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Chapter 422 Return of Respect
After witnessing the Moon-Destroying Dragon Sword breaking through the super-innate realm, the few of them exchanged ideas for a while before saying goodbye to each other and returning home.

Except for the three Buddhist monks who were responsible for handling the aftermath of the invasion from the demon world, everyone else left Huangzhou.

Mr. Qingfeng wants to go back to the Confucian sect to copy books as punishment, and Mieyue Dragon Blade says he wants to go back to the Canglan Ancient Sea clan's territory. Only Wang Zhifan returns to Tianyuan City alone.

Actually, Wang Zhifan didn't have to go back to Tianyuan City. He could go elsewhere to inquire about any powerful invaders from the Demon Realm, but he didn't want to give up the convenience brought by his identity as a Taoist, so he chose to return to the Taoist city two thousand miles away.

Needless to say, Wang Zhifan still asked his old friend Chiluma to do the work, and it took more than half an hour to bring him to the location.

Along the way, he sporadically discovered some invading forces from the demon world roaming on the ground, but they were all relatively weak types. The number of demons did not reach more than a thousand, and there were only three or five demon generals at most.

These findings prove that the demon world is currently indeed implementing a wide-ranging invasion strategy, and the main force should not have entered yet.

Wang Zhifan used the power of ice or the annihilation aura to easily eliminate some of the ones that had not been dealt with by anyone. He ignored the others that had already been dealt with by human cultivators. Anyway, they were all weak troops from the demon world, so it was just right for the cultivators to practice.

But when Wang Zhifan returned to the vicinity of Tianyuan City, he unexpectedly discovered that there was also an invading army from the Demon Realm outside this Taoist city, with a total of more than 30,000 people.

He first noticed the presence of the Demon Lord's aura on the battlefield, but it appeared in the form of corpses. Specifically, there were three Demon Lord corpses that had been turned into charcoal and chopped into pieces.

It can be seen that the entire battle took place outside Tianyuan City. The city defense formation of Tianyuan City emitted a bright green light covering the city. Not many demons could get close, let alone destroy it.

After all, there are enough Taoist monks in Tianyuan City with good strength, so they can kill back the tens of thousands of invading demons.

"The demon world is so rampant? They even attacked Tianyuan City?"

Such a scene can be said to be beyond Wang Zhifan's expectations. After he found that the Demon Lord here had been eliminated, he immediately devoted himself to eliminating the remaining demon generals on the battlefield.

The main reason was that he felt a little embarrassed. He clearly chose to stay in Tianyuan City, but suddenly ran to the Huangzhou Buddhist territory to help Buddhism fight the Demon Lord. As a result, he didn't even know that Tianyuan City was attacked by three Demon Lords. Now helping out can be considered as making up for his mistake.

So, on the battlefield where the Taoist forces of Tianyuan City originally had a clear advantage, there suddenly appeared a Taoist master who could be said to be able to launch a dimensionality reduction attack. The demon generals who were still entangled with the Taoist innates were killed one after another, which greatly accelerated the victory of Tianyuan City.

"Demon! Take my Demon-Slaying Sword Style!"

At this moment, the Qingyang Palace gatekeeper disciple who Wang Zhifan was more familiar with, a Taoist youth of fifteen or sixteen years old who was in the Xiantian realm, was also in the battle formation outside Tianyuan City, fighting very passionately with a demon general who was as ugly as a ghost and was about ten feet tall.

Although this young Taoist priest is not yet an adult, his cultivation in the innate realm is truly false. Just like Wang Zhifan's impression of him, he is good at using flying swords to fight the enemy, and he is good at the three-sword style of flying with one sword under his feet and attacking with two swords in his hands at the same time.

As the young Taoist priest flying in the air with a sword shouted, he made a series of dazzling sword gestures with his hands. The two flying swords he was controlling suddenly flew together and merged into a flying sword bigger than a man, emitting circles of green light and rushing towards the terrifying demon general on the ground!
When the demon general saw that his opponent used his special skills, he also took countermeasures without panic. That is, he suddenly pounced to the ground with his ugly appearance like a ghost. His entire body, which was over ten feet tall, disappeared from the ground in the blink of an eye like a clay man encountering a flood.

"Devil! Don't even think about escaping!"

The young Taoist priest who was guarding the Qingyang Palace was still confident when he saw this. He drove the large flying sword that was formed by combining two swords into one to attack the ground fiercely. With a loud bang, he smashed a pit about ten feet wide and at least two feet deep on the ground where the demon general had just disappeared.

"died?"

This sword style was quite powerful, stirring up a lot of dust around. As a result, the little Taoist couldn't see the ground conditions clearly nor sense the enemy's status, so he couldn't help but control the flying sword under his feet to descend a little, intending to get closer to observe.

Of course, he was not a careless fool. During the observation process, he had recalled the large flying sword and turned it back into a double sword state. He slowly descended with the double swords surrounding himself for defense.

But at this moment, in the dusty air that obstructed his vision, a figure about ten feet tall suddenly appeared above and behind the Taoist priest! It was the demon general who had just escaped into the ground!

It turned out that the demon general not only did not die in the Taoist's special attack, but also escaped to a distant place in a very insidiously way. He took advantage of the sword's skills to bombard the ground and caused dust all over the sky, and quietly approached the Taoist from above!

This is obviously a combination of some kind of concealment ability and psychological tactics.

The demon general dared to approach the Taoist quietly in the dust. It would be difficult to avoid being discovered just by moving slowly. He must have used some skills to weaken his own aura.

At the same time, he chose to approach the Taoist priest from above, predicting that the Taoist priest would think that he would appear on the ground, and would unconsciously relax his vigilance over the sky behind him, which would be the best position for a sneak attack.

Therefore, when the young Taoist gatekeeper of Qingyang Palace was slowly descending on his sword and carefully observing the situation on the ground, he suddenly felt as if he was being stabbed in the back, with a huge gust of wind hitting him on the back!

"Oh no! Someone's attacking!"

The young Taoist reacted immediately. He hurriedly drove the flying sword under his feet to escape without looking back, while controlling the other two flying swords that were originally responsible for defending themselves from below to circle back and attack.

This response method can be said to be more reasonable, but the problem is that it is a little late. The insidious demon general has already arrived within ten feet of his back. As long as the demon general's burst speed is not particularly slow, the little Taoist will inevitably be hit hard or even several times at this time! The specific consequences are difficult to predict!

In an instant, sneak attacks, escapes, and counterattacks occurred almost simultaneously. In the dust that had not yet settled, a fierce battle broke out! All the results were settled within a second or two!
The young Taoist only felt a terrifying gust of wind suddenly coming from his back, and then suddenly dissipated. As he hurriedly controlled the two flying swords to fight back, he received the spiritual weapon's sense that the enemy had been smashed to pieces.

"My swordsmanship is so powerful???"

For a moment, the young Taoist was a little confused, because he just wanted to use offense as defense to force back the sneak attacking enemy. However, he didn't expect that after the two swords flew out, the enemy didn't retreat at all, but was directly blown into pieces by his two flying swords. This was far beyond his expectations.

"No... No... I have used my flying sword to defeat this demon before. His body is as hard as iron. It is impossible for me to cut him into pieces easily... Someone must have helped me!"

Such a strange situation forced the Taoist to look back carefully. He looked at the place where his flying sword passed. In the clearer air, the demon general who attacked him was turning into large pieces of fine ice crystals and falling to the ground, which perfectly matched his perception that the enemy had been shattered. But obviously, his flying sword did not have the ability to freeze. The enemy suddenly became so fragmented that it could only have been frozen into a solid ice block before he attacked, and then shattered by his flying sword, which meant that the demon general had died before he could counterattack.

"I wonder which master helped me just now? But I don't think I've ever heard of any Taoist master in Tianyuan City who is good at ice and cold arts..."

The young Taoist couldn't help but fall into deep doubts, but at the moment he was still on the battlefield, so he didn't dwell on it too much. He quickly cleared his mind and looked for the next target worth attacking.

At the same time, on the vast battlefield outside Tianyuan City, strange things similar to what had just happened at the gate of Qingyang Palace happened from time to time.

Many Taoist disciples, both innate and acquired, have suddenly found in fierce battles that their enemies have turned into stiff lumps of ice, or simply transformed into ice crystals all over the sky like celestial flowers, allowing them to escape danger and greatly reduce their pressure.

The creator of these situations is naturally Wang Zhifan.

Wang Zhifan now knows quite a bit about the power of the demon world. He understands that those demon world beings below the Demon Lord, including the demon generals of varying strengths, are almost trash to him. He only needs to use a little ice source power to quickly solve the problem, so he adopted the most cost-effective way to deal with it.

Of course, he did not always keep a low profile when doing these things. He was also active on the battlefield wielding a sword, and killed at least a thousand ordinary demons and at least ten demon generals in front of many local people, just to let Tianyuan City know that he had contributed.

Therefore, when the situation on the entire battlefield was rapidly coming to an end with his joining, it was not surprising that a flying sword that could transmit sound suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Your Excellency Wu Zun, I am Qingyangzi. Please come to Qingyang Palace as soon as possible to have a chat!"

The person who transmitted the message was his old acquaintance, Taoist Qingyang, the owner of Qingyang Palace. However, what concerned Wang Zhifan was that the Taoist actually called him "Martial Master". It seemed that the speed at which information flowed in this world was faster than he had expected.

"How did Qing Yangzi know my name so quickly? Is there some way of spreading information that I don't know about?"

With some doubts, Wang Zhifan activated his own light skill, Wind and Thunder Treading on the Sky, and rushed to Qingyang Palace in the central area of ​​Tianyuan City. When he approached the Qingguang Array of Tianyuan City, the array automatically opened a gap for him to enter. It can be seen that Qingyangzi's influence on Tianyuan City cannot be underestimated.

This time, the people he met when he arrived at Qingyang Palace were rather unfamiliar. In addition to the familiar middle-aged Taoist Qingyangzi, there was also a fat middle-aged Taoist with a long sword on his back and a white-haired old Taoist holding a dustpan in his hand. Including Qingyangzi, who used to have the aura of an ordinary citizen, all three of them revealed their super-innate level essence.

The three of them seemed to attach great importance to Wang Zhifan who had rushed over. They bowed to him as soon as they saw him. Even though they seemed to be at least one generation older than Wang Zhifan, they still behaved very solemnly in front of Wang Zhifan.

"Your Excellency Wu Zun, I am the Taoist Master Zhenxu, in charge of Zhenxu Palace, and one of the garrisons in Tianyuan City..."

"I, Huayangzi, greet His Excellency Wu Zun! I am the headmaster of Huayang Palace, which is not far to the north of Qingyang Palace. I am responsible for the security of Tianyuan City..."

"I am Qingyangzi, and I am honored to meet His Excellency Wu Zun! His Excellency Wu Zun, why do you have such an expression?"

For a moment, Wang Zhifan himself was a little confused by the unexpected display of the three Taoist super-innates. He did not expect that after he had the title of Martial Lord, his status seemed to have risen a lot. He couldn't help feeling a little uncomfortable.

"The three Taoist priests, please don't embarrass me! Just call me Fanyun! Just discuss the matter with me directly!"

Wang Zhifan, who felt confused, chose to get straight to the point, because he was not good at being polite with others and did not understand the specific etiquette of this world.

“Haha! Your Excellency Wu Zun is indeed a master of the Dao realm! He possesses the carefree demeanor of an ancient Daoist cultivator!”

Zhenxuzi, a man with white hair and a dustpan in his hand, stroked his beard and smiled when he saw this, and started to flatter Wang Zhifan again.

On the contrary, the middle-aged fat Taoist Hua Yangzi, who had a long sword on his back, saw the man's helplessness and said:

“It seems that Fellow Daoist Fanyun does not know how rare the title of Martial Honor bestowed by the Master is. The word Martial Honor is not only a special title, but also represents that Fellow Daoist is the number one martial artist in the world!
Although people in my Taoist sect all practice martial arts, they only practice martial arts as a sideline. There are very few who can reach the innate level on the path of martial arts!

Even in the martial arts lineage that places the most emphasis on martial arts, there hasn't been a martial arts master of superb innate abilities in a hundred years, let alone someone like you who has reached the pinnacle of martial arts and can easily kill two demon lords!

Therefore, our respect for you, fellow Taoist, is not only for your amazing cultivation, but also for your contribution to martial arts!
Martial arts has finally flourished in my sect..."

After Hua Yangzi's explanation, Wang Zhifan's doubts were finally resolved.

It turns out that the Taoist sect in this world actually has a strong passion for martial arts, and has always wanted to lift up this little brother who is not valued by the world.

But due to various reasons, even Taoism, which attaches the most importance to martial arts among the three major Taoist sects, has not made much achievements in this field.

It was not until the appearance of Wang Zhifan, who quickly killed two Demon Lords with his martial arts skills and was personally given the title of Martial Lord by the master who was admired by the world, that a new chapter in martial arts was opened.

This marks that from now on, martial arts has its own iconic figures. At the same time, the emergence of powerful and super-innate martial artists also proves that this path is just as good as Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.

More importantly, Wang Zhifan is a Taoist. He has achieved what other Taoists have never done, so the three super-innate Taoist monks in front of him have special respect for him.

"Good fellow... I was wondering why there is a floor of martial arts techniques in Tianyuan Book Pavilion. It turns out that you have such a vision in your heart..."

After hearing this, Wang Zhifan suddenly realized that the mark he left in this world might be beyond his expectations.

(End of this chapter)