Lingshan's Good Fortune

"Avalokitesvara, you have attained liberation and revealed your true nature. You have finally overcome your suffering. My Jade Void Palace has the pure crystal bottle you used in the past. You may take it and use it!"

"Thank you, Heavenly Venerable!"

At the entrance to Mount Ling, Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva bowed to greet them, and unsurprisingly, the first great cultivator from the Immortal Court arrived.

Yuanshi Tianzun stared at Guanzizai Bodhisattva for several seconds, their eyes meeting repeatedly.

Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva also had another identity in the past called Cihang Daoren. He was a disciple of Yuxu Palace and a student of Yuanshi Tianzun. He learned of the secret information very early on and chose to seek immortality in the Western Sect.

Judging from Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva's physical form at that moment, the other party had indeed succeeded.

However, Yuanshi Tianzun could not see the past in the eyes of Guanzizai Bodhisattva. The other party had indeed lived another life, but this life was not the same as the previous one.

The Yuanshi Celestial Venerable did not consider this method of reincarnation to be a form of immortality, but when he thought of the past, he couldn't help but feel a bit sentimental, and said directly that Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva could take the Law Treasure from the past and use them.

"The Spirit Mountain Shuttle Array has returned to normal. Did you set up the Dragon Gate Formation, or did something else happen?"

No cultivators surged forward at the entrance to Mount Ling, and the Yuanshi Celestial Venerable did not need to unleash the Celestial Celebration Cloud Technique.

He glanced upwards and saw a faint yellow mist high in the Ling Mountain, realizing that Zhang Xuezhou and his group were indeed up to something.

It's a pity that Divine Lord Zhenyuan lacked cooperation and didn't use the banana leaf fan to guide the poisonous smoke to spread quickly in all directions.

However, the Western Sect changed its attitude at this time. Yuanshi Tianzun was also unsure whether the matter was related to it, so he directly asked Guanzizai Bodhisattva, hoping that the other party would give a definite answer.

"I am here on the orders of the Buddha's disciple to welcome the fellow Daoists from the Immortal Court and Kunlun. The Buddha's disciple mentioned that the Great Master will apologize and will do everything in the Western Sect's power to recreate Nezha," said Guanyin Bodhisattva. "We will also release all the Immortal Court fellow Daoists who have been detained!"

Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva reluctantly informed them, but she repeatedly reminded them that it was only on the orders of the Buddha's disciple, and not from the orders of the two religious leaders.

What about Jieyin and Zhunti?

Yuanshi Tianzun frowned. The Western Sect had put forward a Buddhist disciple, and the disciple was even coercing the Sect Master Jieyin. This made him feel that it was magical and unreal.

If the person who greeted him was not Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, Yuanshi Tianzun would almost have thought it was a scheming trap and hoped to use his methods to capture them all in one fell swoop.

He couldn't help but inquire directly about the two leaders of the Western Sect.

"The Buddhist disciple says that since the Great Master cannot come, everything can be decided by us," Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva said, forcing himself to speak.

Where is Zhunti?

"The Second Master has attained Nirvana and passed away!"

"What?"

Yuanshi Tianzun was startled.

If Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva did not lie, then this matter would be extremely problematic.

The two Western religious leaders held supreme positions in Xiniu Hezhou. The sudden deaths of such top-level power holders and top experts were undoubtedly alarming and would inevitably trigger dramatic changes.

How could Zhunti possibly attain Nirvana?

The Yuanshi Celestial Venerable was astonished.

If he hadn't suspected the Western Sect of setting a trap, he would have genuinely wanted to rush forward and investigate.

However, before discerning the truth, Yuanshi Tianzun would absolutely not stray into the Western Sect, lest he suffer its harm.

He took a few steps forward, making way for the area behind him, so that the Immortal Court cultivators would have a place to stay after entering through the shuttle array.

The longer the delay, the greater the advantage of the Immortal Court. Yuanshi Tianzun suppressed his urge to investigate and repeatedly asked Guanzizai Bodhisattva for an answer.

"I don't know how the Second Master could have achieved Nirvana either," Guanyin Bodhisattva shook her head and said, "Dongfang Shuo said that the Master was recuperating in the Eight Treasures Merit Pool when a scorpion demon ate his physical body, and he and Yang Jian are currently verifying the scene!"

"They inspected the site?"

Yuanshi Tianzun was stunned, feeling that the Western Sect had actually handed over its internal affairs to outsiders, which was simply outrageous.

His gaze drifted into the distance, and he sensed that above the familiar toxic smoke, cultivators were still leaping and bounding, continuing their pursuit.

"Is that scorpion demon very powerful?" Yuanshi Tianzun asked, frowning.

"Very powerful. The Buddha's disciple was so pained by the prick that he collapsed to the ground, his arm turning black and swollen," said Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva.

"This scorpion looks very venomous!"

"That's really amazing!"

Guanyin Bodhisattva did not see how the Zhunti Master was eaten by the scorpion demon, but she witnessed the Buddha's disciple being stung.

The Yuanshi Celestial Venerable wouldn't care about the younger generation of experts, but Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva truly knew about the terrifying physical body of the Buddha's disciple.

The Buddha's disciples were in excruciating pain from the broken golden body, which meant they would be killed by the scorpion demon with a single blow.

If the leader of the Zhunti was killed by the scorpion demon without any warning, Guanyin Bodhisattva felt that the matter was not difficult to understand.

But Yuanshi Tianzun is destined to be difficult to understand.

The fact that a top-tier cultivator in the Three Realms was killed by a mere demon is laughable. It's no different from the Primordial Celestial Venerable being killed by a cultivator at the Yuanshi Divine Ability Realm.

As Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva continued to explain, Yuanshi Tianzun felt it was becoming more and more unreal and found it hard to believe. He felt that everything still needed to be decided by fighting.

He countered the Western Sect's elaborate scheme, stalling for time while waiting for the many great immortals of the Immortal Court to enter the Western Sect.

The Yuanshi Celestial Venerable began rambling on with trivial and irrelevant questions, while Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva responded with a serious expression.

As they were each lost in their own thoughts, a crisp 'creak' sound came from the secret realm of Ling Mountain.

The sound was extremely crisp, like bamboo being snapped, but it was also a bit too loud.

To produce such a resounding, crisp sound that echoes throughout the secret realm, the Yuanshi Celestial Venerable believed that the bamboo would need to be at least several tens of feet in diameter.

He quickly raised his eyes, and as his gaze swept towards the high peak of Mount Ling, he saw a stream of murky yellow muddy water shooting into the sky like a fountain from the mountain valley. The entire high peak of Mount Ling was illuminated by a dark red and blue light, as if something within the mountain was about to burst forth.

"Could something really bad have happened?"

Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva uttered all sorts of outrageous words, so outrageous that even the Yuanshi Celestial Venerable found it hard to believe.

But witnessing the changes at Mount Ling, Yuanshi Tianzun couldn't help but begin to believe it to some extent.

Of course, the other 70% chose not to believe it, since such a show of force might be a way to strike at the Immortal Court.

With a stomp of his foot, Yuanshi Tianzun rose into the air, no longer lingering at the entrance of the Spirit Mountain Secret Realm.

As Yuanshi Tianzun continued to observe Mount Ling, he also drew closer. He quickly found the Eight Treasures Merit Pool and saw Yang Jian carrying a large bunch of lotus leaves and dragging lotus roots, as well as Zhang Xuezhou standing beside the Eight Treasures Merit Pool.

Seemingly fearless in the face of danger, yet also seemingly terrified, Yuanshi Tianzun felt that Zhang Xuezhou's stance beside the Eight Treasures Merit Pool was highly unsafe.

When Yuanshi Tianzun saw the gushing, filthy yellow muddy water being poured onto Zhang Xuezhou, and the man still didn't move at all, he was even more certain of the situation.

He reached out and grabbed at Zhang Xuezhou's body, trying to pull Zhang Xuezhou away, but after casting his Law Power, he only felt that the place where he was trying to pull was empty.

Zhang Xuezhou was indeed standing there, but his body was not pulled into position by Yuanshi Zhang Xuezhou. Yuanshi Tianzun felt that the Law Power was transparent, as if he was only grasping a wisp of air.

"That's strange!"

The Yuanshi Celestial Venerable was taken aback. He stared at the muddy water and saw that the filthy waves kept pouring down on Zhang Xuezhou, but Zhang Xuezhou was not stained at all.

"What kind of illusion is this?"

Yuanshi Tianzun had seen many illusions, but none were as realistic as this, and none could remain in one place for so long without dissipating.

As he withdrew his Technique Method, he saw the area around Mount Ling begin to shake, and countless rocks and soil were sucked into the sunken terrain, only to suddenly emerge on the other side. The entire mountain seemed to be twisting and deforming as if an earth dragon was turning over.

Thin, white roots continuously emerge from the ground, quickly growing into lotus leaves and lotus flowers, and then lotus pods.

One by one, lotus seeds fall from the lotus pod, dissolve upon contact with water, and rapidly multiply.

In just a short time, lotus flowers have bloomed all over this undulating mountain range.

"A fortuitous opportunity of luck!"

Yuanshi Tianzun made his decision in less than three seconds.

He touched the pouch at his waist, took out an old ginseng root that he used to eat by pinching off its roots year after year, and then threw it into the mountains.

In just a short time, Yuanshi Tianzun saw the withered and lifeless ginseng rooted into the soil, then begin to grow leaves, flowers, and seeds, and then the seeds fell to the ground and transformed into new ginseng, all in just a few seconds.

This made Yuanshi Tianzun gasp, completely unaware that Mount Ling was about to unleash an immense fortuitous opportunity.