Don't let Yu Ding take on any more disciples.

Chapter 186 I am the weakest in that place
The existence of this teleportation talisman undoubtedly gave Qingyun the confidence to come here.

The higher you go up the mountain, the more lush the vegetation becomes.

Qingyun's expression was tense and his face was quite solemn.

If it were on Jade Spring Mountain, he wouldn't be worried about a monster, or even if the sky collapsed, because he knew that the master would take care of everything.

In the past, he had only met and encountered great figures from the primordial world, such as celestial immortals and powerful beings. No matter who came to Yuquan Mountain, they would call him "celestial boy" and treat him with great courtesy.

But he knew perfectly well what he would be if he left Yuquan Mountain and that master.
Qingyun's eyes flashed. He knew that once he left that place, he would be nothing. He was just a child, and the immortals' respect for him was definitely not because of him.

This is the first time I've come alone to exorcise a demon...

At this moment, he is probably like you, a child who has just left his parents' side for the first time and is facing a man-eating monster. It is impossible not to be nervous.

Besides wanting to seek enlightenment in the mortal world, he had another reason for sneaking down the mountain: he had seen his master's disciples make a name for themselves one by one after descending the mountain...

His heart was no longer at peace.

Of course, none of this is relevant to what he needs to do now. The reason he's willing to go on this trip with Zhou Yishan is not only because he wants to find a reason to go down the mountain, but also because...

He came as he wished, Qingyun's eyes flashing.

The master once said—

In addition to having the heart to eliminate demons and protect the Way, those who cultivate the Tao should also have the ability to distinguish right from wrong and good from evil.

That being is called the Mountain God, but it requires human sacrifices, so it doesn't deserve the title of God, and its actions make it even less benevolent.

Whether it's a god or a demon, such brutality must be due to a being burdened with heavy sins of killing, and eliminating such a demon... is a meritorious act.

Qingyun strode forward. As he walked, the ancient trees in the verdant mountains became increasingly towering, and the road became more and more rugged. Broken wood and rotten leaves mixed together, emitting a sour and foul smell.

Qingyun suddenly stopped because he saw a pile of fallen bushes, with a path carved out of them, as if a huge creature had passed by. There were also some scratch marks on some of the stones on both sides of the path...

"That is..." Suddenly his eyes lit up as he saw something glowing in the pile of stones ahead. Just as he got up to pick it up, he realized that fog had risen in the mountains.

A sudden fog enveloped the surrounding area.

"Help! Help!"

Suddenly, a weak cry for help came. Qingyun's heart sank. He walked forward for a short distance and saw the head of a pretty girl peeking out from a bush, her body hidden by the bush.

She had long, black hair, snow-white skin, and a beautiful face like a peach blossom. The author was now being forced behind a tree by a rough-looking man wielding a large knife, with nowhere left to retreat.

"Little beauty, just give in to me. Wouldn't it be more enjoyable to stay here as a bandit's wife than to be constantly on the move with your family?" the one-eyed man laughed.

The young beauty was terrified, her face turning pale. In her frantic search for help, she seemed to catch sight of Qingyun as if by chance, like a drowning person grasping at a last straw.
"Young Taoist priest, help me!"

"Help..." Qingyun's eyes swept around.

"Young Taoist priest, save me! I was passing through here with my parents on our way to another place when we unexpectedly encountered this gang of bandits who live in these mountains and make a living by robbery. We had no choice but to scatter and flee for our lives."

Now that he's been caught, he's going to... he's going to..." he said, biting his lip and turning his head away in grief and indignation.

Qingyun seemed to be thinking about something, but the one-eyed giant who was the leader immediately looked at him fiercely: "What are you looking at, you little brat? Do you even understand what you're looking at? If you keep looking and you disturb my good time, I'll chop you up alive."

Qingyun remained silent and made no move upon hearing this.

After staring at the scene before him for a moment, he looked thoughtful.

"Young Taoist priest, help me!"

Seeing that Qingyun hadn't made a move, the young beauty couldn't help but speak urgently, her voice carrying a hint of urging and affection.

“Young lady, according to the rules, shouldn’t you also tell me how you will repay me after I saved you?” Qingyun said.

So he wanted something in return… The woman’s eyes flashed, and she said in a panicked voice, “If you can save me, young Taoist priest, I am willing to offer myself…”

"Promise yourself?"

Qingyun interrupted, a look of delight on his face: "So, you think this young lady thinks I'm not bad looking?"

woman:"???"

"My master once said that if a hero is handsome after rescuing a damsel in distress, the beauty will offer herself in gratitude; if he is ugly, she will repay him by being reborn as a cow or a horse in the next life..."

Qingyun seemed very happy.

"Who's the gossip who ruined my good deed..." A cold glint flashed in the woman's eyes, but she still said in a weak voice, "If you can save my life, young Taoist priest... I'm willing!"

She even blushed a little at the end.

"The young lady is willing... but this humble Taoist priest is not."

Qingyun shook his head and said, "I am a monk, how can I neglect my spiritual practice by getting close to women? No, no, let's find another benefit."

The young Taoist priest was courting death… The woman quickly changed her tune, saying, “My family is quite wealthy; if the young Taoist priest could save my life…”

"No, young lady, look, that strong man is broad-shouldered and burly, while the little Taoist priest is so weak, he can't save you."

Qingyun smiled at the one-eyed man and said, "Do whatever you want, brave man. Just pretend this little Taoist doesn't exist. I'll be leaving now."

Ah... The one-eyed man was also stunned for a moment. He looked at the woman and was somewhat at a loss. To be honest, the little Taoist's unexpected reaction really caught him off guard.

"Playing two roles all by yourself, that must have been really tough on you," Qingyun said, clapping his hands and shaking his head with a smile.

"How did you find out?" The girl's originally gentle expression immediately turned cold.

Qingyun shook his head speechlessly and said, "Your demonic aura has already given you away, harming quite a few people, hasn't it? Today, I'll just... I'll just..."

As he spoke, the woman grinned and emerged from the bushes, causing vegetation to fly everywhere and revealing the grotesque, thick, red snake body beneath the beautiful woman's head.

The burly man's body quickly shrunk, and his clothes fell to the ground, revealing a snake's tail.

"You..." Looking at the enormous snake body, which was more than ten feet tall and one foot thick, standing in front of him, Qingyun's eyes trembled, and he had an urge to immediately activate a teleportation talisman to escape.

The visual impact was truly stunning.

For over a hundred years since being enlightened by Master Yuding, he had stayed on Jade Spring Mountain. Although he had seen many important figures, he had never seen such a ferocious and enormous monster.

Rumble…

"You little brat, so what if you see through me? You're going to die today anyway." A cruel smile appeared on the beautiful face of the snake woman. She stretched out her serpentine body, moving like lightning. The earth trembled as her massive body rolled across it.

Qingyun swiftly leaped into the air and appeared on a tree in the distance. The giant snake, having missed its target, became enraged and lashed out at Qingyun with a gust of wind generated by its tail.

Qingyun leaped back into the distance, and the tree he had been standing on snapped in two with a crack. The giant snake angrily swooped down again, but Qingyun easily dodged it once more. "You little brat, if you've got the guts, don't run away."

"If I'm so capable, why don't I run? Wait, if I'm so capable, why should I run? It seems this snake isn't as terrifying as it looks."

Gradually, Qingyun realized the problem. Looking at the enraged snake behind him, he twitched his lips and said, "Didn't I come here to exorcise demons? So why am I running away?"

With this thought in mind, he suddenly turned around, made a sword incantation with his right hand, and a sword light flashed, transforming into a spiritual sword in his hand. Staring at the pursuing giant snake, a powerful sword aura rose up around him.

"You... how could you be at the Void Returning Realm?"

This was the first time Qingyun had released his magic power. As soon as the beautiful snake sensed the aura on Qingyun's body, it shrieked, "You dare to play dumb with me?"

Her voice and eyes were filled with disbelief and deep anger.

Below the Immortal Path lies the Qi Refining Realm. The Returning to the Void Realm is undoubtedly the pinnacle of the Qi Refining Realm, enough to become an elder in any sect that cultivates immortality and Qi.

Among the demon race, a demon without extraordinary encounters might only reach this level after a thousand years of cultivation. Yet today, this seemingly harmless little Taoist priest, who appears to be only twelve or thirteen years old with rosy lips and white teeth, is actually such a being.

Its anger stemmed from the fact that it had accepted provoking such a powerful expert, but was it going too far by pretending to be weak? Was it disrespectful to it?
It twisted its body frantically, trying to stop and retreat, while the young Taoist priest stood in front of it.

Click!

Qingyun stared at it, gripped the sword, made a hand seal with his left hand, and faint lightning flashed. Then, it appeared on the sword, and he raised his hand and slashed out with the sword.

The next moment, the world seemed to stand still.

Only a single sword light sliced ​​through the giant serpent from head to tail...

With a loud crash, a large snake fell to the ground, its body charred in places as if it had been struck by lightning and was still smoking.

"You...are so...strong, how...did you find this place?"

The ground was charred black, a large snake was smoking as if it had been struck by lightning, and a red line of blood extended from the center of the brow to the entire body of the beautiful woman's face.

She stared at Qingyun, and said with great reluctance and difficulty.

"powerful?"

Qingyun glanced at her while holding his spirit sword and said indifferently, "I am the weakest one in our area."

As for finding your way here, you're just unlucky.

“You…” The beautiful snake looked at Qingyun, the little Taoist was still the same little Taoist.

But at this moment, she clearly sensed that the young Taoist priest seemed different, possessing an indescribable charm.

As for what the young Taoist said, even a powerhouse like the Returning to Emptiness Realm is the weakest, then how strong must the strongest be?
She was somewhat angered by those words, but even more shocked.

She desperately hoped that this was a lie, but unfortunately, Qingyun's expression was very serious, as if he were saying something that was perfectly natural.

The next moment, its pupils went empty, and a sharp sword light pierced through its body, causing the beautiful snake to slowly slide open from head to tail and split into two halves.

The cut is smooth and even, as if it were cut by the sharpest blade in the world.

"I have attained enlightenment!"

Qingyun looked at his hands and the sword in them, closed his eyes and spoke slowly, his expression calm, exuding an indescribable sense of transcendence and nonchalance.

But he quickly opened his eyes again, looking depressed. He shook his head and said, "But I'm still the weakest."

"Real person, real person!"

Zhou Yishan pushed aside the weeds to find her, and when he saw the scene before him and the beautiful snake on the ground, his face turned pale, and his legs trembled as he came to Qingyun's side: "Master, this monster was... was killed by you?"

Qingyun nodded slowly, then picked up his sword and prepared to drift away.

Watching this scene, Zhou Yishan felt a sense of loss, as if he was about to lose something very important.

He gritted his teeth, knelt down, and said, "This disciple has admired the Dao of Immortality since childhood. I sincerely wish to become your disciple to protect the righteous path of humanity. I beg you, True Immortal, to accept me as your apprentice..."

He kept kowtowing as he spoke.

Qingyun glanced at him, thought for a moment, then took out a roll of cloth from his robes and said with a smile, "This is the only book I have with me. I'll leave it to someone who is destined to read it!"

With that, he drifted away.

"Where did the real person go?!"

Zhou Yishan caught the cloth book and said urgently.

Qingyun stopped in his tracks and said with a calm smile, "Naturally, I'm going to where this humble Taoist should go."

"Master, will we ever meet again?"

"Those destined to meet will find each other even from a thousand miles away!"

Zhou Yishan stared blankly at the cloth book, then his face fell as he opened it. It was covered with incomprehensible little patterns resembling dragons and phoenixes.

"Sir, I don't understand this. Could you please suggest one that I can understand?"

Zhou Yishan looked up and saw that there was no trace of Qingyun in front of him.

At this moment, in the sky, Qingyun rode a beam of light, his expression full of satisfaction: "Judging from that kid's spiritual roots, comprehending that heavenly book shouldn't be a problem..."

……

Yuquan Mountain.

Yu Ding looked at the imperial edict with a puzzled expression, then turned to Long Ji who had entered and asked, "The Golden Mother has summoned me? What does she want with me?"

His clone was stationed in the Heavenly Court, but he hadn't heard a single word about the Queen Mother of the West looking for him.

It must be related to the Heavenly Emperor's disappearance... Yu Ding's eyes flashed as he said, "Disciple, when you go out, just say it's unfortunate, um, your master is currently in seclusion cultivating and cannot get away to come..."

"Really? What a coincidence!"

Just as Longji was about to agree, a distinguished figure in golden robes stepped in and sneered.

Yu Ding: “=()”

Longji: (_)
P.S.: My computer had some problems, so I wrote this chapter on my phone. It felt really awkward. I'll fix it as soon as I find any issues.

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