The counterattack of the villains

Chapter 241 Showdown
The eve of Chen Xiang's 16th birthday.

The Milky Way is bright and the sky is full of stars.

In the backyard of Haoranzong, Liu Yanchang sat alone in the courtyard, with a Kongming lantern full of characters in front of him.

He looked at the night sky and muttered to himself: "Three Holy Mothers, I originally hoped that our children would be able to live peacefully as mortals for the rest of their lives as you said."

"But I didn't expect that he would have mana. I really don't know how to tell him."

"After he knows the truth, will he be clamoring for his mother every day like he did when he was a child?"

"Three Holy Mothers, remember what we once said? Life after life, we will never be separated."

"If you can see this sky lantern, give me a dream and tell me what to say to him, okay?"

It's no wonder that Liu Yanchang suddenly became melancholy, it was Chen Xiang's changes in the past six months that made him a little overwhelmed, with a feeling beyond his control.

Should it be said that it is the body of a half-immortal?For the past six months, Chen Xiang and other Haoran Sect disciples have practiced the same exercises.

But even the dog egg who turned the day after tomorrow into innate ability, can only use the method of separating air force just now, and the lightness kung fu is just flying on the grass, floating on the water and so on.

The other disciples couldn't even let out the air energy, and they could go up to the roof with a single jump.

But Chen Xiang is already flying into the sky and escaping from the ground, going in and out of yin and yang.

Yesterday he actually told himself that he had made friends with Black and White Wuchang.

Liu Yanchang knew that this was not a problem with Li Mu's exercises, but a problem with Chen Xiang himself.

Because even Li Mu couldn't figure out how much potential Chen Xiang had.

Liu Yanchang is very afraid now, afraid that Chen Xiang will be targeted by the Heavenly Court, not only will he harm himself, but it will also hurt Li Mu and the villagers of Liujia Village.

Back then at the foot of Mount Hua, he had seen the ferocity of the heavenly soldiers and generals, they didn't care about the lives of ordinary people at all.

Many folks in his hometown were implicated by their husband and wife and died in the aftermath of the fight between the gods.

If he and Chen Xiang hadn't been protected by the Holy Mother with the lotus lamp, they would not have survived either.

If the Three Holy Mothers hadn't taken care of them and had the lotus lamp in hand, how could they be caught so easily?
After all, Liu Yanchang is just a mortal who doesn't know the way of immortality, how can he understand that Chen Xiang's strength is certainly due to his half-immortal body.

But without Li Mu's skills to develop the potential of his semi-immortal body, at most he can pass through walls and control objects, and he will not be able to fight at all.

Looking up at the Kongming lantern disappearing behind the clouds, Liu Yanchang sighed and turned back to the house.

But he didn't know that when the Kongming Lantern flew high into the sky, a golden light descended from the sky and destroyed it.

……

The next morning, Chen Xiang woke up from meditation.

Since he started practicing, he has never slept again, and has always replaced sleep with practice, which is why he became an Earth Immortal in just half a year.

After finishing his work and getting up, Chen Xiang walked out of the room, only to find that the door of his father's room was not closed.

Through the crack of the door, he saw his father sitting at the table, holding an emerald green lamp in his hand, dazed in a daze.

Now that he is in cultivation, he can faintly feel that there seems to be a spiritual energy lingering on that lamp.

Chen Xiang pushed open the door and asked curiously: "Father, what is this thing? Why have I never seen it before?"

Liu Yanchang quickly put the lamp into the box in front of him, and while closing the box, he said nonchalantly, "A friend gave me the lamp."

Chen Xiang hurriedly said: "Father, don't accept it yet, let me have a look."

Liu Yanchang patted him on the shoulder and said, "There's nothing to see, it's about time, it's time to go to the sect, you wait for me outside."

Suspicion appeared on Chen Xiang's face, but he didn't show anything unusual, he just said: "Oh, then I'll go out first."

Chen Xiang turned around and went out, but when he walked outside, he silently used the technique of incarnation outside his body to transform into an incarnation, while he used the invisibility technique to hide aside.

His incarnation outside the body is naturally not a high-level method in the 72 transformations, strictly speaking, it is a kind of cover-up method.

Some practitioners in the world can do it with the help of talismans, grass figures, puppets and other media.

It's just that the avatar created by this small magic can also deceive the eyes of mortals, and has no other purpose. It will dissipate after a slightly heavier impact.

And because this avatar has no intelligence, its expression and movements are a little stiff, and it can only mechanically make the movements set by the master, maybe it can't even fool a more careful mortal.

However, Liu Yanchang's spirit was relatively slack because of seeing things and thinking about others, so he didn't find anything wrong with Chen Xiang at all.

Seeing Chen Xiang waiting at the door after going out, he greeted casually: "Let's go!"

"Oh."

The avatar outside the body responded blankly, and followed Liu Yanchang to Haoranzong.

The Haoran School is said to be a sect, but its actual operation mode is no different from that of a private school.

The disciples come to practice with Li Mu every morning, and return home in the afternoon, or help their parents with some work, or strengthen the skills they have learned during class.

At night, those who are more diligent are like Chen Xiang, who use meditation instead of sleeping.

Unable to bear the boring work, after dinner, he meditated and practiced until night fell, then he closed his work and lay down to sleep.

As for the courses in the Zongmen, in the morning, we meditate collectively to practice mana, from the beginning of the rising sun to the third pole of the sun, it takes about an hour and a half.

Then it is to practice various martial arts spells until lunch at noon, and then continue after resting for half an hour.

This way of working and resting is similar to the students of later generations.

After the incarnation outside the body followed his father and left, Chen Xiang showed up, and when he entered his father's room, he rummaged through everything.

The room was not big, and there were only so many places to hide things. Chen Xiang quickly found the box containing the lotus lamp in a wooden box.

He happily put the box on the table and opened it, and the emerald green lotus lantern appeared in front of his eyes.

"What exactly is this?" Chen Xiang grabbed the Lotus Lantern and took it out.

After looking at it carefully for a while, I didn't see any problems, except for the faint aura lingering on the lamp, there was nothing special about it.

Chen Xiang tried to input a burst of mana, but when the mana poured into the lotus lamp, it was as if some switch was turned on, and the lotus lamp suddenly burst into brilliant seven-color light.

Chen Xiang was startled, and subconsciously threw the lamp out.

However, the lotus lantern thrown by him did not fall to the ground, but was suspended in the air.

The light on the lamp gradually faded, but the lamp still did not fall off.

Chen Xiang watched for a while, and found that there seemed to be no danger, so she tried to step forward, and slowly reached out to grab the Lotus Lantern.

To Chen Xiang's surprise, just when his hand was about to touch the lotus lamp, the lotus lamp flashed to the side, avoiding his grasp.

Chen Xiang was very surprised, and grabbed it again, and the lotus lantern was dodged again.

Chen Xiang was a little unconvinced, so he summoned his mana, and in a blink of an eye, he arrived in front of the lotus lamp, and grabbed the lotus lamp like lightning, but he still couldn't catch it.

The Lotus Lantern seemed to be playing hide-and-seek with him, swinging east and west, sometimes going up and sometimes falling.

No matter how fast Chen Xiang is, Baolian Lantern can always avoid it half a step ahead.

Chen Xiang was aroused by the Lotus Lantern, he stepped on Lingbo micro-steps, and displayed the Oracle Bone Dragon Claw, insisting on grabbing the Lotus Lantern.

"Where are you going...I'll let you hide..."

The lotus lantern flew around the room for a while, and finally flew out of the room, and flew away, Chen Xiang hurriedly chased after it.

A strange scene appeared on the streets of Liujia Village, a green lamp flying in front, Chen Xiang was exercising extremely sensitive footwork, and a string of afterimages were chasing behind.

This lotus lantern doesn't fly high, it just floats about half a foot above the ground, and it can avoid pedestrians flexibly.

As a result, Chen Xiang's skill of controlling the sword is useless, and he can only use light work and footwork to catch up.

The villagers who came and went saw this strange scene, they couldn't help being very interested, and they talked a lot, thinking what kind of training Chen Xiang was doing!

Had this happened a few months ago, there would have been a riot.

But now those disciples of the Haoran Sect do not take the usual path. They often perform lightness kung fu and fly across the roofs, and the villagers have long seen it as a surprise.

Some even laughed and joked: "Chen Xiang, hurry up, hurry up, why can't you even catch a lamp."

"Huh? Isn't Chen Xiang here? Then why is there still Chen Xiang?"

At this moment, Liu Yanchang and the avatar outside his body hadn't gone far, Chen Xiang's attention was all focused on the lotus lamp, he didn't notice Liu Yanchang at all, and passed him directly.

"Chen Xiang?" Liu Yanchang suddenly turned his head to look at the avatar behind him, and then at Chen Xiang who was chasing the lotus lantern, but he didn't understand what happened.

He stomped his feet anxiously, and slapped the shoulder of the avatar outside him heavily.

"puff"

As soon as Liu Yanchang slapped the shoulder of the avatar outside his body, the avatar outside his body exploded into a puff of mist and disappeared without a trace.

"Chen Xiang, what are you doing?" Liu Yanchang yelled at Chen Xiang's back, and took big steps to catch up.

After Liu Yanchang became a teacher in a private school, he also followed Li Mu to practice muscle-changing and bone-strengthening exercises, just to strengthen his body.

After more than ten years of unremitting practice, his body has also been trained to be very strong. Although he has not practiced internal strength, his speed of sprinting with all his strength is not inferior to that of a galloping horse.

Therefore, even though he couldn't catch up with Chen Xiang who was using Lingbo's micro-steps, he could manage to catch up far away, so as not to lose track.

Chen Xiang chased the Lotus Lantern all the way out of the village, and finally there was no obstacle.

The Lotus Lantern seemed to understand this, and immediately stopped flying at low altitude, but gradually rose.

Seeing this, Chen Xiang decisively used the skill of controlling the sword, wrapped herself in the light of the sword, and flew towards the lotus lamp.

There is a small river not far from the village, which is a tributary of Yangcheng Lake. When the lotus lantern flew over the river, there was a sudden explosion in the river.

A reddish golden five-clawed dragon rushed out of the river, bringing up large splashes of water.

His dragon drove a circle, and the dragon's claws firmly grasped the lotus lamp.

The next moment, the golden light was shining on the dragon drive, and the dragon shrank rapidly in the golden light, and finally turned into a beautiful woman in a red dress with long golden hair.

Holding the Lotus Lantern, she looked at Chen Xiang who stopped not far in front of her.

Chen Xiang's eyes widened, and she said in astonishment: "Fourth aunt?"

Ao Tingxin smiled, tilted his head, and said, "Go down first!"

The two flew towards the shore, and landed in front of Liu Yanchang who had just galloped over. Ao Tingxin handed back the lotus lantern to Liu Yanchang.

Chen Xiang looked at Ao Tingxin, then at Liu Yanchang, and said in a deep voice: "Fourth aunt, you are not a mortal, who are you?"

"And this lamp, what is it? Why is it so magical?"

Ao Tingxin and Liu Yanchang looked at each other, and said softly: "Let's go back first and then talk about it!"

At this moment, a ray of light flew from the direction of Haoranzong, and fell three feet away from several people, revealing Li Mu's figure.

"Chen Xiang, brother Yanchang, what happened?"

Liu Yanchang forced a smile and said, "It's nothing, today is Chen Xiang's birthday, and my fourth sister is here to celebrate his birthday."

Li Mu looked at Ao Tingxin, and said solemnly, "If you're not mistaken, the fourth girl is from the dragon clan?"

Ao Tingxin glanced at Chen Xiang, lowered her eyelids slightly, and did not respond to Li Mu's words.

Liu Yanchang said: "Brother Li, there are some things, let's go back and talk about it first!"

Li Mu nodded, and the four returned to Liu Yanchang's home in silence.

Liu Yanchang, Ao Tingxin, and Li Mu sat down at the table in the living room. Chen Xiang stood aside and spoke first: "Father, Fourth Aunt, I know something, it's for my own good that you don't tell me."

"But I'm already 16 years old, I don't want to live in such a muddle anymore, I want to hear my mother's story, I want to know whether my mother is a fairy or a monster."

There was silence in the room, and after a long time, Liu Yanchang sighed and said slowly: "You are right, you have grown up, some things should not be kept from you."

After saying this, Liu Yanchang looked at Li Mu, and said shamelessly, "Brother Li, you shouldn't have been involved in these things, but now... I'm really sorry."

Li Mu waved his hands, and said: "There is no need to say such things anymore, I watched Chen Xiang grow up, and he is also my first-hand disciple, there is already an unbroken karma between us."

"No matter what he needs to face in the future, I, as a master, will definitely help him."

Liu Yanchang nodded gratefully to him, then stretched out his hand towards Ao Tingxin, and said, "You are right, the fourth sister is indeed from the dragon clan, she is the fourth princess of the East China Sea Dragon Palace."

Chen Xiang looked at Ao Tingxin in a daze, and said in a daze: "Princess, then my mother..."

Ao Ting said in his heart: "Your mother is the niece of the Jade Emperor, the younger sister of Erlang Xiansheng Zhenjun, the Holy Mother of Huashan Mountain conferred by the Heavenly Court, because she is the third, so she is called the Three Holy Mothers by the world."

Chen Xiang looked at Li Mu in shock and said, "My mother is Sanshengmu, so the uncle I met a few days ago..."

Li Mu said solemnly: "It should be Erlang God."

"What?" Liu Yanchang was shocked when he heard the words, Chen Xiang had never told him about this, when he heard it for the first time, he couldn't help getting up suddenly, and said in a broken voice, "You met Erlang God a few days ago? Why didn't you tell me?"

Chen Xiang said bitterly: "What's the use of telling you? I can't even walk in front of him."

Liu Yanchang's expression changed, and he said in shock and fear: "He came to the door, what does he want to do?"

Li Mu pressed his hands and said: "Sit down first, don't worry, if he wants to harm Chen Xiang, how can Chen Xiang live till now?"

Hearing this, Liu Yanchang finally calmed down, it was indeed the reason.

Li Mu went on to say, "After you say that, I basically understand what happened."

"As far as I know, the rules of heaven do not allow gods to be tempted by mortals, and marrying mortals privately is a serious crime."

"Since San Shengmu married you and gave birth to Chen Xiang, she has violated the rules of heaven. Her results... may not be very good."

Chen Xiang trembled and asked: "What will happen if you violate the rules of heaven?"

Li Mu shook his head and said, "I don't know either, probably only Erlang Shen knows about this matter."

Hearing this, Chen Xiang subconsciously touched the jade pendant in his arms, the jade pendant that Yang Jian gave him, and secretly made a decision in his heart.

If it was any other situation, he could not get to the bottom of it for the time being, and just settle down and practice hard until he could defeat his uncle.

But now he found that this could not be solved by defeating his uncle at all, so he couldn't wait any longer.

Chen Xiang's 16th birthday was spent in a dull atmosphere.

Liu Yanchang passed the Lotus Lantern to Chen Xiang, but with Chen Xiang's current mana, he still couldn't exert the true power of the Lotus Lantern.

However, it can be regarded as a magical weapon to some extent. With his cultivation as an earth immortal, he can cross two realms with the lotus lamp, and he will be tough against a wave of opponents in the real fairyland.

He is the son of the Three Holy Mothers, and he has half of the blood of the Three Holy Mothers in his body, so the Lotus Lantern does not reject him, and he only appeared in the state of playing with him before.

And if the Lotus Lantern resists, like the little fox Xiaoyu's grandmother, it will only trigger the defense mechanism of the Lotus Lantern and blow the opponent away.

It's just that with Chen Xiang's cultivation level, he couldn't refine the Lotus Lantern into his body at all, so he hung the Lotus Lantern around his waist with a cloth pocket.

……

Heaven, 33 days away, Yuqing Tian Miluo Palace.

After Yang Jian came here, he bowed to a Taoist boy and said: "Yang Jian has met the senior brother, and the disciple has received the decree from the master, so come to see him."

Daotong is the direct disciple of the Antarctic fairy, the attendant fairy boy of Yuanshi Tianzun, and the white crane boy whose body is a red-crowned crane.

Don't look at him as just a young man, and his magic power is not very strong, but he is the big brother who explained and taught three generations of disciples in Yuxu's lineage.

Boy Baihe nodded with a smile and said, "You don't need to be too polite, the master has an order. You can go in and see him directly when you arrive."

"Yes."

Yang Jian entered the Miluo Palace, saluted Yuanshi Tianzun who was sitting cross-legged on the futon, and said, "Disciple Yang Jian, pay homage to Master."

After the catastrophe of the gods, Yuanshi Tianzun took the Taoist Yuxu Palace to escape into the chaos, and could not enter the prehistoric world. Therefore, in the Yuqingtian Miluo Palace, it is actually the good corpse of Yuanshi Tianzun.

Yuanshi Tianzun opened his eyes, looked at Yang Jian and said, "Yang Jian, the calamity of self-proclaimed gods has been completed, and the way of heaven has set the rules of heaven. It has been nearly 2000 years so far."

"The old tiantiao is out of date now, and the new tiantiao is about to come out, and your sister Sanshengmu and your nephew Liu Chenxiang are the ones who should be robbed."

Yang Jian's eyes were fixed, and he cupped his fists respectfully and said: "Dare to ask the ancestor, sister She and Chen Xiang... Are there any fears for their lives?"

Yuanshi Tianzun said indifferently: "Under the way of heaven, there is always a glimmer of life. Whether you are in danger of life or not, it all depends on your nephew."

"If he can break the old shackles and successfully welcome the new rules of heaven, he will naturally add merit and virtue, and everything will be fine."

"If Xin Tiantiao cannot be born smoothly, your parents and elder brother will be a lesson from the past."

Yang Jian's heart trembled, and he quickly asked Yuanshi Tianzun for the details. Although Yuanshi Tianzun could not reveal the secrets too much, he could also give some suggestions on the sidelines.

After a while, Yang Jian walked out of Miluo Palace with a solemn expression, and went to the lower realm.

(End of this chapter)