Chapter 290 By Chance (1/2)
Beneath the clouds and sunlight, Gu Caiwei analyzed the Qi situation. There were three Huandan Doyens and the skilled Daoist Bai Suhuan; their Qi combined, in terms of combat power, was stronger than any ordinary school of cultivation. Compared to Qingjiang back then, they only had an upper hand in terms of crowd size. Furthermore, Bai Suhuan himself could match Huang Longzi from the Twelve True Zhenrens of Guangqing.
He gathered people of similar ideas to reason with them. It was a big world out there with tons of different approaches to Dao. Not everyone could be as charismatic as him, or if someone was not desperate, they would not have done it too.
Furthermore, the sky and Dao were interrelated. Xuanmen cultivators who observed to get a better understanding of things would understand that it was not illusory.
Gu Caiwei was not able to invite the Drunken Daoist and Ge Yuan to come and ease the tension. After all, Shen Lian and herself had yet built a strong credibility within the school. Shen Lian's talent had been refined and was on par with Bai Suhuan, he could achieve immortality anytime. The celestial medicine would be safe in his hands. Other people could only try to move him with emotions or convince him with facts but would never use brute force against him. However, it was a different story with Gu Caiwei. It was absolutely hard for her to win the trust of the two Doyens and if it was not for Shen Lian and Ziling, the two Doyens would not have come by and watch.
Fortunately, before the Founding Master retreated into solitary, she was told that she could summon her if she needed to. But that would interrupt the Founding Master's rehabilitation. Additionally, what if she awakened Qing Xiao instead? With her stubborn character, things might get more complicated.
After all, the human mind was delicate and it could not be subdued with pure force after all.
Bai Suhuan was dressed in green, resembling the cold Qi of the forest. Behind him were Zhang Ruoxu's nephew Zhang Lingxian and two other Huandan Doyens who had no hopes of attaining Dao. Although they were hundreds of years away from doomsday, they felt that they have yet lived long enough. With Zhang Lingxian and Bai Suhuan as their leader, they were fearless. A group of disciples followed behind; and if anything did happen in the future, these disciples would not be able to escape too. Might as well recruit them over to strengthen the force.
An entourage of people was outside of the Qing Xuan Hall, the gathering of such high level of Qi dynamics was a first for Qing Xuan in the past two hundred years.
With overwhelming pressure, Bai Suhuan took a step forward, and sinisterly said, ”You juniors want to be bewitched by her too?”
His Qi dynamic headed to the front of the Qing Xuan Hall, giving out a feeling of 'time was like a knife'. This showed that his Code of the Bright Moon has achieved the state of transformation.
If it was not for the absence of the peaking Qi and blood, he could easily disrupt the Qi dynamics of any ordinary cultivators.
The halo behind Gu Caiwei blinked as several disciples appeared with their hand-held instruments. The person behind Gu Caiwei, the leader of the pact, was Choushi, whom Shen Lian had disseminated Dharma to. After receiving useful pointers from Li Zhichang, he improved massively and his combat power was the creme of the crop among every other disciple. However, he might not be much of a help for this occasion.
Yet he still showed up with other disciples who received pointers from Shen Lian. Their vitalities were raging and showed no signs of fear although Bai Suhuan was overwhelming.
Bai Suhuan was furious to see these disciples going against him. His Qi dynamics expanded like a long cable or flying dragon, and it attempted to whip his enemies. The pack moved backward but no one fell over. He was outraged but also surprised by the disciples and thought of going easy on them. At this moment, Gu Caiwei's eight Qi of Taixu soared, forming a shield of light to protect them while Qianmo who stood by her side released odd Qi and transfer it into Gu Caiwei's body. It was exactly what Shen Lian did many years ago.
With Qianmo's help, Gu Caiwei's Dharma increased greatly, with a loud voice she said, ”Doyen Bai, what are you trying to do?”
Zhang Lingxian came forward and shouted, ”Junior Apprentice-Sister Gu, you've harmed the Chief in discreet and conspire to steal the celestial medicine. We are here to question you. If you still have any dignity in you, you should hand over the celestial medicine and tell us of the whereabouts of the Chief”.
Gu Caiwei coldly responded, ”Senior Apprentice-Brother Zhang, do you think everything you've done today would not disappoint your uncle?”
Zhang Lingxian responded, ”It was my uncle who did not observe deeply and that's why he didn't see through your ill intentions.”
Meanwhile, Bai Suhuan's Qi dynamics increased greatly and stacked down like a mountain. Gu Caiwei wanted to reply but the Qi dynamic suppressed her, making it hard for her to catch her breath.
Zhang Lingxian's force was overwhelming. He knew that it was a do or die situation and he would only stop if Gu Caiwei surrendered the celestial medicine.
He said mean things to her and was involved in spreading rumors about her and Shen Lian. The suppressed anger of many years was raging in Gu Caiwei.
Bai Suhuan's force was getting stronger and even with Qianmo's help, she could not top Shen Lian's performance years ago. The reason why she was able to slightly balance the force was because Bai Suhuan was being easy and intended to wear out her mana.
She was fuming with rage and her Taixu Divine Qi was a mess. The force coming from her Taixu Divine Qi was forced to retreat under such enormous pressure.
She was furious and almost went into psychosis. However, the Taixu Divine Qi was able to self-operate under massive pressure and with the help of Qianmo.
Somehow by chance, she stepped into a mysterious state of unintentional success. A spark of light came to her mind and she actually went into the perfect state of Dan Dao at this very moment.
All Bai Suhuan could tell was that Gu Caiwei had some kind of help from some kind of bird. He tried to increase his pressure but she did not crumble and he was genuinely surprised by that.
But he could not just release all forces of the Code of the Bright Moon in one shot as it would permanently damage her Dao and he would not be able to obtain the life-prolonging celestial medicine from her.