Chapter 1062: Chapter 1056: An Excuse To Run Away
In the distance.
Li Kuanghua, who had just recently emerged from the Dusheng Nunnery, had an ugly expression on her face.
She cultivated the very Buddhist Dharma of the Dusheng Nunnery, yet she had no idea that their Buddhist Dharma was cruel to such an extent.
She immediately looked toward the elders of the family. “Eldest Grandpa, Second Grandpa, Uncle Tianqi…”
Li Yunlin remained expressionless, following the natural course of the Dao.
He couldn’t be bothered with the affairs of others; anyway, it had nothing to do with their Azure Cloud Li Clan.
Li Yunbing took a deep breath.
“They planned this for a long time, spending decades building Buddhist temples. So this was what they were plotting all along.
Fortunately, we found their location early. Otherwise, even if three Body Integration experts arrived simultaneously, killing them wouldn’t be easy.”
“…” Li Tianqi toyed with his spatial ring, checking the array foundations stored inside for setting up formations.
As for Li Changyao, she was holding the bow obtained from the archer Guan Mingxuan, acting as if the matter had nothing to do with her.
Only Li Xinnian responded.
“What is done is done. Almighty experts will naturally protect the people of the world.”
Li Xinnian looked around. “Since Yun Hongcai borrowed our hands to dig out the Dusheng Nunnery, there is absolutely no way they will back down. They…”
As soon as his voice fell…
The family members, each with their own thoughts, suddenly jolted to attention.
A burst of Void Refinement extreme limit Spiritual power abruptly surged in the cloudy sky.
An iron staff continuously enlarged and thrust into the Dusheng Nunnery from the void.
The Dharma Body of a fairy floated in the air, draped in silk and satin that traced beautiful arcs through the sky.
The red silk was woven into a net, unexpectedly intercepting all the faith power heading toward the Dusheng Nunnery.
But how could the Buddhist faith’s power be intercepted so easily?
The fairy’s expression changed, and she cried out in alarm, “Boss, I can’t hold it back!”
As soon as her words fell…
An aged figure abruptly appeared atop the iron staff.
His wizened face was so wrinkled that the lines nearly squeezed together. Extending a hand like a mummified corpse, he formed hand seals.
Countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures from his spatial ring floated into the air; surprisingly, these were the very items stolen from the two cities in Deston Prefecture.
In the blink of an eye, the spiritual energy within them was extracted and, under the elder’s technique, attached to the fairy’s silk net.
This firmly caught the faith power of all living beings.
The elder let out a long breath of turbid air. With just a single glance, the burly man and the alluring fairy both nodded.
The three withdrew their techniques and treasures, leaving without the slightest hesitation.
These three sudden interlopers and their extremely practiced operations left the three forces that had come to besiege the Dusheng Nunnery stunned.
Even Nun Dairou and the two Dharma Masters were momentarily frozen in place.
“Nun, my Buddhist Dharma has been intercepted,” Dharma Master Hongzhen said subconsciously.
At this moment, Nun Dairou’s face flushed red at a speed visible to the naked eye. Her Spiritual power condensed into a voice filled with boundless fury. “Yun Hongcai!”
“Even if you escape to the ends of the earth, I will still kill you!”
Having spoken, completely disregarding everything else, she soared into the air and charged toward the direction where Yun Hongcai and the other two had fled.
The “Green Mountain” Daoist technique blasted toward the three Body Integration experts.
To Zhao Guang, Perfected Qinghe, and Wenren Jiuyue, this level of Daoist technique was merely average; they easily blocked it.
However, they did not give chase, only looking toward the two Dharma Masters in the Dusheng Nunnery.
“Old demoness,” Zhao Guang sneered. “She saw that we wanted to save Fei Heng and surely wouldn’t chase her. Going after Yun Hongcai is just an excuse to run for her life.”
Inside the Buddhist pagoda of the Dusheng Nunnery, Dharma Master Hongzhen and Dharma Master Hongdan exchanged a glance.
The final order they received was to use Fei Heng’s life as leverage and wait for the Nun to return.
Even with the faith power stolen, Dharma Master Hongzhen still gritted her teeth. Within her divine soul, she continued to push open that Dao Gate.
Though most of the faith power had been stolen, prior to this, the Buddhist disciples in the Dusheng Nunnery had already been refined. Coupled with the accumulation of many years, she dared to try.
“Junior Sister Hongdan, you and Hongjie keep a close watch on Fei Heng.” Hongzhen looked solemnly at Fei Heng behind Hongdan.
“If he makes any unusual moves, refine him instantly…”
But before she could finish speaking, Dharma Master Hongzhen suddenly felt her heart pound wildly. Her divine soul trembled as a powerful pressure crashed down upon her.
Instinctively, her Half-Step Body Integration Spiritual power burst forth to defend. However, the Spiritual power she pushed forward was instantly swept away by flames that seemed capable of incinerating all things.
As she stumbled backward, she stared blankly ahead.
A speck of flame headed toward her junior sister, Hongdan.
Behind Dharma Master Hongdan, Bodhisattva Ward held up a cauldron furnace, Buddhist fire guarding her front.
Dharma Master Hongdan, who had spent her entire life refining others, adept at playing with fire and even capable of forcing people to undergo body-snatching rebirth, played all her trump cards in an instant, yet she couldn’t even block a tiny cluster of flame.
The flame illuminated Dharma Master Hongdan’s completely red face. In an instant, her eyes became bloodshot, revealing sheer terror. Yet she could only watch helplessly as the flame pierced through her Buddhist Dharma and landed on her body.
“Boom!”
It was the sound of Dharma Master Hongzhen being smashed into the ground of the Dusheng Nunnery by Spiritual power, and it was also the sound of Dharma Master Hongdan being burned to ashes by the raging fire!
“Wu tribe Spiritual power? A Sage Elder of the Wu tribe!”
Zhao Guang flickered through the cloudy sky and appeared on the ground.
A rope materialized in his hand, moving as nimbly as his own arm, shooting toward the cloudy sky above the Dusheng Nunnery.
At this moment, a “whooshing” sound filled the cloudy sky. Clusters of flames ignited as if from a bonfire, painting the entire Dusheng Nunnery red.
Zhao Guang’s rope continuously spiraled, yet it was blocked by the air itself, encircling a section of the air in the cloudy sky. Gradually, a figure in red emerged from within.
The Nirvana Sage Elder!
Perfected Qinghe didn’t dare to be slow.
Pointing a finger in front of him, ripples formed as if touching the surface of water, and a water dragon roared out.
A hint of dread flashed in Wenren Jiuyue’s eyes, but he also fiercely swung his right arm.
His long sleeves snapped loudly as ten thousand dagger blades burning with fire aimed their tips straight at the Nirvana Sage Elder.
However, his Dao of Fire was far inferior to that of the Nirvana Sage Elder, dimming in comparison to the flames burning in the air in all directions.
“Hand the person over to me, and I can promise that my Divine Bird Tribe will withdraw from Shadowfell Prefecture.”
Zhao Guang was a slippery fellow, willing to do anything to sustain his lifespan.
But upon hearing these words, Wenren Jiuyue already felt some fear. Zhao Guang, however, laughed savagely.
“You are at the Dao Integration realm, and I am also at the Dao Integration realm. Why the fuck are you pretending to be a big bad wolf in front of me?”
“You won’t live much longer.” A hint of displeasure flashed across the Nirvana Holy Elder’s aged face. “No wonder you aren’t afraid. But you are not at your peak either.”
“If I were at my peak, I could beat three of you!”
With a sharp shout, a vertical eye opened on Zhao Guang’s forehead. A Green Dragon Broadsword fell into his hands, sweeping horizontally!
His technique was grand and majestic, turning everything in its path to ashes. Even the two Body Integration experts nearby changed their expressions and retreated.
Afterward, Wenren Jiuyue and Perfected Qinghe exchanged a glance, both somewhat stunned.
They had always been guarding against each other; after all, Shadowfell Prefecture was not a good place, nor was it their home turf.
Even the people of the Imperial Protectors Guard were hiding their true strength.
But upon seeing the Nirvana Sage Elder, this bastard Zhao Guang seemed like a different person. Gone was his usual slipperiness.
That rope was clearly a Dharma Treasure, and the Green Dragon Sword was his signature lifebound weapon.
“What do we do?” Perfected Qinghe transmitted his voice, looking ahead.
The Nirvana Sage Elder and Zhao Guang were engaging in a technique battle without holding anything back.
“What else can we do?” Wenren Jiuyue glanced at the numerous cultivators he had brought behind him.
With a wave of his hand, flying fire-daggers formed an array and charged forward.
“Make this Wu tribesman fall here and bring the Crown Prince back.
Otherwise, in the eyes of our fellow Daoists in the Imperial Capital, the two of us will become cowards, leaving a legacy of mockery for ten thousand years.”
Right at this moment.
The Nirvana Sage Elder had already let out a cold shout. “Fei Heng is gone!”
Gone.
Yet Zhao Guang continued to charge at the Nirvana Sage Elder.
The expressions of Wenren Jiuyue and Daoist Qinghe changed.
Perfected Qinghe appeared exactly where Crown Prince Fei Heng had just been.
He dropped an array disk, deploying the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s technique for divining heavenly secrets, capable of calculating the past, present, and future.
Using this array to calculate the future was difficult, but calculating the past and present was nothing, especially since Crown Prince Fei Heng’s aura still lingered.
With just a single divination, Perfected Qinghe’s expression changed. The array disk displayed what had just happened to Crown Prince Fei Heng.
In the projection, Crown Prince Fei Heng watched the numerous fighting almighty experts with a teasing look.
The corners of his mouth curved up slightly; he didn’t look the least bit like someone bewitched by the Dusheng Nunnery.
Muttering something, a spiritual pearl appeared in his hand. He crushed it and vanished from the spot.
“Impossible. Our people have already set up array formations outside, and so has the Nirvana Sage Elder.
With the Spiritual power of four Body Integration experts, how could the Crown Prince escape with his level of Spiritual power?”
“It was this Dharma Treasure that helped him escape. Since he had this Dharma Treasure, even inside the Dusheng Nunnery, he could have escaped at any time. Why…”
Perfected Qinghe’s heart pounded wildly; he couldn’t calculate it!
“It absolutely wasn’t the Azure Cloud Li Clan. If the Azure Cloud Li Clan wanted to save him, they would have saved him long ago.”
He seemed to think of something and raised his head, shouting to Zhao Guang and Wenren Jiuyue, “This old man is going to find the Crown Prince. You two hold off this old thing.”
“…”
Zhao Guang didn’t say a word, continuing to charge at the Nirvana Sage Elder, whose expression had turned ugly.
Wenren Jiuyue’s face darkened. Watching his flying daggers being swallowed by the Nirvana Holy Elder’s divine abilities, he cursed,
“Shameless old thing. When we get back to the Imperial Capital, I’m going to make your reputation rot and stink to high heaven!”
…….
A chaotic free-for-all.
Everything happened in merely 15 minutes.
The heaven-supporting great staff of Heavenly Venerable Jiande, that famous assassin, seemed to still flash before their eyes as hidden experts arrived one after another.
Hundreds of miles away, the members of the Li Clan stood in a row.
Moving in perfect unison, they looked to the left and then to the right, looking exactly like a group of well-behaved “melon-eating” spectators.
With the Body Integration might erupting within the Dusheng Nunnery, the experts brought by the three factions no longer dared to stay.
They scattered in all directions, shouting, “Hurry and find the Crown Prince!” Even Perfected Qinghe had left the Dusheng Nunnery.
The clan members frowned, pondering on the spot for a long time, using constancy to respond to all changes as they waited to see if any new developments would occur.
Although the family had long anticipated that there would be unexpected changes during this trip to the Dusheng Nunnery, they hadn’t expected the anomalies to arise so continuously that it was overwhelming.
For a moment, the group actually didn’t know whether they should chase after Yun Hongcai and Nun Dairou, chase after Perfected Qinghe, or go help Zhao Guang fight the Nirvana Holy Elder.
“Fei Heng ran away on his own?”
Li Yunbing and Li Xinnian exchanged a glance, breaking the silence among the family members. At this moment, the two of them thought of many things.
“Was it Fourth Aunt’s doing, or the work of you two?” Li Yunlin remained as calm and breezy as ever.
His divine soul sensed the great battle in the Dusheng Nunnery, and he confirmed it—they couldn’t win.
“It wasn’t us, and it wasn’t Fourth Aunt either.” Li Yunbing pondered for a moment. “Fourth Aunt’s goal isn’t this.”
“Alright then.”
Li Yunlin said, “Summon our people. We encircle and annihilate!”
“Understood.”
In an instant, everyone dispersed.
Li Changyao walked through the cloudy sky, landed on the ground, and used hand seals to dismantle layers of array formations, forming a massive cave in the ground.
Crouching down, Li Changyao shouted into the cave, “Brother, stop hiding.”
Immediately after, the spatial ring on her hand flashed. Dark Crows landed on her hand one after another, then flew off in all directions toward Shadowfell Prefecture and Deston Prefecture.
The Dark Crows pierced through the vast sky.
Above Sunfall City, a woman in an elegant white dress was dipping her brush in ink and painting. Her movements were extremely slow and gentle.
Only after a Dark Crow had rested on her shoulder for a long time did she slowly stop her brush and ink, having already painted an entire ink-wash landscape of Sunfall City.
inside Highsun City ruins.
In the large city that was still under reconstruction, commoners were making do by living in thatched huts they had built. In one of these huts lay a little old lady.
As a Dark Crow landed on the windowsill, the old lady opened her cloudy eyes.
“Sigh, I’ve been here from the South Sea for decades, and slept for decades straight. Forcing me to watch a young man’s dreams… There isn’t even anyone to have a heart-to-heart chat with this old lady.”
“This old lady is so lonely. Even finding a few fit young men to keep me company would be nice. They don’t know how to handle things at all.”
On the battlefield of Shadowfell Prefecture stood a man in a gray robe.
This battlefield was the former border of Shadowfell Prefecture, which had long since been leveled to the ground over the past few decades.
The gray-robed man’s face was full of the vicissitudes of life. A simple and unadorned ring in his hand swirled with radiance as he received the Dark Crow descending from the sky.
The gray-robed man walked into a mountain.
That wasn’t a mountain. Flies, maggots, and crows could be seen everywhere, and black energy billowed upward.
This mountain was formed from the accumulated corpses of the many years of great wars between the Human race and the Wu tribe.
No one was willing to come to this place; even the gray-robed man frowned in endless disgust.
Atop this mountain of corpses, a stunningly beautiful woman wearing a white dress that exposed her smooth thighs on both sides was sitting cross-legged.
Flowing around her was a Dao rhythm that complemented the mountain of corpses.
Hearing the caw of the Dark Crow, the woman ended her cultivation and stepped down from the mountain of corpses step by step.
The entire mountain of corpses actually squirmed like a living creature, then melded together, gradually forming eight silhouettes.
These eight silhouettes turned illusory and walked up behind her one after another, merging into her body.
She glanced at the gray-robed man and licked her red lips.
“Shadowfell Prefecture truly is a wonderful place. It’s about time I return the favor to you all. But we have an agreement: I’ll return the favor, but not with my life.”
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