Chapter 480: Tianpeng has cultivated for a thousand years, and his black hair has become bones to make a cauldron
Chang'an, one month later.
With the instigation of the Qing Emperor, the entire Chang'an City was now filled with rumors that he was seriously injured and died. The people were in a panic and were unwilling to believe it at first. It was not until Li Shimin led civil and military officials in mourning clothes and carried the imperial teacher's coffin to Zhaoling that people finally believed it.
For a time, Chang'an was covered in mourning and the whole city was filled with grief. Many people spontaneously attended Li Daoxuan's funeral and even donated money to build temples and set up shrines in his honor.
The statue of the imperial teacher in the city was almost covered with offerings and flowers.
The young imperial teacher who saved them from drought and floods left them just like that.
Some white-haired old men hung their heads and wept, shouting that God was jealous of their talent and had taken away the patron saint of Chang'an.
Some people also said that the National Master was not dead, but ascended to heaven. The Jade Emperor summoned him back to heaven to continue his service, and he swore that he had witnessed the National Master's ascension with his own eyes.
This statement was gradually accepted by many people. After all, in the hearts of the people of Chang'an, their national teacher had great supernatural powers and boundless magic. How could he die? It would be almost as if he had ascended to become an immortal.
At this moment, the person who was rumored to be Li Daoxuan was not dead, but was quietly practicing in the Xuandu courtyard.
After finishing today's training, Li Daoxuan slowly opened his eyes, his deep gaze penetrated the sea of clouds and shone on the entire Chang'an.
At this moment, every blade of grass and every tree in Chang'an City became his eyes.
After a long moment, he shook his head and sighed.
As he expected, the five evil elders did not fall for it. It had been a whole month and none of them had entered Chang'an City.
Those old foxes must be hiding outside Chang'an, observing quietly.
Even though Li Daoxuan ordered people to publicly burn "The Tale of Yagyū" at the city gate every day, and even though His Majesty cooperated with him in a play and personally transported his coffin, the old foxes were not fooled.
Li Daoxuan knew very well that unless they witnessed him being seriously injured or he took the risk to leave Chang'an City alone, they would not act rashly.
Sure enough, none of the five evil elders who were able to break through the Yang God under the siege of countless righteous monks and still be at large until now are simple people.
In that case...
Li Daoxuan's eyes moved. It seemed that he could only wait for news from Li Chunfeng.
He needs to break through to the Yang Shen realm within three months, otherwise the elixir given by the Empress will become ineffective and the Xuanming True Water in his heart will continue to break out. By then, there will be no hope for him to reach the Yang Shen realm in this lifetime.
Now a month and a half has passed.
At this moment, Li Daoxuan's heart was slightly disturbed. He could only hope that Li Chunfeng and the others could be faster. If it took more than three months, all his efforts would be in vain.
Of course, he also knew that being anxious was useless. He didn't even urge or ask about the progress because that would inevitably disturb Li Chunfeng and the others.
I read some books, practiced calligraphy, and played with Xiaobai and Xiaotian. The morning passed quickly.
Just as Li Daoxuan was about to continue practicing, the sky suddenly darkened, and day turned into night. The stars in the sky were densely packed like the Milky Way, shining with bright light.
Rays of starlight fell and landed on the observatory of the Imperial Astronomical Observatory.
Li Daoxuan's eyes lit up and he couldn't help laughing.
Xiao Bai asked in confusion: "Master, what makes you so happy?"
Li Daoxuan touched its head and said with a smile: "I knew that Huang Guanzi would not let me down."
At this moment, he felt relieved, his whole body relaxed, and a strange light appeared in his eyes.
"Evil Five Elders, since you like watching plays so much, I will put on a good show for you!"
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In a cave outside Chang'an City, a bonfire was burning, reflecting several figures.
Qianjizi sat cross-legged at the entrance of the cave, stroking his goatee and closing his eyes as if he was feeling something. After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly frowned, opened his eyes, and revealed a hint of anger.
"Damn it, we've been discovered again!"
He let his mechanical puppet sneak into Chang'an City, wanting to go to Xuandu Temple to find out whether Li Daoxuan was dead or not. Unexpectedly, Chang'an was heavily guarded, and there were bad guys holding dragon-qi mirrors everywhere.
Especially in Xuandu Temple, there was a guard post every five steps and a sentry post every ten steps. Of the nine puppets he sent out, only three made it to Xuandu Temple alive. And they were discovered by the bad guys just a few steps after entering the door.
The current Chang'an City is like an iron barrel. The puppets cannot get in unless they come in person.
"Haha, if you ask me, wouldn't it be best if Li Daoxuan died? Then we don't need to take risks and can go back to our own homes. After all, isn't the purpose of our coming here to kill Li Daoxuan?"
Beside the campfire, a pot-bellied man said, he was dressed in tattered clothes, his beard was like a thorn, he couldn't help but drooling at the sight of the human legs being roasted on the flames.
In the firelight, his reflection on the wall turned out to be a huge wild boar with a sturdy body and sharp fangs.
Qianjizi took a look at him and knew that Zhu Laomo was not a pig demon, but he had cultivated "Tianpeng Change" to an extremely high level. His physical body was comparable to that of a thousand-year-old pig demon, and his shadow no longer looked like a normal human.
If he goes one step further, he will be able to completely transform into a thousand-year-old pig demon and enter the late stage of Yang God!
"Old Zhu, it's not as simple as you think. Li Daoxuan is very likely just faking his death. He pretended to be dead because he was afraid that the five of us would come to retaliate, so he deliberately spread false news and hid away."
"If we go back, he will definitely continue to confiscate the Legend of the Yagyu. You don't know that the amount of Yang Qi I have gained during this period is only 20% to 30% of what it was before. If this continues, let alone giving it to you, even I won't have enough for myself!"
Qianjizi explained earnestly.
"Qianjizi is right."
A soft and charming voice was heard, and then a figure with scantily clad clothes and a hot body walked into the cave, followed by four handsome young men.
The four young men followed her steps with infatuated eyes, their minds bewitched by her charm.
The woman walked into the cave and took off her translucent red dress in front of everyone. Her mature and beautiful body was exposed in the cave.
As white as jade, with enchanting curves.
She smiled tenderly, and actually began to practice dual cultivation with the four young men, treating them as cauldrons for her practice. In a moment, the four handsome young men became skin and bones, like mummies.
"This woman doesn't look like she's almost a hundred years old. Her skin is so soft and tender, even more attractive than a fourteen-year-old girl..."
Old Demon Zhu stared at Madam White Bone closely, and for a moment he felt that the legs of the person on the fire no longer smelled good.
Madam Bai Gu smiled charmingly, and while casually putting on her dress, she smiled at Zhu Lao Mo and said, "Old Zhu, if you want, I can accompany you anytime~"
As she spoke she licked her red lips.
Zhu Lao Mo shuddered, quickly retracted his gaze, and said, "Forget it, I don't want to be sucked dry by you!"
As everyone knows, the reason why she is called the White Bone Lady is that all the men she targets will eventually be sucked dry and become mummies, shaped like white bones.
Even the bones were rotten and the wild dogs on the roadside were unwilling to even take a look.
"Mr. Baimu, these kids are so boring. Would you like to have some fun with me for once? Don't lie. Just now, you had several eyes staring at me~"
The man called Baimu has a very strange appearance. He has sixteen eyes on his face, and even his neck and head are covered with eyes. They are so densely packed that one look at him gives people goose bumps.
"Hehe, which eyes did I use to look at you just now?"
Baimu licked his lips and asked.
"That one, that one, and that one..."
Madam Bai Gu smiled sweetly and said, "When I think of being watched by so many eyes, I feel inexplicably excited..."
The atmosphere seemed to become more ambiguous, but the next moment, Baimu stretched out his fingers, dug out those lustful eyes, strung them together in a bloody string, roasted them over the flame, and finally ate them himself.
"How many times have I told you not to look at this old witch, but you won't listen!"
Baimu talked to himself, some of his eyes were cold, some were painful, some were indifferent, and some were crazy. The whole person seemed like an aggregation of countless consciousnesses, weird and twisted to the extreme.
Madam Bai Gu was asking for trouble. She snorted coldly, then looked at the mysterious man in a black robe in the corner of the cave, whose face could not be seen clearly, and said, "Wu Wen, we have been waiting here for more than half a month. What do you think, should we go into the city to kill Li Daoxuan?"
If we were to say which of the five evil elders is the most notorious and the most powerful, it would definitely be the Five Plagues.
Wu Plagues. It is rumored that he inherited the legacy of the Plague God Lu Yue and transformed his own body into a carrier of countless plagues, becoming the most poisonous thing in the world.
It is said that he was once hunted by two righteous Yangshen monks. After escaping, he tore off a piece of his own flesh and blood and put it into the river basin of the sect where the two monks belonged.
As a result, within three days, more than a dozen towns and most of the disciples of that sect all died of the plague. Even the two Yangshen monks were seriously injured and died of depression.
Some say that when you are against the Five Plagues, even breathing is a mistake.
Although the Five Evil Elders were in the same cave at the moment, the other four subconsciously stayed away from the Five Plagues and did not approach that corner.
"Don't worry, I can wait for decades, so why wait for a few days?"
Wu Wen's voice was very hoarse, as if he had swallowed several razor blades.
"I have investigated Li Daoxuan. He is a man of deep thoughts and strategy. Xudu, Pandan, and Maha all fell into his trap. We cannot take it lightly."
"Chang'an is his territory. With his intelligence, it is impossible for him to not make any preparations after declaring war on us. I think that Chang'an City... may be ambushed from all sides. Perhaps Zhang Qianyang and Zhang Zhiyan are already waiting inside."
Qianjizi nodded and said, "Wu Wen's words make sense, but we are just waiting here, is there no other way?"
Although those "Yagyu Tales" were just small gadgets, they were still quite troublesome to make, and he didn't want to redo them on a large scale.
Every extra day we waited meant dozens of copies of "The Tale of Yagyū" were burned to ashes.
Wu Wen said calmly: "Wait a little longer, maybe he will leave the city soon. As long as we confirm that he is alone, we can capture him immediately!"
"What if he never leaves town?"
Wu Wen was silent for a moment, and then said, "Unless we see him seriously injured with our own eyes, proving that there are no other Yang Gods in Chang'an City, we must not——"
As soon as he finished speaking, the sky suddenly darkened, and rays of starlight fell on the city of Chang'an.
"Is this... a formation?"
"Incredible, such a magnificent formation, stealing the power of heaven for one's own use, what a boldness!"
"This formation doesn't seem to have any attacking capabilities, but rather... surveillance?"
Several people looked up at the starry sky and soon realized that something was wrong.
As the starlight array gradually took shape, the stars in the sky seemed to become eyes, watching them, making them, who always liked to hide in the dark, very uncomfortable.
"Oh no! If we let this formation be set up, won't our whereabouts be exposed?"
"By then, there may not be any place for us in the entire Tang Dynasty!"
For a moment, everyone's faces were as gloomy as water.
