On the Avenue.

Chapter 753 Cutting out the roots
As the voice from Ziyang Cave Heaven faded, a ray of light descended from the cave heaven, transforming into a rainbow bridge that spanned the feet of Immortal Xin, True Man Mei, and the others. Immortal Xin and True Man Mei immediately ascended the rainbow bridge and headed towards Ziyang Cave Heaven.

Fairy Zhong hesitated for a moment, then looked at Monk Pan in the distance. Monk Pan was still lying there motionless, a pool of blood flowing beneath him.

Fairy Zhong gritted her teeth and transformed into a streak of light, heading straight for Monk Pan.

Seeing this, Chen Shi hesitated slightly but did not stop them.

Fairy Zhong came to Monk Pan's side, reached out and grabbed him, checked his breath, and breathed a slight sigh of relief: "He's not quite dead yet, there's hope!"

She immediately flew towards the Rainbow Bridge, where Xin Xianjun and Mei Zhenren, who were on the bridge, felt ashamed upon seeing this: "We were only concerned with our own escape and forgot about Fellow Daoist Pan. We are not as righteous as Fairy Zhong."

The two immediately leaped down from the Rainbow Bridge to meet him.

The three reunited, with Xin Xianjun and Mei Zhenren bringing up the rear, facing Chen Shi, while Zhong Xianzi led the way, speeding along with Pan Heshang. The three quickly returned to the Rainbow Bridge and headed towards Ziyang Cave.

"King Chen, I will surely avenge this humiliation in the future!"

Just as the three were about to lead Monk Pan to Ziyang Cave, Fairy Zhong stopped and turned back, saying with grief and indignation, "The disciples of the Three Pure Ones will never admit defeat. Another day, we will certainly visit Jin'ao Island and avenge this great humiliation!"

Chen Shi raised his eyebrows and looked at Emperor Gouchen beside him, but Emperor Gouchen did not react.

The rainbow bridge in the sky dissipated, and Ziyang Cave disappeared.

Chen Shi narrowed his eyes, took out an altar without thinking, stood it at his feet, reached out and grabbed the Heavenly Secrets Tablet from the Dao Ruins Realm, flipped through the Heavenly Secrets Tablet and quickly found the names of Fairy Zhong, Immortal Xin, True Man Mei and Monk Pan.

Emperor Gouchen was unaware of what he was doing, preoccupied with his own thoughts, and his heart was filled with sorrow. With no one to confide in, he was filled with great bitterness.

"Has my immortal heart truly been corrupted by 360,000 years of incense offerings? Have I forgotten my master's teachings on Zhongnan Mountain?"

He murmured, "But what my master taught me was the righteous path of this world. We descended the mountain to fight the Shang, and came down from the immortals to the mortal realm, wasn't it to change the injustice of this world? Since when have we become the injustice?"

Chen Shi, unaware of his thoughts, set up the white banners and ascended the altar to perform the ritual. At the height of the ritual, he suddenly bowed deeply!
Jade Purity Realm, Green Peak Mountain, Purple Sun Cave.

Fairy Zhong led the unconscious Monk Pan down the Rainbow Bridge and landed outside the Ziyang Immortal Palace. Immortal Lord Xin and True Man Mei also came down.

Xin Xianjun greeted the Taoist priest in the Ziyang Immortal Palace, saying, "Master."

Fairy Zhong and Immortal Mei quickly greeted them, saying, "Disciples Zhong Wanfang and Mei Qiandu pay their respects to the Heavenly Venerable."

The Taoist priest in the palace was none other than Qingxu Daode Tianzun, the mainstay of the Yuqing lineage. He had already reached the level of a Daluo Jinxian (Great Luo Golden Immortal), and his cultivation was unfathomable, far surpassing that of ordinary Daluo.

Qingxu Daode Tianzun raised his hand and said, "No need for formalities. Your trip to Tianshiyuan was originally to investigate Gouchen's intentions. Now that Gouchen has revealed his wolfish ambitions, you have not failed. Do not belittle yourselves and damage your Dao heart."

The three people said yes.

The Pure Void Moral Celestial Venerable said, “Your injuries are quite severe. Ordinary Dao injuries can be healed by yourselves, but internal Dao injuries are far beyond your ability to cure. On my Green Peak Mountain, there is a ten-thousand-year-old Green Lotus, a treasure I found by chance while traveling in the Dark Sea. Although this treasure cannot help me overcome the tribulation, the lotus seeds it produces can heal all external Dao injuries. Xin Yiliu, take them to find this treasure and pick a lotus seed to give to them.”

Xin Xianjun agreed.

Fairy Zhong and Immortal Mei were both surprised and delighted, and quickly bowed in gratitude.

Fairy Zhong said, "Uncle-Master, this is Senior Brother Pan from the Western Paradise. He was injured by Heavenly King Chen, and his fate is unknown."

Qingxu Daode Tianzun said, "Once you arrive at my Ziyang Grotto-Heaven, who would dare to take his soul without my approval? You should go as soon as possible."

The three immediately left Ziyang Cave Heaven to search for the Ten Thousand Year Green Lotus.

Qingxu Daode Tianzun examined Monk Pan's injuries and frowned slightly: "What vicious heretical supernatural power! If my cultivation level were not far superior to yours, I would have really suffered a setback."

Just as he was about to suppress the Dao injury in Monk Pan's body, he suddenly sensed an invisible Dao force restless in the world. His expression changed instantly, and he flew out of the Ziyang Immortal Palace. The next moment, he arrived beside Immortal Lord Xin and the other two!

"Master..."

When Xin Xianjun saw him rushing over, she was about to ask him something when she saw Qingxu Daode Tianzun raise his hand and grab Zhong Xianzi.

Zhong Xianzi felt a surge of powerful magic power coming from all directions, instantly invading her physical body, primordial spirit, and Dao realm, seemingly trying to imprison her.

She was puzzled, but then she felt another strange power coming from somewhere within her body, acting on her physical body, primordial spirit, and Dao realm. Even her immortal Dao patterns were invaded by this strange power.

The Heavenly Venerable Qingxu Daode acted swiftly, but the speed of his incantation was even faster. In an instant, Fairy Zhong's primordial spirit exploded, the Daoist temple collapsed, the Dao patterns disintegrated, and her physical body twisted in different directions. Her heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys appeared to be twisted, shrunken, and withered!
Her blood was squeezed out, turning her into a dried corpse. Even when the power of the Pure Void Moral Celestial Venerable surged forth in an attempt to protect her last glimmer of life, it was too late!

Immortal Xin and Immortal Mei were terrified, completely unaware of what had happened, and at a loss for what to do.

The Heavenly Venerable Qingxu Daode had an ashen face. He raised his hand and pointed rapidly, and two golden dragons flew out of the Dragon Pool beside him.

With a flick of his fingers, Qingxu plucked a scale from one of the golden dragons. He then inserted the scale into Xin Xianjun's neck, embedding it into Xin Xianjun's muscles.

The dragon blood was warm, and the dragon scales immediately grew together with Xin Xianjun's body.

Qingxu immediately plucked a few strands of Xin Xianjun's hair and planted them where the golden dragon's scales had fallen off. These strands of hair instantly connected with the golden dragon's flesh and blood, and he successfully planted them.

Qingxu lingered in mid-air, drawing two talismans. With a slight thought, the talismans floated into the bodies of Immortal Xin and the Golden Dragon respectively.

He breathed a sigh of relief and, without pausing, immediately followed the same method, plucking the reverse scale from the other dragon and planting it under the skin of Master Mei's neck. He then plucked a few strands of Master Mei's hair and was about to plant them on the golden dragon when suddenly Immortal Xin cried out, "How painful!"

Suddenly, the golden dragon beside Xin Xianjun burst out of its body with bursts of blood mist, its primordial spirit disintegrated, and the fragments floated in the air in an explosive manner!

The golden dragon's cultivation was completely destroyed, and its soul was also worshipped to death. It breathed its last, just like the fairy Zhong!
Xin Xianjun was drenched in cold sweat, as if he had been pulled out of the water. He felt completely weak and cried out, "I feel like I've died once!"

The Pure Void Moral Heavenly Venerable turned a deaf ear and, after planting the hair, immediately wrote talismans and incantations in the air, which were then injected into the body of True Man Mei.

He had just finished all this and hadn't even caught his breath when a loud shout suddenly came from the Purple Sun Immortal Palace. Qingxu's expression changed instantly, and he flew out: "Oh no, Monk Pan is still in the palace!"

When he arrived at the celestial palace, he found that Monk Pan was already dead, his primordial spirit was in an explosive state, his body was devoid of blood, and his skin, flesh, and bones were twisted, a horrific sight.

Qingxu Daode Tianzun's face was ashen. Outside, Mei Zhenren's screams came again. He walked out of the celestial palace and found Mei Zhenren slumped on the ground, while the golden dragon was dead!
“I used the method of exchanging lives to transfer your fates and destinies to two golden dragons, so that they would die in your place and deceive Master Chen’s curse.”

The Pure Void Moral Celestial Venerable said, “This action will ensure your safety. If he continues to use incantations to worship you, he will only be worshipping empty air. Because the Golden Dragon is dead, the incantations cannot affect you. However, this is only a temporary measure. Once the power of my talisman dissipates, you will still be sensed by Master Chen.” “Incantations?”

Immortal Xin and True Man Mei were greatly shocked. They had heard rumors about the art of curses, which were said to be a heretical practice mastered by the high officials of the Shang Dynasty. It had been very effective in the later stages of the war against Shang, and had cursed many immortals and gods to death.

However, the practice of incantations disappeared and was rarely heard of. Unexpectedly, someone was proficient in this heretical practice and even worshipped Fairy Zhong and Monk Pan to death!

Where did Chen Shi learn the art of incantation, and why was he able to use it to harm people?

"Back then, I had some understanding of the art of incantation, but I only studied it superficially before leaving the ancestral temple and was unable to make further progress."

The Pure Void Moral Heavenly Venerable said, “If you want to avoid being invaded by curses, there are three ways. First, kill the one who cast the curse and get rid of the curser, and you will naturally be free from danger. Second, break through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, where all magics cannot penetrate you, and curses cannot reach you, so you will naturally be free from disaster and difficulty. Third, go to the Western Paradise and seek an audience with Zen Master Wuchao. He is also a master of curses, and he has a Seven Arrows Book of Nailheads that can kill people invisibly.”

The two exchanged a glance, bowed down in unison, and cried out in unison, "Please, Master (Uncle-Master), save us!"

Qingxu Daode Tianzun stretched out his hands, one in each hand, and helped them up, saying, "Killing Master Chen is the easiest thing to do, but since he is now by Gouchen's side, killing him has become the most difficult. Helping you break through and cultivate to become Great Luo Golden Immortals is also extremely difficult. Right now, there is only one path, which is to send you to the Western Paradise to seek an audience with Zen Master Wuchao. There is no time to lose, let's set off immediately, and I will escort you there."

As he finished speaking, he wrote a letter and summoned Baiyun Tongzi, saying, "Go to Shangqing Realm immediately and seek an audience with the Shangqing Sect Master. Give him this letter and tell him that his good disciple Gou Chen has now betrayed the Immortal Path and returned to the Divine Path. He has even attacked me and tried to stop me from killing Master Chen."

The White Cloud Boy accepted the order and departed on a white cloud.

Without lingering, the Pure Void Moral Heavenly Venerable immediately led the two to the Western Paradise.

Meanwhile, in Wu Yuexing's mansion, Chen Shi worshipped Zhong Wanfang to death, and then worshipped Monk Pan to death. He felt that when he worshipped Immortal Xin and True Man Mei to death, something seemed different. He frowned, opened the Heavenly Secrets Strategies, and carefully calculated. He exclaimed in surprise, "Someone used the method of 'substitution' to find two golden dragons to die in their place. Now I cannot calculate their fates, so I cannot worship them to death. I can only wait for the power of this person's method to disappear."

He put away the altar and bowed to Emperor Gouchen in gratitude: "If Your Majesty had not intervened in time, I would have been a dead man by this slap. I will never forget Your Majesty's life-saving grace."

Emperor Gouchen remained silent, his brow furrowed.

Chen Shi was also afraid of what he would say, always worried that he might be setting a trap for himself, so he hurriedly went to clean up the mess.

The moment he paid homage to Monk Pan and Zhong Wanfang was also the moment when Pingtianlou was completely destroyed.

His nine filthy bodies had led the soldiers of the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation to flatten the Qiongtan Luotian Tribulation Formation presided over by Zhu Tiannan, killing tens of thousands of immortals and capturing Zhu Tiannan.

When Chen Shi arrived, the Nine Great Vile Beings were committing murder and arson in Wu Yuexing's mansion. Wu Yuexing and his sons were either dead or captured. Many of the Sanqing Sect members and Western Heaven disciples who had come here with Xin Xianjun and others were also doomed. There were many dead and wounded, and most of the others were captured.

Some people escaped from the Immortal City, but were relentlessly pursued by Chen Shi and his men, and it was only a matter of time before they were captured.

Chen Shi's physical body was searching the harem in the Star Palace. When Chen Shi noticed him, his physical body had already broken into the harem, found Xi Zi, and was about to force himself on her in public.

Chen Shi was startled and quickly composed himself, ordering his men to bring Xi Zi over.

“I’m not a fool…then, lady, raise your head.”

When Chen Shi saw Xi Zi's appearance, he felt as if struck by lightning. In an instant, his mouth went dry, his mind wandered, and all sorts of lustful desires were revived in his heart.

"I am not incapable of being muddleheaded..."

Just as he thought of this, Emperor Gouchen came over. Chen Shi quickly cut off the desire in his heart and sent it to his physical body. The cultivation of his physical body increased dramatically and he almost couldn't suppress it.

"You should cultivate your character and stop being so impatient!" Chen Shi reprimanded the woman.

I don't know if my physical body listened to what I said.

Emperor Gouchen was still completely bewildered. He opened his mouth as if to speak, but Chen Shi quickly instructed Wu Guanyun, saying, "You lead some soldiers to escort these rebels from the Three Pure Realms and the Western Heaven to the Heavenly Court for trial. You will be credited for this in the future."

Wu Guanyun agreed and led the Heavenly Army to escort the prisoners of war to the nearest ferry, preparing to go to the Heavenly Court.

Chen Shi then ordered his own assassins to follow, lest Wu Guanyun rebel.

After the remaining soldiers rested, Chen Shi sent them to Daoxu. His Dao body would open the Daoxu Dao Realm on Jin'ao Island, allowing them to return to Penglai West, lay down their weapons, and continue their cultivation.

During this training, these disciples of Jin'ao Island suffered very few injuries, and their magical abilities were no weaker than those of the Three Pure Ones Realm and the disciples of the Western Paradise, which greatly pleased Chen Shi.

Given time, these 200,000 immortals in Penglai West will be the foundation for his rise to power!

"Your Majesty, the Great Celestial Venerable ordered me to quell the rebellion. Now that the chaos has been quelled, I should return to Penglai West."

Chen Shi smiled and said, "It is the greatest fortune of my life to know Your Majesty. However, all good things must come to an end..."

"My master will come to find me and kill you along the way."

Emperor Gouchen suddenly spoke up, “He is the Grand Master of the Shangqing Realm, and his cultivation is unfathomable. You have no chance of winning. Returning to Jin'ao Island will only lead to the destruction of the island. Staying by my side, you still have a sliver of hope.”

Chen Shi felt a chill run down his spine. After a moment's hesitation, he asked, "How does Your Majesty's master compare in strength to Your Majesty?"

Emperor Gouchen said, "I have already attained the Great Luo realm in the Immortal path, reaching the second level of the Dao realm, and I have become a Dao God in the Divine path, surpassing even the Immortal path. My master is far superior to me, having already reached the sixth level of the Great Luo realm."

Upon hearing this, Chen Shi's heart skipped a beat: "Where is the chance of survival?"

Emperor Gouchen said, "The Great Heavenly Venerable is watching this place, to see if I will betray him. This is my only chance of survival."

Chen Shi's heart pounded twice, and he suddenly remembered something, his expression changing slightly.

Unaware of his thoughts, Emperor Gouchen found a clean spot in the Wu Yue Star Palace, boiled water and brewed tea, and waited for the arrival of the Grand Master of the Shangqing Realm.

Chen Shi noticed that he was not paying attention to him, so he set up the altar again and performed a ritual on it.

As Zhu Tiannan was being escorted to the ferry, he suddenly screamed, vomited blood, and died a violent death.

Wu Guanyun rushed forward to check and saw that the great master's primordial spirit had also shattered. He didn't know why the death was so tragic.

On the altar, Chen Shi breathed a sigh of relief: "After Zhu Tiannan's death, none of the prisoners of war knew about my Heavenly Dao treasures. I hope the Great Heavenly Venerable is still unaware of these treasures of mine..."

(End of this chapter)