Lingyuan Immortal

Chapter 891: Canglang Tempering Star Xiezhi Aims for the Top
The clouds are billowing and the sea is upside down.

The moment the raging flames and raging waves collided, the entire starry sky trembled.

Jin Tianqi's knuckles turned white as he clenched his fists. He looked at Murong Xi, who had regained her glory, and then glanced at Chen Mu, who had summoned the star map...

"Just a little bit..."

His expression was extremely grim: "We are only a hair away from capturing Murong Xi!"

This was different from what he had expected.

In his mind, the only three people who could truly compete with him were Guanxingzi, Yuquezi and Murong Xi.

As for people like Yan Yuhu, Dong Yi and Si Xuanshuang, he didn't even take them seriously.

The same goes for the cultivators coming from other regions.

As for the three people of Guanxingzi, the first two will most likely suffer losses. In other words, as long as he can seize the opportunity to capture Murong Xi, and then absorb the opponent's star field to feed back to his own star map, he can calmly receive the fruits of victory.

After all, under such strong pressure, neither Guanxingzi nor Yuque Zhenjun could maintain their full strength until the end.

He could then easily defeat the winner of the two. He ultimately caught the biggest dragon of the trip, and with this opportunity, he passed the Zuwangchen level and became the new generation leader of Xiajin Sandu...

But at such a crucial turning point, there happened to be this person...who couldn't be judged by common sense...

Could it be that God is deliberately not letting him have the chance?

But if it was truly God's will, why did he choose to condense his ancestors' Dao fruit, and then, under the prevailing circumstances, he had no choice but to kill his brother and seize the throne...

There was a faint light in Jin Tianqi's eyes and the skin on his face was twitching slightly. It was obvious that he was extremely furious.

Or perhaps it sensed the anger in his heart, the giant fire-wrapped tree fruit made a burning and cracking sound in the Canglang waves, and thousands of red snake patterns appeared on its twisted branches, and it withstood the pressure from Shuize and suddenly grew another three inches!

Blood oozed from the corner of his mouth, but he grinned and urged the flames to lick the sword formation: "God, if you won't let me achieve enlightenment, I will kill everyone who stands in my way!"

The murderous aura around Jin Tianqi surged like a substance, and his black robe rustled in the wind without moving.

If any member of the Jin clan witnessed this scene, they would be shocked to find that the frosted look on his face was similar to the bloody night in the ancestral temple several years ago!
At that moment, Jin Tianqi, who had just knocked on the threshold and condensed the ancestral Dao fruit, came walking in the moonlight, holding his brother's head upside down in his left hand. Sticky blood flowed down along his jawline, forming a winding stream of blood on the bluestone slabs...

"I could win then, and I can win now!"

Jin Tianqi rekindled his fighting spirit, staring at Chen Mu with bloodshot eyes: "A mere firefly——"

However, Chen Mu was not the kind of person who would listen to nonsense. Before Jin Tianqi finished speaking, the speed at which he formed seals with his hands suddenly increased.

The next moment, the star wall shone with spiritual light, and the shadow of Ze Ding suddenly flew up and hovered at the intersection of the star tracks. The inscriptions on the body of the Ding lit up one after another, reflecting the shadow of the Nine-Curved Sky River.

And the changes did not stop. Two streams of Xuanming True Water dropped from the ears of the cauldron. Starlight condensed into frost wherever it passed, and instantly destroyed the giant red flame snake that was about to counterattack.

Seeing this, Murong Xi followed suit, turned his wrist and waved his sleeves, and seven cloud lotuses suddenly bloomed among the stars. The sword energy emitted from the lotus hearts turned into the Big Dipper, which was nailed into the seven spiritual orifices of the giant tree.

"Crack!"

Spider-web-like golden patterns appeared on the surface of the giant tree fruit, and Jin Tianqi's pupils suddenly shrank.

He bit his tongue hard and spurted out his lifeblood. The broken branches turned into thousands of fire snakes in the blood mist, rushing towards the Shuize Ding.

Chen Mu's mind changed, and he stepped on the Gangbu Dou. The star map under his feet rotated like a millstone, and a whirlpool suddenly appeared in the cauldron, swallowing half of the fire crows.

The rest crashed into the cloud, water, mountain and river barrier set up by Murong Xi, exploding into a sky full of flames.

The jade hairpin between Murong Xi's black hair shattered with a sound. She swiped her fingers across the star wall, and the star wall suddenly lit up. The sword pattern on it instantly turned into a three-foot green blade.

"go with!"

The Yunshui Sword was wielded by his arm, and the sword body reflected the waves of the Shuize Ding, and actually drew nine overlapping moon wheels in the galaxy.

Wherever the moonlight reached, the struggling giant fire-wrapped tree was cut off at the root, and what rose from the cut was not blazing flames, but faint poisonous fire.

It can be seen that if Chen Mu and the others were really approached by the giant tree, even if they were not hurt at the moment, they would definitely be affected by it...

"impossible!"

Jin Tianqi staggered back, the shadow of Daoguo had been shattered into dust, and along with it, the star wall was broken into several pieces.

He stared intently at the huge tree wreckage floating in the Shuize Ding. The red Taoist patterns wrapped around it were being washed away bit by bit by the Xuanming True Water.

With every wisp of energy that dissipated, his aura weakened a little, and he no longer had the same energy as before.

This time, he failed to continue to win...

Chen Mu's sleeves fluttered like a crane, and the real water hanging from the ears of the tripod suddenly turned into two Chi dragons, carrying the refined Yi wood and Ding fire energy and sinking into the star map.

A sudden, gentle rain fell across the galaxy, and the cracks in the void blossomed into blooming blue lotuses. Murong Xi sheathed his sword and returned it to the map. The star wall unfolded again, but the sword light glimmering within it was also stained with the pure aura of the water.

As she looked towards Chen Mu, the young Taoist was twirling his ink jade pen, outlining star tracks in the void. The Yi Wood and Ding Fire Qi he had just refined were now repairing the broken starry sky along the trajectory of the pen tip...

There was a glimmer in Murong Xi's eyes, and a rare look of approval appeared between her usually cold brows.

This junior fellow student whom she had just been getting along with was truly outstanding and graceful. Even though she was known for her talent, she couldn't help but marvel at him at this moment.

However, this happy scene was like a poisoned silver needle in Jin Tianqi's eyes. The star wall had been shattered, but he was still unwilling to leave. He looked around, wanting to ask for help from Lei Gu Chi Dongyi, but found that the other party had disappeared.

It turned out that when he was fighting fiercely with Murong Xi, Dong Yi had already been fighting with Xuan Shuang, the Holy Maiden of the Si Clan, and the True Lord Suijin of the Wuxiang Sword Tomb.

Three figures intertwined and flew through the thunderclouds. Si Xuanshuang's Ancient Taiyin Mirror reflected the moonlight, while True Lord Suijin's Hundred Blades Box emitted a cold light. Finally, accompanied by a terrifying sword cry, True Lord Suijin, at the cost of his own personal injury, gained a slight advantage and forced the two entangled opponents out of this world...

The ally disappeared, and Jhin Tianqi was silent for a moment.

Dao Hen came whistling like a flowing arrow, hitting the fire curtain in front of him, creating countless sparks. Within a few breaths, it dimmed and became invisible.

Murong Xi seemed to have sensed something, sneered at the sight, turned around and shot out a ray of sword energy.

The sword energy was not very strong, but in the eyes of Jin Tianqi, it was no different from the death warrant of the King of Hell.

He gritted his teeth, but could only leap back.

As he was about to break through the starry sky, the last thing that came into view was the increasingly powerful shadow of Ze Ding...

Such a sound should have come from his giant fire-wrapped tree!

However, the victors are the kings and the losers are the bandits. No matter how unwilling he was, he could not change the outcome of fleeing in despair...

The galaxy returned to silence... but that wasn't quite right. At least the battle between Guan Xingzi and the other man was still going on, but the situation was clear and the man in the crane cloak couldn't hold on for much longer.

One step wrong, step by step wrong.

The man in the crane cloak lost 30% of the star field due to carelessness, and thus lost the possibility of standing to the end.

After all, you have a trump card, doesn’t Guanxingzi have one too?
At their level, even the slightest advantage is enough to wear down the opponent, especially in the restricted depths of the Cloud Abyss, where many changes are lost. Whether or not one can win depends entirely on their own Dao Fruit and the star domain they occupy...

On the dragon fishing platform, Jhin Tianqi suddenly opened his eyes, and his knuckles clasped the fishing rod, making a harsh scraping sound.

Cold sweat trickled down from his brow, leaving dark marks on the front of his robe. However, the rage in his eyes was more intense than Yun Yuan's strong wind, suppressing the blood boiling in his throat into a cold laugh.

"It's actually the Young Master of the Jin Clan!" Nearly ten thousand cultivators in the sea of ​​clouds were suddenly in an uproar. While whispering among themselves, someone asked in confusion:
"Not long ago, someone spread the news that Jin Tianhe had helped our young master in the depths of the Cloud Abyss at all costs, greatly increasing his chances of victory. How come he came out so quickly?"

"Fast?"

Someone else used hand gestures to steady the spirit boat beneath their feet and replied calmly, "Don't you even look at who the rest of the group is? True Lord Stargazing is needless to say, but there's also Lord Yunming Sword and True Lord Broken Gold... Among these few people, which one is easy to deal with?"

"Isn't there another Nascent Soul cultivator?"

A Nascent Soul cultivator survived until almost the last moment amidst the battle between many True Lords.

If this were to happen at the beginning of the banquet, I'm afraid no one would believe it...

There was a brief silence in the sea of ​​clouds, but the next moment, it was noisy again: "That person condensed the Dao Fruit at the Nascent Soul stage, how can we imagine it? He is not among them..."

Everyone chatted, skipping over Chen Mu and turning back to guessing who would be the final winner...

There was a lot of discussion outside, and movement gradually began to appear in the starry sky again.

After absorbing the star fields left by Dong Yi and Si Xuanshuang, True Lord Suijin's momentum became unmatched.

But after facing Chen Mu and the other two who had made progress, he knew that he was still not good enough.

Just as he was frowning, the last True Lord among the six people in the field also withdrew his hand.

The man was wearing a coarse cloth robe, a faded wooden hat on his head, a mustache, and his appearance was not good, making him look wretched. However, his eyes were as clear as a cold pond, and his every move revealed a solemnity... In short, he was very contradictory.

Chen Mu was intrigued by this strange aura and couldn't help but look at his senior sister: "Senior sister, do you know this person?"

“Although I’m not very familiar with it, I’ve heard a lot about it.”

Murong Xi's eyes swept across the bronze Xiezhi seal hanging on the man's waist:

"This man's name is Mo Nan, and he's the Censor of the Great Zhou Kingdom in Qingdu. Although he hasn't reached the Dao Realm for long, his Dao Fruition is truly extraordinary. He's known as the 'Xiezhi Wenxin', a skill highly respected by the people of Qingdu. Therefore, he's highly favored by the Great Zhou Kingdom's monarch..."

"A person from Qingdu?"

Chen Mu's eyebrows moved slightly, and his spiritual consciousness wrapped around the other person's energy like a thread.

But seeing the purple air looming overhead, with nine phantom dragons hovering over its shoulders, it was the unique sign of the Qingdu monks' national destiny...

When talking about Qingdu, we have to mention the world structure of the Floating Cloud Realm.

The Floating Cloud Realm is divided into nine cities. The cultivators in the eight cities are based on their sects. The Taoist traditions have been fighting for tens of thousands of years. Only on the territory of Qingdu stands the endless vermilion palace walls. The red dragon flag of the Great Zhou Dynasty has been flying over that land for a full 50,000 years.

Moreover, unlike the Taoist idea of ​​inaction, the Great Zhou Kingdom advocated the combination of Taoism and Confucianism, and sought the truth through literature, which was particularly special.

"Tao follows nature, Confucianism spreads throughout the world."

Chen Mu murmured the comments he read in the ancient books in Qingping Cave, and his thoughts also came to one person.

At first, the actions of the Great Zhou Kingdom were ridiculed by the cultivators of the world, but Zhou Taizu, who founded the Immortal Dynasty as a commoner, did not care.

After thousands of years of exploration, he actually managed to fuse the righteous energy and the golden elixir into one, and found a path that had never been seen before in this world.

Seeking truth through literature and nurturing scholars with the national fortune led to the emergence of many talented people in Qingdu and the prosperity of the national fortune.

Until now, Qingdu's strength has been enough to rank among the top three in Fuyun, much stronger than Xuandu and Yundu...

Therefore, Chen Mu once thought of going to Qingdu to see the unique trend of seeking the truth. After all, if he had not happened to meet Shui Yunjian accepting disciples in his early years, he might also have stood in the court holding an ivory tablet.

The mystery of cause and effect and reincarnation this time made him more excited than Qingdu's unique way of governing the country.

But he didn't expect that before he even left Qingdu, he would meet an official cultivator here...

True Lord Suijin also noticed it, with golden light flashing in his eyes, and he couldn't help feeling a little happy.

He knew that he was no match for Chen Mu and the other two, but he could share the pressure with Mo Nan. At this last moment, the other party would probably not refuse.

"Brother Mo!"

He shouted loudly and said in a serious tone, "Brother Mo, as a native of Qingdu, I think you particularly understand the principle of the lips and teeth being cold. Now that the brothers and sisters of Chaosheng Pavilion have joined forces, I wonder if you are willing to lend a hand?"

In fact, he didn't need to say anything, Mo Nan had already seen the situation on the field. Since he stood up, it represented his attitude.

He lowered his eyes and smiled, "The Yunming Sword Master is renowned far and wide. I am absolutely no match for him."

"What a wise and self-protective scholar."

True Lord Suijin's eyes flickered, and after cursing inwardly twice, he said loudly, "Then I will teach you the power of Fellow Daoist Yunming's Shengsheng Yunshui Sword!"

After saying this, he snorted in his heart: "This person can even temporarily suppress Jin Tianqi. It's not that easy to take advantage of him..."

Listening to the conversation between the two, the brothers and sisters from Chaosheng Pavilion did not react.

Apart from Guan Xingzi and the other two who were still fighting, there were only four of them left. Even if they acted decisively, it would be difficult to stop the opponent's combined strength. In this case, it would be better to wait and see.

Seeing that the other party had made up his mind, Murong Xi transmitted a message: "Junior brother, you should be more cautious. Qingdu's methods are quite strange, especially those used to deal with people like us from the Dao Sect..."

"Oh?"

Chen Mu nodded slowly in response, becoming alert.

There is no need to say more about the dispute over Daohen.

True Lord Suijin came to find Murong Xi, and Mo Nan also met Chen Mu.

"Master Chen."

Mo Nan bowed respectfully. Compared to Dao Zong, he was more willing to bow to a cultivator whose realm was not as high as his.

Chen Mu also returned the salute. For some reason, looking at the other person's clear eyes, he suddenly became curious about what the other person would say.

Mo Nan seemed to be able to see through his thoughts. He stared at the shadow of Ze Ding floating in the galaxy and smiled slightly. "Master Chen, do you know that before I came here, thirty-three river lanterns were lit on the observatory for no reason?"

He pointed as a gesture of respect, and behind him suddenly appeared the shadowy image of the bronze gui vessel seen during the Taimiao sacrifices: "The Dao fruit of the ding vessel has appeared in the world, fulfilling the ancient prophecy of 'casting the ding to represent the object'."

"If Master Chen were to visit our Qingdu territory, perhaps he would attract the admiration of our emperor..."

Chen Mu was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud, "You must be joking, Censor Mo."

Before the laughter died down, the two men attacked at the same time.

"Master Chen, do you think I'm joking?"

As he splashed ink and wrote, Chen Mu's brush moved with golden strokes and replied, "I only believe in the waves under my brush, and don't listen to the wind chimes under the eaves."

Mo Nan sighed when he heard this, but his movements became faster and faster: "If that's the case, don't blame me for using my power to bully others."

The bamboo slips held in the Xiezhi's mouth suddenly unfolded, creating a vast river of them across the starry sky...

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(End of this chapter)