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

The mountain valley was brightly lit by the moonlight.

The valley reeked of decay, a smell that kept even the wild animals away. The lingering vapors swirled and coiled in the moonlight.

It was like a huge, deathly silent meeting room.

Countless skeletons in this ravine grew increasingly pale.

A gust of wind blew, and her red dress fluttered, swaying slowly in the air like a swing, while her whole body felt as light as a piece of paper.

It slowly descended.

The female Taoist priest in white stood atop a large tree at the edge of a mountain valley, her feet resting on a leaf. The leaf swayed in the wind, and her body moved with it, as if she were merely a shadow clinging to the leaf.

The woman in red gently descended, landing in the ravine, right atop a massive pile of white bones. She slowly spread her arms, performing a strange, prostrate worship of the moon. As she continued her worship, the wisps of vapor rising from the pile of bones slowly entered her body.

As more and more gas entered her body, the red-clad female ghost suddenly burst forth with a burst of red light. The red light surged into the forest like waves, one after another, like a gust of wind.

"Ow—"

A wolf howled, which then turned into a series of gasps.

"Roar--"

Even the roars of tigers from afar were filled with anxiety and despair, their roars gradually weakening until they ended in a mournful wail with a lingering echo.

All sounds are silent.

"Such powerful karma!"

The white-clad female Taoist priestess frowned immediately upon feeling the impact of the wave.

"You beast, don't even think about becoming a spirit!"

You should know by now that this female ghost wants to become a spirit.

The white-clad female Taoist priestess lightly touched the ground with her toes, and the Heaven-Severing Sword was instantly drawn. A cold light reflected the moonlight and illuminated the female Taoist priestess's face. She appeared above the red-clad female ghost as if she had teleported.

"I'll take your life!"

The white-robed female Taoist priest swung her sword, aiming directly at the head of the red-robed female ghost.

"boom--"

It was as if space itself had been blasted open, with wind and thunder raging, like a primordial beast unleashed from its dam...

The white-clad female Taoist priest felt a sudden alarm bell ringing in her heart, and the hairs on her body stood on end.

Withdraw the sword, point it horizontally, and fly backward—all in one fluid motion.

"Ding!"

The longsword and the staff collided, and a huge shockwave emanated from them and spread outwards. Sun Wukong descended from the sky, and with a thud of his golden cudgel, he blocked the shockwave, preventing it from hitting the red-clothed female ghost.

The female ghost remained oblivious, still absorbing the aura formed by the pile of bones in the entire ravine.

The monkey blocked all the shockwaves.

The woman in white, seeing the monkey's fur straightened by the shockwave, couldn't help but laugh and said, "So it's a monkey demon. It must have some connection with this female ghost!"

After the shockwave subsided, Sun Wukong picked up his golden cudgel, twirled it a few times in his hand, and looked at the white-clad female Taoist priest, saying, "I don't kill women, you can leave now."

The woman in white scoffed, "You can talk after you've beaten me."

The monkey laughed loudly: "When I wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Palace, 100,000 heavenly soldiers were helpless. You, a mere yellow-haired girl, dare to challenge me? If I hadn't recently reformed, I would have killed you with a single blow long ago."

The white-robed female Taoist priest spread her hands: "Come and hit me then!"

The monkey roared, "Don't mess with me! This golden cudgel of mine weighs 108,000 jin. If it just grazes you, you'll die!"

The female Taoist priest in white: "Shut up!"

Suddenly, the Heaven-Severing Sword pointed out from thin air, and a beam of light shot out from it. The monkey hurriedly blocked it, and then heard a "thud" as the energy struck the Golden Cudgel, causing it to tremble.

The monkey took several steps back.

Good match, good methods.

Sun Wukong hadn't felt such immense pressure or faced such a formidable opponent in a long time. Even the Bull Demon King was a familiar opponent he knew he could defeat; he was confident in his abilities.

"Come on, let's have a match somewhere else!"

Sun Wukong was unconvinced and said to the white-robed female Taoist priest, "Let's at least determine who is better."

The woman in white, a Taoist priestess, said, "Wait until I kill this demon."

"No!" Sun Wukong said seriously, "She's not a demon who harms people!"

The female Taoist priest in white said, "Let's fight first and talk about it later."

Sun Wukong transformed into a gust of wind, leaped into the sky, stood on clouds, and shouted, "Come, come, let's fight three hundred rounds, and not stop until one of us wins!"

With a "whoosh," the white-clad female Taoist priest leaped up and landed lightly on a cloud. She swung her Heaven-Slaying Sword and stabbed it towards the monkey.

This single sword strike was like countless shattered silver fragments scattered across the sky, even the sea of ​​clouds shattered into silver dust under the sword light, resembling shimmering waves under the moon.

Sun Wukong's golden cudgel swept across with immense force, but was intercepted by one of the myriad points of cold light just as it touched the white-robed nun's robes. The clear chime emitted by the three-foot-long green blade as it trembled actually cleaved the cudgel's wind into two pieces.

"What a fine sword!" Wukong's fiery eyes reflected the frost patterns running along the sword's surface, the patterns greedily absorbing the moonlight.

"Sword Name: Heaven-Slaying Sword!"

The female Taoist priest scoffed lightly, her toes lightly touching the clouds, and her sword drew seven crescent moons. The clouds were drawn by the sword's energy, condensing into ice crystal chains that wrapped around Wukong's feet.

"Well done!"

Sun Wukong roared, and his golden cudgel suddenly swelled, the golden dragon pattern on its head coming to life in the moonlight. The dragon's roar shattered the ice lock, and the shadow of the cudgel crashed down like mountains.

The white-clad female Taoist priestess wielded her sword with the grace of a dragon, the tip striking the staff three inches from its weakest point. The crisp sound of metal clashing against stone exploded into a ring of air within the clouds. Both women simultaneously retreated three steps, spiderweb-like cracks appearing beneath their feet on the auspicious clouds.

"what?"

Sun Wukong stopped, looked at his golden cudgel, and suddenly felt a great sorrow in his heart. His eyes blazed with fire as he glared at the white-robed female Taoist priest's Heaven-Slaying Sword.

"You call your sword 'Heaven-Severing Sword'?"

The woman in white nodded proudly: "Of course."

Sun Wukong said, "My golden cudgel is a treasure forged by Laozi. Why should it have a notch cut into it?"

The white-robed female Taoist priest said, "Don't even mention the staff that Laozi forged; even if Laozi himself came, I could use the Heaven-Severing Staff to create an opening for him. Do you believe me?"

What difference does it make whether Sun Wukong believes it or not?

I feel so sad.

"No need to fight anymore. I'll just ask you one question: did you forge this Heaven-Slaying Cudgel yourself?" The monkey was still persistent. The golden cudgel had a chip in it, and it pained him to see it.

The woman in white, dressed as a Taoist priest, said, "My master crafted it for me."

"My Taoist priest?"

These words flashed through Sun Wukong's mind.

So he tentatively asked, "Is your Taoist priest a young Taoist priest with a long, flowing beard, who is often dressed in a blue Taoist robe?"

The woman in white was startled and immediately said, "You know him? My Taoist priest is called Zhang Zhengdao."

Sun Wukong immediately clapped his hands and burst into laughter.

The woman in white, dressed as a Taoist priest, angrily retorted, "What are you laughing at?"

Sun Wukong said, "I laugh at you for messing with the Dragon King's temple. Master Zhang is my master's husband, which means he is the husband of my wife Bai Jingjing's master."

The woman in white was taken aback: "Master is getting married?"

Sun Wukong scoffed, "What a novel thing! He's a man, why can't he get married?"

The woman in white grabbed Sun Wukong's sleeve and said, "Come on, come on, take me to see him."

Sun Wukong said, "I will wait until the female ghost becomes a spirit. After she becomes a spirit, I will take her to become a disciple of Master Lang's woman, Fairy Zixia. That way, I can marry Bai Jingjing."

"What nonsense are you spouting?"

It's really quite chaotic.

At this moment, the red-clad female corpse suddenly stretched out her arm, and all the misty energy from the mountain valley below entered her body.

As the last breath entered, the female ghost's body became transparent.

It's like being covered by a layer of periosteum.

"boom!"

A deep, muffled roar came from the ravine below, and then the woman in red rose into the air. The bones underground shattered inch by inch, and then reformed.

Constant breaking and recombination...

They didn't know how much time had passed, but when they looked again, a crystal-clear white skeleton appeared in the air above the mountain valley.

The white skeleton, gleaming with an emerald light, swayed before the female ghost, seemingly testing the waters to merge with her. This must be the crucial moment of fusion.

It was almost dawn.

Sun Wukong grew anxious and turned to look at the white-robed female Taoist priest.

“You are a cultivator, can you see if you can help her merge together? If it gets light, then it’s all over.”

The woman in white said, "You must take me to see the Taoist priest."

Sun Wukong grew anxious: "Nonsense, hurry up, don't miss the appointed time."

The white-robed female Taoist priest then joined two fingers together like a sword, chanted incantations, and finally pointed at the white skeleton and the female ghost, saying, "Imperial decree!"

Suddenly, a beam of light came from the moon, and the white skeleton and the female ghost were instantly enveloped in the moonlight.

Sun Wukong angrily shouted, "What are you doing?"

He swung his golden cudgel, ready to strike.

The white-clad female Taoist priest angrily rebuked, "Stop if you don't want her to die."

Sun Wukong hesitated, but finally stopped.

Then, the moonlight suddenly burst forth from the skeleton and the female ghost, enveloping the surroundings. The skeleton, which had been motionless for a long time, suddenly moved and vanished in a flash.

Then the red-clad female ghost cried out "Ah!" and her body stiffened in mid-air.