Chapter 21 Leaving Seclusion (1/2)

Chapter 21 Leaving Seclusion

“What?! You want to request Master to come out of seclusion?”

Daoist Master Ling Feng’s sentence stunned everyone present.

A person courageously spoke up, “Eldest Senior Disciple, Master is currently in closed door cultivation, and unless something monumental happens, he is not to be disturbed. Previously, when Second Senior Disciple drunkenly knocked on his door, he was sentenced to Yujing Feng’s[1] cave to reflect for three years and hasn’t come out. It’s not like you don’t know that the place is infested with insects during summer, and especially mosquitoes. We had even given him a lot of smokeless Qiang Shou brand insecticide, but it was of no use.”

“Okay. Okay. I know.” Daoist Master Ling Feng weakly waved, interrupting the long winded junior disciple. “I’ll visit Master myself. If anything happens, I will shoulder the responsibility.”

“Just what is so urgent?” Seeing Daoist Master Ling Feng seemingly fly out of Sanqing Palace, and even employ the Nine Lotus steps, the disciples at the scene were all flabbergasted. “That year when Yunnan[2] was in havoc from a Tong s.h.i.+ Jiangs.h.i.+, and Longhu Shan activated the Po Tian Jian, even then Eldest Senior Disciple wasn’t so anxious.”

“Exactly!” When the disciples were chattering amongst themselves, they suddenly noticed that the sky outside the temple lighted up.

They looked at each other in dismay and rushed out of the monastery to get a better look. There was a thin but bright horizontal beam of light above Longhu Shan in the horizon.

Many disciples on Sanqing Shan were dazed for a long time, almost like they were frozen in time.

“Po Tian Jian…”

At first, a few new disciples didn’t understand what was going on, and a.s.sumed that someone on Longhu Shan was playing with a powerful spotlight. However, after hearing the other disciples mutter the three words, “Po Tian Jian” they too were stunned.

The entire skyline was illuminated by that light beam that was said to be visible up to a thousand miles. Although for the majority it was the first time seeing this phenomenon, but the three words, Po Tian Jian, were rooted deep in their hearts and known by all.

There was only one meaning when the Po Tian Jian appeared; and that would be that either Longhu Shan or Sanqing Shan had something that couldn’t be dealt with by themselves.

Longhu Shan and Sanqing Shan were extremely powerful, what couldn’t they deal with normally?

Therefore, within the past 100 years, the Po Tian Jian had only appeared three times.

The first time was when the Ban Family in Jiangxi, who were famous for exorcising and eliminating Jiangs.h.i.+, irritated their enemies from Yunnan who specialised in making Jiangs.h.i.+. They discreetly made a Tong Jia Jiangs.h.i.+ with malicious intent, then hired a third party to deliver it to the Ban Family out of malice.[3]

All Daoists’ knew that a normal Jiangs.h.i.+ was merely a brainless animated corpse, it would just recklessly attack anything in sight. However, the Tong Jia Jiangs.h.i.+ was different. The Tong Jia Jiangs.h.i.+’s body was seemingly made out of steel, a normal Fulu pract.i.tioner’s skills wasn’t enough to injure it. Not only was it very strong, it was even able to withstand sunlight unlike a normal Jiangs.h.i.+. In addition, it could even heed its creator’s instructions.

Therefore the Ban Family were caught unawares and two of their disciples, who were tasked with getting rid of Jiangs.h.i.+, ended up dead and hanging in the Tong Jian Jiangs.h.i.+’s hands. Although the Ban Family were very experienced in battling and destroying Jiangs.h.i.+, but against that exceptionally ferocious Tong Jia Jiangs.h.i.+, they were powerless. Therefore, they immediately sent messengers to Longhu Shan to plead for support.

The master of Longhu Shan at the time was very cautious, he mulled over how to destroy the Jiangs.h.i.+ for quite some time. Finally, he decided to activate the Po Tian Jian and request help from Sanqing Shan as they specialised in exorcising such demons.

The second time the disciples of the two mountains saw the Po Tian Jian was 30 years ago. It was rumoured that the Heishan Demon was sealed by Sanqing Shan’s Master Ancestor, and his disciple Hongshan Demon, borrowed the power of the Heavens to breakthrough the seal. Even after sending out multiple experts, Sanqing Shan couldn’t defeat them. In the end, as a last resort, Sanqing Shan’s Daoist Master Xuanxu activated the Po Tian Jian to request for help.

The third time was a joke, supposedly a thief infiltrated Longhu Shan in the middle of the night to steal some valuable things to earn some pocket money. However, he accidentally activated the Po Tian Jian and was immediately caught red-handed by the elites of Longhu Shan. When the experts of Sanqing Shan rushed over, they saw Longhu Shan’s Master, Zhang Daoyuan fuming with rage trying to recoup the losses from the thief. This was because the Po Tian Jian required a lot of resources to be activated.

From then on, Longhu Shan tightly guarded the Po Tian Jian. It was said that they kept it in a secret area, and was even heavily guarded at all times.