Chapter 127 On Mount Mao

The Three Ancestors of Shangqing were beaten back to Zhu Huo Palace in Li Shanhe, vomiting blood and cursing the heavens before fainting. Such heavy injuries to experts in the Ascension Realm naturally alarmed the strong individuals of the Shangqing Sect within Li Shanhe.

Meanwhile, in Biao Shanhe.

Ji Xiang shattered the Three Ancestors of Shangqing with a single blow and then used the Void Pacing Chapter to send them away. Within the Shangqing Nine Heavens Palace, wind and thunder raged, threatening to collapse the great hall into ruins. Only the white, radiant Heavenly Gate remained open in the center.

The surrounding sect leaders had either already fled in the chaos or had suffered damage to their physical bodies, rendering them unable to move. They could only abandon their bodies and let their primordial spirits escape. After all, the clash between Ascension Realm experts was terrifying, and the slightest carelessness could result in them being reduced to ashes.

Rumble! With a tremor, half of the Nine Heavens Palace, the supreme palace of Shangqing Mao Mountain, collapsed.

Palaces turned to dust, and Ji Xiang walked out from the Heavenly Gate!

"The Rootless Talisman, crafted by Grandmaster Zhang Sanfeng... to be able to injure people across realms! Truly impressive."

Ji Xiang marveled at the power of that talisman. Now that he knew how to draw the Rootless Talisman, it was a divine technique for hitting someone from afar!

From now on, not only can you hit my Dao-self, but I can also hit yours. Not only will I strike your illusionary form, but I will also strike your true body!

"However, lead qi cannot be used casually. The source of lead qi is the life essence of the human body. Unless one's physical body is extremely strong and the reserves of primordial essence are immense, it cannot be squandered."

"As the saying goes, if one recognizes true lead and mercury, one becomes an immortal of eternal life. Besides being replenished by one's own increased vitality, another source of lead qi is pills..."

Ji Xiang knew about lead qi, after all, when the three flowers gathered at the crown, their states were gold flower, silver flower, and lead flower.

It was just that lead qi was generally mixed with the primordial qi of heaven and earth, and he had never thought that there would be such a usage.

Afterwards, Ji Xiang soared into the sky on clouds and mist, searching for that Pure Yang expert!

Seeing that he couldn't find anyone around, Ji Xiang circulated his aura, and his voice shook the heavens and the earth!

"The Shangqing Auxiliary Ancestor is dead, and the Three Ancestors have been destroyed. If you return now, I will spare your life!"

His voice rolled out with thunder. The Pure Yang expert naturally heard it, and upon careful sensing, he indeed lost the aura of the Shangqing Auxiliary Ancestor, Yin Changsheng, and the Shangqing Third Ancestor!

He was greatly shocked, his face pale!

"How could this be? Two Ascension Realms joining forces to fight one person, and they were both killed by him!"

Two against one and they were still defeated. Ancestors, do you even know how to fight!

What am I supposed to do now!

Going out is certain death. This Pure Yang expert believed that Ji Xiang would not let him go. He would definitely kill him to vent his anger. The Taoists of the Great Ming Dynasty's court were not soft-hearted. The court's hounds always went for the kill!

"Where did those people hide? I can't find them..."

"Without them in hand, how can I make this person hesitate to act!"

Fear and impatience arose in the Pure Yang expert's heart. He urgently needed to find Feng Menglong and the others, using their lives as leverage. At the same time, as long as he returned to the secret land, everything would be safe.

Although the two ancestors were defeated in an absurd manner, as long as he returned to the secret land, he would no longer need to fear Ji Xiang before him.

After a fruitless search, Ji Xiang's voice came from the sky again!

"If you don't come out, I will bombard this place with the Great Heavenly Thunder Formation. I will surely teach you to be destroyed in both body and spirit!"

The Pure Yang expert's expression changed drastically. Then, he saw electric light in his eyes, heard the sound of thunder in his ears, and saw Ji Xiang activate the Heavenly Tribulation Thunder Formation, which originated from the top of the Nine Heavens Palace and crashed down in all directions!

"Isn't he afraid of killing his companions!"

"It seems he already knows where his companions are. This formation will definitely avoid that area!"

The Pure Yang expert dodged the thunder tribulation and observed the positions where the Heavenly Tribulation Thunder Formation fell. There was a clear gap. He was immediately overjoyed and began to rush towards that direction!

The Pure Yang expert fled with all his might, arriving there in an instant!

He was not afraid of being exposed, after all, although the other party's strength was great, some moves required the corresponding realm to be used. The Pure Yang expert possessed the Art of Rainbow Transformation, able to arrive in an instant even if they were a hundred *li* away!

There weren't many Pure Yang experts in this world anyway!

What if he was in the Ascension Realm? He's just an incomplete immortal!

He instantly arrived at the place where the thunder tribulation was absent, but what appeared before him was an inch of nine-colored radiance!

"What is this thing?"

He didn't recognize the Grand Void Treasure Light, and he reached out to touch it.

The nine-colored treasure light suddenly became incomparably huge, devouring him completely!

The Grand Void Treasure Light instantly erased the Pure Yang expert from the world!

The clouds descended, and Ji Xiang arrived late. Seeing the Grand Void Treasure Light floating there, he knew that the Pure Yang Realm person had been killed. He waved his talisman again to undo the invisibility. At this time, several people were huddled together, gathered around Qin Nvxiu's white jade saber.

"Master Ancestor, waah!"

The little fox pouted and began to fake cry.

Ji Xiang slapped his head, and Feng Menglong spoke cleanly: "Daoist Ji, you've finally come! These people have no good intentions. They suddenly changed their faces. How could the dignified Shangqing Sect become so chaotic!"

"What exactly happened?"

Ji Xiang asked: "I killed them too quickly, and didn't have time to ask them."

Feng Menglong was stunned: "Ah? Killed them too quickly... this... okay!"

Since ancient times, there has only been the saying of killing too slowly, not having enough time to interrogate because you killed them too quickly, how could you say that!

That was two Ascension Realms and a Pure Yang!

Seeing Feng Menglong's strange expression, Ji Xiang shook his head: "You're thinking too much, I only killed two and a half Pure Yangs at most."

"The power of those two Ascension Realms was incomplete. One could only descend through a borrowed form, and the other, although possessing the Dao techniques of the Ascension Realm, could not use his Ascension Realm Divine Abilities and didn't use them at all."

"People from Li Shanhe must pay a price to come to Biao Shanhe. I know they came from a place called Zhu Huo Palace, crossing realms, but I don't know what that palace is for."

"Perhaps, the price they pay to come to Biao Shanhe is to seal away a portion of their Ascension Realm Dao techniques, and at the same time, seal away three great divine abilities."

Feng Menglong was dizzy listening to him, he didn't understand any of this. In short, he explained the great changes of the past few days to Ji Xiang, although he wasn't very clear about the specific situation.

"That young man in the sky-blue Daoist robe came up and wanted me to be the Mountain Lord of Mao Mountain! Just kidding, I am a dignified... dignified scholar, also a man of seven feet, how could I eat such condescending food!"

"So I righteously refused him!"

Feng Menglong pulled Ji Xiang again: "This is not very important, anyway I don't know him, and he's dead now, quickly take a look at my wife!"

Ji Xiang looked at Madam Hou, whose mind was somewhat dull at this time, and her mouth didn't speak either, looking like she had lost her soul.

Ji Xiang could see that this was a kind of soul-locking technique.

"Among the three souls of a person, the Vital Soul governs wisdom. If the Vital Soul is locked, the person's consciousness will sink into chaos, becoming someone else's puppet. But among the three souls, losing the Celestial Soul and the Terrestrial Soul is common, only the Vital Soul is almost never lost or shaken."

Feng Menglong was strange: "I've heard about the three souls, you said last time that if a person dies, the seven spirits scatter first, and the three souls then leave..."

Ji Xiang explained: "The Celestial Soul and Terrestrial Soul are often outside the body, only the Vital Soul resides alone, so, in fact, the three souls are not gathered together, what we often say when we say 'soul' refers to the Vital Soul."

"The first soul a person is born with is the Yang Soul, and the Vital Soul is the main body of the Yang Soul. The Celestial Soul mainly manages your contact with heaven and the outside world, as well as your memories and the bits and pieces of your life. In short, it is your subconscious, the Celestial Soul is your true will, but this will is not controlled by your wisdom."

"And your karma is reflected on the Terrestrial Soul, all your senses, whether good or evil, come from the Terrestrial Soul, and when your Vital Soul falls asleep, the Terrestrial Soul will enter the body from the outside to take the lead, and at the same time try to awaken the Vital Soul."

"The soul-locking technique is to lock the Vital Soul, at this time the Terrestrial Soul cannot enter the body, and the Celestial Soul will not record what happens at this time. Your will, wisdom, and senses are all locked, although your three souls are still there, you can only become someone else's puppet."

Feng Menglong opened his mouth, very surprised:

"Daoist, how do you seem to have experienced it before?"

Ji Xiang's eyebrows raised, he had not experienced this kind of thing, after all, the little Daoist had no souls when he died, he directly took over.

However, among the common people, there is indeed a sect that specializes in this kind of magic.

"Do you know that Mao Mountain's corpse refining technique mainly uses the spirits of all living beings, not the soul. Mao Mountain has a soul-searching technique, but not a soul-controlling technique. The soul-controlling technique is extremely difficult to learn, it's not that you can learn it just by being told how to learn it, and if you learn it, if you can't lock the other person's Vital Soul, you will suffer a severe backlash."

"When I was in Wudang Mountain before... I saw people who could lock souls."

Ji Xiang searched through the memories of his predecessor. In his memory, Wudang Mountain had indeed had a group of people who could control souls. These people were not orthodox Taoists, but a very famous sect among the folk magic sects!

Yin Mountain Sect!

"The Yin Mountain Sect was born from the Mao Mountain Sect, and also combined the ancient witchcraft of the Lü Mountain Sect. Since opening the mountain gate and establishing a sect, the number of people is not large, but taking soul chasing and soul control as the main means, the world's magic sects often specialize in things that orthodox Daoism is not good at, which is very normal..."

Feng Menglong was immediately puzzled: "Then why don't you humbly learn from them?"

Ji Xiang laughed and pointed to the surroundings: "Look at the places that have been passed by this thunder tribulation. This is the result of Mao Mountain's formation. I ask you, if you have a means of overcoming ten techniques with one force, would you still learn these minor techniques?"

"The power of minor techniques lies in their strangeness and difficulty to break, it becomes frightening when supplemented with great techniques, but if it is taken out alone, it is not a powerful spell, it is only among the middle-level experts who compete with each other, and the leaders of the Three Mountains Sects don't care about these spells, because they can't lock or take away the Vital Soul of the orthodox methods of the Three Mountains Sects, and when a single spell from the Three Mountains Sects goes down, these magic sects will be greatly damaged."

"Of course, now it seems... the situation has changed slightly."

Ji Xiang looked at Madam Hou: "The combination of the orthodox methods of the Three Mountains Sects and the magic sects, becoming this new soul-locking technique..."

"By the way, what about the two from the Quanzhen Sect?"

The little fox and Feng Menglong looked at each other, both shaking their heads, saying they didn't know where they were locked.

Ji Xiang frowned, and then suddenly slapped Madam Hou!

Feng Menglong was immediately anxious!

But seeing Ji Xiang's serious face, he forcibly stopped the urge to speak!

Daoist Ji must be doing it for the good of my wife!

That's how he felt!

It was with this slap that Ji Xiang exuded hostility, stimulating Madam Hou's instinct, but it had no effect.

Ji Xiang fell into thought.

Without hostility, the other party is like a piece of wood, without wisdom, thought, or subconscious, the blank divine tablet will not appraise a vegetative person.

"Without hostility, I don't know how to solve her problem. Let's go save the two fellow Daoists from the Quanzhen Sect first. If they have no way, we will go to the Yin Mountain Sect!"

Ji Xiang patted his head: "This means the day to return to Wudang will have to be postponed again."

"It's almost August now, going down the river, I don't even have a boat anymore, and coming to Mao Mountain I encountered these troublesome things, the Mountain Lord of Mao Mountain disappeared, and Li Shanhe descended, maybe there will be a disaster..."

The little fox was ignorant: "What disaster?"

Ji Xiang said: "The Shangqing Sect is the leader of the Daoist sects, one of the Three Mountains Sects, and they can actually be replaced, the Mountain Lord changed, and the ancestors of Li Shanhe directly descended to seize power, and not a single sect leader dared to come out and object... no, maybe those who came out and objected have been killed by them, like the missing Mountain Lord."

"So if Shangqing is like this, what about the other major sects?"

"The Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain is not here now... I am not familiar with Gezao Mountain... the Three Sects, Nine Paths, and Twenty-six Sects, I am afraid they will not escape this situation... what's even more serious is that some magic sects will be manipulated by the people of Li Shanhe and become their missionary machines..."

"It's good."

The little fox: "What's good, Master Ancestor?"

Ji Xiang breathed out: "It's good that my Wudang has no proper ancestors."

Without ancestors, they are all contemporary powerhouses. In ancient times, Wudang Mountain was a gathering place for loose cultivators, most of whom were just casually practicing, and they didn't leave behind any sects or schools. Like Yin Changsheng, he attained the Dao in Mount Taihe, but now he has run to the Shangqing Sect to be an ancestor.

Most of the ancient immortals did not leave behind sects, so they are not the same family as the current Wudang Mountain, and the current Wudang Mountain is also a mixed bag, with immortals, martial artists, and hermits, the oldest being just some "Yuan Dynasty Remnants," such as Grandmaster Zhang Sanfeng claiming to be.

Ji Xiang looked around, handed some talismans to the others, and then soared into the clouds, once again issuing a declaration to this world:

"This Pure Yang has been defeated, I am too lazy to ask his name, but it is probably your ancestor! Sect leaders, are you still not coming out to see me!"

"Where are my two Quanzhen fellow Daoists imprisoned, are you unwilling to tell me?"

"Shangqing has fallen to such a state, are you just doing whatever your ancestors say, are you willing to do wrong things if the Shangqing ancestors tell you to do so?"

Three voices, wrapped in wind and thunder, came out, and someone appeared in the mountains, it was the Eighth Sect Leader.

His expression was ashamed, Ji Xiang pressed down on the clouds, and the Eighth Sect Leader performed a kneeling salute: "Thank you, Immortal, for correcting the style of my Shangqing Sect."

"The two Quanzhen Daoists are trapped in my Shangqing secret land, I will take you all there now... it's just that the secret land is dangerous, please be prepared, Immortal..."