Chapter 205: Taiping Corpse Puppet, Beheading Your Reincarnation Once More (Two-in-One)

Lu Yu stopped his figure.

He stepped lightly onto a treetop.

Clearly, it was the way back, but he had headed in one direction several times, only to return to the same spot in the end.

Ghost-hitting-wall!

He then stopped rushing, his hands tucked into his wide sleeves, letting the sleeves sway gently with the wind.

The sky turned gloomy again, fine rain like weaving, blurring heaven and earth.

The rain could not fall on Lu Yu; it seemed not to dare to stain him, automatically bypassing him.

He stared at the dense forest all around, knowing that he only needed to cross this mere ten-plus miles of forest sea to step onto the official road.

However!

This place seemed to have been laid out with a mysterious and unpredictable formation; he had cultivated the Dao for many years and had never encountered such a thing.

It was as if he had lost his way, unable to walk out.

He did not know if the trees had been moved or if this area had been sealed off.

In any case, it did not look like a mortal means!

The visitor was not kind, or rather, they had come specifically for him.

Lu Yu simply stopped wasting his effort; he knew that his elder brother's instructions in the tavern must have had their deep meaning.

Since he could not leave for the time being, he would simply solve the matter before him first.

Once this thought arose, his somewhat impatient mood gradually settled, returning to tranquility, like the water of a deep pool, feeling the surroundings.

Not long after!

A burst of fine footsteps, stepping on the light sound of accumulated water in the forest, slowly approached.

Lu Yu opened his eyes, his figure sliding lightly from the treetop, but he did not touch the ground, hovering in the void two zhang high, as if standing on the air.

He looked at the five people below!

An old Daoist and a middle-aged monk stood side by side.

Behind the two followed three people draped in black robes; their faces were covered by the black robes, making it impossible to see their appearance or distinguish their gender, they just stood silently with their heads lowered.

The old Daoist was tall, draped in a hemp Daoist robe, wearing a lotus crown on his head; his hair, eyebrows, and beard were all snow-white, but his face was still purple-red.

The old Daoist slowly raised his head to look at Lu Yu in the high place, a look of surprise and emotion in his eyes.

And that middle-aged monk, with a thin figure, half-exposed shoulders, and a shaved head, had ordinary features, but his eye sockets were deeply sunken, giving people a profound feeling, like an ordinary ascetic monk.

"Amitabha!" he chanted a Buddhist name, his voice hoarse.

One Daoist, one Buddha!

These two were the Sect Leader of the Taiping Dao, Xuan Son of Heaven, and the Wolf King of the North Wind, Wanyan Yunshan.

Wanyan Yunshan and Lu Yu had met once before, but they had not fought.

Regarding this Wolf King, it was said that he was abandoned in the wilderness as a child, lucky enough to grow up in a wolf den, eating raw meat and blood, accustomed to walking on all fours.

Later, he was adopted by a high monk of the Lingxi Temple, and only then was he able to learn martial arts and literacy, embarking on a different path.

Wanyan Yunshan slowly shed the bestial nature on his body, which was thanks to the high monk's painstaking teaching.

The high monk saw that his nature was firm and that he could subdue his original heart, so he broke the centuries-old tradition of the Lingxi Temple and taught him the temple's town-temple method, the "Yi Sui Jing."

However, Wanyan Yunshan was noticed by someone with ulterior motives, and the matter was exposed. The high monk warned Wanyan Yunshan not to be greedy and then committed suicide to apologize.

Wanyan Yunshan fled back to the North Wind and joined the Dizang Temple, one of the secret Buddhist sects, where he obtained the "Xiu Luo Xue Shen."

Finally, he killed the Grandmaster Abbot of the Dizang Temple and stepped into the ranks of the Jianghu's Ten Great Grandmasters on the Awakening List.

After that, he dispersed all the monks in the temple and disappeared for a time.

It was said that someone witnessed Wanyan Yunshan's last appearance at the grave of that high monk of the Lingxi Temple in the Jiangnan region.

He was a figure in the Jianghu who was both righteous and evil.

In the Jianghu, people called him the Wolf King, because wherever he walked, wolf packs would follow behind him.

At this time, Wanyan Yunshan put his hands together and said in a deep voice: "Ling'e True Person, it has been a long time."

Lu Yu's title in the Jianghu was Ling'e True Person, meaning the nightmare of the Jianghu.

In the martial arts world, there are only wrongly called names, not wrongly taken titles.

Lu Yu raised his eyes to look into the forest; he felt pairs of green eyes lighting up in the dense forest.

Those were the eyes of wolves!

The name of the Wolf King was indeed not false.

As for Xuan Son of Heaven, one of the Five Absolutes, Lu Yu was seeing him for the first time.

Although both were among the Five Absolutes of the world, Xuan Son of Heaven had not stepped out of the Shou Sui Temple for nearly twenty years.

This meeting was undoubtedly the first intersection between the two.

The tall Daoist's expression was slightly excited, and he muttered to himself:

"Like, really too like!"

He stared at Lu Yu's young face and looked up at the sky, filled with emotion:

"It seems that in this world, there really is a cycle of Heavenly Dao!"

The words of Xuan Son of Heaven and Wanyan Yunshan did not affect Lu Yu in the slightest; his eyes were like cold stars.

Lu Yu fell slowly, three inches off the ground, not stepping on grass or mud, looking levelly at the two people in front of him.

Compared to the paper-pasted Grandmasters like Ouyang Huangquan just now, these two were simply as different as heaven and earth.

Wanyan Yunshan's blood and energy were full, and his cultivation was profound; he had rarely seen such a person.

Xuan Son of Heaven, his aura not leaking, returning to simplicity, was truly at the perfection of the Heavenly Human Realm.

As for the three people behind, wrapped in black robes, their aura was dead and silent, like dead people.

Neither of them was careless, nor did they dare to be!

This world-famous Ling'e True Person naturally had this courage.

Even before the spiritual energy recovery, he was a figure who had approached the Grandmaster Realm.

Xuan Son of Heaven asked slowly: "Lu Yu, don't you want to know why we want to make a move on you?"

"The old Daoist and you have never met, and there is no grudge or entanglement."

"Why would I call Fellow Daoist Wanyan to come and kill you?"

"Aren't you curious about this?"

Lu Yu just curled his lips slightly and said: "I don't know, and I don't want to know."

Xuan Son of Heaven said again: "Then don't you want to know why you are already over fifty, yet can still maintain such a youthful state?"

"I don't want to know!" Lu Yu's answer remained crisp and decisive.

Xuan Son of Heaven said in a deep voice: "Or rather, don't you want to know who you actually are?"

He stared at Lu Yu, seemingly wanting to peek at something from Lu Yu's expression.

However, he gained nothing in the end.

"You are truly strange, speaking such incoherent words!"

Lu Yu laughed lightly: "I am who I am, why do I need to be someone else? I only know that I am Lu Shen Zhou's younger brother, Lu You'an."

Xuan Son of Heaven shook his head at this, praising:

"Truly worthy of a sincere heart, born for cultivating the Dao."

Lu Yu hugged his chest with both hands, his expression indifferent.

"First remove you, then execute Lu Chen, and the old Daoist will have fulfilled his merit."

"Taiping Dao, guarding the peace of ten thousand generations!"

The usually calm Xuan Son of Heaven's tone was somewhat manic.

Hearing this!

Lu Yu's face moved, and his tone became as cold as frost.

"Truly seeking death!" he said coldly.

Lu Yu released all his Heavenly Human Realm aura; in the eyes of Wanyan Yunshan and Xuan Son of Heaven, the surrounding trees began to fade in color.

Only black and white remained.

Even their bodies turned black and white.

Only Lu Yu had other colors on his body.

Wanyan Yunshan frowned, not daring to be careless, naturally knowing that this was a move that only the Heavenly Human Realm could use.

"Heavenly Human Outer Scene!"

Influencing the external heaven and earth through the internal heaven and earth.

Only a Heavenly Human who has truly walked their own martial arts path can use it.

In the Daoist school, there is a special term—"Dao Field," or it is called "Dao Domain."

This is a unique space; being in it, the user is in the time and place, and can also bless themselves!

Different Heavenly Humans have different effects in their inner scenes, and there are also differences in strength.

Xiao Yue, his outer scene was transformed into a strange bird with four wings, one eye, and a dog-like tail; its name was "Xiao."

Once he displayed this outer scene, those around him would feel their spirit being taken away, as if they were confused by this strange bird.

The formation of this outer scene is closely related to the fundamental martial arts Xiao Yue practiced.

Although Wanyan Yunshan did not know what Xiao Yue's martial arts were specifically, he could judge that it was closely related to birds.

Xiao Yue's origin was also a mystery.

Wanyan Yunshan only felt that in this black and white outer scene, his movements became sluggish, as if bound by some force.

Moreover, his consumption of spiritual energy became faster, which made him frown.

The area covered by this outer scene was truly too large, almost seven or eight zhang in radius, which was truly exaggerated. One must know that even Xiao Yue's outer scene could not completely cover the entire tavern.

Sure enough, there are gaps between the Five Absolutes.

With the help of Xuan Son of Heaven, Wanyan Yunshan finally stepped into the supreme realm of "Heavenly Human."

However, the price was—he had to join forces with Xuan Son of Heaven to kill Lu Yu.

At this moment, in Lu Yu's Dao Domain, Wanyan Yunshan barely spread a mass of blood-red "blood water" under his feet, which allowed his body to return to its original color in Lu Yu's Dao Domain.

However, even so, his original one-zhang-sized blood-red "outer scene" only had about "one chi" left under Lu Yu's pressure.

Lu Yu raised his eyes to look at Wanyan Yunshan, but did not pay too much attention.

He paid more attention to Xuan Son of Heaven.

Xuan Son of Heaven did not use the power of the outer scene like Wanyan Yunshan.

Xuan Son of Heaven pinched the formula with his left hand, as if gently lifting the three people draped in black robes behind him with invisible silk threads.

He suddenly lifted the black robes, revealing the true faces of the three people inside.

Two of them had extremely hunched figures, withered to the extreme, wearing Taiping Sect Daoist robes, the whole person looking like a dried corpse.

They only had skulls left, their eye sockets sunken into two black holes, revealing two rows of teeth, wearing lotus crowns, looking extremely strange and chilling.

There was another person, with a tall figure and rotting flesh on his face, making it impossible to see his face.

This scene made even Wanyan Yunshan feel surprised.

Xuan Son of Heaven laughed: "These three are the three most famous Sect Leaders of my Taiping Sect."

"During the three periods of spiritual energy recovery, they all cultivated to the perfection of the Heavenly Human Realm."

"Today, I, Xuan Son of Heaven, invite them to help me."

Corpse Puppet!

The three ancestors of the Taiping Sect were actually made into corpse puppets.

Wanyan Yunshan looked at this scene before him, his heart full of surprise and shock.

He did not expect Xuan Son of Heaven to make the two ancestors of the Taiping Sect into corpse puppets.

The refining method of corpse puppets is extremely vicious; it requires the dead to be full of resentment to retain their original cultivation.

And this method usually uses extremely cruel means, such as killing their relatives and slowly refining them into corpse puppets amidst their resentment.

Wanyan Yunshan's heart surged; he knew that the Taiping Sect had always been a sect advocating kindness to others, and Xuan Son of Heaven was also famous for his chivalry.

This scene before him was completely different from the Taiping Sect and Xuan Son of Heaven he knew, making him feel unacceptable.

Suddenly!

Wanyan Yunshan realized that there had only been three spiritual energy recoveries in history, and there was another one now.

He looked at the dried corpse on the far side; that figure was similar to Xuan Son of Heaven, and looking at the already rotten face, he could vaguely see some things.

A chilling thought suddenly appeared in his mind.

Could it be that this person is Xuan Son of Heaven!

Xuan Son of Heaven seemed to see Wanyan Yunshan's confusion.

Now that Lu Yu was in front of him, he stopped hiding and said directly:

"The old Daoist is Li Taiping, who has lived for seven hundred years; today is the day Shou Sui Temple sends you to your end."

Wanyan Yunshan was shocked, but hearing Xuan Son of Heaven say it himself, he still could not believe it.

There had long been rumors in the Bao Yue Tower that the current Sect Leader of the Taiping Sect, Xuan Son of Heaven, had already lived for more than seven hundred years.

The person before him was the Daoist who founded Korea together with the founding ancestor of Korea, and also the founding ancestor of the Taiping Sect.

Li Taiping!

Hearing it now, this news was still shocking.

A mortal's hundred years eventually return to dust; who else can live to be over seven hundred years old?

What realm must martial arts cultivation reach to achieve such a long life?

Wanyan Yunshan sighed inwardly.

He was already calling him Xuan Son of Heaven or Li Taiping.

Li Taiping laughed leisurely, his words revealing a complex emotion: "Of course, these three are also my most outstanding disciples, and they also discovered that I am Li Taiping. Some of them were greedy, and some were afraid."

"They shouldn't have, they shouldn't have; they also coveted the realm above Heavenly Human, wanting to attain the Dao and ascend."

"As a master, I had no choice but to clean up the sect!"

He looked at Lu Yu, his tone filled with unknown resentment or pleasure:

"You should be the destined person recorded by the ancestors; if it were before the heaven-tilting three thousand years ago, you should be a high-ranking Immortal Master. Unfortunately, this is the Age of Dharma Decline, and you are just like us, only at the Heavenly Human Realm."

Xuan Son of Heaven kept pinching the formula, and strands of spiritual energy were injected into the three dried corpses.

At the same time, the Forbidden Word Talisman in his hand also flew out, hanging high in the sky, sealing this area.

This was also the reason why Lu Yu could not walk out—this place was forbidden to pass!

Lu Yu looked up at the talisman paper, which slowly disappeared into the air.

The space here seemed to have an extra rule of heaven and earth.

It was indeed an immortal means.

At this time, red light began to light up in the eye sockets of the three dried corpses, and they swayed and raised their heads, as if awakened by some force.

A cold and evil aura began to permeate the air, making people feel cold all over.

The three dried corpses released the cultivation of the Heavenly Human Realm.

Wanyan Yunshan looked at these three dried corpses, and a strong sense of fear suddenly rose in his heart.

He secretly looked outside the dense forest.

However, the old Daoist laughed and said: "Brother Wanyan, it's too late!"

Wanyan Yunshan's face changed; he found that he had been grabbed by the hands and feet by the three dried corpses and could not move.

Those dried corpses "excitedly" opened their mouthpieces to bite him.

"Ah—"

"Brother Wanyan, this is the price of becoming a Heavenly Human!"

Wanyan Yunshan's figure withered rapidly, finally turning into a withered corpse.

Dozens of wolves in the forest rushed over, trying to attack these three dried corpses, but they were also sucked dry one by one.

Lu Yu did not even raise his eyelids.

After the three dried corpses sucked their essence and blood, their realm had reached the "Heavenly Human Realm Perfection," and they swayed and stood in front of Li Taiping.

Li Taiping looked at these three dried corpses, a flash of satisfaction in his eyes.

"Lu Yu, today I, Li Taiping, will behead your reincarnation once more!"

"I, Li Taiping, do not do this for myself, but to kill you for the sake of the people of the world."

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