The True Lord has arrived

Chapter 198 The Power to Transcend Time, The Wind Rises!
The earth cracked open, and a giant spider leg pierced the ground, pointing towards the sky with hysterical madness. Then, the part of the ground where it was located began to collapse and sink downwards.

The great demon Weaver Girl's plan to completely merge with the Zhongnan Mountain's ley lines has failed.

They were indeed forced out by Shi Xuanxing and the Taishan Guards. However, the moment they appeared, both Zhou Yan and Xiweizi felt that terrifying demonic power that had been accumulated for more than two thousand years.

It was filled with demonic energy!
Xiweizi realized that this great demon was even stronger than he had anticipated.

A slight panic stirred within him, which was only natural. He exhaled, his Daoist mind remaining calm. Wang Zhenwei pulled him back, saying urgently, "Senior brother, the level and methods of this monster are beyond what the Daoist Gang Lei can handle!"

To fight against a powerful demon with over two thousand years of cultivation using only human strength!

Moreover, it has the origins of Buddhist scriptures and has absorbed the Zhongnan Mountain's geological veins for two thousand years.

It's like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

Xiweizi, however, remained nonchalant, casually flicking his sleeve and saying, "Things have come to this, there's no other way." He raised his finger to the sky, chanting the Daoist scriptures, and with his full Daoist cultivation, he soared towards the heavens.

boom! ! !
The lightning bolts moved swiftly, gradually changing from their original bright blue to cyan.

It was the power of the Daoist Grand Ceremony, the Daoist Azure Thunder formed from pure energy. Xiweizi's hair and beard spread out in the thunder, and he stood in mid-air. He swept his fingers across the sky, and the thunder roared down towards Zhiniang. Each bolt of thunder was like the roar of the sky.

The grand ritual blessed the pure energy, which transformed into thunder.

Ordinary fourth-rank demons would be shattered by the continuous blue lightning. Bolts of lightning and flashes of electricity illuminated the entire Zhongnan Mountain area in a blazing white light. The demonic aura on the Weaver Girl's body, as well as the armor formed from the earth's energy, all crumbled.

The weaver raised her head and let out a series of roars.

Indeed, the lightning was constantly weakening the Weaver Girl's power, especially since this guy had unfortunately absorbed the power of the earth's veins. The lightning locked her down tightly, piercing through the Weaver Girl's soul and flesh from the sky to the earth.

Zhou Yan muttered, "He's still not dead?!"

"Manjushri, you monk, what kind of monster did you leave behind?"

"Ouch, ouch, why is there such a loud thunder?!"

A series of shouts came from over there. Zhou Yan had just seen the monks down the mountain. There were two monks, and one of them was very familiar. It was the old monk who had separated from them before, Monk Kongkong, carrying Xuanzang's staff.

There was also a monk with a sorrowful face, thin and pale.

The monk Kongkong rushed up. Zhou Yan recognized him, so the fire from his battle robe didn't burn the old monk. However, even Zhou Yan was somewhat surprised to see the old monk in this dangerous situation, and said, "What are you doing here at this time..."

Zhou Yan's eyes flickered slightly, but he only glanced casually at the monk Kongkong.

Then he looked at the thunder.

After a pause, the young Taoist priest shifted his gaze back, staring intently at the old monk.

The monk Kongkong scratched his head, silently took half a step back, covered his back, and said, "Well, Benefactor Zhou, you're staring at this old monk like that, and it's making me a little uneasy. What's wrong?"

Zhou Yan slowly shook his head and said, "I just want to ask one question."

“Monk, you’ve actually come back.”

The monk Kongkong said, "Didn't I know you were going to deal with the Weaver Girl? The Weaver Girl is an incarnation of Manjushri Bodhisattva. So I rushed all the way to Mount Wutai, the sacred site of Manjushri Bodhisattva, and finally managed to get some good stuff."

He pulled something out of his pocket like a treasure and opened it with a click.

Inside was a string of beads, with three Bodhi seeds strung among the small beads, emitting extremely strong Buddhist energy and dragon energy. Monk Kongkong said, "These are the prayer beads used by Manjushri Bodhisattva in the past. Bodhi seeds can also restrain desires, so they should have some restraint on this monster."

Zhou Yan was both amused and exasperated, and said, "You came back again just for this?"

"Any other tricks?"

The monk Kongkong shouted, "What did you say?"

The thunder was so loud that it filled the entire sky.

He couldn't hear anyone speaking, so Zhou Yan shouted several more times.

The monk Kongkong finally understood, and nodded repeatedly, saying loudly, "Yes, yes, benefactor, I have two more similar methods to deal with the Weaver Girl!"

The monk Kongkong pointed to the sorrowful-looking monk behind him and said, "This is my junior brother. He is skilled in the [Womb Realm Mandala Technique]. I thought it would be of some help to the Weaver Girl, so we all came."

Thunder roared through the sky, bombarding the Weaver Girl. Although Zhou Yan was worried about whether the old Taoist could kill her, his expression remained calm. After a moment's thought, he bowed slightly according to Taoist etiquette and said:
"This humble Taoist priest is Zhou Yan, and this master is..."

The sorrowful-looking monk clasped his hands together in prayer.

"This humble monk, Bukong, has met the true master."

The Buddhist names of these two fellow disciples are quite interesting.

One is empty, the other is not empty.

I don't know whether emptiness is better than non-emptiness, or non-emptiness is better than emptiness.

The monk Kongkong chuckled and patted the bald head of the monk Bukong, saying, "Although Bukong is from the Lion Kingdom, he has been studying in the Tang Dynasty for a long time and is most skilled in the magic of the Womb Realm. He is the most suitable person to suppress the remaining Buddha nature."

"However, the power of lightning is most effective at dispelling evil spirits; perhaps it can destroy this Weaver Girl?"

The monk Kongkong still had hope in his eyes.

Zhou Yan suddenly realized something and murmured, "Gale-force thunder to ward off evil?"

He suddenly sensed something was wrong, and as he pondered, his pupils suddenly contracted.

"wrong!"

Previously, the True Lord of the Western Peak had already uttered the word "no," intending to make a move so as not to let the Eastern Peak steal his prestige. However, in an instant, the True Lord of the Western Peak withdrew his consciousness and returned directly to the Western Peak.

This left the three mountain gods completely baffled.

Suddenly, the thunder scattered.

The weaver died with a mournful cry and collapsed, while Xiweizi gasped for breath.

Seeing the giant spider demon lose its life, the plan succeeded.

However, before the Taoist could even breathe a sigh of relief, he saw that the limbs, which had almost turned into complete char, actually twitched and slowly moved again. The life force on the spider demon reappeared, even more powerful than before.

"what?"

Seeing that the spider demon's vitality had actually returned, Xiweizi had no time to think and continued to suppress it with lightning. His hair turned much whiter. This human cultivator seemed to be deep in thought, and then spent lightning a second time to kill it, as if he had gained some insight.

Finally, after exhausting his true energy, he forcefully used lightning to take away the Weaver Girl's three lives, and then the Weaver Girl revived for the third time.

Having confirmed his guess, he said:

"wrong."

"Grandmaster Uncle, this spider."

The Taoist master's hair had turned completely white, but his tone remained calm and peaceful as he said, "This spider is still connected to Manjushri Bodhisattva, at least in terms of life force. The Bodhisattva of Buddhism has already attained the fruit of Buddhahood, possessing relics that are neither born nor die, neither defiled nor pure, neither increasing nor decreasing."

“Pure vitality is difficult to erase conceptually.”

In a distant land, the Master of the Azure Netherworld Pavilion observed the battle from the sidelines. After a long silence, he said:

"To be able to kill the Weaver Girl to this extent, for a mere mortal Taoist priest to expose her true nature, and this Taoist priest is only a hundred years old, the growth of the human race is truly astonishing." Xiweizi's lightning magic was equivalent to killing the Weaver Girl several times over.

However, this also means that everything that the Weaver Girl had accumulated as an individual was stripped away, thus bringing her even closer to that being, [Ancient Dragon Seed, Eight Buddha Masters], Manjushri Bodhisattva.

Zhou Yan also realized something.

The Daoist thunderbolts can annihilate evil magic, but the true nature of this monster, apart from the evil magic, also has something else: it has absorbed the earth's energy for two thousand years, as well as the residual divine thoughts of Manjushri.

"Is this monster seeking life through death, using this as a means to transcend its tribulation?"

Xiweizi fell from the sky. This Taoist master had actually killed Zhiniang and forced her to reveal her true form, but he was ultimately just a mortal. He had lost a great deal of vital energy and twenty years of his lifespan, and now he was barely breathing.

Zhou Yan helped up the Taoist priest who had depleted one of the Weaver Girl's health bars and forced her to use her full abilities. The old Taoist looked much older, but he reached out and gripped Zhou Yan's arm tightly, his voice weak but firm:
"Grandmaster Uncle, stop him."

"We must stop this calamity here."

The Great Master of Taoism is upright, dignified, and serene.

"There's one more thing..."

He leaned close to Zhou Yan's ear, his eyes wide, and struggled to speak:
"Old Taoist, in the old Taoist's meditation room, the fourth book on the third row of the bookshelf, if you move it, there will be a secret room. Inside, inside are my books, those books, Grandmaster Uncle, you must burn them for me!"

"It absolutely must not be seen!"

"Do you know?!"

Zhou Yan looked at the old Taoist's familiar face and his lips twitched.

You want to clear your browsing history before you die, right?

He reached out and patted the old Taoist on the shoulder. The old Taoist, who was still rambling on, suddenly froze, feeling that the life force escaping from his riddled body after being bombarded with thunder magic had actually stopped.

His pupils contracted, his heart churning with turmoil. The young Taoist lowered his eyes, his finger pressed to his lips, and said, "I cannot extend your lifespan."

"But it wouldn't be difficult to keep you alive."

Xiweizi's heart surged with turmoil as he looked at the young Taoist with slightly graying temples and said:

"who are you?!"

The young Taoist replied, "From the Taishanglou Temple, Grandmaster Uncle."

"how?"

The old Taoist priest was stunned for a moment, then laughed heartily: "The highest good!"

He sat there, powerless to fight, while the completely crazed Weaver Girl screamed incessantly, shooting out strands of spider silk. At this moment, the Weaver Girl began to devour the power of the earth's veins. Ku Rongzi shouted, "No, this spider demon, this spider is still getting bigger?!"

The Weaver Girl let out a series of painful roars and began to grow larger and larger in a visible way. In this world of immortals and gods, the Zhongnan Mountain ley lines cover an area of ​​thousands of miles, and the Weaver Girl spent two thousand years transforming the entire Zhongnan Mountain into her own "spider web".

She almost succeeded.

They were first detected, then their veins were severed, and finally they were killed by the Daoist's pure lightning.

At this moment, almost in its final, most hysterical, and most frantic counterattack, in the small courtyard of Lishan, the white jade lion cat stared wide-eyed at the transformation of the Weaver Girl, who was completely twisted and turned into a giant beast, unable to transform into human form as the price.

It transforms into an existence with the Zhongnan Mountain's veins forming a spider web.

If a spider web were made from thousands of miles of earth veins, how huge would this spider have to be?

The wind howled, and thunder roared from the clouds. The giant spider's body had grown so tall that it was invisible even from the gate of the Louguan Temple on Zhongnan Mountain. It seemed to be on the top of the clouds, with only its huge legs falling from the clouds and its silk hanging down and swaying.

Mount Kunlun is ten thousand ren high.

This enormous spider is over five thousand meters tall, with clouds swirling around its legs. Its hiss is like thunder, and as it moves slowly forward, it is enough to crush mountains one after another.

This is not a demon or spirit, but rather falls into the category of the most terrifying monsters that have appeared in human history.

The fate of Yanhuang is—【Ominous】.

The Old Mother of Lishan said, "...To merge with the earth's veins for two thousand years, to abandon the future, and to transform into an immeasurably huge being, if we don't mention the cost, this has already touched upon the methods of my friend."

The white jade lion cat said, "...Emperor Earth God?"

The Old Mother of Lishan nodded.

The white jade lion cat felt a chill run down its spine.

Such terrifying power must come at a great cost, but setting aside the despair, resentment and madness of the past two thousand years, no matter what the Weaver Girl will become after today, at this moment, with hatred, unwillingness, madness and time, she has reached the extreme.

It must have been woven by the Weaver Girl over two thousand years.

This was the final measure prepared to capture and kill the ancient dragon and the Bodhisattva.

The white jade lion cat looked bewildered.

Unable to comprehend why, despite having a better background, he couldn't do this; even more bewildered, how could a mere human force the Weaver Girl to such a state? This enormous [Great Ferocity] continued to emit painful howls as it moved towards the Supreme Pavilion.

If it continues outwards, it could smash through mountains, and even—

They began to devour human cities.

The earth shook and mountains trembled—this was not a metaphor, but a reality. Zhou Yan steadied himself, made a hand gesture, his sleeves billowed, and purple energy gathered beneath him. The golden true form of the Five Sacred Mountains appeared between the young Taoist's brows, and his aura surged forth in this situation.

The clouds piled up above the Taishanglou Temple, reflecting the purple aura, sunlight, and thunder.

It vaguely transformed into a figure.

What does it mean that Manjushri Bodhisattva's illusory body swallowed the earth's veins?

What does it mean that Zhongnan Mountain has stood up?

"At this point, this is the only way..."

The power of the Lord of Mount Tai.

Zhou Yan's pupils rippled, intending to transform into the Lord of Mount Tai at any cost, sacrificing his fundamental essence to stop the enormous, ever-growing, and advancing ferocious monster. However, at that moment, the wind suddenly intensified—

A continuous series of whooshing sounds filled the air, coming from afar and piercing through the void. The giant spider froze, emitting a series of shrill screams. Countless huge crossbow bolts pierced through the spider's body and fell to the ground.

There was one in front of Zhou Yan!
Golden light slowly spread out—

It is entirely black, extremely long and huge, and inscribed with ancient Qin seal script.

[Casted in the first year of Emperor Zheng of the Great Qin Dynasty to slay the gods]

"Great...Qin...?"

Rumbling--

The mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin at Mount Li has been opened to the public.

(End of this chapter)