"Li Changzhou, I have already foreseen the future. You have attained the Dao through the Five Elements, and your body is filled with the Five Qi. With internal and external cultivation combined, you will transform into the Five Elements Pill in an instant. Even if you become a Kunpeng, it will be of no use!"
As soon as Tao Zhongwen finished speaking, the Chaotic Yang Serpent disappeared, and a giant Kun pounced on the Five Elements Flames, swallowing them whole.
But the flames continued to burn fiercely even after entering the giant Kun's body.
"Don't even think about sowing discord among us. I have already sworn to all my fellow Daoists that I will give up the path to immortality!"
"You killed me, but who will you kill next? This place is full of Tao Zhongwen and Shao Yuanjie's followers and their descendants!"
It was as if everything had been arranged; Li Changzhou's every move was exactly as Tao Zhongwen had predicted.
This is not a prediction, it is the future.
Inside the cauldron, Li Changzhou tried every means at his disposal—flame waves, holy masters, teleportation, summoning imperial mechs—but none of them worked.
The cauldron is enormous; calling Yang Qinglan and Li Qianxia over is simply to harm them!
He tried to unleash his Divine Body at all costs, but his energy was depleted, and he made no move.
Even while enduring excruciating pain and focusing intently, he couldn't come up with a way to resist or absorb the Five Elements Flames.
A wave of panic washed over me.
As this emotion surged within him, Li Changzhou realized that he might really die here.
If Tao Zhongwen hadn't seen the future, he was absolutely certain he could kill the five people and successfully become an immortal!
'Even such a cowardly thought of being unable to accept defeat has surfaced, ha!'
Li Changzhou chuckled to himself, took a deep breath, sat cross-legged inside the cauldron, calmed his mind, and quickly recalled all the Taoist books he had recently read.
The Orthodox Daoist Canon?
The Tao Te Ching, the Nan Hua Zhen Jing, the Chong Xu Zhen Jing, and Wen Zi's Tong Yuan Zhen Jing.
The Great Dao Theory, The Profound Secrets Directly Pointed Out, The Simple Explanation of Daoist Words, The Essentials of the Profound?
no!
These are all principles, but they can't solve immediate problems!
One of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Techniques: Flying Body and Leaving a Trace!
"Hidden within heaven and earth, roaming the four seas, unknowable, unsearchable, unobservable, existing in the world, yet unseen in the world," Li Changzhou recited the mantra.
His heart was completely immersed in it.
He suffered excruciating pain both inside and outside his body, but what kind of pain had he ever feared? He had walked through the eighteen levels of hell, and he had even experienced being crushed into a pulp inch by inch while still alive!
"What is he doing?" Lan Tianyu asked hurriedly.
The more they fought against Li Changzhou, the more they realized how terrifying he was.
The legend that the Heavenly Emperor of the Divine Cult possesses extraordinary talent is absolutely true!
“Li Changzhou is very powerful,” Tao Zhongwen said with a serious expression. “He comprehended some of the mysteries of flying and teleporting at the last moment, but he did not become an Earth Immortal and did not have a blessed land. Therefore, he could not possibly perform this Heavenly Gang Technique.”
Li Changzhou heard this, but his expression remained unchanged.
"mysterious!"
With a whoosh, he took out the powerful bow.
"Ying!" Emperor Jiajing roared.
"Squeak—" The powerful bows were drawn to their fullest extent, each longbow stretched to its zenith, like a fierce tiger about to be released from its cage.
Tao Zhongwen looked over.
Ti Yuanzi, Sheng Duanming, Lan Daoxing, and Lan Tianyu turned their gazes towards him.
"break!"
Dark clouds covered the sky.
A hail of arrows rained down.
"Ah!" Wails filled the air as the Taoist priests chanting incantations within the Forbidden City instantly turned into hedgehogs.
A Taoist priest from Shangqing Palace lowered his hand, drew his flying sword, and burst forth with a burst of sword light, shattering the incoming arrows.
Emperor Jiajing snatched a powerful bow from a nearby imperial guard and drew it to its full extent.
Whoosh!
The arrow grazed past the Taoist priest at Shangqing Palace, missing its target, but the priest's magical power vanished instantly.
The arrow struck the flying sword, making a clanging sound like rain hitting a carriage roof.
Several arrows struck the Taoist priest of Shangqing Palace between the eyebrows at the same time, leaving a large, bloody hole.
Li Changzhou roared to the sky, transforming once again into a colossal python that reached the heavens, its tail sweeping across the sky.
boom!
The Five Elements Cauldron trembled violently, and a ring of five-colored energy waves flew out, instantly reducing the energy inside the cauldron by a little over half.
"Suppress it!" Tao Zhongwen roared, spitting out a mouthful of blood essence. His black hair instantly turned white, and the aura inside the cauldron suddenly erupted.
The chaotic yang serpent coiled, sometimes lashing out with its tail, sometimes charging wildly.
Emperor Jiajing removed his golden crown and took out the talisman given to him by Tao Zhongwen.
"Destroy!"
The talisman transformed into a faint, almost invisible thread of light, instantly striking Ti Yuanzi's body.
Ti Yuanzi's face stiffened, and the surging magical power he had been mustering was suppressed by forty percent by the talisman!
The five streams of light that made up the cauldron slowed down, and the cauldron became faintly visible.
The Chaos Yang Serpent angrily lashed out with its tail.
Peng!
The cauldron exploded, unleashing a torrent of five-colored energy waves, with countless rays of light scattering across the sky.
"Pfft!" Tao Zhongwen, Ti Yuanzi, Sheng Duanming, Lan Daoxing, and Lan Tianyu all coughed up blood at the same time.
The enormous head of the black python burst forth, piercing through the five elements of light.
The snake raised its head and let out a thunderous roar!
A terrifying behemoth stood atop the flowing light, roaring in the sky, its form utterly horrifying.
call!
A gust of wind swept through, and the snake's tail swept out from the stream of light, its powerful force slamming into the bodies of the five people.
Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!
Ti Yuanzi, Sheng Duanming, Lan Daoxing, and Lan Tianyu exploded into a blood mist.
The giant python lunged forward, transforming into human form. With a swift claw strike, Tianwu Tiger bit Tao Zhongwen, who was trying to escape by using talismans to defend himself against the snake's tail lashes.
Tianwuhu pushed off with his hind legs in the air and leaped in front of Li Changzhou, carrying Tao Zhongwen in his mouth.
Li Changzhou's entire body was covered in cracks, and the Five Elements Flames were still burning inside the cracks, but the wounds were slowly healing.
Tao Zhongwen, his hair and beard all white, coughed once and said bitterly, "If I hadn't looked into the future, I wouldn't have given the Jiajing Emperor the talisman, and things wouldn't have come to this!"
“If you see this, you’ll inevitably end up like this.” Li Changzhou said quietly, breathing heavily.
He was also exhausted.
Tao Zhongwen took a couple of breaths and asked again, "Jiajing is immune to all magic and cannot be controlled by spells. What exactly did you use to bewitch him?"
“I didn’t seduce him, so he helped me, it’s that simple.”
Tao Zhongwen paused for a moment, then smiled with a hint of melancholy: "Humans face calamities, Heaven may not take them, but people's hearts will! It's all in a single thought! A single wrong thought! I didn't lose to fate, I lost to people's hearts!"
Li Changzhou turned around and took the last section of the dragon vein into his hand.
Behind him, Tianwuhu took a bite.
Nine streaks of light descended from the horizon and landed beside Li Changzhou.
"elder brother!"
Are you alright?
Li Changzhou patted his sleeves and said calmly, "Child's play."
He looked towards the Forbidden City, where the Jiajing Emperor was being forced by Taoist priests and players, desperately lunging at the golden crown with a move akin to a dog fighting for food.
Emperor Jiajing hurriedly put on his golden crown, and Li Changzhou was about to go down to help.
Meanwhile, the moon is high in the sky, the Lantern Festival ends, and the Sixteenth Day of the First Lunar Month begins.
All the players were suddenly plunged into darkness.
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