The mountains are vast and the world is long. Spring comes and goes, and after several seasons of cold and heat, the youthful years are finally gone in a flash. The young men of the world grow old. Many are famous for a while, but few can remain intact. After the unification of the world, various schools of thought coexist in the world. The remaining royal families and nobles of the original countries also want to stir up some unrest from time to time, but they are always unable to achieve success.

The last somewhat noisy unrest was quelled by the sudden emergence of a great strategist.

The era of various nations has become a thing of the past, and the desperate fights of those with royal blood have become footnotes for the rise of the "Diplomats" on the stage, and have been left in a certain line of history. As time has passed, no one remembers the separatist and divided era that once existed, and everyone feels that the world is already unified.

Emperors of all dynasties worked hard, or indulged in pleasure, but they were all awakened by the characteristics of humanity and either abdicated or restrained themselves again, thus humanity flourished.

Before we knew it, it had been prosperous for a thousand years.

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"The Mohist Mechanical Avenue has reached the city of Jinzhou. Please step back. Jinzhou is a prosperous place. You can enjoy it..."

The clear voice was transmitted very far, and a huge mechanical beast that looked like a dragon or a snake stopped, and people walked out of its body. A young man dressed in black and looking quite noble exclaimed: "The Mo family mechanical beast can gallop thousands of miles in a day. Ordinary beasts cannot get close to it. It can climb mountains and cross seas. It is extraordinary."

“Although this is not my first time riding it, every time I ride it, I feel amazed.”

Previously, they were riding on this [Dragon Soaring Ten Thousand Miles Mechanical Beast] to climb the mountains. A big monster blocked the way, but it was smashed to pieces by the Mo family mechanical beast. The blood and corpses were scattered below. He couldn't help but recall the classics he had read and sighed:

"It is recorded in ancient books that people 700 years ago all relied on horse-drawn carriages. The roads were rugged and difficult to travel, with many ups and downs. It is unknown how many months it would take to travel this 10,000-mile journey."

"If there are any bandits or monsters blocking the way, that's even more unnecessary. According to the standards of a thousand years ago, even a hundred or so ordinary people may not be able to defeat them."

A young man nearby retorted: "How is that possible?!"

"People in the human world who are ten years old can basically draw Qi into their bodies by breathing."

"The Qi is strong, and the punches and kicks are as powerful as the wind. Although it is still very difficult to reach the level of Xiantian Yiqi, and one needs to understand one's mind and see one's nature, as long as one practices in the academies of various places, one can reach the state of Qi flowing through the whole body. Most of them go out as bodyguards, no matter they are from Confucianism, Mohism, or the military school."

"Without this state of mind, how can you hold this bowl of rice?"

"As long as there is one person who practices military skills among the hundred or so people, even if they are just breathing Qi, we can surround and guard them and keep ourselves safe for a period of time. There are also human gods stationed in cities everywhere, so when we go out, we can pray for a talisman and wait for rescue."

"Besides, apart from some evil spirits, most of the monsters in the world are just escapees from the Land of All Spirits. Most of them have crimes. If they are caught, it will be a great achievement. Most of them have been eliminated by students who went out for training. How can they still be so arrogant?"

"The last time a wolf demon entered the country, all the military students in the academy rushed out like they were starving, muttering about military merits that came to them."

The noble young man smiled but did not point out the boy's omission.

It’s just a pity that people nowadays have forgotten that in the era of the various countries in the world thousands of years ago, when spiritual practice was not yet popular, people would only remember the names of brilliant talents, such as the Mighty King, Su Shengyuan, the Shenwu Wen Emperor... and so on.

The young man next to him called out to him, "Li Xuanzuo, it's time to go."

Li Xuanzuo came back to his senses, nodded, and said with a smile: "Yes, it's rare for me to come out this time..."

"It was originally a small matter. I didn't expect that you two would have to accompany me. I feel a little sorry." Two companions beside him, one young man looked elegant and gentle, and was giving directions to the person next to him, while the other was solemn and majestic, like a rock, and answered at this moment:

"It's okay. This matter is of great importance. The teacher originally arranged for us to go with him."

Li Xuanzuo paused and said, "Is the great ancestor King Weiwu okay?"

The majestic young man's expression darkened and he said:

"The teacher is in good health, but when he was young, he fought everywhere, and his body was seriously integrated with the human luck, which backfired badly. Although the teacher's friend often sent a lot of immortal wine, and the teacher has supreme cultivation and ancient military methods, and has lived for a thousand years without decline, but recently the teacher has always said that he has reached his limit."

"The murderous aura and evil spirit of ancient military strategists are too strong, and combined with the destiny of humanity, the backlash to the body and soul is too severe. It is a killing path to slay external demons, not a path to cultivate immortality."

Li Xuanzuo was silent for a moment. As a person who grew up listening to the legend of the mighty King, he felt complicated at the moment and said, "...My condolences."

The young man glanced at him and replied:

"The teacher said that he had lived a very fulfilling life, and everything he did was in line with his heart. He had lived for more than a thousand years without dying, and had witnessed many changes in the human world. He was very satisfied. He was much happier than those gods who had lived for thousands of years like dried bones in a tomb and huddled in caves in the sky."

"I have long since let go of life and death. He only teaches us how to practice and compiles military tactics every day."

"Neither you nor I are teachers, so how can we know the teacher's state of mind?"

Li Xuanzuo burst out laughing and said, "That's the Nanhua Grandmaster's opinion, but you turned it around and said it to me."

"Forget it, let's go. The snacks in Jinzhou are delicious. After coming here to pay our respects to the seniors in the academy, we have to do that thing."

The dignified young man looked calm, glanced at the gentle young man over there, and said, "Junior brother."

"I'm leaving."

"Oh, here I come, brother."

The three of them walked forward, and the majestic young man said, "However, Xuanzuo, what are you doing coming to the capital from your place of retreat this time?"

Li Xuanzuo said, "I have been practicing in the mountains with my teacher for more than seventeen years. This time I came back, in addition to following my teacher's orders to resolve this matter, one is to visit the ancestors, and the other is to go to the Nine Stele to pay my respects again as usual."

When that incident was mentioned, the expressions of the three of them became a little solemn.

"Is it the Changsheng Sect?"

"I don't know...but it's possible."

The Changsheng Sect led the people onto the evil path, refining blood into elixirs and swallowing them to prolong life.

It is a great harm.

The three stopped talking and found a place to stay in the city. They ordered the famous dishes from the most prosperous place in the provincial capital and had a hearty meal. Then they rested for a day and left their residence at sunset curfew. They each used their own methods to head towards the place where the clues were.

He moved forward all the way, following the exposed traces, hiding himself, and had already left the city.

The figure that was bitten before was running fast all the way, and the speed was no longer that of an ordinary cultivator. The three of them looked at each other and quickly caught up, only to see it blend into a dead forest in the mountains. Li Xuanzuo and the other two concealed their breath and immediately stepped into it, but after several turns, they found that there was a different world in the mountains, and an old temple was hidden.

The temple is hidden in the deepest part of the forest. Under the moonlight, there are century-old dead trees with branches growing horizontally and intertwined with each other. The moonlight is clear and the shadows of the branches and leaves are projected on the ground. When the wind blows past, there are rustling sounds like ghosts. Although I know that in this prosperous era, all ghosts will be suppressed by the City God, I am still a little frightened in my heart.

However, the Buddha enshrined in that dilapidated temple looked like nothing he had ever seen before.

Sitting upright on the lotus platform, making the fearless seal of Buddhism, he looked compassionate, with his eyes slightly drooped, but full of cracks. In such an environment, it was quite frightening and terrifying. The majestic young man lowered his voice and asked, "Xuan Zuo, what kind of Buddha statue is this?"

"Why haven't I seen it before?"

Li Xuanzuo said: "I don't know... It doesn't seem to be the Western Buddha that is popular now."

"From the looks of it, it looks a bit like one of the ancient Buddhas that were swept away more than a thousand years ago."

"Ancient Buddhas? I heard that they were enlightened by Master Xichu. However, some people always want to find traces of these ancient Buddhas from clues. They think that the current system perfected by countless masters is not as good as these things from ancient times. It's really ridiculous."

"Well, my teacher said that there are two things in the world, yin and yang, which encompass everything. Where there is good, there is evil."

"Thousands of years ago, the cultivation methods were controlled by the noble families and major sects. There are some in the world..."

"Practicing is extremely difficult. Although it has been popularized and allowed them to see a wider world, the pain of seeing but not being able to enter such a vast world is far worse than never seeing it at all. The yin and yang are constantly changing, and there will always be ferocious people and endless ambitions appearing."

"He is going to..."

And at this moment, they saw that the "tail" that had been targeted for a long time took out several tools and arranged an extremely complicated formation on the ground. Then he performed a strange spell, and a faint Buddhist light rose up.

At this time, Li Xuanzuo and the young man had not yet made a move, but the gentle young man in white had already drawn his sword. A sharp edge burst out, and then it went straight straight towards the person over there. The "tail" had not yet reacted before the sword pierced through the chest, interrupting his spell and causing serious injuries.

Li Xuanzuo's mouth twitched slightly: "Is he still so fierce?"

The young man smiled bitterly and said, "It has always been like this."

The two hurried over, only to see that all the weapons had been cut off. The man was lying there, covering his wounds. He was seriously injured and could not react. In this short period of time, more than a dozen murderous people rushed out from behind the big Buddha in the ruined temple and surrounded the three people. The leader had an extremely grim expression and said, "We've been discovered!"

"Foolish man! He didn't even realize he was being watched!"

In a rage, he went straight for his subordinate who attracted the three people with a knife, but was knocked away by a gun. The majestic young man raised his hand and grabbed it, and the flowing light turned into a blade. He held a black spear in his hand, and wielded the spear like a poisonous dragon, instantly breaking the protective Qi of several people.

"This is!!! A military tactic?!"

"People from the academy? Or the military?"

"Quickly surround and kill them. If the news from here gets out, we will be in big trouble!"

All the subordinates rushed forward with their swords drawn. They seemed to be Buddhists, but their methods were similar to those of Taoism. If you look closely, it is a hodgepodge of various schools and sects. When the dozen people were trying to intercept them, the leader turned around, half-knelt in front of the broken Buddha statue, cut his palm with a dagger, blood flowed down, and he chanted some scriptures.

A faint Buddha light emerged from the Buddha statue, and in an instant, all kinds of strange phenomena were about to emerge.

Suddenly, there was a sound of breaking through the air, and the long spear had turned into a residual shadow, instantly piercing through him. However, after being pierced, the man did not fall down, but struggled forward, kneeling in front of the compassionate and smiling Buddha statue, crawling on his knees and mumbling, with blood flowing down, but his face was still full of piety, and he said:

"If you practice the power of giving and achieve enlightenment, and because of the power of giving, you can attain Buddhahood, then if you enter the chamber of great compassion, you will hear this Dharani for a moment."

"If the giving is not perfect, this person will quickly attain the status of the teacher of gods and men, and will achieve success through the power of practicing and keeping the precepts. Because of the power of keeping the precepts, he will attain Buddhahood."

"With this body I take refuge in the Buddha, with this soul I take refuge in the Buddha, with this blood I take refuge in the Buddha."

"The greatest praise, the greatest joy."

"The Tathagata of Infinite Life, Determined Light, the King of Light."

"The Buddha of Infinite Longevity!"

The voice was faint and blood was flowing. The rest of the people were defeated and captured. Li Xuanzuo looked grim and said, "Longevity Buddha? Isn't this the ancient Buddha who was killed and wiped out more than a thousand years ago? The tragedy of Nalanda that year is still vivid in our memory. How could this Buddha make a comeback?"

"My two junior brothers, this matter is even more serious than we expected. Seal this place immediately, and then quickly return to Jinzhou Academy to report to King Mighty and the other teachers..."

But before the voice fell, the expressions of the two people over there suddenly changed, and they said:

"careful!!!"

"Xuan Zuo, push it open!"

"?!!!"

Li Xuanzuo's pupils contracted, and he felt a shadow spreading and covering himself. The Buddha statue behind him had already absorbed the blood and flesh of these people, and revived. He said coldly: "...Since you know, then stay...Li Zhai, the leader of the military strategists, has also become careless because of his old age?"

"I actually only let you three youngsters handle this matter..."

"Ridiculous, ridiculous."

When the voice fell, the Buddha statue behind them emitted bright Buddha light, and Li Xuanzuo and the other two responded in unison. Although they were outstanding people of the younger generation, their cultivation was only above the innate Qi level. They needed to experience and break through their state of mind before they could get a glimpse of the realm of true people.

This time the mission exceeded their expectations.

This move was so domineering and vast that it seemed as if the heaven and the earth were collapsing.

Then, all he saw before his eyes was brilliant golden color and vast light. He could faintly hear the sound of endless mysterious chanting in his ears, like fairies scattering flowers from the sky and golden lotus emerging from the ground. It was as if he had abandoned his body and his soul was ascending into the land of immortality where there was no more cycle of life and death. However, his own will was still struggling.

This feeling only lasted for a moment, and then there was a flash of cold light before their eyes. The scene of the Buddha's kingdom before their eyes, the peaceful and comfortable picture collapsed layer by layer, and turned into this mountain temple and crisscrossing cold branches and dead twigs. A cold wind blew, and Li Xuanzuo and the other two woke up, only to see a young man standing immortal in front of them.

He was wearing a black robe and a jade crown to tie his hair up, but he was able to hold up the majestic Buddha's light with just one hand.

The unfathomable and terrifying Buddha statue could not even move forward, and shouted in shock and anger: "You!!!"

Li Xuanzuo came back to his senses and hurriedly thanked him, saying, "I am Li Xuanzuo, I don't know who you are, senior."

"I?"

The young man turned around, looking extremely handsome, and smiled:

"I am Yang Jian from Meishan."

With a single hand, the Buddha's light shattered, and the Buddha statue was shocked and angry, saying:

"Is it you?!!"

"Under the command of Supreme Xuanwei."

"Qingyuan Miaodao Zhenjun?!"

The expressions of Li Xuanzuo and the other two changed slightly.

True Lord? !!!

That makes him a big shot among the six realms!

The 'Buddha statue' said: "You, how could you come down to the mortal world? And at the Peach Banquet, you shouldn't be near the Zhenwu Emperor...?"

Yang Jian raised his hand, a silver light flashed, and a three-pointed, double-edged sword appeared in his hand.

His eyebrows were raised, he was not wearing any armor, only a black robe, holding a weapon, and answered:

"I am here under the order of the Emperor to eliminate that person's 'back-up'."