Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 285 Water Temple

"Fellow Taoist, you..."

Chu Tai put down his raised hand and looked at Taoist Yu Le, seeming to be hesitant to speak.

Taoist Yu Le did not respond, but raised his hand and opened the waterway leading to the Water Master's Temple.

After a while, seeing that Chu Tai and the other two had not left, the Taoist said quietly: "I will not accompany you two on the rest of the journey, you can go on your own. By the way, when you see the Sect Master, please say hello to him for me."

Chu Tai looked at the deathly look gradually emerging from the Taoist priest, sighed, bowed and walked inside.

Arno suddenly stepped forward and tried to touch him, but he quickly dodged: "Don't touch me, my body has been affected by the principles of the foreign land. Although I don't know what method this Taoist fellow used to allow you to see me without being affected by me, your current cultivation level will inevitably be eroded by the principles of the foreign land once you come into contact with me. If that happens, it will be troublesome for you to inherit the Taoist tradition."

"But I think you seem very sad. I think if I leave now, something bad will happen to you."

Arnold looked at the Taoist priest with a worried look.

Taoist Yu Le was stunned when he heard this. He stared at Arnold for a while, then turned to look at Chu Tai: "What method did you use to allow this child to slightly sense my emotions?"

Chu Tai thought for a while, then slowly said, "It's not what I did, but what the founder of Youkan Sect did. Ever since he picked up the spiritual root, the child's spirituality has been interacting with this blessed land. Although I can't see how you suppress the principles of the Great Heavenly Dao, judging from your performance, you should be using the power of the blessed land to suppress it to a certain extent."

"Since this child's spirit has some interaction with the blessed land, he can naturally sense some of your emotions."

At this point, Chu Tai paused and asked, "Fellow Daoist, have you really decided?"

After hearing this, Taoist Yu Le fell silent again.

"One of the old sect's rules is that fellow disciples cannot kill each other. Although the two of them are not disciples of the sect in this life, I still broke the rules by taking action, so I must be punished."

As he spoke, Taoist Yu Le clasped his hands together and drew clean water to dissolve the bodies of the Youkan Sect disciples who were retrieved by the Wutai and Emei sects, while he himself gradually became ethereal.

Seeing this, Arnold asked anxiously, "But aren't you doing this for the sect?"

“But this precedent cannot be set.”

Taoist Yu Le, whose dragon tail faded, looked at Arnold and said softly, "If everyone uses the sect as an excuse, then who can guarantee that others will not use it to enrich themselves and harm their fellow disciples in the future? A one-size-fits-all approach is rigid, but it is also a very effective way to deal with things."

Chu Tai looked at Arnold who was looking at him with a pleading face, sighed, raised his hand and dropped a point of spiritual light, which fell on Taoist Yu Le. It suddenly dispersed and turned into a rolling blue cloud, with black and white energy intertwined in it, forming a series of locks like the heart, suppressing the process of its self-destruction.

Seeing Taoist Yu Le's look, Chu Tai explained: "Fellow Daoist Yu Le, please wait for a moment. In addition to our own convictions, I think the headmaster is also qualified to make a judgment on how to punish. Now, Youkan Sect is in a very dangerous stage and needs the protection of the seniors. How about your punishment after Arnold enters the Water Division Spirit Hall?"

Arnold nodded hurriedly. Taoist Yu Le sighed and whispered, "Just because of this, I'm afraid your evaluation from the Sect Master will be discounted. The current Sect Master believes that the sect has reached the point where it needs to be dealt with severely. He may not like your indecision."

"But if I follow his ideas completely, can I really guarantee the continuation of the sect's inheritance?"

Arnold stared at Taoist Yu Le and asked. He turned his head to look at the waterway leading to the Spiritual Hall and whispered, "I can't be sure whether I can succeed in the future, so I might as well follow my own ideas."

Hearing this, Taoist Yu Le was stunned for a moment, the water light around him vibrated, and a burst of laughter came: "Interesting, really interesting, you are a beginner in the immortal sect, and you have the courage to say such words, you are really ignorant and fearless..."

Along with the laughter, a terrible pressure descended from the sky. Chu Tai opened the Miro umbrella and felt a giant dragon falling into it, pressing his arm down, and then he couldn't help but take three steps back. Arnold, who was facing the impact, was covered with a thin layer of water on his beads and heart-protecting mirror. The peach wood branch in his hand was also dim, and his cheeks were pale, cold sweat was pouring out, and his body was trembling.

Chu Tai looked at Taoist Yu Le beside him, only to see her bow slightly towards the direction of the Spirit Hall: "Greetings, Master."

"Humph!"

With a cold snort, Taoist Yu Le took two steps back. All the chains on his body broke, and dozens of wounds appeared on his body. Spots of light scattered out, and his cultivation level continued to decline.

Seeing this, Arnold tried hard to say something, but as soon as the gaze fell on him, he felt like being hit by a heavy object. He staggered and fell to one knee on the ground.

"Golden light shines in the house, auspicious air fills the courtyard. Taiyi Daoqi circulates through the ancient and modern times... One Qi evolves, and it is dark and mysterious."

Arnold, who had only learned this magical spell, kept chanting it and tried hard to stand up.

Gradually, a faint ray of Nanyan Cave's Fuxiyao Zhenqi appeared on the surface of the beads on his body. Seeing this, Chu Tai, who was standing next to him, slightly contracted his pupils.

The next moment, a faint breath familiar to Chu Tai appeared on Arnold's body. It was the protection that Taoist Fu Guang left in the flowing beads back then, and it was also the last bit of protection.

The power of this protection is not strong, and the protection is negligible, but its essence is not low, and it contains a trace of the luck of the Taiyi Jinhua Sect that the Taoist Fuguang had in the past.

Small quantity but high quality, and extremely hidden, this is a problem that Chu Tai has not discovered for many years.

At the same time, because the Liuzhu had been washed many times by Chu Tai, it was filled with a large amount of Chu Tai's aura, making it impossible for outsiders to distinguish it from the protector.

Ultimately, when Arnold chanted the "Taiyi Jinguan Mantra", the protector mistook the wrong person for one and gave Arnold shelter.

The corners of Chu Tai's mouth curled up slightly, and tears appeared in his eyes. He looked at the tears above, then looked at Arnold, watching him stand up little by little and start to defend Taoist Yu Le.

He knew his beneficiary and was also aware that what Taoist Yu Le did was wrong, but he stated on the spot that if he inherited the legacy, then he would have the right to interfere in Taoist Yu Le's punishment.

"With your personality... Never mind, I can't say I like you. But it's suitable, right? Now come up here."

When the leader of the Youkan Sect appeared under the protection of Taoist Fuguang, the aura of the leader changed. After sighing, he rolled up the water vapor around him and took Chu Tai and the other two into the Water Master's Spirit Hall.

Different from the previous Ling Palace, Beique and Shuifu, the architectural division is more like the residence of immortals.

The division of the Water Master's Temple is somewhat similar to a crystal palace that is more suitable for dragons to survive. Crystal clear crystals and huge pillars can be seen everywhere. In the central pool, there is a huge translucent dragon.

At a position similar to the dragon's forehead, there stood a young man with a painting made of light gauze flying behind him, wearing a Taoist robe with dragon patterns and a lotus crown on his head.

He has a tall and straight figure, a handsome face like jade, and a pair of bright and crystal eyes, one emitting watery light like clear water in spring, and the other emitting a faint light like a dark pool in the middle of the night.

He has a pair of small dragon horns on his forehead and two long, slender black whiskers on the sides of his lips, which float back and forth like carp whiskers, and as they sway, they bring up bursts of colorful clouds. It seems a little inconsistent with his image, but it gives people an inexplicable sense of majesty.

(End of this chapter)