"You're right." Zhang Shaoyang nodded. "Those people who went up the mountain to search for treasures were indeed killed by this monster."
"Could it be that the centipede spirit also took a fancy to the spiritual energy on the Drifting Light Cave Cauldron cast by Emperor Huizong of Song, so it killed those who went up the mountain to search for treasures?" Ye Fan asked with a frown.
"That Drifting Light Cave Cauldron has nothing special other than the 500 kilograms of gold on it as decoration. It also doesn't have any spiritual energy." Zhang Shaoyang smiled.
"No spiritual energy? Then why did the centipede spirit start a massacre? "Ye Fan asked.
He couldn't understand.
"The reason is very simple." Zhang Shaoyang said. "That Drifting Light Cave Cauldron has become the centipede spirit's nest and cultivation place. Those treasure hunters who set their sights on its nest naturally didn't have a good ending."
"It took the Drifting Light Cave Cauldron as its nest?" Ye Fan was shocked.
This guy really knew how to find a place.
"The centipede is born in a dark and damp place. Its body has more Yin than Yang, and the five elements lack metal. If it wants to achieve a balance between Yin and Yang in its body and safely pass through the Heavenly Tribulation, it must absorb more pure Yang Qi and metal energy of the five elements." Zhang Shaoyang explained. "Although the Drifting Light Cave Cauldron doesn't have anything special, it's cast from copper and inlaid with gold. This cauldron was cast by Emperor Huizong of Song. Although Emperor Huizong was muddle-headed and tyrannical, he was still the ruler of a country, the Son of Heaven. A cauldron cast by the Son of Heaven naturally contains the purest Yang Qi of the emperor. Dragon Yang Qi plus metal energy of the five elements is simply something that the centipede spirit can only come across by chance.
Ye Fan frowned and didn't say anything.
"But it still can't kill innocent people." Akatsuki said. "With its cultivation, it can totally teach those people a lesson and make them retreat. There's no need to take their lives."
"When you see that monster later, you can ask it." Zhang Shaoyang smiled and said to Akatsuki.
Akatsuki didn't say anything.
"Senior, how do you plan to deal with this centipede spirit? Kill him to avenge that disciple of yours? "Ye Fan asked Zhang Shaoyang.
"My disciple is still alive and well. What's there to take revenge for?" Zhang Shaoyang laughed.
"What?" Ye Fan was stunned when he heard this. "Your disciple is still alive?"
"Before I came here, I used a soul-searching technique to search my disciple's soul. I found that although his three spiritual and seven physical souls were a little weak, they were still in his body." Zhang Shaoyang said, "The centipede demon only restrained him and did not take his life."
"In that case, those monks and Daoist priests who came to subdue the demon are still alive?" Ye Fan muttered to himself.
"Smart." Zhang Shaoyang smiled at Ye Fan. "No matter how bad that centipede demon's temper is, it knows its limits. It's not bold enough to harm a cultivator's life."
"Senior, how do you plan to deal with this monster?" Ye Fan asked Zhang Shaoyang again.
"Let's wait and see." Zhang Shaoyang said with a smile, "If it kills too much, it can only be destroyed and enter the cycle of Samsara."
When Akatsuki heard that, she subconsciously glanced at Ye Fan.
Ye Fan had a good impression of the monster and called it a righteous demon. If Zhang Shaoyang were to kill the monster, it was unknown what he would do.
Upon hearing Zhang Shaoyang's words, Ye Fan's eyes flashed with a hint of surprise.
"Senior, do you know where the monster is now?" Ye Fan asked Zhang Shaoyang.
"It's daytime now. That fellow doesn't like sunlight. It's currently resting in the Transient Light Grotto-Heaven Cauldron in the mountain." Zhang Shaoyang turned around and looked up at the mountaintop.
"Senior, please wait a moment. I'll go and rescue your disciple before capturing that monster." Ye Fan said to Zhang Shaoyang.
As he spoke, he prepared to use his movement technique and soar into the sky.
Actually, saving Zhang Shaoyang's disciple was just a pretense. What Ye Fan really wanted to do was to subdue the Centipede Spirit in advance and then use some tricks to force it to submit to him. Otherwise, if this fellow offended Zhang Shaoyang later, he would definitely suffer.
For some reason, he felt a sense of sympathy for the centipede spirit's temperament.
"There's no need." Zhang Shaoyang raised his arm and blocked Ye Fan.
Ye Fan's heart skipped a beat as he looked at Zhang Shaoyang.
"Senior, you mean …" Ye Fan asked with a frown.
"What kind of status does this evil creature have to trouble you, the Devil Monarch, to go personally?" Zhang Shaoyang looked at Ye Fan with a smile and said, "I'll let that evil creature come out to see us now."
"Let it come out to see us?" Ye Fan and Akatsuki looked at each other.
Zhang Shaoyang smiled slightly and then raised his right arm. He straightened his palm and slowly aimed it at the peak of the Treasure Cauldron Mountain.
Buzz …
Following Zhang Shaoyang's thought, golden light suddenly burst out from his palm!
Zap … Zap … Zap …
Three purple lightning bolts crazily swam within the golden brilliance in Zhang Shaoyang's palm!
What powerful lightning bolts!
Ye Fan's pupils constricted when he saw this!
He was someone who had survived the Heavenly Tribulation and was very familiar with the aura of purple lightning bolts!
And the purple lightning in Zhang Shaoyang's palm was no different from the lightning bolts!
It was rumored that the descendants of Celestial Master clans could cultivate the Purple Firmament Lightning Palm secretly passed down by Celestial Master Zhang Daoling. From the looks of it, it was true!
Akatsuki was also stunned by Zhang Shaoyang's domineering palm technique when she saw the dazzling golden light and the purple lightning bolts shuttling back and forth.
There would always be someone better than you. It was true that there would always be someone better than you.
Take Zhang Shaoyang as an example. In terms of spiritual power, he might be far inferior to Ye Fan, but his Dao techniques were so exquisite that Ye Fan could only look up to him!
Both of them had their own strengths and it was hard to tell who was better.
Just as the two of them were in shock, Zhang Shaoyang made his move!
His eyes turned cold as he directly struck out with his palm!
Whoosh!
A purple lightning bolt as thick as a bowl shot out from his palm and went straight to the peak of the Treasure Tripod Mountain!
In an instant, the gazebo where the three of them were was illuminated by a purple light!
Ye Fan had survived the Heavenly Tribulation and was only shocked by Zhang Shaoyang's purple lightning.
But Red Moon was different. Although her spiritual qi cultivation wasn't the same as before, she was still afraid of Violet Lightning from the bottom of her heart.
So the moment Zhang Shaoyang struck, Akatsuki instinctively went to Ye Fan's side and held Ye Fan's arm tightly with both hands.
She turned her head away and did not dare to look directly at him.
Crack!
With a thunderous sound, the purple lightning bolt instantly bombarded the peak of the mountain a few hundred feet away!
Boom!
A huge boulder on the peak of the mountain cracked under the bombardment of Zhang Shaoyang's Purple Firmament Lightning Palm and turned into countless pieces of rock!
Clatter …
Stone fragments rained down from the sky, as if it was raining stones!
Akatsuki saw this and secretly clicked her tongue.
It was said that the Zhengyi School was the leader of the Taoist sects. Today, she saw that the rumors were true!
Zhang Shaoyang's casual palm strike had such a shocking might. If he was serious, wouldn't he be able to blast the peak of the Treasured Cauldron Mountain away?!
"Evil creature, show yourself quickly!" Zhang Shaoyang retracted his palm and stood with his hands behind his back as he said loudly!
Whoosh …
As soon as Zhang Shaoyang's voice fell, more than ten different colored demonic auras came out from the shrubs, rocks, bushes, and trees of the Treasure Tripod Mountain and rushed into the air. Then, they turned back and slowly flew toward the gazebo where the three of them and the fox were!
In addition, there were many large and small strange-looking living creatures that gradually emerged and quickly crawled down the mountain.
Among these living creatures, there were toads the size of washbasins, earthworms that looked like long snakes, black spiders that looked like wheels, and an unknown bird with three heads.
Among all the living creatures, the largest one was a green snake that was as thick as a water tank and had a blood-red tongue.
With one sentence from Zhang Shaoyang, all the demons and monsters on the Treasure Tripod Mountain obediently came down.
More than ten colorful demonic auras slowly landed outside the gazebo and turned into more than ten people of different ages.
They were all monsters with relatively high attainments and could transform into human forms.
"Greetings, Heavenly Master!" After the demons appeared, they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Zhang Shaoyang in the gazebo.
At this time, the demons that had not transformed into human form also gathered at the bottom of the stairs and bowed to Zhang Shaoyang in their own way.
"Oh? Do you know who I am? "Zhang Shaoyang asked the demons in a dignified manner.
"In this world, there is no one else who can use such a thunderous palm technique other than the descendants of Heavenly Master Zhang, Zhang Daoling." Among the demons, an old man with a white beard said respectfully to Zhang Shaoyang.
This old man was transformed from a ginseng on the Treasure Tripod Mountain. He absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and gathered the essence of the sun and moon every day. After more than five hundred years of cultivation, he reached the state of transforming into human form.
"Since you know who I am, you must know why I'm here, right?" Zhang Shaoyang looked at the demons and continued asking.
The demons lowered their heads and did not answer.
"Where's that centipede? Why isn't it here? "Zhang Shaoyang said as he glanced at the green snake that was the largest among the demons.
That green snake saw Zhang Shaoyang staring at it and immediately trembled in fear.
The demons looked at each other and did not know how to answer.
"Speak." Zhang Shaoyang's voice started to become cold.
"Re … Heavenly Master, it's … at …" The ginseng spirit wanted to say but did not dare to. It started to stammer.
"I'm here."
Following a mixed male and female voice, a black-purple demonic aura flew up from the mountain and landed on the empty ground in front of the demons.
After the demonic aura dispersed, a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties appeared out of thin air.
The man's face was thin and his skin was sallow. He wore an apricot yellow robe with a white jade hairpin on his head and an oxtail horsetail whisk in his hand.
On the chest of his yellow robe, there was a huge Taiji Eight Trigrams Diagram embroidered.
Unlike ordinary people, his eyes were purplish-black and looked very scary.
This demon was none other than the centipede spirit.
"Greetings, Heavenly Master." The man cupped his hands and bowed to Zhang Shaoyang and said in a mixed male and female voice.
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