Dongxuan Spiritual Realm

Chapter 111 The Cicada Talisman
Zhen Yong pointed to Shaoyin Mountain in the distance and told Yang Qisheng, "Good nephew, I'll try to lure Cui Wushe out later. Then you can sneak in and see what's going on inside. If you see your junior brother or Old Man Wutou, save him if you can. If you can't, quietly retreat and we'll think of another way."

Yang Qisheng was speechless again. After a moment of silence, he said, "My dear Uncle-Master, I have only just set up my alchemy furnace and just entered the Refining Demon stage. How can you be so sure that I will go deep into the tiger's den? Do I look like a meat bun to you?"

Zhen Yong had never heard the saying "throwing a meat bun to a dog—it's gone forever," but he could understand its meaning.

He had a faint wicked smile on his face: "Why don't you lure Cui Wushe out, and I'll sneak in?"

After weighing the options, Yang Qisheng concluded that the danger of luring monsters outside was less than sneaking in. The outside world was vast and open, and if they couldn't win, they could always find a way to escape.

With his strength, he would most likely not be able to escape from Cui Wushe, but with the Dragon Roar Jade Brush and the Tiger Roar Golden Wheel, he still has a chance if he makes a proper plan.

But if I were to sneak in, who knows how many evil formations and sorcery are on Mount Shaoyin? As a newcomer who has only been practicing for four and a half years, I would most likely be like pulling a cart across a ridge—one step at a time, and I would fall into a pit before I could take five steps.

“Alright, then I’ll find a way to lure that old monster Cui out, and you can sneak in, Junior Uncle.”

Zhen Yong Zhenren didn't expect him to choose this, but he thought that Yang Qisheng's magic power was too weak and he couldn't handle this matter at all. So he took out a necklace, a pure gold openwork spirit treasure talisman, a total of 360, which were interlocked to form a chain, with a green leaf hanging at the bottom. He personally put it around Yang Qisheng's neck.

“Good junior nephew, your uncle is lending you this Heavenly Cicada Spirit Leaf. It was given to me by Grandmaster Lianshan back then, who wanted me to avoid that great calamity. Unfortunately, I still couldn’t avoid it.”

Yang Qisheng knew that his grandmaster was Guicang Zhenren, and his great-grandmaster was named Lianshan. He was sure that the things he had bestowed upon him were good. However, looking at the Shaoyin Mountain shrouded in black haze below, he still felt a little uneasy.

"The things given to you by your great-grandfather couldn't help you avoid the calamity of that year, so how could they help me avoid the calamity of today?"

"You brat! The reason I couldn't escape that calamity was my own choice. I actively entered into the situation to face the calamity, not because this treasure was incompetent."

"Then I don't want to willingly enter the game and face this calamity today, but you're forcing me to..."

Zhen Yong put the necklace on him and laughed, "You're such an interesting child! Do you know that this treasure is called the Heavenly Cicada Spirit Leaf? It was produced by the Heavenly Cicada Divine Tree in the spiritual realm created by your great-grandfather, and he spent a lot of effort refining it. He specially gave one to me and one to your eighth uncle. It has endless wonderful uses."

Yang Qisheng held the green leaf in his hand, watching silently, waiting for him to continue explaining its "wonderful use".

"One of its functions is invisibility! With it, you can use it at will as long as you hold the Taiyi Mantra of our sect. It can completely conceal your divine aura. Back then, I even fooled the Old Ghost Taiyin with it. That Cui Wushe was just a remnant who escaped from the net back then. How much skill could he have? If you wear it and sneak in, that demon will definitely not be able to see through it. This treasure is miraculous and can indeed save people from many calamities. You'll know once you wear it and go in."

If we're talking about invisibility, Yang Qisheng can also do it; he can become invisible using the Five Elements Sword Escape technique, but he certainly can't hide it from Cui Wushe.

With this Heavenly Cicada Divine Talisman, things will be different. If it can truly prevent Cui Wushe from discovering it, it wouldn't be a bad idea to go in and take a look.

Yang Qisheng was quite courageous. He just wouldn't fight a battle he wasn't sure of winning. He wouldn't jump into a situation where he knew he was doomed, but he was willing to give it a try if he had a 70% chance of winning.

There are no things in the world that are guaranteed to succeed. If you wait until you are absolutely certain before doing anything, you will miss many opportunities.

As the saying goes, "Man proposes, God disposes." If you have a 70% chance of success, then you have a lot of room to maneuver. If you fail, you can only say that you are incompetent, not that the objective environment is bad.

The uncle and nephew quickly came up with a specific plan. Yang Qisheng used the Taiyi True Technique with his left hand to activate the Heavenly Cicada Spirit Leaf. The treasure released a clear light like water, enveloping him from head to toe, and he instantly disappeared into thin air.

He was about to leave when he suddenly stopped.

He felt that his junior uncle was unreliable in his words and actions, and wanted to test whether the invisibility effect of the Heavenly Cicada Spirit Leaf was really effective.

He then went around behind Zhen Yong and reached out to pat the man's shoulder.

Zhen grabbed his wrist with his real hand and shouted, "What are you doing?"

Yang Qisheng said innocently, "This Heavenly Cicada Spirit Leaf isn't very effective; it couldn't even fool you. Cui Wushe is very likely to be more powerful than you and may have already reached the Nascent Soul stage. Can you really fool him?"

Zhen Yong, the True Man, angrily put his hand down: "This treasure has been nurtured and refined by me for many years, of course it can't fool me. So what if it has been refined into a Nascent Soul? That old ghost Taiyin had already cultivated a Dharma Body back then, but he was still completely fooled by me. You'd better hurry up and go. If you dawdle any longer, I'll just throw you down there."

Yang Qisheng laughed and stopped arguing with him, falling rapidly from the sky like a stone.

He had actually thought of this as well, but he just wanted to tease his junior uncle on purpose.

Although he was an elder, he didn't have the same imposing presence as Liu Hanzhang; he seemed more like a junior brother of similar age.

He concealed himself at the foot of Shaoyin Mountain, where a dark, malevolent haze swirled and churned.

Looking up at the sky through the dark haze.

Zhen Yong flew to the top of Shaoyin Mountain, rubbed his hands together, and then unleashed three hundred and sixty golden lightning bolts, all of which were the most authentic Taiyi Divine Thunder!
Each bolt of lightning struck down from the clouds, connecting heaven and earth. With a series of loud cracking sounds, it was as if the sky had split open, and more than three hundred giant thunderbolts fell, striking the mountain ridge hard, causing the crowd to echo and deafeningly loud.

He struck a dashing pose in the air and shouted loudly, "You little brats from the Taiyin Sect! Your grandpa from the Taiyi Palace is here! Come out and face your death!"

As he spoke, he continued to cast spells by making hand seals. The Taiyi Divine Thunder he had previously used had triggered the mountain-protecting demon array on Shaoyin Mountain, causing a large amount of black evil energy to surge out from the ground. Countless evil spirits appeared in the evil energy. Some of them were several meters tall, some were wrapped in iron chains, some had bull heads and horse faces, and some had three heads and six arms. They roared angrily at the sky in unison.

With a single glance, Zhen Yong, a master cultivator, discerned the formation's trajectory and knew that the core of the formation lay in a mountain hollow. There must be a cave beneath that hollow that connected to the earth's core, and the formation spread out along the mountainside.

He exhaled his true energy and pointed his hand, causing raging fires to erupt on both sides of the hillside.

The fire surged and flowed down the hillside like a tidal wave, as if a flash flood had broken out.

Following Zhen Yong Zhenren's instructions, Yang Qisheng quietly slipped through the gap that appeared in the array gate ahead.

(End of this chapter)