Techniques and Dao

Chapter 132 Panxian's Startling Memories
Including the hub state. Heavy snowfall.

Just as Mieying said, a sudden blizzard hit the area in the afternoon.

From the air, the mountains and rivers are covered in silver, like a bright mirror.

When Hua Sheng left during the day, the sun was shining brightly here. Little did she expect that in just over half a day, the area would be completely covered in snow.

Thanks to Mieying for bringing that oil-paper umbrella, which shielded the two of them from a lot of the wind and snow.

In contrast, Tianjizi and Lü Dongbin, who were flying through the snow, already had a layer of ice covering their shoulders.

After descending slightly, Huasheng saw the familiar Daqian Zen Temple.

The once-brilliant tiles of Daqian Temple were now covered with a thick layer of snow. If it weren't for the orange glow emanating from the incense burner in the center of the temple, it would have been difficult to discern the temple's location in the darkness.

Upon arriving near the temple, Huasheng knew that Panxian Cave was also close at hand.

He was so tired from the whole day that he was feeling drowsy, his eyelids feeling as heavy as if they were weighed down by lead.

Now was clearly not the time to rest. Hua Sheng rubbed his bloodshot eyes and patted his cheeks hard, trying to muster all his strength.

Lu Dongbin and Tianjizi landed on the snow first, followed closely by Hua Sheng and Mieying. When they landed, they found that the snow was already above their knees.

"Are you cold?"

Seeing the strong winds and heavy snow on the ground, and noticing that Mieying was a girl dressed in thin clothes, Hua Sheng couldn't help but worry.

"I'm fine. Besides, this oil-paper umbrella can block a lot of wind and snow, it's very reliable!" Mieying chuckled and pointed to the red paper umbrella she was holding.

Lu Dongbin looked around, did some calculations with his fingers, and said, "The Panxian Cave should be here."

After saying that, he pointed his finger into the air, and the long sword behind him flew out of its sheath with a clang. Lü Dongbin caught the sword hilt and twirled it in mid-air, chanting, "Hurry, hurry, as the law commands!"

A magical array appeared where the sword's edge had passed, and the wind and snow scattered as they approached the array, unable to get close to the four people.

Seeing that it had stopped snowing, Mieying put away his oil-paper umbrella and held it in his hand.

Lu Dongbin leaned against his longsword, closed his eyes, placed two fingers on his chest, and chanted incantations. Then he suddenly opened his eyes and shouted, "Break!"

Then he lightly slashed the air with his sword, and with a tearing sound, a crack immediately appeared in the space in front of him, like a piece of torn paper flipping up and down.

The pitch-black entrance to Panxian Cave was then revealed.

Hua Sheng had been here before, and considering that he might be the only one of the four who had entered Panxian Cave, he warned, "Be careful, everyone. The walls inside the cave will absorb light. Even with lighting, it's still easy to bump into the cave walls."

"Follow me!" Tianjizi ignored him and strode into Panxian Cave.

Hua Sheng and Mie Ying each conjured torches for illumination and went inside.

Because the cave walls absorb light, the area of ​​illumination inside the cave is extremely limited. Taking even a slight misstep will result in bumping into the hard stone wall.

Tianjizi, relying on his "ultimate luck," moved forward without any fear, while Lü Dongbin followed closely behind, keeping a step's distance.

The cave is incredibly winding, and even though Hua Sheng had been there once before, she had forgotten most of the route.

Because Lü Dongbin and Tianjizi were walking too fast, they disappeared after several consecutive turns.

Upon realizing he couldn't find anyone, Hua Sheng was about to hurry up when he bumped into the stone wall with a thud.

Hua Sheng rubbed his forehead, worried that a big bump would soon appear.

"Why don't we wait here? They'll definitely come back looking for us if they can't find us."

Mie Ying wasn't worried at all, saying, "What's so strange about relying on luck? This young lady is all about cleverness and wit!"

After saying that, she waved her sleeve, raised her right palm, and chanted, "Hurry, hurry, as the law commands!"

Instantly, a layer of fluorescent orange mist appeared in her palm.

The glowing mist flowed continuously from the Shadowless Palm, and after sinking to the ground, it seemed to spread a fluorescent orange carpet on the ground.

The mist clung to the stone wall and spread out continuously, and in a short while a glowing passage appeared on the ground.

"Look! Now there's a path!" Mieying pointed to his forehead. "You have to use your brain."

Hua Sheng couldn't help but want to praise Mie Ying's quick wit and resourcefulness. But before he could speak, Mie Ying ran off.

Before long, the two arrived at the depths of Panxian Cave.

That was the only place in the cave that emitted light, and the dreamlike Bodhi tree still stood in the center of the cave.

The dense foliage, each leaf emitting a fluorescent green glow. The ground beneath the Bodhi tree is covered with a net-like pattern of luminous threads.

Tianjizi and Lü Dongbin were standing on the thin string, and Mieying also strolled up to it.

Hanamori, at the back of the line, tiptoed, remembering the huge tremor caused by stepping on the string earlier, and to be on the safe side, she slowed her pace.

The energy string beneath my feet vibrated slightly, but it didn't bother me.

Hua Sheng suddenly remembered something and said, "I almost forgot, everyone be careful, there's a big wolf spider in this Panxian Cave."

"Ugh! Don't even mention spiders! Just thinking about them gives me goosebumps. I'm terrified of ugly things!" Mie Ying Zhan shuddered.

Hua Sheng teased her, "Aren't birds supposed to eat insects? Why are you afraid of bugs?"

"Pah! Pah! Pah! The Mimon bird doesn't eat insects; our ancestors ate berries!"

"I'm just reminding you! That giant tarantula I was talking about has already been dealt with. I tied it up like a dumpling before I left last time!"

After listening, Tianjizi asked in a skeptical tone, "Where exactly is the giant wolf spider you mentioned?"

“Look! It’s right there…”

Hua Sheng was about to point with his finger when he suddenly realized that the spot where the giant tarantula had fallen was empty. He exclaimed in surprise, "Where did it go? It was supposed to be there! I'm sure I'm not mistaken!"

Tianjizi snorted and said, "Although this hole is large, it's also easy to see at a glance. What you're talking about is probably just a small insect!"

"That tarantula is bigger than ten oxen! But it was a long time ago. Could it have been tied up for months without eating and gotten thin from hunger?"

Hua Sheng searched back and forth in confusion, thinking to himself, "Impossible, it should be there. Even if I broke free, where did all those bundles of energy strings go?"
The energy strings binding the giant tarantula should be scattered on the ground.

Tianjizi looked at Huasheng and said with a hint of sarcasm, "You mean to say that someone came to Panxian Cave after you left, right?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Hua Sheng exclaimed under his breath, "Someone must have been here! That's why the tarantula and the energy string that bound it are gone!"

Tianjizi remained silent, but his eyes were filled with disdain.

At this moment, Lü Dongbin interrupted the two, saying, "Let's not talk about such trivial matters anymore; we have important business to attend to." He gazed at the energy string on the ground for a moment, then began to form hand seals while chanting incantations. Afterward, Lü Dongbin drew a line on the ground with his finger, and a circular purple immortal array more than ten feet in size immediately appeared on the ground.

Lü Dongbin said to Hua Sheng, "Come into this formation."

Hua Sheng recalled that Dao Ling Xingjun had previously asked him to find Jue Guang Xian Shi to come to this Panxian Cave to prove his innocence.

Now that it's Lü Dongbin's turn, setting up the formation is naturally not a problem. Besides Lan Caihe's whereabouts, if he really doesn't remember ever going to Klin Magic School, then having Lü Dongbin of the Eight Immortals as his witness would be even more convincing.

Thinking of this, Hua Sheng said, "Immortal, since you can check my previous memories, why not check them in the last few months as well, and see if I have been to that foreign land of France?"

Upon hearing this, Tianjizi asked, "I haven't compared the purple and gold threads on your Taoist robe. Why are you checking? Could it be that those threads are related to you?"

Hua Sheng, considering her own entanglement with Tian Jizi, decided it was best not to reveal Xing Jun's conclusion too soon. If it were discovered that she had never been to France, even if the clues were found to be hers, she could still claim it was a misunderstanding.

Thinking of this, he replied vaguely, "No, I was thinking that since we've come all this way, and this immortal array was set up by Immortal Lü, it would be too wasteful to use it only once. Why don't we all get a full check-up together?"

Lü Dongbin didn't answer, but instead asked Hua Sheng for his birth date and time, and began pacing around the immortal array. After circling once, he touched the back of Hua Sheng's head with his finger.

Hua Sheng felt a cool sensation in her eye sockets, as if a cool breeze had blown through her mind. She seemed to hear a whoosh, and an image was projected into the air in front of her.

The scene in the video is one of wind and rain, seemingly from someone's first-person perspective, with that person standing at the bow of a cruise ship.

The cruise ship was being tossed about by the storm, and the man's body and hands were covered in blood.

Hua Sheng knew that it was what she had experienced.

The witch Wu Wang, the strange beast Qiongqi, and the little girl in black Mingyou.

The scenes of these blooming flowers come to mind one by one, and when I immerse myself in these memories again, I am still deeply moved.

"The cruise ship... is the cruise ship that appeared when the Clever Box game was contaminated."

Tianjizi stared intently at the screen and said calmly.

Hua Sheng glanced at him out of the corner of her eye; Tian Jizi's face remained expressionless.

Hua Sheng suddenly felt a vague unease.

Next, the person referred to as Young Master Lan appeared in the scene; he was Lan Caihe.

Lan Caihe easily subdued the witch Wuwang, who shattered into fragments, which then stained Hua Sheng's arm. Incidentally, these fragments later reverted to Wuwang during the Tianmu Trial, when they contaminated the Qiaohe game.

Hua Sheng remembered that Wu Wang was the "assassin" sent by the future super-intelligent entity to hunt down Ming You.

Tianjizi's eyes were bloodshot, as if he was eager to know everything.

What exactly happened after Wuwang was destroyed for the first time?

Just then, as if struck by lightning, Hua Sheng suddenly remembered something extremely important. It existed in a corner of his hazy memory.

Yes, he saw several scenes when he was reduced to fragments in the Netherworld!
However, because he was in the illusion created by the boundless magic brought by the Starry Sky Veil for a few seconds, and then he was in the hospital, he once thought it was a dream within a dream, so he has ignored it until now.

He attacked Lan Caihe! He didn't know Lan Caihe's whereabouts, but he had seen the scene of himself stabbing Lan Caihe. Sui Xing Sha told him that.

"Oops!"

Hua Sheng's heart pounded wildly, as if it were about to burst out of his throat! If that were true, he might lose his life to Lü Dongbin's sword!

He suddenly tried to escape from the immortal array, but as soon as he turned half a step to the side, the swaying scene in front of him was recognized by Tianjizi.

Before Hua Sheng could even take a step back, Tian Jizi pointed with his hand and said, "Freeze!"

He was immediately frozen in place by the immobilization spell.

Tianjizi's face darkened with anger as he said, "What did you remember that made you want to run away!"

At that moment, scenes that no one had ever seen or imagined before slowly unfolded like an unopened curtain.

Upon seeing those, Hana held her breath.

In the scene, Lan Caihe asks Hua Sheng, "This woman is a harbinger of disaster. Do you really want to protect this person who brings calamity?"

Then Lan Caihe was about to burn Mingyou to death with raging fire, but Hua Sheng stepped forward to stop him and absorbed the raging fire into his body.

Lan Caihe took a step back: "No wonder you saved her. You are... a demon!"

Then he unleashed the Samadhi Fire, attempting to annihilate Hua Sheng and Ming You together in the sea of ​​fire.

"My father's Samadhi True Fire! So that's how it is! Why weren't you burned to death!" Tianjizi turned his head and glared at Huasheng, his eyes seeming to want to tear him to pieces.

The Samadhi Fire was still absorbed into Hua Sheng's body.

"A technique for absorbing boundless spiritual energy!" Lü Dongbin drew his sword, pointed it at Hua Sheng, and shouted, "You're not human at all! You're a phoenix demon?"

Hua Sheng seemed to freeze in his blood. Both Lan Caihe and Lü Dongbin claimed to be demons, which made him feel that something was very wrong.

The most important thing now is for him to break free from the immortal array as soon as possible. Otherwise, he might lose his life on the spot!
Xiao Qi, who was standing to the side, seemed to be frightened and shouted, "What are you doing?!"

Tianjizi shouted, "Still don't understand? This kid is a demon! The Immortal Realm has been peaceful and tranquil for many years, and now he is a monster who has infiltrated the Holy Peace!"

“You’re talking nonsense! He’s a human!” Mie Ying argued.

Tianjizi roared, "Foolish thing! If he was just a mortal with flesh and blood before he came to the Academy of Arts and Sciences, how could the Samadhi True Fire, a Lingxiao-level immortal technique, not burn him to death!"

Mie Ying stamped her feet anxiously: "I don't care! Lan Caihe must have made a mistake somewhere!"

Lu Dongbin shouted, "Insolence! I am here, how dare you, little girl, run wild and spout nonsense!"

"There's a mistake! Hua Sheng is a good person, I know he's a good person..."

Before Mieying could finish speaking, Huasheng in the scene plunged an iron rod into Lan Caihe's chest!

"You wicked creature!" Tianjizi was furious. He conjured a sword that was burning with flames in his hand, and the sword trembled due to his anger.

He and Lan Caihe in the video said in unison, "You dare... kill an immortal!"

Upon seeing this, Lü Dongbin immediately commanded, and the thick iron chain, like a snake's body, firmly locked Hua Sheng in place.

"You wicked monster! I, Tianjizi, will take your dog's life! To avenge my father!"

Tianjizi raised his fiery sword and thrust it towards Huasheng's chest!

This sword strike was solely intended to take his life.

(End of this chapter)