A Tale of Encounters with Immortals: A Peach Blossom Temple in the Martial World

Lightning flashed and thunder roared, and the wind and clouds suddenly rose.

Everyone panicked and backed away.

The one-eyed leader shouted, "Brothers, if things change, protecting the people and getting them down the mountain is the most important thing."

"Follow your brother's orders!"

The other three brothers answered in unison.

County Magistrate Liu's expression also changed, and he said to the one-eyed leader, "Captain, you must take good care of my family's ancestral graves."

The one-eyed leader said coldly, "We are merely acting as witnesses. If things change, saving lives should be the priority. We must not confuse the important with the trivial."

This one-eyed boss is quite knowledgeable.

Even if the prefect asks about it later, he won't be able to blame them in the slightest.

County Magistrate Liu's face turned ashen.

However, he couldn't control the four men; they were not under his command, and on the contrary, he was subject to their control on this mission. Dissatisfied, he snorted.

"Open the coffin—"

County Magistrate Liu shouted at the somewhat frightened laborers.

The laborers mustered their courage and opened the coffin lid.

A bolt of lightning flashed from the dark clouds, like a long, bright white serpent, winding through the air and heading towards the coffin.

Everyone was shocked!

They scattered, trying to escape from the coffin, scrambling and crawling to get as far away as possible.

A shout was heard.

"Don't even think about defying the heavens!"

Almost simultaneously, the middle-aged Taoist swung his peach wood sword, which struck the lightning. Instantly, the lightning flashed and traveled from the sword to his body.

"Zizzizi!"

The middle-aged Taoist priest's hair suddenly stood on end.

"boom--"

Lightning swirled from the peach wood sword like a ball of lightning, then exploded in the middle-aged Taoist's forehead. Instantly, a storm erupted from the Taoist's body, blowing everyone off balance.

The middle-aged Taoist priest's face turned black.

The front of her clothes was charred, exposing her chest, which was completely blackened.

"Cough cough!"

A plume of black smoke billowed from his nostrils.

"Fortunately, I did not disgrace my life."

The middle-aged Taoist priest coughed a few times, then stood up straight and looked at everyone with a haughty air.

Catching lightning with your bare hands!

This is a powerful move!

Even in ancient myths, this would be something to boast about for thousands of years. Besides, in this world where gods and Buddhas are rarely seen, who can catch lightning with their bare hands?

"The Taoist priest is mighty!"

The crooked-mouthed fourth brother couldn't help but clap and cheer.

He was glared at by the one-eyed leader, so he chuckled awkwardly and said, "I'm still a little bit inferior to Master Zhang."

The middle-aged Taoist priest angrily asked, "What's wrong with it?"

The one-eyed leader quickly tried to smooth things over, saying, "There's no point in comparing, because there's no basis for comparison."

There's really no comparison!

Back then, the Taoist priest used a wooden sword to summon heavenly lightning and prayed for a heavy rain. You only caught the heavenly lightning, while the Taoist priest summoned it. Who is more powerful?

Besides, you caught a bomb and ended up looking like this?

The middle-aged Taoist priest sneered: "Everyone says that Master Zhang is an immortal, but I think... that's not necessarily true!"

The crooked-mouthed fourth brother was about to get angry.

He had just blurted out "good!" and felt ashamed of betraying Master Zhang. He was determined to regain his loyalty and prove his true feelings.

"Wait!" The one-eyed leader stopped him. He was on official business and didn't want any trouble. "Let's check on Old Master Liu first!"

Upon hearing this, everyone suddenly realized what was happening and quickly looked into the coffin.

Sure enough, the coffin did not contain Old Master Liu, but rather the lifelike corpse of a young man. However, a Bagua mirror was placed on his chest.

"Dad!"

County Magistrate Liu could no longer hold back and let out a miserable scream.

He lunged madly toward the coffin, but the one-eyed leader reached out and grabbed him around the waist.

"Keep out, strangers!"

The middle-aged Taoist priest shouted loudly, and without stopping, he thrust his peach wood sword directly in, trying to lift the Bagua mirror placed in front of his chest.

Suddenly, a beam of light shone from the Bagua mirror.

The middle-aged Taoist priest was no less formidable. His wooden sword pierced the Bagua mirror, and a "crack" was heard as the mirror shattered. Then, amidst the gasps of the crowd, the lifelike corpse in the coffin suddenly deflated as if it had lost its breath.

Before long, it turned into a dried-up corpse.

"Thank you, Masato!"

County Magistrate Liu quickly bowed, realizing that the middle-aged Taoist priest was a capable person, and thus the Taoist priest he had been referring to became a real person.

"It's alright!" The middle-aged Taoist stroked his beard. "You can move this corpse out and burn it. As for your father's remains... go and search for them within ten zhang to the southwest. Once you find them, you can find another place to bury him. Don't use this burial plot anymore; it can't bear the weight, and there will be those who are unwilling to accept it..."

"Thank you for your guidance, Master."

As he spoke, Magistrate Liu began directing the laborers and clansmen to search for the remains and gather firewood, preparing to burn the mummified corpse.

The four great constables of Lingzhou bowed to the middle-aged Taoist priest.

When someone does a good deed, it is only right to treat them with courtesy.

The Four Heroes of Kunshan were once clearly divided by their grudges, and now that they have become the Four Great Constables, they are still the same.

The middle-aged Taoist priest's face was still dark and his hair was still standing up, but this did not detract from his image as a superior man as he looked at the one-eyed leader of the Four Great Constables.

He was the one in charge among the four people.

"You just mentioned Master Zhang, is it Master Zhang Zhengdao? The real person personally visited by the emperor?"

The one-eyed leader glanced sideways at the middle-aged Taoist priest and laughed, "We don't need to answer the Taoist priest's question."

Yo ho!

The middle-aged Taoist priest couldn't help but glance at the one-eyed leader and laughed, "I see that the four of you have spiritual energy within you, so you must have received good fortune from that Taoist Zhang. It's a pity... a pity... the spiritual energy is good, but it's a bit lacking. Otherwise, it wouldn't be impossible for the four of you to soar to the sky and achieve the position of Grandmaster. Are you interested in following me... I guarantee you will break through to the Grandmaster realm."

The one-eyed leader laughed heartily: "Being a grandmaster is certainly prestigious, but we brothers are content and won't covet any benefits for nothing."

Just as the middle-aged Taoist priest was feeling that the four people were being ungrateful, he suddenly heard a commotion from the other side.

It turns out they found the remains of Old Master Liu.

Meanwhile, the person who had set up the fire and was tending the wood exclaimed in surprise, "Master, why isn't it melting?"

The middle-aged Taoist priest said, "I'll use a magic incantation, and that will do." After saying this, he chanted some incantations and finally said, "Hurry, hurry, as the law commands!" He then pointed his finger three inches from the head of the mummified corpse.

The mummified corpse was immediately set ablaze, and a huge fire broke out.

Suddenly, a beam of black light emerged from the mummified corpse's mouth and shot into the sky, then plummeted towards the southwest corner.

"How dare you! You dare to run away from me!"

The middle-aged Taoist priest shouted, and instantly, he followed the black light, transforming into a shooting star, and flew away in the blink of an eye.

"Run away—"

Everyone was shocked.

The one-eyed leader instructed his three brothers: "You stay here and protect the people. I'm going to take a look. Such an evil creature must not be allowed to spread and wreak havoc on the world."

He then turned and ran.

The other three shouted in unison, "Big brother, we'll wait together."

Since they were only here to witness something, and the evil thing had already fled, they figured there was no danger. So the three brothers used their lightness skills to leap away.

The middle-aged Taoist priest transformed into a streak of light and landed where the black light had just fallen.

It turned out to be a cave.

The middle-aged Taoist priest snorted coldly and shouted, "What kind of demon are you? Come out and face your death!"

At this moment, a pale-faced Taoist priest walked out of the cave.

He carried a long sword on his back, wore a black Taoist robe, and held something in his hand, which was coiled in his palm. It was a small black snake. When the snake saw the middle-aged Taoist priest, it immediately raised its head, flicked its tongue at him, and looked fierce.

"You hurt my Little Black!"

The pale-faced Taoist priest spoke coldly to the middle-aged Taoist priest.

"So what if it is? You manipulate people like this, and you even want to occupy people's graves and use the corpse's energy to nurture the black snake. You are extremely evil and deserve to die!"

"Then come and kill me!"

The middle-aged Taoist priest snorted and raised his peach wood sword.

"Zhu Xie!"

The peach wood sword suddenly shone brightly and flew towards the white-faced Taoist priest with lightning speed.

The pale-faced Taoist priest dared not be negligent, and suddenly spewed out a mouthful of black gas. Instantly, the black gas, like a black snake, swirled in the air and caught the rapidly moving peach wood sword, causing it to lose its luster.

It fell to the ground with a "thud".

The middle-aged Taoist priest took several steps back and spat out a mouthful of blood.

"With a mere two hundred years of cultivation, you haven't even entered the immortal realm yet, and you dare to fight me?" The white-faced Taoist sneered. "When I went west to Kunlun, I received guidance from the immortal of Qixian Lake, ate the Hongmeng Lotus Seed, escaped the calamity, returned to the Central Plains, and lay dormant for a thousand years. You Taoist are so ignorant, daring to ruin my arrangements."

The middle-aged Taoist priest gritted his teeth and stood up defiantly: "You evil Taoist... what kind of immortal arts do you cultivate? It's clearly heretical magic..."

"As long as it's a method to immortality, what distinction is there between good and evil? A frog in a well dares to talk about cultivating immortality..." The pale-faced Taoist suddenly stopped speaking, his eyes wide, clutching his chest, staring in terror at the man behind the middle-aged Taoist. "I...you...are...dead..."

With a thud, he fell to the ground.

As the pale-faced Taoist fell to the ground, the middle-aged Taoist's hair stood on end.