Zhang San, please behave yourself!
Chapter 230 - 221: Great Wish Sword!

Chapter 230: Chapter 221: Great Wish Sword!

At that moment, the Maoshan Sect Leader was commanding everyone to heal the injured disciples while keeping an eye on the battle above Maoshan.

An Elder next to him, with two protrusions on his chin that made it look somewhat like a butt, glanced outside and couldn’t help but exclaim, "He truly was the disciple whom all of Taoism wanted to fight for back then. What a pity—if Lv Chunyang had joined our Maoshan, such disasters wouldn’t have befallen us today! Alas—"

The Maoshan Sect Leader watched as outside, Lv Chunyang, with five hundred and twelve strands of Sword Qi, astonishingly blasted one of Jiang Ziwen’s Divine Aspect’s arms to smithereens and, while shocked, he couldn’t help but sigh.

"But you must also know that only that person could have trained Lv Chunyang to such a level. If Lv Chunyang were with our Maoshan, I’m afraid the Maoshan Sect would truly be no more today."

Although the Elder was quite displeased, he had to admit that what the Maoshan Sect primarily cultivated were Techniques and Runes targeting spirits.

The ones attacking today were even stronger ghosts from the Ghost Domain. If they breached Maoshan, Taoism still had many methods to deal with ghosts, but without the substantial help from Maoshan, the combat power of the mortal world against these ghosts who cultivated the Path of Life and Death would drop at least by half.

"However, Lv Chunyang has been stuck in the Purple Mansion Realm for these years, while Jiang Ziwen is in the Divine Aspect Realm. The gap between these stages is like the difference between heaven and earth. Does Lv Chunyang stand a chance?"

The Sect Leader sighed and answered the Elder, "I don’t know. But the surroundings of Maoshan are sealed by the Ghost Domain’s formation. Sending out a single Distress Talisman was already the limit for the entire Maoshan Sect."

At that moment, Jiang Ziwen, who was repairing his own Divine Aspect, watched Lv Chunyang in mid-air, whose Sword Qi never ceased.

"Lv Chunyang, you are indeed strong, but I am of the Divine Aspect Realm and you are merely at the peak of the Purple Mansion Realm. If you continue to deplete yourself against me, it will only lead to those Taoists atop Maoshan being slowly killed by my subordinates. You can’t save the Maoshan Sect."

Saying this, Jiang Ziwen controlled his Divine Aspect and actually stopped his assault.

Lv Chunyang furrowed his brow and asked, "Why do you stop?"

Jiang Ziwen smiled and countered, "Aren’t you curious as to why I have made a move against the Maoshan Sect?"

Lv Chunyang shook his head and said, "I’m only here to save people, your motives don’t concern me."

Jiang Ziwen laughed and said, "Oddball, I like you. You are not my match, just give up."

Lv Chunyang knew too that with his Light Sword Gang, he couldn’t shatter the opponent’s Divine Aspect.

"Not your match? You’re mistaken, in this world, no one is a match for me, Lv Chunyang."

As he spoke, Lv Chunyang waved his hand and dispersed the longsword condensed from Runes in his hand, taking out his treasured sword and pointing it towards the sky.

In an instant, golden light surged above the gloomy clouds, tearing apart the darkness that filled the sky.

Maoshan, which had been shrouded by dark clouds as if it were a purgatory in the mortal world, welcomed the first beam of light of the day.

Jiang Ziwen, standing on the ground, looked up at Lv Chunyang in mid-air and couldn’t help but his expression drastically changed.

"In this world, someone is actually cultivating the Great Wish Sword and has even cultivated it to the last stage of the Purple Mansion Realm, the Correct Cultivating of Divine Residence?! Has he gone mad?!"

At this moment, Jiang Ziwen really wanted to curse: Does your Taoism have nothing else to learn? Out of everything, you had to learn this!

Now, with Lv Chunyang’s sword connecting to the heavens, it seemed as though countless strands of golden light were infusing into his sword.

"I’ve always wanted to find a successor. Do you have any recommendations?"

Jiang Ziwen knew that the Great Wish Sword was incredibly difficult to cultivate, and once cultivated, one could connect with the Heaven and Earth Laws of this world, borrow the power of Heaven and Earth, and annihilate anything!

This annihilation wasn’t just a description, it was absolute, able to literally annihilate anything.

Even, theoretically, someone in the Primordial Qi Realm could slay someone in the Divine Aspect Realm!

As long as the cultivator can repay the "debt" to the Heaven and Earth Laws later, which is the so-called fulfilling of vows.

However, low-level cultivators borrowing the power to slay stronger beings from Heaven and Earth may not be able to repay it, therefore not everyone who cultivates the Great Wish Sword can casually borrow power from outside.

Yet this Lv Chunyang, who has cultivated to the final step of the Purple Mansion Realm’s Correct Cultivating of Divine Residence, is only a hair’s breadth away from his own power level. If he now uses the Great Wish Sword, his own death is certain!

"If you strike with this sword, you might never be able to fulfill your vow until death, so how will you have time to find a successor?"

Lv Chunyang nodded slightly and said, "It doesn’t matter, I have plenty of time. I was just bored and had nothing to do when I began cultivating the Great Wish Sword, letting the forces of this world keep me busy."

Jiang Ziwen continued, "But what if your sword strike doesn’t kill me?"

Lv Chunyang shook his head and said sternly, "Beneath the Great Wish Sword, no one survives, no soul remains unscathed. This is the sword of the Heavenly Dao, unless you are a Red Dust Immortal who holds sway over it!"

Jiang Ziwen laughed.

"Alright, today I will retreat out of respect for the inheritance of your Great Wish Sword."

Jiang Ziwen’s ambition to scheme against the Realm of the Living was because he was not yet the Red Dust Immortal who oversees the Path of Life and Death.

He couldn’t resist this sword strike.

"Wait."

Lv Chunyang in mid-air called out, "Resurrect those who have died, and I’ll allow you to leave."

Jiang Ziwen sneered, saying, "Indeed, I have the power to resurrect the dead, but you wouldn’t think such power to disrupt the order of life and death comes without any cost, would you? Today, out of three thousand disciples of the Maoshan Sect, most have died in battle, many even annihilated to the core. Not many can be resurrected."

Lv Chunyang said nothing and continued preparing the Great Wish Sword.

Jiang Ziwen had never before encountered someone so recklessly bold and yet truly capable of carrying it out.

I just feel that this person acts completely unreasonably.

"Okay, let the Maoshan Sect gather all the complete corpses. Those whose souls have scattered naturally cannot be resurrected. As for the rest, it depends on their fate how many can be brought back to life,"

Lv Chunyang looked towards the top of the Maoshan Sect’s mountain.

The evil ghosts that had previously besieged the mountain’s summit had already left one after another, and the Maoshan Sect Leader immediately ordered his disciples to gather all the corpses on Mount Maoshan.

However, the battle was so brutal that many of the disciples’ bodies were either blown to pieces or devoured by the evil ghosts.

In the end, the complete corpses gathered together numbered less than two hundred.

And in this battle, nearly two thousand disciples had died on Mount Maoshan.

Jiang Ziwen, looking at Lv Chunyang still holding the Great Wish Sword in mid-air, could sense that the sword had completely locked onto him.

Jiang Ziwen was sure that even if he tore through space to escape now, the sword would still catch up.

With no other choice, Jiang Ziwen began to use techniques to summon back the souls of the dead Taoists and then sealed their souls back into their bodies using the Path of Life and Death’s secret technique.

"Many souls have been scattered, only seventy-two are intact. They can be resurrected right away."

Having said that, Jiang Ziwen, along with the Ghost King Wutong and other various evil ghosts, prepared to leave.

Before leaving, Jiang Ziwen turned to look back at Lv Chunyang, who was still in mid-air.

"Let’s go."

Back in the Ghost Domain, Jiang Ziwen cursed loudly, "The All Things Path is full of trash! A Great Wish Sword, not destroyed after so many years! They even let the inheritor of the Great Wish Sword cultivate such a strong successor! Worthless! The entire All Things Path is worthless!"

The Ghost King Wutong beside him shrank his neck, trying to make his hopping leg make as little noise as possible, to avoid drawing the ire onto himself.

Seeing Jiang Ziwen leave with all the evil ghosts, Lv Chunyang finally put away the Great Wish Sword.

This battle had been a revelation for Lv Chunyang.

In all these years, he had never seen an opponent that required him to fulfill a vow of five hundred years!

He, a dignified cultivator of the Purple Mansion Realm, Correct Cultivating of Divine Residence, had to take five hundred years to fulfill a vow. Just how strong was his opponent!

At this time, the seventy-two disciples of the Maoshan Sect were resurrected one after another.

But then it was discovered that they weren’t truly raised from the dead, but had become living dead.

Lv Chunyang realized that perhaps, Jiang Ziwen had still played some tricks.

He certainly had the means to resurrect the dead, but he surely didn’t use them. Instead, he chose another method to turn these people into the living dead.

The Sect Leader took a look at the seventy-two Maoshan Sect disciples.

For many years, the Maoshan Sect had been capturing evil ghosts and promoting justice.

They had frequently hunted the living dead, too.

But like today, having their own disciples become the living dead was a first.

After some thought, the Maoshan Sect Leader approached Lv Chunyang, who was slowly descending, and gave a formal bow: "Thank you, Taoist Ancestor Lv, for rescuing the Maoshan Sect. If Taoist Ancestor Lv had not made a move, I’m afraid the Maoshan Sect would have been extinguished under my leadership."

Lv Chunyang thought for a moment, feeling he should console the other according to what his master had taught him, putting himself in the Sect Leader’s shoes.

"Sect Leader, you’re thinking too much. If Jiang Ziwen had killed you first, with other Maoshan Sect disciples still around, it wouldn’t be considered the end of the Maoshan Sect under your leadership."

The Sect Leader’s mouth twitched, and he longed to go back and review the Maoshan ancestral teachings to see if there was a rule against cursing people.

"Taoist Ancestor Lv, my Maoshan Sect has always stood in opposition to ghosts, but now there are seventy-two living dead disciples. This is really..."

Lv Chunyang didn’t react for a moment and, looking at the seventy-two disciples who appeared no different from normal people, asked, "So you can’t bring yourselves to do it and want me to kill them?"

The Maoshan Sect Leader was taken aback, then smilingly said, "It’s not quite right to kill them right after resurrection. Maybe Taoist Ancestor Lv could make some arrangements..."

Now understanding, Lv Chunyang realized that these people were inconvenient to keep in the Maoshan Sect and needed him to arrange a place for them. He could have just said so earlier.

"Our Thousand Buddha Mountain is also inconvenient. If they all go there, those monks will come up the mountain every day to beseech me and my master with the wooden fish. Here’s an idea, I have a friend you can go to."

The seventy-two living dead disciples were pleased to hear this.

The Maoshan Sect Leader was puzzled, though. Could someone as unfeeling as Taoist Ancestor Lv actually have friends?

"My friend is at the Town Martial Office on Chuan-Yu Road, named Zhang San. You go to him and let him figure out how to take you in. He is very clever and managed to go from Refining Qi into the Body to the Five Emperors’ Proper Position in just a few days. Go to him, and he’ll surely have a way,"

Having said this, Lv Chunyang put himself in the shoes of the seventy-two and thought.

"It’s a bit far from here to Chuan-Yu Road, and along the way, if you encounter other Taoists trying to exorcise you, that won’t be good. Let me take you there."

As he spoke, Lv Chunyang once again condensed a Rune Longsword from the Golden Light Divine Incantation Script and tore a rift in space, letting the seventy-two living dead pass through before following them himself.

"Here should be the boundary of Fengdu County in Lingzhou on Chuan-Yu Road. This place is said to be entwined with the Underworld’s aura. You can get used to your own bodies here first, then find out how to locate Town Martial Office’s Zhang San. I’ll head back now. The sun hasn’t set for the day yet."