Chapter 122: Demon-Suppressing…… Before the Decisive Battle

Led by Zhuge Qingyun, the group arrived at the site of the recent tragedy. This was a simple Daoist temple, about several hundred miles away from Heavenly Tian Shafeng. It should have been one of the hidden moves left behind by the seniors of the Seven Demon-Slaying Heroes to guard the Blood Demon. Now, the mountain gate had collapsed, bloodstains were mottled, and traces of demonic fire burning were everywhere.

The Daoist temple had collapsed for the most part, and only a small Three Pure Ones main hall remained largely intact.

The three Three Pure Ones disciples among the crowd stepped forward to salute respectfully, each tidied up the main hall, and then placed the corpses of the righteous path seniors on a layer of white cloth spread on the floor of the main hall.

Except for True Person Yiye of Western Kunlun, who burned his remains with the Fire Chi Sword before he died, and his fragile Yin Spirit in the Core Formation pill left the body to fight Miaokong, leaving only a pile of ashes, the corpses of the other righteous path seniors were mostly placed here.

Zhichiu knelt before the spirit, already in tears.

His expression was desolate and sorrowful, but his eyes were firm and solemn, with a raging anger burning faintly. Zhuge Qingyun patted his shoulder and sighed. They were also old acquaintances, both righteous path people, and had met several times before.

Seeing Yan Shu touched the sword box on his back somewhat reluctantly, then suddenly took it off and said in a low voice: "This Demon-Suppressing Treasure is an old object of the seniors in your sect. Now I return it to you. Taking it to avenge them is probably more appropriate."

Zhichiu shook his head: "This is not an object of Western Kunlun. This is a Demon-Suppressing Treasure refined by the righteous path of the world for the sake of eliminating demons and defending the Dao. True Person Chiyong didn't leave this magic treasure in Western Kunlun back then because he believed it was not the property of Western Kunlun alone, but was born for the sake of eliminating demons." He stroked the mottled traces on the Demon-Suppressing Sword Hero and said: "Yan Yan Shixiong Yan, your sword skills are far higher than mine. Only in your hands can this sword box truly threaten the Blood Demon!"

"My master's death was also for the righteous path's great cause."

"Back then, during the Blood Demon calamity, only seven heroes were left to subdue the Blood Demon, but those who died because of the Blood Demon were tens of thousands of times this number. The righteous path sword heroes who died one after another to completely eliminate the Blood Demon were also hundreds of times this number. My master didn't wait for the Blood Demon to break the seal and stretch his neck to be slaughtered, but led the various seniors to completely eliminate the Blood Demon. Although he unfortunately met with calamity, he died for the sake of eliminating demons, and he died worthily!"

Zhichiu handed the sword box to Seeing Yan Shu and said: "Yan Yan Shixiong Yan! Qian Yan Shixiong! Ning Ning Shimei Ning…… and Ning Ning Shimei Si, you came from the Earth Immortal Realm outside the sky. Your divine abilities, magic power, wisdom, and heart-mind are all far superior to mine. You even came to eliminate the demon lord of this world, not hesitating to face the calamity, risking the danger of life and death. You even killed the four great demons under the Blood Demon one after another to find the seven treasures."

"You are the destined masters of the seven Demon-Suppressing Treasures. I hope you can hold the Demon-Suppressing Magic Treasures and completely eliminate this scourge of this world!"

Si Qingguo looked at the little monk Shi Fang who was constantly chanting the Rebirth Mantra for the dead, came to him, and said in a low voice: "Little monk, your cultivation is low. The Qingyuan Temple lineage left by the monk Master Bu Dai is now left with only you. You should go back first! We are here…… we will definitely not let the Blood Demon bring disaster to the world again."

The little monk Shi Fang shook his head: "Female Bodhisattva, the little monk and my master traveled the four seas and had no home. Where my master is, is home. Now that the demon lord has stolen my master's corpse, I just want to collect my master's corpse for cremation and take my master's relic back!"

Qian Chen sighed slightly: "Then take your master's uncle's relic back too!"

Shi Fang nodded slightly. Si Qingguo had already told him the story of Xiang You's past. He said calmly: "If the few benefactors succeed in eliminating the demon, I will re-establish my master's and master's uncle's relics in the pagoda forest of Qingyuan Temple and rebuild that forest with my own hands."

"Is it still called Qingyuan Temple?" Si Qingguo asked, supporting her chin.

Shi Fang scratched his head: "Since Qingyuan Temple has been destroyed once, it should have a new name. This temple started from Lanruo, so how about calling it Lanruo Temple?"

"Isn't Lanruo the meaning of a quiet and silent place in Sanskrit? It seems a bit unlucky!" Si Qingguo nodded her head and said.

Qian Chen turned his head and said: "What about Fellow Daoist Zhuge? Are you going to follow us to eliminate the demon?"

Zhuge Qingyun swallowed nervously and said with difficulty: "In my sect, my biggest hobby is reading history. Every time I read the part about the seven heroes subduing the demon back then, I can't help but sigh. When the seven heroes subdued the demon back then, no one witnessed or recorded it. It only relied on the fragments left by the seniors, failing to reproduce the power of that demon-subduing."

"Now that I have the opportunity to witness the new seven heroes eliminating the demon, I just want to witness it and record this history!"

"How do you plan to record this history, Fellow Daoist?" Qian Chen asked curiously.

"Of course, record it truthfully!" Zhuge Qingyun felt a bit strange. Qian Chen pondered for a while and shook his head: "Not appropriate, not appropriate! The secret of the Blood Demon involves many secrets. It's hard to guarantee that the Blood Demon won't leave any backhands in the Earth Aperture of Tian Sha Peak. If later generations come to look for it and the Blood Demon's inheritance leaks out, wouldn't it be another storm of blood and rain?"

Zhuge Qingyun was stunned: "Then…… then I will hide the place name of Tian Sha Peak!"

Qian Chen nodded: "This way, the geographical secret won't be leaked! But what about the characters? How should you explain them?"

Zhuge Qingyun raised his head: "Of course, record it truthfully!"

Qian Chen shook his head again: "The secret of the Blood Demon involves many secrets. Qingyuan Temple was destroyed back then, wasn't it because the Blood Demon knew they were the successors of the monk Master Bu Dai? If you record the little monk Shi Fang, will the newly established Qingyuan Temple be in danger again? Will someone who wants to know the secret of the Blood Demon back then look for your descendants?"

Zhuge Qingyun said helplessly: "The characters also need to be hidden?"

Qian Chen nodded: "And the story is also very important. You must not let people admire the Blood Demon after reading it, leading people to imitate him, so you must describe the Blood Demon as very ugly, but not too powerful, so as not to let people pursue power and seek the Blood Demon's Dao again. Recording history must be clear in praise and blame, and the position must be firm. As the saying goes, Confucius wrote the Spring and Autumn Annals, with praise and blame in every word. You might not know who Confucius is, just understand the meaning. We must praise, and the Blood Demon and Miaokong must be ugly…… ferocious……"

Zhuge Qingyun had already wanted to throw away the brush in his hand!

"Write the location, you say I leaked the secret; write the characters, you say I brought disaster; write the story, you want me to have a firm position. Come, come…… here is the brush, you write it!"

"I won't write…… but I can supervise you writing!" Qian Chen showed the ice blade condensed by the Ice Soul Cold Light: "See this blade? It slashes the soul and Dao heart above, and slashes demonic thoughts and evil views below. If your book is 'evil views', be careful that after my blade technique is completed, I will slash from outside the sky and completely erase this book."

"This is the second style of my blade technique, the Four-Zero Style!"

Zhuge Qingyun threw the brush and left. Qian Chen shouted behind him: "Brother Zhuge, don't go! I was just joking. Come and listen to me play the zither with Si…… Ning Ning Shimei! Have you heard of 'Shi Kong Zhan'? When will True Person Wolong arrive? I really want to compete with him in zither skills and fight for who is the zither demon of this generation!"

Qian Chen turned his head and saw Si Qingguo looking at him curiously, so he raised his hand and greeted: "Ning Ning Shimei, can you say 'Wonderful! Wonderful!'?"

Si Qingguo shook her little head and said: "Wonderful! Wonderful!"

"Is it like this?"

"Wait until I find True Person Wolong!" Qian Chen raised his finger and pointed.

Ning Qingchen also quietly pulled Qian Chen's sleeve at this time. The two came outside the Three Pure Ones Hall. Ning Qingchen made a quiet gesture to him. Qian Chen joked: "Ning Ning Shimei, not sleeping on a moonlit night……"

"Yan Yan Shixiong Yan comes from overseas and doesn't know yet, but Qian Yan Shixiong, you should have seen it, right!" Ning Qingchen's words made Qian Chen a bit disappointed.

"Seen what?"

"Ning Ning Shimei Si Qingguo…… she said she was using a pseudonym and also used the fake surname Si. Although Ning Ning Shimei Si Qingguo is innocent and romantic, every move she makes has very high upbringing. Among the aristocratic families of the Wei and Jin dynasties, there are not many with the surname Si…… and there are even fewer who have contact with the righteous Dao Academy. Being able to worship in the righteous Daoist lineage under a pseudonym is not simple."

"If Ning Ning Shimei comes from the Sima family of the Great Jin royal family, that would be reasonable. And the sixteenth princess of the Sima family of the Great Jin just happens to have the title 'Qingguo Princess'." Ning Qingchen looked at Qian Chen's calm eyes and said in a low voice: "Yan Yan Shixiong, do you have anything to say?"

"It has that flavor! I hope True Person Wolong is also a female Daoist. Sigh! If Ning Ning Shimei's mother also came, it would be great. Ning Ning Shimei just needs to shout that sentence: Mother, look!" Qian Chen clapped his hands and smiled.

"Why is it mother?"

"Because she might follow her mother's surname!"

Ning Qingchen nodded and realized: "So that's it, then I was worried for nothing!" Qian Chen asked: "Ning Ning Shimei is not someone who cares about family background, nor does she like to gossip, why did you bring up Ning Ning Shimei Si's family background this time?" Ning Qingchen said with a bitter smile: "Because the Sima family's reputation is not very good!"

"If Ning Ning Shimei Si's father is from the Sima family, it makes me a bit worried."

Qian Chen nodded and understood: "That's true, a fellow Daoist from the Cui family mentioned a few words to me, the Sima family's family style is indeed not good."

Ning Qingchen looked at Si Qingguo in the Three Pure Ones Hall, who was concentrating on preparing for the battle and was somewhat carefree, and said: "It is rare for Ning Ning Shimei to have her father's protection and avoid the filthy scheming of that aristocratic family!"

The few of them waited for Zhichiu and Shi Fang to finish mourning before the spirit, and then set up a platform in the courtyard. Ning Qingchen released the white Refining Demon True Fire and cremated the corpses of those righteous path seniors. As the blue smoke rose, a Daoist with messy long beard and sloppy Daoist robe stepped and sang into the Daoist temple, and bowed slightly to the cremated corpses.

Zhuge Qingyun said pleasantly: "Yan Shixiong Zhou Qi!"

The sloppy Daoist Zhou Qi smiled and said: "Sure enough! Useful trees are cut by axes and used as firewood; useless trees live for eight hundred years and get longevity. They drove me away, but only let me, this useless person, survive."

He turned to look at Qian Chen and the others, shook his head and said: "You useful little saplings, why don't you wait until you grow up a bit before you put them to use? Let those old guys like Wolong who can't grow any bigger go!"

Qian Chen smiled: "Senior, Building Wood is a thousand zhang in one year, and ginseng is a cluster in ten thousand years. Some trees are born to grow faster and taller than others. Isn't it a simple thing to support the building of a palace?"

Zhou Qi was not angry, but raised his thumb and smiled: "You have ambition. Look at this rotten wood of mine, which is bloated and doesn't fit the ink line, and the small branches are curled and don't fit the rules. Can it still be burned as a piece of dry wood? If you don't dislike that I'm not easy to burn, take me with you!"

"The tree crown is large but not dense, which can shelter the small saplings under it from wind and rain, and not block the sunlight. The tree roots are shallow and not deep, which can take root without strangling the saplings beside it and competing for nutrients. After such a useless tree falls, how many towering trees will grow under its protection?" Qian Chen nodded slightly.

Zhou Qi took out a bronze mirror with a blurry surface from his arms, wiped it hard with his dirty sleeve, and then raised his head and said: "Then it's cheaper for those old guys like Wolong, let them grow for a few more years! I have been to that demon cave before…… Young people today are really not simple! Among those four demon monsters, I have some ways to deal with two of them, but I can't fight that snake. If the thing hidden in the deepest part comes out, my old bones can only be burned as firewood for others!"

"A demon cub just entered that demon cave again. If you want to stop him from doing anything, do it

"Die early, reincarnate early!" The slovenly Daoist spread his blackened hands and shrugged.

Zhou Qi flicked his sleeve, and a red sword light flew toward Zhiqiu: "Old Ye finally sent this thing to me. I don't find it as handy as my own old gear, so let it return to its original owner! Little Zhiqiu, don't let this sword down..."

Qian Chen carried the Heaven-Net Umbrella on his back, put on the Dragon-Sparrow Ring, and suppressed the Bone Tianmo Sheli within his Flowing Cloud Flying Sleeves. Seeing Yan Shu only had a sword case, Ning Qingchen held the big yellow chicken Master Feng, Si Qingguo spent half a day preparing just her magic tools and ran out counting talismans, also tucking the small jade seal into her sleeve. Guo Fei followed at the very end, very low-key, along with the slovenly True Person Zhou Qi and Zhiqiu, who held the Fire Chi Sword.

As well as the little monk Shi Fang and Zhuge Qingyun, who were helping by shouting and cheering.

This was the entire force of the righteous path at the moment of the decisive battle between righteousness and evil... They drifted away toward the direction of Heavenly Tian Shafeng.