Chapter 255: Climb Longhu Mountain, destroy the mountain, destroy the temple, and slay the dragon!
Three poles in the sun.
Nangong Pushe had a charming smile on his face. When he woke up from his sleep, Li Changan was already sitting at the table, ready to set off.
"If you are tired, I will go up the mountain alone."
The most beautiful woman in the world smiled awkwardly. Only now did she realize that even if she was exhausted to death, Li Changan would not be tired at all. The difference in their physical strength was just too big.
"Your Majesty...wait for me."
Nangong Pushe quickly put on his clothes, then limped off the bed and sat opposite Li Changan.
"Nangong, are you okay?"
"Okay, it doesn't affect the killing."
The stubborn Nangong Pushe quickly adapted to her physical discomfort and followed Li Changan downstairs. She unconsciously smiled, looking even more bright and beautiful.
As soon as the two men walked out of the inn, they were surrounded by a group of local young men. One of them was a boy who squeezed in the front, pushing some teenagers behind him.
This clever-looking little boy was wearing a white robe, and his pretty face was filled with enthusiasm.
"Big brother, are you going to Longhu Mountain to worship the gods? The terrain in Longhu Mountain is complicated, and it is dozens of miles from the foot of the mountain to Shangqing Palace. Without a guide who is familiar with the road, you will have to take many detours."
The other young boys expressed the same wish. The inn was occupied by wealthy pilgrims. In order to show their sincerity in worshiping the gods, no matter how powerful they were, they would walk up the mountain by themselves. These people just wanted to earn some money as guides.
Li Changan glanced at the boy in white, then nodded slightly, "It's you, be smart."
The three of them entered the mountain gate of Longhu Mountain, and the little boy never stopped talking. Nangong Pushe, who had never been to Liyang, listened with great interest.
"You know so much."
The little boy said proudly, "Not only do I know a lot, I can do a lot too. When you rest in the mountains later, I will catch and grill fish for you. I just hope that sister will give you some money when you get up the mountain."
Li Changan listened to what the boy said and asked casually, "Okay, you know a lot."
Hearing that Li Changan finally spoke, the little boy said shamelessly, "Brother, I can also make pancakes on my buttocks."
Nangong Pushe didn't understand this jargon and couldn't help but frowned, but he was too embarrassed to ask what it meant.
The pancake on the man's butt refers to the romantic affairs between men, and the little boy means that he is willing to be Li Changan's catamite.
Li Changan is surrounded by beautiful women, and now he has Nangong Pushe as his companion, so why does he need a man to serve him? He pushed the boy away with disgust.
The boy continued to courteously approach Nangong Pushe, "Sister, you have two swords, so your martial arts skills must be very strong. Sister, I want to take you as my master."
Nangong Pushe shook his head and said, "I never accept disciples."
If it were according to Nangong Pushe's previous personality, she would not pay any attention to such nonsense. However, after being inspired by Li Changan, she felt that she had become more active and not so cold anymore.
The little boy was not discouraged, but asked with concern, "Sister, did you catch a cold? Why is your voice so hoarse?"
Nangong Pushe didn't say anything anymore. He screamed so miserably last night that even his voice was hoarse.
As the little boy spoke, he actually stretched out his little hand and tried to pull Nangong Pushe's arm, but Li Changan was quick-witted and kicked him away.
"Oh my, big brother, you really protect your wife. I'm still a child, how could I have any bad intentions..."
As soon as he stood up from the creek, he felt a strong wind blowing on his face, and the surging earth immortal energy had already struck him in the face.
Nangong Pushe held the Winter Thunder Sword in his hand and cut off the river water with one blow, but the little boy dodged to the side very quickly.
"There is indeed a problem."
At first, she just thought that the boy was too diligent and precocious, not like a child of ten years old. The moment Li Changan kicked him out, Nangong Pushe discovered that there was something wrong with the boy's aura.
She decisively drew her sword to test, but the opponent dodged it. With such skills, he was actually a land immortal.
The little boy stood on a stone not far away, with a smile that didn't match his age on his face, "You have good eyesight. You actually figured it out."
Nangong Pushe asked, "Who are you?"
The boy put his hands behind his back, with an arrogant look on his face, as if he had everything under control. "So that you can die knowingly, this old man..."
He was talking while shaking his head, when he felt a chill on his head. A powerful breath poured from the top of his head straight into his whole body, making him feel cold all over and his body suddenly out of control.
His expression suddenly changed, and his previous arrogance and conceit were replaced by an inexplicable fear.
At some point, Li Changan came silently behind him, and with just a slight raise of his hand, this land immortal was left powerless to resist.
The boy was Zhao Xuansu, one of the four great ancestors of Mount Longhu. He was an old monster who was over a hundred years old. Relying on his sect's dragon-like and tiger-like leaping body movements, he was confident that he could escape unscathed.
But what he could not have imagined was that Li Changan's cultivation had far exceeded his expectations and was much stronger than the rumors said.
The bone-chilling cold instantly penetrated his head. The vital energy that Zhao Xuansu had cultivated for hundreds of years was completely suppressed, and he had no power to fight back. The centenarian ancestor could never imagine that death would come so quickly.
While his lips were still frozen, Zhao Xuansu said quickly, "Your Highness, Prince Tang, we can talk it over... Don't..."
"boom!"
Zhao Xuansu's words almost came to an abrupt end. His frozen head had begun to shatter, and his words did not get out far until his frozen lips fell to the ground.
Zhao Xuansu's body was shattered, but his soul was quickly reshaped on the spot. A panicked shadow of an old man appeared on the boulder. His hair and beard were all white, and his face was covered with wrinkles like dry tree bark. He no longer looked like the boy with red lips and white teeth as before.
Zhao Xuansu practiced the secret technique of Longhu Mountain and had the ability to let his soul leave his body. At the moment his body perished, he managed to preserve his soul.
He looked at his body shattered to the ground. Not even a single organ was left. Everything was smashed into pieces. If the gate to heaven could still be opened, his soul could still ascend to the immortal world.
However, the Heavenly Gate had been completely closed by Li Changan. Zhao Xuansu had lost his physical body and could only become a wisp of wild soul. At this time, Zhao Xuansu was filled with shock and anger.
"The King of Tang is so murderous..."
The next moment, Li Changan tapped his forehead with his fingertips, and then a powerful aura of pressure shot out from it, and Zhao Xuansu's soul screamed again.
The Divine Tribulation is specifically designed to deal with the soul. Even the immortals in heaven cannot resist it, let alone a mere Zhao Xuansu.
Nangong Pushe stood not far away, holding the hilt of the knife tighter. She felt that she was still not strong enough. If Li Changan hadn't taken action, she would not have been able to discover the hidden identity of this old man.
This Longhu Mountain ancestor, the ancestor of the Zhao family, was tortured to death by Li Changan. Not only was his body destroyed in an instant, but even his soul could not escape.
Zhao Xuansu's soul let out a series of shrill screams, and the old and weak roars drifted in the woods, which seemed extremely strange and terrifying. To some extent, this was the real sound of a ghost.
The ghost's screams lasted for a full quarter of an hour before Li Changan stopped. He would not tell the truth unless he made the old man suffer a little.
Zhao Xuansu, who was tortured to the point of being almost torn apart, fell powerlessly on a boulder, gasping for breath like a dying old dog.
At this time, he felt that the pain of the physical body's disappearance was just like scratching an itch, and the torture of the soul was really like being unable to live or die.
"Your Highness, the King of Tang, there is a True Dragon Subduing Demon Formation on the mountain. I... I am here to lead you into the formation. The formation was set up by eighty-one second-rank disciples of our sect, with ten Finger Profound Grandmasters in charge, and the four of us land immortals are in charge."
"The Liyang Dynasty is in turmoil. Your Highness and Xu Fengnian are plundering luck everywhere. In order to protect the nine golden lotuses of luck, our sect has already set up this formation. This formation has already blocked Xu Fengnian's Zhenwu Dharmakaya once."
When Li Changan arrived at the small town at the foot of the mountain, he did not think about avoiding the eyes and ears of Longhu Mountain. He also wanted to find out about the preparations that Longhu Mountain had made long ago.
Although he is now the best martial artist in the world and can kill immortals, the immortals in this world are not that great.
Longhu Mountain has hundreds of years of heritage. There are nine golden lotuses of Taoism and a black dragon in the mountain. The fortune of Longhu Mountain and the fortune of Liyang Dynasty have long been entangled together. The defensive formation of the sect cannot be ignored.
Next, in order to avoid being tortured by Li Changan, Zhao Xuansu escaped from the True Dragon Subduing Demon Formation and told Li Changan all the methods to break the formation.
"Please, let me die quickly."
Li Changan would not believe him easily, and after torturing him several times, Zhao Xuansu's spirit's statements were consistent. Finally, the founder of Longhu Mountain died with miserable howls.
Li Changan, who knew the trump card of Mount Longhu, felt more confident going up the mountain. This time he would not only completely destroy Mount Longhu, but also take the nine Taoist golden lotuses of luck. Without Mount Longhu, the Li Yang Dynasty would be completely broken.
Longhu Mountain, Danxia Peak.
Zhao Huangchao, Zhao Xituan and Zhao Danxia were sitting cross-legged at the edge of an abyss.
In the abyss, the sea of clouds is rolling, the atmosphere is majestic, and occasionally the low and majestic sound of dragon roars can be heard, adding a mysterious and solemn color to the first peak of the Taoist ancestral home.
On the mountainside, the Heavenly Masters of the Profound Realm and the Second-Rank Junior Grandmasters were on full alert, waiting for another enemy of the Liyang court.
Just a few days ago, Xu Fengnian, the legendary reincarnation of Zhenwu, released the Zhenwu Dharma image here, but was still repelled by the True Dragon Demon Subduing Formation.
At that time, the ten-zhang Dharma image was standing on the top of the mountain. The golden Dharma image illuminated the sky, and it almost swallowed a golden lotus of luck into its stomach, but it failed in the end.
Zhenwu Emperor, he is the true God in heaven!
That battle gave everyone in Longhu Mountain great confidence that the True Dragon Demon Subduing Formation, which appeared in the world for the first time, could be so powerful.
Beiliang King Xu Fengnian wanted to absorb the luck of Longhu Mountain, which would greatly reduce the luck and strength of Liyang Dynasty. He would be very proactive in negotiations with Liyang Dynasty, and when the two families joined forces to fight against Li Changan, they would be able to get more favorable conditions for cooperation.
Because the ancestors of Longhu Mountain had made preparations in advance, Xu Fengnian's wishful thinking was completely shattered.
Zhao Danxia said with some concern, "Why hasn't Grandmaster Xuan Su led Li Changan into the Death Gate yet? As long as Li Changan enters the Death Gate, his fate will be even worse than Xu Fengnian who forced his way in."
Zhao Xituan said in a deep voice, "The master's technique can rejuvenate people without any flaws, and his secret technique of concealing breath is even more superb. Ordinary people can never see through it. Although Li Changan has great magical powers, he has practiced for only a short time and lacks basic knowledge." Among the three ancestors at the top of the mountain, Zhao Huangchao has the highest cultivation level and is the oldest. He can be regarded as a celestial being on earth who has passed the gate of heaven but has not entered.
He was originally from the Liyang royal family, and his strength was already enough to ascend to heaven. The reason why he was unwilling to ascend was that he only wanted to stay in the human world to seek fortune for the Zhao royal family, to prolong the life of the Liyang Dynasty, and to allow the Zhao Dynasty to continue for thousands of years.
"Li Changan's ability to kill immortals has put him at the true immortal realm. He is much stronger than Xu Fengnian's flashy but unrealistic Zhenwu Dharma. You should not be careless."
Zhao Danxia and Zhao Xituan nodded humbly when they heard the teachings of their ancestors. They were very confident in the True Dragon Subduing Demon Formation.
The core of this formation is the nine golden lotuses of destiny from Mount Longhu. The people who set up the formation include not only celestial beings, earthly immortals, Zhixuan Tianshi, and the second-grade junior grandmaster, but also a black dragon from the abyss.
This black dragon raised by Zhao Huangchao has been influenced by luck for many years, and its luck has long been integrated with the luck of the nine golden lotuses. It is the patron beast of the Golden Lotus of Luck.
The power of this formation lies in the use of Taoist Qi to suppress the formation. Longhu Mountain, Taoism in the world, and the formation live and die together. Once the formation is broken, Longhu Mountain and Taoism will be completely finished.
With such a powerful bonus of luck, this formation is as solid as a rock, with a majestic aura that even the Zhenwu Dharma Image of the heavenly realm cannot break it.
Precisely because the formation defeated Xu Fengnian, the ancestors of Longhu Mountain wanted more and wanted to use this formation to kill Li Changan instead of simply repelling him.
If Li Changan had charged directly up the mountain like Xu Fengnian did and forced his way into the True Dragon Subduing Demon Formation, he could have retreated calmly even if he failed.
Zhao Xuansu personally took action in order to lead Li Changan into the death gate of the formation. After entering the death gate, the qi and cultivation of the person entering the formation will be suppressed. If he fails to break through the formation, he will be suppressed in the abyss forever.
"After Xuan Su regained his youth, even I couldn't tell what was going on. Even if we fail to lure him out, Xuan Su can still return safely using the Dragon Soaring Tiger Leaping Secret Technique to keep the formation safe. You just need to wait patiently."
No matter how smart Zhao Huangchao and his companions were, they could not have predicted that Li Changan knew that there was a patriarch in Longhu Mountain whose skills could restore youth, so he would naturally be on guard early.
Although Zhao Xuansu acted like a child very realistically, talked a lot, was lively, and liked to take advantage of others, Li Changan recognized him almost at first sight.
To take a step back, even if Li Changan could not recognize Zhao Xuansu, he would choose to go directly to the mountain gate and would not be led by the nose by an inexplicable little boy.
Just as Zhao Xuansu finished speaking, a smiling greeting suddenly came from the sea of clouds.
"Who are you waiting for?"
Hearing the young man's voice, the three ancestors' hearts trembled violently at the same time and they opened their eyes instantly!
Being able to hide invisibly in a place like this and yet make a shocking sound, he is definitely not an easy person to deal with!
Immediately afterwards, screams suddenly came from the mountainside, one after another.
Feeling the direction from which the sound came, Zhao Huangchao's face, which did not look old, suddenly twitched violently. The thing he least wanted to see happened.
All these sounds came from the birth gate of the formation.
No matter how powerful the formation is, if there is a door of death that will kill you, there must be a door of life.
Take the True Dragon Subduing Demon Formation for example, if you enter from the Death Gate, your luck will be suppressed and your cultivation will be halved. But if you enter from the Life Gate, you can continuously absorb luck from the Luck Golden Lotus, and your cultivation will increase significantly.
"It's bad, Xuan Su is gone."
At this time, Zhao Huangchao could have guessed that Li Changan not only killed Zhao Xuansu, but also forced him to reveal the whereabouts of his life.
"Change formation and meet the enemy!"
Zhao Huangchao gave an order, and then he and the other two earthly immortals soared into the air. It should still be in time to change the formation and move the life gate.
At this moment, the screams from the mountainside became more and more frequent, and the sound was getting closer and closer to the top of the mountain.
Suddenly, there was a rapid sound of breaking through the air, and a figure in green emerged from the sea of clouds.
Li Changan held a Taoist priest at the Zhixuan realm in each hand, with a mocking smile on his face as he looked at the scenery at the top of Danxia Peak.
The two Heavenly Masters of Longhu Mountain in his hands had instantly turned into ice sculptures and were casually thrown into the Qianlong Abyss by Li Changan.
Just when the three ancestors had not reacted, Li Changan stepped on the sea of clouds and moved forward a step seemingly casually.
The youngest earth immortal, Zhao Danxia, held the Longhu Mountain formation transformation technique in his hand and a tablet magic weapon. Just as he saw Li Changan's figure clearly, the other party was already in front of him.
“Li, Li…”
Zhao Huangchao's heart darkened. He could feel that the luck of the nine golden lotuses was entering Li Changan's body, making him even stronger on top of his already powerful strength.
puff!
Li Changan clenched his sword finger, and a sword intent flew out easily and comfortably, gently cutting a huge crack in the vast sea of clouds.
Zhao Danxia, the earth immortal of Longhu Mountain, was also cut in half by this sword intent. Zhao Danxia did not practice the secret technique like Zhao Xuansu, so his physical body died.
The two pieces of Zhao Danxia's body, covered in blood, fell into the abyss of the sea of clouds. The sound of the body falling to the ground could not be heard for a long time.
"Stop at thirteen, stop at fourteen..."
On the mountainside, every time Nangong Pushe swung his sword, a second-rank junior master would be killed.
Li Changan killed half of the people on the mountainside and left the rest to her. After just a few killings, Nangong Pushe found that his skills had indeed improved greatly, and it would not take him ten or twenty years to break through the nineteenth level.
These second-rank junior masters continued to rush towards Nangong Pushe from both sides, thinking that this weak woman would be much easier to deal with than Li Changan.
The result shocked them greatly. This devilishly beautiful woman was actually a land immortal. Her swordsmanship was uncanny. Even a first-class grandmaster could not withstand a single blow from Nangong Pushe.
Six stops kill the second level, nine stops kill the mysterious, and twelve stops kill the celestial phenomena.
After sixteen stops, even the Buddha's great Vajra was broken, and the body of the celestial being was as blank as paper!
Nangong Pushe was a little disappointed. After only using fourteen stops, there was no opponent left on the mountainside.
On the top of the mountain, Zhao Huangchao saw Zhao Danxia die, and immediately took out a jade tablet, muttering something. As he moved, the sea of clouds in the abyss seemed to boil, the air waves rose several feet, and a strong wind blew between heaven and earth!
The sea of clouds froze into ice, and dozens of ice blades shot Zhao Xituan, who was not far away, into a hole. He had just released several flying swords to attack Li Changan, but they were easily frozen by Li Changan.
Zhao Danxia and Zhao Xituan died in an instant, leaving Zhao Huangchao to retreat far away.
"Li Changan, what do you want to do?"
Li Changan also retreated from the mouth of the abyss, waiting for the black dragon to rush out. He put his hands behind his back, stepped on the sea of clouds, and faced Zhao Huangchao from a distance.
"Destroy mountains, destroy temples, and slay dragons."
As a loud roar came from the depths of the abyss, Zhao Huangchao's face was as gloomy as ice, and he said in a cold voice, "What a big tone."
Immediately afterwards, a huge black figure suddenly flew out from the hurricane in the sea of clouds. It turned out to be a black dragon that was a hundred feet long and several feet thick!
A black dragon emerged from the sea of clouds, with most of its body standing upright in the air. Its body was covered with shiny black scales, and its sharp claws shone with a dark luster. Its pair of yellow vertical eyes, as tall as Li Changan's, stared at Li Changan not far away.
"Roar!"
Li Changan took out an ancient long sword from the storage space slowly. The long sword emitted a faint cold light, which made the black dragon's giant eyes move involuntarily.
"Black Dragon, you are the first one who forced me to use weapons."
Li Changan never used weapons against the enemies, even when he wanted to break armor and attack the enemy, he used sword energy. But this black dragon was different, with natural scales and the luck of golden lotus protecting its body, it would be impossible to win without weapons.
Zhao Huangchao stared at the long sword in Li Changan's hand and couldn't help feeling panicked. He was familiar with this sword. Almost every Taoist practitioner had seen the pattern of this sword in Taoist scriptures.
Lu Zu Sword!
When Li Changan killed Hong Xixiang, he took the sword.
The black dragon felt the threat from the sword, so it lowered its head and dived, with its huge mouth several feet wide rushing towards Li Changan.
Although this black dragon is huge, it is very flexible and its control over its body is no different from that of a small loach a few inches long.
Flexible, sleek, and fast.
On the top of the peak, mountain peaks were cut off by the black dragon's tail. The sea of clouds was completely dispersed due to the dragon's rapid movement. On the Danxia Peak, there was only one man and one dragon trembling rapidly.
Li Changan's Ascension Steps were even more elusive. Although the dragon was agile, it just couldn't catch Li Changan. It was about to touch the edge of his clothes, but Li Changan quickly disappeared.
"You little evil creature, you deserve to die!"
The dragon only heard a roar behind his head, and then felt a chill on the back of his neck. Then he saw his huge body twisting wildly and falling towards the depths of the abyss.
One end of the body was cut off by some sharp weapon, the scarlet blood was still spurting, and the internal organs and muscles were still trembling with regular breathing, as if he had not accepted his own death.
"Roar!"
A shrill roar resounded throughout the entire Longhu Mountain, and even the devout believers in the small town at the foot of the mountain could hear it clearly.
Li Changan grabbed one of the horns on the top of the black dragon's head and easily lifted the dragon's head, which was more than ten times larger than his body, in his hand.
Zhao Huangchao watched as Li Changan's sword cut off the dragon's head, and the black dragon that he had raised for hundreds of years was completely separated from its head and body. He was shocked and his legs became weak and he collapsed on the huge rock at the edge of the abyss.
It’s over, Longhu Mountain is over.
Li Chang held the huge dragon head and rushed a hundred feet into the air. Then he threw the bloody black dragon head in his hand and smashed it onto nine golden lotuses emitting golden light in the air.
"boom!"
The entire Longhu Mountain shook violently, the golden lotus of luck dissipated, and all the majestic luck was absorbed by Li Changan.
Thousands of Taoists in Longhu Mountain heard the tough declaration coming from Danxia Peak.
"From today on, there will be no more Longhu Mountain in the world."
(End of this chapter)