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Chapter 518 Qingyuan Taoist
The willow-leaf boat turned and soon arrived near the wooden boat. The wind was strong and the waves were rough. Many monsters in the dark sea had already set their sights on the Taoist on the wooden boat and pounced on it.

The Taoist was tied to the mast and could not move. To the monsters, he was a delicious meal delivered to their doorstep, so they naturally had to enjoy him. However, the Taoist still retained some of his magic power and transformed the iron anchor on the ship into a weapon. Under the influence of the chain, he shuttled back and forth with great power, piercing through the monsters that dared to attack.

The anchor was made of black iron, weighed thousands of pounds, and was shaped like a shovel with a hook underneath. When he lifted it up, many strange patterns appeared on the surface of the anchor, which were somewhat similar to talismans and Taoist patterns, but also somewhat different.

Chen Shi spread out the dojo far away to calm the wind and waves, and the sea within a radius of dozens of miles suddenly became calm.

The monsters were frightened and dived into the sea. They looked over here and saw that there were only two women, one big and one small, and a young boy on the boat. They became bolder and pounced on the willow-leaf boat.

Chen Shi's mind moved slightly, and the yin and yang in the dojo were reversed, water and fire were reversed, and the universe was in chaos. The monsters appeared in the air one by one, and blazing fires were burning all over their bodies. The fire burned from the inside out, and it burned clean in a short moment.

Seeing this, other monsters dared not approach.

Chen Shi was not in a hurry to save the man. He asked the Taoist, "Master, what have you done wrong? Why were you suppressed and exiled?"

The Taoist was exhausted and his magic power was almost depleted, but he persisted only by relying on his willpower.

Hearing Chen Shi's voice, the Taoist looked over and noticed his face. He was surprised and happy, and hurriedly said, "Sir, please save me!"

Chen Shi still didn't save him and said, "You haven't answered my question yet."

The Taoist said, "My name is Qingyuan, and I come from Dongsheng Shenzhou. I have done nothing wrong, but I offended the Heavenly Lord of Despair Hill, and that is why I was exiled! Please save me."

Chen Shi asked, "Why did you offend the Lord of Despair?"

Taoist Qingyuan said, "He asked me about the locations of Dongsheng Shenzhou, Nanzhanbuzhou, Beijuluzhou, and Xiniuhezhou. I refused to obey him, so he tied me up and exiled me twice."

"Tianzun wants to know the whereabouts of these places?"

Chen Shi was slightly stunned. Could it be that he wanted to evilize other worlds?
He came on board and looked at the wooden boat carefully.

The wooden boat is also a magic weapon, and it is integrated with the chains that bind Taoist Qingyuan. No wonder the Taoist couldn't escape.

"This treasure can withstand attacks from monsters, and the anchor can kill monsters. It is a rare treasure. If you want to rescue the Taoist, I'm afraid you'll need a magic sword to cut the chains. I only have the Taiyi Pimo Shuttle, I wonder if it can cut the chains?"

Chen Shi's mind moved slightly, and he summoned the Taiyi Pimo Shuttle. This shuttle was made up of ninety-nine immortal swords. It could be used as a chariot to fly into the sky and into the earth, or as a magical weapon to meet the enemy.

He activated ninety-nine immortal swords, and the sword lights were like mercury falling from the sky, forming a line and slashing on the chains one after another. With the eighth sword, the chain was cut off.

Taoist Qingyuan was already exhausted, his body went limp and he fell down.

Chen Shi silently used his magic power to lift the Taoist up and put him on the willow-leaf boat. He then took out a magical medicine from the three-acre field in front of a small temple behind his head and asked the Taoist to take it.

Taoist Qingyuan regained some strength and hurriedly expressed his gratitude.

"This ship should be the magic weapon of the Heavenly Lord, so we should destroy it as soon as possible!"

Chen Shi's eyes flickered, and he raised the Demon-Repelling Shuttle, about to smash the boat into pieces. Taoist Qingyuan said hurriedly, "Wait! Wait! This boat does not belong to the Heavenly Lord, but the treasure I used to cross the sea! I got this treasure in Dongsheng Shenzhou, and I relied on this boat to cross the sea, so that I could survive on the sea."

Chen Shi asked, "How did the Taoist offend the Heavenly Lord?"

"I have never offended him."

Taoist Qingyuan shook his head and said, "I came here from Xiniu Hezhou at the end of the Shang Dynasty. The King of Shang saw that I was from another place and respected me very much. He hosted a banquet for me. Later, the disaster broke out, and I participated in the construction of Despair Hill."

Chen Shi was shocked. This Taoist actually experienced the entire catastrophe of the Shang Dynasty!

Chen Shi had met many Shang people, but he only knew a little about that period of history. The ghosts of Tianchi Kingdom were also descendants of Shang people, and only some specious legends remained. The Little Linden Fairy was an immortal from the Shang Dynasty, and because she sealed herself early, she knew nothing about the changes in the outside world.

Taoist Qingyuan took a breath, took out the chain, and tied the wooden boat to the stern of the willow-leaf boat.

The goddess Hou Tu urged the willow-leaf boats to move forward, and the two boats sailed slowly towards Xiniu Xinzhou.

"My benefactor, where are we going?" asked Taoist Qingyuan.

"Go back to Xiniu Island."

Taoist Qingyuan's expression changed slightly and he hesitated, obviously not wanting to go back.

However, his cultivation was now almost exhausted. If he stayed alone in this dark sea, he would probably die in the claws of the sea monsters before long. For safety reasons, he could only return to Xiniu Island.

Chen Shi asked, "Master, what happened during the Great Shang disaster?"

Taoist Qingyuan used his magic to dry his wet clothes. His clothes were soaked in sea water, and after they dried, they were covered with fine white salt grains.

The silkworm didn't know what it was, so he picked up some and licked it, saying with a bitter look on his face, "Salty! Bitter!"

Taoist Qingyuan said: "When I came to Xiniu Island, I was stunned by the prosperity of this place. This place is truly a land of great treasures, outstanding people and beautiful scenery. There are fairy mountains floating in the sky, and immortals live on the fairy mountains. Infinite circles are hung above the fairy mountains, and inside are small worlds created by the immortals. The immortals here do not ascend to heaven, but stay in the human world, making the human world like a fairyland. There is also a world of gods in the sky, which is the Xuanniao Heaven of the Shang Dynasty, where various gods live, all of whom are the ancestors of the Shang people."

He spoke leisurely, describing an extremely prosperous era of cultivation.

In this era, there is the realm of gods above, immortals and mortals living together below, and the Shang Dynasty court ruling the world. In the court, there are various gods and men who have inherited the Taoist patterns of witch sacrifices.

The people who settled here also performed their duties and everything was in order.

"When the King of Shang heard that I was from another land, he gave me a banquet and asked me where I came from. I told him the truth. When the King of Shang heard that I had been to his hometown, he was very excited and asked about the customs and people of his hometown. He cursed the Zhou people for being treacherous. The King of Shang said that they were criminals. I was about to ask the reason, and then something happened."

Taoist Qingyuan said, "The sun turned red, scarlet, like a lump of meat, hanging in the sky, causing great confusion. The King of Shang said that they had long discovered the changes in the celestial phenomena. First, the stars in the night sky disappeared one by one. At that time, he sent many immortals to fly out of this place and into space to check, but none of them came back. Three days later, the sun disappeared. Seven days later, the moon also disappeared. Then the immortals turned evil, and disasters and catastrophes occurred."

He experienced that catastrophe.

The King of Shang suppressed his evil transformation with his incomparably powerful cultivation, and spread the message to the world, asking all the immortals to break their own small worlds, seal themselves, and wait for his rescue. He immediately offered sacrifices to the Great Shang Xuanniao Heavenly Court, attracted many ancestral gods from the God Realm, and killed those evil immortals everywhere.

Taoist Qingyuan was not an immortal yet, so he was not assimilated by the evil spirit.

Disasters and calamities occurred one after another in various places, and countless merchants and civilians were killed and injured. The sky was often swept by flesh and blood, and countless flesh tentacles fell from the sky, greedily touching the earth and sweeping away everything on the ground.

The King of Shang led the ancestral gods to quell the rebellion, but saw that many surviving Shang people were gradually assimilated by evil spirits.

Moreover, since the day the sun and the moon disappeared, the boundary between the yin and yang worlds has become increasingly blurred, the underworld and the world of the living have merged into one, and the Shang people have gradually transformed into a clan of ghosts.

"The Shang Dynasty was in chaos. To save my life, I had no choice but to follow the King of Shang around."

Taoist Qingyuan said, "The King of Shang is a great master himself, and he has many masters around him. Among them, there is one called Wu Qi, who is the strongest. But in the face of this drastic change, they are all at a loss and don't know what to do."

As the strong men around King Shang turned to evil one by one, the remaining strong men felt that there was no hope of survival, but also wanted to leave a legacy. So they sealed up the immortal weapons one by one and left them between heaven and earth, hoping that one day they could use these immortal weapons to leave a legacy.

"The King of Shang conquered all corners of the country and quelled disasters and calamities, but only a few people were left around him."

Taoist Qingyuan sighed, "He pondered over and thought about countermeasures, and his hair quickly turned white. I originally planned to ask Wuqi to escort me to the seaside, leaving this world, and perhaps take some Shang people with me to another world to reproduce. On the day of the trip, the King of Shang suddenly laughed and said that he had figured it out. He had figured out a way to save this world."

Chen Shi's heart was slightly shocked, and he knew what solution the King of Shang had come up with.

"I didn't leave. I started to build the Hill of Despair with the surviving members of the Shang people. On the day the Hill of Despair was completed, the King of Shang came to the altar. In the past, he always used others as sacrifices, but that day, he used himself as a sacrifice to sacrifice his own spirit."

Taoist Qingyuan said, "His spirit rose higher and higher, becoming larger and larger, and turned into an almighty god who came to the outer world and watched over the human world."

From then on, Xiniu Xinzhou had a new sun and moon.

As the sun and the moon alternate, all things grow.

However, although the King of Shang was powerful, he was not that powerful. He could not completely resist the evil spirit. At night, the bright moon formed by the vertical eye between his eyebrows still had traces of evil spirit leaking out in the moonlight. This evil spirit would cause dead objects to become evil.

Fortunately, the evil spirit was not too strong, and the surviving merchants could still deal with the evil creatures.

The successor to the King of Shang was his son, Zi Yu, who led the remaining Shang people to live in the new world. As for those Shang people who had turned into ghosts, they lived in the underworld.

Fortunately, Wu Qi is still alive. As a great wizard who inherited the Taoism, as long as he is alive, the civilization of the Shang Dynasty will not be lost, and the Taoism of the Shang Dynasty will not be lost.

"Until one day, a guest came from outer space."

Taoist Qingyuan said, "The guest called himself Xun Jiangmu, and he came to assimilate the entire world. Wu Qi knew he could not defeat him, so he joined forces with Xuanniao Tianting. Tianting was shattered, Wu Qi also died, and he died together with Xun Jiangmu. But the strange thing is that Xun Jiangmu died, but the evil spirit is still there, and the sun, moon, and stars are still covered with flesh and blood. Shang Wang Ziyu said that Xun Jiangmu is very likely not dead. However, I plan to leave."

The Shang Dynasty went from prosperity to the brink of extinction. All this happened too quickly and too suddenly. He witnessed this process and was filled with emotion. This experience made him understand the Tao more and more deeply, and he decided to return to Dongsheng Shenzhou and become an immortal.

But before leaving, another big thing happened.

King Shang Wang Yu went to war with Despair Hill.

King Wang Yu of the Shang Dynasty isolated the Hill of Despair from the world and built the Great Wall of Bronze to prevent the Hill of Despair from entering Xiniu Island!
After Taoist Qingyuan heard the news, he went to mediate the situation. However, Prince Shang Wang Yu and all the civil and military officials in the court died behind the Bronze Great Wall.

Later, Taoist Qingyuan came to the Hill of Despair, but the person behind the Hill of Despair was no longer the same face he saw that year.

He met Tianzun, claimed to be a descendant of the Shang Dynasty, and had a very pleasant conversation with him.

Tianzun persuaded him to stay in Despair Hill. He helped Tianzun control the various arrangements in Despair Hill, designed Tiandao City, and connected Despair Hill with the human world.

"Master Qingyuan, have you ever thought about where the civil and military officials of the Shang Dynasty who stayed at the Hill of Despair have gone?" Chen Shi suddenly asked.

Taoist Qingyuan said, "I have thought about it. But what can I do?"

Chen Shi looked at him deeply and said, "You already knew that Tianzun is Xun Jiangmu."

Taoist Qingyuan remained silent.

Chen Shi continued, "You helped Tianzun control Despair Hill. Tianzun was originally sealed in Despair Hill by King Shang Ziyu and could not leave. After he defeated King Shang Ziyu, he found that there was nothing behind the Bronze Great Wall and he could not find the human world. It was you who helped him build Tiandao City to connect Despair Hill with the human world."

Taoist Qingyuan's mouth twitched, and he said with a half-smile: "I can't do anything about it."

Chen Shi said: "With your help, Tianzun finally walked out of Despair Hill. Since then, he began to recruit talented cultivators and brought them to Despair Hill to become his confidants. By then, there should be very few merchants left, right?"

Taoist Qingyuan said, "After the death of King Wang Ziyu of the Shang Dynasty, the luck of the Shang Dynasty was over and the inheritance was cut off. Only a few Shang people practiced cultivation and turned themselves into neither human nor ghost, almost like evil spirits. The remaining Shang people had no one to teach them how to practice cultivation. In a world full of evil spirits, it gradually became difficult for them to survive. After thousands of years, they became extinct."

Chen Shi asked, "And then?"

"Later, Daming came, and the True King also came."

Taoist Qingyuan sighed and said, "I originally planned to warn the True King and tell him that he couldn't trust the Heavenly Lord, but before I could say anything, the Heavenly Lord banished me to the outer world."

The voice of the Queen Mother Hou Tu came from the front: "The Heavenly Lord didn't kill you because you didn't tell us the whereabouts of the other Shenzhous."

Taoist Qingyuan nodded gently: "He is about to recover to the peak state of his previous life. The arrival of the True King and the people of Daming has frustrated his intention to assimilate this world. He can only wait for a perfect opportunity."

Chen Shi said: "This opportunity is the death of King Shang's soul."

The true god from outer space died, the yin and yang worlds merged, the people were living in misery, evil changes occurred everywhere, and countless people were killed and injured. What was more critical was that the evil changes in heaven and earth promoted the cultivation of the Heavenly Venerable!

Taoist Qingyuan said: "I don't know what happened afterwards, but since I was rescued last time and returned to the human world, I knew that the True King could not defeat the Heavenly Lord. He still died."

(End of this chapter)