Chang'an, one month later.
With the Qing Emperor's encouragement, the entire city of Chang'an is now full of rumors that he was seriously injured and died. The people were panicked and did not want to believe it at first, until Li Shimin led the civil and military officials in mourning clothes to transport the coffin of the imperial master to Zhao Tomb, people finally believed it.
For a time, Chang'an was covered with plains and the city was full of mourning. Many people spontaneously buried Li Daoxuan and even paid for the construction of temples and memorials.
The statue of the Imperial Master in the city was almost piled with offerings, and the ground was covered with flowers.
The national advisor who saved them from drought and flood at such a young age left them like this.
There was an old man with white hair who lowered his head and wept, shouting that God was jealous of the talented people and had taken away their patron saint of Chang'an.
Some people also say that the Imperial Master is not dead, but has become an immortal and ascended. The Jade Emperor summoned him to continue serving in heaven, and even swore that he had witnessed the Imperial Master ascend with his own eyes.
This statement is gradually accepted by many people. After all, in the hearts of the people of Chang'an, their national master has great supernatural powers and boundless magic power. How could he die and become an immortal?
At this moment, the target of the rumors, Li Daoxuan, not only did not die, but was practicing quietly in the small courtyard of Xuandu.
After today's practice, Li Daoxuan slowly opened his eyes, his deep gaze penetrated the sea of clouds and shined on the entire Chang'an.
At this moment, every plant and tree in Chang'an City became his eyes.
After a long moment, he shook his head and sighed.
As he expected, the evil five elders were not fooled. It had been a whole month, and none of them had entered Chang'an City.
Those old foxes must be hiding outside Chang'an, quietly observing.
Although Li Daoxuan ordered people to publicly burn "Yagyu Biography" at the city gate every day, and even though His Majesty acted with him in a play and personally transported his coffin, the old foxes were not fooled.
Li Daoxuan knew very well that they would not act rashly unless they witnessed him being seriously injured or walking out of Chang'an City alone.
Sure enough, none of the five evil elders who were able to break through Yang Shen under the siege of countless righteous monks and still remain at ease to this day are simple people.
In this case...
Li Daoxuan's eyes moved, and it seemed that he could only wait for news from Li Chunfeng.
He needs to break through to the Yang God Realm within three months, otherwise the elixir given by the Empress will become ineffective, and the Xuan Ming True Water in his heart will continue to attack. By then, there will really be no hope of the Yang God Realm in this life.
It's been a month and a half now.
At this moment, Li Daoxuan's heart was slightly disturbed. He could only hope that Li Chunfeng and the others would hurry up. If it took more than three months, everything would be in vain.
Of course, he also knew that it was useless to be anxious. He didn't even rush to inquire about the progress, because it would definitely disturb Li Chunfeng's status.
Reading books, practicing calligraphy, and teasing Xiaobai and Xiaotian, the whole morning passed quickly.
Just when Li Daoxuan was about to continue practicing, the sky suddenly darkened, turning from day to night, and the stars in the sky were densely packed like the Milky Way, shining brightly.
Starlight fell one after another and fell into the observatory of Qintian Prison.
Li Daoxuan's eyes lit up and he couldn't help laughing.
Xiaobai asked doubtfully: "Master, what makes you so happy?"
Li Daoxuan touched its head and said with a smile: "I knew that guy Huang Guanzi would not let me down."
At this moment, he was relieved, his whole body felt much more relaxed, and his eyes showed a brilliant light.
"Xie Wu Lao, since you like watching plays so much, I will put on a good play for you!"
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In a cave outside Chang'an City, a bonfire burned brightly, reflecting several figures.
Qian Jizi sat cross-legged at the entrance of the cave, stroking his goatee and closing his eyes as if he was feeling something. After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly frowned and opened his eyes, showing a hint of anger.
"Damn it, I've been discovered again!"
He asked his agency puppet to sneak into the city of Chang'an quietly, and wanted to go to Xuandu Temple to find out whether Li Daoxuan was dead. Unexpectedly, Chang'an was heavily guarded, and there were bad people everywhere holding dragon-qi mirrors.
Especially in Xuandu Temple, there are simply one post every five steps and one sentry every ten steps. Only three of the nine puppets he sent out arrived at Xuandu Temple alive, and they were discovered by bad guys just a few steps after entering. .
Today's Chang'an City is like an iron barrel, and the puppets cannot get in unless they personally take action.
"Haha, let me tell you, wouldn't it be best if Li Daoxuan died? Then we don't have to take risks and can go back to our respective homes. After all, isn't the purpose of our coming here to kill Li Daoxuan?"
Beside the bonfire, a pot-bellied man said. He was slovenly dressed and his beard looked like an inverted thorn. He couldn't help but drool when he looked at the human legs being grilled on the flames.
Under the firelight, his reflection on the wall turned out to be a huge wild boar, with a strong body and sharp tusks.
Qianjizi glanced at him and knew that Zhu Laomo was not a pig demon, but had cultivated the "Canopy Transformation" to an extremely advanced level. His body was comparable to that of a thousand-year-old pig demon, and his shadow no longer looked like a normal human race.
If he goes one step further, he can completely transform into a thousand-year-old pig demon and enter the late stage of Yang Shen!
"Lao Zhu, it's not as simple as you think. Li Daoxuan probably just faked his death. The reason why he pretended to be dead was because he was afraid that the five of us would retaliate, so he deliberately released false news and hid."
"If we go back, he will definitely continue to collect "Yagyuden". You don't know that during this period, the amount of Yang Qi taken in is only twenty-three-tenths of what it was before. If this continues, let alone you, even myself It’s not enough!”
Qianjizi explained earnestly.
"Qian Jizi is right."
A soft and charming voice sounded, and then a figure with scantily clad clothes and a hot figure walked into the cave, followed by four handsome young men.
The four young men followed her footsteps with obsessed eyes, their minds confused by the charm.
The woman walked into the cave and took off her translucent red dress in front of everyone. Her mature and beautiful body was clearly visible, and she was so generously exposed in the cave.
She is as fair as jade and has voluptuous curves.
She smiled tenderly and started to practice double cultivation with the four young men, treating them as cauldrons for cultivation. Within a moment, the four handsome young men were reduced to skin and bones, like mummified corpses.
"This girl doesn't look like someone who is almost a hundred years old. Her skin is supple and tender, and she is even more attractive than a fourteen-year-old girl..."
Zhu Laomo stared at Madam White Bones closely, and for a moment he felt that the human legs on the flames no longer smelled good.
Mrs. Bones smiled charmingly, and while putting on her dress carelessly, she smiled at Old Demon Zhu and said, "If you want, Old Zhu, I can accompany you at any time~"
As she spoke, she licked her red lips.
Zhu Laomo shuddered and quickly withdrew his gaze, saying: "No, I don't want to be sucked into you!"
As we all know, she was called the Bone Lady because all the men she targeted would eventually be sucked into mummies, shaped like bones.
Even the bones are rotten, and the wild dogs on the roadside don't want to take a look.
"Mr. Hundred Eyes, these kids are so boring. Would you like to have fun with the slave family for once? Don't lie. Just now, several of your eyes were staring at the slave family~"
Known as the man with hundreds of eyes, he has a very strange appearance. He has sixteen eyes on his face. Even his neck and head are covered with eyes. They are so densely packed that it makes people get goosebumps all over their bodies.
"Haha, which eyes did I use to see you just now?"
Bai Mu licked her lips and asked.
"That one, that one, and that one..."
Mrs. Bones laughed sweetly: "When I think of the slave family being looked at by so many pairs of eyes, I feel inexplicably excited..."
The atmosphere seemed to be getting more and more ambiguous, but the next moment, Bai Mu stretched out his fingers, gouged out the lust-filled eyes, skewered them bloodyly and roasted them on the flame, and finally ate them himself.
"How many times have I told you not to look at this old witch, but you just won't listen!"
Baimu was talking to himself. Some of his eyes were cold, some were painful, some were indifferent, and some were crazy. The whole person seemed to be the aggregation of countless consciousnesses, weird and twisted to the extreme.
Madam White Bones asked for trouble. She snorted coldly, then looked at the mysterious man in black robes whose appearance was unclear in the corner of the cave, and said: "Five Plagues, we have been waiting here for more than half a month, what do you mean? , do you still want to go into the city to kill Li Daoxuan?"
If you want to say which one among the five evil elders has the most evil reputation and the strongest strength, it must be the Five Plagues.
Five Plagues, it is said that he received the inheritance from the plague god Lu Yue, and refined his body into the carrier of countless plagues, becoming the most poisonous thing in the world.
It is said that one time he was chased by two righteous Yangshen monks. After escaping, he tore off a piece of his own flesh and put it into the watershed of the sect where the two monks were.
As a result, within three days, more than a dozen towns and most of the disciples of that sect died from the plague. Even the two Yangshen monks were seriously injured and died in depression.
Some people say that if you are an enemy of the Five Plagues, even breathing is wrong.
Although the Five Evil Elders were in the same cave at this moment, the other four people subconsciously stayed away from Wuwen and did not go near that corner.
"Don't worry, I can wait for decades. Isn't there still a few days left?"
Wuwen's voice was very hoarse, as if he had swallowed several blades.
"I have investigated Li Daoxuan. This man is deep-minded and full of strategies. Xudu, Pan Dan, and Maha have all fallen on him. We cannot take it lightly."
"Chang'an is his territory. With his intelligence, it is impossible for him to declare war on us without making any preparations. I think that in Chang'an City... there may be an ambush from all sides. Maybe Zhang Qianyang and Zhang Zhiyan are already inside."
Qianjizi nodded and said: "Wuwen's words make sense, but if we just wait like this, isn't there any other way?"
Although those "Yagyuden" were just gadgets, they were still quite troublesome to make, and he didn't want to redo them on a large scale.
For every extra day of waiting, dozens of copies of "Yagyu Biography" were burned to ashes.
Wu Wen said calmly: "Wait a little longer, maybe he will leave the city soon. As long as it is confirmed that he is alone, we can immediately arrest him!"
"What if he never leaves the city?"
Wu Wen was silent for a moment and said: "Unless we see him seriously injured with our own eyes and prove that there are no other Yangshen in Chang'an City, we must not -"
As soon as he finished speaking, the sky suddenly darkened, and starlight fell on Chang'an City.
"This is... a formation?"
"Incredible, such a magnificent formation, using the power of stealing the sky for one's own use, such great courage!"
"This formation doesn't seem to have attack capabilities, but... surveillance?"
Several people looked at the starry sky and quickly noticed something was wrong.
As the starlight array gradually took shape, the stars in the sky seemed to be eyes, watching them, which made them very uncomfortable as they always like to hide in the dark.
"Oops, if we let this formation be set up, wouldn't our whereabouts be exposed in the future?"
"By then, there may be no place for us in the entire Tang Dynasty!"
For a moment, everyone's faces were as dark as water.
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