The Emperor Reigns Them All

Chapter 172 God of Moon and God of Giant Spirit

In the rainy night, the Boji Mountain was particularly dark and quiet. There was only one house with a small light in the Taoist temple. The faint yellow light was like a small butterfly that couldn’t fly out of the walls of the Taoist temple. It was dark outside the walls, and even the outline of the forest could not be seen in the moonless night.

The flash of white light was not very powerful, but the Spiritual Qi was condensed to the extreme. The white light covered the outline of the dagger, like the burning sun at summer noon, and was grasped by the hunter. At this moment, the bluestone floor, stone steps, mottled courtyard walls, and the quiet and dense forest around could be seen clearly under the white light, even too dazzling to look straight at.

The hunter’s smile was still friendly and honest as if he hadn’t handed out the dagger which could kill a person but a common wineskin. No one could feel his killing intent. His movement was very natural with no deliberate intention but high speed.

A deadly attack.

This scene appeared in the hunter’s mind many times because his lurk near the Boji Mountain was for today. This was his target and the task that he had to complete, and he had waited too long. Ten years had passed, and the present movement had been rehearsed thousands of times in his mind. He was very clear that his strike was flawless and that he could get the expected result no matter how hard the other side tried to avoid it.

That year, the browned cloaked Taoist went alone to Penglai, but eventually, he was badly injured by Zhang Jiuling so that his realm dropped sharply. From then on, he lived in seclusion in the Taoist temple and no longer returned to Jianghu.

The Penglai Taoist smiled slightly and felt pleased, relieved, and furious.

The browned cloaked Taoist was holding a handful of vegetables, bending his arched back. His thin skeleton seemed to fall apart at any moment, and his patched clothes made him look poor and wretched. When the white light shone, he still wore a warm smile that never faded from his face.

That smile was very humble and cheap in the hunter’s eyes.

He was a humble and cheap Taoist. He lived in the desolate, remote place and guarded a Taoist temple that was so ruined that even mountain thieves were disdainful of breaking into it. What he had done most was to walk several ten kilometers to give medicine to the ordinary people and carry the maggot-like poor people back to the Taoist temple to take care of them.

“What’s the point of such behaviors?”

“What’s the point of saving dozens of untouchables with his life-time cultivation?”

“The world is in the hands of the strong. In the eyes of the strong, the starving untouchables are just livestock that can speak, too weak to be worth taking seriously at all.”

“Taoists should go out of the world, above the secular world, and be worshipped by all people. Those self-righteous dignitaries should climb over and kneel at our feet. Taoists should sort out their appearance and every movement should be unstained and noble. How could we wear shabby clothes? How could we look pale? How could our temperament be like dust?”

“What’s the point of saving those untouchables who live like insects and have no impact on the world trend?”

“Since what you have done doesn’t make sense, then there’s no point of your being alive. Since your life is meaningless, why don’t you die?”

“Death is your destiny!”

The Penglai Taoist, who pretended to be a hunter for ten years, looked fanatical and crazy.

The browned cloaked Taoist still looked wretched.

His right hand clasped the vegetables in his arms, without a leaf falling, as if these inexpensive vegetables were more precious than gold, silver and jewelry.

The dagger came to his waist.

It pierced his clothes.

It touched his wrinkled old skin.

But it couldn’t move forward anymore.

His left hand hit on the hunter’s chest.

Between the palm and the chest, a little starlight suddenly appeared and turned into the sea of stars in an instant.

“Click.” The Taoist’s chest was sunken.

Then his whole body flew out like a leaf.

He fell heavily on the mountain road of the forest he had come.

At that moment, the browned cloaked Taoist who could launch the sea of stars on his hands was like an immortal who gazed at the common people in the void universe.

The Penglai Taoist’s body hit out a big hole in the mountain road with his limbs stuck in the mud and stones. The dagger in his hand fell at the feet of the browned cloaked Taoist.

He didn’t move because he was unable to move. His features were twisted together and bleeding. He was shocked as well as angry. He was nervous as well as incredulous. But these feelings were quickly replaced by hatred. His scarlet eyes were bleeding, and he intensely stared at the browned cloaked Taoist who withdrew his hands slowly.

The browned cloaked Taoist didn’t look at him again. He looked down at the vegetables in his arms carefully. He turned round in his place until he found that not a leaf had fallen, and then he gave a lucky and triumphant smile.

“If the little girl knows that I waste the vegetables she has worked so hard to grow, she will get angry and fight me.”

The browned cloaked Taoist smiled and entered the door happily carrying the vegetables. He seemed not to know that the vegetable garden had been ruined beyond recognition by his carelessness.

The browned cloaked Taoist’s disregard made the Penglai Taoist fly into a rage. He struggled to free himself from the mud and stones but suddenly fell to his knees. He supported himself on the ground with his hands, raised his head, and stared maliciously at the browned cloaked Taoist. He gnashed his teeth and roared, “You’re a good-for-nothing! Even though you have defeated me, you’re also a good-for-nothing! You have such high cultivation, but you make no effort to help the Taoist sect to rule the world, so you are a good-for-nothing instead of a Taoist! I’m hateful that the senior brother didn’t kill you and let you leave Penglai that year because of the fellowship of the disciples of Taoist sect. If I have known that you would disgrace the Taoist sect, I would have hacked you into pieces!”

The browned cloaked Taoist stopped at the door and turned to look at the Penglai Taoist who was inside the “cave”. He grinned and said, “Do you think it was because Zhang Jiuling had a soft heart that I could leave Penglai?”

“You good-for-nothing! You are no match for my senior brother! You have no gratitude, so you don’t deserve to live!” the Penglai Taoist shouted, vomiting blood.

The browned cloaked Taoist sighed. “You should know if I had been really badly injured by Zhang Jiuling and my realm had really dropped sharply, how could you be like this now.”

After saying this, the browned cloaked Taoist was too lazy to pay attention to the Penglai Taoist who was scolding crazily. He Jumped over the threshold like a child and headed for the kitchen happily.

Outside the kitchen, when the browned cloaked Taoist was eating happily holding a pottery bowl with a gap, his expression changed suddenly. He slapped his forehead as if remembering something. He hurriedly ran to the two water tanks and stretched his head to look in.

He immediately retracted his neck.

Two huge water columns rose at the same time from the two water tanks in front, straight into the sky.

One of the water columns was as white as sunlight, while the other one was as black as ink.

In the blink of an eye, they reached a height beyond his sight as if they would never end.

Two fishes, one black and one white, climbed up from the water columns to hundreds of meters high in an instant.

A loud sound was heard from the sky faintly. In the end, two shadows of light went to the east together and disappeared.

When the water columns fell back in the water tanks and it returned to quiet, the browned cloaked Taoist, who was holding a bowl, was still stunned.

The browned cloaked Taoist stood in front of such huge water columns for a long time, but there was no drop of water falling on him.

After a long time, the browned cloaked Taoist recovered. He opened his mouth with only the front teeth and said, “It’s impossible. The momentum is so strong. Whose Luck did they borrow?”

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In front of the courier station, the Senior Priestess and Zhang Yunhe walked side by side.

Su Emei and Wei Xiaozhuang were ready to take action.

Wei Xiaozhuang looked worried. “Senior sister, I feel that these two people are aimed at us.”

Su Emei said in a low voice, “You’re right. They are aimed at us.”

Wei Xiaozhuang shivered. “But they seem to be very powerful, so I’m afraid that we can’t defeat them.”

Su Emei stayed calm. “We have to defeat them.”

Wei Xiaozhuang’s round face squeezed together. “How?”

Su Emei said, “I use my sword, and you use your sword.”

Seeing Su Emei pull out her long sword, Wei Xiaozhuang sighed and took off the peach wood sword from his back slowly. Holding it in his hand, he was so sad that he was going to cry. “It seems to be the only way.”

The Senior Priestess and Zhang Yunhe walked to the front of the courier station and stopped.

Zhang Yunhe smiled and looked at Su Emei and Wei Xiaozhuang up and down with great interest. He turned to ask the Senior Priestess who looked indifferent. “Are they his disciples?”

“Don’t you know the peach wood sword?” the Senior Priestess said lightly.

Zhang Yunhe smiled and said, “I was only ten years old at that time, so I don’t remember that much.”

“Then I tell you now this peach wood sword is that peach wood sword. Do you still have any questions?” the Senior Priestess said indifferently.

Zhang Yunhe spread out his hands. “No.”

“Then do it.”

Zhang Yunhe glanced at Su Emei and Wei Xiaozhuang. Holding his sword in his hand, he smiled mildly and said seriously, “My name is Zhang Yunhe, this sword is called Flying Crane Sword, and my cultivation method is called ‘Crane Qi Incantation’. All of them are very powerful. Do you know what I mean?”

Wei Xiaozhuang swallowed. “Yes.”

Zhang Yunhe’s smile became larger. “So, do you still want to fight me?”

Wei Xiaozhuang nodded. “Yes.”

Zhang Yunhe also nodded. “Okay.”

Once he finished his word, the runes on the Flying Crane Sword were lit up by Spiritual Qi one by one again. Zhang Yunhe’s gentle gaze suddenly became sharp, his robes and hair fluttering automatically. “Since you’re the disciples of that man, I have no reason not to do my best to show my respect. If you can catch my sword, I will lose, but if you can’t, you will die.”

The pattern of nine cranes soaring in the clouds on the Flying Crane Sword was gradually lit up. Zhang Yunhe wielded his sword, and then the chirps of cranes sounded in the air immediately. Nine white cranes appeared in the air, flapping their wings and soaring, very beautiful. Suddenly, they flew straight towards Su Emei and Wei Xiaozhuang in a line.

Su Emei stepped forward, and one-meter long sword light chopped straight down.

Upon seeing Su Emei’s Sword Qi, the Senior Priestess couldn’t help but sneer. Each crane was more than three meters long, majestic and grand, while Su Emei’s Sword Qi was just one meter long, too weak to fight.

At this moment, the Senior Priestess’ look became serious because Wei Xiaozhuang had raised his peach wood sword and stabbed towards her.

She didn’t want to fight at the beginning. Since Zhang Yunhe wanted to show off, then she let him do it. She certainly didn’t think that Su Emei and Wei Xiaozhuang were able to catch Zhang Yunhe’s sword because there was a great gap between Level 9 of Qi-refining and middle-level Qi-refining. Even if Zhang Yunhe were in the weakest Level 9 of Qi-refining, he could kill Su Emei and Wei Xiaozhuang in one strike, not to mention that he wasn’t.

In the Senior Priestess’ view, Wei Xiaozhuang’s rushing forward was reckless and unreasonable. She sneered and slapped Wei Xiaozhuang without using her white silk.

She didn’t have Zhang Yunhe’s leisure to go all out to respect her opponent when facing such a weak opponent. In her view, there was no need to use all her power to kill a person and the right amount of power was just enough.

The cranes pounced on her and made her one-meter long sword light tremble fiercely. Sword Qi dissipated like smoke, while the nine cranes had no damage and went straight to Su Emei’s face.

The strength of her hand was as fierce as the sun and went in front of the peach wood sword instantly.

Su Emei and Wei Xiaozhuang were about to be killed.

But at this time, the sky and the earth were eclipsed and changes happened suddenly. In the boundless black clouds, a white light rushed out suddenly.

Besides the white light, there was also a black light which couldn’t be seen clearly.

In front of the white light, a creature like a fish or a dragon flew towards Su Emei quickly. Turning into a little snake of Spiritual Qi, it drilled into between her eyebrows.

Immediately, Su Emei was bursting with a bright white light, covering everything. It was so bright that people couldn’t open their eyes.

The approaching cranes dissipated one after another, like white paper burned into ashes.

Zhang Yunhe suddenly flew backward and vomited a mouthful of blood in the air.

The same thing happened to the Senior Priestess. When black gases burst around Wei Xiaozhuang, her expression changed greatly, so she hurriedly took out her white silk and retreated. The white silk was rolling wildly to form a conical barrier, trying to keep out the black gases. But in the end, the while silk was bounced off and the Senior Priestess was injured to vomit blood and slid backward several meters.

Zhang Yunhe did a backflip and landed safely, standing side by side ten steps away from the Senior Priestess.

They looked at each other and saw the shock in each other’s eyes. “What is going on?”

As the white light dissipated, there were three flame patterns between Su Emei’s eyebrows. When she opened her eyes, she was full of momentum. Her previous charming and clear eyes seemed to become extremely majestic at this moment. She looked at them disdainfully. Her temperament suddenly changed.

In the past, Su Emei was a pure and beautiful fairy with an otherworldly temperament, but now, she was a majestic god!

Black gases pervaded around Wei Xiaozhuang and his whole body was enveloped in the black gases. When the black gases dissipated, the previous innocent chubby guy was replaced by a giant with a large waist and a tall body, dressed in black armor and holding a huge ax.

He looked fierce and majestic. His eyes were green, and the green light of the huge ax was like fire. He looked like an immortal general who killed demons and came out from the bloody battlefield. When he looked over, he had the power that could let demons tremble!

Fortunately, the two people didn’t act immediately, as if they just woke up from a long dream and felt blank, so they were adjusting.

The Senior Priestess frowned and was on the alert. She looked back and forth between Su Emei and Wei Xiaozhuang and felt shocked. “The fluctuation of their Spiritual Qi has already reached Level 9 of Qi-refining! What is going on?”

Zhang Yunhe originally looked serious, but after a short time, he resumed his gentle look. Instead of looking at Su Emei and Wei Xiaozhuang, he looked back at the Senior Priestess with doubts and ridicule.

The Senior Priestess was annoyed. “Why are you looking at me?”

Zhang Yunhe said slowly, “You and the Junior Priestess went up to the mountain at a very young age. When you were still infants, you were accepted as secret disciples by the master. You have lived in the Wangxian Cliff and cultivated in seclusion for many years, so none of the disciples could see you. This is the first time you appear in Jianghu and the first time we meet you. I am very curious that how can your cultivation achieve Level 9 of Qi-refining in only 20 years?”

The Senior Priestess frowned and her eyes narrowed. “What do you mean?”

Zhang Yunhe glanced at Su Emei and Wei Xiaozhuang. Although they didn’t move, he dared not to act rashly. The fluctuation of their Spiritual Qi had reached Level 9 of Qi-refining, so he had to concentrate on dealing with them, but he didn’t fear. He didn’t try to test them because he couldn’t figure out the majesty on them with common sense.

Zhang Yunhe said, “I have cultivated for 40 years to achieve Level 9 of Qi-refining. And Li Xian has cultivated for 40 years, but he can’t reach the Spiritual Master Realm. Our talents are already extraordinary and the best in the world. But compared with you and the Junior Priestess, we’re not worth mentioning. However, throughout history, very rare people have better talent in cultivation than Li Xian and me. Almost no one is able to achieve Level 9 of Qi-refining before 30 years old, not even Yuan Tiangang!”

Speaking of this, Zhang Yunhe took a deep breath as if he had thought of something extremely shocking and frightening, so he needed to do this to calm down. He was always calm and steady and his mind was as steady as Mount Tai, but now he couldn’t help but shiver.

Looking at the Senior Priestess, Zhang Yunhe asked word by word, “It’s said that people can see the immortal on the Wangxian Cliff. But can people really only see the immortal? Senior Priestess, who are you and the Junior Priestess?”

The Senior Priestess didn’t speak.

Zhang Yunhe waited for a long time.

The Senior Priestess didn’t want to answer, so Zhang Yunhe looked at Su Emei and Wei Xiaozhuang again. He said slowly, “King Wu conquered King Zhou, and then immortals appeared in the world; Master Jiang granted titles to gods, so mortals became immortals. Orthodoxy doesn’t exist when the world falls apart. Luck scatters in the world, while Great Tao originates from the countryside. Feudal princes compete for hegemony, while heroes fight for triumph. The time when the True Dragon establishes his empire is the time when Great Tao arrives at heaven. So it’s said that when the world is in chaos, immortals and mortals can communicate with each other!”

Zhang Yunhe’s voice was getting more and more trembling. Holding his Flying Crane Sword firmly, he suddenly turned to stare at the Senior Priestess. “Don’t tell me that you don’t know the people in front of you are God of Moon and God of Giant Spirit!”

The Senior Priestess’ hands trembled, her gaze changed dramatically, and she looked incredibly at Zhang Yunhe.

Zhang Yunhe stared at the Senior Priestess motionless and said between his teeth, “So, Senior Priestess, who are you?!”