Reborn in Liangshan: I built the strongest lineup

To the east of Jiugong County in Jizhou, there is a large mountain.

This mountain is truly beautiful, its shape resembling a crouching green dragon, majestic and imposing; surrounded by green waters, with clouds and mist rising from the mountain, it is like a dream!

The sounds of cranes and deer echoed through the mountains and forests, while ancient pines welcomed guests and white apes offered fruit—a truly lively scene! The babbling brooks sounded like the gentle tinkling of jade pendants, and the roaring waterfalls echoed like the resounding beat of drums.

This scenery is so beautiful, who wouldn't call it a paradise on earth?

This place is none other than Erxian Mountain, the sacred site of the Taoist sects of the past!

The current leader of the Taoist community, Master Luo, is currently living in seclusion and cultivating at Erxian Mountain.

The place where Master Luo cultivated his Taoism was called Zixu Temple. It was located on the top of Erxian Mountain. The surrounding environment was quiet and the buildings inside the temple were very solemn.

Take, for example, the Pine and Crane Pavilion in the temple. It was built by the joint efforts of several generations of people in the Zixu Temple. It has ancient cypress beams and Kunlun white jade steps. The incense burner is said to contain the resurrection incense used at the banquet of the Queen Mother of the West. The futons in the temple are said to be made from the whiskers of the dragon in the East Sea.

Practicing in a place like this, putting aside everything else, at least the prestige is already off the charts. It is said that cultivation is about wealth, companions, Dharma, and environment, and now it seems that this is indeed the case.

"Master! Master!..."

A young Taoist priest hurriedly ran up from the foot of the mountain and almost tripped and fell when he entered the main hall.

"What's the matter that you're in such a panic?"

The Taoist priest who was meditating in the main hall at this moment looked to be in his seventies. He had blue eyes with double pupils, a thick beard that reached his belly, and white hair with a youthful face. Although he had the demeanor of a grandmaster with profound wisdom and imposing presence, he looked very kind and benevolent.

He held a jade whisk in his hand and wore a crane cloak, with the Tai Chi Bagua diagram on his back seemingly flowing.

"Master, good news! Senior brother is back!"

Although the young Taoist priest almost fell, he quickly did a forward roll and stood up with a grin.

"Oh? Yiqing is back?"

Master Luo was somewhat surprised.

He naturally possessed the ability to divine the secrets of heaven. In the past, he could predict anything without missing a single clue. When Gongsun Sheng was about to go to Liangshan, he also wanted to cast a divination for his prized disciple, but he couldn't figure it out no matter what he did.

He even vaguely sensed that if he were to force himself to calculate, he would probably lose most of his life's worth of power.

So in the end he didn't say anything. Later, he learned from his apprentice's letter that he had been reincarnated as an extraordinary brother who not only had the appearance of defying fate, but also did things that were far beyond what ordinary people could do!

Master Luo knew that his disciple was truly determined to follow someone. In order to predict whether it would be good or bad, he had to choose a simpler divination method to calculate. Fortunately, he was lucky. He lost about two or three years of his cultivation, but in return, he got a very auspicious result. Master Luo then told Gongsun Sheng, "Don't think about anything else. Just follow your amazing brother."

Therefore, whenever Liangshan needed the support of the Taoist community, Master Luo would provide assistance. For example, in the incident of the stone tablet falling from the sky, Master Luo stated that Erxian Mountain recognized the stone tablet, which won Liangshan a lot of popular support at the time.

However, according to Master Luo's calculations, Liangshan—no, I mean, now it's Dayi—shouldn't its great undertaking be completed so quickly. Why is his disciple returning at this time?

"Master!"

Gongsun Sheng also used his movement technique to rush up from the foot of the mountain. The moment he saw Master Luo after entering the hall, he knelt down before his master.

“Your unfilial son, Yiqing, kowtows to his master.”

“Get up, where have you been unfilial? You were doing a great job assisting the country and bringing peace to the people in Dayi, especially after Yanyun was taken back. You didn’t disgrace the Daoist sect or your master.”

With a forceful wave of his hand, Master Luo sent a gust of wind through the air, lifting Gongsun Sheng up in the air.

"Master, are you riding the wind?"

Gongsun Sheng was shocked. Could it be that his master had become an immortal while cultivating Taoism?

"What wind control? This is just the internal energy cultivation of Taoism."

Master Luo said with a smile.

"By the way, why are you back?"

“Master, my brother and Senior Zhou sent me back. They said it was extremely urgent and they needed you to come out of seclusion. This is the letter.”

Gongsun Sheng took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to his master.

"Oh? Zhou Tong?"

Of course, Master Luo knew Zhou Tong. After all, the two were from the same era, and not only did they know each other, they had also fought side by side.

"Master, you know Senior Zhou? You've never mentioned it before?"

Gongsun Sheng was also somewhat surprised.

"These are all outdated information from decades ago."

Master Luo opened the letter and read it word by word.

Yes, the very first sentence is:

Hey Lao Luo, I have something to tell you. You old rascal, that sword of yours missed its mark back then!

?

What do you mean it went astray? And this statement just sounds like it's full of mockery. Is Old Zhou out of his mind?

However, after reading the entire letter, Luo Zhenren, who had never been angry for many years, found his aura somewhat disordered.

"Master?"

Gongsun Sheng was astonished. How many years had it been? He didn't remember his master ever losing his composure like this before!

"Yiqing, go to the Ancestral Hall and bring out the Purple Void Token."

Master Luo quickly calmed himself down and then spoke to Gongsun Sheng.

"Purple, Purple Void Token?"

The sect leader's treasured sword at Zixu Temple is called the Zixu Token! Only the sect leader can use this sword, and it is not used lightly. It is usually kept in the Ancestral Hall for worship.

"There are demons in the north, and they are the demons that I failed to kill back then. Heaven has the virtue of cherishing life. The fact that they didn't die back then is because Heaven has taken pity on them. If they repent and live well, then that's fine. But if Heaven doesn't cherish their pity and tries to seize my Han land, then I will have to go down the mountain to subdue the demons."

Master Luo stood up, his entire body exuding an aura of authority without anger.

"Yiqing, go and ask for the Zixu Token. I will go to the Sanqing Hall to offer incense, and then we will leave."

"Master, are you going to Liangshan?"

"Do not."

Master Luo turned his gaze toward the northern border, as if he had traversed space to see the battlefield between Liao and Jin.

"Let's head straight to the border! I want to see just how capable those remnants of the past are now!"

……

The Liao-Jin war zone.

"Pfft!"

With a thud, a figure, dressed in tattered clothes, disheveled, covered in blood, and looking extremely disheveled but tightly bound, was thrown into the tent from outside. However, perhaps because he was unconscious, the person did not make a sound.

"This is... Wuyan Guang??"

The people inside the tent were Wanyan Wuqimai, Wanyan Wosai, and Wanyan Ang, who had been looking at a map. They were all startled when they saw the people thrown in.

When they looked closely and realized that the person was Wuyan Guang, they were even more surprised!

Wait, Wuyan Guang was actually captured alive by us? Really?

"Your Highness, this is indeed Wuyan Guang."

Wanyan Loushi also came in.

"Lou Shi, your martial arts have improved again? But capturing him alive, isn't that a bit...?"

Wanyan Wuqimai said, "Isn't your progress a bit too great?"

If you're really that good, then why didn't you kill this guy sooner?

"Fourth Prince, I didn't arrest him."

Wanyan Loushi looked at the disheveled Wuyan Guang and shook his head with lingering fear.

“It was the Venerable One who captured him. In front of the Venerable One, Wuyan Guang is like a child.”

Upon hearing the words "venerable one," the Wanyan royal family's expression immediately turned serious, clearly showing their respect for the old man.

"I heard from my royal brother that the newly appointed Imperial Preceptor is on his way. With the Venerable One and the Imperial Preceptor here, the Liao dogs are doomed to lose!"

"That's right, Wuyan Guang has been beaten to a pulp. Who in this world can stop my Great Jin Iron Cavalry!"

Well, what they didn't know was that two old men were also on their way from the Central Plains...