Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 246 Hundred Years Ago

The black-robed Taoist priest released a magic weapon, a flying sword, the sword light was red with a hint of black air.

The other was a small net covered with gravel that danced in the chilly wind.

As soon as the two came into contact with Ruan Hantai's magical powers, they immediately emitted evil spirits, trying to defile his magic power.

Ruan Hantai noticed this and laughed out of anger: "Back then, I spent sixty years of hard work to refine the Red Cloud Coral Sword and the Soul Returning Black Wind Net, but you guys have made them so filthy. Should I say that you are worthy of being the disciple of that evil creature? Speaking of which, where is that evil creature?"

Hearing Ruan Hantai's question, the Taoist in black robe was a little afraid, but in the next second he seemed to think of something, and raised a small banner, which shook up and down, and dropped black air, which turned into billowing black smoke before it hit the ground, like a coiled dragon, and a murderous ghost shadow walked out of it.

Ruan Hantai laughed loudly when he saw this scene: "He was actually harmed by you? Well, well, it really is karma, retribution! This evil disciple betrayed me, and he was betrayed by you. With such a sect, I can destroy it with confidence!"

Ruan Hantai raised his hand, and thousands of sword lights mixed with Yin Fire flames rose up.

Chu Tai, who was watching from afar, was enlightened when he saw this. He had not expected that this fellow Daoist Ruan actually had the skill of Golden Sword and Fiery Flame.

As far as this magical power is concerned, gold and fire complement each other, and fire tempers the gold. His method can be regarded as unique among the casual cultivators.

However, Chu Tai could also see that Ruan Hantai's magical power was just a magical power, and there was no matching method of cultivation. He just used his own magic power to forcibly activate his magical power. Therefore, the golden sword that was derived from it would have the energy of a strong sword, and the raging flames were mainly Yin Fire.

This is essentially because Ruan Hantai does not have the corresponding golden and fire true qi and is unable to perfectly display this magical power.

However, the weakening of Ruan Hantai's magical power did not mean that the Taoist in black robe could stop him. The sharpness of the Red Cloud Coral Sword was blunted by the sword light, and the Return to Soul Black Wind Net was burned a hole by the flames. As for the small banner that drove the ghost immortal's body, it had no resistance at all and was easily suppressed by Ruan Hantai.

After taking a look at the magic prohibition on the small banner, Ruan Hantai sneered: "Even the "Taiyin Sanyuan Fu Magic Scroll" has not been passed down completely? No, it should be specially modified to this, which is really ridiculous..."

As he spoke, he suddenly appeared behind the Taoist in black robe, put his hand on his spine and tapped it lightly.

The Taoist's magic power suddenly reversed, blood gushed out of his mouth and nose, and he said with difficulty: "How... is it possible..."

"I was the one who passed down the Taiyin Sanyuan Fumo Lu. I summarized the method you used to practice it. You can't even master it. You just follow the version modified by others and just devour the dead air, corpse air, yin air, and foul air. No matter how much magic power you accumulate, if you don't know the true meaning of the law, what can you use to fight me?"

After hearing Ruan Hantai's words, the Taoist in black robe wanted to struggle to say something, but his spine was broken and the head of Liuyang was removed.

Then he looked down at the dojo, sensing the aura from afar, and couldn't help but smile bitterly. He looked around and bowed, saying, "Fellow Daoist, please show up."

Upon hearing this, Chu Tai did not show up, but stood in the void and communicated with the other party by voice transmission: "Why do you and I need to meet again? If you are willing, you might as well fulfill your previous promise and pass on the Dharma to me so that I can also have a place to inherit it."

"The place of inheritance?"

Upon hearing this, Ruan Hantai looked up into the air. He felt something was wrong when he rushed out and saw the Taoist priest in black robe.

At this moment, after Chu Tai revealed the secret, he immediately felt that his doom was approaching, and gradually deduced the past of this Taoist temple, and couldn't help feeling a little lost.

In fact, he had concealed something from what he had said to Chu Tai before. Before he transformed his corpse, he had passed down some cultivation methods and established a lineage. His original intention was to hope that future generations would be able to protect the place where he transformed his corpse.

But he didn't expect that the disciple he accepted was so evil and harbored evil intentions.

The physique of that evil disciple could only be described as second-rate. He practiced the unconventional method passed down by Ruan Hantai and made slow progress. After achieving perfection at the seventh level, he could no longer make any progress.

One hundred years after Ruan Hantai's corpse was released, he gradually aged and began to have evil thoughts, thinking of betraying his master for fame. At this time, the Yinshan Earth Master, who originally occupied a place for cultivation, also gave up his original way and began to expand outward.

That evil disciple then sold the place where Ruan Hantai's corpse was transformed to the Yinshan lineage in exchange for cultivation resources, and he barely achieved the body of a ghost immortal.

But the benefits of Yinshan are not so easy to obtain. The materials that assist in the breakthrough are related to Yinshan. If you use these materials to become a ghost immortal, you will naturally be affected by the opponent's power.

Then, Yinshan only needs to choose one person from the disciples of that evil disciple, teach him the method of restraint and some evil arts, and then destroy most of this method, allowing him to go further and further in the research of evil arts, gradually falling into the evil way from the side door, and providing certain help for the subsequent expansion of the underworld by Yinshan Dizun.

Ruan Hantai, who figured this out, had a hint of anger in his eyes: "Yinshan Dizun is also a senior of our Ghost Immortal Dao, why would he do such a wicked thing? His foundation can be considered as the orthodox Xuanmen!"

"He may not have done this intentionally, but he just tacitly allowed his disciples to do this."

Chu Tai's voice was heard again. When he knew Ruan Hantai's name, he had basically figured out the whole story. That's why when he destroyed his physical body, he deliberately led him into that Taoist temple.

Ruan Hantai was unable to understand the meaning of Chu Tai's words, or rather, he was unwilling to believe them, and asked almost mechanically, "What do you mean?"

"Although I don't know why Yinshan Dizun wants to expand the Netherworld Spirit Realm in his hands, this process will inevitably require the erosion of the earth veins. And the method he practices is special, with Yin and death intertwined, which directly affects the earth veins and easily causes the earth to reject it. But if at this time one of the earth veins is polluted by evil ways, what do you think if Dizun uses the spirit realm to carry it?"

"It may not be easy for him to do it himself, but as the lord of a land, he must be aware of the changes in this land vein."

Ruan Hantai's face turned pale. Chu Tai continued, "Take a step back. Even if he didn't know it originally, he should have known it when the land veins were eroding. Since he knew it, he still steadily pushed forward the changes in front of him. It can only be said that he acquiesced to everything."

Hearing Chu Tai's words, Ruan Hantai immediately refuted: "Impossible, the Earth Lord is..."

Before Ruan Hantai could finish his words, Chu Tai interrupted him and said, "That's not what you said when you asked me to save you. You could have sensed a long time ago that there was something wrong with Yinshan Dizun's aura. His foundation has changed."

"He may have had some Xuan Men foundation in the past, but he must have gone astray now. Although he may not have reached the level of heresy, he has definitely gone astray."

When Chu Tai said this, he stared at Ruan Hantai closely. In fact, what he said was half guesswork and half an attempt to deceive Ruan Hantai and get more information from him.

After all, the performance of the Yinshan Earth Lord was somewhat inconsistent with the information he obtained from the earth veins.

Ruan Hantai fell silent after hearing Chu Tai's words.

As a cultivator whose body was eroded by the power of Yinshan Mountain, he was very clear about the other party's power attributes.

Ruan Hantai whispered, "I originally thought that the change a hundred years ago was just an accident. Now I think that the protection a hundred years ago was the beginning of the change. In other words, it was precisely to protect us that the Earth Lord underwent such a big change..."

"A hundred years ago?"

Chu Tai heard a piece of news that concerned him, and asked, "A hundred years ago? When exactly?"

Although Ruan Hantai was curious about Chu Tai's surprise, he still told him everything he knew. Chu Tai deduced that it could be connected to the incident involving Taiyi Zhenjun.

This discovery brought new changes to the Yinshan issue in Chu Tai's mind. Some things that were originally clear were once again covered with a thin layer of fog.

"Could it be that this Yinshan Earth Venerable swallowed some Dao Fruit fragments and failed to digest them, causing himself to be affected..."

(End of this chapter)