After returning to the village, start chasing the mountain from binding Emei

Chapter 788 Two laborers, the Sangmu tree appears!

Killing you has nothing to do with right or wrong, but only because you heard things you shouldn't have heard.

He Yuanshan made a resolute and unwavering decision.

With his physique, this strike, aided by his true energy, would be enough to unleash the power of a dragon.

It should be noted that the power of a dragon, purely physical strength, corresponds to a physique of 500 grades.

Killing a kid who has just entered the Creation Realm in an instant shouldn't be difficult.

However, just when he thought he was about to succeed, an iron hammer appeared in Chen Yang's hand.

"boom!"

Chen Yang swung the iron hammer and casually swung it over.

"Keng!"

Fire burst out.

He Yuanshan's pupils suddenly contracted, and extreme horror appeared on his face. It was as if he had struck an impenetrable wall. His arm jerked violently, his palm was in excruciating pain, and the broadsword was actually knocked away.

"Keng!"

The broadsword struck the wall, then bounced off, flying past the short old man and nearly striking him.

He Yuanshan was completely stunned by the blow.

How is that possible? So strong?

"Oh!"

Chen Yang made his move with effortless grace, then kicked He Yuanshan in the chest.

He Yuanshan had no time to react; he felt as if he had been kicked by a dinosaur, and his whole body flew backward uncontrollably.

With a thud, it crashed heavily into the passageway more than twenty meters away.

Everything happened so fast.

The short old man was a little confused and stood there, unable to react for a moment.

So strong!

"Choke!"

The short old man suddenly drew his long sword from his back, not daring to be negligent, and slashed several sword energies at Chen Yang from a distance.

"whispering sound."

Chen Yang chuckled, and the iron hammer flew out of his hand.

"boom!"

The immense force of the hammer was like a missile aimed at the short old man.

The old man's sword energy shattered instantly upon impact with the iron hammer.

"what?"

The old man was terrified, instinctively sensing danger, and quickly held his sword in both hands to his chest.

"Humph!"

He snorted coldly, and without anyone knowing what technique he used, his aura suddenly surged, and even his figure became taller.

"Oh!"

The hammer struck the sword.

The sword in his hand was also an extraordinary weapon, managing to block the iron hammer, but the enormous impact still sent him flying.

The old man hurriedly abandoned his sword, grabbed the iron hammer with both hands as if he were holding a large watermelon, and slid down the passageway.

There was a bang.

The hammer, still carrying its residual force, slammed the old man against the wall at the end of the passageway.

"puff!"

The old man's face turned red, and after holding it in for a long time, he couldn't hold it in any longer and spat out a mouthful of blood.

So strong, really strong.

No wonder my brother-in-law said we should join forces. This person is stronger than we imagined. He clearly didn't use his full strength; it was just a casual strike. Yet, the two of us were no match for him.

If I hadn't used the "Emperor's Heart Technique" in time to forcibly increase my power, that hammer blow would probably have been enough to seriously injure him.

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Name: Jiang Mingqiu.

Physical strength: 35325.

Mental power: 34516.

Divine thought: 25882.

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This person is slightly weaker than He Yuanshan, but he is definitely not weak either.

Jiang Mingqiu, one of the three elders of the Jiang family of Huangling Sect, is 93 years old this year and has reached the early stage of the Creation Realm.

Jiang Mingxian, one of the three sages of the Southwest and known as the Iron-Faced Asura, is the elder brother.

"You two seem to have rather bad tempers. Why did you start fighting as soon as you met?" Chen Yang said calmly.

"Young man, it's a misunderstanding."

Jiang Mingqiu threw the iron hammer he was holding onto the ground and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.

It's true that you can't judge a book by its cover, and you can't measure the sea with a bucket. Who would have thought that such a young man would have such fierce fighting power?

Based on those two moves just now, he believed that even if the two of them joined forces, they might not be a match for Chen Yang.

In this situation, those who know when to yield are the wise ones; admitting defeat early might just turn hostility into friendship.

"Misunderstand?"

Chen Yang chuckled and walked closer to him. "You started by attacking me, fine, but you expect me to follow behind you and pick up the scraps, and you're telling me it's a misunderstanding?"

Picking up farts to eat?
Jiang Mingqiu was a little confused and didn't understand what Chen Yang was talking about.

Chen Yang had no mood to explain anything to him; he was seething with anger.

They had gone through a lot of trouble, opening nearly two hundred stone chambers, but hadn't found anything. They had all sorts of guesses, but who would have thought that the problem was actually here.

Those stone chambers were clearly opened by those two first. How could he expect to get any soup if he followed behind?

Upon seeing these two, he felt an urge to smash them to pieces.

But he held back; killing them all would be too easy on them.

He went straight up to Jiang Mingqiu, grabbed his collar, and lifted him up.

Under the suppression of the primordial spirit, Jiang Mingqiu had no chance to resist at all.

"look into my eyes."

……

"drink!"

Not far away, He Yuanshan, who had been feigning death, suddenly sprang up and, taking advantage of Chen Yang's use of his pupil technique, threw a punch directly at Chen Yang.

Naive.

A golden light suddenly appeared on Chen Yang's body, and a golden Dharma image suddenly appeared, nearly three meters tall, enveloping Chen Yang's body.

Without turning his head, Chen Yang's Dharma Image suddenly moved, throwing a punch at He Yuanshan.

"Oh!"

Unsurprisingly, He Yuanshan was blasted away.

It crashed heavily to the ground and rolled a long way away.

At this moment, Chen Yang withdrew his Dharma form and released his grip on Jiang Mingqiu's neck.

Jiang Mingqiu plopped down on the ground.

Chen Yang ignored him and turned to walk towards He Yuanshan.

He was holding back just now, afraid of hurting the two men and then having someone do the hard labor for him.

He Yuanshan stood up, his face filled with terror.

He knew Chen Yang was very strong; he was also present when Chen Yang fought Qiangba on Mount Emei that day.

That's why he immediately asked Jiang Mingqiu to join forces with him.

But when they actually faced off, he truly and directly experienced Chen Yang's strength.

It is impossible to be an opponent.

At this moment, he no longer had the intention of killing Chen Yang; his only thought was to escape from here as soon as possible.

Although Chen Yang overheard his conversation with Jiang Mingqiu, it was only one person's opinion, and Chen Yang had no evidence. Even if he reported it to Baoguo Temple, Jiang Mingqiu could simply deny it to the death.

run!
He Yuanshan abandoned his brother-in-law and ran away immediately.

However, at that moment, a terrifying aura came from behind him.

Suppression, suppression of the primordial spirit.

He Yuanshan felt a sudden chill run down his spine, his heart almost leaping out of his throat. He felt as if a thousand-pound weight was pressing down on him, and his legs were trembling. After running only a few steps, he stumbled and fell to the ground.

The next second, footsteps came from behind.

Despite the pressure of the primordial spirit, He Yuanshan managed to stand up, but one of his hands was already on his shoulder.

How can this be?

soul?

Could it be that he has already reached the Dao True Realm?

Impossible. He only broke through to the Creation Realm a short time ago, how could he possibly have entered the Dao True Realm?

However, this was clearly the oppressive power of the primordial spirit.

Fear, confusion...

All these emotions quickly turned into confusion.

……

— The suppression of the primordial spirit, combined with the double pupil technique, is truly a perfect match.

For someone like He Yuanshan, whose spiritual cultivation is not much different from Chen Yang's, it would have been quite difficult for Chen Yang to hypnotize him in the past. But now, by directly suppressing him with his primordial spirit and then using the Double Pupil Technique, the difficulty has been reduced dramatically.

A few minutes later, He Yuanshan and Jiang Mingqiu both entered a hypnotic state, standing side by side in front of Chen Yang like two primary school students being lectured.

Chen Yang's gaze swept over the two of them, finally settling on He Yuanshan. "Are you now the liaison for the Gu God Sect?"

"The appointment was received not long ago."

"Wasn't it Jiang Mingxian's before?"

"He failed in his duties and was reprimanded by the leader. It was the Dharma Protector of the End Times who personally conveyed the appointment to me and assigned me the task of coming here to collect sam juice, saying it was a test for me..."

……

He Yuanshan answered whatever Chen Yang asked without holding anything back.

The task of obtaining sangmu juice had always been Xu Guanghan's job. Now that Xu Guanghan is dead, the Gu God Cult still needs sangmu juice, so this task naturally falls to the new liaison officer.

That's why He Yuanshan is here.

Chen Yang's gaze fell on Jiang Mingqiu. "And you?"

Jiang Mingqiu hurriedly said, "I just happened to come to Emei to talk to my brother-in-law about my older brother, but he ended up bringing me here..."

He was a little depressed. His older brother, Jiang Mingxian, had gone missing and he couldn't contact him. He was worried, but there was nothing he could do, so he came to Emei to find his brother-in-law, He Yuanshan.

As a result, He Yuanshan conscripted him and brought him here, claiming it was to search for treasure, but in reality, he was working for the Gu God Sect, doing free labor without any promised benefits.

Now look what's happened! Not only did he not get any benefits, he also got caught.

"When did you arrive, and how much sam juice did you get?" Chen Yang asked.

Both of them smiled wryly upon hearing this.

He Yuanshan said, "We've been here for almost two days. We found a mulberry tree root before, but it was disturbed by Lao San. Before we could get the mulberry juice, the root ran away."

"It escaped? Alive?" Chen Yang asked, somewhat surprised.

Wasn't it said that the object suppressed in this tomb was the Dharma body of a dead Sangmu tree from the Celestial Realm?

How could it have run away?

He Yuanshan shook his head. "It should be the instinctive reaction of the Sangmu Tree's Dharma Body. The Dharma Protector of the End Times said that although this tree is dead, its body still has a certain ability to move. After discovering its roots, we should immediately wrap them with a red rope containing the most yang energy..."

Just like animals, even after death, the body still has some instinctive neural responses, which is not surprising.

"So, you got nothing?"

"Not at all."

He Yuanshan showed Chen Yang their spoils of war.

A large knife.

He couldn't possibly have brought any weapons with him when he came out of Baoguo Temple, and this broadsword was what he found in the stone chamber.

It is made of black iron, extremely hard, nearly 1.5 meters long and weighing over 1,000 kilograms.

Chen Yang shook his head and didn't ask any more questions. "Since you have plenty of energy, then continue opening your blind boxes."

His frustration hadn't subsided yet. These two old men had made him suffer behind the scenes, wasting so much of his time. Chen Yang had spared their lives specifically to make them do hard labor.

Without a word, He Yuanshan and Jiang Mingqiu went to the door of a stone chamber next to them and, one on each side, struggled to lift the stone door.

Rumble…

It was another empty stone chamber.

"Boom!"

The stone door slammed shut, and the procession turned to another stone chamber.

Now, Chen Yang was much more relaxed.

Holding a calligraphy brush, he followed behind the two, numbering the stone chambers they had inspected.

These two men have been here for two days, and they have already inspected nearly five hundred stone chambers.

Almost halfway through, there are only about 500 rooms left to see. Of these stone chambers, about a third of the stone doors are already open. So, there are only about 300 rooms that really need to be opened for inspection.

But Chen Yang thought of a problem: since the roots of the Sangmu tree can move, then can it appear anywhere?

Including those stone chambers that have already been opened, and even the underground forest outside?

Despite the doubts, there's no going back now given the current situation.

……

Time passed by minute by minute.

Chen Yang didn't know how much time had passed, but the two old men were so tired that their legs were weak and they were out of breath.

Finally, the stone door of another stone chamber was lifted up.

The moment he was lifted up, Chen Yang sensed something was wrong; an inexplicable aura emanated from the stone chamber.

At the same time, He Yuanshan and Jiang Mingqiu also noticed the anomaly, immediately fell silent, and lifted the heavy stone door.

Jiang Mingqiu was shorter, so he could only lift it up with both hands.

Chen Yang looked inside.

The stone chamber was quite spacious, about forty or fifty square meters. The floor was empty, but on the left side wall, a black tree root the size of an adult's arm clung to it like a giant leech.

On the tree roots, there are many tiny rootlets that cling firmly to the wall like a spider web.

Sangmu tree roots?

He Yuanshan quickly took out a red rope and threw it directly at the tree roots on the wall.

This red string was given to him by a monk from the Dharma-ending Age. It is an extremely yang object that can suppress yin and evil and restrict the movement of spiritual beings.

Under the control of mental power, the red rope quickly wrapped around the tree root.

The tree roots suddenly moved, as if by some kind of conditioned reflex, struggling to turn back and enter the wall.

Although the red rope can restrain it, the tree roots will still move, just to a much smaller extent.

The walls were rumbling and shaking, as if they were about to collapse.

Chen Yang also took out a red rope and tied it directly to the rope.

This red rope of his was a rare treasure of the Mountain Lord Tan, used to bind the Purple Jade Dragon King Ginseng, but binding the Purple Jade Dragon King Ginseng was clearly not its limit.

Once the red rope was wrapped around the tree roots, they quickly stopped moving, and the shaking of the wall also stopped.

At this moment, Chen Yang slowly walked in.

Looking at the tree root that almost covered half the wall, Chen Yang hurriedly asked the Three Corpse Divine Tree and the Five Thunder True Man to help inspect the goods.

Perhaps because it was an inanimate object, or perhaps because it hadn't encountered the original body, Chen Yang's system didn't react at all, nor did it trigger any information in the encyclopedia.

The Sangmu Tree in the Celestial Realm—if it could trigger the encyclopedia reward, the reward would be incredibly generous.

Chen Yang thought to himself, "What a pity."

"It's the root of a Sangmu tree."

The Three Corpse Divine Tree quickly gave Chen Yang a definite answer. Although it was a telepathic transmission, Chen Yang could already feel its excitement.

“However, this tree seems to have some obsession. I’m afraid I won’t be able to possess its physical form unless I remove that obsession,” the Three Corpse Divine Tree then added.

Chen Yang was taken aback.

Is it just another obsession?

Do the Dharma bodies of these Celestial Realm experts all retain lingering attachments?

The stone egg of the Stone Spirit was like this, and now the Sangmu Tree is like this too.

Chen Yang asked, puzzled, "Didn't the Celestial Realm already sever the three corpses of attachment? How can there still be attachments?"

The Five Thunder Immortal said, "Have you not heard that if you don't cut the weeds at the root, they will grow back in the spring breeze? Although the Three Corpses can be severed, obsessions cannot be eradicated. As long as you are still a human being, a sentient being, you cannot completely sever the seven emotions and six desires. There will always be times when your thoughts are not clear, when you have desires and resentment in your heart, and obsessions will grow..."

"good."

The Three Corpse Divine Tree also agreed, saying, "If it were you, and you finally cultivated to the Celestial Realm, only to have a great calamity destroy you, could you not have any attachments?"

The Five Thunder Immortal said, "Obsession cannot be considered consciousness; it is merely an instinct that resides within the Dharma Body. Its existence allows the Dharma Body of a Celestial Realm expert to remain incorruptible for a longer period and also prevents other villains from coveting the Dharma Body of a Celestial Realm expert..."

petty thief?

The Three Corpse Divine Tree didn't say anything, but it was definitely not happy about it. In other words, I've become a villain too, right?

You also covet Zhao Quanzhen's physical body; you are a villain too.

Upon hearing this, Chen Yang felt he had gained some new knowledge.

Even the physical body of a Celestial Realm expert is still just a physical body. If no obsession remains, their physical body will decay after death. However, if an obsession exists, it will greatly slow down the decay process.

After all, if you have no obsessions left, what meaning is there for you to continue existing?

"This obsession is very strong. With my current primordial spirit strength, if I try to forcibly take over its body, I'm afraid I'll be devoured by it instead." The Three Corpse Divine Tree was a little melancholy.

A black line appeared on Chen Yang's forehead. "Could it be that you also want me to help you find a powerful Xuanmen expert to help you erase its obsession?"

"Ah."

The Three Corpse Divine Tree chuckled.

It's different from Shi Ling. Shi Ling has no bad records, but he has a lot of dark history.

Who will help it? Who dares to help it?
The Three Corpse Divine Tree said, "My primordial spirit is now split in two, and my strength has been diminished. If I can reunite the two in the future, perhaps I can take the risk and give it a try."

It's tragic; you can only rely on yourself.

The Five Thunder Immortal said, "Why don't I wait until I obtain the Dharma Body first, and then I'll come and help you?"

"you?"

The Three Corpse Divine Tree chuckled, "If Lord Zhao Shan's Dharma body were still here, how could he not have any obsessions? With your primordial spirit strength, you're probably not even as strong as me. Besides, that's Lord Zhao's Dharma body. I'm afraid you'd dare to think about it but not dare to act on it."

Master Wu Lei smiled and said, "I'm different from you. I have a friend, the Emei Xuantong Monk. We had a friendship back then. If I ask him for help, he shouldn't refuse. Even if Xuantong can't help me, Chen Yang's cultivation speed will help me sooner or later..."

"Heh, then according to you, I'll wait for Chen Yang too," said the Three Corpse Divine Tree.

Chen Yang, his forehead creased with annoyance, interrupted them, "Gentlemen, let's get down to business. How do we extract this sang um juice?"

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