Immortality begins with meditation puppets

"That's exactly right. Why waste time arguing with this junior? Just watch what I, Xue Luo, can do!"

Facing Liu Feng, who was blessed by the Heavenly Official, protected by spiritual treasures, and had a flag planted by an array master, True Man Xue Luo remained disdainful. With a loud shout, he summoned his natal dharma form, which was filled with bloody aura and adorned with a crown and robe. It was none other than the dharma form of the Senluo Ghost Emperor. With the power of the dharma form, the power of the Xue Luo curved blade increased greatly, multiplying from one to a thousand. Blood wheels streaked through the air and slashed towards Liu Feng!

Master Zhao Chun shook his head and smiled bitterly. He held a blue fishing rod with two hooks in his hand. He cleverly hooked Master Huang Li and Master Huo Ya, leaving them with no choice but to fight him to the death. This suited Huang Li and Master Huo Ya's wishes. Compared to Master Zhao Chun, Master Ku Mu and Master Xue Luo were obviously much more difficult to deal with!
The two sides of the Thousand Islands and Penglai have been vying for supremacy in the Western Sea for many years. Scenes like today, where several Nascent Soul cultivators gather for a great battle, are not uncommon. Both sides know each other's strengths and weaknesses, and when their strengths are evenly matched, the battle cannot be ended in a short time.

Master Kumu could accept this, after all, he had already sent Fuhu and Xifang into the Celestial Master's Ruins. Judging by the time, they should be able to subdue Old Daoist Tong and the others in the ruins and retrieve the hundred or so divine runes!
On the other hand, Liu Feng was frantic. He ignored the Blood Luo True Man's curved blade and relied solely on the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi to withstand the attack. With a series of clanging and tinkling sounds, countless curved blades struck the Ruyi barrier, knocking the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi down and dimming its spiritual light, making it difficult to use again.

Liu Feng, who was willing to destroy even a fourth-tier spiritual treasure, seized the opportunity to transform into a golden light and instantly traveled thousands of miles.

"Is that the Golden Light Leap Across the Earth Technique? To use such a trick in front of this old Taoist? Let's see where you can escape to!"

Liu Feng broke through Xue Luo's blockade, but the Drywood Immortal didn't take it seriously. He saw a swarm of blood-red mosquitoes rise into the sky from the Drywood Forest, chasing after the golden light. They were three times faster than the golden light and blocked Liu Feng's path in an instant.

These mosquitoes, a dark red-black mass, numbered over ten thousand and emitted an aura of only the second or third rank. Yet, this swarm of mosquitoes, which a Nascent Soul cultivator could easily annihilate with a flick of his finger, made Liu Feng, who disregarded the Blood Luo Scimitar, feel as if he were facing a formidable enemy. He landed ten feet in front of the swarm, not daring to cross the line.

"Master Kumu has some impressive skills. He didn't bring the Black Lotus of the Styx with him, but he brought out the Nine Nether Blood Mosquitoes. Isn't he afraid that these blood mosquitoes, which have been nurtured by countless cultivators of the Thousand Islands for many years, will be completely destroyed here, and that ten thousand years of hard work will be ruined in an instant!"

Liu Feng knew how dangerous these blood mosquitoes were. Although they were only at the second or third level, when they gathered in swarms, they had the ability to devour the protective spiritual light of fourth-level Nascent Soul cultivators to aid their cultivation. They were also capable of absorbing various spiritual treasures and lowering their level, especially targeting someone like him with a multi-treasure Nascent Soul.

These blood mosquitoes are not something that the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom can cultivate casually. They are remnants of a powerful figure from the Styx lineage who died and were obtained by cultivators from the Thousand Islands. These blood mosquitoes were then nurtured by cultivators from the Thousand Islands who possessed the Styx Fundamental Law, using the power of the Styx River. Although there are few blood mosquitoes now, it took the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom a great deal of effort to cultivate them.

"Heh, heh, heh." Master Kumu chuckled sinisterly a few times and said, "My Thousand Islands can't compare to your Penglai in terms of size and wealth. Even a junior from my islands has three or four spiritual treasures to protect himself when he goes out. Our treasures are not as good as yours, so we can only trouble Lord Blood Mosquito to take action!"

"Unfortunately, your Blood Mosquito Lord cannot stop this True Man!"

Liu Feng snorted coldly, and with a thought, someone on Penglai Immortal Island received the order and reluctantly activated one super-star orbital cannon after another.

Zizizi!
Using a cannon to kill a mosquito, although the blood mosquitoes were agile and few were hit by the super-star orbital cannon, they could no longer maintain their formation. Liu Feng's sleeves billowed, as if sucking up dust, and he leisurely prepared to flee into the distance.

At this point, the only thing blocking his way was the real person, the withered tree immortal.

This old immortal, whose lifespan was nearing its end and who was about to pass away and become a blood-sucking mosquito in the Netherworld River, was emaciated, skin and bones, his appearance even more frightening than a skeleton, yet his methods were incredibly cunning.

It summoned the Asura Dharma Form, whose upper body had two heads and four arms, covered in gleaming scales, while its lower body hung like a thin, blood-red mist in a river of blood.

With the slightest movement, the Blood River surged back, slamming Liu Feng into the river. It was Ku Mu who, relying on his profound cultivation and powerful magic, wanted to compete with Liu Feng in magic power, intending to use his great magic power to dissolve him in the waters of the Styx River.

His actions, however, caused the Blood Giant beneath the withered tree forest, now free from his control, to suddenly become agitated. The ground bulged, and skeletal arms covered in maggots emerged from the earth, causing the Withered Tree Immortal's expression to change drastically.

"My good son, just bear with it a little longer. After I've dealt with these people, I'll give them all to you to eat. They're all yours, all yours!"

No one knows what methods the withered wood master used, but after he finished speaking, the blood-red giant that had just been stirring fell silent again, leaving only its rotting arm protruding from the ground, slapping wildly at the ground. Whether friend or foe, anyone unfortunate enough to be slapped by it turned into a pool of bloody mud on the ground, and turned into white maggots of pus and blood that clung to the white bone and rotting arm!

"Everyone says that Penglai is the most extravagant and the Demonic Sect is the wildest. I really want all the cultivators of the Western Sea to see this scene. They'll know that in the Western Sea, the most extravagant and wildest are you Thousand Islands people! You have sex with evil gods, have children with the dead, and give birth to such evil god monstrosities. Instead of suppressing them, you want to make flesh grow back on bones and bring the dead back to life. Only your Asura race could do such a heinous thing!"

While Liu Feng was engaged in a fierce battle with the Asura Dharma Form in the River Styx, he had the Human Emperor Seal activated to protect his body with the power of the Human Emperor's aura. He even had time to glance at the blood-red giant and taunt the withered tree.

"If we're talking about evil deeds, your Penglai has done just as much as my Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom. That Demon Buddha was released by your Penglai, and that Great Sage Who Overturns the Seas also received your Penglai's help, which enabled him to stir up trouble across the four seas and commit countless evils!"

Master Kumu snorted coldly. That's right. He coveted the Nine Li Dao Patterns controlled by the evil sea witch. For these Dao Patterns, he fought the sea witch with all his might, and as a result, the sea witch defiled his body, giving birth to this divine abomination with the body of the Nine Li witch god and the blood of the Styx Asura. In order to bring this good son, who was rejected by heaven and earth and was born dead, back to life, he has been working with the sea witch for thousands of years to harm many cultivators in the Western Sea and feed their offspring with their flesh and blood.

While Penglai has committed numerous sins, they pale in comparison to even a fraction of the atrocities committed. Just the fact that it arbitrarily activated the sealing artifacts used by ancient powerful beings to suppress the Dao patterns of the Four Emperors and Five Elders, and released countless evil spirits for its own selfish reasons, is enough to make Penglai indefensible.

We're all cut from the same cloth; the eldest brother shouldn't even mention the second brother.

The withered wood immortal calmed his mind and activated the corrupting power of the Asura Blood River, intending to dissolve the human imperial aura of the Human Emperor's Seal, so that he would know that relying on the power of spiritual treasures is not a real skill, but having one's own abilities is the true skill.

Seeing that the withered tree was enraged and serious, Liu Feng was not intimidated. As he always said, his Liu family may not have much else, but they have plenty of treasures.

He casually took out a square coffin board from his storage bag. Standing on the coffin board, he seemed to merge with the Asura Blood River, moving freely among the withered wood Dharma image, as comfortable as if he had returned to his hometown.

"How dare you! This is the coffin lid that my Styx Ancestor used to seal the Nine Netherworld Dao Patterns! When did you, Penglai, pry open my ancestor's coffin lid and dare to release the Nine Netherworld Dao Patterns? Once the Nine Netherworlds are released, a hundred monsters will roam in the night, and yin and yang will be indistinguishable. Do you know the consequences?"

Upon seeing this coffin lid, Master Kumu was quite frightened. The Asura people all considered themselves the true lineage of the Styx River, and they were most concerned about the Nine Netherworld Dao Patterns. However, Master Kumu would rather fight the Sea Witch head-on and have his body defiled by her than think of prying open his ancestor's coffin lid to covet the Nine Netherworld Dao Patterns.

This is because the Nine Netherworld is the foundation of the underworld. Even if it is sealed off, it will become the Eye of Return to the Void, gathering countless wronged souls within the Western Sea. If the Dao patterns of the Nine Netherworld are controlled by a powerful being, that would be a good thing. Not to mention recreating the cycle of reincarnation in the underworld, at least the dead within the Western Sea will have a place to go and will not breed evil spirits or demons in the world.

At present, Penglai clearly does not have any powerful beings who have mastered the Nine Nether Dao Patterns. If they pry open the coffin of their ancestor, they will only cause the Nine Nether Dao Patterns to turn into evil spirits. With the destruction of Guixu, not only will another great evil similar to the Demon Buddha emerge in the West Sea, but without Guixu to contain the souls of the dead in the West Sea, in the future, all living beings in the West Sea will become lonely ghosts after death, and countless evil spirits will suddenly arise in various parts of the West Sea!
"The overwhelming karmic burden is that even if your Penglai has the support of Yuanshi Mountain, you can temporarily isolate yourself from karma and be free from karmic entanglements for a short period of time. However, if you do not atone for your sins and resolve this karmic burden, it will only accumulate deeper and deeper. Even the people of Yuanshi Mountain will not be able to protect you. How much merit can you accumulate to resolve this karmic burden!"

Master Kumu looked puzzled. Although there were no great powers in this world and the various sects remained hidden, allowing cultivators in the present world to do as they pleased, no one dared to go too far, fearing that they would be burdened with karmic debts and suffer the retribution of heaven and earth. How could Penglai dare to unseal the Four Imperial Dao Patterns again and again, getting involved in so much karma!

Compared to the visibly agitated Kumu Zhenren, Liu Feng, sitting in the coffin of his ancestor, remained calm and composed.

"Without destruction, there can be no construction. People fear power but do not cherish virtue. My Penglai wants to build a humane heavenly court to support all the gods in the sky. It needs a huge amount of incense. If there is no great calamity in the world, and the living beings are driven to the brink of death, how can we make them worship the gods devoutly and collect incense and faith?"

As for this cause and effect? ​​Once Penglai establishes the Heavenly Court of Humanity, the gods will naturally sweep away the demons across the four seas. Within a thousand or ten thousand years, these four imperial Dao patterns will not amount to much. If the gods of Penglai are in power, they can suppress them with a mere wave of their hands.

Therefore, for the sake of the people of the Western Sea, you should all quickly make way so that I, Penglai, can obtain these hundred-odd divine runes and use them to support more deities. You must know that these deities will be helpful in exorcising evil spirits in the future. If you obstruct me, you are going against the people of the Western Sea, and you may even incur great karmic consequences!"

"Release evil spirits, then suppress evil spirits? You're dreaming! Have you ever considered that these sealed Dao patterns are possessed by the Great Demon of Annihilation? Even the patriarchs of various Dao lineages were powerless against it in the past, and could only suppress it by disintegrating their Dao fruits? Back then, when the Heavenly Emperor was alive and all the Buddhas were in power, even the great powers who dominated the universe were powerless against that Great Demon of Annihilation. You think you can suppress it by creating a human Heavenly Court?"
"If you continue in this manner, within a hundred years, the Swordholders of the Eastern Wilderness will surely discover your actions. Whether that artificial Heavenly Court can even be established is, in my opinion, entirely uncertain!"

Master Kumu spoke again, saying that since Liu Feng was cheating and had used his ancestor's coffin to block his Asura Blood River, he couldn't do anything to him for the time being. It wouldn't hurt to argue with him, since he had someone in the Heavenly Master's Ruins! It was Liu Feng who should be anxious.

Master Kumu thought Liu Feng should be anxious, but to his surprise, Liu Feng was not anxious at all. He seemed not worried at all that Fu Hu and Xi Fang would take control of the Heavenly Master's Ruins. He was just taking a bath in the Shura Blood River in peace.

The reason we're not in a hurry is because there's a traitor in the Thousand Islands Kingdom!

Zhao Chun, who had originally been fishing for Huang Li and Huo Ya, was getting further and further away from these two Nascent Soul cultivators. In the instant that Ku Mu Zhenren was stunned by Liu Feng's coffin lid, he suddenly realized that Zhao Chun was losing his composure.

These three True Immortals vanished from the battlefield in a flash, leaving True Immortal Xue Luo and the Penglai cultivators completely bewildered.

"Zhao Chun, you're courting death!"

They had planned to deal with Liu Feng's Blood Luo True Man together with Ku Mu, but when they saw Zhao Chun and the other two Nascent Soul cultivators escape, they were furious because their actions were different from what they had agreed upon. They assumed that Zhao Chun couldn't bear the suffering in Qiandao and wanted to enjoy the blessings of Penglai, so he had become a traitor to Penglai.

Zhao Chun flicked his wrist, knocking away the Blood Luo Scimitar that Blood Luo Zhenren had angrily attacked with, and said with a bitter smile:

"I am a Thousand Islands person, and I will die a Thousand Islands ghost. But who told me that I am just a Thousand Islands person, not an Asura person? Even if I help you obtain the divine runes today, these divine runes can only be enjoyed by your Asura people. I am just working for free. How can this be? I have lived for thousands of years and I have not lived enough. I also want to become a god and live for thousands of generations!"

Zhao Chun's words made a lot of sense, which made Xue Luo Zhenren pause for a moment. Just as he was organizing his words to refute him, he and Huang Li and Huo Ya disappeared without a trace, and it seemed that they had already escaped into the Celestial Master's Ruins.

Seeing this abnormality, it was now the turn of the withered wood immortal to panic. He didn't even have time to retrieve his beloved son buried in the ground. He stirred up the Asura Blood River and fled towards the Celestial Master's Ruins with the Blood Luo Immortal.

Liu Feng broke free and saw that the Penglai cultivators were still fighting happily with the hanging people of the withered wood immortal. He had no intention of lingering there. He only took a few people, including Lord Taishan, and followed the withered wood immortal and others to the Celestial Master's Ruins.

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Logically speaking, there are only one or two big cats and dogs in the Celestial Master's Ruins. Therefore, Master Kumu thought that as long as Fuhu and Xifang, both Nascent Soul cultivators, entered the ruins, they could control the situation.

You won't know until you come, and you'll be shocked when you do.

The two True Immortals, Fuhu and Xifang, who were the first to enter the Celestial Master's Ruins, sensed something was amiss as soon as they arrived.

"A stone statue! There's such a formidable artifact inside the Celestial Master's Ruins!"

Master Fuhu looked at the more than one hundred stone statues in front of him, complaining incessantly, but his actions were swift.

He summoned the fierce tiger, which entered the flock of sheep and delivered brutal blows, paving a path for Master Xi Fang.

"Master Xi, please go ahead. I will join you after I have dealt with these stone men!"

Fu Hu gave the order, but before he could react, two stone statues stabbed him in the back from both sides. Gripping in pain, he grabbed the two spears, and with a surge of strength, lifted the two stone statues above his head, then slammed them into the ground. A crater a hundred feet deep was created, but when the dust settled, the two stone statues stood up completely unharmed.

These stone statues were forged by the Celestial Master in the past by melting down hundreds of weapons collected from the world. They possess the power to withstand a hundred battles. Coupled with their skillful combat techniques and perfect teamwork, they can form a killing force. A hundred-man team is enough to rival a fourth-order great demon. After several battles, Fuhu Zhenren was bombarded and pecked by crows, and was no longer at his peak. Now, surrounded by the stone statues, he can only rely on his thick skin and tough flesh to keep his life safe, but he has little chance of escaping.

It wasn't until three more True Immortals, Huang Li, Huo Ya, and Zhao Chun, entered that Fu Hu, despite his limp and broken arm, rushed to reunite with True Immortal Xi Fang while the stone statue was busy with its own affairs.

From the moment these immortals arrived at the Celestial Master's Ruins, their every move was under the control of Master Tong.

"There are quite a few real people here, five in total. I thought that they would fight like dogs and we would only have to deal with two or three at most. Fortunately, my good brother Su Qing has been entangled with the cultivators of Penglai for a long time, giving us enough time to make arrangements. Although we are missing the old locust tree part and it is not perfect, there is still a chance that we will succeed!"

Master Tong pulled Madam Lanxiang aside and whispered something to her.

The group of cultivators were currently in a Taoist temple. In front of the temple were stone statues of a flying serpent and a divine tortoise. Inside the temple were more than a hundred prayer cushions, each with a square stone platform on top. The platforms were empty, suggesting that in the past, a celestial master must have sat here to transmit the Dharma.

After Master Tong led the cultivators inside, the Taoist temple, which was originally covered in dust and cobwebs, was instantly cleaned up and looked brand new. A strange beast with a dragon's head and a tiger's body walked out from the inner room, wagging its tail. After letting out a low howl at the cultivators, it lazily lay down next to Master Tong.

Knowing that arriving at the Celestial Master's Ruins meant arriving at Master Tong's true home turf, where he could treat them like children playing with mud on Langya Immortal Island, and they had to endure it, they dared not make a fuss with Master Tong here. They could only hope that Master Tong would take pity on their hard journey and give them a futon to sit on when they were assigned seats and their divine runes were divided!
"Everyone, don't worry. There are plenty of prayer cushions here. I will ask the Heavenly Master for his image so that he can bestow divine authority upon you. Everyone will have a seat. There's no need to rush."

"It's a pity that these people outside are unwilling to accept the Celestial Master's test, wanting to seize all these divine runes for themselves. They disregard the Celestial Master's rules and only want to greedily take more than they can have. We will need everyone's help to drive away these villains later!"

Old Master Tong knew what these mercenaries wanted and what they feared, but if they wanted the divine runes, they couldn't be afraid of the Nascent Soul cultivators from Penglai Thousand Islands! Although contributing might not necessarily bring any benefits, not contributing would definitely bring no benefits.

"I know. The ancient Celestial Master left us, his descendants, with these more than a hundred divine patterns. His merit is immeasurable. If we, his descendants, want to benefit from the Celestial Master, we must abide by his rules and never dare to be disrespectful to him!"

"Before those Nascent Soul cultivators attack, Fellow Daoist Tong, quickly activate your divine runes and let us undergo the Celestial Master's test first. If we become gods soon, dealing with those Nascent Soul cultivators will be a piece of cake, and it will be perfect for avenging the Celestial Master!"

“That’s absolutely right. Since the divine runes are here, let’s just confer godhood quickly. Does sitting on this futon guarantee godhood? I, Zhu Jiang, still have my good brother, the Devouring Python, with me. Shouldn’t we share the good fortune with our good brother? Sharing two futons isn’t too much to ask, is it?”

Old Huotou, Zhu Jiang, and the others were not ordinary rogue cultivators. As soon as they arrived at the Taoist temple, they knew that the key to becoming a god lay in these futons. If they hadn't been wary of Old Taoist Tong and waiting for him to speak, these people would have already started fighting over these futons.

"Please calm down. To confer the divine mandate of heaven and earth, one must ask the Celestial Master to manifest his power. My current meager abilities are far from sufficient to accomplish this. I also need to awaken the Heartbreak Gu and seize the locust tree branch from Xi Fang's hands before I can do it!"

After speaking, Master Tong turned his gaze to the water mirror in front of him. In the water mirror, True Person Xi Fang was leaning against the natal spiritual root of the old locust tree, ignoring the many arrangements in the Celestial Master's Ruins, and rapidly approaching the Celestial Master's Temple.

"It's hard to guard against a thief within your own ranks, even if you guard against him day and night. As for the True Immortals like Fu Hu, there's no need for you to interfere. They have various methods within the ruins, along with the cultivators of Langya Island to deal with them. All you need to do is work together to subdue Xi Fang and obtain the locust tree branch from her. Then, this old Daoist can immediately begin the process of conferring divine titles!"

Tong Laodao waved his sleeve and struck the water mirror, switching the image on the water mirror. The cultivators immediately saw that a group of Langya cultivators with seven-colored faces and yellow turbans on their foreheads were blocking the way of Fu Hu and several other True Immortals.

These cultivators were mostly at the Golden Core and Foundation Establishment stages, far from being a match for the fourth-tier Nascent Soul cultivators like Fu Hu. However, they had somehow acquired some kind of technique from the Celestial Master. The body cultivators were painted with seven colors, possessing immense strength and surging blood energy. When they wielded spears and clubs, they were like stone statues, making it difficult for the one-armed and lame Fu Hu Zhenren to deal with them. The magic cultivators had yellow turbans tied around their heads and would stand still and chant incantations, causing divine lightning to strike them down. Huang Li and Zhao Chun were struck so hard that they grimaced. The Fire Crow Zhenren, who had lost his physical body, didn't even dare to breathe loudly, fearing that this great demon, in his primordial spirit form, would be severely struck by the divine lightning that was his natural enemy.

The reason these Langya cultivators were so powerful was inseparable from the Celestial Master statue standing behind them. The statue continuously supplied the Celestial Master's power to these cultivators, enabling them to fight like wolves against a tiger and hold back several Nascent Soul cultivators in place.

"Master Gu's Taoist magic is excellent, and Daoist Tong's skills are superb!"

"Since we don't need to deal with these Nascent Soul cultivators, we can easily take down Xi Fang, a mere True Person!"

"This Master Xi Fang is unknown and is probably just an ordinary person among Nascent Soul cultivators. Let me, Zhu Jiang, and my good brother take the lead and see what he's made of!"

Upon seeing that several Nascent Soul cultivators in the water mirror had been stopped by the Celestial Master's methods, the mercenaries immediately felt relieved.

They couldn't defeat several Nascent Soul cultivators, but Xi Fang alone was a fourth-tier professional with unique skills, so they didn't feel that they were too far behind.

Among them, Zhu Jiang, who wanted two prayer mats and wanted to share wealth and godhood with his good brother, was the most willing to contribute because he wanted more benefits and took the lead in rushing out of the Taoist temple.

Good Zhu Jiang revealed his insect king form, his body writhing like a hundred insects, both ferocious and disgusting. The snake on his shoulder transformed into a gigantic python, its five-colored scales gleaming coldly. The man and the snake, brothers working together, blocked Xi Fang's path.

Real Person Xi Fang sensed that Old Daoist Tong was activating the Heartbreak Gu. Unwilling to get entangled with Zhu Jiang any further, she held a jade flute between her lips and exhaled while playing it. A demonic sound filled her ears. The hundred insects on Zhu Jiang's body, which had long been absorbed and utilized by her and had lost their own consciousness, were stimulated by the flute sound and started moving again, uncontrollably turning to make things difficult for Zhu Jiang's true form.

Zhu Jiang, who couldn't rely on himself and wanted to survive by relying on his brothers, looked at his snake brothers, who were staggering around like drunkards, and were being teased by Xi Fang like fools, obediently making way for him.

"Good woman, she's good at playing the flute! Brothers, come quick and save Old Zhu!"

Seeing that the snake brothers were unreliable, Zhu Jiang immediately forgot about taking the credit and begged the professionals below for help.

"The sound of the flute is soul-stirring; this is the skill of a fourth-level musician. Although Fellow Daoist Zhu and the Devouring Python look frightening, their abilities are mediocre. The fact that they were so easily affected suggests that this True Person Xi Fang may have reached the peak of the fourth level in flute music. No wonder the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom entrusted the locust tree branch to her and placed their bets on her. Her skill is above that of Subduing Tiger. Everyone must not let their guard down!"

Seeing that Zhu Jiang was defeated so quickly, because both Master Tong and Madam Lanxiang were focused on activating the Heartbreak Gu and could not be distracted for a while, Granny Xu, who had taken over the command, knew the gravity of the situation and instructed the cultivators.

"Grandma Xu is right. This woman is a Nascent Soul cultivator and a peak fourth-tier musician. She's not easy to deal with. Let's not be polite to her and attack her side by side. I don't believe she can defeat us all by herself!"

A fourth-level spirit binder spoke up, calling on the other cultivators to attack him. Seeing that Xi Fang was still playing the flute, he felt that his profession was a good fit, so he threw out a long rope and instantly tied Xi Fang into a shape that everyone would love to see.

Just as he was feeling smug and chuckling, Xi Fang's face darkened, and a jade rabbit appeared behind him. Its sharp, cute rabbit teeth bit through the spiritual rope that the spirit binder had nurtured for a thousand years and bound countless people.

Xi Fang was freed, and the sound of the flute rose again. The spirit binder happily used his broken spirit rope to tie himself up and brought him to Xi Fang. He was covered by a black cloth thrown down by Xi Fang. When the black cloth was lifted, there was only a fat white pig on the spot, screaming in panic.

"A beast-making bag! Poor Master Huang, a hero of his generation, who had slept with countless women, has now been rendered unable to be a human and instead relegated to the status of a pig, neither male nor female. The legendary rope-making skills of the Western Sea will be lost forever!"

The group of professionals who had initially charged at the flute-playing woman with their numbers suddenly became timid and fearful upon seeing that the spirit-binding master Huang Zhenren's fate was even worse than Zhu Jiang's. They realized that the seemingly ordinary Xi Fang Zhenren was full of tricks and could not be controlled by their numbers alone.

At this moment, it was Granny Xu who had to step in. She threaded a needle and quickly sewed a soundproof earmuff for everyone. She used the Absolute Spirit Needle Technique. Although wearing this earmuff could not completely block out the sound of the flute, it would keep them alert and prevent them from falling into Xi Fang's trap as easily as before.

Seeing that playing the flute was useless, Xi Fang stopped playing it and instead placed her long whistle behind her. She then conjured the image of the Jade Rabbit ascending to the moon in the air. Amidst the clouds and moon, she gracefully transformed into countless forms, each with a unique and elegant demeanor, and slowly descended towards the Dragon Tiger Taoist Temple.

"Heavenly-level Daoist techniques are like flowers in a mirror or the moon in the water; they appear real to the eye but are false to the touch. However, if left unchecked, each clone can transform from false to real. We must never allow any clone to fall into the Daoist temple!"

Among the crowd were fourth-level array breakers, sharp-eyed and quick-witted, skilled in breaking arrays and lifting restrictions, and able to discern the true nature of Taoist techniques.

He could see clearly and understand perfectly, but he was powerless to break Xi Fang's illusionary magic on his own. He could only loudly remind the other cultivators to block the path of each clone.

At this moment, Old Fireman performed the best. Regardless of whether it would hurt his allies, he spat out a ball of true fire from his mouth, burning a sea of ​​fire above the Taoist temple. Whether these clones were real or fake, anyone who wanted to enter the Taoist temple had to go through Old Fireman's sea of ​​fire!
The Fiery Spirit Earth Fire burns the sky, the earth, and the air; it burns everything and nothing is beyond its power. If this Dao pattern hadn't been so powerful, Old Firehead would have mastered it long ago and used it to advance to the Nascent Soul stage. He wouldn't have to worry about his lifespan ending and would have to curry favor with Old Daoist Tong to obtain the divine pattern.

A sea of ​​fire blocked their path, halting the thousands of incarnations. Just as Granny Xu and the others breathed a sigh of relief, Xi Fang countered their move. Her many incarnations then pulled out a white clean bottle from their white dresses and red robes. With slender hands, they dipped a willow branch in the clean bottle and dripped a few drops of water onto the sea of ​​fire. Each drop of water transformed into rivers and lakes, and with a few drops, the fiery spirit earth fire that the old fire-bringer could not extinguish with any mortal means was completely extinguished. Even when the old fire-bringer spewed out another sea of ​​fire, which was now smoldering, it was easily destroyed.

"Damn it, it's the Azure Heaven Yellow Spring Bottle, filled with the waters of the Three Rivers and Five Lakes, giving birth to the Yellow Spring death energy that dissolves all things. My evil spirit earth fire has met its match, and I can't stop it from going!"

Old Firehead could tell that the bottle in Xi Fang's hand didn't contain much Yellow Spring Water, but even a little was more than the evil spirit earth fire he had nurtured. He could only ask the cultivators to think of another way to block this woman's path.

While they were engaged in a lively battle, exchanging blows and countering each other's moves...

The withered wood immortal, Liu Feng, and others also arrived at the Celestial Master's ruins one after another.

When the withered wood immortal arrived, he saw that Fu Hu and the other immortals were suffering terribly from the Yellow Turban Warriors and the Divine Firmament Heavenly Thunder. However, he did not rush to make a move. After seeing the truth of the matter, he then used his thunderous methods, spitting out a mouthful of bloody phlegm, which stained the Heavenly Master statue for a moment. This caused the Langya cultivators to lose their power and lose their previous vigor, allowing Fu Hu to break free of the entanglement. Together with the withered wood immortal and the blood-stained Luo immortal, they broke free from the entanglement of the Langya cultivators.

"Great opportunity, let's hitch a ride!"

Seeing this, Huang Li and Huo Ya also wanted to take the opportunity to get on the car and run away, but unexpectedly, Ku Mu Zhenren's caravan did not leave a place for them. After taking Fu Hu away, Ku Mu sucked the blood phlegm into his mouth again and reconnected the Langya cultivators. He transformed into a Yellow Turban Warrior, summoned the Divine Firmament Heavenly Thunder, and beat Huang Li and Huo Ya, who were trying to escape, to the point of being in agony.

It wasn't until their good elder brother Liu Feng led the team that, with many treasures and his father-in-law offering blessings along the way, they managed to overwhelm the obstacles of the Langya cultivators and arrive at the front of the Taoist temple one after the other with the withered wood immortal.

By this time, there was no one around the Taoist temple. It turned out that the outside help that Master Tong had invited could not stop Xi Fang, the flute-playing woman, who broke into the Taoist temple. The Taoist priests were entangled with her inside the temple.

With the other cultivators no longer blocking their way, after Kumu and several other True Immortals arrived, the stone tortoise statue that had remained motionless outside the Taoist temple, along with the Teng Snake statue beside it, transformed into the Divine Tortoise and Teng Snake Dharma Form, blocking the path of Kumu and the others.

"The Xuan Turtle and Teng Snake, the mount of Zhenwu. It is said that the ancient Celestial Master had a very close relationship with the Demon-Subduing Celestial Venerable Zhenwu Emperor. However, it is unexpected that he was able to borrow a wisp of the Xuan Turtle and Teng Snake's true spirit from Zhenwu Emperor, so that in later generations, he could block our way!"

Master Kumu spoke coldly, revealing the origins of the Xuan Turtle and Teng Snake, but he was in no hurry to make a move. He only wanted the people of Penglai to fight the Xuan Turtle and Teng Snake to the death. As he had said before, someone from his Thousand Islands Sect had now entered the Taoist temple, so he wasn't in a hurry. The people of Penglai should be the ones in a hurry! (End of this chapter)