Chapter 236: Wanxiang Divine Palace, Post-Heaven Spirit Treasure, Wordless Magic Stele

"It is him, it is him, it is indeed him!"

Someone in the Huage Xianghui Tower muttered in their heart. This person was hiding in the dark, revealing only blood-red eyes. The look of dread, fear, and hatred in those eyes was fixed tightly on Qian Chen's back. Qian Chen seemed to have sensed something at this moment, but the blade and sword had already been swung.

The Karmic Fire Red Lotus bloomed, and one sword shook the capital of Chang'an.

Qian Chen could not care about anything else regarding this blade and sword that would kill An Lushan.

Chan Master Master Hui Guo, the supervisor of Qinglong Temple, looked at the red lotus blooming under Qian Chen's sword with deep caution. This sword contained infinite resentment, infinite entanglement, and infinite karmic force, as if carrying the cries of countless common people in the karmic fire of Chang'an in Qian Chen's dream that day, reaching the Heavenly Heart with the human heart, slashing out a sword that severed karmic force.

He used the Heavenly Eye to see clearly the cause and effect of this sword.

He could not help but tremble in his heart: "An Lushan, you have done such great evil. Li Taibai, you have slashed with such great killing intent. This sword is tied to the karmic force of millions of common people in Chang'an; it can be called truly acting on behalf of Heaven!"

An Lushan's magic heart was frantically alert. His eyes were already full of crazy magic thoughts.

"So that's how it is... is it dreaming of the Chang'an of tomorrow? Hahaha... so what if it's the resentment of tens of millions of people in Changancheng? When you were alive, I dared to kill you; now that you are dead, what do I fear!!!"

An Lushan roared at the sky, and a wordless stone stele emerged from before him, carrying a chilling aura.

It blocked Qian Chen's sword, which was destined to hit!

Post-Heaven Spirit Treasure!

Chan Master Master Hui Guo understood, He Zhizhang realized in an instant, the Profound Emperor widened his eyes, and Yang Guozhong had already been terrified by An Lushan's true cultivation; seeing this stone stele, he was so terrified that he almost lost his soul, and he collapsed on his seat. Zhang Xu and Su Jin closed their eyes in despair.

Post-Heaven Spirit Treasure—Great Heavenly Demon Wordless Stele!

"The spirit treasure held by the Empress in the past, the legacy token of the Great Heavenly Demon lineage—Yu Yu Jiuyou Great Heavenly Demon Stele. Because the Empress wiped away all the demonic and evil arts recorded on it, to show that she abandoned the cruel and bloody old magic path, yet she did not write a single word about the new magic path she created, symbolizing that the new magic path would be written by future generations."

"Therefore, it is the Heavenly Demon Wordless Stele!" Someone muttered in a low voice: "Qian Chen... didn't expect it! Hahahaha, you also have today!"

He Zhizhang's hair and beard were disheveled, and he shouted, "Retreat! Taibai, retreat quickly!"

Qian Chen, however, revealed a bitter smile. His right hand holding the Affection Sword was shaken by the Great Heavenly Demon Stele, and the bones were shattered section by section. The Affection Sword fell powerlessly onto the hall. An Lushan slapped the Great Heavenly Demon Stele horizontally, striking toward the I-Wo Zhi Dao...

When both blade and sword were lost, Qian Chen would have no power to resist.

Except for falling into the magic path, there would be no second result...

"In the end, I still couldn't deceive you remnants. I thought that when you had no other way, you would suppress me into the Divine Capital Array! Letting me take the opportunity to break the seal and let the Nine Nethers return." An Lushan laughed wildly: "I didn't expect the Daoist path to still have some ability, finally forcing out my Great Heavenly Demon Body!"

An Lushan planned to kill this little bug that had been jumping around happily and almost forced him into a dead end, and then merge his body with the stele, using the Great Heavenly Demon Stele to forcibly raise his own life-bound god-demon, truly transforming into a Heavenly Demon—the Great Heavenly Demon Stele was a treasure for proving the Dao. Besides its offensive ability, its most powerful aspect was that it could allow a magic cultivator who had cultivated into an Immortal God-Demon to raise their own life-bound god-demon by another realm—this was the Immortal Heavenly Demon.

It was on par with the Daoist Primordial Spirit True Immortal and the Buddhist Golden Body Arhat in the realm of Immortals, Demons, Gods, and Buddhas!

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At the Luoyang Dharma Realm seal, Sima Chengzhen looked at the towering palace with an overwhelming aura beneath the suppression of the White Horse Dharma Realm, shocked and losing his color.

The palace had three levels, each thirty zhang high. The bottom level was square, with each side painted a different color—green, red, white, and black—to imitate the changes of the four seasons. The middle level had twelve sides to imitate the twelve two-hour periods, and the top level was circular, towering and surrounded by nine dragon sculptures. In the middle was a hundred-zhang bronze divine tree, running through from top to bottom. The plaque in front of the hall read—Wanxiang Divine Palace.

Twelve ancient Heavenly Son god statues stood tall. Within the Yu Yu Jiuyou Rift, they had carved out a small world, and there were nine tripods suppressing and stabilizing it. Any demon from the Nine Nethers with an aura exceeding Core Formation that escaped from the Yu Yu Jiuyou Rift would be suppressed by the nine tripods and annihilated by the twelve gods.

Sima Chengzhen said with a trembling voice, "I was wondering how Xue Huaiyi could burn down the Wanxiang Divine Palace, the Empress's Mingtang and Tiantang. It turns out it was hidden by the Empress in the Yu Yu Jiuyou Rift as her Heavenly Son Hall to rule the magic path. This White Horse Dharma Realm secretly hides a passage to the Wanxiang Divine Palace, which was opened at least sixty years ago. This is not a move An Lushan could have made. Li Linfu is indeed deep in his schemes!"

Sima Chengzhen communicated with the Heavenly Master Dharma Seal, which served as the foundation of the White Horse Pure Land. Wrapped in spiritual light, he tore through the infinite Yu Yu Jiuyou magic qi and landed in the Wanxiang Divine Palace.

He pushed open the gate of the Heavenly Son Mingtang and saw that directly facing the gate, on the high hall, a wordless stone stele stood tall, suppressing it.

The position he was in could only look up at this stone stele, as if it were telling the Empress's pride—my merits and faults, no one can judge.

But what truly made Sima Chengzhen change color was that this wordless stone stele was only a phantom of aura. The true Baxia divine beast carrying the stele was still there, but the stele above it had already vanished without a trace.

Sima Chengzhen slapped the Baxia's head. That palm, which could split mountains and crack stones, only scratched the Baxia's itch. This divine beast opened its eyes in a daze, saw that it was a Daoist priest in front of it, and immediately raised its head, putting on a majestic appearance.

"Wasn't the Great Heavenly Demon Stele taken away by the Empress?" Sima Chengzhen jumped and shouted.

Baxia said in a deep voice, "Junior, have you come to pay respects to the Nation-Suppressing Divine Beast?"

"I am asking you, where is the Great Heavenly Demon Stele?" Sima Chengzhen was already anxious. The few old monks following behind him only then came down to examine this towering Wanxiang Divine Palace, pondering how to renovate this magic path divine court left by the Empress into a Buddhist temple.

This White Horse Dharma Realm was a Buddhist Pure Land. The things inside the White Horse Dharma Realm were, of course, all Buddhist treasures!

As the gatekeepers guarding the seal, since the original owner, the Empress, had ascended, it was very normal for them to take the things inside the gate as their own!

Baxia was a bit displeased, but sensing the aura left by the Heavenly Master Dharma Seal on Sima Chengzhen, it still answered with a good temper, "So it is the contemporary Heavenly Master! The Empress's wordless stele? Isn't it still... eh? Where is my wordless stele? Where is my wordless stele that was so big?"

"Who stole my wordless stele?"

"The Empress didn't take the Great Heavenly Demon Stele?" Sima Chengzhen saw that this Baxia's brain was not working well, so he directly asked the question he was most worried about.

Baxia was stunned and said, "The Empress would sooner or later prove the Dao as a Demon Lord, would she still covet a Great Heavenly Demon Stele? She didn't borrow the Li Tang's luck to cultivate, so she left these things to compensate a little, lest she be settled accounts with after going up... She intended to help the Li Tang combine the three religions and rule the Daoist, Buddhist, and Magic sects, so she left everything in Luoyang!"

Sima Chengzhen's face turned blue and purple. He suddenly bent down, supporting Baxia's head, and a mouthful of fresh blood sprayed out, splashing on the Mingtang, making the abbot of White Horse Temple and several other high monks of ancient Luoyang temples look sideways.

The spirit treasure Great Heavenly Demon Stele in the Empress's hand, ever since the countless magic path scriptures recorded on it were wiped away, had lost its status as a legacy spirit treasure of the magic path. In addition, after the Empress ascended, her relics did not include this stele, and the Great Heavenly Demons who succeeded later had never revealed this spirit treasure.

Everyone thought the Empress had taken this spirit treasure with her when she ascended!

Who could have thought it was left right here beneath the seal of the Luoyang White Horse Dharma Realm...

This group of monks was actually stupid enough not to know that there was such a big Wanxiang Divine Palace in the seal they were guarding! And it was found by Li Linfu, who secretly opened a secret passage into the seal. Sima Chengzhen was so angry his lungs were about to explode!

And on the day Li Linfu was killed, no one could have thought that Li Linfu actually did not carry this spirit treasure with him, but instead let An Lushan learn the relevant clues, secretly sneak into the Wanxiang Divine Palace, obtain this treasure, and inherit the position of Great Heavenly Demon.

But Sima Chengzhen thought again, on the day Li Linfu was killed, the Profound Emperor had gathered high people from all righteous sects.

On that day in Changancheng, there were as many as four Primordial Spirits, and each family carried their own sect-suppressing spirit treasure. Even if Li Linfu had the Great Heavenly Demon Stele, what use would it be?

Now that Li Linfu had been eradicated, the Profound Emperor had become slack, and the high Daoist and Buddhist people had been squeezed out of Chang'an and Luoyang, their influence in the imperial court dissipated.

The Profound Emperor abolished the three religions and supported the hundred schools, and the Primordial Spirit high people had no choice but to ascend one after another.

At this moment, it was the time when the righteous path's influence was at its weakest and most dispersed... If Li Linfu had not miscalculated, but was waiting for today?

"Dao Heart Plants Demon?" Sima Chengzhen trembled and said, "No, it should be Demon Heart Plants Dao! There must be hidden dangers in An Lushan's demon heart. I fear that when he obtained the Great Heavenly Demon Stele, he was already schemed against!"

"The great plan to assassinate An and remove the demons has actually failed because of this!"

Sima Chengzhen said with grief and indignation, "This disciple is incompetent. I hope Patriarch Qian will have mercy on the common people of the Great Tang and save the common people of Chang'an!"

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The Great Heavenly Demon Stele struck the I-Wo Zhi Dao horizontally. Magic power is easy to obtain, but blade momentum is hard to come by. After slashing out the previous Great Liberation blade, no matter how capable Qian Chen was, the blade momentum was exhausted. The Red Lotus sword returned without success, and it was certain he could not slash a second blade.

Moreover, although the I-Wo Zhi Dao had infinite potential, compared to a Post-Heaven Spirit Treasure whose power level had reached the supreme realm of the Primordial Spirit, it was still far too inferior.

Every spirit treasure is essentially a Primordial Spirit.

Qian Chen's words became a prophecy. He didn't even need to succeed in Core Formation before a Primordial Spirit came to fight him!

At this moment, Qian Chen smiled with relief. On his white clothes, there were spots of blood. In the impossible, he swung another blade, but it was his immature blade of freedom, as if expressing the regret of not being able to be free.

His eyes were calm, smiling at An Lushan, whose magic might was towering.

At this time, An Lushan finally felt that the situation was in his grasp. He laughed wildly. Si Qingguo looked back at this moment and requested of the Profound Emperor, "Your Majesty, there is still the Shangqing Pearl!"

He Zhizhang also looked back and said, "An Lushan's ambition is fully exposed. Your Majesty, please use the Great Tang's Nation-Suppressing Spirit Treasure, the Shangqing Pearl!"

Li Mi also anxiously arched his hands and said, "Your Majesty, please use the Shangqing Pearl to kill this demon!" Consort Mei, Jiang Caiping, flew out of the Rainbow Feather Garment Melody array and knelt on the hall. The ministers who had not yet fled in the tower, including Yang Guozhong and Consort Taizhen, all knelt on the ground.

The Profound Emperor also knew the weight of the situation, silently praying, and summoned this spirit treasure that suppressed the Li Tang's luck!

An Lushan also knew of this pearl. In his view, Qian Chen was already a dead man! At this moment, three-tenths of his mind remained on the Great Heavenly Demon Stele, wanting to smash Qian Chen into smithereens, while the other seven-tenths of his mind were all guarding against this famous Nation-Suppressing Spirit Treasure.

The person in the dark cursed wildly in his heart: "Stupid! Stupid!"

He stared at Qian Chen's transcendent smile at this moment, and frantically thought in his heart: "It's this smile, it's this smile! When he deceives people, he smiles just like this!" ===== CHAPTER 237 =====