The Emperor Reigns Them All

Chapter 343 Boring

Chapter 343 Boring

Huang Jingyuan observed the crossbow in his hand with a solemn look. This was a large crossbow similar to Fuyuan crossbow. Just now, the cultivator of the demon clan used it to injure two of his men and kill two of his men.

A moment ago, Huang Jingyuan came from afar with six companions. As soon as they entered the ruins, they were ambushed. The other side only had four people, but half of them were wounded or killed because one of the cultivators of the demon clan used the Fuyuan crossbow in his hand.

The cultivation of the cultivator in the Ground Immortal Realm was suppressed to the Warrior Mentor Realm, while the cultivator in the Sky Immortal Realm only had the strength at the Qi-refining stage. Under the circumstances, because of the long range of the Fuyuan crossbow, it was impossible to defend effectively. No matter how vigilant they were, they couldn’t notice it in advance.

And once the opponents launched a long-range strike at the height, it was difficult to fight back in such a short time. If they occupied an unfavorable position, there would be a risk of annihilation.

Just now, Chen Jizhen entered the ruins from the flank with his men. After observing the battle situation, they launched a sudden attack while the cultivators of the demon clan were attracted by Huang Jingyuan. Otherwise, it was difficult for Huang Jingyuan to even retreat.

Chen Jizhen walked to Huang Jingyuan’s side with a gloomy face. “This secret region is really weird. There’s such a thing!” he said angrily. He looked extremely unhappy.

After down to the human world from Kunlun, Huang Jingyuan and he were the Great Cultivators at the last stage of the Sky Immortal Realm. They were very powerful. Li Ye couldn’t compare with them, and only Holy Child and Feihong Bodhisattva, among the cultivators in the demon clan and the Land Buddhism, could be mentioned in the same breath with them.

Since the Immortal Court had a unique method to deal with the demon clan and suppress Feihong Bodhisattva, they were invincible. Moreover, they were taking more cultivators, whether in the Sky Immortal Realm or the Ground Immortal Realm, than the monks of the Land Buddhism and the cultivators of the demon clan.

As for Li Ye who only lived for 30 years, they didn’t take him seriously, even though he led more than 400,000 soldiers and he could command the cultivators in the demon clan.

All in all, no matter who their opponents were, Huang Jingyuan and Chen Jizhen were sure to win and couldn’t be defeated in the competition for the Luck of heaven. This was also the confidence of the Immortal Court. The Immortal Court was in danger now. In the battle in the immortal territory, to deal with various gods, the Immortal Court was already short in forces and the situation was critical. But it, after all, was in charge of Jiuzhou.

The two people originally thought that there wouldn’t be many twists and turns on this trip, but they didn’t expect that things went completely unexpected.

The two people went to Hedong first. They intended to find out when the Luck of heaven would appear in Taiyuan and get rid of Li Ye. Without Li Ye, the cultivators of the demon clan had no reliance in the human world. Since they were suppressed by the Immortal Court, they couldn’t succeed alone, and they could only retreat obediently. Before dealing with the monks of the Land Buddhism, the Immortal Court should get rid of the demon clan, this interior force, first.

It was very easy to kill Li Ye. It was very easy for the immortal to kill the mortal after all.

But they failed and they were ambushed by Li Ye. In an unexpected way, Li Ye injured Huang Jingyuan seriously. The two of them could only retreat in disgrace in the end.

Then, the cultivators of three sides gathered together. Although Huang Jingyuan and Chen Jizhen were injured, they didn’t panic, because the cultivators of the Immortal Court, who came to help, were powerful enough. Even though they couldn’t use the secret method without their two’s help to deal with the demon clan, they would still be invincible.

Until they came to the secret region of Tao of Heaven.

At first, Chen Jizhen was really happy because he recovered from his injuries.

Now everyone’s cultivation was suppressed to Level 1 of Qi-refining. The number of people decided the result of the battle. The cultivators of the Immortal Court were far more than the cultivators of the demon clan and the monks of the Land Buddhism, so they were sure to win.

But as he explored the secret region, Chen Jizhen gradually didn’t think so.

The mystery of the secret region was far beyond their expectations.

Worst of all, the secret method they used against the demon clan didn’t work here.

“Not only Fuyuan crossbows, but also Single crossbows and Angle crossbows.” Huang Jingyuan glanced at Chen Jizhen. He took out some crossbows from his sleeves. He said with a complicated look, “These are all from the ruins. At first, I didn’t notice them. I just thought they might be useful, so I picked up a few...”

Speaking of this, Huang Jingyuan paused. He looked painful and helpless. He said with guilt, “I didn’t expect that the cultivators of the demon clan would use them to kill two of our men.”

As the military counselor, he couldn’t predict what the enemies would do, so he couldn’t forgive himself for such a mistake.

Chen Jizhen took the Single crossbows and the Angle crossbows. Although he was unhappy, he still comforted Huang Jingyuan. “It’s not your fault. Even if you had a precaution, it would still be hard to defend, because the Fuyuan crossbow had a long range.”

Huang Jingyuan remained silent. A long time later, he sighed and said solemnly, “After entering the secret region, our cultivation is suppressed. Our fighting abilities are similar to mortal warriors’. Now crossbows are also used in the battle... It shows that the battle of Great Cultivators will change into the battle of soldiers in the secret region!”

At this point, Huang Jingyuan said word by word, “To win this battle, we must change our fighting method!”

Chen Jizhen, who was granted the title of god in the war of King Wu’s overthrowing Emperor Zhou, was familiar with the war on the battlefield. He knew what Huang Jingyuan meant. Now the battle in the secret region was extremely similar to the battle between two small groups of elites, like the battle between scouts.

As an immortal with great magical power, he was used to flying in the sky, getting into the ground, moving mountains, and filling seas with techniques. But now he had to fight like a mortal, which made him very awkward and uncomfortable.

Huang Jingyuan had no time to take Chen Jizhen’s mood into account. He said coldly, “It’s now necessary to search crossbows and arrows throughout the ruins so that each of us has the ability to attack from a distance. Especially the Fuyuan crossbows which could be used in long-range attack, not a single one can be left behind.”

At this point, he paused. His eyes grew cold. “Every conceivable means can be used on the battlefield. Since we need to decide victory and defeat, also life and death, we don’t need to consider our identity this time!”

Chen Jizhen’s emotion was also inspired by Huang Jingyuan. Gnashing his teeth, he said, “Kill Li Ye first! If he hadn’t ambushed us, we would have eliminated the demon clan so that our men wouldn’t have been injured by them.”

...

At sunset, in a white dress, someone with long hair stood against the wind on the summit of a mountain.

Her white wrist was tied with a mutton-fat jade pot by a red string. Now the pot was filled with strong alcohol. The strong alcohol was poured into her red lips.

Time passed for a thousand years, but the setting sun had never changed. She liked to watch the sunset. Before she became a bodhisattva, she had traveled to many places and had seen many people and many things. Since she experienced the vicissitudes of life, she only liked things that wouldn’t change.

No change, no harm.

She wiped her mouth casually. Curving her red lips, she smiled with a complicated meaning. She seemed happy, self-mocking, and lonely.

After living for a thousand years, what did a person still have?

What would happen when a person had been worshipped and watched for a thousand years?

People thought she could do everything.

But in fact, she was just a cultivator.

The Land Buddhism had very strict rules, so she had to speak and act cautiously. The people from the Taoist sect could be free and unrestrained, but she couldn’t. The air in the Land Buddhism was so stuffy that people couldn’t laugh or feel sad. Eating vegetables, reading Buddhist scriptures, looking at mountains, and staying in a daze. No emotions. No love or hate. What would happen after a thousand years or ten thousand years?

Could she get Great Freedom or Great Liberation?

Did the so-called freedom and liberation and the so-called wisdom beyond the world mean to see through love and hate? Then, she could be as free as vegetation and as calm as the breeze?

She had been thinking about traveling to the human world for a thousand years. She wanted to know the meaning of life itself, not her duty as Feihong Bodhisattva.

She felt that she had not yet seen the world clearly and had not yet acquired the true so-called Great Wisdom.

Of course not. If she did, she was not a Daluo Golden Immortal but a saint.

So she came this time.

She wanted to see something different. Maybe it didn’t need to be very different, as long as it could touch her. If there wasn’t, this trip would be boring and disappointing to her, whether she could get the Luck of heaven or not.

She drank a mouthful of wine again. This time, she smiled more brightly.

However, no one was lucky enough to see this bright smile under the setting sun.

“Bodhisattva, we’ve already cleaned up all the cultivators of the Immortal Court in the ruins. The copper billets will appear soon.” A while later, an arhat rushed over from the ruins at the foot of the mountain and reported to Feihong Bodhisattva seven steps away.

Feihong Bodhisattva looked back at the Cloth Bag Arhat and saw him bow respectfully. From head to foot, he obeyed the strict rules of the Land Buddhism.

Then, Feihong Bodhisattva turned to look at the ruins at the foot of the mountain. That was a county-sized city. The vegetation in the city was not very vigorous, so the row upon row of houses and the crisscross streets could be seen clearly. But no one there.

No people, no vitality.

There were people there. Now in the ruins, five or six people were lying on the blood, and most of them were the cultivators of the Immortal Court.

Feihong Bodhisattva took back her gaze and looked into the distance. That was a wilderness, dotted with ruins, and there was a shrinking purple-blue grid in the distance. She suddenly asked, “Is there any news about Li Ye?”

The Cloth Bag Arhat answered, “No.”

Feihong Bodhisattva put away the mutton-fat jade pot which was used as a wine pot. She stood up on the cliff in disinterest. “Boring.”

Although it was boring, she still glided down to the ruins at the foot of the mountain. Like a swallow, she flew through the treetops.

Her movements were as flexible as a breeze.

If Chen Jizhen and Huang Jingyuan saw her movements now, they would be very surprised.

...

Standing on the hill, Li Ye looked around and saw a vast plain with several kilometers radius. In the middle of the plain, there were large ruins, larger than any city he had ever seen before.

Apart from Yang Tingge and Zuo Che’er, five cultivators of the demon clan stood behind Li Ye. Two were in the Ground Immortal Realm and three were in the Spiritual Master Realm. He gathered them along the way. Therefore, he had thirteen pieces of the battleax in his pocket.

“Prince An, we can surely get big pieces of the battleax in such a large city. What are we waiting for? Let’s go,” Zuo Che’er said impatiently. He squatted behind Li Ye, rubbing his hands.

Yang Tingge was mature. He scolded Zuo Che’er, “Don’t be so impulsive and impatient! There must be a lot of people in such large ruins. Prince An will have his own judgment. Shut up!”

Zuo Che’er didn’t angry about being scolded. Scratching his head, he giggled. He probably realized his impatience, so he felt a little embarrassed.

Li Ye thought for a while and said, “This city is large and there are many large mansions in it, perfect for ambushing. It’s located in the center. The people in the dozens of surrounding ruins are likely to come together, so we have to be careful.”

At this point, Li Ye turned around and gave orders. “As usual, cover each other up into the ruins. Find a high point of open vision, and the Fuyuan crossbows get ready to take care of all directions. The others quickly collect crossbows and arrows...”