Chapter 69. Gambling.(1/2)
The old man who suddenly appeared behind Zhang Xusheng looked so old that Li Xuhan was even more old. The passage of time had extremely obvious marks on his face. He was thin and thin, with a thin face covered with wrinkles like ravines, and there was no trace of anger all over his body, as if he had been dead for many days. His eyes were slightly closed and his mouth was tightly closed.
"Dear, dumb, you are finally here."
Seeing the old man who suddenly appeared, Li Xuhan looked happy and bowed slightly to the old man and said respectfully.
After hearing Li Xuhan's words, the deaf and mute blind master bowed slightly to Li Xuhan, with his expression on his face free from joy and worries, and he looked calm in accepting Li Xuhan's respect and calmness.
"I'm late, please forgive me for being a friend of mine."
Then, an old voice sounded. Judging from the meaning of the words, the old voice was the deaf and dumb blind master. But looking at his face, the old man had never spoken. It seemed that the old voice was transmitted from heaven and earth. But Zhang Xusheng and Li Xuhan knew that the old voice was indeed the deaf and dumb blind master, but it was not relying on his mouth. Instead, it influenced the spiritual energy in the body, causing the resonance between the two. The sound produced by the vibration of the spiritual energy of the heaven and earth.
But after knowing Li Xuhan's identity, I was shocked to see that the old man looked so calm when facing Li Xuhan's salute.
Although in the vast land of immortal cultivation in China, based on the principle of no superiority and inferiority under the law of heaven, unless the master and disciple meet, once the two monks meet, regardless of their status or strength, they must bow to each other to show respect for the efforts made by each other in order to fight against the law of heaven.
But although we need to bow to each other, there are still many things in it. Generally speaking, monks with lower status and shallow skills should first salute those monks with higher skills and higher status and respect, and then those monks with higher skills and respectful status and respectful status will return the salute.
Although Li Xuhan's skill was greatly reduced at this time, he still had the cultivation level of the Mahayana period. Moreover, as the head of Jiuhua Sect, one of the six holy places, his identity and seniority in the cultivation world were even more noble. And he could bear the ability to be the monk who bowed and bowed to the first to pray. Even if he searched the entire cultivation world, he would never have passed five. Moreover, not only did these five people have extremely high status in the cultivation world, but their own strength also reached the Mahayana period more than a thousand years ago.
If one of these five people appeared here, Li Xuhan would have the strength to compete with Zhang Xusheng.
Sure enough, after hearing Li Xuhan's name for this old name, Zhang Xusheng's face changed slightly. Then he began to carefully look at the deaf and dumb lord in front of him. The expression on his face was even more cautious than when he looked at Li Xuhan just now.
At the same time, the deaf and dumb lord was also looking at Zhang Xusheng carefully. Although his face was unpredictable, the hidden vigilance could be felt clearly even by Zhang Hualing and others beside him.
There was a feeling that after the heights were so cold that we finally found our opponent.
After seeing the expression on Zhang Xusheng's face, Li Xuhan asked faintly: "Junior Brother Zhang, you have been practicing hard for so many years. Why can't you even recognize the other master of the Ascetic Cultivation Valley besides you?"
There are two grand master-level monks in the Ascetic Cultivation Valley. One is the Xuanmoda Zun disguised by Zhang Xusheng before, while the other is not well-known because he rarely appears in the immortal cultivation world. It is just one of the few people in the immortal cultivation world who know this master respects this master, even the other grand master-level monks in the immortal cultivation world.
It turns out that this master-level monk is probably the highest-ranking monk in the world of immortal cultivation. He had reached the Mahayana level two thousand three hundred years ago. No one can figure it out how old he is and how high his seniority is.
Later, in order to go further, he closed the barrier of life and death in a hidden deep cave in the Ascetic Valley, hoping to understand the path of immortality as soon as possible. Before he was in seclusion, in order to prevent himself from being tempted by the outside world during seclusion, he actually used great perseverance to destroy his six senses. The title of deaf, mute and blind master also came from this.
This retreat lasted for more than two thousand years, and the world of cultivation has changed dramatically. Now, because the monks of the same era who were in the same era passed away in his retreat, even the monks in the Ascetic Cultivation Valley have not seen the true appearance of this master. Many monks even think that this master may have died of old age in the deep cave where he was in seclusion.
However, he did not expect that this deaf and mute blind master was not only not dead, but now he appeared in Jiuhua Mountain. However, his appearance was so old and ordinary, without any momentum or even aura on his body.
But Zhang Xusheng knew how terrible his cultivation was to be able to hide the aura on his body to a point that he could not even notice.
With the strength of this deaf and dumb lord and his status in the world of immortal cultivation, it makes Li Xuhan politely respect him.
"Are you a deaf and dumb blind master?" After looking at each other for a long time, Zhang Xusheng did not respond to Li Xuhan, but asked at the deaf and dumb blind master with a smile. His face was warm, as if it was just a greeting from an old friend when he met. At the same time, the eyes flashed in a strange light, as if some other thoughts were brewing in his heart.
"That's right, I have been in seclusion for more than two thousand years. Even the monks of the Ascetic Valley of Cultivation have never seen Lao I've ever seen Lao I've joined halfway, but it's understandable that I didn't know Lao I." Lao's voice came from the world again.
After a brief surprise after the appearance of the deaf and dumb lord, Zhang Xusheng seemed to have returned to his former calmness at this time. He smiled slightly at Li Xuhan and Zhang Hualing, who had been floating aside and watched quietly, and said, "I said you two are obviously not talkative people, why did you say so much with me just now? It turns out that delaying time is to wait for this reinforcement."
Although the successive appearances of Li Xuhan and the deaf and dumb blind Zun were beyond his expectations, looking at his expression at this moment, it seemed that this matter had only become interesting for him.
Zhang Xusheng smiled slightly and said to the deaf and mute blind master: "Indeed, I have never seen you since I got into the Ascetic Valley as Xuanmoda. Because I always thought you had returned to heaven. But I didn't expect you to be alive. And I didn't expect you to be troubled by me now. If I had known this, I should have looked for an opportunity to kill you on the first day of entering the Ascetic Valley."
Although he was talking about murder, Zhang Xu's expression was still warm, as if the words just now were just ordinary blessings between friends.
Then Zhang Xusheng turned his head to Li Xuhan and said, "What I didn't expect is that senior brother, you have such a great face. You can actually invite the deaf and dumb and blind master who has been in seclusion for more than two thousand years out of seclusion. It really makes me, the junior brother, so flattered."
Li Xuhan looked at Zhang Xusheng deeply, but did not answer. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart. No matter whether he appeared or the appearance of the deaf and dumb Lord, Zhang Xusheng has always dominated the process and context of the conversation. It was still like eight hundred years ago. No matter who he was with, he was the focus of everyone.
Just as Li Xuhan was secretly sighing, the old voice of the deaf and dumb blind master sounded again.
"Fellow Daoist Li personally came to the cave where I was in seclusion ten days ago and told me that the Taoist Daoist pretended to be a monk in the Ascetic Cultivation Valley. It was related to the rise and fall of the two sects of My Ascetic Cultivation Valley and Jiuhua Sect. I naturally had no intention of seclusion anymore. But at that time I was in a critical place of seclusion and could not leave the seclusion in time. I didn't come until now, but I suffered such great damage to Jiuhua Mountain. I am deeply sorry for this."
As he said that, the deaf and dumb blind master bowed slightly to Li Xuhan to apologize, while Li Xuhan bowed and returned the favor to express his understanding.
But Zhang Xusheng heard another meaning from the words of the deaf and dumb blind master, and asked Li Xuhan in surprise: "Ten days ago? I pretended to practice Gu Xuanmoda. This incident was just guessed by the boy named Xu Qingfan just now. Then you know, why did you find the deaf and dumb blind master ten days ago? Have you known my identity long ago?"
Li Xuhan said lightly: "I have known that Xuanmoda is your disguise since two years ago."
"Oh? How did you know?" Zhang Xusheng nodded as if he was aware of it, and asked again: "Well. I met that boy Xu Qingfan two years ago. Is it related to this?"
Li Xuhan nodded and said, "The first time I heard about the name Xuanmoda was eight hundred years ago. At that time, he broke through the people who studied evil magic and published it in the entire world of immortal cultivation. I think you killed him because of this, right? After killing him from time to time, he felt that his identity could be used, so he pretended to be his?"
Zhang Xusheng smiled and said, "I didn't expect you to remember that guy's affairs so clearly. Indeed, because of that guy's nosy business, my plan was messed up by him, so how could I easily bypass him? So I killed him not long after I escaped your pursuit. But this has nothing to do with you showing that I pretended to be him?"
Li Xuhan sighed again and said, "I'm afraid you don't know. Eight hundred years ago, after he found you studied evil magic, although he escaped your pursuit, he was still very injured. One of the injuries caused the Spirit Sea to severely damage the spirit sea, so that his skills in this life could not be improved. But I only know about this in the entire world of immortal cultivation."
As he said that, a look of apologetic expression appeared in Li Xuhan's eyes, and then said, "Later, the news that Xuanmoda entered the Mahayana stage and became a master in the Immortal Cultivation World was rumored. At that time, I thought it was just a rumor, so I didn't care. But I didn't expect that Xu Qingfan's child actually met you two years ago. According to his description, Xuanmoda actually reached the Mahayana stage. I felt it was incredible at that time. Later, I asked the child to describe Xuanmoda and what he said to me one by one, but the tone of those words was very different from Xuanmoda eight hundred years ago. On the contrary, it was very similar to you, your junior brother. Then in the past two years, I sent someone to investigate and secretly. Now that during the past few hundred years, when Xuanmoda was in seclusion, a sect in the Immortal Cultivation World would suddenly disappear mysteriously, and all of those sects I suspected were you who destroyed it for experiments. In this way, the result was about to come out."
After listening to Li Xuhan's description, Zhang Xusheng nodded and sighed regretfully: "It seems that I was negligent. When I killed Xuanmoda, I did not carefully check his body. This Xuanmoda is really my nemesis. I have been dead for so long but I still have to cause trouble for me."
After complaining, Zhang Xusheng raised his head slightly, his tone regained his arrogance, and said lightly: "Now I understand all the doubts in my heart. It seems that we must have a fight. However, Senior Brother Li, the deaf and mute master. With my current skill and cultivation, even if you join forces, do you really think you can stop me?"
In the words, the aura of the world was unconcealed. It was obvious that he was full of faith in his strength at this time.
Li Xuhan smiled faintly and said, "Junior Brother Zhang, although your skills have increased greatly over the years and have been trained to become immortal, but my senior brother has done more than just waiting for death over the years."
As he said that, Li Xuhan's aura suddenly became more powerful, and his momentum was even more powerful than eight hundred years ago.
But although this powerful momentum is amazing, it is extremely contradictory and hidden. Only Zhang Xusheng and Deaf and Dumb Blind Zun can feel it on the field. This also shows that Li Xuhan has been applying his spiritual energy and momentum to a smooth and comfortable state.
As the momentum became stronger, Li Xuhan's originally thin figure gradually became tall and plump. The wrinkles on his face gradually disappeared, his eyes also became sharp and vivid, white, and black grew faster. Not long after, a dying old man turned into a tall and majestic middle-aged man. Then with a move, the "Surf Bird Ring" in Zhang Hualing's arms turned into a red light and flew into his hands.
Seeing Li Xuhan's change, Zhang Xusheng said lightly, "Huh" and began to feel that he had underestimated this senior brother. The deaf and mute monk on the other side showed a hint of admiration when he looked at Li Xuhan.
But Li Xuhan's amazing changes were far from over. After Li Xuhan got the "Surprising Bird Ring", the "Surprising Bird Ring" was full of spirit, and the fire spirit energy began to surge into Li Xuhan's body, while Li Xuhan's body contradicted the radiance of strong five-color light. The momentum of his body was even more magnificent.
Then, Zhang Xusheng put his right hand into his mouth and bit it, and his hand swept out eight drops of blood. After the eight drops of blood flashed, it turned into the appearance of eight Li Xuhans, but the momentum on his body was no less than that of Li Xuhan.
After these eight Li Xuhans, who were transformed from blood, appeared without any pause. They immediately gathered with Li Xuhan's true body, formed the "Nine Palace Formation" and vaguely surrounded Zhang Xusheng.
On the other hand, compared to Li Xuhan, the deaf and dumb blind master did not change any abnormally, and there was still no breath on his body. However, a purple long sword suddenly appeared in his hand, with an extremely mysterious and mysterious energy fluctuation on it. It was obviously a magic weapon that was as precious as the "Surf Bird Ring".
Seeing Li Xuhan and the deaf and dumb priest, a gleam flashed in Zhang Xusheng's eyes, but his brows also frowned slightly, because he realized that he was not sure of winning this time.
More importantly, the main reason he came to Jiuhua this time was to regain his heart. He thought that Li Xuhan's strength had been greatly reduced, so it should be easy to capture him, but he didn't expect that Li Xuhan's strength would become so strong that he could win, but his heart was in Li Xuhan's body. It was extremely difficult to defeat Li Xuhan and the deaf and dumb lord without hurting his heart. Before he knew it, he had a little more concern in his heart.
However, although his heart was ups and downs, Zhang Xusheng's expression was still leisurely. He said to Li Xuhan first: "Returning Yang Jue, Blood Clotting*. The difficulty of practicing these two techniques is no less than that of Dai Tian Jue. However, I didn't expect that you had practiced it at the same time. You gave me a lot of surprises. It seems that you have not just waited for death in the past eight hundred years."
After saying that, Zhang Xusheng turned his gaze to the long sword in the hand of the deaf and dumb blind master, and said, "Tianzhang Sword, I always thought that this magic weapon that can activate the power of heavenly thunder was destroyed in the last catastrophe, but I didn't expect it to be in your hands."
"Now, do you still think we are not sure to kill you?" After the body changed, Li Xuhan's tone began to become cold, and murderous aura appeared in his eyes.
As he spoke, his aura increased again, and the "Tianzhang Sword" in the hands of the deaf and dumb monk was slowly raised. As they were about to take action, Zhang Xusheng still had a leisurely expression, as if he turned a blind eye to the threats of the two.
But just before they took action, Zhang Xusheng suddenly shouted: "Wait a minute. Brother Li, don't you want to ask me for the antidote of the Tianling Pill taken by the elders and disciples of Jiuhua? Deaf and dumb Lord, don't you want to ask me for the list of the monks of the Ascetic Cultivation Valley who follow me to cause trouble?"
Zhang Xu's Holy Land's dialect seemed to have magic power. As his words fell, Li Xuhan and the deaf and dumb blind master stopped half of the Taoist practices.
Li Xuhan snorted coldly: "Will you tell us honestly?"
For him, even if he had to sacrifice half of Jiuhua Mountain's strength, it was worth it as long as he could get rid of Zhang Xusheng. But he knew that the deaf and dumb blind master would not think so. The deaf and dumb blind master must know that there were monks from the Ascetic Cultivation Valley who had to turn to Zhang Xusheng to rectify the Ascetic Cultivation Valley. He had no choice but to stop, but his heart was full of helplessness.
Suddenly, although he had been setting up this game for a long time, the changes in the situation were always in the hands of Zhang Xusheng, which made Li Xuhan feel powerless.
Zhang Xusheng smiled slightly, and did not change his color at all because of the threat he faced. He just said leisurely: "Of course, but I won't let you know so easily. Let's do this, have you seen the battle in front of Hualing Palace below?"
"See it." Li Xuhan replied.
"Let's make a bet. If those three Jiuhua disciples can defeat my three subordinates, I will give you the antidote to the Tianling Pill and the list of the Ascetic Cultivation Valley monks who followed me to make trouble. If those three subordinates in my land beat those three Jiuhua disciples, then how about you two accept me three moves before you attack me?"
After Zhang Xusheng finished speaking, Xiao looked at the reactions of Li Xuhan and the deaf and dumb blind Zun with interest.
After thinking for a long time, Li Xuhan and the deaf and dumb blind Zun looked at each other and nodded slowly.
At the same time, under the command of Zhang Hualing and Zhang Xusheng, the elders and senior demons in the sky also stopped fighting. After understanding the current situation, they were surprised. The audience's eyes were focused on the duel in Hualing Palace.
In the sky, Zhang Hualing was the only one who frowned. Zhang Xusheng set up such a bet, and his purpose was really just to attack three moves first to get the lead?
For some reason, a shadow began to cover Zhang Hualing's heart.
On the side of Jiuhua Mountain, in front of Hualing Hall.
Compared with the noisy and disorderly sky wars, the battlefield here has entered a relatively calm.
Jiuhua disciples and Zhang Xusheng's low-level demons stood on both sides, but stopped fighting each other. Instead, they stared at the battle between No. 4 and Xu Qingfan, Jin Qinghan and Lu Qingshang, as if they were already shocked by the fierce battle.
The Jiuhua disciples who were watching this battle were so proud that they could not help themselves. At this time, they couldn't help asking themselves, if they were to face the attack of No. 4, but how many rounds could they withstand? Even the elders in the sky were full of surprise at this time. They could not imagine that this was just a competition below the level of cultivation in the alchemy stage.
However, those low-level demons seemed to be frightened by the dangerous aura of the three snake men, and they stood quietly and dared not move at all.
As for the other two snake men who looked similar to No. 4, they were just watching the competition indifferently, not knowing what they were planning.
On the field, the movement of No. 4 seemed to have reached the extreme that this world could reach. No. 4's attack on Zuohudong, a distance of several feet reached in an instant. The body turned into a phantom and surrounded Xu Qingfan and others in the middle without leaving a gap. It seemed that there were figures of No. 4 everywhere in this battle space, as if they were using clone skills. Although Xu Qingfan and others felt that No. 4 were attacking him one after another, they also found that the other two were constantly being attacked, and there was no gap in the middle, which was so fast that it was eye-catching.
Xu Qingfan and the other three also used their magical powers to fight against No. 4's ghostly degree and continuous attacks. Needless to say, Xu Qingfan has his own high-level defensive magic weapon, and Jin Qinghan and Lu Qingshang also constantly used "spiritual barriers". Although the lowest-level defensive Taoist techniques or defensive formations such as "Golden Shield" are always broken by No. 4's attack, they are always used again the next moment they are broken. The technique is so skillful and fast, and the use of spiritual energy is so round and natural, which is admirable.
The sound of "boom" is constantly, although it is not shocking, but it is connected uninterrupted. It is the sound of the trembling between the attack of No. 4 and the defense of Xu Qingfan and the three others; the light flashes, but it is Jin Qinghan's "Golden Shield" and Lu Qingshangdi's "spiritual barrier" were broken by No. 4 and then instantly filled.
Although this battle is not as gorgeous and powerful as the Dao Dharma Eye, it has a different kind of stimulation in the moment of life and death in close attack and defense.
But although the competition seemed very exciting, the battle was only known to both sides.
Although Jin Qinghan and Lu Qingshang seem to be able to use defense in time to block the attack of No. 4 every time, blocking and losing are often only between the first line. In so many battles, as long as the two of them react or move slowly to the first line, even if they do not die, they will be seriously injured.
Although No. 4 seems to have taken the initiative in the fight, he is actually complaining secretly. Using instant killing the enemy is his usual method. In addition, his sudden move, the enemy often dies before he realizes it. Although it is useful, it is just a method of saving trouble when meeting a weaker enemy. His real strength is to control wind and sand and poisonous sand. But it is useless because he underestimated the enemy for a while. Unexpectedly, Xu Qingfan could actually lose the initiative in his attack in advance, and he could only attack continuously without daring to pause. Now even if he stops for a moment, he will be strongly counterattacked by Xu Qingfan and others. Xu Qingfan and the other three are in a state of the ground like a spring. The tighter the pressure, the greater the rebound force.
His shortcomings are his weak defense. With the attack power of Xu Qingfan and others, using his body to fight against it will probably lead to injury if he is not killed or injured.
Looking at the scene on the field, Xu Qingfan was also secretly anxious. Before the other two snake men took action, it would be impossible to hold on for a long time. Too much spiritual energy and mind consumption would be extremely unfavorable to the subsequent battle.
This stalemate must be changed.
Xu Qingfan made up his mind secretly.
To be continued...