Hu Le concealed his tracks and searched through numerous palaces, finally discovering the physical body of the Great Sage Qin Yuan in a hall called Mingdao Palace.
He was sitting upright on a futon, with an incense table behind him. On the table was a bronze censer, from which wisps of smoke rose.
Hu Le walked up to the physical body of the Great Sage Qin Yuan and was about to put it away when the body seemed to sense the approaching danger. Suddenly, it opened its eyes and looked straight at Hu Le.
Hu Le was startled upon seeing this, thinking it was a case of a corpse rising from the dead. He quickly released his divine sense to probe into the spiritual platform of the physical body, only to discover that a wisp of wisdom had been gestating deep within the spiritual platform at some unknown time.
However, this glimmer of wisdom had just begun to emerge and had not yet given rise to a true soul and intelligence.
However, if it continues to develop over many years, it will soon produce a true primordial spirit.
This is not because someone is trying to possess this body and seize control of it, but rather it is simply the natural order.
Perhaps after hundreds of millions of years of evolution, a new being will be born from the physical body, but at that time it will be another innate deity, and will have little to do with the Great Sage Qinyuan himself.
But Hu Le happened to find this place at this time.
If he were to retreat now, this innate deity might still have a slight chance of being reborn.
However, if Hu Le were to make a move, he could easily erase this beam of wisdom and interrupt its development.
The choice has been completely handed over to Hu Le.
The other party's life or death was entirely in Hu Le's hands.
Hu Le pondered for a moment, and finally made up his mind. If this true spirit had already been fully formed and had developed a soul, Hu Le might take pity on it and let it go.
But now it is nothing more than a ray of wisdom, not a life at all. Even if it is destroyed, it is nothing.
Hu Le was unwilling to have come all this way for nothing and was about to kill him when suddenly a sound came from outside the hall, rapidly approaching.
Hu Le quickly swayed and hid behind a jade pillar.
A moment later, the palace doors opened, and the demon saint Bai Ze entered the palace, surrounded by several powerful demons.
Upon seeing the lifeless body of Great Sage Qinyuan, Bai Ze suddenly sighed, "Alas! Fellow Daoist Qinyuan has indeed met his demise."
It turns out that in the past, Emperor Jun and the siblings Nuwa and Fuxi, in order to control all the demon race, worked together to create a Demon-Summoning Banner. They extracted a wisp of primordial spirit from the bodies of a group of great demon saints and important figures of the demon race and imprisoned it in the Demon-Summoning Banner.
With this, they controlled their lives and deaths, and were no longer afraid of their disobedience.
As one of the most powerful demons, Qin Yuan Da Sheng naturally couldn't escape the fate of being summoned by the Demon-Summoning Banner...
And that demon-summoning banner was hanging in the Sun Palace at that moment.
After returning from the primordial energy tide, Di Jun sensed the changes in the Demon-Summoning Banner. Upon going to check, he discovered that the primordial spirit that Great Sage Qin Yuan had originally entrusted to the Demon-Summoning Banner had disappeared.
He was immediately surprised, not knowing whether the Great Sage Qinyuan had broken free from the Demon-Summoning Banner's restraints or if some other change had occurred. So he gave Bai Ze an order to come and investigate personally.
And so, Bai Ze hurriedly arrived at this Xiaohanshan Cave.
If he had arrived any later, the physical body of the Great Sage Qinyuan might have already been taken away by Hu Le.
The people accompanying Bai Ze were all demons from the Xiaohanshan lineage.
Upon seeing the appearance of the Great Sage Qinyuan, they all couldn't help but change their expressions drastically.
"teacher!"
"Great Sage!"
The great demons rushed to the Great Sage Qinyuan and couldn't help but wail in grief.
Two of them were disciples of the Great Sage Qin Yuan, and they wept even more bitterly at this moment...
Ignoring the sorrowful weeping of the crowd, Bai Ze walked to the physical body of the Great Sage Qin Yuan and pondered, seemingly thinking about how to return and report.
Just then, Bai Ze suddenly noticed that Qin Yuan Da Sheng's head seemed to move slightly, or rather, it turned halfway around, and he was staring angrily at something behind a jade pillar.
Bai Ze was startled. Although he didn't know why the corpse of the Great Sage Qinyuan was moving, he subconsciously followed the other's gaze and looked at the jade pillar.
At that moment, Hu Le was hiding behind the jade pillar.
"Who's there!"
Bai Ze is not only incredibly wise, but also possesses eyes that can see through illusions. With a single glance, he immediately saw through Hu Le's invisibility technique.
With Bai Ze's sharp shout, Hu Le immediately reacted and, without saying a word, leaped into the air and shot towards the outside of the hall.
"Where do you think you're going!"
Bai Ze didn't see Hu Le's face immediately, but he was already convinced that the death of the Great Sage Qin Yuan was related to him, so he wouldn't let Hu Le escape.
He immediately transformed into a streak of light and gave chase.
The monsters who had been crying earlier also got up and chased after them.
Hu Le leaped out of the main hall in a burst of light, then soared into the sky, instantly flying out of the Xiaohan Mountain Grotto.
A group of people were chasing closely behind. Qin Yuan Da Sheng's disciples and subordinates were one thing, but their cultivation was insufficient, and they were quickly left far behind by Hu Le.
Only Bai Ze, though his escape speed was not as fast as Hu Le's, managed to summon a flying boat and get inside.
This flying boat is called the Taiyi Golden Ship. Its hull is engraved with the Primordial Yi Wood Grand Array. When encountering an enemy, it can shoot out Primordial Yi Wood Mystic Light simply by activating the array.
In addition, its speed is exceptional, comparable to the renowned Golden Crow Rainbow Transformation Technique.
The Great Sage Bai Ze stood on the Taiyi Golden Ship, constantly urging it to accelerate, and then accelerate again, relentlessly chasing after Hu Le.
Hu Le sensed Bai Ze relentlessly pursuing him with his divine sense. In a flash, he had an idea. He flew away for a moment, and when a tall mountain appeared in front of him, he immediately lowered his escape light and plunged into the vast mountain.
After landing, he casually plucked a strand of hair, blew on it, and the hair floated up, transforming in the wind into an ordinary-looking Taoist priest.
He himself used the Five Innate Escape Techniques to disappear underground.
At this moment, the Great Sage Bai Ze had already chased to the sky above the mountaintop. He was too impatient to go down and search, so he directly activated the innate Yi Wood Mystic Light on the Taiyi Golden Ship.
In an instant, a beam of azure light shot out from the golden ship, sweeping across the entire mountain.
In an instant, the thousand-foot-tall mountain was reduced to dust by the innate Yi Wood Xuan Light, and the originally undulating land was leveled in a flash.
The avatar that Hu Le left on the ground seized the opportunity to rise up and transform into a streak of light, rushing away.
Unaware of the trap, Bai Ze hurriedly urged the golden ship to give chase.
However, after chasing for tens of thousands of miles, Bai Ze noticed that the escape light ahead seemed to be much slower than before, so he hurriedly urged the golden ship to accelerate again.
The golden ship instantly accelerated to its maximum speed, and in a short while it was even closer.
Hu Le's avatar was already within the attack range of the golden ship.
Bai Ze reached out and slapped the bow of the ship, urging the golden ship to transform once more, and shooting out a beam of innate Yi wood divine light.
A beam of azure light, carrying countless giant logs, swept across thousands of miles, crashing heavily into Hu Le's avatar...
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