"Wherever I hide, you will follow."
"Yan Chixia, I didn't expect that you would sharpen your sword even more in the half a month you spent at Lanruo Temple."
Chapter Ninety-Four: Yan Chixia (Please vote and add to your favorites)
"Interesting, interesting. A highly skilled cultivator is actually competing with a mortal, and there's an ordinary person involved as well."
"There are also thousand-year-old tree demons and female ghosts nearby. What are you all up to?" Lin Qing's voice came from all around.
"Who goes there? Playing tricks here?" Xiahou immediately became alert and shouted.
Xiahou thought that someone with some martial arts skills was secretly watching their fight.
Yan Chixia, however, thought differently. He succinctly revealed the key points: cultivation, a thousand-year-old tree demon, and a female ghost.
Yan Chixia realized that the person who spoke must be a kindred spirit like himself.
Ning Caichen, with two swords pointed at him and cold sweat beading on his forehead, was too preoccupied to think about anything else.
"Hehe! Whether I'm faking it or not, just ask that bearded guy over there."
"What do you mean?" Xiahou didn't dare to move, because he couldn't find the person who was speaking.
Seeing this, Yan Chixia could no longer remain silent: "Brother Xiahou, you are too ambitious and lack ambition, all for the empty title of the number one swordsman in the world."
"Too sharp and aggressive, with impure intentions, inconsistent and unpredictable moves, excessive temper, and fast but inaccurate sword strikes."
"If you don't cultivate your character and temperament, even if you win, it's just luck."
Yan Chixia just wanted to provoke Xiahou away with words as quickly as possible; he was still unsure what the speaker intended to do.
Hearing Yan Chixia's words, Xiahou became enraged and, ignoring Lin Qing who was speaking, retorted, "I came here to challenge you to a duel, not to listen to your reasoning! You...you..."
"Yes, he's right. You are too. He can't even beat you, yet he still talks about you like that. Doesn't he lose face?"
"And you, that bearded guy is already avoiding you, why are you still following him?"
"Why not put down your sword and try to move the other person with your sincerity? You should know that the universe is infinite, but love is eternal."
"We should love each other and never kill one another, because love is the most powerful weapon."
I have no idea what Ning Caichen was thinking when he said those things!
"Hmph! You talk more than him." Xiahou glanced at Yan Chixia, put down his sword, turned and left, ignoring the person who had spoken earlier.
“Scholar, if you need love so much, you should go to a brothel. What are you doing here?” Yan Chixia breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Xiahou leave.
"I'm here to stay!"
"Hmph! Inconvenient." Yan Chixia turned and left, not wanting Ning Caichen to stay in this place of trouble.
Moreover, a voice that ordinary people could not hear spread throughout the vicinity and entered Lin Qing's ears: "Fellow Daoist, why not come inside for a chat?"
Finally, after dismissing Ning Caichen, Yan Chixia jumped into his room to rest.
Ning Caichen only thought that the bearded Yan Chixia was scaring him, so he found a dilapidated house nearby to stay overnight, completely forgetting Lin Qing's words earlier.
Meanwhile, Xiahou was washing his wounds by the river, probably because Lin Qing's arrival had intimidated the tree demon.
As a result, the female ghost Nie Xiaoqian did not try to seduce Xiahou, so Xiahou did not die at the hands of the tree demon Granny as in the original story.
Lin Qing immediately shrunk his body to 2 meters; any larger and he wouldn't even be able to fit into the house.
"Yan Daoyou was in high spirits and even competed with an ordinary person for seven years."
Lin Qingfei entered the house and met Yan Chixia's gaze.
"You, you, you are actually a dragon!" Yan Chixia was shocked. He had thought the man was a Taoist master, but he never expected him to be a dragon.
"Heh, what, do you think I'm a dragon and want to destroy me?"
"Well, not at all. I have no grudge against Fellow Daoist Jiao, how could I possibly do such a thing?"
Yan Chixia was not a moralist who would kill any demon he saw, regardless of right or wrong.
When the Tree Demon Granny kills bandits or bad guys, Yan Chixia doesn't care. The only exception is when the Tree Demon Granny harms innocent people like Ning Caichen.
Yan Chixia secluded himself in Lanruo Temple to deter the thousand-year-old tree demon from wreaking havoc on the human world.
He knew the tree demon had killed countless people, but he wasn't confident he could kill the tree demon's grandmother. He could only stay here and see if he could save the innocent people who had been killed by the tree demon.
"You, a cultivator, have been in this place teeming with demons for half a month. Why haven't you slain the demons and eliminated the evil spirits?"
“Fellow Daoist Jiao, it’s not that I don’t want to slay demons and eliminate evil, it’s just that I’m not confident in killing this thousand-year-old tree demon. I can only stay here to save innocent people.”
"What a coincidence, I'm here to kill the tree demon too."
Lin Qingde completed his mission, demonstrating his strength. Now, he'll see if he can recruit Yan Chixia to his side to help him complete the mission.
"Fellow Daoist Jiao, is what you say true?" Yan Chixia felt that if this dragon were to take action, he might be able to destroy the tree demon even if he was just passing by.
"Of course it's true. Also, don't call me Fellow Daoist Jiao anymore, it sounds weird. I have a name, Lin Qing."
"Fellow Daoist Jiaolin, this is wonderful! With your help, we will definitely be able to destroy this tree demon."
Yan Chixia also didn't detect any sinful or murderous aura on Lin Qing, proving that Lin Qing was not a monster who indiscriminately killed innocent people.
"Let's make our move now, lest things get complicated."
"Alright, let's get going!"
Yan Chixia immediately put away his sword and then took the sword box from his back.
He took out a talisman, stuck it on the sword box, and shouted, "Prajnaparamita!"
Suddenly, the sword case emitted a beam of light, and then a strangely shaped sword flew out of the case.
When Lin Qing saw the sword, his heart skipped a beat. This must be the ancient divine sword, Xuanyuan Sword!
It was far superior to the Zhong Kui sword he had taken from Uncle Nine in the Mr. Zombie world.
Lin Qing immediately extended his divine sense, which could now cover a range of fifteen kilometers.
"I've found the tree spirit, and he's in his lair with his ghostly minions."
"Fellow Daoist Lin is truly incredibly powerful; he can see from so far away." Yan Chixia looked around and was secretly astonished, seeing that the surrounding area was all walls.
"Let's go." After saying that, Lin Qing didn't answer and burst out of the door. In no time, he flew to the sky above the forest where the Tree Demon Granny was located.
Yan Chixia hurriedly flew on his sword to Lin Qing's side.
"Hmph! I keep to myself and you two, what brings you here?" A voice that was neither male nor female came from below.
Immediately, the two saw a figure that was neither male nor female appear below.
Upon seeing the tree demon appear, Yan Chixia immediately bit his finger, drew a spell seal on his hand, and shouted, "Heaven and Earth are boundless, borrow the power of Heaven and Earth!"
They say he could even finish a soy sauce dish.
Then he struck the tree demon with a palm, instantly piercing through its body, which then transformed into a tree root and burrowed into the soil.
"Damn it, since you're not going to give me any face, then I won't be polite either."
Chapter Ninety-Five: Destroying the Tree Demon (Please vote and add to your favorites)
The voice of the Tree Demon Granny came from underground, and then a tongue was seen sticking out from underground and attacking Yan Chixia in the air.
Perhaps Yan Chixia's sword control was not sustainable, because he flipped off the Xuanyuan Sword and landed on the ground before the tongue could reach him.
And a palm strike of lightning severed the tongue, which quickly shrank back into the ground.
Upon seeing this, Yan Chixia immediately unleashed a barrage of blows towards the cave entrance with both palms: "Bang bang bang bang bang!"
The area around the cave was riddled with craters from the lightning strikes, but the tree spirit had vanished without a trace.
Just then, Ning Caichen's voice came over: "Hey, you big bearded man, what are you doing here in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?"
"Damn it, scholar, how did you get out here? Form and spirit like swords, take this!"
Yan Chixia suddenly saw the Tree Demon Granny appear behind Ning Caichen and hurriedly controlled the Xuanyuan Sword to attack the Tree Demon Granny.
Upon seeing this, Ning Caichen thought Yan Chixia was going to kill him, so he hurriedly covered his head with his hands and squatted down, saying, "Ah! Don't kill me, I just came out to pee."
The Xuanyuan Sword pierced towards the Tree Demon Granny, but the Tree Demon Granny was just a decoy.
The real Tree Demon Granny had appeared behind Yan Chixia, and then a huge tongue shot out from the ground.
Yan Chixia noticed the giant tongue as soon as it appeared, but it was too late; the tongue immediately wrapped around him.
Then a small tongue tried to enter Yan Chixia's mouth, but Yan Chixia quickly grabbed it with both hands to stop the tongue from intruding.
The magic was no longer working, and the Xuanyuan Sword lost control and fell to the ground.
"Hey, Big Beard, what's wrong? What happened?"
Ning Caichen found himself completely unharmed, while the bearded man in the distance was caught in something and lifted into the air.
"Damn it, you scholar, are you looking for death? Run!"
Seeing this, Lin Qing thought it was time to take action. After all, Yan Chixia had been captured, and his intervention would be considered saving him.
"Fellow Daoist Yan, don't panic. Watch how I slay this tree demon."
Lin Qing unleashed a burst of dragon breath at the tree demon's tongue near the cave, and the flames instantly burned the tree demon's tongue off.
"Ahhh! My tongue!" The tree demon was afraid of fire, and Lin Qing's flames were no ordinary flames.
Instantly, his tongue was burned beyond recognition, and a painful scream came from underground.
"Bang!"
Yan Chixia crashed heavily to the ground, and the tongue on his body, no longer under the control of the Tree Demon Granny, turned into some ordinary tree branches.
"Ah, a monster, a monster!" Ning Caichen saw Lin Qing breathing fire in the sky and immediately turned and ran away in fright.
"Thank you for your help, fellow Daoist. Cough cough!"
"Just watch from the side. I'll take care of this tree demon. Also, stay far away, or you might get accidentally hurt."
Then, seeing Yan Chixia walk away, he transformed into a 700-meter-tall figure and slammed his tail into the tree demon's true form on the ground.