Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 868 White Crane vs. Green Boy

Pansiling is located in Xiniuhezhou. There are many caves and poisonous insects between the mountains. Few people come here, so it is quite quiet.

Until a hundred years ago, a family named Zhu came to the mountain and opened a cloth shop, which attracted many families.

Over time, more and more people settled here, and a village was established here, which was named Lanxi Village.

Chu Tai and the other two came riding on the clouds. Looking down, they saw villages surrounded by clouds and mist, built against the mountain. Blue bricks and gray tiles were scattered among the mountains and forests. The stone steps were winding and the edges were covered with moss, which looked quite quiet and peaceful.

Chang Xuan took a step forward and looked carefully. He saw many insects and monsters such as honey bees, ants, grasshoppers, dragonflies, etc. in the mountains, and there was Buddha's light and fairy air surrounding them above.

He turned around and reported to Chu Tai: "Your Majesty, the aura in the mountain is strange, mainly spirits and monsters, but there are also traces of immortals and Buddhas. Faintly, there seem to be a few relatives of Xie Ling."

"My family?"

Xie Ling stepped forward to take a look and said in surprise, "He is indeed my relative. He looks quite skilled, three times more powerful than I was before I met Your Excellency. But this guy's aura seems to be there and not there, as if he is not here, yet connected to this place. It's really strange."

Hearing this, Fu Ying also stepped forward and looked left and right. Suddenly, a ray of bright light appeared in the mountain village. She was so scared that she hurriedly raised the Linglong Pagoda to protect herself.

Chu Tai looked down and saw an old woman in purple holding a precious mirror. At this moment, she was bowing upwards again and again with a pale face.

Several women wearing red, orange, yellow and green brocade hurried forward to support him.

The old woman pushed him away, knelt down and kowtowed, saying: "I was ignorant and had no vision. I didn't know that it was the Bodhisattva from the upper realm who came. Please forgive me, forgive me!"

Seeing this, the woman in green next to them seemed to want to say something, but was stopped by the woman in red who was leading the group.

Chang Xuan noticed Chu Tai's gaze, looked down, and was stunned for a moment.

"Interesting, they are actually a family of spider spirits, and the old spider leading them has a strange aura, like an immortal but not an immortal, like a god but not a god, like a demon but not a demon. I have practiced for many years and have never seen such a strange existence."

Upon hearing this, Xie Ling also took a closer look and nodded, "Indeed, this guy's aura does seem to be somewhat similar to those fallen immortals who devoured flesh and blood that we have seen in the past, but his evil aura is even stronger. In comparison, her children have much more normal auras, and are pure demons."

Curious, Fu Ying poked his head out again and looked, frowning and said, "That's not right. I think there seems to be a faint fairy air behind the house. No, it seems to have some Buddha light. It's very strange."

During the conversation, the three of them looked back at Chu Tai and bowed to ask the reason.

Chu Tai pointed to the layout of Pansiling in all directions, pointing out that although the feng shui of this place was good, talismans were buried everywhere to form a seal, restricting the monsters inside from going out. At the same time, although Pansiling looked like just a few peaks, in fact the space inside overlapped, and it should be the dojo of some immortal or Buddha.

"Immortal Buddha's Dojo?"

Among the three, Fu Ying had the highest talent in the way of the void universe. After getting Chu Tai's hint, he took a closer look and immediately realized that something was wrong.

"Indeed, there seems to be a paradise hidden beneath this mountain. Behind the mountain, there is another world... Let me take a look... Ahhhhhhhhhh..."

Fu Ying suddenly let out a shrill scream, and a lot of sticky liquid suddenly flowed out of her eye sockets. There seemed to be many things similar to insect eggs inside, which scattered in all directions before they fell to the ground, and turned into many dancing flying insects.

"what is this!"

Chang Xuan hurriedly offered up the Golden Ruyi to suppress it, but to no avail. The flying insect even devoured the Buddha's light, became slender, and developed superpowers.

Xie Ling stepped forward and raised the demon-subduing pestle. The power of discipline fell down, binding many flying insects, and then refined them with thunder and fire for a long time before destroying them. However, there were still some thin and long things like blood threads that surrounded Fu Ying and did not stop.

The only thing to be thankful for is that Fu Ying, who has regained some of his sanity, is able to lift up the Linglong Pagoda to protect his own mind and suppress the influence of external forces.

The eyeballs, which had turned a little gray due to the sticky liquid, gradually returned to normal, and the evil spirit in the body also gradually dissipated.

Fu Ying, who finally recovered, looked at Chu Tai and asked in a voice that was almost like crying, "Your Majesty, what is that?"

"A deity who was plotted against, a being used as a vessel to carry the foul air, is also a scapegoat who bears the sins of one side."

In Chu Tai's eyes, there were tens of thousands of blood-red threads falling from the back mountain of Pansiling, continuously sending down the turbid air from the nine heavens, and there were also a lot of causes and conditions pulling at them, and karma generated by the cycle of cause and effect.

This discovery made Chu Tai very unhappy. The other party's method was no longer to the extent of confusing cause and effect, calling a horse a zebra, or saying black is white, but a complete reversal of cause and effect, so that the person who originally committed the sin did not have to bear the scorn of all living beings in the dark, nor did he have to bear the karma and guilt.

Going a step further, the other party can reorganize the order and recreate cause and effect, completely disregarding the existing order and relationships.

This situation is extremely bad and is something Chu Tai cannot tolerate.

He was about to descend with the three immortals when he suddenly felt something. Looking up, he saw a white crane in a Taoist robe appearing in the air.

The white crane wore a red crown, a plain Taoist robe, and a yellow cloth embroidered with the Qiankun Bagua. In his hand, he held a whisk that condensed the pure energy of the nine heavens. When he saw Chu Tai, he smiled and said, "Qing Tong Jun, after you return, why don't you stay in the East China Sea to practice well? Why do you come to Pansiling?"

"I came to take a look at it on behalf of someone else."

As he spoke, two bodhi leaves appeared in Chu Tai's palms. The faint breath made Bai He stunned for a moment, and he sighed: "Did you see him? How is he now?"

"You are no longer in human form, how good do you think he can be? Taishang Laojun."

Chu Tai's words made Chang Xuan and the other two in the back once again have the urge to go blind and deaf, but it was obvious that they couldn't do it. They could only restrain their breath as much as possible and regard themselves as non-existent.

"Taishang Laojun? This is really an old name. I almost forgot who called me that last time."

"Is it Maitreya? Or is it Bodhi? Never mind, it's not a big deal. Qing Tongjun, you haven't answered my question yet."

Bai He looked towards Chu Tai, his eyes slightly bulging, and there seemed to be black air rising from under his white feathers. It was obvious that he was also on the verge of losing control.

Combined with the previous situation of Patriarch Bodhi, Chu Tai suspected that the other party's condition might have something to do with the name. After thinking about it, he did not continue to call the other party Taishang Laojun, but called him Baihe Taoist.

As soon as the new name came out, Bai He's breathing suddenly became much more normal, and his tone became much softer.

"Fellow Daoist Qingtong, what did Bodhi ask you to come here to see? You can tell me if you need anything, but it's better for you not to go into this place."

"why?"

Chu Tai asked back, and Bai He sighed, "You just returned. You don't know that a lot of things have happened in these years. Many rules have changed. The principles of the past are no longer applicable now."

"Many of the following things seem very common nowadays, but for you, they may be a bit exciting, so it's better not to watch them."

Chu Tai sneered when he heard this. "Interesting. We also came out of a sea of ​​blood and corpses back then. What kind of bloody scene have we not seen?"

"If I can't accept it, then logically, the spirits of the world today shouldn't be able to accept it either. There's no reason for civilization to go backwards as it grows older."

At this point, Chu Tai's tone changed, and he said in a cold voice: "If there is, then someone must have interfered, and someone has done something bad. So, Bai He, can you tell me what is going on down there?"

"Hey, why do you have to ask the truth?"

Bai He still didn't answer. Chu Tai laughed strangely twice: "Since you don't want to say, I won't ask first, but Bodhi asked me to come here to take a look. Do you want to let me or not?"

“What is the status of Bodhi?”

Bai He changed the subject again, but Chu Tai did not indulge him this time. He tapped the Ruyi in his hand and said to the three immortals beside him, "You guys go down and take a look. I'll stop this guy."

"What Bodhi needs to find, you can find it according to the guidance of this leaf."

As he spoke, a Bodhi leaf flew out from his hand, split into three and fell into the hands of Chang Xuan, Xie Ling and Fu Ying.

The three men immediately landed after receiving the order. Seeing this, Bai He shook his head and said, "Why bother doing that useless work?"

With a flick of the whisk, the yellow cloth on his body flew out, swayed in the air, and suddenly unfolded, turning into a sky curtain that fell down, and the Qiankun Bagua embroidered in the center naturally spread out.

Kan and Li have no fixed place, Qian and Kun are swirling, Zhen and Xun are alternating, Gen and Dui are spiritual, the patterns of the Eight Trigrams change back and forth, constantly circulating in Qian and Kun.

"Kan one, Kun two, Zhen three, Xun four, Zhong five, Qian six, Dui seven, Gen eight, Li nine. These are the acquired Bagua, which are already able to evolve all acquired phenomena. But you also have Qian and Kun in the middle. Qian one and Kun eight are the images of the innate Bagua. It is wonderful to use the innate to include the acquired."

While Chu Tai pointed out the subtleties of the yellow cloth, he tapped the Ruyi in his hand up and down.

The Li fire was extinguished, the Kan water stopped flowing, the Qian sky melted, the Kun earth collapsed, the Zhen thunder did not move, the Xun wind was silent, the Gen mountain collapsed, the Dui lake solidified, and the post-natal eight trigrams all collapsed.

"Qing Tongjun, you calculated wrong!"

Bai He laughed loudly, and with the flick of the whisk in his hand, the two hexagrams of Qian and Kun intersected and compatible with each other, forming a vast sky. The collapsed eight trigrams collapsed inward, turning into the interweaving of yin and yang, forming an all-encompassing golden bridge across the void, trying to suppress Chu Tai underneath it.

Whenever Chu Tai tried to break free, the golden bridge was always one step faster and one centimeter thicker than him, always leaving him just a little bit short.

Chu Tai tried several times, but was intercepted by the golden bridge. Bai He swung the whisk again, placed it on his arm, and said, "You stay in my Qiankuntu for a while. I will deal with you after I have dealt with the three little monsters."

"Can you leave?"

Chu Tai chuckled and took a step forward. The golden bridge moved and the position of the white crane also changed.

"what happened?"

Bai He's expression changed slightly, and he looked around. He didn't know when the Bagua patterns that were previously broken by Chu Tai fell to the four corners of the Qiankun diagram. After being reassembled, they matched with the four talismans of Pansiling below, forming two changes inside and outside.

Chu Tai's previous action of seemingly breaking free from the restraints of the golden bridge was actually through the changes in his position and the golden bridge, transforming himself and Bai He into the yin-yang fish eye that changed inside and out, trapping Chu Tai while also trapping Bai He inside.

Bai He wants to leave, unless he takes back the Qiankuntu or breaks the means left by Chu Tai.

"Good! Good! Good! As expected of you, he is the only immortal who achieved enlightenment under the tutelage of Taoist Fellow Yuanshi in the past, and as expected of you, the Taiyi Master who rules the netherworld. Such means really astonish me, an old Taoist!"

As he spoke, he swung his whisk, and a seven-star sword jumped out of the void and slashed at Chu Tai's six-yang head.

At the same time, a golden belt flew out from his sleeve and tied up Chu Tai.

Chu Tai accepted everyone who came and waved the Ruyi in his hand up and down, splitting it into two, one golden, blocking the Seven Star Sword, and the other jade, knocking down the golden belt.

While the two sides were fighting, Chang Xuan and the other two also entered the depths of Pansiling.

The strange thing is that the Bodhi leaves in the hands of the three people pointed in different directions after they landed.

Fu Ying recalled his previous accomplishments and said, "This place is strange. It is better for us not to act separately but to find it one by one."

Chang Xuan and Xie Ling were also aware of the danger in this place. They nodded in agreement and followed the frequency of the vibration of the Bodhi leaf to find the nearest one.

The three returned to the vicinity of Lanxi Village in Qianshan. Before they got close, a woman in green holding a sword blocked their way and asked who they were.

Chang Xuan didn't want to get entangled with him, so he sacrificed the Golden Ruyi to try to suppress him.

This action angered several people hiding in the dark. One of them, a woman wearing an orange silk scarf, pinched her fingers and picked up a bloody golden needle.

With a flick of his finger, the golden needle turned into a golden thread and flew out.

Chang Xuan's spiritual sense alerted him, and he instinctively put up the golden Ruyi to block in front of his eyebrows. A ray of Buddha's light exploded, and then flames appeared out of thin air, and countless poisonous fires flowed, forcing Chang Xuan back several steps.

The woman in green took advantage of the situation and fled back to the mountain village to reunite with her sisters.

Xie Ling held the demon-subduing pestle tightly and took a step forward, and saw countless spider silk appearing out of thin air, covering the surroundings layer by layer. Tens of thousands of insect monsters poured out from all directions, carrying many poisonous insects that had not yet developed intelligence and crawling all around along the spider silk.

Wisps of poisonous gas spread out, and drops of turbid venom seeped out from the ground, intending to poison the three people to death.

Fu Ying hurriedly stepped forward and offered up the pagoda, and the rays of light swirled, protecting the three of them.

The few people who were observing in the dark also realized something was wrong and they communicated silently.

The woman in red said that the three men had powerful magic weapons in their hands and their aura was pure, so they might be representatives of immortals and Buddhas, so it would be better to let them go.

The woman in green didn't think so, and said bluntly: "Big sister, how can you destroy your own prestige? There are people behind us, so why should we be afraid of the three of them? Even if we can't kill them, we can teach them a lesson."

The woman who had taken action earlier, wearing an orange painted silk scarf, shook her head and said, "Fourth sister, after all, we are not from a proper sect..."

Before the woman finished her words, she was interrupted by the fourth sister: "It's because you are not a disciple that we can do it. We are all going to die anyway, so why should we be so obedient?"

(End of this chapter)