Chapter 129 The End of the Nine Old Chapters of Nine Mountains
Zhao Fu dodged Meng Bujiu's attack by leaning sideways and was about to cross the threshold of the stone gate.
Several red lines shot out from He Wu's sleeves, trying to keep her out. The girl with the pigtails clapped her hands in frustration, "She's cheating! Tian Jiu! She's cheating!"
The fight between these people affected Wang Fengxu. He was hit by a spell, his body stiff and unable to move. He could only howl and beg for mercy: "If my lady wants to go in, just let her go! Hey, you guys watch over her and beat her!"
Zhao Fu was forced to the right side of the stone gate, leaning against the mountain wall. He looked up and smiled, "You guys all want to get in so badly, but you're just talking big."
"I'm here to explore the way for you. Why are you blocking me?"
"Zhao Fu... She's Zhao Fu, the White God of Wealth!" Third Master Ying's cloudy eyes widened in disbelief. "She... She's not dead! What on earth is going on?"
Meng Bujiu said nothing, but stood silently before the stone gate, pointing his sword at the person who was about to make a move: "Anyone who enters will be killed."
Zhao Fu sarcastically said, "What are you still standing there for? There are only nine spots for immortality. Instead of giving it to this little Taoist priest, why not let me take you in with me? - I swear by the ancestors of the Zhao family that this is not an empty promise!"
"What do you mean there are only nine people?" Master Ying San's eyelids began to twitch again.
Wang Suqing teased, "You even killed your own brother. I'm afraid it's not appropriate to swear in the name of the Zhao family."
"That's unavoidable," Zhao Fu said with a smile. "I'd like to rekindle my brotherly relationship with Meng Xian, but unfortunately, he doesn't consider himself a member of the Zhao family."
She turned her head and raised two fingers to push away Meng Bujiu's sword. "Master Meng, I almost broke through to the immortal gate, and it was because of me that you were able to glimpse the secrets of heaven. Why don't you know how to be grateful?"
Meng Bujiu said nothing, standing in front of the stone gate like a stubborn rock.
"If you won't go in, then give me this opportunity." Zhao Fu slowly stood up, a dark resentment lingering between his eyebrows, revealing a somewhat ferocious look. "I'm not doing this for myself alone."
After saying that, she flew forward and soon engaged in a fight with Meng Bujiu, and gradually they became evenly matched.
"How did she become so powerful that she could fight against a half-immortal..." Master Ying San had cold sweat on his forehead.
Ruan Mengxiu took out a talisman from his arms and floated it towards Zhao Fu. As soon as he got close, the talisman turned into black ash in an instant.
Seeing this, Ruan Mengxiu said coldly, "The resentment is deep... How many souls has her Punishment Department devoured?"
Wang Suqing said slowly, "She must have imprisoned hundreds of thousands of ghosts to possess her in order to increase her magical power."
"What!" Everyone gasped.
Life and death in this world have their own destiny, and they always stabilize at a certain balanced measure. Generally speaking, forcibly detaining hundreds of thousands of souls in the human world will cause irreversible divine punishment.
However, few people can achieve this in a short period of time.
But Zhao Fu had disappeared for at least forty or fifty years, so it was not unexpected that she made such a crazy plan.
"To imprison a living soul, is this what you mean by 'bringing thousands of people to the Immortal Gate'?" Meng Bujiu said in a sarcastic tone.
"They are only temporarily under my control. As long as I attain enlightenment, I will immediately disband the Punishment Department. If I lie, I will never become an immortal and attain enlightenment!" Zhao Fu condensed the black energy in his palm with his backhand and slapped it towards Meng Bujiu's right arm holding the sword.
The two men were fighting in front of the stone gate, but Wang Fengxu suddenly felt a heavy blow to his chest and spit out blood.
Tianjiu, who was pressed against the rock wall by Longzhu, suddenly laughed softly, reached out and grasped the long handle of the silver mop in front of him, and with a click, broke it into two pieces.
Long Zhu frowned, caught the broken half and placed it across Tian Jiu's neck again, but she only gently grasped her wrist. Long Zhu was not willing to be outdone, and the two of them secretly competed. Before the winner was decided, Zhao Fu cried out in pain from a distance, holding his forehead and said, "Tian Jiu, what did you do!"
Tian Jiu's eyes curled up slightly: "There is still a fragment of the soul in your body."
Zhao Fu was stunned, and then he burst into laughter: "You...you even lied to me!"
"I didn't lie to you. I just knew that you would come today." Tianjiu said slowly.
"No wonder Meng Bujiu wanted to kill me. You came to hand me the knife. Since you knew it in advance, why didn't you take it away earlier?" Zhao Fu's eyes turned red, and a fragment with a faint glow broke out from between his eyebrows.
"Earlier or later, what difference does it make? You've helped me a lot over the years. Even though you have selfish motives, it doesn't matter."
The fragment meandered and floated, fell back to Tianjiu's fingertips, and then passed through his fingers and put the fragment into Wang Fengxu's eyebrows.
The moment the fragments sank in, Wang Fengxu's eyes widened, his pupils suddenly shrank, and a short, muffled groan came from his throat. The light in his eyes quickly faded, replaced by a confused and turbid color.
His body was becoming a prison, a vessel being forcibly occupied by some ancient and powerful force. His limbs and bones no longer obeyed his commands, and his consciousness, before this power, was as small as a candle in a gust of wind, its tiny flame being crushed and extinguished bit by bit.
He tried to struggle, but no sound came out, only a silent cry from the depths of his consciousness. The feeling wasn't pain, but something far more terrifying. His memories, his emotions, everything he was, were being forcibly seized and swallowed by an irresistible will.
Wang Suqing bit her finger and tried to hold back the three judges in front of her with the blood talisman technique. Although Tian Jiu stared at the changes in Wang Fengxu and had no intention of fighting, he still took the time to raise his hand in order to carry out his plan. A palm technique full of spiritual power was launched, which gradually formed a mountain-like illusion, and was about to crush everyone in front of him.
Everyone raised their hands and tried their best, but they were still no match for Tianxiao's full-strength palm strike and began to retreat step by step.
Baihe also summoned stone barriers as a buffer, but the momentum of Jade Mountain's collapse remained unabated. Longzhu threw away the broken mop, stepped forward to block the front, and helped everyone resist the majestic sacred mountain.
The pain and struggle on Wang Fengxu's face gradually subsided, and an extremely unfamiliar expression slowly appeared on his face.
"Wang Fengxu!" Amidst the violent wind caused by the shock of spiritual power, Wang Suqing shouted forward, the complex emotions in his voice were very moving, and those eyes that always had a bit of laziness and cleverness were now bottomless and without any emotion.
Even the aura around him changed completely, and the eccentric little Taoist priest from Qingcheng Temple seemed to have disappeared from then on.
Tian Jiu pointed inside the stone gate, and a faint light began to light up in the gate, forming a vortex. Soon, a strange illusion was reflected inside.
Mountains overlap and float in the void. There is no sun and moon intersecting, and no day and night changing. It seems to be a solidified and eternal secret place.
That is... Jiushan?
Everyone was in a trance.
"Wake up! Wang Fengxu, don't go in!"
Bai He's mind raced as he spoke to Long Zhu, "You're the only one who can close the door. Leave this place to us."
Long Zhu hesitated for a moment: "But you..."
Before she could finish her words, the power given by heaven and earth sent her out and pushed her to the front of the door.
Without Long Zhu's resistance, the mountain transformed by Tian Jiu's magic power crashed heavily into the crowd. Wang Suqing spat out a mouthful of blood. The sharp spikes formed by the rugged rocks of the mountain directly pierced Bai Heye's ribs. He showed a look of pain for only a moment, and the next second he shouted to Long Zhu, "Go! Leave me alone!"
Long Zhu calmed himself down and quickly turned around, only to hear Tian Jiu say, "Don't you want to go back to Jiushan? I've opened the passage. You just need to go in and you can go home."
She interrupted the other person's spellcasting with a sneer: "Don't lie to me, I know I can't go back now no matter what."
Tianjiu was a little surprised by her realization: "Once the new Jiuxiao is born, you can go back."
Long Zhu was unmoved: "By that time, the world will no longer exist, right?"
After a long silence, Tianjiu suddenly smiled and said, "So you've already guessed it."
Long Zhu thought: This might be the reason why that person has been guarding the stone gate for a hundred years.
Wang Fengxu seemed to be attracted by the Nine Mountains and began to approach the stone gate unconsciously. Meng Bujiu wanted to stop him, but was entangled by the Three Judges. He was outnumbered and gradually became exhausted and fell into a disadvantage.
Di Ba held two hammers in his hands, Ren Qi held a sanxian in his arms, and Ren Wu squatted on a stone wall, blocking Meng Bujiu's steps with a red line.
Facing the three judges' pressing encirclement, Meng Bujiu stood alone in front of the door, leaning on his sword. His old Taoist robe rustled in the wind, and a hint of fatigue flashed across his calm eyes.
There is no room for retreat and I don’t want to retreat any further.
He suddenly gave up all blocking and let the opponent's attack tear at his protective aura. The sound of the sanxian cut scars on his flesh, but he seemed unaware and just slowly closed his eyes.
Wang Suqing, who was still resisting Tian Jiu's pressure from a distance, suddenly understood something. She said absentmindedly, "Senior Brother!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Meng Bujiu suddenly opened his eyes. They were no longer empty, but filled with the determination to burn himself to death with the heaven and earth.
Di Ba's pupils trembled, and her eyes quickly swept over Tian Jiu. After a brief consideration, she used her body as a shield without hesitation, raised her hand and swung her fist, blocking Meng Bujiu.
However, it was too late to stop it.
Meng Bujiu opened his arms, and the immense power that had been condensed within him for countless years was completely ignited at this moment. Then—
Released with a loud bang.
No sound.
First, a point of extreme white light exploded from his chest, and the light instantly swallowed up his body. Then it grew stronger and stronger, ruthlessly sweeping across the entire scene.
Diba bore the brunt of the blow. Though she possessed the strength of a dragon and an elephant, it paled in comparison to the force powerful enough to split mountains and shatter peaks. Her body shattered, revealing flesh and blood, bones and veins that were still alive, though still alive. Finally, she half-knelt, her remains collapsing like a crumbling mountain. Hewu was swept away by the impact, lodged in the hall's window, their whereabouts unknown. Renqi, who had escaped unscathed by hiding within the stone wall, also spat out a mouthful of black blood, and all three of her zither strings snapped.
The white light gradually dimmed, and the place where Meng Bujiu had originally stood was empty, as if the man had never appeared and had never disappeared in this way.
Long Zhu took the opportunity to turn over and punched the mountain wall. Countless pieces of rubble fell down, covering the stone gate.
The three judges were either dead or injured, but Tianjiu remained indifferent, saying only lightly, "It's all in vain."
As he spoke, he made hand gestures, causing the earth veins to float and gravel to fall.
Long Zhu punched the stone door again, but it hit a snag. "Huh? Can't break it?"
So she kicked the mountain wall again, causing more boulders to collapse and the sand and stones to block the stone door again.
Tianjiu became a little impatient, so he changed his target and started fighting with her.
Wang Suqing's eyes were filled with sorrow. She used all her strength to fight back the mountain in front of her, broke free from the shackles, and flew forward. Ren Qi threw out a broken string to stop her, but Wang Suqing did not hold back. The two fought back and forth for several times. She used the Five Elements Magic and cast a weapon from the rubble of rocks, and nailed Ren Qi to the rock wall with her backhand.
The seventh person was hanging lightly, with his head tilted and lowered, but still with a smile on his face, just like a paper figurine for sacrifice.
Wang Suqing stood in front of him, and before her eyes could reveal any emotion, the black crescent on Ren Qi's face suddenly curved. He gently raised his hand, as if using up his last bit of strength, and pushed Wang Suqing aside. In the distance, Tian Jiu took advantage of the gap between his fight with Long Zhu and swung a palm at this place. The fierce palm wind hit Ren Qi who was nailed into the rock wall. Blood immediately flowed from the corners of his mouth and eyes, and the corners of his mouth gradually lost their upturned arc. The weapon in front of his chest disintegrated bit by bit, and he fell to the ground like a puppet with broken strings, and his life was gone.
Wang Suqing was stunned for a moment.
She should not have been able to dodge this palm.
Long Zhu was entangled by Tian Jiu, and he just stretched out his hand from the gap, opened his ten fingers and clenched them, causing the mountain wall to collapse, trying to block the stone door again.
Tian Jiu also countered his move, shattering the falling rocks with his backhand. Long Zhu was annoyed by his difficulty and turned to shout at the Zhu Meng people in the distance, "What are you still standing there for!"
Following Wang Suqing's command, Ruan Mengxiu and the others also came to their senses. Just like they worked together to break the barrier just now, they gathered their spiritual power together and fought against Tian Jiu.
Master Ying San staggered back a few steps: "Crazy... Are you crazy? That's the Immortal Gate! What are you doing?!"
"Shut up!" Wang Suqing scolded mercilessly, "Don't you understand? Becoming an immortal is just a selection ceremony from beginning to end! When the new Nine Ghosts gather, do you think we can still be safe?"
"Since becoming an immortal means selecting a new mountain guardian ghost, the world should have been overrun with goblins since time immemorial," Bai He said calmly. "However, there are only nine goblins in the world, which means this world can only accommodate nine 'immortals'."
During the fight, Long Zhu looked at Tian Jiu and said, "You should know that when the ninth group is gathered, you will disappear with us. Why?"
Tianjiu suddenly lowered his hands, remained silent for a moment, and then said, "This is what Tianxiao's mission should be."
He turned to look at Wang Fengxu, who was trapped in the stone pestle. "If the ninth person must appear, then it must be her. She is the one who can create a better world. She should not be buried among the mediocre and disappear regretfully."
"A better world?" Long Zhu didn't quite understand: "Is this world bad? I quite like it."
Tianjiu smiled and said, "You don't understand. What you see is just the superficial appearance of this world full of flowers and splendor."
His gaze seemed to travel back to a long time ago: "I have witnessed its darkness, shamelessness, and greed with my own eyes."
"It seems to be much better now than before," Tian Jiu's eyes curled up with a trace of extreme sarcasm, "but it's just whitewashing the scars. The world is still the same ugly world, just wearing a more respectable mask."
"We, the mountain guardians, nurtured this world. Its decay is our own fault. Since the birth of a new world is inevitable, why can't we choose the most suitable person?" Tianjiu looked over seriously. "The change of worlds is inevitable. The Nine Mountains deep in the earth's core have long since brewed new seeds, sprouting, blooming, and bearing fruit. This is not a trajectory that you and I can change. Look at the chaotic universe that humans talk about outside the blue sky. Those are all the old worlds that once died, the debris of the previous heaven and earth."
"I'm not acting for personal gain, nor am I arrogantly seeking to overthrow the world or break the rules. On the contrary, what I do is in accordance with the rules. It's just that humans can't understand them."
Tianjiu raised his eyes to look at her: "I thought you would understand, but now you are becoming more and more like a human being, hehe."
"Rules? What rules?"
At this moment, a clear but firm voice sounded from behind. Everyone looked back and found that it was Wang Lingqi standing next to Bai Jingze.
"Who sets the rules? The rules of Jiushan? The rules of heaven and earth? Or your rules, Tianjiu?" Her voice was low, but every word was clear, carrying with it an unyielding tenacity that belonged to humanity. "We humans don't need to understand the profound meaning of what you do, and you have no right to dictate our fate. I don't like to discuss the grand principles of the world's survival and replacement. I only know that I am now in this world. I am here, and the world is here!"
"Whoever destroys it, I will fight him to the death!"
Her words were like a huge rock thrown into stagnant water, causing thousands of ripples in the silent space. Everyone's eyes gradually became firm. Their power was small but blazing, but they still made the choice like moths to a flame.
Tianjiu's eyes, which had been calm for thousands of years, finally revealed a bit of annoyance. During the confrontation with Longzhu, he freed his hands and knocked everyone over with one palm again.
At the same time, a vague figure in the corner burst into laughter and rushed forward, grabbing Wang Fengxu who was trapped in the pile of rocks. "I will eat his soul now. Does that qualify me?"
"Zhao Fu! Stop!" Wang Suqing looked horrified. She wanted to step forward to stop them but was affected by the spiritual energy between Tian Jiu and Long Zhu in the fight and could not get close.
Zhao Fuben's soul fragments were stripped away, but she used the Punishment Bureau, and countless resentful souls remained in her body. At this moment, she didn't know whether she still had her own consciousness, or whether it was obsession that was at work. Her face was distorted, her eyes were full of desire and eagerness, and she grabbed Wang Fengxu's neck with both hands. The other party showed pain, and a light spot began to appear between his eyebrows and went into Zhao Fu's mouth.
Tian Jiu attacked coldly, but was blocked by Long Zhu: "Your opponent is me."
During the fight, Tian Jiu shouted, "You should be the one stopping her! She's devouring your friend's soul!"
Long Zhu said without even turning his head: "A female ghost and a goblin, even if I am a fool I know who is more dangerous."
Tianjiu was speechless for a moment.
"ah!!!"--
Zhao Fu was halfway through swallowing when she suddenly felt a wisp of black energy emanate from her body. She covered her throat unwillingly and sighed through gritted teeth, "It's still... not enough... a little bit..."
In this gap of 0.1 seconds, Tian Jiu used his backhand to release a shock of spiritual power to detonate the barrier in front of the stone gate. Then, without any emotion, he pushed Zhao Fu and Wang Fengxu into the vortex behind the door with one palm. In a moment, he activated some kind of spell, the vortex disappeared, and the stone gate closed tightly, leaving no trace of a gap.
Long Zhu was slightly annoyed and hit Tian Jiu in the face with his elbow, almost knocking him into the ground.
Tianjiu opened his eyes wide, with torn scars at the corners of his eyes, and the crooked and loose bandages were stained with blood. His hair was disheveled, his wrists drooped, his eyeballs slightly rolled up, looking in the direction of the stone gate. He looked like a boneless puppet, and he relaxed his strength, allowing Longzhu to pull up his collar.
Long Zhu pushed Tian Jiu's head back to the ground and threatened him coldly, "Open the door!"
Tianjiu looked embarrassed, but he didn't care to resist. He just kept muttering something.
Long Zhu frowned and leaned forward to get closer, but he heard a strange noise above his head.
boom--
Long Zhu suddenly turned around and found that the surrounding rock walls began to collapse, rocks collapsed and fell, and everything seemed to be buried here.
At this moment, she suddenly heard clearly what Tianjiu said.
"Heaven and earth are in order, appointing generals and enthroning immortals, the nine numbers are complete... the old chapter ends."
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