In the distance, Tang Yi looked at the Five-Poison Beast with a gloomy gaze.
But then he smiled nonchalantly.
"Lei Guang, didn't the demon from the Thunderclap Hall of Immortal Arts want the Five Five-Poison Pearl?"
"Let's see how these bastards can act tough when they're facing cultivators!"
"Alright."
Jing Tian held the spirit pearl between his fingers, and the beams of green light it emitted had been withdrawn from the unconscious old man.
If a newly formed Five-Poison Pearl is overused, it will lose its detoxification ability for a long time.
Furthermore, Tang Kun, as the head of Tang Family Fortress, cannot lose his poison skills.
Therefore, Jing Tian personally took charge and made minor adjustments.
It merely dulled the sharpness of his poison skills, transforming him from using poison to control qi to using qi to control poison.
"Xue Jian." Tang Kun had already opened his eyes.
"Grandpa!" Xue Jian rushed over to him.
"Squeak, squeak." Hua Ying excitedly licked the poison absorbed by the Five-Poison Pearl while feeling happy for Xue Jian.
Tang Tai, who had followed with a shameless grin, forced a smile and said, "Sect Leader, you're finally awake."
"Third Brother, you didn't bully Xue'er while I was bedridden, did you?" Tang Kun looked coldly at Tang Tai.
"Hey, Sect Leader, how could I dare? Xue'er is my granddaughter too." Tang Tai said with a big smile.
"Third Uncle is just saying nice things!" Xue Jian sneered. "When I brought people to rescue you, Grandpa, he still insisted on bringing people to stop me, saying that the people I brought were spies from the Thunderclap Hall."
"I was just being cautious. It's also your fault, Sect Leader. You found a husband for Xue'er but didn't let anyone know," Tang Tai said.
Xue Jian blushed. Tang Kun was only surprised for a moment. He looked at Jing Tian for a while, then looked away and said, "I never thought I would fall ill like this. I should have introduced my grandson-in-law to everyone long ago."
Xue Jian's face turned even redder. She looked at Jing Tian with almost pleading eyes, begging him not to ruin things for her.
Just as Long Kui was about to say something, she heard the sound of fighting outside.
"What kind of Tom, Dick, and Harry dares to trespass into the Tang Sect? Behold my Five Poison Palm!"
"Wow! Oh no, it's a freak from the Thunderclap Hall!"
"They're not afraid of drugs!"
"I already told you, he's a demon!"
"Quickly retreat! Go and invite the young hero who accompanied the young lady!"
Inside the house.
"Please, son-in-law, lend a hand." Tang Tai quickly looked at Jing Tian.
The black-haired Long Kui clenched her small hands tightly inside her sleeves. "I won't trouble you, brother. I'll go!"
The word "go" had barely left his lips when a thunderclap sounded outside.
"Haha, all the demons have fallen!"
"It must be the blue-clad fairy from before!"
"May I ask how you are addressed, fairy?" Tang Kun stood up to express his gratitude.
"Long Kui." The black-haired Long Kui hugged Jing Tian's arm. "The one who can truly stay with my brother and never be separated."
"What do you mean?" Xue Jian snapped, disregarding Tang Kun's presence.
"You are just a mortal. You will grow old and be reincarnated sooner or later." The black-haired Long Kui spoke with a hint of superiority. "But my brother and I will be together forever."
"I want to cultivate immortality too! I want to become an apprentice! I want to go to Mount Shu!" Xue Jian said.
At present, even Xu Changqing has not yet become the head of Shushan. His junior brother, Chang Hao, who is prejudiced against female disciples and drove away all the female disciples as soon as he took office, is naturally not the head of Shushan yet.
As a resident of Yuzhou City, I already had favorable geographical conditions to enter Yamamoto.
"Grandpa supports you," Tang Kun said.
He had been worried about Xue Jian after his death, but now his marriage and future were all settled.
"Your third uncle also supports you." Tang Tai was overjoyed.
His biggest worry was that his younger brother, the sect leader, would disregard the clan rules and allow his most beloved granddaughter, Xue Jian, to take over.
After all, while women in the Tang Sect are not allowed to learn poisonous arts, there is no rule prohibiting them from serving as sect leaders.
"A fool's dream, based on—"
The black-haired Long Kui stopped speaking halfway through her sentence, while the blue-haired Long Kui, "Brother, why are they all looking at me?"
"So, she's turned back to normal?" Xue Jian roughly understood Long Kui's situation.
Xue Jian did not stay in Tang Family Fortress for long.
After learning from Jing Tian that his grandfather would live for at least another fifty years.
She decided to deal with the Thunderclap Hall's troubles first.
Jiulongpo, Xiaoyao Inn.
The top room of the "Heaven" tier.
"Haha, you don't know the look on my third great-uncle's face when he found out that my grandfather would live for at least another 50 years."
"And then there's my seventh uncle, the one with only one eye, named Tang Yi. His words are really strange. Although he seems genuinely happy for my grandfather's recovery, what did he mean when he said, 'Haha, now none of us can become sect leaders anymore, you're all like me'?"
"Besides."
"No more." Long Kui was so annoyed by Xue Jian that her hair turned black. "It's just sharing a room with your brother, why are you so nervous? My brother is your fiancé, and that's already been accepted by your grandfather and everyone in the Tang family."
"If you randomly ask anyone in Yuzhou City who the eldest daughter of the Tang family is fiancé, everyone will know it's Jing Tian."
"If you find this uncomfortable, I can cancel your relationship as my brother's sister from Previous Life— "
"No—," Xue Jian quickly interrupted, glancing at Jing Tian before blushing and lowering her head. "I don't mind, it's just... this is the first time... I... I feel an indescribable joy in my heart."
"I feel an indescribable joy in my heart," Long Kui with black hair mimicked Xue Jian's tone.
It is now the second day, and the three have left Jiulongpo and are heading to Dadukou by crossing mountains and valleys.
Along the way, they would always encounter monsters, so the black-haired Long Kui would always appear.
"Stop talking! The thought of spending my whole life with you fills me with despair." As Xue Jian spoke, she brandished her Emei Dagger and pierced the neck of a demon who had ambushed her.
Hua Ying squeaked twice in dissatisfaction. She loved it Xue Jian threw her out like a hidden weapon.
"Let's not, Hua Ying. Do you remember when you smashed that stone demon's head and got covered in brain matter?" Xue Jian shook her head. Hua Ying muttered a couple more times, and Xue Jian retorted, "You don't get dirty, but I felt disgusted watching you at the time."
"Let's not talk about these things anymore. Once we get to Dadukou, we can take a boat. This is the first time I've ever traveled this far."
"Indeed, choosing to travel step by step instead of flying on a sword is much more interesting."
Xue Jian looked at Jing Tian's sword, "Brother Tian, why does your sword look different?"
Long Kui hair had turned back to blue, also looked at the sword with curiosity.
Although the sword was dark and filled with vengeful spirits that terrified her, and she couldn't go back now, it was still the home she had lived in for thousands of years.
"I recast it," Jing Tian said.
He added the [Tribulation-Breaking Sword] to it, but he hasn't added the [Brilliant Courage] yet.
The Demonic Sword, a combination of the Demon Suppressing Sword and the Divine Demonic Sword, is the weapon used in the TV Series Version to fight the Evil Sword Immortal.
The Evil Sword Immortal in this world cannot be dealt with by the full-powered Evil Sword Immortal Demonic Sword or the [Zhao Dan] as in the game version.
However, his Demonic Sword was also removed by Murong Ziying, and its power was greatly reduced after being sealed for a thousand years. If we don't consider the [Tribulation-Breaking Sword], to forge a divine Demonic Sword, we need to offer a more powerful spiritual sacrifice, like Xue Jian and Long Kui, two of them.
Furthermore, the current [Zhaodan] and Fire Demon Beast are still beside his host body.
And his host body.
Above a clear blue sky, a dark shadow swept by. Amidst the white clouds, a handsome man holding a fiery red beast frowned as he looked toward the shadow.
"Oh no, it's a merged version."
The TV Series Version the Evil Sword Immortal can endlessly absorb the negative emotions of the Six Realms to achieve a state beyond the Dao.
The game version of the Evil Sword Immortal, though trapped by the origins of the Five Elders of Shu Mountain and needing to reclaim them to further grow, is an academic boss who researches [Nuwa Spiritual Power] and [Shennong's Spiritual Power] through the Thunderclap Hall.
He also collected both pure and turbid energies to forge his own evil sword—the prototype of the God and Demonic Sword in the TV Series Version.
In the original timeline, he forged his own evil sword using the sword-forging furnace of the Scattered Immortal of the Nine Provinces, the essence of the [Zhaodan] and the Demonic Sword, along with the spiritual treasures of heaven and earth that he had collected.
After absorbing the Shu Mountain Five Elders to become his complete form, he even reached a level where his stats were slightly stronger than those of Chong Lou in the human world.
This Evil Sword Immortal can absorb negative emotions to grow endlessly, and he is also seriously conducting research.
Beside Dadukou.
"What's wrong, brother?" Long Kui asked. "Is something bothering you?"
"Yes, there is. But it's not a big problem," Jing Tian said.
He wasn't lying; even the fusion version of the Evil Sword Immortal wasn't much trouble for him.
At this moment, the imprint he left on the [Heavenly Demon Emperor]'s hand has gathered the spiritual power of all the demons of [Li Shu Mountain].
He has now mastered the Shennong's Spiritual Power, which would amaze even Chong Lou, and is only missing the chance to glimpse the Fuxi spiritual power through Xue Jian.
But the problem lies in this: Xue Jian's true form was not directly infused with energy by Fuxi. The [Pangu's Essence] in her body, which is [Fuxi's spiritual power], comes from the divine tree. What mainly made Xue Jian human was Xi Yao's spiritual power.
Like Xi Yao Fei Peng, Xi Yao was not created by Fuxi.
She was born with the essence of rosy clouds and the soul of jade, and can perceive the future.
"Are you sure there's no problem?" Xue Jian asked.
"No problem at all." Jing Tian glanced at Xue Jian. "If there is a real problem, I will ask you for help."
If there really is a problem, consummating the marriage with Xue Jian and seizing the power of love from the [Human-Faced Pendant] is another way to defeat the Evil Sword Immortal.
Xue Jian nodded eagerly, glancing triumphantly at Long Kui.
"Brother, I can too." Long Kui, with her black hair, gave Xue Jian a provocative look.
Jing Tian glanced at Long Kui's waist and said, "No, you don't have a pendant."
Of course, he said, "I will."
"I wonder what trouble it is, and whether it is related to the monsters that have been running rampant in Sichuan recently."
The three turned their heads, and the voice came from a young man.
He stood on the deck, with long hair draped over his shoulders and tied with a hairband. He was tall and, if not compared to Jing Tian, was quite handsome.
The man leaped off the boat.
A Miao woman dressed entirely in purple followed closely behind.
Upon getting closer, the man who noticed the sword in Jing Tian's hand relaxed his tightly furrowed brows. "I was being presumptuous."
"A swordsman who can wield such a divine sword without letting its sword energy leak out in the slightest would not need my help."
"Oh, seeing your ethereal and otherworldly aura, you don't mind the demonic nature of the sword in my hand?" Jing Tian asked.
"You flatter me, sir," the man said, his expression turning serious. "A sword is neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Whatever its power, if used for the righteous path, it is righteous; if used for the evil path, it is evil."
"A person from Mount Shu?" Jing Tian asked, Xue Jian's eyes lit up.
The Shushan Sword Sect members entrust all their cultivation to the sword, so the people of Shushan have a kind of idealized view of swords.
Even the Cang Gu, upon seeing the Demonic Sword, was only surprised by its power, without shouting for battle.
The previous sect leader merely inserted the Demonic Sword into the top of the Demon Locking Tower as a token act of sealing it.
"My surname is Xu, and my given name is Changqing. I am merely a disgraced disciple of Mount Shu," the man said with a bitter smile.
"This is all related to me." The beautiful Miao woman sighed, "Changqing and I are going to get married, but the sect leader forbids it. He is the sect leader's personal disciple and the candidate to succeed him. According to the rules of Shushan Sect, lay disciples cannot become sect leaders."
"Then why did you become an outcast?" Xue Jian frowned. She had planned to study at Mount Shu, but if even marriage was not allowed, then she would give up.
"Because I am a Miao person, I worship the Goddess Nuwa, and I am a different race." The woman smiled bitterly.
"What a joke! If it weren't for Nuwa, humanity would have been wiped out long ago when the gods destroyed the Dadi." Jing Tian scoffed. "How could the people of Shu Mountain be so ungrateful? Have they even forgotten who the Three Sovereigns were?"
"Please be careful with your words, sir," the man glanced at the woman and hesitated for a moment, but still gritted his teeth and said, "Nuwa is a false god fabricated by the ignorant Miao people. The Three Sovereigns are Fuxi, Shennong, Xuanyuan. There is no Nuwa."
"A false god?" The woman froze as if struck by lightning.
She had always avoided discussing matters of faith with Xu Changqing, but just as he spoke of it, her heart began to waver.
"Truly worthy of being called the good dogs of the divine realm!" Chong Lou couldn't help but reveal himself. "The Nuwa clan has sacrificed themselves for the human world generation after generation, yet they have been persecuted by ignorant people like you. Only the Miao people's land still maintains their faith! The human world is indeed the lowest of the Six Realms. How laughable, utterly ignorant!"
"You seem to have a deep-seated prejudice against me and the Shu Mountain Sect. Although I am a disgraced disciple of the Shu Mountain Sect, I will not allow you to dishonor my sect!" Xu Changqing drew his sword.
"I will not allow you to insult Nuwa. Kneel down!" Jing Tian sneered.
"This is..." Xu Changqing felt as if a heavy weight was pressing down on him, causing him to kneel down as Jing Tian had said.
The Miao woman in purple wanted to step forward, but seeing that the creature was not alive, she hesitated for a moment and remained where she was.
Jing Tian was not surprised by this; Zi Xuan was a character in the game.
Her three lifetimes of love are different from those in the TV series.
In their first life, Gu Liufang was already married, so the two could not be together, and Gu Liufang died in sorrow.
In their second life, Lin Yeping and Anran lived a peaceful life together and had a daughter, but they separated due to the limited lifespan of mortals.
In her third life, Zi Xuan devised a plan to Xu Changqing become an immortal by poisoning her daughter with a puppet, preventing her from growing up, so that the family of three could stay together forever.
Her feelings for Xu Changqing weren't that deep to begin with, which is why there's even Zi Xuan storyline in the game.
"If Nuwa was not one of the Three Sovereigns, then where did the Nuwa Blood Jade, one of the Three Divine Artifacts in the Xuan Guang Illusion, come from?" Jing Tian sneered.
"[Xuan Guang Illusion]? Changqing only knows about the Xuan Guang Hall." Xu Changqing asked in confusion.
"Fei Peng, of course they wouldn't know." Chong Lou sneered, "Even Fuxi only removed Nuwa's divine status, but his good dogs went even further, directly rewriting and destroying history, and were willing to seal away the Three Divine Artifacts for this."
"If they had known, these mortals would not have dared to attempt to gather the Five Spirit Pearls to seal the Demon- Demon Locking Tower."