Unparalleled Evildoer

Chapter 286 Disappointment

The flower umbrella in Zhao Nanshuang's hand emitted thousands of colorful threads, which wrapped the cage that trapped the white-haired old man layer by layer, and shrank rapidly. In a moment, the cocoon-like cage shrunk to a size of less than ten feet in diameter.

The white-haired old man looked ashen. The purple gold compass in his hand flew to the top of his head and suddenly enlarged. Light poured out and turned into a golden bell light curtain, supporting the shrinking colorful silk cage.

Zhao Nanshuang giggled and said, "You old Taoist priest, your tortoise shell is really hard. I wonder how long you can hold on!" She waved her slender hands, and the colored silk made a 'thump thump' sound. Rays of colorful light swept towards the golden bell, making a 'dong dong' sound.

The white-haired old man said harshly: "You are just a little dancer, you only stole a sacred weapon, yet you dare to cause chaos in the lower world? With your level of Taoism, you want to fight me!" He stretched out his arms, palms facing outward, and the majestic true energy supported the golden bell. It shone brightly, and the shrunken cage began to expand again.

Zhao Nanshuang's face changed slightly. The white-haired old man's true energy was indeed strong. She had to use all her true energy to fight against him. The colored silk made a 'squeak' sound as it tightened. "You dare to be so arrogant even though you are trapped by me. Your Taoism is just like this!"

Leng Qianren saw that Zhao Nanshuang was somewhat reluctant, so he asked, "How about you let him out and I'll deal with him?"

Zhao Nanshuang said, "Take the bronze coffin away first. I don't need you to take care of me here. Even if Mayor Xu comes, I can easily escape if I can't kill this stinky old Taoist."

Leng Qianren said no more, holding a long sword, and walked towards the bronze coffin. The people from the Xiandao Academy were all seriously injured, so no one dared to step forward to stop them. This was tantamount to committing suicide, and they could only watch the Nitian Sect take the bronze coffin away.

At this time, Wuzhan stood up from behind the bronze coffin, turned over and sat on the coffin lid again, smiled slightly and said: "If you want to take it away, you have to get past me!"

Leng Qianren looked at Wuzhan and snorted coldly, "Based on your body without any true energy, it would be as easy for me to kill you as to crush a stink bug."

"Don't judge a person by his appearance. The path of cultivation is by no means limited to cultivating Qi. Although I don't have true Qi, if you want to kill me, it won't be as easy as you say!"

Leng Qianren glanced at Zhulang in the distance, then turned to Wuzhan and said, "I really can't tell what ability you have that can make that kid follow you so wholeheartedly. Then let me see your true ability!" The long sword in his hand began to burn again.

Wuzhan shook his head and said, "You should confirm what is inside before you rob it. Perhaps, there is nothing inside except for the hidden arrows?"

Leng Qianren said: "You don't need to use this to delay time. We have received reliable information. This bronze coffin was salvaged from the South China Sea by Xu Shi. It contains Taiyi's finger bones. There is no doubt about it!"

"You are so sure, I am afraid the result will disappoint you greatly."

Leng Qianren shouted: "It seems that your only ability is your mouth. I will make you shut your mouth now!" He flew up suddenly, and the long sword drew a rainbow light in the air, breaking through the air and slashing towards the unobstructed, swallowing mountains and rivers.

Longquan had seen Wuzhan's skills in southern Xinjiang. Although he had no true energy in his body, his swordsmanship and sword intent were very strong. Even when he was besieged by strong men, he was still able to break out of the siege. Not only did he see through his identity, but he also used the swordsmanship of Songshan. Until now, he has not figured out how Wuzhan learned it secretly.

However, Longquan believed that no matter how strong Wuzhan was, he could not defeat Leng Qianren. He just didn't know how big the gap between them was, so he could only look forward to the result of this sword.

Wuzhan didn't seem to be prepared to parry the knife, nor did he have any intention of retreating. He was just waiting to die. He just put his hand on the disc and started moving. He moved so fast that it was impossible to see how many times he twisted the disc.

Leng Qianren shouted, "You're looking for death!" The speed of his sword fell even faster. He wanted to kill him before Wuzhe triggered the mechanism.

Although Wuzhan's hands were quick, he spoke calmly, "I've already warned you, be prepared to resist." As soon as he finished speaking, the bronze coffin made a 'bang' sound, and black light burst out and spread in all directions.

This black light is composed of tens of thousands of tiny black sands. After being launched by the mechanism, the speed has reached the limit and can cut through iron and stone. Leng Qianren was shocked when he saw this. He didn't expect Wuzhan to be a madman and actually dared to trigger the mechanism. The long sword had already reached Wuzhan's eyes. He hurriedly put away the sword, swung the light wheel in front of him, and at the same time stimulated the protective true energy around his body to resist.

"Dang..." The black sand hit the light wheel, and sparks formed a light curtain. Leng Qianren's body was swung back in the air by the continuous impact. After landing, it moved more than ten feet away, still resisting the dense rain of black sand.

Zhao Nanshuang turned her head to look at the black sand that was blowing towards her, frowned, and hurriedly stretched out the "Heavenly Umbrella" towards the black sand. "Bang..." The black sand hit the umbrella cloth and pushed her more than ten feet away before she could stand firm.

Although the white-haired old man was protected by the golden bell, he still did not dare to be negligent. He placed the purple gold compass in front of him, and it made continuous "clang..." sounds, with sparks flying. Fortunately, his prediction was correct, and the black sand did penetrate the golden bell. This showed how amazing the power of the black sand was.

Yunchu was worried about Wuzhan. When she saw the mechanism triggered and black sand coming, she thought Wuzhan was doomed and screamed, "Master!" She wanted to go forward but was grabbed back by Zhulang and pushed behind him. Zhulang's long sword rained down swords. Fortunately, they were far away and the black sand was not too dense. Even so, Zhulang used all his strength to remove the black sand.

Jiang Yuan and the others also used all their strength to resist the black sand. Those with weaker cultivation were directly hit by the black sand and wailed.

Leng Qianren slammed his sword onto the ground and his body shook. Although he blocked most of the black sand, there were still a dozen grains of black sand that penetrated his protective true qi and hit his body. The black sand was highly poisonous. If he was not forced out quickly, he would surely die of poisoning. He shouted loudly and mobilized his internal strength. "Swish..." His clothes were torn and a dozen lines of blood spurted out from various parts of his body. He stared fiercely towards the center, looking for Wuzhan's body.

But before he found it, he heard another "boom" and the earth trembled as if it was an earthquake. Black smoke rolled in. This time, all those who could move dared not stay where they were and turned around to flee. Even Zhao Nanshuang did not bother to fight with the white-haired old man. He collected the colored thread and flew out.

The white-haired old man broke through the net cage that was being removed, laughed, "What a good idiot!", and flew away from the area.

Zhulang grabbed Yunchu's collar and ran away, tears dripping from Yunchu's nose, mumbling: "How could this be,..., why did you stop me?"

Zhulang said calmly: "If you go forward, you will only die in vain."

Yunchu asked, "Why did Master do this?"

"He has his reasons."

"Why didn't you stop him?"

"I have no reason to stop him, and I don't have the right to do so."

Yunchu said: "You are such a cold-blooded person. How could the master accept you as his disciple?"

The black smoke created huge waves dozens of feet high and spread out in all directions. Wherever it passed, the grass and trees quickly withered and turned into black ash. Those who did not have time to escape were submerged in the black smoke and turned into bones. The wave slowed down after spreading for half a mile, and gradually faded and dissipated.

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Half an incense stick later, the white-haired old man, Jiang Yuan and others walked on the dark ground back to the bronze coffin. The bronze coffin was still there, intact.

The white-haired old man looked at the bronze coffin and said, "The mechanism has been disabled. It should not be dangerous to open it now. The things should still be inside. I didn't expect that this kid did a good thing for us before he died." "How do you know, you old Taoist, that I did a good thing for you? Do you think you can defeat us?" Zhao Nanshuang floated over from the opposite side, holding an umbrella, followed by the stern-faced Leng Qianren and several followers of the Nitian Sect.

The white-haired old man glared at Zhao Nanshuang and said harshly: "I was worried that I couldn't find you. You've come just in time!" Without saying a word, he flew up, and the purple gold compass in his hand emitted streams of light and hit Zhao Nanshuang.

Zhao Nanshuang laughed and said, "Here comes the same trick again!" He held up the 'Sky Net Umbrella' to block it, 'bang...' flames flew out.

The white-haired old man launched an attack, and then the purple gold compass in his hand flew out, suddenly enlarged, and swept towards Zhao Nanshuang like a spinning millstone, with tremendous power.

With a sharp sound of "clang...", Leng Qianren knocked it back with his sword, and he was also knocked back by the huge force. The blood in his chest surged and he almost vomited blood. If he had not spent a lot of internal energy to force out the poisonous sand, he would never be in this state.

Zhao Nanshuang said to Leng Qianren: "I will deal with him, you go and take the finger bone!" Spinning the 'Tianluo Umbrella', colorful silk was released like a waterfall, piercing towards the white-haired old man.

The white-haired old man caught the flying compass and shouted to Jiang Yuan and others, "What are you waiting for? Go get it!" He pinched his fingers with one hand, and the compass emitted golden light to cover the incoming colored threads. "Thump, thump..." The colored threads hit the golden light and made a buzzing sound. The golden light and the colored threads were in a stalemate and stopped in mid-air, shining brightly.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yuan and the others rushed towards the bronze coffin. As soon as they got close, they saw Leng Qianren swinging his knife towards them. They hurriedly swung their swords to resist. There were a series of "bangs" and several people were blown away.

The white-haired old man cursed, "A bunch of trash!" He shook off the colored silk and used the force to retreat. The purple gold compass in his hand flew out and whizzed towards Leng Qianren who had arrived in front of the bronze coffin.

Leng Qianren swung his sword and chopped at the purple gold compass. Sparks flew and the purple gold compass was knocked back. Leng Qianren took several steps back. At this time, the "Sky Net Umbrella" turned into a big net, falling from the sky and covering the white-haired old man.

The white-haired old man did not dare to delay. He raised the flying purple-gold compass, which emitted a nebula light curtain to counteract it. The big net was held in the air, shining with strange brilliance, but the white-haired old man's body was also not free. He had to do his best to resist the fall of the colorful net, otherwise he would be trapped in it again.

Leng Qianren walked slowly to the bronze coffin. No one could stop him now. After looking at it for a moment, he carefully twisted the disc on the coffin lid. The "click" was just the sound of the disc turning, and there was no sound of the mechanism. After twisting it a few more times, the coffin lid still did not open.

Leng Qianren focused his eyes, took a step back, and chopped up the protruding front end of the coffin lid from bottom to top with his long sword ignited.

"Bang..." With a loud sound like a huge bell, the heavy coffin lid was actually lifted up by Leng Qianren's knife, and flew up with a "whoosh" and landed a hundred feet away. Everyone looked at the bronze coffin for a long time, but did not see any colorful light or strange vision coming out of it.

Leng Qianren stepped forward and looked into the coffin. His expression froze. There was nothing inside the coffin except for the mechanisms around it. "That kid was right!"

The white-haired old man rushed to the coffin and was also shocked. His whole body trembled, "This is absolutely impossible!"

Zhao Nanshuang looked at the white-haired old man coldly and said, "You are pretending to be a Taoist priest, as if you are also unaware. Do you really not know that the things in here have been replaced?"

The white-haired old man turned a deaf ear and muttered to himself, "I have been searching for nearly a hundred years. The records here are completely consistent with the legend. How could it be empty? Could it be that the things inside were destroyed when the mechanism was activated? ... Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Leng Qianren saw the white-haired old man frowning and thinking hard, and said to Zhao Nanshuang: "If they had switched, there would never have been a poison wave like that just now. They don't have that ability yet. From this point of view, they should not have opened this bronze coffin."

Zhao Nanshuang sighed and said, "We have been fighting for an empty coffin for most of the day. It's really boring. Let's leave this coffin to this stinky old Taoist priest. Let's go back and report!" As he said that, he opened the flower umbrella and floated to Leng Qianren's side.

"Don't run away!" A shout came from a distance, and then a green light shone over.

Zhao Nanshuang and Leng Qianren saw the green light coming and hurriedly dodged it. "Bang..." The green light fell and a crack appeared in the ground instantly. Looking in the direction of the sound, they saw that the person coming was Xu Shi, followed closely by Ruogu and several other elders of the Xiandao Academy.

Xu Shi quickly rushed to the white-haired old man with the Hunyuan Yuxu Furnace in his hand, looked at the bronze coffin, and asked, "Brother, where are the things inside?"

The white-haired old man sighed and said, "It's empty inside!"

Xu Shi was surprised and asked: "How is it possible! How did you open it?"

The white-haired old man pointed at Leng Qianren and said, "He just split it open."

Mayor Xu pressed the issue: "Are you sure this place is empty and hasn't been tampered with by them?"

"I am sure!"

"There's a mechanism inside, how could he cut it open with just one knife? And what about the black smoke before I got here?"

The white-haired old man said angrily, "It's because we met that ignorant gentleman who tried to open the bronze coffin."

Xu Shi asked in doubt: "Sir? Could it be that Li Zhong?"

"If not him, who else?"

"Why is he here? Where are the others?"

The white-haired old man snorted coldly, "Do you think he can still be alive under that black smoke? He has already turned into ashes!"

Xu Shi frowned and thought: "It's him, ..."

Leng Qianren saw Xu Shi coming and thought it was meaningless to continue fighting here. He was about to leave when he heard the white-haired old man say, "You ruined our business. It's not that easy to leave!"

Leng Qianren turned around, held his sword horizontally and said, "If you want to continue fighting, I will accompany you to the end!"

Xu Shi collected his thoughts and said, "The people we got rid of are also coming here. Now that things have come to this, there is no need for us to fight, let them go." He turned to the white-haired old man and whispered, "That kid is very cunning and will never be that stupid. After they leave, senior brother can tell me the details. I think there must be some details that you have overlooked."

(End of this chapter)