Chapter 68 Blasphemy 17. If you're truly capable, then come and kill me at Wangqiu Mountain...
Shen Mingxin was only testing them, but she didn't expect that they would be so arrogant and do not even bother to cover up their true intentions.
"You want to use me to summon the goddess Xiangjun to appear in the world?"
Shen Mingxin suddenly turned around, bypassing the pursuers, and looked straight at the white-clad figure in the far rear.
Even from a great distance, the Imperial Preceptor's disciple could still hear Shen Mingxin's voice. He smiled gently, but his eyes held a hint of cruel mockery. "Indeed. You are his sworn brother, and your Shen family has supported him for twenty years. With such entangled karma, is it surprising that you led him astray?"
"Now that you know the truth, are you ready to abandon darkness and embrace the light? I've heard that Shen Xiangjun doesn't think much of your Shen family, but becoming my disciple and junior brother will be a different story..."
"Pooh!"
Before he could finish speaking, Shen Mingxin spat out a mouthful of water.
The face of the Imperial Preceptor's disciple suddenly turned extremely gloomy.
Shen Mingxin sneered, her knuckles turning white as she gripped the reins. She flung them away abruptly. "You want me to go? I won't go! Even if I, Shen Mingxin, am a spoiled brat who can't stand up for anything, I won't stoop to being manipulated by your disgusting ways!"
After speaking, he cracked his whip, turned the horse around, and charged towards the more distant north of the city.
"You won't listen to reason, so you'll have to drink the penalty cup!" The Grand Preceptor's disciple stared at the leaping figure with terrifying eyes. "I found you rather interesting, this vermin, and wanted to tease you a bit, but I didn't expect you to be so ignorant of your own limitations. My master only said he would spare your life to wait for the wild god to come and rescue you, or go with you to Wangqiu Mountain, but he didn't say what kind of life he would spare. Even if you cut off your arms and legs and turned into a human pig, you would still be alive..."
The Grand Preceptor's disciple gave a sinister smile, and his sword energy suddenly shot out, as sharp as lightning and thunder, making a deafening roar.
Shen Mingxin had been watching closely, and upon seeing this, he reined in his horse and tried to dodge.
But that sword energy was no ordinary sword energy.
Divine power condenses and follows you like a shadow, almost like a venomous snake, impossible to dodge or avoid.
Shen Mingxin immediately drew his sword, and the blade struck down with a crisp cracking sound. A white light seeped from the crack in the blade, almost touching him.
Shen Mingxin had personally experienced the sharpness of the sword energy. In a daze, he felt his limbs detach from his body, flying high into the air, blood gushing out like a fountain. How could he withstand such power? How could any mortal in the world withstand it?
Before the sword energy could kill, the divine power had already pierced the heart.
In an instant, Shen Mingxin faced the divine power of Xu Tianming Venerable directly, and nearly lost his composure.
The sword energy seized the opportunity to erupt, severing his mouth, tongue, and limbs.
However, at that very moment, a gentle breeze suddenly arose on the long street.
Accompanied by the gentle breeze, a snow-white, ethereal figure strolled up to a towering eaves, its dark blue eyes lowered, indifferently gazing at the noisy and chaotic street.
The long street seemed to be paused for a moment.
The sword energy froze, the blade shattered and hung suspended in mid-air, reflecting a few rays of morning light. The horse, terrified, froze on its rear, its long neigh swallowed by something silent, abruptly ceasing.
"Why go through all this trouble to find me?"
The white cat looked down from its high perch and uttered chilling, human words.
As soon as the words were spoken, the freeze disappeared, and everything restarted.
The sword energy suddenly dissipated, the blade and the horse's hooves hit the ground, the long neigh became even sharper, all of it was terrifying.
Almost simultaneously, inside the three-story county government building, Mingyin's eyes flickered: "He has arrived."
Chunshan Gong also sensed the anomaly, and his expression changed slightly: "He actually dared to come!"
Mingyin said, "If He didn't dare to come, it would be because He is weak and cowardly, and He could just attack Wangqiu Mountain directly. If He dares to come, but only saves people and then runs away, He is not worth fearing. But now, He dares to show himself so openly, which means that either He is quite strong and confident that He can defeat the Grand Preceptor Mingyin, or He is arrogant and ignorant of the immensity of the world."
Which type do you think this Shenxiangjun is?
Shen Chou laughed and said, "No matter which one it is, it won't cause any waves. After all, the one who came to Yu County is not the 'National Preceptor,' but a Celestial Venerable. No matter how much Shen Xiangjun plans, he could never have predicted that the Celestial Venerable Xu Ming of Shenzhao Kingdom would send a divine consciousness puppet to Xiling."
As he spoke, he leaned against Mingyin: "My great deity, shall we act immediately?"
“Why wait until tomorrow for just a wisp of divine sense?” Chunshan said fairly. “Besides, this is just a test and a clash. It would be unwise to reveal our trump cards too early. If He has any special abilities or defenses, it would be easier to make a move if he were in the dark tomorrow. Let me go and meet him again today.”
While they were talking inside the small building, on the long street, the disciples of the Imperial Preceptor also realized what was happening, and suddenly looked up in the direction of the sound, their pupils shrinking.
"Shenxiangjun, you actually dare to show yourself!"
Shen Mingxin sat on the horse, his clothes soaked with cold sweat, clutching his stomach. Just as he calmed himself down, he suddenly heard such a sound. He subconsciously looked up and saw the white cat. His eyes showed both joy and worry, but this joy and worry lasted only a moment before he suddenly stopped.
etc.
Was the Imperial Preceptor's disciple referring to the White Cat Immortal as... Shenxiangjun?
Shen Mingxin's back stiffened slightly, as if he understood something, or perhaps he had fallen into an even deeper confusion.
"What is there to be afraid of?"
Chu Shenxiang remained indifferent.
As soon as he finished speaking, the Imperial Preceptor's disciple was struck as if by lightning. He fell off his horse with a thud, his knees hitting the ground hard with a sound like bones shattering.
"ah--!"
Screams echoed through the long street in an instant.
Upon seeing this, the bailiffs and soldiers finally came to their senses, terrified half to death. They all knelt on the ground, some calling for Lord Chunshan, some for the Great Goddess Tongtian, and others just crying and begging for mercy from the Great Immortal.
"Shenxiangjun, how dare you cause trouble here! My master will never let you get away with this!"
The disciple of the Imperial Preceptor tried to struggle to stand up, but he couldn't. His shoulders and back felt as if they were being crushed by a giant mountain, and he could only kneel and bend over. He couldn't mobilize any of the divine power he had received from the gods.
"Noisy," Chu Shenxiang said indifferently.
The voice of the Imperial Preceptor's disciple immediately disappeared, his mouth as if sewn shut, unable to open.
After quickly dealing with the only person in the room with extraordinary power, Chu Shenxiang finally turned her attention to Shen Mingxin.
At the same time, his tail tip subtly moved, and a wisp of pure energy quietly flew out and entered Shen Mingxin's body, healing the wound on his shoulder and removing the influence of divine power on his soul.
Chu Shenxiang admitted that she was partly to blame for the mess that had arisen.
His mind-splitting technique was not yet proficient. After sending out two streams of consciousness, he found it difficult to simultaneously attack Yuejia Village and drive the white cat at full speed, causing the white cat to arrive a moment later. Otherwise, Shen Mingxin would not have been injured.
Shen Mingxin felt a lightness throughout her body, her mind cleared, and the injury on her shoulder was completely gone.
Such a miraculous feat could only be accomplished by a deity.
only……
He looked down at his abdomen, but there was no relief there.
Chu Shenxiang also noticed that her own pure energy had not resolved the abnormality in Shen Mingxin's abdomen. It seemed that the passive manipulation here was not so easy to deal with, and she still needed to take a closer look.
As he was deep in thought, a warm spring breeze, completely different from the gentle breeze he had just carried and which should not have appeared at all in this mid-autumn season, suddenly blew in.
Chu Shenxiang looked up.
Spring Mountain Lord has arrived.
Along both sides of the long street, on the walls and in the courtyards, withered branches sprouted new buds, and tender leaves grew one after another. In the blink of an eye, they grew up, so green that they were dripping with moisture, swaying in the wind, like a pair of dark green eyelids.
The ordinary people on the street all stared blankly at their heads, some loosening their belts, others exposing their chests, all with flushed faces and radiant with spring-like allure, as if their most primal desires had been aroused.
Shen Mingxin was still able to remain calm because he had just been exposed to the pure energy, but he couldn't help feeling dazed.
Seeing this, Chu Shenxiang summoned a gentle breeze once more, bringing the coolness of autumn to rush through the eerie spring wind.
"Shenxiangjun really cares about her adopted younger brother." A gentle, ethereal male voice drifted on the spring breeze.
As the white cat dispersed, the white lotus lamp took its place, instantly condensing and, with a piercing buzz, blocking a spring branch that had somehow been slanting towards Shen Mingxin.
Chunzhi struggled for a moment, then quickly disintegrated into pieces of rotten flesh before Shen Mingxin's eyes.
“Lord Chunshan really cares about his lineage,” Chu Shenxiang said coldly. “He even uses demon puppets to harm mortals when he goes out. What a cunning scheme.”
He wasn't the kind of person who wouldn't speak up. Now, all the people of Yu County could hear what he said. Even if he couldn't completely expose Lord Chunshan's true colors, he would at least plant a seed in everyone's hearts to make him uncomfortable.
"Shenxiangjun will stop at nothing to seize the incense offerings, even resorting to such blatant lies," a faint male voice laughed. "This sounds so familiar, could it be that you did it in secret?"
"Good and evil are known to the human heart," Chu Shenxiang said.
Having said that, there's no point in continuing the sophistry.
In the streets and alleys, on the white walls of buildings, countless spring branches burst forth, like vines, like worms, wriggling and rushing towards the white lotus lanterns. The endless evil and filth no longer concealed itself, surging wildly.
Thick clouds suddenly gathered in the sky, and the rain fell like red blood.
Above the white lotus lantern, a hand of craggy rock color appeared, but instead of lifting the lantern, it flicked its finger, causing it to fall, and its dazzling light enveloped Shen Mingxin and the mortals around him.
When the two gods clashed, mortals would either lose their minds or suffer rotten flesh, and none of them would have a good ending.
Chunshan Gong was unscrupulous, but Chu Shenxiang could not.
Moreover, the fact that he dared to act in Yu County instead of simply kidnapping Shen Mingxin and running away shows that he had his own reasons for doing so.
The hand that held the lamp did not retract it, but slowly raised it to meet the overwhelming spring branches.
The palm, coated with a hazy white light, gradually grew larger and larger as it was raised, eventually becoming a colossal hand that almost covered the entire Yu County. The giant hand descended, carrying the force of wind and thunder and a dazzling light, and crashed down with a deafening roar.
Spring Branch screamed shrilly, and the swarm of snakes, as if bewildered by a snake catcher, began to scatter.
"How dare you!"
A cold male voice came from the county government office.
No, those aren't stars.
Instead, it was a sword, its hilt engraved with ancient seal script, bearing the name "Shenzhao." This was the national treasure sword of the Shenzhao Kingdom, and also the personal sword of the Grand Preceptor Mingyin.
Chu Shenxiang's gaze remained unchanged as she reached out with her left hand, tracing the rising sun on the horizon.
A wisp of solar essence was borrowed and, within a complex and mysterious incantation, condensed into a sword, which slashed directly at the incoming Divine Illumination Sword.
The mortals on earth only saw a flash of sunlight before the fierce Divine Illumination Sword suddenly stopped.
In the next instant, as if erased, the sword shattered silently.
One of the most precious treasures of the Divine Illumination Kingdom has been destroyed just like that!
"you!"
A faint, indistinct sound of alarm and anger came from the air.
Chu Shenxiang was too lazy to argue with them anymore.
With one hand, he conjured a fiery dragon that swallowed the county government building whole; with the other, he condensed lightning and slammed it down on the newly built Chunshan Temple. The building was reduced to ashes in the heavenly fire, the new temple collapsed, and only the lingering sound of thunder remained in the north of the city.
"Have you tested me enough?" The nine-armed deity in green robes moved, with lotus lanterns beside him, and his illusory and majestic outline appeared in mid-air. "If you are so capable, then come and kill me at Wangqiu Mountain."
"I will be waiting for you."
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Author's Note: [Please] I apologize to all the little angels!
I only realized something was wrong when I was putting the drafts into the archive at 5:30. There was a problem with the cloud; the existing draft for Chapter 17 wasn't the previously revised version—some parts were missing. So, the update was delayed by half an hour. Although I still haven't found the correct version, this is a hastily revised version. (Sad)
From now on, I'll put it in a day in advance so I can prepare for any unexpected situations. Before, whenever a chapter hadn't been updated, the author would revise it from time to time, and this would happen when putting it in the draft box, which was inconvenient. That's why I always put it in at four or five o'clock and set a timer [laughing and crying with face covered].
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