Chapter 44: Paradise Transformed into Earth, Love Returns

The two of them remained motionless and silent.

 Neither did he raise his palm to see what was going on, nor did he ask questions first. However, the other party had obviously noticed their arrival, because a cold word came from the other side.

 The man said in a deep voice: "No comment."

 Upon hearing the voice, Shi Qingxuan immediately ignited a flame in his palm.

 Xie Lian had no time to stop him, so he could only let him light the fire. The fire was so bright that it revealed a man in black.


 The man in black leaned against the stone wall at the end of the road, his face was as pale as paper, his black hair was disheveled, but his eyes were full of spirit, sharp and cold. Although he sat cross-legged and looked quite upright, the increasingly strong smell of blood showed that he was seriously injured and was clearly imprisoned here.

 It seems that when he said "I have no comment" just now, he treated them as people who came to torture him.


 Shi Qingxuan saw his face clearly and said, "It's you!"


 The man seemed to have not expected the arrival of this person, and paused for a moment, as if he wanted to say "it's you", but he finally held back. Xie Lian put Ruo Xie away and said, "So you two know each other."

 Unexpectedly, the man said firmly: "I don't know him."

 After many twists and turns, Shi Qingxuan was relieved to see this person, but he was furious when he heard his words. He pointed at him with his folding fan and said, "Is it shameful to know me? It's really mean of you to say that, Brother Ming, I'm your best friend!"


 Unfortunately, the man flatly refused, saying, "I don't have any friends who would run around dressed like this."

 “…”

 Xie Lian wanted to laugh after hearing this, thinking, “So, there really are people who define themselves as ‘someone’s best friend’.” However, this is probably what makes Shi Qingxuan interesting. On second thought, “Brother Ming”? Among the five masters, isn’t the Earth Master’s name Ming Yi?

 So, Xie Lian asked, “Could this be the Earth Master?”


 Shi Qingxuan said: "That's him. You've seen him too."


 Xie Lian looked at Ming Yi and asked curiously, “Have you seen him before?” He didn’t seem to remember such a person.

 Shi Qingxuan said: "I have seen it before."

 Ming Yi said, "I have never seen it."

 Shi Qingxuan said: "I have clearly seen him before, last time at Half Moon Pass."

 “…”

 Seeing Ming Yi’s face turn from pale to ashen, Xie Lian finally remembered.

 The lady in black from the last half-moon prison!

 At that time, Hua Cheng said that this person was not a water master, but he must be one of the five masters of Feng Shui, Yu Di|Lei. It turned out that Shi Qingxuan was not only keen on transforming himself into a female, but also often liked to drag others to transform into females with him. No wonder the black-clothed lady looked so bad and disgusted. Xie Lian remembered that before entering the ghost market this time, Shi Qingxuan also encouraged him to "have fun together". He coughed lightly and thought to himself that it was a close call.

 Jun Wu had told him before that there were several priests in the Heavenly Court who had been missing for years, including the Rain Master and the Earth Master. Xie Lian asked, “Then was it you who sent the Roaring Fire Dragon?”

 Mingyi said, "It's me."

 Then we saved the right person. Xie Lian nodded and said, "Master Earth Master is seriously injured. Let's leave as soon as possible and we can talk later."

 Shi Qingxuan immediately squatted down and carried Mingyi on his back, saying, "Okay, let's go!"


 The three of them returned along the same route, and Shi Qingxuan said as they walked, "Brother Ming, you are a good fighter, aren't you? When we separated at Half Moon Pass, you were fine. How did you get beaten up like this in just a few days? How did you offend Hua Cheng?"

 Mingyi seemed unable to bear hearing him speak any more, and blurted out three words: "Shut up!"

 This was the question Xie Lian wanted to understand. He changed the way he asked, “Master Earth Master, why did Hua Cheng embarrass you?”

 Ming Yi didn't tell him to shut up, but he didn't say anything either. Xie Lian looked over and saw that he had closed his eyes. He must have been trapped underground and tortured for several days, and his injuries were quite severe. He was relieved to see the rescuers, and he could finally take a break. After climbing the stairs, Xie Lian took out the dice and threw it again. He didn't know how many points he threw in the darkness, but he heard a slight "click" in front of him, and a crack opened, and light shone through the crack.

 Xie Lian pushed the door open, thinking to himself, “I wonder if I’ll be able to take Lang Ying away in time as well?” He took a step forward, but stepped on nothing.

 Xie Lian shouted, “Don’t come out!”

 His body flipped in the air and landed on something hard.

 When he looked up again, he saw Hua Cheng's handsome face right in front of him, looking at him with one eyebrow raised.

 This time, when the door opened, he actually fell directly onto Hua Cheng!

 The place where he fell was a magnificent house. On the four walls of the house were displayed all kinds of weapons, including knives, swords, spears, shields, whips, and hammers. It was like a weapons collection warehouse. No matter who it was, as long as he was a man, being in such a weapons collection warehouse, surrounded by all kinds of weapons on all sides, he would definitely feel like he was in heaven, with his blood boiling.

 At this moment, Hua Cheng was sitting in the middle of the armory, slowly wiping his silver scimitar. Even when someone suddenly fell from the sky onto his lap, he simply stopped wiping it, not really surprised, but just looked at Xie Lian calmly, as if waiting for him to give an explanation.

 Xie Lian lay on his lap, staring at him for a moment, then suddenly felt someone nearby, and when he turned around, it was Lang Ying!

 The bandaged boy was sitting on the ground, looking extremely frightened. Xie Lian didn’t have time to think about why Lang Ying was also here. Suddenly, he saw a white boot of Master Qingxuan halfway out from above.

 He quickly grabbed Hua Cheng's shoulders and said, "I'm sorry!"

 After saying that, he pounced on Hua Cheng and knocked him down.

 With this pounce, he threw Hua Cheng ten feet away, and he rolled several times on the ground. After rolling, he looked up suddenly and saw Shi Qingxuan had jumped down with Mingyi on his back, landing safely on the spot where Hua Cheng had been sitting. He turned his head again with a stiff face, and Hua Cheng was still looking at him, without any expression, but his eyebrows were raised even higher.

 Xie Lian immediately jumped up, pulled Lang Ying over, and stepped back a few feet, saying as he did so, “Sorry, sorry.”

 He pulled Lang Ying behind him and whispered to him, "Follow me closely, be careful." Lang Ying looked at Hua Cheng, looking terrified, and nodded repeatedly. Shi Qingxuan said, "What is there to apologize for? The disappearance of the priest this time was all caused by him."


 How could Xie Lian not know what was going on? However, this was a situation he was extremely reluctant to face. He quickly looked around, but he could not see any doors or windows that could be used for entry or exit. There was no way to escape. Xie Lian could only stand up straight and said, "Sanlang, I don't know what misunderstanding the geomancer has with you. Why don't we stop first and discuss this peacefully?"

 The best scenario would be for Hua Cheng to let them go now. Although the geomancer was injured, his life was not in danger and he did not lose any limbs. If he stopped at this point, the situation would not escalate. Unexpectedly, Hua Cheng put down his scimitar and said, "Geomancer? Who said this is a geomancer?"

 He paused and said, "Oh, you mean the one that Feng Shi was carrying? He was just a worthless subordinate of mine."

 Hearing this, Xie Lian and Shi Qingxuan were both stunned. Xie Lian didn't know why he said that, while Shi Qingxuan said, "This is clearly my priest in heaven. You are forcing me to call a horse a deer. This is too funny."

 Hua Cheng smiled and said, "You have admitted this yourself. Then, I wonder why you, the honorable priests of the Heavenly Court, would condescend to serve as a ghost messenger here?"

 In that instant, Xie Lian’s mind raced.

 Following the arc of the fate, a silver crescent moon was drawn. Hua Cheng said, "If he is really a geomancer, he must be very patient. He has been pretending for ten years. During these ten years, although I occasionally felt that something was wrong with him, I had no evidence. If I hadn't gone to Half Moon Pass, I really wouldn't be so sure."

 How could Xie Lian not understand after he said these words?

 It turns out that the reason why the geomancer was trapped was that he had concealed his true identity for ten years and worked as a ghost messenger under Hua Cheng!

 ——To put it bluntly, he is an undercover agent.

 Although Huacheng occasionally felt that this subordinate was suspicious, he still kept him for observation, probably because he had no evidence. At the Half Moon Pass, Huacheng, in his youthful form, saw through his transformed appearance and discovered that the black-clad girl who was working with the Wind Master was none other than his own ghost messenger. Because Huacheng had never shown his true face before, Mingyi didn't know that this was Huacheng at the time. Perhaps he thought about it afterwards and realized that something was wrong, so he quickly evacuated. So after the matter at the Half Moon Pass was settled, Huacheng immediately left the Puqi Temple and went to settle accounts with him. In a critical situation, Mingyi performed the Fire Dragon Roaring Sky technique, and Jun Wu then found Xie Lian to take this trip.

 It was a real scandal that the Heavenly Priests did not work properly in the Upper Heaven, but instead hid in the Ghost Realm for decades in disguise. Xie Lian did not quite understand the intrigues between the two realms, nor did he want to understand them. But if Liu Mingyi continued to be imprisoned and tortured here, and eventually died, the feud between heaven and earth would become even bigger. He could only say, "Sanlang, I hope you can show some mercy today."

 Hua Cheng stared at him for a moment, then said calmly, "Your Highness, in fact, there are some things that you should not get too involved in."

 Logically speaking, Huacheng always called Xie Lian "brother", and sometimes changed to "Your Highness", which should make people feel strange. However, he didn't feel that way at all. When others called him "Your Highness", many of them did it without emotion, just for official business, such as Lingwen. And more people called him "Your Highness" with a sense of squeeze, just like calling an ugly beauty, doing it deliberately. But when Huacheng called him "Your Highness", it was with great care. Although he couldn't put it into words, Xie Lian just felt that it was different from when others called him "Your Highness". He originally thought that if Huacheng was unwilling to let him go, he would take the initiative to take the initiative, and the more advantages he could get, the more opportunities he could get, but in this case, it would be difficult to take action.

 Shi Qingxuan, who was standing by, listened to the two people's conversation and thought that it seemed that neither of them would take the initiative to attack, so he might as well be the bad guy. So, he fanned out and said, "Come on, wind!"

 In the armory, a strong wind suddenly blew up. The weapons on the shelves on all sides trembled faintly and kept buzzing. There was a loud "crackling" sound, and Xie Lian felt dust falling on his head. He looked up and saw that the roof was lifted up by the wind, and a huge crack was opened. There were no doors or windows, and he actually wanted to pry open the roof and fly out!

 In the strong wind, Hua Cheng's black hair and red clothes also fluttered in the wind, but he did not move. He said: "You have a fan, what a coincidence, I also have one."

 As he said that, he really took out a small golden fan from his bosom. This fan was small and exquisite, the ribs and the surface were made of pure gold, the color was beautiful and calm, and there was a white jade pendant at the end of the fan. Hua Cheng unfolded it, smiled without saying a word, and there was an inexplicable elegance in the murderous aura. He flipped his hand and fanned it, and a strong wind with a few bright golden spots came. The three of them dodged, and only heard a "dong dong" sound like a violent storm. Looking back, they saw rows and rows of gold foil nailed to the ground. The gold foil was thin, and it was nailed into the ground for an inch, which showed its sharpness and fierceness.

 Hua Cheng flipped his hand again, and another gust of golden powder blew. The wind from Master Qingxuan's fan was powerful, but the stronger it was, the more dangerous it was. This armory was just a large hall with a limited area. Some of the strong wind from Master Qingxuan's fan would bounce back and run around the room. The gold foil would be carried around them by the wind and fly around wildly, and it was unknown when it would pierce them. Xie Lian was worried about hurting them, so he protected Lang Ying and said, "Master Fengshi, please stop for a moment!"

 Several pieces of gold foil had already brushed past Shi Qingxuan and Mingyi. Shi Qingxuan wanted to stop, but the roof was lifted up by the wind he drove, revealing a crack that was not big enough for him to get out. At this moment, the gold foil that was dancing around them suddenly flew upwards. There was a sound of "ding-dong-dong", and a man broke through the roof, accompanied by bursts of broken wood and falling rocks, and jumped down from above.

 As soon as he landed, the man said loudly: "Master Wind Master, I'm sorry, I just can't stay still!"

 Shi Qingxuan was overjoyed and said, "Qianqiu came just in time!"

 This man had sharp eyebrows and big eyes, and a handsome figure. He carried a heavy sword on his shoulder, and the hilt was as wide as an adult man's palm. It was Lang Qianqiu. His heavy sword was golden. Looking closely, it was not a golden sword, but because the sword body absorbed those sharp and thin gold foils, so that the sword looked like it was made of gold.

 Xie Lian knew that the iron used to forge his heavy sword was very rare. It was taken from a magnetic mountain and had a strange ability to absorb metal. As long as the magic power of the owner of the magic weapon was not higher than his, he could hold the hilt of the sword and turn his mind to absorb all the metal magic weapons that attacked him, and melt and absorb them. Sure enough, after a while, the layer of gold foil was completely absorbed by the heavy sword, and the golden layer disappeared without a trace. Seeing this, Hua Cheng laughed and squinted his eyes and said, "You, the heavenly priest, are so poor and short-sighted that you are unwilling to let go of the gold when you see it?"

 If this was said to Xie Lian, he would just pretend not to hear it. However, this was said to Lang Qianqiu, a royal noble who regarded money and treasure as dirt. Hearing the enemy teasing like this, even though he knew that it was malicious to provoke him, he was very angry and said, "Don't confuse right and wrong!" He raised the heavy sword and chopped at Hua Cheng. Hua Cheng held the scimitar in his hand, and with one hand he made a few silver flowers, and calmly raised the sword to meet the attack.

 Lang Qianqiu used all his strength in this chop. He was a young and inexperienced man who was not afraid of tigers. However, Xie Lian saw the difference in strength between the two sides clearly. If he really chopped down with this sword, he would definitely die!

 Even though Shi Qingxuan couldn't see the difference, he still felt his flesh throbbing with fear and shouted, "Qianqiu, don't take it head-on!" However, the arrow was on the string, at a critical moment, how could it be stopped with just a shout?


 Unexpectedly, just as the sword and the knife were about to collide, a ball of extremely dazzling white light exploded in the armory.

 The white light was so huge that it almost covered the entire armory. Everyone's vision was temporarily blocked. All they could see was a dazzling white. However, Xie Lian had made preparations in advance, so he could barely see. He gathered all the magic power borrowed from Master Qingxuan in his right hand, turned it into flames, and shot it in one direction. One side of the armory immediately burned fiercely.

 Then, Xie Lian threw Ruo Xie out and ordered it to tie him, Shi Qingxuan, Mingyi, Lang Qianqiu, and Lang Ying together, and shouted, “Master Wind Master, raise the wind and go up!”

 Although Shi Qingxuan couldn't open his eyes yet, he still walked forward. With a wave of his fan, a tornado rose from the ground and finally broke through the crumbling roof.

 Ruo Xie tied up the five people and flew straight up to the sky. In midair, Shi Qingxuan finally regained his sight and saw flames rising to the sky and thick smoke billowing a few feet below. It turned out that the armory was on fire and burning fiercely. He immediately said, "I'll add more fire to you. You're going well, no need to see me off!" He swung his backhand and fanned it.

 This time, it was truly "adding fuel to the flames". The wind caused the flames to spread to other rooms in an instant, and most of the Jilefang was burned red. In the midst of the red flames, Xie Lian still saw that red figure, flying too high to see clearly, but he had a hunch that at this moment, Hua Cheng was also below him, looking up at him.

 The ghost market outside Ji Le Fang was filled with screams and people were fleeing. Xie Lian had only thought of a small fire, so that Hua Cheng would have no time to chase them when they ran away, and he thought that he could delay it for a while, but he never expected that the fire would burn so fiercely all of a sudden. That was Hua Cheng's residence. He grabbed Shi Qingxuan who was fanning desperately, and said in a deep voice: "Master Feng, stop fanning! If you fan again, it will burn everything!"

 After this grab, Shi Qingxuan felt his shoulder was wet, and there was also an unusually pungent smell of blood. He turned around and said in surprise: "Your Highness, what happened to your hand!"

 Xie Lian's right hand was covered in blood, and his entire arm was stained with blood. He was shaking so much that he couldn't even describe it as "slightly". However, he still held Ruo Xie tightly to prevent them from being blown away by the strong wind. Shi Qingxuan asked, "What's wrong with you?!"

 Xie Lian shook his head and said, “It’s alright! Stop fanning me, let’s talk about it when we get back upstairs.”

 He didn't say much, but Shi Qingxuan understood immediately and asked, "That white light just now? Was it you?"

 His guess was correct. Just now, just before Hua Cheng and Lang Qianqiu were about to clash with swords and knives, Xie Lian dodged and stepped forward.

 He casually picked up a sword from the weapon rack nearby, and thrust it in between the two swords, making two moves in total. The first move was to knock back Lang Qianqiu's heavy sword, and the second move was to suppress the scimitar's fate.

 The power of these two moves was not only strong, but also controlled to an extremely delicate degree. Therefore, although Xie Lian blocked the sword and knife, he did not rebound the attack. Because Xie Lian was caught in the middle, he had already used his one arm to bear both attacks.

 Lang Qianqiu's heavy sword was not bad, but Hua Cheng's sword was truly unstoppable. Since the sword that Xie Lian casually drew was stored in Hua Cheng's armory, it was naturally a precious sword. When the weapons met, a huge white light burst out. However, after these two moves, the sword was broken into pieces.

 These movements were completed in a flash, so fast that it was invisible to the eyes. Shi Qingxuan saw the miserable state of his right hand, and thought about the critical moment just now, and was secretly shocked. He also thought: "The Flower Crown Martial God, one hand holding a sword, the other holding a flower. I originally only remembered holding the flower, but forgot that he ascended to heaven because of the sword. Fortunately, the Crown Prince hit him twice, otherwise Qianqiu would have died under the bloody sword of Tanhua." Thinking of this, he looked at Lang Qianqiu again, but saw that he looked dazed, as if his soul had flown away, and couldn't help but wonder: "Could it be that Qianqiu was stunned by Huacheng's sword???"

 Riding on this gust of wind, the group finally flew up to the heavens. They rushed through the Ascension Gate and rushed straight into the Shenwu Hall. Lang Ying could not enter the hall, so Xie Lian casually placed her in a side hall. Since there was no one around, he shouted in the spiritual communication array, "Excuse me, is there any immortal here? Please come to the Shenwu Hall as soon as possible! The situation is urgent, a priest is injured here!"

 As he shouted, Shi Qingxuan snapped his fingers and finally changed back into his white robe. He raised his hand and distributed another 100,000 merits, saying, "It's the two priests!"

 Xie Lian hurriedly said, “Speak nicely and don’t waste your merit. Everyone will come naturally when they hear it. Don’t get excited.”

 Shi Qingxuan said, "No, you don't know, spreading merit is a hundred times faster than speaking nicely!"

 Soon, a voice from afar asked, "Who's hurt?"

 When the voice said "who", it was still far away, but when it said the last word, the person had already appeared. It was Feng Xin. He entered the hall, looked at Xie Lian, then looked at Lang Qianqiu, and paused slightly. Xie Lian said, "I'm fine. I'm afraid Master Geomancer was seriously injured."

 After a moment of silence, Feng Xin said, "What happened to your right hand?"

 At this time, another voice said, "So what if he got injured? There are so many priests in the Heavenly Palace, and every patrol will be without injuries."

 The voice was extremely polite, but the words were not very pleasant to the ear. It was naturally admiration. When he entered the Shenwu Hall, he also looked at Xie Lian first, and then at Lang Qianqiu. But his expression was completely different from Feng Xin's. He raised his eyebrows slightly, as if he was going to watch a good show. Seeing Feng Xin looking at Xie Lian's arm, he sneered, leaned over to check Ming Yi, and said, "Is this the master of geomancy?"

 During this time, many other priests came one after another. Earth Master Yi was always a mysterious dragon that was hard to find. It was almost the first time for several people present to see him, so they couldn't help but stare at him. Everyone was confused and didn't know why they were suddenly summoned here, but they had received the merits of Wind Master, so they had to come and take a look. Xie Lian said to Feng Xin: "Thank you. But it's okay, it will be fine if you leave it alone."

 Feng Xin said: "Watch out for yourself."

 Xie Lian thanked him again in a low voice, and when he turned around, he saw Lang Qianqiu staring at him blankly, and asked, "Your Highness Taihua, what's wrong with you?"

 Feng Xin also noticed that Lang Qianqiu looked a little strange, and asked, "Is His Highness Taihua also injured?"

 Xie Lian hesitated for a moment and said, "I don't know. Let me take a look." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and probed towards Lang Qianqiu's brow. Unexpectedly, Lang Qianqiu was quick-witted and grabbed his wrist.

 Although his expression was still somewhat hesitant, as if he had discovered something but was unsure, there was already a fire burning in his eyes. Xie Lian clearly felt a tremor spread from his arm to his own.

 At this point, the priests around all noticed something was wrong. Shi Qingxuan stood up and said, "Qianqiu, what are you doing?"

 Lang Qianqiu finally spoke.

 He only said two words, but Xie Lian’s heart sank to the bottom.

 He gritted his teeth and said, "...National Master?"


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