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One day, Longhu Mountain received reliable intelligence that a group of wandering Japanese eccentrics had colluded with a local cult called the "Five Poisons Sect" in an attempt to create chaos in the Tongbashan area of Jiangxi Province by using evil magic to collect living souls to cultivate evil techniques.
The old master Zhang Jingqing decided to send people to investigate and stop it.
However, the eldest disciple, Zhang Zhiwei, had already gone into seclusion to cultivate, and Tian Jinzhong and Zhang Huaiyi had just been sent to carry out other missions.
After much deliberation, this tricky task fell to Zhang Yunyuan, a junior disciple who was highly skilled, meticulous, and needed to go down the mountain for training.
Mount Tongba is chilly and gloomy, carrying with it a lingering stench of blood and miasma.
When Zhang Yunyuan arrived at this place on orders, he stumbled upon a living hell.
Corpses were everywhere, including strangely dressed Japanese oddballs, but mostly members of the Five Poisons Sect dressed in witchcraft attire. Their deaths were extremely gruesome, as if some invisible force had forcibly snapped their necks and torn their limbs.
A proud young man dressed in black stood in the center of the corpse, with the head of the Five Poisons Sect leader beneath his feet.
Not far away, several ragged mountain people were kneeling on the ground, trembling with fear in their eyes.
The young man in black seemed to find them an eyesore, and with a hint of extreme impatience and cruelty on his face, he slowly raised his hand.
It was Li Muxuan.
After Ghost Hand King's death, he joined Quanxing with no more attachments, and his personality became increasingly eccentric and extreme.
He was not colluding with the cult, but rather, having heard that the Five Poisons Sect possessed a forbidden technique that could rapidly enhance one's cultivation, he directly stormed their door and forcibly seized it.
He first casually killed a few Japanese eccentrics, and then mercilessly massacred the entire Five Poisons Sect.
Zhang Yunyuan originally did not want to cause trouble, but seeing that he was about to kill innocent mountain people, he could no longer stand idly by.
"Li Muxuan, stop!"
A clear shout, like a thunderclap from a clear sky, made Li Muxuan stop in his tracks.
He slowly turned around, and when he saw that the person who came was Zhang Yunyuan, he was first stunned, and then a kind of extremely arrogant mockery appeared on his face.
"Hmph! Who do we have here? It's just that little Taoist priest from Longhu Mountain."
Time flies, and eleven years have passed since the two first met at Yinghe Tower.
The system has clearly displayed his current cultivation level:
Name: Li Muxuan
[Superhuman Level: Hero (Peak)]
[Technique: Forbidden Technique - Reversing Eight Directions (Perfect)]
[Note: Deeply entrenched in inner demons, exhibiting obsessive and eccentric behavior. Although the reversal of the eight directions has reached perfection, the mind is distorted, viewing human life as worthless, making the individual extremely dangerous.]
Zhang Yunyuan, on the other hand, kept a low profile and had suppressed his Qi to the level of a first-rate superhuman when he came down the mountain, and it had not yet been released at this time.
This level of strength was naturally not taken seriously by Li Muxuan.
Li Muxuan's tone was full of disdain, "Otherwise, I'll kill you too!"
"Stubborn!"
Zhang Yunyuan's voice turned cold:
"I helped you out of a predicament at Yinghe Tower back then, otherwise you would have been beaten to death by the people of Qingzhu Garden long ago."
If you were forced into this path back then, it seems now that you willingly fell into demonic ways!
"Hahaha!"
Li Muxuan seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world, and he laughed wildly, his laughter filled with madness and disdain.
"What I despise most is the hypocritical posturing of you righteous disciples who claim to be just!"
His laughter stopped, and his eyes turned incredibly venomous.
"I have already massacred Qingzhu Garden. Those bastards Hou Ling and Ruan Tao had their bones broken inch by inch by me using the Reversed Eight Directions technique. They wailed for three days and three nights before they finally died!"
I want them to know what happens when they mess with me, Li Muxuan!
He took a step forward, and a terrifying aura suddenly erupted, distorting the surrounding air.
"Now that I have mastered the Eight Directions, I will cripple any righteous disciple I encounter!"
As he said this, he seemed to remember something, and his eyes turned strange:
"However, I almost forgot if you hadn't mentioned the time. Eleven years have passed, and you, a mere Taoist priest, haven't changed a bit in appearance. You must have obtained some secret method for prolonging life..."
"Hand it over, and I'll spare your life. Otherwise, even if you're a disciple of the Celestial Master's Mansion, you'll still die!"
Before he finished speaking, Li Muxuan made a move.
Without the slightest hesitation, he took the initiative and unleashed his peak cultivation level without reservation!
"Reversing the eight directions, the universe is without order!"
With a flick of his wrists, an invisible yet incredibly domineering twisting force instantly enveloped an area of several feet in radius.
The air groaned under the strain of this force, and the space itself seemed to be turned into a boiling pot of porridge.
Countless sharp, spiraling internal energies surged from all directions, relentlessly attacking Zhang Yunyuan in the center, aiming to tear him into the most primordial fragments!
Faced with this terrifying attack that would make any expert of the same level turn pale, Zhang Yunyuan didn't even lift an eyelid.
He simply stood there quietly, the primordial Qi within his body circulating on its own.
A layer of invisible, hazy, and chaotic light quietly appeared three feet around him.
A strange scene happened.
Those violent, space-distorting spiraling dark energies vanished the moment they approached within three feet of him, like mud sinking into the sea or ice melting away.
There was no violent collision, no burst of energy.
All the force was silently swallowed, decomposed, and assimilated the moment it came into contact with that chaotic halo, without even causing a ripple, as if it had never existed.
The arrogance and ferocity on Li Muxuan's face froze instantly.
His eyes widened as he stared intently at the calm area, as if he were witnessing something utterly incomprehensible, something that defied the laws of nature—a supernatural phenomenon.
His all-out attack... just like that?
Before he could recover from this enormous shock...
Zhang Yunyuan retaliated.
He made no unnecessary movements, not even moving his feet an inch. He simply flicked his finger in Li Muxuan's direction.
A condensed, fine white bolt of lightning, containing a barely perceptible trace of chaotic Dao energy, struck first and silently pierced through the barriers of space, as well as Li Muxuan's proud protective Qi.
Extremely fast, and extremely cunning.
Li Muxuan felt a tingling sensation in his chest, as if he had been gently bitten by a mosquito.
An indescribable, terrifying force exploded within his chest!
The feeling was like someone had detonated a real thunderbolt inside his heart!
"puff--!"
Li Muxuan's body suddenly arched backward as if struck by a heavy hammer, and he spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs.
He flew backward like a kite with a broken string, his feet leaving the ground, and crashed heavily into a pile of wrecked corpses, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Excruciating pain, at this moment, swept over my entire body like a tidal wave.
But he couldn't care less.
He struggled to lift his head and looked at the boy who was still standing in the same spot, not even moving a muscle. His eyes were filled with endless horror and deep-seated fear.
"Impossible! You actually managed to neutralize my Qi?!"
Li Muxuan's voice became sharp and distorted with fear, filled with an incredulous tremor.
"Impossible! This is impossible! You and Wugensheng are both monsters! Both are freaks!"
Zhang Yunyuan did not answer him.
He simply walked slowly forward, step by step, toward the figure lying on the ground, completely incapacitated.
His eyes were so cold that they were devoid of any human emotion.
Each step felt like it was landing on Li Muxuan's heart, filling him with a suffocating fear.
A chilling killing intent spread like a tide.
"Since you have fallen into demonic possession, I cannot let you live!"
Chapter 72 A Storm Begins on the Edge of a Floating Stream
Just as Zhang Yunyuan was about to deliver the fatal blow to Li Muxuan, at the critical moment, a figure appeared between him and Li Muxuan without warning, like a ghost.
The newcomer did not make a move, nor did he deliberately release any aura. He simply stood there casually, as if he had become one with the surrounding mountains, forests, wind, and even every inch of land.
An invisible yet immense pressure, like mercury spilling onto the ground, instantly enveloped the entire area.
Zhang Yunyuan felt a tightness in his heart. The chilling killing intent that was about to be unleashed was suppressed and somewhat stagnant in the face of this natural aura.
His pupils contracted slightly. The person in front of him had an ethereal aura, yet it was unfathomable. He had already reached the realm of half a step into the pinnacle!
Name: Wugensheng (Feng Yao)
[Level of Extraordinary Person: Half-Step to the Pinnacle]
[Cultivation Technique: Divine Spirit (Perfected)]
[Note: His cultivation has reached the half-step peak, his divine spirit is perfect, and he is impervious to all magic. As the leader of Quanxing Sect, he intends to guide Quanxing onto an unprecedented path.]
His mind is as deep as an abyss, his plans far-reaching; he is deliberately placing himself in the eye of the storm, attempting to seek rebirth amidst destruction.
Wugensheng looked at Zhang Yunyuan with a sincere smile on his face.
"Yun Yuan, it's been a long time. Please show mercy."
Zhang Yunyuan's eyes remained sharp as knives, fixed on Li Muxuan, whose fate was unknown, behind him.
"You want to protect him? This man is beyond redemption! Besides, he just tried to kill me; I can't let him live!"
"Mu Xuan's actions are extreme, which is due to my failure to discipline him properly."
Wugensheng sighed, his tone genuinely carrying the helplessness of an elder.