Starting from Scavengers to Cultivate Immortals

Chapter 48
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The movement of the capital spread throughout the entire Great Song Immortal Realm within two or three days.

The news that Daoist Yulong failed to forcefully suppress the three low-level monks of Taiyuanmen, but was severely injured and dying, was not fully digested by many melon-eating immortals, and then a bigger and hotter news spread in the fairy world.

Liang Feng, the elite of the inner sect of the Yuqing Palace and the eldest disciple of the Yulong Daoist, chased and killed the three members of the Taiyuan Sect, but was cut into two after being smashed through his dantian.

The one who killed Liang Feng was not the Taiyuan Sect, but probably the fourth generation elite disciple of the Longmen Dojo, Guo Ming in the late Kaiyuan stage.

But Guo Ming was also killed by Ren Xiaoshou near Liang Feng.

The traces left at the scene of the battle were horrific. A mountain was destroyed, and the forests and rocks with a radius of hundreds of feet were turned into ashes.

In addition, there are traces of real people in the Danyuan realm at the scene, but according to the expert who inspected the traces, it was caused by the use of a third-order real fire talisman, and it was not the participation of a strong person in the Danyuan realm. fought.

However, although two corpses and a large number of damage marks were left behind, their magic weapons and storage bags all disappeared.

But as the core of the incident, the three little monks of the Taiyuanmen who were in the Yuankai realm suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Since then, the situation has become more confusing.

After three days of fighting, a seven-colored sparrow suddenly came from the northwest and hung over the mountain.

The traces of the battle below are still clear.

A gray-haired monk about fifty years old sat on the back of the sparrow, and his powerful spiritual consciousness swept across a hundred miles like a gust of wind. As long as it was within the range of his spiritual consciousness, even the breath of a mouse could not escape tracking, but it was a pity , A full incense stick of time passed, nothing was found, and finally he could only sigh and withdraw his consciousness and said:

"Three days have passed, and many monks came to investigate again, and the breath was completely chaotic. The old man could not know the truth of that day, let alone trace the whereabouts of the three Taiyuanmen."

Standing behind the old man was a beautiful woman in a long black dress with a sword box on her back, with a cold expression on her face, she said: "Eldest brother must have been killed by the Taiyuan sect, please let the fifth elder decide."

The old man twisted his beard and pondered for a while and said: "This matter is complicated and confusing, and the old man can't make a decision, but Dan Chenzi of the Taiyuan Gate has a hot temper, and he is not a good friend. Before he can figure out the cause and effect, it may be troublesome to go to ask for someone. .”

The woman said anxiously: "That day in the palace, this disciple saw with his own eyes that Master was severely injured by three people."

The old man sighed and said: "Your master's injuries have been carefully checked by our elders. It is true that the soul has been severely injured, but it is not necessarily related to Taiyuanmen. The disk was destroyed, causing the soul to be injured, and according to you, your master used his spiritual consciousness to forcefully oppress the three minor repairs of Taiyuanmen, and suddenly passed out, not to mention your master, even if you, the three Kaiyuan Whether the monks in the realm can severely damage your soul."

The woman was speechless for a moment.

"So, let's put this matter aside for the time being. After we go back, some of us old guys will discuss it. We will definitely send a letter to Taiyuanmen to ask for an explanation, but there may not be a result, because judging from the scars, your senior brother He died under the Feiyun spear of Longmen Mountain, not under the magic weapon of Taiyuanmen. There will be a big war between Yuanmen."

The woman burst into tears and said: "Eldest brother died for no apparent reason, and Master is unconscious, please ask the Fifth Elder to find a way to save Master."

The old man frowned and said: "Your master's soul has been injured too badly. We have exhausted the panacea. Right now, we can only save his life. It will be very difficult to cure him, unless..."

The woman said anxiously: "Unless there are some treasures, please ask the fifth elder to show them. Even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire, this disciple is willing to get them."

The old man shook his head slightly and said, "Unless it's the Resurrection Fruit."

The woman wept and said, "Resurrection fruit is rare in a hundred years, and this disciple can't do anything about it."

The old man twisted his beard and pondered: "It's not that there is no such thing. I heard that the Resurrection Tree of Taiyuanmen has bloomed. If there is no accident, it will mature in three years. It's just because your master has conflicted with Taiyuanmen again. , and it has reached such a level, I am afraid that even if Taiyuanmen has it, Dan Chenzi will not give it to him, alas, that's all, search around again, there is the breath left by the real fire talisman here, if I guess correctly, it should be It was the one left in the Zhenbao Pavilion, but somehow it was used here."

After the old man finished speaking, his spiritual sense was attracted, and the colorful spirit sparrow uttered a clear cry, and spread its wings and turned into a stream of light and flew away into the distance.

And not long after the two of them left, another spirit crane came through the sky. On the back of the spirit crane, sat a white-haired old man dressed in linen clothes with a sense of immortality. He also quickly frowned and left, heading straight to the southwest
Although the capital of the Song Dynasty was prosperous, the mountains and fields were sparsely populated.

The three of Xu Chen had fled the battle scene two hundred miles away. According to the radius of two hundred miles, to find them would have to search an area of ​​more than one hundred thousand miles. What's more, it's only in the Alchemy Realm, and the largest spiritual consciousness is only a few hundred miles around.

Moreover, Xu Chen fled towards the southeast that night, and did not continue towards the southwest. Therefore, whether it was people from Yuqing Palace, Longmen Mountain, or other immortal sects and casual cultivators, most of them put the main search direction in the southwest. Therefore, the three of Xu Chen hid two hundred miles away and concentrated on practicing and recovering, but they were not affected.

Of course, during this period, there may have been a few spiritual senses that swept through their hidden cave, but because the three of them had already restrained their aura, there was no slight fluctuation of their souls, so naturally no one noticed.

In the blink of an eye, seven or eight days passed.

The three of them have enough pills, and there are many rare elixir, so Xu Chen and Jiu Shixiong have recovered more than half, almost the same as usual, and Zhao Xuan has also recovered her sanity. no problem.

However, the three of them are only at the Yuan Kai stage. This series of battles has damaged the meridians, dantian and even the soul. If they can't take good care of them, it may affect their future practice, especially Zhao Xuan, who suffered heavy injuries and destroyed a lot of meridians. Even if it is raised well, I am afraid that it will not be able to go too far in the future, and whether it can even build a foundation is a huge problem.

Therefore, although Xu Chen and Jiu Shixiong are recovering well, they are not in high spirits.

Zhao Xuan didn't care, and continued to comfort the two of them: "Xiu Xian asked, I was going against the sky, how could it be smooth sailing, I was just an orphan back then, I was lucky to survive, and I never thought that I would be able to become a fairy one day , Even if I can’t build the foundation, I’m already satisfied, but the ninth brother and the younger brother, you must have a good rest after you go back, and don’t fight with others in the future, try to succeed in building the foundation, maybe you can form pills and transform spirits.”

Senior Brother Jiu smiled wryly and sighed: "Forget it, fate is destined, it's useless to think too much about it, I'm afraid the fairyland is already fried, we should hurry up and find a way to go back to the mountain, the sooner the better!"

So the three of them tidied up briefly, and then left the hidden cave. Yujian continued to fly hundreds of miles southeast against the wilderness mountains, and then turned to the direction of Taiyuan Gate.

A few days later, the three of them entered Nanyang County, but they did not go to Nanyang City, which is the closest to the mountain gate. Instead, they went directly through Heifeng Ridge, and after going around a big circle in the vast mountains, they finally returned to the mountain gate where they had been away for more than a month. .

When they saw the outstanding Chaoyang Peak and the familiar mountain gate, the three of them couldn't help but relax at the same time, feeling a kind of excitement and joy of surviving a catastrophe.

At this time, the Taiyuan Sect was already in chaos.

All the disciples who went down the mountain had already heard the news and rushed back to the mountain gate, even the first elder Dan Chenzi who went out to search for the refining Ziyun Hualing Pill, and the second elder who had been wandering around all the year round hurried back.

At the highest point of Chaoyang Peak, there is an old temple with a plaque hanging on the door lintel, and there are two ancient characters of Taiyuan written on it, but the handwriting is mottled, and it looks a bit bleak after weathering the wind and rain.

In the main hall, three elders sat upright, and a group of male and female disciples sat on the futons on both sides, the atmosphere was very serious.

Dan Chenzi was holding a jade slip of biography in his hand, his face was full of anger.

The second elder and the third elder lowered their eyelids and seemed to be in meditation, but their auras were very restless.

A group of disciples were even more emotional, with anger, confusion, fear and uneasiness.

"The people from Longmen Mountain have just left, and the Yuqing Palace sent a letter to inquire about the crime, but we don't know the truth about this matter. Right now, the whereabouts of the three people are unknown, and their lives and deaths are unknown. In the end, there must be a result, but the most urgent thing right now is to find the person first, to see the person in life, and to see the corpse in death, so that we can negotiate with Yuqing Palace, and we will not provoke a war between the immortals."

Although Dan Chenzi was angry, he knew that this matter was no small matter.

Originally, after seeing the Resurrection Tree blooming, he felt that this was a chance for him to transform his spirit from heaven, so he was very pleasantly surprised, and went straight to the Yuqing Palace to find his old friend Zhenjun Baiyun to obtain the refining pill, and got Zhenjun Baiyun After his promise, he planned to spend three years traveling all over China to search for the few remaining elixir.

He rushed back after receiving the letter from the third elder, and he was only half a day earlier than Xu Chen and the others.

Moreover, when returning to the mountain, there were two bad news one after another, both like a bolt from the blue.

One is that the Resurrection Wood died.

The second is that Xu Chen and the others severely injured the real Yulong in the Yuqing Palace.

But right now all kinds of news are flying all over the sky, the three disciples under the sect have nothing to say, people from Yuqing Palace and Longmen Mountain have also come to inquire one after another, their tone is aggressive, naturally they want to ask for an explanation.

The second elder is tall and thin, with gray beard and hair. He looks half a hundred years old, but in fact he is over a hundred years old. The aura of the peak of the true essence cannot be concealed. He lowered his eyebrows and said in a deep silence for a long time:

"This matter is complicated. My apprentice Xu Chen is only 15 years old, and his cultivation is only at the beginning of the Kaiyuan period. The two nephews Lu Yuan and Zhao Xuan are only in the middle and late stages of the Kaiyuan realm. If the people of Yuqing Palace want to use this to suppress us, they will not be afraid of being laughed at by the same people in the world."

The third elder, who was haggard, emaciated and old, also nodded and said: "Senior brother is right, besides, it is rumored that Liang Feng, a disciple of Daoist Yulong, and Guo Ming, a disciple of Longmen Mountain, were not killed by our faction, so why explain to them! "

Dan Chenzi's face twitched a few times, and he sighed, "The fairyland was never a place of reason."

The two elders were silent together, and the disciples were even more dejected.

When I first went to the mountain to practice, I always felt that cultivating immortality is to live in seclusion in the mountains and fields without competing with the world, with a pure heart and few desires.

However, it was not until I went down the mountain to experience a few times that I realized that cultivating the Tao is even more cruel. You have to find the medicine and magic weapon by yourself, and you have to rely on great chance to advance. You can live forever without focusing on meditation.

To put it bluntly, longevity is to compete with the sky for life, collect rare treasures from the world, and seize the power of creation from the heavens and the earth to strengthen oneself.

And once you set foot on this road, unless you really see through life and death, you will not hesitate to travel all over the dangerous mountains and rivers for a elixir or a rare treasure, and you will have to face the threats of monsters, poisonous snakes and other monks.

Therefore, the road to immortality seems easy in the eyes of ordinary people, but only self-knowledge of the hardships.

Now that the Resurrection Tree is dying, Dan Chenzi knows that there may be no hope of transforming his spirit in this life, and he is a little disheartened. However, as the Great Elder with the highest cultivation level, he cannot ignore this crisis, otherwise his disciples will face life and death. The Yuan goalkeeper is doomed.

If the matter is not investigated clearly, Yuqing Palace and Longmen Mountain will definitely not let it go.

But when everyone was depressed, suddenly Dan Chenzi's face changed and he stood up, stepped forward, and turned into a stream of light towards the outside of the mountain gate.

The two elders also looked surprised, and they flew out of the hall together.

A group of disciples didn't know why, so they got up and ran out of the hall one after another, either with their swords or flying to look in the direction of the three elders.

(End of this chapter)