On the Avenue.

Chapter 475 This time, there is no need to be fifty-fifty
Yan Hanqing drove the carriage and followed the fleeing people into the distance.

The sky was filled with flying birds, flapping their wings and flying around. That was the transformation technique performed by the talisman master of Hongshan Hall. He used transformation talismans to transform talismans, magical treasures, magic weapons and other objects into flying animals for surveillance.

The Hongshan Hall Talisman Master Association has experienced many years of development and now has many masters in the association.

Chen Shi moved almost all the classics in the True King's treasury into the Talisman Master Association, and with the help of instructors, many people in the Talisman Master Association cultivated to the Refining Void Realm and the Fusion Realm in just a few years.

There are countless cultivators in the realm of transformation and the realm of divine descent.

Yan Hanqing sensed carefully and found that the most powerful cultivator nearby was a cultivator in the Spirit Refining Realm.

The realm of refining spirit is already an amazing grandmaster in the martial arts world. Except for individual organizations, there are few such powerful beings.

For the Thirteen Aristocratic Families, the Spirit Refining Realm is also extremely remarkable. In a large aristocratic family, there are only twenty or thirty people who can cultivate to this level.

But for Yan Hanqing, cultivators in the Spirit Refining Realm are not good enough.

Even if all the talisman masters of Hongshan Hall in Liuzhou Province were tied together, they would not be able to stand up to him.

He is in the Mahayana realm, standing at the pinnacle of this realm. The accumulation of Hongshan Hall is far from enough. Except for Chen Shi, no one can be his opponent!
However, he did not dare to be presumptuous.

Although the talisman master of Hongshan Hall could not keep him, Hongshan Hall had other forces in Liuzhou Province, and these forces were extremely terrifying.

Those are the Chinese gods resurrected by Chen Shi!

These gods protected the people during the catastrophe. Now that the catastrophe is over, these gods have not disappeared.

This time when Chen Shi attacked the Yan family in Liuzhou, the talisman masters of Hongshan Hall all brought incense from different temples.

These talisman masters would light incense sticks on their hats. When the incense burned, they would establish a connection with the gods enshrined in the temple.

If encountering a strong enemy, the power of the gods will descend immediately to help the talisman master resist the attack or kill the opponent.

Yan Hanqing saw this and was therefore quite wary.

If he took action, he could certainly kill these talisman masters, but he would also be exposed and alarm the gods of the entire Liuzhou.

If the gods were to attack him, even someone like him would end up in disgrace.

What is even more terrifying is that not only in Liuzhou, but also in the fifty provinces of Xiniu and Xinzhou, there are Hongshan Hall Talisman Master Associations everywhere, and gods resurrected by Chen Shi are everywhere!
This is the foundation that Chen Shi has laid in the past four years!
This is also the reason why the sect leader Yan Shihai repeatedly ordered that one must remain anonymous.

If you don’t change your name and hide your identity, you won’t be able to survive in Xiniu Xinzhou!

"If the thirteen families don't join forces, it will be difficult for them to fight against the tyrant Chen Shi in the world of the living!" he thought to himself.

Another battle broke out not far away. A group of Yan family disciples were discovered and were hunted and surrounded by the Hongshan Hall Talisman Masters.

Yan Hanqing watched from afar and saw that many members of the Yan family were killed, and the remaining people were either fighting or kneeling on the ground begging for mercy.

"Have you ever spared anyone else?" someone asked angrily.

Those who begged for mercy were also killed. Only one voice was heard angrily: "They are sucking the blood and fat of the people. There is no innocence!"

The corner of Yan Hanqing's eye twitched, and the carriage moved forward slowly without any intervention.

Three or four groups of talisman masters stopped them one after another and asked them their names, hometowns, where they lived, where they were going, and what positions they held in the Yan mansion.

Yan Hanqing responded calmly. These talisman masters then questioned Yan Shaoling and Fang Zhenxiu about their names, hometowns, and origins.

Fang Zhenxiu was a child, and Yan Hanqing was afraid that there would be mistakes in his answer, but fortunately Fang Zhenxiu's answer was correct.

They encountered another group of talisman masters who were inspecting. Yan Hanqing stopped the carriage and said with an apologetic smile, "My dear friends, you have already inspected many times. How many more times do you want to inspect?"

The talisman master who checked them was very easy to talk to. He said in a friendly manner, "We have to obey the orders from above."

Yan Hanqing asked, "How will you deal with the people from the Yan family if you find them?"

"There is an order from above that anyone from the Yan family must be killed without mercy."

Yan Hanqing and Yan Shaoling were both awed when they heard this.

At this moment, a voice came: "You step back, I will check them."

When the talisman masters saw the person coming, they bowed and retreated one after another.

When Yan Hanqing heard the voice, his heart was slightly shaken, and he couldn't help but tighten his hands holding the reins.

The person who came was a young man who looked no more than twenty years old, but he had a calm demeanor that was unshakable and unperturbed.

He was handsome and walked steadily, which reminded Yan Hanqing of the first time he met this man when he went to Xijing to take part in the imperial examination.

At that time, he was still a young man, full of ambition and determination, and decided to win the title of No. 1 Scholar, and then return home to inherit the position of clan leader. But he did not expect that he would meet this person in the imperial examination.

At that time, this person looked the same as he does now. Over the past few decades, his appearance has hardly changed.

They had clashed several times, once during the Imperial Examination, twice after the Imperial Examination, and once during the Palace Examination.

In the imperial examination, he tied with this person. After the examination, he was upset about the tie, so he found this person again and challenged him again, and this time they also tied.

He became even angrier and fought with this man for the third time, but it was still a draw!

He was extremely angry and felt that this person had not shown his true ability and was just giving in to him.

But in the palace examination, this person lost to him.

For many years afterwards, Yan Hanqing kept wondering, was this person really inferior to himself in the palace examination that year, or was he just not brave enough to show his true ability and take the title of top scholar?

However, after a few years, Yan Hanqing gradually stopped taking this matter to heart. Because he had the support of the Yan family, he had access to a vast amount of resources and wealth, which supported his practice and finally allowed him to break through and achieve the Mahayana realm.

However, the person who had made him feel resentful back then was just a minor clerk in the Ministry of Revenue, and his cultivation level was still at the Refining Void Realm.

He and that genius are no longer the same kind of people.

He lacks nothing, but that genius has to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation, and has to work hard for official duties. Even if he has extraordinary talent and qualifications, it will be wasted in the daily necessities and official struggles, and gradually he will be lost in the crowd.

They were not born into this world.

It was just the imperial examination that brought them together and allowed them to compete in the same examination room.

After leaving the examination room, they are still people from two different worlds.

Yan Hanqing got off the carriage, a smile appeared on his old face, and he called out the man's name: "Chen Tang. Long time no see."

Chen Tang stopped and smiled as well: "Han Qing, you and I haven't seen each other for almost twenty years."

Yan Hanqing knocked on the carriage door with the reins in his hand. Yan Shaoling opened the door and saw the reins. She was slightly startled, took the reins and sat on the shaft.

"grandfather……"

Yan Hanqing waved his hand to stop Yan Shaoling from speaking, and said with a smile: "You take my youngest brother and go first. I met an old friend and can't leave."

Yan Shaoling felt a chill in her heart. She clenched her teeth and tried hard to control her tears. The tears rolled around in her eyes, but finally flowed down, sliding down the sides of her nose, falling onto her lips, soaking her red lips, tasting salty and a little bitter.

She shook the reins suddenly, and drove the carriage away. Yan Hanqing did not look at them, but his eyes were always on Chen Tang. He smiled and said, "Twenty years? Time flies by. Before we know it, you and I have grown old. In the era of the True King, cultivators could easily live for thousands of years, and cultivators in the Ascension Realm could live for as long as ten thousand years. But cultivators like you and me who have reached the pinnacle of the human world only live for a mere hundred years. It's really lamentable."

Chen Tang looked past him and landed on the departing carriage, saying leisurely: "My life span is a thousand years, unlike yours."

Yan Hanqing's pupils shrank slightly.

He had just noticed that Chen Tang was too young and only guessed that Chen Tang had the secret to maintain his youth. He didn't expect that Chen Tang would live for a thousand years!

How unfair is God?

He lived to be sixty years old. Feeling that his body was beginning to age, he resigned from the position of suzerain and gave way to someone more capable.

This time when he escaped, he disguised himself as an old coachman driving a horse-drawn carriage.

As for Chen Tang, his life span has not even reached one twentieth of his life. He still has a long time to enjoy life and make greater breakthroughs without being affected by aging at all!

Yan Hanqing smiled and said, "Chen Tang, during the palace examination that year, you allowed me to save the reputation of my Yan family. I have always been grateful."

Chen Tang said: "At that time, my cultivation was shallow and I had no background, so I had to be tolerant. You don't need to be grateful to me. Even if it was someone from another family, I would be tolerant as well."

Yan Hanqing smiled and said, "That's right. When you fought with anyone, it was always a draw without any hurt feelings. I can see that you are very cautious and afraid of offending others. That's why you have a nickname, called Pingshou Chen."

Chen Tang was quite surprised and shook his head, "I have never heard of this name."

Yan Hanqing said, "We call you that behind your back, but never to your face. If you tie with all the candidates, then you are the top scholar. You have the talent to be the top scholar, but unfortunately, facing the thirteen noble families, you can only give in, so you control your grades and only get the fourteenth place. Chen Tang, do you hate our thirteen noble families because of this?"

Chen Tang's expression was as calm as ever: "Hate."

Yan Hanqing was slightly startled, and asked with interest: "Since you hate us, how can you accurately control your state of mind in each battle and make every battle a draw?"

He deliberately delayed time, just hoping that Yan Shaoling could take her brother further and further.

Chen Tang was silent for a moment, and said, "My father gave birth to me, but he didn't raise me. He left me at home when I was very young. He seldom came home. I have always been self-abased, and I have worked hard to cultivate myself and study various subjects. Others think I am self-reliant, but they don't know that I am afraid of dealing with people, so I use study to cover up my fear. Compared to me, my father loves Chen Wu more, and I envy Chen Wu and want to prove to him that I am stronger than Chen Wu. So I went to take the imperial examination, and I want to come back with the top scorer and tell him that I am the top scorer, the best in both civil and military affairs in Xiniu and Xinzhou. I took the top scorer just hoping that he would come home more often and look at me more, and I didn't embarrass him."

Yan Hanqing sighed, "But when you arrived in Xijing, you found out that the power of the Thirteenth Family was so great that you couldn't imagine it. You are a thoughtful person, and under the pressure of the Thirteenth Family, you had to compromise and ranked 14th. Therefore, you hate me, the Yan Family, and the Thirteenth Family so much."

Chen Tang said, "I did hate you for this before, but later, when I was an official in the Ministry of Revenue, I met more people like me. They were as talented as me, and their aptitude and understanding were even better than mine, but they were eliminated in the literary examination, died in the martial arts examination, and failed in the palace examination. I have seen so many people like this, and I hate you even more."

Upon hearing this, Yan Hanqing realized that he could not use their friendship to persuade him to let him go. The only way to survive was to fight to decide the outcome, life or death.

"Back then, you let me win, so we were able to be equal in fame. Later, I ascended to the position of clan leader, and it was also because you didn't defeat me head-on, otherwise I would have lost the qualification to compete for the position of clan leader."

Yan Hanqing laughed and said, "I was indeed not as good as you back then. But that was in the past. After I returned to the Yan family, I lost all my arrogance, learned from my mistakes, and practiced a hundred times harder. Finally, I broke through and became a Mahayana cultivator. But in the past twenty years, you have lived a cautious life, working hard on paperwork and scheming against each other. If a cultivator is too cautious, he will lose his heroic spirit and the motivation to move forward courageously. Can you still be on par with me now?"

He showed a sneer: "Tie Shou Chen?"

This nickname was originally a compliment, but it was full of sarcasm in his mouth.

Back then, Chen Tang was very cautious and tried hard to maintain a draw with everyone. In the eyes of Yan Hanqing and other thirteen noble family children, this was not the tolerance of a gentleman, but the cowardice of an inferior.

Therefore, in their mouths, the nickname Pingshou Chen is full of mockery and sarcasm.

They laughed at him for being too cautious, laughed at him for having talent but not daring to use it, laughed at him for being the top scorer but only getting 14th place, laughed at him for working hard to cultivate himself but only being able to make wedding dresses for them.

Chen Tang's expression changed slightly and he grasped the hilt of the Xuanwei Sword.

Yan Hanqing noticed the slight change in his mentality and laughed out loud, raising his cultivation to the extreme in an instant!

He practiced the most superior unique skills of Lingshan Hall, called the Twelve Gods and Demons of Luotian. The Twelve Meridian Demon God Skills was a branch of the Twelve Gods and Demons of Luotian.

This skill requires first depriving other cultivators of their golden elixirs, cultivating these twelve golden elixirs, refining twelve primordial infants, and cultivating twelve primordial spirits.

Before reaching the Spirit Transformation Realm, the progress of practicing this technique is extremely slow. If others can break through a realm in one year, it will take twelve years for the Twelve Gods and Demons of Luo Tian. It can be said that this technique is the most difficult to practice among the Ten Books of Cultivation.

But Yan Hanqing cultivated this skill to the Spiritual Transformation Realm at the age of thirty-seven. In the history of the Yan family, there were only three people who could cultivate this skill to the Spiritual Transformation Realm at the age of thirty-seven. He was the third person.

He was full of confidence and went to Xijing to take the exam to test his own strength. However, he did not expect to meet Chen Tang in Xijing and was almost devastated.

After the Twelve Gods and Demons of Luo Tian cultivated to the Spirit Transformation Realm, it was equivalent to twelve people practicing together, and the speed of cultivation increased by more than ten times!
After the palace examination, Yan Hanqing returned home to practice in seclusion. In just over ten years, he advanced from the Spiritual Transformation Realm to the Mahayana Realm.

At this moment he was divided into twelve, twelve thousand-foot-long primordial spirits, some with three heads and six arms, some with one eye, some with a snake head and a human body, some with a thousand arms, some with eyes all over the body, and some with eyes on the palms, just like twelve gods and demons, forming a formation called the Twelve Gods and Demons Formation.

The formation was activated, and one could hear a continuous crackling sound. In an instant, the twelfth level of the void realm was suppressed, causing the surrounding ground to rumble and sink continuously, while the surrounding terrain was rapidly rising to form small hills!
The twelve levels of the void realm are superimposed, and the sky is filled with stars, forming a brilliant galaxy, filling the sky without any gaps.

Under the galaxy, dozens of suns and moons fill the sky, emitting endless firepower.

Yan Hanqing connected the magical powers of the twelve primordial spirits, as if he had broken through the magical power limit of the Mahayana realm and vaguely touched another realm!
He vaguely touched the edge of the new method's Hedao Ascension Realm!
It is difficult to rank the skills in the Ten Books of Cultivation, but the Twelve Gods and Demons of Luo Tian are recognized as the strongest among them, and the skills closest to immortal arts!
"Chen Tang, can you still fight me to a draw today?" A thunderous voice came from the mouth of Twelve Dignified Han Qing.

"You can give it a try!"

Chen Tang drew his sword, and the Xuanwei Sword illuminated the heavens in an instant, illuminating the twelve levels of the void.

The sun, moon and stars cannot conceal the bright light of the sword.

Chen Tang's body and sword were compatible, man and sword became one. He disappeared, and the Xuanwei sword also disappeared. The vast void and the sun, moon and stars disappeared, leaving only a thousand-foot sword light, which broke through the Luotian Twelve Gods and Demons Formation and soared into the sky.

At this moment, he finally raised his cultivation to the Mahayana realm.

The sword light moves.

The stars fall.

The stars dance like a dragon.

The starlight fell from the sky like a rain of fire, so bright.

The sun and the moon in the sky were pierced.

Along with it fell an astonishing sword light, which split into two, two into four, four into eight. The next moment, the thousand-foot sword lights became too numerous to be counted by the naked eye, and they attacked from all directions.

"The unity of man and sword?! Chen Tang, let me see how much ability you have hidden?"

Yan Hanqing roared, and twelve bodies, each of them refined their original spirit to the extreme. The twelve gods and demons faced outwards, spinning like a whirlwind, each using all their means, and attacking with thousands of moves in an instant, blocking the sword lights and smashing them to pieces!
Suddenly, countless broken sword lights followed the acupoints of Yan Hanqing's real body's eyes, ears, mouth and nose and drilled into his body.

Yan Hanqing was stunned.

A huge sword energy condensed in his body, breaking out from the inside out!

laugh!
His body was cut in half.

The sword light flew out, standing between heaven and earth, changing from a flat surface to a three-dimensional object, restoring its shape to that of Chen Tang.

He held the Xuanwei Sword with the tip of the sword pointing to the ground.

"Brother Yan Shi, this time, I don't need to fight you to a draw. Thank you for letting me win."

——I recommend a novel for young immortals, "Practicing Immortals from Mr. Fox", a classic novel about cultivating immortals with a strong immortal flavor. It has a very good reputation so far. Those who are interested can go and have a look.

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