Hunyuan Immortal Sect

Chapter 222 Killing two birds with one stone

Following the sound of metal clashing with stone, Helian Quan's hidden figure emerged, gritting his teeth and saying, "Old thief, I will fight you to the death today."

After he finished speaking, a dazzling light burst out from his body, and countless black spots of light gathered in his hand, condensing into a black scimitar. Then he shouted loudly and slashed it down with one blow.

The black scimitar flew in the shape of a crescent. During the flight, one turned into two, two turned into four, four turned into eight, and eight turned into sixteen. Soon, it turned into hundreds of scimitars, slashing from all directions.

Chen Yunlong's expression changed slightly, and he flew back. He put his hands together, and golden light surged between his palms, condensing into a golden giant shadow several feet tall that wrapped around him. The giant held a long sword in his left hand and a shield in his right hand. He was covered in armor and looked majestic, like a god descending to earth.

He was seen raising his right shield to block the black scimitar coming from the left.

He drew out a long sword with his left hand, which shone with golden light as it slashed at the scimitar attacking from the right.

There was a loud sound of ping-pong, and the black scimitar hit the huge golden shield, making a continuous sound of metal clashing.

The golden giant slashed down with his sword, and wherever he passed, the black scimitar twisted and deformed, turning into black smoke and dissipating.

"Die, old thief." Helian Quan shouted hysterically, holding his hands high and clasping them together. The many separated black scimitars merged into one and turned into a huge black blade. He clasped his hands and slashed downwards. The huge black scimitar, with the power to destroy the world, also slashed down.

The golden giant held the shield in front of him and faced the black scimitar with the golden long sword.

With a loud bang, the whole earth seemed to tremble. The huge force of the two collided, and the surrounding trees broke one after another. The golden long sword was visibly twisted and deformed, and it broke into pieces under the pressure of the black scimitar.

Chen Yunlong shouted loudly, and the golden giant used the golden shield to block the black knife.

Helian Quan still maintained the posture of slashing with both hands downwards, his eyes were bloodshot, as if his eyeballs were about to pop out, veins bulged all over his body, especially on his forehead, making him look extremely ferocious.

He let out a low, beast-like roar, and pressed the black scimitar on the golden giant, pushing it down little by little.

The golden shield seemed unable to withstand this huge force, and it made a crackling sound and then broke into pieces. The black scimitar slashed at the golden giant.

In an instant, the golden giant's shadow twisted and shook, then disappeared in the air, and the black blade light slashed straight down.

Chen Yunlong had already held a talisman in his hand. When he saw the golden shield shatter, he activated the talisman in his hand. In an instant, a khaki circular light shield condensed around his body.

The black scimitar was also at the end of its strength at this time. It slashed on the khaki round light shield, but failed to cut it in half with one stroke.

At this time, a huge golden and blue spear phantom stabbed towards Helian Quan from the left. It was Lin Zixiang who came and attacked him.

In fact, Song Xian and Lin Zixiang had already arrived when the golden giant and the black scimitar were in a stalemate, but they did not rush to take action. Only when they saw that both sides had tried their best did Song Xian signal Lin Zixiang to take action.

Helian Quan looked unwilling, and he took out a talisman in his hand, which formed a golden halo to protect himself. At this time, he was basically at the end of his life. Not only was his face extremely pale, but sweat was also pouring out of his forehead.

The gold and blue Ruyi gun shot at the golden halo but failed to shatter it in one shot.

Song Xian flipped his hand and the corrosion talisman was activated again. The black liquid floated above Helian Quan's golden halo and poured down. The golden halo was quickly dissolved, and the black liquid poured onto Helian Quan's body, corroding his flesh and blood.

Helian Quan let out a scream, and the Ruyi Spear stabbed down and cut off his head.

Chen Yunlong breathed a sigh of relief, his face was extremely pale. Under Song Xian's observation, he only had ten points of spiritual energy left in his body.

"Thank you both for your help. I will always remember this favor and will repay you handsomely in the future." Seeing Helian Quan's death, a hint of satisfaction flashed across Chen Yunlong's face, and he relaxed completely.

As long as Helian Quan is alive, he will never be at peace even if he takes back Tianshan.

Only when Helian Quan died could he sit securely as the master of Tianshan. As for those Muhe grassland monks in Luofeng Valley, they could not cause any trouble without Helian Quan.

Those who are willing to surrender can be absorbed, and those who are unwilling to surrender will be eliminated directly.

Chen Yunlong walked quickly to Helian Quan with a happy look on his face, and was about to bend down to take the storage bag from his waist.

Suddenly he heard crackling thunder behind him. He thought something was wrong and before he could turn around, lightning bolts covered his whole body.

Chen Yunlong's body stiffened instantly and he fell to the ground. Lightning flashed all over his body and his body was covered in blood from the stimulation of lightning. Only his eyes were wide open, revealing disbelief and unwillingness.

The person who took action was none other than George Lam behind him.

Just as he leaned over to take the storage bag from Helian Quan's waist, without being on guard and completely relaxed physically and mentally, Song Xian glanced at Lin Zixiang from behind.

He immediately took out a second-grade low-grade thunder talisman and attacked the unsuspecting Chen Yunlong.

Not to mention that he didn't expect Lin Zixiang to attack him at this time, even if he was prepared, he couldn't resist, because his spiritual power was almost exhausted when he fought with Helian Quan.

At this time and place, a surprise attack on Chen Yunlong was certainly not part of Song Xian's plan.

No one could have predicted that things would develop in this way.

He originally planned two options.

The first plan was to help Chen Yunlong take over Tianshan first, and then work with Chen Yunlong to take back Luofeng Valley. This was the condition the two had agreed upon before. He would help Chen Yunlong take back Tianshan, and Chen Yunlong would help him take over Luofeng Valley.

Since the defenders of Luofeng Valley are Helian Quan's confidants, they will definitely not surrender, so there will definitely be a war, and he will take the opportunity to get rid of Chen Yunlong.

If there is no good opportunity to attack Luofeng Valley, then activate the second plan.

Let Xu Hao come forward and summon Chen Yunlong to Bianxi City for a meeting. On the way, he ambushed people in advance and killed Chen Yunlong in a remote place, and put the blame on Helian Quan's fleeing confidants.

In short, his goal is to cause complete internal strife in the Tianshan Sect and eliminate the two leaders, Helian Quan and Chen Yunlong, so that he can control Tianshan.

As long as there is one person still there, he will have no chance to annex the Tianshan Sect.

However, plans cannot keep up with changes. Chen Yunlong was chasing Helian Quan closely and was getting away from the Tianshan Sect.

Song Xian immediately changed his plan. This was a great opportunity.

The other Tianshan Sect monks could not catch up with the two because they did not have top-grade flying magic tools. Only he and Alan Tam could catch up.

So on the way, he instructed Alan Tam to help Chen Yunlong kill Helian Quan first, and then find an opportunity to kill Chen Yunlong.

In this way, Chen Yunlong's death can be rightfully blamed on Helian Quan.

Although doing so might cause the subsequent plan to retake Luofeng Valley to fail, because Chen Yunlong was dead and without a commander, his subordinates would definitely not obey Song Xian's orders to attack Luofeng Valley. However, this opportunity was truly rare, so he could no longer care about so much.

If Chen Yunlong is not eliminated now, there is no guarantee that the plan will not go awry in the future.

If something really went wrong during the ambush on Chen Yunlong, it would be over. Once the purpose was exposed, it would inevitably lead to crazy revenge from the Tianshan Sect.

Seeing Chen Yunlong fall to the ground and die, Song Xian quickly put away the storage bags on their waists, moved his body away, disguised the scene, and then left with Lin Zixiang on a flying magic weapon and returned to the original place.

On the way, the two men discussed their confession. Later, the monks from Tianshan Sect would definitely ask about Chen Yunlong's whereabouts. They must not make any mistakes in their confession, otherwise it would surely arouse the suspicion of Chen Yunlong's confidants.

Now we are only one step away from completely controlling the Tianshan Sect.

Even though Chen Yunlong and Helian Quan are dead, if they reveal their intentions at this time and want to forcibly occupy the Tianshan Sect, they will definitely provoke resistance from the monks of the Tianshan Sect.

If the Tianshan Sect cultivators react and the two sides shake hands and make peace to jointly deal with the Hunyuan Sect, it will be troublesome, so we have to lie low for the time being.

Not long after they walked, they saw a flying magic weapon rushing towards them from a distance. It was none other than Su Zhirou.

Song Xian hurriedly went forward to meet him, and the two of them stood side by side with their flying magic weapons.

"Husband, are you okay?" Su Zhirou's face was full of worry, and she jumped from her flying magic weapon to his side.

"It's okay, isn't it?"

"My husband, why didn't you wait for me? I chased after him, but I couldn't catch up. I was so anxious."

"It's not too late. Opportunities are fleeting. Of course I have to catch up with such a good opportunity." Song Xian stroked her black and smooth hair, his heart full of tenderness.

He originally didn't want Su Zhirou to participate in such a dangerous battle, but no matter how much he coaxed her, she refused and insisted on coming.

The couple hugged each other silently.

"Ahem." Alan Lam who was standing next to them couldn't stand it any longer. He was completely focused on his spiritual practice and didn't really care about such love affairs between men and women. Seeing the two of them parting like they were destined to die, he just felt sickening.

If it were normal to just turn a blind eye, I would just walk away. But now, what time is it, and they are still so affectionate with each other?

"Master, let's hurry back to their mountain gate to see what the situation is like there."

"Let's go." Song Xian took Su Zhirou's hand, used his spiritual power to drive the flying magic weapon, and continued to move forward.

After a while, they met two Tianshan Sect monks who were chasing them. Both of them were leaders under Chen Yunlong. They were riding mid-grade flying magic tools, so they were far behind.

"Master Song, you are back. Where is the boss?" After the flying magic weapons of both sides approached, one of them asked hurriedly.

"Ah!" Song Xian sighed pretentiously, his brows furrowed. "Fellow Daoist Chen pursued us too deeply. When we arrived, Fellow Daoist Chen was fighting with Helian Quan and unfortunately was killed by him."

"What?" The two men's expressions changed drastically and they looked at each other.

"Master Song said that the eldest master is dead?"

"That's right. When we arrived, we happened to see Helian Quan using a second-level low-grade thunder talisman, which triggered a huge thunder ball to hit Fellow Daoist Chen."

"What about Helian Quan?" a leader asked in a panic.

"After we arrived, we killed Helian Quan, who was at the end of his strength."

"Then...then...what should we do now?" The two were horrified and had no idea what to do.

"My opinion is that we must first stabilize the others and defend Tianshan, otherwise it will be troublesome if Helian Quan's faction regains power. No matter what, let's return to your sect's mountain gate and control the situation."

The two were in great confusion and had no idea what to do. As they were powerless, they had no choice but to obey Song Xian's words and go back to the mountain gate together.

When everyone rushed back to the gate of Tianshan Sect, the fight had ended. Those monks loyal to Helian Quan were either killed or fled, and there were 32 people who surrendered.

In this battle, twenty-one people from the Tianshan Sect died, and an unknown number of people escaped, but no more than ten at most.

Eleven monks brought by Chen Yunlong were killed in the battle, and six monks from the Hunyuan Sect were killed in the battle.

Chen Yunlong only had fifteen subordinates left. After the two leaders brought the news of Chen Yunlong's death, everyone panicked and didn't know what to do for a while.

Song Xian first appeased those who surrendered, and arranged the 32 monks to rest in the houses at the mountain gate. He also sent disciples from the sect to guard each house and forbid them to gather together to avoid chaos.

Afterwards, he invited Chen Yunlong's subordinates to the main hall of the Tianshan Sect.

At this time, everyone was leaderless, with no one to give orders, and no one had any idea what to do.

"Everyone already knows the situation. Fellow Daoist Chen was unfortunately killed by Helian Quan while chasing him. I have sent someone to bring back the body. Now the important thing is what to do next." Song Xian sat opposite them, frowning and pretending to be in a difficult situation.

"Originally, I had agreed with Fellow Daoist Chen that our sect would help him recapture Tianshan. In return, he would send people to help us seize the resources of Luofeng Valley. Now that Fellow Daoist Chen is gone, who will be in charge? I hope to quickly send people to help our sect seize Luofeng Valley."

Everyone looked at each other in confusion, no one answered. One of the leaders, Zhou Bo, spoke up, "Master Song, you know our current situation. We only have so few men left, and we just fought a battle. Plus, with the death of our leader, we simply can't send anyone else to help your sect."

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, are you suggesting that our sect has worked in vain? Are you planning to go back on your word?"

"No, no. That's not what I meant." Zhou Bo waved his hands repeatedly. They couldn't afford to offend Hunyuan Sect now. Although the situation at the mountain gate had been controlled, there was no telling when Helian Quan's faction would counterattack.

If Chen Yunlong were still alive, everything would be easy. He was the leader of the Tianshan Sect and had enough prestige to command and mobilize those neutral monks.

But Chen Yunlong was gone, and his might and ability were not enough to intimidate and command those neutral monks. Now they had to rely on the Hunyuan Sect, otherwise, if the Hunyuan Sect withdrew, the mountain gate might immediately change drastically.

"The Mountain Sect is in turmoil right now, and people are restless. With the headmaster gone, no one can calm them down. If we lead those surrendered brothers out to seize Fallen Phoenix Valley, they might be instigated by Helian Quan's men and turn against us. Therefore, it's better to remain calm now. Once the situation stabilizes, we will return Fallen Phoenix Valley to your sect."

"Fellow Daoist Chen has been murdered. What are you going to do next? There has to be someone who can make the decision! I have a suggestion."

"Master Song, please speak."

"You originally obeyed the Beastmaster Sect. The reason our sect is helping you is because of the orders of Senior Jiang from the Beastmaster Sect. Now that Fellow Daoist Chen is dead, why not send someone to inform the Beastmaster Sect and ask Senior Jiang to make a decision and choose another person from among you to be the head of the Tianshan Sect? With Senior Jiang's order, those neutral factions will naturally obey and dare not disobey."

(End of this chapter)