The Heavenly Emperor's Langhuan Library

"Jing Feng."

Hearing Ancestor Ziyun's reply, Jiang Chuan immediately offered his suggestion.

"Ancestor, Elder Jing Feng has been diligently managing the Spirit Beast Courtyard. In my opinion, why don't we go beat up Elder Jing Zhen instead?"

"Beating up that Zhen fellow would be quite troublesome."

Ancestor Ziyun shook its head, then raised a cat's paw and said fiercely, "Besides, compared to Jing Zhen, Jing Feng is even more detestable!"

"What did Elder Jing Feng do to make you so angry, Ancestor?" Jing Hui asked curiously.

Ancestor Ziyun replied, "That Jing Feng fellow came to Stone Lotus Ridge and wanted to give all the cat demons a bath."

A bath.

Jiang Chuan's eyes twitched slightly.

"Doesn't he know that we cats hate baths the most?" Ancestor Ziyun grew more agitated the more it spoke.

Jiang Chuan reminded it, "Ancestor, you don't exactly count as a cat demon now, do you?"

Ancestor Ziyun froze for a moment.

"That's right! I don't count as a cat demon now and don't need a bath. However, I still need to beat up that Jing Feng fellow, since he didn't explain clearly."

Jiang Chuan: "..."

Jing Hui: "..."

So, you're actually just finding an excuse to beat up Elder Jing Feng, right?

"We'll set off now to beat up... Huh?"

Ancestor Ziyun blinked, then leaped down from Jing Hui's head, landing under the pomegranate tree.

Looking at the fallen leaves at Jiang Chuan's feet, being dissolved by the One Qi Dao Sword, it slowly spoke.

"This feeling, it can't be wrong, it's the One Qi Dao Sword. Meow!"

Ancestor Ziyun let out a loud cry, and a Taiji Bagua diagram appeared beneath its paws.

The Taiji Bagua diagram emitted a profound aura, slowly rotating beneath Ancestor Ziyun's feet.

After a few breaths, Ancestor Ziyun looked up at Jiang Chuan, its gaze filled with excitement and scrutiny.

"Little Jiang Chuan, how do you know the One Qi Dao Sword?"

"Ancestor Ziyun, you also know the One Qi Dao Sword? Perhaps, Ancestor Ziyun's true form is a Dao Artifact forged based on the One Qi Dao Sword?"

Recalling the two large, flowing characters for "One Qi" on Ancestor Ziyun's true form, a gourd, Jiang Chuan's eyes flickered slightly.

"I entered Treasure Mountain and met many senior Dao Artifacts. The 'One Qi Dao Sword' was taught to me by one of those artifact spirits."

"Impossible!"

Ancestor Ziyun stared intently at Jiang Chuan. "The 'One Qi Dao Sword' is one of the three thousand divine abilities treasured in the Langhuan Library. Even if an artifact spirit had mastered it, there would surely be restrictions preventing its transmission."

"The Langhuan Library?! Junior Brother, you know such a divine ability?!" Jing Hui exclaimed in surprise.

Jiang Chuan was also stunned.

He hadn't expected the 'One Qi Dao Sword' to have such an origin.

The Langhuan Library was the legendary library of the Heavenly Emperor.

Who is the Heavenly Emperor?

The leader of all immortals, the emperor of all gods!

He rules over all heavens and myriad worlds, worshipped by all gods, immortals, buddhas, demons, and devils!

Divine abilities collected by the Heavenly Emperor into his library were, without a doubt, world-shattering!

"The power of Dao transformation is irresistible even to cultivators in the Ninth or Tenth Realm, yet the 'One Qi Dao Sword' can be controlled and used. So, the 'One Qi Dao Sword' is a divine ability from the Heavenly Emperor's library!"

Jiang Chuan's emotions surged continuously.

"No one in Bodhi Temple knows the 'One Qi Dao Sword,' and currently, no one in the immortal path of the Qingyuan Realm knows it either. Have you awakened your past life memories?"

Ancestor Ziyun's voice trembled with excitement.

Jiang Chuan clasped his hands together. "Amitabha! Ancestor, the 'One Qi Dao Sword' was taught to me by a senior artifact on Treasure Mountain. I am also not a reincarnation of anyone."

"I can't even teach the 'One Qi Dao Sword' to others. I don't believe any artifact spirit can teach it. You must have obtained it by awakening your past life memories!"

"Are you the reincarnation of Tai Shan? In this life, have you found another cat, so you don't want me anymore?"

Ancestor Ziyun's dark, bright eyes were filled with murderous intent. "Tell me, where is that cat? I'll go kill it right now!"

Jiang Chuan: "..."

No, Ancestor, how exactly is your brain wired?

One moment you're like you have no brain, the next you're wildly speculating!

It's a good thing I'm not the reincarnation of Tai Shan. If I really were the reincarnation of Tai Shan...

You are not to imagine large-scale dramas like "The Unspeakable Secret Between Tai Shan and His Senior Brother After Reincarnation," "Does Tai Shan Have Other Cats?", or "The Tyrannical Cat Descends, Tai Shan is Mine."

"Ahem! Ancestor, I'm truly not Senior Tai Shan's reincarnation. Also, it's getting late, shouldn't we go beat up Elder Jing Feng?"

Jiang Chuan demonstrated the proper use of an elder to Jing Hui on the spot.

Ancestor Ziyun looked again and again, finally flicking its tail.

A whirlwind materialized out of nowhere, scooping up Jiang Chuan and Jing Hui and lifting them into the air.

In just over ten breaths' time, Ancestor Ziyun had brought Jiang Chuan and Jing Hui to the Spirit Beast Courtyard.

The Spirit Beast Courtyard was located southwest of Bodhi Temple. From afar, rows of courtyards of varying sizes resembled a long snake coiling around verdant peaks.

One could faintly see numerous spirit beasts, such as spirit cranes, white deer, and golden lions, strolling and feeding within the courtyards.

Ancestor Ziyun led Jiang Chuan and Jing Hui to a courtyard at the very top of the Spirit Beast Courtyard and then shouted:

"Jing Feng, come out and take your beating!"

Jiang Chuan: "."

Jing Hui: "."

Wait, Ancestor, are we not even going to be subtle about this?

Elder Jing Feng is an elder of Bodhi Temple, after all!

Shouldn't we be ambushing him instead?

Then, an angry roar sounded.

"Ziyun, I respect you as a senior, but don't push it too far."

Before the words even finished, a monk wielding a long staff charged out from the courtyard.

The monk had a leopard's head and bulging eyes, and a string of green prayer beads the size of an infant's fist hung around his neck.

A purple gourd, half a person's height, appeared beside Ancestor Ziyun at some unknown point.

The mouth of the gourd was aimed at Elder Jing Feng.

A chilling, terrifying aura flowed out from within, as if an ancient fierce beast was about to awaken from its slumber.

"You were the one who started this."

As Ancestor Ziyun spoke, a clangorous sword cry emanated from the One Qi Gourd.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Dense sword energy, like a swift, raging river, surged towards Elder Jing Feng.

"I am following the Abbot's orders to do my utmost to entertain the visiting guests from the Nine Abyss Dynasty. What crime have I committed?"

Elder Jing Feng roared, swinging the long staff in his hand to meet the river of sword energy.

The staff swept forward, like the tail of a true dragon, its immense power seemingly capable of shattering mountains and breaching cities.

Jiang Chuan felt that if he were to face this strike directly, he would be heavily injured, if not killed!

But Ancestor Ziyun's true form was simply too powerful.

BOOM!

After shattering some of the sword energy, Elder Jing Feng was sent flying by the river of sword energy like a kite whose string had broken.

"I'll smash you!"

Ancestor Ziyun manipulated the One Qi Gourd, smashing it towards Elder Jing Feng, who was falling through the air.

The purple gourd looked as if it were intricately carved from immortal jade, with celestial light shimmering from its surface.

From a distance, it resembled a purple mountain, crushing the void as it descended upon Elder Jing Feng.

"ROAR!!!"

A deafening roar erupted from Elder Jing Feng's body.

Under the gaze of Jiang Chuan and Jing Hui, a Golden Lion materialized out of thin air.

The Golden Lion appeared to be condensed from divine radiance, with every strand of its fur flowing with golden light, like a majestic deity, sacred and extraordinary.

"Could this be the divine ability spoken of in legends, which cannot be mastered by anyone without great courage?"

Jing Hui looked at the Golden Lion in the air with great excitement.