No~
The Taoist priest's eyes were bloodshot as he glared at the Gate of Life and roared angrily.
He painstakingly spent hundreds of years killing 100,000 cultivators with the potential to become Ghost Kings, all in order to devour them.
By consuming enough Ghost Kings, one can reach the Mahayana stage more quickly and thus travel to the Great World.
Only the Great World possesses sufficient spiritual energy and sound Heavenly Laws to help one achieve immortality.
Becoming an immortal is the greatest obsession of Taoists.
For this reason, he did not hesitate to harm his own virtue, indiscriminately kill innocent people, and even forcibly intercepted souls that could have entered reincarnation, forcibly separating the souls to create ghosts.
Looking at the exasperated Taoist priest, Ling Yun sneered:
"Those who can become immortals are those who are free from karma and have clear minds. You have killed so many people and are tainted by so much karma."
Furthermore! Preventing a soul from entering reincarnation is detrimental to one's virtue, and without sufficient virtue, how can one become an immortal?
"Someone like you wants to become an immortal? That makes immortality too cheap!"
After a pause, Ling Yun said coldly:
"Let me show you what it's like to be a demon slave!"
Upon hearing this, the Taoist priest panicked and immediately knelt down to beg for mercy:
"Young friend, I swear that from this day forward I will turn over a new leaf and become a new person!"
However, when he looked up, he saw that Ling Yun still had a cold look in his eyes.
Seeing this, the Taoist gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice:
"Didn't you say that preventing someone from entering reincarnation is detrimental to one's karma? If you were to refine me into a ghost slave, wouldn't that also detriment one's karma?"
Snap!
Ling Yun slapped the Taoist priest, turning him into a ghost.
"You're comparing yourself to me? That's incredibly insulting!"
The next moment!
Lingyun forcibly turned the Taoist into a ghost slave of Lishan, and Lishan could destroy the Taoist's soul with a single thought.
"Thank you, fellow Daoist!"
Li Shan and Qing Lian walked over and bowed deeply to Ling Yun and the others.
Ling Yun reached out to help the two up, and said with a smile:
"Don't be shy, you've had a delicious meal for free, you should do something for me."
"I'll go make you all some midnight snacks!"
The old woman felt a great sense of accomplishment as she listened to Lingyun praising her cooking.
When the food and wine were served, Li Shan raised his glass and said:
"It is my wife and I'm so fortunate to have met you all. Thank you so much for saving our lives!"
The Li couple drank it all in one gulp.
Ling Yun and the others also downed their drinks in one gulp.
After thinking it over, Lingyun decided to see it through to the end.
He waved his hand slightly, and the couple instantly became real people.
At the same time, Ling Yun also opened Qinglian's soul sea, allowing her to cultivate normally.
Feeling the long-lost warmth, the couple stood frozen in place.
Just as he was about to get up and express his gratitude, Ling Yun waved his hand and smiled:
"Let's drink! Let's drink!"
The next morning, as the sun shone down, Li Shan and Qing Lian rushed out of their room, basking in the sunlight and savoring the long-lost warmth.
"Fifty years! Finally, we can live in the sunlight!"
The couple embraced, their faces glistening with tears.
Seeing this, Ling Yun and his group smiled with satisfaction.
"Young friend, I've prepared a lot of dishes. Keep them for your journey! It's still 20,000 li to Ganlei City!"
The old woman didn't sleep all night. She cooked for more than ten days and put all the dishes into her spatial ring, along with hundreds of jars of her own brewed wine.
Ling Yun patted the old woman on the shoulder and laughed:
"Thank you, Grandma! See you again someday!"
"Farewell, Fellow Daoist Li and Fellow Daoist Qinglian!"
Ling Yun and his group waved goodbye.
"Fellow Daoist, wait a moment!"
At this moment, Li Shan suddenly spoke after seeing the Qilin that Ling Yun and his group were sitting on.
Last night, the Qilin played in the front yard the whole time, and the white Qilin didn't go to the back yard either. Li Shan didn't know that Ling Yun and the others' mounts were Qilin.
"What's wrong, Fellow Daoist Li?"
Lingyun asked curiously.
Li Shan said solemnly:
“A few days ago, when Ah Lian and I were admiring the moon on the roof, we saw two Qilin cubs, one purple and one black. They were worried that the yang energy would harm us, so they did not approach.”
Later, they rushed to a place a hundred miles away and suddenly disappeared!
A purple and black Qilin!
Ling Yun and his group exchanged glances, their faces filled with joy. If they could obtain the two-colored Qilin cubs, they would be able to collect the complete Qilin Technique.
"Thank you, fellow Daoist! Farewell!"
Just as he was about to leave, Ling Yun thought for a moment, then took out a jade sword and handed it to Li Shan.
"This jade sword can protect you for a hundred years. I believe that after a hundred years, you will definitely have the ability to protect yourselves!"
After saying that, Ling Yun and his group rode away on their Qilin.
At this moment, Qinglian pointed at the old woman and said:
"Xiaoling, you..."
The old woman had transformed into an eighteen-year-old girl.
Ling Yun's pat on the shoulder not only helped the old woman regain her youth, but also opened up her soul sea, allowing her to cultivate.
Such a loyal servant, who finally waited until the young lady and her son-in-law were alive, how could Lingyun let her live only a few years?
...
On the way, as if suddenly realizing something, Abao looked at Lingyun and said:
“Brother, we helped Ling Shan with her tribulation, so the cause and effect is the Heavenly Thunder Sect.”
If it weren't for the elder brother's strength, an ordinary person wouldn't have been able to handle this cause and effect.
When the brother decided to save the Lishan couple, he had to bear the karmic consequences of being a Taoist priest.
It was because my brother accepted the karma that we were able to learn about the clues to the purple-black Qilin cub.
Now I understand why those powerful cultivators don't act rashly; the stronger they are, the greater the karmic consequences of their actions!
Upon hearing this, everyone nodded in agreement.
Along this journey, the karma Ling Yun has endured would have killed countless others long ago.
Ling Yun shook his head and smiled:
"Not bad, you actually thought of cause and effect."
You're right. Everyone has to bear the consequences of their actions, and no one can avoid them.
The fewer karmic debts one has, the smoother the path of cultivation!
Ling Yun added:
"Don't overthink it, just do what you want. Cause and effect are things you can't resist, you can't escape them!"
As they spoke, the group arrived at the location where Li Shan had mentioned the disappearance of the purple-black Qilin cub.
Ling Yun immediately recognized it as a spatial barrier.
Then, he waved his hand, and everyone entered the barrier.
Upon seeing the scene before them, everyone frowned. This place was a battlefield ruin, with skeletons scattered everywhere.
Most of them are skeletons of Qilin (mythical creatures), indicating that this war was tens of millions of years ago.
Ling Yun's eyes flickered slightly; perhaps he could glean some insight into the origins of the Golden Cloud Continent from this.
With a whoosh!
Ling Shan broke free from A Bao's embrace, and at the same time, the Qilin beneath him began to stir restlessly.
They were all running in one direction.
About half an hour later, in a mountain cave, the group found two Qilin cubs, one black and one purple, blinking their innocent big eyes and snuggling together.
Upon seeing Ling Yun and the others, the two Qilin cubs were clearly terrified.
Fortunately, Ling Shan jumped in front of the two Qilin and they became affectionate with each other.
Upon realizing that the human before them meant no harm, the two little Qilin blinked their big eyes and looked at each other.
Then, the black Qilin jumped into Shangguan Hong's arms, and the purple Qilin jumped into Xiao Yanran's arms.
The nine-colored Qilin—red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, black, and white—have gathered together.
When the black, white, and purple Qilin reach adulthood, Lingyun will be able to obtain the complete Qilin Technique.
Immediately, Ling Yun prepared to open the River of Time to see what had happened in this battle.
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