover Taixuan.

"Well done!"

He was originally worried that the demon would ignore him and go after his cousin, but when he suddenly heard this, he actually felt a sense of relief in his heart.

Taixuan seemed to be unaware of Jiang Rongzang who decisively turned around and fled, and he began to fight with the swordsman in front of him with great interest.

With the help of his inherited soul flag, his strength had already recovered by nearly half. Not to mention rivaling a True Lord of Transformation, he was more than capable of dealing with a cultivator at the Perfect Nascent Soul stage...

As for Jiang Rongzang, he turned around and fled almost the moment Jiang Qianrui shouted a warning, because he knew that even if he could not defeat the demon, Jiang Qianrui would try his best to stop him.

Who made him Jiang's biological son, while he was just an adopted son?

Isn't it just for this moment that we spend resources to support his practice?

If I don't risk my life to save him, how can I repay the kindness of my clan?

"Qian Rui, don't worry. If you die, the Beiyuan villain will definitely not be spared!"

He roared in his heart, but his escape speed did not slow down at all.

At his speed, it would only take him a moment to shake off the demons' pursuit. Then, the sea and sky would be wide open, and he could return to his tribe no matter which way he took...

But at this moment, a bird chirped suddenly in his ears...

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(End of this chapter)