Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 660 - 543: The key to reversal (Seeking monthly ticket) _1

Chapter 660: Chapter 543: The key to reversal (Seeking monthly ticket) _1

"Liuli Pure Land?" Ao Shuying looked at the clear sky of Liuli and the Buddha statue in the sky, lost in thought: "What does this Saintess White Lotus intend to do?"

Xue Yunrou calmly picked a flower of manjusaka from the nearby tree branches.

Then this beautiful flower suddenly turned into a dark brown color, as if dried blood.

On the petals, there appeared to be phantom faces.

When Li Xuan opened the Tao-protecting Eyes, he found that this ’Liuli world’, was actually a filthy blood sea.

Those so-called immortal trees, were nothing more than bones; the so-called ’Pure Land’, was all made up of living ’flesh’.

They covered the ground, like a carpet of flesh.

This flesh came with a strong pulse, inside were large blood vessels, transporting countless fresh blood in all directions.

Luo Yan was taken aback: "I remember the Mother White Lotus saying something about establishing a Buddha’s country on earth?"

Before her voice fell, there came a cold and majestic voice: "Indeed, it’s the advent of the Buddhist Kingdom, the Pure Land on Earth! It will transform this void into the Miaoshan Wuji Vacuum World."

Everyone was startled and turned to look behind.

There stood the Goddess White Lotus, only ten feet away.

She was standing on a white lotus, holding a flower in one hand, and looking at them with a smile.

Ao Shuying reacted instantly, using her powerful fist to shake the void and attack the Goddess White Lotus.

The other individuals also responded quickly, especially Li Xuan and Luo Yan. They both turned into golden and purple flashes of light.

But in the next moment, they were bewildered to find that the distance between them and the Goddess White Lotus was growing further and further, even becoming unreachable.

"Be careful! It’s the Cosmic Swap Technique. It’s shifting the position with the power of stars." Xue Yunrou noticed that the void that they were in was being split and combined.

This so-called ’Mingtu’ that had turned into the Buddhist Kingdom looked like a huge puzzle to her.

This puzzle was composed of numerous ’grid squares’, which were now splitting and then recombining in an unknown way.

"You call it Cosmic Swap in Taoism. I call it ’None-born Miaoshan Vacuum Enchantment’."

The Goddess White Lotus looked at them with compassionate eyes: "Your timing is perfect. The birth of this Buddhist country just needs your spiritual flesh and blood as nourishment. This will make it more powerful and purer."

At that time, the giant Buddha statue in the sky also opened its eyes and looked at Li Xuan.

Li Xuan was using the Shi of the sword to attack the surrounding void Buddha Power.

He almost broke this void and destroyed the so-called ’Vacuum Enchantment’.

But when the Buddha statue stared at Li Xuan, he felt as if his mind was hammered.

- That was the will of countless believers in White Lotus, and even countless grudge ghosts, kneaded together by the Buddha Mother White Lotus.

They turned into cones, or even spears, and pierced his soul deeply, penetrating directly to the core of his Divine Consciousness.

This left Li Xuan unable to move for a long time, he could only use the ’core of Hao Qi’, the character of ’essence’ revealing the mystery of the world in his Primordial Spirit, to maintain the integrity of his Primordial Spirit, then forcefully mobilize the Divine Power of his identity as the ’Immortal Master Shuide’ to fight against it.

At this time, he didn’t care that the Divine Power would corrupt the Divine Consciousness, he could only use the will of all beings to counter the will of all beings.

Just as Li Xuan showed pain and his body stiffened on the spot, the figure of Budhaa Mother White Lotus has gradually approached Li Xuan.

She held a Buddha seal in her hand, reached out with a smile, and was about to touch Li Xuan’s forehead.

"Why do you struggle? Today you return to the void, enjoy the bliss. It should be a great joy, great achievement——"

The hand of the Goddess White Lotus was only inches away from Li Xuan’s forehead. But at this moment, a white light engulfed in a gloomy flame flew over, forcibly taking Li Xuan’s body away.

The Buddha Mother’s hand was empty, she could not help but look astonished at the silver-white light.

She found that within that light was a spiritual beast with six ears, looking like a lion cub.

The Buddha Mother White Lotus’s eyes flickered and then she sneered: "Well deserved of Duke Wen Zhonglie, I under-estimated you. You still have the energy to mind others’ business when you’re at this step. But how long can you hold up like this? Today’s entrants will eventually merge with my Wuji Vacuum Buddhist Kingdom."

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After an unknown period, Li Xuan finally suppressed and refined the alien thoughts in his Primordial Spirit, and woke up again.

He found himself leaning against a wall, sitting in a large temple.

The interior of this temple was decorated with dragons and phoenixes, inlaid with gold and silver, which should have been resplendent. But it was filled with various colors of murky poisonous haze, which looked rather gloomy and terrible.

"Did you wake up, Li Xuan?"

Just as Li Xuan opened his Tao-protecting Eyes and looked around, the spiritual beast in front of him with six ears, looking like a lion cub, with white fur, also opened its eyes.

It had a female voice, but the speech was very tired: "Leave quickly, or it will be too late. You can exit through the mirror next to you, it will take you directly into the Humane Realm. There may be people interfering, but Duke Wen Zhonglie and I will help you."

Li Xuan looked at it with strange expressions in his eyes: "Are you the Six-Eared General? Where is Duke Wen Zhonglie? Why isn’t he here? And, how long have I been unconscious?"

This so-called ’Six-Eared General’ was a spiritual beast raised by Duke Wen Zhonglie, similar to the title of Tingtian Ao as ’General Tingtian’.

He remembered that this spiritual beast’s real name was supposed to be ’Shi Liuru’. In the Duchenghuang Temple of Beijing, there was also a statue of it.

Moreover, judging by the scale and decoration of this hall, it should be the core of Beijing’s underworld — the resting palace of Zhonglie Duke Wen.

"You have been unconscious for nearly four days." Shi Liuru looked forlornly worn out, "Due to my lord’s severe poisoning, he dared not to reside within the main hall for fear of spreading the poison. He is now beyond the city wall, fighting against a demon of great origin."

After Shi Liuru finished speaking, he urged Li Xuan to leave, "What are you still doing here? Don’t you know that the longer you stay here, the more divine power my lord must divert to assist you?

Do not worry about your friends. They are trapped within Saintess White Lotus’ ’None-born Miaoshan Vacuum Enchantment’. However, due to the protection of my lord’s divine power, they are safe for now. When the opportunity arises, my lord will send them away."

Li Xuan’s thoughts were heavy, thinking how he could have passed out for so long?

But how could he possibly leave just like that?

Li Xuan looked at Shi Liuru with utmost seriousness, "Is Duke Zhonglie already incapable of suppressing the poison fire? And all those deceased in the humane realm were affected by him?"

Shi Liuru stomped his feet in anger, "No way! My lord would rather his soul flies away and scatters than harm his believers. This was the plot of someone who disguised himself as the temple’s monk a month ago and spread the poison fire within the temple."

There was also an accomplice from the Liudao Division who covered up the evidence. Li Xuan, after you leave, you must help my lord to clear his name."

Li Xuan was immediately relieved, but he then looked at a huge soul shadow in the center of the hall.

——That was also the shape of Chenghuang, but it was dressed in the robes of the Tang Dynasty, wearing a crown with an indiscernible face and a majestic aura.

However, this soul shadow was very illusive and indefinite, much different from the Duchenghuang Li Xuan had seen in Nanjing before.

Li Xuan pointed at it, "And who is that?"

Shi Liuru was impatient, thinking why was he dragging it out?

He reluctantly composed himself and explained, "That is the Chenghuang consecrated by the Xian Emperor of Tang during the Han and Tang Dynasties in ’Youzhou’. However, due to the ravages of time and the wars brought upon Youzhou causing the city to relocate repeatedly,"

this left his spirit, the Shenpo, to disperse into the world long ago. But recently, that demon has gathered the former ’Chenghuang of Youzhou’ and stuffed it in here while my lord has been weakened by the poison fire and unable to regain his position.

He is the Chenghuang of Youzhou, and Youzhou is the ancient name of north Zhili. Beijing is also within the jurisdiction of Youzhou. Therefore, that demon was able to control part of the underworld through the ’Chenghuang of Youzhou’."

Shi Liuru gritted his teeth, "If it wasn’t for the Chenghuang of Youzhou, the Goddess White Lotus would never have been able to infiltrate her ’Miaoshan Wuji Vacuum World’ into this space, overlaying the underworld."

Li Xuan, are you going to leave or not? The Court is about to strip my lord of his title of Duchenghuang. The cabinet has already prepared the dismissal notice, just waiting for the regent to seal the decree. If you don’t leave now, you won’t be able to even if you want to."

Li Xuan frowned, walked up to the ’Chenghuang of Youzhou’, and looked up at this huge soul shadow.

At this moment, Lv Qiluo also appeared behind him, heaving a faint sigh, "Let’s go, Li Xuan. We have no hope for this round."

She had plotted and strategized alongside Zhonglie Duke Wen for a long time, but they still lost by a small margin.

Obviously, Li Xuan’s Haoqi was just half a step away from helping Zhonglie Duke Wen to eradicate the poison fire and resolve the danger.

Li Xuan’s face seemed calm, but his body was brimming with a surge of purple Haoqi.

He continued to look at the ’Chenghuang of Youzhou’, "As far as I know, the ’Chenghuang of Youzhou’ who was consecrated by the Xian Emperor of Tang was Zhang Xun, right?"

Zhang Xun was a literary official during the Xuan Emperor of Tang’s reign. During the Anshi Rebellion, Zhang Xun, as a county magistrate, raised troops and defended Suiyang for nearly a year under conditions of no food or reinforcements. He fought against the Fake Yan’s army of 300,000 on more than 400 occasions, causing heavy losses to the rebel army.

In the end, Zhang Xun was captured after a defeat, and the rebels executed him by dismemberment.

Late Su Emperor of Tang posthumously appointed Zhang Xun as the great military commissioner of Yangzhou, Duke of the State of Deng, and then during the Xian Emperor of Tang’s reign, he was consecrated as the Chenghuang of Youzhou.

Li Xuan frowned slightly, "The key for Saintess White Lotus to cover the underworld with ’Miaoshan Wuji Vacuum World’ is this one, right?

But I’m curious. Zhang Wenchong is known for his resolute and indomitable character. His Haoqi when he was alive, was almost as pure as Zhonglie’s. How then could he be used by the demon king you mentioned and Saintess White Lotus?"

The issue is, these are just a few remnants of his soul that remain in the world. His divine consciousness is obscured, and he is incapable of controlling himself."

Lv Qiluo smiled bitterly and shook her head, "The cultivation level of Zhang Wenchong in his lifetime was slightly inferior to that of Zhonglie Duke Wen after all. Zhonglie Duke Wen could gather his spirit and retain his form with just a ’Song of Righteousness’, even without a declaration from The Court, he can exist in the world for a long time. But Zhang Wenchong couldn’t do that. Unless someone could help him..."

Lv Qiluo paused and a glimmer of hope shone in her eyes.

She thought perhaps there was still hope. As long as the Chenghuang of Youzhou could regain even a bit of consciousness, he would instinctively clash with Saintess White Lotus.

While this alone might not be enough to vanquish the enemy, it would definitely help them recover from the current predicament.

Albeit, Li Xuan’s Haoqi cultivation was enough, but they still required one or two good poems or essays as Chenghuang of Youzhou’s soul core and preferably related to Zhang Wenchong’s life experiences.

Only then could the soul of Zhang Wenchong be gathered and reassembled. But can Li Xuan do it?

"Li Xuan, how long are you going to delay?" Shi Liuru at their side was growing increasingly impatient. "If you don’t leave now, I’ll return to my lord’s side."

However, next, he saw Li Xuan extending his hand.

"Six-Eared General, might there be a pen available? I need the best paper and ink, something that can last for eternity, the very best."

Shi Liuru thought that they do have paper and ink. His lord has quite a collection.

But at such a time, what in the world does Li Xuan want with these things?

However, next, Li Xuan suddenly raised his voice, eyes wide open, "Go get them for me right now! I think I have a solution. We haven’t lost yet."

Shi Liuru was stunned. He took a deep look at Li Xuan, and then ran to fetch the items without any hesitation.