Qi Shuming obtained the "Emperor Mansion's Heavenly Seal Edict" and, with its blessing, his mana immediately increased significantly. With the Nine-character True Words on it, even the most common spells could be transformed from decay to wonder, exhibiting extraordinary power when cast. There was no need to mention the spells from the Emei Sect; a single Taiyin Divine Thunder was earth-shattering. His strength surged, surpassing that of Xuanyuan's disciple.

This time Qi Shuming took control of the Central Palace, drove away Poison Hand Mo Shen, used the Invisible Sword to shatter the body of the bewitching corpse Cui Ying, and then sealed the cave with the Taiqing Immortal Technique, erecting the Nine Commandments Immortal Banner he had obtained from Spiritual Jade Peak.

He had just finished preparing when the Xuanyuan Dharma King arrived, attacking fiercely without catching up to the Xuanyuan's disciple. Returning, he launched a fierce attack on Qi Shuming, attempting to retake the Central Cave. Qi Shuming took up a purely defensive stance, firmly occupying the Earth Palace of Central Cave.

At that moment, Xuanyuan's disciple entered the Eastern Wood Palace, where five people began to activate the prohibition of the Illusion Wave Pool in the Five Palaces.

Saintess Jiayin's Five Escapes prohibition came from a "Heavenly Mansion Secret Manual" she had stumbled upon years ago. Despite its name, it was still considered a peripheral practice.

The Emei Sect was also proficient in Five Elements Techniques and was the legitimate Mysterious Sect, but it usually didn't focus solely on cultivating one aspect. In fact, it was more profound than the Saintess's teachings.

Years ago, Jiayin reached the Earth Immortal level, with her Nascent Soul able to wander between heaven and earth, but unable to ascend to the Immortal Realm. Later, after receiving guidance from Li Ning's previous life, she went to Shendu Country to acquire Buddhist Scripture, and from then on, turned to Buddhism.

In order to repay this favor, and relying on the Emei Sect to help her transcend tribulations and protect her Ascension in the future, she gave most of the treasures, including the Illusion Wave Pool, to Li Ning's daughter in this life, Li Yingqiong. She also had a close friend, the otherworldly Bai Younu, who later reincarnated as Yi Jing, another future backbone of the Emei Sect.

Because of this karmic relationship, the Emei Sect had predicted early on and connected their methods with those left by Jiayin. Since Jiayin disliked men, Xun Lanyin took the initiative to investigate the Illusion Wave Pool, obtained the Saintess's "Heavenly Mansion Secret Manual" and saw the Five Cave Map and the Lotus Key. They had already thoroughly understood the whole Five Palace Five Escapes; now, when they cast the spells, their power was many times greater than if they had activated it themselves!

The Xuanyuan Dharma King couldn't break into the Central Cave and attempted other caves, only to return empty-handed. He calmed his mind and took out two Magical Treasures that were intended for Shi Feiyang to battle against the Emei Sect. After days of dueling, he was still unable to claim victory. Given that he held super nuclear-level Magical Treasures, the Emei Sect didn't dare to push too hard. They mainly defended with all their might, using various illusions, restrictions, and direct attacks on the Primordial Spirit, hoping to persuade the Xuanyuan Dharma King to give up.

Both sides regarded the Illusion Wave Pool as their own. In their fight, they restrained themselves, but as time went on, their anger grew, and they gradually began to increase their efforts.

Not long after the battle over the Illusion Wave Pool began, the Great Hero Treasure Vault in West Kongtong was also opened.

The person who opened the treasure vault was Hua Wuxie, a disciple of Master Fen Tuo, which consequently gave control over the entire situation to Master Fen Tuo.

In Kongtong Mountain, there was the original Kongtong Sect, with many demon disciples present, and the two old monsters, Tian Can and Di Que.

Tian Can and Di Que both had a thousand years of Dao Level, and though they came from peripheral sects, their mana was incredibly powerful. They also controlled the "Mixed Element Qi Sphere," a super nuclear weapon in the Shushan World, second only to the "Heavenly Demon Sensing Secret Demon Seven Deadly Black Holes." Once detonated, all living beings within five thousand li would perish, mountains would crumble, and the earth would revert to primordial chaos.

In the original story, it was the Caiwei Monk Zhu Youmu, Jiang Xuejun, Divine Camel Yi Xiu, and Han Fairy who schemed together to restrain the two, and in the end, they even had to use the power of the Conch Leaf Talisman to reverse time, restoring the mountain peaks and cave dwellings destroyed by Yi Xiu. The two had an epiphany and nearly converted to Buddhism.

Now, Zhu Youmu was led back to the mountains by Bai Mei Zen Master to repent and meditate quietly. Jiang Xuejun also returned to Miao Zhen Temple to seek guidance from her master. Yi Xiu and his spouse had not yet reconciled; one wandered freely outside while the other quietly submerged in cultivation at the bottom of the White Rhinoceros Pond on Min Mountain.

Master Fen Tuo had intended to ask his sister, an old nun who had been cultivating in Qinling, to take action, but the Qinling nun directly rejected the request, stating she had severed all external ties and was focused solely on Buddhism, awaiting to be led to the Western Heaven by the three holy ones, and would not involve herself in worldly matters. Therefore, Master Fen Tuo turned to discuss with Master You Tan, who then intervened to help Hua Wuxie obtain the "Shell Leaf Zen Scripture" and the Conch Leaf Talisman.

Her enemies included the "Two Evils of West Kun Mountain": Ghost King Hujia Zhuotu and Golden Lion God Buddha Chilong Erzhua, the two Barbarian Monks with high mana who had cultivated thirty-six corporeal Divine Demons, capable of wielding these Divine Demons in their sieges.

The two calculated that they would face great disaster within the next twenty years and believed that only the "Shell Leaf Zen Scripture" could resolve it; thus, they were determined to acquire it at any cost.

But with the presence and leadership of the Divine Nuns Fen Tuo and You Tan, they could not stir trouble. The only ones they feared were the Chuanxin Monks!

Hujia Zhuotu and Chilong Erzhua were originally from the Yulong tribe in Yunnan and, when they were children, picked herbs on Sea Heart Mountain. They intended to cross the ice, but a nearby volcano erupted, melting the ice, and they couldn't return to land. To escape the firestorm, they inadvertently entered the Demon Palace on Sea Heart Mountain.

The master of the Demon Palace opened the mountain once every three hundred and fifty years and took them in for a hundred and nine days. They were taught many magics, received two Demon Scriptures, and were told to seek out the Chuanxin Monk in West Kunlun Mountain, an uncle from their master's generation, with the Demon Scriptures for guidance.

The Chuanxin Monk had originally cultivated genuine Han Mahayana Buddhism and had achieved Dao hundreds of years earlier. During the Tang and Song dynasties, he fought and lost to Blood God Deng Yin over the "Blood God Scripture." Enraged and humiliated, he went into seclusion in the belly of West Kunlun Mountain, vowing not to emerge until he had avenged himself. After years of meditation in the mountain, he miraculously avoided a catastrophic tribulation, and his divine skills grew ever more profound.

When the Two Evils sought the Chuanxin Monk's guidance with the Demon Scriptures, he realized his fellow disciples had sent them to awaken him from his meditation. He understood the hidden messages in the scriptures and taught them clearly, using Yin Demon powers to control them and have them act on his behalf outside.

The two Demon Monks grew stronger in their magic, both of them at the level of Sect Leaders, inseparably walking, sitting, and lying together, always advancing and retreating as one during fights. Their mentor, the Chuanxin Monk, was even more unfathomable.

Shi Feiyang had calculated beforehand that if the Buddhist faction obtained the Conch Leaf Talisman before the opening of the Holy Mausoleum, they would surely use it against him. Without any Cosmic Treasures in hand, he was doomed to be utterly defeated. Failing to secure the two treasures of the Holy Mausoleum, the sisters of the Xie Family would later obtain the Seven Treasures Golden Banner, refine the Demonic Destruction Treasure Scroll, and come seeking vengeance against him. When his fated calamity arrived, he would be completely annihilated!

Therefore, this battle was crucial. The combined force of the two old Demon Nuns, Fen Tuo and You Tan, along with the pair of wicked monks from West Kunlun Mountain and the Chuanxin Monk, was still not sufficient.

To save time, Shi Feiyang had asked Zhu Zaiyu, who resided in Taihang Mountain, to lure out an old demon, the Chuanxin Monk.

The Chuanxin Monk was the junior of the Chuanxin Monk. Years ago, during a duel with Master Changmei, he had lost nearly half of his body. Vowing revenge, he used indignation and persuasion to retrieve his body, fled back to the shadow of Taihang Mountain, utilized his mana to carve out a stone cave within Qianxun Mountain, and began the arduous cultivation of his Magical Treasure, preparing for vengeance.

He also made a vow that he would not emerge unless his mana surpassed that of Master Changmei!

These two brothers, along with Master Changmei and the Blood God Deng Yin, had a deep-seated grudge after suffering a crushing defeat, swearing not to leave their retreats until they had their revenge.

The Chuanxin Monk had been in seclusion in Taihang Mountain for over two hundred years, never meeting outsiders, and had even dispersed his one hundred and eight female disciples prior to entering closed cultivation.

When Master Changmei was ascending, he worried that once he left, the Chuanxin Monk would emerge and seek revenge on his disciples, so he cast a spell to conceal Heaven's Secret and changed the Heavenly Number. The monk's divinations consistently showed that Master Changmei was still in the Human World, so he obediently stayed in Taihang Mountain to cultivate.

This time, Shi Feiyang had Zhu Zaiyu perform a spell in Taihang Mountain, breaking the concealment of Heaven's Secret cast by Master Changmei years ago, and altering the Heavenly Number changed by him.

While cultivating in his cave, the Chuanxin Monk suddenly got a whim to calculate, and discovered that Master Changmei had ascended nearly a hundred years ago! All this time he had been deceived by Master Changmei!

Enraged, the Demon Monk also felt secretly alarmed, cursing Master Changmei for fooling him even after passing away, which he considered an extreme insult! He prepared to leave the mountain immediately to seek revenge on the Emei Sect.

The Demon Monk then calculated that, although Master Changmei had ascended to the Immortal Realm, he had left behind the Liangyi Dust Formation to guard Emei Mountain, a supremely wondrous array. To break through it, one needed to seek a Buddhist treasure from the West.

Looking at the divination signs, he fell into deep contemplation. Master Changmei had ascended, and he had lost to him years ago. If he emerged now and slaughtered any Emei disciple he saw, it would be too shameful—he would become a laughingstock to the comrades of his path, and it would be pointless to exterminate all Emei disciples this way. Master Changmei's ascension meant he could only bully his disciples and grandchildren, a display of impotent rage. As an old demon who had cultivated for a thousand years, he disdained such behavior.

To avenge his ancient grudge and wash away his past disgrace, he must go to the Emei Sect, fight against many with few, and defeat all of Master Changmei's successors. He could not kill them; Master Changmei had spared him, and therefore, although he could kill Master Changmei, he should not kill his disciples and grandchildren. He intended to prove to the world that he had defeated the Dao lineage left by Master Changmei.

Of course, he could also forcefully compel Master Changmei's disciples and grandchildren to become his disciples. If they refused, he could then righteously eliminate them. If they chose the path he offered, they could not blame him for their fate. As long as a few coveted life and feared death enough to join his ranks, he could parade them as trophies in the future...

To achieve this, he had to break the Liangyi Dust Formation. However, the formation was incredibly formidable. Master Changmei once used it to capture the Blood God twice, seemingly invincible. If he carelessly fell into it, it could embarrassingly turn into a group of juniors freeing him. He would rather die than face such shame.

To break the Liangyi Dust Formation, he needed a Magical Treasure. The divination indicated it was a Buddhist treasure, located somewhere in the Northwest...

While calculating, the Demon Monk merged with the demon inside him, sensing the Heavenly Demon, and the more he calculated, the more clues he found, the deductions growing ever more precise: "A thousand years ago... Kongtong Mountain... Buddhist treasure..."

Suddenly, he remembered something from over a thousand years ago. The situation on Kongtong Mountain back then was different from later ages. At that time, a high Buddhist monk named the Great Hero Zen Master brought a Spirit Stone as large as a mountain from Western Tianzhu to Kongtong Mountain, establishing Zhu Ling Spring Jade Peak, where he opened a cave dwelling for cultivation.

"This Buddhist treasure that can break the Liangyi Dust Formation must be the Conch Leaf Talisman once owned by the Great Hero Zen Master!"

The Chuanxin Monk had heard of the power of that talisman; it could reverse time and space, change the alignment of good and evil, and restore anything in the Great Thousand World, even if reduced to Tribulation Ash.

If it really was this Treasure, it could probably break the Liangyi Dust Formation!

Excited, the Chuanxin Monk immediately set out to calculate the details. To his shock, he discovered that someone from the Buddhist faction had started to unlock the Great Hero Treasure Vault early, and because it was premature, the process was exceedingly slow. His own senior brother, the Chuanxin Monk, was also poised to contend for it!

Himself and his senior, up against the two old Buddhist nuns, Fen Tuo and You Tan—surely, they stood a chance of winning?

The Chuanxin Monk reminisced about the abilities of those two old Buddhist nuns from years past, gauging who might be superior.

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