Starting with Taoist priests from Maoshan to cultivate immortality

Zhang Tao's eyes widened enviously.

"Brother Jiang, that was incredibly fast! It was like riding a flying arrow!"

Kong Zhenhai stroked his beard and said:

"I knew long ago that this young friend was no ordinary person!"

Seeing Tu Meng's shocked expression, Zhao Lei felt a surge of pride, finally able to blurt out what he had been holding back for so long:

"I said yesterday that Brother Yu mastered the Zhenshan Fist to a minor level in less than half a day."

Back then, you and your fellow disciples didn't believe it!

The hunchbacked monk, his hump pointing upwards, exclaimed in surprise:

"I never imagined that Fellow Daoist Jiang, besides achieving a minor mastery of talismans, would also possess such talent in physical cultivation?"

Zhang Tao frowned and said:

"What? Minor mastery of talismans? This morning Brother Jiang was still at the beginner level... Wait a minute!"

He looked at Jiang Yu's figure inside the room, a belated realization of shock in his eyes:

"What he told me this afternoon about 'making some progress' was actually true!"

"I advanced two minor realms in two days, mastered the Mountain-Suppressing Fist in one day, and mastered the Talisman Technique in one afternoon."

All of this combined seemed to freeze everyone present in place, their movements completely still.

In the end, Kong Zhenhai was the more composed and was the first to recover from the frozen state. He cleared his throat:

"In our world, there are legends of people who ascend to immortality in a single day, so breaking through two minor realms in two days is nothing special."

Xie Qiyun forced himself to regain his composure, glanced at everyone, and said:

I don't know if there are any people who can ascend to immortality in a single day, but there is a genius in the Great Li Dynasty who achieved the Nascent Soul stage in a single day.

Xie Qiyun's words plunged everyone present into endless fantasy.

A Nascent Soul True Monarch is an existence with a lifespan of a thousand years, capable of influencing the laws of heaven and earth with a mere wave of their hand.

Zhang Tao said:

"Indeed, compared to that person, Brother Jiang's talent is nothing."

Jiang Yu, feeling refreshed after breaking through to the third level of Qi Refining, walked out of the Xuan Room with a smile.

He looked at the crowd with strange expressions and asked in confusion:

"What are you talking about?"

The crowd gave him a complicated look.

Zhang Tao spoke frankly:

"We're saying, 'Your talent is too low!'"

"?"

"What does this have to do with anything?"

Jiang Yu rolled his eyes, thinking to himself:

"I must replace my mixed elemental spiritual root with the best celestial spiritual root in the future!"

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Roar!

A sharp, piercing scream rang out from outside the door.

Master Li said anxiously:

"Oh no! Two tree spirits have broken into Li Family Village! We've been exposed!"

After Jiang Yu and the others escaped, the tree demon searched for them frantically.

Now we've finally found them; they're using shrieks to indicate their location.

Jiang Yu's lips curled up:

"Well done!"

All their preparations were complete, and they were just worried about how to lure the tree spirit in.

Xie Qiyun and Kong Zhenhai attacked simultaneously and captured the two tree demons.

The group, accompanied by the two tree spirits, returned to the dead-end alley where they had disappeared.

This is the best place to set up a thunderbolt trap.

Jiang Yu briefly explained the plan:

"Once all the tree demons have been lured here, Fellow Daoist Hunchback and I will activate all the mystic magnetic talismans to restrain them. Senior Kong and Xie Xiaoqi, seize the opportunity to ignite the Heaven-Shattering Thunder!"

"Understood!" everyone nodded.

The two captured tree demons had their limbs cut off, and the group used their spiritual fire to burn them.

"I'll burn you bastards!"

In order to avenge their previous grievances, Zhao Lei and Zhang Tao unleashed exceptionally fierce spiritual fire.

Jiang Yu reminded him:

"Don't burn them to death; we still need them to lure the prey."

Zhang Tao said:

"No, I won't let them get away with this so easily."

As he spoke, he fiercely burned the tree demon's lower body with the spirit fire in his hand.

Roar!

The two tree spirits could not withstand the pain and let out mournful screams.

The Tree Granny's favorite creatures are these newly born little tree spirits.

Hearing the tree spirit's screams, she was enraged and brandished her arms formed from branches, saying:

"Children, go save your brothers! Kill all those damned humans!"

Roar!

More than sixty tree spirits roared and swarmed toward Jiang Yu and his group.

Tu Meng, standing on high ground, reported:

"Those bastards have taken the bait!"

Jiang Yu reminded him again:

"We only have one chance. We must wait until they're all inside the trap before triggering the deafening thunder!"

Half a minute later, more than a dozen tree spirits rushed into the alley entrance, while the others disappeared without a trace.

The hunchbacked monk frowned and said:

"Why are there only a dozen or so?"

Jiang Yu asked Tu Meng, who was keeping watch:

"What happened?"

Tu Meng was somewhat bewildered:

"I don't know either, they just suddenly disappeared."

It was nighttime, so visibility was inevitably limited.

Jiang Yu frowned and said:

"Never mind that, let's seal these off first!"

It's sizzling!

As the two activated their power, the magnetic talisman hidden on the ground exploded, and more than a dozen tree demons were entangled by the powerful magnetic force.

But soon, the tree spirit's body withered and shattered like a pile of thin wood chips.

Jiang Yu's expression hardened.

The first wave wasn't tree spirits at all, but puppets disguised as tree spirits.

"This is... remote skin manipulation!"

Jiang Yu suddenly realized that this was the trick of that Painted Skin Ghost Six.

He witnessed the master's wife manipulating the tiger puppet yesterday.

"Haha, kid, it's too late now that you've seen through it!"

A tree spirit stood up, a sinister smile spreading across its face:

"I saw through your schemes a long time ago!"

They think they can use a thunderbolt against us? They're dreaming.

"You killed my dear sister! I will peel your skin off piece by piece and bury it with her!"

"Come out!"

At his command, sixty tree spirits appeared on the walls on either side of the dead end.

This formed a pincer movement against them.

A playful smile appeared on Jiang Yu's face:

"How did you know I had set a trap?"

"What do you mean!" The puppet controlled by Xue Laoliu showed an uneasy expression.

It's sizzling!

As Jiang Yu and the hunchbacked cultivator activated their powers, the magnetic talismans on both walls exploded one after another.

A powerful magnetic field triggered a chain reaction, and none of the tree spirits on the wall had time to escape; they were firmly fixed to the wall.

Looking at this spectacular scene, Jiang Yu revealed a smug smile.

Xie Qiyun and the others initially planned to place all the Xuanci talismans on the ground.

But Jiang Yu said:

"Half of their treants are extremely agile; if they scale the wall and attack from the side, this trap becomes useless."

I think we should set traps on both sides of the wall; that would increase the success rate and at least control half of the tree spirits.

Jiang Yu's considerations were extremely thorough, and everyone was persuaded to make arrangements according to his ideas.

Jiang Yu sneered:

"You're the Sixth Demon, right? If it weren't for you, our plan wouldn't have gone so smoothly!"

This is what they call being too clever for your own good.

A bolt of lightning, beginning to turn slightly purple, appeared in his palm and shattered the tree demon puppet controlled by the Painted Skin Ghost Six.

"Brother Jiang, it's time to go!"

Zhang Tao signaled Jiang Yu to retreat through the hidden door.

"They're here!"

Chi Chi!

Xie Qiyun and Kong Zhenhai lit the fuses of the thunderbolts and then quickly retreated through the hidden door.

Boom!

Twenty seconds later, a deafening roar shook the heavens and the earth, and a huge red mushroom cloud rose into the sky, illuminating the entire night sky.

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