On the shoulder of the Leshan Giant Buddha, a middle-aged man attired in a Confucian robe, a sword in his midst, flew in with a heart full of sorrow.
The young lady awaiting him appeared despondent, "Master Huaijian, the water level has already started to descend, by about three and a half feet. "
Without looking at the water level, the man in the Confucian robe gave a sigh, "Let’s dismantle the array. Gather what’s necessary and follow . We can’t stay here for long."
The young girl was taken aback, "But our Grandmaster and Master Jiudeng said we must——"
Her words were cut off mid-sentence as she saw the grief-stricken expression on the face of the man in the Confucian robe. Suddenly, she realized sothing and turned ghostly white, "Who killed them?"
Deep down, she had a feeling about the deaths of Huaibi and Jiudeng half a mont earlier, but she didn’t want to believe it.
Looking pale, the middle-aged man in the Confucian robe looked at the young girl, "This person is incredibly powerful. Even I have no choice but to retreat. What would it help for you to know?"
His heart ached with sorrow. Three hundred years ago, more than a hundred of them knelt before the throne of Master Peng Yinjing of the Maitreya Teaching, learning martial arts and literature. In the end, only four of them survived, supporting each other till now.
But within a single day, two of them were gone.
Understanding the urgency of the situation, the man in the Confucian robe quickly suppressed his emotions, swiftly gathered up all evidence in the vicinity. This included the talismanic array they had set up around the Leshan Giant Buddha and any objects that could possibly reveal their identities.
Just monts later, the middle-aged man in the Confucian robe had a premonition. He was surprised as he looked behind him, "Grandmaster?"
It wasn’t his Grandmasters Jiudeng and Huaibi but his third Grandmaster. He was clad in an official robe of a vibrant red color, had the appearance of an attractive man in his forties, at the peak of his life, with an unmatchable scholarly deanor.
"Huaijian." After his arrival, the man in the official robe walked straight to the storage cavity at the chest of the Giant Buddha. Looking at the stele at the entrance of the cavity, his expression was incredibly complex: "It’s hard to believe that our decades of planning have co to nothing."
Huaijian flew down from the shoulder of the Giant Buddha, landing behind the man in the official robe, "I said then that this undertaking was too risky and against the ways of Heaven. Even if it succeeded for a ti, it would bring endless trouble. Now, it’s true after all. You and the two Grandmasters planned everything carefully——"
Before he could finish, he heard the man in the official robe speaking in a low voice, "The item inside the cavity is crucial for us four. Since we can’t flood the Buddha’s knee with water, we must resort to the backup thod."
"Backup thod?" Master Huaijian looked at the man in the official robe in surprise, "Is there any other ans to open this stele? Why don’t I know about it?"
"There is!" The man in the official robe replied with an air of helplessness, "But the cost is enormous. It requires the essence blood and Shenpo of a heavenly level Wu Cultivator, along with the blood of the descendants of the Wang family."
Huaijian looked puzzled, "This thod is much simpler than waiting for the water to reach Buddha’s knee. Why not use it?"
With their combined strength, it was possible for them to capture a heavenly level cultivator.
As for the blood of the descendants of the Wang family, eight of Emperor Wang Yan’s eleven brothers were killed by Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang, and almost all of his clan was wiped out. However, many people managed to survive.
If they were determined to find them, it wasn’t impossible.
"Not any heavenly level cultivator will do. They must also possess the Five Spirits Body." The man in the official robe’s expression was incredibly complex, "The initial thod of opening wasn’t this troubleso. There were two thods - either the Min river water would flood above the Buddha’s knee or use the thod I just ntioned.
It is said that the last emperor of the Forr Shu, Wang Yan, was a Five Spirits Body. Hence, the door-opening thod was devised specifically for him. However, due to the passage of ti since the demise of the Forr Shu, the opening talismanic array inside the cavity had corroded and lost its power, making the conditions even more stringent."
"Five Spirits Body?"
Master Huaijian still looked doubtful. However, shortly, realizing sothing, his expression changed.
Right at this mont, an intense feeling of paralysis spread throughout his body and a sense of extre danger arose in his Primordial Spirit.
At this mont, he was unable to move.
Instantly, Master Huaijian realized that this was so sort of poison. The poison had been lurking in his body for a long ti, causing his body to feel paralyzed and his Primordial Spirit to stagnate.
Just an instant later, he felt a severe pain in his heart. A black blade suddenly pierced through. With his remaining strength, he struggled to look back and saw a figure, entirely black, with handso features and wings, standing behind him as if an Asura from the scriptures.
"Asura Battle Demon?"
Master Huaijian couldn’t believe it. He looked back at the man in the official robe. With a difficult voice, asked, "Why?"
The man in the official robe sighed, "Brother, you have four spirits and you cultivate the ’Great Prenatal Geng tal Secret’. You are the key to completing the Five Spirits. That’s why we had to hide this from you. Brother, we have tried to save your life, and we even orchestrated this flood in the Jiangnan area, adhering to our brotherhood."
Next, he reached his hand into the air towards the young lady in the distance, whose face was filled with horror, and forcefully pulled her towards the entrance of the stele.
"As for the bloodline of the royal family of Forr Shu, your brother Huaibi found them long ago and had been hiding it from you."
He promptly slit the girl’s wrist and sared her fresh blood onto the stele.
As the stele got covered with the girl’s blood and Master Huaijian’s spirit faded, the stele finally began to slowly open and move to the side.
Seeing this, a bit of joy flickered in the eyes of the man in the official robe. Hastily, he threw aside the girl who had fallen unconscious due to excessive blood loss and quickly stepped inside.
When the man in the official robe entered and saw the sight behind the door, his expression of joy beca even more evident. He spotted the two immortal treasures and also the object that he had been dreaming of.
However, next, the man in the official robe’s eyes widened in surprise. The joyous expression on his face gradually beca rigid——
"This is impossible!"
His eyes wide open, the man in the official robe muttered sothing incredulous. He wondered why there was another seal behind the stele?
He reluctantly reached out to grab it, but the talismanic arrays surrounding the treasure rose layer upon layer, forcefully pushing his hand back a yard.
In fact, with his strength, he could forcibly break the array.
However, the divine object and the two Immortal Artifacts would definitely be displaced by the void, sent ahead to an unknown location. The multitude of Spiritual dicines inside would also surely be destroyed by the array.
Master Huaijian behind him was nearly out of breath. He watched this scene from a distance, then started laughing with schadenfreude.
"Interesting, interesting! To take these things, one needs to possess the heavenly level of the Five Spirits Body, and the blood of my niece. The last emperor of Sichuan was really careful. But people with five spirits in their bodies and successful cultivation are rare in this world. Senior brother, where are you going to find them, where are you going to find them——"
The voice of Master Huaijian ceased abruptly because his breath had completely disappeared, and his body gradually turned into black sand.
Only the girl outside the cave who was unconscious and the official robe-clad man inside the cave with an extrely ugly expression remained.
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Li Xuan slept for a full six hours before his consciousness gradually awakened.
Probably due to excessive consumption and extre fatigue, Li Xuan tried hard to open his eyes, but he couldn’t muster up the strength.
Not only was his body unable to move, but his Primordial Spirit was also in a state of numbness. Filled with imnse weakness, he felt as if a deep hole was in his soul.
Li Xuan thought in his heart that in his current state, even an ant could kill him.
But at the sa ti, a cool sensation was spreading from the depths of his Primordial Spirit, exuding vibrant vitality, and nurturing his Primordial Spirit.
There was also power of Yuanyang, situated between his chest and abdon, supplenting the depleted Yuan Qi in his body.
Li Xuan knew that soone had definitely used at least two kinds of top-level Spiritual dicines on him, one specifically for restoring Shenpo, and the other for the flesh.
——this was most likely done by Ao Shuying, because he could already sense Ao Shuying’s qi. The Dragon King was sitting next to him all the ti, her majestic Mana securely protecting his entire body.
In addition, there was a cool sensation in the middle of Li Xuan’s eyebrows, constantly perating inside.
That was Jiang Hanyun, who was sitting on the other side, pressing her hand on Li Xuan’s forehead. She was using the ’Shentian Dual Essence Technique’ to help him recover.
Not far away from them, there were two qis that Li Xuan was very familiar with.
Li Xuan recognized one of them to be his Fumo Vajra.
The other should be Leng Yurou, who was making so noise, tinkering with sothing.
Feeling the three girls, Li Xuan let his mind rest and began to ditate on the ’Li’ character in the depth of his Divine Consciousness to restore his Primordial Spirit.
The Cultivation Technique he practiced was naturally the ’Hunyuan Celestial Scripture’, but the Hunyuan Celestial Scripture is a Wu cultivator’s technique. When it cos to restoring Divine Consciousness, the ’Li’ character is more appropriate.
In this world, Li Xuan had seen more and more strange and miraculous phenona, but he firmly believes that they have their own reasons and rules underneath.
And according to his recent studies, the facts also are in-line with his understanding of this world.
However, while Li Xuan was fully recovering, he heard a magnetic, extrely pleasant voice not far away.
"There are so many places in Yichang City, why did they have to put him in the temple of Immortal Master Shuide?"
Li Xuan was imdiately pleased. He recognized the voice as Luo Yan.
Li Xuan thought, has Yan woken up? I wonder if the fire poison in her body is cured.
And the girl next to her, should be Yue Qianqian.
While Li Xuan was thinking, Luo Yan already walked up to him. She examined Li Xuan carefully, and then grabbed his wrist and sent in her Divine Consciousness to sense.
A mont later, Luo Yan released Li Xuan’s hand and sarcastically said, "Fine, he should not die this ti. However, it seems his Hao Qi has beco purer. It seems Li Xuan has taken a step forward on the path of sacrifice. The day of a heroic end is not far."
When she said this, all the girls in the temple of Immortal Master Shuide looked at her sideways.
Only after a while did the girls take their eyes off, each seeming anxious. They all thought, isn’t it? His Hao Qi has beco purer, which ans he’s even more willing to risk his life.
Only Ao Shuying seed sowhat displeased: "How could you say that? Li Xuan fought to death for tens of millions of people in the upper and lower reaches this ti. This battle has saved countless people from death, this is a boundless rit."
"So I said he sacrificed himself; I didn’t say he was bad." Luo Yan snorted and then forcibly pried open Li Xuan’s mouth, took out a bottle of blue-green liquid and poured it in.
Li Xuan imdiately felt a stronger power of Yuanyang in his chest and abdon, flowing around his body.
A part of it also acted upon his Shenpo, filling half of his originally depleted Primordial Spirit instantly.
"Did you use Tanggu Yusui? You actually have such a treasure!"
Ao Shuying was sowhat surprised. "But you used too much. This girl nad Jiang Hanyun just fed him a cup of thousand-year-old ginseng juice; I also used a drop of Taiwei Spirit Dew on him. You gave him three drops of marrow liquid at once; such a replenishnt might be too much."
Li Xuan thought these are all good things. The thousand-year-old ginseng doesn’t need any explanation. Taiwei refers to the Taiwei constellation, one of the three constellations. The Taiwei Spirit Dew is the dew condensed from collecting the star power of Taiwei, which is of great benefit to Shenpo.
As for Tanggu Yusui, the place where the sun rises is called Tanggu. Tanggu Yusui, as it is said, cos from Tanggu and is a top-level Spiritual dicine.
However, Li Xuan has realized the consequence of over-replenishnt, he was already standing tall beneath!
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