Chapter 279
Yuan Jing and the others didn't expect the Demon King to come so soon. After saying something to Zhuo Jingming, the three of them quickly left the manor, leaving Zhuo Jingming with Ji Jinghuai.
Ji Jinghuai wanted to join in the fun, but as an ordinary person he was too slow and it would be easy for him to expose his identity. For his safety, it would be better for him to stay.
Zhuo Jingming noticed that Yuan Jing and the others were all delighted, and then left in a hurry. He asked Ji Jinghuai in confusion: "What are they doing? Will they be in danger?"
Ji Jinghuai thought for a moment and said, "It shouldn't be dangerous. I heard from Taoist Yuan Xiao and the others that they encountered a very powerful demon during their training. It's possible that this demon has come to the capital. He has a grudge against that Ling Xiao demon."
Zhuo Jingming's eyes lit up when he heard this. This was good news. He was worried that Yuan Jing and the others would have to deal with Ling Xiao Demon and would suffer because they were no match for him. Now there was a powerful demon charging in front, which was greatly beneficial to Yuan Jing and the others. If this demon could get rid of Ling Xiao Demon, it would be even better.
The Demon King was not far away from Yuan Jing and the others. When he was flying in the air and found that Yuan Jing and the other two were approaching, he descended from the air to their side. His imposing edge and sharpness, as well as his eye-catching demeanor, made Yuan Jing and the other two gasp. This was the demeanor of the Demon King in his prime.
"Junior has met Senior Demon King."
The demon king waved his sleeves, and the three people could no longer bow. The demon king asked directly: "Where is that bitch now?"
Yuan Jing immediately replied: "The current emperor has built a Taoist temple for that evil Taoist in the suburbs of Beijing. It is in the southeast. Are you going there now, senior?"
The demon king's brows were stern: "Of course, do we need to give him time to set a trap and call for help? You wait, I will go meet that bitch."
After the demon king finished speaking, he leaped into the sky again, transformed into a phoenix feather, spread his wings and flew towards the southeast.
"Let's go and take a look." Yuan Jing said with a clenched fist. Funeng and Mu Yinghai naturally agreed. They were also eager to see the two top masters fight each other, and hoped that the Demon King would be better.
The three of them rushed to the Taoist palace where Ling Xiao was. Of course, they were several beats slower than the demon king. After the demon king flew out, he released his demon king aura and announced to Ling Xiao and all the Taoists and monks in and outside the capital that Feng Xiao was back! Feng Xiao was going to settle accounts with Qian Hua, the bitch. If you were not afraid of death, you could stop him. If you died in his hands, don't blame him for being ruthless.
Mu Yinghai was extremely envious of such unbridled and unrestrained behavior. He wished that one day he could also announce his identity to the world like Senior Demon King. This also ignited a flame in Mu Yinghai's heart, which might grow stronger one day.
Just as the Demon King wanted to do, the moment his demonic energy was released wantonly, the cultivators inside and outside the capital were alarmed and came out to check.
"Oh no! It turns out that the demon king has come to the capital city!"
"The aura of this evil beast is so powerful, the capital is in danger, come, follow me and I to slay the demons!"
"Master, why is this demon king heading towards Lingxiao Dao Palace? Do they have a grudge against each other?"
"It's unlikely. The demon king has been suppressed at the bottom of Yingtan Gorge for hundreds of years. How old is Taoist Lingxiao? There is no way they have any contact. This demon is coming for us human cultivators!"
Ordinary people had no idea that a terrifying demon king had come to the capital, causing the Taoist and Buddhist sects inside and outside the capital to be alarmed and on high alert. Even if a real danger was approaching, they would be completely unaware.
At the Jiang residence, a servant came in crawling and rolling to report to the lady: "Madam, it's bad, the eldest young master just fell off the bed, the eldest young master..."
Mrs. Jiang was shocked: "What happened to my son? Tell me quickly!"
The servant said tremblingly, "The eldest master's other leg seems to be broken as well. The doctor has been called."
Mrs. Jiang's eyes went dark, and she almost fell on the bed. She slapped the bed anxiously and shouted, "Hurry up and take me over to have a look, hurry up! My son is going to be delayed, and I will only ask you guys!"
The servants did not dare to delay and immediately carried the sedan chair to send the lady to the eldest master. It was also a strange thing. It was clearly a maid walking by with a lantern that day, but the lantern fell over and no one was burned, only the lady, and the skin on both legs was burned, so she had to stay in bed to recuperate for the next few days.
The servants of the Jiang residence were also wondering, especially when they heard that the young master had broken his other leg. They all thought it was weird. One or two times was an accident, but what about three or four times? They didn't know what kind of accident would happen next time.
Take the horse for example, it was quite miserable. It was riding leisurely in its own yard, but it suddenly went crazy and threw the young master off. Afterwards, no problems were found with the horse, but the horse was killed and the servants who served the horse were also beaten to death. The young master's temper also became extremely violent, and the servants who served him were replaced twice, and none of the replaced ones were intact.
This time he just lost his temper in his room and ended up rolling off the bed, breaking his other leg.
Mrs. Jiang was carried to the young master's room by the servants. As soon as she got outside, she heard painful wails coming from the room. Mrs. Jiang's heart was twisted in pain: "Xu'er, mother is here, Xu'er, mother has sent someone to the palace to call the imperial physician. The imperial physician will be here soon. Xu'er, be patient! Quick, carry me in! You are useless people. You can't even take care of the young master. What's the use of you?"
Mrs. Jiang was furious at the servants. If they hadn't been too late to spare some help to serve her son, she would have wanted to kill all of them. If they hadn't been inattentive, how could her son have fallen off the bed?
In the room, Jiang Shengxu, who wanted to roll over in pain, had a ferocious expression on his face, like an evil ghost, so frightened that the servants dared not approach him. But Mrs. Jiang, as a mother, could only feel distressed and wished she could take his place.
Finally the doctor arrived, and the imperial physician from the palace also came. They treated Jiang Shengxu's wound and gave him a tranquilizer to let him sleep well. Then Mrs. Jiang came out of the room. The imperial physician told her earnestly that the broken leg had been further injured, and it had not been healed well. Even if it recovered in the future, there would be sequelae. The severity of the sequelae would depend on how he was healed in the future.
Mrs. Jiang's facial expression was almost distorted. She managed to restrain herself from angrily calling the imperial physician a quack. But she knew that neither she nor her son could offend the imperial physician now. Mrs. Jiang took several deep breaths before calming down her anger. She forced a smile and asked someone to escort the imperial physician out of the house.
"Madam, something is wrong. Madam, should we ask someone to take a look?" The nanny beside Mrs. Jiang whispered to comfort her.
Mrs. Jiang's eyebrows twitched when she heard this. Yes, how could something go wrong in her own house? Now there was such a big noise in her own room. If she said that the servants were not serving her diligently, she actually knew that she was taking her anger out on the servants. These servants could not and dared not to be dishonest, so it was most likely a problem in that area.
"Help me change my clothes. I want to go see the Taoist priest. Hurry up!" Mrs. Jiang covered her chest with her hands. She felt more and more that this was the case. Her son was like this, she was like this, and even the master had been muttering recently that things were not going well. If it weren't for the strong foundation of the Jiang family, I'm afraid something would go wrong in her work.
Didn't they say everything was fine? Why did such a mess happen? She didn't understand the reason, but she knew that Taoist Ling Xiao would definitely help her solve it.
After changing her clothes, she didn't care about the burns on her legs, and had people carry her onto a carriage and rushed to the Taoist palace of Lingxiao Demon Taoist.
"Wow, look at the huge bird in the sky. What kind of bird is that? I've never seen one before, and it's so beautiful."
“Could it be a divine bird?”
Common people only know that the phoenix flying in the sky is very beautiful. In the eyes of common people, the phoenix is a divine bird, and the phoenix with a trace of phoenix blood is also loved by common people. But in the eyes of some people and certain individuals, it is an evil bird and a vicious beast, and now this vicious beast is coming towards them.
Ling Xiao stood in front of the main hall of the Taoist Palace. The evil beast had finally arrived. He had not expected it to come so quickly. How could he recover so quickly after suppressing it for hundreds of years? He had not yet made all the arrangements. Who had released the evil beast? He had not found any clues until now!
No matter how much Ren Lingxiao thought about it, he could not have imagined that it was done by two half-grown teenagers and a half-demon.
The demon king saw the Taoist priest in the Taoist palace below in the air. His appearance could change, but the aura and the soul beneath his skin were exactly the enemy he hated to the core and whom he had wanted to tear into pieces every day for hundreds of years.
The phoenix in the sky cried out, and then spoke in human language: "Qianhua bitch, you are not dead after all! You cowardly bitch, I, Feng Xiao, am here to take your life!"
The demon king shouted this sentence in the sky, and the Taoist priests and monks who rushed over heard it. No matter whether it was Qianhua or Feng Xiao, they were very familiar to the older Taoist priests and monks. Feng Xiao was the demon king sealed in Yingtan Gorge, but who was Qianhua?
Some people who were traveling with me asked each other, "Who is Qianhua?" They were too embarrassed to repeat the name of the bitch Qianhua that the demon king had mentioned.
The companion remembered: "The reason why the Taoists and Buddhists knew about the existence of such a demon king that wreaked havoc on the world was because a Taoist priest named Qianhua reported it. However, during the siege of the demon king, the Taoist priest Qianhua was seriously injured and died a long time ago. How could it be that..."
"That's where Ling Xiao's Taoist palace is. The demon king said, "Qianhua bitch, you are not dead after all." What does this mean?"
The companion also had a bold inference in his mind, and this inference made him tremble with fear. In that Taoist palace, except Ling Xiao, the others were just inconspicuous little Taoist priests, none of whom could be considered as formal Taoists, and they did not have much cultivation. So, could Qianhua, who was not dead in the demon king's mouth, be Ling Xiao in that Taoist palace?
But that was hundreds of years ago, and the story of Taoist Qianhua’s death was also passed down within the sect. But he is alive again now. Could it be that... both the Taoist and Buddhist sects were deceived by Qianhua back then?
But why did he want to deceive the entire cultivation world?
Not only these two people thought this way, but other people who heard this clearly also had the same thought in their hearts. Who is Qianhua? Who is Lingxiao? What is the truth of hundreds of years ago?
"Feng Xiao, you're here after all." Ling Xiao below didn't care what he was thinking, but his face remained calm, as if he had met a friend he hadn't seen for many years. He sighed and said, "You and I haven't seen each other for hundreds of years. Why don't you come down and talk?"
It was useless to deny his identity. Just as he was familiar with Feng Xiao, Feng Xiao was also very familiar with his soul breath.
Feng Xiao would not fall into his trap again. Who knows what he has arranged in the Taoist Palace? After all, this is Ling Xiao's territory. So the Demon King hovered in the sky for a while and then said angrily: "Talk? There is nothing to talk about between you and me. There is only a great hatred of life and death. Die, Qianhua bitch!"
The demon king launched an attack from the sky. He flapped his wings and dozens of arrows shot downwards.
Ling Xiao's face changed. He didn't expect that Feng Xiao was unwilling to even say a few words to him. He attacked with fierce moves. He activated the formation with a wave of his hand, and ripples were set off around him, blocking the arrow.
Then only a part of it was blocked. The arrows fired by Feng Xiao were not concentrated in one direction, but shot in all directions. As a result, the Taoist palace buildings that were not protected by the formation collapsed after being attacked.
After the first wave of arrows, the Demon King flapped his wings again. This time, wind blades swept downwards and intensively attacked the defense shield around Ling Xiao. Seeing the dots of light appearing on the shield, Ling Xiao finally couldn't hold back his expression. Feng Xiao's strength was not much weaker than before. It had only been a short time since he was out of the seal, and he had not only recovered his former strength, but also made slight progress.
What was going on? Could it be that Feng Xiao had not revealed everything to him, but had hidden a lot of cards?
Damn it!
Yuan Jing and the other three arrived below. Fortunately, Ling Xiao was valued by the emperor, who allocated the entire mountain outside the capital to his Taoist palace. Therefore, there were no other people on this mountain, except for some common people at the foot of the mountain. When the three arrived, they hurriedly persuaded these common people to evacuate this area first to avoid being accidentally injured by the fight above.
Many people knelt down and prayed when they saw the phoenix above. To them, this was undoubtedly a divine bird and it had appeared.
But they originally thought that the divine bird was in cahoots with the Taoist temple, but they didn't expect that after the divine bird came, it started fighting with the immortals and Taoist priests in the Taoist temple below. What should they do? The people were confused. They listened to Yuan Jing's advice to move away quickly, so they dared not stay. They didn't care whether the divine bird appeared or not. Did their own lives matter?
The Taoist priests and monks who came later saw the actions of these three people, secretly approved, and joined their actions. At this time, helping Ling Xiao to slay the monster together was not as important as these civilians. If these civilians lost their lives because of the fight between the two, part of the sin would fall on Ling Xiao's head, so Ling Xiao should be able to understand them, right?
Fortunately, there were not many civilians, and Taoist priests and monks asked nearby government offices to help, so the people in this area evacuated and blocked the road.
At this time, the Jiang Mansion's carriage arrived, but it could not get in and could not enter Ling Xiao's Taoist Palace.
The servant quickly reported to Madam Jiang in the carriage: "Madam, the road ahead has been blocked by the government and is not allowed to pass."
Mrs. Jiang was extremely worried. If she delayed for a moment longer, her son would suffer a moment longer. She quickly lifted the curtain and asked, "What's going on? Didn't you say this was the carriage from Minister Jiang's mansion?"
"Madam, we did tell them, but they said it was for our own good, because there seemed to be a fight going on up ahead, and we might get hurt if we went over there."
"A fight broke out? Who's fighting with whom? Hurry up and carry me down to see!"
The servants brought a sedan chair to take Madam Jiang off the carriage. She asked the sedan chair to be carried to the front. Many people were gathered there, pointing at the sky and saying something. Madam Jiang looked up at the sky in the direction of their eyes and saw a giant bird. When it flapped its wings, it could create a tornado below, and the rocks were rolled up with crackling sounds.
Mrs. Jiang felt more and more disappointed. Even if she could get through, could she find Taoist Ling Xiao? She couldn't even climb the mountain, so what about her son?
Yuan Jing suddenly felt something, looked in a certain direction, and the corners of his mouth curled up.
Funeng noticed his situation and looked over: "What's wrong? No, that woman is here." He also saw that woman. It was because he and Yuan Jing sneaked into the Jiang Mansion that night to observe the people in the mansion in secret, so he was very familiar with this Mrs. Jiang.
Mu Yinghai also looked over, but didn't see anything and was completely confused. Funeng was happy at this time, because he was the only one who was most familiar with Junior Brother Jing's affairs. Mu Yinghai, a half-demon, was not so clear.
It is rare to find a monk who is so petty.
Fu Neng whispered, "It must be because something happened in the Jiang Mansion that made her feel something was wrong, so she wanted to find that Ling Xiao demon Taoist to perform a ritual."
Yuan Jing curled his lips and nodded: "Not bad, it's a pity that Ling Xiao Yao Dao can't spare a hand now. This is just the beginning, the best show is yet to come."
Mu Yinghai glanced in that direction and wiped away tears of sympathy for the Jiang family. But it was their fault. Who had offended Taoist Yuan Jing? How could he not know what kind of temper Taoist Yuan Jing had? If you didn't offend him, he wouldn't care about you. But if you offended him, he would not count it out until you had skinned the other person alive.
"Brother Funeng, why are you here? When did you come to the capital? Why didn't you come to the White Horse Temple?" A monk spotted Funeng and came over to ask in surprise.
Funeng also saw an acquaintance. White Horse Temple and Guiyuan Temple often had exchanges, and the other party had been to Guiyuan Temple, so the two sides recognized each other. Funeng bowed to the other party and said, "I have been here for a few days. I came out to experience training, so I didn't want to disturb you from White Horse Temple."
The other party was not very old, so he started chatting with Funeng. With such an explosive event, even the monks in the Buddhist sect could not help but want to gossip.
Yuan Jing raised an eyebrow at Funeng, who immediately signaled to satisfy the other party's gossip desire: "I did hear about one thing, I wonder if it has anything to do with the current fight."
"Hurry up and tell me. I just want to listen. Yes, I just want to listen." He said this, but his eyes were shining and he wanted to hold Funeng's shoulders and shake him. Please speak quickly.
Fu Neng raised the corners of his mouth slightly, but quickly calmed down again.
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