Chapter 465: Patriarch Dao, Hahaha
Hoo—!!
A desolate owl’s cry echoed for hundreds of miles.
Between heaven and earth, a snowy owl flapped its wings and soared into the sky, charging into a strange pink cloud mass ahead. But the moment it touched its boundary, the feathers on its body rotted and withered, turning into ashes and scattering with the wind.
Boom—!
Three spiritual lights, trembling in the sky ten thousand feet high, burst forth, destroying everything in their path. The mountains below turned into fragments, peeling off from the skin of the Earth Mother and floating upwards.
Beneath the dazzling golden light, Zu Yuan held an Yin-Yang jade in his left hand, suspended in the void.
Spiritual energy fluctuated violently, drawing a gale that blew Zu Yuan’s mostly tattered black and white Daoist robe, making it flutter behind him like a flag.
Two Void Realm cultivators fighting each other might not even determine a victor in months. Once, Yun Jian Shang Xian alone faced the encirclement and killing of five demonic cultivators of the Void Realm. He held on for nearly ten days before finally perishing from exhaustion.
However, after just one day and one night of battle, Zu Yuan already felt like a candle in the wind. He could be annihilated at any moment under the next divine ability combined attack from “Yun Lu” and “Xuan Liu Yan.”
Perhaps it was because he had given his spiritual root to Ye Anping, or perhaps it was due to his rustiness after not fighting for a thousand years, or the decline caused by his lifespan nearing its end…
But for him, the reason for this was no longer important.
Zu Yuan’s only thought at this moment was to kill these two Eastern Domain thieves who dared to invade the Southern Domain!
Even though the possibility was slim.
“Haa—!”
Zu Yuan flicked his sleeve, holding the Yin-Yang jade towards the sky.
A strange phenomenon arose.
A massive Yin-Yang formation diagram, originating from beneath his feet, covered the surrounding hundred li of mountains and rivers. Countless spiritual light patterns around the formation diagram intertwined and shone, coalescing into a colossal beast with golden feathers.
The beast’s head resembled a tiger, but it bore a pair of phoenix-like wings. Its eyes were wide and furious, glaring at Yun Lu and Xuan Liu Yan, who stood side-by-side ahead.
Despite its enormous size and its eyes gleaming with divine light, the two of them showed no reaction.
Mei Yun Lu looked bored, propping her cheek on her hand as she lay on the clouds, and said dismissively, “You must know that you have no chance of winning, so why bother with this futile effort?”
Roar—!
The tiger’s roar shattered the air, drowning out her words amplified by spiritual energy.
However, Mei Yun Lu merely paused, then casually continued after picking her ear, “Patriarch Dao, you don’t seriously think you can hold out until the bald donkey from Wunian Sect arrives, do you? And even if he comes, what can he do? That bald donkey only knows a few formation techniques. He poses no threat to me and Liu Yan, and he can’t save your life either.”
“…”
“Ha~~” Mei Yun Lu yawned, raised her hand, and directly unbuttoned her robe, revealing her two large, white breasts. “Zu Yuan, I’m getting tired of fighting too. How about we make a deal?”
Beside her, Xuan Liu Yan, out of his six eyes, couldn’t help but glance at Mei Yun Lu’s breasts. His snake-like tongue flickered between his lips, seemingly showing some desire for mating.
“Hiss hiss…”
But upon seeing this, Mei Yun Lu waved her hand in disgust, twisted his head a quarter turn, and pointed him in another direction.
“What are you looking at, you worm-brained fool? I’m showing this to Patriarch Dao~ Besides, I don’t want worms growing in my belly.”
Mei Yun Lu smiled, puffed out her chest, and her eyes shone with enchantment, saying, “Zu Yuan, Xuan Liu Yan and I are here to take your life. You have two options now. One is to join me in dual cultivation, ascending to heaven in pleasure and ecstasy. The other option is to be gnawed by this worm into a poisonous蛊bed, dying in agony.
Of course, the first option is better, isn’t it?
You’ve lived for twenty thousand years, but you’ve never dual cultivated with a practitioner of the Dual Cultivation technique, have you? Don’t you want to experience it before you die? If I were to describe it, the feeling is…”
Roar—!!!
Before she could finish her sentence, the tiger’s roar, accompanied by Zu Yuan’s furious roar, interrupted Mei Yun Lu again: “You’re asking for death!!”
The golden spiritual beast stepped on dark clouds, as if causing an earthquake in the sky. Vast spiritual energy surged like a tidal wave towards Mei Yun Lu and Xuan Liu Yan.
But at this moment, Xuan Liu Yan’s head “clicked” as it turned a full circle. Looking at the all-encompassing spiritual sea, a misty spiritual fog like ink appeared in his six snake pupils.
In an instant, it condensed into a nine-headed coiled serpent, which shot out, breaking through the spiritual energy, and bit the neck of Zu Yuan’s golden-feathered giant beast.
The tiger beast’s wail immediately resounded through the sky.
Zu Yuan, holding the Yin-Yang jade, suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood mist. Veins bulged on his neck, and the images of the past two thousand years flashed through his mind.
He gritted his teeth, focused his thoughts, but when he looked up, Mei Yun Lu was already in front of him.
In her pale pink eyes, beneath the brown eyeshadow, spiritual light flickered.
“Zu Yuan, just relax~ I’ll make the choice for you. What’s wrong with ascending to heaven in pleasure?”
Zu Yuan naturally understood that this was Mei Yun Lu’s bewitching technique. He immediately mobilized his spiritual energy to break the illusion and return to his senses, but he found that he couldn’t even gather enough spiritual energy to break this charm.
Seeing Mei Yun Lu’s hand reaching towards his shoulder, he was helpless.
“Although you’re a bit old, you’re still handsome.”
Her black-painted fingernails lightly lifted Zu Yuan’s long beard under his chin, making him grit his teeth in anxiety.
Zu Yuan knew he was likely not coming back this time, but he never expected Mei Yun Lu to use such a despicable trick, attempting to shatter his Dao heart and kill him.
“Ooh ooh ooh, look at those eyes.” Mei Yun Lu squinted and sneered. “You hate me, right? Hating me is even better. I like it rough. My body is very sturdy, so come at me with all your might… Hehehehehe~~~”
A ghostly laugh spread outwards.
Her crimson lips parted slightly, and a puff of pink mist escaped:
“Branches intertwine, flowers and moon are thin~ Follow me, and indulge in pleasure before the Yellow Springs~~”
Zu Yuan gritted his teeth, but his arm couldn’t move an inch. In an instant, he made up his mind and immediately activated his void spirit to self-destruct, but Mei Yun Lu poked him in the chest with her index finger.
“This won’t do, Zu Yuan~ Patriarch Dao~~ Just relax, I’ll make you forget…”
With that, Mei Yun Lu raised her hand and pulled down her robe, revealing her pale, smooth shoulders.
But it was at this moment.
Suddenly, a silver light descended from above, covering Zu Yuan’s face with a layer of snow-white. Zu Yuan’s eyes, previously filled with hatred, suddenly froze, reflecting a full moon as if it were right in front of him.
“Hmm?”
When Mei Yun Lu saw the full moon reflected in Zu Yuan’s eyes, she was stunned for a moment. She immediately turned her head to look upwards. She saw that the full moon, which should have been the size of a jade plate, now seemed to have arrived right before them.
A silver jade plate replaced the entire sky, as if a giant millions of feet tall was looking down on heaven and earth, standing above the three of them.
Jingle bells…
A crisp bell sound came from Mei Yun Lu’s ear. When she turned back to look at Zu Yuan, she found a young girl with long black and white hair, wearing a Xuan Xing Sect immortal robe and sash, had arrived beside her.
Si Xuanji glanced at the two moons on Mei Yun Lu’s chest. Her Yin-Yang pupils showed disdain. She immediately raised her hand in a palm posture, conjuring a golden lightning spear before her small hand.
Whoosh—
Boom—!
Spiritual light exploded, causing Mei Yun Lu to fly backward as a red streak, but she was caught by Xuan Liu Yan, who had swiftly moved behind her.
Si Xuanji looked at Zu Yuan beside her and gently brushed her sleeve.
Zu Yuan finally seemed to regain his breath. From his frozen stance, he bowed his head and let out a long sigh. Then he turned to look at Si Xuanji, a hint of surprise in his eyes.
He had thought that Taishang Wusun of Wunian Sect might have received the news early and come to help, but he hadn’t expected it to be young girl Dan Yue.
Si Xuanji squinted half of her eyes, covered her mouth, and giggled. She raised her hand and rubbed his shoulder with her finger, teasing him in a sarcastic tone, “Old man Zu, how can you be so useless? Cultivators get stronger as they get older, but you get weaker as you get older? You were beaten to this state by that Liu Yan and his rotten butt, and I, this fairy, had to come to your rescue.”
Zu Yuan’s heart inexplicably ignited with anger upon hearing her tone, but remembering what Ye Anping had said earlier, he suddenly felt at ease and burst into laughter:
“Heh heh heh… Hahahaha—”
Si Xuanji frowned slightly. “What are you laughing at?”
“Carefree and joyful!! Hahahaha…”
“?”
Si Xuanji was a little confused, but she didn’t pay it any mind. She turned to look at Mei Yun Lu and Xuan Liu Yan, who was supporting her on the shoulder, in the distance. She tilted her head up and said calmly, without any inflection, “You two have two choices: die, or die.”
Looking at Si Xuanji now, Mei Yun Lu and Xuan Liu Yan both showed disbelief on their faces.
They had never expected Dan Yue to personally come to the Southern Domain to interfere.
After thousands of years of encounters, all immortal and demonic cultivators in this world knew that Dan Yue was afraid of death, selfish, and petty.
Unless someone trespassed into her Western Domain, she would never move half a step out of Xuan Xing Sect, even if the sky fell in the other four domains.
Moreover, Dan Yue had come too quickly this time.
Even if she were to come, she would never reach the Southern Domain so quickly, unless she had been lurking in the Southern Domain all along.
Mei Yun Lu felt a sense of foreboding. She looked up at the moon disk that was almost touching her face, puffed out her chest, and asked, “Si Dan Yue, what wind blew you here? Speaking of which, it’s been over four thousand years since we last met. Have you found a place for your virgin body yet?”
“Heh heh heh…”
Beside her, Zu Yuan inexplicably wanted to add, “Yes, I have,” but decided against it. If he said that, he would surely die at the hands of that old woman Dan Yue. He chuckled twice and quickly suppressed it.
?
Si Xuanji gave Zu Yuan a sidelong glance, thinking whether this old man had taken the wrong medicine. She waved her hand, took out three handbells from her sleeve, formed a sword finger with her left hand, stood in front of her chest, and silently gathered her spiritual energy.
Seeing that Si Xuanji was truly preparing to make a move, Mei Yun Lu and Xuan Liu Yan exchanged a glance.
In an instant, the nine-headed coiled serpent that had bitten Zu Yuan’s golden-feathered giant beast lunged towards Si Xuanji and Zu Yuan. Mei Yun Lu and Xuan Liu Yan turned and transformed into two streams of malevolent light, fleeing rapidly towards the east.
But at this instant, a golden light broke through the clouds and shot upwards from below the crowd towards the sky curtain. Then, it exploded in mid-air, forming a semicircular spiritual shield that covered a hundred li in radius.
Mei Yun Lu and Xuan Liu Yan, who had just escaped to the border, saw this spiritual shield and immediately stopped their escape techniques. They looked towards the spot directly beneath the golden light.
They saw that beneath the hole in the clouds, in the center of the mountains that had been turned into ruins by their battle with Zu Yuan, a shiny bald head sat on the ground, with his palms clasped together. Spiritual energy swirled around him, forming a halo.
The Sect Master of Wunian Sect looked up at the two of them and broadcasted his voice with spiritual energy:
“Both benefactors are deeply sinful. Please surrender yourselves.”
Seeing that not only Si Xuanji but also Taishang Wusun had arrived, Mei Yun Lu’s previously composed demeanor instantly vanished. She turned and looked at Zu Yuan and Si Xuanji with Xuan Liu Yan.
However, after thinking for a moment, she relaxed.
Although it was three against two, if a fight were to break out, it would take at least one to two months to determine a winner.
Before, their combined attack on Zu Yuan had destroyed the land within a hundred li in just one day and one night.
These five Void Realm cultivators fighting for one to two months would be enough to turn half of the Southern Domain into scorched earth.
The yellow sand covering half the territory of the Central Domain was born from this.
In other words, unless Si Xuanji and Zu Yuan were determined to turn the resource-rich Southern Domain into a second Donghuang Sand Plain of the Central Domain, they would never truly engage them in a battle.
As Mei Yun Lu had thought, although Si Xuanji had formed a hand seal, she delayed for a long time. She also understood that if a real fight broke out, the Southern Domain would likely be destroyed.
This was why she had specifically gone to Moon Shadow Sword Sect to ask Yun Tianchong to go to Taibai Sect to protect Ye Anping.
After all, Ye Anping was in the process of Nascent Soul Formation. If he were affected by their spiritual energy without a Deity Transformation cultivator to shield him, he might not be able to withstand it.
Her Yin-Yang eyes narrowed slightly. Si Xuanji hesitated whether to let these two go.
However, at this moment, Zu Yuan stroked his beard, stepped forward, and raised his hand to stop her: “Young girl Dan Yue, the affairs of the Southern Domain do not require your intervention. This is the immortal realm I guard. If there are worms born here, it is only right that I personally eliminate them. You and Taishang can trap the two here.”
Si Xuanji frowned slightly upon hearing this.
The next moment, golden light shot out from Zu Yuan’s chest. He raised his hand and produced a golden horsetail whisk from the void, swinging it to his left arm.
“Young girl Dan Yue, I have figured it out.”
“…”
“Eliminating demons and promoting good is the original intention of us immortal cultivators. But after twenty thousand years on the immortal path, and holding a high position, I find myself becoming more cautious, even hesitant.
When I was young, I was alone, full of passion. If I encountered evil beings, I would fight them to the death. But now, holding a high position and occupying an immortal place, I am afraid of losing.
Si Xuanji slowly lowered her hands, which had been forming a hand seal, and nodded in silence:
“… …”
“Vast and boundless, heaven and earth replace each other eternally, eventually unifying. Where is the limit? All things are born, and all will eventually have their curtain call. We are the planters of trees. My tree has been planted today. The rest depends on you, the younger generation.”
Boom—
Golden spiritual light surrounded him, sweeping across heaven and earth.
Upon seeing this, Mei Yun Lu immediately understood that Zu Yuan was preparing to self-destruct. She gasped in fright, her cup size increasing by two sizes.
If Zu Yuan self-destructed, they would run.
However, the formation of the bald donkey from Wunian Sect was now surrounding them, sealing off the four directions, and Si Xuanji was sealing the sky, giving them no chance to escape.
Mei Yun Lu gritted her teeth and shouted loudly, “Old man Zu!! Are you crazy? You have cultivated the Dao for twenty thousand years, have you thought this through!! If you do this, you will return to your mortal body.”
“Heh…”
“Old man Zu, it would be better if you let us leave the Eastern Domain. Pretend nothing happened. That way, you will at least still be the Sect Master of Taibai Sect!! At least still a Void Realm cultivator, admired by immortal cultivators!! By shattering your roots like this and becoming a mortal, no one will recognize you as Patriarch Dao anymore!!! After twenty thousand years, you end up like this? What are you aiming for?!”
“What I’m aiming for is to help the younger generation eliminate the two thousand-year-old parasites like you!!”
“Damn it!!” Mei Yun Lu couldn’t help but curse, “If you become a mortal, who will recognize you? In just a hundred years, no one will remember you!!”
“I don’t care!!!”
Zu Yuan laughed heartily, clenched his horsetail whisk, and then transformed into a meteor under the moonlight, breaking through ten thousand miles of clouds, causing the entire Southern Domain to turn from night to day.
… …
