Chapter 574: Heavenly Master’s Guidance
“Whoosh!”
In the garden shrouded in a gloomy wind, Zhao Duan raised his right arm high and suddenly threw out a brocade bag. As soon as he made a move, he shattered the seal with his energy!
Before the assassination attempt began, he went to meet Zhang Yanyi, who implicitly warned him of the danger he would face and gave him a secret bag that could only be opened at the most critical moment.
Zhao Duan knew that now was the time to open it.
As the brocade bag opened, beams of green light suddenly spurted out from the narrow mouth of the bag.
The green light was extremely vast, as if it could shake the heaven and earth, and even the dark clouds in the sky were shaking.
"Huh?" Xu Jingtang was startled, and the big hand that was about to smash down suddenly stopped and looked over warily.
Then, in everyone's sight, green light enveloped Zhao Duan and his group, as if a small piece of pure land had been opened up in this place where the wind was howling.
And within the green light, a human figure slowly emerged:
He was tall, with narrow eyes and eyebrows, wearing a black priest's robe, and his long hair was combed into a bun at the back of his head.
“Master!!?”
Zhong Pan, Jin Jian and Yu Xiu exclaimed at the same time, looking stunned.
Old Zhang, it turned out to be you... I made the right bet... Zhao Duan breathed a sigh of relief silently, and clenched his fists with excitement.
Since it can only be opened in desperate crisis, the sachet must contain a means to save lives immediately, and it is unlikely to be a note or something like that... In a critical moment, how could there be enough time to open it?
"No, it's a Dharma body of Master... It only possesses a part of Master's power and can only appear for a short time." Zhong Pan held the sword in both hands, his face changed slightly.
Zhao Duan wasn't too surprised. If Zhang Yanyi had hidden his true self in a brocade bag, it would have been too scary...
He hurriedly asked, "Didn't Xu Jingtang only obtain divine power temporarily?"
Zhong Pan glanced at him and shook his head solemnly:
"It's different. If your guess is correct, then Xu Jingtang relied on all the frustration accumulated during the war over the past few months, and after the entire White Sect sorcerer teamed up and set up the formation for many days, he was able to summon the god.
The most crucial thing is that he seems to be using some kind of secret technique to temporarily absorb the power of the gods into his body..."
Jin Jian couldn't stand it anymore. What was the eldest senior brother talking about?
She clutched the staff tightly in her small hand and said loudly:
“I don’t understand!”
Judge Zhong was silent for a moment, then said briefly:
"Master's Dharma body will disappear before the other party."
Zhao Duan and others' faces fell.
"Zhang Yanyi?!"
In mid-air, Xu Jingtang saw the old Taoist priest appear and was instinctively startled, even taking two steps back.
Even the corpse Youlian on the ground had a sudden change of expression.
But soon, the two realized that this was not the real body.
Xu Jingtang felt relieved and smiled:
"You scared me. If Zhang Yanyi were really here, I would still be afraid of you. But it's just a Dharma body. Do you think you can threaten me?"
In the green light, Zhang Yan stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes calmly sweeping across the entire scene, finally landing on the huge, tattered god of death.
At this moment, Xu Jingtang had already thrown another punch downwards!
With one punch, thousands of fatal curses densely packed together, covering him.
"Hmph." Zhang Yan snorted coldly, raised his right hand, and spread out his five fingers. In an instant, characters from the heavenly book appeared in the green light. A rough glance showed that there were tens of thousands of them.
Countless words swirled around his body, forming a giant blue hand, which collided fiercely with the fist of the God of Death.
It was silent and there was no deafening roar, but at this moment, the entire world within a radius of 100 miles in Jingchuan Town was affected.
All practitioners within a hundred miles could clearly sense the fluctuations of the heavenly secrets.
"Prepare to die! I want to see how long you can hold on!"
Xu Jingtang was like a mad tiger. Relying on his divine body, he threw out random punches, and in an instant, he threw out hundreds of punches.
Zhao Duan and the other five little ones hid under Zhang Yan, trembling, and clearly saw the thickness of the blue clouds above their heads being weakened layer by layer and becoming dim.
"This won't last long!"
Zhao Duan was anxious. Could it be that Lao Zhang made a mistake in his calculation?
At this moment, as if sensing his thoughts, Zhang Yan turned his head in mid-air, glanced at him, and his lips seemed to move.
Then he rolled up his left sleeve, and a green light suddenly shot towards the five little ones, swallowing them up.
"Southwest, Zhengyang Mountain."
Zhao Duan only heard this sentence when his figure gradually disappeared, along with Zhong Pan and others.
And in a remote place outside the garden where no one was paying attention, the unicorn that was stamping its hooves restlessly also opened its eyes wide, and was swallowed up by a green light that appeared out of nowhere and disappeared.
"boom!"
Xu Jingtang's last punch created a sonic boom, destroying the entire inner house, and Zhang Yanyi's Dharma body also disappeared due to exhaustion.
“Someone’s missing!?”
Xu Jingtang stared at the messy ground and roared.
The strange-looking corpse Youlian frowned and said:
"They were teleported away, but they shouldn't be too far away. They should still be in Jingchuan."
Xu Jingtang's expression was uncertain. He thought carefully for a moment and said:
"You're right. Want to run?"
He sneered, thought for a moment, and then his armor vibrated. He absorbed the huge phantom of the god behind him into his body, glanced at the white-robed sect leader, and said:
"I have to go and kill Zhao Duan."
He now has two choices.
One is to abandon Zhao Duan, turn around and rush to the battlefield, use the power of the God of Death to eliminate Zhao Shixiong and defeat the imperial army.
However, in this way, he would most likely spend all his strength on the battlefield.
The other option is to hunt down Zhao Duan and temporarily abandon the battlefield. If everything goes well, after killing Zhao Duan, there will still be enough energy to rush to the battlefield.
If things don't go well, the original plan will be implemented and the main force of the rebels will retreat to Yunfu.
After a brief struggle, Xu Jingtang chose the second one.
"This person must not be allowed to stay."
This decision stemmed from his belief that Zhao Duan was more valuable than an imperial army, or even more valuable than half of the Huai River.
On a deeper level, it is that... As a descendant of the royal family of the Yu Kingdom, Xu Jingtang clearly felt at this moment that there was a power in Zhao Duan that he extremely desired.
The Corpse Curtain's strange pupils blinked, and then she smiled sweetly:
"Your Highness, please go on your own. The White Clothes Sect will assist your generals in evacuating."
Xu Jingtang said "hmm" and without further delay, he followed the vague sensation and flew into the night.
Watch him leave.
"Mother..."
Shiluoyi then spoke nervously:
"That Zhao guy wouldn't really run away, would he?"
Corpse Phantom glanced at him and said unhappily:
"Useless! Call all the disciples to evacuate immediately. Quickly."
In order to help Xu Jingtang, the entire Baiyi Sect was severely injured, and dozens of sorcerers were in a weak state.
"Oh oh..." Shiluoyi didn't dare to refute and immediately went to call for help.
After a while, Shi Youlian and her son, led a group of weak sorcerers and left the Baishi Garden, which was already in chaos.
However, not long after the people from the White Robe Sect walked away, Shi Youlian suddenly stopped and stared at the north.
I saw a warrior figure walking alone in the night sky!
Zhao Shixiong was running through the air with the Soul-Breaking Sword in his hand. A scarlet smoke of blood and energy rose from his body, swaying and rising straight into the sky.
"Want to leave? Have you asked Zhao?!"
Zhao Shixiong shouted arrogantly, and the Soul-Breaking Sword came slashing through the air. All the disciples in white clothes changed their expressions drastically!
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On the edge of Jingchuan Town, a suburb shrouded in darkness.
A burst of green light suddenly appeared and then disappeared.
At the same time, a carriage and five figures fell from the sky and landed heavily on the ground.
“Pooh…Pooh…Pooh…”
Zhao Duan didn't control his posture well and fell flat on his face. When he got up, he spat out a mouthful of grass leaves, but he didn't care. He turned around and used the moonlight to grab the golden tablet next to him which was also badly fallen.
"How is everything?" he asked in a low voice.
Under the moonlight, Zhong Pan, Yu Xiu, Lang Shiba and others also crawled up from the ground one after another, but they all looked embarrassed.
Logically speaking, with their level of cultivation, this shouldn't have happened even if they fell suddenly.
"It's okay..." Yuxiu brushed off the dust on her Taoist robe, and then her expression changed. She said:
"No, my cultivation has declined..."
Hearing this, Zhao Duan and the others also sensed it, and indeed they all realized that their own energy and magic power were being restrained.
Although they did not disappear completely, they had almost slid down a lot and degenerated to the stage of gods or even mortals.
"It's a curse." Zhong Pan stood up, leaning on his sword, and said with a grim expression:
"We were cursed before Master's Dharmakaya appeared. Our cultivation is still there, but it is temporarily affected by the curse, similar to a serious injury. Once the curse disappears, we will be able to recover."
Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Zhao Duan looked around and found that they were in a desolate wilderness, without any dark clouds.
"It seems that the old master finally teleported us away. I wonder where this place is." He said softly.
Jin Jian held her staff, and the golden eye on the top of the staff closed. She stroked the eye and said:
"It should still be in Jingchuan."
brush--
Everyone looked at her.
Jin Jian faced the gazes, shrank his neck, and explained in a low voice:
"I can still sense the aftermath of the fight just now."
As an elf in the night, even though her cultivation was cursed and sealed, the girl still had keen perception under the starry sky.
"It seems we are not out of danger yet," Zhao Duan said in a deep voice:
"Xu Jingtang won't let me escape. He's probably on his way to catch up. We have to move immediately."
"If it's the gods who are hunting us, I'm afraid we won't be able to escape." Yuxiu analyzed calmly.
The female Taoist nun was covered in dirt from the fall, but her eyes were still frighteningly cold.
"No, we will definitely escape."
Zhao Duan was very confident and explained quickly:
"The Dharmakaya I just used was a life-saving method lent to me by the old Grand Master. Before we teleported, I heard Master Zhang Tianshi give us the next instructions."
"Southwest, Zhengyang Mountain." He repeated the location in a clear voice.
Everyone was stunned.
Yuxiu was surprised:
"Zhengyang Mountain? Southwest again... Is it the one within the Yunfu Dao territory? The mountaintop occupied by the Zhengyang School? Did Master really tell you about this place?"
"I must have heard correctly."
Zhengyang School... Zhao Duan still remembered this group of scholars. Mr. Zhengyang had come to Beijing to cause trouble.
After he plagiarized Yangming's philosophy of mind, he was convinced and returned to Yunfu, becoming his loyal fan.
Judge Zhong thought for a moment and said:
"Since Master has clearly made the arrangements, he must have calculated the next step. We'd better comply."
As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the unicorn that was pulling the carriage, wagging its tail, and affectionately coming over to bite his sleeve, and grinned:
"Master even brought the carriage over for us."
Yuxiu nodded, but then became a little worried:
"However, Zhengyang Mountain is not that close to here. Even with your carriage, it can only travel a thousand miles a day, so it won't be there in a short time. I'm worried... we'll be caught up along the way."
Zhao Duan gritted his teeth and stood up, his eyes as fierce as a lone wolf:
"If I don't run, I'll definitely be caught up. If I run, at least there's still a glimmer of hope."
He suddenly spread out his hands and grinned:
"Besides, we have this."
In his palm, there was a fiery red banyan leaf.
This was what fell out of the brocade bag after it was opened, and was placed in Zhang Yanyi's palm.
Judge Zhong's eyes lit up:
"This is a banyan tree leaf, equivalent to a talisman. I recognize it, it's a teleportation talisman. Look, there's a 'Xing' character on the leaf. Master has indeed made all the arrangements.
With this, even if we are caught up on the road, we still have a chance to escape.
However... this leaf can only be used a limited number of times, twice at most, before it's useless."
Two chances to escape from the gods?
Everyone was happy and worried.
Being hunted by a god...are two chances enough?
Everyone was unsure.
But time waits for no one, and they had no doubt that Xu Jingtang would catch up with them soon. They immediately supported each other, got on the carriage, and prepared to escape.
"etc……"
Zhao Duan suddenly hesitated.
He thought about the consequences of his escape... Whether it was the Huai Wang Mansion in the county town, which had already taken sides, or Ji Yue who was guarding the Liangsheng Gate, plus Yuan Feng, Zhao Shixiong and others who were approaching this side from the front line outside Jingchuan County.
If Zhao Duan suddenly disappears, it will probably cause unpredictable chaos.
"Sir, I will stay."
Suddenly, Lang Shiba seemed to see through his concerns, and the warrior said seriously:
"I'll leave on foot and return to the county town to bring back the news here."
Zhao Duan looked at him and asked seriously, "Have you thought it through?"
It was extremely risky to leave the team and return to the county town alone to report the news.
Lang Shiba smiled and said:
"Xu Jingtang is after you, my lord, and several priests from the Tianshi Mansion, but not a humble warrior like me. It would be safer for me to leave alone."
But Zhao Duan knew that this was not the way it was said.
Although following Zhao Duan might lead to being caught up, would it be safe if I stayed?
If he were to be caught by Xu Jingtang, he would surely die. Even if he could return to the county safely, he would still have to remember that there were still a large number of Yunfu rebels in the city, as well as the corpse curtains of the White Clothes Sect...
Lang Shiba, who is in a cursed state, has no worldly cultivation and is in Jingchuan Town, where he may encounter danger at any time.
In fact, the danger is greater than Zhao Duan.
"Sir, someone has to stay." Lang Shiba said with a smile.
After a moment's silence, Zhao Duan nodded vigorously, pulled him over, and whispered to him to bring back a message after returning to the city.
After thinking for a while, he took out the silver scroll and shook out a long stick.
【Fearless Stick】
This is the weapon of the monk Fanlong. As long as you hold this stick, you can resist negative effects such as curses and fear.
Zhao Duan tried it himself, and as expected, he found that the Fearless Stick did improve his cultivation a little, but it could not lift the curse.
Not surprising.
This is a curse sent down by the gods. How can a magic weapon resist it?
"Take this. Although it's not very useful, it should be able to weaken the curse on you." Zhao Duan gave the Fearless Stick to Lang Shiba.
The latter accepted it with pleasure without any pretense.
Then he looked at Zhao Duan deeply, pursed his lips, and said nothing more. He turned around, carried a long stick on his back, held a scimitar in his hand, and with the help of the direction of the moon, ran towards the estimated north.
Zhao Duan took a deep breath, closed his eyes, shrank back into the carriage, lowered the curtain, and whispered:
"Let's go."
Zhong Pan shook the reins, the unicorn neighed, swung its tail, and dragged the black carriage, entering an illusory state, galloping towards Zhengyang Mountain at lightning speed.
There was silence in the carriage, no one spoke, and everyone felt uneasy, knowing that if they couldn't hold on, everyone would die.
Zhao Duan leaned back in the carriage, feeling the listless Jin Jian curled up against his chest, and the weight of Yuxiu's body pressed tightly against him, so that they could feel each other's heavy breathing.
He was lost in thought in the darkness:
Why did Lao Zhang ask him to escape to Zhengyang Mountain?
What on earth did this old Deng arrange?
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Capital city.
Shortly after the God of Death arrived and fought against Zhang Yanyi's Dharma body.
Xu Zhenguan, who was far away in the imperial palace, vaguely sensed the fluctuations of the power of the heavenly realm in a distant place.
It was just because the distance was farther, so her perception was not as clear as the last time Zhao Duan put out the fire.
"What happened? Or is it my illusion?"
The empress was dressed in casual clothes, standing in the brightly lit Yangxin Palace, gazing into the night, her phoenix eyes full of confusion.
After hesitating for a moment, the empress's figure turned into golden light and disappeared in the palace.
In a blink of an eye, Xu Zhenguan appeared out of thin air in the depths of the Tianshi Mansion, in a small courtyard with its own entrance and courtyard, where a large banyan tree of mysterious origin was planted.
The yard was empty and the big banyan tree seemed to be asleep.
"Squeak."
Suddenly, the door to the courtyard room opened, and Gongshu Tianyuan, a short, fat man in a wrinkled priest robe, walked out and bowed respectfully:
"Your Majesty."
Xu Zhenguan frowned: "Where is the Heavenly Master?"
Gongshu Tianyuan said honestly:
"Master is not in the house. He said that if His Majesty comes to see him, he will tell him everything is fine and he can just wait."
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Typos should be corrected first and then replaced
(End of this chapter)
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