Chapter 1038: The Long Spear and Bai Lu, Generously Gifted

Li Zhong returned to the six-story Buddhist pagoda, where the bronze divine tree on the first floor remained mysterious and towering.

He sent over the jade tree branches taken from the Western Queen Mother secret treasury.

As the jade branches landed on the bronze tree, the sound of copperware colliding rang out, and a portal suddenly opened, revealing a desolate and abandoned palace.

He Basheng stepped in first, striking the two withered giant trees beside the main hall with his blade hilt.

The thick bark emitted a sound like worn leather, but when he sliced open the bark, he could see the luster like fine jade.

"This... what kind of tree is this?" He Basheng slashed down, but saw that not even a scratch was left on the jade-like trunk: "Harder than the ten-thousand-year ironwood trees in the northern frontier!"

Cao Xuanwei went up and stroked the jade trunk, nodding: "This is the Lang tree of West Kunlun. Without the Dan water of the Undying Divine Tree to nourish it, it did not achieve longevity and withered here."

Looking up and down at the Lang tree, as thick as three people could embrace, at the entrance of the main hall, Cao Xuanwei's expression was joyful.

"These two Lang trees might have been transplanted from the capital beneath the Emperor. I don't know how many years they lived before withering here. The Lang trees have withered, and this hall has experienced a very long time. I don't know what else it can leave for us!"

As he spoke, Cao Xuanwei patted the trunk and laughed: "But just these two trees alone are worth the price of admission!"

"Such immortal materials, I fear the Immortal Han did not have them. I estimate they can only be harvested when the Immortal Qin conquered the Western Queen Mother, and if used as the main material, they can probably be refined into an extremely extraordinary divine bow."

He Badu beamed with joy, clicking his tongue: "Such divine wood has not been seen in the Earth Immortal Realm for a long time! Not to mention the Central Lands, even in our remote northern frontier, it is hard to find good materials. The best giant wood found in the northern frontier in recent years was only a million-year-old ironwood tree king, which cannot be compared with such Kunlun divine wood."

"The last time we made Immortal Qin military-grade bows and crossbows was when the Louguan Dao was destroyed, and the imperial court secretly went to Mount Zhongnan to cut down divine wood, right?"

He Basheng brought up a sore subject.

A flush of red flashed across Cao Xuanwei's face, and he could only pretend not to hear.

Li Zhong also pretended not to hear. The Louguan Dao was Li Er's pot, what did it have to do with him!

This piece of jade tree was snapped off by Cao Xuanwei.

Opening the hall sealed in time, what was stored inside were some musical instruments. It should be the hall where the Western Queen Mother Kingdom stored musical instruments used for sacrificing to the Western Queen Mother. Each of the musical instruments was a magic weapon of the complete level.

A set of chime bells was ancient and simple, each bronze bell having thirty-six layers of restrictions. Taking them out individually could be used as complete magic weapons.

Compiled into a group, they were comparable to magic treasures!

There was also a jade zither, the quality of which was better than Qian Chen's Great Saint Thunder Sound. The zither was made of West Kunlun Three-Pearl Tree, the strings were West Kunlun hundred-thousand-year ice-soul silkworm silk, the emblem was star stone from the sky, the glue was dragon tendon, the ash was phoenix feather, and the lacquer was white deer horn frost.

In this way, there were more than a dozen musical instruments, all made of gold and jade, and the essence was excellent!

But there were more musical instruments that were broken and damaged. Pipa, dulcimer, zither, and sheng, these musical instruments made of spirit wood were all broken, the restrictions inside had collapsed, and Cao Xuanwei carefully held an ancient zither, shaking his head.

"Time is too long!"

"The wood is rotten, the restrictions have collapsed. If it weren't for the gold and jade instruments being the most durable, I fear not much would be left in this hall of musical instruments."

Seeing Cao Xuanwei's cautious appearance, it was as if if he were not careful, these musical instruments would fall apart.

Seeing this, He Badu also stepped forward to check carefully, also shaking his head: "The restrictions within this set of chime bells have also rotted. They look complete, but they haven't been refined for too long, and it is difficult to maintain them. If they were played, I fear the restrictions would fall by several layers. Once they fall from completeness, the value would be much lower!"

"It would take more than a thousand years of careful refining to restore these things to their former glory!" Li Zhong made a judgment.

He Badu shook his head: "My military family only fights for the morning and evening. The loot from this battle, maybe the people will be folded in the next battle. Using a thousand years of effort to refine a set of ritual vessels is the kind of effort only you clans have!"

"Why not dismantle and melt them down, and recast them into military weapons!"

"No..." Cao Xuanwei spoke subconsciously: "This set of Jun-Heaven Vast Music Yellow Bell Restrictions is a musical restriction that flowed out from the ancient Heavenly Palace. The ritual vessels used by Great Wei to sacrifice to heaven and earth today only use the lower-level Xuan-Shu Taihe Lyre Restrictions."

"Chime bells playing great music can reach the Dao of heaven above and regulate the hearts of people below!"

"The preciousness is hard to describe for a while. I will take this thing back and offer it to my father..."

In the end, the entire main hall was completely dismantled.

The glazed jade tiles on the roof were taken to boil jade marrow, which was the main medicine for several kinds of three-turn and four-turn medicinal ointments.

The bronze pillars in the hall were all taken to be melted down. Although there was no formula for the Immortal Qin Creation Bronze.

But these bronze pillars were all forged from Purple Mist Copper Essence, each weighing three hundred thousand jin. The ingredients for casting heavy armor were available again!

The floor tiles of the palace were all ten-thousand-year water-polished spirit jade from Kunlun.

Although the spirit qi had collapsed a lot, it was still an extremely high-grade spirit material.

After the entire hall was dismantled, tens of millions of jin of high-grade spirit materials flowed into the workshop like water.

Except for the two jade trees storing the Undying Immortal Medicine and the Langhuan Jade Books, Li Zhong handed over everything else.

One after another, the sealed time was opened, and a large amount of spirit materials surged into the workshop like water.

It wasn't until a medicine garden was opened that a burst of exclamation was truly drawn!

Dozens of medicine kings that had already become spirits drew a group of military family barbarians to go down and catch them with their bare hands.

And then there was the old eunuch's heartbreaking scream: "Don't step on that thousand-year jade ginseng! Damn it, if you touch that nine-colored jade lingzhi, I will hack you myself... Don't touch that yellow essence little person!"

Amidst the noise, Li Zhong quietly walked down the Buddhist pagoda and came to the underground palace.

Qian Chen held a shining talisman and didn't look back, pointing to the prayer mat in front: "Sit!"

Li Zhong sat on the prayer mat, only to see several objects placed on the incense case in front of Qian Chen.

A bronze sparrow sculpture, lifelike.

A Daoist robe with fine stitches.

Finally, there was a water crystal statue, which was a white deer looking back.

"This great battle is coming, and I will return to Chang'an after the battle! Before the great battle, I haven't given you anything. That short weapon Daxia Daxia Longque Blade was picked up by yourself, and for the long weapon, I see you are still using standard equipment. As Li Er's younger brother, how can you not even have a good spear?"

As he spoke, Qian Chen flicked the bronze sparrow, and a long spear nearly a zhang long, with a red flame golden tip and red tassels like fire, appeared on the case.

"Back then, Li Er obtained two ancient bronze sparrows overseas, later used them as spears, subdued the Wang family's Longxiang, and killed the true dragon of the East Sea! One is left here, so I will give it to you!"

As he spoke, he kicked the long spear up and pressed it into Li Zhong's hand.

"This..."

Li Zhong was a bit hesitant. The ancient bronze sparrow, a piece of magic treasure that might have been ordinary in the past, was generally used for pulling carts and driving flight, and did not exert much power.

It was precisely because of this that it had some reputation, and it was related to the spirit treasure bronze sparrow on the Bronze Sparrow Terrace back then.

But because of this, the masters of the bronze sparrow through the ages all used it as some kind of flying magic weapon or a thing for pulling carts and driving.

It wasn't until Li Er emerged, using the bronze sparrow as a spear, shaking Jiankang and suppressing the East Sea...

The long spear was arrogant, and the red tassels rolled.

Only then did people appreciate the power of the ancient bronze sparrow...

Later, Cao Xuanwei also used the bronze sparrow as a spear, but it was the power that he, Li Zhong, had seen with his own eyes—if it weren't for the Four Spirits Blade Technique and the Great Xia Daxia Longque, he feared he wouldn't have been able to withstand a single move.

At that time, he was walking the ancient path of Qi refining, cultivating the seventeenth layer of Qi refining.

Now, shedding bones and changing blood, polishing the blade and dusting it off, opening the Yellow Springs treasury, merging man and formation, and experiencing the battlefield, the layers of Qi refining rose step by step, already breaking through the twenty-fourth layer, equivalent to a supreme Golden Core, a mouthful of Four Spirits Mixed Gang malevolent qi, with a divine blade in hand, and bloodline sublimation.

Although he was not yet Cao Xuanwei's opponent, the Yin Spirit generals of the Liuzhen could only fight him to a draw!

Qian Chen saw his hesitation and laughed: "Take this spear, you must be invincible in the world!"

Li Zhong nodded and placed the bronze sparrow spear across his knees.

"This mysterious yellow Daoist robe is an inner garment refined from innate mysterious yellow qi, more than enough to be your inner armor, but protective magic weapons should always be as low-key as possible, to avoid people thinking hard and finding a way to crack them. So the mysterious yellow qi was only used as a lining."

"The middle layer is the five-colored garment! It can avoid all evil and gloomy qi..."

"The outermost layer is the silk of the Kunlun mysterious ice silkworm, woven with the Daoist art of clothing making. Don't look at it as just one layer, it is stacked by eighty-one layers of thin silk surfaces. The warp and weft of each layer of silk also hide talisman magic patterns, avoiding water, fire, dust, evil... eighty-one avoidances, a hundred methods cannot invade. You wear it inside the inner armor, even if someone breaks your heavy armor, this thing should be able to save your life."

Qian Chen told him to change into this Daoist robe. Li Zhong just put the Daoist robe on his body and felt that it could change as he wished.

At this time, the water crystal statue on the table leaped up, turning into a white deer stepping on the moon. The fur on its body was moon-white, just like flowing a layer of silver light in the moonlight. Although it was in the underground palace at the bottom of the pagoda, the white deer leaped, still like the bright moon rising in the east!

The white deer's big eyes blinked, glanced at Li Zhong, and a look of disgust was visible to the naked eye on its face.

It bit Qian Chen's sleeve, its eyes filled with tears, and it chirped twice.

Qian Chen's expression was cold and calm: "It's useless for you to bite me. I have green cows and elephants, your cultivation is too poor, you are no longer useful... Beautiful fur, auspicious and cute?"

The man's words were as ruthless as ice water.

"You are already dirty, not clean! Whose auspicious beast cultivates a full set of Demonic Sect Great Law? Your 'Corner-Breaking Fierce Star Great Law' is very powerful, severing people's luck, walking the most authentic fierce beast route; your 'Stepping on Clouds, Subduing Waves, Obscuring Moon Step' is also very powerful, suppressing everything, like the moon obscuring and brightening, moving through the Yu Yu Jiuyou River; your 'One Yuan Water Essence Pill' has also cultivated the Xuanming Yin Spirit, which is also very strong! The Xuanming True Water is the same as my Ice Soul Divine Light, both can freeze everything!"

Qian Chen said this and couldn't help but sigh: "But I am a founder of the righteous path, what does it look like for a white deer to cultivate a full set of demonic path divine powers?"

The white deer was annoyed and chirped twice in dissatisfaction!

"What do you mean I taught you? Can I teach you something good? Four white deer, your brothers and sisters are all walking the righteous path of water essence auspiciousness, and you are the only one learning what 'Three Corpses Ten Thousand Poisons Scripture', 'Taotie Swallowing Heaven Great Law', 'Return to Ruins Destroying World Small Law', 'Black Death Underworld Emperor True Scripture'..."

"Like master like pet? The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked?"

"Your skin is really thick! It seems it doesn't matter if my brother has a military family mount. It's cold, I want to wear a white deer skin robe!"

The white deer was so scared that it hid behind Li Zhong, poked out a head, and used its double horns, as clean and flawless as jade, to prop up Li Zhong's arm, hiding under his armpit, sticking its tongue out at Qian Chen.

Qian Chen backhanded and pulled out a pale yellow silk ribbon, and the Long Quehuan on the white deer's neck dragged it to Qian Chen.

The silk ribbon turned into an electric lock gathered by five thunders. The electric lock, which had not been used for a long time, was refined by Qian Chen to completeness in his spare time. Five kinds of divine thunder were only one step away from being refined into one, turning into a Heavenly Mansion divine thunder, which could achieve a magic treasure!

But such a magic weapon that had not been used for a long time, Qian Chen's casual divine thunder had power far exceeding its own body.

Now, it could only be used to teach a disobedient mount a lesson.

Qian Chen said to Li Zhong: "Wait a moment, I will discipline it!"

Li Zhong hesitated and said: "Is it... is it the white deer that accompanied my brother to Jiankang."

Qian Chen nodded: "At that time it was still very pure. It hasn't been disciplined for too long, and it has completely learned to be bad! Now it knows nothing, it knows how to kill the most, and following the Louguan Dao Master has no future! Follow you to the battlefield!"

As he spoke, he casually pointed, raised the curtain, and blocked everything.

After hanging the white deer up and whipping it, Qian Chen led the white deer, which had become very tall, changing from a plum deer to a moose, out from behind the curtain.

That thing twisted its head, stubbornly ignoring Qian Chen.

Seeing Li Zhong, it took a few steps up and arched him, clearly wanting to abandon darkness for light!

Li Zhong hesitated.

Qian Chen casually threw the thunder light electric lock to him and passed him the method of refining the Long Quehuan: "These two things, this beast knows how to use better than you. It has been tied to it for hundreds of years!"

The white deer had indeed cultivated in the Return to Ruins for hundreds of years with the Long Quehuan, and now it was only one step away from the Yang Spirit, much stronger than its brothers and sisters.

After all, no demonic path Great Law is cultivated in vain!

"But you have obtained my talisman, so these two magic weapons will recognize you as their master, and no matter how this beast drives them, they can be countered."

"Its cultivation is not bad, it's just that the path it took went astray!"

Qian Chen said this and also sighed: "A good auspicious beast, why cultivate the demonic path!"

"I have taken a fancy to a demonic elephant in the demonic path, much more majestic than you."

"There is also a green cow in the Daoist sect that came to defect. Its cultivation is stronger than yours. It was a Yang Spirit before, and not long ago it was taken away by the Green Dragon Divine Lord. Now it should have already refined the Nascent Soul!"

"You are neither high nor low, go mix with him!"

After saying that, he drove the man and the deer out of the door.

Before leaving, the white deer caught Qian Chen's sleeve with its mouth, and Li Zhong also stopped to wait for it.

Qian Chen touched its ears, sighed, and imprinted a "Scripture of Holding the Edict to Seal the Yin and Suppress Demons" on its deer horns.

When it wants to turn back one day, it can still use this scripture to turn its demonic path cultivation into blood-slaying bone slips and hold them in its mouth.

Then re-cultivate the righteous path.

After all, for the human race, cultivating demons is returning to the original source, but you, the demon race, what are you cultivating demons for! Isn't this sending it to the Nine Nethers?

When Li Zhong led the white deer and carried the bronze sparrow spear out of the six-story Buddhist pagoda, He Basheng's eyes almost fell out.

He opened his mouth, his eyes seeming to have accusations.

"No, brother! You came to join the army forty years ago carrying a broken blade, claiming to be from the Longxi Li family, but looking like a down-and-out person. Brother! I took it seriously!"

"And then not long ago, you challenged the Crown Prince with a broken blade, and the broken blade was the Great Xia Daxia Longque, which is fine!"

"How can the Qi refining cultivation also be fake!"

"With a blade breaking a spear, even the Crown Prince Xuanwei was challenged! A small soldier became the master of the Vanguard Camp, and then you were favored by Nascent Soul old monsters, your opportunities were against the sky, and there was some Xiliang secret treasury. The Crown Prince also looked at you very highly. I thought you were a late bloomer, I thought you were thick and thin."

"In the Yingzhou battle, you killed the most and were the most eye-catching!"

"In the Western Queen Mother secret treasury, you looked like you made a big profit..."

"Now that we are back, how come you... how come you... changed your equipment and weapons from head to toe, you really don't pretend anymore, right?"

He Basheng opened his mouth, and there seemed to be thousands of words in his mouth.

When he said it, he stammered: "Brother Li Zhong! Why does this spear of yours look a bit like the Crown Prince's bronze sparrow spear?"

Dugu Xin said coldly from the side: "The ancient magic treasure bronze sparrow turning into a long spear was the first thing my brother did. The Louguan Dao Li Er obtained two ancient bronze sparrows overseas, so what if he gave one to his own brother as a weapon?"

He Basheng looked at Li Zhong's outer garment: "This clothes of yours?"

Dugu Xin said indifferently: "New clothes sent by brother..."

"This white deer?"

"Mount sent by brother!"

He Basheng took a step forward.

The white deer blinked, glared at him, and a trace of aura leaked out. The deep cold of Xuanming, the bloodiness of the demonic path, and the malevolent qi of following Qian Chen to burn and kill everywhere...

Instantly, He Basheng knelt on the ground!

"Li Zhong, does your brother still lack a younger brother? No, foster father, does our uncle still lack a nephew?"

"Get up!"

He Badu grabbed his head and pulled him up: "I'm still here!"

Facing the white deer directly, the aura clashed.

He Badu took several steps back, looking at the white deer in surprise, and kept saying: "Good fellow! Good fellow!"

Cao Xuanwei also walked out of the Buddhist pagoda. Seeing Li Zhong's long spear and white deer, his expression changed. His hand was already pressed on the bronze sparrow decoration at his waist, his eyes eager to try, his fighting spirit erupting.

Li Zhong bowed bitterly: "Weapons and mounts sent by my brother!"

The white deer arched him, glanced at Cao Xuanwei with its eyes, signaling him to go up. Li Zhong just pretended not to see. 【

The white deer whispered into his ear: "Go for him!"

"Why are you so cowardly?"

It tossed its head, its eyes full of provocation, the entire deer looking eager to try.

Its energy collided with that of Cao Xuanwei.

A circle of invisible Buddha light suddenly rippled out, but the fighting spirit in Cao Xuanwei's eyes suddenly dissipated!

He looked at Li Zhong with an increasingly complex expression, withdrew his energy, shook his head, and sighed: "Forget it! If not for this trip to the Liuzhen, the various opportunities, and the cultivation of that senior, my cultivation would not even be as good as that white deer... From this, it is evident that Li Er's cultivation progress far exceeds mine!"

"Yet I still treated you, Brother Li Zhong, as a substitute for your brother."

Cao Xuanwei turned his head to look north of Wuchuanzhen and sighed: "Just seeing the virtue of the younger brother makes one think of the elegance of the elder brother!"

He vaulted onto his horse: "Li Zhong, since you have the long spear and the white deer, why not follow me to slaughter a path!"

"I heard the sound of the demon army marching outside Wuchuanzhen!"

"Beyond the northern frontier, there are often herds of white horses; when they cry, the rivers burst, and when they gallop, the mountains collapse..."

Li Zhong tilted his ear, seemingly also hearing the sound of hooves like rain, shaking the mountains and rivers.

On the city walls of Wuchuanzhen, the iron bell rang out suddenly!

In the sky, a great banner, billowing with black clouds and pouring blood rain, suddenly rolled down.

A ten-thousand-foot demon body, carrying the malevolent qi of an endless demon army atop the black banner, heavily pounded down with an iron pestle cast from countless demon heads.

Within the six-story pagoda, a blade light unfurled...

Striking straight into the long sky!

It sliced through the boundless demonic qi that covered the black clouds like a great banner billowing in the sky, cleaving it apart. A ray of heavenly light spread for hundreds of miles, splitting the demon god on the banner in two with a single strike!

Kill!

Endless shouts of killing erupted suddenly from all directions.

The entire world seemed to have become an enemy, turning the vast Wuchuanzhen into a lone boat in a raging sea of fury.

Conquer the Dao Seed!

But that blade light continued to spread, cleaving the long sky, cleaving the black clouds, cleaving the demon god, and even cutting through the shouts of killing from all directions... The invading Nascent Soul Heavenly Demon groaned suddenly under that strike, and the endless demonic qi retreated rapidly...

Seek the Demon Blade!

Murong Chui was at the peak of Longcheng, a thousand miles away, with the iron cavalry of the demon army galloping beneath his feet.

He looked toward the south and snorted coldly. That monk who plotted against him was clearly more demonic than a demon. He did not know if it was a fellow traveler of the Demon Sect plotting against him in secret, or if the Buddhist Sect was just like this, hiding filth and corruption!

(End of chapter)