The fairy is fierce

The goose-feathered snow is like catkins, falling on the stone cliff by the sea. It looks like a giant turtle on an island. It rests its head on the edge of the stone cliff and opens its huge mouth. Several monks use carts to pour into the mouth the picked materials from all over the country. of spiritual fruit.

Behind the stone cliff is a majestic tower, surrounded by countless workshops below, and the sound of various knockings can be heard constantly. From time to time, ferries filled with magical tools and elixirs are used from under the tower to the distant overseas.

The top of the tower has not yet been completed, and several monks are holding talisman pens and knives to carve patterns on the pillars.

Wearing a single robe, Wu Zunyi sat cross-legged under the eaves like a supervisor, with a tea table at hand.

Watching the snow from a high platform seemed leisurely, but for Wu Zunyi, who was trapped in the enemy camp, he obviously had no intention of appreciating the beautiful scenery in front of him, and kept his eyes on the giant turtle on the beach.

Lei Hongliang came to the side and sat down with his upper body naked, picked up the tea bowl and took a sip:

"Old Turtle is ready to set off again. I don't know which continent he is going to catch something. This time he left a little hastily, as if he had made a last-minute decision..."

Wu Zunyi withdrew his gaze and sighed softly:

"The secret chess move that Shang Lao Mo has buried in Yuyaozhou has been discovered by others. He wants to close the net in advance. Listen to their conversation and say, 'Zuo Lingquan, this kid, is destined to conflict with them. Wherever he goes, something will happen... ...', it sounds like it has something to do with Zuo Lingquan and the others."

Lei Hongliang had little potential and had no access to the senior officials of the Youying alien race. He said unexpectedly:

"The last time you tipped off Zuo Lingquan, you almost exposed the lurking high-level officials of the Nine Sects. They used the Four Elephants God Marquis as a cover to suppress the matter. After this battle, they are already wary of you. , are you still talking about this in front of you? "

"They do this on purpose. They want to see what other abilities I have to contact Yuyaozhou. So what if I don't want to serve? They have many ways to let me research things on my own."

Lei Hongliang suddenly thought about it and asked, "Then is there any way for you to contact Yuyaozhou?"

"There's nothing I can't do, but I don't dare to do that anymore. The last time they used Huajunzhou's Sky Escape Tower to summon people, they did the same thing and almost ruined the big thing, forcing Huajun and Yuyao to If the high-level officials of the continent have rebuilt the formation of the Heavenly Escape Tower, it will not be surprising if I become the number one contributor to the destruction of the Righteous Path."

"What should we do?"

With helplessness in Wu Zunyi's eyes, he sighed: "Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. I hope they will be smarter. A Central Continent Sword King should not be able to do anything to them."

"Which Sword King?"

"I don't know. In my opinion, it's either Yun Hongye or Tomorrow Chou. Yun Hongye is only one step away from the peak. He still can't surpass Jiang Chengjian, and he may fall into the trap. Tomorrow Chou is a bit incompetent and arrogant, not very gregarious, and his swordsmanship is not enough. strange……"

"Both of them are ruthless characters."

"The Eight Lords of the Ten Sword Emperors, which one is not a ruthless character..."

……——

On the other side, there are Yangcheng mountains and wilderness.

In the dark night, several figures broke through the wind and snow, chasing deep into the mountains, their eyes fixed on a fuzzy dot in the distance.

Xie Qiutao held the iron pipa, his eyes burning with anger, and he cursed from a distance:

"Bah, practitioners still use such trivial tricks. Do you think you can escape?"

Yunbao Taoist had hidden his cultivation a few days ago, and the speed he showed now may have reached the late stage of Youhuang. This Taoist practice can be regarded as an expert in Yuyaozhou, but compared with Zuo Lingquan, it is obviously not enough.

As soon as Yunbao Taoist rushed out of Yangcheng, his tail was bitten, and then several purple thunder fell from above his head. If it weren't for the fear that he was hiding his back move, Shangguan Lingye would have overtaken and blocked the way.

Seeing that the distance between them was getting closer and closer, Taoist Yunbao knew that there was no hope of escape, so he still had a strong voice and said angrily:

"This way is just entrusted by others to slay demons and eliminate demons. As people of the righteous way, why are you so aggressive and clinging to this way?"

Xie Qiutao was almost dragged away by Tang Jingxuan, and said with a fierce momentum:

"If you are on the right track, why are you running away? Could it be that when Jiang Da Sword Emperor comes over, he can kill you indiscriminately?"

"Who knows who you called here? I see that the situation is not good. If I don't run, I'm going to die..."

Shangguan Lingye was extremely fast, but in the blink of an eye, he had already circled in front of Taoist Yunbao from the side and blocked him above a mountain col. He said in a deep voice:

"You and I know it well, so why bother talking. Now confess the whole story and let you die happily, otherwise you will be imprisoned in the Fulong Mountain Thunder Pond Forbidden Area. You should know what it feels like."

Seeing that there was no way to escape, Taoist Yunbao was aroused. He pinched the spell with his hand and waved the fly whisk, and a cross wind suddenly blew in the mountain col.

Under the snow, the rocks shifted and the grass and trees grew wildly. In the blink of an eye, they turned into Fulong Mountain's 'Nine Palaces of Golden Light Array'.

The Nine Palaces Golden Light Formation is similar to the Peach Blossom Miasma in Peach Blossom Pond. They are both formations that disrupt the battlefield. When practiced to perfection, the monks caught in it can lose their sense of direction, and the golden light within the formation will explode, blocking all vision.

Taoist Yunbao's fire was not low, and he completed the formation with a flick of his fly whisk. Twelve more purple gold talismans floated out from the sleeves of his Taoist robes, and turned into twelve puppets in the air. Holding swords and weapons, they rushed towards the surrounding people in groups of three. Four people.

The grade of purple gold talisman is second only to the immortal talisman that can be drawn by jade-level monks. The puppet talisman is much more expensive than the magic talisman. Twelve of them were thrown out in a row. With such a big deal, even Shangguan Lingye could only I used it once when I was escaping in the East China Sea, which shows how much money Taoist Yunbao spent.

Twelve purple gold puppets can hover in the air, each with a combat power no less than the first level of Youhuang, and with the help of the Nine Palaces Golden Light Formation, if it were under normal circumstances, they could delay the Jade Level cultivator for a while.

But unfortunately, the people that Yunbao Taoist encountered this time were not normal people, not even birds.

When the four people saw the formation appear, they quickly retreated to the periphery of the valley. Zuo Lingquan and Shangguan Lingye used the cage formation and the magic sword formation at the same time to interrupt Yunbao Taoist's formation.

Xie Qiutao didn't know how to play the formation, so she flew to a high altitude to prevent Yunbao Taoist from escaping in the chaos; Tang Jingyan picked up the fire feather fan, held it with both hands, and attacked the valley with golden light flashing.

Huh

In a corner of the valley with golden light flashing, a fan-shaped flame suddenly emerged, like a torrent of broken dams, pressing down from the mountains.

The temperature of the flames was extremely high. Not only the snow in the valley, but also the rocks on the ground melted the moment they touched the flames.

The originally formed golden light array melted the array core supporting the array in the moment the sea of ​​fire poured in, and the golden light dissipated immediately; the twelve aggressive purple gold puppets turned into nothingness under the raging fire before they flew out of the valley, and not even a fragment was left.

The Cloud Leopard Taoist, who was waiting for an opportunity to escape, saw that the magical power he had deployed could not even hold up for a blink of an eye, and the sea of ​​fire came in front of him. He was so shocked that his face turned pale. He quickly waved his whisk and used the wind method to prop up the air wall in front of him, blowing the sea of ​​fire upwards.

Swish

The flames were isolated by the wind wall, forming a flame hole, which pressed over the Cloud Leopard Taoist.

Although the flames were temporarily blocked, Tang Jingyan's full-strength attack could easily burn the mountains and boil the sea. The Cloud Leopard Taoist's move was like a drop in the bucket. In an instant, the flames pressed him close, and the whisk in his hand was also ignited.

Shangguan Lingye saw this scene and said anxiously:

"Stop it."

Tang Jingyan was no longer the silly wife who didn't know how to strike back. Hearing the words, she raised her hand and grabbed the sea of ​​fire that was rushing towards the valley, and forcibly grabbed it back into her palm, and muttered softly:

"You can't stand it?"

Tuanzi nodded like pecking at rice: "Ji."

When the flames receded, the valley that was originally covered with snow turned into a red groove, and the ground was covered with magma, still emitting black smoke and emitting hot rising air waves.

The whisk in the hand of the Cloud Leopard Taoist was burned bald. Standing in the middle of the valley, looking at the four people who surrounded him, his face was ashen.

Zuo Lingquan put away the Demon Sealing Sword Formation, flew over and said:

"It's not too late to explain now. When Jiang Jianhuang comes, he will search your soul directly."

The Cloud Leopard Taoist was at his wit's end. He was silent for a moment, turned his head and looked to the west, gritted his teeth and said:

"I'm just an errand boy. Tell the truth, and you can spare my life or even destroy my cultivation."

When Shangguan Lingye heard this, he knew there were other people behind it.

Before the matter was clarified, Shangguan Lingye could not directly negotiate the confession conditions with the criminals. She considered for a while and said:

"You are a disciple of Fulong Mountain. You should know that the Nine Sects follow the rules. They will not let a crooked person go, but they will not impose heavy punishment for no reason. Speak."

The Cloud Leopard Taoist held the bare whisk, hesitated for a moment, and still spoke:

"In recent years, madness has been rampant, attracting the attention of many cultivators including you. The iron bell crow was indeed secretly placed outside Yanjiazhuang by me to cover up people... people..."

The Cloud Leopard Taoist spoke very quickly, but just after spitting out two sentences, his body trembled, his face quickly turned pale, his forehead veins bulged, and even his pupils were full of bloodshot, just like a cultivator who had gone astray.

Zuo Lingquan was shocked when he saw this, knowing that someone was secretly silencing him, and quickly deployed the Demon Sealing Sword Formation to try to disrupt the flow of spiritual energy and interrupt the actions of the person behind the scenes.

Tang Jingyan, who was standing behind him, also had golden light in his eyes. But in the blink of an eye, the Shangguan Patriarch had already arrived from the southern land.

The Shangguan Patriarch quickly raised his hand and pinched his fingers, forming a flame lotus formation on the ground, wrapping the Cloud Leopard Taoist in it.

The golden phoenix flames burned together with the soul, which cut off the connection between the Cloud Leopard Taoist and the outside world.

But the Cloud Leopard Taoist's body had been tampered with in advance. Even if the outside interference was blocked, the changes in his body still did not stop. He randomly mobilized his true energy to collide in his body, causing the surface of his body to bulge everywhere, with a tendency to burst.

The Shangguan Patriarch used Tang Jingyan's body, and his soul power was limited. He could not forcibly extract the soul of the Cloud Leopard Taoist. He used magic to suppress the flow of breath in the Cloud Leopard Taoist's body, pointed his finger at the center of the Cloud Leopard Taoist's eyebrows, and said in a deep voice:

"Suppress!"

The voice was like a bell, and the intention was to shock ghosts and gods.

The eyes of the mad Taoist Cloud Leopard were slightly emotional for a moment.

It was at this moment that the Shangguan Patriarch locked the eyes of the Taoist Cloud Leopard, causing him to freeze.

Zuo Lingquan, who was watching from the side, recognized this move. He was treated like this when he first met the Patriarch, and could trace back to the past of his cultivation.

But the clarity of the Taoist Cloud Leopard's eyes only lasted for a short moment, and he fell into madness again. Cracks appeared on his body surface, and then countless true qi was released, and his body exploded on the spot.

Boom

Under the loud noise, a ball of blood mist burst out from the flame lotus, and was suppressed by the surrounding formation. When the blood mist dissipated, only two portable magic tools and a bare whisk were left.

Seeing this, Zuo Lingquan asked:

"Senior Shangguan Wan'er, did you see anything?"

The Shangguan Patriarch had no expression on his face, put away the formation, turned his head and pointed directly at Zuo Lingquan's eyebrows.

Zuo Lingquan didn't understand, but the moment he looked into the eyes of the ancestor, his body froze, as if his soul was pushed out, traveling through space and time, and came to a strange place.

The technique of the ancestor Shangguan was not to search the soul, but to check the traces of cultivation in the body of the cultivator. By stimulating the abnormal parts, the cultivator could recall the moments of cultivation that were still fresh in his memory, such as breaking through the realm, getting opportunities, etc. The deeper the memory, the clearer the things he saw.

The ancestor Shangguan had seen it and repeated it to Zuo Lingquan. He did not trace it backwards, but played it forward directly.

The first thing Zuo Lingquan saw was a child standing in line outside the mountain gate. Someone came and held the child's wrist to check his qualifications.

Then there was a long and boring Qi refining and body forging. After more than ten years, he appeared in Zhongzhou Huihewan. An old Taoist came to check his bones.

After that, he went to Fulong Mountain. After practicing for decades, he was not talented enough to climb higher. He left the sect and became a casual cultivator. He returned to the northern border and became a wandering Taoist.

All this was normal, nothing special, but suddenly one day, Taoist Cloud Leopard appeared at the door of a tavern, and the sign of the tavern was clearly visible, indicating that Taoist Cloud Leopard was deeply impressed by this incident.

The magic can only help people recall some scenes, and the details cannot be seen clearly. All you can see is an old man in a casual appearance. The next scene is Taoist Cloud Leopard refining his life object, and his cultivation is rapidly improving; after that, his cultivation experience is basically wandering between several countries in the northern border, either meditating or in seclusion.

These scenes and pictures flooded into Zuo Lingquan's mind in just a moment.

When Zuo Lingquan came back to his senses, the Shangguan Patriarch had already put away his fingers. He frowned and said:

"Is Feng Si Niang the owner of the wine shop? Is this related to that storekeeper Zheng?"

The Shangguan Patriarch tapped Shangguan Lingye's head again:

"Someone just used the soul technique to secretly kill people. Jing Yan's cultivation is too low, so I can't trace the source. I can only feel that it is in the southwest. He must be afraid that Jiang Chengjian will come, so he dare not show up. Seeing that Taoist Yunbao wanted to tell the secret, he was forced to kill him."

Xie Qiutao pondered for a while, and suddenly realized:

"It is probably That old shopkeeper. I was talking about that day. He taught us not to meddle in other people's business, and then said that a magic weapon had appeared in the north. He should have seen through our identities at that time and wanted to lead us to another place... It was a close call. If he had attacked us at that time..." Shangguan Lingye said, "He was secretly planning something famous, and he was afraid of being discovered, so he wanted to lure the tiger away from the mountain. How could he attack and alert the snake when he met him?" "That's right..." Zuo Lingquan recalled what he had just seen and said puzzledly, "Who is that shopkeeper Zheng? What is the plan? "

Ancestor Shangguan shook his head: "This person is very alert, and only treats Taoist Yunbao as a chess piece, and has not revealed anything. But it is easy to track him down. After Taoist Yunbao got the opportunity, he often meditated and practiced in Caiyi Country, Dachen Country, Xuefeng Mountains, Beiya, and his childhood master's sect. He must have often traveled back and forth between these places. You just need to follow the clues to investigate. "

Xie Qiutao asked: "To be able to raise a thug like Taoist Yunbao, his cultivation must be very high. Can we deal with him?"

Ancestor Shangguan looked a little Helpless: "In cultivation, no one knows how advanced the next opponent will be. You can only strive for self-improvement and be cautious. If you expect your opponent to be weaker than you every time, why do you still cultivate?"

Xie Qiutao shrank her neck and whispered:

"That's right..."

Shangguan Lingye considered: "Today, we have already alerted the enemy. If the enemy really has a plan, I'm afraid they will do it in advance or destroy the corpse immediately. We have to move quickly and leave directly."

Ancestor Shangguan nodded slightly, and after finishing the matter, he wanted to leave.

But when Shangguan Lingye was riding Zuo Lingquan in bed yesterday, he ran into Master, and there were always some questions in his heart that were not easy to say.

When she saw Master was about to leave, she didn't know where she got the courage from, and pulled the sleeve of Ancestor Shangguan:

"Master, wait."

"Hmm?"

Ancestor Shangguan turned his head and looked at Lingye.

Shangguan Lingye looked a little embarrassed, but he still bit the bullet and pulled his master to a secluded place, whispering:

"Master, last night, I... I did not do my job properly and failed to live up to your expectations..."

Shangguan Laozu did not want to recall the time when she and her apprentice were lying in bed with a man. She responded calmly:

"It is natural for husband and wife to have yin and yang in harmony. There is no such thing as not doing your job properly. However, some things still need to be paid attention to. One yin and one yang are called yin and yang harmony. Two yins and one yang become yin is strong and yang is weak. Um... not appropriate."

Shangguan Lingye's expression was stiff. I don't know how much willpower he used to suppress his emotions and not show any abnormality. She nodded and said:

"Disciple will remember the teachings, next time... Oh~ let's not talk about this. I just have some questions that I can't figure out, and I want to ask Master."

"Go ahead."

"Well... it's about the soul and the body. Normally, the body and the soul are both parts of a person, but sometimes... like now, Master is using Jingxun's body, so who is in front of me, should it be Master or Jingxun?"

Ancestor Shangguan didn't want to talk about this sensitive topic, but since her disciple asked, she couldn't talk nonsense. After a silence, she still said:

"The soul is the main thing. Whoever's soul controls the body will naturally be held responsible for the crime. Otherwise, if a high-level cultivator controls others to kill people, the crime will be held responsible for the person being controlled, and the world will be in chaos."

Shangguan Lingye naturally knew such a simple truth. She glanced at her master and continued;

"Oh...I'm just giving you an analogy, Master, don't get me wrong. Well...for example, a man and a woman are practicing dual cultivation. There is a mountain monk who suddenly borrows the woman's body. The male monk is...cultivating. A Taoist monk or a mountain monk?"

"..."

Is this an analogy?

You call it naming!

This question was not an ordinary direct question. Even though she was the ancestor of Shangguan, there was something strange in her eyes that was not easy to detect. She took a breath and looked at her beloved disciple:

"Lingye, what do you mean?"

What does Shangguan Lingye mean?

"My disciple has no other meaning. I just can't figure it out. I'm afraid that Zuo Lingquan's wild thoughts will stain the master's innocence..."

Ancestor Shangguan stared at Lingye for a long time before he said seriously;

"One thing, you can't just look at the appearance, but also the motivation. Take the example you gave, the mountain monk borrowed the body of a female cultivator. He must have done it because he had something important to do. It's a matter of friction. If you only look at the appearance and don't look at the motive, what's the difference between you and those who see a woman falling into the water and a man goes to save her, but later say that the man has lustful intentions and defiled the woman? "

What the ancestor said made sense. Shangguan Lingye thought about it carefully and felt that his suspicion was indeed wrong. He lowered his head and said:

"I know I was wrong, I thought too much."

The Shangguan Patriarch nodded slightly: "It is normal to be misunderstood by others, but as a practitioner, you must look at the problem from a deep perspective. If the monk on the top of the mountain had evil intentions and deliberately borrowed a woman at that time, Even if there is no contact with Xiu's body, the fact of evil intentions cannot be erased.

"But if the original intention is not that, it is just a matter of urgency and a last resort, then even if you and the male cultivator have physical intimacy, neither of you should take it to heart, and you should not have a grudge over this matter, do you understand?"

Shangguan Lingye blinked his beautiful eyes and looked at his ancestor:

"Master and Zuo Lingquan had skin-to-skin contact?"? ? !

For the first time, Shangguan Patriarch's eyes looked down at the people, showing anger or shame. Her face darkened:

"Lingye, if you don't understand the truth, don't call me master in the future, I can't teach you."! !

Seeing that he had made his master angry, Shangguan Lingye finally calmed down, put away his thoughts, and quickly bowed his hands:

"My disciple knows his mistake."

"If you know your mistakes, you need to correct them, not just talk about them."

Shangguan Patriarch took a breath and wanted to teach his apprentice a few words, but in the end he gave it up and left Tang Jingxun's body silently.

Tang Jingxun had been listening soberly. Seeing that the dead woman was embarrassed and annoyed by her apprentice, she was almost laughing to death. Now that she had regained control of her body, she almost laughed out loud.

Fortunately, the higher the realm, the quicker the reaction. Tang Jingxuan raised the corner of his mouth, then suppressed it again, coughed lightly, and advised like a big sister:

"Lingye, Lingye, as a sister, I have to tell you, your master is so kind to you, how could you misunderstand her like this?"

Shangguan Lingye straightened up when he saw this and walked towards Zuo Lingquan:

"Master and I talk openly. If there is any misunderstanding, please let me know. Now I feel better in my heart. It is better than hiding the words in my heart and thinking about it."

"That's right, as long as you didn't misunderstand."

"By the way, what Master said makes sense. Yin and Yang are both cultivated. One yin and one yang. Don't join in the fun in the future. It's just a way to avoid suspicion. Master has to borrow your body. I can't help but misunderstand it. What's the truth? It doesn’t matter, what should be avoided should be avoided.”

"Huh? Why? You...why don't you just go and cool off?"

"Zuo Lingquan and I have consummated our marriage, and there's nothing you can do."

"I just haven't done it yet. It's not that I can't. The worst thing I can do is consummate the marriage with Xiao Zuo..."

"Then wait until you consummate the marriage."

"..."

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