Daoist Master of Qing Xuan - Chapter 419

Chapter 419: If You Die Tonight, I Will Bury You Under the Moonlight

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Supposedly nothing could float on the river, but a raft did.

If one paid close attention, one could observe that there was a layer of Qing Guang at the interface between the bottom of the raft and the water surface. As it separated the raft from the water, hence it did not sink. An extremely beautiful woman sat kneeling down next to a small tea table in the raft. On top of it, there were delicate spiritual fruits and desserts.

The woman was the spy Guangqing placed, Qingyin. At the moment, her eyes were looking down and she nodded as a gesture of respect at the nose of the raft. The wind blew, and a handsome-looking middle-aged Daoist appeared. It was the missing Daoist Huanzhen from Guangqing Celestial sect.

He looked fairer than before, and there was Qing Guang flowing out his eyes, as if they contained an insurmountable amount of wisdom.

Qingyin looked up at Daoist Huanzhen with her burning eyes, “Your Holiness, you’ve finally contacted me, else I will have thought that something happened to you based on the rumors.”

“Qingyin, everything you have had been granted by me, and hence we have this connection beyond imagination. Everyone assumed that I had an accident, but you know that I am fine. The reason I am only contacting you now is because this is the first time I have a chance to.” Huanzhen sighed, and his eyes revealed the fatigue he felt. Qingyin was adopted by Huanzhen since young, and he also planted the seed of the first essential Qi in her. Even her meridians and acupoints had Huanzhen’s mark. If Huanzhen was crueler, he could easily turn her into a clone. This was the reason why Huanzhen asked Qingyin to understand the distribution of power for Guangqing. She was trustworthy.

Since Huanzhen and the other twelve disappeared, and since Zhao Xiaoyu unified Luoism, Qingyin had been undercover. In between she had gone back and forth to Mount Taichang, but as her position was too low, she was never called in by Yuming the Honored Celestial. While she had the feeling that told her that Daoist Huanzhen was safe, Huanzhen kept reminding her through telepathy to not do anything out of the ordinary.

The feeling was so weak that she could have almost ignored it, but she still chose to believe it. Before her patience was used up, she finally managed to contact Huanzhen and decided on the river as the meetup point.

Huanzhen felt different from before. He seemed unworldly, and this reminded her of Shen Lian at Mount Jimo, and the five celestials of

Guangqing. The only difference was that Huanzhen seemed to be lacking something, and he did not enter the miraculous state completely.

She too could feel the fatigue in Huanzhen’s heart vividly.

She did not know what was Huanzhen facing all this while that led to his fatigue. She could even feel a tinge of fear.

Qingyin said, “Your Holiness, what happened to you? You did not even return to Guangqing, what can I do for you?”

Huanzhen looked at the sword gleam on top of Mount Zhong. The impact of the battle even stirred up a giant wave in the river which was crashing towards the raft. His vision turned into the reality two giant palms which hit the giant waves. It was a supernatural power which interfered the physical world through the spiritual world, which only the Buddha and Demon could play out well. However, to say that Huanzhen was better than a lot of enlightened monks and the top in the demon realm would be an understatement.

He said, “You can’t help me directly. Even though you asked someone to find out where I was secretly, and even going so far as to find out the secret group that has dealt a huge damage on Luoism, you still can’t hide from that person. Even without doing anything, you are still involved.”

Qingyin was shocked. She could not imagine who was this terrifying person that even the Huanzhen today felt scared about. She intended to ask, but Huanzhen said, “Don’t ask who he is, I’m afraid he has already reached the state of divine response. He can detect it if someone mentions about him.”

Qingyin dared not to ask. She looked at Mount Zhong and said, “Today is Zhenren Shen and Chen Beidou’s battle day. Your Holiness, I believe there are more than just us who are watching, the dragon king from the Dragon Transformation Pond of the east sea is here. He is hiding underneath the river, and it is hard for anyone to realize, but as he ate one of my underlings, I know about it.”

“A dragon can’t make it. The reason why he is watching is because of Chen Beidou’s position as a god. Even though he is a dragon, without the Dragon Transformation Pond he can’t become a king. Surrounding Mount Zhong there is the river, and Chen Beidou’s job includes controlling the rain and it overlaps with that of a dragon king. If he can take the position of god at Mount Zhong, he can also control the river and become the commander of the river where not even a feather or a log can float. It far exceeds being the fake dragon king of the east sea.” Huanzhen spoke of the dragon king’s intentions clearly.

Qingyin said, “Even I know that Chen Beidou is one of the most powerful Gods, and not even the old monsters from Tian Xianjing or the State of Pusha can beat him. While Zhenren Shen is strong, but this time the odds are not with him, would the dragon want his efforts to be in vain?”

Huanzhen spoke in disdain, “He is not someone who knows the height of the world. Perhaps he has some power backing him, but he is still overestimating himself.” Subsequently, he spoke in a serious tone, “The reason why I took such a huge risk to see you today, is to save Shen Lian when he loses.”

Qingyin replied, “Ah.” If it was not because of the feeling, she would have thought he was a fake. Guangqing and Shen Lian were not considered the worst arch enemies, but it was not far from that. How was it possible to save Shen Lian?

Shen Lian stood in the void, and even with the Qi of heaven and earth of Mount Zhong, along with the power of the stars, none of those could aid him in this battle. He could only rely on himself. The feeling of helplessness in the world wrapped around his heart. Even though he had entered an indescribable state of Dao, he still could not stop the feeling of helplessness from entering. It seemed like it could almost pull him out of the state of Dao.

He slowly opened his eyes and knocked lightly on the Five Elements Magical Sword.

He looked up at the full moon and said, “Tonight’s moon is extremely bright. If you die today, I will bury you under the moonlight.”

Chen Beidou spoke coldly, “I know you already transformed Dazizai Shapeless Sword Aura into the Eight-Step Sword Art, but you’re aware that everything would only be complete at its ninth step. As you’re not complete, you can’t churn out the ninth step. This is not something that can be solved by a sudden revelation. I’ve given you an opportunity, but you gave up because of the laughable ‘passing on of the sect’. Today you don’t have a chance to get out of here alive, but I will remember you because my swordcraft is complete because of you.”

Shen Lian spoke leisurely, “You’re indeed at a high level, but you can’t know everything in the world. Do you think you’re a Daoist Master or a Buddha, where nothing can go beyond you?”

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Chapter 420: It Will Be the Decline of Heaven and Earth by the Time My Sword Is Out

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Chen Beidou said nothing. He was not someone who was good with words. Furthermore, regardless of what Shen Lian said, a weakness was a weakness. It was not something that could be covered up with words.

Shen Lian said nothing else, as he let the Dao rhythm flow naturally. There appeared a portrait behind him.

It was a portrait of a young Daoist carrying a sword in the midst of a sea of blood. It was Qing Xuan’s Founding Master Yuanqing.

There was also a portrait of a fallen milky way in the Nine Heavens – it was the Milky Way Grandmaster.

A portrait of Avici which carried the pain of the passing spirits appeared too. The demonic voice was overflowing.

The portraits of the previous generations of immortal Zhenrens from Qing Xuan appeared one by one.

These portraits were like the divines and demons as they gathered behind Shen Lian and disappeared, ultimately becoming one with Shen Lian. His sleeves were bloated as he stood alone in heaven and earth. It seemed like they were keeping away countless items – there were the five colored divine lights, the variance between Creation and Destruction, and the explosion of wind and thunder. The void hummed.

All the odd images began to disappear as he swung his sword slowly. All the sounds or odd motions of heaven and earth were carried away by the sword. There were countless golden flowers blooming in the void, like the arrival of Buddha with the blooming of the cereus. It was like the divine ruins.

The path of this sword was what Shen Lian categorized as the first step of the eight steps of Dazizai Shapeless Sword Aura, ‘the sun that nourishes every being’ or it could be named as ‘The Birth of All Things’.

The most powerful wish of the masses was not the faith towards deities, or towards the heaven and earth and mountain and river, but the desire to live. The dead wanted to live, and the living wanted to be immortal. The wish was never diminished, and it had no end to it, coming through since ancient times.

The essence of the Dazizai Shapeless Sword Aura was released in this step, as the wish was something that was invisible and untouchable, yet was present everywhere.

With the sword, every formula was spoken without the words. The wild sword aura disappeared in the void. It was intangible and without a physical form, but it reached everywhere. The cliff where the Big Dipper formation was laid all in a sudden crashed. A huge surge of power flowed out of the cliff and caused it to collapse into mere dust.

The power was akin to the continuous growth of weed. It eventually toppled the rock on top of it. It seemed impossible, but the power of vitality was strong and miraculous.

While Chen Beidou commented that Shen Lian’s swordcraft was not complete, he could not ignore it when the sword technique appeared. In the face of that grand power, he could not sit and do nothing, else he would fall into passivity easily.

The Celestial Trapping Sword was drawn. It did not restrain its killing aura just because it once was a comrade of Shen Lian. It was ultimately a killing sword, whether it had any intelligence or not. Killing was its instinct, and the reason for it to exist.

Chen Beidou had full control of the murderous thoughts of the Celestial Trapping Sword. When the blood-red sword gleam appeared, everything withered, like the breeze in autumn that rid everything of life.

The blood-colored sword gleam which was not strong did not spread its murderous sword aura all over the void, but the moment it appeared, it had already snatched away all vitality on heaven and earth, and caused the starlights to lose their beams. The moonlight was no longer a soft yellow.

All of a sudden, part of the vitality of heaven and earth was sucked out and it lost its shine.

The power of the Celestial Trapping Sword and Chen Beidou combined into one. The indestructible power could stop everything, including Shen Lian’s attack which contained the wishes of the passing.

Chen Beidou’s expression remained unchanged. The blood-red sword gleam got closer, and the void was akin to a bubble on the verge of popping. Once the blood-red sword gleam pricked it, the huge reserve of power then exploded. The cliff no longer existed.

Shen Lian’s sword aura which was everywhere too exploded before it could demonstrate its power. This placed him in the turbulence of spiritual tides, worse than that of a tsunami or an earthquake.

He stood still as he gazed at the blood-red sword gleams which were attacking him in between the turbulences. His mind had fallen into the eye of the east sea, and it became extremely clear.

The Qi of heaven and earth, and the turbulences of spiritual tides were not a mess in his mind. They began to show order. Every explosion of the Qi of vitality began from the tiny flow of energy, which corresponded with the energy principles.

The Five Elements Magical Sword let out a sword soar, like an unworldly phoenix that traveled through the nine heavens. There was a faint pink on the skeleton right hand. He was one step away before the sword tip could reach the Celestial Trapping Sword.

It was an indestructible power which could cause everything to fall, and a power that not even deities or Buddha could resist. They could only watch as their supernatural power and mana were snatched away.

The Five Element Magical Sword also turned the sword hum into a cry under the influence of that power. Shen Lian’s right sleeve was turning grey, but he stood still. He and his sword were completely trapped in the turbulence of the spiritual tides in the void.

His Primordial Spirit suddenly let out an unimaginable mental power like countless feathers which invaded every node of turbulence of the Qi of vitality. Swirls began to form and they reacted with each other, like the acupoints in a human body.

All of a sudden the countless stars were lit in the night, and they began to follow an odd path. Shen Lian was in the midst of these bright stars and his body was moving alongside the swirl. He was moving freely, like fish in the water. He looked like he was enjoying it.

The Celestial Trapping Sword that followed closely was stopped by the swirls one by one. It could not get close to Shen Lian as the swirls kept regenerating. There was no beginning and no end.

It was Shen Lian’s second attack.

Chen Beidou naturally would not just do nothing, and to some extent, Shen Lian’s resistance was futile to him, but he admired the swordcraft Shen Lian created – how creative and flexible it was, and how natural the flow was. It inspired him.

To have a battle with such an opponent was an indescribable joy.

His counterattack got even stronger.

Chen Beidou had a pause in the void, and another attack went out.

“It will be the decline of heaven and earth by the time my sword is out.” Every living being around Mount Zhong heard the same voice, coming from the depths of their hearts.

This was the real sword technique of Chen Beidou. The previous attack was one of Celestial Trapping Sword.

When Chen Beidou’s sword was out, everything in the world fell into a decline.

Despite the sword aura having no beginning and no end, it could not really escape from the heaven and earth. Chen Beidou finally revealed his terrifying power which had caused despair to the living beings in the surroundings.

All the spiritual tides seemed to lose the footing in the void. They all dispersed without resisting.

An analogy to this was that while the water contained in a bottle could be stirred, once the bottle was broken, the water lost the vessel it could retain itself in.

Shen Lian could no longer relax in the spiritual tides as the sword gleams that followed closely seemed to block all the possible escape routes, as if there was no longer a place for him in the boundless universe.

He had no escape, as Chen Beidou’s sword had broken the power of the heaven and earth as if he was creating a whole new battleground in the void. He could not borrow any external help anymore.