Chapter 574: Heavenly Master’s Guidance

Chapter 574: Heavenly Master’s Guidance

Chapter 574: Heavenly Master’s Guidance
"Whoosh!"

In the garden shrouded in gloomy wind, Zhao Duan raised his right arm high and suddenly threw out a brocade bag. As soon as he made a move, he shattered the seal with his Qi!
Before the assassination attempt, he went to meet Zhang Yanyi, who implicitly warned him that he would face danger and gave him a secret bag that could only be opened at the most critical moment.

Zhao Duan knew that now was the time to open it.

As the brocade bag was opened, beams of green light suddenly spurted out from the narrow mouth of the bag.

The green light was so vast that it seemed to shake the heaven and earth, and even the dark clouds in the sky were shaking.

"Huh?" Xu Jingtang was startled, and his hand, which was about to strike down, suddenly stopped and looked over warily.

Then, in everyone's sight, green light enveloped Zhao Duan and his group, as if a small piece of pure land had been opened up in this place where the wind was howling.

And within the green light, a human figure slowly emerged:
He was tall, with narrow features, and wore a black priest robe. His long hair was tied into a bun at the back of his head.

“Master!!?”

Zhong Pan, Jin Jian and Yu Xiu all exclaimed at the same time, with stunned expressions on their faces.

Lao Zhang, it turned out to be you... I bet right... Zhao Duan breathed a sigh of relief silently, and clenched his fists with excitement.

Since it can only be opened in desperate crisis, the sachet must contain a means to save lives immediately, and it is unlikely to be a note or something like that... In a critical moment, how could one open it in time?

"No, it's a Dharma body of Master... It only possesses a part of Master's power, and can only appear for a short time." Zhong Pan held the sword in both hands, his face changed slightly.

Zhao Duan was not too surprised. If Zhang Yanyi hid his true body in the brocade bag, it would be too scary...

He hurriedly asked, "Didn't Xu Jingtang only obtain the power of the gods temporarily?"

Zhong Pan glanced at him and shook his head solemnly:

"It's different. If your guess is correct, then Xu Jingtang relied on all the frustration accumulated in the war over the past few months, and after the entire White Clothes Sect sorcerer teamed up and set up the formation for many days, he was able to summon the god.

The most important thing is that he seems to be using some kind of secret technique to try to temporarily absorb the power of the gods into his body..."

Jin Jian couldn't listen any more. What was the eldest senior brother talking about?

She held the staff tightly in her small hand and said loudly:

"I do not understand!"

Judge Zhong was silent for a moment, then said briefly:

"Master's Dharma body will disappear before the other party."

Zhao Duan and others' faces fell.

"Zhang Yanyi?!"

In mid-air, Xu Jingtang saw the old Taoist priest appear and was instinctively startled, even taking two steps back.

Even the corpse Youlian on the ground had a sudden change of expression.

But soon, the two realized that this was not the real body.

Xu Jingtang felt relieved and smiled:

"You scared me. If Zhang Yanyi was really here, I would still be afraid of you. But it's just a Dharma body. Do you think you can threaten me?"

In the green light, Zhang Yan stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes calmly sweeping across the entire place, finally landing on the huge, tattered figure of the dead.

At this moment, Xu Jingtang threw another punch downwards!
With one punch, thousands and thousands of fatal curses densely packed over him.

"Hmph." Zhang Yan snorted coldly, raised his right hand, and spread out his five fingers. In an instant, words from the heavenly book appeared in the blue light. With a rough glance, there were tens of thousands of them.

Countless words swirled around his body, forming a huge blue hand, which collided fiercely with the fist of the God of Death.

It was silent and there was no deafening roar, but at this moment, the entire world within a hundred miles of Jingchuan Town was affected.

All practitioners within a hundred miles could clearly sense the fluctuations of the heavenly secrets.

"Prepare to die! I want to see how long you can hold on!"

Xu Jingtang was like a mad tiger. Relying on his divine body, he threw out random punches. In an instant, he delivered hundreds of punches.

Zhao Duan and the other five kids hid under Zhang Yan, shivering in fear. They clearly saw the thickness of the blue clouds above their heads being weakened and dimmed layer by layer.

"We won't be able to hold out for long at this rate!"

Zhao Duan was anxious. Could it be that Lao Zhang had made a mistake in his calculations?
At this moment, as if sensing his thoughts, Zhang Yan turned his head in mid-air, glanced at him, and his lips seemed to move.

Then he rolled up his left sleeve, and a green light suddenly shot towards the five little ones, engulfing them.

"Southwest, Zhengyang Mountain."

Zhao Duan only heard this sentence before his figure gradually disappeared, along with Zhong Pan and others.

And in a remote place outside the garden where no one was paying attention, the unicorn that was stamping its hooves restlessly also opened its eyes wide, was swallowed up by a green light that appeared out of nowhere, and disappeared.

"boom!"

Xu Jingtang's last punch created a sonic boom, destroying the entire inner house, and Zhang Yanyi's Dharma body also disappeared due to exhaustion.

"The person is missing!?"

Xu Jingtang stared at the messy ground and roared.

The weird-looking corpse Youlian frowned and said:

"They were teleported away, but they shouldn't be too far away. They should still be in Jingchuan."

Xu Jingtang's expression was uncertain. He felt it carefully for a moment and said:

"You're right. Want to run?"

He sneered, thought for a moment, and then his armor vibrated. He took the huge phantom of the god behind him into his body, glanced at the white-robed sect leader, and said:

"I have to go and make sure to kill Zhao Duan."

He now has two choices.

One is to abandon Zhao Duan, turn around and rush to the battlefield, use the power of the God of Death to eliminate Zhao Shixiong and defeat the imperial army.

However, in this way, he will most likely consume all his strength on the battlefield.

The other option is to hunt down Zhao Duan and temporarily abandon the battlefield. If everything goes well, after killing Zhao Duan, there will be enough energy to rush to the battlefield.

If things don't go well, the original plan will be implemented and the main force of the rebels will retreat to Yunfu.

After a brief struggle, Xu Jingtang chose the second one.

"This person must not be allowed to stay."

This decision was based on his belief that Zhao Duan was more valuable than an imperial army, or even more valuable than half of the Huai River.

On a deeper level,... As a descendant of the royal family of the Yu State, Xu Jingtang clearly felt at this moment that there was a power in Zhao Duan that he extremely desired.

The strange pupils of Corpse Curtain blinked, and then she smiled sweetly:
"Your Highness can go by yourself. The White Clothes Sect here will assist your generals in evacuating."

Xu Jingtang said "Yes", without further delay, and followed the vague sensation and flew into the night.

Watch him leave.

"Mother..."

Shiluoyi then spoke nervously:
"That Zhao guy wouldn't really run away, would he?"

Corpse Shadow Curtain glanced at him and said unhappily:
"Useless. Call all the disciples to evacuate immediately. Quickly."

In order to help Xu Jingtang, the entire Baiyi Sect was severely injured, and dozens of sorcerers were in a weak state.

"Oh oh..." Shiluoyi didn't dare to refute and immediately went to call for help.

After a while, Shi Youlian and her son, led a group of weak sorcerers and left the Baishi Garden, which was already in chaos.

However, not long after the people from the White Robe Sect walked away, Shi Youlian suddenly stopped and stared at the north.

I saw a warrior figure flying alone in the night sky!

As Zhao Shixiong ran through the air with the Soul-Breaking Sword in his hand, a scarlet smoke of blood and energy rose from his body, swaying and rising straight into the sky.

"Want to leave? Have you asked Zhao?!"

Zhao Shixiong shouted arrogantly, and the Soul-Breaking Sword came slashing through the air. All the disciples in white clothes turned pale!

……

……

On the edge of Jingchuan Town, a suburb shrouded in darkness.

A burst of green light suddenly appeared and then disappeared.

At the same time, a carriage and five figures fell from the sky and landed heavily on the ground.

“Pooh…Pooh…Pooh…”

Zhao Duan didn't control his posture well and fell flat on his face. When he got up, he spat out a mouthful of grass leaves, but he didn't care at all. He turned around and used the moonlight to grab the golden sword that was also badly fallen next to him.

"How's everything?" he asked in a low voice.

Under the moonlight, Zhong Pan, Yu Xiu, Lang Shiba and others also climbed up from the ground one after another, but they all looked embarrassed.

Logically speaking, with their level of cultivation, this shouldn't have happened even if they fell suddenly.

"It's okay..." Yuxiu brushed off the dust on her Taoist robe, and then her face changed. She said:
"No, my cultivation has declined..." Upon hearing this, Zhao Duan and others also sensed it, and indeed they all realized that their own Qi and magic power were restricted.

Although they did not disappear completely, they had almost slid down a lot and degenerated to the stage of gods or even mortals.

"It's a curse." Zhong Pan stood up, leaning on his sword, and said with a grim expression:

"We were cursed before Master's Dharmakaya appeared. Our cultivation is still there, but it is temporarily affected by the curse, similar to being seriously injured. Once the curse disappears, we will be able to recover."

Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Zhao Duan looked around and found that they were in a desolate wilderness, without any dark clouds.

"It seems that the old master finally teleported us away. I don't know where this place is." He said softly.

Jin Jian held her staff, and the golden eye on the top of the staff closed. She stroked the eye and said:
"It should still be in Jingchuan."

brush--

Everyone looked at her.

Jin Jian faced all the gazes, shrank his neck, and explained in a low voice:
"I can still sense the aftermath of the fight just now."

As an elf in the night, even if her cultivation was cursed and sealed, the girl still had a keen sense under the starry sky.

"It seems that we are not out of danger yet," Zhao Duan said in a deep voice:
"Xu Jingtang will not let me escape. He is probably on his way to catch up. We have to move immediately."

"If it's the gods who are hunting us, I'm afraid we won't be able to escape." Yuxiu analyzed calmly.

The female Taoist nun was covered in dirt from the fall, but her eyes were still frighteningly cold.

"No, we can definitely get away."

Zhao Duan was very confident. He quickly explained:

"The Dharmakaya just now was a life-saving method lent to me by the old Grand Master. Before we teleported just now, I heard Master Zhang give us the next step."

"Southwest, Zhengyang Mountain." He repeated the location in a clear voice.

Everyone was stunned.

Yuxiu was surprised:
"Zhengyang Mountain? It's in the southwest again... Is it the one in Yunfu Dao? The mountain occupied by the Zhengyang School? Did Master really tell you about this place?"

"I must have heard it right."

Zhengyang School... Zhao Duan still remembered this group of scholars. Mr. Zhengyang had come to Beijing to cause trouble.

After being convinced by his plagiarism of Yangming's Philosophy of Mind, he returned to Yunfu and became his loyal fan.

Judge Zhong thought for a moment and said:
"Since Master has made clear arrangements, he must have calculated the next step. We'd better follow it."

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the unicorn that was pulling the carriage, wagging its tail, and biting his sleeve affectionately, and grinned:
"Master even brought the carriage over for us."

Yuxiu nodded, and felt a little worried:

"However, Zhengyang Mountain is not that close to here. Even with your carriage, we can't get there in a short time. I'm worried... we'll be caught up on the way."

Zhao Duan gritted his teeth and stood up, his eyes as fierce as a lone wolf:

"If I don't run, I'll definitely be caught up. If I run, at least I still have a chance of survival."

He suddenly spread his hands and grinned:
"Besides, we have this."

In his palm, there was a fiery red banyan leaf.

This was what fell out of the brocade bag after it was opened and was placed in his palm by Zhang Yanyi.

Judge Zhong's eyes lit up:
"This is a banyan tree leaf, which is equivalent to a talisman. I recognize it, it is a teleportation talisman. Look, there is a word 'Xing' on the leaf. Master has indeed made all the arrangements.

With this, even if we are caught up on the road, we still have a chance to escape.

However... this leaf can only be used a limited number of times, at most twice, before it's useless."

Two chances to escape from God?

Everyone was happy and worried.

Being hunted by a god...are two chances enough?
No one was sure of what was going on.

But time waits for no one, and they had no doubt that Xu Jingtang would catch up with them soon. So they immediately supported each other, got on the carriage, and prepared to escape.

"and many more……"

Zhao Duan suddenly hesitated.

He thought about what would happen if he escaped... Whether it was the Huai Wang Mansion who had already taken sides in the county, or Ji Yue who was guarding the Liangsheng Gate, plus Yuan Feng, Zhao Shixiong and others who were approaching this side on the front line outside Jingchuan County.

If Zhao Duan suddenly disappears, it will probably cause unpredictable chaos.

"My Lord, I will stay."

Suddenly, Lang Shiba seemed to see through his concerns, and the warrior said seriously:

"I will leave on foot and return to the county town to bring back the news here."

Zhao Duan looked at him and asked seriously, "Have you thought it through?"

It was extremely risky to leave the team and return to the county town alone to report the news.

Lang Eighteen smiled and said:
"Xu Jingtang is after you, my lord, and several priests from the Tianshi Mansion, but not a humble warrior like me. It would be safer for me to leave alone."

But Zhao Duan knew that this was not the way it was said.

Although following Zhao Duan might lead to being caught up, would it be safe if I stayed?

If he were to be hit by Xu Jingtang, he would surely die. Even if he could return to the county safely, he would have to know that there were still a large number of Yunfu rebels in the city, as well as the corpse curtains of the Baiyi Sect...

Lang Shiba, who is in a cursed state, has no worldly cultivation left and is in Jingchuan Town, where he may be in danger at any time.

In fact, the danger is greater than Zhao Duan.

"Sir, someone has to stay." Lang Shiba said with a smile.

After a moment's silence, Zhao Duan nodded vigorously, pulled him over, and whispered to him to bring back the message after returning to the city.

After thinking for a while, he took out the silver scroll and shook out a long stick.

【Fearless Stick】

This is the weapon of the monk Fanlong. As long as you hold this stick, you can resist negative effects such as curses and fear.

Zhao Duan tried it himself, and as expected, he found that the Fearless Stick did improve his cultivation a little, but it could not lift the curse.

Not surprisingly.

This is a curse from the gods. How can a magical weapon resist it?

"Take this. Although it is not very useful, it should be able to weaken the curse on you." Zhao Duan gave the Fearless Stick to Lang Shiba.

The latter accepted it without any pretense.

Then he looked at Zhao Duan deeply, pursed his lips, and said nothing more. He turned around, carried a long stick on his back, held a scimitar in his hand, and with the help of the direction of the moon, he ran towards the estimated north.

Zhao Duan took a deep breath, closed his eyes, shrank back into the carriage, lowered the curtain, and whispered:
"Let's go."

Zhong Pan shook the reins, the unicorn neighed, swung its tail, and dragged the black carriage, entering an illusory state, galloping towards Zhengyang Mountain at lightning speed.

There was total silence in the carriage, no one spoke, and everyone felt uneasy, knowing that if they couldn't hold on, everyone would die.

Zhao Duan leaned back in the carriage, feeling the listless Jin Jian curled up against his chest, and the weight of Yuxiu's body pressed tightly against him, so that they could feel each other's heavy breathing.

He was lost in thought in the darkness:
Why did Lao Zhang ask him to escape to Zhengyang Mountain?
What on earth did this old Deng arrange?
……

Beijing.

Shortly after the God of Death arrived and fought against Zhang Yanyi's Dharma body.

Xu Zhenguan, who was far away in the imperial palace, could vaguely sense the fluctuations of the power of the heavenly realm in a distant place.

But because the distance was farther, her perception was not as clear as the last time Zhao Duan put out the fire.

"What happened? Or is it my illusion?"

The empress was dressed in casual clothes, standing in the brightly lit Yangxin Palace, looking out into the night, her phoenix eyes full of confusion.

After hesitating for a moment, the empress's figure turned into golden light and disappeared in the palace.

In a blink of an eye, Xu Zhenguan appeared out of nowhere in the depths of the Tianshi Mansion, in a small courtyard with its own entrance and courtyard, where a huge banyan tree of mysterious origin was planted.

The yard was empty and the big banyan tree seemed to be asleep.

"Squeak."

Suddenly, the door of the room in the courtyard opened, and Gongshu Tianyuan, a short and fat man wearing a wrinkled priest robe, walked out and bowed respectfully:

"I have met His Majesty."

Xu Zhenguan frowned: "Where is the Heavenly Master?"

Gongshu Tianyuan said honestly:
"Master is not in the mansion. He said that if His Majesty comes to see him, he will tell him to be at ease and just wait."

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