Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 218 Outside the World
Xuan Yang Shangren's mind was shaken.

Even with his keen eyesight, he couldn't quite understand why Li Wushou had just acted that way.

But he keenly sensed that as the three sticks of incense burned out, this place seemed to be parasitized by something!
To his surprise, a mysterious aura suddenly swirled around the square table in front of Li Wushou.

So much so that when he looked at the square table, it was as if he were seeing the sky!

Judging from the other party's gesture, it seemed as if they were about to turn the world upside down.
Master Xuan Yang felt it was absurd, but his unease grew stronger!

What the other party just said was inexplicable. A paper puppet seemed to be tainted by the incense of gods. How could such a thing become the master of a Taoist temple? Isn't this just making people laugh?
But what exactly is the Three Immortals Pavilion?
How dare they name it after an immortal?
More than a hundred years ago, he roamed the cultivation world of the outer seas and had never heard of the Three Immortals Pavilion.

The cloud-like pattern above the other party's head clearly indicates that they are from the Land of Misfortune. Could they be from some mysterious force within the Land of Misfortune?
After Li Wushou finished speaking, he no longer paid attention to Xuan Yang Shangren's giant face.

Through continuous observation, he has come to the conclusion that this Xuan Yang Shangren may have been very strong in the past, but his current state is clearly not right!
Otherwise, I would have already entered his training ground and simply captured him to refine him. Why bother with all this talk and deception?
The other party even had to constantly suppress their murderous intent towards the Paper Goddess!
This reassured Li Wushou somewhat, so he continued to concentrate and wait for an opportunity.

Just as the white jade platform beneath his feet was about to turn completely black, Li Wushou raised an eyebrow and suddenly shouted:
"Heaven and earth may have flaws, but human effort can overcome them!"

With his right hand supporting the edge of the table, Li Wushou lifted the square table with force, and it slowly tilted upwards.

"Crack!"

Like a thunderclap, the entire world slowly tilted as the square table was lifted.

Master Xuan Yang's expression changed drastically!

Has the world really turned upside down?
What kind of magic is this?
If human strength were at its peak, wouldn't it be possible to overturn the world with this method?
Veins bulged on Li Wushou's hands, and the flesh on his arms was torn open, revealing the texture of the muscles. He threw his head back and roared angrily:

"turn!"

Blood surged forth, and the square table in front of him suddenly overturned, along with the sky above Xuan Yang Shangren, which was suspended in mid-air!

The world spun around, but the three-legged square table, with its one-foot radius, remained perfectly still.

The Paper Goddess stood not far behind Li Wushou, also enveloped in the mist.

The upside-down world had nothing to do with her. At this moment, she stared blankly at the back of the figure in front of her that was turning the world upside down, her mind reeling!
He kept muttering, "The abbot of the Three Immortals Pavilion White Paper Taoist Temple—Paper Guanyin! Paper Goddess!"

The scene changes like a shadow puppet show changing its stage curtain, transforming the world in the blink of an eye!

The once bright and clear world suddenly turned dark, mixed with a faint mist.

With a thought, Li Wushou returned the square table in front of him and the paper goddess behind him to the Three Immortals Hall.

With his perspective widening, the previous feeling of scattered and inverted vision disappeared, and Li Wushou's vision returned to normal.

"Hiss!"

A soft sound suddenly came from his side, and a golden longsword pierced the darkness, slashing towards Li Wushou's neck.

Immediately afterwards, rustling sounds came from the darkness, as if several well-trained groups of people were marching in unison towards Li Wushou to attack.

A dark shadow rose up behind him and pounced on the figure wielding a knife at Li Wushou. Immediately afterwards, a whimpering sound came from the darkness.

Li Wushou looked around and saw a golden expanse, with dozens of golden-armored immortals surrounding him.

These golden-armored immortals held hands, their golden thatch rising and falling gently as if breathing.

Suddenly, a mysterious force field descended, and Li Wushou clearly felt his flesh and blood suddenly become excited, as if he wanted to run away from home.

Is this like pulling out one's own flesh and blood?
The Golden-Armored Immortal delights in consuming flesh and blood, and souls; it's just unknown whether it's simultaneously absorbing its own soul at this moment.

He muttered something to himself, and the magic sword under his ribs flew out. The sword moved with his will, weaving among the golden-armored immortals.

In the blink of an eye, all the Golden Armored Immortals collapsed to the ground.

With a whoosh, the dark figure rushed towards the pile of corpses and began to devour them with pleasure.

The sounds of whimpering as someone ate echoed all around, creating an eerie and unsettling atmosphere.

Li Wushou sheathed his rib-shaped magic sword, held it in his hand, and carefully examined the "outer heavens" of Xuan Yang Shangren's dojo!
This must be a cave, surrounded by reddish-brown rocks.

His eyes widened in realization; it was indeed the dark, long cave that he and the Paper Goddess had entered before entering the valley.

In an instant, many of my guesses were confirmed.

I took a few steps into the cave, the pebbles under my feet making a faint sound that echoed in the empty cave, adding to the sense of deathly silence.

Whether it was due to the sound waves or not, small pieces of rock began to fall sporadically from the top of the cave.

Suddenly, a "drip!" sound came from the cave ceiling, and water droplets were dripping down the mountainside.

Li Wushou's mind stirred, and he looked up in that direction.

That was the deepest part of the cave! It was several dozen feet away from where he was standing.

The cave was not as long as Li Wushou had imagined; in his memory, he and the Paper Goddess had walked through a dark tunnel for a long time before entering the valley.

At this moment, it appears that the cave is no more than a mile from its entrance to its innermost part.

But Li Wushou quickly understood the reason! He saw that a simple stone bed had been carved out of the innermost part of the mountain wall.

Sitting cross-legged on the stone bed was a withered, desiccated corpse. The corpse had white hair and beard, extremely long eyebrows, and wore a yin-yang Taoist robe. It had long since lost all vitality.

Having experience with Taoist temples, Li Wushou could naturally tell that the mummified corpse should be Master Xuanyang!
In front of Master Xuanyang was a stone table.

It was covered in a lot of dust and hadn't been cleaned in a long time.

The stone table was about four feet long and its height was just up to the chest of Master Xuanyang when he sat cross-legged.

On it was a square stone slab about two feet in size. On the left side of the slab was a rosary, and on the right side was a black pottery jar.

The prayer beads shone brightly, still bearing the aura of Master Lingshan, and contained the scent of numerous living souls.

Needless to say, the black pottery jar was exactly the same as the one that Mr. Jing Shui and Master Ling Shan took out to feed the blue eyeball when they were fighting desperately, and it contained the scent of essence blood.

This must be the ritual vessel they used to hold the sacrificial offerings!
As for the stone slab in the very center, it was also covered with mud and ash, and a yin-yang symbol was carved on it!

The half of the stone slab with the yang fish in the yin-yang diagram was blood red and filled with the smell of blood.

At the position of the sun, a round black pillar protrudes high, its top shattered by stones falling from above the stone table.

On other parts of the Yang fish, a large amount of moss grows.

Nourished by the blood and dust inside the cave, these mosses grew exceptionally well.

A few earthworms and some moss mites can be seen sporadically growing happily in the moss.

The yin half of the yin-yang symbol is dark and damp, filled with an eerie atmosphere.

At the position of Taiyin, there is a white pillar with a row of miniature palaces made of gold and silver paper.

"Tick-tock!"

A drop of water fell from above the stone table, landing precisely on one side of the Yinyu. Water droplets splashed across the stone slab, and a clump of leeches curled up and burrowed into the mud.

Li Wushou looked up and saw that, corresponding to the yin-yang diagram on the stone slab, two gemstones shaped like the sun and moon were inlaid on the top of the cave.

Water droplets seeped out where the "Moonstone" met the mountain, dripping slowly.

At this moment, the two gems seemed to have exhausted their energy and fell into stillness.

Li Wushou stared at all of this, speechless for a long time!

Although he practiced Qi cultivation and considered himself a member of the immortal path, in his view, Qi cultivators were simply people with greater strength. In essence, there was no difference.

But Xuan Yang Shangren's method of creating a world with this stone slab amazed him!
For the first time, he truly experienced what it meant to have supernatural powers.

At this moment, Li Wushou finally understood all the strange things that had happened earlier.

This so-called immortal abode ruins have always been just a stone slab in the eyes of Master Xuan Yang. No wonder there was never any news about such a large-scale ruin in Wufang City.

After he and the Paper Goddess entered the cave, his vision remained distorted and chaotic, making it difficult for him to perceive his surroundings.

He had initially thought it was due to the intense fluctuations in the Yin and Yang energies of the place, but now it seemed that he and the Paper Goddess had been captured and taken into the other party's stone slab dojo.

The so-called valley was just a decoy. From that moment on, Li Wushou and the Paper Goddess had already entered the Taoist temple.

Looking towards the yang fish side of the yin-yang diagram, Li Wushou indeed saw some scattered, undulating miniature mountains outside the diagram, which together formed the shape of a valley.

He nodded to himself, then glanced at the prayer beads and black pottery jar next to the stone slab.

Li Wushou suddenly remembered the two times the world had been transformed within the Taoist temple.

At that moment, the sky and earth turned from incandescent to golden, followed by a rain of blood and a massive influx of vengeful spirits.

Thinking about it now, it must have been the Golden-Armored Immortal offering sacrifices to the stone slab, right? The Golden-Armored Immortal's body blocked the "Sun and Moon Gems" on the top of the cave, which is why the sky and earth turned golden.
The more he looked at Li Wushou, the more amazed he became, and then suddenly a chill ran down his spine!

If even Master Xuan Yang could create such a large Daoist temple within a single stone slab, could the world we inhabit possibly have been created by some terrifying being?

Looking at the mummified corpse of Master Xuanyang, with its eyes lowered and looking down at the stone slab, Li Wushou couldn't help but wonder if there was anyone else who, like Master Xuanyang, was also looking down at him with their eyes lowered.

For some inexplicable reason, Li Wushou felt a sense of unease.

He found the feeling somewhat repulsive; no one wants to be watched like an insect or ant, and Li Wushou certainly didn't want that either.

But then he composed himself. Putting aside whether anyone had such an ability, if they did, he could overturn Xuan Yang Shangren's heaven today, and he might not be unable to overturn even greater heavens in the past.

Thinking too much was pointless, so Li Wushou looked toward the mummified corpse of Master Xuanyang.

"Master, I have already come before you, are you still unwilling to reveal yourself and impart the Great Dao of Yin and Yang to me?"

"Or do you also agree that my method is simpler? And want me to eat you up?"

(End of this chapter)