Chapter 190: The Great Tribulation Alliance

Chapter 190: The Great Tribulation Alliance

Chapter 190: The Great Tribulation Alliance
The footsteps gradually approached. When they were three or four steps away from him, Li Wuxiang suddenly sat up, grabbed the bronze mirror at his waist and shouted, "Who is it?!"

The heavy sword was stuck into the ground with a "thu" sound. The man called "Senior Brother Mou" stretched out his arm to stop the people behind him and said in a deep voice: "Don't panic, fellow Daoist. We are also disciples of the Thirty-Six Sects. Fellow Daoist, are you from the Tianxin Sect?"

Li Wuxiang remained silent, just staring at them holding the bronze mirror.

Senior Brother Mou softened his expression and said, "My name is Mou Tieshan, and I am from the Juque Sect."

He pointed to the short and strong man wielding a hammer beside him and said, "This is Tang Qilang, from the Tiangong Sect, which is only one character different from your Tianxin Sect."

He tilted his head towards the one leaning on the gun: "This is Lu Huaiyuan, from Qianji Sect. The one behind him is Liu Hanzhang, from Qingxiao Sect. These two sisters are from Suhua Sect, one is Kong Jingci, and the other is Kong Jingyu."

He retracted his gaze and looked at Li Wuxiang: "We met many disciples of your Tianxin Sect on the road. We just buried one... Don't think too much, fellow Daoist. He was already dead when we met him. He must have been killed by a fellow disciple of your Tianxin Sect who drifted down the mountain."

Li Wuxiang was silent for a moment, then whispered, "Unfortunate for our sect."

Senior Brother Mou smiled and said, "Daoyou, if we wanted to harm you, we wouldn't have said so much. What happened to your Tianxin Sect? I heard from your people that you were picked by the Sword Sect?"

Li Wuxiang shook his head: "Ah, it's a long story. Do you... have anything to eat or drink?"

"Yes." Mu Tieshan picked up the heavy sword, stuck it horizontally into the sword slot behind him with a click, and pointed at the crack in the stone. "Since it's a long story, let's sit down and talk slowly, okay?"

Li Wuxiang stared at them again and moved aside: "Okay."

The six people walked to the bottom of the rock crevice and sat down two steps away from Li Wuxiang. Liu Hanzhang, who was wearing a rapier, took off a bundle from his body, took out two cakes and a bag of water from it, threw them in front of Li Wuxiang, and smiled at him: "Brother, eat and drink something."

Li Wuxiang immediately reached out to grab the cake and water bag, and was about to eat them, but stopped.

Mou Tieshan frowned slightly, and Lu Huaiyuan, who was wielding a spear, snorted, grabbed a cake from his bag, tore off a corner and put it into his mouth, squinting at him: "Don't be afraid, we won't hurt you, and we won't be like you people from the Tianxin Sect, wandering down the mountain and fighting each other for a little gold and silver."

After he said this, he turned his face away and sneered again: "Tianxin Sect."

Li Wuxiang's luck was stimulated, causing his face to slightly turn red, but he said nothing. He immediately drank a big gulp of water and began to eat voraciously again.

The six people watched him eat and drink. When he finished the two cakes, the sky gradually darkened - the bright moon in the sky was covered by thick clouds, and the air became humid. After a while, a burst of thunder rolled down, and raindrops fell sparsely.

At this time, Mu Tieshan spoke again: "What's your name, fellow Daoist?"

"I... Li Jing."

"Okay, Senior Brother Li, what happened on Jade Wheel Mountain? We heard from your people on the way that the swordsmen attacked Jade Wheel Mountain because you refused to help - are they so overbearing?"

Li Wuxiang sighed: "Alas, it's not that the swordsman is overbearing, but it's our leader's own fault."

The six people were stunned and looked at each other. Mu Tieshan frowned and said, "What do you mean?"

Li Wuxiang smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I shouldn't say anything bad about the sect leader. After all, death is the greatest thing. But at this point... the six of you should have heard that something happened and came here to see what happened, right? Then there is nothing I can't say - our sect leader, Zhou Ruixin, was about to join the True Form Sect."

"Deserted to the True Form Sect?" Mu Tieshan frowned and thought for a while, then looked at the people around him, "The teachers said that the Tianxin Sect might do this... After all, it is the closest to the True Form Sect. But did the people of the Sword Sect destroy the Tianxin Sect just for this?"

Li Wuxiang sighed, "Not really. It's because Sect Master Zhou captured a few swordsmen as a token of his loyalty and sent them to his door. They were still Yuanying."

After he said this, he looked closely at the expressions of these people.

The six people were stunned again. This should mean that in their minds, "catching the swordsman first" is a very serious and unusual thing. This at least shows that even in the current situation, the reputation of the Sword Sect is still there, and the people of the Thirty-Six Sects still have to be wary.

As expected, Mu Tieshan shook his head: "Sect Master Zhou was really... a little confused. It turned out that he was the first to break the rules, no wonder."

"Rules" - this word made Li Wuxiang happy. Even now, they were still talking about "rules", which showed that even if the war broke out, the vast majority of the thirty-six sects still took this word very seriously.

The other five people seemed to have no objection to this, only Lu Huaiyuan sneered again: "I think so, it's really a good way to die. The situation forced them to turn to the True Form Sect, I look down on it, maybe I understand it. But arresting the swordsman first? Haha, not unfair, not unfair."

At this time, Li Wuxiang realized that these people should not be ordinary disciples of the Thirty-Six Sects. Two points. First, ordinary disciples would not be entrusted with such an important task to check whether the East Emperor Seal is still in Youjiuyuan. Second, when they mentioned Zhou Ruixin and Tianxin Sect, they did not show much respect, which meant that their status in their respective sects should be at least not low, and they should be among the best young people.

He was very curious about what the "alliance" they were talking about was, and he also wanted to go to Youjiuyuan with them. In this case, the identity of "ordinary disciple of Tianxin Sect" might not be something they would look up to or take with them, so...

He moved his body slightly, and seemed to want to get up, and his lips opened, but he held back and just pressed his fingers on the bronze mirror.

Tang Qilang, the one wielding the hammer, glanced at him and asked with a smile, "Senior Brother Li, what is your position in the Tianxin Sect?"

"Ordinary disciple."

Tang Qilang laughed again: "I don't think so. The ordinary disciples of Tianxin Sect we met along the way were all in a mess. Just like what Senior Brother Lu said, the sect is gone, and they have to plan for the future, so they fight with each other and become so messy and embarrassed."

"Look at you, Senior Brother Li. You are clean and tidy, not at all shabby. What a dignified person you are. Wow." He glanced at Mu Tieshan. "You were neither humble nor arrogant when talking to us, and you were very calm. And... it seems that you still have some elixir power left in you? If I'm not mistaken, you just took the elixir and are practicing Qigong and regulating your breathing. This doesn't seem like an ordinary disciple at all."

Li Wuxiang hesitated for a while and sighed: "Alas, Senior Brother Tang has a keen eye. I am actually too embarrassed to see you. Well... I am actually the head of our sect stationed in Feiyun Temple in Deyang."

Lu Huaiyuan, who was wielding a spear, raised his head slightly and squinted at him: "Oh, you are a chief abbot, Brother Mou, aren't we looking for a chief abbot? We have found one this time. But since you are a chief abbot, why don't you go and gather disciples from nearby sects instead of staying here?"

Li Wuxiang shook his head and sighed: "What's the point of a sect being in this state?"

Lu Huaiyuan was about to make another sarcastic remark, but Mou Tieshan raised his hand and he stopped talking.

Mu Tieshan thought for a while and looked at Li Wuxiang: "Master Li, if I were to tell you, you actually have other places to go?" "I know what you mean, to join another sect of the Thirty-Six Sects. Alas, but if I go to another sect, I have to practice my skills all over again. Let's put it this way... I was able to become the master after more than ten years of hard work and careful practice to earn such a position. If I go to another Taoist temple and start as an outer disciple again, I might as well be a free cultivator, or join a free cultivator sect and receive offerings."

The six people were slightly stunned. Mu Tieshan asked, "More than ten years? Master Li, what is your current level of cultivation?"

"I'm ashamed that I haven't formed the elixir yet."

"You have... reached the peak of Qi Refining in just over ten years?"

"Oh, what a shame."

Lu Huaiyuan looked at him straight in the eye at this time: "After all, we are a small family. You can be a palm viewer at the level of Qi Refining. But it's not bad to reach this level in more than ten years. Brother Mou, how many years did you make the pill?"

Mou Tieshan ignored him and only looked at Li Wuxiang: "Master Li, I'm not telling you to go to another dojo, but there is something I want to tell you first."

"Now the Six Sects and the Sword Sect are about to have another great battle. Our Juque Sect, Tiangong Sect, Qianji Sect, Qingxiao Sect, and Suhua Sect are taking the lead and are planning to gather the thirty-six sects to hold another alliance meeting."

Li Wuxiang was shocked when he learned and applied what he learned. "The last alliance meeting of the thirty-six sects was when the law was issued, right?"

Mou Tieshan nodded: "Yes, the location is the same, it is at the Great Tribulation Mountain, the last dojo of Emperor Donghuang Taiyi, also called the Great Tribulation Alliance."

Li Wuxiang's first thought was that this name was not very auspicious. No wonder the Thirty-Six Sects had been so unlucky in recent years.

"This alliance meeting is to discuss how to deal with the current great changes. When we came here, 23 elders representing the 36 sects had already arrived, and some of the others were on their way. Some, such as the Red Snake Sect, also disbanded a few days ago - they firmly refused the surrender of the Sun Sect and fought a great battle with them. But for this case, we still found a surviving chief of the Red Snake Sect and sent him to the Great Tribulation Mountain."

"The ones near you are the Tianxin Sect, the Ranshan Sect, and the Louguang Sect. The Louguang Sect now has people from the Zhenxing Sect, so they sent a chief monk to Dajie Mountain. As for the Ranshan Sect, we heard that the former Ranshan Sect Master is no longer alive, and the sect's seal was taken away by the swordsman. But that doesn't matter, as the seal was originally decided at the last alliance meeting. We found a former disciple of the Ranshan Sect and asked someone to send him to Dajie Mountain."

"The only one left now is your Tianxin Sect. Master Li, have your sect's seals been taken away as well?"

"Yes. It was a man named Li Wuxiang, the Yuanying Swordsman. He took it away. He also claimed to be the leader of Tianxin Sect..." Li Wuxiang sighed, "Will the Great Tribulation Alliance recognize someone like him?"

"Of course he will recognize it if he has the seal. But it may not be the case after this alliance meeting." Mu Tieshan said in a deep voice, "The teachers and leaders of Dajie Mountain have heard that Li Wuxiang has the seals of Juran Mountain and Tianxin Sect. Because of this, we plan to redefine the seals after the alliance meeting."

Li Wuxiang frowned: "How can we redefine it? The original calligraphy was sealed with the Eastern Emperor Seal!"

Mu Tieshan smiled slightly: "So a few of us are here to find the East Emperor Seal. It is said that the East Emperor Seal has been hidden in Youjiuyuan for three thousand years. When the Sword Sect was still in Youjiuyuan, we had no way to find it, but now they are gone, we just want to see if the East Emperor Seal is still there."

Li Wuxiang straightened his body, but then slumped down. "Alas, so what if the spell was revised? Senior Brother Mou, I'm not trying to boost others' morale and destroy my own prestige... This time, the six sects are all here, and the people of the Sword Sect are so overbearing. Let's not talk about how many people there are in our thirty-six sects combined. Let's just talk about the skills. Alas, a few days ago on Yulun Mountain, Sect Master Zhou was also a Yuanying, but when he faced Li Wuxiang, the Yuanying swordsman, it was really... really... Alas! That Li Wuxiang is too powerful!"

Lu Huaiyuan snorted but said nothing. Mu Tieshan nodded: "You are right. Our technique is a big problem. But don't worry. This time we are looking for the East Emperor Seal not only to redefine the technique, but also for the technique."

"It's not that each sect doesn't have the True Scriptures, but because practicing the True Scriptures requires overcoming the Earth Tribulation, without the East Emperor Seal, there is no way out. So this time we are looking for the East Emperor Seal for this matter - the teachers and elders said that this alliance will elect a Sect Master who will command the thirty-six sects. Once this Sect Master is elected and coordinates, the thirty-six sects will be able to become one. Although there are still differences between the sects, they will share what they have. Each sect will select a disciple with outstanding talent, who will be supported by the thirty-six sects and practice the True Scriptures in the shortest possible time!"

When Mu Tieshan said this, he let out a heavy breath, "This war has just begun. Even if the Xuan Sect wants to expand and occupy the Central Continent, it will take at least two to three hundred years. The Central Continent is vast and boundless. If we use a few decades to cultivate thirty-six... more than thirty Nascent Souls, although we cannot compete with the Xuan Sect, we will not be sandwiched between them and the Sword Sect like we are now, and be at the mercy of others. By that time, with the East Emperor Seal in hand and many masters, we will be the Taiyi Sect and have the confidence to negotiate terms with the six Xuan Sects!"

Li Wuxiang sighed. The first half of the sentence was so tough, and I thought that in the end, he would fight to the death with the six sects like the Sword Sect did, but in the end, he still said "negotiate terms"?
But... he realized one thing.

Lu Huaiyuan said that Tianxin Sect was a small sect, and Zhou Ruixin also said before that Tianxin Sect was not the most powerful of the thirty-six sects. That is to say, if all the accumulations of the thirty-six sects were added together and averaged, they would definitely be more than the elixir materials in Tianxin Illusion.

However, with so many, he could only produce "thirty-six Nascent Souls", which meant that the things he had in his hands now might not be enough to support him to reach the Nascent Soul realm.

Another point, Mu Tieshan said that the difficulty of practicing the thirty-six sects' "main scriptures" is to survive the "earth tribulation" - why didn't he mention the heavenly tribulation? Don't they need to survive the heavenly tribulation like the Small Tribulation Sword Sutra?

The True Immortal Body Dao Chapter and the Flying Immortal Sword Chapter were taken from the Minor Tribulation Sword Sutra, and the Embracing Dew and Clouds Chapter was taken from the Natural Mountain Sutra. In his original impression, the "Thirty-Six Sects' True Scriptures" such as the Mountain Sutra and the Heavenly Heart Sutra should be powerful techniques of the same level as the Minor Tribulation Sword Sutra, but they do not require transcending the Heavenly Tribulation? Or is it -

wrong!

Li Wuxiang was stunned. The names of the thirty-six sects, such as Ranshan Sect and Tianxin Sect, appeared only after the war ended three thousand years ago and the founders of each sect died. Since it was called "Ranshan Sutra", it means that these techniques also appeared after the war. Then the techniques that the founders of the thirty-six sects practiced during their lifetime must not be these "proper scriptures". Does that mean that these properties are actually at the same level as "True Immortal Body Dao Pian"?
Or because it still needs to go through the Earth Tribulation, it is stronger than the True Immortal Body Dao Chapter, but lower than the Minor Tribulation Sword Sutra?

This means that the thirty-six true immortals at that time might have also practiced the Small Tribulation Sword Sutra - the Small Tribulation Sword Sutra can prove one a true immortal, while the Great Tribulation Sword Sutra can prove one a golden immortal?

That's strange. The Minor Tribulation Sword Sutra is hidden in the Tianxin Illusion, and other sects should also have it. Haven't they thought about practicing the Minor Tribulation Sword Sutra?
Haven’t the people from the Sword Sect thought about this either?

Seeing him in a daze, Mu Tieshan smiled and said, "Master Li, you have reached the peak of Qi Refining in just over a decade. This aptitude is considered good. Your disciples are scattered, and I don't know how many can be gathered together. You represented Tianxin Sect to go to the Great Tribulation Alliance, and you must have gained a lot. If you are luckier, there will be no more suitable disciples for Tianxin Sect than you in the future - maybe you will be one of the more than 30 Yuanying disciples in the future."

These words really made Li Wuxiang's heart move!
However, what moved him was not what Mu Tieshan said - Dajie Mountain was very far away from Tianxin Sect, and Tianxin Sect members would not be able to go there much in a short period of time. If he went to participate in the alliance meeting, he would not be exposed for a while. But if he was really selected by the alliance to practice Tianxin Sutra, his identity might not be hidden.

However, one piece of information was revealed from Mou Tieshan’s words: the people of the thirty-six sects knew how to overcome the earth tribulation after obtaining the East Emperor Seal!
He is worried about this!

He acted as if he was interested: "Then I..."

"The abbot can go back with us. But before that, you need to do us a favor." Mu Tieshan looked at the bronze mirror in his hand, "I heard that the Tianxin Sect's skills are magical and can allow people to hide between the sacred mountain and the world of the living. Is that true?"

Li Wuxiang nodded: "Xuanguang Mirror, Mirror Method, that's right."

"Then accompany us to Youjiuyuan first. Anxin, you don't need to take action under normal circumstances. There are only six of us. But with your magical power in the mirror to hide your body, we have a better chance. What do you think, Zhangguan?"

"No problem! It's easy!"

Mu Tieshan laughed loudly: "Okay! Then let's take a good rest tonight, and you can tell us about the true spirit on Yulun Mountain. Tomorrow morning, we will continue to Youjiuyuan!"

(End of this chapter)