Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 187 Meeting Sanren

"Dongtian..."

Chu Tai closed his eyes and reaffirmed the purpose of his trip to Central Plains.

'There are three goals. The first is to avoid being tracked by Haha Patriarch. The second is to perfect the legal theory and try to break through the fifth level to lay the foundation for future exploration of the cave. The third is to increase the power of the magic weapon in hand as much as possible to increase the chips for subsequent entry into the cave.'

Chu Tai silently pondered his current state.

'Now, the first item has been basically completed. According to the situation in the Central Plains, it is unlikely that the inheritor of the witch art, Haha, will come here to make trouble. Even if he does, it will definitely be more troublesome, giving me more opportunities to struggle and more room to move.'

'For the second item, there is no very suitable direction to move forward, but you can steadily improve the [Mountain and River] Dharma in your hand and further master the [Flying Immortal] Dharma. If it really doesn't work, you can only choose to use [Flying Immortal] as the core, embrace the Nanyan Cave Fuxiyao Zhenqi, and try to break through the fifth level.'

"Thirdly, ..."

A glimmer of light appeared in Chu Tai's eyes and he looked around.

"Given the prosperity of the Central Plains, it shouldn't be difficult."

Thinking of this, Chu Tai followed the magic of the surrounding mountains and rivers and looked at a pond from afar.

Just as the mechanical arts flourished in the Central Plains, the spread and coverage of the way of cultivation in this land was also far higher than that in the State of Chu.

Not to mention far away, after getting close to some big cities in the Central Plains, Chu Tai saw many family cultivators who had attained the status of ghost immortals and were seeking to become gods.

Most of these family cultivators had shallow cultivation during their lifetime. Before death, they forced their Yin spirits to leave their bodies, and used the family's incense and vows to stabilize themselves and slowly hone their own magic power.

Those who are luckier among them, who are canned by the dynasty or recognized by local authorities, can also gather some of the human energy in an area, enter the system of gods and become the guardians of an area.

Of course, in Chu Tai's view, the existence of such guardians and land gods is essentially a cut-off of the dynasty from the immortal way.

It is a method that allows practitioners to use the merits of lower-level ghost immortals to forcibly achieve the merits of middle-level gods.

During this period, not only does the energy expended by practitioners far outweigh the gains, but they can also restrict these ghost immortals to a great extent. By controlling them, they can influence their families and stabilize the peace in one area.

For Chu Tai, this kind of ghost immortal is also a very good trading partner.

He walked towards the pool step by step, and his figure gradually disappeared from the eyes of ordinary people, but many strange phenomena gradually emerged around him.

There is a round halo behind the head, auspicious clouds on the top of the head, three flowers in full bloom, five kinds of energy steaming, and pearls hanging from the necklace, which is extremely luxurious.

In the pool, the local ghost immortals also stood up to greet them immediately.

Compared with the others Chu Tai had met before, this ghost fairy had a much purer aura, and was vaguely connected to the water veins in this area. He had a strong water spirit aura, and he must have practiced water magic during his lifetime.

He led Chu Tai into his dojo, served him tea, and then asked Chu Tai the purpose of his visit.

Chu Tai avoided the main point and first said that his own practice had reached a bottleneck. He was traveling around, gathering the Dharma of [Mountains and Rivers], hoping to practice here for a period of time and gather the Dao rhythm of the water veins of this place.

After hearing this, the ghost fairy thought for a while and said, "The land and water of a place are originally given by heaven and earth to all things. As long as you don't affect the local creatures, you can naturally comprehend it at will. But I heard that you have traveled to many places. It is really inefficient to collect them one by one."

Chu Tai had heard similar remarks before, and he immediately knew what the other party was thinking. He followed up with the other party's question, "What do you mean, fellow Daoist?"

After coughing twice, the ghost fairy said a little embarrassedly: "To be honest with you, the method I practice is called "Nine Creeks and Twelve Water Veins Atlas", which is not a superior method. It is very difficult for me to condense the Yin Spirit. I am practicing now, and it is only by relying on my good reputation in my lifetime and the help of my clan members that I got a small position to guard this place."

"There is a lack of incense on weekdays, and there is no specific content in the job, so I wander in the water day and night, and I have also gathered the true meaning of the water veins. Daoist friends, according to this true meaning, should be able to master the law of the water veins here more quickly."

"Then what do I have to pay?"

Chu Tai asked bluntly, and without waiting for the other party to answer, he directly stated the methods he had in his hands, as well as the methods of refining some magic weapons.

Most of these things were exchanged and continuously optimized by Chu Tai along the way. They were not something that this ghost fairy had access to in the past. He was excited every time he heard one of them.

Chu Tai was also accustomed to similar looks, so after introducing them one by one, he casually asked the ghost immortal if he had any rare treasures, or if there were any places nearby worth trading.

In this regard, the ghost immortal knew everything and told us everything he knew.

In the end, Chu Tai successfully exchanged the local water vein rhyme and a large bottle of Ren and Gui water elite from the other party, and also learned about several well-known markets nearby.

Chu Tai had heard of similar markets from several ghost immortals before. Most of them were just small gatherings set up by some successful immortals at a fixed time and place every month.

Chu Tai didn't pay much attention to this, and he set off for the next town gathering place.

Along the way, Chu Tai's successive visits and his increasingly powerful [Mountain and River] Dharma spirit made his reputation spread.

This also meant that when he arrived at a new place, he didn't need to look for it specifically, as the local ghost immortals would come to him to exchange materials and skills, and soon Chu Tai accumulated a lot of Five Elements elites.

Chu Tai divided this material into two parts. One part was used to refine the Five Dragons Demon-Slaying Wheel, to strengthen its foundation and enhance its power.

The other part was used by Chu Tai to refine the Heart-Turning Lock, slightly strengthening the aura of this magic weapon.

In addition, Chu Tai will also gather the most of the Ren and Gui water elites and integrate them into the Seven Yin Huasha Banner to enhance its mystery and make the Seven Yin Xuansha light within it even clearer, giving a vague feeling of an illusory long river.

The number is second only to that of Ren and Gui water, but equally large numbers of Wu and Ji earth elites were also smelted by Chu Tai and turned into a jade talisman that he wore on his body, blessing the power of [Mountains and Rivers] as his own symbol.

This resulted in many times when Chu Tai walked into a place, the local cultivators did not recognize him at all, but when they saw the jade pendant on his waist, they immediately knew that he was a wandering cultivator who gathered the Dharma of [Mountains and Rivers].

Over time, some monks who also practiced the methods of mountain and water veins came to visit.

On this day, Chu Tai had just finished gathering the Dao rhyme of the earth and gathered a set of Five Elements Elite. He was polishing the magic weapon in his hand when he suddenly felt a familiar breath.

He smiled at the visitor and said, "I didn't expect to meet Daoist Fellow Mo Zhi here. It's been a long time since we last met." "So it's Daoist Fellow Taining again. I told Mu Jing at the beginning that Daoist Fellow Taining had a connection with the Earth Kun Yuan Law. He didn't believe it and said that your cultivation method was the Heavenly Immortal Law and it was impossible for you to practice the Way of the Earth. Now it seems that I was right."

Mo Zhi, dressed as a woman, rode a black smoke beast. The beast had a single horn and could emit black smoke. When it ran, it was like black smoke rising into the sky, like flying clouds and lightning. It was very suitable for a cultivator like Mo Zhi who was not good at flying.

Chu Tai bowed and said, "I have reached a bottleneck in my cultivation now, so I want to condense the Dharma of [Mountain and River], touch other things, and explore my own future. I am sorry to make you laugh."

"Are you embarrassed? I am too envious to even think of it. I have been practicing the Xuan Huang Kun Yuan Yi Qi Sutra for many years, and the Kun Yuan Xuan Huang Qi I have condensed has been polished to an extremely pure level, but the threshold to the fifth rank has never been opened. Isn't the problem that my own grasp of the law is not enough to support the fifth rank?"

Mo Zhi looked at Chu Tai and said with envy: "You are so lucky. You have already achieved a small level of [Mountain and River] Dharma, which is more than enough to support the fifth level. If you go one step further, you can even support the fourth level. You are so disgusted with such a good Dharma."

Chu Tai heard this and asked with a smile: "If you master the meaning of [Mountain and River], are you willing to break through?"

Hearing this, Mo Zhi sighed and said to Chu Tai: "Probably he is unwilling to do so. After all, the Dharma of [Mountain and River] is not the Dharma that best fits my method of cultivation. If I break through with this method, my foundation will inevitably be impure. I will have to spend much time polishing it in the future."

"It is the same with me. My cultivation method tends to be pure, spiritual, yang, pure, brilliant, and clean. It cannot be said that it has no connection with the Dharma of [Mountain and River]. It can only be said that any connection is very far-fetched. If it is used as a foundation, even if the Dharma and the true Qi are running independently, the foundation formed cannot even be called second-rate."

At this point, Chu Tai spread his hands and said, "If I were the kind of person whose life span was about to end and whose future was hopeless, I might just force myself to use the [Mountain and River] Dharma to achieve my own status. But obviously, I don't have to worry about my life span for the time being, so naturally I don't need to force myself to achieve such a result."

"By the way, Fellow Daoist Mo Zhi, why are you here?"

"It's all because of that idiot Zhengyang!"

Hearing Chu Tai's question, Mo Zhi couldn't help but start complaining about his fellow practitioners.

"That guy loves to make magic weapons and often travels around. On the one hand, he collects materials, and on the other hand, he wants to learn from others how to make magic weapons and improve his own cultivation methods."

"Normally, it would be fine if he wandered around everywhere, but some time ago, I don't know what went wrong with his six senses. He actually did this in the Central Plains. Now I don't know who he has offended, and he has sent out a call for help to us."

Hearing this, Chu Tai was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "In that case, is it really okay for you to chat with me here?"

"It's okay. Zhengyang has experienced similar things at least eighty times. I have received more than thirty messages for help. I have already figured out his character. As long as Baozhu is not..."

Mo Ji took out the Wu Ji gem from the Five Elements Yuanzhu from his arms, looked at the rapidly flashing light on it, and fell into a brief silence.

Chu Tai couldn't help but remind him, and Mo Zhi hurriedly said, "Flashing frequency like this means that the guy is really in big trouble. Fellow Daoist Taining, I won't chat with you for the time being. I'm going to find that guy first."

After saying that, Mo Zhi slapped the black smoke beast he was sitting on, and relying on the guidance of the orb, flew in one direction.

Chu Tai hurriedly caught up, with flames flying on his body, and his speed was no less than that of the strange beast under Mo Ji.

In a moment, the two flew hundreds of miles away, and the light of the Wu Ji Pearl became brighter and brighter. Chu Tai also sensed from afar that there was fire rising on the other side and the vitality was surging.

As he moved forward, Chu Tai saw Taoist Zhengyang standing in mid-air.

Holding the Yan Emperor's Yaoqiong Flag in one hand, he waved it gently, and clouds of fire surrounded his body.

In one hand he holds the Sanyang Mingxin Lantern, and the layers of light overlap to form a protective light.

The nine-story golden pagoda on the top was spinning rapidly, dropping rays of brilliant golden light.

Outside the triple defense, there were thousands of green flying lights, dancing up and down with chills, surrounding Taoist Zhengyang. Looking carefully, the green lights all over the sky were actually slender bamboo swords.

Chu Tai looked at the color of the sword light and the other party's technique of moving the sword light. His mind immediately recalled the other party's origins and he whispered, "Zhushan Sect?"

Mo Ruo, who was standing next to him, was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then he reacted.

Among the side sects, the Zhushan Sect is considered a relatively large sect. Similar to the Meishan Sect, Maoshan Taoism, Pu'an Sect, and Lushan Sect, they are all spiritual practices that spread outward from a certain lineage.

The most distinctive feature of the Zhushan Sect is their bamboo refining method. Simply put, it specializes in using bamboo to practice magic and make magical instruments.

For example, the bamboo swords that are now besieging Taoist Zhengyang are a typical example. They are of extremely poor quality and extremely large in number.

According to the materials used and the sacrificial techniques, bamboo can be divided into green bamboo, spiritual bamboo, jade bamboo, cold bamboo, purple bamboo, yin bamboo, green bamboo and so on.

Judging from the coldness of the sword light surrounding Taoist Zhengyang, it should be the Yin Bamboo Sword or the Han Bamboo Sword.

Mo Zhi, who also saw the reason, was a little curious: "It's strange. Although the Yinzhu Sword and the Hanzhu Sword can be called middle-level flying swords in the Zhushan Sect, in the outside world, they are only low-level flying swords. They should not pose a threat to Zhengyang. What is this guy doing!"

Complaining a few words, Mo Zhi's men did not slow down and took out the Zhu Yue True Form Seal and threw it out.

The small seal, which was only half the size of a palm, immediately turned into a golden light and shot directly into the green light. It spun around and expanded into a small mountain and pressed down suddenly.

The phantoms of many mountains appeared one by one, suppressing the movement of the surrounding vital energy. The flying sword lights and cold air were temporarily stagnant.

Chu Tai felt the changes in the energy around him and said hurriedly: "Be careful!"

Mo Zhi was startled, and then she felt a bone-chilling chill coming from behind, as if to freeze her blood. She was startled, and a yellow light appeared in her hand. The Yellow Emperor's Mountain-Suppressing Flag flew out, and with a slight shake, yellow clouds rose up, holding up a stone sword with a white glow. She said in a cold voice: "Despicable villain, come out!"

With his eyes glaring around, he swung the Yellow Emperor's Mountain-Suppressing Flag in his hand downwards suddenly. Yellow clouds spread outwards, bringing with them waves that shook the void.

A wisp of light yellow smoke flew out uncontrollably from the void. After it dissipated, an illusory human figure emerged first.

Then the figure gradually became real, including the head, hands, and torso. However, when the figure appeared, he was still fleeing into the distance. When he jumped out of the influence of the Yellow Emperor's Zhenyue Flag, the lower half of his body was still in an uncertain state.

"Flying Smoke Escape Technique?"

Chu Tai whispered the name of the opponent's escape technique, hooked his fingers lightly, and the Liuhe Circle appeared above the opponent's head.

(End of this chapter)