Return to Chang'an

"Mount Tai!"

Mount Tai has twelve main peaks and one hundred and fifty-six other peaks, and the Sacred Land of the Yin-Yang School is hidden among them.

This is almost identical to searching for spirit jade in the Thousand Islands Alliance; it's highly unlikely to find a hidden entrance in such a vast area.

Jin Chang told Zhang Xuezhou about a suitable place for cultivation, Zhang Xuezhou pondered it for a short while before settling down his mind on it.

Given his current unremarkable luck, Zhang Xuezhou felt that even if he went there now, it would only be a short trip to Mount Tai.

Just as the place where the Holy Mother of Wudang resides is located, it would be extremely difficult to find the Sacred Land of the Yin-Yang School.

Otherwise, Jin Chang wouldn't have revealed such a secret to him.

"I wonder if Li Shaojun knows about this?"

Thinking of Li Shaojun, who had been wandering around Mount Tai for twelve years, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but ask Rong Tianding if he knew where Li Shaojun had gone after parting ways with Jin Chang.

"He was with us at the time, but he yelled 'Someone's been killed!' and then lay down. After we were arrested and locked up, we don't know where he went," Rong Tianding said, shaking his head.

"That's a real shame, I was hoping to get some information from him!"

Zhang Xuezhou traveled for a long time, covering a full twenty miles, before he summoned his black and white horses and rode away with Rong Tianding.

"This little thing is indeed wary of me; it only started riding after traveling this far!"

After acquiring the Yin Yang Great Compassion Nine Heavens Incantation, which involves the Divine Ability Realm, Jin Chang did not immediately begin cultivating it. Instead, he continued to keep an eye on Zhang Xuezhou to see if Zhang Xuezhou had any ulterior motives.

However, he didn't overhear Zhang Xuezhou's thoughts, but he did unexpectedly witness Zhang Xuezhou using the Black and White Twin Horses.

"How did this guy get those treasures from Venerable White Bone and Venerable Black Mountain?"

Zhang Xuezhou's previous riding of a black horse had already aroused his suspicion, but Jin Chang was difficult to confirm.

His doubts only turned into certainty when Zhang Xuezhou brought out the black and white horses.

This treasure is equivalent to the legs of Venerable White Bone and Venerable Black Mountain. Unless these two Venerables are killed, they will not give up the Black and White Twin Horses. Only by killing these two Venerables can one use this Spirit Artifact without any future troubles.

Jin Chang thought for a long time, but he just couldn't figure out how Zhang Xuezhou had killed the two Venerable Ones.

"Could it be that Hongku has turned the tables and slaughtered all the Venerables of the Sacred Land!"

Jin Chang pondered other possibilities again, only to find himself even more confused.

He eventually gave up on the idea.

As long as Zhang Xuezhou didn't mix his own agenda into the Yin Yang Great Compassion Nine Heavens Incantation, or plot against him, other matters are temporarily irrelevant to him.

"I'm in good luck right now, so he shouldn't be plotting against me. I've been watching him for so long, and he hasn't said anything about it. He's riding such a fine horse now, and my current physical condition doesn't allow me to keep up. Plus, there's the potential danger of that great monk lurking around... It's a pity that even the powerful cultivators gathered in Huainan couldn't take his life!"

Jin Chang's expression shifted between light and dark, but he eventually turned his attention back to matters related to realm techniques.

With a swift movement, he vanished into the shadows like a gust of wind, neither pursuing Zhang Xuezhou nor following the instructions of the Prince of Huai'an's mansion to arrest his senior brother, Rulai.

He's gone!

If relying on walking, Zhang Xuezhou was certain that Jin Chang would follow for as long as he walked.

Even if he goes to the Twelve Heavens, Jin Chang will most likely follow him.

This ultimately forced Zhang Xuezhou to take the black and white horses and travel far away right under Jin Chang's nose. He wasn't sure where Jin Chang was hiding, but Zhang Xuezhou could deduce that Jin Chang was following him.

This made him wise not to explore the issues of Yin-Yang School cultivation, but instead to focus his attention more on matters related to Yin-Yang Sacred Land.

With the slight pressure in his heart subsiding, Zhang Xuezhou knew very well that Jin Chang had given up following him.

I wonder what it will be like when we meet again?

Zhang Xuezhou did not believe that he was more intelligent than the Emperor, capable of integrating or innovating upon the realm techniques that even the Emperor was helpless against.

Jin Chang cannot do without him and Zou Bugui, and Zhang Xuezhou cannot do without Jin Chang either.

Perhaps Jin Chang will understand the matter of Human Pill through continuous cultivation, but Jin Chang will ultimately need him.

However, it's debatable whether their collaboration at that time was as harmonious as it seemed.

Even while mounted on his horse, Zhang Xuezhou finally stopped thinking about the internal affairs of the Yin-Yang School.

All he wanted at that moment was a life of wealth and glory.

If his fortune could rise, he would seek out Sacred Land of Yin and Yang to see if there was an opportunity to advance his cultivation.

"The Five Elements Returning to the Origin, the 108,000 Apertures, the White Lotus Method..."

Zhang Xuezhou pondered various cultivation techniques that could benefit him and continued to refine them.

"Cousin, someone's here!"

Riding on the black and white horses requires no reins or urging; these two horses are also suitable for traveling day and night.

From riding horses during the day to nightfall, and then into the pitch-black night.

Only when Rong Tianding exclaimed in surprise did Zhang Xuezhou's eyelids suddenly lift.

Using the black horse's visibility in the night, he saw only a hand reaching out from the ground and firmly gripping the horse's leg.

Grabbing the legs of a galloping horse is undoubtedly extremely difficult, but grabbing the legs of both the black and white horses is even more difficult; only a top-level cultivator can accomplish this.

Zhang Xuezhou felt a chill in his heart, and with a thought, he quickly summoned the Technique Method horse.

The horse's leg retracted in the opponent's hand, and then the Spirit Artifact, which had reverted to its skeletal horse form, was scooped up and retrieved by Zhang Xuezhou.

"No response?"

Just as Zhang Xuezhou was about to catch the falling Rong Tianding, and the two of them were about to escape together on a horse, he noticed that the hand on the ground was raised high and had not retracted.

He glanced at the other person, but couldn't see their body clearly, so he didn't want to cause any trouble.

"It is the Tathagata!"

He led Rong Tianding onto the back of his mount, preparing to gallop away, when he saw the sleep bug he had kept in his sleeve flutter its wings and fly away, burrowing directly into the ground.

The faint sound of wood being gnawed reached Zhang Xuezhou, and he immediately realized who was lying on the ground.

"Master? Master? Are you still alive?"

Zhang Xuezhou shouted.

The Buddha did not respond, but a soft cry came from beneath the ground where his mount stood.

"Hey, you surnamed Dongfang, what do you mean by riding a horse on top of me?"

"Li Shaojun?"

Zhang Xuezhou looked down and saw the withered leaves and weeds on the ground beneath his mount slowly cracking open, and Li Shaojun's voice came from underground.

"How come you're lying right under my mount?" Zhang Xuezhou asked in surprise.

"How did your horse end up trampling us like that!"

Li Shaojun muttered a curse in frustration.

Only after Zhang Xuezhou away a while did he laboriously dig through the soil and emerge.

He used to do this kind of thing often, but few of them ended up being trampled by horses after their deaths.

"I wanted to go to Chang'an, and this route seemed convenient, so I came all the way here. How did you end up with Master Tathagata?"

Perhaps it was because the Buddha's senior brother's journey over mountains and valleys was similar to that of the black and white twin horses, as both were heading in the same direction and choosing the same route.

When Zhang Xuezhou, a newcomer, arrived in Chang'an City, he happened to step over the bodies of Rulai and Li Shaojun, who were fleeing from pursuers.

He had a huge weakness about me, so I went with him!

Li Shaojun flipped out of the ground and reached out to pull on Brother Rulai's hand.

When Zhang Xuezhou pulled Brother Rulai out of the ground, he noticed that Brother Rulai's face was pale gold and he looked like he was about to die.