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Chapter 770 The Three Pure Ones only want mud, but the Buddha wants a golden body [One day left for the monthly ticket draw]

Below the rockery, in a sealed ice cave.

There is a phrase that fits the atmosphere at the moment:
Like falling into an ice cave.

Everyone's hearts, which had just been relieved, were now chilling, and even the blankets on their bodies could not suppress the silent hairs that stood up.

At this time, the sound of the piano, which came from somewhere far away, lingered in the ears like a death warrant, and was accompanied by a conspicuous red beam of light that suddenly emerged from the body of the young Taoist priest with an expressionless face.

Lu Ya suddenly became the focus in the ice cave.

The sound of the piano appeared almost simultaneously with the fiery red beam of light on his body.

The general connection between them can be guessed by anyone with their toes.

Wei Mei was in doubt and pointed at Lu Ya and asked, "Is the light column on your head caused by the sound of the zither?"

Li Xian looked around anxiously: "Who is playing? Cover it up quickly!"

Lu Ya's face changed, he raised his hand seriously, and quickly sealed the hearing acupoints to block out the sound of the piano in his ears.

The big red beam of light was still above his head.

Li Guoer acted decisively, snatched the unused blanket from Li Xian's hand and threw it to Lu Ya.

The latter took it and tried to cover his head.

Soon, a bright red light beam appeared, just like the ethereal sound of a piano, passing through the blanket and rushing towards the ceiling.

It is conceivable that it should also be able to pass through the soil and rocks and be exposed outside the ice cave.

Vaguely sensing this result, everyone's face changed drastically.

Lu Ya looked up at the ceiling, frowning tightly, staring at the phantom beam of light that was similar in color to the spiritual energy in his dantian.

"Oh no! Ouyang Lianghan's prediction was right again."

Li Guoer's voice was low, and her pretty face was as cold as an iceberg:

"This beam of light may be linked to spiritual energy cultivation, and will expose our position."

Lu Ya, Li Xian and the others immediately remembered Ouyang Rong's careful instructions:
Xie Lingjiang, Lu Ya and other Qigong practitioners should run into Mount Kuanglu to divert the pursuers and not stay in the ice cave together.

Wei Mei said angrily and anxiously:

"Master Lu, why didn't you listen to Tan Lang's words? Look at what you have done now! It's thanks to Tan Lang that he risked his life to buy us time, and now look what you have done..."

"Poor, poor..."

Lu Ya's face was filled with guilt and he felt ashamed.

Li Guoer took a deep breath and did not complain or blame immediately. She quickly pointed her index finger at Lu Ya and analyzed calmly:

"If there is no way to stop the source of the piano sound, then there is only one way, destroy the spiritual energy Dantian!"

The whole audience fell silent.

Under the complicated looks from everyone, Lu Ya's whole body trembled slightly.

I saw that the Taoist priest with expressionless face was biting his cheek tightly, and his face was flushed red.

At a certain moment, he suddenly faced Li Guoer, Li Xian, Wei Mei and others and bowed solemnly.

After the salute, without waiting for everyone to react, he raised his palm and was about to place it on his dantian in his lower abdomen.

Li Xian shouted anxiously: "Master Lu, please don't..."

at this time.

"Boom--!"

Suddenly, there was a dull crash outside the ice cellar, followed by two more of the same sound:
"Dong-dong-!"

It was the sound of the huge rock sealing the entrance to the ice cellar being hit.

Someone is breaking down the door.

Li Guoer suddenly turned around and said, "Stop! Someone is coming."

……

"Crackling——"

On the ruins of the inner residence of Prince Xunyang's Mansion, after the fire, the remaining roots and leaves that were buried in the black and gray embers and had not yet been completely burned made a dull explosion from time to time.

On the ruins, the pirates who were originally about to evacuate stopped where they were and kept looking sideways.

The atmosphere on the field was somewhat silent, which only made the "crackling" sound more loud.

All eyes fell on the inconspicuous rockery in front.

"laugh."

The one-eyed man suddenly smiled, looked around at his companions and exchanged glances.

A group of pirates wearing white cloth strips also started to laugh grimly.

Although I don’t understand why someone would dare to hide in a dark room with such a big fire and not come out, not afraid of choking to death...but the fact is right in front of us.

Some answers are self-evident.

In front of everyone, the one-eyed man raised a finger and put it to his mouth.

The pirates immediately kept quiet, followed the one-eyed man, and walked towards the rockery emitting red light and surrounded it.

Soon, an inconspicuous cellar secret door was cleared out.

The one-eyed man squatted on the ground and tapped his fingers.

A huge rock blocked the entrance to the cellar.

The one-eyed man raised the corner of his mouth slightly, raised his hand and signaled his subordinates behind him.

Soon, the one hundred pirates dispersed tacitly and divided into several small teams, going to the outer houses to look for wooden stakes and sharp weapons to break down the door.

The one-eyed man and three other middle-class pirates stayed where they were, staring coldly at the secret door of the ice cellar.

While waiting for his subordinates to break down the door, the one-eyed man had nothing to do, so he looked around.

He listened to the piano music, of which he had been notified in advance, and looked around at the situation.

Soon, several anomalies were discovered:
First, deep in the Kuang Lu Mountains, there was indeed a large red beam of light, which was "slowly" moving northward. Behind it, there were five other large red beams of light, which were also "slowly" moving northward, as if following it.

The one-eyed man thought about it for a moment and guessed the reason.

It was the Xie girl, who was being chased by the five middle-class pirates he sent over.

It was not known whether Prince Xunyang and his family were following Xie Lingjiang or hiding in the strange secret room under his feet.

No matter what, don't think about running away today.

Secondly, there were some other light pillars in the city, but they were all concentrated in Xingzifang and Xunyangfang in the distance. I wonder if they were the rebels from Tiannan Jianghu who had sneaked into the city... The one-eyed man quickly looked away and didn't pay much attention to them.

Today, this group of "Hukou County pirates" is only responsible for the tragedy in Xunyang Palace. As for the fierce battle over the big Buddha at Shuangfengjian, it is not his responsibility.

At this time, the one-eyed man's attention was attracted by a very conspicuous phenomenon in the western sky.

It seemed that there was an eye-catching blue beam of light in the sky above the Shuangfeng Peak where the Xunyang Grottoes were located.

Different from the normal low-grade blue light column and medium-grade red light column, this azure light column shot straight into the sky like a sharp sword.

I don’t know what is happening at the Xunyang Grottoes.

The one-eyed man watched for a while, and soon, the first group of pirates who went out returned and brought back the materials needed to break into the door. The one-eyed man put his hands behind his back and made way, and the pirates began to build facilities to hit the stone door of the secret cave below.

The "dong" sounds came one after another.

However, there are still not enough people and the efficiency is quite slow. We need several subsequent groups of people to return to provide reinforcements and break the door together to speed up the process.

The one-eyed man closed his eyes and supervised his men to knock on the door, then waited for a while.

But after a quarter of an hour, no follow-up personnel returned.

The one-eyed man was a little unhappy. He waved his hand to call the two pirates and gave them a few instructions. The two pirates took the order and left, carrying the message, to look for the person. A quarter of an hour later.

Still no one came back.

The two pirates who brought the message never came back.

The one-eyed man frowned and tilted his head to signal a middle-class pirate next to him.

The latter immediately turned around and went to look for someone with a cold face.

After half a stick of incense.

No one came back.

The one-eyed man's expression changed slightly.

As if he noticed something was wrong, he suddenly ordered:
"Stop banging on the door, everyone gather together..."

Halfway through his speech, he seemed to realize something, so he paused and looked back.

The other two middle-level pirates and the pirate's subordinates who broke into the door also followed his action and turned their heads.

I saw a bearded young man walking slowly towards the outer house.

His face was pale, and he was holding a bunch of white cloth strips in one hand. In the other hand, he was twisting something that looked like a small mud-sealed pill.

The bearded young man crushed the mud seal, stuffed the light red pill into his mouth, puffed up his cheeks and began to chew.

The one-eyed man stood still, his eyes fixed on the pill in the hand of the bearded young man who was walking slowly towards him.

This Qi-replenishing pill was provided by the Prince of Wei's Palace. It is precious and hard to find. Although it is not as good as the legendary Black Dragon's quality, it is also a mid-to-high-quality pill. Each of the mid-quality pirates who came today was equipped with one, but it is now being chewed like a candy by this bearded young man.

A pirate sent by Wei Wu suddenly spoke up: "He is Li Fusu! The prince of Xunyang."

When the one-eyed man heard this, his gaze did not shift in the slightest, his tense body did not relax at all, and his eyes were fixed on the top of "Li Dalang's" head.

At this moment, amid the sound of the Big Buddha's piano, the light beams that appeared were either red or blue. The more powerful one was the purple light beam that belonged to Nanny Song from Xunyang Palace. There were also more special ones, like the bright blue light beam in front.

However, at this moment, the one-eyed man saw that the beam of light that appeared above the bearded young man's head was gray.

It is as dim and inconspicuous as the ashes after a fire has burned out, and it is even difficult to see clearly from a distance.

Only when you get close can you vaguely perceive the silent and eerie color, which is like dead ash.

Especially after taking the light red pill, a red thread appeared faintly in the gray air above his head.

In full view of everyone, "Li Dalang" walked closer and looked up at the one-eyed man and his group who looked as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

"The Infinite God Who Saves People."

After waking up, the old Taoist priest who had gone around the city to find some rare items to delay the time and protect the prince's body sang his name and said politely:
"Please lend me a few more elixirs."

……

Inside the ice cave.

While Li Guo'er was shouting loudly, Li Xian had already stepped forward quickly and stopped Lu Ya, who was in a daze.

"Boom-thump-thump-"

Outside the ice cave, the sound of heavy objects hitting the stone door came one after another.

It hit everyone's heart like a death drum.

The huge stone gate is crumbling.

Through the wall, one could faintly hear the pirates' hideous laughter and conversation outside.

Lu Ya suddenly picked up the half-broken peach wood sword, walked forward and stood beside the door where the knocking sound came from.

His back blocked the front of the crowd, and he said without turning back:

"I'm sorry, Master Ouyang, I'm sorry, His Highness and the Prince. I'll use the thunder talisman to try to hold them back. Everyone, please try to run as far away as you can..."

Upon hearing this, Li Xian and the others looked somewhat sad and desperate.

But at this moment, the sound of collision outside suddenly disappeared, replaced by endless silence.

The pirates' hideous laughter, banging sounds, and voices all disappeared, as if they had evaporated from the face of the earth.

Li Guoer was the first to notice this and tilted his head to stare at the stone gate.

Li Xian and others also noticed it one after another and looked ahead in confusion.

About three breaths later, a voice came from outside the door:

"Come out."

It was Li Dalang's voice.

But the tone was somewhat unfamiliar.

Lu Ya, who had originally lowered his head, suddenly looked up and stared at the stone gate in front of him.

Everyone looked at each other.

Li Xian called out, "Da Lang?"

Wei Mei immediately stepped forward and opened the crumbling stone door.

Li Guoer did not stop him. She glanced at Lu Ya's expression, followed him, and helped Wei Mei to open the stone door.

With a "boom" sound, the stone gate gradually rose.

The light from outside shone in, illuminating the lone figure standing at the door.

Li Guoer saw that "Brother" was standing among a pile of corpses.

There were corpses of pirates all around, but they all died in strange ways, with white cloth strips covering their eyes, hiding their wide-open eyes. No one knew what they had experienced before they died.

Especially the one-eyed man who was closest, his only eye was wide open to the point of almost bulging out, his face full of fear and regret.

Li Guoer also saw that "Brother" had a few small mud-sealing pills in his hand. While waiting for everyone to open the door, he stuffed them into his mouth one by one, chewed quietly, and looked at them calmly as they walked out of the door.

Li Guoer also noticed one thing, there was a faint gray mist above "Brother"'s head, with a few red threads in it, like a few incense sticks, gradually shortening, like some kind of countdown.

But before she could take a closer look, the sound of the piano suddenly disappeared, and the light pillars above "Li Dalang" and Lu Ya's heads all disappeared.

Wei Mei looked at the "Li Dalang" who seemed a little different with a worried look on her face, but was stopped by Li Xian, who called out cautiously:
"Da Lang?"

Li Guoer asked: "You are not my brother, you are... Mr. Yuan."

The old Taoist nodded slightly.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief immediately, even Li Guo'er looked much more relaxed, as if he was well aware of how powerful this old Taoist priest, who had a very high seniority in Shangqing, was.

"Great, Master Yuan is here! How did you know we were in danger? Did Dalang encounter a thief and happened to invite you to his body?" After escaping from danger, Wei Mei, as a mother, couldn't wait to ask with concern: "Master, where did that bad boy Dalang go? He almost ruined everything."

The old Taoist didn't say much.

You can't just say that he woke up under the girl's skirt, right?

The arrival of Master Yuan after many years made everyone who had left home happy and relieved.

The old Taoist tilted his head to look in the direction of the Xunyang Grottoes where the sound of the zither had just come from. He raised his hand and pinched his fingers, as if he was counting. After a while, he sighed and shook his head. Everyone heard him mutter, "The Three Pure Ones only need a body of mud, but the Buddha needs a body of gold. Eh..."

Li Guoer also followed his gaze and asked perceptively, "What do you mean, old Heavenly Master? Is the sound of the zither coming from the big Buddha in Xunyang Grottoes? Is this Buddha different?"

Li Xian immediately worried, "Tan Lang is still over there, won't he be exposed by the sound of the piano?"

The old Taoist didn't answer. He suddenly turned around and spoke to Lu Ya, who was standing behind the crowd without saying a word:
"Silly disciple, you stayed here knowingly and almost got yourself into trouble, just to see your master?"

The young man with a paralyzed face lowered his head deeply, his neck flushed, and he was ashamed and speechless.

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(PS: Woohoo, I’m redefining daytime again. I said it but didn’t do it… I’ll try to finish this chapter tomorrow! or2)

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